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Jourdyn Kelly

Autor(a) de Something About Eve

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This book was a very good, on point, novella that spiced up my yesterday. I've not read erotica between women before that this book was a really great new area of erotica for me. I enjoyed the book and it's always nice when books are so good that you can't actually stop reading it until the end and even then you would like to read more. I also liked how both the main characters were so different from each other and that actually, the dominant one was Rebecca who was smaller and more fragile than Cas. All in all, it was a lovely book and I loved it!

* ARC received from the publisher
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AllAndAnyBooks | Sep 17, 2020 |
Well Mousiey has one for you!! This one is called "DESTINED TO LOVE" by JOURDYN KELLY. This is the 2nd book in the series of 'DESTINED' I was given a copy of this book by the author in exchange for an honest opinion. This is mouiseys opinion of her book. I read her first book, DESTINED TO KILL. And it was truly amazing and I thought the author would not be able to top it. Boy was I wrong. She is able to take the scenes to a whole new level along with her characters.
As the story starts out we find Ana waiting on Zac to wake up from his coma from being turned. Her boyfriend Sam is a homicide detective . She tells her hunters that they need to train so that if an when they are faced with Thomas they will be ready.
Thomas is turning humans into hybrids and not thinking twice about it. Just to get back at Ana. She was suppose to be his. Ana goes out looking searching for them one night and in the park she finds a woman being attack by one. She defends the woman and kills the hybrid. Then for the woman safety she takes her back to her estate. Ana believes that she is actually a hunter. But before she reveals herself to her. She has the group give there opinion of her. They all agree that Sarah is a hunter, they ask her to join them.
Now what happens to Zac, Thomas and Sam?? Does Sam and Ana stay together?? I recommend this book for all especially for paranormal readers!!! I give it a rating of 30 out of 5 stars. GO GET IT NOW ON AMAZON!!! DON'T WAIT RUN !!!
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m0usey | Nov 25, 2014 |
This book was awesome. It was very entertaining and action packed.

In this book Anala is a hunter and part of the hunters society whose job is to kill the Cursed Ones (vampires). The book starts in England in the 1406 with Anala being 10 years old and being trained by her father. Anala's parent are the head of the hunters society and are the best hunters. A few years later Anala is 18 years old and patrolling the village with Thomas, her friend and love interest at the time. While she is out patrolling she gets bit by a cursed one. She becomes kind of a hybrid where she has the fangs, the vamp eyes, their strength, speed and heightened senses but she keeps her personality, her sense of self and he ability to think and speak. (In this book, at Anala's time, the cursed ones are mindless animals who cannot think or talk, eventually they evolve to be able to speak and think.) Her parents decide to try to cure her instead of kill her (as is the code of the hunters society), enlisting the help of her father's former apprentice Bernard, who is sketchy. Anala is allowed to go out hunting wearing all black and a cloak that covers her cursed eyes and she becomes what people call the Cloaked One. Anala's parents are murdered before she is able to be cured. The story now moves to California to the present day, where Anala is enrolled in high school. Bernard is still alive and tells Anala that the cursed ones are still alive and making an army (Anala had destroyed all the cursed ones during her 600 years). He charges Anala to find current hunters and train them. Anala finds the hunter teen in her high school and she trains them to fight the army of cursed ones and kill the vamp maker. Of course in comes Sam who is a descendant of Thomas and a romance is added to the mix.

I loved reading the mythology of vampires in this book. Each author has their own perspective on vampires which makes it interesting to read different vamp books. I loved the vampires in this book with the exception of them being mindless. They have super strength and speed and heightened senses. Staking doesn't kill them, only incapacitates them and put them to sleep until the stake is pulled out. The only way to truly kill them is decapitation or setting them on fire. Sunlight doesn't kill them, only thing that can happen is that their powers are reduced but still more than a human. They are also able to compel humans to their will. The vamps who are in transition to become vamps but are still part human are called hybrids. They are not as strong as full blood vamps but they still have the enhanced powers. I have to say that I did not like the mindlessness of the early vamps but they evolve to be able to think, plan and speak. I loved the vamps in this book.

