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Twyla Shift: Blood and Magic
Nineteen year old Anne has spent her entire life coping with the fallout from her clairvoyant dreams, and after narrowly escaping a fire in her chemistry lab which claims the lives of two of her classmates, she figures she’s over the worst. That is until she is kidnapped by a man she has a unusual reaction to, shifted into a strange shadow world from which she can’t escape, held hostage by witches and vampires, and forced to choose between her own life and her sister’s.
With everything she thought she knew about her life a lie, and unable to rely on anyone but herself, she struggles to accept the new reality that she is thrust into, having to use her dreams to guide her. But with her life turned upside down and the stakes massively raised, it’s up to Anne to save both herself and the man she loves from certain death, and when the cards are dealt, can her dreams really help her?
Paranormal Romance - Intended for an adult audience.
With everything she thought she knew about her life a lie, and unable to rely on anyone but herself, she struggles to accept the new reality that she is thrust into, having to use her dreams to guide her. But with her life turned upside down and the stakes massively raised, it’s up to Anne to save both herself and the man she loves from certain death, and when the cards are dealt, can her dreams really help her?
Paranormal Romance - Intended for an adult audience.
441 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 4, 2012
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March 4, 2012
(I was given this book for free by the author on a read-to-review basis)
Anne is 19 and at university. All her life she's had these dreams that show her the future, the main problem being that she often doesn't realise when they will happen until it's too late.
Now Anne is having a repeating dream, which usually means that something really bad is going to happen, and she's on edge because of it.
Recognising some events from one of her dreams, she narrowly escapes a fire in her chemistry lab, but unfortunately that's not the end of Anne's troubles.
Coming across a man on campus after the fire, she feels a strange pull towards him, and they end up leaving together. They don't get very far though when something happens to make him panic, and he pulls Anne through some kind of vortex.
Waking up somewhere strange and feeling really sick, Anne finds out that she is now in a different reality. A shadow world that magic-users can 'shift' into at will.
Now Anne must find out how the hell to get home, and why this man kidnapped her in the first place. Although she's still got loads more trouble coming her way in the form of witches, werewolves, and vampires, and new information about herself that she never thought possible.
I have to say that I really enjoyed this book. There is so much going on, and so many new things being thrown at Anne that there's never a dull moment, and the romance/erotica when it comes into it is hot! Anne is a likable, slightly feisty character, and she comes out with some great lines at times, and I really loved the whole concept of the shifting into the shadow-world.
Overall this is a great paranormal/fantasy/romance read, and I am hoping that this will turn into a series! 8.5 out of 10.
(Book length: 4418 kindle locations)
Anne is 19 and at university. All her life she's had these dreams that show her the future, the main problem being that she often doesn't realise when they will happen until it's too late.
Now Anne is having a repeating dream, which usually means that something really bad is going to happen, and she's on edge because of it.
Recognising some events from one of her dreams, she narrowly escapes a fire in her chemistry lab, but unfortunately that's not the end of Anne's troubles.
Coming across a man on campus after the fire, she feels a strange pull towards him, and they end up leaving together. They don't get very far though when something happens to make him panic, and he pulls Anne through some kind of vortex.
Waking up somewhere strange and feeling really sick, Anne finds out that she is now in a different reality. A shadow world that magic-users can 'shift' into at will.
Now Anne must find out how the hell to get home, and why this man kidnapped her in the first place. Although she's still got loads more trouble coming her way in the form of witches, werewolves, and vampires, and new information about herself that she never thought possible.
I have to say that I really enjoyed this book. There is so much going on, and so many new things being thrown at Anne that there's never a dull moment, and the romance/erotica when it comes into it is hot! Anne is a likable, slightly feisty character, and she comes out with some great lines at times, and I really loved the whole concept of the shifting into the shadow-world.
Overall this is a great paranormal/fantasy/romance read, and I am hoping that this will turn into a series! 8.5 out of 10.
(Book length: 4418 kindle locations)
March 7, 2012
Oh my this book was amazing. I was given this book by the author and boy am I glad. I was immediately given a very visual image of the life of Anne. Anne is someone who went through life with many secrets. She had dreams that foretold of possible future events. She kept this gift to herself because the one time that she did say something she was made to feel as if she was a freak of nature. Anne was raised by her grandmother growing up and she attended college. After an accident at school she was thrust into a world she never knew existed as so began her journey into Twyla. Through her journey she met many people that tried to help her that would be Gina, Aria, Melanie, and West. She also unfortunately met people that wanted to hurt her like Adam. She also met some of her family and learned about her true life history. I for one would love to see the story continue. This is definitely a 5 star book and I would recommend it to anyone out there. I was not able to put the book down and had to constantly keep reading because I was enthralled by the storyline in this book.
February 22, 2012
Anne has a secret - she has dreams of the future. Unfortunately though, they don't play out like a movie, they come to her as snippets of feelings and events that she has to puzzle through.
Anne has been a having the same dream which she has been unable to work out for a while now, but she didn't expect it to be warning her of what it was warning her off!
Finding herself kidnapped by a rogue (but gorgous) male witch called Adam. She is told that she has been shifted through to another world. This world is actually the earths shadow, and all magic users are able to shift in and out at will.
