Her Avenging Angel, the seventh
book in New York Times best-seller Felicity
Heaton’s hot paranormal romance series, Her Angel, is now available in ebook
and paperback. To celebrate the release, she’s holding a FANTASTIC GIVEAWAY at
her website.
Find out how to enter the Her Avenging Angel international giveaway
(ends October 26th) and be in with a shot of winning a $75, $50 or $25 gift
certificate at her website, where you can also download a 6 chapter sample of
the novel: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/her-avenging-angel-romance-book.php
Here’s more about Her Avenging
Angel, including an excerpt from this paranormal romance novel.
Her Avenging Angel (Her Angel Romance
Series Book 7)
Felicity Heaton
Once a proud angel of Heaven, Nevar is now a servant of Hell, bound to a new master—the King of Demons. Consumed by darkness and driven to seek revenge, he set in motion a series of events that awakened the Great Destroyer, a force that will bring about the apocalypse. Now, he is the creature’s master and the fate of our world rests in the hands of an angel with only darkness in his heart.
Felicity Heaton
Once a proud angel of Heaven, Nevar is now a servant of Hell, bound to a new master—the King of Demons. Consumed by darkness and driven to seek revenge, he set in motion a series of events that awakened the Great Destroyer, a force that will bring about the apocalypse. Now, he is the creature’s master and the fate of our world rests in the hands of an angel with only darkness in his heart.
Lost in the mortal realm without any recollection of how she
came to be there, Lysia is only aware that she has survived a great battle.
When she stumbles into a demon bar, she finds more than a chance to discover
what happened to her—she finds a dark and deadly angel warrior who stirs fire
in her veins and awakens soul-searing passion she cannot deny.
With the mounting threat of the Great Destroyer, the forces
of Heaven and Hell against him, and a band of dangerous angels intent on
capturing Lysia on his heels, can Nevar protect the beautiful woman who is
light to his darkness and find the strength to save the world?
My Review:
Her Avenging Angel by Felicity Heaton
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is the seventh book in Her Angel Romance series. I loved it!
Nevar is a wonderful character. I really didn't know him very well when he was first introduced in Her Demonic Angel as Erin's Guardian Angel, but I am now glad for the opportunity to get to know him better. Now more demon than angel and under servitude of The King of Demons, Asmodeus, Nevar is struggling to come to terms with his actions of awakening the Great Destroyer, as well as his addiction to Euphoria, a mixture of demon blood, demon poison and alcohol. When a mysterious woman walks into his life, Nevar finds he will move Heaven and Hell to keep her safe.
I have been eagerly awaiting the release of this book. This is the first series I started to read from this author, and the angels and demons in these stories have become my friends as the series has progressed. This book quickly captured my attention from the first page; I read this book in one sitting, because I couldn't put it down. Nevar felt a bit self-pitying to me in the beginning, and I wanted to shake him to get his head out of his you-know-what. I can understand him being angry at Asmodeus though, so I can totally see why he would want revenge. But revenge is best served cold, and Nevar is too hot headed and impulsive to truly think things through properly. Thus, his impetuous attack on Asmodeus at the end of Her Wicked Angel, which now sees him being made the master of the Great Destroyer.
This story is full of emotional ups and downs, as well as several twists and turns. The scenes and characters are well described and I felt like I was in the midst of the action and part of the group. I loved meeting Lysia. She is a character I felt great empathy for. She has not had an easy life. However, I was left wondering why someone would create a being that would destroy all three realms (Heaven, Earth and Hell)? If all life in these realms were destroyed, what would the Great Destroyer do or go next? Would she cease to exist too? Anyway, that's a discussion for another day - back to the book! There is a wonderfully described battle scene, which was epic in scale! I also loved the prison escape scene in Heaven; Asmodeus's first visit there was quite amusing too. The attraction between Nevar and Lysia is magnetic and hot. Their passion fairly set the pages on fire! I also loved meeting Erin and Veiron's young son, Dante, who has everyone wrapped around his little fingers; even his Grandfather - the Devil. I wonder if his story will be told one day?
This book is actually the end of the series, but there were some new characters that were introduced that will be starring in a new series, which I am now looking forward to reading.
Felicity Heaton is number one on my Favourite Authors List. I love her fast paced writing style - it is extremely fluid and flows beautifully! I am in awe of her talent to weave stories with characters that come alive on the page. I felt like I could bump into them whilst doing my shopping!
