Book chat: Old School (ish) #1

Where I talk about the old book I have sitting on my shelf

(And I’m talking both old as in dated and old as in had then since I was a teen)

 

Every story from Uncanny, Unbearable and Unmentionable

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Uncollected volume two

Series: omnibus

Pub:  1999, Viking (Penguin books Australia)

Author: Paul Jennings

Genre: fiction

Format: Hardback (lar); 399pp

Age Range: Middle Grade

            Synopsis

‘For most of his readers, choosing between Paul Jennings’s books is like having to pick their favourite chocolate cake.’

Challenge magazine

Others by

Uncollected 3 Wicked!

Diary book, the Naked Ghost, Unreal!, Quickly Tails!, Unbelievable!, Uncanny!, Unmentionable!, Undone!, Uncovered!, Unseen!, Tongue-tied!

ANZAC DAY

 

A national day of remembrance for Australian, New Zealand (and a few other nations)

Every year we honour the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who fought at Gallipoli in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

REVIEW, Bood Noir

The Ardeur made me a sort of living vampire who fed off sex, but with the downside came some interesting upsides

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Blood Noir

Series: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, book 16

Pub: 2008, Headline

Author: Laurell K. Hamilton

Cat: paranormal fiction

Format: paperback (mid); 396 pp w/ 47 chapters

Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis

Jason is a werewolf. He’s one of my best friends and sometimes a lover. And right now he needs me, Anita Blake—not to be a vampire hunter, or a federal Marshall, or a necromancer, but because his father is dying. I can help make him look like an everyday guy, help him say goodbye to the abusive father he’s never loved. How hard can it be?

Really, by now, you’d think I’d know better. Because this is the weekend that Marmee Noir, ancient mother of all vampires, picks to make her move. I’ve got something she wants—and now she’s going to take it.

REVIEW, Dead Reckoning

There’s a reckoning on the way....

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Dead Reckoning

Series: Southern Vampire series, book 11

Pub: 2011, Gollancz

Author: Charlaine Harris

Cat: paranormal fiction (mystery)

Format: paperback (lar); 325 pp w/ 17 chapters

Age Range: Adults                                           

            Synopsis

Sookie Stackhouse is a cocktail waitress in Bon Temps, Louisiana. It’s a job which has its own challenges, but now the vampires and the shapeshifters are finally ‘out’, you’d think the supernaturals would get on with each other. But nothing is that simple in Bon Temps!

    

...and Sookie has a knack for being in trouble’s way; not least when she witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte’s, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is known to be two-natured, suspicion immediately falls on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but before she can investigate something else – something even more dangerous – comes up.

    

Sookie’s lover Eric Northman and his ‘child’ Pam are plotting something in secret. Whatever it is, they seem determined to keep Sookie out of it; almost as determined as Sookie is to find out what’s going on. She can’t sit on the sidelines when both her work and her love life are under threat – but as their plans gradually become clear Sookie finds the situation is deadlier than she could ever have imagined.

REVIEW, Fat Vampire

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Fat Vampire: a never coming of age story

Series: --

Pub: 2010, Balzer + Bray (HarperCollins)

Author: Adam Rex

Genre: paranormal fiction

Format: paperback (mid); 324pp w/ 37 chapters

Age Range: YA

            Synopsis

DOUG LEE is undead quite by accident—attacked by a desperate vampire, he finds himself cursed with being fat and fifteen forever. When he has no luck finding some Goth chick with a vampire fetish, he resorts to sucking the blood of cows under cover of the night. But it’s just not the same.

Then he meets the new Indian exchange student and falls for her—hard. Yeah, he wants to bite her, but he also wants to prove himself to her. But like the laws of life, love, and high school, the laws of vampire existence are complicated—it’s not as easy as studying Dracula. Especially when the star of Vampire Hunters is hot on your trail in an attempt to boost ratings....

Searing, hilarious, and always unexpected, FAT VAMPIRE is a satirical tour de force from one of the most original writers of fiction today.

In Motion 2.7

Starting paragraph

“So...” Jo said a little reluctantly, he didn’t want to be the person to do this to her, even though he was pissed. Yet, he knew, it wasn’t her fault, and if she held some sorta of humanity to her brain, getting Addy killed wasn’t going to go down well, and Jo was sick of people hurting because of stupidly and wanting to believe in something that just wasn’t true, and more so when it was thrown in their faces time and time again.

