Branded by Fire by Nalini Singh

Though DarkRiver Sentinel Mercy is feeling the pressure to mate, she savage resists when Riley Kincaid, the lieutenant from the SnowDancer pack, tries to possess her. The problem is not simply that he pushes her buttons; the problem is that he's a wolf, she's a cat and they're both used to being on top.
But when a brilliant changeling researcher is kidnapped from DarkRiver territory, Mercy and Riley must work together to track the young man-before his shadowy captors decide he's no longer useful. Along the way, the two dominants may find that submitting to one another uncovers not just a deadly conspiracy, but a passion so raw that it'll leave both of them branded by fire...
a very hot series with two of the most dominant characters from each pack hehe it is tough when you have two people who are both dominant in a relationship and both do not know how to give in. pride matters to both so it's interesting to see how these two settle their differences with each other. and we also see some older characters from the earlier books returning although they are all there in everybook anyway. i missed the book(s) that was before this one. it's dorian's story. i haven't found the book. anyway seems like there's a new story upcoming after this. the next sequel. wonder how it will be. hope you enjoy.

Mine to Possess by Nalini Singh

Clay Bennet is a powerful DarkRiver sentinel, but he grew up in the slums with his human mother, never knowing his changeling father. As a young boy without the bonds of Pack, he tried to stifle his animal nature. He failed...and committed the most extreme acts of violence, killing a man, and lost his best friend Talin, in the bloody aftermath. Everything good in him died the day he was told that she, too, was dead.
Talin McKade barely survived a childhood drenched in bloodshed and terror. Now a new nightmare stalks her-the street children she works to protect are disappearing and turning up dead. Determined to keep them safe, she unlocks the darkest secret in her heart and returns to ask the help of the strongest man she knows...
Clay lost Talin once. He will not let her go again and hungers to possess her with a clawing need born of the leopard within. As they race to save the innocent, Clay and Talin must face the violent truths of their past...or lose everything that ever mattered.
i definitely enjoyed this book as it has been really long since i last had a childhood love kind of story. and it was so sweet. for a while, i was kind of confused as to why both our leads felt that way and was frustrated by how long their misunderstanding would last. hahaha was really relieved when they made peace with each other. grins it's been said that nalini singh is a major new talent and i have to agree. her stories are wonderful.   

Caressed by Ice by Nalini Singh

As an Arrow, an elite soldier in the Psy Council ranks, Judd Lauren was forced to do terrible things in the name of his people. Now he is a defector and his dark abilities have made him the most deadly of assassins-cold, pitiless, unfeeling. Until he meets Brenna...
Brenna Shane Kincaid was an innocent before she was abducted-and had her mind violated-by a serial killer. Her sense of evil runs so deep, she fears she could become a killer herself. Then the first dead body is found, victim of a familiar madness. Judd is her only hope, yet her sensual changeling side rebels against the inhuman side of his personality, even as desire explodes between them. Shocking and raw, their passion is a danger that threatens not only their hearts, but their very lives...
this is the third book, after visions of heat. judd is totally different from vaughn, the total opposite. and i think you can understand from the titles as well, how they're different. there's so much logic and emotion here and it's psychological as well, what brenna went through. imagining it is so tough. if that had happened to me, would i have survived? or would i be suicidal. there is still mystery here from before, which continues on to the next book as to who is really their secret ally and all. hope you enjoy.

Crazy Sweet by Tara Janzen

This seems to be the last in the crazy series, although i'm not too sure. new relationships were introduced but i'm not sure if they're continued. but reading the book, it seems to have come to an end maybe and this was a good book and a great series. here's the synopsis as at the back.
during a secret mission gone bad, covert operator gillian pentycote ceased to exist. held captive by a madman, shot full of drugs that stole her memory, gillian survived. now with a new identity and nothing to lose, the woman who calls herself red dog has gone from bookish secretay to sizzling hot hired gun and she has one plan: to find the man who shattered her life and take him down for good.
special agent travis james has the same plan, except he has rules to follow-and using a gorgeous amnesiac as bait isn't in them. so travis must play a dangerous double game of his own. he knows red dog will do anything to lure the ultimate criminal to her side and exact revenge. but from central america to a colorado show down, travis has gotten his priorities straight. he'll kill the bad guy, but only if he can save the beauty and never ever let her go...
i fell for travis when i first read about him in the crazy series a few books back which i think was crazy kisses. he's such a sensitive guy. i immediately went aww . with that said, i definitely loved gillian pentycote more before she became red dog. sigh but all these reading sometimes makes me wonder. does this happen in reality too? hehe hope you enjoy

