COVER REVEAL - Kiss of Venom (Elemental Assassin 8.5) by Jennifer Estep

Release Date:  22 July 2013

The Book
The New York Times bestselling Elemental Assassin series continues with a new e-novella—from the hero’s point of view! Owen Grayson is bound and determined to get Gin back...if her enemies don’t get her first.When you have a history of dating an assassin, a night out on the town can turn deadly—fast. Owen Grayson is still wracked with guilt over the end of his love affair with Gin Blanco, and there aren’t enough gin and tonics in all of Ashland to ease his heartache. But when Gin happens to show up at the same nightclub, he isn’t the only one hoping to get her alone. Some shadowy figures will do anything to take down the Spider, Gin’s assassin alter ego, and Owen will do anything to protect her. This could be the way to win her back, or at least give her a night off from fighting for her life—ifOwen can survive...

COVER REVEAL - Taste of Darkness (Healer 3) by Maria V. Snyder (US and Canada only)

Release Date: 31 December 2013

The Book
She's fought death and won. But how can she fight her fears?

Avry knows hardship and trouble. She fought the plague and survived. She took on King Tohon and defeated him. But now her heart-mate, Kerrick, is missing, and Avry fears he's gone forever.

But there's a more immediate threat. The Skeleton King plots to claim the Fifteen Realms for his own. With armies in disarray and the dead not staying down, Avry's healing powers are needed now more than ever.Torn between love and loyalty, Avry must choose her path carefully. For the future of her world depends on her decision.

The Darkest Prison (Lords of the Underworld 3.5) - Gena Showalter

The Book
Release Date: 14 July 2009

Passion and danger collide in this brand-new, eBook exclusive Lords of the Underworld adventure!

Once, Atlas, the Titan god of Strength, was the Greek goddess Nike's slave. Now, he is her master. And soon these sworn enemies destined to destroy one another will be forced to risk everything for a chance at love...

"One of the premier authors of paranormal romance." -- New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole

My Opinion  5 STARS
A sweet short read from Atlas the god of strength and Nike the goddess of strength and how the fell in love and escaped to earth to be together.

Its sweet to see how when both the captor and captive on other sides what they were like and how they branded each other.

A must read.

Saving Rain (Rain Trilogy 1) - Karen-Anne Stewart

The Book
Release Date: 31 January 2013

Raina has tried to forget her past, forget the pain, but when she finds herself staring straight into the fury blazing in her ex-boyfriend's eyes, her dark past comes rushing back. 

Furious with herself for actually having chosen someone like her father, she uses that anger to her advantage and fights for her life...and for her future that she prays will involve the man she can't seem to get out of her head. 

Kas is a natural leader, a fierce fighter, the type of man you send in when you need to get the job done. He is a courageous hero who is used to risking his own life to save others, but can he save the one who has captured his heart from her horrific past and the men who are hell-bent on destroying her? 

As Kas and Raina try to navigate through the twists and turns of a deviously intelligent human trafficking group, they find solace in each other's arms. Can they infiltrate the trafficker's tight ring, saving the innocent lives from imminent danger before it's too late?

Saving Rain is intended for readers 18 and older.

My Opinion  2.5 STARS
** I received a free copy of this book from the author for an honest review**

This story has a sad prologue, then it hits you with a sledgehammer with chapter one and continues to hit your senses right until the end and the dramatic twist.

Raina is a very intelligent nineteen year old who is currently helping the FBI with her linguistic skills.  However after her ex-boyfriend attacks her, things spiral with the sexy FBI agent Kas when he takes her in and looks after her.

Kas helps Raina in becoming herself again instead of a victim, delving into her past and bringing out her most painful secrets and vows to always to protect her.

She helps the FBI further with her computer skills and really lends a hand into the human trafficking case they are working on.

Although I really love the story with this book I have big problems with the writing style.  The context constantly jumps from the points of views of her major characters and adds some of the minor characters.  Not only that is seems to jump from the first point of view to a third person point of view or more of a narration of their thoughts or feelings, making it seem unrealistic.

Saying that though I was really drawn into the story, once I had my mind wrapped around the above.  I look forward to see what happens in the next book in the series.

