Buddy Read: Lover Reborn by J.R Ward

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Lover Reborn by J.R Ward 
Series: Black Dagger Brotherhood, #10
Genre: Fantasy | Romance | Paranormal
Age Range: Adult Audience
Format: Paperback, 617 pages
Source: My Copy
Published on October 2nd 2012 by Berkley Books (first published March 27th 2012)
J.R Ward: Website | Twitter | Goodread
Read in Finnish and contain some spoilers

Synopsis:
#1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward’s “different, creative, dark, violent, and flat-out amazing”* Black Dagger Brotherhood series continues as a vampire warrior crosses the line between life and death…into a world of dark dreams and darker desires.

Ever since the death of his shellan, Tohrment has been a heartbroken shadow of the vampire leader he once was. Brought back to the Brotherhood by a self-serving fallen angel, he fights again with ruthless vengeance, unprepared for a new tragedy. Seeing his beloved in dreams–trapped in a cold, isolated netherworld–Tohr turns to the angel Lassiter to save his former mate. The only way to rescue her is for Tohr to love another. As war with the lessers rages, and a new clan of vampires vie for the Blind King’s throne, Tohr struggles between an unforgettable past and a hot, passion-filled future. But can his heart let go and set all of them free?

Book Review: Covet by Tracy Wolff

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Covet by Tracy Wolff 
Series: Crave, #3
Genre: Fantasy | Romance | Paranormal
Age Range: Young Adult
Format: Hardcover, 680 pages
Source: My Copy
Published on March 2nd 2021 by Entangled: Teen
Tracy Wolff: Website | Twitter | Goodreads
Contains major spoilers

Synopsis:
I may have reached my breaking point. As if trying to graduate from a school for supernaturals isn’t stressful enough, my relationship status has gone from complicated to a straight-up dumpster fire. Oh, and the Bloodletter has decided to drop a bomb of epic proportions on us all… Then again, when has anything at Katmere Academy not been intense?

And the hits just keep coming. Jaxon’s turned colder than an Alaskan winter. The Circle is splintered over my upcoming coronation. As if things couldn’t get worse, now there’s an arrest warrant for Hudson’s and my supposed crimes—which apparently means a lifetime prison sentence with a deadly unbreakable curse.

Choices will have to be made…and I fear not everyone will survive.

Book Review: Crush by Tracy Wolff

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Crush by Tracy Wolff 
Series: Crave, #2
Genre: Fantasy | Romance | Paranormal
Age Range: Young Adult
Format: eBook, 704 pages
Source: Scribd
Published on September 29th 2020 by Entangled: Teen
Tracy Wolff: Website | Twitter | Goodreads

Synopsis:
Everything feels off―especially me. I’ve returned to Katmere Academy, but I’m haunted by fragments of days I have no recollection of living and struggling to understand who, or what, I really am.

Just when I start to feel safe again, Hudson is back with a vengeance. He insists there are secrets I don’t know about, threatening to drive a wedge between Jaxon and me forever. But far worse enemies are at our doorstep.

The Circle is caught in a power play and the Vampire Court is trying to drag me out of my world and into theirs. The only thing Hudson and Jaxon agree on is that leaving Katmere would mean my certain death.

And not only am I fighting for my life, but now everyone else’s is at stake―unless we can defeat an unspeakable evil. All I know is that saving the people I love is going to require sacrifice.

Maybe more than I’m able to give.

The Crave series is best enjoyed in order. .

Book Review: King of Battle & Blood by Scarlett St. Clair

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King of Battle & Blood by Scarlett St. Clair 
Series: Adrian X Isolde, #1
Genre: Fantasy | Romance | Paranormal
Age Range: Adult Audience
Format: Hardcover, 416 pages
Source: My Copy
Published on November 30th 2021 by Bloom Books
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Synopsis:
Isolde de Lara considers her wedding day her death day. To end a years-long war, she is to marry vampire king, Adrian Aleksandr Vasiliev, and kill him. ⠀

But her assassination attempt is thwarted and Adrian threatens that if Isolde tries kill him again, he will raise her as the undead. Faced with the possibility of becoming the thing she hates most, Isolde seeks other ways to defy him and survive the brutal vampire court. ⠀

Except it isn’t the court she fears most—it’s Adrain. Despite their undeniable chemistry, she wonders why the king——fierce, savage, merciless—chose her as consort. ⠀

The answer will shatter her world.

