Chains by Shiloh Walker / Megan Hart's Pleasure and Purpose and Tempted

Recently I recieved a box of books I won on Twitter by following Literary Agent Laura Bradford who generously sent some really great new releases to me. Inside was Megan Hart's "Pleasure and Purpose" A 3 part story of three different ladies of "The Order of Solace". It was a really good book. The Order of Solace reminded me some of the Balm House mentioned in the Kushiel series by Jacqueline Carey. So it was so nice to read that concept taken farther. Since it was such a good book the next time I was out book shopping I looked for more of Megan Hart's books. I found "Tempted" which was also a good book but I had issues with the end. Happily ever after with the husband she wasn't happy with most of the book just irked me but I'm divorced and reading about dumping a husband may be HEA for me but not be the HEA most of the reading public would be ok with. That said, the story leading up to the end had me reading straight through without setting the book down.

So when shopping for more Megan Hart books, is when I ran across "Chains" by Shiloh Walker. I really liked this book!



Chains was released in April of this year so I'm late reading it. Which happens because for the most part I buy my own books that I talk about so they get talked about when I buy them!

This book is labled an erotic novel of suspense and it really has some hot love scenes (Deacon and Renee's one night stand was sizzling hot) and the suspense was interesting to follow, all along knowing that it related to the tragic night that connect the three women but not knowing how till the end of the book. Even though Renee and Sherra are more deeply written than Lacey the pacing of the book and how the plot unfolds kept me reading. And DANG Shiloh can write some sexy sexy men. Deacon was yummy hot.

Totally recommend this book for the keeper shelf!

Author website is HERE
Chains page with video trailer and excerpt is HERE

Synopsis from Barnes and Noble: Renee was the homecoming queen with the perfect boyfriend and the perfect life. Lacey was the golden girl with the bright future. And Sherra always looked like the princess in a fairy tale. The three girls each seemed charmed-until one tragic night shattered their hopes for normalcy.

Now, fifteen years later, the women are returning to their hometown of Madison, Ohio, where three men await them-each dangerous in his own way. And when each of the women succumb to desire, they may also find the safety they've been searching for.


Shiloh Walker has a new book coming out in December "Hunter's Need"
At her blog she is hosting a great contest to get the word out about the Hunter's Need release and to tempt the readers with some tasty excerpts. Click HERE for Shiloh Walker's Blog contest.

Book trailer :



Megan Hart's books that I mentioned Click here for Pleasure and Purpose and Click here for Tempted

Pleasure and Purpose is the newest book and Tempted was released in 2008.


*Edited to add link to Shiloh Walker's Blog contest.

Covet by J.R. Ward

A friend lent me a copy of Covet last night and I've just started reading it. I'm not sure how well I'll like but I like the Black Dagger Brotherhood series well enough to give it a shot.

Jia at Dear Author reviewed Covet earlier this month here. And although she didn't give it a great score there were people in the comments who like it and since it was available to be borrowed I'm going to read it before spending the money to purchase it. I know if I like it and look forward to the series, they'll go from 7.99 paperbacks to 27.99 hardback books. So I'm jaded anymore when starting new series from popular authors.


Will post how I like it when I've finished it.

Bad Moon Rising Sherrilyn Kenyon

Bad Moon Rising is one of the better releases by Sherrilyn Kenyon in a LONG time. I bought this with my audible.com credit this month and really enjoyed listening to it. Vane and Bride's story is my favorite Dark Hunter book I think and this one is Vane's brother Fang's story.

Much of the story is familiar and recognizable as bits and pieces of other books where Fang and Aimee were mentioned. I'm not real clear on the timeline when it ends. Nick's mom Cherise is still alive at the beginning of the book but I think at the end it's already passed the event of her death. Not sure though since her death isn't mentioned.

The character list of this book is very easy to keep up with, unlike some of the other recent Dark Hunter books where you need a college degreen in Greek/Roman/other pantheons to keep up with them all.

I rate it a B- and well worth buying. It'd be a higher score if more of the story was original instead of rehashing Fang and Aimee's story that we've already read before.


Bad Moon Rising is book 18 in the Dark Hunter series. Author / book website here

Synopsis from the author's website:
In the world of the Were-Hunters, like stays with like. Species don't mix and they definitely don't fall in love. But from the moment Aimee Peltier took in a wounded wolf, her heart wouldn't listen to what her head told her.

However, Fang Kattalakis isn't just a wolf; he is the brother of two of the most powerful members of the Omegrion: the ruling council that enforces the laws of the lyncanthropes. His brothers are the wolf representatives and Aimee's mother represents the Bear clan. Aimee is the heir apparent for her species. There is no way these two can ever be together and they know it.

But when war comes to Sanctuary, the establishment run by Aimee's family, sides must be chosen and enemies are forced into shaky alliances. Aimee is accused of betraying her people, and her only hope is the one man who believes in her. Yet in order to save her, Fang must break the law of his people, and that breech could very well spell the end of both their races.

Time Raiders: The Avenger P.C. Cast

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I'm a fan of P.C. Cast's Goddess series so when I saw The Avenger on the rack at Kroger's I snapped it right up.

I didn't know at the time that it was the third in a multi-author series but it stands alone on it's own well enough.

Alex has some psychic ability, to see ghosts. So she's retired from the military to a remote part of Oklahoma to avoid ghosts. When there is a Time Raider mission that requires her talents, she's talked into jumping thru time to seek out 2 medallions which happen to be in 60 AD Briton and smack in the middle of the legendary female warrior Boudicca.
Carodoc our hero, has appeared in her dreams and has a lot to do with her deciding to leave her isolation and taking the Time Raider quest. He's a druid who has survivors guilt from a Roman raid that burned his village and led to the raping of Boudicaa's two young daughters.

