Wednesday 29 February 2012

Borrowed #1

So I got these off my sister and her boyfriend. 


 Scott Pilgrim vol 1 to 6 byBryan Lee O'Malley
I have read this series already and loved it so much the first time, 
I just wanted to read it again. 


IKIGAMI the Ultimate Limit, story & art by Motoro Mase
vol 1 to 6
this is apparently a very sad series, and though they are each seperate they are all linked

and just because he wanted someone else he knew to read it
Watchmen by Alan Moore & Dave Gibbons

that's all, see ya next time.

REVIEW, Not Quite Wicked


There are two sides to every story....


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Not Quite Wicked
Series: Anthology  
Pub: 2010, Resplendence Publishing, LLC
Authors: Bronwyn Green, Brynn Paulin, Dakota Rebel & Mia Watts
Cat: paranormal romance (sexy fiction)
Format: paperback (mid); 240pp w/ 4 stories
Age Range: adults                                            

            Synopsis
Time has painted them as the bad guys, but what if facts have gotten twisted around? There are always two sides to a story. Was the big bad wolf really so bad? Did the snow queen have a cruel heart of ice? What if there’s more to the three bears than meets the eye? Could Ali Baba’s adversary have had ulterior motives? Perhaps the villains are not quite as wicked as they’ve seemed, and maybe they’re heroes and heroines after all. These four steamy tales tell the real truth about these Not Quite Wicked, but definitely sensual, “villains”.

     Thoughts

REVIEW, Blue Moon


Richard was an alpha werewolf. It was his only serious flaw. We’d broken up after I’d seen him eat somebody


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Blue Moon
Series: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, book 8
Pub: 1998, Headline
Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Cat: paranormal fiction
Format: paperback (mid); 485 pp w/ 46 chapters
Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis
You never forget your ex-fiancĂ©. And when the call came at three in the morning, I thought for a moment it was him. It wasn’t. It was his brother. And it wasn’t good news. Apparently the former love of my life had got himself thrown into jail for assaulting a woman.

Since I make my living as a preternatural expert, I tend to believe almost anything’s possible. But though he may be one of the monsters, Richard would never harm a woman. So it’s Anita Blake to the rescue. I’ve got just a few days to spring Richard and find out who framed him—and why. There’s a full moon coming, and if my werewolf love is still behind bars when it rises, he’ll be facing a lot worse than an assault change...

     Thoughts

Poltergeist, 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.

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Poltergeist
Series: Greywalker series, book 2
Pub: 2007, Penguin
Author: Kat Richardson
Cat: paranormal fiction
Format: paperback (s); 349pp w/ 34 chapters
Age Range: adult

            Synopsis
Harper Blaine was your average small-time PI until she died-for two minutes. Now she's a Greywalker-walking the thin line between the living world and the paranormal realm. And she's discovering that her new abilities are landing her all sorts of "strange" cases.

In the days leading up to Halloween, Harper's been hired by a university research group that is attempting to create an artificial poltergeist. The head researcher suspects someone is faking the phenomena, but Harper's investigation reveals something else entirely-they've succeeded.

And when one of the group's members is killed in a brutal and inexplicable fashion, Harper must determine whether the killer is the ghost itself, or someone all too human.

      Thoughts 

Tuesday 28 February 2012

Posted #2





this is going to be a bit different, because I know I should be getting a few more books this week, hopefully, tomorrow, so its a post I'll just add to rather than have a new one eack time a book comes in. so, keep checking to see what's in.

today
Not Quite Wicked by Bronwyn Green, Brynn Paulin, Dakota Rebel & Mia Watts

1st March
Jacob by Jacquelyn Frank

and I'm pissed, really, 3 books should have come before I even thought about these ones again--really there's only one day left of there standed delivery time, 
but I'm going to hang tough and wait it out till at least Tues, then I'll be ringing and bitching at there ass.
ha, that's it....






Monday 27 February 2012

REVIEW, Club Dead


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Club Dead
Series: Southern Vampire series, book 3
Pub: 2003, Gollancz
Author: Charlaine Harris
Cat: paranormal fiction (mystery)
Format: paperback (mid); 274 pp w/ 15 chapters
Age Range: Adults                                           

            Synopsis
Sookie Stackhouse always found it difficult to date – she’s cute, but not many guys are comfortable with her mind-reading abilities. But vampires have no problem with Sookie’s talent – she can’t pick up much of anything from the undead.
    
