This week we have added a double-review of ‘Addicted’ by JoAnn DeLazzari, launched our Lycanthrope Love-in/Werewolf theme with reviews on ‘Cursed: A Werewolf’s Tale’, also known as ‘Frostbite’, by David Wellington and Blood Law (A Blood Moon Rising Novel #1) by Karin Tabke. We also have a post on Werewolves in Myths and Legends and Early Literature.

A beautiful tie-in to our theme was the full moon and partial lunar eclipse on Thursday 25th April. We would love to hear your experience on this and would be happy to show any photographs you may have taken. You can contact us by e-mail at carolinebarker@ntlworld.com or tinawilliams1@ntlworld.com. Unfortunately it was very cloudy where we are in Tamworth, UK, and I couldn’t see at all!

Tina has posted her review on ‘Wanderlust’, Skye Warren’s new book. You can find her short review on A Reader’s Review Blog, however due to the adult content you can find Tina’s full review at Sizzle and Burn Book Reviews. Sizzle and Burn Book Reviews is a blog that Tina has created for the more adult/erotic book reviews and therefore it is recommended for 18yrs+!

Also, this week I have downloaded Tim O’Rourke’s podcasts on the Keira Hudson series. So far the first 10 chapters have been released from Vampire Shift (Keira Hudson Series One, Book One). These podcasts are FREE and available on iTunes. They create such a great atmosphere with the narrative and sound effects. As you may know, I am a huge fan of Tim’s and these podcasts compliment his work brilliantly. If you haven’t already begun to read the Keira Hudson series I would highly recommend it. These FREE podcasts would definitely be great to listen to and give you a taster on the style of the writing and the great characters that Tim has created!

WHAT’S COMING?

This week I am reading the currently unreleased ‘The Wolfstone Curse’ by Justin Richards, the Creative Consultant for BBC Books on the Dr Who titles. With it’s release due in July, Tina and myself are hoping to both write reviews – this week you have mine to read and closer to it’s release date in July, Tina will post her review! ‘The Wolfstone Curse’ is an action-packed adventure where teenager Peter, during time working with his archaeologist father in a remote village named Wolfstone, reveals the truth behind the werewolf myth! For adults and teenagers alike this novel is going to be a very, very exciting thriller!!!

I will also be posting my review on Caroline Hanson’s short story, ‘Bewitching the Werewolf’. This is such a fun, quirky and hot paranormal little read. The local werewolf pack leader, Zach Connor, has been finding it difficult to find his mate. Without his mate, there will be no offspring and the pack will disperse. A witch, Megan Stephens, is hired to use her magic to help Zach find his mate! This is FREE on Amazon!

Also, this week Tina will be posting reviews on books 1 and 2 in Regan Walker’s exciting and passionate Agents of the Crown Trilogy. Book 1 Racing with the Wind takes place in 1816 and sweeps from the ballrooms and great houses of England to the majesty and instability of a Paris after the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy following the defeat and imprisonment of Napoleon. Master spy Hugh Redgrave, the Marquess of Ormand is called on to keep Mary Campbell, an impetuous and unconventional debutante, who is accompanying her diplomat uncle, safe from the nefarious plots of Bonapartists and double agents. Of course they fall in love, but there are many twists and turns in this exciting plot before a HEA is in their grasp.

In book 2, Against the Wind Sir Martin Powell, also an agent of the Crown, is celebrating the end of his spying against Napoleon, by spending the night in an exclusive London brothel. The courtesan he calls “Kitten” is in truth Katherine, Lady Egerton, a dowager baroness and the daughter of an earl. Katherine is fleeing a fate worse than death into Martin’s arms.  Martin too has known darkness and the couple soon find themselves involved in events in the English Midlands, where revolution threatens.

Next week, for our werewolf theme, Tina will also be posting a review of Bloodright, book # 2 in Karin Tabke’s Blood Moon Rising Trilogy, which continues the story of Falon, Lucien and Raphael. She will be looking at werewolves in film and literature as well as posting a review of Christina Phillips’ erotic historical romance, Betrayed, set in Roman Britain.

At the top of her ‘to read’ list are Eve Rabi’s ‘Burn’s World’, whilst I am hoping to read ‘Mere Enchantment’ and ‘Rings of Enchantment’ novels by Alicia Rivoli and ‘Charades’ by Ann Logan, which will also be a double review from Tina and myself but more on these in Tina’s next update!

Have a fantastic weekend and enjoy your reading!

Caroline 🙂

‘Cursed: A Werewolf’s Tale’ cover art by Unreal-uk.com                      Photograph: Getty Images

‘Bewitching the Werewolf’ cover art by Kim Van Meter