Rhyannon Byrd
Author of Edge of Hunger
About the Author
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Works by Rhyannon Byrd
Darkness Divine: Divine Beginnings | The Amazon's Curse | Voodoo | Edge of Craving (2010) 48 copies, 1 review
Darkest Desire of the Vampire: Wicked in Moonlight / Vampire Island (2013) — Contributor — 20 copies
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- Legal name
- Byrd, Tabitha
- Other names
- Byrd, Rhyannon
- Gender
- female
- Short biography
- Tabitha Byrd fell in love with a Brit whose accent was just too sexy to resist. Lucky for her, he turned out to be a keeper, so she married him and they now have two adorable children who constantly keep her on her toes. Living in the Southwest, she spends her days creating provocative romances with her favorite kind of heroes—intense alpha males who cherish their women published under the pen name Rhyannon Byrd. When not writing, Rhyannon loves to travel, lose herself in books and watch as much football as humanly possible with her loud, fun-loving family.
- Nationality
- USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- USA
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Reviews
Nicely done. I enjoyed this one as much as the first one. This is romantic suspense lite I guess. There was a bad guy and the heroine was threatened but the gist of the story was these two finally hooking up. They have known each other for years although they haven't really liked each other. Of course it is that playground kind of not liking each other where the sniping is a cover up for attraction. So the major portion of the story is the hot sex they have. I'm not really a person who reads show more just for the sex since I like plot more but there was enough plot here to hang the story on and the sex seemed integral to the story rather than an inane interruption of the action.
So as I said a lot of times I'm just hurrying to get past the tab A slot B stuff but I can get behind some sexing it up if it's done well and here it really worked for me. It was probably a little over the top but boy was it hot. I was trying to figure out how to get my hubby to read it just for a couple of hints you know ;-)
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So as I said a lot of times I'm just hurrying to get past the tab A slot B stuff but I can get behind some sexing it up if it's done well and here it really worked for me. It was probably a little over the top but boy was it hot. I was trying to figure out how to get my hubby to read it just for a couple of hints you know ;-)
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I don’t know where to begin about how disappointed I was in this follow-up to Las Wolf Standing. I wanted to sink back into the world of the blood runners but I found myself reading a cheesy, fairly lame romance with a little action thrown in. This book is more romance heavy than the last book and it suffers for it.
There are two glaring items in this book the reader should be prepared for: 1) The heroine is awful and 2) Not enough of the other blood runners. I will try to talk about each show more without hopefully giving too much away. I’m going to start with the second one since it basically sums it up. The first book introduced to this community of blood runners and you got a real connection to the group. That is gone in this book. Jeremy seems exceptionally isolated from the blood runners and the lack of fun and family is a downer for me in this one.
Now the heroine. Good Lord save us from stupid heroines. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what Jeremy saw in this idiot. Jillian is portrayed in the first book at the pack’s intelligent, mature spirit walker (aka witch). She is not that. Her character lacks maturity, courage and on a basic level some serious knowledge of the pack she is bound to. Her mother and sister put her to shame and you wonder why the pack or Jeremy choose Jillian.
The narration was from fine and I hope the third book in the series makes up some territory. show less
There are two glaring items in this book the reader should be prepared for: 1) The heroine is awful and 2) Not enough of the other blood runners. I will try to talk about each show more without hopefully giving too much away. I’m going to start with the second one since it basically sums it up. The first book introduced to this community of blood runners and you got a real connection to the group. That is gone in this book. Jeremy seems exceptionally isolated from the blood runners and the lack of fun and family is a downer for me in this one.
Now the heroine. Good Lord save us from stupid heroines. I couldn’t for the life of me figure out what Jeremy saw in this idiot. Jillian is portrayed in the first book at the pack’s intelligent, mature spirit walker (aka witch). She is not that. Her character lacks maturity, courage and on a basic level some serious knowledge of the pack she is bound to. Her mother and sister put her to shame and you wonder why the pack or Jeremy choose Jillian.
The narration was from fine and I hope the third book in the series makes up some territory. show less
Edge of Hunger
5 Stars
Synopsis: Constantly on edge with the darkness that lives within him, Ian Buchanan only wants to lead a normal life, but then Molly Stratton arrives on his doorstep with a message from Ian's deceased mother and nothing will ever be normal again. Now, Ian and Molly find themselves sharing the same intense and sensual nightmares, and soon discover that they are the prey to an unspeakably evil creature bent on their destruction.
Review:
Intense and exciting from the first show more pages. The plot is intriguing and the characters compelling.
The world building is comprehensive and absorbing with a unique mythology involving original creatures uncommon in existing paranormal romance. The precise details regarding Ian’s true nature and that of the creature stalking him are revealed as the story progresses and there are enticing hints of an all-encompassing battle to come between the forces of good and evil.
The writing is descriptive and well-paced. However, there is some repetitious word usage, such as variations of “rasp” and “rasping” but this does not distract from the storytelling.
Ian is a perfectly flawed and tortured hero who has a difficult time coming to terms with his identity and abilities. Some readers may find him terse and uncaring, however, in my opinion, this only adds to his appeal and to the strength of his feelings for the heroine. Molly is strong and determined, and never allows Ian’s surliness to deter her in any way. Their chemistry is sizzling in its intensity, and their banter is one of the highlights of the book.
