Sunday, July 20, 2014
All For You by Dana Marie Bell
Title: All For You
Author: Dana Marie Bell
Publisher: Carina Press
Genre: Paranormal, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Romance
Publication date: December 24, 2012
ISBN: 978-1-426894-84-8
# Of Pages: 339
Rating: 4 lips (Birds)
Heat: 1 pepper (M/F, Oral Sex, Adult Language)
Series: The Nephilim, Book One
Something creepy is stalking Abby Marcheson and its freaking her out in a major way. She’s glad Seth is around to keep an eye on her. He might be her brother’s hot friend, but when his protection turns into a possible romantic relationship, she’s completely on board.
Unfortunately all is not what it seems where Seth is concerned. As a descendent of Angels, this nephilim is charged with hunting the nepharious angelic offspring called the Shemayza. He’s been hiding his true nature from Abby hoping that he can ease into telling exactlywhat he is gently. However all bets are off when Seth realizes Abby’s horrific stalker may just be one of the evil angelic host.
Passion explodes between Abby and Seth, making it more and more difficult for him to keep the secret of his ancestry – and he wants to come clean to her badly. Could she look past the heavenly wings and still see Seth as he truly is – the angel who loves her – or will she go on the run and risk being captured by the very being that desires her demise?
I truly wasn’t sure what to expect with All For You by Dana Marie Bell. The first book in her Nephilim series, the tone wasn’t as humorous as her Halle Shifters or as tantalizingly hot as the Gray Court series, but man did this one sneak up on me! She gave the Nephilim hunters real “day jobs”, families, meddling human friends and I was a goner. I loved that Seth didn’t have all of the answers – his struggle to figure out where he stood with Abby was so refreshing. Not that I mind a self-assured alpha male – I certainly do. Seeing Sethas frustrated as she was at times really made me buy in to the plot. There was no sense of elitism – these angelic beings cared for and protected humans without the superiority complex. It was refreshing to not read a story where the “mere humans” had to prove themselves worthy of the hero.
I thought Abby’s character was realistically portrayed. She’d been abused and terrorized by a former boyfriend and was still working through some deep psychological scars. Her life wasn’t neatly packaged and her issues weren’t completely resolved in this book – I liked that. In real life you wouldn’t necessarily be able to work through something so traumatic in a few years, and Ms. Bell created Abby in such a way that I was angry for her. I wanted her to be strong, stand up to her personal boogey man and kick him to the curb. She didn’t disappoint me one bit.
All For You by Dana Marie Bell has a little bit of everything – some good loving, skillful suspense, heart pounding action, and a whole lot of vulnerability. That added up to a great beginning to a series - I’ll certainly be keeping my eyes open for the next installment!
Review originally published by TwoLips Reviews
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