“The Hero of Bad Girl Lessons” Guest Post / Giveaway with Seraphina Donavan

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Let me tell you a little bit about Jackson Cope, the hero of Bad Girl Lessons.  This, ladies, is one hot hunk of Southern charm.  Blond hair, green eyes and a body that won’t quit, he opens doors, says please and thank you, and knows that the love of a good girl gone bad is the best thing this side of heaven.

In creating this character, I pulled a lot of the qualities that I find so appealing in Jackson from men in my real life.  The cheeky charm that makes him so irresistible comes from an ex-boyfriend of so many years back that I won’t ever put a number to it.  Suffice to say, I told him not too long ago that had it not been for a bottle of vodka and his black cowboy hat, I would have been a virgin for a heck of a lot longer.  Jackson’s humor, his deceptively simple nature, and his appreciation for the slower pace of Southern living are all composites of so many people in my life that I couldn’t even begin to name them.   Another innately southern quality in Jackson is his obsessive love of his truck.  Men do love their toys, and we, god help us, love them for it.

Jackson Cope, for me, was just the quintessential southern man.  He’s as appealing as he is maddening.  He can be slower than molasses when it suits him, as calm and easy going as a Sunday afternoon in summer, or if you push the right buttons, has a temper that won’t quit and could raise the dead.  I hope you all enjoy reading about Jackson and his deep and abiding love for Evie as much as I enjoyed writing about him.

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Evangeline Harper has been everyone’s good girl. But after being dumped at the altar by her fiancé, Evie decides it’s time to stop playing by the rules and have some fun. There’s only one problem… she doesn’t know how. But one of her oldest friends, Jackson Cope, is just the man to teach her. Hotter than a Georgia tent revival in July, Jackson has had a starring role in every erotic fantasy Evie has ever had. Can she convince the local bad boy to help transform her from a slightly pudgy, former debutante into a wanton, sex kitten?

Jackson’s been secretly in love with Evie since they were kids, but she was always off limits to the likes of him. Now she’s offering him everything he’s ever wanted, but only as friends with benefits. Planning to seduce her into his life on a permanent basis, he starts out with hot, steamy lessons on how to walk on the wild side. When Evie’s former fiancé shows up, trying to woo her and her trust fund back to save his sorry hide from the Dixie Mafia, it’s up to Jackson to protect her from danger. But who will protect him from a broken heart?

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GIVEAWAY

So what are some of the qualities you like from the hero’s or your men in your life that you love the most?  One lucky commentator will be chosen to win an e-copy of “Bad Girl Lessons”.  Entry for giveaway ends at Noon on May 20th.  Good Luck Everyone!

Review: Shadowfever (Fever #5) by Karen Marie Moning

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Shadowfever (Fever #5)
Karen Marie Moning  
http://www.karenmoning.com/

Paranormal / Urban Fantasy / Mystery Elements

“Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it’s good.”

MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister, Alina, were given up for adoption and banished from Ireland forever.

Twenty years later, Alina is dead and Mac has returned to the country that expelled them to hunt her sister’s murderer. But after discovering that she descends from a bloodline both gifted and cursed, Mac is plunged into a secret history: an ancient conflict between humans and immortals who have lived concealed among us for thousands of years.

What follows is a shocking chain of events with devastating consequences, and now Mac struggles to cope with grief while continuing her mission to acquire and control the Sinsar Dubh—a book of dark, forbidden magic scribed by the mythical Unseelie King, containing the power to create and destroy worlds.

In an epic battle between humans and Fae, the hunter becomes the hunted when the Sinsar Dubh turns on Mac and begins mowing a deadly path through those she loves.
Who can she turn to? Who can she trust? Who is the woman haunting her dreams? More important, who is Mac herself and what is the destiny she glimpses in the black and crimson designs of an ancient tarot card?

From the luxury of the Lord Master’s penthouse to the sordid depths of an Unseelie nightclub, from the erotic bed of her lover to the terrifying bed of the Unseelie King, Mac’s journey will force her to face the truth of her exile, and to make a choice that will either save the world . . . or destroy it.

