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A Mortal Indiscretion: Author's Cut
Librarian's Note: This is an alternate-cover edition for ISBN 9781530762804
A man. A vampire. A love story....Justin Bertolli lived as any 29 year old bachelor would live his life, until a chance encounter with a woman unlike any other. Ambra Taylor was everything he had ever envisioned the perfect woman to be. Young, charming and sensual. But there was something puzzling about Ambra. Justin had questions that he could not answer. Nothing could prepare Justin for what he was about to experience. And nothing could prepare him for a love like no other.
A man. A vampire. A love story....Justin Bertolli lived as any 29 year old bachelor would live his life, until a chance encounter with a woman unlike any other. Ambra Taylor was everything he had ever envisioned the perfect woman to be. Young, charming and sensual. But there was something puzzling about Ambra. Justin had questions that he could not answer. Nothing could prepare Justin for what he was about to experience. And nothing could prepare him for a love like no other.
626 pages, Paperback
Published September 1, 2016
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Barbra E. Ross
4 books165 followersBarbra E Ross lives in Michigan and is a nurse by day, lover of fiction at night.
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August 14, 2016
A Mortal Indiscretion is a love story between a mortal Justin, and a vampire named Ambra. I never like to give plots away in my reviews but what I will say is the author takes you on a journey. This novel is very different than most vampire books I have read, as it does not focus so much on the whole killing and turning aspect. This focuses more on the relationship between Ambra and Justin and the hurtles they face in falling in love with eachother. The book is quite long however, it gave the author plenty of time to develop the characters and the story. It jumps from point of view and it goes from modern day all the way back to the 1700's explaining how Ambra became what she was. There of course is plenty of little plot twists and turns that will make the reader want to keep on reading. If you are a lover of vampire books or even just a good love story than I highly recommend this book.
August 7, 2017
This book isn't your average Vampire story. It's unique and takes you into a new world of fantasy. It's not a short read.. I really appreciated that. Barbara E. Ross painted such vivid pictures in my mind with the words that she wrote within this book. It's not a teenage vampire story; it's geared more towards adult and does have sex scenes within, however they are tastefully done! I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves vampires!!
February 25, 2018
Different
I'm not really sure what authors cut means? It was a different take on a vampire story, from a mortal man's point of view. A very good story and I liked the characters but at times it was a little slow and the book was definitely too long. I don't think it could have been two books though. I finished because I enjoyed the story and the characters . There are two more follow-up books. One annoying thing, there were a lot of typo, spelling any grammar errors!
I'm not really sure what authors cut means? It was a different take on a vampire story, from a mortal man's point of view. A very good story and I liked the characters but at times it was a little slow and the book was definitely too long. I don't think it could have been two books though. I finished because I enjoyed the story and the characters . There are two more follow-up books. One annoying thing, there were a lot of typo, spelling any grammar errors!
October 3, 2016
I think this is a very different take on the traditional vampire book. I am not even that much into romance, but it had something different that kept my attention. I recommend this book to those who want something a little different. A very fast read even though it was a good long story.
August 17, 2016
What an awesome novel. I can't wait to read the sequel!!!
August 5, 2018
This is an urban fantasy with much violence, strong language and gratuitous sex scenes even though they read much the same. No contraception is considered. You never saw so many cases of a man flipping a woman and a woman flipping a man. Flipping? One flips a card.
The main thrust of the tale is a woman who, we pretty quickly realise, is a vampire, although the guy narrating is rather dumb and has been bespelled to fall in instalust. He goes from being sure he can't live without this woman to spying on and stalking her and when she leaves him, he starts preying on a young female hitchhiker and spending hours having sex with a female friend 'to say goodbye to her' - really? Did she know that was what was happening? because when a man is suddenly that interested the woman thinks he is starting a relationship.
We get a good deal of padding in the form of backstory which should have covered a few pages at most. Plenty of spelling errors, such as horses' reigns, grin and bare it.
