Wednesday, August 26, 2020

BLOG TOUR & REVIEW - Blood of Zeus (Blood of Zeus #1) by Meredith Wild and Angel Payne


Blood of Zeus 

by #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Meredith Wild 
and USA Today Bestselling Author Angel Payne 

Book #1 in the series 

Genre: Contemporary Romance 


AVAILABLE NOW! 

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Synopsis 

An ancient grudge. 
A forbidden love. 

The only thing worse than being a demon is being a Valari. As an undergraduate at Los Angeles’s Alameda University, Kara Valari can sometimes succeed at forgetting she’s both. Lost between the pages of the classics and tucked into the shadows of lecture halls, she can dodge the paparazzi’s lenses as well as her family’s publicized dramas—not to mention their private expectations. She has one more year to feed her true passions. Then she’ll be expected to fulfill a much darker destiny. 

Cursed with inexplicable strength and godlike stature, literature professor Maximus Kane knows all about darkness. Every day he’s reminded of the missteps of his childhood and the devastating consequences they’ve had on those dearest to him. To atone, Maximus spends his nights alone and his days submerged in the quiet life of academia. His existence has become a study in control, and he’s become a master at it—until Kara Valari walks into his toughest course. 

Viscerally, Kara’s everything he craves. Logically, she’s everything he rejects. She’s a starlet of privilege. She’s also a student. And after one touch, he can’t deny that she’s awakened something in him that may never go dormant. Nothing about her makes sense, but everything about her feels right. Especially in the deepest strands of his DNA, which are still shadows of mystery to him—a mystery Kara seems determined to uncover. 

She’s Hollywood royalty. She’s forbidden fruit. And he’s pretty sure she could be the answer to everything.


After reading the blurb, I was excited to read this first book by these two great authors, and while it was entertaining, there were moments at the start of the book where I felt like I was missing part of the story, at least when it comes to Kara's POV in the story. Maximus' POV seemed a bit more straight-forward, considering the mystery that he is. I liked the bit of switch in who was the more forward between these two; I could understand Maximus' hesitance and concern (and his reasons were valid). The chemistry between them is unreal, the calm they seem to bring to the other wasn't something either of them was prepared for, especially Kara as her destiny has already been determined and Maximus wasn't supposed to be a part of that destiny. I can't wait to see how things will play out over the course of this series.


Heart of Fire (book 2) 

Releases 22nd December 2020


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Meet Meredith 

Meredith Wild is a #1 New York Times, USA Today, and international bestselling author. After publishing her debut novel Hardwired in September 2013, Wild used her ten years of experience as a tech entrepreneur to push the boundaries of her “self-published” status, becoming stocked in brick-and-mortar bookstore chains nationwide and forging relationships with the major retailers. In 2014, Wild founded her own imprint, Waterhouse Press, under which she hit No. 1 on the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers lists. She has been featured on CBS This Morning, The Today Show, the New York Times, The Hollywood Reporter, Publishers Weekly, and The Examiner. Her foreign rights have been sold in over 23 languages. 


Meet Angel 

USA Today bestselling romance author Angel Payne loves to focus on high-heat romance starring memorable alpha men and the women who love them. She has numerous book series to her credit, including the action-packed Bolt Saga and Honor Bound series, Secrets of Stone series (with Victoria Blue), the intertwined Cimarron and Temptation Court series, the Suited for Sin series, and the Lords of Sin historicals, as well as several standalone titles. 

Angel is a native Southern Californian, leading to her love of being in the outdoors, where she often reads and writes. She still lives in Southern California with her soul-mate husband and beautiful daughter, to whom she is a proud cosplay/culture con mom. Her passions also include whisky tasting, shoe shopping, and travel. 
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