Where There's Smoke There's Desire
by Ginger Sutter
Last fall I had the pleasure to meet (online) an author who was working on her debut novel. We hit it off right away with our shared appreciation, nay - love of all things paranormal. She was kind enough to offer to let me read some of her writing while she was working on it. Then she upped her awesomeness by asking me to accept an ARC of the completed book and to ask me what I thought. Of course I accepted. (Why wouldn't I, right?) And well, this review states pretty plainly how that went...The Review
What do you get when you put a multitude of
paranormal beings in a bar with a bunch of unsuspecting humans, and set them up
in a super-speed-dating for charity event?
Chaos. Beautiful, hilarious, erotically hot
chaos.
But you know, you also get a pretty damn
good story too.
Ginger Sutter caught my attention with the
mention of dragons in her debut release Where There’s Smoke, There’s Desire.
Then my reading of the story was absolutely ensured when she continued to
explain there were also sirens, pookas, succubi, werewolves, gremlins, vampires
and more. I am after all a sucker for anything paranormal, but put it all
together and I’m a goner.
And then I read it...
“A
Siren, a Pooka, And a Succubus Walk Into a Bar…”
Right from the start I was laughing. The
character’s personalities simply leapt off the page to tickle my own (somewhat
twisted) sense of humor. They are not however merely funny characters - they
have depth and history, and there's so much more to them than just being entertaining to the
reader. Within pages you discover friendships that are centuries old and have survived ups and downs, and twists like you wouldn't believe.
The three primary female characters: Rena,
Ava and Leine are the type of best friends who can finish each other’s
sentences, anticipate each others madcap activities and still be surprised
when one of them throws the others for a (fantastic) loop.
And the three primary male characters -
those dragons that Ginger hooked me like a trout with? Well I can think of no
better way to describe the brothers than to use Leine’s words from the book:
the “...Welsh, walking, wet-dreams,” (the
WWWD as I’m come to think of them) more commonly known as Dylan, Alec and Noah.
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Desire is a novella that introduces the Gate City world created by this author. This short, but oh-my-gods
so wonderful, short tale has pretty much guaranteed that I’ll be returning to
read whatever future stories may come out of this world and from Ginger Sutter. Take
a chance and read this hot little story – you’ll laugh until your belly hurts,
you’ll sigh with happiness and you’ll wonder about all things that make up the
rich characters that Ginger has introduced. And I can pretty much guarantee
that if you like paranormal stories, comedy and nice dash of hot lovin’, you’ll
be as desperate as I am for more of these characters and this new world of
theirs.
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