Breathless (Jason and Azazel Book 1)

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Just finished "Between the Heaves of Storm" and let me just say that you have out done yourself. It was the best book of the series. I didn't know how you where going to get those two on "talking" terms again but man, did you pull it off. The ending was a little heartbreaking that after all of that he still can not forgive himself, but yeah, I get it.

There's a spoiler friendly discussion on here too, if you want to talk more openly about elements of the book that others might not have read yet: Seriously, New Fan here. First of all, it must be really crowded in that head of yours VJ! I literally finshed "Between the Heaves of Storm" minutes ago…………some very clever twists……. Just wanted to stop by and see if you were gathering your creativity, invoking the "Muse" so to speak…………. There are alot of us romance junkies out here reading a book a day! Thanks so, so much Teresa. Sometimes I worry about alienating romance fans with all my blood and guts and weird supernatural stuff.

You know, i had completely forgotten about that necklace. I do keep thinking about Jason and Azazel and the last book, but I haven't gotten any serious planning done. Sometimes I wonder if I'm dragging my feet on it because I really don't want to say goodbye to these characters yet. Ahhhh……………but it's never goodbye….. I have only deleted ONE book.. He killed off my beloved Hero at the end tragically left fans who said they were left so empty….

I knew I could never read that one again. I'm sure I speak for many of your fans when I beg you……. We are two of a kind, then. I also read Wuthering Heights every year. Although, I do have to say it's not much for an HEA…well, for little Cathy and Hareton, I suppose, but I do always feel bad for basically everyone else.

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I just reread what you wrote. You weren't saying it had an HEA after all. Actually, I'm not an enormous fan of the way that book ended, I must say. But I can't really imagine what else she could have done. Overall, I just can't get enough of the delicious way I love and hate Heathcliff all at the same time. Can't wait for the third book in the Apocalype trilogy! I read the other five in quick succession and now I am left longing. These 5 books rocked.

I have read them in 5 days on my nook, i am addicted! I was very suprised how much i loved these books, i found them by getting the first book free but was so addicted i found the rest after finishing the first book in one night. I love reading and i will be searching for more of your books! I just read all five books out on Jason and Azazel, and I must say I am very intrigued by the characters as well as the storyline. Very suspenseful writing, intricate characters and relationships — very well done!! I am on the edge of my seat waiting for the final chapter in their story….

Make sure you're subscribed to my email list upper right hand of this page if you want updates. And thanks for your comment! I do think the books are complicated in a lot of ways. Sometimes the characters make me shudder. Done — thanks for the tip. Definitely not a boring minute! If you'd like to get an emails about my new releases, etc, you can subscribe to my email list. Scroll down the footer and put in your info. You did it again, V. This is hands down my second favorite series after the Hunger Games!

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But hell, it was so fucking worth it!! Truly, a wonderful work of art!!! As a matter of fact, I am. I live in Shepherdstown, WV, which is in the eastern panhandle, about an hour from D. What part of WV are you from? I haven't been all over the state—farthest south I've been is Hurricane, farthest east is Morgantown. Thank you so much for your kind words. Breathless has been up and down on Amazon lists for about a year now, but it's never really had any breakaway exposure.

I think it has trouble finding its audience. And the series is a tad tough for some people to take, especially if they're religious. I'm so glad you are telling your friends, and I hope they like it too. I absolutely loved the series so far. When does the next book come out? I have to admit I'm a bit sad Azazel and Jason never got back together and learned how to control the powers. But who knows what will happen next!!?

Are you planning to write anymore about them after the 3rd apololypse book? I don't think there will be any more Jason and Azazel books, but I did have an idea for a collection of short stories that fit within the events of the series. We'll see if that materializes. God, I love these books!!!!

I fell in love with Kieran although he turned out to be a total ass. How can he leave little Chance?! I loved their father-to-son connection. But he had to eventually go back to Jason, I guess, eventhough I disapprove. But anyways, call me crazy, but I still want Jason and Azazel to work it out, but for some reason, I highly doubt that will happen… a Romeo and Juliet-esque in the midst, maybe? Like, what celebrity do you think Azazel and Jason closely resemble, appearance wise. Also, have you written any other trilogies?