Crazy Love by Tara Janzen

this is one book i've been wanting to read ever since i started crazy wild. they've been showing bits and pieces of their relationship and it has been a teaser for me. here's the synopsis as at the back of the book.
government operative dylan hart has survived some of the riskiest missions known to man. but no nemesis could have prepared the special defense forces commander for the newest member of his team, skeeter bang. a street-smart, leather-clad heartbreaker, skeeter has been recruited to aid dylan's latest mission: steal a top secret file and bury it before all hell breaks loose.
teaming up with a man who may be the last bona fide defender of the free world is a risk skeeter's ready to take-until a black tie washington soiree erupts in a bucket-flying free-for-all. now skeeter's got danger on her trail and dylan arousing every bad boy fantasy she ever had. being in the wrong place at the wrong time is about to plunge one man and woman right into the sizzling line of fire...
when i first started this, it started off great: it was humorous, serious, basically it made my mouth split wider open like an idiot. when i came back to reality, i felt like an idiot for smiling like that; i'd have been mortified if i had been seen like that by others.
after finishing, i enjoyed it thoroughly but i didn't feel the 'bang' i was expecting to feel. i had expected more but since this was an undercover stealth mission, the action wasn't as much; well for an action fan like me anyway, although i definitely the banter that went on between them and the new relationship that was revealed between travis and gillian. my heart nearly stopped at a certain part of the book.
although my expectations were more for this book, (skeeter bang is really hot and smart and i'm a girl;P dylan hart is the boss of them, the brains) it was enjoyable and made me look forward to the next sequel which would be about travis and gillian. but this is for another time. hope you enjoy this.

Crazy Wild by Tara Janzen

This is the 3rd book in the crazy book series. i have not read the first 2 books as i haven't found them, but i have found the others and enjoyed them immensely. here's the synopsis as at the back.
with her prim librarian looks, cordelia 'cody' stark doesn't look like a nuclear arms broker or the world's most dangerous woman, but nabbing her is special forces operative creed river's latest mission. that is, until a trio of thugs show up and he is forced to play hero...
armed with secrets that could ignite a global inferno, cody was already running out of places to hide. now a hotshot government agent has blown her cover. trusting the hero who just saved her life is not an option but resisting him is something else entirely. but when bullets start to fly, a man and a woman running out of time are gearing up for the wildest adventure of their lives...
reading this book made me cold; figuratively speaking. it's set in such cold areas; our hero and heroine are practically freezing to death and we see some realtionships starting to form as well. hope ou enjoy.

Hidden Currents by Christine Feehan

This is the last of the Drake Sisters novels. and it is one of the best in the series i personally feel. here's the synopsis and i'll tell you why i feel that way.
from afar, sheriff jackson deveau has always loved elle drake, the youngest telepath of seven sisters. after a long time away, she's finally returning to the small coastal village of sea haven. but someone has other plans for elle, someone who doesn't want her to make it back.
when elle fails to arrive home, her disappearance strikes fear in the hearts of everyone who loves her. now it's left to jackson to uncover the mystery of elle's vanishing and rescue her from an unseen danger. but sea haven is no longer safe for anyone, and it will take the powers of all the drake sisters and their men to survive the oncoming storm.
ever since i started reading the drake sisters novels although not in the correct order, i've been interested in elle as she was always mysterious in her sister's book and also, she was the strongest among her sisters. that's two reasons there.:P the third reason is that there seemed to be some chemistry between jackson and elle and i wanted to explore/see that. hehe the fourth reason is that this was an explosive, exciting and thrilling read. lastly, she brought out the feelings of the characters, their emotions, their pain forward so well, i felt them like it was mine.
whenever it got to more serious, mentally draining parts, i was wheezing practically at what they had to go through. this is one of the books that has made me feel this much. i mean all the books i've read have, but this was more emotional for me. it made me think that there are people who have actually had all this happen to them. well maybe not everything, but something as bad as these. i could only sympathise. it made me look at reality a little closer. well i hope you enjoy this book as much as i have.

