Fangs Of Anarchy 2 - Outlaw Alpha: Bound (Part 1) by Dakota Cassidy

Forced into a paranormal settlement and dealing with arcane, sexist mate calls, werewolf Freya Ashe—ex-attorney, current quilter—thought life couldn’t suck more. Unless she factored in her hunger for the sinfully luscious Liam McConnell—which she didn’t. Nope. Uh-uh. Not at all. When you want someone you can’t have, denial is the best policy.
And on top of all that suck, the inconceivable has happened—Freya was chosen at the latest mate call. By the greasiest, smelliest, dumbest werewolf every to rub two brain cells together—Courtland Dodd. She’d rather chug battery acid than mate with the vile pack alpha, but in Freya’s world, it’s either surrender or suffer.
Surly vampire Liam McConnell thought he’d lost everything when the government segregated paranormals. He was wrong. In recent months, he’s been kicked out of his biker club, Fangs of Anarchy, and shunned by his very family. He’ll be damned if he’s going to lose the one woman he lusts for above all others—even if she is forbidden. 

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Well, the second book of Fangs Of Anarchy has started on a really good note! I'll admit, I had some difficulty getting into the first chapter, but by the beginning of chapter two I was in. This serial is Liam and Freya's story. For those who didn't read or don't recall the first part; Liam is Irish McConnell's brother and Freya is Claire Montgomery's best friend. I really wanted a Liam story, so I was very pleased when I found out there would be one. And from the glimpses I got of Freya in the first book, I knew I liked her, so I'm glad I get to know her better now.

This being a serial and all, I can't really say much, because I'll end up spoiling the entire book. I will say not much happens in the first part, aside from establishing the two main characters and their relationship. But Freya and Liam's relationship does evolve a lot quicker than Irish and Claire's; and in true Dakota fashion, the last page leaves you on such a high and then those two dreaded words, The End show up!

Uncensored comments straight from Kindle

• And for those who made Fangs Book 1 such a hit, thank you, thank you! - You're welcome, you're welcome. Hehe.
• Dakota, you need to stop using "puddle of goo" 
• Had a difficult time getting into it in the beginning. 
• ...no way...he didn't...NO FUCKING WAY....
• HE DID!!!! :-O WITHOUT permission!? Da hell!?
• Well, at least he didn't say she was going to have a hangover for all eternity. *snickers*
• I can totally see why Irish is in charge of the Clan and not his brother.

100th Review Celebration - Giveaway! Two books by Dakota Cassidy

It's been a long time coming, folks! 100 reviews. Had some rough years, a lot of hiatuses, name changes, lost all our readers; but we're back and we're strong and we're not going nowheres! It can only get better from here on out.

So in celebration of Book Verse's 100th review, and as a thank you to both new and returning readers, we are holding our very first raffle(s)! Squeee - am I the only excited one here? Free books, can I get a hellz yeah!? I went back and looked through the reviews from the last couple of months and picked a few of our 4 and 5 star rated books to give away. 

We have a total of four different books, by four different authors. I say this calls for a little author spotlight! So for the next four days, we will give you guys some general information on each author, some stalking links. And we'll also relay any special interactions we've had with them. Entering is super easy, just scroll down to the rafflecopter widget and follow the steps to get entries. We will be verifying entries, so no cheating! :)

We thank you again for your support and hope you'll stay with us for future reviews, author interviews, and other fun stuff!

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Welcome to day two, readers! For those of you who missed day 1, a copy of Mark Henry's Balustrade is up for grabs - don't forget to click here to enter.

Today I am giving away one of Dakota Cassidy's ebooks. Here is a little bit about her (taken from Amazon): Dakota Cassidy is the national bestselling author of more than a dozen books of contemporary and paranormal romance. She lives for a good laugh in both her life and her writing.
Her goals are simple: banish the color yellow forever, create world peace via hot rollers and Aqua Net, and nab every tiara in the land by competing in the Miss USA, Miss Universe, and Miss World pageants. And of course, write really funny, sexy, romantic books! Dakota lives in Oregon with her dogs and her husband, who puts the heroes in her books to shame.

