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The SDF Paranormal Mysteries #3
Psychic for Sale (Rent to Own)
Don't make deals you can't live through...
Psychic Ariana Ryder owes Carvi, vampire king of Miami, five favors, and he's called in his first marker, so her and her boss Grant fly down to Miami to play security for the first vampire summit on bringing magic and vampires out of the closet.
Ariana isn't looking forward to this weekend. She can hardly keep Carvi off her with her boyfriend Quil around, and Quil has been banned from the summit, meaning she's going to spend the entire time fending off the not so unwanted advances, on top of her actual job of watching out for sabotage and attacks on the summit.
After zombie and passion spells wreak havoc on the opening party of the summit, Ariana realizes she's in way over her head, and that's before Carvi introduces her to the astral plane and the expansive world of magic she can have access to.
Someone's gunning for the summit, Carvi, or both, and Ariana has to figure out who and how to stop them, before the plan is set in motion and a spell with deadly reach far beyond the summit takes hold.
Psychic Ariana Ryder owes Carvi, vampire king of Miami, five favors, and he's called in his first marker, so her and her boss Grant fly down to Miami to play security for the first vampire summit on bringing magic and vampires out of the closet.
Ariana isn't looking forward to this weekend. She can hardly keep Carvi off her with her boyfriend Quil around, and Quil has been banned from the summit, meaning she's going to spend the entire time fending off the not so unwanted advances, on top of her actual job of watching out for sabotage and attacks on the summit.
After zombie and passion spells wreak havoc on the opening party of the summit, Ariana realizes she's in way over her head, and that's before Carvi introduces her to the astral plane and the expansive world of magic she can have access to.
Someone's gunning for the summit, Carvi, or both, and Ariana has to figure out who and how to stop them, before the plan is set in motion and a spell with deadly reach far beyond the summit takes hold.
255 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 17, 2017
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Amie Gibbons
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Amie was born and raised in the Salt Lake Valley. She started making up stories before she could read and would act them out with her dolls and stuffed animals. She started actually writing them down in college, just decided to do it one day and couldn't stop.
She took an unplanned hiatus from writing when she went to Vanderbilt Law School and all of her brain power got consumed by cases, statutes, exams, and partying like only grad students in Nashville can. She graduated and picked her writing back up as soon as her brain limped back in after the bar exam.
She loves urban fantasy and is obsessed with the theory of alternate realities. Whether or not she travels to them in the flesh or just in her mind is up for debate.
She spends her days living the law life and her nights writing when she's not hitting downtown Nashville to check out live music or inflict her singing on the crowds at karaoke bars.
Amie was born and raised in the Salt Lake Valley. She started making up stories before she could read and would act them out with her dolls and stuffed animals. She started actually writing them down in college, just decided to do it one day and couldn't stop.
She took an unplanned hiatus from writing when she went to Vanderbilt Law School and all of her brain power got consumed by cases, statutes, exams, and partying like only grad students in Nashville can. She graduated and picked her writing back up as soon as her brain limped back in after the bar exam.
She loves urban fantasy and is obsessed with the theory of alternate realities. Whether or not she travels to them in the flesh or just in her mind is up for debate.
She spends her days living the law life and her nights writing when she's not hitting downtown Nashville to check out live music or inflict her singing on the crowds at karaoke bars.
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March 21, 2018
4,5/5
October 11, 2019
Rape is rape, mental or physical -- and stop hating on millennials already
Not really sure what's going on in the world that makes people think that rape, even mental rape is okay. It is NOT sexy.
I enjoyed this series until it got totally out of control.
No means no.
It's too bad, there was a lot of potential.
Even before the rape stuff, the author totally was hating on millennials. Seriously, why "date" a book? It won't age well, plus, you're losing an entire generation of readers. Perhaps more than one generation, as Gen Z may have the same bad reputation.
I think people who hate on millennials are scared of change and really need to get over themselves.
Not really sure what's going on in the world that makes people think that rape, even mental rape is okay. It is NOT sexy.
I enjoyed this series until it got totally out of control.
No means no.
It's too bad, there was a lot of potential.
Even before the rape stuff, the author totally was hating on millennials. Seriously, why "date" a book? It won't age well, plus, you're losing an entire generation of readers. Perhaps more than one generation, as Gen Z may have the same bad reputation.
I think people who hate on millennials are scared of change and really need to get over themselves.
July 31, 2017
I obtained this book through the Kindle Unlimited program.
First, I want to shout-out for the cover. Taken as a singleton, it's merely somewhat pleasant, but since ALL of her books in the series use the same style, she and her artist (Oleg Volk) have clearly established a franchise.
