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Waking Forever #5
Coleen: Forever
Set four years after Dying Forever, Forever is a novella that delves into the origins of the oldest vampire in the Waking Forever universe, the alluring, intelligent, and sometimes snarky Coleen Andrade.
Coleen has seen war, famine, death, love, magic, and centuries of seduction. But for all of her wandering, experience, and living, it's not just her past that catches up with her... it's the present.
Faced with the challenge of finding a new companion, Coleen must choose between love and tradition. She will be forced to break her own rules, and ideals she has held for centuries will be pushed aside as she struggles to reconcile the person she has been, and the one she must become to survive.
Coleen has seen war, famine, death, love, magic, and centuries of seduction. But for all of her wandering, experience, and living, it's not just her past that catches up with her... it's the present.
Faced with the challenge of finding a new companion, Coleen must choose between love and tradition. She will be forced to break her own rules, and ideals she has held for centuries will be pushed aside as she struggles to reconcile the person she has been, and the one she must become to survive.
178 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 25, 2015
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Heather McVea
15 books48 followersHeather McVea was raised in a small town south of San Antonio, Texas. Prior to escaping to the big city, she raised Hampshire pigs, rode motorcycles at entirely too young an age, and once snow boarded behind a Ford pickup truck. She relishes a strong gin and tonic, or a well-made old-fashioned (but never at the same time). Heather and her wife have three furbabies, and divide their time between Texas and Maryland.
Visit Heather’s website www.heathermcvea.com and follow her on Twitter @HMcVea.
Visit Heather’s website www.heathermcvea.com and follow her on Twitter @HMcVea.
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October 19, 2017
Brilliant! The lead: a witty,independent,headhunter and topper with good fighting skills,i also admired the way the author wrote her with this take no prisoners attitude and very mouthy...then there was isla,who was the opposite and had a much better kinder gentler attitude..that's why they both had so much chemistry and drove each other crazy at times...was a wonderful written book and highly recommend to all...awesome series!
December 23, 2016
Great way to end.
I wasn't sure what to expect in this book. In most books like these the character like Coleen you get just bit of their history. This one you got all her history. I love how the series ends with her finding love like everyone else. I would definitely recommend this book.
I wasn't sure what to expect in this book. In most books like these the character like Coleen you get just bit of their history. This one you got all her history. I love how the series ends with her finding love like everyone else. I would definitely recommend this book.
December 18, 2022
Rivals first book…
I am not really sure which love story is my favorite…Rachel and Sara or Coleen and Isla. I didn’t think it was possible, but I think I actually like Coleen the most of all the characters. I like Coleens rawness and honesty. She is actually passionate, crude, and rude. And I loved throughout series…her play for all the women at some point. Rachel’s personally has some of the best banter and wittiness that made her and Sara perfect for one another. Emma was brilliant beyond belief. And I love how she would spill out facts and trivia at anytime, especially at weird or uncomfortable ones. I see why Emma intrigued and excited Coleen for decades. Coleen was just as studied and bright.
If you go the series each vampire fell for a human. As times are changing, I believe it was time for Coleen to do so as well. Rayven and her were wrong from the start. She dominated Rayven, even though Rayven dispensed verbal and physical punishment to this circle of vampire friends. Rayven was cruel for cruelties sake. Coleen was because for 2500+ years existence you’ve seen and heard it all. But she could not dominate, manipulate, force, coerce, or just take Isla. It was Isla’s rejection that finally tamed the beast. Even Emma couldn’t do that.
So, I think this is my favorite book in the series that we may never have had.
I am not really sure which love story is my favorite…Rachel and Sara or Coleen and Isla. I didn’t think it was possible, but I think I actually like Coleen the most of all the characters. I like Coleens rawness and honesty. She is actually passionate, crude, and rude. And I loved throughout series…her play for all the women at some point. Rachel’s personally has some of the best banter and wittiness that made her and Sara perfect for one another. Emma was brilliant beyond belief. And I love how she would spill out facts and trivia at anytime, especially at weird or uncomfortable ones. I see why Emma intrigued and excited Coleen for decades. Coleen was just as studied and bright.
