VIPER: A Vampire Romance (Vampires of Hollywood #1) by Madisyn Ashmore-a review
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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 26, 2017
What turns me on? YOU.
Caleb Crane is a ripped and protective vampire who knows exactly what he wants. And what he wants is the sexy young lawyer, Abby March, who just showed up in Hollywood.
And then something shocking emerges from Abby’s past that changes everything. A secret so dark, she can’t hide from it or run away any longer. Will Caleb stay and fight for Abby, or will her shocking secret ruin everything?
Compulsively readable, Viper is a passionate, enthralling vampire romance and a must-read for paranormal fiction fans.
This is Book One in the Vampires of Hollywood series, and it’s also a great standalone alpha male romance with a HEA, No Cheating, and No Cliffhanger. This story is steamy, spicy, sexy, and hot. You’ve been warned.
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REVIEW: VIPER is the first installment in Madisyn Ashmore’s contemporary, adult VAMPIRES OF HOLLYWOOD erotic, paranormal romance series. This is Hollywood director Caleb Crane, and lawyer Abby March’s story line.
Told from first person point of view (Abby) VIPER focuses on the building relationship between Hollywood director and vampire Caleb Crane, and lawyer Abby March. Abby is a new lawyer struggling to find employment in the cut-throat city of Hollywood, California. Living with her best friend and movie star Natalie allows Abby the time to search for the perfect job. But meeting Natalie’s neighbor, the infamous and sexy Caleb Crane, throws all of Abby’s good senses out the door. When Caleb offers Abby the position of his new legal advisor Abby will soon learn there is something different about the man with whom she will fall in love. What ensues is the building relationship between human and vampire, and Caleb’s need to protect Abby from a potential threat from her past.
The attraction between Abby and Caleb is immediate but Abby knows there is something different about Caleb Crane. Our heroine is aware that vampires exist, and she suspects the man with whom she is falling in love may be the one of the creatures of the night. Caleb is a vampire who struggles to keep hidden his attraction to his new employee but there is something about Abby that lures Caleb to the woman that calls to his heart. When Abby’s life is threated, Caleb knows that the only way to keep her safe is to bring her to the ‘dark side’. The $ex scenes are intimate, erotic and intense without the use of sexually graphic, over the top language and text.
Throughout the story Caleb tends to keep secret much of his past and in this I struggled because we learn very little about the man who is the focus on the story. I was hoping to learn a little bit more about the man in question.
We are introduced to Abby’s best friend and roommate Natalie-a super star in Hollywood, and a woman whose romantic interest is a man not unlike our story line hero. Ansel Walker is an actor whose previous relationship with Natalie was destroyed by alcohol and drugs. There are a number of secondary and supporting characters including the beautiful Sophie Richards, Caleb’s housekeep Emiko, and the Queen of the vampires Reina. The requisite evil comes from another supernatural creature-the Lycan-who are out to destroy the vampires and all they hold dear.
VIPER is a vampire story with some similarities to Twilight including the relationship between Abby and Caleb that cannot be ignored. The premise is entertaining and spicy; the characters are familiar but colorful; the romance is fated and passionate. VIPER is a provocative and sexy look at vampires, romance and the Hollywood machine.
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Reviewed by Sandy