Turbulent Sea by Christine Feehan

Well, this is the sixth in the Drake sisters novels. And it was one of my favourites, simply because our hero is the cool and silent but strong - real strong - type. Add in the psychically gifted to his list of talents and there we have one yummy hero. Hehe


Recently things have got me thinking. By just reading these novels, (well I don’t really borrow others anyway like general knowledge and all as I’m more interested in novels so far) am I just trying to escape from reality for even a little while? Or is it because it helps me to relax my mind and just enjoy the happy evers in books. But oh well, whichever it is, I’m definitely enjoying reading them right now. Here’s the synopsis for this as from the back of the book.

The star: joley drake was born with a legacy of unexpected magical gifts but it was the gift of singing that made her an overnight sensation-a rock-and-roll goddess trapped by fame, fortune and ambition. Heated by the flush of success, joley can have any man she wants. And there’s only one man who can really give her what she wants.

The bodyguard: ilya prakenskii, cool inscrutable, dangerously sexy and working in the shadows of his infamous reputation – that of a secret Russian hitman on the payroll of a notorious mobster. He’s the last man joley should get close to, yet when her life is in threatened on a tour, she has nowhere left to turn to. But in the seductive safety of ilya’s embrace, is joley really as secure as she imagines?

I love novels that especially have a bodyguard theme. Hehe and they fall in love and so on. I don’t know why, I just do. We also have a broader insight on a star’s life; how it is in general. There are seven sisters and all their books are linked. I haven’t read all but some I have and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed them. Hope you do to.

All Jacked Up by Penny McCall

This book rocked and I mean it literally. so much action from the beginning itself. the whole book was filled with so much action, witty remarks/dialogues that i thought to myself, i'd love it if a movie was made exactly like the book with the witty remarks. what i really loved was how the author managed to come up with such great dialogues. it made me laugh so much; also the expressions used were fantastic. the scenes described were so real i could practically imagine them in my head. and she describes the characters so well, i can practically see their expressions in my head. only thing is i can't get a clear face but i definitely can see their body postures and even the snorts that they do lol and it's her debut novel it seems. the synopsis is as it is on the book.
since jack mitchell barged into her life, librarian aubrey sullivan has been abducted at gunpoint, taken on a death-defying car chase and kissed within an inch of madness. she's starting to think that maybe she should try to shake this over-bearing guy off...
but aubrey doesn't realize she's ticked off the biggest drug lord in the western hemisphere. it seems that somewhere in her photographic memory is something he wants kept quiet and he's willing to kill to do it. and jack can't exactly go to the good guys just because, well suddenly they think he's a bad guy too. now jack needs aubrey to clear his name. if only she'd do what he says. they just might get out of this alive. that is if they can keep their hands off each other long enough to think straight...
well what more can i say. action junkies, this book is not to be missed. enjoy

Run For Your Life by Andrea Kane

it had been so long since i last read a book by this author that i had nearly forgotten about her. but reading this book made me remember why i was so into her once. it was just that i couldn't find any more of her books that i hadn't read, thus forgetting about her :P
when victoria kensington's sister audrey, vanishes, victoria is sure her abusive father is somehow connected. she does some investigating but reaches a dead end when help comes from an unexpected source, the lover she hasn't seen in 4 years.
zachary hamilton's investigation for the fbi has led him till where victoria was stumped in hers. when a surveillance tape reveals victoria, he knows he must contact his ex, no matter his feelings about her. together they must race to crack the mystery and rescue audrey even as the white hot electricity between them's recharging to a fever pitch.
this book has almost everything i could want for; action, mystery, romance and even some comic moments. i especially loved the feelings between the two of them. the author managed to bring our their feelings so well, it made me so engrossed that i hated to be disturbed. she also showed how they dealt with their problems. anyway hope you enjoy the book.

