Finn by Angel Martinez 3rd Ed, Blog Tour Excerpt, Review & Giveaway!

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Hey peeps, look who I have visiting us… it’s Angel Martinez and her amazing Finn! Angel lets us have a snippet to whet our appetites and she has a brilliant giveaway where you can win your very own copy of Finn! So enjoy our post, click that Rafflecopter link and check out my review <3 ~Pixie~ 

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Finn

(Endangered Fae 01)

by

Angel Martinez

When Diego rescues a naked man from the rail of the Brooklyn Bridge, he just wants to get the poor man out of traffic and to social services. He gets more than he bargained for when he discovers Finn is an ailing pooka, poisoned by the city’s pollution. To help him recover, Diego takes him to New Brunswick where Finn inadvertently wakes an ancient, evil spirit: the wendigo.

While they struggle to find a way to destroy the wendigo before it can possess Diego or kill nearby innocents, Diego wrestles with his growing feelings for Finn. Kill the monster and navigate a relationship between a modern man and a centuries old pooka. Piece of cake.

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Excerpt:

The ordeal of the shower seemed cruel, but Finn was filthy and smelled like a dumpster during a garbage strike. Diego placed one of his plastic kitchen chairs in the middle of the shower and installed Finn there, but he only slumped against the chair back, eyes closed, face turned into the spray.

Too exhausted to even flinch.

Diego fought down the little shiver of revulsion at the stench, stripped to his boxers, and stepped into the stall with him. He attacked the tangled mass of hair first, positioning Finn so his head hung back over the chair. No lice—a good sign. He might have been homeless, but he probably hadn’t lived on the streets too long. The nest of midnight snarls unwound under the caress of water and shampoo. If Finn stood, his hair would reach at least to the top curve of his butt. A strange blue-black iridescence shone in it, his natural coloring as far as Diego could tell rather than bottled special effects.

The rest Diego washed with a loofah, shoving away modesty out of a need to get Finn to his rest. An ache lodged around his heart to see how malnutrition had ravaged what probably had been a lean-muscled frame. An athlete, perhaps, before he went off the deep end, an impression reinforced by the absence of almost all body hair. Waxed or electrolysis-denuded—only Finn’s crotch sported a black thatch of soft hair. Swimmer, perhaps. The Olympic competitors often shaved it all off for every small gain in streamlining.

He turned off the water and tugged at Finn’s arm. “Come on. Let’s get you settled. You can’t sleep in the shower.”

Finn staggered to his feet and Diego all but carried him to Mitch’s room. The spare room, he corrected himself. He usually kept the door closed so the stark, unfurnished space wasn’t glaring at him.

He sat Finn down against the wall, brought him a pair of flannel pajamas, soft with age, and went out to the front closet to retrieve the air mattress and vacuum. Six boxes lay stacked against the wall; all that remained of Mitch’s things. Diego ran a hand over one, and then shook his head against the temptation to open the top and look at its contents. When he returned, Finn hadn’t moved from where he sat, naked and dozing in a patch of sunlight.

“You might want to put those on.” Diego toed the pajamas closer as he dragged the air mattress into place. When Finn’s only response was a long sigh, he added, “We need to get you warm. I don’t want to have to take you to Emergency.”

With a puzzled frown, Finn unfolded the material and managed, after looking back and forth between the pajamas and Diego’s jeans a few times, to pull the bottoms on. His efforts with the top, though, were sabotaged when the vacuum roared to life. He startled and scuttled sideways, wide-eyed and panting.

Diego hurried to switch it off. “Sorry. Should have warned you.”

“Is it some sort of small dragon?”

For a moment, Diego stared in blank surprise before he caught himself. At least the nature of Finn’s delusion was becoming clearer. He might even share his history later when he had the energy, perhaps some tragic story of an exiled prince. For now, Diego thought it best to play along.

“Not a dragon. Just a machine. It blows out and sucks in air with great force.”

“Ah.” Finn seemed disappointed, but waved a hand for him to continue.

Mattress inflated, Finn dressed and installed in bed, Diego thought he should get something in him before he drifted off. He tried tap water first but Finn jerked his head away, the color draining from his face.

“Tainted,” he gasped. “Great Dagda, it reeks.”

Diego sniffed above the glass, puzzled. New York City water, piped in from the mountains, was cleaner than most but it was treated. Chlorine. Fluoride. Maybe Finn had an allergy to one or the other.

Bottled water produced a less violent reaction. Finn smelled it, nose crinkled, but he downed half the bottle in desperate gulps before Diego could take it back from him. Hydration, at least, wouldn’t be an issue.

The hurdle of food remained. Starvation often did terrible things to the body’s ability to accept nourishment. Not the best time to offer a hamburger and fries. Diego decided he should start with the foods one was supposed to give sick kids: bananas, rice, applesauce and toast, minus the applesauce, since he didn’t have any.

Finn wouldn’t touch the boiled-in-tap-water rice. He nibbled a corner of the toast and set it aside with murmured apologies. The banana completely stumped him. He turned it over and over in his hands and finally tried to bite through the skin.

“You eat these?” He handed it back to Diego with a grimace.

All right, so his reality doesn’t include New World fruit. Diego peeled the banana for him and handed it back. “You don’t eat the skin. Try the inside.”

Finn took a careful bite and his eyes widened. “That’s not bad.”

