Review: Parker's Honor by Rory Michaels & Mandy M Roth

Parker's Honor (goodreads.com)

By: Rory Michaels (author website) &

Mandy M Roth (author website)

eBook, 79 pages per Kindle

Published May 14th 2012 by Raven Books

ISBN 13: 9781452447414

Source: Publisher, for the purpose of an honest review

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Series: Cowboys and Supernaturals, book #2

Best read in order: no, each works as a stand-alone

Stars: 4

Flames: 3

The second book in the Cowboys and Supernaturals series begins where the first book does. With Parker’s Honor readers follow Parker and Lynn, instead of Jonathan and Molly. Some of the events at the very beginning are the same as in Blaze of Glory but your following Parker and Lynn and they eventually go in a completely different direction and it is their story. I liked this. I knew from reading the first book that these two would get together, but reading how it all unfolded from the moment they met was great.

Lynn comes into Prospect Springs hoping to help her friend Molly by attempting to impersonate her thus getting the people chasing her headed into the wrong direction. The MacSweeny’s and their shifter senses immediately pick up on Lynn not smelling like Molly. Before Lynn’s true identity is discovered a band of outlaws transport into town and all hell breaks loose. Parker does what his shifter instincts tell him to, protect his woman.

Parker and Lynn have a swift yet companionable romance. They make sense as a couple. The have even more in common than they could have ever imagined, especially once the secrets of Lynn’s past start to come out. Pops and Momma MacSweeny are a hoot to read. I can easily imagine any grandbaby hungry mama doing exactly what Parker’s mother does. 

The Cowboys and Supernaturals series has a unique blend of several genres. Due to The Great Sickness people have been forced to live in conditions of centuries past. The setting is clearly western. Some technological advancements survived the fall of the planet as we know it so the series has a mild steampunk feel. The ability to travel through teleportation gives it the sci fi edge. The sexy MacSweeny family brings the paranormal element into the mix, as they are shifters. Mandy and Rory have created a world where many genres come together wonderfully. 

Review: Blaze of Glory by Mandy M Roth & Rory Michaels

Blaze of Glory (goodreads.com)

By: Mandy M Roth & Rory Michaels (author website)

eBook, 63 pages

Published September 8th 2011 by Raven Books (first published September 7th 2011)

ISBN 13: 9781452422169

Source: author for the purpose of an honest review

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Series: Cowboys and Supernaturals, book #1

Stars: 4

Flames: 5

Blaze of Glory is set in 2807. The Earth is not how we know it today. Catastrophic events have left the planet a very different place. It is now a place where people ride steel steeds, pack law trumps human laws, Special Marshalls hunt paranormal beings and women are always owned by either their father or their spouse.

Molly ran from the town she grew up in. She ran from a man who harmed her. In running she also ran from the one man she ever loved. It has been years since she ran and she is no longer that scared girl. She is now a hellcat of a Special Marshall. She wears a badge, totes a gun and doesn’t let anyone harm her. She has grown in to one tough woman. She’s a tough woman who won’t let a man make her decisions for her.

Jonathan gets the best news and the worst news of his life all in one sentence. Molly has returned home to marry. The problem is her father has not married her off to him. Molly’s father has married her off to the man who harmed her and thus ran her off. Jonathan only sees one solution, go get his woman. He’s not going to let either of her two fiancées stand in his way.

This novella is full of action, a futuristic twist on the old west complete with cowboys and shifters. Roth has introduced her readers to an entire family of hot shifter men to keep the series going and a Special Marshall sidekick in the form of Cole to keep you salivating for the next book. I enjoyed the futuristic twist on the old west. I have every intention of continuing reading this series.

My only dislike is the complete personality change that Molly did. She starts out fighting tough, foul mouthed, ass kicking law enforcement official who makes her own rules consequences be damned. When the readers are given the final climatic fight scene where the man her father betrothed her to comes to collect her, she just hangs back on the front porch in a dress and lets Jonathan and Cole handle the majority of the situation.