Dark Rival by Brenda Joyce

this is actually the first or second book in the masters of time series if i'm not wrong. i've actually read some of the sequels already and so far, i'm not regretting borrowing any of them and wasting my time. it was time well spent. hehe
a golden man, he's called black royce-a battle hardened soldier of the gods. his vows are his life, until he is sent to new york city to protect a healer from those who would use her powers for themselves. the moment royce sees beautiful, fiesty allie monroe, he knows she will be his only weakness-and he is right.
allie monroe is more than an heiress. she is a healer, willing to do anything to save victims of the evil that lurks in the city at night. but alone, she can only do so much-until destiny sends her the darkest highlander of them all. then evil strikes and royce is destroyed before her very eyes. now allie will do anything to save royce-even if it means going back in time to a dark, dangerous world. confronting their enemies could cost not only their lives, but their love-for all eternity.
this was such a sweet read on top of it being really action packed which most of her books are, or those that i post here anyway. most are action packed romance hehe i would be willing to actually buy this book and add to my 'bookshelf' when i have one in the future. i won't mind reading it again in the future. hope you enjoy

Dark Possession by Christine Feehan

Another one of Christine Feehan's carpathian novels, this is a good read too like all others. I loved the synopsis enough to want to borrow this book immediately, so i hope you like it too. here's the synopsis exactly as is on the back.
Manolito De La Cruz knew he was dangerously close to turning into a vampire. The last thing he expected after being called back to his carpathian homeland by prince mikhail was to catch the scent of his destined lifemate in maryann delaney. maryann is human but knows all too well the aggressive instincts of carpathian males. and they're not exactly the kind of males she'd prefer to be bound for life.
a dedicated counsellor for battered women, maryann has a fulfulling life with no room for someone like manolito, born and bred in the carpathian mountains, a law unto himself. but when maryann agrees to go to south america to offer guidance to a brutalized young woman, she has no idea a trap awaits her in the sweltering thick of the jungle. she has been drawn there by manolito himself, who has seductive plans for the unaware, irresistibly human female...
christine feehan is really an amazing author, such vivid imagination, her stories really make me one with them. if only i was able to get all her other books, sigh. oh well, i hope you enjoy this book.

Noah the Nightwalker by Jaquelyn Frank

Finally, here's the story about our demon king who has the element of fire. i like how the leads meet each other, through their dreams. here's the synopsis exactly as is on the back of the book.
She will take him beyond his wildest dreams. as demon king, noah is dedicated to protecting his kind from their human and nightwalker enemies. yet for six months, he has struggled with vivid dreams that threaten his very sanity. every night he's tormented by images of a woman both achingly real and tantalizingly beyong his grasp. and his bone-deep need leaves him no choice but to force her to leave the life she's known and enter a world beyong her imagining.
everyday, kestra risks her life in perilous missions that veer just shy of the law, but she instinctively knows that the imposingly sensual figure before her is a danger unlike any she's ever faced. kestra has sworn never to trust or need another man, but noah's lightest touch scorches her with fevered desire, branding her as his mate and binding them both to the terrifying truth. for within the ranks of their own people lies an adversary growing in number and power and nothing and no one will ever be safe again...
unfortunately, i was on a rush to finish this book because i was at the library and had to return it so i could borrow another book. and i didn't want to reborrow this book as i was nearing the end too so in my rush, i wasn't able to savour the end properly but overall, it definitely helped to pass my time and i did get to enjoy the book as well. the king is after all the king and it shows in the book, and it was amazing to find out kestra's powers. hope you enjoy the book too.

