{"id":15831,"date":"2016-09-01T10:00:53","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=15831"},"modified":"2016-08-21T08:03:01","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T13:03:01","slug":"review-paranormal-the-gathering-killian-and-lyra-the-gathering-tales-1-by-ellis-leigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=15831","title":{"rendered":"#WOTR #review #Paranormal &#8211; The Gathering: Killian and Lyra (The Gathering Tales #1) by Ellis Leigh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/writers-on-the-river-attendingauthor-2017.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15539\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/writers-on-the-river-attendingauthor-2017.jpg?resize=300%2C204\" alt=\"writers-on-the-river-attendingauthor-2017\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/writers-on-the-river-attendingauthor-2017.jpg?resize=300%2C204 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/writers-on-the-river-attendingauthor-2017.jpg?resize=768%2C522 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/writers-on-the-river-attendingauthor-2017.jpg?w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/writers-on-the-river-attendingauthor-2017.jpg?w=948 948w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1418600270l\/23733559.jpg?w=474&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Gathering: Killian and Lyra (The Gathering Tales, #1)\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/synopsis.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6165\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/synopsis.png?resize=156%2C54\" alt=\"synopsis\" width=\"156\" height=\"54\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span id=\"freeText2034803981056616844\"><em>ou are cordially invited to the event of the season\u2026<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Please be our guest as the National Association of the Lycan Brotherhood hosts the seventy-eighth annual Gathering. The biggest event of the social season, the Gathering has become the favorite method of networking among packs and bringing together fated mates. At the Gathering, shifters from across the country show up to show off and to see who\u2019s the true leader of the pack.<\/p>\n<p>The black-tie welcoming dinner will be the perfect chance to meet Killian O&#8217;Shea, Alpha of the Appalachia pack. Killian&#8217;s rough, tough, and built for fighting, which is a good thing as he&#8217;s got a road-blocking Alpha standing between him and his destiny. Lyra, Killian&#8217;s newfound mate, likes the way he disregards the rules keeping them apart. She&#8217;s ready to risk it all for the bigger-than-life Alpha who makes her heart race.<\/p>\n<p>Come and enjoy tales from the biggest shifter event of the year as wolves from around the country fall in lust, in love, and in fate at the Gathering.<\/p>\n<p>Each Gathering Tale is a stand-alone short romance, though reading them in order introduces characters as the author intended.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/TBR.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6166\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/TBR.png?resize=113%2C51\" alt=\"TBR\" width=\"113\" height=\"51\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/23733559-the-gathering?ac=1&amp;from_search=true\">Goodreads<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Buy-Links.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6156\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Buy-Links.png?resize=158%2C45\" alt=\"Buy Links\" width=\"158\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Gathering-4-Book-Series\/dp\/B01BP0TPSG\/ref=sr_1_1_ha?s=digital-text&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1471280481&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=the+gathering+by+ellis+leigh\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/angies-review.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6154\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/angies-review.png?resize=230%2C50\" alt=\"angies review\" width=\"230\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I grabbed this book off Amazon for free.<\/p>\n<p>SO I am a huge paranormal girl an when I saw this was a free book in a serial I thought why the heck not.\u00a0 I know some people are not fans of serials but I love them.\u00a0 They are short and quick reads so a blogger like me can fit a few in a day to read.<\/p>\n<p>Shifters are favorite genre of mine.\u00a0 This book is about a lot of shifters gathering to mingle in hopes of finding mates.\u00a0 Killian is the alpha of a apck of shifters who haven\u2019t come to these gatherings for many years t de to dwindling mates being found he decided to give it a shot.<\/p>\n<p>He walks in and immediately finds his mate.\u00a0 Lyra is unfortunately stuck with a DB of an alpha who thinks woman can and should be forced to submit to him and in his bed.<\/p>\n<p>The story is how the two are trying to sneak off to in fact \u201cmate\u201d and claim each other before her alpha discovers them.\u00a0 He can nd will keep them apart because he has the ability to deny Lyra to this man even though he knows what Lyra and Killian are to each other.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/about-the-author.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6153\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/twinsietalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/about-the-author.png?resize=231%2C55\" alt=\"about the author\" width=\"231\" height=\"55\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A storyteller from the time she can talk Ellis\u00a0 grew up among family legends of hauntings, psychics, and love spanning decades. Those stories didn\u2019t always have the happiest of endings, so they inspired her to write about real life, real love, and the difficulties therein. From farmers to werewolves, store clerks to witches\u2014if there\u2019s love to be found, she\u2019ll write about it. Ellis lives in the Chicago area with her husband, daughters, and two tiny fish that take up way too much of her time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ou are cordially invited to the event of the season\u2026 Please be our guest as the National Association of the Lycan Brotherhood hosts the seventy-eighth annual Gathering. The biggest event of the social season, the Gathering has become the favorite method of networking among packs and bringing together fated mates. At the Gathering, shifters from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=15831\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">#WOTR #review #Paranormal &#8211; The Gathering: Killian and Lyra (The Gathering Tales #1) by Ellis Leigh<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paSW8H-47l","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15831"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15894,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15831\/revisions\/15894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}