Review: ‘Love Bites’ by Cynthia St. Aubin
Love Bites
by Cynthia St. AubinSeries: Tails from the Alpha Art Gallery #1
Published by Oliver-Heber Books on May 4, 2020
SubGenres: Paranormal Romance
Format: AudioBook, Paperback
Pages: 288
Narrator: Stella Hunter
Source: Purchased
Audience: 18+/Adult
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A girl’s gotta eat—and so do her three cats. Recently divorced art history grad student Hanna Harvey has just fibbed her way into a job as the assistant to dangerously drool-worthy art gallery owner Mark Abernathy. For Hanna, working in the field she desperately loves provides the perfect opportunity to begin putting her life back together. Soon her cheese budget is in the black and her feline life partners are no longer eyeing her like a six-foot can of Fancy Feast.
But when her boss's lady friends start turning up dead, Hanna finds herself in the cross hairs of a murder investigation. Even worse, hunky homicide detective James Morrison fears hers might be the next body he discovers.
With the "help" of the gallery's quirky cast of resident artists, Hanna will have to hunt down the truth about Abernathy’s dark secret—before it hunts her.Read the entire Tails from the Alpha Art Gallery series in order:
Love BitesLove SucksLove Lies
Why am I just now finding out about Cynthia St. Aubin’s Tails from the Alpha Art Gallery series and reading it? I must have been living under a rock when this series initially came out because this is right up my alley for what I enjoy reading, especially when it had me laughing out loud.
Not only is the first book in the series, Love Bites, full of humor, but it’s also a paranormal romance with a murder/mystery storyline and a quirky cast that I definitely loved getting to know, especially the FMC, Hanna Harvey. Hanna Harvey is someone I wish wasn’t fictional because she’s someone I instantly would love to be friends with in real life. She had the best personality, and her inner thoughts about her new boss, Mark Abernathy, had me rolling at times, especially with how she handled certain things with him. He did put her in some predicaments that made her questioning working for him and I didn’t blame her reactions. I would have done the same thing, especially when a detective was coming around investigating her boss for murders that were happening.
Fair warning: The first book has a cliffhanger that will make you want the second book right away, just like it did me. I’m so glad I found this series by Cynthia St. Aubin because it’s now going to be binged like crazy and become my Roman Empire. I can’t wait to read the second book and am thankful that I’ve already purchased it.
If you enjoy a fast-paced paranormal romance full of comedic moments, a great cast of characters, and a murder mystery storyline with some steamy moments, then definitely check out this book.
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About Cynthia St. Aubin
USA Today bestselling author Cynthia St. Aubin wrote her first play at age eight and made her brothers perform it for the admission price of gum wrappers. A steal, considering she provided the wrappers in advance. Though her early work debuted to mixed reviews, she never quite gave up on the writing thing, even while earning a mostly useless master's degree in art history and taking her turn as a cube monkey in the corporate warren.
Because the voices in her head kept talking to her, and they discourage drinking at work, she started writing instead. When she's not standing in front of the fridge eating cheese, she's hard at work figuring out which mythological, art historical, or paranormal friends to play with next. She lives in Colorado with the love of her life and three surly cats.
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