But there’s only one vampire Sookie Stackhouse is involved with – at least voluntarily – right now, and that’s Bill. But recently he’s been a little distant – in another state distant. His sinister and sexy boss Eric has an idea where to find him, and next thing Sookie knows, she’s off to Jackson, Mississippi, to mingle with the underworld at Club Dead. It’s a dangerous little haunt where the elusive vampire society can go to chill out and suck down some Type O – but when Sookie finally finds Bill, he’s not only in trouble, but caught in an act of serious betrayal. Should she save him, or sharpen some stakes?

     Thoughts

Saturday 25 February 2012

In Motion 3; the end


Starting Paragraph: Hunting.... it gives a chill down my spine just thinking about it. But to actually be on one... no words can describe.

Friday 24 February 2012

REVIEW, Lover Enshrined


In the shadow of the night in Caldwell, New York, there’s a deadly was raging between vampires and their slayers. And there exists a secret band of brothers like no other—six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. 
Now a dutiful twin must choose between two lives...

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Lover Enshrined
Series: Black Dagger Brotherhood series, book 6
Pub: 2008, Piatkus
Author: J. R. Ward
Cat: paranormal romance
Format: paperback (mid); 534 pp w/ 57 chapters
Whose: Phury & Cormia
Age Range: adult

            Synopsis
Phury has sacrificed himself for the good of the race, becoming the male responsible for keeping the Black Dagger Brotherhood’s bloodline alive – he is to father the sons and daughters who will ensure that the traditions of the race survive and that there are warriors to fight those who want all vampires extinguished.
    
As his first mate, the Chosen Cormia wants to win not only his body but his heart for herself – she sees the emotionally scarred male behind all his noble responsibility. But as the war with the Lessening Society grows more grim, Phury must decide between duty and love.

     Thoughts

Thursday 23 February 2012

REVIEW, Wolf Tales


Welcome to a world where nothing is what it seems and every touch is ecstasy


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Wolf Tales
Series: --
Pub:  2005, Aphrodisia publishing (Kingston books)
Author: Kate Douglas
Cat: paranormal romance
Format: paperback (mid); 257pp w/ 26 chapters
Whose: Xandi, Stefan, Anton & Keisha
Age Range: adult
[WARNING! This is a REALLY HOT book. (Sexually Explicit)] 

            Synopsis
When Alexandria’s car goes off the road in a terrible blizzard, she has no idea night will bring a powerful rescuer and the start of an ecstatic sexual awakening. The moment Xandi wakes in Stefan’s muscular arms, feels the heat of his body pressing against hers, she feels no fear. Instead, she allows herself to be taken by one who is more than a man, whose primal nature is never far from him. as their connection grows, and as Xandi gradually loses her sensual inhibitions, experience pleasure she never dreamed possible, she is drawn deeper into Stephan’s mysterious world, meeting the alluring beauty Keisha, as well as the dominant and sometimes ruthlessly commanding Anton, who can have any man or woman he wants... in any way he wishes....

     Thoughts

Book Chat: Dicarded Books #6


 Where I talk about the books I’ve taken off my shelf,
for some reason or another

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Intertwined
Series: Intertwined, book 1
Pub: 2010, Harlequin
Author: Gena Showalter
Cat: fiction, paranormal
Format: paperback (mid); 440pp w/ 25 chapters
Age Range: YA                                                 

            Synopsis
Like most teens, Aden Stone has friends.
    
They just happen to be the four human souls living inside him. One can time travel; one can raise the dead; one can posses other bodies; one can foretell the future – and has even   predicted his death.
    
With no other family and a life spent in and out of institutions, Aden and the souls have become friends. But now they’re causing him all kinds of trouble. He’s so over it. All he wants is peace. And then he meets a girl who quiets the voices.
    
They share an inexplicable bond. A bond about to be tested by a werewolf shape-shifter who wants Mary Ann for his own, and a vampire princess Aden can’t resist.
    
