Book Review: My Demon's Destiny

My Demon Determined (My Demon #2)

By Nikita Jakz and Alicia Dawn

Published By: Self

Page Count: 137 pages

Release Date: May 2014

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Source: Purchased by Reviewer

Audience: Adult (not recommended for readers under 18)

Picking up where book 2 left off, we find Cole having words with a vampire and trying to tell Sera, the ever stubborn, to back off and let him handle it. She doesn't listen, but is of little effect in the situation. When she comes to, after being knocked for a loop, she finds her demon gone and is faced with a man who seems to know her. He claims to be, Caleb, a brother Cole has never mentioned. Her defenses are up, but she can do nothing but trust him for the moment until she can figure out how to find Cole.

Sera learns through Caleb that not only is Cole being held by the vampires, he knows how to access him. Sera isn't sure who to trust, but she has no one else to rely on, so she pins her hopes on Caleb. Caleb, a hot vampire in his own right, has his own agenda and he holds his cards close to the vest until he is ready to put his plan into place. Cole, along for the ride until he can figure out what to do, is oblivious to what is happening with his Seraphina. He's just glad she wasn't taken as well.

Book Review: My Demon Determined

Book Review: My Demon Determined
                                               

My Demon Determined (My Demon #2)

By Nikita Jakz and Alicia Dawn

Published By: Self

Page Count: 137 pages

Release Date: October 2013

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Source: Purchased by Reviewer

Audience: Adult (not recommended for readers under 17)

 

My Review:

The second installment in the My Demon trilogy is out, and what a fun ride! Cole and Seraphina are now on the run from the angels  and are forced to take refuge in hell. Hiding from her family is one thing, having Sera exposed to evil on a consistent basis is another. She is strong, but is she strong enough to resist the pull of evil she will now be surrounded by on a daily basis. Besides that, Cole’s demon is stronger there. He tends to come out at inopportune times and Sera learns much about him, but is it more than she bargained for?

I love Sera’s innocence and her wonder in all things. I also enjoyed her learning to come into her own. Sera discovers a wealth of strength when she needs it the most in dealing with Cole’s demon and his demon finds her intriguing. In fact, he sees her as a challenge, but one he wants to possess. Sera had me laughing and grinning when she challenged Cole in his demon form and brought him to his knees. The sex between the two is hot. I had to fan myself several times when they have a meeting of the minds and bodies.

Book Review My Decadent Demon

My Decadent Demon

By Nikita Jakz and Alicia Dawn

Published By: Nikita Jakz and Alicia Dawn

Publication Date: 6/4/2013

Page Count: 131

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Source: Purchased by Reviewer

Audience: Adult- Paranormal-Romance

My Decadent Demon is a supernatural roller coaster. Cole, a bullheaded, stubborn male demon is not necessarily likeable in the beginning. He has his life to lead and his job to do, but beyond that, something is missing. Seraphina, a naïve, curious angel is quirky and interesting when we first meet her. She wants to follow her heart and dreams, but is an oracle in training and has certain responsibilities she must attend to before she worries about herself. And Sera’s own needs are deeper than even she realizes.

Rode Hard Put Up Wet: Rough Riders Series #2

Title: Rode Hard Put Up Wet
(Rough Riders Series #2)

by Lorelei James

Published by: Samhain Publishing, Limited

Publication Date: 8/1/08

Page Count: 300

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Source: Reviewer purchased

Audience: Adult, sexual scenes, bondage

My Review:

I loved that Gemma is not a young chick. I loved that she is learning to love herself again after the death of her husband. She is learning to find herself and she is sure the key to that is in Cash Big Crow’s capable hands. She has watched him for years and knows him as a capable cowboy who will be a welcome help on her struggling ranch. She knows he has left the circuit and offers him a job.

She wants him for so much more, but is willing to wait for him to figure it out. He’s one step ahead of her though and will take the job if she becomes his lover and surrenders to him completely. The only obstacle is his daughter, Macie, who is supposed to be traveling cross-country with him and getting to know him. If he takes the job, it puts their plans on hold, but she is willing to do that for her father.

Long Hard Ride ~ Rough Riders #1

Long Hard Ride 
(Rough Riders Series #1)

by Lorelei James

Published by: Samhaim Publishing

Publication Date: 3/1/08

Page Count: 287

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Source: Purchased by reviewer

Audience: Adult, scenes of a sexual nature involving f/m/m and m/m and bondage.

My Review:

I am a cowgirl at heart, so I was excited to start the series. Having followed the rodeo scene for a while, it was nice to read a well- written account of what happens behind the chutes. I’ll be honest. This was my first taste of reading about bondage and domination, and I was nervous at first- not sure I was going to like it. I was wrong to be nervous. I have been roped into this series and cannot stop reading.

Channing is a determined, self-sufficient woman who learns the man she is with is a womanizer and a liar. Stuck on the rodeo circuit and nowhere near home, a place she wants to avoid anyway, she looks to the cowboy who every single woman in a hundred mile radius desires, Colby McKay.  He makes her an offer she doesn’t want to refuse and for a few weeks, she will become his sexual plaything. She is sassy, independent, and brave. I love her.

This proposal involves his two rodeo partners though and she has to decide if she is willing to give herself to 3 men, sometimes at the same time. She has fantasized about having 2 men, but 3 was not something she entertained in her mind. Now though, having 3 hot cowboys desire her has her heart pounding. The ride could prove to be more than she can handle, but she is up to the challenge.

Book Review: Retribution

Retribution: Dark-Hunter Series #21

by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Format: ebook (448 pages)

Purchase: Amazon or IndieBound

Provided by: self-purchased

Audience: Adult

Synopsis:

A hired gunslinger, William Jessup Brady lived his life with one foot in the grave. He believed that every life had a price. Until the day when he finally found a reason to live. In one single act of brutal betrayal, he lost everything, including his life. Brought back by a Greek goddess to be one of her Dark-Hunters, he gave his immortal soul for vengeance and swore he’d spend eternity protecting the humans he’d once considered prey.

Orphaned as a toddler, Abigail Yager was taken in by a family of vampires and raised on one belief— Dark-Hunters are the evil who prey on both their people and mankind, and they must all be destroyed. While protecting her adoptive race, she has spent her life eliminating the Dark-Hunters and training for the day when she meeting the man who killed her family: Jess Brady.

A gun in the hand is worth two in the holster…

Book Review: The Guardian

The Guardian: A Dream-Hunter Novel
by: Sherrilyn Kenyon

• Pub. Date: November 2011
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Format & Source: e-book purchased for Nook
• Series: Dark-Hunter Series #22
• Audience: 18 and up
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Synopsis:

Dream-Hunter Lydia has been charged with the most sacred and dangerous of missions: To descend into the Nether Realm and find the missing god of dreams before he betrays the secrets that could kill her and her kind. What she never expects is to be taken prisoner by the Realm’s most vicious guardian…

Seth’s time is running out. If he can’t hand over the entrance to Olympus, his own life and those of his people will be forfeit. No matter the torture, Seth hasn’t been able to break the god in his custody. Then there’s the beautiful Dream-Hunter Lydia: She isn’t just guarding the gates of Olympus—she’s holding back one of the world’s darkest powers. If she fails, an ancient curse will haunt the earth once more and no one will be safe. But evil is always seductive...