This is a series I love and I'm so happy to be part of a great tour for the book. Tomorrow I'll have the review of this book! Now to the blogpost by Dianne Duvall! Welcome Dianne!!
Top 5 Reasons Immortal Guardians make the Best Book Boyfriends
Thank you so much for joining me today! I’m very excited to be here at Books and Things, celebrating the release of SHADOWS STRIKE, the sixth book in my Immortal Guardians series. (If you’re new to the series, don’t worry. The books can be read as stand alones. You’ll just be more familiar with the secondary characters if you read them in order.) Today I thought I would give you a little insight into my powerful Immortal Guardians by naming five reasons they make the best book boyfriends.
1. They love strong women.
“Beautiful, brave and possessed of violent tendencies. I like her.”
Marcus, Darkness Dawns
“Are you sure I can't talk you into leaving this old sod and running away with me? I do so love strong women. ”
Étienne, Night Reigns
“You’re a strong, beautiful woman who knows her way around a blade. I find that” — he drew in a deep breath as his eyes traveled over her with a heat that scorched her — “incredibly appealing.”
Étienne, Darkness Rises
“You’re beautiful, you’re smart, you think quickly in a crisis, and you kick ass. Do you have any idea what a desirous combination that is?”
—Ethan, Shadows Strike
2. They like to laugh and tease.
Adira toddled toward Seth, touching each man’s knee on the way.
Seth bent and scooped her into his arms, kissing her cheek, then blowing raspberries in her chubby neck rolls. Giggles filled the air as she squirmed against him, leaning back and clutching him tighter all at the same time.
How he loved this baby girl.
“I don’t know about you,” Chaahk said, “but I’m feeling a little rebuffed.”
“Why,” Seth asked with a laugh, “because I didn’t blow raspberries in your neck?”
Aidan and Imhotep laughed.
Shaking his head, Chaahk motioned to Adira. “Why doesn’t she smile at us like that?”
Seth shrugged. “I’m prettier.”
—Shadows Strike
3. They’re fiercely protective of those they love.
“No one will harm you, Heather,” he vowed. “They would have to go through me first.”
She smiled.
“What?”
She gave him a titillating once-over. “You’re hot when you’re all tough and protective.”
He grinned. “Stop tempting me. Chris is on his way, so I need to keep my head.”
—Ethan and Heather, Shadows Strike
4. They kick ass.
Lisette gasped as Zach tore through the vampires like a tornado.
Holy sh**, he’s fast! Richart thought and took a step forward, his fascinated gaze glued to the tempest below.
It didn’t take long.
Zach stilled in the center of the pack, knees bent, blades dripping, face marbled with blood. Seven vampires sank lifelessly to the ground, their bodies spread around him like the petals of a flower, as the virus went to work and they began to shrivel up like mummies.
—Night Unbound
5. You just never know what they’re going to say.
"All right. All right. Settle down. We're all glad Sarah stabbed Bastien in the ass."
Seth, Phantom Shadows
“What did you think I would do? Ask her if I could braid her hair after we gave each other facials and painted our toenails?”
Marcus, Night Reigns
“For some reason, admitting that makes me feel like a naughty school boy caught peeking up his teacher’s skirt.”
Bastien, Phantom Shadows
“I thought I felt a disturbance in the force.”
—Aidan, Shadows Strike
“I did not need to see that. I mean I really did not need to see that. Jenna, honey, grab one of my daggers and poke out both my eyes.”
—Richart, Night Unbound
Ah can you see why I love this series so much? Love those quotes. :D
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About the Book:
(Immortal Guardians #6)
by Dianne Duvall
Paperback/eBook, 320 pages
Expected publication: August 25th 2015 by Zebra
ISBN 1420129821
The Immortal Guardians protect the innocent in secret. Sometimes the secret gets out...
U.S. law enforcement agent Heather Lane can read minds. But not the future. The dream of battle and blood that recurs every night must be a fluke, some obscure terror from her own mind. What its significance might be, she can’t guess: an attack from seven psychotic vampires at once, only separated from nightmare by an eighth very different immortal. A handsome, brave man fighting at her side, a man she misses when she wakes.
Then the dream comes true. Heather is flung into a war between predators and protectors of humanity, the man from her dreams beside her again. Except now that she’s awake, she isn’t sure she can trust Ethan, or the shadow organization he represents. The U.S. military doesn’t trust either of them. But against an onslaught of evil like the one that’s coming, it will take everything they have just to survive...
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Happy Release Day!! Love the top 5 reasons:)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Vanessa!
DeleteYESSSSSSSSS! I love this series so much Melissa! I'm slightly behind, I need to read Lisette's still. I'm trying to wait patiently for Seth's book. I love him something fierce, but I know he'll be last:)
ReplyDeleteI can't wait for Seth's book too! :D
DeleteI hope you'll like Lisette's book, Jenny! And it's looking like Seth's book won't end the series. It will just end this particular story arc. Then the series will go in a new direction. :-)
Delete(Psst. I've found Seth's heroine, so I don't think his book is too far down the line now.)
I've been seeing this one around a lot lately and it looks so good!
ReplyDeleteIt is good! The review will be up tomorrow.
DeleteI hope you'll like it if you give it a read, Kindlemom! And thanks so much, Melissa, for reviewing it! :-)
DeleteNew to me but thanks for the info
ReplyDeleteThis is a good one you would enjoy!
DeleteThanks for joining us, Brandi! I hope we peaked your interest! :-)
DeleteOh I really need to try a book by this author one day, thanks for sharing§
ReplyDeleteYes you do! ;D
DeleteThanks for joining us, Melliane! :-)
DeleteThey sound like men that I would like to meet..and marry :D
ReplyDeleteYes... very swoony indeed! :D
DeleteI'd say they're great guys, but I'm biased. ;-)
DeleteDo eet! You so need this series in your life!
ReplyDeleteOh my! Where can I find one of these
ReplyDeleteMen??
LOL! :-)
DeleteLove this! Thank you for hosting Dianne today. I hope that your readers enjoy SHADOWS STRIKE - out today! Happy Reading ☺
ReplyDeleteIf you do, I hope you'll have fun with my immortals! :-)
ReplyDeleteLOL at stabbing him in the ass. That's too funny. I do need to give these a go some day :)
ReplyDeleteI admit that's one of my favorite quotes from the whole series. :-)
DeleteI love the humor and camaraderie Duvall brings to these characters and series
ReplyDeleteThank you! I'm having so much fun writing these characters. :-)
DeleteLove the sound of this one Melissa. And the Book Boyfriend list... spot on! Thanks for sharing!
ReplyDeleteNaomi @ Naomi’s Reading Palace
Thanks for joining us, Naomi! So glad you liked it! :-)
DeleteI love this post-all the quotes are great! And I love that the author says Seth's story is coming pretty soon-it's the one I have been waiting for :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, Lorna! I did just recently find Seth's heroine, so his story is not too far away now. I hope you'll enjoy it! :-)
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