Whipped Cream Erotic Romance Reviews

Hot-Blooded by KyAnn Waters
The Wild Rose Press, Scarlet Rose
Contemporary, Paranormal
Short Story, M/F
Review by Xeranth

It’s hot as hell in Southern California, and Kelis LeBrun is having a bitch of a time keeping his focus and his fangs off the delicious looking Ms. Loni Soleil. Perhaps if it weren’t so bloody hot, he’d be able to stave off the hunger pangs. But the only way to do that is hot, sweaty sex…something he’d swore he’d never have with Loni. He couldn’t let her know he was a 300 year old vampire.

However, when they become trapped on an elevator during a rolling blackout Kelis discovers Loni has a few secrets of her own.

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The one thing I look for in a vampire romance is a good bite scene and Kyann Waters knows how to deliver the goods. "Hot Blooded" is sensual, seductive and contains a surprise at the end that simply made me smile in delight. Actually, I think I said, “Cool!”

Kelis is a man who is resigned to the isolated life he lives, if living is what he does. He has no friends, no one he can trust and his character tapped into my inner nurturer. Kelis is a vampire I wanted to see happy.

Loni is the surprise. She is his ultimate temptation. Her character is sweet and earnest yet I could tell there was something about her that had me suspicious. I really can’t say too much more because the POV in this story is from Kelis’ view point. To Kelis, Loni is everything he wants but can’t have. The push/pull inner conflict Kelis wages within himself allowed me, the reader, to connect and care about what happens to him.

The sexual tension spikes to incredible heights when the elevator stops and darkness embraces them. Kelis is hungry for more than just blood and more than just sex but can Loni give him what he needs? Does he dare take the chance? Why isn’t Loni afraid of him? Based upon one very intriguing comment she makes about the library, she’s not and that had me wondering all sorts of things.

Once again, I find that I cannot tell you any more. I want you to be as astounded and surprised as I was by the ending. It’s a sweet and very satisfying HEA but what happens in nothing like you’d expect from a vampire romance. I believe Ms. Waters to be a master--or is that a mistress?--story teller. In "Hot Blooded", she has taken the stereotypical vampire romance and turned it on its ear, presenting readers with a fresh and novel ending sure to please and amaze.

Ms. Waters knows the proper way to write a vampire bite for full sexual impact, how to save a tortured hero and how to give a reader a refreshing, exciting and unique HEA. It’s all wrapped up in a short story aimed at the best of what vampire romances are known for -- a happily ever after you can sink your teeth into.