Okay, so the other style of cover for Lover Reborn by J. R. Ward that comes out in March 2011 is... well... here, I found it on Dark Faerie Tales blog since they are having a huge read-a-long with the series, starting Jan 6th, you should go and check it all out.

anyway, what you think between the two covers?

I'm not sure, but then I like most of the covers from the first printing of the series, there like the second cover, rather than the new printed covers, mostly because the second lots turned them kinda girlish, and these books defiantly ain't girlish, not in the way a lot of romance novels are. 

Anyway, I'm not real sure what I'm going on about. still, I know that I will be getting it in the second cover because the place I order my books from gets there's from the UK, and so.... though I'm not to please because it's going to be in the fucking large size paperback, which is shit, but at least the words aren't going to be old lady large (at least I really hope not) so I can't be completely upset about it, and really, it's because I won’t be able to wait for it that I will deal. 

anyway, found it, got a little excited--not wet the pants yet, but excited all the same and I thought I'd share my love

Thanks for your times

manga review (one piece vol 1)

(Read: 2/Dec/11)

      Romance Dawn

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One Piece series, Vol 1

Pub: 1997, SHUEISHA Inc, Tokyo

Author & Art: Eiichiro Oda

Cat: pirates

Format: graphic novel, paperback (mid); 207 pp w/ 8 chapters

Age Range: YA

    Synopsis

EAST BLUE part 1

As a child Monkey D. Luffy was inspired to become a pirate by listening to the tales of the buccaneer “Red-Haired” Shanks. But his life changed when Luffy accidently ate the fruit of the Gum-Gum Tree and gained the power to stretch like rubber...at the cost of never being able to swim again! Years later, still vowing to become the king of the pirates, Luffy sets out on his adventure...one guy alone in a rowboat, in search of the legendary “One Piece,” said to be the greatest treasure in the world..

   Catch up.... I’ve been gathering and reading a bunch of reference materials to do this

Review (to tame a wolf)

He could not escape the beast within

 (re-read: 02/Dec/11)

      To Tame a Wolf

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19^th Century werewolf series, book 5

Pub: 2005,

Author: Susan Krinard

Cat: historical paranormal romance

Format: paperback (mid); 393 pp w/ 24 chapters

Whose: Sim & Tally

Age Range: adult

            Synopsis

Her innocence destroyed, young widow Tally Bernard swore that she would never trust a man again. But when her brother disappears, she has little choice but to make a pact with the devil.

     

Though he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life on a ranch of his own, Simeon Kavanaugh can’t escape the legacy of his werewolf father. The animal instincts that keep him from being fully human also make him a brilliant tracker, forced to survive on the desperation of people in need.

     

The attraction between these two wounded souls in immediate, primal – and dangerous. If Simeon has any hope of saving Tally, he must do what he has always resisted and merge both man and beast within him. But if she cannot accept what he becomes, his choice may cost Simeon the only thing worth having – Tally’s love.

     my Thoughts (review)

adding some more books to my pile!

I know that I wasn't going to, but well, slip ups happen.
the ones that I bought...

Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare, Infernal Devices series, book 1

Daughter of Darkness by Virginia Andrews

the Beholder by Connie Hall, a Nightwalkers novel

Succubus Blue by Richelle Mead, Georgina Kincaid series, book 1

Pleasure of a Dark Prince by Kresley Cole, Immortal After Dark series, book 7

I also got, borrowed them off my sister and her man, they are Manga, she loves them and since I needed something to get me threw the few hours of a night were there isn't anything on telly, and I don't particually want to read a full book. so I asked, and she let me borrow, which is great. 

I got the pic's from a ONE PIECE site. Its a Australian one. these (if you haven't guessed) are the first 6 in the series, which so far has 58 volumes, and my sister has most of them, so week by week I will most likly go threw them all.I haven't figured out how I'm going to review them, whether it be one on one or a bunch in one review. but I guess we'll see coming from next week, being that the weekends are book time.

so anyway, that's what I got. what about you?

