#Review & #Excerpt of Careful What You Ask For from @CandaceBlevins #paranormalromance
Title: Careful What You Ask For
Author: Candace Blevins
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Published: September 23, 2016
Publisher: eXcessica Publishing
~ Synopsis ~
When a wolf mates with a human, the child is nearly always a wolf. Briana was raised as a werewolf, but then puberty hit and she never changed. She’s persuaded a few wolves to bite her, but it never took. At nineteen, she’s going to give it a final try. This time, she’ll ask someone who was bitten instead of being born to it, to see if it makes a difference.
She grew up welcome in the Pack until she was branded a human. Her developing teenage psyche was wounded by their rejection, and she holds nothing but ill will for the Pack and all it stands for. However, it’s fine for a human to glare at the Alpha and tell him he isn’t the boss of her. Trying it as a wolf is another story. She’s determined to make a go of it as a lone wolf, but Randall — the local Alpha — has other ideas, despite the fact she’s property of his brother’s motorcycle club.
Briana was raised to be a werewolf and she finally feels whole, but the transition is different for everyone. She understands supernatural politics, but she’s going to have to maneuver through the highest levels of them as a brand new wolf still struggling for control.
Grap your copy!
~ Review~
We first met Briana in the Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Club series. I can’t say I much liked the Briana we met at the club, but I love Blevins’ books and couldn’t wait to get my hands on this one. Briana is quite a bit different than what I expected. Blevins gives the reader plenty of explanation as to why Briana isn’t just a slut, as we all suspected from our earlier peeks at her. I’m not sure I totally believe Briana’s character, though. She was way too grown-up for the tender age of 19. Yes, I realize she’s been through a lot. I still didn’t buy her level of maturity.
Briana’s love interest, Patrick, was an interesting guy. Completely and totally hot. But also way into the BDSM scene. He’s somewhat of a sadist as well. Most of the sex scenes were hot, but they are also on the edge of what I enjoy BDSM-wise. If you’re not heavy into BDSM, you may want to skip this one.
Aside from the love story, watching Briana and Patrick deal with pack politics was interesting. I enjoyed this part of the story the most. Watching Briana grapple with accepting past hurts and how Patrick struggles to protect her and not undermine his power position kept me flipping impatiently through the story.
If you love shifter romances and haven’t read Blevins yet, what are you waiting for?
~Excerpt ~
Maggie had told me what she expected me to do before she’d changed into her wolf, so now I lay on the forest floor, buck-naked and spread eagle.
I’ve been bitten before so I knew the pain I was about to feel, and it took every ounce of my resolve to remain in place as the medium sized wolf sniffed me all over. My legs wanted to kick and then jump up and run, my hands wanted to protect my face from her, and my heart felt as if it were trying to escape my chest — but I held my breath and forced myself to stay frozen.
If this didn’t work I wasn’t sure I’d try again, but I had to give it one final attempt. I’d been raised knowing I was a wolf. I’d always felt her inside me, but then she never showed herself and I was labeled a human when I’d had my period for a year and hadn’t changed.
But my self-identity never changed. I’m a human who identifies as a wolf, but if this didn’t work — I’d have to find a way to accept my humanity.
I gasped when she bit my left thigh, held my breath while she mangled my right thigh, and couldn’t hold in my screams when her teeth tore into the skin and muscle of my left shoulder.
I’d told her where to bite me, but I hadn’t told her she could just go straight in and out without ripping. The wolf’s natural instincts are to tear as they bite, and fuck it hurt. If this didn’t turn me I was going to be scarred something awful.
She must have realized how bad she’d hurt me, because she was a little more gentle with my right shoulder, but it still hurt like hell.
Finally, Maggie’s wolf backed up a half-dozen steps and went to the ground, her eyes on me so intense it was unnerving, but I already smelled of pain and blood and I wasn’t sure how much control she had, so I tried my hardest not to be afraid.
Everything’s hazy past that point. I remember hurting, remember thrashing in the dirt, but it was days later before I have any memory of being fully in my human brain again.
~ About the Author ~
Candace Blevins lives with her husband of 18 years and their two daughters. When not working or driving kids all over the place she can be found reading, writing, meditating, or swimming.
Candace writes Urban Fantasy, Paranormal Romance, Contemporary BDSM Romance, and a kick-ass Motorcycle Club series.
Her urban fantasy series, Only Human, gives us a world where weredragons, werewolves, werelions, three different species of vampires, as well as a variety of other mythological beings exist.
Candace’s two paranormal romance series, The Chattanooga Supernaturals and The Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Club, are both sister series to the Only Human series, and give some secondary characters their happily ever after.
Her Safeword Series gives us characters who happen to have some extreme kinks. Relationships can be difficult enough without throwing power exchange into the mix, and her books show characters who care enough about each other to fight to make the relationship work. Each book in the Safeword series highlights a couple with a different take on the lifestyle.
You can visit Candace on the web at candaceblevins.com and feel free to friend her on Facebook at facebook.com/candacesblevins and Goodreads at goodreads.com/CandaceBlevins. You can also join facebook.com/groups/CandacesKinksters to get sneak peeks into what she’s writing now, images that inspire her, and the occasional juicy blurb.
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Only Human series (Urban Fantasy)
- Only Human
- An Unhuman Journey
- Unhuman Acts (late 2016)
Chattanooga Supernaturals (Paranormal Romance)
- Careful What You Ask For
- Hallowed Destiny
Rolling Thunder Motorcycle Club (link)
- Duke
- Brain
- Bash Volume I
- Bash Volume II
- Bash Volume III
- Horse
- Gonzo
- Nix
- Ghost (October 2016)
Dark erotica shorts from the world of The Chattanooga Supernaturals
Safeword series (Contemporary BDSM Romance)
- Safeword: Rainbow
- Safeword: Matte
- Safeword: Davenport
- Safewords: Davenport and Chiffon
- Safeword: Quinacridone
- Safeword: Matte – In Training
- No Safeword: Matte – The Honeymoon
- No Safeword: Matte – Happily Ever After
- Safeword: Arabesque
- Safeword: Mayday (TBA)
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