Paranormal or Normal?
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Provided by publisher for review purposes on my blog from which this is adapted.  No remuneration was exchanged and all opinions presented herein are my own except as noted.

Last winter I read a book by Mina Vaughn with a similar titling scheme, HOW TO DISCIPLINE YOUR VAMPIRE, so I thought this would be another paranormal romance book with a bdsm theme. While there are hints of paranormal to it, specifically Greek Myths,  they are left up in the air: alluded to but never admitted.

I really loved the male love interest, Keaton; he has a great personality and knows more about the female love interest, Thea than you could learn from a background check. It's in that knowing the paranormal lurks on the story's fringe.  He's a rocker who is a great guy to bring home to mom and dad too.

Thea's a good character as well, until she is driven into being the Domme du Jour with no sexual experience. It was an abrupt and startling change in the character's personality and I didn't believe it. There just wasn't enough time given to her character development.

This is a cute but would have benefited from having a longer format and less mystique or more, better defined paranormal details.
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Paranormal activity has always been fasinating.  "Unseen" is an example that is founded on an actual location... which makes it more realistic. It was well written and enjoyable reading.
777130
This was an interesting and exciting paranormal story.  You wonder if the main character is dreaming or is he really experiencing these paranormal activities.  Did he and his girlfriend really unleash a devil?  Or is it all in his mind?  Worth reading.
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Action filled paranormal hunt. Well written. Unique metaphysical view.
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Wow! This story was well written. I normally do not read paranormal stories but this one made me just glued to the book. I am so anxious for Book 2 come out to see how all the personal stories unfold.

I received a free copy of this e-Book novel from the publisher. I chose to write an honest review.
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In this paranormalish romance, Molly is a single mom, raising her 8 year old daughter, Cassie.  Now that Cassie has developed a gift of premonition and can tell when bad things are going to happen to people who are close to her,  Molly finds that she needs help teaching her daughter about her psychic gift.  They go to visit Molly's grandmother, who is also psychic, like Molly and Molly's mother was.  When she returns to her childhood home, she is reunited with her old love, Owen, who Molly had spurned and left behind when her parents died.  Can the four of them work things out?  The paranormal bit helped to make this book more fun to read and added a bit of mystery to the story.  I received this book free to review from Netgalley.
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Sometimes, my wife asks how I can read scary books just before going to sleep. Ive been doing it for as long as I can remember and its never bothered me. Like most people, I read for pleasure. But as a writer, I also read for understanding. Usually, when I read books about the supernatural, I intellectualize everything down to the story, writing style, and authenticity of the characters. I may have to revisit that approach.

THE HAUNTED is the true story of the Smurl family, devout Catholics living in Pennsylvania who find themselves being infested with a demon and other vengeful spirits. Based on everything Ive read so far about demons, this situation can occur when someone invites the demonic into their home through the use of Ouija boards, spells, or cursed objects like the Annabelle doll. Not so with the Smurls. This family did none of those things, yet the demonic entered their lives and plagued them for years, terrorizing individual family membersand even the neighbors.

Despite everything that happens, the Smurl family remains rooted in their faith. Its the main reason they were able to manage for so long, undergoing multiple exorcisms and hordes of tourists wanting a glimpse of the dark side. As for me, I am comfortable in my faith and have always believed the demonic will leave me alone so long as I don't seek it out. After reading THE HAUNTED, Im not so sure anymore.
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This  is the second book in this series. I hope there is another book to tell us more  about Julie, and Carson's life after this. I really enjoyed reading a different slant on the paranormal community. Adding salamanders to the mix made for quite an interesting read. As I was reading this book , I kept wanting to take different characters off into certain relationships myself... wonder if the author will take them there herself. Hope so.  Well written and detailed. With a unique slant on paranormal. Definitely recommend this one.
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this series is basically my paranormal encyclopedia. . . it always seems like every book i read after is just a book but these are the "real way its supposed to be" hahahah. . . .definately the best vampire/paranormal series ever written i think
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How to solve crimes with a little help from the paranormal.  You would never expect her doctor to cause the crimes.  Who would expect a guard ghost.
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This paranormal novel was quite interesting and not at all typical of other paranormal type books with wolves in them. While the wolves of Twilight could transform themselves rather quickly into wolves, the other shapeshifters in She Called It, Wolf had more difficulty changing. Except for EJ, the main female character, who seemed to do this effortlessly.

EJ comes home from the army only to find out that her uncle has already passed away. She inherits his trailer and everything her uncle had. She also inherits a dog named Barkley, some new friends, a gold mine, a bunch of goats, a donkey and also, a guy named Adam.

Adam is the small-town sheriff of Felony Falls. But Adam and the whole town hold a secret. Many of this small town are shapeshifters or married to one. When two of the towns upstanding citizens are murdered in front of their young children, and the children are kidnapped, the town goes crazy trying to find these kids without giving away their secret to outsiders.

EJ herself is a shapeshifter, which is quite unheard of. Only a few in the history of the wolves have been women, and none of them can change as fast as she can. That is the questions that are left unanswered. Why is she the only female wolf, and why can she change so easily, when it takes some of the wolves up to 15 minutes to go through this painful change? EJ seems to be able to change on the fly, and at will.

EJ finds herself staking claim to the old mine that her uncle had, but in the process, stumbles upon a building out in the middle of nowhere. She ends up finding the children there. The children are abused and tortured, having experiments done on them. One of them almost dies in the process of these experiments.

While rescuing the children, we find out something else about EJ that makes her different from the other shapeshifters. I'm not going to tell you what it is...you'll have to read the book to find that out.

I like that the author made the wolves a bit different than the wolves from other novels, but it sounded downright painful and I know if I was watching the movie, I wouldn't want to wait that long before the wolf appeared.

I also like the special surprise ability that EJ exhibits at the end, and I also like that her wolf would talk to her, soothing her and helping her with the decisions she had to make.

I thought the ending could have been a little stronger, but overall, a pretty good book. There were some editing problems, grammar and spelling mistakes, but those are easily fixed and a good reviewer (and reader) can get past those mistakes to see the real story behind it.

Overall, I give this story 4 stars.
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CM Stunich's Spirited is an interesting new twist on ghost stories. I've read stories where ghost seers or mediums fell in love with the dead, but those turned out very different than the world Stunich has created. Ghosts. That's right, GhostS <-- as in PLURAL. And one very special girl on a mission. I'm into it. I dig it, hardcore.
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Somehow I found this when looking for true haunting stories. It's fiction and has more romance in it than spooks. But is well written and if you like romantic paranormal mysteries you'll love it.
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It was an easy read that is unnerving at times.  If you are looking for a paranormal read that makes you think twice about a creak in your house or the sound of wind through the trees...then this is a good choice.  The characters are believable and likeable even those that are not suppose to be.  I plan to read the next book in the Cases Cove series.
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I enjoyed it mostly although it was hard going. I'm not sure what it was about except I think it was partly about how we can live very close to other people and still not understand each other at all. This was a group  of people leading lives of solitude although they were supposed to be  family and community. I grew to like the weirdness like the ghosts, and the  bizarre happenings. I think the author was writing as if what goes on in  your own head was actually real. The cover said it was enthralling - I did  not think so. It also said it was supernatural, magical which it was.
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I liked the characters, especially the Verity and the different ghosts.  The paranormal situations were well done and were different than other books of this type.  There were surprises that I didn't see coming and I appreciate that since it doesn't happen that much for me anymore.  I'm looking forward to reading more of this authors work.
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Witches as "normal" people--sort of.  Secrets, old vengeance, what you think is going on is not even relevant...A great paranormal book.