REVIEW (laughing corpse)

The older the zombie, the bigger the death needed to raise it.

      The laughing Corpse

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Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, series, book 2

Pub: 1994, Headline

Author: Laurell K. Hamilton

Cat: paranormal fiction

Format: paperback (mid); 340 pp w/ 40 chapters

Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis

After a few centuries, the only death ‘big enough’ is a human sacrifice. I know because I’m an animator. My name is Anita Blake.

Working for Animators, Inc. is just a job—like selling insurance. But all the money in the world wasn’t enough for me to take on the particular job Harold Gaynor was offering.

Somebody else did, though—a rouge animator. Now he’s not just raising the dead... he’s raising Hell. And it’s up to me to stop it.

     my Thoughts (review)

Review (blood)

Life • Death • Destiny

      Blood

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Mercian Trilogy, book 1

Pub: 2011, Egmont

Author: K. J. Wignall

Cat: paranormal fiction

Format: paperback (mid); 278 pp w/ 26 chapters

Age Range: YA                                                 

            Synopsis

I do not remember being bitten. I wish I did, for then I would know the creature who did this to me and I would have a purpose, to track him down and repay him for the poisoned gift he gave me.

Will was once destined to be Earl of Mercia, although he never lived to inherit his title, struck down by a strange sickness at the age of sixteen. Yet despite his death—and burial—Will is far from dead.

His lonely life, a never-ending cycle of dealing with whatever the present day throws at him, always searching for answers to his existence, but never finding any before the long sleep claims him again.

Until now.

This time Will’s destiny awaits, but so do his enemies. After centuries of solitude, his fact is close at hand, but it is not something he can face alone...

     my Thoughts (review)

Twilight's Winter (SS#1)

The story that would have happened is someone else wrote the book!

i.e. me!

Twilight’s winter

1. Returning home

Never in my life would I think to be sitting here, waiting. Yep, the ass—which is my overly forgetful father, funny though he’s Sheriff, can you guess how smart the rest of the police force is here.

   I can’t believe this was happening, sitting here, in the cold, crappy fogged up day waiting for a man that was never going to come. Not any time soon. I couldn’t think of anything that could happen that would be worse.

   And of course, the clouds opened up. ‘Cause I couldn’t be anything more than in a crappy B rated movie. Shit, this was a shitty way to end a crappy six months.

REVIEW (lover eternal)

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. 

....Possessed by a deadly beast, Rhage is the most dangerous of the Black Dagger Brotherhood...

      Lover Eternal

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Black Dagger Brotherhood series, book 2

Pub: 2006, Piatkus

Author: J. R. Ward

Cat: paranormal romance

Format: paperback (sm); 453 pp w/ 51 chapters

Whose: Rhage & Mary

Age Range: adult

            Synopsis

Within the brotherhood, Rhage is the best fighter, the quickest to act on his impulses, and the most voracious lover – for inside him burns a ferocious curse. Possessed by this dark side, Rhage fears the times when his inner dragon is unleashed, making him a danger to everyone around him.

    

Mary Luce, a survivor of many hardships, in unwittingly thrown into the vampire world and is reliant on Rhage’s protection. With a life-threatening curse of her own, Mary is not looking for love. But when Rhage’s intense animal attraction turns into something more emotional, he knows that he must make Mary his alone. And while their enemies close in, Mary fights desperately to gain life eternal with the one she loves...

     my Thoughts (review)

REVIEW (poisoned kisses)

From the heights of Mount Olympus to the depths of the underworld...

(62) (read: 12/Jan/12)

      Poisoned Kisses

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Mythica series, book 3

Pub: 2010, (Mills & Boon) Harlequin

Author: Stephanie Draven

Cat: paranormal romance

Format: paperback (s); 229 pp w/ 25 chapters

Whose: Kyra & Marco

Age Range: adult

            Synopsis

As daughter of the war Ares, Kyra had been born into darkness—a darkness she’d vowed to annihilate. Just as she would destroy the notorious Greek arms dealer Marco Kaisiris for feeding the bloodlust she despised.

