Adventures of Tori the Were-Penguin

Over at the That's What I'm Talking About blog the question of what shifter would you be was asked. Tori wants to be a were-penguin. And what could a were-penguin need but a were-koala sidekick. Tori suggested someone write a story about the were-penguin and I couldn't resist.


Meet Tori - Diva extraordinaire, party girl, and all around kick ass warrior.

This is Tori's partner Hal. He is all alpha male shifter, but she can put him in his place. There is great sexual tension between the 2 of them. 

One day while out on patrol, they run into an evil dragon shifter

He is the biggest most evil shifter they have ever encountered.

I have never faced such a scary demon dragon before. We better shift.

Now that we are were-penguin and were-koala we can kick dragon butt. But wait what if we die without ever having sex? We better take care of that first.

Now fueled by adrenaline and sex they face the dragon. Tori were-penguin uses her lethal belly slide to knock him off his feet, while Hal were-koala kicks his ass.

 And because it's Chirstmas HARK! Unto them a child is born

Who happens to be a

a WERE-HAMPSTER!

Catching Up Over Coffee

It Tuesday.  Let's grab a cup of coffee, and catch up.

Busy busy busy weekend. I went to the Festival of Trees and Toured a Victorian Home lit up for Christmas. That fit right in with my current read, To Wed a Wild Lord by Sabrina Jefferies. This is the fourth book in her Hellions of Halstead Hall series. The final book, A Lady Never Surrenders releases January 24.





Coming up this week, I'll be re-reading Lover Awakened by J.R. Ward. I will be reading and reviewing the entire BDB series in anticipation of Lover Reborn releasing in March.







Hanging with Bells! has a post of all the new releases out this week. There isn't anything on the list that I'm dying for except maybe The Help on DVD. What you are reading/watching/listening to
this week?

Smexy Books and Fiction Vixen are teaming up to give away a KindleFire this week. They are playing the Guess Who? game. You can enter at both sights. 2 chances to win per day.








That's where I am this week, what is going on with you?

Man Candy Monday Immortal Rider

I am having trouble with Man Candy Monday. My head is filled with Aric from Immortal Rider by Larissa Ione. I have scoured the internet, trying to find a man that can pull off Aric.

I mean seriously, what human can escape HELL, stand up to the Horseman known as War, and live to fight another day?

Not only that, but this mere human has to be a MAN you would be willing to risk eternity with SATAN for just one kiss.

Can any such human exist?

I just couldn't come up with any ideas?

Immortal Rider by Larrisa Ione

All I can say dear friends is hang on for the ride. Reading this book is sort of like going through the apocalypse. This book is a "metric fucking ton of trouble." Yep that's a direct quote from the book, and I've spent all day trying to use it in a sentence. It's my new go to line. Anyway, Larrisa Ione your mind truly scares me. Just when I thought it was over there was nothing else you could do to make cry, scream, or have a hot flash you zinged another at me.

At this point I should give a synopsis of the book and tell you a little about the plot. I dare not go there. The description on the back can not begin to cover the emotional roller coaster ride that is this book. Just when I knew HELL was breaking loose and blood was going to spill she had me laughing. Seriously, what late night bender was she on when she decided to have a half demon/half vampire refer to the mighty FOUR HORSEMEN of the APOCALYPSE, who are both fear and revered, with "Yo, Horsepeople" I had to put the book down to laugh. There is a lot of playful and witty banter that will only come across if you are invested in these series. Honestly if you are not 6 books into her series you have a lot of catching up to do. So start reading and when you get here you will love the characters as much as I do.

I think humor was the appeal of the book. Although there was a lot of violence and battle and torture that had me pacing the floor, the humor was a shining light that eased the horror. My best friend is also reading this book and she hasn't finished it yet, so I blew up her facebook mail with all the one liners. She can't read it quite as fast because she has to "work" or something. Who does that when there is a book this funny, sexy, sweet, and hard core to read?

