Halo Hunter: Of Angels & Demons prequel

Halo Hunter
Michele Hauf
ebook
Published June 1st 2010 by Harlequin
First published May 20th 2010
ISBN 9781426857232

My name is Michael Donovan. I'm a halo hunter. And I want to believe.

For ten years I've been collecting halos, lost when fallen angels purposefully left heaven to mate with human women. But in all that time, I've never seen an angel. In Paris searching for halo number eighteen, I get a lucky break when a gorgeous woman named Vinny offers up the halo's location--for a price. Even though she sends up all kinds of warning signals, I can't resist her offer. She's too interesting, too mysterious...and way too sexy. Sure enough, soon I'm being shot at, followed by strange men, and learning more about the supernatural world from Vinny than I ever could have imagined. Why are the pretty ones always so dangerous?

I was hooked even before the Mulder analogies! Good thing, too, because I've already invested in, though have yet to read, books one and two in this series. Book three, Ashes of Angels, is due out in August.

Seriously, though, how can you read that blurb and not want to hang out with this guy?

In the past, prequels have been high on my avoid list. The majority that I've read, although intended to convert readers into fans, have had the complete opposite effect on me. This one however managed to get the job done, and got the job done right.

Conveying pertinent information through a casual delivery and flow, Halo Hunter also provides sincere entertainment while, on top of all that, having good fun at the expense of those notorious cliches out there. And bonus points-it's a male POV. It definitely gets you ready for a great series. The author's creativity, humor, and sense of adventure come surging and even though it's just a itty bitty prequel, it's really, surprisingly, good. 4 out of 5 stars.


Other books in this series:

Every Last Fantasy

Every Last Fantasy
Shiloh Walker
ebook
ISBN 9781419900938
Published December 15th 2004 by Ellora's Cave Publishing Inc.

Vikky is discontented. She is tired of her vanilla life and the bumbling lovers who inhabit it. She wants—needs—a strong man to take charge and lead the way to her wild side.

She has dreams… She dreams of a man who makes all the other men in her life pale in comparison, a man who knows exactly what she wants, and he wants nothing more than to give it to her.

But such a guy, to her knowledge, doesn't exist in reality. So what else can a woman do at Christmastime to help that dream along? She can ask Santa for one. And my, oh my, does Santa listen...

When Erik agreed to help out an old friend by wearing a goofy costume and playing Santa for a weekend at a local mall, he had no idea that a sleek, sexy woman from his past would show up and whisper her dark, sexy daydreams into his ear. But he wasted no time in making her fantasies come true.

But something odd is going on. There is a connection between them that neither could have prepared for. A compulsion that drives them to risk all for the other's touch. Memories of a life lived in another era. Heartbreak and yearning for an enduring love that was destroyed by bitter hatred.

To overcome the anguish of their dark past, these lovers must relive the pain and horror of the events that shattered their lives so long ago. They must discover the reason for the otherworldly connection that enthralls them. Only then can they find happiness in this life.

Together, as they were always meant to be.

Even though the blurb is ridiculously long, so much so that I was tempted to it cut off and force into a link back to Goodreads, I just couldn't. This is a lot more than a lighthearted tale about a Christmas list and a woman looking for an alpha in the bedroom-reincarnation is at play.

When Vikky inherits a collection of treasures from her deceased aunt, she finds a mirror that triggers memories of a former life, simultaneously awakening the same in Erik.

When their current lives collide as Erik plays Santa at the local mall, they're given another chance to be together. But first, Erik embarks on a very daring, rather explosive, quest of seduction in which Vikky gets to experience her long kept secret fantasies. There's a heaviness found in this story that normally isn't woven into these light Christmastime smut stories, definitely marking it as a Shiloh Walker work of art. Definitely wished it had been longer though. 3 out of 5 stars.

A Mutual Favor

A Mutual Favor
Ann Jacobs
Kindle Edition, 186 pages
Published November 9th 2009 by Ellora's Cave (first published July 30th 2002)
ASIN B0031LJ4ZC

Two good friends, two thorny problems.

Kurt needs a wife to convince a judge he can provide a stable home for his son. Shelly wants a baby to love. She's had a crush on him for years. He's never thought of her as anything more than his best buddy. So when she offers him a solution to both their problems, he's not sure. But knowing she wants him changes everything, and pretty soon he can't keep his mind or his hands off her...

If you're going to play the friends with benefits game, this is the only way to do it.

Never in his wildest fantasies has Kurt ever imagined Shelly as anything more than his best pal-until her abrupt confession of wanting a child (and the desire for him to father it), partnered with his lawyer's advice to take a wife to get more visits with his son, sets his world spinning. Now he count help the starving lust that's taken over his libido as he and Shelly honor an agreement that will give them both what they need. But for Shelly, the situation is far from everything she ever dreamed of. She's settling and she knows it.

Honest to the gods, Kurt does not deserve this woman! A virgin to both love and sex, Shelly has spent the last years as the best friend to the only man that's ever set her heart to flutter. It's a friendship most would envy but like every other woman in this world, she's forced to wait for Kurt to catch up and realize the possibility of what else they could be.

I hurt for Shelly. Couldn't read the pages fast enough because I so badly wanted her to find happiness and completion with this blind as a freaking bat of a man who really needed to get his act together. HEA does arrive, though way too realistically for my taste. 4 out of 5 stars.

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