More violence ensues, the man eventually gets a damaged liver and is told he has only months to live, so this man in pain and panic - goes and has sex, as one does I suppose.
I just didn't like anything about this, except that a decent effort was made at the start to show how a female vampire might appear today, like Twilight for mature people. Other readers may of course enjoy it more than I did.
The author made an e-ARC available. This is an unbiased review.
The main thrust of the tale is a woman who, we pretty quickly realise, is a vampire, although the guy narrating is rather dumb and has been bespelled to fall in instalust. He goes from being sure he can't live without this woman to spying on and stalking her and when she leaves him, he starts preying on a young female hitchhiker and spending hours having sex with a female friend 'to say goodbye to her' - really? Did she know that was what was happening? because when a man is suddenly that interested the woman thinks he is starting a relationship.
We get a good deal of padding in the form of backstory which should have covered a few pages at most. Plenty of spelling errors, such as horses' reigns, grin and bare it.
More violence ensues, the man eventually gets a damaged liver and is told he has only months to live, so this man in pain and panic - goes and has sex, as one does I suppose.
I just didn't like anything about this, except that a decent effort was made at the start to show how a female vampire might appear today, like Twilight for mature people. Other readers may of course enjoy it more than I did.
The author made an e-ARC available. This is an unbiased review.
could-not-even-finish
December 26, 2017DNF 21%
Does "author's cut" mean the equivalent of an ARC? Because I can't think of any other excuse for the appalling editing & grammar, including a random change in POV within the first few pages of the book. Seriously? No wonder my students don't proof read.
In terms of content, I can't recall ever seeing such an odd (read as: unpleasant) mix of being told instead of shown, and repetitive detail about some things and no information at all about anything else - even within the same scene. Frequent sex but little actual detail about it, in spite of which it manages to go on for pages, most of it different ways of saying how wonderful it feels, how wonderful the girl is, etc. They "go out" nearly every night, apparently, but we're never told where, or what they do. (As an aside, I lived for 25 years in the city in which the first 21% of this thing is set: there's NOT that much to do there).
With regard to research: Ms. Ross seems to know very little about the business of advertising. She knows even less about southern New Hampshire. She chose two communities from a map, and never did any other research about what those communities are like, what is there, what isn't there, population or business demographics, or anything. Sloppy.
And that about sums up the whole thing. Sloppy.
Does "author's cut" mean the equivalent of an ARC? Because I can't think of any other excuse for the appalling editing & grammar, including a random change in POV within the first few pages of the book. Seriously? No wonder my students don't proof read.
In terms of content, I can't recall ever seeing such an odd (read as: unpleasant) mix of being told instead of shown, and repetitive detail about some things and no information at all about anything else - even within the same scene. Frequent sex but little actual detail about it, in spite of which it manages to go on for pages, most of it different ways of saying how wonderful it feels, how wonderful the girl is, etc. They "go out" nearly every night, apparently, but we're never told where, or what they do. (As an aside, I lived for 25 years in the city in which the first 21% of this thing is set: there's NOT that much to do there).
With regard to research: Ms. Ross seems to know very little about the business of advertising. She knows even less about southern New Hampshire. She chose two communities from a map, and never did any other research about what those communities are like, what is there, what isn't there, population or business demographics, or anything. Sloppy.
And that about sums up the whole thing. Sloppy.
December 13, 2021
I purchased this book when it first came out, but admit I didn’t read it all for several years. I personally know the author, but this did not affect my review in any way. This is my honest review.
I grew up loving the TV show dark shadows. Vampires didn’t not scare me. As I grew older, I never read a book as such. Didn’t watch Twilight, etc.
I gave this book a try and got hooked on the genre. This is the authors book, and it was amazing! I couldn’t wait to finish it.
It explores life and death, and of course love.
The story of a mortal named Justin, and a vampire named Ambra.
Can love exist between two totally separate people? Read it and see.
