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Lauren Dane

Lauren Dane

 

Celebration of the Dead

Author: Lauren Dane

Series Connection: Witches Knot 5

ISBN: 9781419915819

Genre: Paranormal/ Vampires

 

5 Hearts

 

It is almost time for El Dia de los Muertos or Day of the Dead and what a better way to celebrate then by reading a book that celebrates the popular Mexican holiday. I know this book is from last year, but author Lauren Dane does a great job of explaining the Mexican holiday, as well as tells a fantastic story with action paced adventures, sexy vampires, great food and fabulously erotic love scenes, it is well worth the read.

 

Celebration for the Dead is the final book of the Witches Knot series available through Ellora's Cave. It tells the story of a vampire hunter and a vampire who find love while they hunt for rouge vampires.

 

Both Melanie (Minx) Rodriguez and Connor Bell are familiar characters in the previous books in the series and while it wouldn't hurt to read the rest of the books to get to know the supporting cast, it isn't necessary if you are just looking for a good read with the holiday theme.

 

Melanie is very familiar with vampires. As a young child her grandparents and brother were killed by vampires. After killing her family, Melanie was then kidnapped by the vampires and taken back to their nest to feed from, until she escaped. Hating vampires and what they did to her family set the course of Melanie's life. She joined a team of vampire hunters and now spends her days killing them.

 

Every Nov. 2, Melanie returns to her grandparents home in Mexico and celebrates El Dia de los Muertos with the local community. This year is no different, except along the way she hopes to kill a vampire or two.

 

Connor Bell is an Oathkeeper leader. His job is to find the Oathbreakers and destroy them. In one of the previous Witches Knot books he meets Melanie and her team of hunters and an attraction forms, but before they can act on their feelings Conner leaves Melanie. Now looking to get her back he follows her to Mexico intent on winning her once and for all. All he has to do is convince her and keep her from getting herself killed while she tracks down the Oathbreakers.

 

Description:

Vampire Hunter Minx Rodriguez decides to mix a little business with pleasure when she heads to Mexico to celebrate El Dia de los Muertos. She's hot on the trail of the vampire who not only took her hostage and tortured her but also killed her friends and family.

 

Connor Bell finds himself in love with a Vampire Hunter who's skipped town without notice — much like he did to her just two weeks before. He heads to Mexico to find her and make things right.

 

Even as they work through their problems and plan a feast to celebrate the lives of those they've lost to the Oathbreakers, the threat remains. A Hunter's job is never done and there's a job to do in Mexico. The question remains as to whether Minx and Connor can survive what'll be asked of them both.

 

Making Chase

Author: Lauren Dane

Series: Chase Brothers

 

5 Hearts

 

Description:

Tate Murphy is a girl from the wrong side of the tracks. She grew up a million miles away from the easy life Matt Chase has had. She's spent her life pulling herself and her siblings up and out of that trailer by the railroad tracks and she hasn't looked back. Matt Chase is a dream of a guy and she's certainly not going to turn down a short fling with one of the most handsome men she's ever seen!

 

Matt Chase has watched each one of his brothers find love and he knows he's ready for that too. It's all a matter of finding the woman who captures his heart. He's certainly sampled his fair share of them but none has moved him the way Tate Murphy does when he goes to her shop to thank her for some cookies and a thank you note.

 

But as Matt gets to know Tate and appreciate her strength and unique beauty, he also realizes she's got some big self esteem issues about her past. To build a future, he's got to find a way past some big road blocks.

 

My View:

This is the fourth book in the Chase Brothers' series and I was sorry to see the boys go. This was my favorite book of all. Matt and Tate are a great couple together. Tate is a strong compassionate woman who really needs a knight in shinning armor and that is just the man she brings out in Matt. The love scenes are not only passionate, but real. You can feel everything that Tate is going through and feel for her. If there ever was a hero it was Matt, even if you take away the fact that he's a fireman. This guy shows that he's more than just a pretty face.