RONDA’S REVIEW: 
SEXUAL: 

Paranormal Mystery at its best!

Big Props to the author for turning this paranormal urban fantasy into one big ass tale-spin of a mystery. Like the Fae Characters in the story, Karen Marie Moning wove an illusion having the readers second guessing how the story was to unfold and what Mac truly was right up to the very end.

Over all, the whole series kept the readers interest long enough to get them hook enough to get though each book to the end leaving a shocking cliff hanger and adding to a bigger plot. Was it the perfect series, Not really, I felt the author, though can write smoothly spent too much time keeping Mac in la la land as she reminisced about her past during important questions between her and Barron’s which made parts of the story boring and the reader impatient causing me personally to skip through pages.

But what made it interesting is the history behind the Seelie and UnSeelie Fae, about the creation of the book, about the creation of the species, and most importantly about the UnSeelie King and his beloved Concubine legends resulting in the future ends of our human earth which only Mac could solve.

There were so many twist and turns in the story that once you thought you had it figured out something would happen and throw that theory out the window.

There were a few shockers in the series that kept the story suspenseful and mysterious. The killing of Barrons to begin with had me reeling but later we learn he cant be killed and comes back to life. The beast Barrons really is with the three horns was amazing and made the story paranormal as he was able to shift from being to human. Then Lord Master gets taken out by a hunter. Christian turns into an UnSeelie Prince from eating Unseelie and preforming druid magic and is lost in the Silvers, Then the whole deal with V’lane and his deceit, the Unseelie King and his power, the Concubine still being a live, and Mac finally finding out what she really was in the end made for an mysteriously awesome story.

All I can say is that this series totally gives a new take on the Fae giving a new meaning on the Seelie (Good) and UnSeelie (Evil). To top this off, there were several quotes in the book speaks for the who series and for life in general as we relate it to our own world. Here are a couple that stand out for me:

“Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, then there are those remarkable rare addictive ones who just bring out the most, of everything.”

“Most people are good and occasionally do something they know is bad. Some people are bad and struggle ever day to keep it under control. Others are corrupt to the core and don’t give a damn, as long as they don’t get caught. But evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it’s good.”

My favorite characters from the story are definitely Barron’s (totally hot), Dani (she was fearless and had me cracking up with her news papers and dont give a crap attitude) and then of course I like V’lane even though he ended evil in the end.

Great read for a Young Adult age 13 and up.

“Burning Questions” Guest Post / Giveaway with Barry Willdorf

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Thank you Queen Tutt, for hosting me on your blog today. Since you promote a world of escapism, I am going to ask your readers to escape, for a bit from the world of tight buns and six-packs. The world I want to take you too begins in a place I knew well ¾ Gloucester, MA in 1969 with the first part of my trilogy: Burning Questions.

In part one, the teenage heir to a fortune is found shot shortly after witnessing a hotel being torched. Was it a teenage suicide or was he murdered? His mother demands an investigation. Screw-up Nate Lewis is hired to bungle the inquiry but things quickly get out of hand when he uncovers some shady real estate deals. Then he really screws up by falling in love with everyone’s favorite suspect, Christina Lima, the dead kid’s poor Portuguese girlfriend. Soon they are running for their lives in this tale of political corruption and class warfare. (For those of you who are looking for a little spice, you might want to check out what happens inside a NAZI general’s confiscated greatcoat.)

I am very excited about having just published Part Two: A Shot In The Arm.

When a pretty young addict is found dead in her bed from an overdose, her treatment counselor, a black militant, is charged with providing her with drugs for sex. Nate Lewis is paid to defend him but learns too late that his retainer was stolen from rogue government agents involved in dealing drugs to buy guns for anti-communist guerrillas.

 

Travel back in time to visit San Francisco/Marin in 1973. Peruse the menu at the Trident Restaurant on the Sausalito waterfront. Slide seamlessly among the old, waterlogged houseboats that lined the shore. Mingle with Vietnam era soldiers and sailors, black militants and hippies. Score drugs on practically every street corner. Stroll the Fillmore district before it was gentrified. Witness a car chase over the dirt roads that once crisscrossed parts of the city. Sneak into shipyards and foundries when they still bustled with activity. Spend time at the Hamilton Air Force Base officer’s club. Sip Java where longshoremen once prowled. Attend court at Frank Lloyd Wright’s leaky Marin County Civic Center. And yes, there are a couple of rolls in the waterbed of a houseboat to liven things up.

