January St. Davis, on her own since the age of sixteen and struggling to stay in college, thinks she's scored in a major way when she lands a paid summer internship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. One evening, after working an especially long shift, a chance encounter with a group of mysterious men alters the course of her life.
Rykerian Yarrister, a Guardian of Vesturon with unearthly powers and impossibly gorgeous looks, finds himself at odds over the human female he recently saved from certain death. When it seems he is on the verge of winning her over, she is ripped from his hands by a strange and powerful being, threatening to destroy her if his demands are not met.
Do Rykerian and the Guardians have the ability to meet this fierce barbarian's ultimatums, or will January suffer a horrid demise?
My Review:
This was a fantastic read! Great characters, and action that is just thrilling, matched with scorching romance! It was really, really awesome to read this book! So entertaining, though I haven't read the first two books, this did a decent job of being separate!
First, January, as a name? I can see April, May, and June, as names for people. But January? Or any other name? It's just weird! So yeah, that was a little annoyance that I had. But since Rykerian is a made up name for the series, well, that's better!
I enjoyed this world of the Guardians, and yeah, how that all worked out! Because there have been other books with similar groups, well, the way they were in this book was good and different, and I liked that a lot!
Rykerian was really good for January. After all that she's been through, being thrown out of home at 16, having no one, and working too many jobs to support herself, and oh, finding out that she was the product of rape, well, yeah, Rykerian was the end of the journey once this book was done!
Really enjoyed this book, it was really great!
Author: A.M. Hargrove
Series: The Guardians of Vesturon #3
Read: August 18th, 2012
Source: Reading Addiction Blog Tour Review Copy
Reason Why: Sounded like an excellent book!
Published: June 30th 2012
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One day, on her way home from work as a sales manager, A. M. Hargrove, realized her life was on fast forward and if she didn't do something soon, it would quickly be too late to write that work of fiction she had been dreaming of her whole life. So, she rolled down the passenger window of her fabulous (not) company car and tossed out her leather briefcase. Luckily, the pedestrian in the direct line of fire was a dodgeball pro and had über quick reflexes enabling him to avoid getting bashed in the head. Feeling a tad guilty about the near miss, A. M. made a speedy turn down a deserted side street before tossing her crummy, outdated piece-of-you-know-what lap top out the window. She breathed a liberating sigh of relief, picked up her cell phone and hit #4 on her speed dial.
"Hello."
"Boss, is that you?"
"Why yes, A. M., who else would be answering my phone?"
"Er... right. Well, I'm calling to let you know you can pick up my luxury Ford Focus at Starbucks near the interstate."
"Why ever would I want to do that?"
"Because I quit you idiot!"
A.M. hit the end button and speed dialed her husband.
"Hi yummy hubby, can you pick me up at Starbucks?"
"Sure... Having some car trouble?"
"Not at all. I don't have a car to have trouble with because I just quit my job."
"WHAT?!"
"It's time for a new career and I am going to be a very famous novelist."
So began A. M. Hargrove's career as a young adult paranormal romance author of self-published ebooks. Her series, The Guardians of Vesturon, centers around a family of six siblings and is a mix of humor, mystery, suspense and of course, love. Survival is her first book in the series and her second, Resurrection will be released in January.
If you're wondering, it didn't happen EXACTLY that way, but....
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Stops on the Tour:
August 1 Insomnia of Books
August 2 Twigs for Pigs
August 3 Disincentive Reviews
August 6 Reader Girls
August 6 My Cozie Corner
August 7 It's A Hardcover Life
August 8 Getting Your Read On
August 9 Kimmie's Bookshelf
August 10 Dive Under The Cover
August 11 Crazy Four Books
August 13 A Dream Within A Dream
August 14 Feed My Need For A Good Read
August 15 Inside BJ's Head
August 16 Waiting on Sunday to Drown
August 17 The Book Lover's Report
August 18 My Cozie Corner
August 19 Words I Write Crazy
August 20 The Solitary Bookworm
August 21 For The Love of Films and Novels
August 22 Unabridged Andra
August 22 TE Garden of Book Bloggers
August 23 Taking It One Page At A Time
August 24 The Bookshelf
August 24 My Reading Addiction
Thanks so much Louisa for being a part of the tour and featuring Determinant on your awesome blog! Also, thanks for taking the time to read and review Determinant. I truly appreciate your kind words about the book and I'm so excited you enjoyed it so much! Thanks again for being such a great host. Annie
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