Title: The Morrigan
Series: Damaged Dieties, #1
Author: Kennan Reid
Genre: Adult Paranormal Romance
Release date: March 16, 2015
Genre: Adult Paranormal Romance
Release date: March 16, 2015
Rating: 4 1/2 Stars
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of Material Connection: I
received this book for review from Sizzling PR and from the author. I was not
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Blurb:
Morrie Brandon is the best horse
trainer in Oklahoma, able to tame the wildest of beasts. She's also the Celtic
goddess of War and Sex, The Morrigan, abandoning her supernatural life for a
simpler, more human one. When Morrie is hired by a secretive Scottish family to
capture a killer horse ravaging their Highlands manor, the past she has spent
thousands of years running from calls her back. Will Morrie learn from her past
mistakes and embrace the bold goddess she truly is, or is it too late?
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My Thoughts:
Morrie Brandon is
very envious of someone she knows. She
also knows how to kick some serious ass.
Kamden MacLeod is in need of her special gift. He also seems to be a man of mystery. And he’s the catalyst that sets this story in
motion. Then Kade enters the
picture. This is when the book will
catch your attention and not let go until the last word is read.
Early on, this
story had me wanting to sit somewhere where I could see horses roaming
free. Or, I can see getting on a plane
and going to visit the highlands of Scotland.
It also had me wishing that I had a way with languages and this is when
I realized that I was wishing for an audio of the book. I would love to hear the Irish brogue and
Scottish burr. It’s one thing to see it
and read it but it just would add a little to the experience if you could hear
the characters speak with their accents.
It also has you
thinking of some of the old fairy tales but this story is for the adult. If you’re someone who likes the Mythology
tales than you just might like this series.
This is a story that takes something that is from long ago and mixes it
with today’s world. It makes you wonder
if some of what you read just may be possible.
This book does give
you glimpses of Morrie’s interesting sisters.
It will be interesting to see how the rest of this series plays
out. Do you believe in destiny? Can you see it coming true in this author’s
tale? How do the past and future fit in
with what Morrie must do? Even though
this is the first book in the Damaged
Dieties series, it can be read as a stand-alone. The author’s ending doesn’t leave her readers hanging and gives
them the HEA.
Excerpt:
“Did no one tell ye it’s rude tae
give a man the best night of his life and then run away?” a voice
rumbled low and soft and managed to be as seductive as it was menacing.
“Kade,” Morrie
sighed, hoping he couldn’t hear the desire and relief laced in the sound.
She shouldn’t be this excited over knowing he had raced home after
her, but inside she nearly bounced like a giddy school girl.
And what did he say?
The best night of his life…Morrie would have to admit, she felt the same.
She spun around on the stool to face him, leaning back
when she found him standing too near.
He closed the small space, towering over her as he
dipped his head to be eye level with her, forcing her back against the bar.
“Ye will no’ leave like
that again,” he growled.
Morrie frowned at his order and opened her mouth to
respond, but the words caught in the back of her throat.
Emotion flickered in his eyes, eyes that had grown
black with what could have been either desire or fury, she wasn’t sure. But also something else…
Morrie tilted her head to the side. “Did I scare
you?”
Kade huffed with quick offense and straightened up,
leaning back from her. But his expression
changed to one of wonder.
“Like ye would
no’ believe,” he admitted on an exhaled breath as though surprised
by his own revelation.
“I told you I
was here for business.” And that
business was quickly becoming an obsession of hers.
A challenge that would determine just how far down the
mortal hole she had fallen and whether she could find her true nature as a
goddess once again.
This job tested her mettle because it should have been
done by now. She knew she could find the
horse if she used her powers, but she needed to know she could find him on her
own.
Though why she needed that, she couldn’t say.
Kade turned his angry eyes on her. “Do ye really
expect tae succeed in this daft quest?”
Morrie blinked, surprised by the…well,
vehemence of his question and the turn of his questioning.