Thanks for the time.

Let’s have some fun....

And talk about me! more interesting, about my OCD tendencies, and obsessive ways with my books, both the ones I buy and the ones that I write.

I thought of doing this because of something on... shit, I can't remember it was a while back and I haven't been able to stop thinking about it. so....

This is going to show you the inner weirdness of my mind. So I warn you before you dive in that I’m not the sainest of people. And yet, weirdly enough I think me actually sainer than most. But don’t all us crazied think that?

Okay, we start with my shelves, and the books that I buy....

Cover found

so I got this cover from Anna's Book blog and yeah, thought I would share because I can't wait till it comes out. I'm really hoping that it's the last book in the series, but really, it could be the second last I guess. anyway the story going into this one seems such a great way to end the series. if you really think about it. 

this is book 12 of the Sookie Stackhouse series by Charlaine Harris. it's due out 1st May 2012. Can't wait!

Review (Sins of the Heart)

Forbidden alliances...

Inescapable desires....

 (read: the month it came out)

      Sins of the Heart

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Otherkin series, book 1

Pub: 2010, MIRA

Author: Eve Silver

Cat: paranormal romance (Egyptian)

Format: paperback (mid); 363 pp w/ 22 chapters

Whose: Dagon & Roxy

Age Range: adult

                Synopsis

Half human, half god, Dagan Krayl is the Underworld’s most powerful soul reaper. When one of his brothers is murdered, Dagan must use every ounce of his powers to hunt down those responsible for his brutal death. But he must move swiftly – and carefully – if he’s to have any chance of resurrecting his brother.

     

Yet that resurrection could wreak havoc on the mortal world. As an Otherkin, Roxy Tam has sworn to protect the human race, and it’s her mission to stop Dagan. But when she sees him face-to-face, she realises that she has encountered him once before – a meeting that changes her life forever.

     

Neither Dagan nor Roxy expect to join forces for the sake of mankind. Or to have their loyalties tested as they struggle against the potent desire that threatens to consume them both...

      my Thoughts (review)

Review (Blood Red)

Until Death do us part...

What better place than New Orleans for a

Wild Girls—only weekend?

 (read: 29/Nov/11)

          Blood Red

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Random

Pub: 2007, MIRA

Author: Heather Graham

Cat: paranormal romance

Format: paperback (full); 341 pp w/ 19 chapters

Whose: Mark & Lauren

Age Range: adult

                Synopsis

When a fortune-teller shows bridesmaid Lauren Crow an omen of her gruesome death, she and her friends laugh it off as cheesy theatrics – until woman begin disappearing in the night.

     

As the streets become risky, Lauren finds herself lusting after a man who is dangerous, and quite possibly crazy. Mark Davidson prowls the city by night armed with crosses and holy water in search of vampires, who he insists are real. He is as irresistibly drawn to Lauren as she is to him, and not only because she’s the image of his murdered fiancée. But Mark’s frightening obsession with finding his lover’s killer merely hides a bitter vendetta that cuts deeper than grief over a lost love.

     

As Lauren wrestles with desire and disbelief, sinister shadows lengthen over New Orleans, threatening her friends and foretelling a battle that may spell the end of the city’s uneasy truce between the living and the undead.

      my Thoughts (review)

Review (the Guradian)

(read: 27/Nov/11)

Prepare to enter a world full of richly imagined mythology—a world where dark and dangerous heroes fight to protect us.

Prepare to enter an endless battle.

Prepare to lose yourself...

                The Guardian

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Dark-Hunter series, book 21

Pub: 2011, Piatkus (imprint of Little, brown Book Group)

Author: Sherrilyn Kenyon          

Cat: paranormal romance

Format: paperback (mid); 345 pp w/ 21 chapters

Whose: Seth & Lydia

Age Range: adult

                Synopsis

Dream-Hunter Lydia has been charged with the most dangerous of missions: to find the missing god of dreams before he betrays the secrets that could kill her and her kind. What she never expects is to be taken prisoner by the Nether Realm’s most vicious guardian.

