MONA LISA BLOSSOMING
A Novel of the Monere
Sunny
Berkley
ISBN: 0-425-21433-8
Paranormal
February 2007

In this installment of the Monere series, Mona Lisa makes her move to New Orleans to rule her new territory. As a queen of the Monere people, Mona Lisa is the first mixed-blood queen to ever rule and is looked down by the more powerful full-blooded Monere-children of the moon. The children of the moon are supposedly where the legends of vampires and werewolves originated. Mona Lisa is unlike any other Monere queen in that her human side gives her a decentness that other queens lack. Most of the Monere feel that her human blood makes her less, but it actually makes her so much more. For as a queen, Lisa has opened her heart to her two Warrior Lords and others who have showed their loyalty.

Upon arrival into New Orleans, Lisa learns that she will rule more people than she ever dreamed and that unless something changes, she has been set up for failure. The queen Mona Louisa that she deposed still rules in a nearby territory and is livid that her kingdom was given to a Mixed Blood, one that she has tried to kill several times already. So, it isn’t long before Mona Louisa starts to plot against Mona Lisa.

As Mona Lisa is introduced into her new territory, she finds danger in the land as well. After being attacked by an alligator, Prince Halcyon, the High Prince of Hell, comes to Mona Lisa and again tries to woo her. Halcyon is one of the demon dead, or a Monere who has died and lives in Hell. He has proclaimed himself in love with Lisa. It seems that Mona Lisa has more men than she could ever love, but she is still drawn to Halcyon due to his loneliness.

MONA LISA BLOSSOMING by Sunny is the third installment in the Monere series. The first book is MONA LISA AWAKENING, followed by the OVER THE MOON ANTHOLOGY of MONA LISA THREE, which actually precedes this book. All three are great books filled with an erotic world of desire. Paranormal lovers will fall instantly in lust with this series and be swept away to a world that is equally erotic and dark as the imagination of Laurell K. Hamilton.

Reviewed by Lori Sears
Rating: 4