Review: Life’s a Witch (New Orleans Nocturnes #3) – Carrie Pulkinen

© Carrie Pulkinen

Genre:
Paranormal Rom-Com, Comedy, Satire, Humorous Dark Comedy

Author Blurb:
# of Pages (per Amazon): 172

Crimson Oliver is a bad witch.

She’s not wicked, but every spell she tries to cast goes awry in one way or another. After her last screw-up, the high priestess has threatened to bind her powers and turn her human for good.

Crimson’s solution? Challenge the priestess to a battle of magic she can’t possibly win.

Not without a miracle, anyway.

Enter hotter-than-hellfire demon Mike Cortez. He’s a devil’s advocate who can make anyone’s dreams come true…for a price. He’s had his eye on the seductive witch for a while, and Satan is in the market for a new assistant.

But Mike wants to date her, not damn her.

When he accidentally makes a deal condemning Crimson to an eternity of satanic servitude, they’ll have to go to hell and back to outsmart the devil and save the witch’s soul.

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Review: Shift Happens (New Orleans Nocturnes #2) – Carrie Pulkinen

© Carrie Pulkinen

Genre:
Paranormal Rom-Com, Comedy, Satire, Humorous Dark Comedy

Author Blurb:
# of Pages (per Amazon): 178

Sophie Burroughs is determined to be a witch. Her grandmother was a witch. All the other supes say she smells like a witch, but she can’t cast a spell to save her life.

Sprouting fur is so not on her to-do list.

But when a smokin’ hot werewolf bites her and then accuses her of crimes against his pack, she has until the next full moon to prove him wrong and stop his magic from transforming her into a wolf.

A romp in the sack would be a nice bonus, too.

Trace Thibodeaux didn’t mean to bite Sophie. The red wolves have been cursed, she’s the prime suspect, and if he wants to keep his rank in the pack, he has to end her magic by any means necessary.

But that doesn’t include sheathing his sword in a witch’s scabbard.

He’s gotten into bed with the enemy before, and that’s a mistake he’ll never make again.

Or will he?

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Review: License to Bite (New Orleans Nocturnes #1) – Carrie Pulkinen

© Carrie Pulkinen

Genre:
Paranormal Rom-Com, Comedy, Satire, Humorous Dark Comedy

Author Blurb:
# of Pages (per Amazon): 166

Drinking blood sucks.

Governor’s daughter Jane Anderson is used to getting what she wants. When a girls’ trip to Mardi Gras thrusts her into the arms—and fangs—of New Orleans’ hottest vampire, he gifts her with immortality, super strength, and a complexion to die for.

There’s only one tiny problem. Jane faints at the sight of blood.

When Ethan Devereaux meets Jane, his cold, lifeless heart learns to beat again. Convinced she’s his late fiancée reincarnated, he turns her, claiming her as his own. But when Jane wakes up dead in Ethan’s attic, she’s loud, obnoxious, and downright ornery. He doesn’t know if he should kiss her or stake her, but one thing’s for certain…

She is so not his long-lost love.

But Ethan turned her, so he’s stuck with her. Jane has three weeks to learn the ways of the vampire and get her license, or she’ll be staked. If Ethan can’t help her overcome her aversion to blood, his undead life might also be on the line.

Join the supes of New Orleans Nocturnes as they lighten up the darker side of the Big Easy in this fast, steamy romantic comedy.

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Teaser Tuesday – 5/5/20

Hey, everyone!

It’s Tuesday, and if you aren’t heavily involved in the indie author world, you might not yet know why that’s an exciting day, but you’re about to!

Tuesday is the day known as “Teaser Tuesday” and it’s where authors will publish new teasers or sale announcements for their books. You might not know it about me, but I write under a pen name (no, I’m not telling who!), so I’m well aware of how important it is to get the word out about books, so I decided to start a new weekly update. If there are new teasers, I’m going to post them here and, if possible, I’ll link to the book or author so you can find out more. I hope you’re as excited about this as I am – I LOVE teasers!

Without further ado, here are this week’s offerings:

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Teaser Tuesday – 2/11/20

Hey, everyone!

It’s Tuesday, and if you aren’t heavily involved in the indie author world, you might not yet know why that’s an exciting day, but you’re about to!

Tuesday is the day known as “Teaser Tuesday” and it’s where authors will publish new teasers or sale announcements for their books. You might not know it about me, but I write under a pen name (no, I’m not telling who!), so I’m well aware of how important it is to get the word out about books, so I decided to start a new weekly update. If there are new teasers, I’m going to post them here and, if possible, I’ll link to the book or author so you can find out more. I hope you’re as excited about this as I am – I LOVE teasers!

Without further ado, here are this week’s offerings:

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The Hidden Court (PNRU #1) – Dominique Kristine

© Dominique Kristine

My Brief Synopsis:
# of Pages (per Amazon): 349

In a world where everyone knows magic, and magical creatures, exist, things are a little different than we see them now. However, before mages, shifters, fae, and vampires can go on to become doctors, lawyers, or teachers, they have to spend four years at a magical university to ensure they can be trusted to use their powers and gifts for good.

