Toxic (Celestra Part One and Two) Book Review

Toxic Part One (Celestra #7)

by Addison Moore 

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Blurb:

Skyla Messenger’s days are numbered.

With an angelic Faction War riding on her shoulders, and her mother’s newfound need to cozy with the enemy, Skyla also has to deal with the fact someone close to her has openly deceived her.

Skyla learns that sometimes in life, and in love, things aren’t always what they seem.

Toxic (Celestra #7 Part One) Review

I loved this book was so intense, and made me scared for my favorite characters. I just love Marshall. I know I can’t be the only one. I still am a total Logan fan. Gage, he is one I just can’t trust completely, though I do more after this book ended. I still like Marhall the best, he is one that never has lied to her, and always is thinking of what’s best for her (him, lol) and truly cares for Skyla. I had fun reading this book, and can’t wait to pick up Toxic part two. I had waited to read part one, until two was out so I can have it on hand. Now of course I will hate the wait for book 8.

If you already have not read this series, it’s a great one to start. I know its a lot of books, but they are fast easy reads. Meaning on the edge of your seat, and can’t put it down. Lol.  Start with book one Ethereal (it’s been free on Kindle at Amazon for awhile) and then go from there.

I loved how we got to see Cooper from Ephemeral in this book. I was NOT happy to see Wesley and what he does to Skyla. Let’s just say, I now know where he got his abilities in Ephemeral. (It’s the Countance series, new one; it ties in with this series)

I won’t say much about this, as it’s not good to spoil anything. Just saying this series just gets better and better.

5 out f 5 stars. Go get it, it’s great!!

 Here is a small parts that I liked a lot, I really like Marshall for some reason,  not really anything to spoil In them:

“He found me just after midnight and told me about the stone, how the Pretty One and you were pinned with a blade. When I informed him there wasn’t a single thing I could do to alleviate your discomfort, he dropped to his knees. The look of grief on the poor boy’s face alerted me to something.”“What’s that?” I stare up at Marshall’s fiery eyes. Each their own unique shade of burgundy.“He feels just as strongly for you as I do.” Marshall focuses his gaze straight ahead. The fireplace roars to life without provocation. It brands the room in colors pink and gold. “I thought I understood love, knew the lay of the land—all of its inroads.” He sighs hard, landing a soft kiss to my temple. “I knew nothing of it until I met you, Skyla. You’ve redefined love for me. It’s sacred—anointed with the highest regard and blessing.”I’ve never heard words like that from Marshall. His placating sexuality, his wry wit and humor are all gone, nothing but the naked form of a man underneath, declaring his love for me. Our eyes lock. A strong magnetic pull lures me to his lips, and everything in me longs for a kiss.

Here is another Part with Skyla and Marshall, just had to share, as it had me laughing so hard. Lol

It’s me, Skyla. Do try to focus on the suitor at hand. Marshall suggests while pleasuring me with a kiss I won’t soon forget.So this is what it would be like to love Marshall—his bold affection—the intense wave of pleasure emanating from his being. It’s heaven like this with him. I could more than forget my troubles if only for a little while. Maybe what I really need is to spend a few good hours under Marshall’s lustful supervision, maybe that’s how I’ll repair my shattered heart. Marshall would never refute my efforts and make me wait until the end of the faction war like Logan. Marshall would take me right now on this vibrating donkey, if I let him.A vision appears, a blinding pain surges throughout my body, and I bear down hard.“You can do this,” a voice calls from behind. “Push, Skyla—push.”I turn ever so slightly and see the face of the man rooting me on—it’s Marshall panting out the beginnings of a smile as he looks down over me and the vision fades to black.I jump off him as though he were on fire.Dear God. I am going to get knocked up by my math teacher.

Toxic Part Two (Celestra, # 7.5)

by Addison Moore 

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Toxic Part 2 Review

Wow, this was a heck of a ride, of emotions, action, some blood and gore (you know, the facton war) we get some major sadness in this one, and great losses too.

I don’t want to spoil anything, but will say, its amazing, these books just get better and better, but you need to read them all or you would be so lost, it’s an ongoing story for sure.

Skyla has some decisions to make and sacrifices too. I felt so connected too.

I still love Marshall, just can’t help it. To me he is the one who has been there all along for Skyla.

I can’t believe what a huge cliffhanger this book ended one. What is that all about, man! I need the next book NOW.

We get some questions answered, but many more new questions too. I was brought to tears a few times, and was on an emotional rollercoaster as well. Also laughed outloud many times, as Skyla cracks me up, especially with Marshall.

I highly recommend this whole series, and will leave you with some great teasers. 5 out of 5 stars for sure.

(Skyla and Marshall)                            

“You, my dear kitten, are impossibly titillating.”I glance over at Marshall, lacking the energy to properly roll my eyes. I think the expression “one-track mind” was literally derived from him.“I don’t know what the hell you just said, but it sounds disastrous.” My eyelids sear themselves shut. Normally, I wouldn’t fight my body on the much-needed snooze-fest its trying to procure, but I feel rather exposed spread over the length of Marshall’s couch and he’s gearing up to pounce. I can feel it.

