Audiobook Lovin' 2024 Presents: Where My PNR Lovers At?

 

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Where My PNR Lovers At? 
Scroll down as I share some of my favorite and highly recommended ones!

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These are a few of my favorite....
Did you start singing the song from THE SOUND OF MUSIC? 

Found this new version from Pentatonix that has that PNR vibe....

If video doesn't play above, click here to watch.

Of course you cannot beat the original!

Okay now that that song is stuck in your head.... 
I thought I'd share with you some of my favorite paranormal romances with you!
PNR is my favorite genre! Why? I think its the mystical side of the world. 

Below I've listed those that I love and highly recommend! I have included a little info and links for you to check them out! 


Ready?

A series that I ALWAYS recommend if you're new to PNR is to start with

Dannika Dark's "The Seven Series"!

Not only is it narrated by the extremely talented Nicole Poole (who makes you think this is a multi-cast production when its only her) but it reads like a contemporary romance that happens to have shifts. Dannika's gift for world building and character development will have you loving this series! 

You'll end up falling in love with it and you'll want to start Dannika's other series, The Mageri Series and then The Crossbreed Series! 

Available at Libro.fm | Audible! 

If you want to read all of Dannika's series, you should start with
The Mageri Series!

Now this series is one I love and hold dear to my heart!

It also has a favorite character of mine... SIMON!
Damn that man! I mean Mage! 

What's not to love! He's British... cheeky, sarcastic and great in the sack (according to himself). So imagine my surprise and reaction when when I get this little note from Simon, explaining why Nicole was delayed in submitting her post for the 2015 Audiobook Lovin Series! 

Viviana, Enchantress of Books/Audiobook Lovin · Simon's Note To Viviana

This is our first interview with Nicole Poole!

Viviana, Enchantress of Books/Audiobook Lovin · Audio Book Lovin' Presents: Viviana's Interview with Nicole Poole

Here is the reading/listening order as suggested by Dannika herself

Series Publishing order:

Mageri Series (urban fantasy)

Seven Series (paranormal romance)

Crossbreed Series (urban fantasy)

Black Arrowhead Series (paranormal romance)

Click here for the COMPLETE suggested reading/listening order by the individual books!

Find all of Dannika's titles at

Libro.fm | Audible | Amazon Author Page

If you like some humor in your PNR, then the Mystic Bayou Series by Molly Harper is perfect for you!!

  

Known for her snarky romance, Molly's Mystic Bayou series is a great mix of fantastical creatures, humor, and characters that leave you wanting more!

Grab your copy at Audible!

Want something more witchy? 
Check out her Starfall Point Series! 

I fell in love with this new series and Molly writes characters that you can't help but in love with!

For this series, the fabulous narrator Amanda Ronconi returns and is joined by Teddy Hamilton!

Click here to learn more and to purchase!

Psy-Changeling Trinity

by Nalini Singh
Narrated by Angela Dawe

Grab your copy at

Libro.fm | Audible

So the Psy-Changeling Trinity is Season Two of the Psy/Changeling series!
If you haven't read the original series (Psy/Changeling) you can begin with Silver Silence (bk 1 in the Psy-Changeling Trinity series) and NOT be lost! Nalini weaves a story that is both intriguing and heart wrenching filled with extraordinary characters! 

Add narrator Angela Dawe's performance and muah chef's kiss!

Love Angela's performance in every single of these books! 
She was a guest on the Audiobook Lovin Series in 2016 and in 2017!
Listen to her Top Five Favorite Reasons to be an Audiobook Narrator below and click here to listen to our chat!

Kelly Mueller · Angela Dawe Top 5 2016

Have more questions about this series and/or the author? Click here to learn more!

I love Sherrilyn Kenyon! She's a doll and her writing is surperb!

The Chronicles of Nick is her YA series that is part of her series Dark-Hunters,  immortal vampire slayers who risk everything to save humanity! In fact in the Dark-Hunters series Nick is an adult! So we get to "see" Nick as a teen and at the tender age of fourteen! This also includes many of your favorite characters from the Dark-Hunter Series! While YA usually isn't my jam, this is! Its an auto buy for me!

The narrator is Holter Graham and is perfection!
Truly love this series and I know you will too! 

