Sweet Vernal Zephyr

Sexy mind games inside your head endanger more than your heart.

Virtually Hers
Virtual Series Book 2
by Gennita Low

In Helen “Hell” Roston’s elite black ops world, failure isn’t listed as an option in the rule book. As the leading guinea pig in a dangerous combination of virtual reality training and a mind-altering serum, though, every day offers a thousand ways to blow it. And the very real sexual chemistry that sizzles between Hell and her trainer is messing with her head even more.

COS Commando Jed McNeil is an expert in mind manipulation games. He’s been chosen to be Hell’s monitor and anchor in the Super Soldier Spy program. Trained to compartmentalize his needs and feelings in an assignment, he’s unprepared by how much Hell affects him.

When the experimental serum gives Helen incapacitating headaches, her pain throws Jed into protect-at-all-costs mode. A position the fiercely independent Hell would rather die than be in. But with a rogue CIA faction out to sabotage the program, Hell has no choice—even if it makes her head explode. It’s trust Jed, or die.

My review guidelines can be found HERE.

COVER ART
by Kanaxa
• Perfect. Great job linking to the previous title by a different publishing house!
• Blue is a good representation of The Ice Man's personality.
• Love the digital overlay a la Matrix


NORMALITY
• Virtual Reality
• Super Soldier Spies


SEXUALITY
• M/F
• Sexual Imprinting
• Voyuerism


REVIEW
• Has the possibility of overwhelming with information. Read slow and savor the ride. Your gotta stay sharp for the twists and turns in this deep spy romance thriller.

• Your love is my drug, kinda. What a wicked way to get tons of sexual tension into the story line, make it a side effect of being a super spy!

• All these super spies take James Bond to the next level. He was just taking advantage of his natural charms, these commandos use sex as a weapon... and well.

• Underlying plot lines spice it up when you think you've had to much of "I hate you. I need you."

• Great questions circling throughout. Keeps you reading. Who is the OTHER one? What the heck is up with Armando? And will anything juicy happen with T and Alex?

• GRRR! Serious cliff hanger ending. With an odd backstory bit tacked on after, almost like a cliff hanger buffer or something. You get thrown off the cliff and instead of freefalling until the sequel comes out you are kinda stuck in half set-up jello.

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To really get sucked into the series, there are six websites you can visit.
 
Reality Based:
• Blog (personal and book related)
• Author Website
• Writing Muse

Story Based:
• Eight-ball (The COMCEN super computer)
• GLow World (Character Intros)
• Intermundia (Character development between GEM & COS) Warning: Spoils the question of who is Helen's Monitor!
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Reading Order
Wanna know more? THIS vague outline gets inside Ms. Low's head.
 
Big Bad Wolf

Shadowy Assassins Series:
Into Danger
Facing Fear

Crossfire Series:
The Protector
The Hunter
Sleeping With The Agent

Virtual Series:
Virtually His
Virtually Hers
Virtually One (Coming Soon)
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Read an amusing Tuesday Teaser HERE.

Read an super horny spy excerpt HERE.

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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme
Hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading

• Open your current read to a random page
• Share two “teaser” sentences sans spoilers

MY TEASE

Another wave of amusement slid subtly through her and she briefly closed her eyes to savor the maleness in it.

When she focused intently like that, she found that she could discern feelings that weren't hers. This was too cool.

~ page 138, Virtually Hers by Gennita Low

Are you feeling teased?

Come back on the 2nd for my Review!

Can you figure out who is the sexy rouge spy that controls you?

Virtually His

Virtual Series Book 1
by Gennita Low

Chosen to be the ultimate secret operative, Helen Roston has become the most dangerous woman in the world. Two years of training and she's now ready for the final phase-a risky combination of virtual reality and a mind-altering serum.

When her mysterious and faceless "trainer" syncs his mind to hers using the program, she's amazed at her sizzling response to his virtual touch. But Helen likes to be in control. She's not going to beg for more.

Helen's final test is a challenging mission, picked by the other government agencies whose candidates lost out to her.

To succeed, she has to put herself completely in the hands of her trainer, a man she's not sure she can trust. But all of COS Command are counting on her. She cannot fail.

My review guidelines can be found HERE.


COVER ART
• Perfect
• Red is good choice for the emotions inside the pages.
• Love the digital overlay a la Matrix


NORMALITY
• Virtual Reality
• Super Soldier Spies
• No paranormality here, but this book does remind me of the ACRO series. I just might pick another one of those up next.


SEXUALITY
• M/F
• Unknown Identity
• Dubious Consent


REVIEW
• We have ourselves an anonymous watcher. *shivers* Sorry, personal kink. *straightens her shirt and coughs* And "No", you don't ever find out who it is. That's what the sequel is for.  Maybe if you are paying attention, you might figure it out with the last sentence.

• I read this book a few years back (published 2007) and absolutely LOVED it. I've been waiting for the sequel to come out. And now I have it! So... If you have been following my Anita Blake Challenge at all, you will realize that I must start a series from the beginning if any amount of time has passed between the initial reading. But this series is currently only 2 books. So you won't want to taze me by the end. Promise.

• This is a spy story first, a "love" story second. I'm pretty sure I would call it lust more than love. These guys are too tough to call it love.

• I have a weakness for spy romances. When I was young I loved to sit with my father on Sunday afternoons and watch James Bond reruns.

• The super technical undercover spy jargon has the potential to overwhelm the reader. Ms. Low does a great job of introducing the new technology and explaining how it works to both the reader and the main female protag in snarky little chunks. Ok, the snark comes from the main female protag... I just adore a woman with spunk!

• Questionable sexual practices. I would have been rip roaring mad at the sexual liberties her monitor took. And Helen agreed that she would have too, but the liked it too... a lot.

• Lots of Acronyms that have the potential to be very confusing if you just skim over them. I would advise taking that extra second to let the pseudo-science seep into your brain while you are reading.

• Danger! Loose ends. A unknown threat to Helen and a unsubstantiated threat to her Monitor, maybe.

• Major cliffhanger at the end. Thank goodness I have the sequel sitting right next to me. Of course, that is not what happened the first time I read this book

Come back this Thursday, for my review of Virtually Hers!

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To really get sucked into the series, there are six websites you can visit.
 
Reality Based:
• Blog (personal and book related)
• Author Website
• Writing Muse

Story Based:
• Eight-ball (The COMCEN super computer)
• GLow World (Character Intros)
• Intermundia (Character development between GEM & COS) Warning: Spoils the question of who is Helen's Monitor!
_______________________________________ _ _ _

Reading Order
Wanna know more? THIS vague outline gets inside Ms. Low's head.

Big Bad Wolf

Shadowy Assassins Series:
Into Danger
Facing Fear

Crossfire Series:
The Protector
The Hunter
Sleeping With The Agent

Virtual Series:
Virtually His
Virtually Hers
Virtually One (Coming Soon)
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Read a sentence from page 56 HERE.

Read a disturbing encounter with Number Nine in this excerpt.

Read the prologue HERE.
(This was written before publication. Two suggested titles are included, neither ultimately used, and "Triple C" is now "Eight Ball".)

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THE 5th SENTENCE

She's one of my best operatives and she's not called Hell for nothing, you know.

~ page 56 Virtually His by Gennita Low