Review: Drantos by Laurann Dohner

Author: Laurann Dohner

Title: Drantos

Series: VLG Series - Book 1

Beings: Shapeshifters

Rating: B

Heat: Burning

Bought from: Amazon

Read format: Ebook

Story:

For most, a plane crash means the end of life. For Dusti Dawson, it’s just the beginning… 

Dusti and her sister Batina survived the crash, thanks to a couple of brothers who are equal parts menacing and muscled. She’d be grateful…if they hadn’t turned out to be delusional kidnappers, who believe Dusti’s grandfather is some monstrous halfbreed creature bent on murder. Turns out Vampires, Lycans, and Gargoyles do exist— and they’ve been crossbreeding to form two hybrid races. Drantos, the man Dusti can’t stop lusting after, is one of the most dangerous of all. 

VampLycans Drantos and Kraven were sent to eliminate a threat to their clan. But when that threat turns out to be mostly human women, clueless of their lineage, plans change—especially after Drantos gets a taste of Dusti’s blood. Now, he’ll die to protect her. Even if that means walking away from everything he knows to keep her at his side. 

Is her strong desire for Drantos reason enough to endure danger coming from all sides? Or should Dusti cut and run the first chance she gets? 

Cover:

The cover is amazing! It stands out and it is appealing. I love it!

Review:

VLG is a new series by Laurann Dohner and it stands for Vampires, Lycans, and Gargoyles. I have read almost all books out there by Laurann and I have loved them all. I looked forward to reading this one even if shapeshifters aren't really my thing. 

At first, I didn't know what to expect. I found the story to be quite classical to a shapeshifter story. There were the laws, a town of their own, the clans, and of course, the shapeshifting. Very classical, but at the same time, the story had a twist of its own with the mixed vampire, lycan, and gargoyle bloodlines. I really look forward to Aveoth's book. I hope he will get one!

There was a lot of background and information about how things work in their world. Sometimes, it was a little bit difficult to follow, but eventually, it all sank in. 

The story was filled with action, true love, hot sex scenes and drama. A great mix and even if the book was long, I didn't experience it as such. I loved reading it. The only thing I didn't like was the sisters attitudes. Very unprofessional and immature sometimes, but in the end, I enjoyed reading this book. Definitely another success by Laurann Dohner!! I look forward to reading the next one in the series. 

Review: Breathing Vapor by Cynthia Sax.

Author: Cynthia Sax

Title: Breathing Vapor

Series: Cyborg Sizzle - Book 2

Beings: Cyborgs

Rating: A

Heat: Burning

Bought from: Amazon

Read format: Ebook

Story: 

Vapor is the most advanced cyborg the Humanoid Alliance has ever developed. He’s a finely honed weapon, a warrior without parallel, half man and half machine. No lock can contain him. No being can stop him. Whatever he wants, he takes. 

He wants Mira Breazeal, the Designer’s daughter. 

She’s his one temptation, his sexy target. Vapor shouldn’t crave her caresses, steal her kisses, make her scream with ecstasy. The cyborgs want her dead and they would question his loyalty if he didn’t kill her. The humans would shoot him on sight if he dared to touch her. 

Their love is forbidden. Their desire could be lethal. One human and one cyborg will risk everything for a moment of passion. 

Cover:

A sexy and appealing cover in beautiful colors!

Review:

This is the second book in the Cyborg Sizzle series. I really looked forward to reading it and I can, without a doubt, say that I can't wait for the third book to come out. This series is intriguing with strong, powerful, and very masculine cyborgs and with strong and determined women trying to fit into a world dominated by men. 

The love story in this book was powerful and I found Mira, the female main character, to be strong considering what she had to go through every day. I liked Vapor and the other characters as well. It felt like they were all well thought through. 

This is a dark science fiction romance, but I didn't find it as dark as the first book. This book is, in other words, not for everyone, but if you like dark stories filled with romance, action, and hot sex scenes, then this is a book for you! I highly recommend it! 