A Veil of Glass and Rain - Petra F. Bagnardi

The Book
Release Date: 20 April 2013

Brina and Eagan meet for the first time when she's nine and he's fourteen. They like each other from the very beginning, although their bond isn't immediate, but it grows over the years. What links them is the fact that their parents are photographers and are extremely devoted to their work and to each other; so much so that both Brina and Eagan have to learn how to take care of themselves from a very young age. Despite their differences, age, gender, nationality, Brina is Italian and Eagan is American, they find comfort in their growing friendship. 
Then Brina becomes a teenager, and her feelings for her friend start changing and deepening. New desires stir within her. As soon as Brina realizes how those feelings complicate her friendship with Eagan, she runs away from him.
A few years later, Brina is twenty and Eagan is twenty-five, they find one another once again. Brina is studying cinema in Rome and she's also trying to become a musician. Eagan begins to work as an architect in the same city. Eagan wants to be a part of Brina's life anew. Brina, however, is still in love with him; she finds it difficult to act merely as a friend and she keeps pulling away.

Set in the beautiful Rome, this is a sensual and romantic story of friendship and love.


(Recommended for ages 17+, due to sexual content and language)

My Opinion  3 STARS
** I received a free copy of this book from the author for an honest review**

Although I liked this story, I also had some problems with it such as the multiple grammatical and spelling errors. Which at times were so obvious I couldn't help but snort. (Classy I know)

The story was about two friends, who first met when she was nine and he was fourteen. It is told from a snapshot point of view for the first person. The first half of the book seems mostly to deal with the past of how they met, how they grew up, and how both sets of parents went away traveling around the world with their work leaving the kids to grow up. Brina had no other family, but Egan had grandparents in England and his friend David.

Brina was a fragile character. What I didn't like about her was the fact that whenever she was not around Egan, food was like ash so she hardly ate, which i'm sorry I just can't see anyone doing for that many years. I can understand her running from her changing feelings for Egan, but a lot of people who grow up without their parents for much of the time grow up strong about what they want and go for it. She seemed quite weak willed.

Egan is a lovely character, strong and faithful. He always does what he thinks is best for his friends, however when at sixteen Brina kissed him when she thought he was asleep he lost his heart to her, but let her get away. He then practically plans his life on how he can get Brina back into his life permantly after she runs from him that day.

On the whole the book has a dark feel to it of need, loneliness and grief. However there are some touching scenes of friendship and love.

The Darkest Pleasure (Lords of the Underworld 3) - Gena Showalter

The Book
Release Date:  1 July 2008

Reyes is a man possessed. Bound by the demon of pain, he is forbidden to know pleasure. Yet he craves a mortal woman, Danika Ford, more than breath and will do anything to claim her--even defy the gods.

Danika is on the run. For months she's eluded the Lords of the Underworld, immortal warriors who won't rest until she and her family have been destroyed. But her dreams are haunted by Reyes, the warrior whose searing touch she can't forget. Yet a future together could mean death to all they both hold dear....

My Opinion  5 STARS
In this book we have the story of Reyes and Danika of whom we were introduced in the first novel. Danika also had a cameo appearance in book two.

Reyes really is a tortured soul as his demon is pain and he is constantly cutting himself or throwing himself off buildings in order to feel as much pain as he can, as pain is his pleasure. He also cannot make love without pain.

Danika is a strong woman who has had dreams since her grandmother tried to kill herself. She paints what she sees in order that she can then forget, but she sees both heaven and hell, and later we find out the gods themselves. 

On the run from the demons her family have split and struggling to cope. Her wages from any jobs she gets go towards the few meagre items she needs and self-defense lessons. Confronted by to guys at work she breaks one of their noses and is promptly fired. After running she is tackled by the other where she promptly kills him with her pencil.

Waking up she has been kidnaped by hunters who ask her to help them, then is found by Reyes and the other demons and rescued. 

Reyes and Danika have a somewhat turbulent relationship until they learn that they can't cope without each other and Danika can calm his demon for pain, which the other members also notice.

Of course Cronus pops up here and there trying to manipulate the situation with the other demons and we also see Paris's pain of not having Sienna. the girl from Athen, the hunter he cannot forget.

Lots of twists and surprises in this book that follows our two main characters and some of the others in the most brilliant way. This series just gets better and better.

The Darkest Kiss (Lords of the Underworld 2) - Gena Showalter

The Book
Release Date:  1 June 2008

She has tempted many men...but never found her equal. Until now.
Though she has lived for centuries, Anya, goddess of anarchy, has never known pleasure. Until Lucien, the incarnation of death--a warrior eternally doomed to take souls to the hereafter. He draws her like no other. And Anya will risk anything to have him.

