Natalie Gibson reviews Blood Spirit by Gabrielle Bisset for Satin Sheets Romance Reviews

Blood Spirit (Sons of Navarus #3)
by Gabrielle Bisset

ebook, 205 pages
Genre: Paranormal (vampire) Erotic Romance

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I am everything you seek. I am vampire.

Blessed with the gift of telepathy, Terek always knows what a woman wants. His gift has afforded him nightly sensual pleasures and exotic treats for centuries, but beneath the surface he yearns for much more.

Ilona can give him what his soul craves, but only if he trusts his heart. One fateful choice made out of desire puts all he cares for in danger. With a civil war and the threat of Archon hunters at every turn, this Son may lose everything if he can't find the balance between heart and mind.


Natalie Gibson's review:
This is the best of the three.  That may be because Terek is the most reasonable and understandable hero.  He is a sympathetic character.  He is a good man and a good sire.  He is misunderstood because of the way he chooses, makes and keeps his vampires.  He only turns females and he has them housed together in his places all over the world.  Other vampires call them Terek's harems but he does not see them that way.  He has a near partnership with his first few turned, but while he loves them all, he gives his heart to none.  He loved completely in his human past and it nearly killed him.  He is not ready to commit to one woman because that would make him weak and easy to attack.  His 'harem' talk constantly about 'the one' who will come along and change all that.  They recognize this in Ilona way before he can see that she is perfect for him.  Ilona resists him at every turn.  She is not happy with her conversion.  She never asked for it, but was turned as an alternative to dying.  Though Terek is a telepath, Ilona is completely blank.  He cannot read her and so she must overcome her own hangups before he can give her what she needs to come to terms with her new life.  What she wants is Terek - 100% of him.  She cannot share.  Their romance is realistic and their chemistry is genuine. 
Ilona has difficulty reconciling the man man he is with her, so sweet and patient, and the killer he has been and easily slips back into.  Terek was a monk who after being turned devoted his life to loving all women.  He faught wars against humans set on ending his kind.  He has many kills to his name and easily does what is needed to protect those he loves.  She has difficulty understanding how so much good and so much bad can reside in one soul.  She is afraid that the man she fears will replace the one she loves.
The overall story arc of the Sons vs. Archon advances slowly.  The Archon score some points but believe they are much further ahead than they are in reality.  They kill a vampire named Sampson, thinking he was a Son.  They attack Terek's vampires because they think the vampires belonged to Sampson.  The Sons make headway with the prophesy and the bad guy from book 2 moves up the Archon ranks.  His character is a little more flushed out and the reader is exposed to the Archons as a whole, who are much greater in number and power than we have previously been led to believe.  This is building to quite the showdown.

Blood Spirit is awarded 5 satin pillows.  It was a great read that not only fans of vampire romance but also fans of good old fashioned romance will enjoy.

It earned 3 candle flames from me.   Blood Spirit had graphic adult scenes and themes but was not as explicit nor as arousing as the first two in the series.

Natalie Gibson's Satin Sheets Romance Review of Blood Betrayed by Gabrielle Bisset

Blood Betrayed (Sons of Navarus #2)

by Gabrielle Bisset

Genre: Paranormal (vamprire) erotic romance

Length: 270 pages

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I am everything forbidden. I am vampire.

Haunted by betrayal, Saint hides in the human world, giving his heart to no one and finding the only solace from his past in the arms of human women. Now as the Archons begin their takeover of the vampire world, this Son of Navarus has been marked for death. 

Summoned to defeat the Archons by the world that shunned him, Saint must face his past and Solenne, the woman he loved and lost a century ago, for only in accepting her will his body and soul finally find salvation.

Natalie Gibson's review:

Book 2 is about Saint, a 100 year old vampire outcast for his 'crime' of violating the sacred bond between vampire and sire.  Not wanting to give too much away, I won't give a full summary.  Saint is somewhat of an anomaly in the vampire world.  He doesn't fraternize with other vampires.  Not sleeping with vampires, even ones he's made, earns him the nickname Saint.  He takes comfort in the momentary comfort with the human women he makes love to, giving them happiness, stealing some of that happiness for himself.  The Archons turn their attentions to killing him and he is forced into the arms of Solenne, the woman who he broke all laws to be with and then rejected him allowing him to suffer his sentence alone.

