“This review is from: The Green’s Hill Novellas –Great background and addition to Green’s Hill!” is locked This review is from: The Green’s Hill Novellas –Great background and addition to Green’s Hill!

This review is from: The Green’s Hill Novellas (Kindle Edition)
One of the consistencies of Amy Lane’s Greens Hill stories is that they add depth to a world that is filled with magic and love but also tragedy and angst. These stories run the gamut and add depth to character’s that have been a part of the world in minor ways, with the exception of Adrian who is one of the fan favorites. The story of Whim and Charlie adds whimsy to the world we have all come to love and on our least favorite day, Lithia. I love you a******! Really changes the dynamic between Phillip and Marcus. While we all know their taste in women has never quite meshed, in the main novels none of us realize how much drama was behind the understanding that the two men are better together than apart. And Adrian’s story shows us where he resides when he is not stalking the goddess grove–And it’s nowhere you would expect! The fact that Adrian is still a quiet voice in the universe for love and redemption is a surprise to no one, and in fact is comforting. Adrain’s innate goodness shines through, although there is a little bit of sadness and regret as he watches the world move on. It is totally clear that, although his love for Cory and Green is still strong, he wishes that his death had not occurred. It’s hard to watch their lives go on. It is Important to read these before Quickening! So buy this collection and get to know Green’s Hill a little more intimately…
Green's Hill Novellas Book Cover Green's Hill Novellas
Little Goddess
Amy Lane
Paranormal Romance
DSP Publications; 2 edition
June 14, 2016
https://www.amazon.com/Greens-Hill-Novellas-Amy-Lane-ebook/dp/B01GQFEEV8/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1496210833&sr=1-1&keywords=greens+hill+novellas

A Green's Hill Collection
Companion to the Little Goddess Series

Welcome to Green’s Hill, a small, secret collective of the fey, furry, and undead, existing unnoticed in the California foothills for over a hundred and fifty years. Whether your passion is exotic were-animals, angels, elves, or vampires, you can find them here—although things are changing on the hill.

Bound by love and honor, Cory, Green, and Adrian work to give their followers a home—but they have no idea that the effects of their true love will spread like ripples in a pond.

Be prepared for the unexpected, and ready for enchantment—you never know who will be awakened to the romantic possibilities of a vampire, a sorceress, or a pansexual elf who finds power in the force of love.

This anthology includes:

Litha's Constant Whim
It is on Litha that Whim meets Charlie, and their vows to return next Litha and finish what they started launch a thirteen-year tradition of celebration.
1st Edition published by Dreamspinner Press, June 2010.

I Love You, Asshole!
It's a good thing vampires live forever, because it might take Marcus that long to convince Phillip that gender lines are for the living.
1st Edition published by Dreamspinner Press, May 2011.

Guarding the Vampire's Ghost
An accident of divine politics has put Adrian, a twice-dead vampire, in heaven and under the care of angels Shepherd and Jefischa.
1st Edition published by Dreamspinner Press, October 2010.

OK guys and gals…

Its imperative we support Amy Lane’s Little Goddess Series…Or we won’t get more Green Hill or Cory’s adventures

 

Come on everyone…get the word out!

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How Watching Television has changed…

When I was a kid, tv was 3 channels- ABC,CbS, and NBC.  We had a Public Access channel too.  Then we got VCR’s which allowed us to record shows to watch later.  We also got Disney and Nickelodeon.  So fast forward a bit and we got VCRs which along with codes published in tv guide would automatically record shows for us.  The next step was Tivo and then we got to DVR Pay Per View and we are almost to today!  As I binge watched netflix over the past few days, I realized that its changed again.  Netflix is not even keeping up with the broadcast episodes-and we are not complaining! Why?

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So, I have a few revelations to share…

1) What I am reading greatly affects my overall mood, mental health, and physical health.  I was reading a book I didn’t care very much for, Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Deadmen Walking.  I expected to love it, but it just wasn’t doing it for me.  I was angry and irritable and it was taking me forever to get through the book.  That led me to watching hours of bad crime television on YouTube.

2) Something big and bad is happening in the publishing industry-especially for paranormal authors.  I’ve been shocked by the news that Laurell K Hamilton won’t be releasing a book this year.  While I fully support her decision to take time to recharge and get to know her new editor, I’m hearing a lot of rumblings.  A lot of readers expressed unhappiness with Crimson Death, the last Anita Blake book by Laurell K. Hamilton and I am putting that onus on the publishers and the editor they assigned to her.  I am hoping that their relationship will improve or that someone will add in anther person in the process who knows Laurell K. Hamilton’s books backward, forward and upside down (other then her significant others) and can discuss whatever Laurell K. Hamilton needs or somehow help the editor get their Laurell K. Hamilton knowledge up to snuff.

3) We have to support our authors.  If authors as important and big time as Laurell K. Hamilton are having trouble what about all our other authors.  I need my books.  They are my coping mechanism and they keep me away from my head exploding from our daily world news.