But when the merciless Lord of the Underworld is ordered by the gods to claim Anya herself, their uncontrollable attraction becomes an anguished pursuit. Now they must defeat the unconquerable forces that control them, before their thirst for one another demands a sacrifice of love beyond imagining...

My Opinion  5 STARS

Well this book starts very shortly after the first book finished.

Lucien, otherwise known as Death, is the stoic, calm one of the demons and rarely flies into a temper unlike his friends.  However, upon meeting Anya the goddess of Anarchy, he finds that his temper flies and even the though of another man touching her can elicit a tantrum.

Anya was given a curse as a child by the wife of one of the men her husband had slept with.  Anya cannot be penetrated by a man unless she wants to be bound to him for eternity.  She has lived her life in fear of being taken or raped by a man and losing her freedom.  She is feisty and fun, oh and she has a love of stealing otherwise she ends up setting things on fire.

Both find that when they touch each other sparks go off and they cannot stop thinking of the other.  An adventure to find relics pushes them together and the sparks fly leading them to see what they would truly give up for the other be it life or freedom.

The Darkest Night (Lords of the Underworld 1) - Gene Showalter

The Book
Release Date:  1 January 2008

His powers - Inhuman...
His passion - Beyond immortal... 

All her life, Ashlyn Darrow has been tormented by voices from the past. To end the nightmare, she has come to Budapest seeking help from men rumored to have supernatural abilities, not knowing she'll be swept into the arms of Maddox, their most dangerous member -- a man trapped in a hell of his own.

Neither can resist the instant hunger than calms their torments... and ignites an irresistible passion. But every heated touch and burning kiss will edge them closer to destruction -- and a soul-shattering test of love...
Though they carry an eternal curse, the Lords of the Underworld are irresistibly seductive -- and unimaginably powerful...

My Opinion  5 STARS

This book holds everything you need in a good book, romance, love, death, life, intrigue, deception and curses to name but a few. 

Showalter weaves a tale incorporating the best of the best giving you a tale to suck you in, spitting you out at the end making you want to plunge yourself in her world again.

Maddox is curse to hold a demon within him for eternity like his friends, his demon being violence, however as he happened to kill Pandora he is also cursed with dying time and time again at midnight the way he had killed her. With six stab wounds to the stomach.

Ashlyn has heard voices her entire life and was given up by her parents as they couldn't cope with her. She has worked for the institute her whole life finding mythological items and finding other people purely with her talent. She hears of the angels on the hill hoping they can help her, finding Maddox and getting pure silence when he is near for the first time.

Attraction runs deep with them and they find it better to cope with the other at their side. 

A brilliant read.

The Darkest Fire (Lords of the Underworld 0.5) - Gena Showalter

The Book
Release Date: 2008
He is the guardian of hell, more monster than man. She is the goddess of oppression, more angel than woman. Together they will enter the flames to battle a dangerous horde of demon lords -- and discover a passion unlike any other....

Don't miss this sizzling prequel to Gena Showalter's breathtaking new paranormal series, The Lords of the Underworld Though they carry an eternal curse, the Lords of the Underworld are irresistibly seductive -- and unimaginably powerful....

My Opinion  5 STARS

This book has both a darkness to it as well as a lightness. 

Having seen the object of his desire for millennia the guardian finally not only gets to speak to her but fall in love with her.

Although sad it is also heartwarming in his devotion to her.

COVER REVEAL - Dragos Takes a holiday by Thea Harrison

Release Date: 28 November 2013

Not much more has come out other than the release date, the cover reveal and a very short excerpt which is shown below.  As soon as the book blurb is available i will let you all know.

"Liam shuddered and hiccupped, blinking up at Dragos with violet eyes that swam with tears. He was the embodiment of innocence, his energy so bright, shining and new, and Dragos loved him with a ferocity he had never felt about anything or anyone before, except for Pia." ~ current writing project, Dragos Takes A Holiday (novella to be released at Thanksgiving)

A Million Dirty Secrets (Million Dollar Duet 1) - C.L. Parker

The Book
Release Date: 27 August 2013

For fans of Fifty Shades of Grey and Bared to You comes a wickedly erotic new novel of innocence, desire, and unbridled pleasure.

