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Friday, May 24, 2024

Review Tuesday moved to Friday: Desiree All NIght by Tina Donahue #ReviewTuesday #PNR

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Desiree All Night by Tina Donahue

Her mission: to help women demand the best from men.

Desiree Passion DuBois is determined that nobody else is going to repeat her mistakes. That’s why she hosts her Internet talk show, “Desiree All Night”, giving advice and support to gals in difficult relationships with both humans and paras of the opposite sex.

Turned into a blood-sucker by a charming but treacherous male vampire, she’s now stuck in an eternity she doesn’t want. Meanwhile, the guy’s ex, a psycho vamp named Brooke, is stalking Desiree, hell-bent on revenge for supposedly stealing him away.

Narcissa, a witch who’s Desiree’s bestie, tries to help by arranging for Hunter Klein to serve as her body guard. Thoroughly drool-worthy, Hunter is a panther shifter with a dark past who is as dangerous as he is gorgeous. He would have protected her with his life in any case, but when he concludes that Desiree is his fated mate, the stakes shoot sky high.

Desiree is equally drawn to Hunter. However, she knows they have no future, despite their incandescent erotic connection. She’s dead, with all the limitations that implies, while he’s not. She’ll just have to cherish their present closeness, knowing she’ll have centuries to miss him when he’s gone.

Then Brooke escalates her attacks, and there’s a chance Desiree might not last nearly that long.

Tina Donahue’s steamy and entertaining novel is a freebie she makes available to her fans and followers. In some ways that’s too bad, because I would have loved to leave a five star review of Desiree All Night on Amazon. A quick read, the book has everything you’d want in a paranormal erotic romance: supernatural battles, magical transformations, powerful attraction and some of the most incendiary sex scenes I’ve read in a while. It’s also quite funny, with fantastic snarky dialogue and twisted tropes that delighted me. In the New Orleans of the book, humans are apparently quite accustomed to witches, warlocks, vampires, shifters and other “paras”. Magic can suppress Desiree’s blood lust, but nothing can satisfy her hunger for chocolate. Meanwhile were-panther Hunter, orphaned, is sent to be fostered by a family of hyena-shifters. I laughed out loud at this detail.

Given the length of the book, there’s not a lot of time for Desiree’s and Hunter’s relationship to develop, but as I have found in writing my own PNR stories, magic and destiny are always good explanation for insta-love.

Still, I wouldn’t have minded a longer and more leisurely sojourn with these characters, especially Desiree who seems quite a bit more complex than her panther lover.

Maybe Ms. Donahue will consider a sequel.

Meanwhile, visit https://tinadonahuebooks.blogspot.com to download your own copy of Desiree All Night.


2 comments:

Tina Donahue said...

Thanks for the great review of Desiree All Night, Lisabet! I definitely had fun writing this one. :)

Lisabet Sarai said...

Hi, Tina. I could tell you were enjoying yourself!

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