Blog Tour: Of Flame and Fate (Weird Girls #8) by Cecy Robson

Book Blurb:

Of Flame and Fate by Cecy Robson

Release Date: September 26, 2017

Publisher: Cecy Robson, LLC

Series: Weird Girls Flame #2

Genres: Urban Fantasy

Page Count: 422

It’s time to meet your destiny in OF FLAME AND FATE, the next installment of the Weird Girls Flame series by Cecy Robson. Fans of Ilona Andrews’ Kate Daniels series and the Cassandra Palmer series by Karen Chance, will devour this urban fantasy where the fate of the world lies in the hands of four unique sisters.

Taran Wird, who commands the power to wield fire and lightning, is an oddity in the supernatural world. But neither Taran nor her unique sisters compare to the bizarre entity known as Destiny. And Taran is assigned to protect her.

Born of two witches, Destiny is revered among the supernatural elite for her acute ability to predict the future. Her biggest prophecy involves Taran’s sister, Celia, whom Destiny decreed will bear children strong enough to take on the evil that’s rising. Yet Destiny is not alone in her predictions, or individuality.

When Johnny Fate, a rock star among humans and a male version of Destiny is discovered, his powers and Destiny’s clash, triggering the start of Destiny’s demise and altering the fate of Celia’s unborn children.

Taran, her werewolf lover Gemini, and their allies must determine if it’s Fate who will decide what will become of Celia’s children, or if their lives and the world will perish with Destiny.

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The doors crash open as a pack of weres in human form stomp in, the exception being an immense, midnight-black wolf with a white left paw who leads them. His lips peel back, exposing a row of pointy fangs as he growls at the vampires surrounding me. But it’s the man storming forward with dark almond eyes and a six-inch dagger in his hand that gives me pause.

“Hi, honey,” I say, giving him a little wave.

Funny thing, he doesn’t wave back. His gaze swoops over my naked body. “Hold her,” he snarls, ramming the knife into my thigh.

Reality shoves aside the shock of having the man I love stab me in the leg. Like a heated blade through butter, he slices through the skin and muscle, creating a diagonal line and spraying blood across the glass shower walls. I expect pain, scorching white-hot pain, and to lose my blood supply in large volumes. But like the creepy crawly beneath my skin, I just feel that wretched pulling and grabbing.

My bleeding trickles to a stop just as Gemini’s hand plunges deep into the incision. The image is so graphic and brutal my stomach lurches. I’m seconds from passing out. The vamps on either side of me are the only thing keeping me vertical. But when my focus latches onto the hilt of the dagger, and I realize it’s a femur—a freaking femur!— my body immediately slumps.

Of course, that’s not the worst part.

The tangle of bodies, limbs, and faces, carved around the hilt twitch, as if seizing, breaking free of what’s holding them to slither. Oh, and it gets better. The mouths open, singing one messed up version of O Fortuna.

“Jesus Christ,” I gasp, my body trembling violently as their slowly amplifying voices echo across the room.

Agnes grips my jaw, yanking my face toward her. “Taran, get it together before you set this whole place on fire.”

I wrench my head free. “Don’t you think I’m trying?!”

I bite back a curse, and a few more, when something scampers toward my right butt cheek.

It doesn’t get far. Gemini thrusts his hand deep, wrenching a large, screeching lump from my leg, exciting the minute faces continuing to sing and slide along the hilt. Their voices crescendo and their bodies writhe with glee. I don’t get a good look at the demon impaled by the dagger, and I don’t want to. I only see enough to realize I was right about the spindly legs and pinchers.

Gemini carries the shrieking demon to the sink, ignoring the way the long cluster of centipede legs kick out and clutch blindly at the air. I wish I could ignore it. But those things you can’t unsee? I’ve seen plenty in my twisted, messed up life and this is one more to add to my list.

Gemini holds out his free hand. Without asking, a vamp drops an opened bottle of vodka into his palm. Gemini pours the vodka over the demon, stunning it and causing the legs to fall open like petals—nasty petals covered with blood, pointy grippy ends, and little bits of me.

With a turn of his wrist, he drops the demon into the sink. It falls with a sick plop.