This is just the start of the action though, as Anne discovers a whole new world filled with vampires, witches and werewolves, and finds that people are out for her blood, and that Adam isn't who he claims to be.
I really enjoyed this. It's paranormal romance, but there's a decent plotlineas well as the sizzling sex scenes!
Loved it, hoping there is a second on the way! Please?!
Anne has been a having the same dream which she has been unable to work out for a while now, but she didn't expect it to be warning her of what it was warning her off!
Finding herself kidnapped by a rogue (but gorgous) male witch called Adam. She is told that she has been shifted through to another world. This world is actually the earths shadow, and all magic users are able to shift in and out at will.
This is just the start of the action though, as Anne discovers a whole new world filled with vampires, witches and werewolves, and finds that people are out for her blood, and that Adam isn't who he claims to be.
I really enjoyed this. It's paranormal romance, but there's a decent plotlineas well as the sizzling sex scenes!
Loved it, hoping there is a second on the way! Please?!
March 7, 2012
I’m not certain that I’m not being overgenerous with a 2star rating. I received a free copy in exchange for an honest review.
Twyla Shift: Blood & Magic has a great promise. A college aged clairvoyant is kidnapped by a gorgeous stranger and is ultimately forced to choose between her life and a her sister’s life (whom she has never met). But unfortunately for me this is more of a broken promise.
This was a difficult read for me for numerous reasons. I found the overuse of pronouns confusing and I didn’t always know who was speaking. Another very difficult issue for me was the incorrect usage of words including some being misspelled. I understand that at some point the various storylines were to meet and become one to finish the story – it took so long to get there that I lost interest well before that point. There wasn’t any chemistry between the H/H so the intimacy scenes felt forced, though there was heat. Despite all of the secondary characters having quirks in an attempt to make them memorable they remained one-dimensional. I didn’t feel as if the story flowed, it felt hesitant and amateurish. Additionally there were so many paranormal elements that they all began to feel unnecessary. Twyla itself wasn’t clearly explained until after the midway point of the book which made the foundation unstable. Throughout the first half of the book you didn’t know if it was a separate universe, dimension, world, or if it was this world.
I was extremely disappointed that I didn't feel the book lived up to its promise and unfortunately wouldn’t recommend this to anyone.
Twyla Shift: Blood & Magic has a great promise. A college aged clairvoyant is kidnapped by a gorgeous stranger and is ultimately forced to choose between her life and a her sister’s life (whom she has never met). But unfortunately for me this is more of a broken promise.
This was a difficult read for me for numerous reasons. I found the overuse of pronouns confusing and I didn’t always know who was speaking. Another very difficult issue for me was the incorrect usage of words including some being misspelled. I understand that at some point the various storylines were to meet and become one to finish the story – it took so long to get there that I lost interest well before that point. There wasn’t any chemistry between the H/H so the intimacy scenes felt forced, though there was heat. Despite all of the secondary characters having quirks in an attempt to make them memorable they remained one-dimensional. I didn’t feel as if the story flowed, it felt hesitant and amateurish. Additionally there were so many paranormal elements that they all began to feel unnecessary. Twyla itself wasn’t clearly explained until after the midway point of the book which made the foundation unstable. Throughout the first half of the book you didn’t know if it was a separate universe, dimension, world, or if it was this world.
I was extremely disappointed that I didn't feel the book lived up to its promise and unfortunately wouldn’t recommend this to anyone.
March 7, 2012
Anne’s clairvoyant dreams began before she can remember, but she well recalls at age six, the first-and final-time she spoke of them to another. Bullying, fear, and hatred resulted, and she subsided, eventually learning to recognize the dreams as guidance, and that meant specially for her, not usually as warnings or help for anyone else. At Uni, where she is engrossed in her chemistry course, her strange dreams take on a new turn, and she barely escapes from a dangerous fire in the chemistry lab. She’s about to find out that more than just the loss of two lives has occurred; she herself comes under a spell and is magnetized to a stranger she doesn’t ever remember seeing, a man who claims to be in love with her and to be marking her as his own. Next she realizes, she’s been transported to another realm, a world of magic, witches, and vampires, a realm known as Twyla; and Anne can view, hear, and transfer to Twyla for the very same reason she has spent her life feeling odd: her clairvoyance.
The descriptive settings are very well done, as are the action scenes. Readers will find it easy to emote with the characters in Twyla, who all seem to live “larger than life” and are more dimensional than most humans. The plotting is nicely twisted, with many surprises along the way. “Twyla Shift: Blood and Magic” is not recommended for readers under 18 due to detailed scenes of intimacy.
The descriptive settings are very well done, as are the action scenes. Readers will find it easy to emote with the characters in Twyla, who all seem to live “larger than life” and are more dimensional than most humans. The plotting is nicely twisted, with many surprises along the way. “Twyla Shift: Blood and Magic” is not recommended for readers under 18 due to detailed scenes of intimacy.
June 17, 2014
I liked this book a lot: the world setup was intriguing and book was fast paced - perhaps even little bit too fast. I was fascinated by how the book started: ominous atmosphere with promise of dark secrets. Quite soon though story changed to be more ordinary paranormal fantasy. What I didn't like was a feel of summary, like someone who has read this book and is now telling you about it. Everything relevant is there, but no details, no character development, no interesting background stories. Like a soup with all right ingredients but not cooked long enough.
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