Helen Harper

***For a limited time, you can get Corrigan Fire, the companion book to Bloodfire for FREE - click here to find out more > http://helenharper.co.uk/ (just copy and paste into your browser)*** Mackenzie Smith has always known that she was different. Growing up as the only human in a pack of rural shapeshifters will do that to you, but then couple it with some mean fighting skills and a fiery temper and you end up with a woman that few will dare to cross. However, when the only father figure in her life is brutally murdered, and the dangerous Brethren with their predatory Lord Alpha come to investigate, Mack has to not only ensure the physical safety of her adopted family by hiding her apparent humanity, she also has to seek the blood-soaked vengeance that she craves. This is the first book in the bestselling Blood Destiny series.

Bloodfire

"Mackenzie Smith has always known that she was different. Growing up as the only human in a pack of rural shapeshifters will do that to you, but then couple it with some mean fighting skills and a fiery temper and you end up with a woman that few will dare to cross. However, when the only father figure in her life is brutally murdered, and the dangerous Brethren with their predatory Lord Alpha come to investigate, Mack has to not only ensure the physical safety of her adopted family by hiding her apparent humanity, she also has to seek the blood-soaked vengeance that she craves"--Page 4 of cover.

Sarah Escorsa

Bloody hell. I fully expected to DNF the shrimp out of this one. I thought it was going to be one of these PoC™ (view spoiler)[Pieces of Crap, remember? (hide spoiler)] that make me slightly rant and rage and somewhat rage and rant. I mean, this is a Freaking Kindle Freebie of Doom and Destruction (FKFoDaD™), for Shrimp's sake! And everyone knows 99.99% of FKFoDaDs™ are deadly! Everyone knows 99.99% of FKFoDaDs™ are the landmines of the book world!



Besides, the blurb is scary as hell. A human girl living with a pack of shapeshifters in rural Cornwall? Please kill me somebody. Don't get me wrong, I do love the delightful Cornish people and their deliciously quaint part of bucolic Great Britain, but the whole rural thing? *shudders* Seriously, I think I may very well be more allergic to the freaking countryside than I am to romantic crap. I kid you not.

Add to that the crappy cover (no offense to the extremely talented person who designed it. Oh no, absolutely no offense whatsoever) and this is the feel you I get:



But hey, I ain't afraid of nuthin' and stuff, so I decided to give it a try anyway. If I was entirely honest, I'd tell you that the only reason I read this was because I needed to get rid of some of the crap I've had on my Kindle for ages to win the hell out of the MacHalo TBR Cleaning Challenge. But being deviously deceptive is much more fun than being sincerely straightforward, so I won't.

Long Crappy Non-Review short: I thought this was going to be crap. It wasn't. At all. It might not be Nobel Prize material, but it's entertaining, it's fast-paced, the plot is fairly original, the female MC is young but not an exasperating nitwit, there's action, there are assholes with great potential, there's a funny magician dude who says "dude" all the time which should have been a supremely annoying gimmick but wasn't, there are weird creatures and stuff, there are [spoiler spoiler spoiler] (view spoiler)[you're welcome (hide spoiler)], AND the coolest thing of them all: THERE IS NO FREAKING ROMANCE.

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Yep, that's right. There really are miraculous miracles sometimes.

» So the moral of this Crappiest of Crappy Non-Reviews (CoCNR™) very logically is:



And remember:



So what the shrimp are you waiting for, my Little Barnacles?!

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