FIRE AND ICE, Seasons of the #Vampire ~ New Release #ParanormalRomance #ASMSG

Fire and Ice

Seasons of the Vampire I

Noel Tierney thought she’d have enough time before the predicted storm to make it to her holiday retreat, but the snow hit sooner than expected. Caught unprepared on a treacherous pass, poor visibility and icy conditions lead to a crash. She lay immobile in her vehicle, stranded in a ditch in the most remote leg of her journey. A faceless hero comes to her rescue and Noel has no choice but to wait out the blizzard in her rescuer’s unique cabin nestled in the woods. Everything about Grayson James peaks her curiosity—his valor, air of mystery and most of all, undeniable attractiveness. For three days and nights, passions are unleashed and unexpected emotions are brought to life. When the storm breaks, Grayson vanishes into thin air, but not before revealing startling news that leaves her questioning her sanity. Fast forward years later and Noel is in the southernmost part of the United States. She’d come seeking solace after her husband’s tragic death, but what finds her in Key West is more than she ever anticipated. In the sultry summer, her unbridled winter’s ecstasy resurrects. And so does the Vampire.

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” 

-Albert Camus

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Maya DeLeina Bio

Maya DeLeina is a multi-published Erotic Vampire Romance Author with Siren,  Evernight and Ellora's Cave Publishing.

 Her current series includes Ambrose Heights Vampires, My Naughty Vampire and Vampire Architects.

Born and raised on the Hawaiian island of Oahu, Maya could be seen at her favorite beach, Lanikai, performing with an all-girl band where she played keyboards, guitar and provided vocals, working as editor in her high school's yearbook and volunteering her time at a humane society through UH of Manoa civic groups.

In 2006, Maya relocated to Colorado. Her crystal blue oceans, waterfalls and eighty-degree year-round weather were traded for four season weather, enchanting forests and majestic mountains, which led to her rekindled love for vampires.

In winter of 2010, she penned her first manuscript and by 2011, Flesh Fantasy was under contract and released by Siren Publishing. To date, Maya’s titles includes Flesh Fantasy, Veil of Seduction, Blood of Luna, and Dark Companion, with Fire and Ice and Crimson Snow being added to her bookshelf by the end of 2014.

In mid 2014, she banded with other Colorado romance authors to form the group, Mile High Muses, in which Maya serves as "The Vamp". Catch her Forbidden Fruit Friday blog and guests she hosts on Sultry Saturdays. 

Not only does Maya have theatrical book trailers that bring her sexy vampires to life, Maya and her vampires were featured in Singer/Songwriter Jill Cohn's music video "Blessing Moon".

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FRIGHT NIGHT 2 ~ An honest review #Smexy #Vampires #Horror #Thriller #Nov #ASMSG

 

The Blurb:

By day Gerri Dandridge is a sexy professor, but by night she transforms into a real-life vampire with an unquenchable thirst for human blood. So when a group of high school students travel abroad to study in Romania, they find themselves ensnared in Gerri's chilling web of lust and terror. Charley and "Evil" Ed must stop Gerri from drinking and bathing in the blood of a "new moon virgin," which just so happens to be Charley's ex-girlfriend, Amy. They enlist help from Peter Vincent, the vampire hunting host of a reality show called "Fright Night," to drive a stake through Gerri's plan and save Amy from a fate far worse than death.

The Review:

Was it horrific?   Kinda.

Was it sexy?   Not like I wished.

Was it intense?  Mostly.

Was it a decent vampire film?    Kinda.

I admit, I never saw the latest 2011 remake, Fright Night, with Colin Farrell.  So, my evaluation of Fright Night 2 is totally independent of any other versions of this movie, even though I vaguely recall the old Fright Night films from the late 80's.

Was it worth watching as a DVD rental? YES. The movie was made for DVD, never even hit the theaters.

Straight up:

I wish I could read this novel. But there is no novel. Somebody needs to take the script and adapt it to a novel, which could be so much better than the film. Better dialogue, better exposition, better everything.

So, I want a novel that has never been published.

Sorry, I'm a vampire fiction junky.  

This movie should have been better in so many ways, but, before I go there, I am going to talk about what Fright Night 2 did right:

1)  Sex APPEAL 

This film had SHIT-TONS of sex appeal: a butt naked girl hanging upside down to drain her blood into a tub.  Very Inspiring.  We get a couple of almost lesbian vampire scenes (could have been way better--barely scraped the tip of that iceberg).  Then there's the smoking hot Gerri Dandridge played by Jaime Murray, a.k.a. Elisabeth Bathory, the embodiment of what every female vampire should be.  

Gerri got everything right.  She is the only reason to watch the movie.

2)  Teen Angst

Plenty of teen angst.  Probably more than I wanted, but it was the prerequisite stuff. You gotta have a college kid pining over his girlfriend.  Its a written law somewhere in vampire films.

3)  Interesting and unique facets of the vampire mythos:

This film was chocked full of Romanian vampire history.  I LOVED THAT.  I am a total vampire history junky.  This movie did FULL justice to vampire mythos of old.  Even if it was based on early versions of the myths surrounding Elisabeth Bathory who literally bathed in the blood of virgins. Yep, that shit really happened. Not much of a stretch to build a vampire story out of that. And we get plenty of the wonderful naked Gerri bathing-in-blood scenes.

▼Even if you hate the movie, you must watch it for these scenes▼

Now, the bad stuff:

>>>Uninspired and somewhat ridiculous dialogue is peppered throughout the whole movie. I have seen better dialogue on Power Rangers.

>>>Action scenes were seriously lacking. In a vampire film, I expect matrixy, underworldish, blade style action.  Effing Twilight (the first movie) had better action that this.  The film really really needed some Asian guy to come in and beef up the action choreography.  It was shitty.

>>>There was no real 'fright' or scare moment. This isn't really horror. Its simply a nod to vampire fans, that's it. You can see an attempt is made to scare you, and my three year old would probably get scared, if I let him watch (not happening), but no one over the age of five would call this a 'scary movie.'

>>>The lame attempts at comedy fell flat.  Even if its not scary, and the dialogue sucks, and the action scenes look like they were filmed by high school kids doing a project, I still expect to have at least one laugh-out-loud moment.  Not.

So, really, the only reason to see this movie is Gerri:

 

Gerri – Elisabeth Bathory – carries the film, limping along, and makes it all worthwhile.  Somebody give this woman a medal for salvaging an underbudgeted, cheesy vampire flick.

And here's one more, because the cover art is so phenomenal, much better than the film: