Book Review: Bound by Flames: A Night Prince Novel book 3 byJeaniene Frost

Bound by Flames: A Night Prince Novel book 3
by Jeaniene Frost

January 27th 2015 by Avon

Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy
Pages: 384
Plot:
Play with fire, pay the price
Leila's years on the carnie circuit were certainly an education. What she didn't learn: how to be a vampire, or how to be married to the most famous vampire of them all. Adjusting to both has Leila teetering on a knife edge between passion and peril, and now the real danger is about to begin . . .

Vlad must battle with a centuries-old enemy whose reach stretches across continents and whose strength equals his own. It isn't like Vlad to feel fear, but he does . . . for Leila, because his enemy knows she is Vlad's greatest weakness. As friend and foe alike align against him—and his overprotectiveness drives Leila away—Vlad's love for his new bride could be the very thing that dooms them both . . .

Vlad is back! I love this man so much. Not only is he the vampire legend come to life, he's ruthless and brutal to protect the ones he loves in his vampire family line. Just make sure to stay on his good side!

Lelia's adjusting to her recent vampire change and trying to acclimate to being the wife to such an alpha male. He's a hand full, but it's worth the torture to get some burning hunk-o-love that only this male can deliver.

This latest edition to the saga takes a darker turn, there is torture and sexual abuse toward both men and women. So keep that in mind. It gets a bit...gruesome to put it mildly. But that's the darker side of this paranormal world Mrs. Frost has etched out of the most delicious blood on the market.

Lots of twists and turns, will have your interest hooked until the very end. Some of our favorite characters come back to make an appearance and help team up with Vlad to take on his greatest enemy to date. Magic abounds and I'm loving this ongoing story with each page.

If you love some dark world building, steamy romance, snarky characters and tons of action, then get out and grab this one! But don't start here, you need to read the Night Prince saga from book one!

Book Review: Once Burned

Book Review: Twice Tempted

Getting 4 Sheep

KD

Sheep Book Review: Twice Tempted by Jeaniene Frost

Twice Tempted by Jeaniene Frost is the second novel in her PNR series Night Prince. After the mixed emotions of book 1, Once Burned, I've found myself back in the game and loving every minute of Vlad and all his impaling tendencies!

Plot:

Dating the Prince of Darkness has its challenges . . . 

Leila's psychic abilities have been failing her, and now she isn't sure what the future holds. If that weren't enough, her lover Vlad has been acting distant. Though Leila is a mere mortal, she's also a modern woman who refuses to accept the cold shoulder treatment forever--especially from the darkly handsome vampire who still won't admit that he loves her . . . 

Like choosing between eternal love and a loveless eternity . . .

Soon circumstances send Leila back to the carnival circuit, where tragedy strikes. And when she finds herself in the crosshairs of a killer who may be closer than she realizes, Leila must decide who to trust-- the fiery vampire who arouses her passions like no other or the tortured knight who longs to be more than a friend? With danger stalking her every step of the way, all it takes is one wrong move to damn her for eternity . . .

As the plot says "Dating the Prince of Darkness has its challenges . . ." and that my dear friends is no lie! We gals have a tendency to look past all the darkness within our loved ones. Find the good and hang on tight. But Vlad makes it abundantly clear, this is me. I AM the darkness and if you're looking for that white knight, keep truckin sister! He's in your face with alpha high handedness and if you think to tame the beast, think again. He is who he is, and you either love the whole package or none at all. This, I love about the man. He will not shy away from what he is, a true and utter acceptance and willingness to be anyway he wants is refreshing. He's a dark dude and he likes it. 

In the first edition to this saga we had Leila Dalton, (Um, love her last name btw!) the freak show performing woman who's trying to make her way in life. Failing at times, but doing the best she can. I hated, with every undead bone in my body, that this young woman thought she could match up with Vlad. Certainly not the first time around she couldn't. This girl needed to grow up, get some balls and play with the big dogs. In book 2, she has and she does. Leila is winning me over, slow though it may be I am getting on board with her changes and growth as a woman. 

