Book Review: Unleash (Vampire Erotic Theatre Romance Series Book 6) (ARC) by Felicity Heaton

A powerful vampire lost deep in his bloodlust, Snow is a savage animal, mindless with rage and a thirst for violence, and trapped with no hope of awakening from an endless nightmare… until a song draws him up from the abyss, restoring his sanity but leaving him haunted by the sweet feminine scent of lilies and snow, and fragmented familiar lyrics.

When the mysterious and beautiful songstress reappears in Snow’s room at Vampirerotique, she awakens a fierce protective streak and stirs dark desires that drive him to claim her as his female, even when he knows his touch will destroy her innocence.

A single forbidden taste is all it takes to unleash emotions in Aurora that she shouldn’t possess, tearing her between duty and desire, and luring her into surrendering to her wildfire passion and embracing hungers that burn so hotly they threaten to consume them both.

One act of kindness can lead to one thousand acts of sin though, each a black mark against the bearer’s soul and another grain of sand that slips through an hourglass. The clock is ticking and time is almost up. Can beauty save the beast?Unleash is book 6 in Felicity Heaton's Vampire Erotic Theatre series It is the story of Snow, one of the most damaged, violent and unpredictable vampires I've ever come across as a reader. This is my first Felicity Heaton novel and I had high hopes for it. It didn't let me down. 

Unleash isn't a warm and fuzzy paranormal romance where the tortured vampire meets his match, falls in love and battles the big bad who wants to take his happy ending away. Snow is the big bad that is trying to prevent a happy ending. He suffers from bloodlust and the uncontrollable urge to maim and kill that comes with it. He's succumbed to it before, resulting in a massive and tragic personal loss for Snow. 

Heaton drags Snow's past out in painful pieces that serve as a reminder that this is a character who may not be able to be saved and if he can be saved, it is going to be a lifelong battle with many setbacks. Snow is unpredictable, almost as if he has two separate personalities inside of him. It's ironic that the chance at saving his dark, blood stained soul comes in the form of a curious angel. While Aurora may not be the physical butt kicker that readers are used to in paranormal romances, it doesn't mean she can't hold her own with Snow. She's quiet in her defiance, intelligent and ever hopeful.

Snow and Aurora's relationship is based more on an emotional connection, rather than a sexual one. Sure they're attracted to one another but with Snow being so unpredictable, he keeps his distance from Aurora for awhile, instead giving them both a chance to get to know each other and establish trust. Something I gather is very new for Snow. It's a great balance to an otherwise dark, tumultuous story. There's never a dull moment with this pair, they're each others' salvation, as unlikely as it seems.

For readers who want to give this series a try, it's best that you start at the beginning. Technically, each book can be a stand alone, but trying to remember who is mated to whom and what their connection to Snow is made reading Unleash a little slower. Something that probably wouldn't be an issue if I had read the series from the beginning.

 4 Sheep

guest reviewer: Adria
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I write passionate paranormal romance books as Felicity Heaton and F E Heaton. In my books I create detailed worlds, twisting plots, mind-blowing action, intense emotion and heart-stopping romances with leading men that vary from dark deadly vampires to sexy shape-shifters and wicked werewolves, to sinful angels and hot demons!

If you're a fan of paranormal romance authors Lara Adrian, J R Ward, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Gena Showalter and Christine Feehan then you will love my books too.

If you love your angels a little dark and wicked, my best selling Her Angel series is for you. If you like strong, powerful, and dark vampires then try my Vampires Realm series I write as F E Heaton or any of my stand alone vampire romance books I write as Felicity Heaton.

In 2011, four of my six paranormal romance books received Top Pick awards from Night Owl Reviews, Forbidden Blood was nominated as Best PNR Vampire Romance 2011 at The Romance Reviews, and many of my releases received five star reviews from numerous websites.

Alpha Male Diner cook: Felicity Heaton + giveaway

Wow, we have a dark and dangerous dish for you today. Felicity Heaton is sharing her recipe for Payne, a vampire/incubus combo!

Payne (Part-Vampire Part-Incubus) 

Recipe by Felicity Heaton

Bewitch (Vampire Erotic Theatre Romance Series Book 5) 

2 steely grey eyes with a tendency to flash blue and gold when overcome by intense desire. 

A handful of blond messy spikes. 
200 pounds of toned six-foot-plus body of a sex god. 
Two fangs. 
A dash of wit. 
10 cups of raw masculine sex appeal. 
1 ounce of sarcasm and snark. 
1 overflowing cup of darkness. 
¼ cup of angst. 
¼ cup of short temper. 
A sprinkling of fae dust. 
1 frozen black heart, preferably wounded. 
Mix sarcasm and snark, short temper, and wit, and set aside. Combine steely grey eyes, fangs, blond messy spikes, body of a sex god, and raw masculine sex appeal. Once combined, stir in the personality mix. Carefully sprinkle with fae dust to reveal markings on his body. Use markings as a temper gauge in the next few steps. 

Mix darkness and angst in another bowl. Add frozen black heart and allow it to marinate for several centuries.

Put on full body armour and prepare yourself for possible death. Please note, has a tendency to become extremely volatile and aggressive at this point. Handle with care.

Very slowly combine the darkness mix with the rest. Only mix enough to bring two ingredients together. Do not over mix! Once completed, step back and give as much room as possible, and watch his fae markings. If they turn black and red, remove yourself from presence until they have returned to grey.

