Characterfest interview #6 with Terek and Gabrielle Bisset

Please welcome Trek and Gabrielle Bisset ! 

Thanks to the lovely bloggers at Bitten By Paranormal Romance for having me over today to interview my newest hero, Terek, from Blood Spirit (Sons of Navarus #3)! It's great to be here.

Gabrielle:  Hello, Terek. Thanks for joining me here today.

Terek: My pleasure, Gabrielle. Vasilije told me about this place when I mentioned to him that you were interviewing me at a blog with the word Bitten in the title. He seems to have liked it.

Gabrielle:  That's good since he's returning later this month to be interviewed, along with Saint. If you'd like to join them, you're more than welcome.

Terek: (raises his eyebrows and grins)  Three vampires at once? Feeling brave, Gabrielle?

Gabrielle:  (blushes)  You know me, Terek. Plus, with you and Saint around, I know I'll be in good hands.

Terek:  True, but remember, we're vampires, after all, even if we are your vampires.

Review The Witch's Dream by Victoria Danann

Title: The Witch's Dream (The Order of the Black Swan, #2)
Author: Victoria Danann
Source: Author
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Length: Novel (ebook 298pgs)
Published by 7th House



He was left behind when Elora Laiken made her choice. Now he’s had it with love, but a transplanted witch who happens to be the world’s best tracker hopes she can change his mind.

The Witch’s Dream begins with B Team on temporary assignment to Black Swan headquarters in Edinburgh where they are supposed to fill in for stretched-thin resources and assist with a werewolf issue. They’ve been given permission to stop in Ireland for a few days and help Ram and Elora celebrate their hand-fasting at the palace in Derry.

When they reach Edinburgh, the afterglow of an elf-tale wedding quickly turns all business. A missing person report turns into a demon abduction. A simple werewolf sanction becomes a diplomatic issue requiring the one thing Elora is no longer willing to give - finesse.

From New York to Ireland to Edinburgh to Siena to the Texas Hill Country to Napa Valley. From promises to rages to hunts to epiphanies, emotions intersect to prove that true love can find you when you’re least expecting it – even when you’re far, far from home.

ARC Review : Where There's a Will by Karen Kelley

Title: Where There's A Will
Author : Karen Kelley
Source: NetGalley
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Length : ebook  274 pages
Published: September 4th, 2012
Reviewed by: Cerridwen



When good girl Haley Tillman is stood up (again), she prays for a dating miracle— and then slams the front door in its face when it appears! Ryder is half angel, half mortal, with powers to do whatever the hell he wants. When he hears Haley’s prayers, he is bound and determined to answer every single one of them.

Review: Born in Twilight by Maggie Shayne

Title: Born in Twilight (Wings in the Night #5)

Author: Maggie Shayne

Source: Self-Purchased

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Length: Novel
Release Date : July 1, 2007

Reviewer: Jasmyn

He found her in an abandoned building, half-starved, her face chalk white yet strikingly beautiful. Those violet eyes drew him closer, even though Jameson Bryant knew what she was. Even though she warned him away. But it was too late. With one parting of her lips, the hungry creature of the night took him...

Nine months later, their tiny dark angel was born...in twilight.

Characterfest interview #5 with Laurent Bovier by RM Sotera

Interviewer – RM Sotera

Interviewee – Laurent Bovier New Orleans Vampire and part of the world of the Dirty series

RM:  Hi there followers of Bitten By Paranormal Romance.  Today I have the pleasure of sharing with you the interview I did with Laurent Bovier, New Orleans vampire extraordinaire.

Location – RM Sotera’s Office – August 3, 2012

RM – Sitting in my home office across the desk from the man of the hour I’d cleared my throat. “Let’s start our interview today with your name.”

LB – His Lips twitched as he hid a definite smile. “Ma cherie you know my name.  Do you not?”

RM – “Okay, let’s move past that.  You’re right.  I do know your name, Mr. Bovier.”  The damned man had a way of making my body quake inside.  The way he annunciated words, and the way the words rolled off his tongue made talking the way he did x-rated.

Comrade Bloggers hops

This post is where I will add my comrade bloggers giveaway hops. 

Characterfest interview #4 with Miakoda by Tina Carreiro

Please welcome Miakoda and Tina Carreiro

Today we have Miakoda Starr, the heroine from Tina Carreiro’s new release, Power of the Moon.

So, I guess I should open by asking what I should call you. I know you have name issues.

Mia: MY-A is fine. Thanks, for asking.

 How difficult is it to connect with the dead?

Mia: It’s not something I’m use to yet. I guess it’s more difficult because I don’t want to connect with the dead, so I shut down and block everything out.  

 Who is your closest friend?

