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Title: HeartBeat
(Morta Fox #1)
Author: D.N. Hoxa
Publication date: October 23rd, 2016
Category/Genre: Adult Paranormal Romance
Almost
twenty years ago, earth shook from explosions that killed billions, and wiped
away civilization. Only a small part of the city of Boston remained intact.
To Morta Fox, a twenty-year-old girl living all alone outside the Wall of Protection, waking up with a craving for blood is something she never imagined could happen. To make matters even worse, a vampire who calls himself Hammer takes away her last attempt at self-destruction.
Hammer has
been chasing Everard – the vampire last seen with his missing mate – for a
year. Right before he finds him, he witnesses a girl jump off the tenth floor
of a building. Though her bones break, she heals just as fast. When she stands
up, she runs as fast as only vampires can. But she can’t possibly be one,
because…she has a beating heart.
When
Hammer saves Morta against her will, she’s furious. Until he proposes a deal.
If Morta agrees to help him find her Lord Everard, Hammer will, in return, kill
her. It’s a simple deal. They even make a promise, and in the vampire world,
promises cannot be broken.
Nothing
goes as planned. Morta soon discovers that her beating heart is not the only
thing that makes her unusual, and Hammer is the only one who is willing to
protect her. Being equally stubborn, it takes a long time for them to admit
that constantly saving each other from harm has nothing to do with their deal,
and everything to do with how they feel.
By the time that happens, Morta’s part of the deal is completed, and Hammer has only seven days left to fulfill his. What happens to a vampire when he doesn’t keep his promise?
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3 “Vampire & Dangerous Oaths” Stars
ARC provided by author.
Thank you!!!
Yes, I am one of those people anxiously waiting for paranormal romance to
make a comeback. Vampires, shifters, angels and ghosts. All of it. In YA, New
Adult and Adult. Just gimme all.
That’s why I jumped on the chance to read this paranormal romance. While
it wasn’t as thrilling, innovative and angsty as I wanted it to be, it was
still entertaining.
This is the story of Morta Fox (in Portuguese, morta means dead so… yeah, funny and weird) and how
she handles becoming a vampire. In a world destroyed by bombs that mysteriously
went off and wiped away civilization, Morta tries to stay away from the rest of
the survivors…living her life alone. Until one day she has a run in with a
weird being that turns her into a monster: a vampire.
Terrified of what she becomes, Morta tries to end her life, but fails
every single time. She then meets Hammer, an experienced vampire who’s looking
for the monster who turned Morta. In exchange for her help in locating “her
Lord”, he promises to kill her. Until the moment he decides he can’t kill her at
all, because he's fallen in love with her.
I was expecting a couple of things from this book: a new take on
vampirism, lots of action and a super strong romance.
The author did try a few new things with the vampires she presented,
especially with Morta, since she was a different kind of monster. I won’t get too much into that because of spoilers, but let’s just say Morta
is the kind of vampire other vampires fear. It was interesting to see some of
the things that made Morta unique, mainly because it was what set this story
apart from others books with the same theme.
As to the action scenes, there were a few good moments filled with
tension. I wasn’t a big fan of how often Morta and Hammer found themselves
surrounded by enemy and running away from them, but I understood the author was
trying to keep things moving… it just didn’t have to be so literal, you know? Some
of those scenes ended up being repetitive.
Last but not least, I think the reason I can’t rate this higher is
because I just couldn’t connect with the romance. Often, the romance is what
makes or breaks a book for me (unless I’m reading a mystery/thriller or a book
that has no romance subplot). But in paranormal romance, I expect the romance
to make me feel everything at the same time. I want to suffer with the
characters, love when they love, hate when they hate, and all that. Unfortunately,
that didn’t happen here.
And when it comes to paranormal with a hate-t0-love relationship, which
seemed to be what the author was going for with Morta and Hammer, the bar is set
high because I’m a Jericho Barrons-MacKayla Lane child. If you’re characters
are fighting, I want to see the sexual tension, the desperation, the snarky
comebacks and everything else. Again, it wasn’t happening here.
Morta and Hammer fought a lot, but the tension between them was missing.
The dialogue often felt forced, and I felt like most of the time Morta was just
being stubborn for the sake of it. Hammer also didn’t reach his potential as an
alpha, and he wasn’t a good beta, either. I have problems with characters that
fall in between, especially in paranormal. That’s a genre where I want all my
love interests to be alphas, and Hammer had potential to be a good one. He just
didn’t captive me the way I wanted him to. Neither did Morta. I didn't dislike her. In fact, I could understand her desperation and I thought it was touching that she cared so much about not hurting people that she was desperate to stop herself from turning into a monster. I just wish I could've connected with her...
I also wish I could’ve liked this more than I did.
Having said that, if you’re a paranormal
romance fan, check the other reviews on Goodreads before you make a
decision about this book, because other readers are rating it four and five stars.
*If you liked this review (or not), if you read the book (or not), come say hello and leave your comments bellow.
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