Any works in progress? For me, Jason will always look like Tom Sturridge, and I think I did a Kieran wallpaper, with Travis Fimmel as him… I have no idea what Azazel looks like, although a girl named Jackie did some banners a few years back with Michelle Trachtenberg—who's probably too old now.

I did like that. Thanks for your comment!!! And yes, I've got a bunch of other books. I'm going to be doing a free promotion for the first book sometime in early January, so you may want to hold off until then. I'm writing the second book now. If you're not already, subscribe to my email list to be in the know! In the beginning I was hyperventalting and almost died of excitement. Throughout the reading I was at the edge of my seat and chewing my nails to the bone. Are they finally gonna live normal lives? Are they going to have that happy ever after ending?

But it is not The Never Ending Story, is it? I always thought of them like that. Well, thanks VJ, for giving us this wonderful series and exploring the craziness of Jason and Azazel, who found redemption and eternal peace and the meaning of love through all the chaos. And I need to get my butt in gear and make a spoilers thread for That Last Onset for people who want to discuss it. I happened apon your web site by accident a few yrs ago and started to read Breathless.

I got so caught up in their story that I couldn't wait for you to post new chapters so I bought it. By the end I was hooked. So I would check to see when you would release the next and bought Trembling and Tortured after that. Surprisingly, this did not. While I was slightly uncomfortable with the whole ritual sex, attempted rape scenes warning: It was just a little too relaxed for my liking But that's just me Anyway, the first half of the story introduces us to Azazel--normal, average small-town teenage girl with the perfect family, boyfriend who doesn't pressure her for sex even though SHE wants it , and friends.

Her parents are, for the most part, awesome. They're loving, attentive, and the kind of parents any kid would be lucky to have. Of course, until they're not Enter Jason, the super-mysterious boy who literally bounds into Azazel's life on a dark, desolate stretch of road one night. A bunch of dangerous baddies have been tracking him, and he's been running from them for months. Since her parents are super-cool and used to strays, Azazel immediately insists that he come home with her.

After a little hesitance on Jason's part, he finally agrees and her family welcomes him with open arms. Long story short, Jason and Azazel get to know each other and form an attraction which continues to intensify until right before the town's big reveal I'll let you guess.

Needless to say that once this happens, the two of them get the hell out of dodge no pun intended and try to survive. Jason has a big secret too. All we know about Azazel at this point is that she's supposedly the "vessel" meant to bring the demon she is named for to the earth. She was meant to kill him. Anti-Christ and Messiah sitting in a tree They're in love with each other. Star-crossed lovers doesn't even begin to cover it Ok, so what did I like so much about this book? I seriously have a deep love for mysterious bad boy types.

It's really an obsession of mine. Every single time that boy was near Azazel, my heart went all aflutter. He's sweet and considerate where she's concerned, and yet he's totally "bad" for her at least for the first half. He's super smart nerdgasm. And I love how he tries so hard to keep his cool before a fight.

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She's just so damn clueless that I couldn't help loving her. She tries so hard to figure out what the hell is going on, but she's always "just that short" of the truth. I'm always a little leery of indie authors because the quality of the writing is usually sub-par, in my opinion. I'm anal when I write and I expect other authors to be the same. I was pleasantly surprised at how well-written and well-plotted the story seemed. While the surprises were predictable, I still gasped and yelled out WTF whenever they popped up because the author managed to put a twist on them that sent my mind reeling.

When a book can evoke a strong emotional reaction in me whatever it is , it easily becomes one of my favorites. This one did not disappoint. The one thing I didn't like: Like I said before, if my parents, best friend, and boyfriend and the whole football team, half the school faculty, police, etc tied me up, showed up in black hoods, told me they worshipped the devil, and tried to have my ex rape me while they had an orgy upstairs?

Yeah, calm wouldn't cover it. I mean, she cried and screamed a few times. Also, I felt like her reactions to seeing people she loved shot and killed in front of her were a bit too ho-hum. I get that they were trying to rape her and kill Jason, but sheesh!

Show a little more conflicted emotion girl! Ok, so my eyes are crossing and I can't think straight anymore. But I think y'all get the gist of how I feel about this book. There was action, suspense, intrigue, laughter, romance, sexual tension the good kind, not just the creepy kind.