Kyra planned to use her nymph’s carnal powers to seduce him, then slay him. But she wasn’t prepared for Marco’s secret weapon—his poisoned blood that could kill her. She’d fallen for the only being who could destroy her...yet, how could she spend eternity without him?

     my Thoughts (review)                                      [isn’t the nicest review]

ONE PIECE vol 56-60

Unstoppable  to My Little Brother

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One Piece series, Vols 54—60 

Pub: SHUEISHA Inc, Tokyo

Author & Art: Eiichiro Oda

Cat: pirates

Format: graphic novel, paperback; chapters 523 to 594

Age Range: YA

    Synopsis

SABAODY Part 3

IMPEL DOWN Part 1

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....

UNSTOPPABLE

With his brother Ace locked up in the Naval prison Impel Down, Luffy doesn’t have much time to rescue him before his imminent execution. While he may have found a way to sneak into the maximum-security prison, finding Ace isn’t going to be as easy. But a chance reunion with some former enemies just might be a blessing in disguise!

REVEIW (guilty pleasures)

I don’t date vampires. I kill them

      Gulty Pleasures

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Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, series, book 1

Pub: 1993, Headline

Author: Laurell K. Hamilton

Cat: paranormal fiction

Format: paperback (mid); 327 pp w/ 48 chapters

Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis

My name is Anita Blake. Vampires call me the Executioner. What I call them isn’t repeatable.

Ever since the Supreme Court granted the undead equal rights, most people think vampires are just ordinary folks with fangs. I know better. I’ve seen their victims. I carry the scars.

But now a serial killer is murdering vampires—and the most powerful bloodsucker in town wants me to find the killer.

     my Thoughts (review)

REVIEW (dark desire after dark)

A tale of ancient guilt and immortal passion—and a soul desperate for redemption at any cost. 

 (first read: 26/June/11)

      Dark Desire after Dusk

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Immortal After Dark series, book 5

Pub: 2008, Simon & Schuster

Author: Kresley Cole

Cat: Paranormal Romance

Format: paperback (mid); 368 pp w/ 51 chapters

Whose: Cadeon & Holly

Age Range: Adult

                Synopsis

Nine hundred years ago, one careless act by Cadeon of the Rage Demons killed his entire family and destroyed a kingdom. Now nothing will stop him from atoning for the wrong that eternally haunts him. but the key to his redemption is the halfling Holly Ashwin, and once he captures her, Cadeon finds that the woman he thought he could use for his own ends haunts him as much as his dark past.

      

Raised as a human, Holly doesn’t know that some legends are real until she encounters a brutal demon who kidnaps her and then inexplicably guards her like a treasure. Thrust into a sensual new world of myth and power, she begins to crave Cadeon’s wicked touch, even as she knows she should fear him.

    

Yet just when he earns Holly’s trust, will Cadeon be forced to betray the only woman who can sate his wildest needs – and claim his heart?

      my Thoughts (review) 

REVIEW (drink,slay,love)

Love Hurts

 (07/Jan/12)

      Drink, Slay, Love

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Stand alone

Pub: 2011, Allen & Unwin

Author: Sarah Beth Durst

Cat: paranormal fiction

Format: paperback (mid); 386 pp w/ 32 chapters

Age Range: YA                                                 

            Synopsis

Pearl is a sixteen-year-old vampire, fond of blood, allergic to sunlight, and mostly evil.... until the night a sparkly unicorn stabs her through the heart with his horn. Oops.

Her family thinks she was attacked by a vampire hunter (because, obviously, unicorns don’t exist). They’re shocked she survived. They’re ever more shocked when Pearl discovers she can now withstand the sun. But they quickly find a way to make use of her new talent. The vampire King of New England has chosen Pearl’s family to host his feast. If Pearl enrols in high school, she can make lots of human friends and lure them to the king’s feast—as the entrees.

The only problem? Pearl’s starting to feel the twinges of a conscience. How can she serve up her new friends—especially the cute guy who makes her fangs ache—to be slaughtered? Then again, she’s definitely dead if she lets down her family. What’s a sunlight-loving vamp to do?

     my Thoughts (review)

more pought books

yeah, so I bought 2 more books.

Blood by K J Wignall, b1, Mercian trilogy

Drink Slay Love, Sarah Beth Durst

so thats it

Thanks for the time

REVIEW (dark lover)

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.

