Review: Smokin' Hot!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 16, 2011
Spellbound - Legend is Smokin' HOT!After a nine year hiatus [we won't call it retirement,] Claudy Conn returns to the world of romance fiction writing with Spellbound - Legend. You might remember the author as Claudette Williams and think of her regency and historical romances. Claudy wrote over 40 mass market bestsellers in that field using the pen names Claudette Williams and Melanie Davis for Fawcett, Zebra and Doubleday book club.  Claudy Conn is back and writing with a vengeance to bring us her first paranormal romance.Make no mistake this is top notch romance writing and Claudy embraces the paranormal aspects of her story with obvious enjoyment and ease.  Paranormal and fantasy fictions are my absolute favorite reads and she has made the switch seem effortless. She has nailed the genre as if she was born to write it.  No disrespect intended toward the historical and regency set . . . I cut my reading chops on those romances.Spellbound - Legend is a masterfully written tale that pits a contemporary young woman against ancient forces.  Maxie Reigate descends from a long line of Druid priests and priestesses. She's always been aware of the family legend but what she doesn't know is that her fate is tied into the world of the Tuatha Dé, the fairy people, also known as the Fae, who are at the heart of Irish Myth and folklore.  The wall of power, set up to separate the world of man from the Fae, is in danger of collapse; there is a blood sucking, evil and ancient beauty that wants her dead; the hero of her family's legend, Julian, the High Druid Priest is about to wake up after a two hundred year coma and walk into her life; and then there is a Fae Prince who wants to protect and keep her for his own. There is danger at every turn and enough sexual tension to launch an arrow.Talk about steam . . . Spellbound - Legend has all the elements needed to get your heart racing and in a good way.  Claudy Conn has stepped onto the stage of paranormal romance writing and is going to give Harris, Hamilton, and Feehan a fight for their audiences. Conn is a master story teller returned to give us more of what we want. I don't know which is hotter Breslyn, Prince of Dagda or Julian of Talbot?! I am so conflicted! Best of all, Spellbound is just the beginning of an incredible new series.