Get yours at 

Libro.fm | Audible

Now... I can go on and on and on but I'm going to leave you another great PNR series

The Charley Davidson Series

by Darynda Jones!

With a total of 13 books (and more coming I'm sure) and all narrated by the fabulous Lorelei King this series has it all! You have the heroine that is strong, independent, sassy and sarcastic and the hero who happens to be the son of satan...... what could go wrong? Oh forgot to mention that she's a private investigator.... that sees ghosts..... and she's the grim reaper! Yeah, I think that's it! LOL 

Reyes is the sexy hero who keeps up with Charley's sass and ahem everything in between! I love their banter and the chemistry is off the charts!

BONUS, all of the side/secondary characters are fantastic! 

What are you waiting for? 

Go grab them all!!

Libro.fm | Audible

Want more recommendations?
Different Genres?

Let me know in the comments!

Book Review: Rock Redemption by Nalini Singh

Rock Redemption 
(Rock Kiss Series,  #3)
by Nalini Singh

Blurb: 
Kit Devigny could have loved rock guitarist Noah St. John. Their friendship burned with the promise of intense passion and searing tenderness…until the night Noah deliberately shattered her heart.

Noah knows he destroyed something precious the night he chose to betray Kit, but he’d rather she hate him than learn his darkest secret. All he has left is his music. It’s his saving grace, but it doesn’t silence the voices that keep him up at night. Chasing oblivion through endless one-night-stands, he earns a few hours’ sleep and his bad boy reputation.

When a media error sees Noah and Kit dubbed the new “it” couple, Kit discovers her chance at the role of a lifetime hinges on riding the media wave. Wanting—needing—to give Kit this, even if he can’t give her everything, Noah agrees to play the adoring boyfriend. Only the illusion is suddenly too real, too painful, too beautiful…and it may be too late for the redemption of Noah St. John.

         

Viviana's Review: 

As it happens sometimes, we discover series in middle of it or a few books in... I started this series with "Rock Courtship (Book 1.5)" and I still need to read book #1... promise, I'm planning to. I'm mentioning this because this is the first I'm hearing of Noah's playboy ways but I believe the narrator and characters when they tell me this.

This was a story that tugs at your heart and about a man that believes he's not worthy of being loved. A woman who loves him enough to fight for him, for their love and for a future she knows they can have if he's only willing to try.

Noah and Kit have a true friendship that they both cherish. They both know and understand how precious the bond of this friendship is. As with many friendships, theirs has blossomed into more and both deal with it in their own way. Unfortunately, hearts are broken.

I enjoyed seeing their interaction and the bantering. And while we learned that there was love in the beginning, I really liked that we saw them fall for each other all over again. However, I felt that Noah didn't really "fight" to want to be with her. He makes it obvious that he believes he's not worthy and stays ways, but wants to be in her life as a friend only. Yet, that desire to WANT to be with her doesn't come across. Also, when we find some things out (sorry, spoiler stuff) there is a "lack of research" that occurs so it seems like the heroine comes up with the idea/solution on her own/out of thin air instead of the fact that it's an actual type of solution. Can't say more without it being a spoiler. I think it would have had more impactful to the story if the character would have done "research".

Overall, it was a good read that moves the series along. I did enjoy the story! I like the characters. Wished there was more romance... but, the story was a good one. I'm glad I read it.

Rating: 3.5 Stars. I Liked It Very Much

Disclaimer:
I received a complimentary copy of this book from the author, Nalini Singh via TRSOR Promotions in exchange for an honest review. This review is my own opinion and not a paid review.

 Excerpt

Kit groaned at the sound of her phone. Reaching out blindly toward the nightstand, she hurled mental curses upon herself for forgetting to turn it off so she could catch some uninterrupted sleep before her four-a.m. makeup call.

It’d be fun and great for her career, her agent had said when recommending Kit take the superhero flick. Coming off two serious and emotionally wrenching projects, Kit had taken Harper’s advice and jumped on board the high-budget, high-octane venture. Unfortunately, Harper had forgotten to mention the four hours it would take to put her into the head-to-toe makeup required for the role. Daily.

“What?” she snarled into the phone without checking to see who it was.