....Among them, none relished killing their enemies more than Wrath, the leader of the brotherhood.

                  Dark Lover

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Black Dagger Brotherhood series, book 1

Pub: 2005, Piatkus

Author: J. R. Ward

Cat: paranormal romance

Format: paperback (sm); 458 pp w/ 56 chapters

Whose: Wrath & Beth

Age Range: adult

            Synopsis

The only pure-bred vampire left on the planet, Wrath has a score to settle with the slayers who murdered his parents’ centuries ago. But when one of his most trusted fighters is killed – orphaning a half-breed daughter unaware of her heritage of her fate – Warth must usher the beautiful female into the world of the undead...

    

Racked by a restlessness in her body that wasn’t there before, Beth Randell is helpless against the dangerous sexy man who comes to her at night with shadows in his eyes. His touch ignites a dawning hunger that threatens to consume them both....

     my Thoughts (review)

My small plans

It has always been in my head that I would review my big series just before the new ones came out. Its how I had thought to do it well, and to make the one I’m up against something different, but I always thought that I would just bulk review it when I had my hands on the next book in the series.

But then I stumbled onto a blog that was going to be doing a book review thing, I’m really not sure what it’s called anymore, but I got interested—mostly because I’m a fan of the context they are going to be reading. But I thought it a good idea, since I have 3 major series that I wanted to get out and review for you all, and so I’m going to be doing that, along with a few others that are also coming out, and I haven’t quite posted their old books reviews, even though I really wanted to.

My thoughts, and I don’t have many, is as followed.....

Why I LOVE ‘One Piece’ #2

It’s been 25 volumes already?! Wow time goes by when you’re having fun! And that’s exactly what we have been having, fun, fun, fun!

So this one I was going to talk about the way its draw and the fight scene are because they are another reason I like the series. But first we should recap a little, or at least catch up to place.

1.       Luffy has a new power level. It’s great, but it can have some funny drawbacks if he uses it to much.

2.     The bounties of the crew are in: Luffy 300 million Berries. Zolo 120 million Berries. Robin 80 million Berries. Nami 16 million Berries. Usopp 30 million Berries. Chopper 50 Berries. Sanji (picture not included) 77 million Berries. Franky 44 million Berries.

ONE PIECE 46-53

Adventure on Ghost Island

To Natural Born King

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One Piece series, Vols 46—53

Pub: SHUEISHA Inc, Tokyo

Author & Art: Eiichiro Oda

Cat: pirates

Format: graphic novel, paperback; chapters 441 to 522

Age Range: YA

    Synopsis

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....

ADVENTURE ON GHOST ISLAND

When the Strw Hats encounter a mysterious barrel on the open sea, little do they know that it’s a trap. Losing control of their ship, they’re steered toward Thriller Bark.

Any rational sailor would think twice before going ashore on an island full of zombies. But with Luffy at the helm, the Straw Hats are in for a scare as they become the targets of the dreaded Gecko Moria!

I joined.....

This challenge comes from Heaven, Hell & Purgatory, it's a challenge to read all the books that you wished to read in the previous years and for one reason or another you didn't. 

The goal is to read one, and review it on the day of the month. To me it seems a clean your shelf thing and something that I wanted to get myself into anyway, so why not just join. That too, and this works well with my New Years resolution (which is to join the community of reviewers, even if I don't see myself as an actual reviewer) anyway, you want to learn more about this challenge, or what it reall is about, since I can be vague when I think I'm totally clear, click here

 my 'tentative' book list 

Ashes by I. J. Bick

Beauty Queen by Libba Bray

Seducing the Vampire by Gena Showalter

Come the Night by Susan Krinard

Fallen 2 by Thomas E. Sniegoski

Past Midnight by Mara Purnhagen

Poltergeist by Kat Richardson

Haunted Heart by Tania Donald

Spellbound by Cara Lynn Schultz

Darren Shan, Vampire Blood tri

Lonely Were Wolf Girl &

Curse of the Lonely Were Wolf Girl by Martin Miller

so there they are, the list of books I've had collecting dust until they were alson unseeable, and its' the list I will get threw by the end of the year.

