Adrian's Bodyguard (Vampires of Vadin #1) by Shelby Rhodes

Review

****

Adrian is the vampire king, who is currently the target of a unknown assassin.  Being around,10,000 years old, he has given up on love, and without love has become tired of life.  He set against the idea of having a personal bodyguard babysitting him.  He believes all attempts on his life have been easily dealt with, why would he need help now?  

Xavier has agreed to be a body guard to the Vampire King, Expecting the task to be just another ordinary bodyguard duty.  But what he finds is a stubborn, immature man that fights against him being his protector.   But Xavier is also attracted to Adrian and fights his feeling for the King.  Trying to remain professional, after all what could come of it, they are from different worlds.

What follows is a story of changes and adaption, with some home truths.  Can Adrian allow Xavier   into his heart.  He has to decide whether to risk Adrian leaving him.

All this is going on as an unknown person is out to kill the king.I found the clash of personalities interesting and occasionally even funny. The story was well paced and descriptively written.  Drawing me into the story world.

I look forward to book 2

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An Unsuitable Heir by KJ Charles

Review

****

A good period Drama, must make the reader feel like they are right there in that time. And an Unsuitable Heir really does a great job of this. From the Brash men, to gentry, The foggy London streets. All the good ingredients for a story set in Victorian times.

This Novel has two very distinctive and very different main characters. With lots of mystery and angst.

We start where Pen a runaway trapeze artist, who is kind of hiding from his step family. Bumps into a man with one arm, on the fogy streets of London.

There is instant attraction between them. But unbeknown to Pen, Mark is a private investigator, who is in search of Pen and His twin sister.

Mark tries but fails to keep his attraction in check, as he feels it is unprofessional to fall for a person he has been hired to find.

Slowly Mark manages to convince Pen that he is A heir and rightfully a earl.

But Mark is not prepared for Pens disinterest in becoming an earl. Mark feels compelled to go against Pens wishes and Makes Pens status known. This does the opposite of what Mark intended and puts Pen and his sister in greater danger of a killer who has been trying to destroy evidence of Pens rightful title.

Mark now must hope Pen will forgive him, so he can protect him from the mysterious murderer. 

Eventually the killer is found, but does this mean Pen has to live a life he doesn’t want. Will he have to conform to what is expected of an Earl, is there any escape for Pen, and will he be able to trust Mark once more?

This is such a vivid read of a period in history that I love. The book has mystery, romance, hope, fear, loss, sadness, tension all mixed into a exciting and intriguing tale.

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Antisocial by Heidi Cullinan

Review 

*****

I Found this book very interesting, right from the start. It is a kind of opposites attract, but as the characters become closer and learn from each other. You find that maybe’s they are not so different after all.

Xander is anti-social, he keeps to himself and only communicates with others when he must. He avoids all social situations and even social media. And this is where the story Starts and how Xander meets Skyler. 

Xander needs to promote himself and his art as part of his qualification. And Skyler’s Frat House members have destroyed a piece of art at the Collage, so he feels bad and wants to do more than just make things right. He offers his services as a business promoter to the ART dept. and to Xander in general.

Now you will have already read other reviews warning that there is NO SEX in this book, but if that is usually a problem for you, I’d say give this book a try. No sex does not mean no intimacy or even no love making. One partner is not sexual but between them they find a way to be intimate and I dare say in their own way make love, which to me makes this book so much more intimate.

The story is very well thought out, and each scene brings things to the whole picture. The characters are chalk and cheese at the beginning, but by the end you realise that neither is quite what you expected, as a team they are a force to recon with.
I really enjoyed every word of this story, so much so that I have bought the Carry me Ocean series, that was mentioned in Meredith Kings review.

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