Aliens, magick, and mayhem… and deadly.
Worse, Shen’zae Melera, interstellar assassin and Parker’s love, returns to Earth with dire news: She didn’t return alone. She’d been followed by her nemesis, Mag Beloc and his fleet of warships, whose presence may well become permanent.
Drawn together by choice and fate while doing what they had to do, can Kurt, Garrett, and Parker now find a way to undo the magick that binds them, and with Melera, stop an alien invasion before it begins?
WARNING: Profanity, Violence, Graphic Adult Content. Use Caution.
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I really enjoyed this continuation of ‘The Underground’ and I would humbly suggest that you read that book first. If you don’t, you will miss a lot of the beautiful intricacies of the storyline and the subtle changes to the characters as the story progresses.
Yes, the characters are MEGA-flawed, and this is what makes Roxanne Bland such a visually authentic and great author. If you haven’t read anything by her yet, then please remedy that. I guarantee that you will never have read anything like it in your life. There are more twists and turns between these pages than you’ll get on a rollercoaster ride.
I won’t spoil the story for anyone, but if you’re looking for something unusual yet believable (if you like magic, REAL vampires, weres and witches, that is), solid individual characterisations yet they bleed into each other’s traits, and a story that you’ll be thinking about long after you’ve read the final page. There’s love, hate, longing, jealousy, plenty of humour, strong emotion (both from the characters and the reader), and such hurtful betrayal that you’ll feel it in your own heart. It’s a complex and dynamic tale and, when followed on from ‘The Underground’, flows perfectly.
I chose this book from a selection at Booksprout, which I then voluntarily read and honestly reviewed. All opinions are my own.
Lots of characters from old-world vampires to aliens. Even more plot twists a from the very fertile imagination of Roxanne Bland. If you love mash-ups, this one’s for you. I received this book from eBook Discovery. This is my voluntary review.
Rhapsody in paranormal SF action romance
Fantastic! Roxane Bland’s Invasion is the craziest and most entertaining mash-up of paranormal/SF/urban fantasy/romance since Kim Harrison’s The Hollows series. I’m absolutely hooked! Set in a future-world Seattle, where we are quickly introduced – no, overwhelmed – with a cast of genre-spanning characters: a vampire, a werewolf, a witch, and an extraterrestrial. Backstory connects the paranormal/magickal beings via a spell, Master vampire Kurt, Pack Alpha Parker, and Witch Garrett retain their spelled connection, and when the story begins the flawed and damaging nature of that connection soon becomes apparent. These three, the most powerful “zots” (exotics) in the city, become involved with a galactic war – in an other galaxy – when an escaped POW named Melara (with the cutest mangled “Ink-leesh” ever invented) falls in love with Parker, which upsets the wolf pack’s jealous Freya, which leads to making trouble for the vampires, which leads to a very likely alien invasion of Dirt (Earth, in Melara-speak), which forces the spell-crippled “zot” leaders to defend the planet while they try to remove the pernicious spell that binds them… The convoluted path from cause to effect is the finely-wrought product of Bland’s far-ranging imagination, coupled with excellent writing skills. This gal casually throws out the most outrageous and momentous plot developments like Huck Finn tells whoppers – indeed, her wry and disingenuous deadpan humor puts me in mind of Twain. I was fortunate enough to receive an ARC of Invasion (thank you, eBook Discovery) and this independent, voluntary, and uncompensated review is my 5-star recommendation to read this book NOW.
P.S. There’s another book already in the works. **Double fist pump**