With evil folks out to kill her, yet again, and Vlad coming to terms with matters of the heart, we had everything that could be wanted emotionally in this story. I'm used to a bit more action in the tales from Frost and while that area lacked a bit, we do get some positive story flow that will lead us into the next edition. 

Cat and Bones make an appearance but it's never to overshadow the main characters of this story. It's always nice when characters from previous books pop in and out. 

From beginning to end I was overall pleased with this one, if you've yet to check Frost out now is the time! Heads will roll and bodies are sure to hit the floor, but it's all in good vampy fun. Combine all this with Dracula himself and you've got one enjoyable story!

Getting 4 'I brought my own pole' Sheep 

KD

Sheep Book Review: Once Burned by Jeaniene Frost

Once Burned, by Jeaniene Frost, is the first edition in her new PNR Night Prince saga. Vlad's book was highly anticipated and I for one was waiting on pins and needles to dive right into this newest edition. While Once Burned turned out leaving me a little disappointed I'm not by any means losing faith in Frost.

Plot

After a tragic accident scarred her body and destroyed her dreams, Leila never imagined that the worst was still to come: terrifying powers that let her channel electricity and learn a person's darkest secrets through a single touch. Leila is doomed to a life of solitude...until creatures of the night kidnap her, forcing her to reach out with a telepathic distress call to the world's most infamous vampire...

Vlad Tepesh inspired the greatest vampire legend of all--but whatever you do, don't call him Dracula. Vlad's ability to control fire makes him one of the most feared vampires in existence, but his enemies have found a new weapon against him - a beautiful mortal with powers to match his own. When Vlad and Leila meet, however, passion ignites between them, threatening to consume them both. It will take everything that they are to stop an enemy intent on bringing them down in flames.

How hard it must be for a vampire like Vlad to have any even remotely meaningful relationship with the ladies. They either want to ride the pony for his riches, power, or fame. It would be a nice notch on the belt to say you boinked Dracula, plus he's a Prince! (not the artist formally known as Prince either) Vlad lost a bit of that spunky nature I liked about him, but that being said he's still fun to read! So when Leila steps into the picture with her bag of circus tricks I wanted to fully believe that this could end up being a match made in undead heaven. Sadly that didn't really pan out for me.

Here's what I DID like about Leila: she stands up to a vampire who could kill her at any moment, she's got a kickass last name (Dalton! Woot Woot!), she's physically and emotionally scarred, has electric power, she's flawed and makes mistakes. But what I didn't enjoy was the constant babysitting this chick required AND the fact that she keeps getting people either wounded or killed just because they knew her. Plus she does the typical girl thing and falls for a man that tells her point blank "I can never love you". *shakes head* Um, honey he just told you! I wanted to slap some sense into her at times but alas she is a fictional character. Note to self: Stop slapping book pages.

The book pace was fairly well laid out, but there were a few little lag spots here and there before action or major dialog picked up. In addition, a new bad guy steps into the picture which should help carry this saga along for at least another book. While the story itself didn't hit any emotional bones in me. Frost is a fantastic writer and delivers a good story but when you've read "great" books by her you get a little disappointed. The romance between our lead two was average but yet again nothing that really sparked to life on the pages for me.

For those that have yet to find the amazing Night Huntress Series, the series from which this book is a spin-off, you should absolutely read that at the first opportunity. That's the series that sucked me in and got me hooked on Vlad, Bones, Spade and company. Great stuff! I'm sticking with Frost and hoping for more heat, action and catchier dialog in the next edition due out in 2013.

Getting 3 and 1/2 Sheep

KD

Jeaniene Frost Once Burned book signing + give away

The cool thing about authors that live in your state is youget to go to their book signings and NC is lucky enough to have Jeaniene Frost! She came to the Barnes & Noble in Cary, NC on July 1, 2012 to promote the release of her newest book Once Burned…Vlad’s story! I met blogger Ana Cade(Herding Cats and Burning Soup) who I run into at many book events there and ran into Elvie Doll (Jenni Hesse) from Paperback Dolls. We had a great time talking before and after about...books! I know, right?