Book Review: Crave by Tracy Wolff

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Crave by Tracy Wolff 
Series: Crave, #1
Genre: Fantasy | Romance | Paranormal
Age Range: Young Adult
Format: eBook, 584 pages
Source: Scribd
Published on April 7th 2020 by Entangled: Teen
Tracy Wolff: Website | Twitter | Goodreads

Synopsis:
My whole world changed when I stepped inside the academy. Nothing is right about this place or the other students in it. Here I am, a mere mortal among gods…or monsters. I still can’t decide which of these warring factions I belong to, if I belong at all. I only know the one thing that unites them is their hatred of me.

Then there’s Jaxon Vega. A vampire with deadly secrets who hasn’t felt anything for a hundred years. But there’s something about him that calls to me, something broken in him that somehow fits with what’s broken in me.

Which could spell death for us all.

Because Jaxon walled himself off for a reason. And now someone wants to wake a sleeping monster, and I’m wondering if I was brought here intentionally—as the bait.

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Buddy Read: Lover Unleashed by J.R Ward

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Lover Unleashed by J.R Ward 
Series: Black Dagger Brotherhood, #9
Genre: Fantasy | Romance | Paranormal
Age Range: Adult Audience
Format: Paperback, 512 pages
Source: My Copy
Published on March 29th 2011 by NAL
J.R Ward: Website | Twitter | Goodread
Read in Finnish and contain some spoilers

Synopsis:
Number-one New York Times best-selling author J.R. Ward’s thrilling new novel in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.

Payne, twin sister of Vishous, is cut from the same dark, seductive cloth as her brother. Imprisoned for eons by their mother, the Scribe Virgin, she finally frees herself – only to face a devastating injury.

Manuel Manello, M.D., is drafted by the Brotherhood to save her as only he can – but when the human surgeon and the vampire warrior meet, their two worlds collide in the face of their undeniable passion. With so much working against them, can love prove stronger than the birthright and the biology that separates them?

Book Review: A Deal with the Elf King By Elise Kova

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A Deal with the Elf King by Elise Kova 
Series: Married To Magic, #1
Genre: Fantasy
Age Range: New Adult
Format: Hardcover, 338 pages
Source: My Copy
Published on November 6th 2020 by Silver Wing Press
Elise Kova: Website | Twitter | Goodreads

Synopsis:
The elves come for two things: war and wives. In both cases, they come for death.

Three-thousand years ago, humans were hunted by powerful races with wild magic until the treaty was formed. Now, for centuries, the elves have taken a young woman from Luella’s village to be their Human Queen.

To be chosen is seen as a mark of death by the townsfolk. A mark nineteen-year-old Luella is grateful to have escaped as a girl. Instead, she’s dedicated her life to studying herbology and becoming the town’s only healer.

That is, until the Elf King unexpectedly arrives… for her.

Everything Luella had thought she’d known about her life, and herself, was a lie. Taken to a land filled with wild magic, Luella is forced to be the new queen to a cold yet blisteringly handsome Elf King. Once there, she learns about a dying world that only she can save.

The magical land of Midscape pulls on one corner of her heart, her home and people tug on another… but what will truly break her is a passion she never wanted.

A Deal with the Elf King is a complete, stand-alone novel, inspired by the tales of Hades and Persephone, as well as Beauty and the Beast, with a “happily ever after” ending. It’s perfect for fantasy romance fans looking for just the right amount of steam and their next slow-burn and swoon-worthy couple.

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