ORCHID by Jayne Castle - Review

I enjoy anything written by Jayne Castle or any of her other pseudonyms - Jayne Krentz or Amanda Quick. The characters are believable and likable, she also has a great way of painting the story, she is not as erotic as some of the other authors I enjoy. But she is one I keep coming back to time again. And this book was no exception - ORCHID is a re-read for me, a love story set in a futuristic time. And was just as enjoyable as the first time I read it.

Rafe Stonebraker, a dark and moody (got to love the bad boy thing) that is a high level strat-talent. His psychic abilities gives him the hunting instincts of an animal. Rafe is planning to take over his grandfather's position as CEO in order to save the company. But he needs a wife. Sounds like trouble!!

Orchid Adams is a strong prism who works at Psynergy Inc. She is also a writer of romance psychic vampire novels. Her family are all academics who live and work in a research center community. She helps Rafe with simple investigations by adding him with her psychic abilities. Orchid is a strong and intelligent heroine, that gives as good as she gets.

Once again Jayne Castle created an exciting New World with interesting characters and language inhabiting it.

Book Rate – Playful/Sensual

Review Rating – 2 Chocotini

CASSANDRA'S CHATEAU - FREDRICA ALLEYN

CASSANDRA'S CHATEAU
Cassandra continues her journey of erotic self-discovery in this sequel to Cassandra’s Conflict

Cassandra’s relationship with the Baron is jeopardized when a friend’s daughter arrives at the sumptuous chateau. If the newcomer learns to satisfy the Baron’s taste for pleasure and perversity, Cassandra’s days there will be numbered—but help comes from an unlikely source.

DECEMBER 2011 REVIEW DRINK

CHOCOTINI

With Christmas just around the corner, I thought a little chocolate would lift your spirits.

50ml Bliss Creme Liquor

10ml Vodka

15ml Creme De Cacao

Throw into a shaker with several ice cubes, shake then strain into

martini glass

Add chocolate shavings or flake to top

then

ENJOY!!

NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2011 GIVEAWAY

PRE - ORDER ANY BOOK

To go in the draw to get the whole series

DARK DESTINY by CHRISTINE FEEHAN - Dark Series Book 13

~DARK DESTINY~

Her childhood had been a nightmare of violence and pain until she heard his voice calling out to her. Golden and seductive. The voice of an angel. He had shown her how to survive, taught her to use her unique gifts, trained her in the ancient art of hunting the vampire. Yet he could not bend her to his will. He could not summon her to him, no matter how great his power. As she battled centuries-old evil in a glittering labyrinth of caverns and crystals, he whispered in her mind, forging an unbreakable bond of trust and need. Only with him can she find the courage to embrace the seductive promise of her… Dark Destiny.

The Shattered Sylph - Review

I really couldn't put this book down! I found it better then the first. It was a little slow as you learnt more about the characters. The world that L.J has created is unique add into that adventure, trust, unrequited love, friendship and love.

It is wonderful to see Ril grow and learn about trust that runs soul deep. With Lizzie being kidnapped, Leon, Ril and Justin, Lizzie would be suitor. Set off to save her what they find challenges all their strength of will. It was a great read.

However I would recommend that you read the first book before this one, as the alternate world is add to not re-described.

Book Rate – Hot

Review Rating – 1 Long Island Tea

NOVEMBER 2011 REVIEW DRINK

LONG ISLAND TEA

Ingredients

• 1 nip (30 ml) vodka
• 1 nip (30 ml) gin
• 1 nip (30 ml) rum
• 1 nip (30 ml) triple sec liqueur
• 1 nip (30 ml) tequila
• 2 teaspoons orange juice
• 2 nips (60ml) cola
• 1 wedge lemon

In a cocktail mixer full of ice, combine vodka, gin, rum, triple sec and tequila. Add orange juice and cola. Shake vigorously until frothy. Strain into a long glass filled with ice, and garnish with wedge of lemon.

ENJOY!!

10 Ways Romance Alpha Heroes Are More Like Newborn Babies

10. They both get really cranky if you don’t feed them. They also enjoy a nice burp afterwards.

9. They both have a real fondness for nipples.

8.They both have really nasty tempers. A little pat on the butt always helps.