Poor Jeaniene drove straight from KY to NC stopping at a gasstation to change shirts so she wouldn’t look rumpled when she got to the signing. She might have been tired, but she was just as pleasant and funny as always. She decided to just talk a little about Vlad’s book and then take questions until time to do the signing. There were tons of questions and she spent as much time with each fan as they wanted during the signing. I am going to just list all the interesting tid bits I picked up during the questions. Then I have some cool swag Jeaniene brought to give away.

There will definitely two Vlad books, maybe a third one.

She told the story of how she swore to herself when she started writing about vampires that she would NEVER mess with the Dracula myth…(ha!) But while she was writing the third Bones/Kat book he popped up in her mind and wouldn’t go away.

The next Cat/Bones book #7 comes out winter 2013

The inevitable Ian question came up! Again she tells us Ian is not ready for his own story, he enjoys being a man whore

She keeps a pad of paper next to her computer to jot down notes and ideas that come to her. She likes to physically write them down rather than type them into a word document.

The next Vlad book, Twice Tempted, will have more emotional violence. Things are going to come to a boil with Vlad and Leila. Leila won’t stand for Vlad’s attitude and makes him face things and deal with them. What he is offering isn’t going to be good enough for Leila.

She was asked what characters she would date: Eric, Barrons and Curran. She said she could go on and on but didn’t want to sound like a tramp.

Jeaniene really liked the character Marty in Once Burned.

She was asked if she would do any more books in the Demonand Angel’s world she created in her novella "Night's DarkestEmbrace," that was part of the anthology Haunted by Your Touch. She would love to, but she is contracted for the next three years to write vampire books.

The story she has in the anthology Haunted by Your Touch will be coming out as a separate novella and she is excited because stories in anthologies tend to get forgotten about.

Jeaniene says novellas are just as much work to produce as a novel for her and it just doesn’t make sense to put all that effort into a novella when she could turn it into a novel with a few more weeks work and most people prefer a full novel. So she won’t be writing anymore novellas because it just isn’t practical.

Writing Mencheres was difficult because he is a 4,500 year old male. It is hard to put yourself in the head of someone who is that old and figure out how they would behave in today’s world.

Can Kat make a vampire? She deliberately hasn’t answered this question.

She talked about how many books there will be in the Cat/Bones series. She knows how the series will end, but doesn’t know if there is enough material to make 9 books and won’t know until she writes the 8^thone.

90% of what she reads is paranormal and wants to see Abe Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Magic Mike

She doesn’t play favorites with her books. The one she is writing at the time is the one she loves.

She was asked to write a young adult. She even has a YA horror story she wrote set in an angel world just sitting around. No one was interested in it at the time because it was so dark.

Why was Once Burned written from Leila’s POV? She decides how to best tell a story. When you have a split POV you take away the discovery of characters, because you are in their heads.With Leila’s first person POV the reader gets to learn about Vlad’s life and how he treats women right along with Leila. The second book Twice Tempted will be from Leila’s POV too. She hasn’t decided what POV the third book will be (if there is one), depends on the story that needs to be told.

She writes to music because it helps her block out distractions. Each book has its own playlist. The songs don’t have a special meaning for the storyline, but they help put her in the right frame of mind for that particular novel.

She was asked if Isabella and Chance (from the novella “One forthe Money”) would write a HEA novella. If there is a reason for them too she will.

After the questions we all lined up to get books signed and pictures taken. I tried to hang onto her for you guys, but she defended herself very well <G>

Disclaimer: no reviewer was harmed in this picture

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Bones… I like it rough.

Mencheres… I like it mindblowing

Ian… I like it twisted

Vlad… I like it hot

Spade… I like it romantic

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