I have been a fan of Dakota's for years. I was at Borders once during one of my many book shopping sprees and I passed by Dakota's The Accidental Werewolf. The purple cover immediately caught my attention and when I actually saw the cartoon character on the cover I stopped and grabbed it. I'm a fan of those cute cartoon covers, I always pick em up. ;) I read the blurb, thought it sounded funny and took it home with me (I paid for it, of course). Nothing could have prepared me for the story written in those pages. I laughed, I cried, I laughed some more - that is what Dakota does, she makes you feel. 

I found her on Facebook a few years ago and sent her a friend request which she accepted (yay) and I kind of quietly stalked her - because I would never actually TALK to her, she's Dakota freaking Cassidy! I liked a bunch of her posts and then one day actually responded to something she posted. You guys, she responded back! I couldn't believe it. I was happy. I retreated back into the shadows, sure it was a one time thing. Then I got the opportunity to join her street team and I jumped - boy did I jump - at the chance. That's where I got to know the real Dakota Cassidy; not the super famous, aloof author I had created in my mind, but the funny, sweet, down to earth, hummingbird obsessed gal she really is. I went from being a fan to being a fan AND virtual friend. Who would have thought, huh?

Stalker links. She really does love to talk to her fans. :)

Website: http://dakota324.wix.com/dakotacassidy
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DakotaCassidyFanPage
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DakotaCassidy
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/108007.Dakota_Cassidy
Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Dakota-Cassidy/e/B001ILKCFI/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1406464969&sr=1-2-ent

Today I am giving away an Amazon Kindle copy of the first part of her Fangs Of Anarchy serial. Serials aren't usually my thing, I find them torturous, and though it was agonizing for me to read these books, it was totally worth it. This book (the entire serial) is "jam packed with pure awesomeness," that's what I said in my review and I still stand by it.

Also, I would like to point out that Talk This Way, the prequel to her Plum Orchard series is FREE on Amazon. This is an amazing series, I went through sooooo many tissues. Did I mention it's currently FREE? So go get that and then enter below for your chance at Fangs Of Anarchy: Forbidden Alpha (Part 1) Alpha Down 

And because I'm feeling generous and because Dakota is so awesome AND because her Plum Orchard series is super great, I also decided to giveaway an e-copy of Talk Dirty To Me! :D This book is on my "keeper shelf forever" list. And I want to share the wonderful experience of reading it with the rest of you. One winner will take both books - enter beloooow.

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Fangs Of Anarchy: Forbidden Alpha (Part 5) Revelation by Dakota Cassidy

Oh, Claire’s really done it now. As if her week hasn’t been bad enough, what with the blood and the drowning and the head bashing and the intense sex… Okay, that last one was pretty awesome. But now she’s gone and got herself caught in the clutches of a paranormal so evil, he makes Satan look like a sissy. This baddest of all baddies is her key to beating a murder rap—if he doesn’t kill her first.

Where’s a bloodsucking knight on shining chrome when you need one?

Tonight, at long last, fangs will flash, fur will fly, heads will roll, and dastardly deeds will be revealed in this heart-pounding, breath-holding, secret-exploding final episode of Fangs of Anarchy—Forbidden Alpha!

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I received an ARC of this book for an honest review.

Yay, the end! That sounds bad, like I didn't enjoy this serial - and that is SO not true! It's because I loved it so much that I was tortured by having to wait for each installment. I'm happy that I finally get to the end and things are almost all wrapped up.

I say almost because Dakota has decided to do a sequel (YAY or BOO depending on which side of my brain is thinking about it) and even though Gannon is dead and gone we still got a big bad to catch! Liam and Freya's story is next and I am most excited. I didn't get enough Freya to know if I'll like her or not, but I really liked Liam and I'm glad he gets his own story.

But back to Irish and Claire...it was touch and go for a minute there with Claire. Being captured and all. There may have been some torture, that may or may not have happened to her. ;) But in the end Irish saved the day, and Claire saved the day - it was a group effort, really. We finally got all the details of the night Gannon was murdered and how exactly Claire did it. Some of it came as a  bit of a surprise, but other parts I had actually guessed on and was correct. Overall it was a great ending to a great serial.

