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A Vampire In Disguise by Ava Silvers @avasilversbooks @SDBookTours #BlogTour #BookPromo
A witch’s mission to find her sister’s killer leads to otherworldly dangers.
A Vampire in Disguise
Creatures of the Midwest Book 1
by Ava Silvers
Genre: Cozy Urban Fantasy Mystery, Paranormal Romantic Suspense
A witch’s mission to find her sister’s killer leads to otherworldly dangers.
When Hazel Goode’s search for a murderer lands her in Shadow Hollow, she thinks the strangest thing there is…
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As a lover of paranormal romance adventures, I have really been looking forward to having time to indulge. Will let you know how it goes. Nora never disappoints.
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The Night Island, by Jayne Ann Krentz
Fast-paced, high-octane paranormal romantic suspense
(Note: This review contains spoilers for book #1 in the series, Sleep No More.)
I've been a fan of Jayne Ann Krentz's fast-paced, high-octane romantic suspense thrillers for years now, so I always look forward to the next one. The Night Island did not disappoint. In fact, the pacing is smoother than in the previous book in this series (Sleep No More), and the plot is easier to follow.
In Sleep No More, we learned that months earlier, three women (Pallas, Talia, and Amelia) had woken together, strapped to gurneys in a burning building, with no memories of the previous night... and with enhanced psychic abilities. Determined to find out what happened to them, they joined together to start The Lost Night Files podcast. Sleep No More recounts Pallas's investigation of someone else's missing night; she and the subject, Ambrose, eventually figure out that they both took the same psych evaluation test years before, and suspect that whoever experimented on the four of them may be working from a list based on that test.
After a prologue to introduce the hero, The Night Island begins with Talia March headed to a meeting with an unknown informant with information about the list. But when she shows up at the rendezvous, the informant is missing, and another interested party, hero Luke Rand, is also there. The pair warily exchange information, discovering that they are both looking for the same list, and for the same reasons: Luke, too, experienced a lost night and a significant boost to his psychic powers. Talia knows he's not telling her everything, but based on a clue found in the missing informant's house, they agree to join forces to investigate the Night Island and search for the informant using Talia's enhanced talent for finding things. Outwardly the home of a tech-free meditation retreat, the Night Island has a decidedly creepy vibe, with unusual vegetation, a mysterious conservatory, and a very weird gardener. When people on the island start turning up dead, it will take all of Luke's and Talia's skills to keep themselves alive and solve the puzzles of the Night Island.
If you're thinking this sounds somewhat familiar, you're not wrong. There were hints in Sleep No More that the Lost Night Files trilogy might eventually tie into the Fogg Lake trilogy, with its mysterious Foundation and secret, lost government labs where experiments in psychic abilities and weapons took place. Those hints grow stronger in The Night Island, which has me excited for the third book (presumably featuring the third member of the podcast team, Amelia, and probably releasing in January 2025.) And since there were hints in the Fogg Lake books that the Foundation may exist in the same "universe" as the Arcane Society novels, though independent and unaware of the Arcane Society... well, this Krentz fan is definitely hooked.
One of the things I love about the Arcane Society series is how the Society offers structure and organization to the paranormal world and to the various types of "talent." Most of the characters are aware of and operate within that known structure; it helps ground them. Their own talents may be off the charts, but most of them exist within a community that recognizes and acknowledges the existence of the paranormal. In a more nebulous way, the Foundation serves a similar purpose in the Fogg Lake books.
That's not true for the Lost Night Files characters, who went from having slightly-better-than-normal intuition or abilities to having a strong psychic talent. Not only are they dealing with the impacts of, and learning the extent of, their enhanced abilities, there's all the disorientation of not knowing what happened to them and who was responsible. And they have to cope with all this without the benefit of any support other than each other, in a world which doesn't believe at all in paranormal abilities. It makes all the Lost Night Files characters less confident, less trusting, and less open about their abilities than most of the Arcane Society characters... but equally determined to survive and thrive. Talia and Luke are no exception.
In fact, Talia and Luke are typical of Krentz's main characters—smart, capable, and emotionally strong—though both are on the edgier, less communicative side of the Krentz hero/heroine spectrum for the reasons I mentioned above. I'm still not entirely sure why Talia is so drawn to the deeply taciturn Luke. Then again, she's not exactly open about her own thoughts and feelings, and clearly recognizes and (to some extent) accepts Luke's reticence. As a long-time fan, I have accepted that sometimes, I just have to accept the attraction between Krentz's hero and heroine as a given, and that's what I did in this case. Krentz does a good job of showing how their relationship develops from wariness to reluctant-and-limited partnership to deep-seated trust as they learn more about one another. The progression feels slow, but since the book takes place over the course of four days, it's actually quite fast.
It's hard to say any more about the plot of The Night Island without revealing spoilers, so I won't. I'll just say that for me, it hangs together better than the plot of Sleep No More —which I nonetheless enjoyed—and that I liked The Night Island as much or more on a second reading (to refresh my memory for this review) than I did the first time through. If you are already a Krentz fan, I think you'll have fun with this book. If you are new to her work, or to her paranormal-themed romantic suspense, I recommend starting with either Second Sight (the first Arcane Society novel, written under her Amanda Quick pen name), or The Vanishing (the first Fogg Lake book.)
