I love that Fiona made a HQ to find other slaves and help them. Fiona and Jean-Pierre where a cute couple my fav so far, and I didn't want to shake the hell o Spoilers I really Really liked this one I loved Fiona She was strong and a fighter and she was kind.
Fiona and Jean-Pierre where a cute couple my fav so far, and I didn't want to shake the hell outta either one of them lol.. Very good book, but I have a feeling I will hate the next one because from what I have read in this one I hate Marguerite I mean really could she be anymore trashy and hateful selfish she didn't even give a crap that she was hurting a man that could be sent to death for getting her out of her prison or that they have been together for over years and she leaves him hurts him and disrespects him by coming on to his fellow brothers and just wanting to sleep with everyone not much to like really but I will read and see if she can redeem herself even a lil May 21, Laurie Garrison rated it it was amazing Shelves: favorites , paranormal-romance.
Caris Roane adds passion into her books and it really shows because as I read the characters and story comes to life.
Caris, my hat goes off to you for writing Fiona. Out of the hundreds of book I have read there are not many heroines I have wanted to be but I wanted to be Fio Caris Roane adds passion into her books and it really shows because as I read the characters and story comes to life. Out of the hundreds of book I have read there are not many heroines I have wanted to be but I wanted to be Fiona.
I loved her passion, courage, and her awesome powers. You read some about Jean-Piarre and Fiona in the third book. In this book Fiona is trying to save the women slaves and there is no stopping her once she is started. Together they have non-stop action in doing what they both do best, fighting evil. Caris is an amazing author that has come up with a unique way to put a twist on vampires.
If you want romance, action and great characters please give her World of Ascension series a try. View 1 comment. May 21, Wendy rated it really liked it Shelves: pnr. What's better than a vampire warrior with wings, built like a Greek god and wears a leather kilt? Absolutely freaking nothing! Caris Roane takes us on a wonderful ride, to a fantasy PNR world that's sexy and thrilling. And guaranteed to have you salivating for more. Loved it! View all 8 comments. Jan 04, Liz F rated it really liked it.
Ahhhh, after the abyss that was Book 3, its great to get back to what I was enjoying about this series. Now, I've never been all that impressed with French anything. But then I read this and now I'm in love with Jean-Pierre!! Jean-Pierre and Fiona A match made in heaven!! Jean-Pierre is awesome! He's so sexy with his wavy, unruly blonde hair, sculpted cheekbones and super hot body. He's also a sweet guy and a considerate lover.
Pretty much a dream guy, I'd say. Jean-Pierre, like mos Ahhhh, after the abyss that was Book 3, its great to get back to what I was enjoying about this series. Jean-Pierre, like most of the Warriors of the Blood, has some rough patches in his romantic past.
Jean-Pierre is the youngest of all the Warriors - he's only a couple hundred years old. He ascended during the French Revolution when he was turned over to Robespierre by his wife.
He loved her deeply and he never suspected that she would betray him. But she did and it has scarred his heart ever since.
He still loves women He just can't love one woman. But, as the author states ad nauseum, the breh-hedden is a terrible master and will not be denied. Jean-Pierre gets a whiff of Fiona during one of the thwarted rescue attempts in Book 3 To him, she smells like fresh baked, buttery croissants.
From that point, Fiona becomes his everything and once she's rescued, he is elated but terrified. He doesn't think he can be with just one woman for the rest of his existence but Fiona's allure keeps bringing Jean-Pierre back and he keeps discovering all of these wonderful things to love about her. Fiona is pretty great too. She's been a blood slave for over years. And somehow she's survived, physically and mentally.
But she also has a huge future ahead of her once she finally ascends. Fiona's telepathic abilities are off the charts and that becomes a clue as to what her destiny is. Fiona is also really brave.
Because she was a captive for so long, she doesn't like the thought of being beholden to anyone ever again. So, of course, the thought of the breh-hedden is not a pleasant one for her. She occasionally feels like she's traded one prison for another one.
Because she's so special, she must be protected but that protection feels to Fiona, like another cage, albeit a guilded one. Having said all of that, she's still exploring this thing with Jean-Pierre. It all makes her extremely uncomfortable but its her bravery that pushes her forward in these new experiences.
Together, Fiona and Jean-Pierre are awesome! She loves his body and compliments him on it all the time. It sounds like it would make her seem very shallow but somehow, it doesn't. She's just so entranced by his beauty that she can't help but remark on it. It helps that Jean-Pierre is always complimentary to Fiona so it ends up feeling like she's simply appreciating him and he seems to like it.