Due to the explicit scenes in the story, I do not recommend this book to younger readers under 17. However, I highly recommend this book (and series) if you love erotic paranormal romance or stories with sexy angels and/or demons! This story could be read as a standalone, but I would highly recommend that you read the other 6 books too, to get a fuller understanding of the complex relationships between the characters! - Lynn Worton
View all my reviews
My Review:
Her Avenging Angel by Felicity HeatonMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
This is the seventh book in Her Angel Romance series. I loved it!
Nevar is a wonderful character. I really didn't know him very well when he was first introduced in Her Demonic Angel as Erin's Guardian Angel, but I am now glad for the opportunity to get to know him better. Now more demon than angel and under servitude of The King of Demons, Asmodeus, Nevar is struggling to come to terms with his actions of awakening the Great Destroyer, as well as his addiction to Euphoria, a mixture of demon blood, demon poison and alcohol. When a mysterious woman walks into his life, Nevar finds he will move Heaven and Hell to keep her safe.
I have been eagerly awaiting the release of this book. This is the first series I started to read from this author, and the angels and demons in these stories have become my friends as the series has progressed. This book quickly captured my attention from the first page; I read this book in one sitting, because I couldn't put it down. Nevar felt a bit self-pitying to me in the beginning, and I wanted to shake him to get his head out of his you-know-what. I can understand him being angry at Asmodeus though, so I can totally see why he would want revenge. But revenge is best served cold, and Nevar is too hot headed and impulsive to truly think things through properly. Thus, his impetuous attack on Asmodeus at the end of Her Wicked Angel, which now sees him being made the master of the Great Destroyer.
This story is full of emotional ups and downs, as well as several twists and turns. The scenes and characters are well described and I felt like I was in the midst of the action and part of the group. I loved meeting Lysia. She is a character I felt great empathy for. She has not had an easy life. However, I was left wondering why someone would create a being that would destroy all three realms (Heaven, Earth and Hell)? If all life in these realms were destroyed, what would the Great Destroyer do or go next? Would she cease to exist too? Anyway, that's a discussion for another day - back to the book! There is a wonderfully described battle scene, which was epic in scale! I also loved the prison escape scene in Heaven; Asmodeus's first visit there was quite amusing too. The attraction between Nevar and Lysia is magnetic and hot. Their passion fairly set the pages on fire! I also loved meeting Erin and Veiron's young son, Dante, who has everyone wrapped around his little fingers; even his Grandfather - the Devil. I wonder if his story will be told one day?
This book is actually the end of the series, but there were some new characters that were introduced that will be starring in a new series, which I am now looking forward to reading.
Felicity Heaton is number one on my Favourite Authors List. I love her fast paced writing style - it is extremely fluid and flows beautifully! I am in awe of her talent to weave stories with characters that come alive on the page. I felt like I could bump into them whilst doing my shopping!
Due to the explicit scenes in the story, I do not recommend this book to younger readers under 17. However, I highly recommend this book (and series) if you love erotic paranormal romance or stories with sexy angels and/or demons! This story could be read as a standalone, but I would highly recommend that you read the other 6 books too, to get a fuller understanding of the complex relationships between the characters! - Lynn Worton
View all my reviews
Purchase Links:
Her Avenging Angel is available
from Amazon Kindle, Kobo Books, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iBooks stores and
other retailers. Also available in paperback. Find the links to your preferred
retailer at: http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/her-avenging-angel-romance-book.php
Her Avenging Angel – Excerpt
It had been twenty-seven days, give or take a few, since
Nevar’s master had bothered to show up for his duty and relieve him, taking his
place outside the crystal chamber in which the Great Destroyer slumbered, deep
in the bowels of the Devil’s fortress in Hell.
A destroyer that Nevar had awoken by spilling Asmodeus’s and
Liora’s blood in the very chamber he now guarded, and had become the creature’s
master, much to the annoyance of the Devil.
Twenty-seven days of mind-numbing silence and boredom.
Nevar was going out of his head.
Or at least more out of it than normal.
He was feeling honest enough with himself today to admit
that he might have been out of his head before the guard duty had started, but
doing such a thing was dangerous.
The darkness within him spread tendrils outwards, filling
his mind with vicious hissed words that goaded him into finding Asmodeus, the
wretched angel who had turned him into a monster, and satisfying his soul-deep
hunger to make the bastard pay.
Nevar closed his eyes and practiced his breathing, filling
his lungs from the bottom up and counting slowly to five on each long inhale
through his nose and five again on each exhale out of his mouth. Liora had
taught him it as a method of regaining control of himself and quashing his darker
urges whenever they came upon him. It had been step one in his rehabilitation
programme—taking control. He was still working on step two—taking
responsibility.