The secondary characters, most of whom form a secret society known as “The Watchmen”, are also appealing and will appear in the own books down the line. The villain is suitably despicable and the scenes told from his perspective serve well to ratchet up the tension and suspense. The final encounter between the hero and villain is one of the most exciting that I’ve read recently.
Overall, this is a thoroughly entertaining read that I found hard to put down and I look forward to reading the rest of the series. show less
5 Stars
Synopsis: Constantly on edge with the darkness that lives within him, Ian Buchanan only wants to lead a normal life, but then Molly Stratton arrives on his doorstep with a message from Ian's deceased mother and nothing will ever be normal again. Now, Ian and Molly find themselves sharing the same intense and sensual nightmares, and soon discover that they are the prey to an unspeakably evil creature bent on their destruction.
Review:
Intense and exciting from the first show more pages. The plot is intriguing and the characters compelling.
The world building is comprehensive and absorbing with a unique mythology involving original creatures uncommon in existing paranormal romance. The precise details regarding Ian’s true nature and that of the creature stalking him are revealed as the story progresses and there are enticing hints of an all-encompassing battle to come between the forces of good and evil.
The writing is descriptive and well-paced. However, there is some repetitious word usage, such as variations of “rasp” and “rasping” but this does not distract from the storytelling.
Ian is a perfectly flawed and tortured hero who has a difficult time coming to terms with his identity and abilities. Some readers may find him terse and uncaring, however, in my opinion, this only adds to his appeal and to the strength of his feelings for the heroine. Molly is strong and determined, and never allows Ian’s surliness to deter her in any way. Their chemistry is sizzling in its intensity, and their banter is one of the highlights of the book.
The secondary characters, most of whom form a secret society known as “The Watchmen”, are also appealing and will appear in the own books down the line. The villain is suitably despicable and the scenes told from his perspective serve well to ratchet up the tension and suspense. The final encounter between the hero and villain is one of the most exciting that I’ve read recently.
Overall, this is a thoroughly entertaining read that I found hard to put down and I look forward to reading the rest of the series. show less
I know “Rush of Darkness” was a suspense story and one filled with intense action and the complex paranormal elements, but what stuck out to me most was the amazing love story created by Rhyannon Byrd.
The author created suspense right from the opening pages with setting and the back story not only of the novel, but of her hero and heroine, Seth and Raine. I felt the storm brewing immediately between many types of paranormal characters, echoed in Seth and Raine. Speaking of storms, the show more author’s descriptions are mostly fantastic, detailed analogies and metaphors, most as accurate as they are haunting. Here’s a great example: ‘…his scent imprinted on her brain like a tattoo inked into tender skin.’
An element I love of romantic suspense is when an author sets a scene, builds and builds the suspense, putting the heroine right in the midst of danger—the life or death kind—and then boom, brings on the addition of passion. Ms. Byrd did this several times, on the verge of a kill in walks alpha male…delicious.
Along those same lines, I think when extreme opposites attract, not just different, but one that at one time lived to kill the other, it creates more suspense in the actual romance. This makes secrets and pasts so much more. This author does all of this type of complexity so well.
“Rush of Darkness” was one of those wonderful edge-of-your-seat stories where my hands clasped around the book (or eReader in my case) until my fingertips were white, screaming in my mind, just kiss the girl already and don’t anyone in the house interrupt me before she does. In fact, I was wondering as I raced through the words if I was ever going to get to a stopping point to take a few notes to write this review. What stands out most to me, now having finished it, is that I came into this series in the seventh book and this heroine and hero still will rank up there with some of the most well-developed characters I have ever read: such depth, such emotion and such struggle. show less
The author created suspense right from the opening pages with setting and the back story not only of the novel, but of her hero and heroine, Seth and Raine. I felt the storm brewing immediately between many types of paranormal characters, echoed in Seth and Raine. Speaking of storms, the show more author’s descriptions are mostly fantastic, detailed analogies and metaphors, most as accurate as they are haunting. Here’s a great example: ‘…his scent imprinted on her brain like a tattoo inked into tender skin.’
An element I love of romantic suspense is when an author sets a scene, builds and builds the suspense, putting the heroine right in the midst of danger—the life or death kind—and then boom, brings on the addition of passion. Ms. Byrd did this several times, on the verge of a kill in walks alpha male…delicious.
Along those same lines, I think when extreme opposites attract, not just different, but one that at one time lived to kill the other, it creates more suspense in the actual romance. This makes secrets and pasts so much more. This author does all of this type of complexity so well.
“Rush of Darkness” was one of those wonderful edge-of-your-seat stories where my hands clasped around the book (or eReader in my case) until my fingertips were white, screaming in my mind, just kiss the girl already and don’t anyone in the house interrupt me before she does. In fact, I was wondering as I raced through the words if I was ever going to get to a stopping point to take a few notes to write this review. What stands out most to me, now having finished it, is that I came into this series in the seventh book and this heroine and hero still will rank up there with some of the most well-developed characters I have ever read: such depth, such emotion and such struggle. show less
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