The Paranormal Prowl
Stephanie Rowe
Stephanie, another new author and client of agent-to-the-stars Michelle Grajkowski, writes a hilarious tale of Otherworldly beings with witty dialog and imaginative characters much in keeping with Katie MacAlister’s Aisling Grey, Guardian series (another client of Michelle’s). Publisher’s Weekly aptly calls her books “paranormal romance adventure comedy”. Can’t wait for The Immortal Badboy, which comes out in November 2007!
Date Me Baby, One More Time is about Justine, immortal guardian of the Goblet of Eternal Youth, and Derek, millionaire founder of Vic’s Pretzels, who fall in love while trying to kill each other, she to protect the Goblet (currently an espresso machine named Mona) and he to end the curse that kills every male member of his family at the age of 30. Rating: <3 <3 <3 <3.
Must Love Dragons is about Justine’s roommate, one-time hottie Teresa who was stuck permanently in dragon form when she drank from Mona (the aforementioned Goblet of Eternal Youth). Teresa makes a deal with Satan in order to meet her cyber-lover Zeke, who turns out to be an ex-dragon slayer. Despite their mutual attraction and mutual instincts to kill each other, they manage to outwit Satan and the assailants who are hell-bent on killing Teresa and taking over the Otherworld. Ratin: <3 <3 <3 <3.
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Hot is about Becca, Satan’s right hand, who teams up with badboy fighter Nick in order to save Nick’s sister and stop Satan Jr. from taking over the Otherworld. One of Nick’s powers is his vast range of emotions that he can share with empty and soulless Becca. I really enjoyed the love scenes in this book, because they were all about emotions and feelings, not anatomy. Rating: <3 <3 <3 <3.
Lori Handeland
I ended up reading book 5 first, because once again the book itself makes no mention of where it comes in the series and I found it pursuing the library shelves. Would it kill them to write “book 5″ on the cover or make a list of the books to read in order on the inside? Anyways, the books are relatively “stand alone”, as is typical of paranormal romance. That means that the books are related and characters sometimes carry through, but each novel has a different hero/heroine pair as the main characters.
In Midnight Moon, Cassandra experiences a devastating tragedy, goes into the witness protection program, and becomes a voodoo priestess in New Orleans. Heartbroken and grieving, she employs fortune hunter Devon Murphy to guide her through the jungles of Haiti to discover a secret zombie ritual to bring her daughter back from the dead, and finds instead something worth living for. This was a very well-written, creative paranormal romance, but honestly some of the voodoo/zombie stuff was a little gruesome. I also didn’t believe the two main characters really fell in love; it seemed much more like plain-old lust, which doesn’t leave me feeling warm and fuzzy. Rating: <3 <3 <3
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August 16, 2007 at 1:23 pm
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