Together, they’ll be forced to enter a dark underworld of intrigue and danger... but not everyone will come out alive.

Series
[tb], Unravealed, Twisted

Wednesday 22 February 2012

REVIEW, VAmpire Knight 1


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Vampire Knight vol 1
Pub: 2007, Chuang Yi
Story & Art: Matsuri Hino
Cat: *think about it*
Format: graphic novel, paperback; 1st Night to 5th Night
Age Range: YA
*english translation*

    Synopsis
Her very first memory is filled with now, terror, blood and vampires. Menaced by a vampire and saved by another, she is an orphan who has been adopted by the chairman of a prestigious boarding school called Cross Academy. Meet Yuki, a spirited girl who adores her saviour, the dashing vampire called Kaname. Yuki’s friend, Zero, on the other hand, suffers from a bitter past and hates vampires to the core. What secrets lie behind his tortured eyes...?

   About the book......

REVIEW, Burnt Offerings


You can’t trust anyone who sleeps with the monsters

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Burnt Offerings
Series: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, book 7
Pub: 1998, Headline
Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Cat: paranormal fiction
Format: paperback (mid); 430 pp w/ 53 chapters
Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis
That’s what I’ve always said. That’s what I’ve always believed. But now I’m the one sharing a bed with the Master Vampire of the City. I’m Anita Blake, the woman the vampires call the Executioner. From part of the solution, I’ve become part of the problem.

So it hits close to home when an arsonist begins to target vampire-owned businesses all over town—an arsonist who seems to want to destroy more than just property. It’s the monsters who are in danger now. And it’s up to the Executioner to save them from the inferno.

     Thoughts

Tuesday 21 February 2012

Monday 20 February 2012

REVIEW, Living Dead in Dallas


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Living Dead in Dallas
Series: Sookie Stackhouse series, book 2
Pub: 2002, Gollancz
Author: Charlaine Harris
Cat: paranormal fiction (mystery)
Format: paperback (mid); 279 pp w/ 11 chapters
Age Range: Adults                                            

            Synopsis
Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse is having a streak of bad luck. First her co-worker is killed, and no one seems to care. Then she comes face-to-face with a beastly creature which gives her a painful and poisonous lashing. Enter the vampires, who graciously suck the poison from her veins (like they didn’t enjoy it).
    
The point is: they saved her life. So when one of the blood-suckers asks for a favour, she obliges – and soon Sookie’s in Dallas, using her telepathic skills to search for a missing vampire. She’s supposed to interview certain humans involved, but she makes one condition: the vampires must promise to behave, and let the humans go unharmed. But that’s easier said than done, and all it takes is one delicious blonde and one small mistake for things to turn deadly...

     Thoughts

Sunday 19 February 2012

Movie Night

 
Underworld Awakening
It's based 12 after the last one (sorry, 2nd--Underworld Evolution). So, basically, it's about saving & protecting Subject 2. About finding someone that was said to be dead and the start of a new war.

Saturday 18 February 2012

In motion 2


Starting paragraph: “This is just weird,” I muttered trying not to let my body react to anything around me.

What I did: oh, yeah...much easier.

Friday 17 February 2012

REVIEW, Lover Unbound


In the shadow of the night in Caldwell, New York, there’s a deadly was raging between vampires and their slayers. And there exists a secret band of brothers like no other—six vampire warriors, defenders of their race.
Now, the cold heart of a cunning predator will be warmed against its will....

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Lover Unbound
Series: Black Dagger Brotherhood series, book 5
Pub: 2007, Piatkus
Author: J. R. Ward
Cat: paranormal romance
Format: paperback (mid); 532 pp w/ 55 chapters
Whose: Zishous & Jane
Age Range: adult

            Synopsis
Ruthless and brilliant, Vishous, a member of the Black Dagger Brotherhood, possesses a destructive curse and the frightening ability to see the future. Tormented and abused while growing up in his father’s war camp, he now has no interest in love or emotions, only in the battle with the Lessening Society.
    
But when a mortal injury puts him in the care of a human surgeon, Dr Jane Whitcomb compels him to reveal his inner pain and taste true pleasure for the first time – until a destiny he didn’t choose takes him towards a future that cannot include her...