7. They both have a tendency to wake you up at all hours of the night.

6. They both will throw a fit if they can’t snuggle on demand.

5. They both excrete a pungent scent – dark and spicy or is that a diaper?

4. They both can rock the baldie look. Hard.

3.They both appreciate a nice sponge bath.

2. They both are selfish, overbearing, bossy and loud. But we love them anyway.

1. They both have a way of making you fall head over heals in love at first sight.

DAWN'S AWAKENING by LORA LEIGH - Breeds

Dawn's Awakening

The runt of the lab she was created in, Dawn Daniels endured years of torture by her pride brother and the council soldiers. Finally freed from her torment, she’s now a Breed Enforcer, in control of her own life. Until she’s assigned to protect the one man destined to be her mate—and realizes it’s far too easy to lose total control…One of the Breed’s most important supporters, Seth Lawrence has spent years trying to forget Dawn, knowing that her lost innocence has made it impossible for her to get close to anyone. But suddenly neither of them can find the strength to fight the overwhelming passion between them. At least until the most brutal tormenter from Dawn’s past reappears—and threatens to destroy their newfound love, along with their lives…

DARK SLAYER by CHRISTINE FEEHAN - Dark Series Book 20

DARK SLAYER

A rumor has persisted in the vampire world of a dark slayer —a woman—who travels with a wolf pack and who destroys any vampire who crosses her path.  Mysterious, elusive and seemingly impossible to kill, she is the one hunter who strikes terror into the hearts of the undead. She is Ivory Malinov. Her only brethren, the wolves. Long ago betrayed by her people, abandoned by her family, and cast out by everyone she held dear, Ivory has lived a century without companionship or love. She has sustained her sanity by the habit of the hunt and the custom of the feeding. Until the night she picks up the scent of a man, her unexpected salvation. Her lifemate. The curse of all Carpathian women.

He is Razvan. Branded a criminal, detested and feared, he is a dragonseeker borne of one of the greatest Carpathian lineages, only to be raised as its most despised—and captive—enemy. Fleeing from his lifetime of imprisonment, Razvan now seeks the dawn to end his terrible existence. Instead he has found his deliverance in the Dark Slayer.

In spirit, in flesh and blood, in love, and in war, Ivory and Razvan are made for each other. For as long as they dare to live.

DARK SYMPHONY by CHRISTINE FEEHAN - Dark Series 10

DARK SYMPHONY

Byron, a Carpathian male and hunter of the vampire follows the sound of compelling music to Italy. There he discovers his lifemate, Antoinetta Scarletti, heiress to the great Scarletti fortune. A renowned concert pianist, Antoinetta is the glue that holds the Scarletti family together. Blinded in an explosion that killed her parents, she nevertheless stands to run the family shipping business. Antoinetta lives in the palazzo della morte, the palace of death. There, like her ancestors, she finds someone wants her dead. Antoinetta has a few secrets of her own and together, Byron and Antoinetta face the killers and one out of control Carpathian youth.

STEEL BEAUTY by Dana Marie Bell

She's everything a big bad Wolf could want.

Coping with a devastating injury is hard enough for Belinda "Belle" Campbell. 
Forced separation from her destined mate while she heals is almost more than 
she can endure. Until she is strong enough to take up her duties as Luna of the 
Poconos Wolf Pack, however, the safest place for her is Halle. Now, after months 
of being alone, she is more than ready to be claimed. 
But is the pack ready for a Puma Luna?

Rick Lowell has waited long enough to bring Belle home where she belongs. 
He's aware of the danger, as well--and it isn't long before a bitch with an eye on 
Belle's position issues a challenge. The only way to put down the threat is for Belle to 
defeat the usurper in combat.

There's only one problem. Thanks to the pins in her broken hip, Belle can't shift. 
Without that tactical advantage, it won't be a fair fight. With his new mate's life 
on the line, Rick is forced to make a decision that will change everything.

That is, if Belle gives him the chance to make it.

