Tuesday 31 January 2012

REVIEW, A Hunger Like No Other


(first read: 17/June/11)
A story of unquenchable desire that will redeem the heart and restore the body of a desperate Lykae warrior....

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A Hunger Like No Other
Series: Immortal After Dark series, book 1
Pub: 2006, Simon & Schuster
Author: Kresley Cole
Cat: Paranormal Romance
Format: paperback (mid); 356 pp w/ 37 chapters
Whose: Lachlain & Emmaline
Age Range: Adult

                Synopsis
After enduring years of torture by the vampire horde, Lahlain MasRieve, leader of the Lykae Clan, is engaged to find the soulmate he’s waited a millennia for is half vampire. Sheltered Emmaline Troy sets out to uncover the truth about her parents, but when the powerful Lykae claims her as his mate and forces her back to his ancestral Scottis castle, her fear of the Lykae – and their notorious dark desires – ebbs as he begins a slow, wicked seduction that sates her own dark cravings.
     
Ethereal half Valkyria/half vampire Emmaline somehow begins to soothe the fury burning within Lachlain, but when an ancient evil from her past resurfaces their desire must deepen into a binding love that can give the warrior peace, and turn a gentle beauty into the fighter she was born to be...

      Alright, 

Beauty Queens, a Book Challenge Review

This was read for a challenge I joined over on Heaven Hell and Purgatory
Where you read a book that’s been collecting dust since you bought it,
You know the one that you put there to read and have never been able to pick the thing up again. That’s what’s what, and here is my first, of the twelve month challenge, that isn’t a real challenge.
You should go check it all out. Good and proper, since my explanation sucks the hairy ones!

On this island survival is not a game. It’s a chance to work on your tan.

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Beauty Queens
Series: --
Pub: 2011, Allen & Unwin
Author: Libba Bray
Cat: fiction
Format: paperback (full size); 390 pp w/ 43 chapters
Age Range: YA

                Synopsis
Teen beauty queens. A lost island. Mysteries and dangers. No access to email.

And the spirit of fierce, feral competition that lives deep in the heart of every girl, a savage brutality that can only be revealed by a journey into the heart of non-exfoliated darkness.

The horror, the horror!

Only funnier. With evening gowns. And a body count.

Join Libba Bray in this wicked satire of beauty pageants, reality TV and pop culture.

      Alright, let’s do this...

Friday 27 January 2012

REVIEW, Lover Awakened


In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there’s a deadly war raging between vampires and their slayers. And there exists a secret band of brothers like no other – six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Of these, Zsadist is the most terrifying member of the Black Dagger Brotherhood.


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Lover Awakened

Series: Black Dagger Brotherhood series, book 3

Pub: 2006, Piatkus

Author: J. R. Ward

Cat: paranormal romance

Format: paperback (mid); 527 pp w/ 51 chapters

Whose: Zsadist & Bella

Age Range: adult

            Synopsis
A former blood slave, the vampire Zsadist still bears the scars from a past filled with suffering and humiliation. Renowned for his unquenchable fury and sinister deeds, he is a savage, feared by humans and vampires alike. Anger is his only companion, and terror is his only passion – until he rescues a beautiful aristocrat from the evil Lessening Society.

    

Bella is instantly entranced by the seething power Zsadist possesses. But even as their desire for one another begins to overtake them both, Zsadist’s thirst for vengeance against Bella’s tormentors’ drives him to the brink of madness. Now, Bella must help her lover overcome the wounds of his tortured past, and find a future with her...

     my Thoughts (review)

Thursday 26 January 2012

REVIEW, When Dogs Cry

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When Dogs Cry
Series: --
Pub: 2001, Pan Macmillan Australia
Author: Markus Zusak
Cat: fiction
Format: paperback (mid); 204 pp w/ 20 chapters
Age Range: YA                                                   

            Synopsis
‘You’re a bit of a lonely bastard, aren’t you?’ said Rube.
‘Yeah,’ I answered, ‘I guess I am’
 But Cameron Wolfe is hungry.
He’s sick of being the filthy, torn, half-smiling, half-scrowling underdog.
He’s finally met a girl.
He’s got words in his spirit.
And now he’s out to prove that there’s nothing more beautiful than an underdog who’s willing to stand up.

     my Thoughts (review)

My signature

it has come to my attention that I have just started to sign things at the bottom of what I write—this does not come at the bottom of reviews because as I see them, Mis-Pigeay writes them, but being that I'm her, and she's me, it's just what I'm doing. 

But when I talk shit, and more so when I publish short stories on this blog, or put in my shit ass proposals, they are things that need a signature, they need something more that says there from me. And so I've finally got a signature up and running. Yeah, me. 

