Saturday 22 October 2011

book review (my wicked vampire)

   (read: 22/Oct/11)
             My Wicked Vampire

A castle of Dark Dreams romance


    Prod dets
Castle of Dark Dreams series, book 4
Pub: 2009, (A Leisure Book) Dorchester Publishing Co., Inc.
Author: Nina Bangs
Cat: Paranormal Romance
Format: trade paperback; 308 pp w/ 19 chapters
Whose: Cinn & Dacian
Age Range: Adult


                Synopsis
The Castle of Dark Dreams is just part of an adult theme park, right? The most decadent attraction in a place where people go to play out their wildest erotic fantasies. Holgarth isn’t really a wacky wizard, and Sparkle Stardust doesn’t actually create cosmic chaos by hooking up completely mismatched couples. And that naked guy chained up in the dungeon? No way he’s a vampire.

 Wrong...dead wrong, as botanist Cinn Airmid is about to find out. It’s up to her to save the night feeder’s sanity, but to do that she’ll have to get close to the most dangerously sexy male she’s ever encountered. And one look in Dacian’s haunted black eyes tells her close will take on a whole new meaning with someone who’s had 600 years to practice his technique. Even a girl with a name that conjures up images of forbidden pleasure has a few tricks to learn from...

           Excerpt

book review, sorta (harry potter, b1)


 (re-read: 20/Oct/11)
      Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s stone

   Prod dets
Harry Potter series, book 1
Pub: Great Britain in 1997 by Bloomsbury. 
Author: J. K. Rowling
Cat: fantasy & Magical realism
Format: paperback (mid); 223 pp w/ 17 chapters
Age Range: middle grade

                Summary
Harry Potter thinks he is an ordinary boy – until he is rescued by a beetle-eyed giant of a man, enrols at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizards, learns to play quidditch and does battle in a deadly duel. The reason HARRY POTTER IS A WIZARD!


      my Thoughts (review)