Sunday 30 October 2011

book Review (where demons fear to tread)


  (read: 30/Oct/11)
        Where Demons Fear to Tread

Where angels fall from grace and demons fall in love.
                                             
   Prod dets
 Debut 
Pub: 2011, a Mira book from Harlequin

Author: Stephanie Chong
Cat: paranormal romance
Format: paperback (full-size); 330pp w/19 chapters
Whose: Serena & Julian
Age Range: Adult

                Synopsis
‘Welcome to Devil’s Paradise.’
The arch demon’s voice was low and deep.
His fingers caressed her through the fabric of her dress.
‘Your soul—or his, Serena. Choose.’

Fledgling guardian angel and yoga teacher Serena St. Clair dares to enter Devil’s Paradise nightclub on a mission—to retrieve the wayward Hollywood ‘It-Boy’ she’s assigned to protect. But Serena is ambushed by the club’s owner, arch demon Julian Asher.

The most powerful demonic entity in Los Angeles, Julian is handsome as sin, a master of temptation who loves nothing more than corrupting pleasure-seeking humans. He won’t release the lost soul Serena is supposed to guard...unless she accepts his dangerous wager.

After the disastrous way his human life ended, Julian vowed that no woman would get the better of him again. Yet this sexy angel—smelling of fresh ocean air and happiness—triggers centuries-old feelings. Now their high-stakes game of seduction, where angels fall from grace and where demons fear to tread, will lean them either to an eternity in hell...or a deliciously hot heaven.



      my Thoughts (review)

Sun & Sand

That’s what holidays are all about, and I'm just back from mine, yeah...?!!!!

Did you have fun? Yes.

no matter if you did or didn't, and the fact of everything is that you want have had a great time, you want to forget all those bad times you have, focus on only the good ones--or at least that's what I believe, because no matter what holidays aren't always that fun.

Let’s take mine for an example and really, it's the reason that I'm writing this. 

This was the first holiday that we had been one since; I think my daughter was...um...nearly one. It was around this time of year, before all the bad crap descended onto me, and when everything was great. The sun was out. The beach was warm enough and yet still held a bit of a chill, inside the holiday house smelt of spew. Yep. our last holiday had nothing but a stomach bug that got to everyone but me, which was all so much fun (if you enjoy clearing up after vomit and telling your 2yr old son that he wasn't allowed milk when that was the only thing he ever wanted to have) such fun!

[Side note, this year we watched Miranda season 1 & 2, so sorry if you get a few catch phrases from that]

So this year we were going to have fun. FULL STOP!!! and in most of the way it was, like I said if only you wanted to look at the finer times in life than we had a great time. 

And we did, seriously, great holiday, considering the last one. Still it was busy and the days when it wasn't and we had a minute to go out onto the beach it was raining. Though we did go to the beach, the lake and all that a lot, it still had the drag feel to a lot of it. 

Also I did this... (sorry bout the body shot of me.)

What I need to write: 2012-2013

Here’s the thing. It’s that time for me to sit down and take a look at all the story ideas that I have, all the books that I need to write and to put them into priority, to make me do them. and other than going to as many writing workshops as I can throughout the two year period I’m going to write, and what I feel I need is a place to look.

I also think that I need a list of books that I should write. Ones that I need to sell to the world, or maybe just a hand full of them to start off with so that when it gets time to sell my idea I’m not going to sit there with nothing over and over, saying my piece about something they don’t want or isn’t in the write area to begin with. So I want to have a pile of written work by me so that I can show it all off, so that I can get something picked up, or maybe more so that I can have something picked up rather than have nothing. For no one.

So here’s the list of books that I need to have finished and ready for sale by the end of the two years. And if there is a book already in that place, it’s mostly because, well, why start something new when I can just finish what I have already got down.
[Spliced because of length and relativity to your enjoyment]