Immortal Lover

In The Empath, chick didn't know she was a wolf. In Enemy Lover, woman wanted and nearly succeeded in killing her draicaron. Now, in Immortal Wolf, the complications just keep getting more chaotic.

Emily has always been blessed with the gift of healing. Until recently. A year ago, her goddess came to her in a dream and told her there is a balance between life and death. Since then, the touch that once healed now only kills. Now cursed, she is meant to be put to death by the Kallan, the only Draicon capable of killing his own kind without punishment or penalty.

The immortal Kallan is Raphael. We first met him in the previous book. He is Damian's brother in heart.

The further complication? Knowing her death is near, Emily cries out telepathically for her mate. And finds him. He tells her his name is Amant. She tells him her name is Erin.

You can guess the situation.

I should have mentioned these in the prior blogs of this series, since it happens in every book, but the author just loves to have the characters notice something or understand something... and we, as readers, have no idea what it meant. Over and over again. From computers, to eye color, to fur color, to ... just weird random moments.

What grates even more, but in a better way, is how these stories are built up as if there's no possible way the charcters can overcome the obstacle. Then *bam* the answer is there. Simple enough. No farfetched, crazy schemes, but at the same time, you never suspect it to be the way out.

This book expressed exactly that. Emily, cursed as she is, last born of the pure Draicon, but birthed by a mother that abandoned the pack. The smallest detail of her existence made the difference.

And I wanted to slap the hell out of the book for being so aptly named.

"All the cabins are free. A little musty maybe, but you guys remember how to clean."

"That's what females are for," Damian said with a straight face, and then he laughed at Emily's scowl. "Don't tell my mate," he added.

Enemy Lover

A heroine into WoW, cosplay, and her own My'Place' page adorned with fairies and top friends being werewolves. She's got a blackberry and salivates over news of the newest e-book reader. When she spots an Xbox and Playstation with a copy of Assassin's Creed, she screams 'SWEET!'

Assassins's Creed was such an awesome game. Though part two was even better!

As the story progresses her t-shirts went from 'Textually Active' to Nirvana to a black vintage Star Wars tee. She even likes Nickelback. Which I take hell for by everyone around me.

This one was so much better that the first book, The Empath. It gets going rather quickly. As it should, since it actually began in book one when Jamie poisoned Damian after he killed her brother, took her virginity and then disappeared.

One misunderstanding after another has Damian doing somersaults trying get his dracaira to trust him. They even go on a date where they scare the hell out of some people on a vampire tour. And they go dancing. Where Damian proves he's completely slacking on technology. He can text! And he knows the lingo!! More than I actually do. LoL

I actually didn't think I was all that involved with this story. Until the family dinner. When Jamie broke down and finally relived her childhood, I teared up. Her bastard uncle decapitated her cat in front of her, then for the first time allowed her to eat at the family table with the rest of them. Where they joyfully fed her her own damned pet. After she never wanted family or meat ever again.

And Damian - strong alpha male Damian - cried at hearing the tell of it.

So... Jamie plays football with the guys, gets a tattoo, and gets turned into stone.

I cried hot tears near the end.

Final note... I love the authoritative stands Damian takes over Jamie, again and again. And ain't the cover hawt!!

Into The Mist

Eli sat at the bar, expecting nothing much. Then walks in Ty. Green eyes. Halter top. No bra. Tight jeans and combat boots. In a pinch, his dream girl.

He gets her back to his place where she tries to drug him. But Eli - a mist shapeshifter - is too observant to be duped. So Ty falls back to plan B... sex. Mistake number one. Hours later, both are faking sleep in the dark. Then Ty slips from his bed and starts ransacking his living room, looking for god knows what. In mist form, Eli follows, watching every move she makes. Suddenly Ty whips around, eyes straight on him. She grabs up a can of aerosal and blows him a couple feet back, demanding he shift and show himself.

So a little bit of shifting and kung fu ass kicking later, Ty's out the door and on her way back to headquarters. Eli is left trying to figure out who she was and how she knew what the hell he was. Meanwhile, Ty is left with the jitters, and has to explain to three very protective 'brothers' (teammates in her Falcon Mercenary Group) what has her so off. Which she does. Mistake number two.

As it is, Tyana's brother Damiano was working with Eli when whatever happened turned them into shifters. But while Eli and, supposedly, his men have taken control of their new powers, D is losing his mind over his lack of control over his. Ty, with her remaining companions/brothers: Mad Dog and Jonah, trying to figure out what Eli knows and how to get that intelligence for themselves.

I guess, 'hey, how do you that?' was too simple, eh?

Her brothers are great. She's closest with D (Damiano)... then Mad Dog is the oldest, more of the fatherly older sibling type.. and then Jonah is their leader.

Finally, another book where I can't stop saying good stuff about it! Yum Yum Yum. Loved it! Fast paced, a lot of action, even more emotion, but easily followed. Every character found in a way to the heart. Each team is so loyal and protective one another. And yet, Eli and Ty are both strong souls who have overcome lonely pasts. Both were thrown away by their families and have no one else to trust but their teams; their brothers.

It was so heart felt, when Ty comes to face her feelings and she admits she doesn't know if she loves Eli, doesn't know if she *can* love anyone outside her team. But she needs him. Having their relationship go from kicking each others' ass to having Eli go through the motions of realizing Ty is his equal. She gets what he's coming from. Their way of life is perfectly matched. And then the need to beat her becomes the need to protect her. Sex stops being sex. And finally, when the walls break, intimacy is actually shared between them.

*sigh*

Love, language, knives, guns, intel, computer hacking, cross country flights just to take a break. Oh so many goodies!

Easily makes my top reads of 2010. Joining Wolf in Waiting and Eternally.

Oh so goooood!

Stripped

Every book I read from Samhaim leads me to another. Gotta love those added excerpts at the end. I first came across this one some time ago. Can't remember how but I do recall the trailer being a major turn off. But the excerpt was so, SO, good.

Alexa Wells finds herself half naked on stage of a strip club with no idea how she got there, or even who she is. Commence the ass kicking!

Seriously, you do not want to screw with his woman, half werewolf. Super strength and favors knives and crossbows. The action was rather fast paced, and there are a lot of characters which makes things a tad confusing. Throw in the witches, vampires, and her part-time alpha who leads a pack of bounty hunters and ta-dah! you've got chaos. Not too forget a forgotten mate with a psycho alpha of his own to worry about.

All good though. Until chapter 22 (If I remember correctly) when all hell emerges and we find ourselves right back at the goddamn beginning. I totally felt a kick in the gut on that won.

Best part though is the final chapter and epilogue. Make sure you put on your girly narrator voice - much like Bella in Twilight - for the ultimate cheesy effect.