Blog Tour Review & Giveaway: Darkness Unbound – Zoe Forward

Covert op partners Astrid Scarre and Kane Langford click on a level that defies logic. Astrid wants to say yes to the sexy Kane. But the guy who stole her heart and then shattered her soul twelve years ago shows up. Seeing the Dragon magus, Zannis, again ignites a wild physical attraction, but doesn’t eliminate her simmering hatred. Astrid is torn between her physical need for Zannis and her emotional connection to Kane.

Kane will never turn his back on Astrid, even when she gets inducted into the Scimitar magi, an organization he knows well and respects. His gorgeous ex-spy partner might push him away at every turn, but that’s too bad. He’s exactly the man she needs to protect her life and her heart. All he has to do is convince her that when something feels this right, you don’t let it go.

Series: Scimitar Magi #3
Release Date: November 21st 2014
Publisher: Wild Rose Press
Source: Inkslinger PR
Reviewer: Shannon
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

I walked into this story having no idea what a Scrimitar Magi was, but that didn’t matter.  I was introduced to a world where descendents of Gods are reborn into somewhat immortal warriors who protect the human realm from all sorts of bad guys.  It was interesting, at times funny and definitely full of some very hot alpha males.

DARKNESS UNBOUND tells the story of Astrid, a woman who had been wronged one too many times in her life by men and suddenly finds herself the first female members of this guardian group.

As a reader, I felt bad for Astrid right from the moment I met her.  She discovers her boyfriend cheating on her with her best friend.  Then this Thor-like man (Zannis) shows up and rocks her world, telling her she summoned him.  Then when she tries to summon him again, she finds herself with a sword in her chest.  Pretty intense stuff.  Instead of having all of that break, Astrid becomes a bit of a super woman.  Sure, she compartmentalizes her emotions and tends to keep people at arms length, but a lesser person would have broken.  Then when she’s brought into the Magi group, she takes her new job in stride.  It’s only when she’s forced to come face to face with Zannis that her emotions break out and she has to deal with what happened to her in the past and look towards the future.

I enjoyed this story.  It had a Dark-Hunter (by Sherrilyn Kenyon) type feel to it, with the Gods interfering or trying to control various outcomes in the human realm.  There was a lot of action, some schmexy times with the hero and heroine and a group of characters that were hard not to like.  I’ll definitely be going back to read books 1 & 2 and eagerly await what coming next.

Zoe Forward is a hopeless romantic who can’t decide between paranormal and urban fantasy romance. So she writes both. In addition to being a mom to one rambunctious kindergartener and wife to a conservation ecologist who plans to save all the big cats on the planet, she’s a small animal veterinarian caring for all the small furries, although there is the occasional hermit crab.

When she’s not typing at her laptop, she’s tying on a karate belt for her son or cleaning up the newest pet mess from the menagerie that occupies her house. She’s madly in love with her globe trotting husband of ten years and happiest when he returns to their home base in North Carolina.

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