Twice-baked vampire Gabriel Strickland may appear to be coping well with the responsibilities his life after double-death has dealt him, but it's only show. The struggle to earn his ticket through the Pearly Gates takes a toll when he's assigned to perform a Monkey Jump - a program designed to teach newly assigned management the skills required to do their job. To soften the blow, he takes Dori as his assistant. What he wants is peace and serenity to think things through, what he gets is startling temptation and a Soul Eater with his sidekick, Master Witch Neave Brittania Cook. One has a revenge agenda and the other, designs on Gabriel's soul. The Monkey Jump itinerary, scheduled for Phoenix and Seattle, takes a perilous detour to a north Alaskan community of the oldest, most evolved vampires on the planet. Secrets must be kept and Gabriel must protect Dori as well as his own path to paradise. Well, hell, this can't be good.
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Monkey Jump, Book #2, The Twice-Baked Vampire Series, Deborah Riley-Magnus
December 2, 2012
By Les Denton
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
The author wastes no time jumping into danger in this second installment of the twice-baked vampire series. Still yearning to save his soul while protecting his gal, Gabriel Strickland finds himself saddled with an unwanted promotion, running a `tank' full of otherworldly creatures. A trip to Alaska brings along with it new plot twists, fresh blood, and a greater understanding of this wild undead power hierarchy. The twice-baked series opens the door to a unique supernatural world filled with colorful, sometimes humorous, sometimes scary, characters fighting a growing battle unbeknownst to us humans.
By Lynn Worton
Format:Kindle Edition
Review 6******
I received a copy of this book from the author in return for an honest review.
This is the second book in the Twice-Baked series. I absolutely LOVED it!
Gabriel Strickland is a fantastic character! He is still adjusting to being a twice dead being. He takes his responsibility as the new head of the safe house very seriously. However, when he is sent on a "Monkey Jump" to enable him to acquire the necessary management skills, he is unprepared for the adventure that awaits him and his companions.
I fell in love with Gabriel in the first book! What's not to like? He's gorgeous, well mannered and charismatic. Just because he's a vampire who has been killed twice, doesn't mean he can't earn his shot at redemption!
This book see's Gabriel, Dori (his girlfriend and a Muse) and a Leprechaun called Feever Clovely jetting off on a Monkey Jump to teach Gabriel how to manage the safe house. Along the way, they meet up with Don Carson (a Soul Eater) and the witch, Neave Brittania Cook.
We briefly met these two characters in the first book. In this story, they are more involved. I actually liked Don Carson's character, even though he's a soul eater. He's a wonderful character who is trapped in servitude to the Mexican goddess, Tlazolteotl. He does something so brave, that I am in awe of him!
Neave Brittania Cook is a witch with a lot of power. She will do anything to gain even more.
There are also a lot of other new characters that are too numerous to mention.
This is an exciting adventure that takes you from the sun baked beach in California to the frozen dark north of Alaska. There are vampires, polar bear shifters and even a dragon! This is a fantastic paranormal series! I am definitely looking forward to reading more of this author's work!
Deborah Riley Magnus has created a fantastic series that completely gripped me from the first page! A word of warning, this book contains swearing, so I do not recommend this book to younger readers. However, it is not overly offensive. I highly recommend this book if you love a fantastic paranormal adventure full of danger and intrigue, not to mention vampires, werewolves, shifters, witches, leprechaun's and other supernatural beings! - Lynn Worton
I received a copy of this book from the author in return for an honest review.
This is the second book in the Twice-Baked series. I absolutely LOVED it!
Gabriel Strickland is a fantastic character! He is still adjusting to being a twice dead being. He takes his responsibility as the new head of the safe house very seriously. However, when he is sent on a "Monkey Jump" to enable him to acquire the necessary management skills, he is unprepared for the adventure that awaits him and his companions.
I fell in love with Gabriel in the first book! What's not to like? He's gorgeous, well mannered and charismatic. Just because he's a vampire who has been killed twice, doesn't mean he can't earn his shot at redemption!
This book see's Gabriel, Dori (his girlfriend and a Muse) and a Leprechaun called Feever Clovely jetting off on a Monkey Jump to teach Gabriel how to manage the safe house. Along the way, they meet up with Don Carson (a Soul Eater) and the witch, Neave Brittania Cook.
We briefly met these two characters in the first book. In this story, they are more involved. I actually liked Don Carson's character, even though he's a soul eater. He's a wonderful character who is trapped in servitude to the Mexican goddess, Tlazolteotl. He does something so brave, that I am in awe of him!
