Book Review - Way of the Shadows - Cynthia Eden

Title: Way of the Shadow
Author: Cynthia Eden
Stars 3 1\2 out of 5

Review:
I have always enjoyed Cynthia Eden because she is able to mix Romance with heart pounding suspense so I thought I would read her Harlequin Intrigue series Shadow Agent series. I have read a few books in this series and they were all good but nothing that made me want to tell the world but they were good for a quick read while waiting to pick my kids up from school.

This book picks up right after book 7 which I did read so I wasn't lost as I read book 8. However if book 8 was your first in the series you wouldn't feel lost because the author is able to bring all 8 stories together in one fluid moved. 

Fifteen years ago Noelle Evers was kidnapped changing her life forever now she is a FBI profiler who gets inside the head of killers because she can't remember her own past. EDO brings her into their newest case partnering her with Thomas Anthony known as the Dragon. From the moment they meet Noelle feels something hauntingly familiar but she doesn't understand why. Thomas has kept a secret for over fifteen years and now he is partner is with the one woman he wants to tell all his secrets too. 
When someone tries to kill them Thomas decides he will take what he always wanted Noelle if she is will understand his past while they are chasing a murder from Noelle past all over the freezing cold Alaskan land.

I love Cynthia Eden I think anyone can see I have read almost everything she has written but her Paranormal Romance because it just not my thing. The Shadow Agents series I have picked up a few books here and there because they have never really held my interest to read all 8 novels. The story is an adventure with lots of sex or in other words two people who are the most perfect specimens on the planet. 

The Author writes a great hero always the all dark and handsome man with a painful past. He saves the day while looking amazing hot and sexy. I wish that for once our hero and for that matter female lead didn't always have to have a painful past they need to get over to feel the ability to be loved.  This book has your tradition Romantic Suspense, lots of nonstop action, sexy stuff, nonstop action, sex, story, story, action, Sex, Story, sex and the end! Bam! Wedding Bells

So if you are looking for a easy read this is your book. 
Grammar, spelling was on par for all of Cynthia Eden novel I just wish for more story and less sex.

Thanks Heidi for this review.

Synopsis:   The woman who doesn't remember is the one he can't forget in Cynthia Eden's latest Shadow Agents: Guts and Glory book.

Fifteen years ago, Noelle Evers was kidnapped. Two days later, her abductor was dead, leaving her with no memory of what happened. Now an FBI profiler, she uses her past trauma to get inside the minds of killers. But she can't read her new partner. EOD agent Thomas Anthony is controlled. Dangerous. And hauntingly familiar.

Thomas has been covertly watching Noelle's back. He wanted to tell her the truth, but couldn't blow his cover. Their latest mission just revealed a link to her past. With desire ramping up between them - and a predator hunting Noelle - it's time for Thomas to step out of the shadows. Or lose his second chance to save the woman he loves. 

Paperback, 288 pages

Published August 19th 2014 by Harlequin (first published January 1st 2014)

Author Information:  Award-winning author Cynthia Eden writes dark tales of paranormal romance and romantic suspense. She is a New York Times, USA Today, Digital Book World, and IndieReader best-seller. Cynthia is also a three-time finalist for the prestigious RITA® award . Since she began writing full-time in 2005, Cynthia has written over fifty novels and novellas.


Cynthia lives along the Alabama Gulf Coast. She loves romance novels, horror movies, and chocolate. Her favorite hobbies including hiking in the mountains (searching for waterfalls) and spelunking.

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Book Review - Ripped - A Blood Money Novel - Eddie Harris

Title: Ripped (A Blood Money Novel)

Author Edie Harris

Stars 5 out of 5

Review:

Ripped is book two of the Blood Money series and it starts off two months after book one where Beth Faraday (Tobias younger sister) has only been home recovering from tormented at the hands of a sadistic killer. Tobias Faraday runs Faraday Industries and will do anything to protect his sister and her future even if it means holding a woman in prison for a crimes he finds to be unforgivable. Chandler McCallister former British Spy is the reason his sister was tortured for days. Had she given the Faraday's the information they needed Beth wouldn't have endured the endless pain she has to be reminded of for the rest of her life. Chandler uses her sassy attitude as a way to keep everyone away from her including the only person she cares for- her twin sister.

When Tobias wants to go after the man who kidnapped his sister he needs Chandlers connections in Moscow and he doesn't care if she comes homes alive or not because all he can see is red. Tobias learns he has created enemies all over the world but he uses his nickname to get what he wants without caring who gets in the way of the Ice King.

In a twist Chandler promises she will give Tobias every last person who harmed his perfect sister if she is allowed to go to her twin sisters wedding. Tobias figures it can't be that hard to be a pretend boyfriend. He relies on his sister Beth to help him figure out how to be the perfect boyfriend.

Ripped is a gritty novel giving you the darker side in the business of weapons development. Tobias Faraday is known as the Ice king because he has no problem taking what he wants without bringing in his emotions until Chandler McCallister, who has everything he needs but refuses to give it up without conditions. Not even his cold stare gives "Toby" what he wants. Nothing Scares Chandler not even Tobias Faraday

Chandler has a family history she is not proud of but she uses it to her advantage getting her into a gang of murdering thugs. She is sickened by the blood on her hands but she does it to keep the one person she loves safe her twin sister.

Ripped will take the readers on a nonstop pulsing pounding adventure that will have reader understand Chandler so much better and instead of having her like they did in book one. This novel is gritty, bloody, lots of dead bodies but at the same time the heart of the story is all about family which is a great theme readers need in this day and age where we are told to always look out for one’s self.

This book doesn't have just steamy moments, but moment that will have the reader needing a cold glass of water. Ripped switches things up in the romance department which was a fun change.

Ripped will have the readers hooked unable to put the book down until the very last page which will have the readers excited for book 3.

Advance Copy sent by Netgalley

Thank you Heidi for this review.

Synopsis:  Attorney and political heavyweight Tobias Faraday is the Ice King, a man alone in the eye of a deadly storm. And in the wake of his sister’s torture, he’s out for blood.

The key to Tobias’s revenge is the disavowed British spy he’s kept imprisoned for weeks. Chandler McCallister can get him behind enemy lines in Russia, but the clever double-agent has a demand of her own before she puts her life on the line in the name of redemption.

Posing as Chandler’s boyfriend at an aristocratic wedding in the English countryside won’t kill Tobias. Not in theory.

As the threat of Moscow looms larger and the enemy reveals himself to be crueler than any human can imagine, Tobias reluctantly partners with his prisoner to derail the immediate threat—to their families, to Faraday Industries, and to their lives. What he finds in the process is a feverish, relentless need already melting the ice from his veins.

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Expected publication: May 18th 2015 by Carina Press

Author Information:  Edie Harris studied English and Creative Writing at the University of Iowa and Grinnell College. She fills her days with writing and editing contract proposals, but her nights belong to the world of romance fiction. Edie lives and works in Chicago.

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