   Thanks for the time
 

my new series (I'm writing)

So, it's just hit me that I started this blog to talk about the books that I'm writing! you know show the world and all that crap, get people interested (not that I ever really believed that people would be—but hey, it's my friggin' blog I can post what I want, and this is what I wanted to do with it) but I have been slacking, in all ways, mostly because I'm been slacking in writing lately.

Anyway, I started this new series, mostly because I’m be reading ‘One Piece’ and things that I get overly obsessed with turn themselves into books for me (I’ve never been all that original). Anyway, because of ONE PIECE my mind started, and what came from it was this.....

 

Behind the sense of The Wrath of Underwood

Okay, so this is what I do from the very start of creating a novel/series. It’s the thing I think about and when I do it. It’s all the problems I face and everything in between. All this will be done when I write this and no other time, so you will be able to see the gaps that I have when writing a book, and just the way things go. this is so you can see what I do and how I work when it comes to a novel

Book Shelf

Hi, I'm Bronwyn & this is what's on my book shelf

Highlighted are links to my reviews on these books

Link here for the reviews not on my shelf

Young Adult

Ilsa J. Bick

Ashes


Libba Bray

Beauty Queens

Kristin Cashore, Seven Kingdom trilogy

Graceling, Fire

waitng on: Bitterblue, 2012

Rachel Caine, the Morganville Vampire series

Glass Houses, the Dead Grils' Dance,

P.C & Kirstin Cast, House of Night series

 

Marked, Betrayed, Chosen, Untamed, Hhunted, Tempted, Burned, Awaken

out: Destined,

waiting on: Neferet's Curse, '12

Immortal edited by P.C Cast

Zombies vs. Unicorns

edited by Justine Laebalestier & Holly Black

Cassandra Clare, Mortal Instrument series

City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass
need: City of Fallen Angels
waitng on: City of Lost Souls, 2012

Infernal Divices series

Clockwork Angel,
need: Clockwork Prince
waiting: Clockwork Princeess


Andrea Cremer, Nightshade series

Nightshade, Wolfsbane
waiting on: Bloodrose, Jan 2012

Jordan Dane

In the Arms of Stone Angels

Melissa Darnell, Clann series

Crave,
waiting on: Covet, 2012

Alex Duval, Vampire Beach seires

Bloodlust & Intitiation, Ritual & Legace, Highstakes & Hunted

C. C. Hunter, Shadow fall series

Born at Midnight
waiting on: Awaken at Dawn

Christine Johnson, Claire de Lune series

Claire de Lune, Nocturne
waiting:

Sherrilyn Kenyon, Chronicles of Nick series

Infinity, Invincible

waiting: Infamous, Mar 2012

Celine Kiernan, Moorehawke Trilogy

the Posion Throne, the Crowded Shadow & the Rebel Prince

Richelle Mead, Vampire Academy series

Vampire Academy, Frostbite, Shadow Kiss, Blood Promise

rest: Spirit Bound & Last Sacrifice
new series: Bloodline

Jana Oliver, the Demon trapper series

Forsaken, Fobidden
waitng on: Forgiven, Feb 2012

Lisa Papademetriou

Siren's Strom
wating on: Fury's Fire,

Marianne de Pierres, Night Creature series

Burn Bright, Angel Aries,

wating on: Blaze Dark


Mara Purnhagen, Past Midnight series

Past Midnight,

Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson series

Percy Jackson and the Lightning Theif,

Veronica Roth

Divergent

waiting: Insurgent, May 2011

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter series

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Chamber of Secrets, Prisoner of Azkaban, Goblet of Fire,
Order of the Phoenix, Half-Blood Prince & Deathly Hallows

Cara Lynn Shultz

Spellbound

L. J. Smith, Night World series

Secret Vampire, Daughter of Darkness, Enchantress, Dark Angel, the Chosen, Soulmate, Huntress, Black Dawn, Witchlight

waiting on: Strange Fate, 2014

Thomas E. Sniegoski, Fallen series

the fallen & Leviatan, Aerie & Reckoning,

waiting on: End of Days

Maria V. Snyder, Study Trilogy

Poison Study, Magic Study & Fire Study

L. A. Weatherly, Angel trilogy

Angel (angel burn), Angel Fire,

waitng on: Angel Fever, 2012

Daniel Waters, Generation Dead trilogy

Generation Dead, Kiss of Life & Strange Fate

ADULTS

Heart of Darkness

Night's Edge
 
Mammoth book of...