Agnes’s weight abruptly pulls off me when she stands and hurries to the sink. She flicks a lighter another vamp tosses her and drops it on top of the demon. “Ad infernum,” she tells it, sending it back to hell.

The vamps step away from me as the flames spray up to lick the ceiling. The exception is Edith who remains on her knees, clutching my leg between her breasts and sealing my wound with several fast and enthusiastic strokes of her tongue.

“Get away from her,” Gemini demands. His voice is more beast than human, setting off an orchestra of snarls from the rest of the pack.

Like a very hungry dog with a bone, Edith doesn’t want to let go. Gemini doesn’t give her a choice. From one breath to the next, he rips me from her, wrapping me in a blanket someone hands him and carrying me away.

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My Review:

4.5 Out Of 5 Stars

Genre: Another-World, Mystery, Royal-Court, Supernatural, Suspense, Urban Fantasy, Vampires, Werewolves, Witches--

Taran Wird will do anything to protect her sister and her unborn baby, even if it means sacrificing her own life. When one dangerous mission after another ends with her having a demon crawling in her body, her mate Gemini has had enough of her actions. But before they can fix their tiff, all the leaders of the supernatural world are attacked and Taran has been assigned guard duty to Destiny, a Fate, and the scariest person that Taran has ever met. After a week of babysitting Destiny, Taran feels like this will be a cakewalk, becuase really who would attack the crazy powerful and unpredictable Fate? Well, nothing ever goes as planned for the Wird girls and Fate takes a turn.

So full disclaimer here, I have only read book 1, Sealed With A Curse, which was good, but just staring the building of the characters and the urban fantasy world, slowly revealing details of the supernatural and the origins of the Wird sisters. I have wanted to read the rest of the books but just never got the time to pick any up. Well, when I saw this book, I was interested in it from the synopsis and when I was told this was a standalone I was game to read more. TO be fair, this book could potentially be a standalone, with a new adventure set up and enough backstory tidbits to make me feel like I was not left out. But, I really, really, really want the filler! Based on the snippets I received here, I have missed a TON of stuff that I would love to catch up on (for example, Taran lost her arm and has a kinda-sorta sentient all powerful arm replacement- yeah, that is kind of a big deal!). So not only is this the 8th Weird Girls book, but the 3rd in the Taran Flame spinoff series.

I loved that the story started right in the middle of the action, with Taran being stripped and drenched with alcohol to keep a demon from entering her heart. That was literally just the beginning of the mess she finds herself in in this story and the danger and action grew as the book progressed. Taran was such a complex character, not expecting happiness for herself, but willing to do anything she can to protect her sisters. She was so powerful and usually surrounded by people, yet you could feel her loneliness and sorrow over what she felt needed to happen. I fully appreciated her sarcasm and her usually inappropriately placed sense of humor. I heart her interaction with her sisters, especially the protection she feels for Emme, but her moments with Gemini were the best- whether he agrees with her or not, he has her back and will stop at nothing to see her prevail. The fact he applauds her humanity and praises her strength just makes me love him more (for her of course, but I may have a little crush...).

I loved the first book and I really enjoyed this story, I just need to get my hands on the 6 books in between to fill in the gaps in the crazy complicated world building that has happened since I first started this journey. Instead of feeling like I was left out, jumping into this story makes me want more, and the ending shows that this is really just the start for what is coming for Taran and company. I always on the prowl for good Urban Fantasy and I am pretty sure I struck the jackpot here. I have read lots of books by Cecy (mainly her romance stories) but she really knows how to create complicated characters and pace her writing perfectly to keep me engaged. Cecy has built such a great Urban Fantasy series here, which just so happens to be my favorite genre of books, and I highly recommend any UF fans pick up the first book. Expect an edge of your seat ride that you will never want to end.

I received this title for reviewing purposes.

Author Bio:

CECY ROBSON is an author of contemporary romance, young adult adventure, and award-winning urban fantasy. A double RITA® 2016 finalist for Once Pure and Once Kissed, and a published author of more than eighteen titles, you can typically find her on her laptop writing her stories or stumbling blindly in search of caffeine. Website | Twitter | Facebook | Newsletter

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