Book Title: Grimnirs
Series: A Runes Novel
Author: Ednah Walters
Release Date: December 2nd
2013
Genre: YA Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Firetrail
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One lost love.
One lost best
friend.
One hot soul reaper.
Straight out of the psyche ward, Cora just wants her life to
be normal. She doesn’t want to see souls or the reapers collecting them. The
love of her life, the guy she’s loved from a distance for years, has moved away
without saying goodbye. So yes, she’s nursing a serious heartbreak. It’s no
wonder love is the last thing on her mind when Echo storms into her life.
The chemistry between them is mind-blowing. The connection
defies logic. It doesn’t help that Echo is the poster boy for everything she
hates in a guy—hot, beautiful, and cocky. A general pain-in-the-butt. Being
around him makes her feel more alive than she’s ever felt before. But more
important, the souls leave her alone when he is around.
Echo is perfect for her. Echo might even be her soul-mate.
There is only one problem. Echo is a freaking soul reaper. A Grimnir. The very
beings she wants out of her life. Maybe normal is overrated because Cora wants
it all. Answers. Love. A life. You see, once you fall for a Grimnir, your life
will never be the same again.
Excerpt:
“Now see what you made me do.” I eased off the brake. Ahead,
Dad’s truck was nowhere in sight.
“Sorry about that,” Echo said, but he didn’t sound or look
it. He reached out and lifted the hair on my right shoulder.
I swatted at his hand. “Stop that.”
“Can’t help it.” He planted a kiss on my neck. The car
swayed as I momentarily lost control.
“I’m serious. Quit messing with me, Echo.”
“You smell amazing.” He trailed kisses up my neck to my ear
and inhaled.
The sensations that invaded my body were downright
frightening. Not even Eirik had ever made me feel like this. If I could forget
Echo was a lunatic and I was losing my mind, I would have enjoyed the
sensation.
I reached up and tried to push his head away, but it was
like moving a boulder. Worse, my hand sunk into his hair. It was silky, and for
one brief moment, I wanted to run my fingers through it, maybe hold his head in
place and savor the moment.
He bit my ear. I squealed and, once again, lost control of
the car. “Dang it, Echo. We could get into an accident.”
“But we self-heal.”
I self-healed, too? Nice. No, not nice. I refused to start
buying into his crazy assumptions. “I could hurt someone.”
“There’re just Mortals. If it’s their time to go, it’s their
time to go. No force of nature can stop that. No, that’s not true. Norns could.
You look breathtaking this morning. Love that shade of red on you. Very vampy.
What is it you once told me? Red gives you the extra oomph when you are having
a shitty day.”
The only person who knew that was Raine. “Who
told you that?”
My Thoughts:
This book gave me tingles in places I didn't know could get tingles! I was helpless but to fall under Echo's spell of hotness. Poor Cora fought a brave battle. But even the strongest willed woman would be a puddle goo if he was determined. I loved that even though this book focused on Cora & Echo we still got to see Raine & Torin as well. I was relieved to see some relationships resolved in this book. Ednah spared no delicious detail when creating Echo. She is the ultimate artist when developing the baddest of delicious man candy! In fact, if they ever make a "Build-a-Man" factory (much like Build-a-Bear) I'm dragging her with me. The story is just as amazing as Runes & Immortals. We're introduced to more Norse mythology, which I love. I can't wait to see what all these characters have in store for them when the next book comes out.
EDNAH WALTERS grew up reading Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys
and dreaming of one day writing her own stories. She is a stay-at-home mother
of five humans and two American short-hair cats (one of which has ADHD) and a
husband. When she is not writing, she’s at the gym doing Zumba or doing things
with her family, reading, traveling or online chatting with fans.
Ednah is the author of The Guardian Legacy series, a YA
fantasy series about children of the fallen angels, who fight demons and
protect mankind. AWAKENED, the prequel was released by Pill Hill Press in
September 2010 with rave reviews. BETRAYED, book one in the series was released
by her new publisher Spencer Hill Press in June 2012 and HUNTED, the third
installment, will be released April 2013. She’s working on the next book in the
series, FORGOTTEN. Visit her at www.ednahwalters.com
Ednah also writes YA paranormal romance. RUNES
is the first book in her new series. IMMORTALS is book 2. She just released
book 3, GRIMNIRS December 2, 2013. Read more about this series and the world
she's created here www.runestheseries.com
Under the pseudonym E.
B. Walters, Ednah writes contemporary romance. SLOW BURN, the first
contemporary romance with suspense, was released in April 2011. It is the first
book in the Fitzgerald family series. Since then she has published four more
books in this series. She's presently working on book six. You can visit her
online at or www.ebwalters.com.
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