Book Review: Bitterroot

Bitterroot Part One by SM Reine and Heather Hildenbrand

Seventeen year-old Regan Vuk has lived her whole life under the shadow of her mother, the pack alpha. Everything Regan has done has been to prepare her for the role of alpha someday. She is fast, smart, and determined. According to her own pack members, she is a shoo-in.

Charlie spent her adolescence drifting from place to place with a mother who only wanted to hide her illegitimate daughter from the unforgiving reality of pack dynamics. All Charlie has ever wanted is to know her father--and any other family that's been kept from her all these years. But most of all, she wants a place to belong in the world.

When Charlie finds out the only way to fit in with her new family is to defeat her long-lost sister, she refuses. That is until she learns that the strange and alluring vampire she's befriended, Owen, is the same vampire prince that's been promised the winner. Regan has no doubt that, although she loathes the vampires, it will be her who "wins" Owen.

Only problem: Charlie's already fallen for him.

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Published September 21st 2015 by Elephantine Publishing

Review

Bitterroot has a mixture of werewolves and vampires, they're sworn enemy to one another until tragedy happen and now the fate of the werewolves lies within a young girl unaware about her royalty werewolf line and the fact that she must fight for rightful supremacy. 

The only problem is that she doesn't know if she want the title . . . or the family she's supposely belong. 

Meanwhile the half sister have been groomed her whole life, ready to take on the role as alpha once her father has steps down but now she must fight against the half sister she's never known. 

What happens if one sister despise the enemy but the other one doesn't? 

I give this an 3.7 Cat's Tails Up, the fate of the pack lies within the sisters. 

Buy links

Amazon: http://bit.ly/Bitterroot1

B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bitterroot-part-1-heather-hildenbrand/1122663399?ean=2940152356595

iBooks: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/book/bitterroot-part-1/id1040674412?mt=11

MEOW . . . MEOW . . . MEOW

Overall this was a quick read for me, I don't want to say its a cliche that its an werewolf/vampire story however the ideas were good and unexpected. Which is why  I gave it an 3.7 rather than a 3.5 because it was close to being a four Cat Tails rating but not quite.

The half sisters storyline was interesting, there's a little bit of royalty rights going on after Charlie the one who get returned to her pack and her half sister Regan who was born with the pack, they both must figure out how to avoid doing an epic battle that determines who become alpha.

One was trained to fight . . .

One was left in darkness . . 

The Vampire concept fell a little short, I think other than Charlie meeting the vampire stranger and then seeing him toward the end of part one before his real identity was reveal. It just fell short, Charlie doesn't know why the pairing is happening or why it has to happen and quite frankly neither did I as a reader other than it had to do with Charlie's mom but also the after math of Regan's mom death.

Sun Damage Blog Tour

Sun Damage (Sunshine Series #3) 

Life wasn't what Sophie was expecting, so why should death be any different? 

She’s come back from swimming between the two, and every problem she left is still there. And then some.
There’s the human world, where she has a brother on the verge of ruins, band mates all set to go on tour, and people she thought she wouldn't be seeing for a long time showing up.

Then there’s her new world, where she’s seeing and hearing things that should not be heard or seen. Where Myles knows more about her than she could have ever guessed. She still doesn't know exactly why Michael is tormenting her, but somehow, everything is connected.
The monsters are closing in on all sides and the question is, will Sophie be able to defeat them before it all ends?

Goodread : Smashwords : Barnes and Noble 

 Sunshine on Amazon Sun Poisoned on Amazon

Check out the trailers!!!!

Sun Poisoned

Sun Damage

I'm so excited to be part of this blog tour! I can't believe just under a year ago Nikki has reach out to me to review her books!!! Now finding out it was Vampires, I really was on that whole FAD where Vampires were old news but Nikki's Sunshine series wasn't just about Vampires. It was about a girl with a rare sun condition and having her own three man band and her vampire boyfriend and a sociopath vampire out to kill her.

The dark and gritty vampire series has it's own stand out personality, so if you haven't read her books do it NOW!!!!.

To read both of my review of Sunshine and Sun Poisoned, click on the links and also check out my Character interview with Sophie and Myles after Sun Poisoned.

Guest Post  

Today I didn't want to do the average interview questions about the book or about her because really I've done that. I wanted something different so when we both talked about a post the question of "What your Playlist" came up. So I asked Nikki, What's your Playlist?