 Mia: Cynthia. Although, she’s a little mad at me right now.  I have to buy her something Coach and beg for forgiveness. *rolls eyes* This Coach obsession of hers is out of hand. Beyond the purses, she has Coach shoes, iphone case, lipstick case, and wristlet. You name it she’s got it. I think she needs an intervention.

  You knew this question was coming so I’ll just ask it now, what’s up with Cole?

Mia: Well, it’s complicated.

Yeah… I didn’t ask for your Facebook status, I want to know what’s going on with Cole.

Mia: We’re getting there. *grins*

What’s your greatest talent?

Mia: *smirks* I think that’s yet to be seen.

What is your favorite activity?

Mia: Riding the elevator with Cole. *drops eyes and blushes*

Yes, I think we’d all like to ride the elevator with Cole.

Mia: Watch it, or I’ll make your aura twitch.

Jealous?

Mia: With a vengeance.

Who do you love?

 Mia: Cole, of course. *smiles*

Who makes you mad?

Mia: Cole, of course. I think he does it on purpose though. Oh, and mean people. I’ve been picked on all my life and I’ll never understand the need to be mean.

 What’s your favorite snack?

Mia: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup.

 Favorite Color

 Mia: It use to be midnight blue, but since I met Cole, it’s amber. When he gets excited his eyes change to this beautiful color. It’s like someone is holding a light behind a precious brown stone. And then the look he gives me, wow it’s just---

*clears throat*

Mia: Oh, sorry. He has that affect on me.

Favorite Movie

Mia: Dracula, with Bela Lugosi.

Oh, yeah, that’s right… You have a Siamese cat named after Bela Lugosi.

Mia: Yes, and he has one eye. He’s adorable.

Any final words to those who have read about you?

Mia: Yes. You know, I have some hang-ups and, you don’t even know the half of my issues, yet. ;) Not everyone has smooth edges, some of us have rough ones.  I wanted to thank all the people that stuck with me until the end. You felt my fear, my tears, and my love for Cole.

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Characterfest interview #3 with Astra by Sam Cleever

Astra's Interview with the Angel City Bugler

Astra Q Phelps recently did an interview for the Angel City Bugler, during which she gives readers some wonderful insights into how she got her start as a kick-butt demon slayer and all around tough Tweener.

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R: Hello Astra, thank you for joining us today, we love your books and were hoping we could get to know you a little bit.

A: Hey! How’s it going? You got anything here that needs to be blown up or vanquished?

R: Uh, well, no, not really. I have an ex-husband… But no, forget I said that. I just wanted to chat with you for a few minutes.

A: You don’t want me to save the world?

R: Um, no, not right at this moment.

A: Oh good. Okay.

R: So, Astra, you certainly lead an exciting life. Vanquishing demons, fighting off devilishly handsome Royal Devil Princes, and saving the world, how does one get into this line of work?

A: It doesn’t hurt to be born a Tweener, with a powerful Seraphim for a father and an equally powerful Royal Devil as a mother. It’s not an easy gig you know.

R: I can imagine. Can you tell us what exactly a Tweener is?

Monthly Events

 I will be posting my events and giveaway blog hops, along with my comrade events, here on this post. 

April 

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Phantom Shadows Book Promo + Giveaway

Phantom Shadows

Dianne Duvall lures readers into a world of romance and suspense, where love can mean the difference between life and death. . .

Dr. Melanie Lipton is no stranger to the supernatural. She knows immortals better than they know themselves, right down to their stubborn little genes. So although a handsome rogue immortal seems suspicious to her colleagues, Sebastien Newcombe intrigues Melanie. His history is checkered, his scars are impressive, and his ideas are daring. But it's not his ideas that have Melanie fighting off surges of desire. . .
Bastien is used to being the bad guy. In fact, he can't remember the last time he had an ally he could trust. But Melanie is different--and under her calm, professional exterior he senses a passion beyond anything in his centuries of experience. Giving in to temptation is out of the question--he can't put her in danger. But she isn't asking him. . .


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She stared at him in silence for so long he began to feel a bit self-conscious. “You can feel other people's emotions?” she asked finally.
“Yes. And Stuart's told me he was lying to try to save his ass.”
Again she stared at him.
“What?” he asked when the silence stretched.
“You can feel my emotions? Right now?”
“No. I have to touch you to feel them.”
“So . . .”
He could see her considering it, trying to remember every time he had touched her or she had touched him. At the network. In her car. At David's. Trying to remember what she might have inadvertently revealed.
“You might have mentioned it. Given me a little warning.”
“Such didn't occur to me.”
More silence.


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Review: A Dragon's Seduction

Title : A Dragon's Seduction (The Gatekeepers, #1)
Author: Tamelia Tumlin
Length: Novella (ebook 68pgs)
Publisher: Steel Magnolia Press
Publication Date: 6 Apr 2012


Firefighter and Gatekeeper Brayden St. John guards the Northern portal to Jarithia the same way he fights fires: with honor, bravery and his own set of rules. But when the dragonshifter meets a certain lovely sorceress, he soon learns that rules are meant to be broken. Even his rules.

