REVIEW - A HIGHLAND WEREWOLF WEDDING

"Now Cearnach's out to ensure that this sexy female wolf gets her fair share of her clan's treasure. He knows he should leave well enough alone, but it's too late to leave his heart out of it."

Author: Terry Spear
Pages: 384 pages
Publisher: Sourcebook Casablanca on May 2013
Form: E-book (from NetGalley for an honest review)
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Series: Heart of the Wolf #11
Amazon: Buy / $7.19 (Paperback) ( EU price, click to see yours )
Barnes & Noble: Buy / $7.99 (Paperback)
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Excerpt: Prologue

"Elaine Hawthorn is a gray American werewolf, currently out of work, and on a mission to share in a family treasure. When she arrives in Scotland, she nearly has a head-on collision with one hot, kilt-garbed Highlander, and runs him off the road.

Werewolf laird Cearnach MacNeill isn't happy Elaine ruined his car, but he quickly becomes her protector after a misunderstanding lands her right in the middle of two feuding clans. Now he's out to ensure that this sexy female wolf gets her fair share of her clan's treasure. He knows he should leave well enough alone, but it's too late to leave his heart out of it."  ~ From Goodreads

First of all I loved the previous book A Wolf in A SEAL's Clothing! A Highland Werewolf Wedding was more of a miss for me. It's harder to but my finger on why I didn't really enjoy reading this book after all the characters were funny, maybe slightly over the top, the action was there, but maybe little too messy and frantic yet times so slow, the romance was sexy but maybe not really hot more like convenient.

So you see I liked things and yet I didn't... has this happened to you before? It's really hard to point at the what nots when the whats greats are there too. I don't know! Alright, gathering myself here.

Perhaps what got me here was that there were a bunch of 'old characters' from the previous books - which I have not read - this didn't bother me in A Wolf in a SEAL's Clothing because the 'oldies' didn't make an appearance it was a great standalone from the Heart of The Wolf series, but A Highland Werewolf Wedding was odd as in you got this people you don't know smiling oddly or making weird comments that are totally them but you have no clue into their personality so all you are left with is a feeling 'that's odd'. When writing a stand-alone series you got to be really careful about not making your supporting cast aka the ones who came before too unique and impressive on their own right like they were in their own book - and please no knowing smiles it drives me nuts!

Okay, so this review felt little bit of the brunt of my annoyance at stand-alone series that get too odd when a bunch of previous characters make appearances - but I think that was my main beef with the book, then add in the things mentioned in the first paragraph and I just dragged through this.

I shall remove my stand-alone series rant off the rating below and just focus on the other things.

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CARNAL DESIRES & CARNAL DENIAL

Author: D.L Jackson / Published: Decadent Publishing on February-March 2012 / Pages: 15-40 Pages / Form: E-book (from the publisher for an honest review) / Genre: Paranormal Erotic Romance (18+ Only) / Series: Carnality #1 and #3 / Decadent Publishing: Buy / $1.49 (E-book)

Book 1 ~ When Mercedes, the town librarian, enters a place no good girl would dare to tread, she meets a man who says he’s an incubus, who has an offer too tempting to pass. After the encounter with the stranger, sanity returns and Mercedes begins to wonder if she’s lost her mind along with her memory, or if the man in the back of the adult toy store really was who he claimed to be.

Book 2 ~ Thousands of years have passed. Azael has returned to Jezebel, and he’s brought her memories with him. Now that Jezebel has them back, she doesn’t intend to lose them again by starving herself of life energies. So, when she encounters a broken heart in the seedy strip club where she works, she knows dinner will be special that night. This time, the feeding will be on her terms, and the man who’s wandered into her snare, shouldn’t miss the small bite of soul she takes. Much.

Book 3 ~ Game on. Another lamb for the feast. Not likely. Jezebel knows that taking a bite out of the virgin bait the demon slayers have tossed into the club is a bad idea. But there’s also more than one way to skin a proverbial cat, or in this instance, pop a slayer’s cherry before she causes any problems. There’s nothing in the succubus rule book that says Jezebel has to play fair. After all, she need only suggest. What the slayer does with the nudge is up to her. Check mate.

Book 1 ~ Carnal Desires was a short romp in the backroom of an adult toy store between a librarian and a incubus who reveals to her that she's not just human but much more than that and intends to show her. Fun, short and sexy. Mercedes was interesting with her first time foray into a toy store for adults, checking out the merchandise with mix of embarrassment and desire. Azael was hot, and though he's role is quite supportive he did have some tummy twisting tricks. In all a very fun and hot little read at only 12 pages - sets up the series well.

           “Have you ever owned one? Used one?”
           Heat blasted across her cheeks. “Excuse me?”
           He leaned in again. “Have you ever done anything forbidden?” Warm breath puffed from his lips, rustling the hair on her nape. “Taboo?”
           Mercedes spun around and whumped him with the giant, red prick. Not on purpose, but perhaps it should have been. Face to face, body to body, she was close enough to discover he had an erection. “I…I… I think I’m in the wrong place.”
           He cocked his head. “Or the right one. What is it you’re looking for?” His gaze swept from the top of her head, down her cardigan sweater to the hem of her long, broomstick skirt. “You don’t look like the normal clientele.” He plucked the tortoise shell frames with false prescription lenses from her nose and dropped them into an oversized handbag she’d parked beside her on the floor. “And you can’t hide your need behind those. I see through you.”
           Mercedes swallowed again. Her hand slipped up to her breast to slow her heart. “Who are you?”
           “An incubus.”

Book 3 ~ Carnal Denial was definitely hot! I like slightly dark seduction stories with a happy ending. Mercedes is now Jezebel, a succubus, she own a strip club and works with Azael, the bouncer/incubus. They do get trouble from slayers, and when one of the pure virgin slayers wants to become employed in the bar Jezebel sets up a seductive setting to knock the girl of her virgin pedestal after all when she's no longer pure she's no longer a slayer. This short story is from the Slayers point of view, and it was very good! I loved the falling from grace ( or in this case a cult of some sort ) and the desire and denial that she went through before finally giving in. A hot read for sure. And this book had a happy ending, instead of a seedy one, which left me as a happy reader afterwards.

           The bouncer stared at her with eyes that made her want to take her clothes off and be that kind of girl. Her body began to buzz under his gaze. A toothpick in his mouth twitched, the only indication he wasn’t a statue. 
           “I want to tend bar,” she stuttered. “I make a mean Screaming Orgasm. I’m really good at it - making drinks that is.” 
           He eyed her double Ds and a smile curled one side of his mouth. “I’ll bet you are.”

D.L Jackson writes great erotic romance and these Carnality novels are no exception! She gives you great characters, great settings and good writing so you can just read and enjoy the stories.

If you like your erotica as short stories with succubus and incubus thrown in for that paranormal twist then you might want to give this series a go!

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