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Quote from Shannon Mayer’s Destroyer

“I turned to him, surprised by the rush of relief I felt seeing him. After all Raven had done, that I could want to trust him again should have surprised me. But that was the reality of family. You always hoped those who’d done you wrong would come back around. Maybe that was the case with Raven. Maybe we could find a friendship now.” Destroyer, Shannon Mayer

Destroyer (The Elemental Series) (Volume 7) Book Cover Destroyer (The Elemental Series) (Volume 7)
The Elemental Series
Shannon Mayer
Paranormal Romance
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (May 30, 2017)
(May 30, 2017)
e book
328

From HiJinks Ink Publishing and Shannon Mayer comes The USA Today Bestselling ELEMENTAL SERIES beginning with RECURVE (Book 1). With over 1.4 million books sold, Shannon Mayer proves, once again, she can dominate her genre right out of the gate.

“My name is Larkspur, and I am an Elemental.”

My people use the power of the earth to sustain life and defy our enemies. I should be at my father's side as a royal princess. But as a half-breed, bastard child, that isn't going to happen.

Taken away by the last Spirit Walker, I am mean to train with him so that I can finally stop the false mother goddess and her plans to rule both humans and elementals. I am meant to train so that I can meet her on even ground, but training takes time.

Time is not something we have. The world is coming apart at the seams as the humans rain down destruction upon their own kind and the supernatural world. The false mother goddess is hunting down the most powerful elementals to take the last of their power, and through it all, the secrets of who I truly am begin to spill upward.

I must find the strength to stop the mother goddess, and to save our world, but which aspect of my heart will hold me up and what will it cost me in the end?

Blood of the earth. . . .
Child of Spirit. . . .
Bastard Princess . . .
Ender . . .
Protector . . .

Destroyer.

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Devon Monk Quote

“It’s the knitters. They’ve declared war. And the crocheters are geared up for the siege.” Pause. “What now?” “The knitters. You know. The K.I.N.K.s and C.O.C.K.s.” Jean barked out a laugh and set off into a howling giggle fit. “Uhng…huh?” was the only thing I had to offer. Ryder coughed, and then laughed, a deep, warm sound that made me want to press myself closer to him so I could wallow in the joy there. Even Shoe and Hatter chuckled. Roy, just shook his head. “You’re all children.” Bathin wasn’t laughing, but he intently took in our reactions. He almost looked pleased. Which, okay, I hadn’t known him for even a day yet, but I would have expected him to be sort of into pain and suffering, not a bunch of people laughing over a couple acronyms. “Delaney,” Bertie scolded. “This is serious.” “Right. Yes. Serious. Okay. So the knitters, that’s the K.I.N.K.s?” Bertie nodded. “The K.I.N.K.s have threatened the C.O.C.Ks?” “Woulda’ thought they’d be into that,” Hatter delivered deadpan. “Did they forget their safeword?” Shoe asked. Jean’s howl turned into a hissy wheeze. Both men grinned at her reaction. She waved at them, trying to make them stop. Bertie arched her eyebrows. “Perhaps we should head to the engagement before the members get out of hand and things take a turn for the worseNope. She’d started this. And Hatter wasn’t going to miss a chance to make Jean choke on her tongue. “If you’re hard up, Shoe and I can whip those C.O.C.Ks into shape. Shoe’s got lots of practice. He can whip C.O.C.K. with one hand tied behind his back. I hear he likes it that way.” Shoe nodded, his serious expression unyielding. “Hatter has a lot of experience with K.I.N.K. He’s a master at dominating those kinds of situations.” Jean wrapped her good arm across her ribs and whispered. “Hurts. Stop. Oh, gods.”

Devon Monk, Gods and Ends

Gods and Ends (Ordinary Magic) (Volume 3) Book Cover Gods and Ends (Ordinary Magic) (Volume 3)
Ordinary Magic
Devon Monk
Paranormal Romance
306 pages

Keep your gods close and your monsters closer... Police Chief Delaney Reed thinks she knows all of Ordinary, Oregon’s secrets. Gods on vacation, lovelorn ghosts, friendly neighborhood monsters? Check. But some secrets run deeper than even she knows. To take down an ancient vampire hell-bent on revenge, she will have to make the hardest decision of her life: give up the book of dark magic that can destroy them all, or surrender her mortal soul. As she weighs her options, Delaney discovers she can no longer tell the difference between allies keeping secrets and enemies telling the truth. Questioning loyalties and running out of time, Delaney must choose sides before a kidnapping turns into murder, before rival crochet and knit gangs start a war, and before the full moon rises to signal the beginning of Ordinary’s end.

