Saturday 30 June 2012

REVIEW, Dual Abduction


They both wanted her. The question was, could they share her?

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Dual Abduction
Series: Alien Abduction, book 3
Pub: 2012,
Author: Eve Langlais
Genre: Erotica (aliens)
Format: ebook 151 pages
Whose: Louisa, Brax & Xarn
Age Range: Adult

            Synopsis
Abducted by alien slavers, along with her group of teenage misfits, Louisa doesn’t think her week can get any stranger until two big purple warriors arrive to the rescue—and then fight over who gets to keep her. Not interested in a winner, she clobbers them, but when they regain consciousness, they’re even more determined to claim her.
Best friends, Brax and Xarn, share everything; loot, jobs, trouble, until they come across a luscious human that stirs their possessive side. Their battle over who gets to keep her ends in a tie due to matching concussions, but what’s a bruise or two when it comes to winning her as a mate. When she keeps denying them both, they put aside their rivalry to team up and claim the one they want.
Watch out universe, because if you thought purple warriors Brax and Xarn were a menace to the galaxy before, then hang on tight, because hopelessly in love, they’re more deadly—and hilarious--than ever.

REVIEW, Through the Montana Mist


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Through the Montana Mist
Series: Saddle Up and Ride, book 3
Pub:  2010, 1Rmonace
Author: Carol Lynne
Genre: contemporary GLBT erotica
Format: ebook 54 pages
Whose: Caleb & Tyson
Age Range: adult

            Synopsis
When Tyson Moore meets Caleb Sterling, he has an uneasy feeling about Caleb and his partner, Jeff. Although he can’t prove it, Tyson believes Caleb is being abused. Without overstepping his boundaries as an employee at Justice River, Tyson offers Caleb his help. He’ll do everything in his power to make sure Caleb is safe. Falling in love with Caleb isn’t been part of the plan, but Tyson soon finds himself swept away by the scared man.

Caleb came to Justice River Ranch hoping to mend his troubled relationship with his long-time partner. Little did he know that a change of scenery would bring even more problems. Eventually, Caleb reaches out to Tyson, but though he’s attracted to Tyson, Caleb has scars that need time to heal. He begins to wonder if he’ll ever get his life back on track enough to love Tyson or if the dangers caused by Jeff with be permanent.

MANGA REVIEW, One Piece, vol 63


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One Piece series, Vol 63 
Pub: SHUEISHA Inc, Tokyo
Author & Art: Eiichiro Oda
Cat: pirates
Format: graphic novel, paperback; chapters 615 to 626
Age Range: YA

    Synopsis
NEW WORLD Part 3
As a child, monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally gained the power to stretch like rubber...at the cost of never being able to swim again! Years later, Luffy sets off in search of the “One Piece,” said to be the greatest treasure in the world....

OTOHIME AND TIGER
Luffy and the princess of Fish-Man Island escape the castle and head to the mysterious Forest of the Sea. Meanwhile, the kingdom is under attack by dark forces. What is the source of the hatred between humans and the merfolk?!

Friday 29 June 2012

re-REVIEW, City of Bones


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City of Bones
Series: The Mortal Instrument, book 1
Pub: 2007, Walker Books Ltd.
Author: Cassandra Clare
Cat: fantasy & Magical realism/fiction
Format: paperback (mid); 442 pp w/ 24 chapters
Age Range: YA

                Synopsis
When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder -- much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing -- not even a smear of blood -- to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?

This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know. . . .

Exotic and gritty, exhilarating and utterly gripping, Cassandra Clare's ferociously entertaining fantasy takes readers on a wild ride that they will never want to end.

Thursday 28 June 2012

Lets Talk Blog Surfing


It’s another time when looking over on All Things Urban Fantasy and there Cover Art Coverage and it became the last straw for me, really, I love the new cover set of a series that I have no real care in read (though I’m not sure why) but there covers are awesome.
Check them out, though I’m sure you’ve all seen them.
 
Shatter Me series, Tahereh Mafi


Hadn’t the Pleasure # 6


The books that have been collecting dust for so long they have become stained from it


He looked to the sky, praying for rain, a downpour, some sign from the heavens.... but all he saw was the bloated white face of the moon smiling down on him.... And the sky around it was cold and clear and black....
They made their circle of blood. And only the moon witnessed the slaughter that followed.

For Jamie Mackie, summer holidays in the coastal town of Rocky Head mean surfing, making money, and good times at the local music festival. But this year, vampires are on the festival line-up...fulfilling a pact made on the wreck of the Batavia, four hundred years ago. If their plans succeed, nobody in Rocky Head will survive to see out the new year.

Saltwater Vampires, Kirsty Eagar
First Published by Penguin Group (Australia), 2010
YA, Thriller  
other by...
Raw Blue & Night Beach

Wednesday 27 June 2012

Waiting in Wednesday #5


A meme hosted by Breakingthe Spine
You all know what’s going on, so let’s get going....