Vampire Romanc, Love Bite, Paranormal Romance 1 & 2

Jennifer Armintrout

A Vampire's Penance

Stephanie Chong

Where  Demons Fear to Tread,
wating: Demoness of Walking Dreams, Feb 2012

Kresley Cole, Immortal After Dark series

a hunger like no Other, No Rest for the Wicked, Wicked Deeds in a Winter's Night, Dark needs at Night's Edge, Dark Desire after Dust, Kiss of a Demon King, Pleasure of a Dark Prince, Demon from the Dark, Dreams of a Dark Warrior

waiting on: Lothaire, Jan 2012

Christine Feehan, Leopard People series

Fever, Burning Wild, Wild Fire, Savage Nature

waiting on: 

Colleen Gleason, Regency Dracula trilogy

the Vampire Voss, the Vampire Dimitri, the Vampire Narcise

Laurell K. Halmlton, Anita Blake Vampire Hunter series

Guilty Pleasures, the Laughing Corpse, Circus of the Damned, the Lunatic Cafe, Bloody Bones,

the Killer Dance, Burnt Offerings, Blue Moon, Obsidian Butterfly, Narcissus in Chains, Cerulean Sins, Incubus Dreams, Micha, Danse Macabre, the Harlequin, Blood Noir, Skin Trade, Flirt, Bullet, Hit List

waiting on: Dead Sexy, June 2012

Charline Harris, Sookie Stackhouse series

Dead until Dark, Living Dead in Dallas, Club Dead, Dead to the World, Dead as a Doornail, Defiantly Dead, All Together Dead, From Dead to Worse, Dead and Gone, Dead in the Family, Dead Reckoning

a Touch of Dead

waitin on: Deadlocked, May 2012

Meagan Hatfield

Shadow of a Vampire

Sherrilyn Kenyon, Dark Hunter series

Fantasy Lover, Night Pleasures, Night Embrace, Dance with the Devil, Kiss of the Night, Night Play, 

Seize the Night, Sins of the Night, Unleashed the Night, Dark Side of the Moon, the Dream-Hunter, 

Devil May Cry, Upon the Midnight Clear, Dream Chaser, Acheron, One Silent Night, Dream Warrior, 

Bad Moon Rising, No Mercy,*, The Guardian,

need: Redemption 
waiting on:  Time Untime, Aug 2012

Sherrilyn Kenyon & Dianna Love, Belador series

Blood Trinity, Alterant,

waiting on: Cathbad's Curse, Oct 2012

Susan Krinard

To Tame A Wolf, Bride of the Wolf, Luck of the Wolf

Chasing Midnight, Dark of the Moon & Come the Night

Laurie London, Sweetblood series

Bonded by Blood, Embraced by Blood

need:  Hidden by Blood*
waiting on: Tempted by Blood, 2012

Maggie Shayne, Wings of Night series

Twilight Phantasies, Twilight Illusions, Born in Twilight, Twilight Hunger, Embrace the Twilight, 

Edge of Twilight, Prince of Twilight, Bloodline, Twilight Prophecy, Twilight Fufilled,

waiting on:

Gena Showalter

Atlantis series

Heart of the Dragon, Jewel of Atlantis, the Nymph King, Vampire Bride & Amazon Curse

Alien Huntress series

Enslave Me Sweetly, Seduce the Darkness

Lords of the Underworld series

 

the darkest Kiss, the Darkest Pleasure, Into the Dark, the Darkest Whisper, the Darkest Passion,
the Darkest Lie, the Darkest secret, the Darkest Surrender,
waiting on: the Darkest Seduction,  Feb '12


J.R. Ward
Black Dagger Brotherhood series

 

 

Dark Lover, Lover Eternal, Lover Awakened, Lover Revealed, Lover Unbound, Lover Enshrined,
Insiders Guide, Lover Avenged, Lover Mine, Lover Unleashed
waiting on: Lover Reborn, March 2012

Fallen Angel series

 Covet, Crave, Envy
waiting on: Rapture, Sept 2012

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