Book Title: Grimnirs
Series: A Runes Novel
Author: Ednah Walters
Release Date: December 2nd 2013
Genre: YA Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Firetrail Publishing
Banner Made by: Julia Hendrix
BLURB
One lost love.
One lost best friend.
One hot soul reaper.
Straight out of the psyche ward, Cora just wants her life to be normal. She doesn’t want to see souls or the reapers collecting them. The love of her life, the guy she’s loved from a distance for years, has moved away without saying goodbye. So yes, she’s nursing a serious heartbreak. It’s no wonder love is the last thing on her mind when Echo storms into her life.
The chemistry between them is mind-blowing. The connection defies logic. It doesn’t help that Echo is the poster boy for everything she hates in a guy—hot, beautiful, and cocky. A general pain-in-the-butt. Being around him makes her feel more alive than she’s ever felt before. But more important, the souls leave her alone when he is around.
Echo is perfect for her. Echo might even be her soul-mate. There is only one problem. Echo is a freaking soul reaper. A Grimnir. The very beings she wants out of her life. Maybe normal is overrated because Cora wants it all. Answers. Love. A life. You see, once you fall for a Grimnir, your life will never be the same again.
EXCERPT
“Now see what you made me do.” I eased off the brake. Ahead, Dad’s truck was nowhere in sight.
“Sorry about that,” Echo said, but he didn’t sound or look it. He reached out and lifted the hair on my right shoulder.
I swatted at his hand. “Stop that.”
“Can’t help it.” He planted a kiss on my neck. The car swayed as I momentarily lost control.
“I’m serious. Quit messing with me, Echo.”
“You smell amazing.” He trailed kisses up my neck to my ear and inhaled.
The sensations that invaded my body were downright frightening. Not even Eirik had ever made me feel like this. If I could forget Echo was a lunatic and I was losing my mind, I would have enjoyed the sensation.
I reached up and tried to push his head away, but it was like moving a boulder. Worse, my hand sunk into his hair. It was silky, and for one brief moment, I wanted to run my fingers through it, maybe hold his head in place and savor the moment.
He bit my ear. I squealed and, once again, lost control of the car. “Dang it, Echo. We could get into an accident.”
“But we self-heal.”
I self-healed, too? Nice. No, not nice. I refused to start buying into his crazy assumptions. “I could hurt someone.”
“There’re just Mortals. If it’s their time to go, it’s their time to go. No force of nature can stop that. No, that’s not true. Norns could. You look breathtaking this morning. Love that shade of red on you. Very vampy. What is it you once told me? Red gives you the extra oomph when you are having a shitty day.”
The only person who knew that was Raine. “Who told you that?”
AUTHOR BIO
EDNAH WALTERS grew up reading Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys and dreaming of one day writing her own stories. She is a stay-at-home mother of five humans and two American short-hair cats (one of which has ADHD) and a husband. When she is not writing, she’s at the gym doing Zumba or doing things with her family, reading, traveling or online chatting with fans.
Ednah is the author of The Guardian Legacy series, a YA fantasy series about children of the fallen angels, who fight demons and protect mankind. AWAKENED, the prequel was released by Pill Hill Press in September 2010 with rave reviews. BETRAYED, book one in the series was released by her new publisher Spencer Hill Press in June 2012 and HUNTED, the third installment, will be released April 2013. She’s working on the next book in the series, FORGOTTEN. Visit her at www.ednahwalters.com
Ednah also writes YA paranormal romance. RUNES is the first book in her new series. IMMORTALS is book 2. She is presently working on book 3, GRIMNIRS (Release date TBA). Read more about this series and the world she's created here www.runestheseries.com
Under the pseudonym E. B. Walters, Ednah writes contemporary romance. SLOW BURN, the first contemporary romance with suspense, was released in April 2011. It is the first book in the Fitzgerald family series. Since then she has published four more books in this series. She's presently working on book six. You can visit her online at or www.ebwalters.com.
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5+ Stars!
I’m not gonna lie. When I first realized Grimnirs was going
to be about Cora and Echo, not Raine and Torin, I was a little disappointed. I
figured I would give it a go anyway. I’m soooo glad I did! I loved Torin in the
first 2 books. Those of you who have met Torin know exactly what I mean but I gotta
say, Echo stole my heart from Torin! I know what you’re thinking, not possible.
Well I’m here to tell you it is and it happened. Echo is the quintessential bad
boy. He is cocky, rebellious, flirty, good looking, troubled and despite his
flaws, underneath it all, he is a sweetheart. How can you not love someone like
that? But to truly get to know him, you have to read Grimnirs and find out how
Echo came to be the way he is. We also get to learn more about what Echo’s job
as a Grimnir entails. It touched in Immortals but didn’t give too much detail
so I enjoyed learning more about that.
Cora was also a delight to read. She has more attitude in
her little finger than most have in their whole body. She stands up for what
she believes in and doesn’t let anyone push her around. Though a few times I wanted
to smack some sense into her, it wasn’t very often.
I loved getting to watch the relationship grow between Cora
and Echo. He was constantly flirting and she was constantly turning him down
which only made him double his efforts. She always had something witty to say
to him.
For the Raine and Torin fans out there, don’t be
disappointed. We get to see Raine and Torin plenty throughout the book so you
don’t actually miss them because they are there, just not the focus of the
story. Eirik also makes a couple of appearances and we get to see him learn
more about who he and where he comes from.
This is my favorite book of the series yet! I hope everyone
gives it a chance just like I did because it is so much more than I expected it
to be. It’s very well written and has all the aspects of a great book. I’m
anxiously awaiting the next book!
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