Book Review
of Shades of Desire and Shades of Grey
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Shades of Desire
By L.M. Pruitt
Book 2 Jude Magdalyn Series
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Synopsis:
All I wanted was a little peace and
quiet.
Instead, I've got dead Covenant members and a steady stream of letters from the new guy in town. His beverage of choice? A 2002 Merlot, with a shot or two of powerful virgin blood.
On top of that, I'm breaking in a new police liaison, failing at playing matchmaker, and fighting nausea like it's a full time job. All I wanted was a little peace and quiet.
Instead, I've got dead Covenant members and a steady stream of letters from the new guy in town. His beverage of choice? A 2002 Merlot, with a shot or two of powerful virgin blood.
On top of that, I'm breaking in a new police liaison, failing at playing matchmaker, and fighting nausea like it's a full time job.
Did I forget to mention that I've also got enough girls living at the Crossroads to start my own boarding school?
Peace and quiet? Out the window.
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Instead, I've got dead Covenant members and a steady stream of letters from the new guy in town. His beverage of choice? A 2002 Merlot, with a shot or two of powerful virgin blood.
On top of that, I'm breaking in a new police liaison, failing at playing matchmaker, and fighting nausea like it's a full time job. All I wanted was a little peace and quiet.
Instead, I've got dead Covenant members and a steady stream of letters from the new guy in town. His beverage of choice? A 2002 Merlot, with a shot or two of powerful virgin blood.
On top of that, I'm breaking in a new police liaison, failing at playing matchmaker, and fighting nausea like it's a full time job.
Did I forget to mention that I've also got enough girls living at the Crossroads to start my own boarding school?
Peace and quiet? Out the window.
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Shades of Gray
Book One
By L.M. Pruitt
Jude Magdalyn Henries lives what many would call an unconventional
life.
Orphaned at birth, raised by nuns, a teenage runaway living on the
streets... she now earns a living at odd jobs, including one as a fake tarot
card reader. Very little about Jude's life appears normal, by any scale.
When she accepts a gig to do a private reading, unconventional
takes on an entirely new meaning. Life as she knows it ends when she's thrust
into a world she never knew existed-one filled with magic, vampires, and her
beloved New Orleans on the verge of an underground war.
To make matters worse, she's got two men in her life vying for
attention, Williams and Theo. Both call to a different part of her, but one
scares her just a little bit.
Can she step up to the challenges set before her and make the
right choices for the greatergreater good?
Excerpt Shades of Desire
“If someone doesn’t get me a lemon in the next five
minutes, everyone will suffer. A lot.”
“Jude,
I love you. Which is why I can say you’re being just a little overdramatic.”
One look at my face and Theo changed his tune. “But then again, you could say
pregnancy is dramatic and you’re just getting into the groove.”
“Nice
save.” I tried to sit up again. Halfway through the upward movement greasy waves
of nausea rolled over me and I eased back down onto the pillow. Strands of
black hair clung to my sweaty face and I closed my eyes, exhaling slowly. “Not
as nice as that lemon would be right now, but nice.”
“Elizabeth
will be here in a moment. No doubt she’ll have a lemon. And tea. And toast.”
Theo turned over to face me, laying one hand over my still mostly flat stomach.
If you looked close, you could see the smallest of bumps.
I
know, because I checked. Every other day or so.
If
anybody told me three months ago, that the week before Halloween, I’d be lying
in bed with a man who absolutely adored me—even the crazy parts—I’d have asked
them what the hell they were smoking. If they’d thrown in being pregnant, I
would have punched them in their jaw. Then gone to the store and bought a dozen
pregnancy tests and prayed for them all to be negative.
But
that was before the Covenant.
In two
weeks, I’d gone from being an orphan raised by nuns, to the latest in a long
line of only daughters. Women charged with the protection and well-being of
hundreds of people with unique powers. Some made flame burn for hours, while
others called the wind to knock you flat on your ass. They were a group of
people who came together over two-hundred years ago, bound by a prophecy. One
with no past, lost in the present, will bring in the future, through gifts of
both this world and the next.
And
lucky me, I’d passed the job interview.
I’d
sent Hart to a muddy, watery grave-literally. Unless something went crazy
wrong, he’d stay under the Mississippi until the Final Judgment. Williams ruled
the vampires of the city now and kept his distance as much as possible.
And I,
Jude Magdalyn Henries, led the Covenant. Maybe I wasn’t terrific at it. But
Gillian would be proud.
All
things considered, I think I came out with a pretty good deal.
L.M. Pruitt has been reading and writing for as long as she can
remember. A native of Florida with a love of New Orleans, she has the uncanny
ability to find humor in most things and would probably kill a plastic plant.
She is the author of the Jude Magdalyn Series as well as New Moon Rising,
featuring Cari Gravier, and Taken, featuring Frankie Post. She is currently at
work on the next book in the Moon Rising series, Harvest Moon Rising, due out
April 2012. Ms. Pruitt makes her home in Florida with two cats--one smart, the
other not so much.
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Book Review
In a recent review I said I was over
vampire books, but this series could make me change my mind. Granted it’s not all vampires, but it’s very
clever. The Covenant is a group in
charge of keeping the supernatural world in working order. The main character, Jude, finds out that the
things that go bump in the night are really the things from nightmares in “Shades
of Grey.” Jude is an orphan who makes a
living doing odd jobs. She has no
family, was orphaned at birth, raised by nuns, lived on the streets as a
teen-age runaway, and meets her first vampire when she is pretending to be a
psychic. Of course, she doesn’t
initially know he’s a vampire, just that he scares her.
“Shades of Grey” is a taut, intense
story about Jude finding out who she is, why she is, and who her family
is. “Shades of Desire” continues the
story of Jude and her coming into power.
It gives more information about the Covenant, what it is and how it
works. It also explores the balance of
power between the Covenant and the vampires in
New Orleans.
L.M. Pruitt has written an intense
series that has drama, humor, paranormal, heart, romance, and tons of action. There is something here for everyone. The fast paced read keeps you drawn into the
story and the plot keeps you intrigued.
The characters make you care what happens to them, a true feat for any
author.
I give this series 4.5 out of 5
clouds.
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