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Bad Witch #5
Bad Blood
Robyn Bachar's Bad Witch series blends romance and urban fantasy in a setting filled with magic, vampires and meddling faeries.
How do you convince a skeptic to reverse your curse?
Natividad Houlihan travels the world searching for stunning historical sites with juicy secrets...and ghosts. Nati doesn't believe in the supernatural, but as a location scout for the Spirit Seekers paranormal investigation show she works for true believers. The team is thrilled at the opportunity to investigate an infamous Spanish haunted mansion--but the price of admission requires Nati to spend two weeks stumbling around in the dark searching for EVPs and light anomalies. Nati's only company is Cris, the estate's surly, sexy caretaker, who intrigues her during the day and stars in her vivid erotic fantasies at night.
Don Cristobal Mendoza loved unwisely and paid the price for his indiscretion, suffering a vicious curse that trapped him within the bounds of his ancestral estate. By day he is the manor's mysterious caretaker, and by night he is the shadow demon who stalks its halls. For centuries he has hidden his condition from the world as he despaired of ever being freed from his curse.
Nati is determined to unearth the secrets Cris has kept for centuries and bring his past to light, but Cris can't resist the chance to indulge his dark desires with a bold, beautiful American skeptic. As the balance of magical power shifts, they must work together to break the curse before Cris's time runs out.
216 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 28, 2019
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Robyn Bachar
22 books296 followersRobyn Bachar writes romance with swords, sorcery and spaceships. Bachar's novels feature action and adventure, danger and suspense, found families and happily ever afters. Her books have finaled twice in the PRISM Contest for Published Authors, twice in the Passionate Plume Contest, and twice in the EPIC eBook Awards.
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January 28, 2019
A very unusual book. I've never read anything by Robyn before. I thought this was about a researcher who gets dragged into a ghost investigation but it evolved into a story with demons, magic and other things. I thought the first part of the book was a bit scary when it was about ghosts and shadow figures but not that scary when it switched over to magicians, magic and other fantasy standards. #BadBlood #NetGalley
February 16, 2020
Is this my new favorite of the series? I think so!
While this book says it is book #5 in the series, you can really easily read this as a standalone book. In face, the only connections to the larger storyline and familiar characters felt a little forced. I'm eager to see how all this rolls up into the bigger happenings of their world, in the US, at least.
This book is about Nati, a researcher for a paranormal TV show (but not the same ghost hunters we already know). She's in Spain scouting locations, but also trying to learn more about some genealogy. This ends up taking her, on a roundabout way, into a cemetary and smack into the chest of a beautiful man. There's some twists and turns to get there (again) but ultimately we end up with her performing some filmed paranormal investigation on the house that the mysterious Spanish guy lives in.
The Spanish guy, Cris, is obviously hiding all sorts of stuff. Throughout Nati's reluctant investigating, they end up being more than friends and she gets exposed to all sorts of strangeness. We do see a pair of familiar faces, but briefly. This is all on Cris and Nati to solve mostly on their own. We get there, but it takes some doing! Like I said, this book was one of my favorites. You'd especially like it if you like some smutty goodness with your paranormal romance.
While this book says it is book #5 in the series, you can really easily read this as a standalone book. In face, the only connections to the larger storyline and familiar characters felt a little forced. I'm eager to see how all this rolls up into the bigger happenings of their world, in the US, at least.
This book is about Nati, a researcher for a paranormal TV show (but not the same ghost hunters we already know). She's in Spain scouting locations, but also trying to learn more about some genealogy. This ends up taking her, on a roundabout way, into a cemetary and smack into the chest of a beautiful man. There's some twists and turns to get there (again) but ultimately we end up with her performing some filmed paranormal investigation on the house that the mysterious Spanish guy lives in.
The Spanish guy, Cris, is obviously hiding all sorts of stuff. Throughout Nati's reluctant investigating, they end up being more than friends and she gets exposed to all sorts of strangeness. We do see a pair of familiar faces, but briefly. This is all on Cris and Nati to solve mostly on their own. We get there, but it takes some doing! Like I said, this book was one of my favorites. You'd especially like it if you like some smutty goodness with your paranormal romance.
January 27, 2019
I received a copy of Bad Blood by Robyn Bachar from the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
This was the first novel by Robyn Bachar that I have read and even though I'm always a little leery jumping into an ongoing series in case the novels build on each other rather than share the same space and marginally overlap, it was not terribly difficult to pick up the world of Bad Blood (I haven't read the rest of this series, but I believe this set of characters didn't have a back story before Bad Blood).
The good: I found the novel to be well written and the dialogue between the characters (primary characters as well as secondary) was entertaining and enjoyable. The chemistry between the main characters - Natividad and Cris - was a little too insta-lust for me, but it was steamy and worked in the context of the story.
The bad: my main critique was that the end of the story felt very rushed. Rather than fully explore and overcome the conflict, it was resolved in a really smooched together ending. So I'd give it 3.75 stars in all.
Overall, Bad Blood by Robyn Bachar was a decent book to curl up and worth a read.
This was the first novel by Robyn Bachar that I have read and even though I'm always a little leery jumping into an ongoing series in case the novels build on each other rather than share the same space and marginally overlap, it was not terribly difficult to pick up the world of Bad Blood (I haven't read the rest of this series, but I believe this set of characters didn't have a back story before Bad Blood).
The good: I found the novel to be well written and the dialogue between the characters (primary characters as well as secondary) was entertaining and enjoyable. The chemistry between the main characters - Natividad and Cris - was a little too insta-lust for me, but it was steamy and worked in the context of the story.
The bad: my main critique was that the end of the story felt very rushed. Rather than fully explore and overcome the conflict, it was resolved in a really smooched together ending. So I'd give it 3.75 stars in all.
Overall, Bad Blood by Robyn Bachar was a decent book to curl up and worth a read.
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