"Predatory, Romance With Plenty of Bite, and Worth Every Penny"
Reviewed by Diana Troldahl
Posted May 18, 2013
Romance Anthology | Romance Paranormal
Out of Control by Alexandra Ivy Angela Locke is being used as bait to catch a psychotic High
Blood female bent on the impossible. Her only hope is to
trust her life to the mysterious (and HOT) man who has been
keeping secrets at the risk of her life.
Ties the Bind by Nina Bangs Cassie has an unreasonable fear of dead bodies, so it is a
HUGE measure of her friendship that she agrees to fill in
for a few hours at her pal Felicity's job holding down the
fort at the local funeral parlor. Every rustle and creak
becomes a harbinger of zombie doom so when two live but
shifty-eyed men show up she foolishly lets them in and
follows them into the basement room that holds a secret that
may cost her life. A scarily attractive vampire manages to
help her escape, but that is only the beginning of her
adventure.
In Still Darkness by Dianne Duvall Richart d'Alençon, Immortal Guardian is having a busy but
fairly normal night's work when he saves Jenna McBride, and
can't get her out of his mind. Jenna, single mother of a
college-aged boy is falling hard for the mysterious stranger
who keeps visiting her workplace ( a big-box store).
High Stakes by Hannah Jayne Nina LaShay, fashionista, owner of Drop Dead Clothing and
vamp (in more than one meaning) is in New York competing in
a designer competition when her competitors start dropping
like flies. She and a hot Hawaiian photographer keep meeting
in most unexpected and suspicious places with dead bodies
all too near.
This is one of the best collections of novellas I've read.
All are highly entertaining, and even those with ties to the
author's previous series books were easy to follow, and more
importantly, enthralling. They all have small touches of
whimsy, ranging from the mostly serious Out of Control to
the wacky High Stakes. Most impressive, despite the
shortened form each read as satisfyingly as a full-length
novel. The stories I found most intriguing were Ivey's Out
of Control, the first hint of her new Sentinals,
series and In Still Darkness by Dianne Duvall, book 3.5 in
her Immortal Guardians series. Both were my first
encounters with the authors' worlds but they won't be my
last. The other two stories were very high quality, don't
get me wrong, but something about the world building used by
Ivy and Duvall connected better with my own personal taste.
High Stakes is connected to Hannah Jayne's Underworld
Detection Agency and Ties that Bind seems unconnected to
the Nina Bangs series with which I am familiar, regardless,
it was a great read. In summation, PREDATORY is worth every
penny.
SUMMARY
Out Of Control by Alexandra Ivy Ph.D student Angela Locke has a crush on her sexy
professor, Dr. Nikolo Bartrev. When she learns he’s
actually a Sentinel with extraordinary powers, she joins
forces with him to catch a psychopath. But soon, their
hottest pursuit is of each other... Ties That Bind by Nina Bangs Cassie Tyler agrees to sub for her friend at the funeral
home where she works. But she gets more than she bargained
for when a group of men attack her and a vampire comes to
her rescue… In Still Darkness by Dianne Duvall Immortal Richart d’Alençon can’t forget the woman who
rewarded him with a sensuous kiss after he saved her from a
trio of vampires. While Richart knows that loving a human
can only bring trouble, the taste of forbidden lust is too
great to resist… High Stakes by Hannah Jayne When vampire fashionista Nina LaShay’s design contest rival
is found dead, she’s the prime suspect. Sexy photographer
Pike is number two. He’s the kind of man who makes Nina
salivate. But will she have to reveal herself to have him—
and to save them both? Or does Pike have a secret of his
own?
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