Review: Immortal Love, Lust & Destiny
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 25, 2014
Do you like your immortals filled with fire and brimstone, lots of attitude and posturing? Do you like destiny messing with their hearts and souls, and probably laughing about it? How about danger lurking around every corner from fierce enemies with a design on taking over the world? Welcome to Burdened by Desire by J. l. Sheppard! Three sisters, each a new breed of immortal, one has found her mate and come into her powers, and now the second, Jocelyn is on the block, still without powers, although her attitude and snark are pretty good weapons in themselves. She has been told that her powers will come to her when she finds her mate. Enter super alpha, super-hot, Landon, a werewolf whose pack believes in the “old” ways, you do NOT mate outside your own kind. Apparently fate and destiny think otherwise? With external forces threatening to wage war, does he have time to deal with the emotional fallout with Jocelyn? Can he deny his fate as much as she denies hers? Does Teenaged angst look good on adult immortals? Let the games begin!J. L. Sheppard knows how to create smoldering steam, sensual characters and brilliantly tense moments. With a fiery heroine just coming to know her powers and an over 500 hundred-year-old alpha werewolf who is the target of most of her fury, I have to say, they are well-matched and the fireworks are always spectacular! Each scene is detailed and the flow is always running hot, either from the action, the arguing, that battles or those intimate moments when I swear I saw smoke rising from my Kindle. If you’re a little sensitive the sexual nature of demons and weres and their lack of inhibitions, you may want to keep some smelling salts handy. If reading fascinating combinations of, ahem, foul language bothers you, cover one eye, you’ll still get the effect of each word and the attitude tossed around by Jocelyn, who, I believe could make a trucker blush.I received a review copy from the author as part of the Burdened by Desire blog tour.