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...

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...

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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.

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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

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

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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Let's Have A Chat....

since it's been awhile since I sat down and dribbled on about nothing. 

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.

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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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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

Book Chat: Discarded books #1

this is a new thing I'm going to be doing. mostly it's for me to tell you about the books that I started reading, and for whatever reason I never finished it.

Welcome to Wyldcliffe, the place that haunts my present, my past and my future.

      Immortal

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Immortal series, book 1

Pub: 2009, HarperCollins

Author: Gillian Shields

Cat: fiction (magical realism/witchcraft)

Format: paperback (mid); 360 pp w/ 50 chapters

Age Range: YA                                                 

            Synopsis

Wyldcliffe Abbey School for Young Ladies is elite, expensive, and unwelcoming. When Evie Johnson is torn from her home near the sea to become the newest scholarship student, strict teachers, snobbish students, and the oppressive atmosphere of Wildcliffe leave her drowning in loneliness.

    

Evie’s only lifeline is Sebastian, a mysterious and attractive young man she meets by chance. As Evie’s feelings for Sebastian blaze with each secret meeting, she begins to fear that he is hiding something about his past. And she is haunted by glimpses of a strange, ghostly girl—a girl who is so eerily like Evie she could be a sister. Evie is slowly drawn into a tangle web of past and present that she cannot control. As the extraordinary, elemental forces of Wyldcliffe rise up like the mighty sea, Evie is faced with an astounding truth about Sebastian, and her own incredible fate.

Series

[tb], Betrayal, Eternal, Destiny