Neave Brittania Cook is a witch with a lot of power. She will do anything to gain even more.
There are also a lot of other new characters that are too numerous to mention.
This is an exciting adventure that takes you from the sun baked beach in California to the frozen dark north of Alaska. There are vampires, polar bear shifters and even a dragon! This is a fantastic paranormal series! I am definitely looking forward to reading more of this author's work!
Deborah Riley Magnus has created a fantastic series that completely gripped me from the first page! A word of warning, this book contains swearing, so I do not recommend this book to younger readers. However, it is not overly offensive. I highly recommend this book if you love a fantastic paranormal adventure full of danger and intrigue, not to mention vampires, werewolves, shifters, witches, leprechaun's and other supernatural beings! - Lynn Worton
4.0 out of 5 stars
Monkey Jump (The Twice-Baked Vampire #2) by Deborah Riley-Magnus
November 11, 2012
Format:Kindle Edition
In Monkey Jump we pick up not long after the ending of the last book Cold in California. Monkey Jump; I admit the name really caught my attention right off the bat and having read and really liked the first book in the series there was no way I could say no to picking up the second!
Author Deborah Riley-Magnus has created a series that centers on redemption--paranormal redemption. For example, if a vampire is already dead and he dies (twice-baked), well, what happens? In the case of Gabriel Strickland he finds out about the life in-between, a chance to earn redemption before the inevitable decision is made whether he is going to Heaven or Hell. (In the last book when this decision is made I think they kind of just go `poof' from the world. I could be wrong though, it has been some time since I read book one.)
Vampires, or any other paranormal creature for that matter, do not just disappear into non-existence like in some books. Usually the vampire is already considered `damned' because of what he is. In the Twice-Baked Vampire Series they have to worry about the great after-life just like everyone else.
Don't get me wrong, as far as I understand it not everyone gets the in-between some people just go one way or the other but Gabriel is one of those who go to the in-between or what everyone that is there with him call the `Tank".
There are tanks all over the world but theirs is in Los Angeles.
In the last book we were left with Gabriel now being in charge of the tank and his girlfriend Dori Gallagher (who had always thought she was human but now finds she was a Muse) is in the tank with him after her death.
As the new leader of his holding tank, a job that means he has to take care of all of the other's there, Gabriel learns that he is being sent on a Monkey Jump by the powers-that-be to see other tanks around the world and how they run things. He is allowed to take two people with him.
He chooses Dori, feeling it will give them more time together and leprechaun, a highly annoying leprechaun he takes mostly just to get him out of the way of the other people at the tank as they work on their new home after the destruction of the last tank in book one.
Of course things go wrong. The witch from the ending of the last books does some damage, the Soul Eater Carson comes along for the ride looking for more souls and they end up in Alaska.
Not only Alaska but a town as odd and unusual as the tank and whole redemption thing was to Gabriel just a few weeks ago. It is populated by humans, vampires and shifters.
It is notoriously known that shifters and vampires do not get along but in the town of Maxtla somehow...it works.
However they could not have shown up at a worse time; the darkness is coming. Sixty days with no light and each year it drives the vampires closer and closer to the breaking point, striking them faster each year.
I really liked this book. I said it with the first book and I will say it again; the author has created something really unique here. Never before have I read a book that is anything quite like this series and this second novel also throws in the Arthurian ledged as well!
Overall Monkey Jump is a fast paced, highly interesting and unique book about the paranormal world that held my attention completely. I am looking forward to more by Deborah Riley-Magnus, and hope it will be another book in this series!
I would recommend Monkey Jump to anyone who read and liked the first book of the series. I would recommend the series to anyone who is looking for a unique paranormal series.
*I received a hardcover/paperback/eBook copy/ARC of this book for free to review from the author/publisher/tour site; this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own.
Author Deborah Riley-Magnus has created a series that centers on redemption--paranormal redemption. For example, if a vampire is already dead and he dies (twice-baked), well, what happens? In the case of Gabriel Strickland he finds out about the life in-between, a chance to earn redemption before the inevitable decision is made whether he is going to Heaven or Hell. (In the last book when this decision is made I think they kind of just go `poof' from the world. I could be wrong though, it has been some time since I read book one.)
Vampires, or any other paranormal creature for that matter, do not just disappear into non-existence like in some books. Usually the vampire is already considered `damned' because of what he is. In the Twice-Baked Vampire Series they have to worry about the great after-life just like everyone else.
Don't get me wrong, as far as I understand it not everyone gets the in-between some people just go one way or the other but Gabriel is one of those who go to the in-between or what everyone that is there with him call the `Tank".
