Shattered Skies: Beginning's End By Heather Linn Review~Spotlight~Excerpt

Title: Shattered Skies: Beginning’s End

Author: Heather Linn

Series: Shattered Skies Saga (#1)

Genre: SciFi/Horror/Fantasy

Publisher: Self Published

Release Date: Dec 19 2012

Blurb/Synopsis:

Shattered Skies, Beginning’s End, is a dramatic story of twisted killings and love and hate that takes place within a horrific world where alien vampires have taken over the earth and made humans their slaves. The vampires have created a new genetic race, the Dominus, breeding a scary blood-drinking race of human and vampire that prey off the humans that are left. People are relegated to the classes of slaves, food and mates.

This is a world where sex kills and a rogue group of humans kills as many of the Dominus as they can by bedding them. This warrior group is led by mysterious doctor who has raised the 16 members of the group since infancy, hidden away in an underground bunker.

The plot twists and turns as the heroine, the unselfish Catalina, rejects her traditional female role and demands to fight the Dominus alongside the men, bedding and killing as she goes. Her emotions tear her apart as she struggles with herself, torn between a mad attraction for the Dominus King and her fellow warrior, Darien.

As the clashes between Dominus and Vampire and Humans continue, Catalina is forced to face herself. Could she really be destined to save the world as the enigmatic Doctor’s ancient prophecy predicts?

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            I am a mother to three beautiful children, they keep me busy. I live in a small town that’s filled with monsters and really nice people alike. I love taking walks around the mountain trails where I live and I love taking trips to the Ocean, especially the South Carolina beaches. The ocean brings me tranquility and refreshes me, but I don’t get to go there often enough. Some mornings I listen to nothing but sad country songs for hours but when I write, I usually buckle down with my headphones and listen to something raw and angry like  Seether,  and Stone Sour.     I can be shy around people but I’m mostly always honest within myself. In many ways, on many levels, I express different parts of myself through my characters. Someone told me once that you are only as old as you feel  and I love that! In fact, I love that idea because personally, have no intentions of ever growing up!  I want to be 18 forever no matter what they do to me. LOL!

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“Kitten, you have to wake up. You are bleeding.” Then he was shaking me; shaking me so hard that he was disturbing my easy state and that made me angry. I slowly opened my eyes and he was there looking me over, eyes glistening. “I thought you were dead. What happened? I felt you cry out to me. I felt it in my mind.”

Wow, he was beautiful and he smelled of something that I couldn’t quite put my finger on; a mix of vanilla and lilac maybe. Whatever it was, it made me feel safe. I didn’t know where I was and I didn’t care, because as long as I could see him and smell him I was where I was supposed to be. The look in his eyes took my breath away. It was like he was looking at the most precious gemstone in the world. I knew that I would never understand that look but my heart already did. I was truly loved by two different men. Who could say that they were really that blessed in their lifetime? I was sure the list was extremely short.

Sure the love was different. One love had the passion to burn me like the sun with his kisses, and the other could take away all my fears with just the brush of his skin, but no matter the feeling that they gave me, the look in their eyes was the same. I could die knowing that I may have been nothing to the world, but to these two men I was everything.

Favorite Quotes:

When I was finally able to look away from Dr. Walker’s pale face I was shocked to see everyone’s eyes in the room glued on me. “What are you all looking at me like that for?” No one even blinked. It was like they were frozen in time. “Oh, come on; you can’t all be serious. That thing is not about me. It was just some crazy guy having nightmares about thing that he knew no more about than any of the other humans.”

“You know, you really didn’t have to alter your appearance at all Cat. You have always looked like one of them, not to mention the fact that you never even had to learn mannerisms. You just do what they do; it is like second nature.” As the words flew out of Darien’s mouth he pointed to all my brothers and sisters. This little rant about me walking easily among the monsters upset me even more, because Darien was always on my side no matter what, and now he too was going to betray me because some loon had a dream about the end of the world. Maybe we weren’t as connected and as solid as I thought. 

Something was wrong. I just stood there and waited; I waited for the tears or the shakes or anything to come to let me know that I was human, but nothing came; not a single tear fell. I was cold, not the kind of cold that a blanket can fix, but cold from the inside out and I knew that nothing could fix that. I would never again feel warm. From this point on; I knew that I would live only to get back at the monsters that had done this to my family. I took one last look at Jewel as she slumped down the blood stained wall of her cell and I fled. I died when I murdered her; she had killed me in return. It was pure justice for both of us.

This book was given to me in return for an honest review.

This book is not my normal book that I read but I thought I would give it a try.  Cat “aka Catalina” was a women in which her life was not an easy one. She lived underground with her family and they were considered rogue humans. Vampires had taken over the planet and she along with the men in the family were out hunting Dominus which is a group of genetically mix of humans and vampires.

I had some difficulties with the book. Cat was a women I thought I would admire and like but one minute she was very confident in herself and her abilities and the next she was questioning everything she did. It bothered me, I feel if she is fighting and hunting these Duminus’ then she should be confident not rethinking everything. The second thing I have a problem with is the grammatical errors.  But the story plot was a good one and it kept you on the edge of your seat. I will read the second one just so I know what happen.

FOUR HALF ROGUE ANGELS