 GIVE-A-WAY

And that’s not all.  My publisher, Whiskey Creek Press, has just put Burning Questions on Amazon’s KDP program in conjunction with this tour so if your readers are Amazon Prime, they can download a copy for free now. We anticipate a giveaway shortly. The date will be announced on my blog: http://1970strilogy.blogspot.com so if you join the membership, you can get notice of when you get a free download even if you are not “Prime.” If you like Burning Questions, then you will certainly want to follow Nate and Christina into 1973 with A Shot In The Arm, and then join them again for the Fourth Conspirator, set for publication in September 2012, a wine and weed mystery/suspense conclusion set in Mendocino County in 1978.

BUY LINKS:  AMAZON  

 

And you can catch me on my blog, where I have the annoying habit of responding to questions and comments. Thanks. My trilogy is available on Amazon or you can buy directly through my publisher: Whiskey Creek Press=984

Also, you might want to check out my award winning historical novel, The Flight of the Sorceress from Wild Child Publishing. Further information can be found on my Sorceress blog. Available on the KDP program through the end of the month.

 BUY LINK: AMAZON

Review: Dreamfever (Fever #4) by Karen Marie Moning

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Dreamfever (Fever #4)
Karen Marie Moning
http://www.karenmoning.com/

Paranormal / Urban Fantasy

MacKayla Lane lies naked on the cold stone floor of a church, at the mercy of the erotic Fae master she once swore to kill. Far from home, unable to control her sexual hungers, MacKayla is now fully under the Lord Master’s spell.…In New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning’s stunning new novel, the walls between human and Fae worlds have come crashing down. And as Mac fights for survival on Dublin’s battle-scarred streets, she will embark on the darkest—and most erotically charged—adventure of her life.

He has stolen her past, but MacKayla will never allow her sister’s murderer to take her future. Yet even the uniquely gifted sidhe-seer is no match for the Lord Master, who has unleashed an insatiable sexual craving that consumes Mac’s every thought—and thrusts her into the seductive realm of two very dangerous men, both of whom she desires but dares not trust.

As the enigmatic Jericho Barrons and the sensual Fae prince V’lane vie for her body and soul, as cryptic entries from her sister’s diary mysteriously appear and the power of the Dark Book weaves its annihilating path through the city, Mac’s greatest enemy delivers a final challenge.…

It’s an invitation Mac cannot refuse, one that sends her racing home to Georgia, where an even darker threat awaits. With her parents missing and the lives of her loved ones under siege, Mac is about to come face-to-face with a soul-shattering truth—about herself and her sister, about Jericho Barrons…and about the world she thought she knew.

RONDA’S REVIEW:

SEXUAL:

Thrilling Cliff Hanger!

Wow, much better than the 3rd book in the series. Mac finally gets some action with Barrons and with the Coven Leader, but more questions left unanswered as the plot gets deeper into the mystery behind her heritage legend and the Seelie and Unseelie Fae. Barrons is still a sexy mystery but also Mac’s hero as he brings her back from be pryra. The story itself was full of action and intense in some scenes making it an enjoyable read. I found it humorous in some parts and ate up the bantering between Mac and Barrons.

I still don’t like the coven leader old lady and for some reason I think she has a lot to do with why the book was lost in the first place, I think she is the one who betrayed her coven. I thought the Silvers and Mac’s journey through them was an awesome experience to have to live through. The ending left me with curiosity and wanting to read the 5th and final book in the series immediately.

I have to say that the sexual rating to this book is 1 out of 5 flames and the language rating is like a 4 out of five. Though there is sexual action between Mac and Barrons, the descriptive words are clean in describing it so there is no juicy details, just a lot of cuss words. If it was a movie, I’d rate it a PG13.

Great Read