The review… thing
Okay, so I don’t know about other authors, but I’m in a love-hate relationship with reviews. I love that people feel moved to write about my work, but at the same time, I always tend to start reading them with one eye shut, kinda squinting at the screen in case it says something horrible.
I’m not that thin-skinned or self-absorbed that I think everyone’s going to love my writing, or that it’s perfect. I KNOW there are flaws at times, things that weren’t put over as perfectly as I’d hope, but writing is a very personal art-form. It takes time, practise…and like most art, it is subjective. Some people like it, some people don’t. That’s the way the world works (however, I do read even the bad reviews in case they have a valid point about the story, which I can then use to make my work better).
But, just occasionally a review stands out as being so…different and honest, that it makes me stop. And smile. This was the case last night with a couple of reviews, for PERFECT MATE and BLOOD MATE. At first I couldn’t work out if the reviewer, Ali, liked the books or didn’t. Turns out she does 
(We talk, she’s awesome!) but you seriously need to go check these out yourself!
Wanna check the books in the series out? Here’s the details:
Monsters do exist…and they’re the good guys.
Lillian Rosewood leads an ordinary, boring life working as the manager of a psychiatric hospital. The highlights of her day, other than her skinny hot chocolate, are the hunky guards who work in the secure section. Until a late night emergency is wheeled in.
Captain Jack Harper is insane, drop-dead gorgeous…and just had his abdomen shredded. Despite the fact they’re not an emergency room, Lillian can’t turn him away and risk a death on her hands. Unable to get the handsome soldier out of her mind, Lillian sneaks into the restricted area to check on him. What she finds is beyond belief. Somehow Jack has managed to heal himself from a near fatal wound in mere hours.
When one of the doctors, Walker, attempts to rape her, things go from bad to worse. In the blink of an eye, Jack is loose and Walker is dead… and Lillian must accept a truth about her rescuer that will change her world forever. What if the patients aren’t insane? What if their stories of secret government experiments and monsters are true?
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There is life after death, unfortunately for them, it’s the same one…
Brett Perkins was a soldier, until the Project killed him. Now he’s finding that life after death isn’t so hot. With the Project base destroyed, he and his team have been tasked with running down and destroying a group of rogue Bloods. Unfortunately the vampires always seem to be one step ahead. Then they start kidnapping women…
Thanks to her soon-to-be ex-husband, Julia Collier is despised and reviled in the small town of Greenwood. His stories have painted her as everything from an air-headed gold-digger to a nymphomaniac serial killer. She can’t even shop in the local store without suffering abuse from her fellow townsfolk, and that’s before the late night calls or her ex’s bully-boys following her.
When her home is broken into, Julia assumes it’s her husband making good on his threats to ‘deal with her for good’. She never dreams that it will lead a descent into another, terrifying world. One inhabited by werewolves, vampires…and zombies. Or that zombies could be so damn hot. Espeically one certain example who makes her heart pound and all her common sense disappear over the horizon. After all, what woman in her right mind would fall for the undead?
Unless the undead aren’t dead at all, but something more than human, from a world she’ll need all her wits and new abilities to survive the battle between the undead…and the dead.
Project Rebellion: They’re not heroes, they’re something else… They’re SARAs and they’re about to kick ass