And  this in same scene page later (Skyla and Marshall)

Marshall gazes down at me with a content look on his face. I reach up and touch my hand to his cheek.“You really are a good listener, you know that?”He loses himself while grazing over my body with those sun-scorched eyes, so I place my hand over his to listen in on his private musings. Usually, he can throw them at me at a distance, which is his way of showing off his Sector prowess, but for now, he’s lost in lust, too far gone to throw anything coherent my way. My mouth desires to trace out the landscape of her every curve. I crave to have her, right down to her tiny beautiful feet. How I yearn for the moment she graces my chambers night after luscious night with all of the affection we can afford. We’ll charge the air with our ferocity. I can almost feel her skin burning against mine, the singe of her thighs smoothing over me as I make her my wife with a pronounced finality.And there’s that.“I can hear you,” I say.A smile rides up his cheek. “Though the deep drink of our love tarry—wait for it.”

(Skyla and Marshall)

“You know…” I readjust my neck over his lap. “Sometimes I feel as if I’m all alone.”“You have me.” His serious eyes penetrate mine. “For the rest of your days, I will be here for you—someone to trust, to lean on—to have and to hold from this day on.”Marshall is a thing of beauty both inside and out. I reach up and touch my fingers to his lips. Somebody is going to be very lucky to love him fully one day.“Those sounded an awful lot like wedding vows,” I whisper.“You will be everything to me, Skyla. A lover…” He kisses a finger. “A friend…” He kisses the tip of another. “A spouse…” He pushes my finger into his hot mouth and I pluck it out. “Where shall we spend our honeymoon?” He goes right there without provocation.

(Skyla, Logan, and Gage)

A pair of arms circle around my waist, a kiss is dropped on my cheek from behind. It can’t be Marshall because I don’t feel like I’ve been assaulted by a human vibrator. It feels genuine, born of love and wanting, a hint of the future locked in its warmth.Logan appears in front of me and waves a pair of condoms in the air.“Ambitious,” I say.“House special.” A not-so-guilty smile blooms on his face.Gage flicks the prophylactics away before holding up a pair of his own with a lust-born grin.“So what are you guys going to do with them?” I ask, slightly perturbed that both Olivers dare approach me with glorified water balloons, and on this the very same eve.

Books in the Celestra  and Countenance series which ties in with this series

ETHEREAL (Celestra Series Book 1)

TREMBLE (Celestra Series Book 2)

BURN (Celestra Series Book 3)

WICKED (Celestra Series Book 4)

VEX (Celestra Series Book 5)

EXPEL ( Celestra Series Book 6 )

TOXIC PART ONE (Celestra Book 7)

TOXIC PART TWO (Celestra Book 7)

ELYSIAN (Celestra Book 8)

EPHEMERAL (The Countenance Trilogy 1) (My Review Here)

EVANESCENT (The Countenance Trilogy 2)

ENTROPY (The Countenance Trilogy 3) Out late 2013

ETHEREAL KNIGHTS (Celestra Knights) (Celestra book 1 written from Logan and Gage’s point of view)

About the Author Addison Moore

Addison Moore is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who writes contemporary and paranormal romance. Previously she worked as a therapist on a locked psychiatric unit for nearly a decade. She resides on the West Coast with her husband, four wonderful children, and two dogs where she eats too much chocolate and stays up way too late. When she's not writing, she's reading.

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Buy Links Smashwords click name of books (for other formats including epub for nook and more)

Ethereal (Celestra 1) (Free)

Tremble (Celstra 2)

Burn (Celestra 3)

Wicked (Celestra 4)

Vex (Celestra 5)

Expel (Celestra 6)

Toxic Part One (Celestra 7)

Toxic Part Two (Celestra 7)

Ethereal Knights (Celestra Knights) (Book 1 from Logan and Gage POV)

Ephemeral (The Countenance Book 1)

Evanescent (The Countenance Book 2)

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Toxic Part Two (Celestra, # 7.5)

by Addison Moore 

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I LOVE Marshall in this series. He is so gorgeous, and sweet, and dedicated to Skyla. For those who do not know of this series Marshall is a Sector which is a higher up of the angels, Skyla is a pure Celestra Angel Nephlim and they are at war with other Nephlim, the Countance and Fems. The Sectors and Celestra are banded together. Anyway, it’s a great fun series, and Skyla had not 1, but 3 hot guys in love with her, and in her own complicated way, loved them too. I would hate to be the one to choose, lol. Well, Marshall is one of my favorites, so am sharing a cool scene,Skyla can read thoughts when touching someone, and Marshall also can, as well as project them to her without touching, he is quite powerful.

Marshall gazes down at me with a content look on his face. I reach up and touch my hand to his cheek.“You really are a good listener, you know that?”He loses himself while grazing over my body with those sun-scorched eyes, so I place my hand over his to listen in on his private musings. Usually, he can throw them at me at a distance, which is his way of showing off his Sector prowess, but for now, he’s lost in lust, too far gone to throw anything coherent my way. 