Of everyone in the home, he had seemed the least
concerned about her reasons for being there.
“If I didn’t think I
could catch him, I wouldn’t stay.” And she had
thought he wanted her to stay, but his question had elicited an unwanted
response—one of insecurity. “If you think I’m wasting my time, then I should just leave.”
For emphasis, she moved to slip off the stool, to
really get away from him before he could see just how his doubts had touched
her, but he stopped her by placing his hand on her hip.
“Wait, that’s no’ what I want.” Morrie paused but crossed her arms over her chest,
pressing her lips together and waiting for him to continue. Kade sighed. “O’ course I
think ye can catch him. If anyone can,
it’s you. I doona doubt ye.” He blinked,
like a discovery had been made. “Maybe ye’re supposed tae. In fact, I’ll help ye do
so.”
Morrie gave Kade a sidelong glance. He was up to something, she just wasn’t sure what.
“You’ll come with
me to the loch?”
There it was again!
A passing cloud of fear across his face, but this time
it was different. It seemed spurned on
by a different place.
But it came and went so quickly, Morrie soon
questioned seeing it at all.
“I’ll follow ye
anywhere,” he answered her and there was a deep truth behind his statement. “Just doona
leave again like ye did this morn.”
Morrie studied him like a suspicious package wrapped
in a thin veil of desperate relief. He
seemed changed from the night before—this emotion even different than the cloud that settled
over him after the encounter with his mother.
Kade either wore many masks or his true nature was too
complex to determine.
Like the horse, Kade was a challenge.
And Morrie was a sucker for challenges.
And his dark eyes turned her into a puddle and it
seemed there was nothing she could do about it.
Her shoulders slumped before she muttered, “Stop making
me melt.”
Kade frowned. “What was that?”
“Nothing,” Morrie stood
up, placing her body much too close to Kade’s, but she couldn’t appear
weak. She pulled out some money and
slapped it down on the bar to well cover her tab.
“Alright, you
can help. But what happened last night
cannot happen again. I am your brother’s employee, I
am your employee. And for us to entangle
ourselves…” Kade’s responding grin caused Morrie to roll her eyes and regret her word
choice, but she continued on, hands on her hips, “would only result in an unnecessary
distraction.”
She hoped to glower that smirk right off his beautiful
lips.
At the fire in her eyes, Kade threw up is hands in
surrender.
“Aye, lass, as
ye wish. If ye insist on lying tae
yerself and pretending, then I will no’ impose my will on ye.”
Morrie’s face burned with outrage, but that only resulted in
Kade laughing at her, gazing down with desire in his smoldering eyes and
adoration in his smile.
“Stop that!” she
complained, pushing past him.
“Stop what?” he asked with
feigned innocence.
She whirled around and nearly smacked her face into
his chest.
Sighing, she stepped back and looked up at him.
“Stop trying
to provoke me. Nothing will happen
between us.”
“If ye say
so. As I said, I will no’ impose myself
on ye, but if ye canna keep yer hands tae yerself, lass, I will no’ stop where
they may roam. And we both know they’re curious,
lil’ things.”
Volumes were spoken in his heated gaze. Morrie flushed anew.
Her body grew rigid, her hands balled into fists at
her sides.
“My hands do
not—there will be no—gah!” Morrie sputtered and turned her back to him, stomping
out of the restaurant and towards what was going to surely be a violent battle
of wills.
For the first time in her existence, Morrie didn’t know if she
would be the victor.
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Author Bio:
Kennan Reid traveled from the vast, open spaces of Texas to the vast, open ocean of California where she enjoys sitting outside in the sun, tossing a frisbee to her dog, Barnabas, and on occasion, writing a few words hoping one day they behave and become a book. When she's not pretending to be a romance author, she is writing young adult novels about elves, witches and reincarnation. The Morrigan is her first adult romance novel and after falling in love with the fiesty goddess and her crazy sisters, will not be her last.Author
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