MASTER BOTOSONI (Masters of the Consulate 9) by Sylvia Black -review tour

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 19, 2024

A pureblooded vampire on a mission to hunt.
An innocent psychic with the strictest of rules.
When destiny speaks, will she break all of the rules for love?

As a pureblood, I am prepared for anything the rogue vampires bring my way. I will stop at nothing to keep them from driving us into the ground.

When a dark-haired beauty can lead us to the blood-thirsty villains, it’s clear destiny has sent us another sign.

The beautiful innocent will be mine someday. The fact she is forbidden will not deter me in any way.

But when Catina’s visions lead her into a shifter filled den, there are seconds to spare.

The decision is easy—make her my queen and end the rogues together. But when she awakens, will she choose me and immortality, or follow the rules?

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REVIEW: MASTER BOTOSONI is the ninth instalment in Sylvia Black’s contemporary adult MASTERS OF THE CONSULATE dark, erotic, paranormal romance series. This is pureblood master vampire Master BOTOSONI, and twenty-one year old, seer /fortune teller Catina’s story line. MASTER BOTOSONI can be read as a stand alone but for back story and cohesion, I recommend reading the series in order as there is an ongoing premise throughout, and many of the previous story line characters and couples play a significant role.

Told from dual first person perspectives (Catina and Botosoni) MASTER BOTOSONI follows the hunt for a group of rogue vampires and shifters in and around Eastern Europe and the Carpathian Mountains. Catina is a seer, and Master Botosoni needs help to locate the creatures taking aim at the Master of the Consulate. As a seer, Catina is able to ‘see’ the future, and the future includes an attack against our story line heroine. Realizing Catina is much more than she claims to be, Master Botosoni claims Catina as his mate only to discover she may have betrayed them all. What ensues is the quick building relationship between our story line couple as Botosoni and the other Masters of the Consulate devise a plan to take down the rogues.

The world building focuses on family and tradition including Catina’s position as a proverbial pawn. As Catina continues to reveal the who, how and why of the approaching rogues including their search for three magical stones, Catina will have to face the family who have plans to use our story line heroine.

The relationship between Catina and Botosoni is one of immediate attraction but Catina knows her family has other plans for her future, to be sold to the highest bidder. As a member of what I suspect are a tribe of wandering Roma, Catina is used and abused, and her value as a woman of marrying age has past. Master Botosoni knows immediately that Catina is his fated mate but he suspects he may need approval to mate a human female. The $ex scenes are passionate and seductive without the use of over the top, sexually graphic language and text. There are some scenes of bondage and discipline.

There is a large ensemble cast of colorful and familiar secondary and supporting characters many of whom were introduced in the previous instalments : Master Descallia and Lucianna: Romano and Raven: Campania and Willow: Sardinia and Madria; Lucas and Embry, as well as Botosoni’s housekeeper Clara.

MASTER BOTOSONI is a story of betrayal and vengeance, family and relationships, supernatural and obsession. The premise is engaging and enchanting; the romance is fated and provocative; the characters are powerful and determined. MASTER BOTOSONI ends on a bit of a cliff hanger-you have been warned.

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Reviewed by Sandy

Sylvia Black is a master’s prepared paranormal romance author with a special love for old-world history and the folklore of Europe. A grandmother born and raised in the Baltic sea region nurtured this love and it grew more profound as a young child living for years in England and traveling extensively.

Sylvia likes to keep her readers on the edge of their seats one minute and fanning themselves as the heat rises in the next. Her novels feature handsome, dark-minded males who will stop at nothing to protect their mates.

The perfect day for Sylvia would be spent sitting on a balcony overlooking the Amalfi Coast in Italy while enjoying an espresso as she writes.

While not writing, she spends time with her husband and family, including an adorable fur-baby. She enjoys traveling extensively, especially when researching for her next novel.

She also loves to spend time interacting with you, her readers, so please feel free to connect with her on social media!