So really this is me showing you what that is. Which happens to be below. 

 



 
Yeah, I know, not that interesting, but I really feel this needs to be said, just in case you don’t get it.
Thanks for the time

Wednesday 25 January 2012

Book Chat: Discarded Books #2

this is a new things I'm doing where I tell you what I've read and for whatever reason I've either not finished reading or read it sometime in the past, and never again.

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13 Bullets
Series: Laura Caxton, book 1
Pub: 2007, Allen & Unwin
Author: David Wellington
Cat: Horror
Pages: 348
Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis
All the official reports say they are dead - extinct since the late '80s, when a fed named Arkeley nailed the last vampire in a fight that nearly killed him. But the evidence proves otherwise.
    
When a state trooper named Caxton calls the FBI looking for help in the middle of the night, it is Arkeley who gets the assignment - who else? He's been expecting such a call to come eventually. Sure, it has been years since any signs of an attack, but Arkeley knows what most people don't: there is one left. In an abandoned asylum she is rotting, plotting, and biding her time in a way that only the undead can.
    
Caxton is out of her league on this case and more than a little afraid, but the fed made it plain that there is only one way out. But the worst thing is the feeling that the vampires want more than just her blood. They want her for a reason, one she can't guess; a reason her sphinxlike partner knows but won't say; a reason she has to find out or die trying.
    
Now there are only 13 bullets between Caxton and Arkeley and the vampires. There are only 13 bullets between us, the living, and them, the damned.

Series
[tb], 99 Bullets, Vampire Zero, 23 Hours, 32 Fangs

Tuesday 24 January 2012

REVIEW: Circus of the Damned

‘Most women complain that there are no single straight men left. I’d just like to meet one that’s human’

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 Circus of the Damned
Series: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, book 3
Pub: 1994, Headline
Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Cat: paranormal fiction
Format: paperback (mid); 362 pp w/ 45 chapters
Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis
I’m Anita Blake, expert on creatures of the night. I’ve dined with shapeshifters, danced with werewolves, and been wooed—but not won—by Jean-Claude, the Vampire Master of the City.

And now a darkly dangerous vampire named Alejandro has hit town. He wants me for his human servant. A war of the undead has begun. Over me....

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Monday 23 January 2012

Sunday 22 January 2012

REVIEW: Graffiti Moon

         An artist, a dreamer,
                         A long, mean, night

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Graffiti Moon
Series: Stand alone
Pub: 2010, PAN Macmillan Australia
Author: Cath Crowley
Cat: fiction,
Format: paperback (mid); 264pp
Age Range: YA                                                 

            Synopsis
Let me make it in time. Let me meet Shadow.
The guy who paints in the dark. Paints birds trapped on brick walls and people lost in ghost forests. Paints guys with grass growling from their hearts and girls with buzzing lawn mowers.

It’s the end of Year 12. Lucy’s looking for Shadow, the graffiti artist everyone talks about.
His work is all over the city, but he is nowhere.
Ed, the last guy she wants to see at the moment, says he knows where to find him. He takes Lucy on an all-night search to places where Shadow’s thoughts about heartbreak and escape echo around the city walls.
But the one thing Lucy can’t see is the one thing that’s right before her eyes.

     my Thoughts (review) 

REVIEW, Lone Wolfe

Jacob....Master. Untamed. Protector.
 (21/Jan/11)

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Lone Wolfe
Series: Bad Blood/Notorious Wolfes series
Pub: 2011, Mills & Boon (Harlequin) publishing
Author: Kate Hewitt
Cat: romance
Format: paperback (sma); 254 pp w/ 12 chapters
Whose: Jacob & Molly
Age Range: Adult                                            

            Synopsis
After years of lying neglected, the walls of Wolfe Manor tremble as the master returns. Reputation in tatters, Jacob Wolfe licks his wounds alone.

When Molly Parker takes her tentative steps across the threshold, she brings with her the light missing from his darkened soul. The lone Wolfe will never be tamed—but she knows that once he loves, he loves for life.

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Friday 20 January 2012

adding to the pile

they are:
Graffiti Moon by Cath Crowley
When Dogs Cry by Markus Zusak
Ghost Stalker by Jenna Kernan
Lothaire by Kresley Cole
the Lone Wolf by Kate Hewitt

also: Friends With Benifits on DVD
Thanks for the time

a mess up

sorry but here today was meant to be a post of Lover Eternal by J R Ward but instead I posted it a week early. you should however head over to Literary Escapism, with me, were there will be a read-a-long thing on that said story.
again sorry
Thanks for the time