Book Review: Burn for Me by Cynthia Eden

First Published: January 2014

Genre: Paranormal Romance/Urban Fantasy

***Sizzling hot romance with scorching sexual tension!  Cynthia Eden is on fire!

Burn for Me takes place in a world where supernaturals have recently “come out” to the rest of the world, mainly in part to the ever helpful vampires.  Like many other paranormal authors, Cynthia Eden has created a world where all is not as it seems.  Enter the leading the lady, Eve Bradley. 

Eve Bradley, a young journalist, has spent the last six months undercover as a doctor in a government sanctioned program studying “volunteer” supernaturals.  BFM begins when Eve is finally granted access to one of the facility’s most dangerous volunteers, Subject Thirteen.  Instantly, she knows things don’t add up when she spies him chained half naked to a wall. 

Cain O’Conner, aka Subject Thirteen, knows his volatile nature can be deadly, but from the moment he lays eyes on Eve he finds himself fighting to be near her.  Having been betrayed by everyone he’s ever loved, trust is not a luxury he can afford.  So when the beautiful, candy scented spitfire tries to free him he finds himself pulled in by her naïve charm.

I love the way Eden wrote Eve’s character!  She’s a strong woman who knows what she wants and isn’t afraid to go after it.  So when Cain repeatedly pushes her away for her own safety, she has no problem standing up to him and telling him to “suck it up “.  That being said, I did get annoyed with how she insisted the all their problems could be solved by simply getting her story of the mistreatment of supes in print.  It was a character flaw for her that I thought went against her personality.  In the rest of the book she’s the counter weight to Cain’s literally fiery nature, yet it takes a couple of people to die and a close friend to be tortured before she realizes that it’s going to take more than a breaking story to solve anything.

Cain was spot on H-O-T!  I’ll have to say if you’re into the kick ass, never take names kind of guy you’ll love him.  He was definitely Alpha male material and once he discovered that Eve could handle his fire in the bedroom…the kiddie gloves came off!  I have to the sex scenes were spicy, but not too over the top.  The sexual tension was written well, but the real character development didn’t occur until later in the book, especially for the secondary characters.  Overall, I enjoyed BFM and found myself hooked enough to read the rest of the series.

This book sucked.

As I was reading this I couldn't remember why I enjoyed the first one. I just realized that I might have been happy to have finished the book, not to have read the book. Cause that's how I feel about this one. I'm so glad it's over, now I just have to remember not to buy any more of them. I couldn't take the constant in her head, overly descriptive, analagous narrative that is the entire book. A lot of it was repetitive too.

Anyways, I did one of those highly addictive 5 favorite lists on facebook for my 5 favorite books, and realized none of my favorites were romances. At least not the kind I've been reading the last 2 years. I need to start reading more books like that.

Night Huntress

This is classified as paranormal romance, but there is no romance. It should be paranormal fantasy. It's like reading a D&D game with a few sex scenes thrown in. I've written about this series before. This one is about the middle sister who is part fae, human and werecat. Overall its a decent series. If you like D&D-type adventures give it a whirl.

Dragon Wytch by Yasmine Galenorn

I finished this last Friday but didn't get to post about it til today because my power just came on today.

This is the fourth book in a series that I think may just keep on going. Not that that's a bad thing. The continuing story arc is interesting and each book is about 1 of three sisters and takes turns. This one was about Camille, the witch. She has three lovers, a Svartan (a type of fae), a demon fox shifter/man, and a dragon/man. Needless to say, there is a lot going on. In this book she sorts out her romantic life while battling evil forces from Otherworld (mostly goblins) that are trying to take over earth, with some help from a unicorn. I liked this book because of the continuing story and the character developments. I would recommend the series so far.

The Moon Witch

This is the second book in a series about three sisters that are witches. I wrote about the first one, the Sun Witch, awhile back. I was pleasantly surprised by both books. At first I didn't think I'd like this one but it rew on me a little. The characters change through out the book. What I enjoy most is that it is like a sopa opera with a running storyline that has continued from the last book, and will hopefully conclude with the final book. The books aren't very long (not even 300 pages), they just take awhile to get into. I would recommend these to Beqa.

The Outlaw Demon Wails by Kim Harrison

I really like this series. This is like the 6th book or something. I love the characters. I love the setting and the world its set in. I love the plot and how it unravels. I love the action, suspense, drama, and the supernatural. If anyone's intersted in getting sucked into the series let me know and I'll bring the first book to book club. The first book took me awhile to get into, but the series has gotten better since.

Wicked Magic by Cheyenne McCray

I think the only reason I've kept up with this series is because I like the way she writes a sex scene, not so much for the story. This is the third installment in this series about witches fighting to save San Fransisco from the evil clutches of demons, and stuff. Basically you have these witches (the main female characters) who are aided by hunky warriors called D'Danann (the main male characters) to fight evil demons (who are kind of main character too). Each book focuses on one witch and one D'Danann and how they fall in love after having hot, and sometimes dirty, sex. And in addition to the good guys getting it on you get to read about the bad guys getting it on, which if you're into dominance stuff you'd enjoy.

What I don't like about these books is that by the end the characters have fallen in love, but nothing else is resolved! There are still evil demons roaming around becuase they were unable to kill them all, and in each book something more horrible & evil is unleashed for them to deal with in the next book. I think I keep reading these because I'm hoping they'll get better and something will actually be accomplished.