Taste Test 

Elissa stared at him, her right eyebrow slowly rising. “You really don’t have a freaking clue about yourself, do you? I had thought I was reading you wrong...”

Payne glared at her. He knew all he needed to know about himself. He was an abomination and he hated this world. He wanted to go back to his world.

He did not want to meet another incubus.

There were two other reasons he didn’t want to help her. One, he couldn’t control her for some reason and it was unsettling him, especially with that phantom’s words still ringing in his ears. Being around Elissa was too enticing. Two, she was right and he didn’t know much about incubi and he hated to go into any situation blind.

Diversionary tactics were required. He knit his eyebrows together and pinned her with a scowl. “Did you try to fuck that male too?”

Elissa tensed, flew from the armchair and slapped him hard across his left cheek, snapping his head to his right. The scent of fresh blood cut through the herbs and spices in the air. She had reopened the wound.

“No!” She huffed and looked as though she was considering hitting him again. If she tried it, he was going to hit her back. He was all for equal rights. “And if I had, I certainly wouldn’t be asking you for help.”

Payne rubbed his stinging cheek. “Why not?”

She grabbed his arm, sending another hot bolt of lust through him, and twisted it. She pointed near his wrist.

“Because he’s your grandfather.”

Payne tugged his arm free of her grip and turned it so he could see the markings on his skin. She prodded several symbols in a row. That was his grandfather’s name? Were his fae markings a record of his bloodline?

That made him hate them all the more.

He stared at the swirling glyphs, a low growl rumbling through him, anger that poured into his veins like acid and ate away at the restraints tethering his temper and his pain. His grandfather. His pulse accelerated, heart thumping hard against his breastbone, driving that scalding acid through his body, cranking up his anger to new, dangerous heights. Grandfather. He wanted to scratch those markings off his arm, loathed them with all of his being. He didn’t want to know that somewhere out there was the bastard who had sired his mother, who in turn had spawned him. An abomination.

Devil, he wanted that man to pay for his sins. He wanted to erase his grandfather’s name from his lineage and then erase him from existence. Elissa released an exasperated huff. “You really don’t know anything about your kind, do you?” 

He growled at her. “My kind are vampires.”

Her eyes shot wide. “What on mother earth did you just say?”

Payne towered over her and growled down at her again, his lips peeling back to reveal his fangs. “I’m a vampire.” She stared at his mouth, eyes enormous and pulse off the scale. “What you are is all shades of messed up.” 

He shoved her away from him. She tripped on a stack of books and landed in the pile behind them, her right arm catching on the armchair and her legs splayed. Payne tried not to think about her naked and like that, spread for his pleasure, the chestnut curls at the apex of her thighs glistening with arousal. Tried and failed. It had clearly been too long since he’d had sex. A good century at least. Damn. He was a ticking time-bomb of lust.

Bewitch (Vampire Erotic Theatre Romance Series Book 5) A vampire with a past stained with blood and a soul tainted with darkness, he is perfect in his self-control, never surrendering to his darkest desires. Now a beautiful witch in the shadowy fae underworld threatens to reawaken long denied hungers and tempts him with carnal pleasure.

Payne despises the incubus side of his mixed genes and refuses to give it free rein, but when the wickedly sexy Elissa offers him a possible way to help a friend, he finds it difficult to resist paying the price, even if it will be his undoing—one night of passion at her command.

Elissa is a witch down on her luck until Payne comes crashing into her life. The dangerously handsome male is the key to fulfilling a promise she made, but he is also forbidden, and surrendering to the wildfire passion he stirs within her means risking ruin and death.

When one incredible night of fulfilling their deepest fantasies leads to more than just a pathway to keeping a promise and saving a friend, will they be able to overcome the barriers that stand between them and forever? 
Books in the Vampire Erotic Theatre romance series 
Covet (Book 1) 
Crave (Book 2) 
Seduce (Book 3) 
Enslave (Book 4) 
Bewitch (Book 5) 
Unleash (Book 6) – Coming in 2013! 

About the Author:

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Felicity Heaton writes passionate paranormal romance books as Felicity Heaton and F E Heaton. In her books she creates detailed worlds, twisting plots, mind-blowing action, intense emotion and heart-stopping romances with leading men that vary from dark deadly vampires to sexy shape-shifters and wicked werewolves, to sinful angels and hot demons!

If you're a fan of paranormal romance authors Lara Adrian, J R Ward, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Gena Showalter and Christine Feehan then you will enjoy her books too.

If you love your angels a little dark and wicked, Felicity Heaton’s best selling Her Angel series is for you. If you like strong, powerful, and dark vampires then try the Vampires Realm series she writes as F E Heaton or any of her stand alone vampire romance books she writes as Felicity Heaton. Or if you’re looking for vampire romances that are sinful, passionate and erotic then try Felicity Heaton’s new Vampire Erotic Theatre series.

In 2011, five of her six paranormal romance books received Top Pick awards from Night Owl Reviews, Forbidden Blood was nominated as Best PNR Vampire Romance 2011 at The Romance Reviews, and many of her releases received five star reviews from numerous websites. In 2012, she received the GraveTells Author of the Year Award and her vampire romance novel, Heart of Darkness, was selected as a 2013 Epic Ebook Awards finalist in the paranormal romance category.