There are tanks all over the world but theirs is in Los Angeles.
In the last book we were left with Gabriel now being in charge of the tank and his girlfriend Dori Gallagher (who had always thought she was human but now finds she was a Muse) is in the tank with him after her death.
As the new leader of his holding tank, a job that means he has to take care of all of the other's there, Gabriel learns that he is being sent on a Monkey Jump by the powers-that-be to see other tanks around the world and how they run things. He is allowed to take two people with him.
He chooses Dori, feeling it will give them more time together and leprechaun, a highly annoying leprechaun he takes mostly just to get him out of the way of the other people at the tank as they work on their new home after the destruction of the last tank in book one.
Of course things go wrong. The witch from the ending of the last books does some damage, the Soul Eater Carson comes along for the ride looking for more souls and they end up in Alaska.
Not only Alaska but a town as odd and unusual as the tank and whole redemption thing was to Gabriel just a few weeks ago. It is populated by humans, vampires and shifters.
It is notoriously known that shifters and vampires do not get along but in the town of Maxtla somehow...it works.
However they could not have shown up at a worse time; the darkness is coming. Sixty days with no light and each year it drives the vampires closer and closer to the breaking point, striking them faster each year.
I really liked this book. I said it with the first book and I will say it again; the author has created something really unique here. Never before have I read a book that is anything quite like this series and this second novel also throws in the Arthurian ledged as well!
Overall Monkey Jump is a fast paced, highly interesting and unique book about the paranormal world that held my attention completely. I am looking forward to more by Deborah Riley-Magnus, and hope it will be another book in this series!
I would recommend Monkey Jump to anyone who read and liked the first book of the series. I would recommend the series to anyone who is looking for a unique paranormal series.
*I received a hardcover/paperback/eBook copy/ARC of this book for free to review from the author/publisher/tour site; this in no way influenced my review, all opinions are 100% honest and my own.
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Deborah Riley-Magnus is an author and an Author Success Coach. She has a twenty-seven year professional background in marketing, advertising and public relations as a writer for print, television and radio. She is the author of "Finding Author Success: Discovering and Uncovering the Marketing Power within your Manuscript".
As an Author Success Coach she focuses exclusively on publicity, marketing and promotional solutions for authors. She teaches live and online Author Success Workshops and has spoken at many writers groups and conferences in both states of California and Pennsylvania. She also coaches authors, one-on-one to help them create marketing strategies and learn techniques for sales success.
Deborah produces several pieces weekly for various blogs and websites including her industry blog, "Deborah Riley-Magnus, Writeaholic", where she passes on value added nuggets of wisdom and skills for authors struggling to understand marketing, promotions and publicity techniques. She is a published author of both fiction and non-fiction.
"Cold in California", book one of The Twice-Baked Vampire Series was released in July, 2011. Her non-fiction, Finding Author Success: Discovering and Uncovering the Marketing Power Within Your Manuscript was release in November, 2011. Her second fiction, Monkey Jump, book two of The Twice-Baked Vampire Series was released in May, 2012 release.
She belongs to several writing and professional organizations and is a member of the WriteSex Blog Group as the marketing, promotions and publicity expert. She serves as the Marketing Director for Assent Publishing where she is also an Acquisitions Editor for womens fiction, and romance. She can be followed on Facebook and Twitter.
A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she has lived on both the east and west coast of the United States and has traveled the country widely.
As an Author Success Coach she focuses exclusively on publicity, marketing and promotional solutions for authors. She teaches live and online Author Success Workshops and has spoken at many writers groups and conferences in both states of California and Pennsylvania. She also coaches authors, one-on-one to help them create marketing strategies and learn techniques for sales success.
Deborah produces several pieces weekly for various blogs and websites including her industry blog, "Deborah Riley-Magnus, Writeaholic", where she passes on value added nuggets of wisdom and skills for authors struggling to understand marketing, promotions and publicity techniques. She is a published author of both fiction and non-fiction.
"Cold in California", book one of The Twice-Baked Vampire Series was released in July, 2011. Her non-fiction, Finding Author Success: Discovering and Uncovering the Marketing Power Within Your Manuscript was release in November, 2011. Her second fiction, Monkey Jump, book two of The Twice-Baked Vampire Series was released in May, 2012 release.
She belongs to several writing and professional organizations and is a member of the WriteSex Blog Group as the marketing, promotions and publicity expert. She serves as the Marketing Director for Assent Publishing where she is also an Acquisitions Editor for womens fiction, and romance. She can be followed on Facebook and Twitter.
A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she has lived on both the east and west coast of the United States and has traveled the country widely.
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