He drew another deep breath and shut out the coaxing voice
and the other one that liked to mock him.
Once a proud guardian angel serving Heaven and the protector
of Erin.
Now a loathsome creature forced into a contract with an evil
angel, filled with darkness and an endless unstoppable hunger for violence, and
cursed with an unquenchable thirst for blood.
Euphoria addict.
Recovering alcoholic.
Whore.
Bastard.
The worst part was that he couldn’t even bring himself to
lay the blame squarely on Asmodeus’s shoulders. Some of it kept slipping off
and landing back on his. He had been the one who had sought the sorceress and
asked her to inscribe the spell on his shoulders that gave him control over his
wings, and more control over his own body, making it difficult for Asmodeus to
command him and force his compliance.
He had been the one to repay that sorceress by fulfilling
the dark urge to kill her.
And she had repaid him by cursing him with her dying breath
to feel an overpowering, never-ending craving for blood.
He had been the one who had sought a way of escaping the
haunting memories of all the mortals and angels he had brutally slain whenever
the darkness growing within him had seized control.
That escape had come in the form of sweet oblivion,
delivered to him by Euphoria, a potent cocktail of alcohol, demon toxin and
blood designed with enslaving mortals in mind and giving them a high that would
make them forget every wicked thing they did while temporarily under its
influence.
Demon toxin was fatal to angels.
When it had only made him high, giving him the beautiful
escape he had craved and couldn’t find in alcohol alone, he had realised that
he was no longer an angel.
And he had thrown himself head first into a downward spiral
of Euphoria, screwing every demon female who offered it to him in exchange for
sex. In hurling himself into that addiction, he had blurred the line between
the evil and the good within him. He had embraced the darkness and bore the
evidence of it on his body in the form of permanent claws and black skin up to
his elbows and his knees, a sliver of his other side shining through.
Oh how the mighty had fallen.
He hadn’t quite hit rock bottom at that point though. No. He
had stepped a little closer to rock bottom when Veiron, a Hell’s angel now
married to Nevar’s former ward, Erin, had found him in a grotty bathroom
banging a demon in exchange for a fix, and had taken it upon himself to save
him. When Nevar had found himself pinned to the floor of that bathroom, in a
pool of the demon bitch’s blood, he hadn’t been able to stop himself from
licking it off the grimy tiles.
He had finally hit rock bottom when he had decided to
discover Asmodeus’s weakness and exploit it, and had abducted the woman his
master had been falling in love with, Liora, and handed the witch over to the
Devil. No questions asked.
And then when Asmodeus had been about to save her from the
very chamber at Nevar’s back, he had snuck in like a shadow and tried to kill
the bastard.
Liora had attempted to shield Asmodeus. Nevar had skewered
both of them on the sword.
Their combined blood spilling in the chamber and soaking
into the crystal had been the key to unlocking the prison of the Great
Destroyer, and because his hand had spilled it, Nevar was now the creature’s
master.
He sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose.
Liora would be proud of him.
Seven months of rehab and he had finally admitted that
Asmodeus had started the ball rolling when he had forced a contract between
them, but Nevar had kept on pushing the damn thing until it had picked up
enough speed to do some real damage.
Damage being a nice way of saying that he had probably
brought about the end of the world.
Nevar tipped his head back and stared into the darkness.
Golden light from the two torches on the wall behind him, one either side of
the broad door, held by gilded dragon bones, flickered across the ceiling. How
many times had he lost himself in following the shifting ribbons of light? It
was up there with his other favourite form of entertainment.
He turned around to face the huge black stone door.
His jade gaze slowly took in every inch of the carved
surface that was now imprinted on his memory. It depicted dragons roaming the
landscape of Hell in the upper portion of the door and a monster far larger
than they were ravaging lands in the central section. That gigantic beast
devoured mortal, demon and angel alike.
He ran his fingers over the beast to the figure of an angel
being crushed under its front left foot and then drifted them back up to the
other figure it clutched in the claws of its right.
The Great Destroyer.
He wasn’t sure what would happen when it finally rose from
its slumber, or what his role was when it emerged, but he was sure it would be
a hell of a lot more interesting than his current situation.
Would it be such a bad thing if it awakened?
The thought of standing guard in the cramped black
antechamber for decades, centuries or more was an unwelcome one. He would
rather the world went to Hell now than he be put through another month of
loitering outside the chamber, alone and bored.
And tired.
