Saturday 31 March 2012

Waiting For #1



Kiss the Dead by Laurell K. Hamilton 7/June/2012
Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore 8/May20/12
Deadlocked by Charlaine Harris 1/May/2012
Insurgent by Veronica Roth 1/May/2012

so there are the books that I am looking forward to from the first half of the year. and with Kiss the Dead it's the cover that I have been wating for--seriously I proably would have waited to get this cover if I had to, since my first 20 covers are all from this line and, well, I'm OCD when it comes to covers and them matching.
it's also the reason that I put up this post.

In Motion 2.4


Starting paragraph: Sigh. It was so deep and frustrated it actually got Adelaide’s attention.
Body of Darkness, book 1, page 16

Challenge REVIEW, the Fallen 1



The Oldest Book on the Shelf Challenge
Hosted by Hell & Purgatory Book Reviews
It’s not a must and is all about reading this books you never got around to reading, in, like, forever and so....

The Ultimate Quest for Redemption

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The Fallen (the fallen and Leviathan) 1
Series: the fallen, omnibus 1
Pub: orig; 2003, Simon Pulse
Author: Thomas E. Sniegoski
Genre:
Format: paperback (lar); (b1) 262pp w/ 15 chap (b2) 255pp w/15 chap
Age Range: YA                                                 

            Synopsis
On his eighteenth birthday, Aaron begins to hear strange voices and convinced he is going insane. But having moved from foster home to foster home, Aaron doesn’t know whom he can trust. He wants to confide in the cute girl from class, but fears she’ll confirm he’s crazy.
    
Then a mysterious man begins following Aaron. He knows about Aaron’s troubled past and his new powers. And he has a message for Aaron: as the son of a mortal and an angel, Aaron has been chosen to redeem the fallen.
    
Aaron tries to dismiss the news and resists his supernatural abilities. But he must accept his newfound heritage – and quickly. For the dark powers are gaining strength, and are hell-bent on destroying him...

Friday 30 March 2012

REVIEW, Eternal Hunger


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Eternal Hunger
Series: Mark of the Vampire, book 1
Pub: 2010, Signet Eclipse (piatkus)
Author: Laura Wright
Genre: paranormal romance
Format: paperback (mid); 304pp w/ 40 chapters
Whose: Alexander & Sara
Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis
Alexander Roman wants nothing to do with the controlling rulers of his vampire breed, but as a new threat to the pureblood vampires emerges, Alexander’s ties to the past are forced upon him and, without warning, he finds himself disorientated, terrified and near death at the door of a stranger.

Dr Sara Donohue is dedicated to removing the traumatic memories of her patients—like those of the stranger at her front door. But what he tells her of his past is too astonishing to be anything more than the delusions of a madman. Then, as their worlds collide, Sara and Alexander are bound, as one becomes hunter and the other prey. And Sara’s only chance of survival is to surrender to the final—and most unimaginable—desire of her life.

An Apology


Here today is meant to be a review on Lover Reborn, but the thing is thick enough that you could use it to weigh someone down in water and I just don’t have the time at the moment (‘cause of family crap) to read it.
It’s said and I’m sure it will be up early next week because I won’t be able to stop myself from reading it. Really, if it was sitting on your shelf, could you?
But the thing is huge; I’m actually worried how my wrists are going to cope with holding it.
So sorry if you were looking forward to that. It won’t be long and it’ll be up!

 

Thursday 29 March 2012

Posted & Bought #5

Posted           Bought


Eternal Hunger by Laura Wright
 Lover Reborn by J. R. Ward

REVIEW, Infamous


I am the power they can’t tear down.
I say I control my destiny and my life. No, nothing controls me. Ever.

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Infamous
Series: Chronicles of Nick, book 3
Pub: 2012, St. Martin’s Press
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Cat: paranormal fiction
Format: paperback (lar); 358 pp w/ 19 chapters
Age Range: young adults (12+)

                Synopsis
Go to school. Get good grades. Stay out of trouble. That’s the mandate for most kids. But Nick Gautier isn’t the average teenager. He’s a boy with a destiny not even he fully understands. And his first mandate is to stay alive while everyone, even his own father, tries to kill him.
   
He’s learned to annihilate zombies and raise the dead, divination and clairvoyance, so why is learning to drive such a difficulty? But that isn’t the primary skill he has to master. Survival is.
 
And in order to survive, his next lesson makes all the others pale in comparison. He is on the brink of becoming either the greatest hero mankind has ever known.  Or he’ll be the one who ends the world. With enemies new and old gathering forces, he will have to call on every part of himself to fight or he’ll lose everyone he cares about.
Even himself.

