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Full Moon Reads - Snow Moon

2/23/2016

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Happy Snow Moon! As you know, I like to share a fun read with you on each full moon! This month I read TWO books that just have to be shared! One is a brand-new release with an excerpt just for The Black List! Here they are...
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Author Jessie Donovan has a way with dragons. I've shared her books before, but this one was special to me!

Imagine walking away from your life, braving the danger of dragons and immersing yourself in a whole new culture in order to save your father's life by being assigned to a dragonman for six months of attempted impregnation. 

Then imagine falling hard for his TWIN BROTHER.

 This book had me smiling and nodding in the beginning. I seriously thought I had my head around it and knew right where it was going. The sassy heroine, the theme of forbidden love, all classic stories.

Boy was I wrong!

Holly isn't really a sassy heroine. Holly can be proud,  balls-to-the-wall indignant, and sometimes even implacable. Her sense of right and wrong and her desire to control her own destiny make her a fascinating character to follow in a situation where she has  very little control. 

Then the first steamy scene happened and... well, I felt like I had been punched in the ovaries. In a good way. (Just read it, you'll understand.) 

Fraser is hot as can be and a very sympathetic character though we know he has been a playboy in the past. Believe me, you will not mind at all when Holly is sorely tempted to succumb to his, er, charms.

The next standalone book in this series, The Dragon Guardian, was just released. I haven't read it yet, but I plan to. Have you read The Dragon's Dilemma or The Dragon Guardian? What do you think of Jessie Donovan's Lochguard Highland Dragons? Sound off in the comments!

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I've shared books by Sylvia Frost here before (you may remember her Moon Fate serial) but this is something DIFFERENT!

Cinder's Wolf is a standalone shifter retelling of Cinderella! I was lucky enough to have scored an advance copy and let me tell you, it was so much fun! 

Did it have a hot billionaire? YES!
​Did it have a curvy career minded heroine? YES!
Were there steamy scenes? YES!
Was there humor? Oh, YES!
Was there a unique perspective on the fairy tale characters? YES!
Am I looking forward to more fairy tales from Sylvia? YES!!!!


Here's the official blurb:

Billionaire Rex West may be known to the world as a Wall Street wonder, but he's got a secret. In order to live among humans, this werewolf has trapped his inner beast in a gilded cage of control and lost any hope of finding his mate. 

Until he meets her... 

Curvy Cynthia Cinders has one focus-- save her cleaning and organizing business and move out of her stepmother's house. So when she gets an invitation to a masquerade, she's more interested in landing an investor than playing princess. 

But this prince isn't just a prince, and he has plans for Cynthia...

​And here's an EXCLUSIVE EXCERPT just for the Black List:

