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Fallen Angels, Guardians and Immortals: A Paranormal Romance With Deep Themes and Intense Emotions

This ARC was provided to me by the author and HEA PR in exchange for my honest review.

  • Title: Unseen
  • Author: Cassie Laelyn
  • Series: The Fallen Guardians, Book 3
  • Genre: Paranormal Romance

Rating: 5 out of 5.

The Fallen Guardian series from my dear friend Cassie has been a guilty treat of mine. I’ve been loving these guardian angel characters of her for quite some time and when a major supporting character that you loved from the very beginning finally gets his story told, you drop everything to read it. EJ is the party boy of the group. He suffers these terrible visions that show him awful things before they happen in hopes that maybe he can intervene and stop them, but he always seems to be too late.

These experiences have created a hardened man that believes he isn’t worthy of anything good. He fails at everything he does and blames himself for why he and his Guardian brothers are stuck on earth, banished from Heaven, with the sole purpose of protecting mortals from the Fallen Angels. Until he starts having these vivid dreams, instead of his visions, that seem much more real than anything he’s experienced before and he meets Hailee. A half-immortal Dumahel that just reached the peak of developing her unknown powers and is a dream-walker. She’s unknowingly pulling EJ into her dreams. But she and her twin sister are in very serious danger and EJ will do everything possible to keep her safe.

What I loved most about this story was the deep theme of redemption and forgiveness. Self forgiveness that is. EJ has spent hundreds of years on Earth blaming himself for all the bad things that happened to him and his brothers and in turn has closed himself off from feeling happiness and love. Instead spending his days in a drunken stupor and irrelevant sexual relations. But his meeting Hailee starts to change all of that. He starts to realize that things are not all his fault and that he does deserve happiness. Even is he has to enter the gates of Hell itself to save her from the biggest threat she’s ever had to face.

It’s an intense journey of self reflection and emotional passion that had my heart racing. I’ve loved EJ since I first met him in book 1 and I just knew his story would be an emotional journey for me. Hailee is the perfect fit for him – she balances his hardened ways with her light and airy personality but because of the difficult experiences she’s had in her own life, she can handle his tougher times and keep up with him.

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Heaven is his new Hell…

After centuries of torturous visions from Fate, party boy EJ, hides his guilt behind a perfectly crafted visage. When a woman appears in his dreams, full of sunshine and innocence, he thinks it’s another punishment. But when the dream warps, EJ must question not only his destiny, but also his aversion to commitment.

Dreaming of a sexy book boyfriend is the closest thing Hailee has to a happily ever after. Years of running from her mom’s imaginary demons ensured that. But when tragedy strikes and Hailee’s caught in the middle of a brutal war, all her hope falls on the reluctant hero she thought was a fantasy.

As an ancient battle threatens to tear them apart, EJ and Hailee must fight for their happy ending before their nightmares become a reality.

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Excerpt:

The silence was deafening, a screaming buzz in her oversensitive ears. Mom’s hand squeezed tighter.

Another loud thump sounded outside, this time on the ground. Her legs shook, refusing to move. Mom crept forward and yanked Hailee to follow.

In the dining room, she exhaled silent relief that she left on the small kitchen light. If not, she would’ve slammed right into the table.

The knob on the back door jiggled.

Mom spun to her. The look in her wide eyes sent an icy chill all the way down Hailee’s spine.

“It’s too late,” Mom whispered.

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MEET CASSIE LAELYN:

Award-Winning Australian Paranormal Romance Author.

Growing up in a military family, Cassie had a childhood filled with countless crazy adventures. Eventually, sunny Queensland stole her heart, and she now calls it home with her husband and their two BMX-crazy boys.

Borderline obsessed with the paranormal world, Cassie loves nothing more than crafting stories involving strong, otherworldly characters in need of redemption. She’s a self-confessed book-a-holic and a sucker for a gut wrenching happily ever after. 

When she isn’t narrating imaginary characters, Cassie loves binging on TV shows, spending time at the beach, and curling up listening to the rain. 

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Salvation by Cassie Laelyn

Rating: 4.5 out of 5.
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It has been far too long since I’ve read a paranormal romance! I used to read a lot of vampire, shifter or witch novels and I’ve kind of gravitated away from it recently. Not really because I didn’t enjoy them, I think I just got distracted by so many other romance genres. But I was so happy to revisit my paranormal roots in Salvation by Cassie Laelyn. It is actually part of collection released:

Warlords, Witches and Wolves: A Fantasy Realms Anthology

Salvation is an 18 chapter shifter/witch story and I’m going to say it right now – I need this to be a series really bad and I’ll tell you why.

The Cole brothers are a pack of shifter wolves and have alliances with surrounding other shifters in nearby towns – wolves and bears – to protect one another from a curse that haunts them all and brings shifter hunters to their parts to kill them off. Noah is one of the Cole brothers and fell in love with Mia 15 years ago when they were kids and she visited her grandma in Woodland Hills. But it was only one summer and she never came back. She also never knew all the secrets of the town.

Now she’s returned with the only intention to sell her grandma’s house after she died and it was left to Mia in her will. All of the town’s secrets have to come out now because her and Noah are meant to be together. But they have a lot to deal with – like all those secrets she doesn’t know.

I loved this story SO much!! Plus I’m a huge fan of wolves and shifters in general. I really hope she writes more about these brothers and this town because I could read about each brother and their own story one after the other. There is enough interest with each person in this story that it could easily expand into so much more.

Follow Up Question

If you could turn into any animal, which would you choose?

About the Author

Cassie Laelyn

Award-winning Aussie paranormal romance author.

Growing up in a military family, Cassie had a childhood filled with countless crazy adventures. Eventually, sunny Queensland stole her heart, and she now calls it home with her husband and their two BMX-crazy boys.

Borderline obsessed with the paranormal world, Cassie has a passion for crafting stories involving strong, otherworldly characters in need of redemption. She’s a self-confessed book-a-holic and a sucker for a gut wrenching happily ever after.

When she isn’t narrating imaginary characters, Cassie loves binging on TV shows, spending time at the beach, and curling up listening to the rain.

Website: https://www.cassielaelyn.com

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Book Review: Alpha’s Blood by Renee Rose / Lee Savino

Title: Alpha’s Blood

Author(s): Renee Rose & Lee Savino

Published: April 18th, 2019

As I’m getting into more and more reading of paranormal romances, I have to say I really enjoyed this one. I actually came across this on the Google eBook store and the picture caught my attention. The description snatched me and so I read away.

At first, I really didn’t like Selene. She seemed too focused on her mission – to kill the Vampire King – and there seemed to be little character there. But as the story went along, I realized that it was an essential piece of her character based on her background. She had been raised to think of nothing else and so it made sense that she has such a single minded focused.

Lucius was amazing. He is everything you expect in a good Dom. He’s stern and demanding, but cares so sweetly for his little pet. The BDSM elements of this novel were well covered and I enjoyed reading and watching how Selene and Lucius come to care for each other. Even though they both have reservations from the very beginning.

The biggest piece I really didn’t care much for was that the vampires still had the old-time need to stay out of the sun, sleeping in crypts and the sarcophagus. But it all supported the story line and arc’s so it works even though I’m a proponent of more varied vampire pitfalls.

A great paranormal romance read with lots and lots of steamy sections and BDSM appropriately adhered to. I especially loved the emphasis on consent in all aspects of Lucius’s life, not just with his pet.

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