Kiss Me Fatally Is Here!

The third book in the Deadly Destiny series has been published!

Still reeling from betrayal, Destiny finds out that her lips have been cursed with a powerful spell and that the next person she kisses will die. While the search is on for the one who cursed her, Destiny’s maker, Enrique, becomes the target of an overzealous fan who is willing to kill to get Enrique’s attention. Destiny and Enrique have to identify the person in question before things go too far, but they might be too late...

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Love Me Deadly Is Now Available!

Love Me Deadly, the first book in the Deadly Destiny series, has been published and is now available for purchase at many retailers.

Destiny’s world is anything but ordinary, only she doesn’t know it yet. Some of her memories are missing, and the handsome and intriguing Nataniel whose attention she has caught is more than just a bartender.

After she suffers a fatal accident, Destiny is turned into a vampire by none the other than the sexy, arrogant, and infuriating famous supermodel Enrique, who expects her to be at his beck and call. Forced to abandon her dreams and plans, she has to learn to feed on humans and navigate the supernatural world. As if that isn’t hard enough, she and Nataniel find themselves on opposing sides.

But when a party goes wrong, Destiny wakes up surrounded by corpses with no idea as to how that happened, and Enrique refuses to help. Her only hope to find and stop the killer before more people die lies with Nataniel… if she’s willing to risk trusting him.


Mature content and language. Not suitable for younger readers.  

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Love Me Deadly (Deadly Destiny, #1) Cover Reveal + Sci-Fi/Fantasy Promo

Hi! I promised I'd reveal the cover for my new series, so here it is! I hope you like it. :)

I don't have a release date or the blurb yet, but I'll know more later this month or in February. As you can probably guess from the cover, the book is about vampires. I've been working on this series for a few years now and I'm really excited that I'll be able to share it with you soon. :)


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Book Review: The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa

I finally found some time to read, so I immediately picked up The Immortal Rules, mostly because I absolutely loved Iron Fey series also written by Julie. Besides, I love vampires and I love dystopian setting (no, still didn't get tired of it all ahaha). Anyway, despite minor flaws, I really loved this book and can't wait for the next. Now take a look at this gorgeous cover and the blurb from Goodreads:

In a future world, Vampires reign. Humans are blood cattle. And one girl will search for the key to save humanity.
Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a vampire city. By day, she and her crew scavenge for food. By night, any one of them could be eaten.
Some days, all that drives Allie is her hatred of them. The vampires who keep humans as blood cattle. Until the night Allie herself is attacked—and given the ultimate choice. Die… or become one of the monsters.
Faced with her own mortality, Allie becomes what she despises most. To survive, she must learn the rules of being immortal, including the most important: go long enough without human blood, and you will go mad.
Then Allie is forced to flee into the unknown, outside her city walls. There she joins a ragged band of humans who are seeking a legend—a possible cure to the disease that killed off most of humankind and created the rabids, the mindless creatures who threaten humans and vampires alike.
But it isn't easy to pass for human. Especially not around Zeke, who might see past the monster inside her. And Allie soon must decide what—and who—is worth dying for.

I really enjoyed this book and it was a fun and easy read. I love it that vampires still burn in the sun and need to drink human blood. Allie is a really strong character and does anything she needs to in order to survive, even if it means she has to become what she hates; a vampire. And while I liked the whole premise, I must admit there was a part at the beginning when I thought I wasn't going to like the book. It was the part when Allie becomes a vampire and her sire teaches her what to do. I thought the rest of the book was going to be the same, Allie learning things and fighting off enemies or sth, but I was pleasantly surprised. When Zeke was introduced first, I was a bit unsure would I like him or not, but I got to really like him. There were times when I wanted to scream at him for blindly following orders, but later on I understood why he did what he did. The only thing that bothered me a bit is that Allie sometimes seems almost too perfect, like she can fight off tons of rabids, and those who dislike her usually don't end up well, and things like that. I felt that was a bit too much like the usual. But despite that, Julie Kagawa does a great job and draws you into the world she created and you just can't stop reading. I don't want to reveal too much, but I highly recommend this book! :D

