Synopsis:
As the only female Seminus demon ever born, master assassin Sinead Donnelly is used to being treated like an outcast. She spent decades enslaved, and now vows she'll die before she'll relinquish her freedom again. Then Sin's innate ability to kill her enemies goes awry: She creates a lethal new werewolf virus that sparks a firestorm of panic and violence.
Half-werewolf, half-vampire Conall Dearghul is charged with bringing in Sin to face punishment for the plague. And she's no stranger: He's bound to her by blood, and the one sexual encounter they shared has left him hungering for her raw sensuality. Worse, Sin is the underworld's most wanted and Con soon learns he's the only one who can help her . . . and that saving her life might mean sacrificing his own.
Author Bio:
I began writing the way so many writers do—the moment I learned to wield a pencil. But even as a child, I didn't write "kid" stories. I preferred something more dramatic. Something that didn't include Dick, Jane, and a dog named Spot. I wanted my characters to be named Dracula and my dogs to have names like White Fang or Cujo. I'll always have my parents to thank for that. They never censored my reading material (though I suspect that if they had truly known what was between the covers of some of the books, they'd have been a little more careful,) so when other girls my age were reading Laura Ingalls Wilder and Judy Blume, I was immersing myself in Stephen King and Dean Koontz.
Later, after I'd joined the Air Force and was in dire need of something to read between shifts at the weather station, I continued to read horror, but I'd branched out into fantasy, and then, finally, romance (though I admit I went kicking and screaming to the latter.)
Turned out that I loved romance! So I started writing it, but again, my style and voice leaned toward the dark, paranormal side. Fortunately for me, paranormal romance, as a sub-genre, was booming. I let my imagination fly, and soon I'd sold a series of dark, sexy paranormal romances to Grand Central Publishing.
I still read a lot of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, and in fact, one of my all time favorite books about writing is On Writing, by my favorite childhood horror author, Stephen King. If you're an author or a reader, I highly recommend this book for an insight into an author's mind—which can sometimes be a very scary place.
Go ahead; Seduce your dark side.
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My Opinion:
At first glance, you get a cool cover with a guy and girl and they're inked. I like those types of covers, so I was pulled into reading the description. Based on the synopsis, I was so keen to read the book. Vampires and Werewolves mixed and being a breed of their own, that sounded so cool to me. Then I read the book.
I'm left a little disappointed.
The story itself was well-written in words. The problem for me was all the technical aspects of the story, which seemed to take away from the characters. When I say technical, I mean the medical situations regarding the breed. That part was mildly confusing and really unnecessary for me to enjoy the book. It didn't give me a better understanding of the characters, all it did was distract me.
The characters I really liked though. The author sculpted them in the same fashion as the virus information, but I was still able to enjoy who these people were and what they did.
Okay, so maybe this wasn't my favorite paranormal book, but I know a few junkies out there that would love it. So don't let my review hold you back if it piques your curiosity. You may enjoy it!
2/5
~I received a copy from Hachette Book Group. I was not compensated for my opinion.~
After reading your review I feel a little let down. When I read horror what I like the is mystery behind the creatures and the medical details would probably turn me off a little. I still might pick up a copy.
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