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Birthdays and Reviews

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Christine d'Abo
on October 19, 2009
in Life, Review and The Bond That Saves Us
. 8 Comments

It’s amazing how quickly life actually goes by. On Wednesday my oldest daughter turns ten. We had her birthday party/sleep-over this past weekend and had a ball. The whole time I’m staring at her and am in shock that I have a ten year old. She’s become her own person and I couldn’t be prouder of her.

When I asked her what she wanted to be when she old older, she told me she plans on being a kindergarten teacher. “But if that doesn’t work out, I’ll be a writer, mummy.” I was so proud!

Happy birthday baby!

Speaking of proud…I opened my inbox this morning to the most amazing review from Two Lips Reviews. The ever fantastic Merrylee gave The Bond That Saves Us five Lips!! It was an incredibly flattering review.

Sadly, The Bond That Saves Us is the final book in this exceptionally good series. I’ve read all four books, and I can truthfully say that they are not to be missed. Christine D’Abo not only writes with a knowledgeable flare for futuristic sci-fi, her characters are powerfully human – even if they aren’t. The pages of her books read fluidly, with absolutely no drag anywhere. Her world building and plot lines are extraordinarily well drawn and captivating. Beyond that, no other author I’ve read reaches quite the depth of sensuality and emotion in their sex scenes as does Ms. D’Abo. In fact, her sex scenes can be more aptly described as love scenes, as they grab hold of the reader’s heartstrings and hang on tight. You can’t read a D’Abo novel without sinking heart and soul into the lives of her characters, who seem so real it’s hard to believe they do not truly exist.

Thank you so much Merrylee for your kind words. You can read the review in its entirety over at Two Lips Reviews.

New Reviews – The Bond That Saves Us

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Christine d'Abo
on September 22, 2009
in Review and The Bond That Saves Us
. 3 Comments

The most humbling thing in the world for me is when I get notified of a review for one of my books. The fact that someone took the time to read my stories, but then goes on to say something (good or bad) about it really is mind blowing to me.

I’ve recently received a few reviews for The Bond That Saves Us, and I wanted to share them. :)

Tanya from Joyfully Reviewed honored me by giving The Bond That Saves Us a Recommended Read.

I have long waited for Sean to find peace. I have loved his character from the first in this series. The Bond That Saves Us did not let me down as Sean has found his match in Captain Amy. I was pulled in from the start of The Bond That Saves Us and while it is the fourth in a series it could easily be a standalone story, though you would miss three other wonderful tales. I Joyfully Recommend The Bond That Saves Us as it is a fast paced and interesting read.

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To follow that, I just heard that the fantastic Elise Lyn over at Sensual e-Cataromance gave me 4 out of 5 stars!

The Bond series was exciting and unique with each story giving us something different. Sean was plagued with feelings of guilt from the past while Amy was determined to enter a race even with danger lurking everywhere. The two together were dynamite but their pasts blinded them to what they could have. Typical of the Bond series, The Bond That Saves Us has realistic characters, an excellent plot and some heat to warm us up.

Thank you so much ladies for your kind words, and thank you to all the readers out there who kept me going with this series. I hope to have some new works out for you soon.

First Review – The Bond That Saves Us

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on September 3, 2009
in Review, The Bond That Saves Us and Writing
. 2 Comments

Hello everyone!

Well, I’m sorry for the absence recently. Things are crazy as always in the household, but moving along nicely. I’ve recently finished edits on a book that I’ll be sending over to my Samhain editor (cross fingers that she likes it), and am at the halfway mark on a new erotic futuristic. The few people who have read the chapters I’ve done so far really like it. I’m going to push to have it finished and off to my EC editor by the end of the month.

Speaking of EC…

I just received my first review for The Bond That Saves Us!! It received 4.5 / 5 Nymphs from Literary Nymphs Reviews.

*does a snoopy dance*

Here’s a small peek…

The sexual tension between Amy and Sean starts off hot and only gets hotter, as these two lovers spend more time together, until their desire is molten hot and almost out of control. Both are afraid of admitting their need for the other, and the author does a wonderful job describing their unease, fear and confusion. Ms. d’Abo’s integration of old and new characters…friends was seamless, lending the story a sense of depth, caring and family.