     Thoughts 

Thursday 16 February 2012

Posted #1


Saltwater Vampires by Kirsty Eagar

image from Angus & Robison.au

Book Chat: Discarded books #5

Where I talk about the books that have fallen off my shelf
for whatever reason

And then I opened my eyes and
it was just Grace and me –
nothing anywhere but Grace and me –
she pressing her lips together as though
 she were keeping my kiss inside her,
and me holding this moment that was
as fragile as a bird in my hands.

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Shiver
Series: the Wolves of Mercy trilogy, book 1
Pub:  2009,
Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Cat: fiction
Format: paperback (mid); 390pp w/ 67 chapters
Age Range: YA                                                 

            Synopsis
The cold
Grace has spent years watching the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyes wolf – her wolf – watches back. He feels deeply familiar to her, but she doesn’t know why.

The heat
Sam has two lives. As a wolf, he keeps the silence company of the girl he loves. And then, for a short time each year, he is human, never daring to talk to Grace... until now.

The shiver
For grace and Sam, love has always been kept at a distance. But once it’s spoken, it cannot be denied. Sam must fight to stay human – and Grace must fight to keep him – even if it means taking on the scars of the past, the fragility of the present, and the impossibility of the future.

Series
[tb], Linger & Forever

Wednesday 15 February 2012

REVIEW, the Killing Dance


These days my life is a cross between a preternatural soap opera and an action-adventure movie


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The Killing Dance
Series: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, book 6
Pub: 1997, Headline
Author: Laurell K. Hamilton
Cat: paranormal fiction
Format: paperback (mid); 441pp w/ 46 chapters
Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis
The first hit man came after me at home, which should be against the rules. Then there was a second, and third. Word on the street is that Anita Blake, expert on creatures of the night and vampire killer extraordinaire, is worth half a million dollars. Dead, not alive.

So what’s a girl to do but turn to the men in her life for help? Which in my case means an alpha werewolf and master vampire. With professional killers on your trail, it’s not a bad idea to have as much protection as possible, human or otherwise.

But I’m beginning to wonder if two monsters are better than one....

     Thoughts

Monday 13 February 2012

Review, Dead Until Dark


Pre-info: this is the series that helped make the HBO TV series TrueBlood. 
 
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Dead Until Dark
Series: Sookie Stackhouse series, book 1
Pub: 2001, Gollancz
Author: Charlaine Harris
Cat: paranormal fiction (mystery)
Format: paperback (mid); 326 pp w/ 12 chapters
Age Range: Adults                                            

            Synopsis
Sookie Stackhouse is a small-time cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She’s quiet, keeps to herself, and doesn’t get out much. Not because she’s not pretty. She is. It’s just that, well, Sookie has this sort of ‘disability’. She can read minds. And that doesn’t make her too dateable. And then along comes Bill: he’s tall, dark and handsome – and Sookie can’t ‘hear’ a word he’s thinking. He’s exactly the type of guy she’s been waiting for all her life.
    
But Bill has a disability of his own: He’s a vampire. Worse than that, he hangs with a seriously creepy crowd, with a reputation for trouble – of the murderous kind.
    
And when one of Sookie’s colleagues is killed, she begins to fear she’ll be next...

     Thoughts

Sunday 12 February 2012

REVIEW, Desire Unchained


Surrender to the ultimate temptation...


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Desire Unchained
Series: Demonica series, book 2
Pub: 2009, Grand Central Publishing (Piatkus)
Author: Larissa Ione
Cat: Urban fantasy
Format: paperback (mid); 325 pp w/ 24 chapters
Whose: Shade & Runa
Age Range: Adult                                             

            Synopsis
Runa Wagner never meant to fall in love with the sexy stranger but she couldn’t resist the unbelievable passion that burned between them....a passion that died when she discovered his betrayal and found herself forever changed. Now, determined to make Shade pay for the transformation that haunts her, Runa searches for him—but ends up prisoner to his darker enemy.

