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Review - Fire with Fire by Penelope King

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Fire with Fire by Penelope King Book 2 in the Demonblood seriesGenre: YA ParanormalFormat: EBook 
My Rating: 5 out of 5 stars!My Review: Fire with Fire continues two months after we left off at the end of book one, A Demon Made Me Do It.

Kieron has been gone for two months, and Lucky/Liora have not heard from him.
They go about their lives as normal, trying to keep it together until he returns.

In this installment, we see two new characters enter the story.
A new love interest, Tristan and his sister Cassie become involved in Liora's life.

Bones consoles Lucky during the night hours.

Action and adventure start when things happen, that I wont say because I dont want to ruin the story.

What can I say other than WOW!! I absolutely loved the first book, but this one really rocked!

I sat down intending to read a few chapters and read the whole thing.
I was captivated from the start and couldnt wait to see what was going to happen.

A few things I saw coming, but a lot I didnt!

Hanging for the next book because i cant wait to see what happens!!On a side note, what a gorgeous cover!!If you haven't read book 1 - A Demon Made Me Do It - read this before reading Fire with Fire.Happy Reading

Review - A Demon Made Me Do It by Penelope King

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A Demon Made Me Do It by Penelope King
Genre: YA Paranormal Format: EBook
My Rating: 5 out of 5 stars!
My Review: A demon made me do it is about a high school girl who by day is a human named Liora, and by night is demon named Lucky.

Lucky is the sassy, kick ass demon, who doesn't particularly like her human counterpart, Liora.
Liora is a human, who is a loner and an outsider. She also doesn't like her demon counterpart.
But one cannot survive without the other, so it is a love/hate relationship they share throughout the book.
 Enter Kieron...The gorgeous raven haired, blue eyed love interest! He sees the girls as one person, but they don't.
Neither of the girls are willing to share, so it is a really interesting love triangle that has been created.

From the first page, i did not want to put this book down!
I absolutely loved it and cannot wait to read more of the series.

Penelope King has written such an engaging novel! The words flow off the page, and the transitions between Liora and Lucky are so brilliantly written that you feel as though you really are reading about two different characters.

This is one of the best indie novels that i have read so far, and Penelope has earned herself a place on my favourite indie author list! 

Available for Purchase on Amazon, Smashwords and Barnes & Noble.

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Enter to win a signed copy of A Demon Made Me Do It.  The giveaway is being held on Goodreads.  Click on the link to enter - http://www.goodreads.com/giveaway/show/18869-a-demon-made-me-do-it 

Review - Charmeine by Emily Guido

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Charmeine by Emily Guido

Genre: Paranormal Romance
Format: Ebook

My Rating: 4 out of 5 stars


My Review: Charmeine is a story about Tabbruis, a very hunky bloodhunter aka Vampire and Charleen/Charmeine a sassy little lightbearer. 
 
The bloodhunters and lightbearers are mortal enemies and supposed to kill each other on sight.

We start the story with Tabbruis finding himself pulled in a certain direction with no reason or knowledge why.  He has visions of a face that makes him feel alive and whole in a way that he has never felt before.

Charleen/Charmeine is that face.

After a chance encounter, when her life is at stake, they meet and the sparks fly!

The story then continues on with their journey, learning about each other, discovering their past and fighting to save their future.

So what I liked about Charmeine...

For a start, I LOVED that was so different!  I can honestly say I haven't read a story line like this before.  Lightbearers (Angels) and Bloodhunters (Vampires) is a whole new twist that I really, really enjoyed.

I loved Tabrruis, even though he was a knucklehead at times, as all good heros are.  And I loved Charmeine for her strong sense of faith and trusting.  I admit i wanted to slap her a couple of times for overreacting but i still loved her.

It was such a sweet and almost innocent love story with insinuated love scenes as opposed to steamy scenes.  This was actually something i liked and didn't like.  I like the sweet innocence, but I did want the steamy scenes.

A lot of the book is a real page turner, and i found myself hooked and thinking about what was happening when I wasn't reading it.

Now the not so positives -

Even though this was a wonderful novel that i really enjoyed, and plan on reading the next one also, it had a few problems.

The biggest problem for me was the editing.  All through the book, I found spelling errors, missing words or misused words.  I kept on reading but it does tend to jolt you out of the story.  It just needs another edit, so this is simple enough to fix.

The sentence structure and dialogue could flow a bit smoother in some places but that could be fixed with another edit too.

The only problem with the story line that I found, was that the characters were too familiar to quickly at times.  I wont say who it was because I don't want to ruin the story, but when someone finds out they are related and instantly starts referring to them as Mom or Dad and then someone else who has never met them before starts saying that, it feels to familiar. 

If the above was fixed, I would give this novel 5 stars!

Despite the editing, I really enjoyed this and wouldn't hesitate to read more books by this author! Looking forward to reading the next in the series - Ransom.

Well done Emily, this a great debut novel!

Available for purchase at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

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Our first guest post and giveaway!

