Eternal Romance Collection

Haven't won any books in a long while, so a collection of three is a good start! They're all published by Eternal Romance,which I think is the Mills and Boon equivalent for paranormal/supernatural romance stories.

Value: £7.99 each (£23.97 total)
2013 Total: £1408.81

My Reviews:

A Touch of Crimson - I was pretty disappointed with this one. The problem with big complicated plots with angels and vampires and whatever else is that they simply don't work in books like these - they need to be thick with backstory and worldbuilding, and short romance novels don't have the time to fit it all in. The end result is a chaotic, confusing mess. There was also a huge unexplained plot hole surrounding the lead guy - vampires are fallen angels who have mated with mortals (or something. That's the best summary I can give.) but the hero's been doing it for centuries without getting punished and I have no idea why. The writing itself was pretty poor as well, I didn't care for any of the characters (and I certainly didn't care for their quite unbelievable love story) and in general the whole thing read kind of like a bad fanfiction.

Primal Law - This one was much better, I really enjoyed it. I thought some of the action sequences got a little confused at times (partly because there were lot of characters that flitted in and out the story with odd names I couldn't remember) but overall the plot made sense and was interesting. The romance aspect was very good, believable and sexy. I also liked that there were a few humorous parts here and there which really helped lighten things up.

Blood Law - Wow. So I almost didn't write a review of this because part of me feels bad for having absolutely nothing good to say about it. I don't even know where to start. The plot was just...rubbish, a little contrived and kind of boring. The love story was even worse, he borderline rapes her when they first meet and then they just randomly fall in love for no good reason, there was no emotional connection between them, they both just seemed kind of randy and decided that must mean they were head over heels. I hated the pair of them. And don't even get me started on the creepy licking things that went on when one of them was in wolf form - just plain wrong! Other things that irritated me was that time didn't make sense - he's only human at night time but he seemed to be human an awful lot and I have no idea what she was doing during the day, but given that the book started with her shoplifting food I'm pretty sure she then went four days without ever getting a sandwich.