“Ugh!” Cynthia kicked the air, trying to get the slime out from between her toes, and sent her blue flip-flop flying through the forest end over end in the process.
It went almost fifteen yards. Impressive. Even more impressive, it didn’t snag on any of the low-hanging leafy branches. Most impressive of all was where it landed. In a man’s hand. He plucked it from midair as easily as if time had stopped before leaning back on a nearby oak.
“Nice kick,” he drawled in an accent that was all old-money prep school. He was so not from Michigan. 
Cynthia’s eyes widened. “Nice catch.”
He gave her a too-charming grin. “Thank you.”
The first thing that struck her about him was his clothes.
Any self-respecting aspiring fashion designer would recognize the sharp silhouette of a deep blue Zachary Prell sports jacket or the gleam of bespoke cobbled oxfords. His silk navy tie had to have been custom made to match the coat. That alone was enough to grab her interest. 
Then there was the matter of his face. While his clean-shaven jaw should’ve looked non-threatening, it was male-model square, and his cheekbones were high and sharp enough to cut glass. Only his hair was slightly messy. Its sandy locks rebelled against his attempt to slick it back. The hair was the thing that gave him away as just another grade-A douchebag.
But damn it if she didn’t want to run her fingers through it. 
Cynthia frowned and crossed her arms. 
The man pushed off the tree and began to stroll toward her, sizing up her as he went. “So what are you doing in the woods?”
Cynthia refrained from rolling her eyes at his obvious interest. She pointed at her T-shirt.
“Camp Kick-A-Canoe?” he read, staring openly at her chest while not going completely slack-jawed. It was a feat most guys rarely managed.
“Camp Ki-Ka-Noo.” Her hand traced over the each syllable like the bouncy ball on a musical sing-along. “I’m a counselor.”
“Lost your campers?” He stopped about a foot away from her. It was still too close. 
“Campers left yesterday. Now I’ve just lost my friend. Brown hair, glasses—seen her?” Cynthia gestured to the forest around her vaguely, as if she and Bel were playing a game of hide-and-seek and she was just asking for a friendly tip. 
“Can’t say I have. Although I do wonder why you went on a search and rescue mission in these?” He raised an eyebrow and held up her shoe, glancing dolefully at the one remaining rhinestone that glinted in the dying light. 
“I’m not the one going on a hike in a sport coat that hasn’t even been officially released in stores yet. Are you interning at Zachary Prell?” 
“Nice guess, but no.” His second eyebrow joined his first, and his gaze dipped to survey her waist, lingering where the camp T-shirt rode up to reveal her tanned, but very much present and convex stomach. It was the one feature Cynthia was self-conscious about, but his pupils dilated as he took in her naked skin.
Cynthia tucked her shirt into her jean shorts to keep it from rising up again. “What are you doing in the woods?”
He smiled, showing a line of white teeth. They didn’t look like veneers. If anything, his canines seemed just a tad too sharp. The back of her knees went stiff.
 “I live nearby.” He pointed casually in a direction that Cynthia would’ve sworn was the way back to camp. As he turned, a sunbeam caught on his dark eyes, revealing the hidden blue color beneath them.
He caught her staring, but kept smiling in that way that should have been gentle. “I heard yelling,” he continued, “so I thought I’d investigate.” He looked her up and down once again, and this time, his eyes did linger on her chest. For a while.
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Have you read Cinder's Wolf? What did you think? What fairy tale do you hope Sylvia Frost will retell next? Sound off in the comments!

36 Comments
Jan Murphree
2/23/2016 10:50:57 pm

Have not read yet!!in my list !! Should get to it tomorrow!!! Awesome Blurbs!!!

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Sylvia Frost link
2/24/2016 02:19:11 am

Wow, I'm so glad you're intrigued! I hope you enjoy!

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BJ Cox
2/23/2016 10:52:22 pm

Have to try these!

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Terri S.
2/23/2016 10:52:56 pm

Whoa! These sound like great reads. I love shifter books, especially dragons. ;-) It's funny that you mentioned the Snow Moon because that's what this area is expecting tonight..Snow. Lol

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Tasha Black
2/23/2016 11:04:20 pm

Oh my goodness, will the snow never end? I love dragons too! :)

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Lori H
2/23/2016 10:57:40 pm

I agree that The Dragons Dilemma was a great book and I'm looking forward to reading the next in the series.
As for the other book, I'm looking forward to reading a new author. The book sounds amazing.

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Tasha Black
2/23/2016 11:06:17 pm

Yes, it's really good- tons of steamy tension and some very funny moments! :)

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Mary Carnahan
2/23/2016 11:18:05 pm

Oh man, my must read list is getting so long, I don't think I'm going to live long enough to read all the books on it. I think it would so cool if dragons were real. Nice ones, of course.

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Stephanie Jordan
2/23/2016 11:26:39 pm

I've read both books and just love Fergus and Fraser .. Fergus is quite the man ....
Dragonmen are the bomb especially my Golden Dragon Finn.
Bram Moore-Llewellyn is Stonefire's Clan Leader he has to watch out for baseball bats, Lochguard's Clan Leader is Finn Stewart...

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Diana
2/23/2016 11:31:57 pm

Already read the Dragons Dilemma and loved it !!! Can't wait for the next book

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Pat Copenhaver
2/23/2016 11:55:41 pm

I'm always on the lookout for new authors to stalk, er follow. And I have a thing for dragons, so that's always a plus!

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Ginny Stokes-Young link
2/24/2016 12:05:03 am

I bought these and haven't gotten around to reading either one yet! From your comments I think they will be next, as soon as I finish this one I'm reading now!

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Cyndi Lockhart
2/24/2016 12:31:34 am

Just bought both!

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Sylvia Frost link
2/24/2016 12:11:21 pm

Awesome! I hope you enjoy it! Let me know what you think. :-)

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Barbara Hill
2/24/2016 01:16:35 am

I haven't read either but you make them sound really good, so I'm gonna have to check them out!

