Magnolias and Demon spawn

Demon Hunting in Dixie by Lexi George
warrior, a demon, and the girl next door…

Addy Corwin is a florist with an attitude. A bad attitude, or so her mama says, ‘cause she’s not looking for a man. Mama’s wrong. Addy has looked. There’s just not much to choose from in Hannah, her small Alabama hometown. Until Brand Dalvahni shows up, a supernaturally sexy, breathtakingly well-built hunk of a warrior from—well, not from around here, that’s for sure. Mama thinks he might be European or maybe even a Yankee. Brand says he’s from another dimension.

Addy couldn’t care less where he’s from. He’s gorgeous. Serious muscles. Disturbing green eyes. Brand really gets her going. Too bad he’s a whack job. Says he’s come to rescue her from a demon. Puh-lease. But right after Brand shows up, strange things start to happen. Dogs talk and reanimated corpses stalk the quite streets of Hannah. Her mortal enemy Meredith, otherwise known as the Death Starr, breaks out in a severe and inexplicable case of butt boils. Addy might not know what’s going on, but she definitely wants a certain sexy demon hunter by her side when it all goes down…

Big warrior guy comes to town to fight some baddies. Small town girl puts herself in harms way in order to protect the handsome stranger. Big warrior guy remains to protect small town girl who is not injured. Other big warrior types come to town to collect missing warrior who is now smitten with small town girl. Small town girl insists that she can handle herself and conjures a kitten to become her new bodyguard.
You just will love this book.
Lexi George has a talent for spinning a fun story set in a small southern town with colorful characters. She takes great care in describing the local attractions, small businesses, and overbearing mothers.
Southern women have wonderful manners. I thank Lexi George for teaching me how to handle awkward situations with southern sensitivities:

What do you do when your dog suddenly begins talking to you? Keep listening, he probably has more to say than most of your friends.

How do you respond when a demon claims you for his own? Sarcasm

What is the proper form when an alien demon-hunter decides to become your personal body-guard? Introduce him to your southern match-making mamma as an European. 

What is the proper etiquette for handling an ambulatory corpse the day of his funeral? Send the flowers, personally.

How do you entertain thousand year old inter-dimensional warriors? Take them to the local barbecue joint. Order the whole hog.

What is the best way to mark sobriety after 20 years of drunkenness? Plan a wedding.


What is the difference between tacky and trashy?

Tacky is wearing white dress shoes to church before Easter, and trashy is going to church on Palm Sunday wearing white dress shoes and no underwear.

Ah... This is a great story. I read it in two days. It made me laugh, cringe, and want more. It combines my favorite genres, science fiction and humor with a dash of adult love.

A recipe for a very funny book


My score A-;
I am taking off for the kitten abuse. :p

Savor Me Sexy Killer

“Savor me Slowly” is the fifth installment in the Alien Huntress series by Gena Showalter

The series highlights a female who is hunting bad aliens on post-alien war Earth.  The female can be human, alien, hybrid or cyborg.  That is all I am giving you.  JFGI if you want more information about the series.

In this novel , the hunter is human, alien and animal with a clever chip implanted in her head.  Mishka Le’Ace.  She can communicate with the chip to enhance her assassin skills; in turn the chip keeps her a slave to whoever controls its self-destruct or pain inducing function.  

I want to mention that she has always been controlled by a man. All this leaves her a little whiny and needy in private and a kick ass huntress in public. 

Mishka is a dangerous woman not permitted to explore her emotions.  Expressing any leads to severe punishment.  Yet, the emotions have not been completely removed from personality.  She longs to be treated like a person, to be loved, to be trusted.  Being a spy and an assassin makes relationships impossible to cultivate when she may have to kill or betray her friends and lovers. 

Her current assignment is to gather information about a new alien race attacking women.  Each attack leaves them infected with a zombie virus.

There I wrote it.  When you read the book, you will know that the author is describing a zombie making virus despite never naming it.  The concept of zobmies and zombie making viruses have been in our science-fiction culture long enough so that  authors do not have to explain the phenomena to the reader or create a new name for it.  Geez....

Note to the author:  Just write, "the Schön were infecting beautiful, sexy human women with a zombie virus."  The readers will know EXACTLY what you mean.

The Zombie-strain STD having aliens are called the Schön, and both Alien Investigation and Removal (AIR) and Mishka Le'Ace's boss want them investigated, captured and killed. 

Checkout this excerpt http://genashowalter.com/excerpts/21/savor-me-slowly/

Then there is the assassing,Jaxon. The cool AIR agent who has also been tracking the new aliens.  He has been captured and tortured for information about their habits.  He does not talk.  He will not talk.  The people who capture him admit their failure and hire Marie.  

Jaxon is introduced to our protagonist as Marie, the sexy, new torturer who always gets the information.

Faced with the prospect of enduring more torture from this breathtaking femme fatale he proves his loyalty to AIR and determination to remain silent by telling her

“Come sit on my lap and I’ll tell you everything you want to know.”

At this point, I did not give a rat’s arse about Mishka.  I wanted more Jaxon.   I did not care if she got him at the end of the book or died trying, I just wanted to know more about the character.

She flirts with her captive, her intended victim

“You won’t even give me a tiny little hint?” she beseeched, her long lashes fluttering, beckoning him deeper into the black sea of her gaze.  “I don’t want to hurt you.”

I was hooked. 

Finally, a silver lining to his ravaged face.  He couldn’t see clearly enough to discern her clothing, which meant, in his mind, she was wearing lingerie.  Black, like her eyes.  With sheer lace.  She had small breasts, but they were soft and pink-tipped. 

Despite his condition, his dick lengthened, thickened, hardened.

I loved it.  This guy is B R O K E N before she arrives, he knows that she is replacing his previous 6 tormentors who liked to work together, and his peen still has enough energy to respond to her.

I wanted to date this guy. 

We soon learn that Marie is Mishka undercover. 

I read some more text.  These two are completely and immediately attracted to each other. So much so, that they each constantly think of each other when apart.  To the point of daydreaming.  

What self-respecting alien assassin daydreams on the job? I really found it difficult to ignore this plot device to explain their attraction to the reader. 

Oddly both of these guy do but manage to survive until the major conflicts of the story.

The two try to collaborate in their efforts to repel the Schön from Earth.  

Unfortunately all of his friends at the AIR  hate her by reputation and experience.  It is no Hatfield and McCoys since she has no friends but the hate is real.  

I was a little put off when Jaxon's best friend decides to take a break during a major battle to kill Mishka.  Like who takes a time out during a gunfight with hard to track aliens to kill the new girlfriend? But at least it kept her from daydreaming about her man's sexy body during the scene. 

In conclusion, I have to admit that a man who is willing to shoot his best buds with a flame thrower if they don't accept his woman is sexy as hell.  

If the author can maintain a good balance between alien violence and true-love romance, I will continue to read the series.