Overall, a great read. I will definitely read the next book in the series Jan 06, Nurlely rated it it was amazing. I am falling for Jason. A killer who tried to figure out his life and found his love on the way. Azazel was made for him. While I liked this; it needs more work. This book was littered with punctuation errors, missing words, phrases that shouldn't have been there, etc.

It was awful, annoying, and distracting. Now to the actual writing. The author failed to make me really care about her characters and what they were going through. She told me everything without the details that would have the reader connect with the characters, their surroundings, and what is happening to them. However, my interest was slightly peaked at the end of the story so that I might just look into reading the second and third installments.

I understand that the point of view is limited to that of a naive, overprotected, relatively innocent 17 year old girl; however, most of the time Zaza sounded like she was 13 or 14 that was a little hard to take or believe.

Plus living with a house filled with that many boys would take some of the naivete out of her Not saying that the very opening scene doesn't show her as brash This is the latter all the way - rated R or NC if it were a movie. I was completely floored by the main focus of the story being sex. It might be appropriate to call that part of the book 17 Shades of Grey.

I found it neither disgusting nor appalling mostly because I picked up on the HUGE clues 1 the main character is named after a demon, 2 her best friend's name is the same as the mother of all demons, 3 the texts and emails included the "number of the beast" and mentioned "the vessel," 4 her parents mentioned Samhain sp? All that adds up to no good. A town full of Satanists is not a new plot point. I think there a few horror movies out there like that. And the main scene could have been so much worse than black rose petals, candles, and "black mass" rituals. What I found most disturbing were the clues Hallam was putting together with regards to Jason's conception I started thinking that the two were brother and sister.

That would truly have been icky. I know people who have thrown books where that allegation was made a plot point. Will I read it again? Was it a waste of time? Will I read the remaining two books?

Aug 22, Stacey Benefiel rated it really liked it. Azazel has a funny name, but the rest of her life is pretty normal. Her only real problem is that she wants to lose her virginity to Toby like, yesterday, but he keeps telling her he wants to wait. During one of their frustratingly chaste make out sessions, Azazel spots a boy running through the woods toward their truck, looking like he is being chased.

She immediately goes to help him and get him in the truck. Toby helps too, if not reluctantly. Because Azazel has adopted brothers and a few foster brothers living at her house, she takes Jason home with her. After this point there is a lot of good build up. The stakes are suddenly ratcheted up ten levels and much craziness ensues. The next book, Trembling, picks up a few months later and is an equally fun ride. If you enjoy stories about secret societies, you will really find these books interesting. Feb 08, JA added it. I won't be reading any more of this series.

I held out hope that it wasn't going to be what I feared it was. I love paranormal of just about any type but I won't touch flat-out devil worship with a foot pole.

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There are some places I just will not go. Chambers is talented and knows how to write an engaging story. This Oh, hell no. This is just not a subject for me. After reading this, I needed to calm down and not worry that I would be accosted by demons while I slept. Making the sign of the cross and throwing a healthy dose of Holy water around my bed didn't hurt either. Sep 18, Kelly rated it did not like it. I really don't think this should be a YA book. In that genre I find it completely inappropriate. I wasn't even able to finish. Once I hit the plot twist halfway through I literally felt sick and had to stop reading for fear I would lose my lunch.

What seems to be billed as another mysterious paranormal romance with love triangle turns into a completely horrifying tale that I would not feel comfortable having my children ever read. Place it in in a different genre and please change the misleading I really don't think this should be a YA book. Place it in in a different genre and please change the misleading description. Jan 17, Mya rated it it was amazing. Wow it made u think. Apr 12, Muse Here rated it really liked it Shelves: Ok, in the first chapter I pretty much hated Azazel.

A near perfect person with a seemingly perfect life. Plus, she whined a lot. I thought it a bit odd that she immediately offered refuge to some strange boy, without giving it a second thought. However, once we meet her family and get to know more about her particularly how she was raised that decision made complete sense to me.

It seemed likely that someone who was raised the way she was, would indeed do that. And once she slowed down enough Ok, in the first chapter I pretty much hated Azazel. I thought it was very realistic, how even though some things rated noticeably odd to her that she didn't stop to examine them more closely, or that once she did, she quickly dismissed them. But I was raised in a very sheltered, religious home where things were not quite right and I suppose, I had the same attitude.

