No one told Quinn there was a cover charge to enter Hell—or that Valhalla didn’t allow bar tabs.Thanks to a witchy homebrew, Quinn MacKenna—part-time goddess, full-time troublemaker—has slipped past death’s door to rekindle an old flame and snuff out an old friend.But in order to do that, Quinn will need allies, be they an alcoholic ferryman, a deadly Horseman, or some of the most feared and … of the most feared and respected gods this side of the afterlife.
In a do or die effort to track down her old nemesis, Quinn must first expose dark truths, strike a bargain with Hades himself, and journey to a realm fraught with bloodshed and brimming with booze. The sort of place only a warrior could love—or a scrappy redhead from Boston.
Quinn quickly becomes immersed in all manner of schemes and intrigues that threaten to distract her from her goals—like starting a bar fight in Valhalla, or flying with the Valkyries, or surviving the mists of Niflheim with the power of a stolen kiss. Quinn’s devil may care attitude will lead her down a brimstone path paved with good intentions, reminding her that, sometimes, you have to be willing to lose everything if you want to find anything.
Especially if that thing happens to be a mythical city littered with ancient treasures.
In the end, Quinn will have no choice but to wallow in the past or embrace her future as her toughest crucible threatens to become her greatest failure. Will she emerge victorious, or will she remain doomed to wander the beyond for all eternity?
Come hell or high water, there’s only one way to find out.
If you like Jim Butcher, Kevin Hearne, Steve McHugh, Michael Anderle, Ilona Andrews, Patricia Briggs, Shannon Mayer, or K.F. Breene, you won’t be able to put down the highly addictive Phantom Queen Diaries or anything else in the Temple Verse.
“Shayne Silvers, Jim Butcher, and Kevin Hearne are easily my favorite Urban Fantasy Authors. In that order.” — Michael Anderle, Amazon Top 25 Bestselling Author
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I really think we are on our way to something momentous, starting with this book. I get the feeling that the group is in for some rough times. Certainly, Quinn has been!
Brimstone Kiss is all about Quinn’s journey towards finding herself and equally important, finding Ryan. The search for him, and the dangers encountered throughout, has been extremely rocky for Quinn. She goes through quite a bit more here that seems to be the culmination of the entire quest for saving Ryan that Quinn assigned herself; I don’t think she’s sure whether she’s doing this out of guilt for not being there for her friend when he needed her most or for love of this friend that she’s just discovering actually means something to her. Whatever motivated her, Brimstone Kiss is where it brought her, and the people she meets on this quest are quite a diverse group. She’s dealing with more gods and goddesses than she anticipated, has run-ins with some infamous Norse mythology characters and ends up working herself darn near into an early grave, one she can’t escape. Following this harrowing trail to find Mr. Frost, as Frankenstein calls him, is fascinating, so well devised, and so exciting that I read most of this in one night, unable to put it down.
Besides Ryan, Quinn has this desperate need to find Max, as well. While searching for Ryan, Max is never very far from her thoughts. A relationship between those two would be a really cool addition to the series, so I’m hoping that’s what happens (no I’m not going to give you any spoilers, so don’t look for any!). So many people to find, so little time.
In their inimitable way, Shayne and Camerson have outdone themselves with this addition to the Temple universe, and certainly to the Phantom Queen Diaries series. Perhaps the best, most poignant book in the story of Quinn, Brimstone thrilled me from beginning to end, and if you’ve been keeping up, I think you’ll agree. The characters are so well fleshed out that there’s no choice but to see them in your mind’s eye, to feel them in your heart. The story flowed so smoothly that when the book was done I didn’t even realize it. I love it when book endings take me by surprise because I’m so deeply ensconced in the story that I don’t realize it’s time to stop. I really love it when I look at the book and yell “Wait! I’m not done yet!”. These two writers have done it to me before, and will do it to me again, but maybe not as completely as they did with this book.
So Excellently Done, Shayne and Cameron! So very Excellently Done indeed. You’ve outdone yourselves!
I received this copy as an ARC, and write this review in my own words and of my own volition. As always.
