Bond with Me The Fallen Book #1 edition by Anne Marsh Literature Fiction eBooks
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Book #1 in The Fallen!
Fallen angels rule Moscow’s seedy underworld, promising untold pleasure to the females who dare to mate them. That promise—and Brends Duranov’s own raw sexual power—has hopefuls mobbing the velvet rope outside his elite club G2’s.
But Mischka Baran has no intention of hooking up with one of the Fallen. Not even after Brends gives her an unforgettable taste of the sin and seduction he can deliver with those wicked lips. She’s after information, not a stint as some fallen angel’s toy of the month. What she doesn’t know is that with a sadistic killer carving up his brethren, Brends is playing for keeps, hunting the one woman whose bloodline can end the mayhem, whose bond can restore his lost wings.
Praise for The Fallen series
"The perfect alpha male- sexy as hell and demanding... The raw energy of the males in this story make for a tantalizingly, erotic read. Fans of fallen angels will eat this one up.” -- Anna's Book Blog
“Bond With Me is a very dark erotic romance. Brends and Mischka’s chemistry is titillating right from the moment they first meet and their romance is sweet, yet exciting even beyond their smoking hot sexual relationship.” -- Fiction Vixen Book Reviews
“Dark and dangerous are the first 2 words that come to my mind when I read this book. Brends is the ultimate bad boy and makes no apologies for his nature or behavior.” -- Bookaholics
A 2011 Reader's Crown finalist!
THE FALLEN SERIES
Book 1 - Bond with Me
Book 2 - His Dark Bond
Book 3 - Savage Bond
Bond with Me The Fallen Book #1 edition by Anne Marsh Literature Fiction eBooks
~* 3.5 Stars *~They were set up. Since creation, the Dominion served as faithful warrior angels defending the throne, but that loyalty earned them little when the archangel Michael accused them of heinous crimes and banished them from the heavens. Stripped of their wings and souls, robbed of their emotions, they fell. Cursed by Michael's fury, they became Goblins - half man, half beast - dependent on the souls of humanity for sustenance. They were promised a chance at redemption. They were promised the hope of soul mates and reemergence into heaven. They were promised...everything.
In the three thousand years since, that promise has gone unfulfilled. And the Fallen have long since stopped believing in anything they were promised.
Brends Duranov had a bone to pick with Michael about that, among other, darker things. The Goblin didn't have much faith in getting the opportunity to do so any time soon, though. Instead he focused on more pressing matters as he stalked through his M City club, his attention diverted from the throng of humans pressing to get in and make their dark deal with a devil they couldn't possibly comprehend. With no thought of compassion, he spared their pathetic lives as he hunted the one bright soul who had been staking out his club for the past three nights. She is the only one he wanted, and he could ignore the hunger of the beast inside him until he had her right where he wanted her. Beneath him and at his mercy.
Good girl Mischka Baran wouldn't be in M City's Goblin club G2 if she didn't have a very compelling reason. She knows what the Goblins are, is well aware of the danger in their sought-after embrace. If her cousin wasn't missing, she wouldn't be anywhere near the oppressive weight of throbbing music, desperation, and forbidden hunger that permeated the place. But her cousin is missing. And Mischka had long ago assumed responsibility for the younger, impetuous girl. So she tries to be fearless as she beards these particular lions in their dens.
She just hadn't anticipated the visceral force of one particular and obviously very fierce lion.
Mischka doesn't trust Brends, but he is the only one who can help her. And stumbling over a dead body behind his club as she searches for him just intensifies her need and shortens her timeline. The victim is a human woman. The murderer obviously...isn't. And this dead girl isn't the first to fall victim to such a creature, either. If her cousin is alive, Mischka needs to find her fast. If she isn't, she will need Brends to have any hope of retribution. Only a Goblin has a chance of stopping one of his own kind.
But when the sadistic serial killer terrorizing M City turns his attention towards her, she knows that to survive, she's going to have to do whatever Brends asks her to do. No matter how dangerous it is to her soul...and her heart.
~*~
Decadent and dark, Marsh goes for the hard hit in this intense series debut. Though fallen angels have become overly proliferated in paranormal romance and urban fantasy of late, and they're definitely not one of my favorite supernatural creatures, I enjoyed the world and mythos created here. There's just enough spin to make fresh and seductively deadly what has quickly become overused and tired.