Delaine Talbot has a secret. When a matter of life and death threatens to tear apart her family, Delaine makes the ultimate sacrifice. She auctions herself off at Chicago’s most exclusive erotic club. Now she belongs to Noah Crawford, a wealthy mogul who introduces her to a seductive feast of the senses, awakening desires she only dreamed about.  

Noah doesn’t know why Delaine sold her body for a cool two mil. But it’s the perfect business arrangement. The inexperienced beauty will learn to satisfy his every sensual need, yet never touch his heart. Almost immediately their relationship generates heat—in more ways than one. When they fight, they take no prisoners. When they love, they show no mercy. When they’re together, they never want to leave each other’s arms. But soon, their intense, physical bond will take an unexpected turn—evolving into something neither has bargained for: the promise of a lasting love.

A Million Dirty Secrets is an erotic romance intended for mature audiences.

My Opinion  3 STARS
**Provided by Netgalley and Random House Publishing Group - Bantam Dell for an honest review**

Im not sure if I liked this book or if I disliked it.

The premise is good.  Girl sells her virgin self to the highest bidder at auction and promises to live with them for two years.  Once bought her cherry is popped, she falls in love yadda yadda.

The problem, even though there is a decent story line behind it is that I didn't find Noah to be much of the alpha male that was expected.  Also Delaine falls flat as the strong heroine and comes across as weak and whinny.

There are LOTS of sex scenes that are steamy hot, but having been compared to Fifty Shades and Bared to you, there wasn't really any kink involved, just lots of blurb about them 'doing it' in various places etc.

This is a 'meh' book.  Yes I would like to read the next book in the series just to see what happens next,  but its certainly not one that I would want to read again.

The author also had an interesting use of words for example using coochie to express the name of her nether regions.  Words that are no longer seem fashionable but slightly childish.

This a book to get from the library not buy as although the story is good you will still sigh at having paid for it.

Extreme Love (Love to the Extreme 1) - Abby Niles

The Book
Release Date:  30 April 2013
New body. New clothes. New men.

Used to the average Joe, Caitlyn Moore is overwhelmed when the supremely masculine Dante Jones walks into her life and expresses an interest in her. At first she pushes him away, refusing to encourage the attention of a cage fighter. Then she learns Dante has a love ‘em and leave ‘em reputation. What better way to fine-tune her non-existent flirting skills than with a male who won’t stick around? But Dante has no intention of being a practice dummy; he’s out for all or nothing. Now Caitlyn must accept Dante—violent career and all—or let him go.

Dante “Inferno” Jones has one goal: win the Welterweight Championship. At a time when focus is crucial, the last thing he needs is a distraction. Yet Caitlyn Moore becomes a challenge he can’t resist. When the light-hearted pursuit shifts to a battle to win her heart, his focus is shot. Faced with losing the biggest match of his career, Dante must decide if his extreme life also has room for Extreme Love.

My Opinion  3 STARS
This book focused on Dante and Caitlyn.

Caitlyn is a woman who has been big most of her life but has now lost eighty pounds but still sees the big girl she was before and has very little confidence with the new her. She is therefore completely unprepared when MMA fighter Dante 'Inferno' Jones decides that he like her.

Dante has fought hard to be in his position and does not give up anything with a fight. When Cait shows herself to be so different to the usual girls he is surrounded by he is instantly drawn to her.

In a change for a romance book its not the man who has the attachment issues it the girl. Cait struggles to have confidence with her new body and is unsure how to act with a man actively pursuing her.

A good book to read that sweeps you up in the romance and true feeling from both sides.

COVER REVEAL - Landlocked (Surface 2) by Tiffany Daune

Release Date: July 2013

The Book
As if staying focused in trigonometry wasn't hard enough....Eerie visions are plaguing Theia's mind, driving her insane. Someone or something is reaching out to her, dragging her into a dark underwater world. And, to add to her metal delirium, she has no control over her newly awakened Siren senses. She thinks she can hear her cat's thoughts, she wants to pummel Sarah Collins, and she's trying to keep it together so she doesn't lose her scholarship. She needs someone who understands—someone bound to the ocean water she craves—she needs Luc. But contacting him is risky, and returning to the water a death sentence. She must find a way to harness her Siren senses even though the waves are calling to her. Denying her intended destiny may be the only way to stay alive.

Training Their Mate (Pack Wars 1) - Vella Day

The Book
Release Date:  24 May 2013
Erotic Romantic Suspense, Werewolves, BDSM, MFM, menage

Liz Wharton has one goal—to kill the man who raped her mother. Had she known Harvey Couch was a werewolf, she never would have tried to take him on by herself. 

