Title: Soul Magic
Series: Triad, #3
Author: Poppy Dennison
Narrator: Robert G. Davis
Genre: Paranormal/Shifter Romance
Length: 7 hours 11 minutes
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (03-04-14)
Heat Level: Moderate
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥ 5 Hearts
Reviewer: Tams
Blurb: Sequel to Mind Magic

Blood runs soul-deep. Cormac hasn’t been the same since the night the High Moon Pack was attacked. With his magic weakened, he’s consumed by a bloodlust he hasn’t felt since he first became a vampire. His need to replenish his power makes him a danger to his last remaining family member, and his hunger makes him careless. And that’s just the beginning of his troubles. Feeding from pack beta Liam Benson was supposed to slake his appetite, not leave him craving more.

Simon Osborne and Gray Townsend are trying to fight a being history says shouldn’t exist—one with all three types of magic. The pack must use all of their resources to combat the mysterious triad, even turning to the shady Council of Mages for help. While Cormac struggles to reconcile his past failures with his current desires, Simon must attempt the impossible: an alliance between mind, body, and soul.
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Review: In this third instalment of the Triad series, we finally learn the identity of the Demon that took the cubs and has repeatedly attacked the High Moon Pack and it’s variety of magical members.

Cormac has distanced himself from Simon and the pack since the battle with the Triad for fear of losing control of his hunger around them. Gray sends Liam, his pack beta, to check on the centuries old vampire for Simon’s sake. Liam finds the sexy, blonde vampire at a bar all but openly feeding on a human. Taking matters into his own hands, Liam offers himself up for Cormac to feed on, but doesn’t share this with his alpha. The last thing the two men expect is to be drawn to each other.

While Cormac deals with a thirst he hasn’t felt since he was first turned and his attraction to Liam, the two ban together to try to discover the identity of the Triad and a way to kill it. Being in close quarters and spending much of their time together it doesn’t take long for chemistry to ignite. But someone from Cormac’s past is about to make an appearance, and stir up all kinds of trouble. Not just for Cormac, Liam and the pack but for the entire magical race.

Since I had books one –three on audible, from the start I was able to listen to these stories back to back, and they flow together flawlessly like one long book broken into three pieces. With each piece of the story, these various characters have grown closer to discovering the identity of the Triad. Along the way, I’ve become completely invested in each and every one of them. From the youngest Garen who could possibly posses all three forms of magic, to the uncertain and naive Mage Simon who fell in crazy love with the alpha on sight. Gray, the head strong and fearless leader of the High Moon pack, who will stop at nothing to protect his family. Each and every member of his pack is his family.

The inclusion of Cade and Liam intricately into the books as Gray’s lifelong friends, Aunt Maggie, the council members, Rocky who is seemingly weak and insignificant, who grows into a major part of the stories. And Cormac, he is quite possibly my favourite character. Dennison truly brings all these varying characters to life and gives each person their own unique personality and Davis tells their stories so well that you always know who he is portraying at any given time.

I’ve failed to mention the utter sexiness in my previous reviews for this series. From the library to the fireplace to the bedroom, these guys know how to fog up your ear buds! If you haven’t read this series, you must. Especially if you have a penchant for shifter romance.

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Title: Body Magic
Series: Triad book #2
Author: Poppy Dennison
Narrator: Robert G Davis
Genre: Paranormal/Shifter Romance
Length: 6 hours 29 minutes
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (02-06-14)
Heat Level: Moderate
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥ 5 Hearts
Reviewer: Tams
Blurb: Sequel to Mind Magic
A pack is only as strong as its weakest member. Rocky Harris knows how the system works. He’s been on the bottom rung his whole life. But when his alpha consigns him to the High Moon Pack to help them improve security, he finds his beliefs not just challenged but also outright assaulted.

Cade Montgomery’s confidence took a hit when the pack’s cubs were kidnapped on his watch. He’s prepared to do anything to protect his family, even if it means working with Rocky. Maybe Cade doesn’t trust Rocky, but with the turmoil surrounding pack Alpha Gray’s unpopular decision to break tradition and mate with a mage named Simon, Cade knows more threats are coming.

Then someone declares war on shifters and puts the entire pack in danger. Cade and Rocky will need each other’s strengths to survive the impending battle—and the power of their growing attraction.

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Review: Cade Montgomery is strong, fierce and loyal to his best friend Gray, alpha of their pack. The big man is still angry with himself for the kidnapping of the cubs while he was supposed to be guarding them. Now they have an IT specialist on loan from another pack to help beef up their security and Cade hasn’t trusted the wolf much from the start. The two have butted heads, but there is something about the lithe, smaller wolf that captures Cade’s attention.

