SNAP: Happily Ever After? by Michele Drier-Review, Guest Post and Giveaway

SNAP: Happily Ever After?
The Kandesky Vampire Chronicles #6
by Michele Drier
Genre: adult, paranormal
Release Date: November 17, 2013

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date November 17, 2013

Loving Jean-Louis for eternity doesn’t mean that Maxie Gwenoch will let him turn her. Jean-Louis is a vampire, is gorgeous, is the second-in-command of the Kandesky Family of Hungarian vampires, and is her boss at SNAP, the multinational, multimedia celeb gossip empire where she is the VP for International Planning. She moves to Kiev to build a home with Jean-Louis and finds her future under a cloud from Leonid, a rival from the Huszar family, now living in a bolthole in the ruins of Chernobyl. Will Maxie find safety by giving up her days and joining Jean-Louis in the vampire nights?

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REVIEW: She’s back with another exciting story of those wonderful Kandesky’s!

Happily Ever After?, is the 6th of the Kandesky Vampire Chronicles. Michele Drier takes us on another journey into the incredibly fast paced life of the Kandesky vampires. We begin with Maxie Gwenoch arriving in Kiev to begin her assignment as Vice President of International Planning. Of course we start with a bang…as Maxie overrides Jean-Louis’s orders and goes right to the office instead of to Nik’s house.

The incredible love between Maxie and Jean-Louis is both romantic and volatile. The man gets go over the top angry when she disobeys his orders, even though she doesn’t know why he made those orders…being American and Maxie, she needs to know the why before obeying anything. A concept that’s a bit difficult for the 500 year old Jean-Louis. I love the hot and cold and angst of this whole relationship as they find their way together. It’s really fun and interesting to see what will happen next!

It seems some of the villain(s) from the last story, Leonid and Jules, escaped and have made their way to Kiev. Hence, Jean-Louis’s angst over Maxie going to the office before he could set up security.

Okay, that’s the set up for the story; I don’t do a lot of spoilers. Especially when the tale is so much fun to discover for yourselves! This one certainly is! I found myself not being able to put it down, even for dinner…I’m so hooked! I love hearing about some of the same characters and each book changes them out a bit, but they begin to feel like friends you need to keep up with. This time, we get to see a bit more of Nik; blonde, 500 years old, great looking, and loads of fun (hmmm…wouldn’t mind more of him…).

Be ready for a roller coaster ride of parties, travel, and exciting times! Remember Chernobyl? This plays a large part in this story…last spoiler! The whole story arc is moved along a bit for us as Maxie tries to make a life with Jean-Louis who wants to marry her and turn her to live with him forever. But Maxie just can’t make that decision and he’s being ever so patient. However they are together and deeply in love!

If you haven’t picked up this wonderful series…what’s stopping you? It’s fast paced, filled with fashion, gossip, and the lives of the rich and famous…with some vampires (who are pretty good guys) added in for good measure. Get a glass of your favorite beverage (mine of course is wine) and something to munch on…it helps with the nerves to have something besides fingernails to chew on; and get set for a great story and lots of wonderful romance! Enjoy, I did!

Click HERE for our review of SNAP: Love For Blood #4

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Reviewed by Georgianna

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Last fall, I heard Janet Evanovich speak.

Yep, she was as funny in person as in the Stephanie Plum books. She told stories about the “heaving bosoms” and “turgid manhood” euphemisms she had to use when writing romance books back in the day.

She told stories about her own grandmother and great-aunt reading the obituaries every day so they could plan their funeral visits.

She said that much of Stephanie’s life was modeled on her own, growing up in a middle-class neighborhood in New Jersey.

She also said that when she woke up every morning, she couldn’t wait to get back to Stephanie’s world.

I understand that.

I didn’t grow up in a castle with vampires, but when I wake up in the morning, I can’t wait to sit down and write more of the story in the Kandesky Vampire Chronicles.

Maxie, Jean-Louis, the Baron, Pen, and now Nik and Jazz are like family. And the demons—well Sandor, head demon, puts the butler on Downton Abbey to shame. Not only does he have the panache, he’s strong, incredibly fast and has protected Jean-Louis for centuries.

The scene of the action in the Chronicles has shifted from L.A. to Hungary, to Paris, to Krakow, to Kiev, and I’ve been there. At least I’ve been to France and Hungary. The rest, I’ve imagined.

I was sending an email recently and said I had to get back to Kiev. Up popped a response: “How cool! Do you speak Russian?”  Sadly, I had to say no.

It’s such a delight to spend the day with the Kandeskys. There’s danger, there’s sexual tension, there’s romance and love and there’s humor,

And there’s money—pots and pots of money. About a century ago, Baron Stefan Kandesky and Jean-Louis developed SNAP, a celebrity gossip magazine. It’s now evolved into the largest celeb gossip outlet in the world, with print editions and nightly TV shows.

SNAP covers the worlds of entertainment, aristocrats, movers and shakers and just plain millionaires and billionaires. With this kind of glam, Maxie has to look her best, so I can spend time on designers’ websites, choosing wardrobes, shoes, accessories.

I’m writing the seventh book in the series now, SNAP: White Nights. It’ll take the family deeper into the world of international armament sales, another business of Kandesky Holdings, and takes place in Kiev, Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Some people do want to hang out with the Kandeskys. The fifth book, SNAP: Love for Blood, was a finalist for the RomCon Readers’ Crown award for 2013 and was nominated as the Best Paranormal Romance Book in 2013 by the Paranormal Romance Guild Reviewers.

You can hang out too…all the SNAP: Kandesky Vampire Chronicles books are available at Amazon, Barnes & Nobel, Kobo and iTunes.

Or you can check out my Amazon author’s page atMichele Drier-Amazon

And, if you ever have a vampire lover, would you let him turn you?

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Michele Drier was born in Santa Cruz and is a fifth generation Californian. She’s lived and worked all over the state, calling both Southern and Northern California home. During her career in journalism—as a reporter and editor at daily newspapers—she won awards for producing investigative series.

She writes the Amy Hobbes Newspaper mysteries and the six-book Kandesky Vampire Chronicles paranormal romance series, and has just published her eighth book, SNAP: Happily Ever After? She’s working on the seventh book in the series, SNAP: White Nights, scheduled for publication in early 2014

Michele is offering the following giveaway: 4 prizes-4 winners

-One winner will receive an ecopy of SNAP: Happily Ever After?
-One winner will receive an ecopy of SNAP: Love For Blood
-One winner will receive a Kandesky Vampire Mug
-One winner will receive a Kandesky Vampire bookmark

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4. Giveaway runs from January 27 to January 31, 2014