Determined to put an end to the pest bent on revenge, Harvey sends his goons after her. When two wolves attack her, Liz is sure she’s hallucinating. Good thing Trax Field is there to stop them.

Trax and Dante Field, members of the Pack, have devoted their lives to stopping bad shifters like Harvey Couch. Saving Liz would have been just an ordinary day, but when Trax finds her huddled in an alley, bruised and shaken, he’s convinced she’s his mate. 

To keep her safe, Trax and Dante hold her captive in their loft apartment. When they aren’t searching for Couch, Trax and his brother spend the night training their future mate in the art of bondage and sensual pleasures. How will they be able to convert her into embracing not only their lifestyle but also their animalistic side?

My Opinion  2 STARS
**Provided by Netgalley and Season Publishing for an honest review**

I can honestly say that I didn't like this book.

Although there was a good idea for a story there, it wasn't plotted well and the writing?  OMG where do I start?  I guess the easiest thing to say that the writing was atrocious and hard to follow.

The sex scenes were laughable and you didn't feel any of the emotions were true and it was hard to relate to any of the characters.

At times I actually rolled my eyes the book was that bad.  I mean, how often can one creme oneself, have another orgasm... and would you really , after you have just been attacked go off with a strange man?

I honestly would not recommend this book to anyone, but if you really want to try it, get it from the library, this is not a book to buy.

Mine To Take - Cynthia Eden

The Book
Release Date: 17 June 2013
Sometimes you want someone so much…
Sometimes you need someone so much…
Lust can become love.
And love can turn into a deadly obsession.

***

Skye Sullivan knows that someone is watching her. Not just watching—stalking her. Months ago, Skye was involved in a dangerous car accident. The accident ended her dancing career and sent her fleeing back to Chicago. Skye is convinced that her stalker caused the crash, and she fears that he won’t stop pursuing her, not until she’s dead.

When someone breaks into her apartment in Chicago, Skye turns to the one man she believes can protect her—Trace Weston. Once, Trace was her lover. Two lost souls, they’d come together in a firestorm of need and desire. But then Trace had pushed her away. He’d joined the military, vanishing from her life. She’d put all of her emotion into dancing, and she’d tried to forget him.

Now Trace is one of the most successful men in the United States. Rich, driven, and carrying dark secrets, he agrees to help Skye. He’ll protect her from the danger that lurks in the darkness, but Trace wants more than to just be a guard for Skye.

He wants her. And he’ll take her. The years have changed him, hardened him. He’s not just a poor kid from the streets any longer. Now, he can have anything—or anyone—that he wants. And the one woman he has always wanted has just come back into his life. He won’t let her go again.

But with the threats mounting against Skye, she suspects that her stalker may be intimately close. He’s a man who knows her too well. As his attacks grow ever more dangerous, she realizes that if she trusts the wrong man, she could be making a fatal mistake.

Lust. Love. Obsession.

Just how far would you go in order to possess the one person you want the most?

Author's Note: MINE TO TAKE is a sexy romantic suspense novella—it contains approximately 41,000 words. MINE TO TAKE is intended for adults. Sexy situations and adult language will be found within the pages of this story—please consider yourself warned.

My Opinion  5 STARS
**Provided by Netgalley and Cynthia Eden for an honest review**

Wowzers...

This book has so many twists and turns in that who I thought was the stalkers changed numerous times.  Even then I didn't guess who it was until he was he was revealed.

The story was completely captivating and the love and trust between the two characters was absolute.  Frightening circumstances brought her back to him and you see how will they fit together having grown up together.

I would seriously recommend this book to all romance lovers who wish to have a whodunit woven in so beautifully.

Officer Off Limits (Line of Duty 3) - Tessa Bailey

The Book
Release Date: 10 June 2013
His need to possess her is non-negotiable. 

Story Brooks’ fiancé just called off their wedding two weeks before the happy day. As if that isn't bad enough, her semi-estranged father, an infamous NYPD hostage negotiator, has suffered a heart attack. Not wanting to examine her lack of emotion over the broken engagement, she hops on a plane to reconnect with her father before it’s too late.

Playboy hostage negotiator Daniel Chase has never, not once, been refused by a woman, so when a debate over hospital snack foods with a delectable kindergarten teacher ends in flat-out rejection, he makes it his mission to seduce her. His only obstacle? She’s the daughter of his mentor who implicitly forbade Daniel from pursuing her.