I have the next book and can’t wait to read it.
I give the book 4.5 stars, only because of a few typos. However, this was an authors cut and purchased day one. I’m sure updates / corrections have been made.
I grew up loving the TV show dark shadows. Vampires didn’t not scare me. As I grew older, I never read a book as such. Didn’t watch Twilight, etc.
I gave this book a try and got hooked on the genre. This is the authors book, and it was amazing! I couldn’t wait to finish it.
It explores life and death, and of course love.
The story of a mortal named Justin, and a vampire named Ambra.
Can love exist between two totally separate people? Read it and see.
I have the next book and can’t wait to read it.
I give the book 4.5 stars, only because of a few typos. However, this was an authors cut and purchased day one. I’m sure updates / corrections have been made.
December 8, 2016
I usually get discouraged easily when a book is that long (I can read a series of 3 books with 300 pages each but somehow, I cringe when it’s only one with 600 pages).
However, when I started reading A Mortal Indiscretion, I couldn’t stop. I spent all night reading and taking screenshots, because there were certain parts that I wanted to remember and read again.
Justin is a womanizer, he has absolutely no intention of setting down any time soon, he goes from woman to woman and from bed to bed without any regrets. But as he says, he is not using them more than they are using him, it’s just a 2-way, non-strings attached kind of life. And it works for him, for now.
Soon after the book starts, we meet Ambra, a gorgeous brunette, sexy as hell and instantly obsessed about Justin. She is not like any women that he is used to date, she’s sweet, innocent, and secretive. But what attracts Justin the most, is her passion. They seem to not be able to keep their hands off each other, and soon Justin decides that she’s the right girl for him.
But this story is not only about steamy romance and night clubs. From the beginning, we know that Ambra is a vampire, and that Justin will find out eventually. But I often forgot about this, since Ambra is such a different vampire from what we are used to. She even sounds inexperienced and with low self-esteem. I learned to care about her and to worry about her more than about Justin, and he is the vulnerable human here! But Ambra is such a lovable character, that she took all my attention.
I loved this book, however, I give it 4 stars because I think everything could have been told with less words. I understand the author wanted to show us every detail and build the characters as much as possible, which, by the way, she did wonderfully, but I think it was a little too long, unnecessarily.
I enjoyed the story, the plot and the characters very much, and I’m looking forward to read the next book in the series, Marzio's Revenge.
However, when I started reading A Mortal Indiscretion, I couldn’t stop. I spent all night reading and taking screenshots, because there were certain parts that I wanted to remember and read again.
Justin is a womanizer, he has absolutely no intention of setting down any time soon, he goes from woman to woman and from bed to bed without any regrets. But as he says, he is not using them more than they are using him, it’s just a 2-way, non-strings attached kind of life. And it works for him, for now.
Soon after the book starts, we meet Ambra, a gorgeous brunette, sexy as hell and instantly obsessed about Justin. She is not like any women that he is used to date, she’s sweet, innocent, and secretive. But what attracts Justin the most, is her passion. They seem to not be able to keep their hands off each other, and soon Justin decides that she’s the right girl for him.
But this story is not only about steamy romance and night clubs. From the beginning, we know that Ambra is a vampire, and that Justin will find out eventually. But I often forgot about this, since Ambra is such a different vampire from what we are used to. She even sounds inexperienced and with low self-esteem. I learned to care about her and to worry about her more than about Justin, and he is the vulnerable human here! But Ambra is such a lovable character, that she took all my attention.
I loved this book, however, I give it 4 stars because I think everything could have been told with less words. I understand the author wanted to show us every detail and build the characters as much as possible, which, by the way, she did wonderfully, but I think it was a little too long, unnecessarily.
I enjoyed the story, the plot and the characters very much, and I’m looking forward to read the next book in the series, Marzio's Revenge.
July 6, 2016
I really liked this book. Fell in love with the main character, Justin. Good pace and sexy.
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