Title: When Heroes Fall Author: Giana Darling Series: Anti-Heroes in Love #1 Genre: Dark Contemporary Romance
I am the villain of my own story…
Jilted by my fiance. A disappointment to my family. Haunted by my childhood traumas. I felt so much all my life that I resolved to feeling nothing at all.
Until I met my match.
As the most infamous mafioso of the 21st century, Dante Salvatore was madly passionate, unequivocally bad, and entirely too dangerous to know. He was everything I abhorred, yet I found myself representing him in the biggest criminal trial of the decade.
I was so focused on winning and achieving the success I deserved that I didn’t notice the gorgeous black-eyed man’s effect on me until it was too late. My icy heart had been held too close to his flame and now I wouldn’t let Dante go down without fighting with everything I had in me.
Even if the cost of a new life with him meant the loss of my old life and everything I thought I held dear.
Giana Darling is a USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Top 40 Amazon Best Selling Canadian romance writer who specializes in the taboo and angsty side of love and romance. She currently lives in beautiful British Columbia where she spends time riding on the back of her man’s bike, baking pies, and reading snuggled up with her Golden Retriever puppy, Romeo.
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Three Reasons You Should Read This Sweet Paranormal Romance:
Red Hot Wolfie by Nyx Halliwell is a suspenseful clean paranormal romance with a really fun twist on fairy tale characters.
Ruby and her red cape take a whimsical and modern view of Red Riding Hood that makes the character unique and a lot of fun to follow through her mystery.
The mystery was very strong with a lot of twists and turns that kept me guessing until the very end.
What big teeth you have…a fairytale retelling of Little Red Riding Hood with a little bit of magick, a whole lot of wolf, and a howling good mystery!
I’m the witchy version of the Caped Crusader, and I have the red cloak to prove it.
The garment is magick and comes in handy when anyone is in need of healing. Neither it nor my personal magick, however, can treat the injured wolf I find on my doorstep.
While tending his wounds, I discover he’s the stuff of legends—a shifter who also happens to be the new town veterinarian I’ve been anxious to meet. His past, however, is as clouded as his memory.As I teach him about his inner wolf, and discover his deepest secrets, our sleepy town is rocked by murder. All evidence points to a forest creature with sharp claws and big teeth…
The full moon is rising, and it looks like it’s up to me to make sure no further harm is done. Can I uncover the culprit behind the killings? Or will I end up a snack for a hungry wolf?
I am a big fan of new twists on old fairy tales or fairy tale characters. Red Hot Wolfie did a fantastic job taking Little Red Riding Hood and making her a contemporary character. She still has her red cape and lives near the forest, but she’s a fierce woman and witch you don’t want to mess with.
Her story starts with finding a wolf passed out on her doorstep – but this wolf isn’t an ordinary wolf. He turns into a very naked man, and the romance (very clean) takes off from there. I loved the interactions between Ruby and Ren. There was just enough tension, a little bit of doubt, and a whole lot of trying to figure things out.
But people are dying in the woods, and it looks like it might have been the work of a wolf. Pair that up with some unwelcome paranormal investigators looking for the perfect shot for the TV show, and things start getting tricky pretty fast. I wish these investigators had something a little more redeeming about them – some good trait that would make me anxious for their safety. But they fell a little flat in the personality department.
Ruby and her sisters (other fairy tale characters) investigate and sort of stumble upon the reason and culprit behind the murders in the woods. It took a bit of a winding trail to get there, but that let me get to know them and their little town a bit better. I wish that Ren’s history had a little more of the spotlight. I found his tale quite intriguing and thought it could have made a great main storyline instead of a secondary one.
**I voluntarily reviewed a complimentary copy of this book**
Owen Montgomery is arrogant and unfeeling–with cold, haughty manners and a British accent sharper than any knife. I’ve been secretly in love with him for years, knowing there’s no way he could ever notice me, the scholarship girl. The poor girl. Until that night in Ibiza…until that night we taste each other’s kiss for the first time, and I learn what hot hungers the ice king keeps hidden from public view.
It’s also the night when I discover that after three years of sharing classes and even friends, Owen still has no idea who I am. None at all.
Pride stung, I vow to focus only on myself and my future in publishing. But little do I know that I’ve awakened an obsession in Owen that will soon outgrow the halls of Pembroke Prep and spill over into the real world.
Owen wants me, and he’ll stop at nothing to have me. And soon I find myself with an impossible choice. Do I pick the future I always wanted for myself?
Or do I choose the blueblood whose kisses are as brutal as his love?