On the surface, the story is the next step in the vampire shuffle Ryder has fallen into. She and her boss have to go to Miami, where Vampire-In-Chief Carvi has arranged a conference to decide on whether their presence is to be revealed to the world, and if so, under what circumstances. However, there are other powers than vamps involved. The Fae appear to be nobody's friend, and although more hidden from view than even the vamps, they have magical weapons.
So: fights.
THE PART I USUALLY SKIP OVER.
Now, Gibbons is known to allow her character to 'fall in love' with more than one person at a time. Although she is a relative neophyte at the physical aspect of male-female relationships, she embraces her role whole-heartedly (puns intended). A large part of her character is portrayed by her cow-eyed mooning over her untouchable boss, Grant, who plays a role in her fantasy, but never in her bedroom. He has explicitly stated to her that he is off-limits to her, due to his age and his supervisory status (he might be married as well, but I can't remember, and it's not important). This doesn't prevent Ariana from picturing him whispering sweet nothings, yada yada yada.
Look, she's a lawyer, right? There never was a chance for her to take a course in anatomy and physiology, much less biochemistry, but the information is out there. She's reacting to physical attraction as if it were T-R-U-E L-O-V-E.
She's not utterly hopeless, though. When she is similarly attracted to the vampire Quil, she commits to fidelity with him, and somewhat subdues her immature sexual flightiness.
Now, I usually skip over all of these scenes in a book, because it just bores the heck out of me. I am decades beyond taking any personal satisfaction in hearing about how other people in other places made the sheets get all sweaty and disarrayed. My own experiences are both HIGHLY satisfactory and INTENSELY private, and whenever it looks like nekkid is about to happen ('Nekkid' being defined as 'naked with intent') I just page forward.
But I found myself to be unable to do that effectively with this book, for two reasons" First, it seemed to me that there were a LOT more of those scenes; second, the dialogue leading up to action was carrying a LOT of conflict. And it all boiled down to this:
"When does 'no' really mean 'no'?"
This is a case in which my own position is firmly established; for years, I delivered sexual harassment training to teenagers. Thus, I'm of the position that 'non' means 'no,' and there aren't any variations.
But Gibbons takes the whole matter of flirtation, wooing, and seduction, and amplifies it hugely by including the mind-control powers of a vampire in the mix.
Let's step it down a bit. Let's say we aren't talking about coitus, but a kiss. The boy picks up the girl, and when he greets her, he presents his face for a kiss. She doesn't want to kiss him, so she turns her head. They go out for a nice dinner, movie, coffee afterward, and he is such a pleasant person, that she finds her initial reluctance to be overcome. So, when he drops her off at her door that night, she decides the time is right, and she kisses him.
Now, this is exactly the situation that Gibbons describes for us, except in this case, it IS coitus (of some technique) that;s considered, and instead of being a gentleman, the boy is a cad. Carvi has explicitly stated that he wants to have sex with her, that he won't do so unless she agrees, but that he plans to seduce her until she agrees. And he uses his powers, frequently, to sexually arouse her.
If it occurs, under those circumstances, is it consensual sex, or not?
NOTE: I'm ambivalent about whether or not to give the book four stars or five. I decided to go with four, Yes, it's a good ethical dilemma, but it needs a resolution involving a silver battle-axe; and, I just don't like sex scenes.
First, I want to shout-out for the cover. Taken as a singleton, it's merely somewhat pleasant, but since ALL of her books in the series use the same style, she and her artist (Oleg Volk) have clearly established a franchise.
On the surface, the story is the next step in the vampire shuffle Ryder has fallen into. She and her boss have to go to Miami, where Vampire-In-Chief Carvi has arranged a conference to decide on whether their presence is to be revealed to the world, and if so, under what circumstances. However, there are other powers than vamps involved. The Fae appear to be nobody's friend, and although more hidden from view than even the vamps, they have magical weapons.
So: fights.
THE PART I USUALLY SKIP OVER.
Now, Gibbons is known to allow her character to 'fall in love' with more than one person at a time. Although she is a relative neophyte at the physical aspect of male-female relationships, she embraces her role whole-heartedly (puns intended). A large part of her character is portrayed by her cow-eyed mooning over her untouchable boss, Grant, who plays a role in her fantasy, but never in her bedroom. He has explicitly stated to her that he is off-limits to her, due to his age and his supervisory status (he might be married as well, but I can't remember, and it's not important). This doesn't prevent Ariana from picturing him whispering sweet nothings, yada yada yada.
Look, she's a lawyer, right? There never was a chance for her to take a course in anatomy and physiology, much less biochemistry, but the information is out there. She's reacting to physical attraction as if it were T-R-U-E L-O-V-E.
She's not utterly hopeless, though. When she is similarly attracted to the vampire Quil, she commits to fidelity with him, and somewhat subdues her immature sexual flightiness.