DARK PREDATOR by CHRISTINE FEEHAN - Dark Series Book 22

DARK PREDATOR

As brutal as the undead he hunted, Zacarias De La Cruz was a master executioner. Over the long, dark centuries, he plunged into so many battles they blurred into an endless lifetime of evil that hardened the soul of this merciless, ruthless and implacable dark predator. Now his stark and savage journey is over. After a thousand years in a gray world, he has accomplished everything he set out to do. His brothers are safeguarded. Each has found a woman who completes them. And they are at peace. For his brothers, Zacarias has walked the edge of  madness, but with centuries as a killing machine now left to the past and without a hunt to define him, Zacarias wonders, for the first time in his life, who he really is. The answer awaits him back home in Peru , in the betrayal of a woman who is readying her trap, in the vengeance of an old enemy, in the inevitable consequences of a bloody family legacy, and in the deliverance of a lifemate he never could have imagined.

DARK GUARDIAN by CHRISTINE FEEHAN - Dark Series 9

DARK GUARDIAN

Jaxon Montgomery is a woman hunted. Trained by the Special Forces, honed by a traumatic childhood, she is a policewoman with an undisputed reputation. She meets her match when she is set up to be murdered by an enemy. Hunted on all sides, she can only turn to the mysterious stranger who seems more dangerous than any other she has ever known. He ran with the wolves… Materialized from the mists… Hijacked the very heavens to his whims… He was the Dark Guardian of his people. So how, after centuries of bleak, soulless existence, had he suddenly come to crave petite, curvy, colorful lady cop Jaxon Montgomery, who foolishly made it her life’s work to protect others from harm?

HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE VAMPIRE - REVIEW

This is not the first book I've read of Kerrelyn Sparks and it will not be the last! “Kerrelyn writing is so off the cuff, that I found myself roaring in laughter till my sides ached. Much to the amazement of of my family. The story is fast paced but it doesn't leave you wondering what's going on." 

"Kerrelyn manages to make the blood sucking creatures of darkness seem normal, sexy, confused and funny so damn funny. I can understand the huge following she has, her take on vampires in the modern world is light hearted and captivating."

          "You will love it"

Book Rate – Hot

Review Rating – 1 and half Golden Dreams

ORCHID by Jayne Castle

Atop psychic for exclusive Psynergy Inc., Orchid Adams has her hands full with a baffling murder—which doesn’t exactly allow time for husband hunting. Is it even possible there’s a man on St. Helen’s who measures up to her dreams of wedded bliss? Take her new client, Rafe Stonebraker: primitive and elemental, an unlicensed P.I. with some serious secrets, Rafe is hardly marriage material. So why does his powerful presence have Orchid imagining the most outrageous affair? Rafe is embroiled in solving a strange theft while thwarting a hostile takeover of Stonebraker Shipping; he needs a wife—and fast—to salvage his credibility. Orchid Adams doesn’t fit the profile he had in mind, but she fits in his arms. Will their electrifying connection end up getting them burned?

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ETERNAL KISS OF DARKNESS by JEANIENE FROST - Night Huntress World - Book 2

Eternal Kiss of Darkness

Night Huntress World, book two.

An immortal war has been brewing in the darkness…and now one woman has stumbled into the shadows.

Chicago private investigator Kira Graceling should have just kept on walking.  But her sense of duty refused to let her ignore the moans of pain coming from inside a warehouse just before dawn.  Suddenly she finds herself in a world she’s only imagined in her worst nightmares.

At the center is Mencheres, a breathtaking Master Vampire who thought he’d seen it all.  Then Kira appears—this fearless, beautiful…human who braved death to rescue him.  Though he burns for her, keeping Kira in his world means risking her life, yet sending her away is unthinkable.

But with danger closing in, Mencheres must choose between the woman he craves, or embracing the darkest magic to defeat an enemy bent on his eternal destruction.

DARK LEGEND by CHRISTINE FEEHAN - Dark Series 8

DARK LEGEND

He woke deep within the ground, and the first sensation he felt was hunger. An overwhelming hunger for blood that demanded satisfaction. But as he hunted the dark streets of Paris for prey, a voice called to him, soothing, calming, giving him the strength to control his craving. Francesca Del Ponce was a healer, a woman who radiated goodness as powerfully as the sun did light. But surely his obsession with her would turn him as his twin brother had turned, leaving the world with two monsters instead of one. Though he knew she would be like hot silk in his arms, though he knew the taste of her would be addictive, he feared for her life and his soul if he took her. Then with one mind-shattering vow she gave herself - "I offer freely, without reservation, I offer my life for yours as is my right" - and with a firestorm of long-forgotten feelings, he glimpsed salvation.