Jean-Pierre is hilarious at times. He has such a great heart and a wonderful sense of humor. At one point, he and Fiona are having a conversation and he lightens it up by flexing his bicep when she makes a comment about it. It was so cute and funny!! I don't know what else to say about this book. Yes, the book is terribly formulaic.
But in THIS book, it doesn't feel weird. It feels natural that Fiona wouldn't be interested in jumping into a relationship. It also seems natural that Jean-Pierre, a great lover of women, wouldn't really want to settle down. So here, unlike in book 3, it works. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants a simple, fun, easy read. For sure. Mar 06, Aly is so frigging bored rated it it was amazing Shelves: urban-fantasy , paranormal , favorites. This is getting better and better! I liked everything in this book.
View all 5 comments. Feb 22, Melindeeloo rated it it was ok Shelves: paranormal-romance , angels. As a blood slave to the bad guy vamps who are addicted to dying blood, Fiona was repeated drained to death and brought back to life again over and over for a hundred years.
Now Fiona is free, but unwilling loose that freedom in any way, even to the beautiful warrior whose scent draws her since they are destined mates. I wasn't completely hooked on Roane's series coming into Born of Ashes - I still have the second book sitting on the pile - but I decided to make a purchase to support my funky lone As a blood slave to the bad guy vamps who are addicted to dying blood, Fiona was repeated drained to death and brought back to life again over and over for a hundred years.
I wasn't completely hooked on Roane's series coming into Born of Ashes - I still have the second book sitting on the pile - but I decided to make a purchase to support my funky lonely only remaining local bookstore, the cover for this one is really stunning and the heroine's back story caught me when I read the first few pages. Things I liked: I liked the gorgeous patient and oh so perfect French! Things that I didn't like: I really do not like the scent thing that identifies mates in this series and Fiona and Jean-Paul make notice of the other's scent every single time they are together - his is coffee and hers is pastries and neither is the least bit sexy to me.
I hated description of the bad guy and his evil girlfriend playing with their 'food'. So the bottom line on this latest entry to Roane's Guardians of Ascension was that were things I liked but more things I didn't and the end result was that Born of Ashes was okay but draggy - even if you don't count the timeouts for sex scenes - and the next up starring pair left me with absolutely no interest in reading any of the others in the series. View all 3 comments. Feb 14, valee rated it really liked it Shelves: amazing-pnr-romance.
This was a really sweet story! I thought it would be a bit better though. Maybe because I had such an amazing time with the previous reads that I just assumed all of the rest would be just as good.
I guess not all the books in a series can be top winners. Still this is one of the best series I have started for a long time. My only problem with this book the reason for why I'm not giving 5 stars to it was that I kept expecting more form the main characters. Probably because the last heroes and h This was a really sweet story!
Probably because the last heroes and heroines had been the best second Earth had to offer. Well, this 2 had power but not much. That made me loose a bit of interest. But apart from that everything was perfect. The romance was so sweet and tender and there just was some HAWT chemistry between this two.
So good, I just couldn't stop reading. Another mayor positive aspect was that we get to read a lot about the couple once they finally decide to be together not spoilers here as there isn't a book in this genre where the main characters don't end together,lol , we get to see what happens next, after the HEA! Don't you hate when you get those endings were you have one billion freaking questions left to answer? Well, this was definitely not the case.
I ended the read feeling very happy and in peace,lol. This series is quickly becoming one of my favorites and I just wish I hadn't started it until all the rest of the books get publish so I didn't have to wait so long for another one to get release!
Meet Fiona Gaines. She was a blood slave for over years and once rescued is determined to shut down ALL the slave facilities and destroy Rith, the evil death vampire in charge of the blood slave program. Fiona has her issues with being "kept" and Jean-Pierre has "commitment" issues his first love brutally betrayed him. Seeing them come to terms with their pasts and futures is fun and exciting.
I loved these two together. This book gives you some closure to a sub-plot or two which is great yet leaves plenty on going for more fun and adventure. I'm looking for to the next book - Thorne is going to run Marguerite to the ground but he's going to have a major fight on his hands. Fun times ahead! Mar 13, Dianne rated it it was amazing.
The plots and sub-plots never quit! The characters were 'real' and full of personality! Some characters from previous books were better defined and filled out. Great read, hard to put down! Very strong female personalities. Aug 10, Krystal rated it it was amazing. Okay, so I just started this and I'm only pages in, but I have to say how I absolutely adore this series and the writing and the people and I love the tension of the war, Endelle the absolutely eccentric leader, the distinct variety of the warriors, the powerful women, the entirely new world of powers and healing and folding and telepathy I would love to live in Okay, so I just started this and I'm only pages in, but I have to say how I absolutely adore this series and the writing and the people and I would love to live in this world!