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Jennifer McKinney
2/24/2016 01:17:34 am

Sound interesting already. I'm definitely checking out this series. I hope it stays this hot between these characters all the way through the book

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Melissa Jones
2/24/2016 01:30:18 am

I definitely need to get to both of these!!

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Natalie Jenkins
2/24/2016 03:36:24 am

Have read a lot of Jessie Donovans books but not this one yet, looking forward to getting to it!

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Valentine Lewis
2/24/2016 04:49:16 am

I loved "The BBW and the Beast" in Happily Ever Alpha, so I can't wait to get started on this second book.

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Sylvia Frost link
2/24/2016 12:12:19 pm

I'm so glad you liked BBW and the Beast, Valentine. I hope you enjoy Cinder's Wolf just as much. :-) (And stay tuned for a cameo by Bel!)

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sydney
2/24/2016 07:18:56 am

I'll have to try these, thank you!

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Michelle
2/24/2016 07:19:50 am

Omg Cinder' s Wolf sounds awesome! ! !

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Sylvia Frost link
2/24/2016 12:12:44 pm

I'm so glad you think so! :-)

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Amy link
2/24/2016 07:36:16 am

WOW!!! Cinder's Wolf left me wanting more to where I'm going to go get it, as well as Dragon's Dilemma - with only the blurb for Dragon's Dilemma (but I LOVE Wolves and Dragons, and books about shifts wolves and dragons, so...). Thanks for the blurb's and excerpt.

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Sylvia Frost
2/24/2016 12:13:06 pm

Thanks! :-) I'm so glad I could entice you!!

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Lissette Norton
2/24/2016 08:16:33 am

Always looking for new authors to read! Both excerpts have me hooked! Going to add both of them to my TBR list! Thanks!

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Jennifer McIntosh
2/24/2016 08:38:37 am

Thanks for the excerpts. I've added both to my "Books to get" list! "The Dragon's Dilemma" sounds amazing. I do love a good dragon shifter tale.

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Haley S.
2/24/2016 08:57:09 am

Both of these sound great, and I loved the excerpt. I'll definitely have to check these out!

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Michelle Ferrari-Johnson
2/24/2016 09:45:28 am

These all sound right up my alley~ Putting on tbr list

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Constance Burney
2/24/2016 11:55:12 am

Wow, this one sounds good. I always love fairy tales. Definitely on my read list. Thanks

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Carol Lepley
2/24/2016 12:20:52 pm

Wow, if I wasn't already a shifter fanatic this blurb would have clinched it. Can't wait to read these books.

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Colleen C.
2/24/2016 12:39:35 pm

Both books sound like books I would enjoy... that cover for Cinder's Wolf keeps drawing my eye!

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Cherri-Anne Boitson
2/24/2016 03:03:16 pm

Hi Tasha!

First off, Thanks for the chance! :) However, I would have commented anyways! I have been eyeing Jessie's book, but now I know that I HAVE TO HAVE IT!!! and WHOOOOT! Is a full length novel! double WHOOT! I do have quite a few of her books, but since I am so busy with review books, I haven't had a chance to read them yet.

As for Sylvia's book - Sylvia is a new-to-me author and I CANNOT WAIT to read her books! I LOVE Fairy Tails, I Tales, retold especially when they are retold with Vampires or Shifters! I do love my Vampires, but have come to love shifters almost as much! :)

Thank you so much Tasha for your SHIFTACULAR insight on both books! My elibrary is going to explode pretty soon, but thankfully, I can always build another eshelf! snicker

Cheers! HUGS Have a great one & take care Honey, Honey & Honey! xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

(I am always willing to review paranormal books, so if any of you are looking for reviewers, let me know! I am on FB under Cherri-Anne Boitson. :) ) HUGS

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Tami Rogers
2/24/2016 04:39:28 pm

Love it when you share :) my tbr grows by leaps and bounds.

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Essie Munro
2/26/2016 10:18:17 pm

I love dragons. Have to get this book and enjoy a good read. Looking forward to getting the Cinderella story as well. Like all paranormal stories, but dragons best.

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Chris Roberts
2/27/2016 08:29:50 am

Oh, I need to find some more room in my book budget for the dragon book.

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