Sorceress Callie Gautreaux, owner of Ribbons and Roses Flower Shop, walked away from her powerful family and her Magik years ago. Now, as a malevolent wizard invokes a rogue Chaos dragon to terrorize the streets of New Orleans, she must join forces with her sworn enemy – an ultra-sexy dragonshifter – and face her past in order to save the humans. But can she save her heart from the dragon's charm?

Something for my followers to read from my heart

You know it’s amazing what authors will say behind your back. I started this blog just too keep my personal reviews, not for it to go this far. I never went to authors for reviews because I knew I had grammar issues. I’m just an ordinary average reader and human. I didn’t go through collage to be an editor. I started having followers and then all the sudden authors started coming to me to and asking for me to read and review their books, so what was I to do? I started reading their book and giving my honest opinion. Now after some gets huge they want throw me to the mud because of my grammar issues, well fine by me, but they know who came to whom first.

The blog will stay open and my reviewer will continue to review but I myself will not be taking any review request in for a while. I really need time to think.

Thanks

Laurie 

ARC review Already Freakn' Mated by Eve Langlais

Title: Already Freakn' Mated (Freakn' Shifters #3) 

Author: Eve Langlais

Source: Author request

Genre Paranormal romance- shifter M/F

Length: Novel 

Reviewed by Laurie 

Release date October 3, 2012

Lucky him, he found his mate. Just one teensy, tiny problem. She was already married to someone else.

Meeting the woman of his dreams would have worked a lot better if she didn’t already belong to another man. But Chris wasn’t about to let something like ‘until death do us part’ keep him from claiming his woman. He’ll do anything to win his mate, including throwing his attractive cousin at the pesky husband.

Despite the danger, and her marital status, Jiao can’t help falling for a handsome wolf. Honor says she should stay away, but her curious inner cat is flexing her claws and demanding they claim their man.

But Jiao isn’t the only one falling in love. When her husband finds himself head over heels with a she-wolf, will Sheng do the right thing and end the marriage sham? Or will the past catch up first and bite them?

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Freakn' Shifters series (each can be read as a stand alone):
Book #1 Delicate Freakn' Flower
Book #2 Jealous And Freakn'
Book #3 Already Freakn' Mated
Book #4 Human and Freakn' (Dec 2012)

**Please note, while Book 1 & 2 are MFM stories, Book 3, Already Freakn' Mated is not. Suprising, I know given the title lol. But for those who crave MFM, never fear, Freakn' Shifters #4 will be MFM and HOT as hell!

Characterfest interview #2 with Rekkus by Dominique Eastwick

Please welcome Rakkus and Dominique Eastwick! 

Thank you for coming to chat with us today. Why do you think Dominique Eastwick choose you to represent her?  I didn’t really have a choose as she is one of the high member of the Syndicate which rules the Para’s.

Tell us a little about yourself? I am head of Security for the Wiccan Haus, as well as the protector of the Rowan Family.

And? And what?

Charcterfest Interview #1 with a Succubus name Pia by Annie Nicholas

Please welcome Pia and Annie!! 

Interview with a Succubus

Hi, I’m Annie Nicholas and I’ve dragged my current heroine along with me to hold my hand during this interview.

 I’m Pia Blyton and I’m forcing Annie to come out of her shell. Sort of…  (pushes Annie to the front of the class)

What? (blinks) I write paranormal romance and Pia is my succubus. Wait, not mine-mine, but my character in my new book.

(whispers) Starved for Love.

Starved for Love. She has three boyfriends—

Not boyfriends, suitors, big difference.

How?

Boyfriends implies I love them. I can’t allow myself to do that. It’s too dangerous for my mental health. Suitors are more like… contracted lovers? Geez, that makes them sound like prostitutes. (laughs) Some of them would prefer that, but I don’t pay them. The contract states that we have sex every nine days so I can feed.

What do they get out of it?

Dude! (gestures at her body) All this.

Every nine days, divided by three boy—suitors that equals…

Yes, yes, every three days I have to orgasm so I can feed. Don’t look at me like that. I’m not the writer.  You wouldn’t want to be around me if I don’t feed either. It can get ugly, well actually, I’m told I get more beautiful, but that’s not the point. I get demanding and horny and no one’s safe.

Are you close to your day three now?  (clears throat)

(tosses Annie the evil eye) Yes, I have a date after this so you’re safe.

(perks) Which suitor?