The mythology of hunters is very interesting too. They are humans who have special innate abilities that allows them to fight the Cursed Ones and hybrids. Each hunter has different abilities: some have strength, some have fierceness, some have the ability to sense vamps and hybrids. They train all the time in hand to hand combat as well as with weapons, especially swords.

I loved Anala. In the beginning she is head strong, unfocused (which causes her to get bit), and impatient to begin hunting. She is young, naive and wants to prove herself. Later on in the book in the present day, Anala is more cautious with the hunters she's training and at times still unsure of herself. She is more experienced but she still has a fierce anger and she unleashes it to her hunters at times. She still struggles with the craving for blood and fights the cursed one in her all the time. She still holds fast to the code of the hunters and makes her new hunters adhere to it as well. She is weary about love but she does fall in love. She loves her hunters as well and cares for them very much. She is also trusting. Not to mention that in both eras she is totally kick ass! She is an expert in swordsmanship and combat. Reading about the fights she's in and her moves are awesome and make me wish that I could do that stuff.

The other characters are awesome as well. Amanda is hilarious and is Anala's best friend. She is a descendant of Thomas (as is her brother Sam). She seems selfish, bubbly and kind of an airhead in the beginning. However when she becomes a hunter she is strong, observant, selfless and caring especially to Anala. She trains hard and is an exceptional hunter, also doing the fighting moves that make me jealous. Sam is another character as well that I like. He is very protective of Amanda and becomes that way to Anala as well. He is not a teenager like the rest of the hunters. He is older and is a cop. He is also one of the best hunters and he and Amanda have the ability to sense vamps and hybrids. The other hunters are awesome as well. Not much is known about them and I hope we get to learn about them more in the next book. Some of the other hunters were surprising. Jenna is the captain of the cheerleading squad, Jeremy is a football player, Erica and Emily are twin sibling fencers and Zac is one of Anala's friends. Its interesting to see all these personalities thrown together and how they become a family. Its very touching.

The one thing I wasn't too fond of was the romance. First, to me at lease, its seems like it came out of left field. First Sam and Anala don't really get along, the next thing you know they're sleeping together. Also to me it seem more just about sex than love and the love was thrown in after the fact. It doesn't seem real to me and I don't feel the love between them. But that's just me. Maybe it will be different in the next book.

I loved this book and recommend it for everyone to read. I can't wait for the next book!

This review is also posted on Spantalian's Book Reviews




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spantalian12 | Jan 10, 2014 |
This author's work is a fiction of the imagination. Her story is of an informative nature. The average reader will have a high school education. The author's tone is informal; and presented in third person narrative. The title chosen was perfect for the storyline. This author's structure of text and language is organized professionally which makes the story an easy read. There are so many twist and turns - it's another fascinating aspect of the story. For a first time writer, I feel this author developed an excellent plot, her writing is superb and character descriptions and settings are awesome. They are so vivid it makes the scenes and people appear real.

There was truly Something About Eve - a woman you'd love to hate; and hate to love! She had everything sex appeal, smarts, money - and her own empire of businesses. If you're looking to read a book packed with intriguing action, this is the one. There is a multitude of going-ons: from romance, betrayal, sabotage, fantasies, suicide to murder. I was hoping the two women would not let their emotions get the best of 'em -since they both had a lot at stake. Guess, it was bound to happen, thou. I was constantly trying to figure out who the real villains were, trying to destroy Eve and her empire. The way the author played this story up was awesome - it took a level of imagination to make it all so real.

It's not over yet for Eve, I believe. The way this story ended: "She had never been happier." "As she was being watched through the binoculars, . . . he walked away." With the finishing touch here ("a twist"), there will be more to her tale than a "supposedly" happy ending. Certainly, we can expect to hear more from this author. And that's a good thing! Overall, it's an impressive tale for a fictional work of art, and "Something About Eve" will make a great gift for any occasion. I love this story and recommend it. As a reader, I'm sure you'll agree.
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Nina_N | Nov 7, 2013 |

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12
Membros
56
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#291,557
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½ 4.5
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4
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14

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