Where Wavorly’s hatred for both vampires and her enslavement once flowed free as blood, it merely trickles as she grows to admire her reserved, yet receptive master and savior, Anton Zein.Īlthough warmed by comforts never felt before, danger still lurks in the castle, and a prophecy calls from beyond the walls of a lavender gate-concealing the horrific secrets lodged between handsome smirks and cinereous eyes. One of only few humans that was not bred in Cain, Wavorly knows freedom better than anyone, and she is determined to escape the clutches of her oppressors, even if by the hands of death.īut surprises lay beyond every certainty, and within every doubt. Today, eighteen-year-old Wavorly Sterling is officially a supply unit, bound to serve her blood willingly to her master for the rest of her life. For centuries, councils have sought to assuage the blood shortage by enslaving and breeding humans, turning them into profitable supply units for the rich and the abled. In the Vampire Stratocracy of Cain, human blood is scarce.
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Moreno-Garcia’s worldbuilding chops are on display as she creates a distinct, vibrant backdrop to her audacious retelling. Carlota, the naive daughter of a mad scientist bent on creating a race of hybrid animal-humans in remote Yaxaktun, strains against the boundaries of her life as she searches for love and connection beyond the world her father has engineered to contain her Montgomery, a caretaker who self-medicates with alcohol in order to cope with a tragic past, pines for Carlota even as she explores her attraction to Eduardo, the spoiled aristocratic son of her father’s benefactor and the hybrid creatures created by the eponymous doctor struggle to maintain their autonomy and personhood as the forces surrounding them attempt to subjugate their wills for their own ends. In this thorny riff on The Island of Doctor Moreau, bestseller Moreno-Garcia ( Mexican Gothic) interweaves several threads in 19th-century Mexico. *epic eye-roll* Ask me how tall I am, princess. Heroine is "ugly" because she has straight blonde hair and glasses, but as soon as the glasses come off and she waves her hair, suddenly everyone is like OMG YOU'RE SO HOT. When she finds out she's been tricked she's mad for one hot minute and then is like YOLO. Everyone hates her for being rich and the only person she can become friends with is a walking Italian stereotype who's super smart and thinks her chauffeur is her dad. It was all melodrama.īasically, the heroine is the rich daughter of a man who owns an entire chain of department stores but he's sent her to poor school to build character. It has the same trashy vibes as one of those Harlequin Presents novels from the 1980s and 1990s, or a Jackie Collins novel without the fun sleaze that makes her books so addictive. Judith McNaught has been recommended to me so many times and when I found out that this book has some of my favorite tropes (hero wants revenge, rich/poor match, second chance but as enemies, etc.), I was like YES YES YES. Now you'll be dreaming about Jack Eversea.Īs powerful as the pounding surf, as intoxicating as the sea breeze, this is one love affair you won't be able to forget about. Eversea, a love story, is a Winter Rose Contest FINALIST 2013. Eversea, a love story, is a Winter Rose Contest FINALIST 2013, A Library Journal Self-e Selection title 2015, and the 2014 Digital Book Award Winner for Adult. You lusted after Jamie McGuire's Travis Maddox. Series list: Butler Cove (5 Books) by Natasha Boyd. 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Ryu doesn't want to admit the other goalie's smart mouth turns him on. If the Venom are looking for a meek, mild-mannered pushover, they've got the wrong guy. Emmitt Armstrong knows that, and he's not about to waste the opportunity after grinding his way from the bottom to the top. Not everyone gets to play in the best league in the world. So when he's called into management's office, he's expecting to hear he's the new starting goalie for the team, not that some new guy-an incredibly hot, annoyingly bratty rookie-is here to compete for his spot. Ryu Mori has had a stellar season as goalie for the Atlanta Venom. But Stephanie's find, and her first-of-its-kind bond with a treecat, brings on a new torrent of danger. Not only are they fully sentient, they are also telepathic, and able to bond with certain gifted humans such as the genetically-enhanced Stephanie. Treecats are creatures that resemble a cross between a bobcat and a lemur (but with six legs and much more deadly claws). Yet Stephanie is a young woman determined to make discoveries-and the biggest discovery of all awaits her: an intelligent alien species. Stephanie Harrington absolutely hates being confined inside her family's compound on the pioneer planet of Sphinx, a frontier wilderness world populated by dangerous native animals that could easily tear a human to bits and pieces. |