Review: Forbidden by Jacquelyn Frank

Title: Forbidden
Author: Jacquelyn Frank
Source: Edelweiss
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Length: Novel

Release Date : October 30, 2012

Reviewer: Jasmyn

From New York Times bestselling author Jacquelyn Frank comes this first book in The World of the Nightwalkers—an exciting and sensual new spin-off series in which the Bodywalkers, an ancient race of the night, battles the evil forces who prey on them.

The unexpected happens in an instant. On her way to work, secretary Docia Waverley hurtles into a crashing crossroads, and she quickly begins to suspect that things will never be the same. Then, when a tall, blond, muscular stranger intervenes on her behalf, telling her it is his duty to protect her at all cost, what is just a feeling turns to proof positive. That is, as long as Docia’s savior doesn’t turn out to be a crazed kidnapper.

When Ram finds Docia, he has no doubt that she is his queen. But as this golden warrior sweeps in to protect her, he feels something more than body heat every time they touch. He is overwhelmed by a searing connection that goes deep into the twin souls inside him. A desire rises in him that is forbidden—this woman is his queen, the mate of his king, his leader, his best friend. And yet Docia is so vulnerable and attractive that she awakens a hunger in Ram that is undeniable, a carnal craving he cannot yield to . . . not without risking the very survival of the Bodywalkers.

Review Dark Nights by Christine Feehan

Title:Review Dark Nights 

Author: Christine Feehan

Source: Edelweiss

Length: Novel Mass Paperback 

Reviewed by Laurie

DARK DREAM

Book #7 in Dark Series

Previously in After Twilight & Dark Dreamers

She’s known him since she was fifteen. Every night, he is with her: his face, his voice. Tonight, Sara Marten will meet the man who is both angel and demon, salvation and temptation: Falcon—the Carpathian, the banished hero. Tonight, Sara will meet the dark-eyed destroyer destined to be her mate..

DARK DESCENT

Book #11 in Dark Series

Previously in The Only One

In this version of Dark Descent there is an additional hundred pages. I rewrote it from the original version as I felt it was too short. I do not plan on doing this for the other re-prints, but I hope you enjoy the newest version of Dark Descent.

In a cave of mystery and wonder deep in the Carpathian Mountains, bodyguard Joie Sanders encounters a most remarkable being. Proud, strong, immortal, he is called Traian—an ageless hunter, locked in a life and death battle with enemy vampires—and he will be her salvation in a labyrinth protected by the ingenious traps of a mysterious ancient race. What awaits them in the darkness is not known, and each step could be their last—as their destined path leads them toward a fiery passion that will illuminate the perilous dark night.

The Fire Inside by Virginia Cavanaugh

Title:The Fire Inside 

Author: Virginia Cavanaugh 

Source: Author and publisher request

Genre: Erotic paranormal romance 

Length: Novella

Reviewed by Laurie 

Werewolves be damned. Tyra Smith chose to leave behind her nature to protect her heart after the wrenching loss of her own pack. She wants nothing to do with another wolf. Never again wants to feel the deep pain of loss. At least until a sexy-as-sin wolf named Konrad shows up, saving her from the roaming paws of another wolf.

The sparks of lust ignite a desire that burns with hellish intensity inside her, making her crave something she’d dared to forsake. The ability to resist wanes. Is it a true mate bond that pulls her to him or just the heat cycle she’s entering? Something only time can tell.

When a real threat from another pack presents itself, Tyra must move into Konrad’s den for her physical protection. But as things continue to heat up between the two of them, will he also be able to protect her heart?

Horngate Witches Series - Books 1-3 / This is 5 Star and Take No Prisoners Urban Fantasy

Horngate Witches Series:

Bitter Night - Book #1
Crimson Wind - Book #2
Shadow City - Book #3

Calling BDSM Authors this is the last round so if you want to get into the fun you better hurry.

 BDSM Authors vs. Bitten by Paranormal Romance Reviewers

November 1st – 30th 2012

Last call, so if you want in please be quick. I'll leave this open until October 15, 2012. 

The whole month of November, Bitten by Paranormal Romance will be playing the submissive role, while the BDSM authors will be in the dominate role.  Oh yeah, you can't miss this one. You have to stick around to see which reviewer uses the safe word first.

I walked in Wal-Mart the other day and saw they had Fifty Shades of Gray on the shelves, and I got pissed because BDSM has been around for years. But now, this author is going to make a killing off what others have been struggling to do in this so-called taboo market. The cashier at Wal-Mart told me about little old ladies asking for this book, but I guarantee that the little old ladies would scold someone for reading BDSM last year.  The thing that kills me the most is one day I was in Wal-Mart, and the book lady was taking away the Lora Leigh erotic books. She told me,"Wal-Mart said because of the sexual content they couldn't sell these types of  books." But yet here they are selling an BDSM book? What the heck? Well, that got me thinking, and I came home and submitted my idea to my reviewers, and I couldn’t believe the response. They are totally up to this.