Book Review: Master Descallia by Sylvia Black

 

Book Description

A purebred Vampire who leads with an iron fist.

A sassy detective who doesn’t play by the rules.

Will any chance at love survive the darkness of this world?

As Overmaster of the purebloods, I will do everything in my power to stop the rogues and syndicate from blaming the vampires for the disappearance of human women.

Even when my enemies enlist the help of rogue shifters and witches to keep me and the other vampire masters at bay, I will not be deterred.

Until the sassy young woman with psychic powers who may be the only chance for us to win the age-old battle is attacked.

The decision is easy—give her immortality in exchange for a life of servitude to the vampires for eternity.

And to me, a dark souled vampire who wants no part of love, forever.

Master Descalliais the explosive first book in the Masters of the Consulate series by International Best-Selling Author, Sylvia Black. It is a deliciously dark, enemies to lovers, fated mates, vampire romance. You will love these novels where the passion is fiery, the loyalty is fierce, and the stakes are high. Each novel in this twelve-book series features a different couple with a guaranteed happily ever after.

My Review

A dark vampire romance with a guy who looks like that on the cover? Yes please. lol This sounded like my kind of book and boy was I right. Master Descallia or Salvatore as Luciana calls him is a pure blood vampire and overmaster of the purebloods. Meaning he's in charge and he knows it. Everyone knows it and if they try to pull one over on him, he takes care of them one way or another. This man doesn't mess around. 

So when he finds out that women are going missing and someone is making it look like the vampires are to blame, he has to get help which is when he meets Luciana. She's a human police detective and agrees to help him investigate who is kidnapping the women. But very quickly she gets badly hurt and she's not going to make it. So Salvatore asks her permission to turn her into a vampire, he's hoping she will accept because he feels a pull towards her like he would for a mate, but his mate was lost to him long ago. 

Luciana accepts being turned and thus she is thrown into his life and now that she's a vampire, he expects her to bend to his will like all the other vampires do. Well, he has another thing coming if he thinks she's just going to do whatever he says. Luciana is sassy, sarcastic and headstrong which not only turns Salvatore on, but makes him crazy because he's so used to everyone bending to his will and she doesn't like being told what to do. So the arguments these two have are really funny. 

These two were so fun to watch. There was some BDSM and Dom/sub interactions since Master Descallia owns a BDSM club but there was nothing non-consensual or outlandishly harsh. It was all pretty subdued in my opinion. 

I really liked the reasons that came to light as to why these two felt such a strong pull towards each other. That was a sweet storyline. 

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars. 

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Happy Raturday!

 

*All pictures this week are courtesy of martymousehouse.com*

Apartment Life #387

 

This is a weekly blog post that I'm calling Apartment Hell  Life. I've mentioned a few times some of the crazy things that have gone on in and around my apartment complex and in my neighborhood in the past 27 years that I've lived here and people keep telling me I should write a book. But instead of a book, I've decided to share the crazy things that have happened in and around my apartment complex in the last 27 years here in a weekly blog post.

A couple of different days the police helicopter was flying right over my apartment complex. I went outside to see if anything was going on but I didn't see any police cars or anything either day. 

Tuesday night around 10PM 2 police cars showed up from an apartment across the street. They stayed for a few minutes then came back outside and left. I guess it's good no one needed more help and no one got arrested. No idea why the police were there in the first place. It had rained a few minutes and that's why my window is so blurry. 

I spotted one of these cars driving down my street. I think these cars are so ugly.

On Friday and Saturday the building inspector was here inspecting the roofs for leaks after the rain. Saturday afternoon I found his badge in the rocks in front of my place. So I called the number on it (I blurred it out for privacy) and let him know I found his badge. He was happy that I found it and said I saved him a mess of hassle. He said he has back to back inspections this weekend so he asked if he could come by on Monday morning to pick it up. I said no problem. So he's coming tomorrow to get it. 

The high this week was 96F/35C

The low this week was 72F/22C

So that's it for this week's Apartment Hell  Life! Be sure to come back next week for more.

Saturday Vittles

 

My Daughter and I are trying to eat more healthy so I thought I would share some pictures on Saturday's of what we've made.

Baked Zucchini Rounds with a zucchini cheese sauce

You will need:

1 Large zucchini - cut so you have round pieces

1/4 cup of cheddar cheese

1/2 tsp. McCormick Chipotle & Herb seasoning

1/2 tsp. McCormick Garlic & Herb seasoning

1/2 cup chicken broth

2 TBSP oil

Salt and pepper to taste

What to do: 

Remove all of the inside of the zucchini rounds, leaving just a 1/2 inch inside. Set aside. 

Place zucchini rounds on a baking sheet, drizzle 1 TBSP of the oil on them and toss to coat. Sprinkle with the seasonings and bake in a 350F oven for 30 minutes, turning them over halfway. 

In a sauce pan add the middle parts of the zucchini and saute with the other 1 TBSP of oil until it is very soft and mushy. Break up any larger pieces with a fork. Add chicken broth, cheese and sprinkle in some of the spices. Cook over medium heat until sauce has reduced a little and is thicker. 