Diego could only watch anxiously, praying his guest wouldn’t choke, as the rest disappeared in three bites. With a contented sigh, Finn handed the peel back, gathered the covers into a circle in the center of the mattress, and curled into a tight ball inside his nest. By the time Diego brought an extra comforter to cover him, Finn was fast asleep.

Clean and at rest, his face had a childlike quality with his hair tucked behind one finely-curved ear. Diego wasn’t certain it was a handsome face, almost unearthly in its delicacy, and though Finn stood six inches taller, he had the odd feeling he could scoop that long frame up in his arms without much effort.

He backed out and closed the door as quietly as he could, confident Finn wouldn’t die on him. Tomorrow he would see about finding the right agency to take his guest, preferably one that wouldn’t hand him right over to immigration.

A few hours of peace while Finn slept should let him at least get through the current chapter he was writing.

The moment he sat ready at his desk, fingers poised over the keys, the phone rang.

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About Angel

While Angel Martinez is the erotic fiction pen name of a writer of several genres, she writes both kinds of gay romance – Science Fiction and Fantasy. Currently living part time in the hectic sprawl of northern Delaware, (and full time inside the author’s head) Angel has one husband, one son, two cats, a changing variety of other furred and scaled companions, a love of all things beautiful and a terrible addiction to the consumption of both knowledge and chocolate.

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Review

Angel Martinez Endangered Fae 01 - Finn 350x560Title: Finn (3rd Edition)

Series: Endangered Fae 01

Author: Angel Martinez

Genre: Paranormal

Length: Novel (227pgs)

ISBN: MLR-1-02014-0241

Publisher: MLR Press (2nd May 2014)

Heat Level: Explicit

Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥ 4 Hearts

Reviewer: Pixie

Blurb: Lost and starving, Finn wakes to a poisoned world, but a man comes to him, a white light in the darkness—can a centuries old pooka find what he needs with a heartbroken, modern man?

When Diego rescues a naked man from the rail of the Brooklyn Bridge, he just wants to get the poor man out of traffic and to social services. He gets more than he bargained for when he discovers Finn is an ailing pooka, poisoned by the city’s pollution. To help him recover, Diego takes him to New Brunswick where Finn inadvertently wakes an ancient, evil spirit: the wendigo.

While they struggle to find a way to destroy the wendigo before it can possess Diego or kill nearby innocents, Diego wrestles with his growing feelings for Finn. Kill the monster and navigate a relationship between a modern man and a centuries old pooka. Piece of cake.

This story also has the short story Finn’s Christmas as the last chapter.

Purchase Link: http://www.mlrbooks.com/ShowBook.php?book=A_M_FINN

Review: So for those who are wondering if it is worth buying this version of Finn if you already have the second version, I say yes because I personally wouldn’t have been able to look myself in the mirror if I hadn’t got this version as well…. Could you look in yours? And although the cover doesn’t have as much chest acreage it still has a couple of tasty treats to perv over (did I say that out loud again?). Diego rescues a man who is naked except for a blanket, Diego has a habit to trying to rescue everyone and it has got him in trouble in the past, when the man says he is a Pooka Diego doesn’t know what to think. Finn is one of the old country, a Fae, a Pooka, when he awakens in the modern world he isn’t sure how he will survive but with Diego’s assistance he begins to find a way.

This is so much better the third time round (err the first and second were just as good, honest) Diego is a pure sweetheart who will help anyone, when he sees Diego at the side of the bridge he can’t help but stop to help him. Finn is devastated with how the world is now and he really needs help and with the arrival of Diego Finn sees into his soul and knows the human won’t hurt him. These two together make a great team and there is adventure to be had as we keep them company.

Ah what can I say about this story except brilliant, absolutely brilliant, this is a story that brings back the old type Fae, sea water makes Finn ill and Iron could kill him, taking Finn to Canada to his friends cabin is the only solution Diego can come up with to help Finn stay healthy but a discovery there leads them both to danger. I loved the way the author wove this tale because the danger came out of nowhere, there was no hint that a twist was coming and it was a twist that really blew me away and it wasn’t the only twist either.

The relationship between Finn and Diego is slow going but there is a connection between them but when Diego reaches that point with Finn it is (sorry had to re-read those passages just to be sure 😉 ) quite erotic and Finn says some of the most romantic things *sigh*, I did like the fact that Diego was a bit wary of a new relationship and that he did take it slow. Another thing I really liked was the way that Angel Martinez fitted in parts of Finn’s interview in, bringing the reality of Finn’s utter Irish charm to life and showing him as a complete character.

There were some parts that were well played out and although we don’t get graphic detail of the fight I was still satisfied (and I am blood thirsty) because of how the author described it from Diego’s POV so we had all his worry and fear and doubt and then we have the descriptions of what he found the next morning. Very well written. 

I have to recommend this to those who like fantasy, a great story, hot sex, a loving relationship, a couple of twists, some gruesome danger, some really gruesome descriptions and a happy ever after.

Check out the other blogs on the tour!

June 2: Tara Lain

June 3: Parker Williams

June 4: Kimi-Chan, Jade Crystal, Talon SO

June 5: Book Reviews, Rants, and Raves, MM Good Books

June 6: Nephylim, Hearts on Fire

June 9: Prism Book Alliance, Dawn’s Reading Nook

June 10: Love Bytes, My Fiction Nook

June 11: Fallen Angel Reviews

June 12: The Novel Approach, Rainbow Gold Reviews

June 13: Amanda C. Stone, Scattered Thoughts & Rogue Words

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