Fiery Hot Reads For Icy Cold Nights ~ Dark Kiss & Wicked Kiss by Michelle Rowen Giveaway!

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Fiery Hot Reads For Icy Cold Nights is a five week long event where bloggers will be featuring books with great romances and giving them away! 
A great chance to discover new authors and win some books to keep you warm during the winter nights. 

This is the last week of the event but there are lots of great giveaways still going on. You can see the full schedule HERE

Today I am excited to feature reviews of both Dark Kiss & Wicked Kiss as well as a giveaway for both books! Thanks for stopping by!

Dark Kiss 
(Nightwatchers #1)
by Michelle Rowen

Release Date: May 22, 2012
Publisher: HarlequinTEEN
Pages: 304
Genre: YA Paranormal/Angels
Source: Netgalley
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I don't do DANGEROUS. Smart, über-careful, ordinary Samantha—that’s me. But I just couldn’t pass up a surprise kiss from my number-one unattainable crush. A kiss that did something to me...something strange. Now I feel hungry all the time, but not for food. It’s like part of me is missing—and I don’t know if I can get it back. Then there’s Bishop. At first I thought he was just a street kid, but the secrets he’s keeping are as intense as his unearthly blue eyes. If he’s what I think he is, he may be the only one who can help me. But something terrifying is closing in, and the one chance Bishop and I have to stop it means losing everything I ever wanted and embracing the darkness inside me....
Nightwatchers: When angels and demons must work together, something beyond evil is rising...

ADD TO GOODREADS

Samantha runs into her crush Stephen while out a night club. When he kisses her she thinks her long time fantasy is coming true. Except he is a gray, a soul sucking being that has now took her soul. As a soulless gray, Samantha craves to kiss and steal souls herself. Guys are drawn to her and she hungers for their soul. When she meets Bishop he is lost but her touch brings him back to reality. He is here with other demons and angels on a mission to stop the grays. Bishop feels for Samantha and plans to help her.

Having a team of both angels and demons working together made for some interesting drama. Bishop is the sweet angel but he has a secretive past. Kraven is the snarky demon and he also has a secretive past that involves Bishop. Samantha was a bit more flat to me but what can I say I usually always prefer the boys. Bishop and Sam sort of have a little bit of an insta-love vibe going but I think with the paranormal explanations it made sense. It wasn't super over done. I am dying to learn more about how Bishop and Kraven ended up where they are now. I am hoping the next book brings to light more about their past and history.

I really didn't like Samantha's friend Carly at all. Samantha is struggling trying to find her soul and Carly just thinks Samantha is having fun without her and wants to join her?! In the end Carly was a better friend than I expected though. Samantha is trying to find Natalie the head soul sucking boss. Natalie was a fun villain and I kind of got a chuckle out of how much she enjoyed kissing boys and sucking souls. She knew more about Samantha than was expected and I am curious to learn more in the next book as well. A great set up for more snarky hot demon fun and sexy sweet angels.   



"I don't know." Bishop kept his attention on me. "There's something special about her. When she helped me with her touch-"
"Exactly what was she touching that was so memorable for you?"
"Watch your mouth."

"Believe me Samantha, that kiss-it was enough to prove something very important to me."
"What?"
"That I'd do anything to find a way to kiss you again."

Rating: 4/5

Wicked Kiss 
(Nightwatchers #2)
by Michelle Rowen

Release Date: February 26, 2013
Publisher: HarlequinTEEN
Pages: 440
Genre: YA Paranormal/Angels
Source: Netgalley
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MY KISS CAN KILL. I used to be ordinary Samantha Day, but that's changed. Now, after one dark kiss from a dangerous boy, I can steal someone's soul...or their life. If I give in to the constant hunger inside me, I hurt anyone I kiss. If I don't...I hurt myself. Bishop is the one whose kiss I crave most, but if I kiss him, I'll kill him. Then there's another boy, one I can't hurt. One whose kiss seems to miraculously quell my hunger. They're both part of a team of angels and demons that's joined forces in my city to fight a mysterious rising darkness, an evil that threatens everyone I know and love. I just wonder if I'll be able to help Bishop-or if I'm just another part of the darkness he's sworn to destroy....
NIGHTWATCHERS When angels and demons must work together, something beyond evil is rising...

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Samantha is still on a desperate mission to get her soul back and is trying to curb her craving to steal souls. She needs to kiss someone to help keep the cravings at bay... New troubles have arose as well as a new female angel added to the group that Samantha worries is taking Bishop's attention away from her. There is a rise in teen suicide as well as the grays are evolving. Either they turn monstrous and powerful or they die. Samantha must now more than ever find a way to return her soul.  

I love the angel/demon mission team. The balance is a perfect mix of sarcastic wit and sweet moments. Kraven and Roth always have something crude and hilarious to contribute. I was happy that Samantha continued to get inside Bishops mind and now not only what he is currently doing but also his memories. I love learning about Kraven and Bishop's history as it was what most intrigued me during the first book.

Kraven is hilarious and I love him but I'm glad this didn't venture into love triangle territory. There was flirting and some interesting things...but as I really hate the love triangles I am happy it didn't go much further. At times I did hate Kraven though, he is a demon after all. But once all the secrets of his and Bishop's past were revealed I understood him more.

While I did find the first book was a little predictable and more of a setup, I was happy that this book had a ton of action and twists I did not see coming. Samantha's past and family history surprised me right along with Bishops. I also didn't expect the ending. Everything worked out and is concluded perfectly but not at all in the way I expected.



"Or maybe you can bite me."
His grin stretched. "Is that an invitation?"

"Take my soul. Take all of it. I don't care. I can't lose you."

"Sorry, I think you're forgetting I'm a demon. We don't really specialize in good. Mayhem, chaos, misery--that's more my ticket. Get all those malicious feelings out. Balance sales to the dark side a smidgeon. Delicious."

Rating: 4/5

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