{"id":20386,"date":"2018-03-06T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T14:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=20386"},"modified":"2018-02-03T20:29:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T02:29:41","slug":"review-blood-courtesans-boxed-set-awakenings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/twinsietalk.com\/?p=20386","title":{"rendered":"#Review – Blood Courtesans Boxed Set: Awakenings"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Darkly decadent and sinfully sensual. Enter a world where vampires are real and meet the women who become their blood courtesans. Come let the fangs slip into your throat and awaken you to a whole new life. A boxed set of ALL NEW stories in this popular series.<\/p>\n

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***This review is for Refrain by Susan Griscom***<\/p>\n

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***This review is for Refrain by Susan Griscom***<\/p>\n

Vampires! Yes! It\u2019s so hard to take a vampire story and make it unique. I often find that there is a lot of monotony with them. But this is hardly the case for the Blood Courtesans. In this world vampires are real and out in the open. They are normal people like you and me but they drink blood\u2026maybe they are not what you consider completely normal, lol! Neriza is our female lead in Refrain. She lost her parents in a horrible car accident and this accident has left her sister paralyzed. Neriza is the sole provider for herself and her sister along with taking care of her parent\u2019s debt. She decides to apply to be a Blood Courtesan. She tries to do this quietly as her uncle doesn\u2019t agree with vampires paying for blood. Basically she gets rented for sex and blood. She has a unique quality about her that makes her a bit more valuable and she is accepted right away. She is essentially \u201crented\u201d by Lyric (through his assistant) so that she can go on tour with the band and keep him sustained. Lyric happens to be the lead singer of the band Crimson Rivers, also her childhood crush, also a total hottie with an accent! He wants her gone and gone ASAP!\u00a0 She can\u2019t figure out why so she puts all of her effort into getting him to keep her so that she is not in trouble with the Madame at the agency. As these two are learning to work together she gets some terrible news and finds that her dad was in the middle of some shady dealings, and here is where the real fun begins. Neriza and Lyric do form a friendship and confide in each other about their pasts. As things heat up both of their pasts come to the present and we find that the world may not be as large as we all thought. I can\u2019t give you ANY more of the story without giving away tons of spoilers. The intensity between Lyric and Neriza with the witty banter is enough to make you want to read the book. But all the crazy twists in between are what makes this story amazing!<\/p>\n

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