Damien the Nightwalkers by Jaquelyn Frank

Ok, i think this is the sequel to elijah the nightwalkers, which i have written about earlier. but in this case, our nightwalker is not a demon like elijah but a vampire. ooo right now, there's all the paranormal rage going on and it's bitten me too:P
Damien, the vampire prince, is among the most powerful nightwalkers in the world. he'd never loved, but she was irresistible. The war between human necromancers and nightwalkers has escalated and when the enemy kidnaps syreena, a lycanthrope princess,(elijah's sis-in-law btw) he follows and succeeds in rescuing her but is unprepared for the erotic longing she awakens in him.
Gifted with rare abilities, syreena grew up in closed settings and was forbidden to form attachments with anyone yet the connection between damien and her is intoxicating and impossible for either to resist. but claiming syreena as his mate could have repercussions for every nightwalker and leave enemies more dangerous than ever before.
After reading about her sister and elijah, i was even more curious to read about syreena as she was rarer than anyone so far. being paired with the vampire prince was like the icing on the top of the cake for me. hehehe loved the book and i hope you will as well.

Dark Legend by Christine Feehan

This is another of the carpathian series. it seems i've been making a mistake by naming this genre as fantasy. well maybe not, but paranormal is more like it. learned it recently.
gabriel has awoken after being asleep for very long and the first thing he feels is an overwhelming hunger for blood. nearing darkness, he goes on a hunt for a prey but hears a voice calling to him, calming, sooting him, giving him strength to control this craving.
francesca is a healer who has been living among the humans for a long time. thought gabriel can only imagine how she feels like in his arms, he knows her taste will be addictive. yet he fears for her life and his soul if he gives in to his desire
hmm...i have to admit that i preferred the other dark series better. this was good too, but i guess i was hoping for a little more. but characters are really well done, and i was really surprised when i learnt about them. but truthfully and personally, i think this was not her best piece of work. but i still love her books. hope you guys will too.

Heart Quest by Robin D. Owens

Now this is the sequel to heart choice, the book i talked about in my earlier post of straif and mitchelle. this is illex and trif's story. trif is mitchelle's cousin. this was much better than the former i felt in my opinion. but it's only because of genres that i enjoy being included more here than in heart choice.
trif clover knows she has a heart mate and she is on a quest to find him; by even going from door-to-door with her charmkey.(this lets her find her heartmate by the way) but she has no idea that he has already found her. Guardsman Ilex Winterberry knows that trif is his heartmate but is afraid that he will only scare her away, what with him being twice her age and a short life ahead. he wants to be close to her, and she needs to be close to him. he faces his most difficult task yet as there's a killer stalking those with unstable flair psi power like trif's and he must reveal the truth of their destiny or else, leave trif in danger.
i guess it's because ilex is a guardsman,/policeman that there's so much action. there's suspense as well, this shows that the author is able to write different genres of books which is great. if not, i don't think i'd be reading a book with no romance. :P the next book that seems to be the sequel is heartmatch, a story about dufleur and saille. (the first is our heroine and the latter, our hero hehe) and dufleur happens to be the cousin of ilex. so i hope i'm able to find that book, it seems interesting from the sneak preview that i read. hope you guys enjoy

Deadly Love by Brenda Joyce

Deadly Love (Francesca Cahill Romance Novels)a book by one of my favourite authors. and again, this seems like a series too. deadly series, yes. but it was really enjoyable because of the humor at unexpected times.
francesca cahill sumbles on a ransom note while her parents are hosting a ball. she is determined to help in any way she can but helplessly falls in love with the city's newly appointed police commissioner, the powerful and enigmatic rick bragg. they begin searching for answers to a shocking crime until stunning truths are revealed.
i just couldn't help but fall in love with our heroine who's such a 'busybody' hehe she's so curious that the idiom 'curiosity killed the cat' seems to suit her at times. but at the same time, there is suspense, making us wreck our brains to try and figure out what exactly happened. but because this is the first in the deadly series, the relationship between rick and francesca is not confirmed although there are hints. and bright hints at that:P so because of that, i want to read the others too, provided i can managed to find them sigh. well hope you guys enjoy this

unfortunately no picture but you can click on the link if you are interested in the book.