You can check out the entire review here.

And on a side note. There was a problem with the contact form on my website. It’s been fixed by my wonderful web guy, so feel free to email me any questions or comments you may have. :)

The Bond That Consumes Us – Reviewer Top Pick!

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on February 4, 2009
in Review and The Bond That Consumes Us
. 2 Comments

This morning I woke up with an ear ache. It hurts and I’m a baby. So I thought this meant I was going to have a crappy morning. It turns out that the wonderful people from Night Owl Romace made it all better!

When I opened my email first thing this morning, I discovered that The Bond That Consumes Us got a 4.5/5 and a Review’s Top Pick from Night Owl. I’m so excited I’m doing a snoopy dance in my chair.

Here is what Aemelia had to say:

I really liked Fallon’s strong personality, and how she wasn’t afraid to act on her desires when she met Tabor. I loved Tabor’s protectiveness of her, and how he just couldn’t resist her charms. Tabor had some deep issues of guilt to overcome, I could understand his resistance, being raised to believe that his first mate was his only mate, he was unsure if he could trust the feelings he felt for Fallon. The chemistry and passion between them was so hot I felt my fingers singe from the pages. 

I also enjoyed following the mystery of the killer throughout this tale, I was never really sure of the true culprit until the very end of the story. 

You have no idea how pleased I am to know people are enjoying Taber’s story. His character was one that snuck up on me as a writer. I’d never intended for him to have his own book when I started out writing The Bond That Ties Us. Now, I can’t imagine him not having one.

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Four Cups for All Bottled Up!

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on January 28, 2009
in All Bottled Up and Review
. 3 Comments

I just found out that All Bottled Up received four cups from Coffee Time Romance! I’m doing a major snoopy dance over this one. Thanks to Lototy for the fantastic review. :D

This is a fabulously fun and playfully erotic love story. Jerod and Viola are vivacious, full of life, and refreshingly normal. I especially love how the author develops Viola’s transformation in a purely natural way. She is someone we can all relate to, and her story is a real pleasure to read.

You can read the rest of the review here!

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Two Reviews!!

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on January 23, 2009
in Primal Elements, Review and The Bond That Consumes Us
. 5 Comments

Oh wow! I’ve had the most amazing Friday. I just received two reviews from Joyfully Reviewed.

The Bond That Consumes Us

Ms D’Abo has come up with a fantastic working group of people in a futuristic setting that is believable.  I enjoy how Ms. D’Abo writes characters that are believable and she definitely has a way with writing super sexy and erotic scenes.  The murder mystery that is intertwined along with the internal struggles Taber and Fallon face makes this book a winner.  I enjoyed The Bound that Consumes Us so much that I had to read it in one setting, no matter that it was long past my bedtime.


And, I’ve gotten a Recommened Read from Joyfully Reviewed for Primal Elements!

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Primal Elements is sexy, gripping, and wholly delightful. Ben and Jenna are a classic case of seemingly opposite people attracting, only to find out they’re not very different at all.  What’s engaging about this story is that the energy between Ben and Jenna just comes off the page.  Jenna is prejudiced against Ben because of his actions years ago and Ben is too prideful to correct her misconceptions about him.  Nevertheless, the two are so physically drawn to one another that their desire overcomes their reservations and the resulting passion leads to their romantic realizations.

Thank you so much to Tanya and Shayna for the amazing reviews! HUGS!

*does a snoopy dance*

Review – The Bond That Consumes Us

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on January 12, 2009
in Review, The Bond That Consumes Us and The Bond That Saves Us
. 6 Comments

I hope everyone had a fantastic weekend! We had our first TRW meeting of the year, presented by the fantastic Claire Delacroix. It was a great opportunity to hear a lot of inside information on the publishing business, from a fantastic lady who really knows her stuff. My head was spinning with ideas when I was done, and I had a lot of time to plan out what I wanted to do next on my drive home.

I managed to get back into the writing swing of things as well. I made some headway with The Bond That Saves Us, and am really happy that I’ve finally worked out in my head where this plot is going. Now I just need the time to get it finished! :D

To start my week off on the right foot, I opened my Inbox to find the following review on The Bond That Consumes Us from eCataromance!