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Book Review: INHERITANCE by Nora Roberts
Nora Roberts has done it again with INHERITANCE, the first book in the "The Lost Brides Trilogy." #recommendedread #bookreview #fiction #paranormal #romance #suspense #StMartinsPress #digitalreviewcopy #EdelweissPlus
Inheritance, The Lost Brides Trilogy #1, by Nora RobertsISBN: 9781250288325 (hardcover)ISBN: 9781250288332 (ebook)ISBN: 9781250902443 (digital audiobook)ISBN: 9781250902450 (audiobook on CD)ASIN: B0BVKW2YH9 (Audible audiobook)ASIN: B0BQGJRBFV (Kindle edition)Page Count: 432Publication date: November 21, 2023Publisher: St. Martin’s PressGenre: Fiction | Romance | Paranormal
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Panic at the Dockside!
Armando’s having a very shit time, bless his little unclaimed nephilim heart.
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The thing clinging to his ankle was definitely human. Human and hungry. Its head had the appearance of a skull wrapped in paper and glue. Its ribcage swung back and forth as if it were made of softened rope, the bones battered smooth like sea glass.
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The story wasn’t terrible. It did get clunky once the soul-swapping premise was unraveled, but then it felt rushed and just sort of ended.
Oh, and it turns out he was really cheating on the ghost the whole time. 🤯
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Who sits and waits in the darkness?
There is no movement in the blackness.
As still as a fox waiting to pounce,
She waits without a ruffle or flounce.
A hissing sigh floats through the air.
Are those snakes slithering in her hair?
The ghostly form stands to meet us.
Is she the hostess sent to greet us?
We stand alone in this bleak hall.
There won’t be dancing at this ball.
Time to leave this creepy place
And quicken this story’s pace.
But since this is a horror story,
We won’t be leaving with much glory.
THE DEAD GAME
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Today is my 11th Authorversary! Eleven years of writing kicka$$ adventure, connection, love, and intimacy. Stop by the blog or site. Tell me your favorite dessert. Or just say hello.
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A sunny school marm tries to solve her twin’s murder before her twin's fiance steals her heart.Ivy, a sunny school marm, goes undercover in a secluded mountain community to help solve her sister's murder. She finds herself falling for her sister's fiance while dodging the murderer's attempts on her life.
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Sleep No More by Jayne Ann Krentz
2 out of 5. DNF (40% read)
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Ambrose Drake believes there was a murder at the sleep center he was at due to sleeping issues, but he can barely remember. When there is another possible murder that he cannot prove, he calls the three women behind The Lost Night Files podcast. Pallas Llewellyn is the one who decided to check out the tip, running into Ambrose at the long abandoned asylum she was investigating.
Jayne Ann Krentz writes romantic suspense under this name, historical romance as Amanda Quick, and speculative romance as Jayne Castle. While I used to be a big fan of romantic suspense, my tastes appear to have changed. I prefer romance with a dollop of mystery or suspense, not the other way around nowadays.
Sadly, despite my love for the majority of JAK's books and an intriguing premise, I found myself … bored. I made it about 40% into the book before I realized that I just didn't care. I didn't care who the villain was or their motive, and I just didn't care about Ambrose and Pallas' relationship either. When you don't care about one of these, the book might still be a fun read. But lose both? Yeah, I'm out of here. sigh Very disappointed.
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Sleep No More, by Jayne Ann Krentz
Sleep No More kicks off the Lost Night Files, a trilogy of books about three women whose psychic talents were apparently enhanced after a mysterious night none of them can remember.
Ambrose Drake is convinced he witnessed a murder while a patient at a sleep clinic. Or at least, he witnessed the cleanup. But without evidence, he can’t be sure. When a member of the clinic’s staff goes missing after contacting Ambrose, he contacts the Lost Night Files podcasters to investigate. The one who shows up is Pallas Llewellyn, an interior designer whose career has been derailed by her need to find out what happened on her “lost night.”
It turns out that Ambrose, like Pallas and her friends, also experienced an increase in his talent (in his case, reading auras) after a similar lost night… which has been affecting his sleep, as well as his writing career. The pair set out to solve the mystery of the missing man and uncover a lot more than they anticipated.
I really debated how to rate Sleep No More. It’s a fun, quick read, and I enjoyed it on the whole. However, the typically convoluted plot doesn’t hang together quite as well as in most of Krentz’s books, the banter is not as witty or sharp, and much of the novel felt like a rehash of various plot and character elements from previous books. For instance, if you are familiar with Krentz’s books, particularly the Arcane Society and Fogg Lake series, you’ll immediately see parallels with the Nightshade organization and their talent-enhancing formula. I suspect the series may tie in with the Arcane novels eventually, if only tangentially. (There’s even a Jones in the book, albeit briefly and in flashback.)
Another problem I had is that while the prologue does a good job of setting up Ambrose’s backstory and motivation, the same isn’t true of Pallas. In her case, Krentz keeps dropping hints about a similar experience in Pallas’s past, but for too long, I felt I was in the dark regarding the traumautic experience Pallas shared with her fellow podcasters — her main motivation throughout the book. (Note that the publisher’s synopsis leads with that incident, but the reader shouldn’t have to rely on a blurb to figure out what’s going on.)Structurally, I think the book might work better with two prologues, one from each main character’s POV. I do understand why Krentz didn’t lead with Pallas’s lost night; it may be her motivation, but it’s not the central plot of Sleep No More, although it will probably turn out to be the main focus of the overall series arc. But it would have helped to have the information sooner.
So all in all, a fun entry in the Krentz canon, but not one of her best. Still, I’m looking forward to the next installment!
Review originally published on The Bookwyrm’s Hoard blog.
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The Challenges and Rewards of Writing in Multiple Genres
I write in multiple genres, and it can be both challenging and rewarding. So far, I’ve written mystery, romance, paranormal, women’s fiction, and a mixture of two or three together. I have two historical books I want to write as well. See below the genres where I’m published.
Here are some of the challenges and rewards that writers may face when writing in multiple genres:
Challenges:
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