That's not to say I didn't have some problems with the book. The futuristic setting was wonderfully gritty and the plot was compelling, but I was perplexed at times by the information provided about what Goblins do to the humans they bond with, their feeding needs, and what results from that feeding. That information seemed to contradict itself in several places.
At times the reader is told that bonding with a Goblin results in nothing but death or madness for a human, at other times, it seems the bonding is contracted within a certain time limit that would be easily survivable. I was never sure if Goblins often bond with humans for short periods so they can feed without risking the Change or if every bonding results in madness or death for the human. Those conflicts and the confusion they created made it hard to fully immerse myself in the story as I was reading.
I also found the narrative to be jerky and inconsistent in places. The frequent shifts in the perspective of the point of view were sometimes difficult to follow. It wasn't always clear to me what was going on when and how it all related to the overall plot. The character definition was also a little sketchy and seemed a bit contrary, and character emotions seemed to vacillate wildly in very short periods of time. Mischka is introduced to the story as a good girl looking out for her cousin, but later her character has suddenly always wanted to be a little bad and feels constrained by expectations. Little Miss Perfect becomes a bit more Girls Gone Wild. The transition didn't quite feel natural or organic to the evolution of her character.
More appealing and more consistent was the sheer otherness of Brends and his emotionless ability to manipulate without conscience. He was sinfully sexy, but he was also very dark and self-interested for a good portion of the book. That may not breed a lot of sympathy for him as the male lead, but he was definitely intriguing. I enjoyed finding out more of his backstory and getting a glimpse of his past.
Unfortunately, there's so much going on in the plot and page time given to fleshing out of the world, that neither the primary romance arc between Mischka and Brends or the secondary one with Pell and Dathan were completely satisfying for me. The evolution of both seemed just as jerky and lacking in cohesion as parts of the narrative and I wasn't convinced of the depth of emotion portrayed at the end. That's not to say that both couples don't have a fantastically edgy and intense sexuality, because - woah - they so do. The sex in this book was hot. Full stop. Some of the physical scenes definitely pushed the envelope, and I could easily imagine the inherent sexuality of the Goblins taking an even darker, erotic turn in the future.
The strength of this book for me lies in the world and the history of the Goblins. The reality of their existence is pretty horrific, all things considered, and it does breed a level of sympathy despite their very alien natures. I loved the long term plans of the Big Bad and finding out how much of his insidious malignancy has been spread through the heavens and on earth. Talk about playing the long game. This is one seriously bad Big Bad. And his primary weapon was nothing to sneeze at, either.
Though the book wasn't perfect for me, and I wasn't totally on board with the main characters' journey through the story, or with the verisimilitude of their romance, I got quickly addicted to the Goblins plight and would love to see how this world expands. If the execution of the narrative gets a little more streamlined and isn't quite so contradictory or confusing, this could be a truly excellent, dark fantasy/paranormal romance series. The potential is definitely there.
Disclosure: An ARC of this book was provided to me by Dorchester Publishing via NetGalley. This rating, review, and all included thoughts and comments are my own.
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Reviewed for One Good Book Deserves Another.
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Bond with Me The Fallen Book #1 edition by Anne Marsh Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
This is another title I came across while clicking through Goodreads one day. I had just finished up a book and was looking for another paranormal romance and found Bond with Me in my recommendations section. I had not heard of this author before, but the summary looked intriguing, so I downloaded it to my kindle and began reading.
My only mistake in picking up the book when I did was the timing. It was just before the holidays and I got about two chapters in when I was taken away for family obligations. I knew it would happen, but I could not resist starting the book. I was kicking myself later because while visiting with family, I was secretly thinking about the world of the Fallen (which my family is now being made aware of as they read this review, sorry guys, haha). Over the next couple of days I snuck away whenever possible and read as much as I could. It took me a couple of days to get through this book, but I am confident I would have devoured it in one sitting, had I had the opportunity.
We enter this world through the eyes of Mischka and Brends. Mischka is a human on the hunt for her cousin Pell who is running from her family. Brends is a Fallen angel, a very hot Fallen angel, who runs a club called G2. In this world, the Fallen were kicked out of heaven after they held an uprising against the archangel Michael. They were cast out with only one hope, find their soul mates and they can come back. It has been thousands of years and no sign of these soul mates. Most of the Fallen have given up hope as they also battling with their other halves. You see, when they were cast out Michael also cursed them to have a Goblin half that is always fighting to break free and take the sanity and conscious from the Fallen. Until they find their soul mates, they will never again have wings or be able to fully control the beast within.