The mystery of the murders provided a fantastic backdrop for the romance. The end result will have you biting your nails until everything is resolved. Christine d’Abo’s Bond books are fantastic is more ways than one. She weaves in fantastic plots, give us realistic sympathetic characters that are easy to love and we get to visit with old friends from the first tales. The Bond That Consumes Us will leave us all wanting our very own mate like the ones Christine d’Abo creates so beautifully.

Thank you, Elise Lyn for the fantastic review! You can read it in its entirety Here!

How was everyone’s weekend? What major plans do you have for the week?

Dropped Coffee, Cats, and Book Reviews

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on December 9, 2008
in Fun, Life and Review
. 4 Comments

Well I had a fun start to my day. More snow landed in my area, and I wasn’t quite ready for it. I had an early morning meeting, and ended up being late because things were so bad in my subdivision. I then dropped my entire mug of coffee on the ground once I got to the office. That means I’m forced to drink crap coffee out of the machine *blech*.

My day started to look up when I finally got to my email and discovered that The Bond That Consumes Us received a five heart rating from The Romance Studio!

Wow! I picked this one up and couldn’t put it down. Taber is a tortured soul, and I had a lot of sympathy for him when I found out what had happened to him earlier in his life. The way it was put together in the story explained a lot of his actions so that it made sense and really enhanced it. Fallon was a great character; she’s strong, sexy and knows how to go after what she wants, which is this powerful, dominant man. The sex in the story is passionate and hot, and in context. The secondary characters were great; they didn’t take over the story but I was left wondering what’s going to happen to at least one of them… Sean. I thought this was a fantastic story, full of rich characters and fast paced enough to keep me reading until the story was done. Don’t miss it!

Thank you so much Julia!! I’m working hard on Sean’s story now, and hope to have it done around the end of December.

My friend then sent me the little short below. I laughed my ass off! I have a cat, and she so does this. Normally when I’m trying to write on my computer LOL!

Review – The Bond That Consumes Us

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on December 3, 2008
in Review
. 6 Comments

Yeah! I just received this wonderful review today from Literary Nymphs Reviews.

The Bond That Consumes Us is the latest release by Christine d’Abo in her ongoing Eternal Bonds series, and it’s another winner. Whether you enjoy futuristic stories or not, this well-written and fast-paced romance will grab your attention from the beginning pages and kept it until you read the last word. This series might be set in the future with its space travel and intergalactic colonies, but the backbone of this story is finding unexpected love and catching a killer. This type of story, especially one so well thought out and with such interesting characters, works, no matter what the genre.

Thank you so much for the wonderful words. You can read the complete review Here!

First Review for Primal Elements!

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on September 14, 2008
in Primal Elements, Promotion, Review and Writing
. 2 Comments

It’s over! The week from hell is done and a new one is yet to begin…the week, hopefully not the hell part. :D

I’m in the process of editing All Bottled Up, which will be coming out from Samhain this January. I forgot how much I loved these characters and this story, but it’s funny to see how much my writing has changed since I initially wrote this. So I’ll be busy working away on this making it sparkle for you!

And I got my first review for Primal Elements! I was so excited when I saw this one from Manic Readers, I think I giggled out loud.

Primal Elements by Christine D’Abo lives up to its name by boiling things down to an elemental level, positive and negative, good and evil, love and hate. All these things must have their opposite to exist and so goes the plot of this book. The hero and heroine are completely different, but joined on a level that exceeds anything they understand. I really enjoyed the interaction between the main characters and their friends as well as how they learned to adjust to each other. A funny, entertaining and sarcastic book, Ms. D’Abo has a bright future in fiction ahead if this is anything to go by.

Thank you so much for this!

I didn’t get any new writing done this week, so my kick in the pants flopped. This week I’m totally focused on edits, so the new stuff will have to take a back seat. That is fine, as I’m mulling over a few plot points for my urban paranormal. I’m working on cleaning it up too, and am anxious to start sending it out. Soon….

What is everyone else up to this week?