Unlike his master, Hell wasn’t his home, and when an angel
wasn’t in their natural environment, they had to eat and sleep.
Asmodeus never seemed to take that into account, or perhaps
he did. Perhaps his wretched master was in his fortress halfway across Hell laughing
about the fact that he was here starving to death and about ready to gnaw his
arm off. Nevar resisted the urge to sink his fangs into his lower lip. It
wouldn’t appease his hunger or do him any good. He couldn’t survive on his own
blood. He had been living for the past seven months on regular doses of
Asmodeus’s blood.
Saliva pooled in his mouth at just the thought of sinking
his fangs into his master’s arm and sucking down his rich, thick blood.
Wonderful. Asmodeus and Liora’s fantastic rehab plan had now
turned him into some sort of Pavlov’s dog, salivating at only the idea of being
allowed to drink from his master.
He sighed again and traced his fingers down the ridged back
of the beast carved on the door.
Maybe there was a reason Asmodeus had left him here alone
for almost a full month.
Liora had told Nevar that now he had been weaned off demon
blood, the next step was to wean him off blood entirely.
It would be typical of the bastard angel to decide the best
way to do that was to ditch him here at the chamber and leave him for a month,
knowing he was under orders not to leave it unguarded.
Did Liora know what her male was doing? He doubted the
pretty little witch would approve of such a move.
Whenever Nevar had been at their fortress, watching her and
Asmodeus attempting to rebuild it, she had stuffed him full of mortal food,
telling him that he needed to keep his strength up. Of course, Asmodeus glared
at him whenever the witch fussed over him, and Nevar had repaid him by drinking
up her attention and coaxing her into giving him more of it, stealing it away
from Asmodeus.
The mark on his chest pulsed, fire flashing over it, and his
fingers tensed against the hindquarters of the beast on the door.
He growled and mentally commanded the breastplate and back
plate of his violet-edged black armour to disappear, revealing his bare chest.
Purple light traced over the circular mark directly over his heart. The size of
his palm, it depicted a serpentine beast with a reptilian head armed with sharp
fangs and six curved horns. Wings followed the sweeping arc of its scaly body
and its barbed tail. In the centre of the mark, clutched in the dragon’s claws,
was a perfect replica of Liora’s pentagram—the one he had destroyed.
The dragon’s wings shifted and he ground his teeth against
the fiery pain that blazed like lightning across his pectorals in response. He
pressed his hand to the mark, breathing through the agony, using the same
technique he employed when trying to retain control.
The beast settled and his heart settled with it, slowing
back to a normal rhythm.
It wasn’t the first time the mark had shifted. It moved from
time to time, as if it was as restless as he was.
Nevar kept his hand over the mark and placed his other one
on the carving on the door that was a perfect match. The Great Destroyer.
Would it be such a bad thing if it awakened?
He could fight it or control it or something as its master.
It would beat the hell out of guard duty.
Her Avenging Angel is available
from Amazon Kindle, Kobo Books, Barnes and Noble Nook, Apple iBooks stores and
other retailers. Also available in paperback.
Find all the links, a fantastic 6
chapter downloadable sample of the book, and also how to enter the giveaway and
be in with a shot of winning a $75, $50 or $25 gift certificate at her website:
http://www.felicityheaton.co.uk/her-avenging-angel-romance-book.php
Books in the Her
Angel paranormal romance series:
Book 1:
Her Dark Angel – FREE in ebook at selected retailers
About Felicity Heaton:
Felicity Heaton is a New
York Times and USA Today
international best-selling author writing passionate paranormal romance books.
In her books, she creates detailed worlds, twisting plots, mind-blowing action,
intense emotion and heart-stopping romances with leading men that vary from
dark deadly vampires to sexy shape-shifters and wicked werewolves, to sinful
angels and hot demons! If you're a fan of paranormal romance authors Lara
Adrian, J R Ward, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Gena Showalter and Christine Feehan then
you will enjoy her books too.
If you love your angels a little dark and wicked, the best-selling
Her Angel series is for you. If you like strong, powerful, and dark vampires
then try the Vampires Realm series or any of her stand-alone vampire romance
books. If you’re looking for vampire romances that are sinful, passionate and
erotic then try the best-selling Vampire Erotic Theatre series. Or if you
prefer huge detailed worlds filled with hot-blooded alpha males in every
species, from elves to demons to dragons to shifters and angels, then take a
look at the new Her Angel series.
If you want to know more about Felicity, or want to get in touch, you
can find her at the following places:
No comments:
Post a Comment