Shadow Touch: A Dirk & Steele Novel [Mass Market Paperback]

I've finished "Shadow Touch" the 2nd book in her Dirk and Steele series by Majorie M. Liu.

Product Description

Elena Baxter can work miracles with her fingers. She can coax bones to knit, flesh to heal. She can mend the mind and spirit.

That is why she is taken.

Artur Loginov joined Dirk & Steele, an international detective agency that specializes in the impossible, to help extraordinary souls in need — and to keep their secrets safe. For Artur himself is not like ordinary men — handsome, powerful, and tormented, he is able to do wondrous things with nothing but a thought and a touch. That is why he, too, is taken . . .

Drawn together into the darkness, Elena and Artur find themselves caged and cornered, joined in a desperate fight for their lives. But they will find strength where they never expected it: in a passionate look, in a tender kiss, in a heart-soaring, breathtaking . . . Shadow Touch

About the Author

Marjorie M. Liu is an attorney and New York Times bestselling author of paranormal romances and urban fantasy. In the world of comic books, she is also the writer of NXY: No Way Home, Black Window, X-23, and Dark Wolverine (with Daniel Way, for Marvel). She lived in the American Midwest and Beijing, China.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Avon; Reissue edition (January 25, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0062019899
ISBN-13: 978-0062019899

My Review:

Elena Baxter has the power to heal. The Consortium wants to understand, control, and use these powers to take over the world so therefore both Artur and Elena are drugged, kidnapped, and taken to a lab in Russia.

In the lab where they are being examined, they meet two shapeshifters, Rik (a dolphin) and Amiri (a cheetah), as well as Rictor who isn't human or shapeshifter but can instantly vanish and read minds. Artur and Elena bond when Elena heals his mind and they join together with Rik, Amiri, and Rictor to escape the Consortium's clutches. Unfortunately, Artur discovers that the Consortium's head, Beatrix Weave, intends to unite all of the Russian Mafia crime lords and begin her conquest of the world. Artur finally manages to contact the agency he works for, Dirk and Steele, and Beatrix's plans are put to a stop. 

The love story was hot and full of chemistry that delivered!  The action was action-packed and exciting. 

5/5

Thanks Shannon from HarperCollins Canada for sending me this book to review, greatly appreciated!

Tiger Eye: The First Dirk & Steele Novel [Mass Market Paperback]

I've finished "Tiger Eye" the 1st book in her Dirk and Steele series by Majorie M. Liu.

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The first book in Marjorie M. Liu's extraordinary Dirk & Steele Series!

Long ago they roamed the earth — dragons, tigers . . . shapeshifters — men who wore the forms of beasts. Their world was magic. Now it is gone. But some remain . . .

He looks out of place in Dela Reese’s Beijing hotel room — exotic and poignant, some mythic, tragic hero of an epic tale. With his feline yellow eyes, he’s like nothing from her world. Yet Dela has danced through the echo of his soul and knows this warrior will obey her every command.

Hari has been used and abused for millennia. But he sees, upon his release from the riddle box, that this new mistress is different. There is a hidden power in Dela’s eyes — and with her, he may regain all that was lost to him. Where once he savaged, now he must protect; where before he knew only hatred, now he must embrace love. Dela is the key.

For Dela, he will risk all.

About the Author

Marjorie M. Liu is an attorney and New York Times bestselling author of paranormal romances and urban fantasy. In the world of comic books, she is also the writer of NXY: No Way Home, Black Window, X-23, and Dark Wolverine (with Daniel Way, for Marvel). She lived in the American Midwest and Beijing, China.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Avon; Reprint edition (December 28, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0062020153
ISBN-13: 978-0062020154

My Review:

I highly recommend reading this series if you love shape-shifters and humans with special exordinary powers with great characters and storylines.

I really loved reading and meeting all the bad boys of Dirk and Steele Artur, Dean, Blue and Eddie who all have their own books after this one except for Eddie.  Loved finding out what all their special powers were.

Dela is such a great character because she can take care of herself, everyone loves her in the organization and are willing to come and help her out/protect her when she is in need, smart and has a great sense of who to trust.

I understand Hari's characterization because of what he went through since been a child and being used for destruction and his body, etc.

You can feel the attraction between Dela and Hari since the first time they meet and finally when they give into it!  Man was it hot and spicy!

4/5

Thanks Shannon from HarperCollins Canada for sending me this book to review, greatly appreciated!

In the Dark of Dreams: A Dirk & Steele Novel [Mass Market Paperback]

I've finished "In the Dark of Dreams" the 10th book in her Dirk and Steele series by Majorie M. Liu.

Product Description

She could never forget the boy with the ice blue eyes . . .

She was only twelve when she saw the silver boy on the beach, but Jenny has never stopped dreaming about him. Now she is grown, a marine biologist charting her own course in the family business — a corporation that covertly crosses the boundaries of science into realms of the unknown . . . and the incredible.

And now he has found her again, her boy grown into a man: Perrin, powerful and masculine, and so much more than human, leaving Jenny weak with desire and aching for his touch.

But with their reunion comes danger. For Perrin and Jenny — and all living creatures — their only hope for preventing the unthinkable lies in a mysterious empire far beneath the sea . . . and in the power of their dreams.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Avon; Original edition (November 30, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0062020161
ISBN-13: 978-0062020161

My Review:

I highly recommend reading this series if you like fantasy adventures with not your typical well written characters.

Jenny was a smart and independant women who knew how to take care of herself.  Perrin has had a harsh life since childhood who has learned how to live and speak English.

When they meet you can see the fireworks and they must find a way to save themselves and the world.  They both have trouble trusting people and it was fun to see them finally opening up and trusting each other.

4/5

Thanks Shannon from HarperCollins Canada for sending me this book to review, greatly appreciated!