The Sun Damage Playlist

1. Phantogram--The Day You Died

2. Saturday NIght--The Misfits

3. Trout Heart Replica--Amanda Palmer

4. I Don’t Want Love--The Antlers

5. Jack The Ripper--Morrissey

6. Famous Last Words--My Chemical Romance

7. Mt. Washington--The Local Natives

8. One Headlight--The Wallflowers

9. Close Your Eyes To See--Circa Survive

10. Colors--Portugal. The Man

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About Nikki Rae 

Nikki Rae is a student and writer who lives in New Jersey. She is an independent author and has appeared numerously on Amazon Best Seller lists. She is the author of The Sunshine Series and concentrates on making her imaginary characters as real as possible. She writes mainly dark, scary, romantic tales, but she’ll try anything once. When she is not writing, reading, or thinking, you can find her spending time with animals, drawing in a quiet corner, or studying people. Closely.

Where to find her
Twitter : Blog : Author page : The Sunshine Series page

Kitty and The Dead Man's Hand Review

Kitty and the Dead Man;s Hand (Kitty Norville #5) By Carrie Vaughn

HONEYMOON IN VEGAS?


Already the alpha pair of Denver's werewolf pack, Kitty and Ben now plan to tie the knot human-style by eloping to Vegas. Kitty is looking forward to sipping fru-fru drinks by the pool and doing her popular radio show on live TV, but her hotel is stocked with werewolf-hating bounty hunters. Elsewhere on the Strip an old-school magician might be wielding the real thing; the vampire community is harboring a dark secret; and the irresistible star of a suspicious animal act is determined to seduce Kitty. Sin City has never been so wild, and this werewolf has never had to fight harder to save not only her wedding, but her very life.

 

Review

WOW talk about Kitty getting hitched! But getting hitched was the least of her problem, after arriving at the Olympus and Casino. Kitty knew that part of her trip involves a live televise of her radio show "The Midnight Hour" but what she did not expect was there to be a gun show on the very same weekend. After everything that happen in Washington, Kitty been more on edge. So what does Las Vegas has to present her? Her intital plan was to sit by the pool and drink frilly drinks but that doesn't happen when she discover a stage show of shifters, an magic show and Ben getting into a poker tourament? She meet the vampire leader of Las Vegas DOM she also meet Balthasar the owner/leader of "King of Beasts" even a magician named Odysseus Grant who believes every secrets of magic should be kept secret.

Something will always cause mayhem for Kitty

 

 I give this Five Cat's Tails Ups

 

Ramble

This book was freaking Cat's Tails Ups Amazing! I love the pace of this read compare to last one and having to only focus on a few characters rather than tons by name. You read the interaction with the characters better and Does Kitty make enemies in this book? That I was unsure of except knowing that Balthasar was label as the "bad guy" character along with his pack and a female vampire. Carrie's visual aspect of Las Vegas was probably what Las Vegas is if I were to ever go there.

Now there was suppose to be a wedding right? Well that did eventually happen even though there were a few roadblocks getting to the alter. In the end it turns out that your standard magican was the one to help out and making a few hunters friends might also not be so bad.

But does everything stay in Vegas?

 

Until Next Time Kitty Norville . . . Where will Trouble come from next?

Currently Reading: Kitty Norville Style

This week I am reading Carrie Vaughn's Kitty Norville series, now I've started reading this series back in May of 2012 and I have to say first book is great but then somehow second book just doesn't fit the bill. But then the third it like "I can't put it down!" and then it time for a change.

So now I'm finally on Book Five of Kitty Norville "Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand" . . . .

How the last book ended with an proposal and now this book is about eloping but for Kitty, just doing something normal for once always involves with something supernatural and a job.

Kitty and the Dead Man's Hand

HONEYMOON IN VEGAS?



Already the alpha pair of Denver's werewolf pack, Kitty and Ben now plan to tie the knot human-style by eloping to Vegas. Kitty is looking forward to sipping fru-fru drinks by the pool and doing her popular radio show on live TV, but her hotel is stocked with werewolf-hating bounty hunters. Elsewhere on the Strip an old-school magician might be wielding the real thing; the vampire community is harboring a dark secret; and the irresistible star of a suspicious animal act is determined to seduce Kitty. Sin City has never been so wild, and this werewolf has never had to fight harder to save not only her wedding, but her very life




I started reading this book last night and already am in love with how the pace of the read is, I'm curious who's going to be the villain and will Kitty pulled through and get married?

So far Kitty and Ben have been trying very hard on how to plan the wedding but instead Kitty thought why not elope? I mean that is totally her style! But then with Kitty's radio talk show her boss suggested why not do a live televise show while she's in Las Vegas?

Um yeah hello I was going to Vegas to get married . . . not to work but she can't really complain since everything is paid for when she does work travels. Ben wasn't too happy to hear that Kitty was going to be working but he made her agree to not nag on him while he gamble in the casino while she works.

But the hotel that Kitty doing her live televise show? They are also hosting a gun show the same weekend and that makes her very uncomfortable considering all things that happen in Washington and Silver Bullets are not her friend.

So what will happen next as I continue to read it? I have no idea but something tells me trouble isn't very far away and Ben just might not be around to help her out . . .