Rocky Harris is an Omega and a spy. His pack alpha sent him to High Moon Pack under the guise of helping them with their systems and security so that he could gain knowledge for a possible takeover. Rocky’s pack still believes in the vastly outdated ways of not mixing magics or species and believes Gray’s mating with Simon should not be tolerated. Rocky struggles with the love and acceptance he sees and feels with Cade and this pack, but his mind is muddled with what he’s been taught and told his entire life. Well that, and his attraction to the seemingly dominate wolf Cade, who is actually quite submissive to Rocky’s intentions.

All the while Cade and Rocky dance around each other, Simon is still learning to deal with his newfound family and powers with the impending visit from the Council looming over them as well. Simon is fearful that the Council will reject his, Gray’s mating, and he’ll lose the man he loves, and a wolf pack he has grown to love. Rocky is growing roots within the pack as well, but an Omega is sensitive to his own Alpha’s commands, and his alpha wants to take over this pack. Will Rocky stand fast behind the archaic beliefs of his own pack? Or will he open himself to the possibility of a life here with Cade, open and accepting even if he is an Omega?

The author and the narrator kept the steady and intense flow going from book one over into book two. These stories flow so well and even though the world is rooted in the paranormal, there is a reality to the mix matched family of Wolves, Mages and Vampires that adds a personality to the stories that really interests me. I love the ever-evolving relationship between Simon and Gray and that they remain the foundation of the books even when they aren’t the main focus. Simon and Rocky both struggle a lot in this particular installment and show a lot of personal growth. As I said in my review for Mind Magic, this really is a must read series for fans of the paranormal and shifter stories.

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Title: Mind Magic
Series: Triad, #1
Author: Poppy Dennison
Narrator: Robert G. Davis
Genre: Paranormal/Shifter Romance
Length: 6 hours
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press (01-07-14)
Heat Level: Moderate
Heart Rating: ♥♥♥♥♥ 5 Hearts
Reviewer: Tams
Blurb: Magical species must never mix. According to the rules, Simon Osborne should ignore the children’s cries for help. After all, they’re werewolf cubs, and he’s an apprentice mage. But for once in his life, Simon breaks the rules and rescues the cubs, saving them from a demon intent on draining them of their magic.

Of course, all actions have consequences, and Simon’s bold move earns him the displeasure of his peers and the attention of the cubs’ alpha, a man named Gray Townsend.

The last thing Gray needs is a mage in his life, but Simon did save his son. Since Simon is now a friend of the pack, Gray doesn’t have much choice about it—or the forbidden attraction that goes along with it. Unfortunately, for the alpha, he needs Simon’s help to track down the demon behind the kidnappings—before it strikes again. Simon and Gray must join forces to protect the pack, even as they struggle to resist the temptation that threatens to destroy them both.

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Review: Simon is a Mage apprentice in a world where Vampires, Werewolves, Demons and Mages exist. They just don’t coexist very well.

He breaks their code of remaining indifferent when it comes to a magic outside of his own when he rescues several young werewolf cubs that have been kidnapped by a demon who is draining their magic, and subsequently killing them in the process. Simon is not only a very talented Mage. He is generally a decent, kindhearted person. He’s been held back from his gift by his teacher unknowingly, who has actually been draining his magic instead of helping him develop it.

Simon is instantly drawn to the Alpha of the pack, when he brings their cubs home. Tension runs high, as I said, the races don’t mix, but Garen the Alpha’s son has named Simon a friend of the pack. The attraction to the two men share is just one obstacle they will have to face. Garen and Simon are now connected somehow, mentally. So when the demon comes back to prey on the one that got away, Garen reaches out to Simon. When Gray and Simon are brought back together when Simon comes to help Garen, the mutual attraction is more than they can fight. But Simon refuses to be mated to Gray just for his packs protection.

I absolutely loved the concept behind this story. There are three types of magic, a triad if you will. The Mages, Mind Magic. The Wolves, Body Magic. And the Vampires, Soul Magic. Problems in the past have caused the three races to pull apart from each other and demand that their people live their lives separately, but The High Moon pack along with Simon and his grandfather will challenge this dusty belief.

There was a lot happening throughout this book, but the author managed to keep it all cohesive and contained, I never lost interest or got confused. The different types of magic and creatures and their archaic ways of thinking was intriguing. And then to have the new breed of the races shown in Gray and Simon that fall in love and challenge these “rules” was refreshing and only strengthened the storyline. The narration as well was good and kept my attention from start to finish. It’s always nice to have a narrator that tells the story and doesn’t just read it, subtle nuances and tone changes are key and Davis definitely conveyed those well throughout.

I’m excited to see where this series goes with the addition of Simon’s “grandfather” and the still looming threat of the demon in their midst. Fantastic listen, highly recommend it to fans of the paranormal genre.
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