My mouth desires to trace out the landscape of her every curve. I crave to have her, right down to her tiny beautiful feet. How I yearn for the moment she graces my chambers night after luscious night with all of the affection we can afford. We’ll charge the air with our ferocity. I can almost feel her skin burning against mine, the singe of her thighs smoothing over me as I make her my wife with a pronounced finality.

And there’s that.“I can hear you,” I say.A smile rides up his cheek. “Though the deep drink of our love tarry—wait for it.”

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Teaser Tuesday & Tuesday Intros First Chapter ~ Toxic Part Two ~ Angelfire

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 Grab your current read Open to a random page Share 2 (Two) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page

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Toxic Part Two (Celestra, # 7.5)

by Addison Moore

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Teaser #1 Not one to waste a good vat of boiling vomit I turn my head and do my best impression of a girl possessed, projecting my insides all over Chloe Bishop’s hair and chest.

She jumps out of her chair, on fire with screams, and runs retching from the room.

Teaser #2 He touches his thumb to my cheek and his wonderful vibrations tune through me like the strumming of a harp. “I love you, Skyla. In time you will feel the same.” 

I catch my breath and hold it, not sure how to respond. A part of me knows this is real. A part of me already has a very special place in my heart for Marshall. And although I’m terribly afraid to admit it, the thought of making love to him has been playing out in the recesses of my darkest fantasies for some time now.

“Really?” His brows arch in amusement.

Shit.

Tuesday Intros, First Chapter, First Paragraph

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Angelfire (Dark Angel 1)

by Hanna Peach

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Chapter 1 

The devil walks into a bar.

Purgatory is a bar reminiscent of old lower Manhattan, long and skinny like an alleyway, exposed brick, faded booths and low hanging lights amidst the soft racket of a dirty jazz. Purgatory is located in that slip of space and time between earth, heaven and hell. Nowhere and everywhere.

From earth you can get to it from number 13 of any street if you know how to look. Mortals have long forgotten the reason that thirteen is unlucky yet street numbers all over the world still read 9, 11, 15.

Inside, Balthazar is leaning against one of the gritty walls, partly hidden by the soft haze of smoke that seems to just hang at eye level, partly hidden by the glamour-magic that he has wrapped himself in. Anyone looking at him would see the pale green skin and scarlet eyes of a lesser demon.

As Samyara steps in through the door from earth, Balthazar’s body remains slouched and uninterested but his eyes become alert. He watches as Samyara weaves his way to the far end of the bar and slips onto a stool next to a lone seraph wearing a crimson cloak, playing with the rim of a glass of untouched golden liquid. Balthazar’s skin prickles. Usually Samyara won’t go near the Seraphim.

To anyone else watching it may not have appeared unusual, an angel and a demon sitting side by side, at least not in Purgatory. But Balthazar had come here with suspicions.

Teaser:

Alyx sits very still as he inserts the needle into her arm and the tube fills up with her blood. When he pulls the needle away the tiny hole closes up immediately. He turns to his bench and unscrews the needle from the tube.

Alyx begins to stand.

“I ain’t done with you yet.”

She sits back down.

“What are you going to do with it?” she asks.

Mayrekk doesn’t reply. Alyx can hear him clinking around. He keeps the tube in one hand. With his other he picks up an empty glass vial from another basket. A bloodink vial. It looks delicate like an eggshell against his bearish palm.

Alyx feels the room heat and ripples of power run across her skin causing her hairs to rise on end. Powerful magic. Mayrekk is using his magic. He is distilling her blood right here.

Summary of Angelfire:

An army of angels walk among us. They have kept us safe and ignorant, so far.

Earthbound for centuries and ruled by the Elders, they have established hidden cities, a society and The Code: obey your Elders, kill all demons, eliminate Rogue-angels, protect the mortals, remain hidden. Their warriors are the ungifted earthborn angels armed with blades and the ‘borrowed magics’ of distilled angel-blood tattoos.

Alyxandria is a young warrior with a fondness for customized knives and illegal night-races. If only she could overcome the taint of her parents who abandoned her to become Rogues.

When Alyx saves Israel, a gifted mortal with a past, she is forbidden to see him again. But she can’t help herself, drawn to him through their Guardian-bond, an ancient and long-forgotten bond; if he dies, she dies.

An encounter with a handsome Rogue leaves Alyx questioning all she has been taught to believe. Alyx begins to dig into the Elders’ secrets. Two thousand years of secrets that begin with the death of the Archangel Raphael. She is not prepared when she uncovers an Elder’s dark plan.

Somewhere on earth is a key to unlock hell. Somewhere on earth are pieces of an amulet that controls Lucifer and his army. Somehow Israel is the link and now both sides are after him. Who can Alyx trust when Good and Evil is no longer clear?

The war for earth begins.

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