This post will be for two (2) weeks worth of reading. I want to end my posts with all the books I've read for this year. :)
The First Weeks Theme: Daughters
Hell Can Wait by Celia Kyle - 4 Stars ****
I’m Caith Morningstar: bar owner, leather wearer, shoe worshipper, werewolf, Orlando’s resident ass kicker and… Satan’s niece.
The dead are rising in the land of that famous mouse and
apparently, I’m the one who has to deal with the mess. Forget movie night with
my kid. I have to kill ghouls who have decided to make some new undead friends
in the morgue. Eh, killing things is easy. Generally. Oddly, these guys have
glowing blue eyes and are way too good at butt kicking. Thankfully, I’m better.
I manage to get rid of them, but one gets in a shot or two of his own, and now
I’ve got a foot-long wound in my side that glows blue. Kinda like the ghoul.
Now the dick who made those ghouls is trying to turn me into
his puppet, which so isn’t going to happen. My loved ones are trying to cure
me, my angel mate is off on some super-secret mission for On High, and I’m
stuck in bed “resting.” Not that I’m staying there.
I’d rather die than become anyone’s puppet, which might be
my only option left. I just hope I can come back from the dead later.
Lucifer's Daughter by Kel Carpenter - 4 Stars ****
We’ve all heard the story of the Four Horsemen. Harbingers
of the apocalypse. Destruction given form. Four of the sexiest—wait no—forget
that. You get my point.
So imagine my surprise when I find out everything I’ve ever
been told, is a lie.
But we’re getting ahead of ourselves here. Let’s start from
the beginning.
My name is Ruby Morningstar. I run a tattoo parlor in
Portland with my bestfriend, have a pet raccoon, a crazy ex that stalks me, not
to mention this one little thing… I’m a demon. Half-succubus, to be exact. For
the last twenty-three years of my life, that’s the story I believed, but on the
day a handsome stranger bails me out of jail my world is turned upside down,
and suddenly I don’t know who I am anymore.
Because the Four Horsemen aren’t the bringers of the
apocalypse.
I am.
Talk about never catching a break.
Daughter of Hades by Helen Scott - 3 Stars ***
Poppy never thought her life would get this crazy.
Sexy hellhound guards and being the future queen of the
Underworld? She had been happy being a waitress and a freelance graphic
designer in Chicago, hadn't she? What she was doesn't matter, that life is long
gone now.
Before she can travel to the Underworld, she needs to find
three judges that will preside over the souls of the dead. But who are they?
Where are they? And how the hell is she supposed to find them?
As she battles agents of Hel at every turn and is confronted
with mysterious new enemy Poppy is decidedly on edge. Will she find her judges
in time or will her enemies get to them first?
Their Mate by Charlie Hart & Anastasia James - 3 Stars ***
After screwing up my life in the lower forty-eight, I take a
chance on an old friend’s offer and head to Alaska for a fresh start.
A day in, I’m pitching a tent in the middle of nowhere.
I’ve been through plenty— being alone in the wilderness
isn’t the scariest thing I’ve faced.
But um. These wolves who’ve hunted me down?
They’re kinda freaking me out.
They say I’m their remedy— their mate. That I can’t leave.
I thought what we shared was nothing but a romp in the
woods.
Turns out I’m coming face-to-face
with my destiny.
Freyja's Daughter by Rachel Pudelek - 3 Stars ***
Meet Faline. Bounty-Hunter. Huldra. Wild Woman.
Well behaved women seldom make history, but they still end
up as the monsters of folklore.
Faline Frey is a bounty-hunter, more comfortable relying on
perp files and handcuffs than using her huldra powers to take down a suspect.
No sense in catching the unwanted attention of her local Hunter authority, a
group of holy soldiers born to police the supernatural and keep Wild
Women—huldras, mermaids, succubi, rusalki and harpies—in check.
All that changes the night she heads out for a date, hoping
to get lucky. Instead, she gets screwed.