The problem? Graduating doesn’t guarantee you won’t turn to the dark later, and once you do, there’s no going back. Nosferatu attacks and murdered magical creatures weren’t what Skylar Corazzi were planning on when she went away to school, and she’s pretty sure there’s something bigger going on around Chicago than they’re being told about. The only problem is no one seems to really want to listen to her suspicions. Other than a super hot raven shifter who’s training in the night class to become a sentinel, a profession Sky finds infinitely more interesting than being a fairy godmother, but isn’t an option open to her.

When Gabriel agrees to help train Sky in martial arts so she can help protect herself from the beings trying to drink her dry, they raise more than eyebrows. Can Gabe and Sky survive the nosferatu, judgmental academic counselors, and Gabe’s mean girl girlfriend? Or will Skylar become another statistic of the ever increasing darkling attacks?

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Fledgling – Natasha Brown

© Natasha Brown

My Brief Synopsis:
# of Pages (per Amazon): 244

Ana is about to start at a new school after moving from Colorado to Idaho, and she’s determined to not let anyone there know about her worsening heart condition. Despite her purple tinged lips, lack of stamina, and attempt to blend into the background, she catches the attention of Chance Morgan.

The two become inseparable despite both initially believing dating would be nothing more than a hassle they can’t afford right now. They both take solace in nature as well as each other. However, Ana soon begins to question if Chance is hiding something, and his grandfather’s curious obsession with her Thunderbird necklace is unnerving. Similarly, Chance knows Ana is hiding something from him, though he believes it can’t be worse than his own secret.

Each of their truths may be more than the other can handle, if Ana’s heart doesn’t give out on her first.

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Meet Your Blogger! Questions & Answers with Eryn

We’re 10 posts in already if you’ll believe it, and it’s non-review week, so I thought this was a great chance to get to know me a little better. I’ve always loved a good interview or answering those fun question thingies that go around (have you ever been in an ambulance, how many tattoos do you have, etc), so it seems only natural to do a Q&A.

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The Princess – Claire Delacroix

Cover of Claire Delacroix' book The Princess.  A sword comes out of the ground behind the author's name with a river, a castle, and a purple sky are in the background.
© Claire Delacroix

My Brief Synopsis:
# of Pages (per Amazon): 352

October 1171
Castle Tullymullagh, Ireland
Brianna’s world is crashing around her.

Rumor’s are running rampant around the castle that Connor, Brianna’s father, considered a king in his own right, has lost the battle. The eerie silence filling the castle has her running for the Great Hall to find out for herself just what is going on, forgetting all proprieties to which she would normally follow; her blonde hair flying and clingy fitted dress forgotten in her panic.

As she surveys the scene in front of her all her worst nightmares are coming true. Fighting to look past the leering looks of the soldiers filling her home, she sees her father on his knees in front of a man she does not recognize. He turns out to be the foreign English King Henry II, he decrees Brianna should marry one of the sons of Gavin Fitzgavin, the mercenary who defeated her father.

Determined to only wed for love, Brianna tries to outwit the king and mercenary by sending his sons on a quest: the man who can return with a gift that makes her laugh will win her hand. Thus begins The Bride Quest. Two of the brothers, Rowan and Burke (the intended husband-to-be) both depart immediately, but eldest son Luc refuses to participate.

In her attempts to persuade him to withdraw his refusal so he will leave her home, Brianna awakens both his forgotten senses as well as her innocent ones. Tending to forgotten gardens and hoping to win the seal to his childhood home, Luc’s unassuming ways begin to win over everyone living there, other than his own father of course.

Though Luc, a former knight himself, has sworn to lay down his sword forever, only he stands between Brianna, Connor (a man who redefines Luc’s definition of the word “father”), and a threat to not only the castle but all their lives as well.

Can Luc save them all before it’s too late, and who will win the spunky beauty’s hand?

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Applied Electromagnetism – Suzannah Nix

© Suzannah Nix

My Brief Synopsis:
Olivia Woerner feels invisible. At only 5 foot 3 and one of the only women at her company (or in her field even), she’s oven overlooked, literally and figuratively. Even growing up she disappeared between her athletic brother and genius sister.

She tries hard at her job, hiding her sarcastic tendencies in favor of coming across as agreeable and nice. That choice bites her when she finally works up the courage to ask Adam Cortinas, the drop-dead gorgeous guy outside her team, for a reference… and he refuses. Olivia’s long-standing crush on Adam is shattered when he callously makes it clear he doesn’t think she’s capable of a leadership position, and she realizes he can’t stand her.

The problem? In order to bring a newly acquired plant online within the insanely short timeline the CIO has created, Olivia and Adam must travel to Texas together and make it happen. Absolutely everything that can go wrong does go wrong and Olivia finds herself in the middle of nowhere with Adam invading both her personal space and her mind.

Can they manage to work around their mutual hatred of each other to bring this plant online and save their hides? And can they survive all the situations they’re thrust into that would give their HR department a heart attack? Or will everything irreparably fall apart around them?

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