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Fire Bound by Christine Feehan – Review & Giveaway

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Fire Bound by Christine Feehan – Review & Giveaway

 

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Fire Bound
Sea Haven series – Book #5
by Christine Feehan
Release Date: 4/26/16

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Flame-haired Lissa Piner is a skilled glass blower whose delicate gift conceals a burning inner strength that can destroy as exquisitely as it can create. Commissioned to design chandeliers for a string of luxury hotels, her remarkable skills have taken her to Italy. But Lissa’s real mission there is a secret. For her entire life has been a lie, leading to a chance to avenge a terrible wrong.
 
Enlisted as her bodyguard is Casmir Prakenskii, a trained assassin living off the grid. In Lissa, he sees a kindred spirit—something unexpected and wicked, mysterious and sensual. But more than desire is about to bring them together: because both of their pasts cry out for revenge. And for two people with this many secrets, this much passion, and this many enemies, someone is bound to get burned.

 

Review:

Fire Bound by Christine Feehan is the 5th book in her Sea Haven/Sisters of the Heart series.  I always loved Sea Haven and the Drake Sisters. Now Sisters of the Heart has inched up to be my favorite current series for Christine. 

Lissa Piner is our heroine in Fire Bound.  We learned in the last book, that Lissa is very protective of her other 5 sisters, something Gavril noticed that resembled the way he and his brothers acted.  Lissa is heading to Europe to sell glass designs that she creates. She tells her sisters that if all goes well, she will bring some good money to help on the farm.  But Lissa, has been hiding in America with her sisters, to protect her identity, as she secretly has been trained by her uncle to be an assassin.  Lissa’s parents were murdered years before, and her uncle took care of her, until he wanted her to be safe and sent her to the States.  Now Lissa’s real reason for going to Italy is to kill two people who betrayed their family. 

Casmir Prakenskii has been called by Gavril to Sea Haven and told to follow Lissa to protect her.  It doesn’t  take long for Lissa to realize that the man who has just started working as a guard for her uncle, is a Prakenskii. Her 4 sisters have all married Parkenskii’s and Lissa knows this man is for her, but she is determined to keep him at a distance, since she has a job to do and she wants no relationships.  Of course, it doesn’t take long for Casmir to win and seduce Lissa.  The chemistry and sex between was scorching, and they made a great couple together, as lovers and as fighters.  Casmir will protect Lissa with his life, but recognizes she is a kindred spirit who has also suffered heart wrenching childhoods.  He cannot stop LIssa from doing what she must do to get her revenge against those who betrayed her and her family, so he joins with her.  Casmir does have a lot more experience, and he will be the one who will suspect that there are more betrayals that Lissa will have to face. 

Rather than tell too much more, I will say this was a wonderful exciting thriller, where both Lissa and Casmir life will be in danger many times, with the revelations revealed breaking her heart even more. As I said the relationship between them was wonderful, as Casmir found his mate, something he never thought he would ever find, and he treated Lissa with so much love.  I have complained in Christine’s other books about her overdoing all the sex scenes and the abusive men.  In Fire Bound, the sexual scenes were a lot, especially in the second half, but Casmir was so caring and loving, and I fell in love with both of them as a couple.  Most important, the story led the way, and was wonderful, keeping us on the edge praying for their survival.  Sea Haven/Sisters of the Heart remains a series by Christine Feehan that I enjoy thoroughly, unfortunately I worry that the next book will be the last, as it is now Blythe’s turn as the 6th and final sister.

Reviewed by Barb

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Air Bound by Christine Feehan – a Review and Giveaway

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Air Bound by Christine Feehan – a Review and Giveaway

 

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Air Bound
Sisters of the Heart (Sea Haven)- Book#3
by Christine Feehan
Release Date: May 27, 2014
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For as far back as she can remember, Airiana Ridell has always been aware of her extraordinary gift. She can intuit revealing and illuminating ‘patterns’ in the air around her-whether in a spray of mist, in billowing clouds, or in the dense swirls of an impenetrable fog. Her abilities led to her placement in a secret government training facility when she was a child, but everything changed after her mother was murdered.

Airiana fled the program, but she couldn’t outrun the desperate members of a shadowy cabal who want her, who need her, who will kill to get her. Kidnapped and held aboard a ship bound for dangerous seas, her only chance for rescue is Maxim Prakenskii. He has his reasons for helping her, but he isn’t about to reveal them to Airiana. Not yet. Not as the two are drawn together as moth to flame. Not when there are so many secrets yet untold that could shatter the quaint community of Sea Haven and all who reside there…

 

Review:
Air Bound is the 3rd book in Christine Feehan’s Sisters of the Heart series, which is part of her Sea Haven series.  I loved the first arc of Sea Haven, the Drake Sisters, which is one of my favorite series.  Sisters of the Heart is different, though it does take place in the town the Drakes sisters live in. The sisters are not related, but have been brought together from a common bond, something terrible that happened to them in their earlier lives; they also have elemental powers, with each having something different.  The sisters live on a farm land, with each having their own homes on the land that is protected to keep them safe.  As we are in the third book, the first two sisters, Rikki and Judith are happily married to a Prakenskii; men who are former powerful Russian mercenaries/undercover agents, and whom will do everything to protect the land. We already know the other sisters will eventually find their mates within the remaining brothers. 

Air Bound belongs to Airiana who is an air elemental.  We spend a short time with the girls, as Airiana wakes up screaming from a bad dream.  If her dreams are beginning again, it is a bad omen, as something is going happen.  Not too long later, Airiana is kidnapped and taken on a ship.  We meet our hero, Maxim, who helps protect Airiana from the other men involved in the kidnapping.  He tells her she is being brought to meet her scientist father, whom she knows nothing about. 

What follows is an exciting story that begins from the start, and continues on a wild ride to the finish.  Maxim is all business, trying to protect Airiana.  But it doesn’t take long for both of them to feel their attraction, though Maxim will fight it a lot longer. He refuses to allow his feelings to put them in danger.  As I noted, it is a wild tension & action filled ride, with danger, fighting, death at each stop.  Along the way, Airiana does meet her father, but there are so many twists, betrayals, and bloodshed, that if you blink for a second, you will miss something.  We also get to meet some new permanent characters that are being added. 

We know Maxim is a killing machine, and at times I found it hard to believe he could get out of all those dangerous situations.  They worked well together, and Airiana learned how to help Maxim and fight back. 

With all the non-stop action and excitement, the romance between them built fairly quickly, and became sizzling. I loved Airiana, especially when she became surer of herself. Once again, another Prakenskii comes along and I fall in love all over again. Except for maybe Ilya, Maxim is now my favorite. There were a number of villains, and one who I’m sure will be part of the next book or thereafter.  The entire story was excitement every single moment, but it was great to see in the last quarter of the book, how the sisters used their elemental powers to team with the three Prakenskii men in a fantastic exciting climax.

Christine Feehan has given us another fabulous Sisters of the Heart story, witih Air Bound and I look forward to the next one.

Reviewed by Barb

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