CURSE THE DAWN *Cassandra Palmer series Book 4* by Karen Chance

Publisher: Onyx
Date published: April 2009
ISB: 978-0-451-41270-6
Urban Fantasy
Mass Market Paperback
Reviewed by Shaiha


Things are heating up in Cassie’s world. She might be the Pythia but it sure seems as though everyone in the supernatural community wants to kill her with the exception of the vampire Senate and even that protection has its price in the form of a very sexy master vampire named Mircea. All she wants to do is convince the community that they all need to work together or Apollo will make mincemeat of everyone when he returns.

Karen Chance’s Cassie Palmer books just keep getting better and better. The latest offering CURSE THE DAWN has to be her finest yet. Cassie is a spunky heroine with a lot of heart and untrained power who is trying her very best to stay alive long enough to convince the other players that they really do need to learn to play together long enough to defeat Apollo who will kill everyone in the supernatural community. She is being helped out by two very different men, both alphas who don’t care for each other. Mircea is an ultra sexy vampire who claims Cassie as his own and John Pritkin, a combat mage, who has turned against the mage circle because he believed in Cassie.

I can and do highly recommend CURSE THE DAWN and the entire series to any reader that enjoys urban fantasy with top notch characters and nonstop action. I do recommend reading the entire series through as it would be easy to become lost otherwise. Cassie will worm her way right into your heart because she really is a regular girl with some added problems. And her men are to die for. Be sure to pick up your copy of CURSE THE DAWN right away.

SILENT FALL by Barbara Freethy

Publisher Onyx
Date published April 2008
ISBN 978-0-451-41255-3
Romantic Suspense
Paperback
Reviewed by Tammy





Barbara Freethy keeps readers guessing when she pairs a stubborn bachelor with an equally tenacious psychic in this suspenseful race to expose the truth before a killer catches up with them.

Dylan is in the mountains for his brother’s wedding when a former lover shows up and lures him into the woods only to leave him drugged and accused of her murder. Catherine Hilliard is a psychic haunted with a dark past and cryptic visions that reluctantly lead her to help her best friend’s brother-in-law prove his innocence. As the evidence piles up against Dylan, and Catherine is accused of being his accomplice, it becomes clear that they have both been targeted by a sinister mastermind that has targeted them both, leaving them racing to stay alive long enough to expose the truth and stop a killer before the killer finds them and ends any possibility of a happier ever after for these multifaceted characters.

Barbara Freethy’s SILENT FALL is the follow up novel to her popular SILENT RUN. Though Dylan and Catherine are introduced in the first book, it isn’t necessary to read that book in order to fully enjoy SILENT FALL.

Dylan doesn’t believe in Catherine’s psychic abilities, yet he is undeniably attracted to her and when he finds himself in need of help, it seems only natural that he turns to her. They are both wounded souls with trust issues. Catherine is plagued with nightmares from a childhood trauma that may or may not be part of the mystery. Dylan grew up with an abusive father after his mother disappeared from his life, leaving him with only his brother to rely upon. As the mystery unfolds, things become clearer as others simply become more confused. This story twists and turns and where it ends will be an unexpected surprise sure to shock.

This is one suspense filled romance you will not be able to put down. This reader loved Barbara Freethy’s SILENT FALL so much it appears that the book that came before, SILENT RUN, may be my next purchase. Now what will be the wily Freehy’s next story hold? The suspense just never ends.