Mischka is a good girl in appearance, but is a bad girl at heart. She has always done the right thing, but secretly wants to break free of her beige, boring shell. Brends decides he is just the man to do the job. He wants Mischka from the second he lays his eyes on her and he will do just about anything to have her. So much of the book was a delicious build of sexual tension as these two try to decide what to do with the other and how long they could hold out not being together. The main hold up comes from Mischka because she does not want to bond with Brends. When you bond with a Fallen you do get a favor, anything you can think of, but at a price. You have to let the Fallen feed off your soul. You also have to go through an interesting ceremony. You see the bonding ceremony has a couple of interesting twists to it, the first is you have to sleep with the Fallen to seal the deal, the second, well, I will let you discover that little tidbit for yourself. If you are the shy type though, it would be difficult to complete the ceremony without blushing fiercely. I was blushing when I was reading it, so I cannot imagine how beet red my face would have been had I actually been there. This detail was just one of the many things that Anne incorporated into the romance that kept it scorching hot throughout the entire novel.
I also enjoyed the secondary romance between Pell and her Fallen, Dathan. They are not fully developed characters, but because they were more of a side plot I did not mind at all. And even though we only get a brief glimpse into their heads, I could still feel how much these two ended up caring for each other. There is a history between them since they have been friends for three years, so when their romance hit fast and furious it was a nice distraction from the main action.
The suspense in this novel was also exciting. The enemy's identity is revealed pretty early on as well as the man that is behind the minion, but I did not mind learning this so quickly. The rogue Goblin in pursuit of Mischka did have a tendency to show up at unexpected moments and this was enough to keep me satisfied. His motives behind his recent killings were very intriguing and a brilliant twist to the overall plot. I thought the real mystery is why the Fallen were cast out of the heavens and what role Brends and Michael have in that event. We learn more about that day's events as the Brends slowly opens up to Mishcka and I am sure there is still more information to learn as future books release.
There is only one negative I have for this book and this comes closer to the ending. There is a point about two thirds of the way through the book that it becomes a little choppy. There are so many events culminating together and therefore the plot jumps around quite a bit. The first two thirds had so much detail and I was happy with the way the story was going, it just got a little confusing there at the end. There were so many character viewpoints and some details were left out which forced me to re-read paragraphs to try and understand what was going on. This is not a huge drawback; I just wish it had flowed a little better when we reached the climax of the story.
Overall though, I loved this book! Anne hooked me from the first chapter and I could not get enough. I loved discovering a new theory behind these sexy, fierce, Fallen warriors and look forward to more from them in the future. This is another author I have added to my must read list and will be checking out her other books shortly. I highly recommend this to any lover of paranormal romance, just make sure you can have enough uninterrupted time to read because you will regret it if you are forced to put this book down!
~* 3.5 Stars *~
They were set up. Since creation, the Dominion served as faithful warrior angels defending the throne, but that loyalty earned them little when the archangel Michael accused them of heinous crimes and banished them from the heavens. Stripped of their wings and souls, robbed of their emotions, they fell. Cursed by Michael's fury, they became Goblins - half man, half beast - dependent on the souls of humanity for sustenance. They were promised a chance at redemption. They were promised the hope of soul mates and reemergence into heaven. They were promised...everything.
In the three thousand years since, that promise has gone unfulfilled. And the Fallen have long since stopped believing in anything they were promised.
Brends Duranov had a bone to pick with Michael about that, among other, darker things. The Goblin didn't have much faith in getting the opportunity to do so any time soon, though. Instead he focused on more pressing matters as he stalked through his M City club, his attention diverted from the throng of humans pressing to get in and make their dark deal with a devil they couldn't possibly comprehend. With no thought of compassion, he spared their pathetic lives as he hunted the one bright soul who had been staking out his club for the past three nights. She is the only one he wanted, and he could ignore the hunger of the beast inside him until he had her right where he wanted her. Beneath him and at his mercy.
Good girl Mischka Baran wouldn't be in M City's Goblin club G2 if she didn't have a very compelling reason. She knows what the Goblins are, is well aware of the danger in their sought-after embrace. If her cousin wasn't missing, she wouldn't be anywhere near the oppressive weight of throbbing music, desperation, and forbidden hunger that permeated the place. But her cousin is missing. And Mischka had long ago assumed responsibility for the younger, impetuous girl. So she tries to be fearless as she beards these particular lions in their dens.