The Mayans aren’t the only ones with a 2012 prophecy…

Long before recorded history, there was a warrior so feared that everyone trembled before his wrath. Only a brutal betrayal by the one closest to him could defeat him. But not even death was the end of a man so strong.
The Time Untime approaches…
Kateri Avani has been plagued her entire life with dreams she doesn’t understand. Images of places she’s never been and of a man she’s never seen. Her quest for answers has driven her to Las Vegas where she hopes to finally silence the demons in her mind.
What she never anticipates is coming face to face with the warrior who has haunted her her entire life.
Ren Waya came back from the dead to keep the prophecy he began from coming true and ending the world. For thousands of years, he has fought the same evil that once possessed him. But now that evil has brought back the one person he can’t fight. The one person who once held the most sacred part of him.
His heart.
But if he doesn’t kill Kateri, the deadliest of evils will reemerge and destroy everyone else on the planet. It was a sacrifice he made once.
Will he be able to make it again?

Time Untime, Sherrilyn Kenyon
 (Dark-Hunter #22)
Expected publication 2nd August 2012
Adult, Paranormal Romance
Series includes
 (hell there's twenty-two of the things, check them out here at Goodreads)

REVIEW, With Abandon


Love was never part of his plan....until it pounced.

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With Abandon
Series: With or Without, book 4
Pub:  2011, Samhain Publishing
Author: J. L. Langley
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Format: paperback (mid); 261pp w/ 20 chapters
Whose: Aubrey & Matt
Age Range: adult

            Synopsis
As heir to an old and proud heritage, Aurbrey Reynolds works and lives for his family, his employees and his pack. Agreeing to watch after a visiting werewolf is no big deal—until he discovers the newcomer is his mate. His very male mate...which is a very big deal, indeed. Revealing his sexuality was never part of Aubrey’s well-ordered life plan.

Much as he loved caring for his eight younger brothers, Matt Mahihkan knows it’s time to grab the opportunity to attend college in Atlanta. Realizing Aubery is his mate should have been a delightful experience...except Aubery treats him more like a dirty little secret than a lover. Yet Matt is a patient man. Aubery can’t stay in the closet forever. Can he?

In time, they settle into a comfortable, if complicated, routine. Until a rouge werewolf with an axe to grind forces Aubery to add to the wedge of secrets driving him and Matt apart, leaving Matt exposed to danger...and Aubrey forced to choose between love and duty.

Warning: contains color abuse with really bad sense of fashion, a southern accent from hell, sex on antique furniture, a pouncing playful werewolf, obnoxious siblings, liberal use of a color identifier and impatient sex. no lightning bugs were harmed in the making of this book.

REVIEW, Kiss of the Night


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Kiss of the Night
Series: Dark-Hunter series, book 4
Pub: 2004, Piatkus (imprint of Little, brown Book Group)
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon   
Cat: paranormal romance
Format: paperback (small); 361 pp w/ 20 chapters
Whose: Wulf & Cassandra
Age Range: adult

                Synopsis
Dark-Hunter Wulf is an ancient Viking warrior with a useful but extremely aggravating power – amnesia. No one who meets him in person can remember him five minutes later. It makes it easy to have one-night stands, but hard to have a meaningful relationship, and without true love he can never regain his soul. Then he meets Cassandra, the one woman who can remember him. However, as the princess of the cursed race Wulf is sworn to hunt, she is forbidden to him...

Tuesday 26 June 2012

Stuck in Your Head # 4

I'm going to give you the line from the books I've read that make my mind crave the rest like coke.
(It’s my version of Teaser Tuesday, just so you know)


‘You know what the worst part was, mouse?’
   ‘Mmmmhmmm?’
   ‘Those two fingers had all my best rings on them. Now, whenever I see a bear I follow him home to see if he’s shat out my jewels.’
Page 132, paperback

The Poison Throne, Celine Kiernan
(the Moorehawke Trilogy #1)
Published, Sept 2008 by The O’Brien Press
YA, fantasy

Other Covers

Wynter returns from a five-year exile in the bleak Northlands to find her beloved homeland in turmoil. King Jonathan’s civilised, multicultural realm is no more; the gibbets and cages have returned. Days of laughter, friendly ghosts and gossipy cats remain only in Wynter’s memory—the present confronts her with power play, dark torture chambers, violent ghosts, and cats (those still alive) too scared to talk to humans. The Inquisition is a real and present danger.

Crown Prince Alberon is missing. There are murmurings of a Bloody Machine’ of untold destructive power. And as Wynter and her friends, Prince Razi and the mysterious Christopher Garron, seek to restore stability to the fragile kingdom while risking death at every turn, Wynter is forced to make a terrible choice.

Set in a fantastical medieval Europe, The Poison Throne is a gothic tale of intrigue, adventure and romance which draws the reader in from the very first sentence and doesn’t loosen its grip until the last

the trilogy
 
The Poison Throne, The Crowded Shadows & The Rebel Prince

Monday 25 June 2012

REVIEW, With Caution


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With Caution
Series: With or Without, book 2
Pub: 2008, Samhain publishing, ltd.
Author: J. L. Langley
Genre: paranormal gay romance
Format: paperback (mid); 278pp w/ 22 chapters
Whose: Remi & Jake
Age Range: Adult

            Synopsis
A brother’s vow. A lover’s promise. Both could put them all at deadly risk.