Loved the jealous fight between Parisa and Marguerite, hilarious. Jean-Pierre's dick measuring contest with Gideon. But Eric smiled as he gave the order. Eric set the communication system on loud-speaker. Colonel Seriffe, the leader of the Thunder God Warriors, wanted it that way. Seriffe was all about keeping everyone connected, informed, and aware.
Fiona glanced the length of the room. Over two dozen women manned the communications along with MW section leaders, like Eric, like Gideon. Most turned in her direction, solemn, waiting. He had a hand on her hip and she felt his deep breaths. Her heart rate had doubled. She knew exactly what all these women were going through, the despair after usually decades of serving as a blood donor, the polite euphemism for a process that involved taking a woman once a month through death and resurrection by defibrillator to get at the addictive dying blood.
Death vampires, by the nature of their addiction, had to drink their victims to death in order to get at that last euphoric substance. A hundred and thirty years ago, Fiona had been out shopping when two death vampires, that only she had been able to see, had abducted her from Boston the day after her eleventh wedding anniversary.
She had been the first mortal woman to be partially ascended by Darian Greaves and experimented upon. Back then, the draining of her blood had involved big steel needles and rubber tubing.
Greaves would drain her blood, taking her to the point of death, pump more blood back into her veins, and bring her heart back to life with what she now understood to be powerful hand-blasts from the palm of his hand. Shortly after, Rith, who also had a great deal of preternatural power, had taken over.
Fiona rarely saw Greaves after that. Over the loudspeaker, she could hear Gideon breathing hard as well as the sound of his battle sandals pounding up a flight of stairs.
She saw movement to her right. Seriffe emerged from his office, a heavy scowl on his face as he, too, listened. Jean-Pierre leaned down. She struggled to breathe and not to cry, but tears escaped anyway.
Fiona slipped her BlackBerry from her pant pocket, touched the screen and connected with the rehab center. Well done. She wanted to rejoice, she really did, but that meant there were still fifteen other facilities, that they knew of , and how many more women to rescue before she could really begin to celebrate.
She drew away from him and looked up at him. She saw the deep compassion in his stormy eyes and then she understood. He was a Warrior of the Blood. He had fought for over two hundred years, from the first year of his ascension, against the ongoing depredation of death vampires. He knew the victory that the slaying of each death vampire meant, but he also knew the persistent frustration and despair that accrued because right now there seemed to be no end in sight. The enemy, Commander Darian Greaves, encouraged the creation of death vampires since he used them as a significant weapon in his bid to take over two worlds; Second Earth and Mortal Earth.
She nodded. She glanced at the clock on the wall. The hour was eleven at night. She would have to go home soon with Colonel Seriffe, her son-in-law at which time Jean-Pierre would join the Warriors of the Blood as they fought at all five dimensional entry points in the Metro Phoenix area.
She knew why. Thorne knew that the situation for Jean-Pierre, serving as her guardian, was something of a nightmare. He looked it, too, with faint circles beneath his eyes. Even relatively immortal vampires could show signs of strain if they had to guard a woman twelve hours of the day, battle death vampires another six, then toss and turn through a restless sleep cycle. Damn the breh-hedden, she thought.
The former mythological state of vampire mate-bonding had also reared its ugly head. She was afflicted with what she thought of as an inconvenient and terrible disease, but for whatever reason, the breh-hedden really took a toll on the men, as though it put all that testosterone on high-alert constantly. She cocked her head and planted her hands on her hips.
Alison has been a good friend to me and bringing this baby into the world was no picnic. Jean-Pierre Robillard, out of France in , saw the familiar stubborn glint in the eye of his woman and his hopes sank that he would have the smallest chance to change her mind.
She was so beautiful, her long thick chestnut hair wrapped in a twist at the back of her head, her lovely cheekbones well on display, the silver-blue of her eyes shining in the dim lights of the central grid room. Her scent rose to drift into his nose and command his senses, a delicate bouquet of pastries and woman combined, a heady combination that tended to strip him of all rational thought. His breath caught and held. He felt as he had from the first, that he could lose his soul in the eyes of this woman, his woman.
His woman. Mais, quel cauchemar. A nightmare that would not end. The breh-hedden had done this to them both, bound them together when neither of them wanted to be bound.
