Broken Teepee: Book Review and Giveaway: Ecstasy Unveiled by Larissa Ione

Monday, February 01, 2010

Book Review and Giveaway: Ecstasy Unveiled by Larissa Ione

From the Publisher's Website:

Lore is a Seminus half-breed demon who has been forced to act as his dark master's assassin. Now to earn his freedom and save his sister's life, he must complete one last kill. Powerful and ruthless, he'll stop at nothing to carry out this deadly mission.

Idess is an earthbound angel with a wild side, sworn to protect the human Lore is targeting. She's determined to thwart her wickedly handsome adversary by any means necessary-even if that means risking her vow of eternal chastity. But what begins as a simple seduction soon turns into a passion that leaves both angel and demon craving complete surrender.

Torn between duty and desire, Lore and Idess must join forces as they battle their attraction for each other. Because an enemy from the past is rising again-one hellbent on vengeance and unthinkable destruction.

About the Author:

I began writing the way so many writers do—the moment I learned to wield a pencil. But even as a child, I didn't write "kid" stories. I preferred something more dramatic. Something that didn't include Dick, Jane, and a dog named Spot. I wanted my characters to be named Dracula and my dogs to have names like White Fang or Cujo. I'll always have my parents to thank for that. They never censored my reading material (though I suspect that if they had truly known what was between the covers of some of the books, they'd have been a little more careful,) so when other girls my age were reading Laura Ingalls Wilder and Judy Blume, I was immersing myself in Stephen King and Dean Koontz.
Later, after I'd joined the Air Force and was in dire need of something to read between shifts at the weather station, I continued to read horror, but I'd branched out into fantasy, and then, finally, romance (though I admit I went kicking and screaming to the latter.)
Turned out that I loved romance! So I started writing it, but again, my style and voice leaned toward the dark, paranormal side. Fortunately for me, paranormal romance, as a sub-genre, was booming. I let my imagination fly, and soon I'd sold a series of dark, sexy paranormal romances to Grand Central Publishing.

My Opinion:

This was my first Demonica novel so I had a bit of catching up to do. There is a very handy glossary in the front of the book; I think that without it a new reader to the series would have been completely lost so I was very grateful for its presence. At the core this is a romance story and it's a good one. The characters are ones you can really root for and the twists the book take really come as a surprise - at least they did to me. It was a story that kept you rooting for the good guy and cheering when the bad guys met their inevitable ends. The sex scenes are VERY graphic so if you don't go in for that be aware.

Ecstasy Unveiled is available at Amazon.com

Now, on to the giveaway! Thanks to Anna and The Hachette Book Group I have FIVE copies of Ecstasy Unveiled to give away. But first some rules:

One copy per household
US and Canada only
NO PO Boxes

So how do you win? It's easy!

MANDATORY ENTRY:

Go here and tell me your favorite fun fact. Be sure to leave me an email address so I can contact you if you win.

EXTRA ENTRIES:

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All entries need to be in by 9PM MST on February 15th when I will go to Random.org to choose the winners. They will have 48hrs to respond or I will choose new winners. Good luck everyone.

Disclosure: I received a gratis copy of Ecstasy Unveiled for review. Any opinions expressed are my honest opinions and were not impacted by the receipt of the free book. I received no further compensation for this review.