Blood Brothers by Arianna Fraser

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

“It’ll be good for you,” he said. “The stalker will never find you there.” My agent sends me to stay on an Oregon mountaintop, cared for by a surly handyman named Steve, who looks like a supermodel … lumberjack … Greek God sort of guy.

I’m supposed to feel safe here? I keep having all these dreams … dreams where Lumberjack Steve is biting me. Now, I’m losing time. Losing blood.

And I think it’s possible my stalker is closer than I thought.

Blood Brothers

Lumberjack vampire!

The following ratings are out of 5:
Romance: 💙🖤💜💖
Heat/Steam: 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Story/Plot: 📕📗📙📘
World building: 🌏🌍🌎🌍
Character development: 😔🤓😘🥰

The heroine: Aura Ellory – she is a novelist with a stalker, so her agent suggests she take a break from the city and rent a cabin in Northern Oregon in the mountains. Aura is a tried-and-true city girl but decides to take the advice anyway. She is a bit quirky, she talks to herself quite a bit (out loud), since she grew up the only child of two very busy college professors.

The Hero: Steve Rogers (No, not Captain America) – he is the handyman that meets Aura at the cabin she rented to give her the keys and show her around. He is an enigma, always grumpy and curmudgeonly when they see each other, but he has secrets.

The Story: Within days of arriving, Aura finds herself on a new schedule. She is awake all night, always fearful that her stalker will find her and kill her. Before she left Seattle, her stalker had sent her many letters with pictures of her taken earlier that same day or the previous day and with threats to kill her in some pretty brutal ways, that he has taken from books she had written in the past. Aura has been sleeping during the day and she starts to have very vivid dreams of spending sexy time with the handsome but grumpy lumberjack looking guy that is her handyman.

The dreams become so realistic that she has trouble telling if they were really dreams or if it really happened, but when Steve does some strange things like biting her and drinking her blood, she really isn’t sure what to think. Especially when she doesn’t seem to have any cuts where she thought he bit her. Things get even stranger when she meets a nearby neighbor who says there is no handyman named Steve living on the mountain.

I had some doubts about this book when I picked it up, but it turned out that I really liked the whole mystery of it all and the intimate scenes between Aura and Steve were hella hot! I, of course, loved that Steve was so big and burly, and was just as confused as Aura when sometimes he acted all grumpy like she was a pain in his butt, and other times he would cuddle her and be so nice.

The story was good, but a bit too immature, I guess. There should have been more to it and more getting to know you between Aura and Steve. And we never did find out why Steve was a grump with Aura at first. But I did like the fact that there were some major surprises. There was also a second story about Aura’s agent James, which I will not review since I gave away quite a bit of the first plot. Though I will say that James is a bit more villainous than Steve.

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