“Hey, Katie.”

Every cell in her body snapped wide awake. Lifting her eyelids, she just stared at the ceiling through gritty eyes. Her heart thumped, her throat moving convulsively as she swallowed. She hated that he could still do this to her, hated it, but her visceral response to Noah wasn’t something she could stop. She knew because she’d tried for the past two years and three months.

“Noah,” she said flatly. “Do you know what time it is?”

“Two fifteen,” he answered.

Kit should’ve hung up. God, he’d hurt her. So much. But there was something in his voice that had her sitting up. “Are you drunk?” One thing she knew about Noah: no matter his bad-boy rep, he was never wasted. He might give a good indication of it, but look closely and those dark gray eyes were always sober.

“Probably.” A silence, followed by, “I just wanted to hear your voice. Sorry for waking you.”

“Wait,” she said when he would’ve hung up. “Where are you?”

“Some dive.” He took a deep breath, released it in a harsh exhale. “I’m sorry for being an asshole. I wanted to tell you that. I don’t want to go without saying that.”

“Noah,” she said, a horrible feeling in her stomach. “Where exactly are you?”

“The Blue Flamingo Inn off Hollywood Boulevard. Far, far, far off.” He laughed, and it held no humor. “It has a neon sign of a blue—surprise!—flamingo that’s flashing right through my window. Looks like someone stole the curtains.”

Having already grabbed her laptop, which she’d left beside the bed after answering some e-mails before sleep claimed her, she found the Blue Flamingo Inn. But Noah was already gone, having said, “I love your voice, Kit,” in an oddly raw tone before hanging up.

He didn’t pick up when she called back.

“Damn it! Damn it!” She shoved aside the blanket under which she’d been buried, having turned the AC to ice-cold as she usually did at night. Shivering, she tugged on a pair of jeans and an old sweatshirt over the panties and tank top in which she’d gone to sleep.

Pulling her black hair into a rough ponytail to keep it out of her eyes, she ran through the house, phone in one pocket, credit card and driver’s license in the other. In the kitchen, she grabbed her keys off the counter and shoved her feet into the tennis shoes by the door that led to the garage.

She was in her car and on the way to the motel three minutes after Noah had hung up, mouth dry and an ugliness in her gut. “Please be okay, please be okay, please be okay,” she kept saying, the mantra doing nothing to calm her down, but at least it kept her mind focused.

She wanted to call Molly and Fox, or the others in the band, but no one was currently in the city. Schoolboy Choir had completed the final show in the band’s hugely successful tour just over two weeks earlier. Day after that, they’d all gone their separate ways to recharge and regroup.

“Much as I love these guys,” David had said with a grin that reached the dark gold of his eyes, “I’ve been looking at their ugly mugs daily for months. We need to go blow off some steam separately before we start snarling at each other.”

At the time, Kit had nodded in understanding, having had that same experience while working on location for long periods. Tonight, however, she wished the others were all here, not scattered across the country, because something was very wrong with Noah.

“Noah doesn’t do drugs,” she told herself as she drove as fast as she dared, not wanting to risk getting pulled over and further delayed. “He isn’t the kind to—” She couldn’t say it, couldn’t even think of Noah ending his life. “No,” she said firmly, her hands white-knuckled on the steering wheel. “Noah isn’t like that.”

If you’d like to read the rest of this chapter, as well as the next, click this link: http://nalinisingh.com/books/rock-kiss-series/rock-redemption/

The Rock Kiss Reading Order

Rock Addiction (Book One) Rock Kiss Series

Amazon US | Amazon UK | Nook | iTunes | Kobo

  

Rock Courtship (Book 1.5) A Rock Kiss Novel

Amazon US | Amazon UK | Nook | iTunes | Kobo

Rock Hard (Rock Kiss Series, Book #2)

Amazon US | Amazon UK | Nook | iTunes | Kobo

                              

About The Author

NEW YORK TIMES AND USA Today bestselling author of the Psy-Changeling and Guild Hunter series Nalini Singh usually writes about hot shapeshifters and dangerous angels. This time around, she decided to write about hot and wickedly tempting rock stars - and one sinfully sexy rugby god turned brilliant CEO. If you’re seeing a theme here, you’re not wrong.

