Marie Morin Reviews

Added May 18, 2005

Eternity

Author: Marie Morin
Publisher: New Concepts Publishing
Available At: www.newconceptspublishing.com
Publishing Date: Available Now
Genre: Romance: Paranormal/Vampire
Format: Ebook disk and download in PDF/HTML
Price: $4.49 disk, $3.99 download
ISBN: 1-58608-307-4
Reviewer: Lisa Lambrecht
Rating: 9 Gargoyles

Emily Hendrick's dream has finally come true. She had to sell everything she owned, take out a bank loan and use every bit of her inheritance money. But now she's in Scotland, the proud owner of a Scottish castle. Unfortunately, the pictures of Castle MacKissack, the pictures she based her decision to buy the castle on, were taken long ago and the actual castle was crumbling.

Having spent every bit of her money just to buy the place, there was no way she could fix the castle up or even make it livable. While exploring the dungeon/basement she finds a coffin sitting in the middle of the room. Scared she'll find a body she nonetheless opens the coffin and finds a ton of very old coins. Emily is elated; now she has the money to repair the castle and turn into a bed and breakfast. Little did she know the coffin did contain a body, a vampire, to be exact. He woken up and was roaming the castle while she was exploring.

Nigel MacKissack wants his castle and coins back and that outspoken lass claiming the castle was hers out. Will Nigel and Emily come to an agreement regarding the lawful ownership? Emily doesn't have anywhere to go and refuses to leave. Staying meant she would have to deal with handsome, arrogant, somewhat crazy man who claims he's the owner of Castle MacKissack and a vampire. Is her dream worth it?

A wonderful, unique vampire romance, Eternity is filled with likeable characters and sizzling sex. Marie Morin combines adventure, comedy and romance to create a story that is fun and enjoyable. What other novel has a vampire wearing a pink sweatsuit? That is when he's actually wearing clothes. I had a great time reading this story and I'm sure most readers will too.

Pick up Eternity by Marie Morin today, you won't be sorry.

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Added January 21, 2005

Atlantium Book 3: Maiden of Atlantis

Author: Marie Morin
Publisher: New Concepts Publishing
Available At: www.newconceptspublishing.com
Publishing Date: February 2004
Genre: Romance: Paranormal
Format: Ebook disk or download in PDF/HTML
Price: $4.99 disk, $4.49 download
ISBN: 1-58608-344-9
Reviewer: Jeanine Berry
Rating: 7 Gargoyles

Claire Holiday is having a bad day. She's just discovered her boyfriend Mark in bed with another woman. Even worse, Mark is her boss, too, so in one horrible moment she's lost both her lover and her job.

Upset, she flees to the beach to watch the waves come in and try to find some peace. While there, she spots a most unusual dolphin which has beached itself on the land. An empath and a healer, Claire rushes over to help the dolphin, but as she strokes it and begins the healing, the dolphin shapeshifts and becomes a tall, darkly handsome man.

Claire is too stunned to react and before she knows what's happening to her, the man snatches her up and plunges back into the sea. He immediately dives underwater and shapeshifts again into the form of a merman. Claire finds herself protected from the sea by a bubble of air and taken to a land under the ocean called Atalantium.

Atalantium is a hidden civilization and its people are far superior to the humans on the surface. They have telepathic abilities, can shapeshift and can even timewalk. Long ago, they lived on the surface but grew tired of dealing with the backwards human race and so decided to hide themselves beneath the sea. Claire finds herself the captive of a group of these super beings, all of whom were once known on Earth and are still remembered in legend. She's been captured by Eros, once the god of love. The leader of the group that holds her prisoner is Zeus, once known as the king of the gods.

Soon Claire discovers that she is a pawn in a plot within a plot as the people who have captured her each try to use her to achieve their own ends. She's been taken prisoner by a rebel group that wants to use her to overthrow the guardian of Atalantium. But who can she trust? Is it the handsome Eros whose naked body arouses her desire and who makes love to her with his telepathic mind? Or Zeus, who has his own motives for wooing her? She only knows that somehow her healing abilities are the key to the future of this undersea world.

To tell more would be to give away some of the plot twists in this exciting novel of love beneath the sea. From the first page, Claire is swept away on a mysterious journey, and the reader is along for the ride, trying to guess with her what is going on and who she can trust. If that isn't enough to cope with Claire also has to deal with being seduced in a whole new way-Atalantiums make love with the mind as well as the body.

Maiden of Atlantis is a sexy story, proving that things can get hot even far beneath the sea. Claire is a brave and engaging heroine and Eros more than lives up to his name as the hero. Several plot twists, including one stunner that I didn't see coming, are more than enough to keep you turning the pages to discover what comes next. Claire faces some tremendous challenges as she finds herself swept up into the middle of an undersea war, including several fierce battles. Readers should be warned that in addition to the sex, there are some violent scenes. Claire must overcome terrible obstacles, but through it all, she has the handsome Eros fighting at her side. If you love paranormal romance with an extra dash of sex, you'll find this an enjoyable read.

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