It’s All Over. I finished the last in the Tegan’s Blood series by L.H. Cosway

Posted on January 7, 2014 by Emma

*Sob*. What am I going to do now? I read book four, Tegan’s Power, the concluding story in the Ultimate Power series by L.H. Cosway, or the Tegan’s Blood books as I call them, over Christmas. I was genuinely sad to reach the last page and felt a little down about saying goodbye to all the wonderful characters like Tegan, Finn, Ethan and Rita. Bittersweet I suppose is how I’d have to describe reading the last sentence.

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Newer cover

Tegan’s Blood introduced us to our heroine. Devastated by her boyfriend’s suicide, Tegan dropped out of college and made herself a virtual recluse in her apartment until her best friend dragged her to a club one night. At Crimson, she caught the eye of powerful Romanian vampire Ethan Cristescu, and the rest is history.

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Tegan's Return Cover

Tegan’s Return brought her back to Tribane after a couple of years in hiding, in order to rescue a young girl. Ethan was delighted to have her back, but his alliance to the not-so-nice ruler of Tribane meant the course of true love did not run smoothly for one my favourite supernatural couples ever. We got to spend more time with Finn, the lovable rogue and Irish vampire slayer in this book.

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Tegan’s Magic saw our heroine get a better hold on her powers. She’s not the ordinary girl she assumed she was and can now fight and hold her own with the best of the supernaturals. Tribane is a hub of craziness and with the powerful witch Rita joining up with their enemy, how will Tegan and her gang fare? In Tegan’s Magic, we also got to see what Tegan’s potent blood does to a vampire.

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Tegan's Power

Tegan’s Power brought us to the showdown between the evil sorcerer Theodore and the rest of the supernaturals in Tribane. I won’t spoil the plot for those who haven’t read the book, but Tegan does get a happy ending in the romance stakes (this is a paranormal Romance after all), and we even got an excerpt from a spin off series. My Review: A fun and bittersweet read since this is the last book. I’m sad to say goodbye to Ethan, Tegan, Finn and everyone else in Tribane. Ethan and Tegan’s romance sizzled in this book. Boy are they a hot couple! After all they’d been through in the first three books, getting to be together finally was well-deserved. And it was fun to experience life through Finn’s eyes.

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It’s rare that I fall so in love with a series of books, but I was thrilled to come across Tegan’s Blood a couple of years ago. Check out the series on Goodreads and Amazon.

Now I’m looking for a new paranormal series to dive into. Any suggestions?

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Happy New Year. Now let’s get down to the writing business.

Posted on January 1, 2014 by Emma

It’s the first of January and I wrote out my list of goals/objectives for 2014 this morning. The past few years, I made no resolutions, at all. I’m lazy, know I’m lazy and kind of just allowed myself not even to bother to make any because I knew I’d probably not follow through with any of them. So this year, I’m trying to be more optimistic about life and my future, and so I jotted down some things I’d like to work towards this year. I’ll try with each of them as best I can, when I can (some of them are quite daunting) but I’ve taken the safe route in life for a while now, and haven’t been living to the fullest. It’s time I challenged myself to do more.

On the writing front, I didn’t manage to write a novella this Christmas, or even finish the re-write of my vampire novel set in Cork and Boston. I’ve gone through some of it and tweaked it here and there, but it’s far from finished. I want it to be the best young adult/new adult story I’ve ever written, and that means plenty of hard work lies ahead. My aim is to have it released this summer. Of course the road to hell is paved with good intentions…

What I did find myself gravitating towards was the completion of Erin and James’ story. I have loved these two characters since I first sat down in the summer of 2007 and started writing Under the Desert Moon. I released Beneath Manhattan Skies to a mostly positive reception in November and even managed to interest people who had never heard of Erin and James to go back and read the prequel, Under the Desert Moon. Some readers are wondering will Erin and James ever get it together? Of course they will. They are meant-to-be. And I outlined the novella over Christmas that will see them finally commit to one another. I’m a few thousand words in and should be finished by the end of this month. I want it to be short, sweet and a little bit sexy, because these two have been waiting years for each other. In this as yet untitled novella, or rather a long short story, Erin is all grown up and her school and college days are long behind her. She deserves to be with the man of her dreams, and James has been waiting for her. I want those two to be happy and in love and carefree, as much as a human woman and a vampire man can, anyway.

So, that’s what I’ve been up to. I hope 2014 will be better for everyone. If 2013 wasn’t the best year of your life, maybe it’s time to re-evaluate and see what needs changing. I want to smile more, laugh at silly things, and try to relax, because I am a worrier, always have been, and it’s probably never going to change entirely, but definitely something to work on.

Best wishes for the year ahead, Emma.

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