She just hadn't anticipated the visceral force of one particular and obviously very fierce lion.
Mischka doesn't trust Brends, but he is the only one who can help her. And stumbling over a dead body behind his club as she searches for him just intensifies her need and shortens her timeline. The victim is a human woman. The murderer obviously...isn't. And this dead girl isn't the first to fall victim to such a creature, either. If her cousin is alive, Mischka needs to find her fast. If she isn't, she will need Brends to have any hope of retribution. Only a Goblin has a chance of stopping one of his own kind.
But when the sadistic serial killer terrorizing M City turns his attention towards her, she knows that to survive, she's going to have to do whatever Brends asks her to do. No matter how dangerous it is to her soul...and her heart.
~*~
Decadent and dark, Marsh goes for the hard hit in this intense series debut. Though fallen angels have become overly proliferated in paranormal romance and urban fantasy of late, and they're definitely not one of my favorite supernatural creatures, I enjoyed the world and mythos created here. There's just enough spin to make fresh and seductively deadly what has quickly become overused and tired.
That's not to say I didn't have some problems with the book. The futuristic setting was wonderfully gritty and the plot was compelling, but I was perplexed at times by the information provided about what Goblins do to the humans they bond with, their feeding needs, and what results from that feeding. That information seemed to contradict itself in several places.
At times the reader is told that bonding with a Goblin results in nothing but death or madness for a human, at other times, it seems the bonding is contracted within a certain time limit that would be easily survivable. I was never sure if Goblins often bond with humans for short periods so they can feed without risking the Change or if every bonding results in madness or death for the human. Those conflicts and the confusion they created made it hard to fully immerse myself in the story as I was reading.
I also found the narrative to be jerky and inconsistent in places. The frequent shifts in the perspective of the point of view were sometimes difficult to follow. It wasn't always clear to me what was going on when and how it all related to the overall plot. The character definition was also a little sketchy and seemed a bit contrary, and character emotions seemed to vacillate wildly in very short periods of time. Mischka is introduced to the story as a good girl looking out for her cousin, but later her character has suddenly always wanted to be a little bad and feels constrained by expectations. Little Miss Perfect becomes a bit more Girls Gone Wild. The transition didn't quite feel natural or organic to the evolution of her character.
More appealing and more consistent was the sheer otherness of Brends and his emotionless ability to manipulate without conscience. He was sinfully sexy, but he was also very dark and self-interested for a good portion of the book. That may not breed a lot of sympathy for him as the male lead, but he was definitely intriguing. I enjoyed finding out more of his backstory and getting a glimpse of his past.
Unfortunately, there's so much going on in the plot and page time given to fleshing out of the world, that neither the primary romance arc between Mischka and Brends or the secondary one with Pell and Dathan were completely satisfying for me. The evolution of both seemed just as jerky and lacking in cohesion as parts of the narrative and I wasn't convinced of the depth of emotion portrayed at the end. That's not to say that both couples don't have a fantastically edgy and intense sexuality, because - woah - they so do. The sex in this book was hot. Full stop. Some of the physical scenes definitely pushed the envelope, and I could easily imagine the inherent sexuality of the Goblins taking an even darker, erotic turn in the future.
The strength of this book for me lies in the world and the history of the Goblins. The reality of their existence is pretty horrific, all things considered, and it does breed a level of sympathy despite their very alien natures. I loved the long term plans of the Big Bad and finding out how much of his insidious malignancy has been spread through the heavens and on earth. Talk about playing the long game. This is one seriously bad Big Bad. And his primary weapon was nothing to sneeze at, either.
Though the book wasn't perfect for me, and I wasn't totally on board with the main characters' journey through the story, or with the verisimilitude of their romance, I got quickly addicted to the Goblins plight and would love to see how this world expands. If the execution of the narrative gets a little more streamlined and isn't quite so contradictory or confusing, this could be a truly excellent, dark fantasy/paranormal romance series. The potential is definitely there.
Disclosure An ARC of this book was provided to me by Dorchester Publishing via NetGalley. This rating, review, and all included thoughts and comments are my own.
~*~*~*~
Reviewed for One Good Book Deserves Another.
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