My Opinion on 100+ Year Old Boys and Teen Girls in Paranormal Novels

  I've been reading a book where a teenage girl falls in love with a 400- year- old guy. Yeah, that's nothing strange to see in YA paranormal novels because those very old guys usually stopped aging long ago and still look like teens. I've read many books like that; it was mostly 'a girl falls in love with a vampire' thing. And, frankly, that never bothered me. But now that I'm no longer a teen myself, it all started to feel wrong. I realized it doesn't really matter that the guy has a body of teenager; he can no longer be considered a teenager.

      I still remember a discussion I had with my friends about The Vampire Diaries (a girl torn between two vampire brothers). We were talking about the TV series mostly and not so much about the books, but I guess our opinion could be applied to both. So, some of my friends claimed that it was ok for the main character, Elena, to end up with the younger brother, Stefan, because he was seventeen forever. I found their reasoning a bit funny because the old brother, Damon, is supposed to be in his twenties, so that's not really far away. But what everyone seemed to ignore was the fact that both brothers were at least a hundred years old (depends if you're referring to the TV series or the books). So, is Stefan really a seventeen- year- old? Nope, not even close. He's had years to live, just like his brother, and got to experience so many things. It's impossible that his mind stayed at the level of a seventeen- year- old. I immediately picture all those child vampires in adult novels that still look like children, but their eyes and behavior reveal their true age, which is creepy as hell.

      I believe that real age has a lot to do with psychological age, because how are you supposed to have a lot of experience if you didn't have time to gain it? And if you have more experience, then you're supposed to be more mature and have a bit different view on things around you. If I could actually remember my Psychology classes, it would be great. I know we were talking about this, but I just can't remember much of it because it didn't interest me back then. Anyway, I could be right or wrong on this.

      Now let's go to the thing that I find creepy about all of this: epic love story. Ok, I understand vampires stuck in their teen years wouldn't have much success with women. Then again, that depends on how young they looked when they were turned. Some teens do look older than they actually are, and sometimes people in their twenties can pass for teens. So, yeah, it's a bit hard to tell. It's not such an issue that young looking vamps go for teen girls, but it bothers me that those girls are usually very immature ones, who have little to zero experience with boys in general. It doesn't even surprise me that the girl instantly falls in love with the vamp, because what does she actually know about love? She can think what she's feeling is love, but shouldn't a 100+ year- old vamp know better? Fine, the vamp is attracted to the girl because she's young and human, and he finds that refreshing. But wouldn't his interest fade with time? Would he really instantly fall in love with her and be sure it's true love? Wouldn't there be too big gaps and differences of opinion? Or it's just that girls don't think much at all in those stories except how gorgeous the guy is?

      I know there are relationships in real life with big age difference that function just fine (young girls with rich old guys and similar excluded), but those are very rare. I think the younger person in these relationships is probably more mature than people of her/his age. But that refers only to adults, and that's why I'm completely fine with twenty-something-year-olds and old vamps. Twenty might still be young in some cases, but there is less chance you'll fall in love without thinking.

      In conclusion, (because if I don't stop writing now, this will turn into a monster), I'm not really against instant love and teen-vampire relationships in books, because I know a lot of people likes to read that, so why not? I only wish there were more books with more mature girls, or at least girls who'll think about it all and not immediately marry the vamp/turn into one. What is so wrong with waiting a few years to see how it works out? It's not like the girl will look that much older.

Ok, end of rant. Now you can throw tomatoes at me. *runs and hides*

P.S. I can't believe I wrote so much in such a short time. If this were a school assignment, it would have taken me ages to write it. It's possible I overlooked some mistakes because my stream of consciousness isn't always the clearest thing in the world.

Oh, Apple updated the price of my book. It took them a week. Ok, maybe less because Smashwords didn't immediately send the info to them.