This review is from: A Hidden Fire: Elemental Mysteries Book 1 (Kindle Edition)
I haven’t been that thrilled and awed by a self-publishing author since I’ve read Meilin Miranda’s Lovers and Beloveds.
Some books are like delicious dark chocolate, but some books are like exquisite red wine – rich, intoxicating, powerful. A Hidden Fire is just one such book.
It reminds you why you fell in love with vampires all those years ago when you had your first Anne Rice’s book or watched Count Dracula with his fake Transylvanian accent charm Mina.
A Hidden Fire delivers strong feel of Anne Rice but with a touch of Elizabeth Kostova and Dan Brown. It’s not a paranormal romance, but a mystery with romantic elements.
Two main characters, – Beatrice, a young and very bright Goth girl slash librarian, and a 500 year old vampire Giovanni work together to unravel a mystery, stay alive and bring the villain down.
Giovanni or Gio had been groomed as a perfect vampire and turned young five centuries ago by an unhinged Master. As an Italian aristocrat who grew up in times of Borgia he is a skilled politician, strategist and has an enormous self-control, but he can’t help being fascinated by Beatrice.
However, this is one of the few rare book where a vampire acts his age, and not like a train wrecked on hormones teenager. He thinks things through and thinks of the consequences. Both Beatrice and Gio fight their attraction, there is this gradually building sexual tension between them during the whole book… And this is another thing I was so wild about. Nothing heats up blood better than delayed sexual gratification 🙂
Secondary characters are just as mesmerizing. The pace is unhurried (the book covers I think over a year and a half of Beatrice’s life), the action is very Anne Rice-ish, and the powers of each vampire are frankly unique.
I’m sorry I’m giving you spoilers, but I can’t help gushing about this book. This is one of the two books which absolutely blew me away last month.
Guys, you absolutely have to read it, especially if you like old world vampires. This was terrific.
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This review is from: A Hidden Fire: Elemental Mysteries Book 1 (Kindle Edition)
i love this sereis, enjoyed the first book so much that i had to buy the following three to see what happened. they’re all a good length, well written and edited and with superb characters. Beatric and Giovannis romance is a slow burn one – a change to get that delicious sizzle when characters are dancing round their attraction to each other. one to read and re-read again and agian as there’s so much detail and riverting story.
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This review is from: A Hidden Fire: Elemental Mysteries Book 1 (Kindle Edition)
Heck where do I start? This book blew me away and I read it in less than a day, I was absolutely hooked from page one……….. Elizabeth Hunter brought her characters to life with wit, charm, appeal, sexiness, intrigue, this list could be endless. What a ride! I am totally hooked on this series now, it’s up there all the latest trilogies that suck you in and leave you panting for me. I love the romantic element, always there but kept suspenseful and endearing. I loved the intrigue about Lorenzo and Stephen and Gio’s long lost library of books. I loved the twist on the paranormal and what element the vampires were. I loved the characters and the verbal jousting between ‘B’, Gio and Carwyn. There is absolutely nothing to complain about within these pages, this story has been brilliantly brought to life by the pen of Elizabeth Hunter. What amazes me is why has there been so few reviews for this book, it should be shouted about to everyone, raved about and promoted to all and sundry. I wish I was a book blogger now and reviewing this on my own blog to 1000’s of readers and help Elizabeth get the recognition she deserves for such a fantastic debut novel, I for one can’t promote this book enough – READ IT, YOU’LL BE GLAD YOU DID!
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Amazing series, clever, well thought! A must read for the fans of old school vampires!,
I haven’t been that thrilled and awed by a self-publishing author since I’ve read Meilin Miranda’s Lovers and Beloveds.
Some books are like delicious dark chocolate, but some books are like exquisite red wine – rich, intoxicating, powerful. A Hidden Fire is just one such book.
It reminds you why you fell in love with vampires all those years ago when you had your first Anne Rice’s book or watched Count Dracula with his fake Transylvanian accent charm Mina.
A Hidden Fire delivers strong feel of Anne Rice but with a touch of Elizabeth Kostova and Dan Brown. It’s not a paranormal romance, but a mystery with romantic elements.
Two main characters, – Beatrice, a young and very bright Goth girl slash librarian, and a 500 year old vampire Giovanni work together to unravel a mystery, stay alive and bring the villain down.
Giovanni or Gio had been groomed as a perfect vampire and turned young five centuries ago by an unhinged Master. As an Italian aristocrat who grew up in times of Borgia he is a skilled politician, strategist and has an enormous self-control, but he can’t help being fascinated by Beatrice.
However, this is one of the few rare book where a vampire acts his age, and not like a train wrecked on hormones teenager. He thinks things through and thinks of the consequences. Both Beatrice and Gio fight their attraction, there is this gradually building sexual tension between them during the whole book… And this is another thing I was so wild about. Nothing heats up blood better than delayed sexual gratification 🙂
Secondary characters are just as mesmerizing. The pace is unhurried (the book covers I think over a year and a half of Beatrice’s life), the action is very Anne Rice-ish, and the powers of each vampire are frankly unique.
I’m sorry I’m giving you spoilers, but I can’t help gushing about this book. This is one of the two books which absolutely blew me away last month.
Guys, you absolutely have to read it, especially if you like old world vampires. This was terrific.
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|cracking paranormal romance series,
i love this sereis, enjoyed the first book so much that i had to buy the following three to see what happened. they’re all a good length, well written and edited and with superb characters. Beatric and Giovannis romance is a slow burn one – a change to get that delicious sizzle when characters are dancing round their attraction to each other. one to read and re-read again and agian as there’s so much detail and riverting story.
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|An amazing book, extremely worthy of 5 stars…..,
Heck where do I start? This book blew me away and I read it in less than a day, I was absolutely hooked from page one……….. Elizabeth Hunter brought her characters to life with wit, charm, appeal, sexiness, intrigue, this list could be endless. What a ride! I am totally hooked on this series now, it’s up there all the latest trilogies that suck you in and leave you panting for me. I love the romantic element, always there but kept suspenseful and endearing. I loved the intrigue about Lorenzo and Stephen and Gio’s long lost library of books. I loved the twist on the paranormal and what element the vampires were. I loved the characters and the verbal jousting between ‘B’, Gio and Carwyn. There is absolutely nothing to complain about within these pages, this story has been brilliantly brought to life by the pen of Elizabeth Hunter. What amazes me is why has there been so few reviews for this book, it should be shouted about to everyone, raved about and promoted to all and sundry. I wish I was a book blogger now and reviewing this on my own blog to 1000’s of readers and help Elizabeth get the recognition she deserves for such a fantastic debut novel, I for one can’t promote this book enough – READ IT, YOU’LL BE GLAD YOU DID!
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