A demon serial killer has brought the paranormal and human population of Seattle to the brink of war. The only hope lies with three paranormals–with their own agendas–and one alien assassin.
Supernaturals are enslaved by an evil vampire and one would like to see his downfall especially as they had stolen his mate. It may not be as easy as he hopes. Things changed when an assassin arrives. What will happen? Will it be the end of all of them? Will he get his revenge? Follow the journey and advent of all of them
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Author
chevonnepateman
3 years ago
This was a really good book with so many aspects which all came together. There was werewolves, vampires, witches and aliens, and also humans.
I love the mystery, the killer, the romance and the conspiracy.
I could not put this book down, yeah it was a lengthy read but it was a good read, I definitely recommend it
Author
melanies
3 years ago
Holy Wow!!
A bit back, I read Roxanne Bland’s wildly imaginative paranormal/alien SF rhapsody – Invasion. Loved it. Turns out Invasion is the sequel to this book, Underground. Here’s where Garett the mage/witch, Kurt the vampire regent, and Parker, the werwolf Alpha of Seattle, get themselves (literally!) mixed up in a human VS. ‘zots’ (exotics, all paranormally gifted beings) conflict. It’s civil war. revolution, and an extinction-level event for the paranormal population. Only the combined power of the witch mage, the vampire master, and the alpha – a tryst – can stop the carnage. And the demon (wait, what demon?) Look, it’s complicated. and wild, and sexy, and bloody, and everything under the sun/moon you’ve read about vampires, and witches, and were-species, and aliens, and herbal fumacious substances is gonna get blown right outta your mind! It’s full of all kinds of romance, unrequited love, love-hate relationships, improbable attachments, and inter-species sexy times. Author Bland has me dizzy with this five-star paranormal-meets-alien thriller/romance/introduction to a weird new Earth. The only thing I can do is post this voluntary ARC review and go re-read Invasion….
Author
hayleybiggins
3 years ago
this is a fantastic book about supernaturals who are trying to live a normal life without attracting attention from the humans. humans do not care for the supernaturals and if they find one the supernatural will “go missing” but all supernaturals know that the humans would of just killed them.
a werewolf falls in love with an alien and a mage wants nothing more then to make a tryst. i would recommend this book to all supernatural lovers and hope you enjoyed it as much as i did. 🙂
Author
tayrasanders
3 years ago
AMAZING! A fantastic, well written read. An intense storyline that holds your attention as you get caught up in the fierce twists and hot chemistry. Plenty of excitement and emotionally heartfelt. A thrilling must read.
Author
rayandkaysmillie
3 years ago
I loved the author’s work ‘The Moreva of Astoreth’, so I was looking forward to reading this. If you’ve read anything by Ms Bland before, you’ll know that her characters are never clear-cut ‘good’ or ‘bad’. Like reality, we all have a bit of everything in us. Just for a refreshing change, the characters in this book are the same, but times a million.
Just a wee warning, there is sex in here. Rough sex, sex magic, sex for the hell of it, and rape. Rape to show just who’s in charge, who has all the Power. Everyone is subservient to the Master, and the Master can – and will – do anything he likes to them.
Don’t go into this book thinking it’s going to be a light, easy read. It’s not. It’s dark and rich with imagination. There’s always something going on, and there’s things you won’t enjoy, at all. That’s why this book was for me. It challenged every emotion and moral I own, it unnerved me, punched me in the face then caressed it lovingly. You may not have read anything like this before. Turn the first page with an open mind.
I chose this book from a larger selection via Booksprout, then voluntarily read and honestly reviewed it. All opinions are my own.
Author
jjwelch1126
3 years ago
I recieved a free copy of this book. I have very mixed feelings about this book but any book that can make me that uncomfortable but still make me care enough about the characters and the story to keep going definitely deserves some credit. I will admit the first quarter of the book was not great. It was a bit slow and the characters felt a bit flat but shortly after a very uncomfortable sex ritual things started to pick up and the characters started becoming more complex. The story became intense with a lot of action and a lot of emotions too. I expected some sex which was already pushing out of my comfort zone but I did not expect the sex scenes to be bloody and violent so I ended up much farther outside my comfort zone than I expected. It took me a long time to finish due to extreme discomfort but once I started actually caring about the characters I just couldn’t give up on it completely. I had to know how it ended so I pushed through taking it one small section at a time. I believe it shows a lot of talent on the author’s part to keep me pushing through that level of discomfort.