Seth’s time is running out. If he can’t hand over the entrance to Olympus, his own life and those of his people will be forfeit. No matter the torture, Seth hasn’t been able to break the god in his custody. Now there’s Lydia. She isn’t just guarding the gates of Olympus, she’s holding back one of the world’s darkest powers. If she fails, an ancient curse will haunt the earth once more and no one will be safe. But evil is always seductive....

      my Thoughts (review)

Review (..guardian)

(read: 26/Nov/11)

      The Guardian

From the conclave of Patomani Indians to the floor of the Senate, evil is rising....

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Nightwalker series, book

Pub: 2011, (mills & Boon) harlequin

Author: Connie Hall

Cat: paranormal romance

Format: paperback (s); 283 pp w/ 23 chapters

Whose: Fala & Stephen

Age Range: adult

                Synopsis

Although Fala Rainwater has been anointed the next tsmishian—a shape shifter of unparalleled capacity, she can’t help getting in the way of her own destiny. When Tumsemeha is resurrected once more, a great and glorious evil comes to devour our world and hide among the corrupted bodies of Washington’s elite. Yet only one man can get Fela close to her hidden enemy....

As liaison to the government’s more secretive and supernatural sector, Agent Stephen Winter has plenty riding on Tumsemeha’s defeat. But who is he really working for? With an unreadable aura, this enigmatic warlock holds too many secrets, and Fala will need to probe their depths if she is to become the Earth’s Guardian and save mankind at its darkest hour...

      my Thoughts (review)

Review (heartless rebel)

       The Heartless Rebel                                                                                              (read: 25/Nov/11)

Jack...

Red-hot. Renegade. restless

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Bad Blood/Notorious Wolfes series, a book

Pub: 2011, (Mills & Boon) Harlequin

Author: Lynn Raye Harris

Cat: romance

Format: paperback (s); 250 pp w/ 15 chapters

Whose: Jack & Cara

Age Range: adult

                Synopsis

A notorious gambler, Jack no longer gets a buzz from the risk—or the money—he takes at the card table. In fact, it bores him. Until one night he wins more than he ever bargained for. His prize: Cara Taylor.

She might be down on her luck, but she certainly doesn’t need rescuing by a maverick card-sharp like Jack! Now she’s stuck with him, she doesn’t know whether to love him or loathe him. But, cut from the same cloth, playing Jack at his own game is the most fun she’s ever had!

      my Thoughts (review)

2 prezys left and a pile of books

Yeah, I nearly finished my Christmas shopping. got everything I'm--I really mean we--are getting for the kids, because there young enough that it doesn't matter all that much how Christmas looks that morning under the tree (next years gonna be a bitch) and I've gotten..Yeah, there's only 2 left to get and mostly because those two I can't actually get until things are worked out and Christmas is at our front door.

Also, on my walk through the shops I got some books (surprise surprise, and not only because it's what this post is saying) 

 

the first one is...

Crave  

by Melissa Darnell

 Bloodlust. Magic. Forbidden secrets.

 Forbidden to love doomed to fail

 1st book in the Clann series

The Guardian

 by Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

Dark-Hunter series, book 21

and then I have a few books to add to my simple romance books. short, sweet, and full of love and sex.

finally, I got them....

On the day after the last day in my 15 day waiting period for the books I ordered. The day with I was just about to ring up screaming (ha, like I'm that type of person) at them for the fact that they should be here and they weren't. Demand (which, so my family says, is in me) that they get here sooner rather than later. I got them, worst was that it's raining where I live. the bastard of the weather that has been lingering around for the last couple of days making me sweat a little every time I went out just in case they came and just put them on the door step where they would be drenched by the flash downpour, with help for them wind seems to like the hit over the last couple of days. 

Anyway, enough about all that crap. The crap that you most likely don't care all that much about. 

I got.... 