I didn't really want to question things, possibly because I didn't want to rock the boat and somewhere, deep down, I think I knew just as she did that to question things would indeed rock the boat and change my entire life. I also enjoyed how she fell in love with Jason without even noticing it. That part was sort of funny, but again, I have been in a similar predicament, believing someone to be a close friend, only to realize one day that my feelings ran much deeper than that. The pace of the novel was great.

I was sucked in without even noticing and had great difficulty putting the book down. Easily the best story I've read on my kindle in quite some time. And I kind of liked how she was the one who kept wanting sex, only to be turned down. The entire plot was something completely unusual and new. However, there were a few times when they meet up with Hallam and again with another character who's name I can't recall where there was too much rambling, I thought however, that could just be my impatience it just seemed to take too long to get to the explanations that were promised.

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I only found a couple minor errors throughout the entire book i. I don't like that this book is rated as 'young adult'. I think the contents and subject matter should be for adults only. I might be biased, though, now that my 13 year old reads YA. It is hinted at in several places, but it does NOT happen hide spoiler ] There are several twists in the novel that I found surprising, a few parts that were a little predictable, but mostly just enjoyable. The ending was everything I was hoping for by the time I got there and very satisfying.

I read the free preview for the second book since it was included afterwards and now I can't wait to read that! Azazel lives in a wholesome small town where the most exciting thing has been finding Jason. He's on the run from danger and Azazel wants to keep him safe with her family. She's determined to uncover the secrets that haunt him but soon finds that their lives are intertwined in a horrifying plot between a violent religious order and a satanic cult.

This is the first book in the Jason And Azazel series. Breathless is a dark, young adult story that explores mature and controversial themes. The narra Azazel lives in a wholesome small town where the most exciting thing has been finding Jason. The narration is engaging with a genuine and unreserved voice that isn't often found in traditional young adult books.

The characters are all wonderfully developed and the world building is fantastic. The first part of the book has a slower pace focusing on high school life while building up a sense of foreboding and mystery. The second half of the book is a dramatic explosion of action, violence, and shocking revelations. I loved the amount of detail and research that went into the portrayal of the religious group and satanic cult. I liked that the initial focus was what their base values were before interweaving their lore, history, ideologies and structure.

It was interesting to note overlapping similarities and I loved that there was an uncertainty about which one was in the right. Breathless hints at an ominous future for the main characters and I look forward to reading the rest of the Jason and Azazel series. I normally don't have spoilers in my reviews, but this time, I'm going to have to make an exception.

I only got part-way through this book, before I had to put it down, and go take a shower. Once I reached the vivid and graphic description of the main group of people being Satanists, preparing to rape the main character in a Satanic cult ritual on Halloween, I stopped in disgust. Not my kind of book! I really would have liked some warning that this book had that sort of thing in it, and I never I normally don't have spoilers in my reviews, but this time, I'm going to have to make an exception. I really would have liked some warning that this book had that sort of thing in it, and I never would have picked it up.

Parents need to be aware of that in this series, because it's listed as YA. The story itself wasn't even that good- the main character is an idiot.

She's a vapid, immature girl who was written to blindly miss completely, painfully obvious events and circumstances, in order to propel the story forward. I can not think that any one in real life would be that stupid Overall, this book was horrible, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone Mar 01, deby-fray-white rated it it was amazing. I loved the three books that completed the Jason and Azazel Trilogy, i read them all in a week, i coudnt stop! The author created a true story, with real characters, real places, and for Gods sake, a real lenguaje and normal sexual tension!!!!

This how the teenagers actually are, of course it has a lot of violence, rudennes, sex and feelings, but it is all put in the right place so it all has sense. For my was refreshing, new, young, alive!!!! I loved it for real, i really hope she write someother book for this trilogy, promise i will read it for sure!!!! Apr 09, Deyna rated it did not like it. Who is giving this book so many 4 and 5 star review here and on Amazon?

Thirteen-year-old girls, maybe, as the book sounds like it was written by one. I wouldn't have finished it except I was away from home without a book. She lives outside Shepherdstown, WV with her husband, son, and their kitty cat. Are you an author? Help us improve our Author Pages by updating your bibliography and submitting a new or current image and biography. Learn more at Author Central. Popularity Popularity Featured Price: Low to High Price: High to Low Avg.

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