BRIMSTONE KISS : (Phantom Queen Diaries Book 10) : SHAYNE SILVERS & CAMERON O’CONNELL.
T’ANKS LAD’S, ‘YE MADE ANOTHER GRAND SLAM MOME RUN!
The Dynamic Duo Does It Again!!
BRIMSTONE KISS : THE KISS OF LIFE!
Oh my god I’ve being dying for this book, part 1 of a 3 book series crossover between Quinn MacKenna, Callie Penrose & Nate Temple in Shayne Silvers Templeverse Series!
My Family has been through the Week From Hell.
Monday: my Dr dropped my pain med’s by 2/3rds at night, I’m sick & in pain.
Tuesday : my ex-partner, my BBF was stabbed 3 times @ work by a crazy man, once in each of the following : the back nicking & grazing his kidney & liver,
the L hand & R arm (he’s ok physically, but recovering @ my home).
Wednesday : my puppy contracted conjunctivitis…the vet bill is outrageous!
Thursday: the pup passed it on to me & I got locked out of my house keys in hand & we had to break in!
Friday : an email from The Dynamic Duo who wrote this book, arrived in my inbox like some ‘ANGhELLIC’ sign, ‘BRIM’ming like ‘STONE’s of wealth with a ‘KISS’ of life for me, signalling an end to the Week From Hell & it’s ‘CARNAGE’, but by the end of the book I’m cursing them both!
So thank you, thank you, thank you, Shayne Silvers & Cameron O’Connell your timing is everything & just as I finish this BRIMSTON EKISS, CARNAGE part 2 arrives! YES!!
You Lad’s hold me on the edge of my seat with the excitement, you make me laugh, you make me cry, but this time you didn’t get me (I managed not to spit my drink laughing all over my tablet at any of the hilarious lines (this usually always happens & is a 1st for me with their writing)!
I just Love, Love, Love This Dynamic Duo The Caped Crusaders Chronicles & their sarcastic witty action packed sequences that have you laughing your ass off one minute, then bawling like new born babe the next. What these two can do with the simple flourish of their mighty pen’s (notice I said pens) is hilariously insane & utter carnage.
These books are better than drugs, so consider this Aussie Bookworm fully hooked, addicted and main-lining Templeverse for Breakfast, Lunch, Appetizers, 1st Course, Main and top it off with that big sweet red juicy strawberry on top of Dessert to cap off the night with a perfect ending, but hey
before bed, I’ll sneak in a Midnight Munchie or two too!
At long last we uncover some answers tying up some previous questions which is fabulous, but the master manipulator’s leave us with many more burning questions than were answered leaving more twist and turns than San Francisco famous windy Lombard Street!
These authors know how to stick the knife in their readers, twirl it around & open the wounds, leaving them gaping just so & handing on in pain, but never for too long, they are insanely fast writers, thank Odin. But at least CARNAGE is here to continue on with and ANGHELLIC isn’t too far off.
There’s some brand new characters & some old favourites to meet & catch up with (actually I’ve only read this & the past 2 Quinn books, so almost all are new to me).
I don’t know their back stories (unless they featured in the first 4 Nate Temple books) & how all these crazy characters seem to be connected in one giant soapy lovers wet dream of an incestuous tangled web of love they weave.
Some are lovable & endearing, some make you laugh so hard you’ll blow snot bubbles on your screen cacking yourself up, (I just prey your not loaning a library book, you know with Covid-19 and all) while other’s have no idea what a sense of humour is and are as straight as an arrow. Then there’s the villains, whom we all love to hate, they’re down right despicable and deserve to die screaming Quinn’s name while she Ryan’s them through, but is justice served or will the mongrel’s slip away once more to continue on with their wicked ways for the long haul?
The world building is dynamite and out of this world literally! The descriptive imaginations of Shayne & Cameron from the new world’s & realms Quinn visits to the clothes the characters wear and the way they move (think Hades), to the magic they perform & the weapons they brandish is just perfection personified.