Now her sister is missing, along with Wild Women from all
over the country. The Hunters are on her tail and the one person offering to
help is her ex-lover, Officer Marcus Garcia, who has just enough ties to the
supernatural world. To unite her enemies against their common foe, Faline will
need to convince the Wild Women to do the one thing she fears most—exhume their
power buried deep beneath centuries of oppression. That is, if she can keep
them from killing each other.
The Second Weeks Theme: Were's
Go Fetch by Shelly Laurenston - 4 Stars ****
Conall Víga-Feilan, direct descendent of Viking shifters,
never thought that he'd meet a female strong enough to be his mate. He
especially didn't think that a short, viper-tongued human would ever fit the
bill.
But Miki Kendrick isn't some average human. With an IQ off
the charts and a special skill with weapons of all kinds, Miki brings the big
blond pooch to his knees—and keeps him there. Miki's way too smart to ever
believe in love, and she knows that a guy like Conall could only want one thing
from her. But with the Pack's enemies on her tail and a few days stuck alone
with the one man who makes her absolutely wild, Miki is about to discover how
persistent one Viking wolf can be.
Wolf and Punishment by Theodora Taylor - 4 Stars ****
Two shifters from opposite sides of the tracks. Two hot
nights neither of them can forget....
The truth is, Mag Lonewolf had no business going after a
girl like Janelle. She was too classy, too gentle, too beautiful for a bad wolf
like him. But their attraction was explosive, and now he can't stay away...even
though they went down in a blaze of lies and regrets.
Three years later he storms back into her life, determined
to punish the she-wolf who got away for her crimes against his heart. But can
he put out their flame without getting burnt again?
Feral Sins by Suzanne Wright - 4 Stars ****
When female wolf shifter Taryn Warner first encounters Trey
Coleman, an alpha male wolf shifter with a dangerous reputation, she’s
determined to resist his charms. After all, Trey—who was only fourteen when he
defeated his own father in a duel, winning the right to be alpha of his
pack—can’t have anything to offer the talented healer besides trouble, or so
she thinks. Taryn finds herself drawn in by Trey’s forceful demeanor and
arctic-blue eyes, and she eventually agrees to enter an uneasy alliance with
him. If the two succeed in convincing their respective packs that they’ve
chosen each other as mates, Trey will win valuable political allies, while
Taryn will escape an odious arranged mating.
But there are a lot of potential pitfalls to this
plan—including the very real possibility that the wolf shifters, overwhelmed by
their growing attraction to each other, will be unable to maintain the clear
heads needed to pull off the deception.
Real Men Howl by Celia Kyle & Marina Maddix - 4 Stars ****
Mason’s inner wolf will go crazy without her. Lucy thinks
he’s already crazy. Werewolves aren’t real. Right?
Lucy Morgan left Ashtown, Georgia, ten years ago and planned
to never return. Unfortunately, life didn’t get that memo. She’s back and now
painful memories follow her everywhere. Until she meets him. Mason Blackwood is
over six feet of sinfully gorgeous man who—for some reason—wants her. He also
thinks he’s a werewolf so… yeah. He’s crazypants. But when he wants to have his
wicked way with her, his sanity doesn’t seem all that important anymore.
Mason isn’t sure how much longer he can remain Alpha over
the Blackwood pack. Without a mate to balance him, his wolf snatches more
control every day. It won’t be long before he loses himself to the animal
entirely. Then he meets Lucy—a sassy, curvaceous beauty who calms his beast
with a smile. One sniff is enough to tell him she’s his mate, and nothing will
keep them apart.
Not even the pack’s deadliest enemy who’s determined to kill
Lucy before Mason can claim her.
Shield Wolf by Victoria Danann - 3 Stars ***
WHEN HE COULDN'T FIND HIS MATE IN THIS WORLD, THE WENT
ELSEWHERE.
For hundreds of years the Scotia werewolves have lived in
the highlands and enjoyed the protection of the Fae Monarchy, but the world is
changing and the straining population compels the highlander werewolves to
adapt. Or die. Or MOVE. When Liulf unexpectedly becomes a reluctant pack alpha,
he begins an epic exodus.
There you have it. :) I hope you are reading something wonderful.
As always, thank you for stopping by.
~Michelle
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