Now, I usually skip over all of these scenes in a book, because it just bores the heck out of me. I am decades beyond taking any personal satisfaction in hearing about how other people in other places made the sheets get all sweaty and disarrayed. My own experiences are both HIGHLY satisfactory and INTENSELY private, and whenever it looks like nekkid is about to happen ('Nekkid' being defined as 'naked with intent') I just page forward.
But I found myself to be unable to do that effectively with this book, for two reasons" First, it seemed to me that there were a LOT more of those scenes; second, the dialogue leading up to action was carrying a LOT of conflict. And it all boiled down to this:
"When does 'no' really mean 'no'?"
This is a case in which my own position is firmly established; for years, I delivered sexual harassment training to teenagers. Thus, I'm of the position that 'non' means 'no,' and there aren't any variations.
But Gibbons takes the whole matter of flirtation, wooing, and seduction, and amplifies it hugely by including the mind-control powers of a vampire in the mix.
Let's step it down a bit. Let's say we aren't talking about coitus, but a kiss. The boy picks up the girl, and when he greets her, he presents his face for a kiss. She doesn't want to kiss him, so she turns her head. They go out for a nice dinner, movie, coffee afterward, and he is such a pleasant person, that she finds her initial reluctance to be overcome. So, when he drops her off at her door that night, she decides the time is right, and she kisses him.
Now, this is exactly the situation that Gibbons describes for us, except in this case, it IS coitus (of some technique) that;s considered, and instead of being a gentleman, the boy is a cad. Carvi has explicitly stated that he wants to have sex with her, that he won't do so unless she agrees, but that he plans to seduce her until she agrees. And he uses his powers, frequently, to sexually arouse her.
If it occurs, under those circumstances, is it consensual sex, or not?
NOTE: I'm ambivalent about whether or not to give the book four stars or five. I decided to go with four, Yes, it's a good ethical dilemma, but it needs a resolution involving a silver battle-axe; and, I just don't like sex scenes.
March 7, 2021
This book might have triggers for some readers. The storyline is interesting . I wanted to read character is a young paranormal FBI She x, lust and varied partners play a major role in this book.
This book might have triggers for some readers. The storyline is interesting. I wanted to read the series straight through, but needed a break after this book. The main character is a you g paranormal FBI agent,who works in sexy outfits she describes and is highly sexed. She wants several men, think Gibbs, Bill, and Eric Northman. Dominance, sex, lust, humiliation and varied partners play a major role in this book. It was out of my comfort zone.
This book might have triggers for some readers. The storyline is interesting. I wanted to read the series straight through, but needed a break after this book. The main character is a you g paranormal FBI agent,who works in sexy outfits she describes and is highly sexed. She wants several men, think Gibbs, Bill, and Eric Northman. Dominance, sex, lust, humiliation and varied partners play a major role in this book. It was out of my comfort zone.
October 20, 2021
Love This Fabulous Series!
This book was incredible! This one really drew you into the world of Vampires with Carvi being one of the main players. Let me just say I love Carvi almost as much as I do Grant and Quil. This book has it all! Adventure, action, sex, friends you can count on during the worst of times, a kick ass heroine and there was a lot of chemistry thrown in there to make it just that much more interesting. These are the kind of books that are meant to be read more than once!
This book was incredible! This one really drew you into the world of Vampires with Carvi being one of the main players. Let me just say I love Carvi almost as much as I do Grant and Quil. This book has it all! Adventure, action, sex, friends you can count on during the worst of times, a kick ass heroine and there was a lot of chemistry thrown in there to make it just that much more interesting. These are the kind of books that are meant to be read more than once!
December 28, 2017
I LOVE this series of books! They are on the edge of your seat reads from beginning to end and the relationship between the characters make you feel what they feel, I actually cried and laughed out loud while reading this series. Please Miss Gibbons keep writing this series of books, I can’t wait to see what happens in the next book there is so much left to find out about this cast of characters. 😊😊
June 24, 2018
Who is trying to stop the summit?
Not as good as the previous but still a great read. A summit and attempts to derail the proceedings lead to revalations that sour the closeness between our heroine and her boss whilst also confuse the felling she has for her boyfriend. Who is working against the summit and will they be stopped before more deaths occur? A good read but seemed slightly confused in places.
Not as good as the previous but still a great read. A summit and attempts to derail the proceedings lead to revalations that sour the closeness between our heroine and her boss whilst also confuse the felling she has for her boyfriend. Who is working against the summit and will they be stopped before more deaths occur? A good read but seemed slightly confused in places.
September 17, 2017
Great Series
It has a great storyline and the characters are well developed, intelligent, and intriguing.
The entire series is worth reading. It has a hint of "Sookie Stackhouse," at least a reminder of one of my favorites, but it's its own series with merit all its own.