Despite her father’s warnings and Daniel’s troubled past, Daniel and Story can’t resist their intense attraction to one another. But when the reason for her fiancé’s abrupt wedding cancellation comes to light, can Story and Daniel's already forbidden relationship survive?

My Opinion  5 STARS
Another fantastic read from Tessa Bailey.

The flaws in her characters really bring them alive and make them that much more realistic.

Tessa knows how to make you swoon over the alpha males, leaving you with yet another wanted book boyfriend.

It story is fast paced, but not so fast you can't keep up and I really hope there will be another book in the series.

This is a brilliant fast read for all romance lovers.

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Apollyon (Covenant 4) - Jennifer L. Armentrout

The Book
Release Date: 4 April 2013
Fate isn’t something to mess with… and now, neither is Alex.

Alex has always feared two things: losing herself in the Awakening and being placed on the Elixir. But love has always been stronger than Fate, and Aiden St. Delphi is willing to make war on the gods—and Alex herself—to bring her back.

The gods have killed thousands and could destroy entire cities in their quest to stop Seth from taking Alex’s power and becoming the all-powerful God Killer. But breaking Alex’s connection to Seth isn’t the only problem. There are a few pesky little loopholes in the whole “an Apollyon can’t be killed” theory, and the only person who might know how to stop the destruction has been dead for centuries.

Finding their way past the barriers that guard the Underworld, searching for one soul among countless millions, and then somehow returning will be hard enough. Alex might be able to keep Seth from becoming the God Killer… or she might become the God Killer herself.

My Opinion  5 STARS
Wow. This book never stops and ends with a punch.

All the characters seriously grow in this book especially Alex and Aiden. Alex turns from a self centered girl to a mature adult with a large heart.

It also shows us how strong Aiden is and that he would do anything for Alex and his brother. Seth on the other hand you feel a little sorry for, but know he is going to get what he deserves.

There are lots of twists and turns, some questions are answered and others are opened up making you want to read more. 

Apollyon is a masterfully crafted book that deserves a place on any bookshelf.

Elixir (Covenant 3.5) - Jennifer L. Armentrout

The Book
Release Date: 27 November 2012
Aiden St. Delphi will do anything to save Alex. 
Even if it means doing the one thing he will never forgive himself for. 
Even if it means making war against the gods.

My Opinion  5 STARS
This novella is told from Aiden's POV.

This novella shows how much Aiden will do for Alex and just how much he loves her. 

He does not give up in his faith of her and does what he can to make things easier for her which, at most points, is not appreciated.

Aiden no longer struggles with his feelings for Alex, and now, no longer cares who knows how much she means to him.

We also see more from the Gods on the approaching war against the pures and half-bloods. We also see how much Apollo cares for Alex.

A good filler to gain greater prespective for the next novel Apollyon!!

Deity (Covenant 3) - Jennifer L. Armentrout

The Book
Release Date: 6 November 2012
"History is on repeat, and things didn't go so well the last time. "

Alexandria isn't sure she's going to make it to her eighteenth birthday--to her Awakening. A long-forgotten, fanatical order is out to kill her, and if the Council ever discovers what she did in the Catskills, she's a goner... and so is Aiden. 

If that's not freaky enough, whenever Alex and Seth spend time "training"--which really is just Seth's code word for some up-close and personal one-on-one time--she ends up with another mark of the Apollyon, which brings her one step closer to Awakening ahead of schedule. Awesome. 

But as her birthday draws near, her entire world shatters with a startling revelation and she's caught between love and Fate. One will do anything to protect her. One has been lying to her since the beginning. Once the gods have revealed themselves, unleashing their wrath, lives will be irrevocably changed... and destroyed. 

Those left standing will discover if love is truly greater than Fate...

My Opinion  5 STARS

This series keeps getting better and better!! And it's totally made of some of the best awesome sauce around.

The book ends on yet another cliff hangar, totally amping the oooooh factor, wanting me to immediately rip into the next book in the series and not stop until I find out what happens next.

Armentrout is a master in her craft, spinning webs that completely ensnare you into the story so much so that it is hard to put the book down.

I love the complete faith that Aiden has in Alex and never lets her give up.  They have a wonderful relationship.

Lots has happened to Alex and you can't help but be enamoured at her strength.  She really is one tough cookie, and the battle hasn't even finished yet.