I wanted to like this book more, but the romance seemed one sided to me. Archimedes seemed to be the more vulnerable the one more to share his feelings, whereas Yasmeen seemed too unwilling to show him the slightest bit of emotion. Don't get me wrong, I didn't want her drooling and professing her...
Another big improvement over the first two installments of the series though likely my last (assuming others even exist, I didn't bother to check). The characters were great. I enjoyed David's struggle with his past injuries and his adjustments and struggles with his new body. It definitely made ...
What an odd mix of stories to have in one volume. None of them are really the same genre or even heat level, so it's sort of a hodgepodge.There was "The Blushing Bounder" by Meljean Brook, which is a steampunk romance. I think the anthology is worth reading for this story alone. Meljean Brook was...
Genre: Steampunk romanceEben "Mad" Machen, Captain of the ship Vesuvius, has been hunting for Ivy Blacksmith for two years. She made a deal with him; her body in exchange for passage out of London. But she reneged with the assistance of the captain of the airship Lady Corsair, for the price of a ...
I actually liked it. Now I'm sorry I didn't start this series from the beginning as I should have. That's what I get from being lazy! But I'm not going back now. I'll continue to read from this book on and after reading the rest of the series I'll go back and do it right. Moving on...Fast-paced, ...
It's so very very good. That's not all that articulate but it is true. It leaves you on the edge of your seat. I love the character's and their voices, I love the world (though that's not surprising considering I loved Brook's other Iron Seas novels), I love the sexual tension and overcoming trus...
I openly admit I've not read the rest of this series. Saw this at the library and it sparked my fancy. But after having read this book I won't read the rest. I don't feel that I need to. I never felt lost in the story since there was a massive amount of back story. I feel that if I had read the r...
Wow, just WOW...Every book I don't think this series can get better and then it does! I enjoyed getting to know Zenobia and what made Ariq who he is. I adored the twists and adventure of this story and though it's a love story it was also a terrific urban fantasy adventure!This is a BIG book and ...
Full review can be seen on my blog: coffeeandbookaholics.wordpress.comSo part II came and went in the blink of an eye, mainly my fault because I didn't put it down until I was finished. The only comparison I can come up with to explain what it's like to read the Kraken King is perhaps like playin...
Well, the title says it all. In this installment we have the Inevitable Abduction. It is Zenobia Fox, after all. Getting abducted is largely what she's been good at since we met her in Archimedes' story. However! This time we get some delicious character development in addition to some long-...
What an amazing ride! Zenobia and Ariq's story is one of Meljean Brook's best steampunk adventures to date . . . and I LOVE her Iron Seas novels. It was fun from start to finish and as it turned out, I really did enjoy reading this book in serial form. Anticipation is a wonderful thing.Following ...
All hell breaks loose in Meljean Brook's erotic, supernatural debut novel. Lilith, a demon, has spent 2,000 years tempting men and guaranteeing their eventual damnation. That is, until she meets her greatest temptation: the man whose life mission has been to kill her.
Meljean Brook returns to explore the seductive corners of the dark, as a forbidden attraction tempts danger under the canopy of the Demon Night.Charlie Newcomb worked hard to get her life back together. But all that is shaken when she's set upon by three vampires desperate to transform her beauty...
She contained her gasp, sealed her mouth. She’d breathed underwater once before, and did not want to repeat the experience—the burning pain as water entered her lungs, the indignity of heaving it out. She swam forward, giving Jake room to clear the Gate. After a few arm strokes, she came up again...
Grinning, Archimedes folded Zenobia’s note. Of course his sister knew that taking time for a chat also gave someone the opportunity to carry out their threat—just as she knew that making Archimedes laugh was the easiest way to reassure him that the disappointed feelings she’d revealed weren’t a s...
Either way, Rhys always worried and regretted not being there to protect her.Perhaps he worried too much. The latest wasn’t so bad—just a bruise on her back, the result of a foot chase in pursuit of a suspect that morning, followed by the tussle when she’d caught him. Mina barely felt the ache in...
Elizabeth recognized them as soon as she rounded the corner toward home—a man and a woman flanking the front door of her boarding house. Heart thumping in her chest, she resisted the impulse to dart behind a passing steamcoach. A quick movement would draw the hunters’ attention. Dear God. They we...
She poked through the slushy frozen innards, where the remaining ice crystals appeared sharply detailed through the lenses of her magnifying goggles. Every winter in London, hundreds of people too poor or too unlucky to find shelter were found frozen in the streets. But autumn had only just come ...
The demon must not have agreed about the food, however, or like and dislike didn’t matter. After only a few bites, she’d set down her fork, scraped her chair back, and stood. “The taste isn’t familiar.” She’d stalked away from the table after that announcement, leaving Nicholas to finish his meal...
So simple. And no wonder. She’d written it so many times before. Sometimes the antagonist had been less of a tyrant and more of a villain, yet still Archimedes Fox had been there, fearless and charming, defeating the oppressor with his charm and his sword. He’d been follow...
She left his place just before sunrise. Joe had said he’d be leaving headquarters at seven, which gave her about an hour to get there. She kept herself busy on the drive, deliberately taking the worst route to the southeast side of the city. But despite the music she cranked up to bleeding-eardru...
If the victim does not want the vampire’s sexual attention, the bloodlust won’t force it on them; but if the vampire doesn’t have control over himself, even after the bloodlust has faded, he might force the sex. On the other hand, if the victim wants it and the bloodlust is high…well, once he sta...