There was a question I had at the end. Unfortunately, I can't really say what part left me baffled because then I would be spoiling the ending. But I decided to go straight to the source - Dakota Cassidy herself and ask her about it. She is an extraordinarily down to earth person if you guys don't know, and she's very active with her fans. Anyway, I asked her about it, and she told me that she would be going more into detail in the sequel - things will be explained further. That made me even more excited for the sequel. ;)

Shout out to Hadley, my favorite secondary character of Fangs Of Anarchy.

Fangs Of Anarchy: Forbidden Alpha (Part 4) In The Zone by Dakota Cassidy

Claire Montgomery’s heart is in the right place. It is. Honest! Now if only she’d stop doing things that could make her heart stop beating forever…
He might as well admit it. Irish McConnell can’t stay away from Claire, no matter what all the rules say. And anyway, clan and pack politics have nothing on the fine mess he and Claire have gotten themselves into. From missing corpses to dastardly deals in the dreaded Zone, to a vital piece of information about what happened the night Gannon Dodd was murdered, they’ve jumped from the frying pan into the fiery pits of hell.
But even that can’t compare to the combustible heat generated by this sexy, forbidden paranormal pair. 

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Spoiler Alert!!!
Well now we know where Claire is - The Zone. Moron! It's hella dangerous in the Zone, it's the ghetto of the paranormal world. And she went by herself, without telling anyone. I'm with Irish on this one, throttle her ass!

One more part and all will be revealed - that's what Dakota promises at the end of part four and she better deliver! I am anxious for the conclusion of this serial. As I said, I'm not cut out to read serials, I'm too impatient. This particular serial is great and I want to find out so bad what happens - what it all means. At the same time, I know I'm going to be upset because Irish and Claire's story will be over. I love them together. I wish there were more of them together as a couple.

I hope Dakota gives us more. I know she's been toying with the idea of writing Liam's story - Irish's brother. I'm all for it, but I hope there's more scenes with Claire and Irish. *Prays to the writing gods*

We still don't know where Gannon's body went.

Fangs Of Anarchy - Forbidden Alpha (Part 3) Were In The World Is Gannon Dodd? by Dakota Cassidy

While Irish McConnell and Claire Montgomery try to hide their sizzling attraction for one another, and in order to keep the peace between his vampire clan and her werewolf pack, Claire begins to dig deeper into the mystery surrounding the very bad thing she's done (it's really bad!) based on a rather obscure clue.

To follow the clue, she makes plans to immerse herself in a place Irish would never allow her to go into alone, but in an effort to keep him out of her troubles with her pack, Claire makes a choice that could end up getting her killed.

But Irish has his hands full, too, because his efforts to protect Claire have gone very awry... 

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Warning: This is the 3 episode in the Fangs Of Anarchy serial, there may be a spoiler or two if you haven't read the first two books so continue at your own risk.

It's official, I HATE evil music cues! I am not cut out to read serials, the cliffhangers are slowly taking away years from my life. But like hell if you think I'm going to stop now. Fangs Of Anarchy has me hooked and I am Dakota Cassidy's bitch. I will read and torture myself every time a new installment comes out. It's THAT good.

In the last review for Fangs Of Anarchy, I mentioned my disappointment at not having a sex scene. Well it's like Dakota heard me because this book had a pleasant *wink* love making scene that I was very happy about.

This installment served more to move the story along, build us up, give us more questions; no real answers here. We still don't know who it was that drove Claire off the road - though we can all take a good guess. We don't know who Claire thought was going to be at the lighthouse - though I personally have a theory on who it was and how it's tied to Gannon. And this book's cliffhanger is probably the worst one yet! It's not that something happens per se...it's more like a certain main character doesn't know what's going on and we don't know either! And then it ends, and now we're stuck waiting for the next installment to find out what is going on. Is someone in danger? Is someone taking a nap somewhere? We don't know! And what's worse, something goes missing! Well actually, you could say two things go missing...but maybe one of those things isn't missing...WE DON'T KNOW!

Eagerly awaiting the next part!

Fangs Of Anarchy - Forbidden Alpha (Part 2) Girl Most Lycan by Dakota Cassidy

If Irish McConnell wasn’t so hot for Claire Montgomery, he’d muzzle her pretty werewolf mouth and tie her to his bed forever. No one would blame him. It’s the only way to keep her out of trouble…

Claire’s done a bad thing, the consequences of which point to more badness in her immediate future. And possibly Irish’s future…and the future of both his vampire clan and her wolf pack. But Claire’s determined to fix everything. All she has to do is find proof to justify her actions, avoid the drunken threats of her pack alpha, and stave off a race war between the vamps and weres. Easy-peasy.