Book Chat: Series or Trilogies in Full # 1


 
 Where I talk about a series or trilogy as a full rather than individually

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Series: Twilight
Individual books: Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Braking Dawn
Pub between:  2005—2008 USA, Little, Brown and Company
Author: Stephenie Meyer
Genre: paranormal romance
How many I read: all
Link to review(s): click
Age Range: YA                                                 

     First book
            Synopsis
When Isabella Swan moves to the gloomy town of Forks and meets the mysterious, alluring Edward Cullen, her life takes a thrilling and terrifying turn. With his porcelain skin, golden eyes, mesmerizing voice, and supernatural gifts, Edward is both irresistible and impenetrable. Up until now, he has managed to keep his true identity hidden, but Bella is determined to uncover his dark secret.
    
What Bella doesn’t realize is that the closer she gets to him, the more she is putting herself and those around her at risk. And it might be too late to turn back...

Wednesday 28 March 2012

REVIEW, Incubus Dreams


The bride was a witch who solved preternatural crimes. The groom raised the dead and slew vampires for a living. It sounded like a Halloween joke, but it wasn’t. 


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Incubus Dreams
Series: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, book 12
Pub: 2003, Headline
Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Cat: paranormal fiction
Format: paperback (mid); 518 pp w/ 62 chapters
Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis
When I’m not up to my elbows in sacrificial gore, I’ve got serious preternatural issues to deal with. Psychotic shape-shifters, duplicitous vampires and sexually deviant were-leopards. And that’s just my friends. I’m Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter and Federal Marshall.

My life is more complicated than ever, caught up between obligations to the living and to the undead. Now there is a vampire serial killer preying on strippers. And I’ve been called in to help the police.

REVIEW, Invincible


 (first read: 19/April/12)
I am the Power they can’t tear done.
I control my destiny and my life. Nothing controls me. Ever.

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Invincible
Series: Chronicles of Nick series, book 2
Pub: 2011, St. Martin’s Press
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon
Cat: paranormal fiction
Format: paperback (full size); 309 pp w/ 20 chapters
Age Range: young adults (12+)

                Synopsis
When teenager Nick Gautier was saved from almost-certain death by mysterious warriors, he had a feeling his life was set to change. Fighting the undead has taken the place of fighting with his teachers (well...almost) and Nick is learning to rely on his powers to protect the world from evil he could never before have imagined.
    
Then, just when he thought things couldn’t get any worse, he wakes up to find himself enslaved in a world of shapeshifters and demons out to claim his soul. But more than that, he’s being groomed by the darkest of powers and if he doesn’t learn how to raise the dead by the end of the week, he will become one of them...

Tuesday 27 March 2012

REVIEW, Jacob


Since time began, there have been Nightwalkers—the races of the night who live in the shadows of the moonlight. Love with humans is absolutely forbidden, and one man makes certain to uphold this ancient law: Jacob, the Enforcer...

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Jacob
Series: Nightwalkers, book 1
Pub:  2006, Zebra Books (Piatkus)
Author: Jacquelyn Frank
Cat: urban fantasy
Format: paperback (mid); 369pp w/ 15 chapters
Whose: Jacob & Isabella
Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis
Jacob has heard every excuse his people give when the madness overtakes them and they fall prey to their lust for humans, and he still brings every trespasser to justice. Immune to forbidden desires, uncontrollable hungers or the curse of the moon, his control is total...until he sees Isabella on shadowy New York City street.

Saving her life wasn’t in his plans. But the moment he holds her in his arms and feels the soft explosion of her body against his, everything changes. Their attraction is undeniable, volatile—and completely against the law. And suddenly everything Jacob has ever believed is inflamed by the heat of desire.

Monday 26 March 2012

REVIEW, All Together Dead


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All Together Dead
Series: Southern Vampire series, book 7
Pub: 2007, Gollancz
Author: Charlaine Harris
Cat: paranormal mystery
Format: paperback (mid); 323 pp w/ 19 chapters
Age Range: Adults                                           

            Synopsis
Sookie Stackhouse would really like time to get over being betrayed by Bill, her long-time vampire lover, and get use to her new relationship with sexy shapeshifter Quinn—but instead, she finds herself attending a vampire summit, the destination of choose for every undead power player around. She’s being used as a sort-of human Geiger counter for Sophie-Anne Leclerq, vampire queen of Louisiana.
    