Nalini lives and works in beautiful New Zealand, and is passionate about writing. If you’d like to explore her other books, you can find lots of excerpts on her website. Slave to Sensation is the first book in the Psy-Changeling series, while Angels’ Blood is the first book in the Guild Hunter series. Also, don't forget to swing by the site to check out the special behind-the-scenes page for the Rock Kiss series, complete with photos of many of the locations used in the books.

You can stalk, I mean follow Nalini at 

         

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Book Review: Rock Hard (Rock Kiss Series, Bk #2) by Nalini Singh

Rock Hard 
(Rock Kiss Series, Bk #2) 
By Nalini Singh

Blurb: 
In New York Times Bestselling author Nalini Singh’s newest contemporary romance, passion ignites between a gorgeous, sinfully sexy man who built himself up from nothing and a shy woman who has a terrible secret in her past… 

Wealthy businessman Gabriel Bishop rules the boardroom with the same determination and ruthlessness that made him a rock star on the rugby field. He knows what he wants, and he’ll go after it no-holds-barred.

And what he wants is Charlotte Baird.

Charlotte knows she’s a mouse. Emotionally scarred and painfully shy, she just wants to do her job and remain as invisible as possible. But the new CEO—a brilliant, broad-shouldered T-Rex of a man who growls and storms through the office, leaving carnage in his wake—clearly has other plans. Plans that may be equal parts business and bedroom.

If Charlotte intends to survive this battle of wits and hearts, the mouse will have to learn to wrangle the T-Rex. Game on.

Available for purchase at 

         

Viviana's Review: 
After reading "Rock Courtship (Rock Kiss, #1.5)" I just had to read "Rock Hard". Also, did you see the cover? I mean, LOOK AT IT! Okay, eyes back here! LOL, Sorry, my fault! I haven't read Nalini's PNR series (gasp I know) but I have added it to my TBR Mountain as I have fallen for her writing style! She has a gift with words and creating characters that the reader can connect with and totally fall for.

If you picked up, I have read the novella of this series and not the first book. Sigh... too many books NOT enough time! My friend and fellow blogger Kelly from Books-n-Kisses LOVED this book (here is her review if you'd like to check it out) and says I MUST read the first one to get an idea why the nickname T-Rex fits Gabriel to a Tee. While I did promise I'd read it and I do WANT to read it, the good news is that you can pick up the series from here! "Rock Hard" can be read as a stand-a-lone and Nalini does a  great job of showing the reader why Charlotte gives him the nickname T-Rex. 

Blog Tour and Giveaway: Rock Hard (Rock Kiss Series, Bk 2) by Nalini Singh

Rock Hard
(Rock Kiss Series, Bk 2) 
By Nalini Singh

Blurb:
Wealthy businessman Gabriel Bishop rules the boardroom with the same determination and ruthlessness that made him a rock star on the rugby field. He knows what he wants, and he’ll go after it no-holds-barred.

And what he wants is Charlotte Baird.

Charlotte knows she’s a mouse. Emotionally scarred and painfully shy, she just wants to do her job and remain as invisible as possible. But the new CEO—a brilliant, broad-shouldered T-Rex of a man who growls and storms through the office, leaving carnage in his wake—clearly has other plans. Plans that may be equal parts business and bedroom.

If Charlotte intends to survive this battle of wits and hearts, the mouse will have to learn to wrangle the T-Rex. Game on.

Available for purchase at 

         

 Excerpt

Charlotte arrived at work at seven thirty the next morning to find Gabriel Bishop’s office door open, but no carnivorous predator inside. A fresh suit was hanging on the back of his door, however, which meant he’d been in already.

Deciding to catch up on e-mails that had come in overnight from international suppliers as well as stores involved in a stock take, she was typing a reply when a sweaty Gabriel arrived fifteen minutes later. He was dressed in black running shorts and a faded University of Auckland T-shirt that was currently sticking to his body.

She’d known he was in shape, but now she realized none of it was an illusion created by his well-cut suits. Okay, she’d already known that, but seeing his muscled body in the flesh was a whole different ball game. He was built like a tank, hard and powerful.