Fantastic heart stopping, rubber-necin,, heart pounding action.... keeping you glued to the story.
It has a great storyline and the characters are well developed, intelligent, and intriguing.
The entire series is worth reading. It has a hint of "Sookie Stackhouse," at least a reminder of one of my favorites, but it's its own series with merit all its own.
Fantastic heart stopping, rubber-necin,, heart pounding action.... keeping you glued to the story.
March 26, 2018
A sexy action packed urban fantasy tale
Amie Gibbons writes a twisty tale of magic and mayhem with Ariana Ryder, psychic, answering the call to honor a promise of aid to a very hot vampire. Plenty of magic, faries and other paranormal characters help push this story into high gear. Editing is not the best but an intriguing plot keeps you reading.
Amie Gibbons writes a twisty tale of magic and mayhem with Ariana Ryder, psychic, answering the call to honor a promise of aid to a very hot vampire. Plenty of magic, faries and other paranormal characters help push this story into high gear. Editing is not the best but an intriguing plot keeps you reading.
February 18, 2020
Psychic for Sale (Rent to Own), the third book of the SDF series, is a book I picked up during my Kindle Unlimited trial. Once again, Gibbons has another excellent storyline and chaos aplenty for Ariana's peace of mind as Carvi applies the pressure and seductive moves. I already have the next few books bumped to the top of my reading list.
July 12, 2017
I love this series
She grabs me in the first paragraph and refuses to let go until the last one, leaving me to frantically look for the release date of the next one.
I love the characters, the plots, the world she's created, and I want MORE.
She grabs me in the first paragraph and refuses to let go until the last one, leaving me to frantically look for the release date of the next one.
I love the characters, the plots, the world she's created, and I want MORE.
January 24, 2019
Wonderful book
I really enjoyed this book too and I sure hope that she writes more then these 6. I will have to check it out. But they are very entertaining. I just love them and can't put them down.
I really enjoyed this book too and I sure hope that she writes more then these 6. I will have to check it out. But they are very entertaining. I just love them and can't put them down.
December 16, 2021
Wow
This book is incredibly multi layered and just wow. The ongoing mystery of what Grant, Carvi, and Ryder are is definitely keeping me coming back. Hope we don’t have to wait too long for answers. Hint hint
This book is incredibly multi layered and just wow. The ongoing mystery of what Grant, Carvi, and Ryder are is definitely keeping me coming back. Hope we don’t have to wait too long for answers. Hint hint
June 14, 2023
Another hit on her hand
Ms. Gibbons is a true author mixing CSI, FBI, mystery and a splash of romance to combine for an excellent series. Can not wait to get my hands on the next one!!!
Ms. Gibbons is a true author mixing CSI, FBI, mystery and a splash of romance to combine for an excellent series. Can not wait to get my hands on the next one!!!
July 13, 2017
Sex magic, fae attack...Psychic in trouble...a vampire with few boundaries...
April 11, 2018
Enticing
A mystery filled with lust, murder, secrets, and a dangerous agenda. Old friends and enemies meet in an explosives addition to this psychic detective series.
A mystery filled with lust, murder, secrets, and a dangerous agenda. Old friends and enemies meet in an explosives addition to this psychic detective series.
May 30, 2018
Awesome
Loved this book! It was intense keeping you guessing until the end. I really want to find out what Grant is maybe in future books?
Loved this book! It was intense keeping you guessing until the end. I really want to find out what Grant is maybe in future books?
January 22, 2019
Too little plot in this one.
I liked the previous books in the series, but this one relied on sex scenes rather than plot development. Boring.
I liked the previous books in the series, but this one relied on sex scenes rather than plot development. Boring.
September 17, 2019
This one gets a little more complicated but still good. the FBI agent is starting to find out more about herself and her boss/.
April 6, 2020
Not as good as the first ones. Took longer to get into and was a tad confusing.
March 2, 2021
I want to love it but
I guess i was hoping for more mystery thriller type book. For me the sex scenes are blah and really does nothing for the storyline.
I guess i was hoping for more mystery thriller type book. For me the sex scenes are blah and really does nothing for the storyline.
September 23, 2021
Great series
Can't get enough of this series I love the characters and the stories its hard to put my Kindle down. Can't wait to read the next one
Can't get enough of this series I love the characters and the stories its hard to put my Kindle down. Can't wait to read the next one
January 8, 2023
Learning about oneself
An interesting story and away to find out more about who and what she is.. Looking forward to the next book
An interesting story and away to find out more about who and what she is.. Looking forward to the next book
March 5, 2023
Great book
She I starting to learn she is powerful. Now I have more questions, haha. What really is she? What is he?
She I starting to learn she is powerful. Now I have more questions, haha. What really is she? What is he?
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