A Seminus demon with a love-curse that threatens him with eternal torment, Shade hoped he’d seen the last of Runa and her irresistible charm. But when he wakes up in a dank dungeon chained next to a mysteriously powerful Runa, he realises that her effect on him is more dangerous than ever. As their captor casts a spell that bonds them as lifemates, Shade and Runa must fight for their lives and their hearts—or succumb to a madman’s evil plans.

  Thoughts

Saturday 11 February 2012

In Motion 1


This week hasn’t been the biggest of the ones to come, mostly because I didn’t start it until Wednesday and even then that wasn’t that great, not what I hoped for, but then, I had a lot of shit to catch up to in my home life (you know, real life shit)

Paragraph we start off on: It was like something caught between a rubber chicken and a skinned dog.

Review, the Forgotten Daughter


Annabelle...
Reserved. Elegant. Scarred. 


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The Forgotten Daughter
Series: Bad Blood/the Wolfe Legacy, book
Pub:  2011, Harlequin
Author: Jennie Lucas
Cat: romance
Format: paperback (mid); 249 pp w/ 11 chapters
Whose: Annabelle & Stefano
Age Range: Adult                                             

            Synopsis
Sister to seven brothers, Annabelle Wolfe should be used to men, but her trust was shattered the night her father almost killed her. Now Annabelle is an ice-queen, whom no man has ever touched...

Stefano Cortez can tame a wild horse quicker than any man, and this passion heats the blood in his veins. Annabelle may seem untouchable, but beneath the frost, he can see the real woman...

   Now, my Thoughts

Friday 10 February 2012

Review, Lover Revealed

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. Now an ally of the Black Dagger Brotherhood will face the challenge of his life and the evil of the ages

 
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Lover Revealed
Series: Black Dagger Brotherhood series, book 4
Pub: 2007, Piatkus
Author: J. R. Ward
Cat: paranormal romance
Format: paperback (sm); 528 pp w/ 51 chapters
Whose: Butch & Marissa
Age Range: adult

            Synopsis
Butch O’Neal is a fighter by nature. A hard living ex-homicide cop, he’s the only human ever to be allowed in the inner circle of the Black Dagger Brotherhood. And he wants to go even deeper into the vampire world – to engage in the turf war with the lesser. He’s got nothing to lose. His heart belongs to a female vampire, an aristocratic beauty who’s way out of his league. If he can’t have her, then at least he can fight side by side with the brothers....
    
Fate curses him with the very thing he wants. When Butch sacrifices himself to save a civilian vampire from the slayers, he falls prey to the darkest force in the war. Left for dead, found by a miracle, the Brotherhood calls on Marissa to bring him back, though even her love may not be enough to save him...

     my Thoughts (review)

Review, Nightwalker


In the ultimate showdown between light and darkness, who will triumph?


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Nightwalker
Series: the nightwalker, book 3
Pub: 2011, Mills & Boon (Harlequin)
Author: Connie Hall
Cat: paranormal romance
Format: paperback (mid); 282 pp w/ 26 chapters
Whose: Takala & Striker
Age Range: Adult                                             

            Synopsis
All her life, Takala Rainwater hoped to find the mother who’d abandoned her and her sister. But she’d never expected the woman to be a shadowy double agent in the spy-ridden underworld. Nor did she anticipate falling for the very vampire who wanted her mother destroyed.

Like his name, Striker Dark was ruthless...and the sexiest thing Takala had seen in both worlds. Her white-magic power—and her willpower—were defenceless against him. But Takala didn’t know the long-dead passion she roused in him could end her mortal life...

   Now, my Thoughts

Thursday 9 February 2012

Book Chat: Discarded Books #4


where I talk about the books that have fallen off my shelf


Some Angels are destined to fall. 


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Fallen
Series: Fallen series, book 1
Pub:  2009, Random house Children’sbook
Author: Lauren Kate
Cat: paranormal fiction
Format: paperback (mid); 452 pp w/ 22 chapters
Age Range: YA                                                 

            Synopsis
instant. Intense. Weirdly familiar...
    
The moment Luce looks at Daniel she knows she has never felt like this before. Except she can’t shake the feeling that she has... and with him – a boy she doesn’t remember ever setting eyes on.
    
Will her attempt to find out why enlighten her – or destroy her?

Series
[tb], Torment, Passion, Fallen in Love, Rapture,