Remington Lassiter is trying his best to stay out of trouble while he learns the ropes of being a werewolf. When his little brother turns up covered in bruises, he is driven to finally bring their abusive father to justice. To do it, he must face a past he hides behind his cocky, trouble-making attitude. A past so dark it haunts him only in dreams.
Jake Romero, a crack private investigator with a bad-boy biker image, realizes he has his work cut out for him when Remi asks for his help. From the first moment he turned Remi into a werewolf in order to save his life, Jack has been fighting to keep his inner demons at bay. He’s torn between the desire to tell Remi they are destined to be mates, and the need to first let Remi get used to the werewolf life.
Jake will do anything to protect Remi and help him break the cycle of abuse he has endured all his life, but his investigation is about to uncover something far more sinister and deadly then they ever imagined.
A past that could put all their lives at risk.

Warning, this title contains the following: explicit sex, graphic language, violence, hot makkid man-love.

REVIEW, the Chosen


                                     Their beauty is spellbinding
                                                         Their hunger is insatiable
                                           Their power is immoral

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The Chosen
Series: Wings in the Night series, book 6 & 7
Pub: 2009, Harlequin books
Author: Maggie Shayne
Cat: para romance
Format: paperback ominous (lar); 701 pp w/ 49 chapters
Whose: Sarafine & Willem / Edge & Amber Lily
Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis
Embrace the twilight
A creature of the night, Sarafina lives only for pleasure, and love is a forbidden emotion. Experience has taught her that love leads only to betrayal and pain.
    
Willem Stone is a challenge Sarafina cannot resist – a man as boldly alive as she is, a man with a will of iron, yet a mere mortal. And the only thing stronger than their clash of wills is the power of their desire.
    
But when vampire hunters take Amber Lily, the only child ever born to a vampire, Sarafina and Willem must put their struggle aside and combine their strengths in a rescue attempt that could cost them their very lives.
    
Edge of twilight
His name is Edge, and he is the last of a band of Immortals who have been hunted down and murdered by Frank Stiles – an enemy determined to unlock their deepest secrets.
    
A legend among the undead, Amber Lily is the only half human, half vampire ever born, and is possessed of untamed powers. Amber alone understands the dangerous threat of Frank Stiles. Only she may hold the key to his vulnerability...and his doom.
    
Amber is drawn into the hunt. In doing so, she will cast her after to a passion that may be her destiny and to an evil she may not be able to defeat.

Sunday 24 June 2012

REVIEW, Blacque/Bleu


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Blacque/Bleu
Series: Arcada, book 3
Pub:  2011, Looseld
Author: Belinda McBride
Genre: erotic romance
Format: paperback (mid); 250pp w/ 21 chapters
Whose: Lukas & Oliver
Age Range: Adult

            Synopsis
Lukas Blacque is a deeply closeted werewolf, and almost more than anything in life, he desires his neighbour, Oliver Bleu. Oliver is a vampire who is slowly dying from insomnia. More than anything, he needs Lukas Blacque and the rich blood that flows through his veins.
On the day that Blacque makes an important commitment to his family and pack, he also succumbs to temptation and agrees to a passionate weekend with the alluring vampire. At sunset on Friday, it’s all about urgent lust and the drive to lose his virginity. When the sun rises on Monday, lust has shifted to love and devotion. He’s not sure he can walk away, even for the commitment he’s made. He’s even less sure Blue will let him go.
In Blacque’s world, vampires and werewolves make uneasy bedfellows, and a gay werewolf is an impossibility. In Blue’s world, all living creatures are little more than vessels for food and sex. But in the mysterious and magical town of Arcada, the unexpected is always waiting right around the corner. Now Blacque and Blue just need to survive long enough for Arcada’s magic to work for them.

Saturday 23 June 2012

REVIEW, Dance with the Devil


One step into the Dark-Hunter® world and you’ll never turn back....

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Dance with the Devil
Series: Dark-Hunter series, book 3
Pub: 2003, Piatkus (imprint of Little, brown Book Group)
Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon   
Cat: paranormal romance
Format: paperback (small); 343pp w/ 17 chapters
Whose: Zarek & Astrid
Age Range: adult

                Synopsis
Zarek in the most dangerous of all the Dark-Hunters. He endured a lifetime as a Roman slave and centuries as a Dark-Hunter in exile. Zarek trusts no one. Because of his steadfast refusal to follow any orders, he is kept in isolation in Alaska where his activity is seriously limited and closely monitored. There are many who fear he will one day unleash his powers against humans as well as vampires, and that nine hundred years of exile have made him too vicious to be redeemed.
    
The gods want Zarek dead but reluctantly agree to allow justice goddess Astrid to judge him first. Astrid has never judged a man innocent, yet there is something about Zarek that tugs at her heart. He views even the smallest act of kindness with shock and suspicion. But while Astrid struggles to maintain her impartiality in the face of her growing attraction to Zarek, and executioner has already been dispatched...