Author
custserv1
3 years ago
This book caught my attention by all of the genre blends, unfortunately it turned out to be a case of way too many ingredients in the soup to make this an effective story.
The beginning of the book I was intrigued by Parker’s interaction with his wolf and was excited to see what would come next. However I got bored very quickly when it seemed to go into a really deep pity party on his part. Trying to keep up with all of the stops and starts that seemed to plague this story just wore me out after a while. The sex after a while seemed to disintegrate into a bit of mindlessness or passionless maybe? Throw in the gore during some of those scenes and I just flipped past that section hoping to sort through the muddle that was left.
Once you figured out who the villain was the book lost what little tension it had going for it. I was not able to connect or for that matter care about any of the characters, which always make for a laborious read when you aren’t invested.
Maybe not putting so many elements into the story and cutting down on some of the gore and sex and really fleshing out the characters so they didn’t have such an almost cartoon feel to them would have elevated this to a really good story.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
Author
anne
3 years ago
I gave up at 35%. I thought I was reading a UF story then aliens popped up. I thought perhaps the version I got had been corrupted with a file from another book…no.
My biggest problem is that none of the characters were likable, not a single one. Parker handles his role as alpha poorly, Kurt supposedly loves someone but tortures that person. None of the three main characters to the 35% point spend any page time together having meaningful interaction so the reader can’t get interested or care about the characters.
After I read some of the other reviews, I’m stumped at the references to erotic moments. Again up to 35% there are a couple of sex scenes mentioned. They are not really graphic and the sex is basically non-consensual, and in one mention is definitely rape. The rape of a childhood sex abuse victim no less. Distasteful in the extreme! Surprised I didn’t stop at that point. Then you find out the rapist is in love with the person he is forcing to watch his rape of the person the forced voyeur is supposed to be protecting.
I got my copy from Netgalley a long time ago and wished I’d left it buried in my reader.
By roxannebland
Supernaturals are enslaved by an evil vampire and one would like to see his downfall especially as they had stolen his mate. It may not be as easy as he hopes. Things changed when an assassin arrives. What will happen? Will it be the end of all of them? Will he get his revenge? Follow the journey and advent of all of them
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
This was a really good book with so many aspects which all came together. There was werewolves, vampires, witches and aliens, and also humans.
I love the mystery, the killer, the romance and the conspiracy.
I could not put this book down, yeah it was a lengthy read but it was a good read, I definitely recommend it
Holy Wow!!
A bit back, I read Roxanne Bland’s wildly imaginative paranormal/alien SF rhapsody – Invasion. Loved it. Turns out Invasion is the sequel to this book, Underground. Here’s where Garett the mage/witch, Kurt the vampire regent, and Parker, the werwolf Alpha of Seattle, get themselves (literally!) mixed up in a human VS. ‘zots’ (exotics, all paranormally gifted beings) conflict. It’s civil war. revolution, and an extinction-level event for the paranormal population. Only the combined power of the witch mage, the vampire master, and the alpha – a tryst – can stop the carnage. And the demon (wait, what demon?) Look, it’s complicated. and wild, and sexy, and bloody, and everything under the sun/moon you’ve read about vampires, and witches, and were-species, and aliens, and herbal fumacious substances is gonna get blown right outta your mind! It’s full of all kinds of romance, unrequited love, love-hate relationships, improbable attachments, and inter-species sexy times. Author Bland has me dizzy with this five-star paranormal-meets-alien thriller/romance/introduction to a weird new Earth. The only thing I can do is post this voluntary ARC review and go re-read Invasion….
this is a fantastic book about supernaturals who are trying to live a normal life without attracting attention from the humans. humans do not care for the supernaturals and if they find one the supernatural will “go missing” but all supernaturals know that the humans would of just killed them.
a werewolf falls in love with an alien and a mage wants nothing more then to make a tryst. i would recommend this book to all supernatural lovers and hope you enjoyed it as much as i did. 🙂
AMAZING! A fantastic, well written read. An intense storyline that holds your attention as you get caught up in the fierce twists and hot chemistry. Plenty of excitement and emotionally heartfelt. A thrilling must read.
