Review: Testosterone Overload
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 27, 2014
So for awhile, I have been seeing the name Valerie Twombly on the pnr radar. It made the rounds of the blogosphere and there was quite the positive buzz and that this was an author to watch. It hung around in the back of my mind and I just "one clicked" Eternal Flame. I wasn't really in a rush and I had tooooooons of books to wade through in my tbr that were just languishing from neglect. Well a couple of weeks ago, I was in the mood for a new pnr series, so I started Eternal Flame. I was absolutely enraptured! The men, oh lordy, lordy the MEN!! I kid you not, there could be absolutely no romance, no mate connection and I would still follow this group of testosterone overload like a starving hound after a chicken bone. They were just so, so very much what males should be in a perfect world. Honorable, strong, loyal, faithful, I could go on for days, oh and lest I forget, so utterly gorgeous and sexy. Long before Cassie made her appearance, I had claimed these Guardians as mine, and was very, extremely, "pee on the furniture" territorial. So maybe it should come as no great surprise that I absolutely, to the very marrow of my bones, HATED Cassie. At first.......I knew that it was deemed by the Gods that Cassie was the destined mate of Marcus.  Huh, so what? Granted they were both healers to their people, and Marcus all but went up in flames over Cassie, but again, so what? It turned out I was right! Cassie hurt my Marcus and needed to suffer! (yes, I know it's a book and I shouldn't get so involved. Leave me alone, I like it!) Well, sadly, when Cassie suffered, Marcus suffered. (Well, damn!) So, it would seem in order for Marcus to be happy, the dratted Cassie must live. (Ugh!) OK, well then I would just have to adjust and try to see the positive in Cassie and give up my dreams of her heinous death. To give Cassie her due, she did FINALLY put on her big girl panties and step up to the suitable heroine plate.This world of vampires, dragons, demons and other supernaturals just took over my psyche, and the impending war promises fodder for books into the twenty second century. (fingers crossed) The romance is "surface of the sun' HOT, and befitting of such fine male specimens. (Marcus does have a sister, so it's not ALL about the penis) Before I ever saw the blurb for Fatal Desire, or even knew who the book was about, I had a feeling about Caleb, but that is a tangent for another time. These characters are fun, likable, and guaranteed to steal your heart. There are some very, very dark aspects to this book and you will need the heat and the humor to pull you through. Thankfully Valerie Twombly seems to have all these in spades and I am extremely glad I jumped the line in my tbr.  I have lost my Marcus, but there is always Baal. I do love a sexy demon. Well done, Ms. Twombly, bravissima!