The hard part? Staying away from her favorite forbidden vampire. Especially hard when he’s saving her hide every five seconds. 

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And the story continues! For those of you who haven't read the first part, walk away from this review as there may be a spoiler or two, and go read the first installment. As for the rest of you, this being a serial and all, the second part of Fangs Of Anarchy picks up right where we left off - Irish confesses to killing Gannon in an attempt to spare Claire. Claire, the stubborn, ungrateful maiden in distress does not appreciate what Irish is doing. Especially when the night before Irish made it clear that his number one priority - even above his clan - was his sister Hadley and her well being, which Claire understood 100%. But now it's a new day, and Irish seems to be singing a different tune.

Obviously, I can't tell you what happens, because you have to read the book, but I can say that the second episode is almost as good as the first. I say almost, because there wasn't any sex in this one, HEHE, and I really wanted to "see" Claire and Irish getting it on again. They're hot together, I can't help it. But, they do have this great scene together where they're just going back and forth with one another, verbally sparring. Irish shows more of his lighthearted personality and I think it's just the cutest thing. How Claire can resist such charm and charisma, is beyond me. I would have jumped his undead bones. ;-)

So if you have read the first part, I encourage you to continue, you will not be disappointing. And of course, just like the first book, this one ends in one killer cliffhanger. Actually, a bigger cliffhanger than the first time. And if you didn't read the first book, and read this review even after I told you not to, go read the first book and then read this one.

4.5 Stars!

Fangs Of Anarchy - Forbidden Alpha (Part 1) Alpha Down by Dakota Cassidy

Irish McConnell would give his immortality for a taste of Claire Montgomery. But the Fangs of Anarchy leader can’t risk his biker club, his vampire clan, or his tenuous truce with werewolf Gannon Dodd, Claire’s pack alpha—and her intended mate. Nope. Vamps and weres don’t mix, and Irish has managed to keep that in mind for five long, lust-filled years.

But now Claire’s gone and done something really, really (really!) bad, guaranteeing her doom if she’s ever found out. Truce be damned, Irish won’t leave her unprotected, despite the fact this is one murder-filled bundle of trouble he doesn’t need.

And unfortunately for Irish, the trouble’s just beginning… 

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This is a new serial by Dakota Cassidy. The first installment of Fangs of Anarchy is a very short read, and jam packed with pure awesomeness. In a world where the government rules over not just humans but the paranormal, otherworldly beings are segregated into their own communities away from the humans where they are free to govern over their packs as they see fit. All the while trying to survive on the little sustenance that the government provides.

The story takes place in a small town in Maine where a pack of werewolves and a clan of vampires have been exiled into living for the last decade. In order to survive, these two unlikely groups form a tentative truce and build a community together while remaining weary of one another. This truce has been on its hinges for a while now - ever since the werewolf pack got a new alpha - and it looks as if things are about to get worse between the weres and vamps.

Irish is in charge of the vampires, and helps run the community with the werewolf alpha, Gannon. Irish has fallen for Claire, the town librarian, and a werewolf. Claire, who has also fallen for Irish has been chosen to be the alpha's mate. Not only is it taboo for vampires and werewolves to be together, but for Irish and Claire it is also dangerous. If anyone were to find out of their feelings for one another, with Claire being the alpha's mate and all, it would mean the end of the truce, and the end of Irish's life.

If that weren't dangerous enough for the two, Claire has just murdered Gannon, and Irish has decided to help her hide what she has done.

Such a passionate story - and I don't just mean that in a sexual way, although the sex scene was pretty damn great. These two characters really love; they love each other, they love their community, and they are fierce about it. I really enjoyed that. They do their best to think of others before themselves and their personal desires, even though it's pretty damn hard for them. A modern day paranormal twist to Romeo and Juliet; 'cept these two are more mature and less selfish than Shakespeare's 13 year old couple.

Loved it. Wonderful. Nothing bad to say about it whatsoever! Highly recommend!

Warning: This story ends in a heck of a cliffhanger. As Dakota wrote in her book, Cue evil soap opera music.