Drizzle sauce over the baked zucchini rounds. We served ours with baked chicken, tomatoes and celery.

This makes two servings of zucchini rounds. Each serving is 150 calories and 5 carbs.  (If you use 2 TBSP of the sauce)

Halloween Time

September 1st is the start of Halloween around here. So we've been decorating. If you're new, we do this every year. If you've been reading my blog for a while, you might spot a few new pieces of decorations. This is in the kitchen.

This is also in the kitchen.

The thing hanging is a plastic spider web and dozens of little spiders are hanging down from it. The shelf has a lot of little Halloween knick Knacks.

Crypt Keeper clock and some Halloween horror action figures.

A closer look at some of what's on the living room shelf.

Lots of ghosts.

It's hard to get good pictures of my living room window because of the sun glare. But this skeleton is in the middle.

Some fun Frankenstein gnomes in the window.

Of course we have rats. lol 

A mummy gnome.

Another bigger rat.

On one side of the window is dracula.

On the other side is a werewolf.

This is the window lit up at night.

Back inside we hung a bat from the ceiling. 

The bathroom and bed room door both have these purple spiders hanging over the door.

Oogie Boogie!

The living room shelf again.

There's a skeleton on the door.

The living room wall. 

Here's a better look at the 3 Grim Reapers on the wall.

The little Halloween Tree.

Another Halloween tree.

Here is my Camp Crystal Lake and Jason Voorhees figurines from the Friday The 13th Movies. The cabin used to have lighted windows but the bulb just blew out and I need to order a new one.

This is what it looks like with the lights on though. Picture from last year.

My daughters Living Dead Doll. I got this for her 16th birthday and she loves it.

The corner shelf. I made the Pumpkin Tree on top.

The spider hanging over the bathroom door.

And of course my daughter added a little touch of Halloween to the garden. The pumpkin with the big eyes is solar powered and at night the eyes light up. 

Nanananana Bat Dog. Falcor wearing his Bat Wings. 

We haven't gotten any Trick Or Treaters in years but we still like to decorate. 

Do you decorate for Halloween?

Book Review: The Minotaur's Motivation by Safia Nyx

 

Book Description

I won’t allow myself to fall in love with a monster criminal, even if they are my “fated mate”.

Cerys

I haven’t felt safe since… well lets just say, for a long time.

Now I’m working in this grimy, maze of a prison as a therapist, with no idea how to escape. I’m just as trapped as the prisoners.

On top of everything I’ve just been assigned this huge Minotaur hybrid. The biggest and most aggressive client I’ve had yet. A murderer. I hope I can handle him.

Cam

There’s no redemption for monsters like me.

Hybrid. Outcast. Killer.

I gave up on hope a long time ago. I want to do my time in peace and stay in control of my Minotaur side. But when I see her, one word resounds in my mind.

MINE.

Now she is all that matters. I won’t let anyone hurt her. Not the past that haunts her, the monster hating guards or the other inmates. Even if that means letting the worst side of myself out to play.

Fated Inmates is a series of novellas about morally grey monsters with dark pasts and the human women they are fated to claim. Each book can be read alone, but they happen in the same time frame, in the same prison. So you will get the best experience if you read them all in order.

My Review

Cerys had her life upended when a seer came to her school when she was younger and told her that she was fated to be mated to a monster. Her life took a horrid turn after that because the purist townspeople of her town thought she must be part monster to be a mate to one. Now she's a therapist in a monster prison until the day she meets her fated mate and they can leave to be together. 

Cam is part minotaur and part bat. He's the biggest prisoner in the prison where Cerys works and he's been assigned to her. Cerys doesn't want to meet her mate and doesn't want to be mated to a monster because of the trouble it caused her in her past. But when she meets Cam things change because he knows right away that she's his mate. She feels a pull towards to him but fights it at first. But these two can't fight the pull between them for long.

I hope we get to see more of the shadow demon prisoner because he seems really interesting. 

Some of the male guards don't like the male prisoners and treat them badly because they don't like the fact that the female therapists are supposed to meet their monster fated mates here. So when a huge fight breaks out in the prison, Cam has to do what he can to keep Cerys safe. I liked the ending and seeing what happened to them. I'll definitely be reading more of this series.

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars

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Favorite Picture of the Week

The clouds put out a drizzle of rain but not enough for me to bring along my umbrella.

 

We had a few cloudy days and we even got a little bit of rain. The sun was hitting the top of this white cloud just right for it to be lit up bright white.

The sunrises this week were so nice. The clouds made it look extra nice. And it was cooler. This was a few minutes after I took the last picture. The sun was trying to peek out from behind the clouds.

The next day more clouds and more rain off in the distance.

A few minutes later from the last picture as we were walking home.

That night the rain clouds moved in and I spotted this small shaft of sunlight beaming down from the clouds. It rained for all of 5 minutes.