ARC Review: A Hunger So Wild by Sylvia Day

A Hunger So Wild

by Sylvia Day

(Renegade Angels # 2)

Elijah Reynolds is one sexy as hell lycan (wish I could take him home).  After the lycans rebeled and left Adrian, Elijah fell into the Alpha role.  He's the strongest and a natural leader.  And that is what Syre wants him on his side.  So he sends Vashti, his second in command, to form an alliance with the lycan rebel alpha.

Vashti's mate had been killed by a lycan and Elijah was set up to take that fall and be blamed.  Then Vashti killed Elijah's brother.  But since A TOUCH OF CRIMSON Elijah has wanted Vashti even though he shouldn't have.  They are all wrong for each other but their attraction is more powerful than any of these things.

Vashti (LOOOOOOVE HER!) is a very strong female to an even stronger male.  She hasn't been with anyone since her mate but even then no one has made her feel and want like Elijah.  They hunger for each other in the most primal way.  It's hot and I didn't want it to end!!!

And this book is not just an amazing couple, the story actually progressed a lot in this book.  I was surprised by some developments and I really can't wait to see what the last installment in this trilogy has in store.  We even had some Adrian and Lindsay in this story.

This has been an amazing year for Sylvia Day books for me and this one was no exception.  Action packed, story driven, sensual and raw.  An un-put-downable story!

*ARC provided by publisher

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Review: Dark Kiss of Rapture by Sylvia Day

Dark Kiss of Rapture

by Sylvia Day

(Renegade Angels # 0.5)

I had gotten this as a Kindle freebie a long time ago.  Of course I didn't know that this was the prequel of the Renegade Angels  series.  I read an ARC of book one last year and I when I started reading my ARC of book two I realized that this was the prequel and had been sitting on my Kindle app patiently waiting to be read.

So I started it almost at the same time as I started reading A HUNGER SO WILD, and I have to say that I enjoyed it immensely because the characters in this short story are also part of that book.  I'm not sure if I would've cared as much for them without the background knowledge.

Having said that, this was a great little story.  Raze is one of the Fallen but he didn't fall for his love of a woman.  He just enjoys sex...with anything female.  But a dead body at his doorstep puts a bad ending to a night of enjoyment for him and brings him to investigate in Chicago.

Chicago where he meets Kim and she is everything he thought he would never want.  But he can't stay with her when there's so much danger around him.  Theirs is not a HEA but a To Be Continued.  I can't wait!

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ARC Review: A Touch of Crimson by Sylvia Day

3.5 Feathers

A Touch of Crimson

by Sylvia Day

(Renegade Angels # 1)

Paranormal Romance

This book has a really good story! The concept is really interesting. But that being said, I think I was expecting more action, more sex and a little less whining. Don't get me wrong, I think it's written very well, and I'd love to see this world developed a bit more, but I felt that there was a lot of standing around talking and dragging things out.

So the main idea behind this book is that angels, lead by tall, dark and deliciously handsome Adrian Mitchell, along with their lycan followers (did they really compare them to dogs???) are at war with vampires. The first vampire was created by Adrian when he fell for a mortal, and sex between an angel and a mortal is not allowed, so Adrian punished him, and he became the first vampire, Syre. He is now Adrian's biggest enemy.

But centuries ago, Adrian actually fell in love with Syre's daughter, Shadoe. He went against everything that he preaches and enforces and had sex with her, until she was badly injured and he brought her to Syre so he would heal her (she was a mortal at the time) and all Syre could do was turn her. Adrian couldn't deal with seeing his woman becoming a vampire, so he actually killed her before she was able to complete the change. But she has reincarnated through the centuries in other womens' bodies and always come back to him.

She now comes back to him in the body of Lindsay Gibson. Lindsay has always known that there are evil beings out there, and has made it a purpose in her life to kill them. She has super speed and she can sense evil. Except the only thing she senses when she spots Adrian Mitchell at the airport is all kinds of naughty thoughts about someone so perfect and completely out of her league.

Now imagine her surprise when he comes after her, and shows so much interest in her. But she soon discovers that he's an angel, and there are even more things out there than she could imagine. He can help her be prepared to face them.

So basically the story revolves around her finding out about this new world through whatever Adrian wants to tell her, and her new personal bodyguard, the lycan Alpha, Elijah. They actually become best buds, and I thought their relationship was cute. In a way, she connected more with Elijah than with Adrian.

Once Lindsay found out the price Adrian would pay to be with her, she couldn't let him do it. She felt like she was just another burden in Adrian's shoulders, when there was already so much for him to deal with.

In the end, it was a bit of a ride. I felt that at times things would pick up and I was very interested, and then it would lose me completely, and this kept repeating. The beginning was a little weak, so just push through, there is chemistry between the hero/heroine so once you get to those parts you'll enjoy it! 

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