Book Review: Eternal Rider (Lords of Deliverance, #1) by Larissa Ione
Eternal Rider (Lords of Deliverance, #1) by Larissa Ione. © 2011 Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 9780446574495. Mass Media Paperback. Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy. 432 pages. Source: purchased.
Synopsis: They are here. They ride. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
His name is Ares, and the fate of mankind rests on his powerful shoulders. If he falls to the forces of evil, the world falls too. As one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, he is far stronger than any mortal, but even he cannot fight his destiny forever. Not when his own brother plots against him.
Yet there is one last hope. Gifted in a way other humans can’t—or won’t—understand, Cara Thornhart is the key to both this Horseman’s safety and his doom. But involving Cara will prove treacherous, even beyond the maddening, dangerous desire that seizes them the moment they meet. For staving off eternal darkness could have a staggering cost: Cara’s life.
Review: This is the first of the series, but it is tied to the previous series by the author (the Demonica series). The beauty is that you don’t actually need to read the previous serious to understand this one (but I highly recommend it, so read it anyway lol), the author does a great job of giving you the background on characters that came from the previous series. Read more
Synopsis: An injured French officer struggles along a desolate stretch of West African coastline, desperate to hold on to his secret. Alas for him, his tale is soon ended, and violently, but a young pirate recruit, Patrick Devlin, who happens to speak fluent French, comes away from their encounter with a new pair of boots and a treasure map. From there the adventures of the pirate Devlin, his shipmates, and those who wish them dead move forward without restraint, through broadside barrages and subterfuge and brutal encounters on land and at sea, where nothing is as it appears to be at first glance. In these pages readers will meet Blackbeard and his cohorts, Portuguese colonial governors and French commandants, officials of the East India Company and Royal Naval officers, fresh-faced midshipmen and gnarly, scarred, and drunken pirate crewmen. But none of these is as impressive and memorable as the former servant and newly minted pirate captain Patrick Devlin, unless it’s the man he once served on board a British man-of-war, a man now sworn to kill him!
Rose Mae Lolley is a fierce and dirty girl, long-suppressed under flowery skirts and bow-trimmed ballet flats. As “Mrs. Ro Grandee” she’s trapped in a marriage that’s thick with love and sick with abuse. Her true self has been bound in the chains of marital bliss in rural Texas, letting “Ro” make eggs, iron shirts, and take her punches. She seems doomed to spend the rest of her life battered outside by her husband and inside by her former self, until fate throws her in the path of an airport gypsy—one who shares her past and knows her future. The tarot cards foretell that Rose’s beautiful, abusive husband is going to kill her. Unless she kills him first.
For once the promotional blurbs didn’t lie. I was on the edge of my seat and unwilling to put the book down. Without giving away key elements of the plot, Undress Me in the Temple of Heaven chronicles the around-the-world-in-a-year ambitions of two recent college graduates in 1986. They begin their adventure in the People’s Republic of China which “had been open to independent backpackers for roughly ten minutes.” Without the comforts taken for granted in 2010 – cell phones, the internet, even the widespread use of English – they quickly find themselves in situations far beyond their capabilities.
Synopsis: After defeating the djinn summoned by the vengeful vampire priestess she encountered in Vegas, and making a few unexpected friends in the Paradox PI team, we re-join Kitty Norville—late-night radio show host and the world’s first celebrity werewolf—a year later back at the KNOB station in Denver, Colorado.
Synopsis: When we last saw celeb werewolf Kitty Norville, she had been confronted by an enigmatic word—Tiamat—burned into the door of her beloved restaurant and pack hangout, New Moon. It was then she learned that the gauche cliché of “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” is nothing more than a lie. But the brand on the door was only the beginning. Soon, danger and murder surround Kitty’s life and she is faced with an even bigger evil that forces her own view of the supernatural to broaden.
They’ve won their freedom, become the new alpha couple in town, struck a deal of equality with the city’s vampires, opened a new restaurant (aptly named New Moon) and now Kitty and Ben are going to make it all official—the human way at least—by tying the knot. Deciding they are overwhelmed by all the matrimonial hoopla, the couple make a plan to elope in, where else but, Las Vegas, Nevada—the city of neon temples, Wayne Newton, drunken mistakes and Elvis impersonators.
America isn’t the only place with serial killers. But for some reason, the story of the Monster of Florence didn’t make it over here until a U.S. writer ended up involved. I’d heard about this story a year or two ago when I saw it on Dateline. Honestly, the judicial system there makes ours look stellar.