But Sophie-Anne’s power base has been severely weakened by Hurricane Katina, and she’s to be put on trial for murdering her king. Sookie knows the queen is innocent, but others have their doubts. And there are some vamps who would like to finish what nature started. With secret alliances and backroom deals the order of the day—and night—Sookie must decide which side she’ll stand with, and quickly, for her choice may mean the difference between survival and all-out catastrophe...

Saturday 24 March 2012

REVIEW, Ruthless Game


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Ruthless Games
Series: GhostWalker, book 10
Pub:  2011, Piatkus
Author: Christine Feehan
Cat: paranormal romance
Format: paperback (mid); 376pp w/ 20 chapters
Whose: Kane & Rose
Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis
On a mission to rescue hostages in Mexico, the last thing GhostWalker Kane Cannon expects to find is Rose Patterson—fellow GhostWalker, fugitive, and pregnant with his child.

Forced into a breeding programme by Dr Whitney, Rose escaped with the help to Kane after she was impregnated by him, but despite Kan’s desperate need to keep her close to him, she has eluded him...until now. But does she feel the same passion for him that he feels for her?

In Motion 2.3


Starting paragraph:  Laying on the bed waiting for Adelaide to come out here after her shower, waited for that flesh smelling body that would have the same soft sent that he’s skin held from the shower before her.
Body of Darkness, book 1, chapter 8
I think

Friday 23 March 2012

Bought #4


City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare
Infamous by Sherrilyn Kenyon
Ruthless Game by Christine Feehan
Her Vampire Husband by Michelle Hauf

REVIEW, Lover Unleashed


In the darkest corners of the night in Caldwell, New York, and conflict like no other rages. The city is home to a band of brothers born to defend their race: the warrior vampires of
 The Black Dagger Brotherhood

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Lover Unleashed
Series: Black Dagger Brotherhood series, book 9
Pub: 2011, Piatkus
Author: J. R. Ward
Cat: paranormal romance
Format: paperback (full); 489pp w/ 59 chapters
Whose: Payne & Manny
Age Range: adult

            Synopsis
Payne, twin sister of the Vishous, is cut from the same dark, seductive cloth as her vampire brother. Imprisoned for eons by their mother, the Scribe Virgin, she finally frees herself – only to face a devastating injury.
    
Manuel Manello, MD, is drafted by the Brotherhood to save Payne – but when the human surgeon and the vampire warrior meet; their two worlds collide in the face of their undeniable passion. With so much working against them, can love prove stronger than the birthright and the biology that separate them?

Thursday 22 March 2012

Because they Look Cool


I think I've said it all.
it also matches well with the others in the series, which is always nice


much nicer than the angle ones, right?





Book Chat: Discarded Books #10


where I talk about the books I got
rid of and why


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Midnight Daughters
Series: Dorina Basarab, Dhampir series, book one
Pub: 2008, Onyx publishing
Author: Karen Chance
Cat: paranormal
Age Range: adults                                            

            Synopsis
Dorina Basarab is a dhampir - half-human, half-vampire. Unlike most dhampirs, though, Dory has managed to maintain her sanity. Now Dory's vampire father has come to her for help - again. Her Uncle Dracula (yes, the Dracula), cruelest among vampires, has escaped his prison. And her father wants Dory to work with gorgeous master vampire Louis-Cesare to put him back there.
           
Although Dory prefers to work alone, Dracula is the only thing that truly scares her - and when she has to face him, she'll take all the help she can get.

Wednesday 21 March 2012

REVIEW, Cerulean Sins


People don’t like dealing with people who raise the dead. Don’t ask me why, but we make them nervous.

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Cerulean Sins
Series: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, book 11
Pub: 2003, Headline
Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Cat: paranormal fiction
Format: paperback (mid); 518 pp w/ 62 chapters
Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis
There’s something about Leo Harlan that I don’t like. He’s asked me to reanimate his long-dead ancestor, and it seems like a perfectly ordinary case for someone like me: Anita Blake, preternatural expert, vampire hunter and raiser of the dead. So I agree—sometimes you deal with the devil not because you want to, but because if you don’t, someone else will. But what he hasn’t told me is that the corpse may hold the secret to an ancient crime that not everyone wants to be remembered....

Tuesday 20 March 2012

MANGA REVIEW, IKIGAMI 1 to 4


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IKIGAMI the Ultimate Limit vol 1—4
Pub: 2005, Shogakukan Inc., Tokyo
Story & Art: Motoro Mase
Format: graphic paperback; Episode 1 & Episode 8
Age Range: [parental Advisory EXPLICIT CONTENT]

    Synopsis
Dear Citizen:
Thank you for your loyalty. You’ve no doubt noticed that the world is a troubled place. People are apathetic, lazy, unmotivated. You’ve probably asked yourself

WHY ISN’T ANYTHING BEING DONE TO STOP THIS
SYSTEMATIC DECLINE?