Each of his thighs was thicker than both of hers put together, his biceps toned, his shoulders appearing even wider than usual. Everything about him was big. Civilized clothing didn’t make him look better, she realized—it toned down his intense masculinity. Out of his suits, with the ink on the upper part of his left arm exposed, as well as that on his opposing thigh and…

Her skin hot and lower body clenching, she just nodded in response to his “Good morning.”

Disappearing into his office, he returned with his suit pants and a fresh shirt slung over his arm, along with a sports bag. “Push the meeting with Sales to nine, will you, Ms. Baird? I need to talk to HR about something before then.”

“Yes, sir,” Charlotte said almost soundlessly, but he was already gone, heading toward the employee shower one floor down.

The thigh tattoo went all the way around, the design intricate.

Heart rate a rapid stutter, Charlotte got up after he disappeared and decided to go grab him a coffee. He’d bought her one yesterday after all. She was just being nice. “Oh, shut up, Charlotte,” she muttered once she was in the elevator, and slumped her face into an upraised hand.

The truth was she was running away. Only for a few minutes, but that’s what this was: strategic retreat. Gabriel Bishop was overwhelming. Once, before she’d ever met him and under the influence of cocktails, she’d told Molly she wanted to rip off his shirt and sink her teeth into his pecs.

That desire hadn’t waned even now that she knew he was a T-Rex. Of course, the desire was all strictly in her imagination. The idea of actually handling him in real life? So impossible as to be laughable. Charlie-mouse was not about to play with a predator who could eat her alive and not even notice the bones. The good news was that she could admire him in relative safety—there was no chance in hell he’d ever notice her as a woman.

Getting the coffee from a nearby café, she took it back upstairs. He was in his office when she entered, the striped dark gray of his tie hanging around his neck and his damp hair roughly combed. The scent of clean, fresh soap over warm skin permeated the office. Shooting her a smile that turned him from gorgeous to flat-out devastating, he flipped up the collar of his white shirt to get the tie in place. “Thank you, Ms. Baird.”

Nodding, Charlotte escaped, though she really wanted to stay. She’d never realized how erotic it was to watch a man dress until this precise moment. And she shouldn’t be having these thoughts about her boss—especially since she couldn’t keep from quivering like a rabbit in his presence. Sometimes she just annoyed herself.

“Get to work,” she muttered and knuckled down.

Gabriel was fine for the first hour, but then he began barking orders even a six-armed woman with a split personality would have had trouble handling.

Finally, pushed to the edge, Charlotte snapped. “I’m going as fast as I can!” she yelled when he asked her for something a minute after he’d asked her to complete another task.

He scowled and held out a file. “This is a priority.”

Grabbing it from his hand, she said, “Fine,” and slapped it down on her desk.

It was over an hour later that he disappeared for ten minutes. When he returned, it was to put a small bakery box on her desk. “I think you need something to sweeten your mood today, Ms. Baird.”

What she needed was for the T-Rex who was her boss to stop snarling and growling, she thought as he returned to his office. Not opening the box until her curiosity had almost killed her, she found it held a slice of decadent chocolate cake with a white-chocolate ganache topped with curls of both white and milk chocolate. “I cannot be bribed with cake,” she muttered, eating a bite nonetheless.

     
       Full two-chapter excerpt available on Nalini’s Website: http://nalinisingh.com/rockhard.php

Other Books in the Series

    

                                      (Book 1)                                         (Novella 1.5)

About The Author

NEW YORK TIMES AND USA Today bestselling author of the Psy-Changeling and Guild Hunter series Nalini Singh usually writes about hot shapeshifters and dangerous angels. This time around, she decided to write about hot and wickedly tempting rock stars - and one sinfully sexy rugby god turned brilliant CEO. If you’re seeing a theme here, you’re not wrong.

Nalini lives and works in beautiful New Zealand, and is passionate about writing. If you’d like to explore her other books, you can find lots of excerpts on her website. Slave to Sensation is the first book in the Psy-Changeling series, while Angels’ Blood is the first book in the Guild Hunter series. Also, don't forget to swing by the site to check out the special behind-the-scenes page for the Rock Kiss series, complete with photos of many of the locations used in the books.

You can stalk, I mean follow Nalini at 

         

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