If you go the series each vampire fell for a human. As times are changing, I believe it was time for Coleen to do so as well. Rayven and her were wrong from the start. She dominated Rayven, even though Rayven dispensed verbal and physical punishment to this circle of vampire friends. Rayven was cruel for cruelties sake. Coleen was because for 2500+ years existence you’ve seen and heard it all. But she could not dominate, manipulate, force, coerce, or just take Isla. It was Isla’s rejection that finally tamed the beast. Even Emma couldn’t do that.
So, I think this is my favorite book in the series that we may never have had.
February 25, 2019
Delicous
I’ve read the whole Vampire series. Is fair to say they’re all very good stories, and the hours reading and enjoying the drama, the romance, the love and sex scenes, the gory deaths, have been, in my opinion, well spent. I know it may sound cliché, but I can’t wait to read more of this author’s books. Thanks to the author for writing well paced and very interesting books.
I’ve read the whole Vampire series. Is fair to say they’re all very good stories, and the hours reading and enjoying the drama, the romance, the love and sex scenes, the gory deaths, have been, in my opinion, well spent. I know it may sound cliché, but I can’t wait to read more of this author’s books. Thanks to the author for writing well paced and very interesting books.
June 14, 2025
MORE PLEASE!!!
This was such perfection and has had exactly the right amount of everything I have been needing for the past few weeks or even months that I’ve been missing in so many other books that I’ve started but struggled to make it past the last half or 3 quarters where I’ve been left with way more wanting then one should still have after moving on to the next book. I hope there will be many more similar books & stories left for this author has yet to write!
This was such perfection and has had exactly the right amount of everything I have been needing for the past few weeks or even months that I’ve been missing in so many other books that I’ve started but struggled to make it past the last half or 3 quarters where I’ve been left with way more wanting then one should still have after moving on to the next book. I hope there will be many more similar books & stories left for this author has yet to write!
July 1, 2015
Please keep bringing forever...Forever.
I knew I was going to enjoy this book due to the fact that Coleen was my favorite character and I was not disappointed. We get to discover and see, along with Coleen, her true nature behind 3000 years of existence. I liked how even after all those years she is still able to change and adapt even if it goes against everything she believed in. Loved the introduction of Isla and especially Julian. He brings out the best in her. Cannot wait for more adventures, Forever.
I knew I was going to enjoy this book due to the fact that Coleen was my favorite character and I was not disappointed. We get to discover and see, along with Coleen, her true nature behind 3000 years of existence. I liked how even after all those years she is still able to change and adapt even if it goes against everything she believed in. Loved the introduction of Isla and especially Julian. He brings out the best in her. Cannot wait for more adventures, Forever.
July 25, 2015
I found this book rather anti climatic. Coleen has been such a presence in the other books in this series and her story should have been the peak. Unfortunately we see her have a complete personality transplant and become somewhat insipid. I also didn't feel the chemistry between her and Isla as much as I did the other couples in the series.
Still a fun enough read but I bit of a let down nonetheless
Still a fun enough read but I bit of a let down nonetheless
June 27, 2015
Perfect
I loved getting a peek into how Coleen came to be. Also it was nice to know that Coleen had to stumble through dating after the stress she put the previous couples through. I couldn't give it five stars because it was too short for a character that was thousands of years older than the vampires in previous works. But it was still a good read.
I loved getting a peek into how Coleen came to be. Also it was nice to know that Coleen had to stumble through dating after the stress she put the previous couples through. I couldn't give it five stars because it was too short for a character that was thousands of years older than the vampires in previous works. But it was still a good read.
September 12, 2015
This was an amazing series and Coleen story was the perfect ending.
November 25, 2015
I loved this series.
May 22, 2023
love this series
loved the whole series of books! couldn't put them down! fast paced and beautifully written. fantastic characters and fast pace. perfect.
loved the whole series of books! couldn't put them down! fast paced and beautifully written. fantastic characters and fast pace. perfect.
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