 

 

Chased

Author: Lauren Dane

Series: Chase Brothers

ISBN: 1-59998-436-9

 

5 Hearts

 

Description:

Liv Davis had just about given up on her happily ever after. Burned by love more than once, she's beginning to think Mr. Right wasn't in the cards for her.

 

Marc Chase is a confirmed bachelor and lover of women—lots of them. He's determined not to fall head over heels the way his brothers have. Until he kisses Olivia Davis and realizes head over heels may not be such a bad thing after all!

 

Can Liv open her scarred heart for this younger ladies man? She loves Marc more than she can begin to admit but she's terrified of being rejected again. Marc faces a challenge greater than he's ever faced before. Making a woman believe he's more than just a great bedmate—making her believe he's in it for good.

 

In the end it will all come down to two days in a hotel and a bet. Can they both win?

 

My View:

The third book in the Chase Brothers' series and its only getting better. This book is a little different from the previous books to the series as it doesn't have a suspense driven plot. The book deals with the relationship between the two lead characters and the growing feelings between the them. Liv needs a man she can't walk all over and Marc fits the bill to a "T". This is love story you'll enjoy if you like strong vibrant women.

 

 

Taking Chase

Author: Lauren Dane

Series: Chase Brothers

ISBN: 1-59998-301-X

 

2 Hearts

 

Description:

Cassie Gambol is on the run. In what seems like another lifetime, her ex-husband nearly ended her life and effectively ended her successful career as a vascular surgeon. But even though the justice system found him guilty of attempted murder, he fled while awaiting sentencing and Carly Sunderland became Cassie Gambol.

 

Fleeing Los Angeles, she heads to small and off the map Petal, Georgia to start her life again.

 

Shane Chase, a man who's held himself away from commitment since his fiancee dumped him several years before knows the beautiful newcomer is hiding something. He's wildly attracted to her strength and her underlying vulnerability as well.

 

But the last thing Cassie wants is another big, overwhelming man who wants to control her life. A battle begins between Shane, who knows what he wants and Cassie, who knows she needs to do everything she can to keep a distance between herself and the very handsome sheriff.

 

But Cassie's ex is back and he wants her dead.

 

My View:

To be perfectly honest I didn't like this book all that well. It wasn't the story itself, but Shane Chase that did me in. Personally I thought that Cassie was too good for him. He wasn't a likable character to me in the first book, and I didn't like him much in the second. That being said, I like series books, so this book was a necessary read to go on with the rest of the books. It wasn't bad in the fact that the secondary characters were all great. I love Shane's mother, with her big hair and all. She makes up for some of the loss with Shane's character.

 

 

Giving Chase

Author: Lauren Dane

Series: Chase Brothers

ISBN: 1-59998-113-0

 

5 Hearts

 

Description:

Some small towns grow really good looking men! This is the case with the four Chase brothers. The home grown hotties are on the wishlist of every single woman in town and Maggie Wright is no exception.

 

Maggie has finally had it with the men she's been dating but a spilled plate of chili cheese fries drops Shane Chase right into her lap. The sheriff is hot stuff but was burned by a former fiancˇe and is quite happy to play the field.

 

After Shane's skittishness sends him out the door, Maggie realizes that Kyle Chase has had his eye on her from the start. Now that Shane has messed up, Kyle has no intention of letting anything stop him from wooing her right into his bed.

 

Despite Maggie's happiness and growing love with Kyle, a dark shadow threatens everything—she's got a stalker and he's not happy at all. In the end, Maggie will need her wits, strength and the love of her man to get her out alive.

 

My View:

This wasn't my favorite Chase Brothers' series book, but Kyle was definely my favorite Chase brother. I think I could fall in love with this guy. Who girl wouldn't? He was sensitive, sweet, in love with Maggie from the start and even stepped aside when he thought his big brother wanted her. When Maggie and Kyle finally do get together the writer is able to build in such deep emotional bonds between the couple that you feel everything as if you were living in the little town of Petal, Georgia along with them.

 

This story had a great suspenseful plot. Well worth the time to sit down and read it.

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