This book is much better than book 1, in my opinion.  The twists and turns, flashbacks and subtle undertones made it a great read.  The plot was well planned and the tempo was just right.  There were no out of place surprises that pulled me from the story.  The characters were fleshed and full, complex and complete.  There were no places where anyone acted out of character.  My one complaint is that the sex scenes with the human women were too explicit and frequent.  The point could have been made with one or two scenes or maybe the same number of women but with less detail.  It would have made the scenes with his true love a little more effective.  

All in all, I really enjoyed the book and would suggest it to readers who love vampire romance.

I award Blood Betrayed 4 satin pillows.

Blood Betrayed earns 4 candle flames - sex and language is hot, graphic, and plentiful.

Come back after Christmas for my review of book #3 of Sons of Navarus.  It is about Terek, a mind reading vampire, and is by far the best of the series.

Natalie Gibson's Review of Blood Avenged by Gabrielle Bisset for Satin Sheets Romance Reviews

Blood Avenged (Sons of Navarus #1)
by Gabrielle Bisset

Length: 253 pages (60K words)
Genre: Paranormal (vampire) erotic romance

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"I am everything you desire. 
I am vampire. 
Powerful and manipulative, Vasilije does as he pleases. A vampire beholden to no one, he takes what he desires, drinking deeply the pleasures this life has to offer. When one of his own is staked, Vasilije must travel to New Orleans to exact his revenge. There he meets Sasa, a beautiful woman who arouses him like no other has for centuries. Vasilije’s need for vengeance is equaled only by his passion for her, but what he finds in his revenge is just the beginning... "

WARNING: Vasilije isn't a beta pretending to be an Alpha. If you want a sweet hero, his story isn't for you. He's mad, bad, and dangerous to know. But his heroine is strong, so she can handle his style.

Contains adult sexual situations and language.

Natalie Gibson's Review:

Vasilije is a middle aged vampire (500 years).  His sire is dead, thereby releasing him to sire any and all vampires he wants.  He does this often and is known to be a loving maker seeing to the needs of his 'children'.  He can feel each and every one's location around the globe.  If he wants them near, they come.  If he wants solitude they leave.  He is the boss and he loves every second of it.

Sasa is a good girl who loves her dying mother.  She also happens to be an empath who gets in too deep with a voodoo priestess.  Using her powers in exchange for treatments for her mother, puts her neck deep in the vampire world.  She finds herself between a rock and a hard place when the woman she's sworn to help, who she owes, sends her to spy on Vasilije, a man who she instantly feels a connection.  She witnesses the staking of one of Vasilije's children and is forced to lie about it.  She is in so deep and soon even she doesn't know what side she's on.

In my mind, there is no better setting than New Orleans for a vampire story.  It is so dirty and gritty and old world.  If vampires were to exist there would be tons in NOLA.  If you like erotic vampire romance then you will enjoy this one.  There is plenty of blood drinking and a dominant god like beautiful male to make you daydream about getting bitten, and being possessed by an all consuming need for another. The pace of the book was pretty good.  The beginning scene was wonderful and I loved seeing Vasilije on the hunt in the modern world.  Everyone could be his if he wanted; no one was off limits or out of his league.  The sex was off the charts hot from the very first scene where he and his new vampire share a human woman.  It was well written and thoroughly erotic.  In my opinion the chemistry between Sasa and Vasilije was good enough to make me overlook the negatives I found.  

My real complaint is that the ending was anticlimactic.  The two vampires are almost equivalent ages with matching passions and the whole book builds up to this big standoff that is over in a few short pages.  I wanted a fight, a struggle, a battle.  Instead there was just some monologuing and rehashing of grievances and then stab to the old heart box and it's over.  Then, there is a last chapter that feels tacked on where we find out that Vasilije is a member of the Sons of Navarus and they are feuding with another ruling group of vamps.  It really felt like it came out of nowhere.  I can see why the author added it.  It is a set up for the series.  It would have been better if there had been a hint of this undercurrent throughout the story.

I am willing to forgive those few things as snags in the first book of a series.  I had high hopes for the next one and, as I have already finished Blood Betrayed I can tell you, they were exceeded.  Come back in a few days for that review.

I award Blood Avenged 3 satin pillows.