Rest assured that measures are being taken. Beginning immediately, we will randomly select a different citizen each day who will be killed within 24 hours of notification. We believe this will help remind all people how precious life is and how important it is to be a productive, active member of society.

Thanks you for your continued attention and your cooperation and participation....

CONGRATULATIONS! YOU HAVE BEEN RANDOMLY SELECTED BY THE GOVERNMENT... TO DIE IN 24 HOURS!

Monday 19 March 2012

REVIEW, Definitely Dead


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Definitely Dead
Series: Southern Vampire series, book 6
Pub: 2006, Gollancz
Author: Charlaine Harris
Cat: paranormal fiction (mystery)
Format: paperback (mid); 324 pp w/ 23 chapters
Age Range: Adults                                           

            Synopsis
Sookie Stackhouse doesn’t have that many relations, so she really hated to lose one – but all the people to go, she didn’t expect it to be her cousin Hadley, a consort of New Orleans’ vampires queen – after all, Hadley was technically already dead.
           
But Hadley is gone, beyond recall, and she’s left Sookie an inheritance, one that comes with a bit of a risk – not least because someone doesn’t want Sookie digging too deep into Hadley’s possessions... or her past. Sookie’s life is once again on the line, and this time the suspects range from rogue weres to her first love, the vampire Bill. Sookie’s got a lot to do if she’s going to keep herself alive...

Saturday 17 March 2012

In Motion 2.2


Starting Paragraph: It’d been this way for months, now.
      Cadmus sighed deeply into the matrass under him. His fingers buried deep into the fur of his pet—for now—Daniel. The wolf.
Cursed Happiness, book 6, first line

Friday 16 March 2012

REVIEW, Powerful Protectors


Tough. Rugged. Ruthless
But could the bodyguard be her lover?

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The Ultimate Hero Powerful Protectors
Series: --
Pub:  omnibus, (Mills & Boon) Harlequin
Author: Debra Webb, Carla Cassidy, Dana Marton
Cat: romance suspence
Format: paperback (mid); 632pp w/ 3 stories
Whose: Scout & Max / Kate & Zack / Kaye & Daniel
Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis
Keeping Baby Safe
Debra Webb
Bounty hunter Olivia ‘Scout’ Jackson was no stranger to danger—but being pregnant changed everything. And kissing Pierce Maxwell was risking more than she dared. But could she trust the devastating Colby Agency operative to protect her and the precious life she carried when he was duty bound to her enemy? Or would his loyalties change when he found out he was about to become a father?

Defending the Rancher’s Daughter
Carla Cassidy
Whoever had murdered her father was now coming after Kate Sampson. She had to be on her guard every second. Professional bodyguard Zack West offered protection...and something a lot more dangerous. The sensual cowboy had branded her with his passion. And now he was back, ready to break her heart all over again.

Protective Measures
Dana Marton
Congresswoman Kaye Miller didn’t survive the jaws of politics to fall prey to a deadly hate crime. So when sexy bodyguard Daniel DuCharme was assigned to protect her, they found themselves sharing every waking moment together. But with a killer hungry for their precious lives, can the two lovers’ battle time in order to stop a global assassination?

REVIEW, Love Mine


In the darkest corners of the night in Caldwell, New York, a conflict like no other rages. The city is home to a band of brothers born to defend their race—the warrior vampires of the BLACK DAGGER BROTHERHOOD

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Lover Mine
Series: Black Dagger Brotherhood series, book 8
Pub: 2010, Piatkus
Author: J. R. Ward
Cat: paranormal romance
Format: paperback (mid); 653 pp w/ 74 chapters
Whose: John Matthew & Xhex
Age Range: adult

            Synopsis
John Matthew has come a long way since he was found living among humans, his vampire nature unknown to himself and to those around him, and taken in by the Brotherhood. No one could have guessed his true history – or his true identity. Indeed, the fallen Brother Darius has returned, but with a different face and a very different destiny.
    
Xhex, a symphath assassin, has long steeled herself against the attraction between her and John. Having already lost one lover to madness, she will not allow a male of worth to fall prey to the darkness of her twisted life. When fate intervenes, however, the two discover that love, like destiny, is inevitable between soul mates.