I will not discuss it further. He could not move her. He applauded her determination but the sheer stubbornness that had arisen, the willfulness, was a thorn in his side, night and day. He would not call her reckless, but certainly fearless. His job would have been so much easier if she had been a wallflower that wilted. Instead, she forged ahead, ignored his opinions, and was like an Amazon to the problems in front of her.
He served as her Guardian of Ascension and had from almost the day of her rescue. He was both grateful for and hated the assignment. Grateful because he could not have tolerated any other warrior being close to her, yet if he was to have a chance to not feel so very bound to her, only distance would answer and distance he could not get.
Worse, she had emerging powers, which meant that the enemy would soon discover her worth, and would want her very dead.
For that reason, he had tried to persuade her not to attend the christening, which he had learned just a few hours ago and much to his horror, was to be conducted in the open air. Without thinking, he moved in close behind her once more, something she allowed, and he was not surprised when she leaned against him for support.
As much as neither wished to be close, a friendship had developed and he knew that to some degree she relied on him. Once more, he put his hand most carefully on her hip and worked at his breathing. This close, his arousal was only a thought away. But in the past five months, he had learned some new skills as in how to tolerate the presence of his woman without constantly sporting, as the Americans liked to say, a raging hard-on. Seriffe had a remote control in his hand.
He aimed it at the large central monitor and clicked. Greaves came on the screen. Jean-Pierre could not restrain a soft growl. More than any other creature on the face of the earth, he wanted this vampire dead, set on fire, burned to ashes, then cast over at least five different bodies of water. We are even now in the process of searching these facilities out and ending the reprehensible activity of procuring dying blood from enslaved females.
A picture appeared of Rith and Jean-Pierre felt Fiona stiffen. He could only imagine how the sight of the vampire affected her.
He ended the press conference, refusing to take questions, and left the staging area with the flash of light bulbs glittering off his shiny bald head. I loathe him, Jean-Pierre. As he glanced at the clock next to the monitor, his heart tightened. The hour was past eleven at night. His woman worked long hours and so did he. Fiona needed her rest and he needed to get into the field.
But he did not want to leave her. As hard as it was to be around her most of the time, this was the hour he despised the most, that until he met with her again the following morning, he would be separated from her and unable to get to her if she needed him. He took a long sniff and heard her swift intake of breath. She stepped away from him as a strong roll of her delicate croissant scent struck his nostrils. Oui , they were both trapped inside the breh-hedden. He also knew she was a woman quick to experience the little death, the place of ecstasy.
He did not understand the why of it, but he could bring her with just a kiss. The first time had occurred the day she was in the hospital just after her release from the New Zealand blood slavery facility. She turned to face him and he watched her swallow hard. She had a beautiful long neck.
Her vein pulsed. He held back a groan. He longed for this woman in every way. He craved her. He wanted her blood. She shook her head. A wisp of her hair had come loose. She pushed it behind her ear.
Even the shape of her ears was so beautiful as if everything about her was designed to torment him. He shook his head as well but his heart tightened a little more. He did not understand all that he felt. Was he experiencing love or was this just the terrible lure of the breh-hedden?
From his side vision, he saw Seriffe move in their direction. Seriffe would fold her back to his house where she lived with his family, in a guest suite all her own. He did not want to leave Fiona. His instincts kicked into high gear and he stepped in front of her, his chin lowered, his gaze fixed in a hard stare on the Colonel.
Now the warrior must draw his sword once more—and fight the gates of hell itself—for love. Arathusa knew this day would come, she just didn't realize the impetus to leave her sheltered life in the harpy colony would be wrapped in the body of a very hot grizzly shifter who's spent the last century as a recluse.
She has two missions. Tasked with solving a disappearance for the royal family, she also desperately wants to solve her own mystery surrounding her identity--and her legacy. Neither will be easy. Dodging a yeti, fending off an eagle shifter who'd like her to disappear and battling crazy dragons all while navigating the world of men-- This will be complicated. A new course. A deadly ship with a secret cargo. Ishmael Wang returns to Port Newmar but ghosts from his past have followed him.
His old shipmate, Phillip Carstairs, offers him the opportunity to track down the man who killed his lover. The catch? He must take command of the Chernyakova, a ship that still stinks of death and haunts Ishmael's nightmares. Together, Phillip and Ismael begin a journey into unknown reaches of the Deep Dark to bring back the man who killed Greta.
Born from Ashes is a modern-day story about love, loss, hope, and redemption, set in San Francisco.
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