           Dark sins and Desert Sands

Escaping a hellish Syrian prison, U.S. serviceman Ray Stavrakis emerged with uncanny mind-control powers and an eerie ability to morph into a mythical Minotaur. As a half man, half bull, Ray had legendary power, but only one woman could prove his innocence. The woman who’d driven him to the brink of insanity with her cool-eyed interrogation and her hot-blooded sensuality.

But Vegas psychologist Layla Bahset had no memory of Ray or her past. Only a feeling of being stalked by a nonhuman predator. Was it Ray...whose eyes condemned her soul even as his hands ignited her body? Or was another evil force at work? But nothing could stop Layla from remembering what she was...and what her evil creator had planned for her and her soldier lover....

this is book 4 in Stephanie Draven's Mythica series, and was released in Oct 2011.

and..

Review (of angels & demons omnibus)

(read: 19, 20, /Nov/11)

      Of Angels and Demons omnibus   

Three enchanting stories of fallen angels...

And the demons who lure them in

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Of Angels and Demons, book 1-3

Pub: 2011, (nocturne) Mills & Boon book from Harlequin

Author: Michele Haul

Cat: paranormal romance (angels)

Format: paperback (mid); 802 pp in 3 book

Age Range: adult

                Synopsis

Angel Slayer

All her life, Eden Campbell had dreamed of angels...but none that she painted was like the fallen angel who attacked her. Eden was now to bear her attacker’s offspring—one who promised the apocalypse and foretold her death. Where else could she turn but into the arms of a mesmerizingly handsome angel slayer?

Fallen

Wanting to be a part of mankind, the angel fell—losing his halo, the prize that held his earthbound soul. Now Cooper must retrieve it. But wherever the Fallen walk, a Sinistari demon intent with slaying one if not far behind. But first encounter with her leaves him curiously hungering for more...

Ashes of angels

Cassandra Stevens had been warning of the Fallen angel who’d one day come to impregnate her with a nephilim, an evil offspring. But no one could have foreseen that Samandriel—the raven-haired, silver-winged Fallen one—would sweep her off her feet. Sam stirred her suppressed desire, yet for her own sake she dared not arouse his carnal ones...

      my Thoughts (review)

Review (angel arias)

Be safe, baby bat.

Times are dangerous...

Angel Arias                                                            (read: 19/Nov/11)

The Night Creatures seethed.  Something had been awakened in them and would not be put back to sleep.

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the night creatures trilogy, book 2

Pub: 2011, Random House Australia

Author: Marianne de Pierres

Cat: fiction

Format: paperback (mid); 264pp w/22 chapters

Age range: YA

          Synopsis

Retra—now called Naif—has escaped from Ixion, the island of ever-night. She doesn’t know if her friends on the island survived the battle between the Ripers and the rebels. But she does know that she must return home, behind the sealed walls of Grave, to find out why the Ripers have been seen there talking to the councillors. What links the two worlds?

First she must convince Ruzalia to help her. The fierce pirate captain saves those who face terrible fates on Ixion, but that doesn’t guarantee their gratitude. Instead, Ruzalia is confronted by a revolt—and Naif is caught in the middle.

Naif will need all her courage to survive. For Lenoir, who wants to keep her safe, for her friends Suki and Rollo, if they live, for Markes, who has secrets of his own, and for the new friends she will make on this journey.

The fate of worlds depend on it.

My Thoughts (review)

my sex scenes (more so a bitch)

I'm just not sure if I'm any good at writing sex scenes

The thing is that it’s not really about the sex and yet it’s everything about it. Making the scene hot, heavy, atmospheric. Light and free. It’s all about the right type of sex in the right places.

But then I’m not writing porn, so it’s also got to have a lot more in it than sex. It’s got to have emotions and suspense, even if it gets you into their pants, there just has to be something in it. Something that makes you hot along with a need to have someone love you—no , want you just as much.

I sat all this because it’s what I hope it will be like to read my book. And I think I suck at it!

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what I think

I was just watching DannyMarks volg on...

        Hari-Query--Brutal Query Smackdown 

wherein Danny talks query letters and stuff. a good place to start is agentquery.com. check 'em out!

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