DARK CHALLENGE by CHRISTINE FEEHAN - Dark Series 5

DARK CHALLENGE~

Was She More Than His Mate?  Julian Savage was golden. Powerful. But tormented. For the brooding hunter walked alone. Always alone, far from his Carpathian kind, alien to even his twin. Like his name, his existence was savage. Until he met the woman he was sworn to protect…. When Julian heard Desari sing, rainbows swamped his starving senses. Emotions bombarded his hardened heart. And a dark hunger to possess her flooded his loins, blinding him to the danger stalking him. And even as Desari enflamed him, she dared to defy him - with mysterious, unparalleled feminine powers. Was Desari more than his perfect mate? Julian had met his match in this woman, but would she drive him to madness…or save his soul?

AIDEN'S CHARITY by LORA LEIGH - Breeds 12

Aiden's Charity

The forces of survival and destruction swirl in the darkest corners of men’s minds. The nature of the beast cannot be harnessed, and survival is the purest of all instincts. Survival of the species itself goes soul deep.


But can the human heart accept and adapt as easily? Can Charity bestow the love and the acceptance that has always been a part of her, to the man whose very survival depended on the hardening of his heart, of his soul? And can Aiden maintain that cruelty now, in the face of the sacrifices she made? Only time and nature can tell…

OCTOBER REVIEW DRINK

GOLDEN DREAM

30ml Galliano

20ml Cointreau

20ml Orange Juice

20ml Cream

Ice

Shake ingredients well and strain into a cocktail glass.

ENJOY!!

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10 Ways Romance Alpha Heroes Are More Like Newborn Babies 

10. They both get really cranky if you don’t feed them. They also enjoy a nice burp afterwards.

9. They both have a real fondness for nipples.

8.They both have really nasty tempers. A little pat on the butt always helps.

7. They both have a tendency to wake you up at all hours of the night.

6. They both will throw a fit if they can’t snuggle on demand.

5. They both excrete a pungent scent – dark and spicy or is that a diaper?

4. They both can rock the baldie look. Hard.

3.They both appreciate a nice sponge bath.

2. They both are selfish, overbearing, bossy and loud. But we love them anyway.

1. They both have a way of making you fall head over heals in love at first sight.

http://smokinhotbooks.com/blog/2011/05/06/alphamales-newbornbabies/    

MARKED by Elizabeth Naughton

THERON – Dark haired, duty bound and deceptively deadly. He’s the leader of the Argonauts, an elite group of guardians that defends the immortal realm from threats of the Underworld.

From the moment he walked into the club, Casey knew this guy was different. Men like that just didn’t exist in real life—silky shoulder-length hair, chest impossibly broad, and a predatory manner that just screamed dark and dangerous. He was looking for something. Her.

She was the one. She had the mark. Casey had to die so his kind could live, and it was Theron’s duty to bring her in. But even as a 200-year-old descendent of Hercules, he wasn’t strong enough to resist the pull in her fathomless eyes, to tear himself away from the heat of her body.

As war with the Underworld nears, someone will have to make the ultimate sacrifice.

TANNER'S SCHEME by LORA LEIGH - Breeds 9

Tanner's Scheme

After the Feline Breeds’ main base is attacked, Tanner desires revenge. So he kidnaps Scheme Tallant-the daughter of a one-time high-ranking member of the Genetics Council. But when Tanner discovers that Scheme herself is a target of her father’s ruthless mission, his vengeance takes a back seat to saving the life of the woman he hopes to claim as his mate.

ONE GRAVE AT A TIME by JEANIENE FROST - Night Huntress Book 6

One Grave at a Time

Night Huntress, book six.

How do you send a killer to the grave when he’s 

already dead?

Having narrowly averted an (under)world war, Cat Crawfield wants nothing more than a little downtime with her vampire husband, Bones. Unfortunately, her gift from New Orleans’ voodoo queen just keeps on giving–leading to a personal favor that sends them into battle once again, this time against a villainous spirit.

Centuries ago, Heinrich Kramer was a witch hunter. Now, every All Hallows Eve, he takes physical form to torture innocent women before burning them alive. This year, however, a determined Cat and Bones must risk all to send him back to the other side of eternity–forever. But one wrong step and they’ll be digging their own graves.