She made some killer pop culture references such as: Lady GaGa's meat dress, 2 5000 year old virgins,  a nod to The Lord of the Rings, My Little Pony and even an Alice's restaurant reference. I'm not too proud to say when Thanatos was wanting to kill, kill, kill, I started jumping up and down yelling kill kill. And we were both jumping up and down yelling kill, kill, kill. But I digress. Also someone got a "stick-up-the-butt-ectomy". How can you not read it just for that? Although she never found a place for "asshat" I have hopes for her future books.

PS I hope you don't read this and think I'm "ceiling-licking, rabies-frothing, dish-ran-away-with-the-spoon in-fucking-sane." She doesn't promise that until the next book.

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Welcome to My Nightmare....

What if you could only buy 2 books in the next 6 months? Of all the great wonderful MUST HAVE books currently out or coming out in the next 6 months your budget forces you to your absolute must reads. This is the hell I have found myself in lately. Granted, there are ways that I will be able to read a lot of the books coming out. Thank God for the library and book exchanging with friends. But to OWN, to be part of my collection to revisit again and again, to grab on release day and not surface again until it's finished. Well I've made my decision.

My 2 Absolute MUST HAVE Books from November - April

First up is Immortal Rider by Larrisa Ione.

This is book 2 in the Lords of Deliverance series. I will being rereading Eternal Rider this week before I start this one which releases today. Larrisa Ione is definetly my must have author. But I would suggest you start with Pleasure Unbound, the first book in her Demonica series. Both these series take place in the same world. Arik makes his first appearance in the Demonica series. And of course the events of Sin Undone sets off the Apocalypse.

My last book is Lover Reborn by J.R. Ward

Oh Torh! What can I say. I am so emotionally invested in this series. I will be reading this series between now and the March 27, 2012 release date. J.R. Ward posts snippets on Facebook and it's nothing short of torture. You have to read this series from the beginning. We watch our characters grow through the series. Check out J.R. Ward's website for information on her other books.

If you could only buy 2 books in the next 6 months, what are your MUST HAVES?

Man Candy Monday: The Duke of Midnight

I'm reading One Dance with a Duke by Tessa Dare. So Man Candy Monday is dedicated to the sexy dashing Duke of Midnight.

He makes his grand entrance in a crowded ball room at precisely the stroke of midnight. He dances 1 set that always ends in the waltz. He chooses a different available lady each night. At the end of the set, he escorts the lady to supper and disappears.

And this is the results of my midnight dance.....

 Enjoy Monday!

When You Dare by Lori Foster

When You Dare by Lori Foster is the first book in her Men Who Walk the Edge of Honor series. We meet Dare who is sent on a mission to save partner and best friend Trace's sister from human traffickers. That's when he finds Molly beaten, drugged, and unconscious. What else could he do but bring her back with him? What started out as a complication to his mission turns into so much more.

I love that both Dare and Molly spend a lot of time questioning their attraction and feelings for each other. It gave a sense of reality to the situation. After everything she had been through she wondered if Dare only felt a sense of responsibility for her. Dare wondered if she would leave and return to her life after they found out who was behind her kidnapping. It was nice to see the Alpha male Dare actually have insecurities where a woman was concerned.

We get to know Molly pretty well in this book. We learn about her career, her family, her thoughts and feelings. Dare is very shady about his past. I think there is a brief mention that he was once military, and I'm not exactly sure what his job is. All we know is that he operates inside the law when possible.  The only evolution that Dare went through was from his feelings at the beginning of the book to his feelings at the end. I felt he wasn't a very well rounded character even though he was a smokin hot hero.

And other thing that bothered me was how Molly naturally fit into the lives of Dare and his personal assistant Chris. For 2 immensely private people, Molly coming into their life and home was not a problem for either of them. She was just accepted. I would have liked to see a little more conflict there especially from Chris.

Overall this was a good read: strong heroine, smokin hot hero, and suspense. I'm looking forward to reading Trace's book which is next, and was surprised that this story didn't give us even a peek into what to expect from him.


When You Dare (Men Who Walk the Edge of Honor)
Lori Foster's website