Add to it the scenery of buildings, gardens, view, homes furnishings like you’ve never imagined before, it’s so descriptively detailed you feel as if you’re witnessing it first hand with all your senses, your sight, sound, smell, touch & taste rather than just picturing a scene in your the mind live a TV screen.
O’Connell & Silvers know how to squeeze blood from a stone to give their readers their money’s worth on a epic urban fantasy journey the proportions of like you have never travelled before!
I feel like I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole or (the upside down sea) & I never want to return to reality, if only I could live in the Templeverse for life, I’d be the happiest FREAK of all.
We meet some well known figures and some of the most unexpected mythology figures taken throughout the world’s history, and they occur from every realm, time and language and legends, from English, Welsh, Greek, Romanian, Egyptian, Irish, Roman and Norse mythology & oh so many more.
Silvers & O’Connell weave these titans, gods & goddesses of history effortlessly into the culmination of one warped crazy story from two even crazier & warped author’s minds.
Taking both Quinn and yourself to places far & near to places thought not to resist as she visits, makes deals with, runs from, fights, kills & battles, loves & helps saves and accepts help the from multitude of zany notorious characters as you’ve never seen them before.
You’re really in-store for the ride of your life and this is only part one of a three-way cross over, the culmination of Shayne Silvers 3 phenomenal series and his cray cray mind. And if it’s this incredible already, I can’t imagine what’s it’s store next in CARNAGE or the book after ANGHELLIC!
One of my favourite aspects of this book in particular is it was jammed packed full of smart, tough, strong, beautiful warrior women who can hold their own up against any man or god, whether it be outlasting, outplaying outwitting outfighting, outtalking, outdrinking or outflirting.
Shayne & Cameron are modern men with modern ideas that women are just as strong, powerful & smart as any man, after all 2 out of 3 of the main characters are women. A coincidence you say, I think not!
I RATE BRIMSTONE KISS
5 OUT OF 5
I highly recommend this book, series & both authors. Run out & buy their books today, you won’t regret, Happy Reading!
I received an ARC Copy of this book from the author’s and this is my fair, honest and impartial review as always.
Reviewed By : Jewelz Pederick
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(Bye Love From The Crazy Australian BookWorm)!
Wonderfully twisted, Quinn’s brilliant journey comes to a head as she jumps realms chasing Ryan’s path and the mad doctor’s machinations. Her path is realized in awesome clarity as she encounter’s Hades, Valhalla, and other fantastic locales. With their treks paralleled, one for power and revenge and the other justice, is it possible both will cross the line to see through their missions?
A beautiful conclusion to the “Hunt for Ryan” part of Quinn’s story arc.
Ok, my whole family is caught up in CORVID-19 insanity (two hospitalized for other reasons, who we cannot visit, and 1 tested positive and in quarantine though no overt symptoms so far). Thank God for good books. It’s what’s keeping all of us sane. Brimstone Kids is a particularly good one, as I expected since I can count on anything written by this duo. Highly recommended for fun … and sanity saving.
Well this is absolutely the best book we’ve gotten from the boys yet!! Seriously seriously good!! This was one fantastic voyage through Hell that no one but Quinn could conquer!! So many a-ha moments in this book for me…Cameron you’ve blown way past my expectations with this one!! The highway through Hell is paved with good intentions but throw a red-headed Goddess on that path and shenanigans will ensue! You’re in for a real treat in this one…all the action and feels you could ask for!!
In this tenth book in the Phantom Queen series, Quinn MacKenna (part-time goddess and full-time troublemaker, according to the blurb) has considerably more success than she has had in many of the earlier books in her series. Usually, though she fights and scores and often wins, she is beset with so many obstacles and detours that she is still just as far from accomplishing her main objective by the end of the book as she was at the beginning. This time, though, although not everything on her ever-lengthening to-do list has been finished by the end, she has managed to tick off several major items, without losing her trademark wit along the way.
Of course, to get all this done, she has had to die – at least temporarily. She begins her journey in the classical Greek underworld drinking with Charon, the ferryman of Hades on his boat. But after she visits with Hades and Persephone and talks with Hemmingway, the Horseman of Death, it becomes clear that this time it is the Norse underworld she needs to visit.