Mind Game by Christine Feehan

Ghostwalker set (7 books): Shadow Game, Mind Game, Night Game, Conspiracy Game, Deadly Game, Predatory Game, and Murder Game (Volumes 1-7)This is another book that deals with supernatural and paranormal stuff. something like telepathy, telekinetic gifts and so on. and this is also a series, the ghostwalker series.
dahlia le blanc is isolated from other people due to her telekinetic gift. and for reasons unknown, she has become the target of deadly assassins. suddenly no place is safe and only one man can protect her. nicolas trevane-a dangerous warrior sent to track her down and protect her.
sorry this synopsis is so short as i read this quite some time ago too and i'm too lazy to copy the synopsis. but i enjoyed this book for the action that it has, the mystery and suspense. a good combination of what i like in a book. and it also helps that the romance is scorching hehe with steamy scenes:P well i'm too lazy to write more now. hope you enjoy this book too.

Oceans of Fire by Christine Feehan

well i've been really into supernatural and fantasy genres these days with romance of course. so it's no surprise that this is one as well. as i read this quite some time ago, i'm not sure as to how to write what it's about so i'm gonna follow the synopsis at the back of the book.
the third daughter in a magical bloodline, abigail drake was born with a mystical affinity for water and possess a particularly strong bond with dolphins. she has spent her entire life studying them, learning from them, and swimming among them in the waters off her hometown of sea haven.
however her calm is shattered when she witnesses a cold blooded murder on shore and finds herself fleeing for her life-right ito the arms of aleksandr volstov. an interpol agent on the trail of stolen russian antiquities, aleksandr is a relentless man who gets what he goes after-and the man who broke abigail's heart. but he isn't going to let the only woman he ever loved be placed in harm's way-or allow her to slip away from his embrace a second time.
the powers that these drake sisters have are so cool. i wish i had them for myself ehehehe and this is definitely action packed and linked with other books as this is a drake sisters novel.
usually, i try not to read books that are linked, i don't know why. but this book had synopsis of the other sisters' lives and their books and i was really tempted while reading abigail's book. each of the sisters had their own personality and i loved all of them although personally it would have been better if they were each different stories. but still, anyway, if you are in need for some magic and enchantment with some danger, then you might want to read this book. hope you enjoy it.

Dark Symphony by Christine Feehan

Dark Series Collection of 6 Titles Including Dark Guardian, Dark Demon, Dark Magic, Dark Desire, Dark Symphony and Dark PrinceThis is definitely one of my favourite novels that i've read so far. it got me hooked the first moment i read its synopsis. it also helped that i was interested in reading about supernatural and fantasy genres then. i read this a few days ago and now as i'm writing about this, i feel like reading it again. to jog my memory on how the story went and all. the words used are powerful and it's amazing how the story flows so smoothly without any confusion at all. and here's the synopsis exactly as is written in the book. (i have to admit though that i'm a little biased as i loved these kinds of stories:P)
He was Carpathian, a species as old as time. he could shift shape and soar high, run with the wolves, yet without light to his darkness, he could so easily give in to the whispers of temptation, the call for power and turn wholly evil-to become the undead, as many of his kind had chosen to do. he travelled the world, hunting the vampire, seeking to maintain a balance of life in a world of bleak loneliness. and then he heard the music...
Blinded and scarred in a terrible accident, Antonietta Scarletti made music that thrilled the world with its beauty and passion. descended from a long line of physics, antonietta has learned to rely on her other senses to 'see' the world around her, but nothing could have prepared for Byron. he came to her, drawn by her music and became her secret obsession. others fear him, sensing that is dangerous-a predator-but for antonietta he is her ultimate fantasy, her dream lover. he woos her with kisses full of erotic allure,whispering that she is his light, his salvation. byron has waited an eternity for her, and he will let nothing stand between him and the woman born to be his lifemate...
it seems this book is a series of the carpathian novels. meaning that there are other books that are linked with this as well though i haven't found them yet. maybe i will next time. and well, i guess i don't have to say why i liked it so much as i'm sure reading my other posts, most would definitely know why i like it. but for the first timers, i enjoyed this book simply for the emotions the characters felt. they made me feel it too. the author was that good with this one. hehe and also, i'm a sucker for guys showing emotions or feelings. i like to hear from the hero's view point as well as the heroine's. well hope you enjoy this book as i've enjoyed.