Guest Review: Marriage in Moonlust by Kate Hill

Posted October 15, 2010 by Book Binge Guest Blogger in Reviews | 0 Comments

Kris‘ review of Marriage in Moonlust by Kate Hill

Sacrificed to a family of vampires, Leona is rescued by handsome, powerful Narcisse Debray. In spite of her initial fear of blood drinkers, Leona is unable to control her attraction to the vampire lord. His lovemaking excites her beyond her wildest imaginings and he offers devotion such as she’s never known. Unfortunately, their happiness is tainted by the wickedness of a jealous enemy. Narcisse’s younger brother will stop at nothing to see the lovers destroyed.

The story begins with Leona being taken by the local lord, who also happens to be a vampire, as a sacrifice. She is rescued by his brother who is the actual lord who had been away for a while. He saves her life and asks her to stay because obviously her family and the village does not care about her since they gave her up on a silver platter to die. She stays. The younger brother is now ticked off because his “meal” is now sleeping in his older brother’s bed. Lots of bad blood there (that was a really cheesy line after i thought about it, but it fits). Of course, the two fall in love and there is a happy ending after some other stuff. You have to read it to find out what.

This was a nice short story. But definitely not my favorite by Ms Hill. The storyline was decent, but I have issues with love at first sight or falling in love after knowing each other for a day. So that was a detractor to me. The love scenes were nice. The characters were good, though the heroine was a little too sweet for me to fully love her. The male characters were both very good. Your diametrically opposed brothers, both handsome but one with a good heart and one without. The hero was very sexy, I liked his character the best. Strong, cute, dangerous and still missing his dead wife. The only thing I did not like about him was his name, shallow, I know, but every time saw it I had to force my self not to say Narcissa.

I liked it, it was not a bad book but not awesome so I give this story a 3 out of 5.

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This book is available from Ellora’s Cave. You can buy it here in e-format.

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What I Read Last Week

Posted September 6, 2010 by Tracy in Features | 15 Comments

Greetings to all!

And…Happy Labor Day to those in the US! I hope you’re enjoying the holiday and hopefully you, like me, have the day off. Talk about a lazy day. Wow. I wish I could say I’m being uber productive today – besides laundry – but I really hate to lie to my friends. lol None of us want to leave the house because it’s been so stinking hot here. I want to know when I moved to the sun. I must have blocked that out somewhere along the way but that’s apparently where I live because it’s hot like the sun here! It’s been over 100 – F (that’s over 38 C) every day this past week. Right now weather.com says it’s 90 here but the thermometer that’s in my back yard – that’s in the shade – says it’s 100. That’s actually cool. lol

So what happened in Tracyland this week? Not a whole hell of a lot. We went to my youngest daughter’s back to school night and met her teacher. I loved her! She’s fun and funny but has her shit together. She seems like a great teacher and my daughter likes her a lot – super important! The teacher also loves math which makes her a perfect match for my youngest since she loves math as well. (I know, she’s sick, she gets that from my hubby shudders) lol

Anyway, on to what I read this past week:

First up was Coronets and Steel by Sherwood Smith. This is one I read for The Book Binge. It was the story of a graduate student who goes looking for her ancestry and winds up with a lot more than she bargained for. The book has a lot of history in it, and even though it’s not my thing I really enjoyed it. 4.25 out of 5

Next was another book for The Book Binge called Marriage in Moonlust by Kate Hill. This is about a woman who is given to the local vampire family as their monthly blood sacrifice but she ends up falling in love with one of the vampires instead. A little rushed on the love but not bad. 3.25 out of 5

Next was Savage Sanctuary by Jacqueline Barbary. This was a story of a shapeshifter that is on the run and the man who runs the sanctuary that he’s taken to. They fall in love and face trials and tribulations. 3 out of 5 You can read my review here.

Next was Sureblood by Susan Grant. This was a sci-fi book about warring clans in space and the leaders of those clans that fall in love. Pretty good book. I had some issues with it but on the whole I liked it. 3.75 out of 5 You can read my review here.

My Tracy’s TBR challenge read for the week was The Name of the Game by Willa Okati. This was the story of a gay man, Clay, who is in love with his straight cop roommate, Seth. Seth is in the relationship from hell with Sophie the psycho and it’s decided that Seth will tell Sophie he’s gay to get out of it. It works to a point, but then Seth starts really having feelings and desires for Clay. This was a good book but it was a bit much on the dramatic for me. The men had Sophie to deal with but then they threw in speed dating for Clay as well as some other issues. And did the characters ever work? Uh, not that I could tell. I just found it really wasn’t my cup of tea. 3 out of 5

Next up was Meet Me In Manhattan by Judith Arnold. This here is an absolutely true romance. That’s right, the book was written about the true life romance of Ted and Erika. It’s also part of the True Vows series and I’ll be posting my review of the book on Wednesday as part of the book tour so check back.

Mistress of the Night by Charlotte Featherstone had been in my ereader waaaaay too long so I finally decided it was time to read it. I originally bought it based on the info about the tortured hero – I love those. And boy was Blaine tortured. You see he had epilepsy and back then it was not a illness that was A-ok. If you had the “falling sickness” then you were thought to be possessed by a demon and Blaine was afraid that his secret would get out and he would be committed to Bedlam. He vowed to never get married and never have a child. But he fell in love with Madeline and he couldn’t seem to keep himself away from her. I really liked the book a lot. Blaine could be a right bastard at times while pushing Madeline away and yeah, I hated him for it, but he was so afraid. The problem was, he was so afraid that she’d find his secret out and be repulsed by him that he ended up living in hell because he couldn’t be with her the way he wanted. Very good book but if you read it be prepared to hate Blaine at times along the way. 4 out of 5

And last but not least I re-read Lord of the White Hell book 1 by Ginn Hale. And you know, it was just as great the second time reading it as it was the first. I re-read in preparation for reading book 2 and I wanted to completely refresh my memory. Man I just love Javier and Kiram. Good people. I reviewed this back in June – you can read my review here if you’re interested. 5 out of 5

My Book Binge review that posted last week:
Seduced by a Highlander by Paula Quinn

Happy Reading