Just about every god she talks to has a favor to ask of her in return for whatever help they are willing to give her; this is part of why it is so hard for her to accomplish her objectives every time. But in this book, she finally succeeds in finding Max and Ryan – though her results in saving them are mixed. This time she even succeeds in reaching Atlantis. And all this without dying for real, though there are several close calls.
Loved it
Wow, I loved this book. Quinn is determined to find Max and hopefully save Ryan. Will she be successful? Get comfy, because once you start this book, it’s really difficult to put it down! Quinn goes on a dangerous adventure, filled with lots of opportunities to be killed, and I was rooting for her all the way! I love Quinn. She smart, crafty, loyal, protective, willing to give others a second chance, brave, a great fighter, determined and always gives 100 percent! If I could choose someone to save me, Quinn would be my choice! This book is action-packed, with magic, adventure, danger, death, suspense, mystery, betrayal, Charon, Valkyries, Dr. Frankenstein, Max, Ryan, gods, goddesses, battles, gifts, humor, and lots more!
And I thought Hurricane was a trip!!! Brimstone Kiss starts up and never stops. Trying to hunt and help people can lead to all over, hell, other hell, more hell. What the hell??? So many places to go, people to kill!! You just have to love the rides that Cameron and Shayne throw you on and let them rip!!! Want to hit a Mead Hall and beat up some Mead Heads??? Or are they Meatheads??? Quinn loves to fight, and this book gives her what she wants!!
Quinn is fantastic. I can see a lot of growth from her first book until now. Ten books into her story, and it’s starting to fully weave into the rest of the Templeverse. Better late than never, I say. It took this long to build her tale properly, and it shows. Masters O’Connell and Silvers do a splendid job, and without succumbing to the lure of writing spoilers, this book left me with some gasps, some laughs and some, “I should have seen that coming” moments. Definitely a must-read!
Quinn is in the house!!!
Finally, our intrepid heroine, Quinn, finds her feet for the first time in a permanent way. The other installments left the reader feeling that the progress, improvements, or gifts Quinn received might be reversed, lost or just disappear. After tangling with the denizens of Hell, the immortal warriors of Valhalla, a bevy of Valkyries and countless gods, demi-gods, monsters and mayhem, we can finally feel like Quinn knows who and what she is, where she is going and whose butt she will kick when she gets there. Get comfy and grab a snack for this truly epic journey!
Brimstone Kiss is a fantastic addition to the series! Quinn is her sassy saucy self and it has previous characters along with some new ones. It of course has new twists, but it also gives us directions in to the future books for Quinn and the Nate Temple series! I loved every word and minute! It will have you on roller coaster of emotions. It was fabulous! I am voluntarily leaving my honest review after reading this arc, but as always I loved it so much I purchased my own copy!
I’ve been a fan of these authors and their universe for a long time. I am always excited when a new book comes out, and I dived into this one. Quinn started this journey with many questions, and she ended it a different person. To get to this new place, she had to go through several different lands, including Hel, where she picked up some information, some new duds, and maybe some new allies. What a wild ride it was! I laughed, I gasped, and at one place I really, really winced. You need to read this one for some answers, but in true fashion, there are more questions. As always, I am amazed at these authors’ ability to tell a story. Recommend! I was provided a complimentary copy which I voluntarily reviewed.
What is there to NOT like about this book? This is the best Quinn book yet! Packed with action, snark, and all the feals. If you’ve read any of Quinn’s stories, you NEED this book. If you haven’t, get this and the rest of the Templeverse series. Shayne Silvers and Cameron O’Connell have created such a fantastic world…I can’t tell you the last time I was so drawn into a series, waiting for the next installment (luckily with these guys, you never wait long!) Get this book now!!
Quinn just needs answers, right? But there’s always Hell to pay. She has to navigate the muddy waters of Hell and Valhalla to try and save–or at least stop–her old friend, Ryan. Too bad every god or goddess wants something in return, and the consequences of failure are daunting. She does get some pretty cool duds. There’s a lot to unpack in this one, an absolute must-read for Templeverse fans.