Guest Post
Reasons to Love Paranormal Books
by Jennifer Lyon
by Jennifer Lyon
Hi Everyone! It’s awesome to be back to
one of my favorite blogs, Vampire, Werewolves, Fairies, Oh My! Thank you so
much for having me here today! Let’s grab some coffee and chat about why we
love paranormal books. I’ll go first…
1)
Magic! The real world is hard. I
remember sitting at the end of my mom’s bed in her last days in complete
despair. Then I picked up Harry Potter…and for a few hours, I escaped into a
world where those who were powerless and downtrodden discovered magic. That
book, and that feeling of wonder and hope, got me through. Frankly, I think
books have a magic of their very own.
2)
Heroes! Oh yeah, doesn’t it seem like
the heroes in a paranormals are even sexier? Stronger, more alpha, brimming
with swagger and confidence but able to back that up with real action. They are
insanely protective. And yet…most of the heroes I meet in paranormals respect
their women, and admire her for her strengths. In Caged Magic, Linc needs
Risa’s magic to break his curse, and comes to love her magic as part of her.
3)
The women of paranormals tend to be
kickass! I love a heroine who discovers her own strengths and is willing to
fight for those she loves or what she believes is right. In paranormal worlds,
women often have some power that makes them uniquely special. The hero doesn’t
just love them, he needs them. It feels like they connect on more levels and
their love is deeper than non-paranormal stories.
4)
The stakes are higher. In paranormal
worlds, the hero and heroine are fighting bigger threats, ramping up the intensity.
5)
Sex rocks! Oh my, does it ever Magic can come into
play, making for some very sexy scenes. I just read WICKED RIDE by Rebecca
Zanetti and whoa, I needed a fire extinguisher. Really! The witches in that
story wield fire, and believe me, I never found fire at all sexy. But the way
the hero used it during a sex scene was hot.
Those
are just a few of my reasons for loving paranormal romance. What are some of
your reasons?
Blurb: Risa Faden is a witch whose ultra-powerful shield magic is
slowly breaking her mind. But when her beloved goddaughter is snatched by a
demon, she’ll risk anything to rescue the baby—including lying to the handsome,
intriguing stranger who has the power to help her keep her sanity, save the
child…and steal her heart.
Linc Dillinger is a Wing Slayer Hunter whose sexy, rich,
bad-boy charm hides a treacherous betrayal that left him emotionally scarred.
As a result he risks his life to protect innocents, but is incapable of
love—until he meets a beautiful witch who can save his cursed soul. Risa’s
fierce courage and loyalty reaches past his barriers and he begins to believe
she has the magic to free his caged heart.
But Risa’s lie explodes into dark danger that forces Linc into
a hellish high-stakes gamble: He must either win the witch he loves and her
godchild…or endure a loss that will destroy them all.
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Excerpt:
“But there’s a price.”
She jerked her gaze up. “What?”
He lifted her hand to his mouth, his
warm lips sliding over her knuckles. “You’ll let me kiss you first. A deep,
owning kiss.”
Her heart started to pound. “You
want to kiss me?”
“I want to kiss you so hard you’ll go
to sleep and wake up with the taste of me. No one else, Risa. Me.”
Intensity.
She’d never experienced this pull, this inability to emotionally distance
herself from another person. He had a magnetic effect, tugging her into him.
“Is this the soul bond?”
Bronze shimmered in his eyes. “I
don’t know. But you’re ripping me open, making me need more than sex. I need
your touch.”
Recognition sounded in her like a
gong. Touch. They’d both had too much
of the wrong kind and not enough of the right. She thought of the way he’d held
her last night, even after finding out it had been her father who kidnapped and
gave him to the bastards who’d caged him. Yet Linc hadn’t seen her ugliness.
Instead, he’d held her until she fell asleep.
Safe in his arms.
And now he was unfailingly honest in
what he needed. A kiss. Touch. Unable to stop herself, she wrapped her hands
around Linc’s sides. The powerful muscles twitched beneath her palms.
“Kiss me.” She tugged him to her.
Linc curled his palm around her nape
and lowered his gaze to her lips.
The air between them thickened.
Sizzled. Her lips tingled, and her heart thumped.
He stroked his thumb along the
sensitive curve of her throat. Arousal rode her nerve endings, pebbling her
nipples and warming her belly. She squeezed her thighs together, vividly aware
of her nakedness beneath the shirt.
His mouth touched hers, warm velvety
lips gliding over hers with a slow exploration while his thumb lazily caressed
her jaw.
No one kissed her like this, as if
they needed to learn every secret of her mouth. She tracked her hands over his
shoulders, absorbing the warm skin stretched over powerful muscles. Bold hunger
flickered, and she licked at his mouth.
A groan rumbled against her palm on
his chest. He wrapped his arms around her and lifted her off her feet. Pinning
her to the wall, he tilted her chin up and consumed her. His tongue dueled with
hers, then darted away, exploring and marking her.
Risa shivered as the taste of him
hit her tongue, like dark chocolate mixed with real cream and whipped until
irresistible. Greed for more pulled out a moan. She’d never have enough of his
flavor or the feel of his mouth moving over hers as if he were as starved for
her as she was for him. The kiss devoured her.
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Thank you for the spotlight and sharing the excerpt on one of my fave sites; Vampires, Werewolves & Fairies, Oh My! I so appreciate it!
ReplyDeleteJennifer,
DeleteWendy, LT and I ALWAYS enjoy having you!!! We have been huge fans of The Wing Slayers from the very beginning. I just finished Caged Magic and absolutely LOVE it !!!!!!
we sure do!
ReplyDeleteOk wad going to start different book but after reading this. I'm reading Caged Magic!!
ReplyDeleteMmmm yes. I love the alpha heroes. They do seem to have that added bit of growly yum to them :)
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for hosting Jennifer this week!
Jennifer, I'm so happy CAGED MAGIC is finally out. it felt like a lifetime, but you made the book worth it.
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