The Lick of Fire Collection from twelve best selling authors. Enter this supernatural world of fire and heat, magic and adventure, and get lost in everything DARK, delicious and FIRE.Rising Darkness is the seventh story in the Lick of Fire Collection and the first in Élianne Adams’s Rising Series within the collection. It is a stand alone, full length novel featuring tortured phoenix shifters and … shifters and the women who make them whole again.
He cannot die…
The phoenix will continuously rise from the ashes. For Zenon, this is his ultimate curse. Left to rot at the end of a chain for millennia, he is desperate to end the suffering of one horrendous demise, and rebirth, after another – to finally find peace. Desperate for anything other than his fated life of solitude. Desperate for his true death.
She cannot live…
Tormented by an unrelenting heart affliction, Nickie has to endure dying repeatedly. The physical pain of death is eclipsed only by the paralyzing fear of when her heart will stop beating next… and whether or not this time will be the last. That is, until she learns the myth of phoenix shifters, and the healing power they have over their human mates.
Together they could be everything…
An evil is rising. One more powerful than any the phoenix shifters have faced before. If Zenon and Nickie cannot convince the others to help, the pain they’ve already endured will pale in comparison to their future.
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Read more stories from the Lick of Fire Collection:
#1 Hell is a Harem by Kim Faulks
#2 Turn on the Night by Jacqueline Sweet
#3 Fire & Fury by K. De Long
#4 Shadows & Secrets by Jane Hinchey
#5 Wicked Heat by Mila Young & T.F. Walsh
#6 Scorched Earth by K. De Long
#7 Rising Darkness by Elianne Adams
#8 Phoenix Rising by Bianca D’Arc
#9 Immortal Bride by Emmi Rue
#10 Burning Violet by Kallysten
#11 Betrothed to the Dragon by Kara Lockharte
#12 Flames & Fervor by Daniella Starre
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Liked the characters we meet, even the crazy women.
This book has a really sad situation with all those wonderful magical creatures tortured to death like that.
First few pages really grab you then it became a little bit of a slow read. I put this down to new world building over information but I am not sure, as we are only given a very small amount of information about the baddies. Have no idea why they are doing what they are? I am expecting things to be revealed as this series progresses as there are a few gaps.
Really liked Nicki, she has gone through so much. Then got annoyed when she accepts Zenon disrespecting her, without a real apology. An orgasm is not an apology no matter how good the orgasm.
Poor Zenon has been through something worse than hell and it seems his brothers have too.
Unfortunately it feels as if Zenon does not respect Nicki. After being told numerous times they are stronger together, he leaves her and goes off on his own, right into a trap.
After all the pain Zenon causes Nicki after being caught, there is little in the way of apology to Nicki. His remorse was lacking for me.
Think the friend Jasmine deserves her own story.
For all that a couple of things annoyed me, I enjoyed this and will be reading the next book.
This is my honest review of this book.
What an amazing start to the phoenix part of the Lick of Fire Series. I L.O.V.E.D. IT!!!
This is Nickie and Zenon’s story and what a story it was! Love, heartache, & passion team up against unbelievable evil in this gripping tale of Phoenix shifters, witches, humans, and evil dark magic mages.
I wish we would have been provided a prologue to see what actually happened with how the girls were chosen, gathered, and what the witch told them. It would provide insight into the series I would have loved and I would have given it a 5 star review. I plan to continue with this series and also check out some of the other Authors writing in The Lick of Fire I haven’t read before.
Also, Nickie talked about a sword the witch gave her and said she would need to learn to wield. As far as I can tell she abandoned it with the 1st vehicle. I hope it wasn’t that important!!
This was my first phoenix shifter story and I was glad I read it. Phoenixes are such unique mystical creatures and I liked how Ms. Adams crafted the world they lived in.
Rising Darkness is a first book in a series which, based on the endig of this story, contains interconnected stories of different phoenix shifters held captive by dark magic. This story is about quite the fundamentals of this new series.
Nicki and Zenon make a lovely couple and through them the readers start to learn the phoenix shifters’ nature and what happened to them all those years ago.
I gave it 3 stars because although this book is a standalone romance yet it will take the whole series to find out what caused the perish of the phoenixes and hopefully for the villains to get their punisment in equal mesures.
I liked the writing, the world building and the main characters too but still felt like a cliffhanger story-wise.
Phoenix are such magnificent creatures, strong, sensitive and honourable. The characters are brought to life by the author with all their strengths and weaknesses. We really wants to see both how this story ends and how the overall storyline plays out.
More please!
This first book of the series explains some of the workings of the involved parties but leaves a lot of questions open.
An ancient evil has doomed the phoenixes to burn and rise again and again, watching the dark forces taking over and not being able to help.
Witches have banded together to remedy mistakes some of their own have made and their plan finally is put in motion to save the legendary birds. There is a strange connection between human women doomed to die and the phoenixes.
After the first successful pairing the search for more of the legendary birds begins.