Showing posts with label Lynn Viehl. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lynn Viehl. Show all posts

16 May 2012

Cover Art Coverage: 10 New Titles!

 
While Photoshop is a glorious tool, when applied with too heavy a hand it is a big turn off for me.  Considering how much I love magic, monsters, and make-believe, you’d think I’d be more tolerant of the software that often brings these three to life.  When it comes to  leading men, it seems, I insist on some realism.  In everything except for the muscles, that is.  I don’t really care where those broad shoulders come from, just how well they fill out a t-shirt.

21 September 2011

Cover Art Coverage: 18 New Titles!

There are 17 new covers to woo their way on to your TBR pile, and one re-issue that may prompt a few readers to take another look at Kelly Keaton’s Gods & Monsters series.  It was a close race to pick my favorite this week (and Rob Thurman’s hilarious comment may have tipped the balance).  In the end, both of my choices featured a foreboding expression and blank eyes, but obviously only one of them pulls it off. 
Doubletake by Rob Thurman
 

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“I want to f***ing MARRY this cover or at least take it out to dinner and do incredibly filthy and naughty things to it.  It blew me away when I first saw it and it still gives me the same thrill every time I see it.” – Rob Thurman
  • Series: Cal Leandros #7
  • Artist: Chris McGrath
  • Goodreads: Link

Julia’s ThoughtsThumbs up

Abigail’s ThoughtsThumbs up

While I’m not quite as passionate as the author on this one, I am a big fan.  The expression on the cover model’s face is riveting enough on it’s own, but the whole cover put together is entrancing. I’m a big Chris McGrath fan so I understand Rob’s excitement over the great covers he keeps producing for her series (& so glad she’s recovered enough to make them), and Julia is dead on about the captivating expression on his face.
Previous Covers in This Series

Nightlife Moonshine Madhouse Deathwish Roadkill Blackout

09 February 2011

Review: Frostfire by Lynn Viehl

Frostfire (Kyndred, #3)

Title: Frostfire
Author: Lynn Viehl
Series: Kyndred #3
Cover Art: N/A
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Excerpt: No
Source: Author
Reviewed by: Abigail

  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Signet Select; Original edition (January 4, 2011)
  • ISBN-10: 0451413024
  • ISBN-13: 978-0451413024
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Sexual Content:
Several graphic sex scenes

 

My Rating:

Good - A fun read with minor flaws. Maybe read an excerpt before buying.


Description

As one of the genetically enhanced Kyndred, Lilah's mind-reading powers make her vulnerable to a mysterious biotech company willing to murder to acquire her superhuman DNA. But her true fear may come from her own Kyndred brethren...

Review

FROSTFIRE is not my first Viehl novel (and it certainly won’t be my last).  She writes just about every genre around under various pen names.  Oddly, this is my first paranormal from her.

 

If you skim through the reviews for FROSTFIRE, one word keeps reappearing: Confusing.  And yes, there is a lot going on in this book that never quite clicked including several shady organizations, a huge cast of characters who cross over from both the Kyndred and Darkyn series—most of whom have different abilities (vampires, werewolves, and all sorts of physics), and then there are three different couples: Nicola and Gabriel, a Sheriff and his one night stand, and the main protagonists Lilah and Walker.

 

I think I would have preferred reading about each couple separately.  Jumping from couple to couple every other chapter really cut the romantic tension.  The relationship that suffered the most was unfortunately the main couple.  They had a fantastic setup when they first met:  handcuffed together naked in the back of a refrigerated truck (they literally melt the ice!).  But after that, it was mere hours later before Lilah was basically composing love sonnets for Walker.  I’m totally fine with extreme situations triggering extremely quick emotions, but this had to be some kind of record.

 

Confusingly complex plotlines and lighting fast romance aside, Viehl has written another fast paced, action packed story with plenty of scorching hot scenes and bad guys you really want to sink your teeth into.  Don’t worry about jumping into this series midway, as each book features mostly new characters. NIGHSHINE is the next Kyndred book and will be released later in 2011.

 

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  2. Dreamveil

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