The landscape, the people and conditions of the times were well written and the outcome of the well known battles were not altered. And yet we got a happily ever after ending! That takes some skill and Cast rises to the occasion.
Insert some humor, some hot love scenes, some wonderful Goddess scenes that Cast writes so well and you have a very good story to read.


I really liked it even though I'm not really curious enough about the series to buy the other books. Others may be, I just am not a fan of multi author series because everyone's voice is so different usually. And honestly, I've not seen nor heard any word of mouth about this series from any of the website/ blogs I frequent. This one is worth talking about! The entire series can be viewed HERE. They are set in different time periods and locations. It seems like a tight story line and is probably done with skill considering the well known author names.

The Avenger is available at eharlequin in both print and ebook form. Well worth the low price of around 5 dollars. I enjoyed it more than I did P.C. Cast's "Divine By Blood" last year and I think I paid 14 dollars for that one. :/

An Echo in the Bone Review

The synopsis at Amazon reads: In the wake of a devastating fire in the mountains of North Carolina, Highlander Jamie Fraser and his English wife find themselves homeless and without family, in the midst of the gathering storm of revolution. And thanks to his time-travelling wife's information, he knows what the coming spring of 1778 will bring. But then Jamie's illegitimate son, William, arrives in North Carolina, a young officer in King George's army. Jamie has sworn two things to himself: his son will never know his true paternity - and he himself will never face his son across the barrel of a gun. Between the mountains of North Carolina and those of the Scottish highlands lie blockades and battlefields, storm and shipwreck, privateers and politics. The one thing that sustains the Frasers in their struggle is the hope that their family has reached safety in the future. They have. The Frasers' daughter and her family have returned safely through the standing stones that guard the passage through time, and to Scotland. But something mysterious looms over their new home. Something whose secret may draw them back to what they fled from..



I have to think that writing a synopsis for it would be more difficult than writing the book was. I tried to think what I would call the overall plot of it is and really found that difficult.

It's a different tone all together than A Breath of Snow and Ashes, which had the homestead building "Little House on the Prairie" feel to it to me. (Which I liked)

Echo is VERY full of historical letters and info dumps to insert the fictional characters into the real events. When you get past that, Jamie and Claire's story, their whereabouts and how they get from point A to B gets confusing at times. The fast paced action and dangers got annoying to me early on.

That said, if you are a fan of the books then you will enjoy this addition of course. I did. The last 1/4 of the book makes up for the first 3/4 which hops around from character/ location/time period/ location/location/ location so much that I was hard pressed to keep up. The last 1/4 pretty much ties everything together but only to rip apart at the seams as we yet wait years for the next book.

Frustrating, irritating but OH so delicious. When Jamie and Claire are together, it's as lovely as the other books. When the book goes off to the other characters, Lord John Grey especially, it gets as dry and dusty as the Lord John Grey books do. He's rather a bore, even if he is heroic.

Roger and Brianna, WEAK storyline till the end. They just appear to read letters from Claire that they found one at a time and they're just excrutiatingly detailed info dumps. At the end of the book however, their storyline picks up and is where the next book will likely start at.

A nice revisit to all these beloved characters. The author seems to fail at inciting the reader to care about the outcome of the battles with as much innterest and passion as she wrote about Culloden in the earlier books.

I'd say all in all it's not as good as most of the other books simply because 500 pages of history could have been condensed and more familiar character story added.

An Echo in the Bone part 2

I am nearly halfway thru the book now. Just a few comments and observations.


1. I find it rediculous that 18th century immigrant farmers from the backwoods of North Carolina can do so much traveling.

2. The dangers and dramas are so fast paced that I have this black and white silent "Perils of Pauline" type movie playing in my head starring Jamie and Claire.

3. Still too much Lord John Grey. He was a secondary character in the earlier books and his larger part now so far, is making no sense. I trust Diana Gabaldon to tie it all together further in the story but for now it's just a waste of pages to me. He has his own books to star in, why is he starring in one of Jamie and Claire's?

That said, I am totally enjoying this book! I don't care if the characters dance naked on a ritz cracker, I love me some more Jamie and Claire!

An Echo in the Bone, Diana Gabaldon

Comments and observations after reading the first quarter of the book.


Time travel may not be really possible, but within minutes of sitting down to this LONG awaited addition to the Outlander series I was back once again in the 1770s. The familiarity of the characters is welcoming and a joy. I got settled on the sofa to read and let out a breath I'd been holding since the last book was released. ( I am impatient and I do hate waiting lol)

I am only on page 219 of over 800 pages but am dying to talk about it! In a non spoilerish kind of way of course.


So far I can say that I am so excited to read more. The first 200 pages are setting the stage for more events of the American Revolution. It's so interesting to read from different points of view of the politics of the time period. It makes me wish I'd paid more attention in history class.

The story opens up very soon after the ending of A Breath of Snow and Ashes. There is a bit more about Lord John Grey than I care to read but necessary I suppose to include into the story his adopted son, and Jamie's biological son William who is a soldier for the British army.

Jamie and Claire's love is the same. I've read different places that the author does not like these books to be considered "romances" but the romance of the stories is so well written and strong that the love surpasses the plot and keeps me turning the page.


Stay tuned for part 2!


An Echo in the Bone is available everywhere. I found the e version at Sony http://ebookstore.sony.com/ $16.50 , simple to download and read on pc.

Target had the book in stock here in Nashville for $21.00, which is 30% off the rather steep retail of $30.00.