Our first ever guest post on the subject of strong female lead characters and why we need them is up!
We are really excited about it :)
There is also a giveaway going! 3 kindle copies of Immortal Prophecy are up for grabs.
So head over to http://shadowkissedcassie.blogspot.com.au/2012/04/author-guest-post-and-giveaway-immortal.html#more for your chance to win a copy and to read our post!

Review - Deadly Obsession by Kristine Cayne

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Deadly Obsession By Kristine Cayne

Genre: Romantic SuspenseFormat: Ebook
My Rating: 5 out of 5 stars!
My Review:   Deadly Obsession is the story of Lauren James and Nic Lamoureux, also known as Nic the lover. 

Lauren is a single mom, who works as a department store photographer.
Nic is Hollywood's leading man, who hides a dark secret.

Nic and Lauren are instantly attracted to each other, but in the background, a stalker is trying everything she can to keep them apart.

So, what I loved about Deadly Obsession...Everything!
I haven't read romantic suspense, and after reading this novel, i find myself wondering why i hadn't before.
From the first page, I was hooked on this story.
Nic was an amazing character. Completely gorgeous and sexy as hell but there was more to him than that. I was pleasantly surprised to find that he had depth.
Lauren was great. I loved her right away. Although, a few times I wanted to slap her for doing something stupid :) And her son, Jason was a sweetheart.

I worked out who the stalker was not too far into the book, but the whole way through, I kept thinking maybe it wasn't. The story takes on you so many twists and turns, that you are kept on your toes.

The sex scenes were steamy but not overdone, which is good.

Kristine Cayne, has written a fabulous, engaging, suspenseful and thoroughly enjoyable first novel. I will be keeping my eyes open for anything else she writes.
Another great Indie author find :)


Available for purchase at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Smashwords.
A paperback version is also available.

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Our first interview!

We are so very excited today.  Our first ever interview has been posted on the lovely Larissa Hinton's blog - A Three Way Tie.
Wander over and check it out :)
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Indie Author Book Reviews

Since purchasing my beloved Kindle, I have had the pleasure of reading some amazing books by Indie Authors.  Reading and discovering new authors is something that I love doing anyway so why not help them out by telling the rest of the world how great their book is.  I have had people reading my book, Immortal Prophecy in exchange for honest reviews, and it has been such a huge help getting the book out there.
 At least once a month I will add a new review to the blog.  You might just find some new authors that you love.

If you are an Indie Author interested in having your book reviewed, please send me an email - samanthajadams@ymail.com - I can only accept Kindle versions of your novel at this stage.

I love reading YA Paranormal Romance, Historical Romance and Adult Paranormal Romance.  If your books fit into any of these categories get in touch with me.

My first post...

Well, my first post...where do I start and what do I start with?
First of all, I would like to say welcome to everyone that is reading this and a big thank you to everyone that has purchased a copy of our debut novel so far.  Also, a big, big thank you to everyone at Goodreads that has taken time out of their lives to help out two new authors by reading and reviewing our book.  They didn't have to do it but they did :)
Just because I love our cover, here is a picture of it :)

The feedback we have received has been brilliant! There is always constructive criticism, which i know most people hate, and yes it may hurt a bit but ultimately it will make you a better writer.
When we started writing this book, we wanted people to love the storyline and that so far has been the case, even those with constructive criticism can't help but love it.As authors, that is what we love to hear and that is our first goal achieved!
What's next...a little about me.
I have always wanted to be a writer and have devoured books since i was a young girl. The two seem to go hand in hand, but what made me want to write, was that I wanted to make other people feel and experience the emotions I felt when reading a book.  I wanted to make others laugh out loud, get warm and tingly, be inspired by the heroine and fall desperately in love with the hero.In this day and age, everyone has a need to escape the realities of life, and what better way to do that than reading a book that takes you to another world. 
We decided to write a YA PNR romance because that is something that I personally read and love and it is also a genre that you can create and  have a lot of fun with.  There are no rules, it just has to be believable!  Kay decided she wanted the vamps in our story to be bad guys.  We both loved the idea of going old school and returning to the bad vampire theme.  Once we made this decision, the Immortals were born.  


It is so much fun to be able to write a novel with someone else, bouncing ideas off each other and creating personalities and characters.  And it's even more fun when your co-author is your mum :)  The difference in our ages and experiences with the paranormal genres made the concept of our book stronger.  The bad vampire thought was something from her generation.  She loves twilight as much as I do, but she is still adjusting to the concept of 'good' vampires, as she isn't used to it.  Fright night, for example, is the kind of Vampire that my mother's generation grew up with, so it's quite a difference to go from Jerry, the evil vamp next to door to Edward Cullen, the 'vegetarian' vampire.

Outside of writing, I am a 26 year old stay at home mother to our toddler, Joshua.  I am also lucky enough, to be married to my hero and the love of my life, Scott.  We have two dogs, Ellie - a golden retriever pup and Coco - a cavalier x maltese.  Both of them are very spoiled and are best friends with Josh. 
Coffee is my addiction and i don't think i would survive a day without it :)
We love to hear from our fans, so drop by and say hi!You can find us at Twitter, Goodreads or leave a comment here.
Check out my website - www.samanthajadams.comand don't forgot to have a look at my co-author and mum's website too - www.kayfry.com
Happy Reading xx