I loved the author’s work ‘The Moreva of Astoreth’, so I was looking forward to reading this. If you’ve read anything by Ms Bland before, you’ll know that her characters are never clear-cut ‘good’ or ‘bad’. Like reality, we all have a bit of everything in us. Just for a refreshing change, the characters in this book are the same, but times a million.
Just a wee warning, there is sex in here. Rough sex, sex magic, sex for the hell of it, and rape. Rape to show just who’s in charge, who has all the Power. Everyone is subservient to the Master, and the Master can – and will – do anything he likes to them.
Don’t go into this book thinking it’s going to be a light, easy read. It’s not. It’s dark and rich with imagination. There’s always something going on, and there’s things you won’t enjoy, at all. That’s why this book was for me. It challenged every emotion and moral I own, it unnerved me, punched me in the face then caressed it lovingly. You may not have read anything like this before. Turn the first page with an open mind.
I chose this book from a larger selection via Booksprout, then voluntarily read and honestly reviewed it. All opinions are my own.
I recieved a free copy of this book. I have very mixed feelings about this book but any book that can make me that uncomfortable but still make me care enough about the characters and the story to keep going definitely deserves some credit. I will admit the first quarter of the book was not great. It was a bit slow and the characters felt a bit flat but shortly after a very uncomfortable sex ritual things started to pick up and the characters started becoming more complex. The story became intense with a lot of action and a lot of emotions too. I expected some sex which was already pushing out of my comfort zone but I did not expect the sex scenes to be bloody and violent so I ended up much farther outside my comfort zone than I expected. It took me a long time to finish due to extreme discomfort but once I started actually caring about the characters I just couldn’t give up on it completely. I had to know how it ended so I pushed through taking it one small section at a time. I believe it shows a lot of talent on the author’s part to keep me pushing through that level of discomfort.
This book caught my attention by all of the genre blends, unfortunately it turned out to be a case of way too many ingredients in the soup to make this an effective story.
The beginning of the book I was intrigued by Parker’s interaction with his wolf and was excited to see what would come next. However I got bored very quickly when it seemed to go into a really deep pity party on his part. Trying to keep up with all of the stops and starts that seemed to plague this story just wore me out after a while. The sex after a while seemed to disintegrate into a bit of mindlessness or passionless maybe? Throw in the gore during some of those scenes and I just flipped past that section hoping to sort through the muddle that was left.
Once you figured out who the villain was the book lost what little tension it had going for it. I was not able to connect or for that matter care about any of the characters, which always make for a laborious read when you aren’t invested.
Maybe not putting so many elements into the story and cutting down on some of the gore and sex and really fleshing out the characters so they didn’t have such an almost cartoon feel to them would have elevated this to a really good story.
I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
I gave up at 35%. I thought I was reading a UF story then aliens popped up. I thought perhaps the version I got had been corrupted with a file from another book…no.
My biggest problem is that none of the characters were likable, not a single one. Parker handles his role as alpha poorly, Kurt supposedly loves someone but tortures that person. None of the three main characters to the 35% point spend any page time together having meaningful interaction so the reader can’t get interested or care about the characters.
After I read some of the other reviews, I’m stumped at the references to erotic moments. Again up to 35% there are a couple of sex scenes mentioned. They are not really graphic and the sex is basically non-consensual, and in one mention is definitely rape. The rape of a childhood sex abuse victim no less. Distasteful in the extreme! Surprised I didn’t stop at that point. Then you find out the rapist is in love with the person he is forcing to watch his rape of the person the forced voyeur is supposed to be protecting.
I got my copy from Netgalley a long time ago and wished I’d left it buried in my reader.