I really loved the female friendships and that the main character didn’t become completely useless when her love interest was around. I don’t read books with sex scenes much more often than I read paranormal, so I might not be the best judge, but I preferred the honest descriptions in this book to some of the over-the-top metaphors I’ve found in romances. Much sexier, I thought

Hollow’s End is by far the nearest and dearest to my heart, and even though it’s Teen/YA, it was such fun to write! To be honest I had no idea tropes were so prevalent in YA until I read your review, and I’m glad I opted not to use any.

As for cliches in paranormal stories, when you are dealing with myths and legends come to life, folklore shadows you like herpes. LOL! In Hunter’s Blood, I tried to get away from cliche as much as possible by building the story line around a mystery and adding in suspense and science with an unexplained virus attacking the Weres. Strong female friendships are important in my own life, so building that into the story was easy as breathing. While the story ends with the H/H together, the conflict still hangs over them, something the mystery and suspense continues to build along with twists and humor in Twice Cursed (book 2). I hope your readers take a chance on my Cursed by Blood Series. In the meantime I am outlining more of the Legend Series…combining historic fact, Hudson Valley folklore and mystery to follow Hollow’s End!

Happy Holidays everyone!
Marianne Morea

However, if we’re talking about romances, characters and the likes, cliches would certainly make me knock off stars from my rating.

And back to your review, I think I might pick up this one some day especially that it features a strong friendship between the MC and the other characters. And though people are already tired of reading paranormal stories, I still love reading them. So who knows, this one would really work out for me:D And wow, steamy sex? Hmmn!