Review: Releasing Rage by Cynthia Sax

Author: Cynthia Sax

Title: Releasing Rage

Series: Cyborg Sizzle - Book 1

Beings: Cyborgs

Rating: A

Heat: Burning

Bought from: Amazon

Read book format: ebook

Story: 

Half Man. Half Machine. All Hers.

Rage, the Humanoid Alliance's most primitive cyborg, has two goals--kill all of the humans on his battle station and escape to the Homeland. The warrior has seen the darkness in others and in himself. He believes that's all he's been programmed to experience.

Until he meets Joan.

Joan, the battle station's first female engineer, has one goal--survive long enough to help the big sexy cyborg plotting to kill her. Rage might not trust her but he wants her. She sees the passion in his eyes, the caring in his battle-worn hands, the gruff emotion in his voice.

When Joan survives the unthinkable, Rage's priorities are tested. Is there enough room in this cyborg's heart for both love and revenge?

Cover:

This is a great cover that fits well with the story. I love it!

Review:

This is not a book for everyone. If you love dark romance/science fiction with a lot of graphic sex and action, then this is a book for you. Cynthia creates a tragic world in her book - for the cyborgs. They are considered nothing more but deadly killer machines and the humans don't care the slightest about how the cyborgs are treated. It is a male dominated world with primitive thinking humans. This book shows humanities worst sides, and poor Joan is in the middle of it all. She is the only woman among men, and they do everything they can to push her down. But when she is assigned to take care of a cyborg as an engineer everything changes. Rage is deadly, dangerous, and no one thinks she will survive being near him, but Joan will do everything in her power to gain Rage's trust. 

I loved this book from the first page. I would have read it from the beginning to the end if I hadn't had my work and house to take care of. This book made me feel. I laughed, cried, and cheered with the characters. This is a book I will read several times. It was well written with fantastic characters and an interesting story, but as already mentioned, it's not a book for everyone. The story is dark, evil, and a few times, things seemed hopeless, but fortunately, there was a happy ending. I'm looking forward to reading the next book in the series.

Review: Felicity Heaton - Taken by a Dragon.

Author: Felicity Heaton
Title: Taken by a Dragon
Series: Eternal Mates #7

Rating: B
Heat: Hot

Bought from: ARC copy from the author
Read book format: Ebook






Story:

Possessed by a need to save a beautiful Amazon warrior from the vision he witnessed, Loke snatched her from the midst of the battle between the Third and Fifth realm of the demons, and carried her to his home deep in the black mountains of Hell to protect her. But as the fierce little female awakens, he finds she’s anything but grateful, and his dragon instincts roar to life to warn she might be more to him than an enemy—she might be his fated female. 

Anais remembers meeting a handsome warrior in the heat of battle, a man who was her enemy but who looked at her with eyes that held dark heat and wicked promises. When she wakes to find that same dragon shifter has taken her captive, desire is the last thing on her mind, but escaping him to return to Archangel, the hunter organisation she works for, sounds less than appealing when he reveals the reason he took her—to stop her from dying. 

Can Loke protect Anais from the dangers of his realm and how far will he go to save her from the future he keeps witnessing? Can Anais resist the fierce attraction that burns between them as hot as fire and stay true to Archangel or will her heart be taken by the dragon? 

Review:

*spoilers!!*

This was the book I looked most forward to of the four books Felicity decided to publish one after another. Shape shifters isn't really my thing, but I gladly read books that are about dragons. This one had all of the necessary elements a books needs to create a great romance story. Great characters, great enviroment and and exciting story. The only thing I was disapointed about was how Anais, the femail character, handled the whole situation at the end of the book, and I can't really see why she chose to stay with Archangel once she realized that they wanted to do awful things to Loke! That, unfortunately, doesn't make sense to me and Anais came out a little bit brainwashed, but maybe that was the point. Overall, I loved the book and I highly recommend it! 

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