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Devon Monk Quote

“Grief is a terrible houseguest,” he said. “It shows up when we least expect it and leaves long after it’s overstayed its welcome.” His eyes darkened, and he stared into his empty beer glass. –Devon Monk, Death and Relaxation

 

 

Death and Relaxation Book Cover Death and Relaxation
Ordinary Magic
Devon Mark
Paranormal Romance
OddHouse Press
(June 18, 2016)
324 pages

Monsters, gods, and mayhem... Police Chief Delaney Reed can handle the Valkyries, werewolves, gill-men and other paranormal creatures who call the small beach town of Ordinary, Oregon their home. It’s the vacationing gods who keep her up at night. With the famous rhubarb festival right around the corner, small-town tensions, tempers, and godly tantrums are at an all-time high. The last thing Delaney needs is her ex-boyfriend reappearing just when she's finally caught the attention of Ryder Bailey, the one man she should never love. No, scratch that. The actual last thing she needs is a dead body washing ashore, especially since the dead body is a god. Catching a murderer, wrestling a god power, and re-scheduling the apocalypse? Just another day on the job in Ordinary. Falling in love with her childhood friend while trying to keep the secrets of her town secret? That’s gonna take some work

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Book Review of Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Deadmen Walking

Book Review of Sherrilyn Kenyon’s Deadmen Walking

I’m usually a big Kenyon fan.  I looked forward to this release because it promised more information about the Hellchasers and Thorn.  We’ve seen glimpses of them in other books, but this was supposed to explain things a little more clearly.  It really didn’t.  We had a lot of new character introduced who were given a second chance after being damned and some new species to learn about.

These creatures fight the worst of the worst out of the sight of humans.  But, the romance between the two main characters fell flat and there just wasn’t enough to keep interest in the story.  It was complicated by an ex wife who was the sister of the main heroine, who is also the ship.  It was an ok read.  I give it 3 out of 5 stars since it really disappointed.

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Happy Birthday to Me

Don’t know that anyone else will say it so I will…I am going to have a great birthday today.  I have so very much to be grateful for-I am alive, I have experienced great love, I have two girls, who despite being teenagers love AND like me, I have people spread far and wide who love me.  And so I go into my birthday grateful and positive about whats to come.

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Re: Hunt the Moon Chapter 26 & 27

freespeechfandom:

@bestbooklover
Once he is healed enough to actually take control of the sex he is still not willing to let Cassie in at all. Cassie trusts him to not kill her but he doesn’t and he doesn’t want to get any more vulnerable to Cassie and so he limits it to oral sex and her orgasm.

Yeah good point. While Rosier’s prohibition was still in effect, that applies to demon sex, so he was held back more by his own figurative demons I think. It also highlights that Cassie and Pritkin never really make a conscious decision (about being intimate) that they commit to. Without external pressure, neither of them would initiate it.

@windsurfingthroughhell said:

Idk, I just have weird and particular ideas about consent and autonomy. I don’t like people making choices for Cassie, especially as regards her body, but this particular instance of it bothers me less than say, that Mircass scene in TtD, because Pritkin didn’t compromise her ability to consent, Rosier did, and he also apologised for it later

As @bestbooklover mentions, Cassie consented to the process at the start. What I’m curious about is why we’re all focusing on Cassie, when she was a deliberate, initiative-taking active party in the whole ordeal. It was Pritkin who was unconscious, who had his body intimately handled without his awareness or prior consent. He didn’t ask Cassie for sexual help, even though he could have; he would have never touched her in any of the scenes if not for Cassie’s demands/actions to ensure that he does.

And even when he does yield to her, he is clearly very conflicted. He is torn and upset, more so than Cassie ever was about any of her sexual encounters. It is him, not Cassie, who is broken and guilt-ridden and angry and catatonically traumatized in the shower, it’s not Cassie who needs comfort, it’s Pritkin. And Cassie has just forced him to relive his worst nightmare and do things he hates and shuns on his own volition.

I did make a satire post about this around April to illustrate double standards and biases, but since nobody addressed Pritkin’s consent, it proves that this topic might be worth a more serious post. I’m not sure whether it’s actually the books or the fandom that focuses so much on Cassie’s more minor experiences and ignores far more traumatic events for other characters, but consent should be a non-gendered topic, just like physical violence (the trivialization of which Cassie also does in the books).

Yay!  I love it when we all start talking!

@freespeechfandom has some valid points.  As we move through the books, there are some issues regarding Pritkin’s consent.  However, if we waited for Pritkin to agree to be healed through his incubus side by Cassie-he would have died first.  Pritkin definitely has a hero complex and has consistently maintained that Cassie would be better off letting him go.  I agree that consent is a two sided issue and would love to see a well adjusted Pritkin so we could discuss his consent without his suicidal starving of his incubus and his outright denial of his feelings for Cassie.

As for why I keep talking about Cassie-in my opinion the whole series is about Cassie.  So I am cassie-centric in my thoughts and posts.

I think Cassie supports Pritkin in the shower.  I think she tries as hard as she can to be his friend.  Now admittedly Cassie jumped into the deep end of friend and love interactions from the time she first comes to the Senate against her will.  Cassie has never had a friend or a lover or even a real bodyguard other than Billie Joe and a hell raising, card cheating ghost from the 1800′s isnt exactly the best template for friendship.

I will be the first to admit that within the books there are boundary issues all around and there is more than enough for everyone!

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