Body of Darkness, book 1, pages 31

Book Chat: Insiders Guide & Other # 2

So this one is going to run a little different, because it’s all the novella’s that come with the Lords of the Underworld series

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Into the Dark

Pub: 2010, HQN books

Author: Gena Showalter

Cat: insider guide (para-romance)

Format: paperback (mid); 394pp

Age Range: adults                                            

  

            The back says

Three otherworldly tales from the master of paranormal romance....

And a brand-new Lords of the Underworld bonus guide!

    THE DARKEST FIRE

    A Lords of the Underworld prequel

Geryon is the guardian of hell, more monster than man. Cadence is the goddess of Oppression, more angel than woman. Together they will enter the flames to battle a dangerous horde of demon lords—and discover a passion unlike any other.

THE AMAZON’S CURSE

A tale of Atlantis

Zane, a fierce vampire warrior, has been enslaved by the Amazons. Nola, a lovely Amazon soldier, has been cursed with invisibility. Now, these two stubborn enemies must overcome the past that haunt them and embrace a love that can set them free...

THE DARKEST PRISON

A Lords of the Underworld Tale

Once, Atlas, the Titan god of Strength, was the Greek goddess Nike’s slave. Now, he is her master. And soon these sworn rivals destined to destroy each other will be forced to risk everything for a chance at love....

Series

The darkest fire, The darkest Night, [tb], the darkest pleasure, the darkest prison, the darkest whisper, the darkest Angel, the darkest passion, the darkest lie, the darkest Secret, the darkest Surrender, the darkest Seduction,

Book Chat: Hadn’t the Pleasure # 2

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

A seductive magic mirror lies hidden deep in a demon’s lair, with a simple warning: don’t stare at the glass...

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Shadowglass

Series: Shadowfae Chronicles, book 2

Pub:  2010, St. Martin Griffin

Author: Erica Hayes

Genre: fairy fiction

Format: paperback (mid); 342pp w/ 30 chapters

Whose: Ice & Indigo

Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis

Ice is a troubled fairy trying her best to survive in the squalid underworld of the Sadowfae. When she spends a hot night with a demon lord, she discovers a powerful magic mirror in his lair—and pilfers it, knowing it’s the key to escaping her bleak life as a two-bit con artist. But Ice soon discovers that the mirror’s power comes with a price: madness, which is slowly overtaking her.

Indigo oozes darkness, danger, and tempting sensuality. He’s been sent to destroy Ice and bring the mirror back to its rightful owner; a mission that, if he fails, will cost him his life. But when he meets Ice, he faces an even greater challenge: an insatiable sexual hunger that neither of them can deny, and dark passions that threaten to claim them both forever. The trouble is, the longer he stays within the mirror’s reach, the greater its hold on his sanity—and the stronger his determination to save Ice. 

Series

Hellcursed, Shadowfae, [tb], Poison Kissed, Blood Cursed,

REVIEW, Rough, Raw, and Ready

Torn between the love he has....and the love he’s always wanted.

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Rough, Raw, and Ready

Series: Rough Riders, book 5

Pub:  2009, Samhain publishing

Author: Lorelei James

Genre: western romance

Format: paperback (lar); 278pp w/ 31 chapters

Whose: Chassie, Trevor & Edgard

Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis

Chassie West Glanzer hasn’t been a stranger to drama and tragedy. A year of wedded bliss to sexy-as-sin cowboy Trevor Glanzer has brought her the happiness and contentment she never thought she’d find, and mellowed Trevor’s rodeo wanderlust. The Trevor’s old roping partner ambles up the driveway—and Chassie’s life changes drastically.

Trevor never expected to see Edgard Mancuso again, after it became clear he couldn’t be the man Edgard needed. Now Edgard is back from Brazil to sort out their tangles past, and Trevor is plagued with feelings he thought he’d buried over three years ago. Although Trevor is hat-over-bootheels in love with his sweet, feisty wife, the sense his life is missing a piece has always gnawed at him.

Chassie’s shock that Edgard and Trevor were once lovers turns to fear of losing her husband. Or worse, fear that Trevor will stay with her only out of a sense of duty. Yet as the three of them spend time together, the sins of the past blur and fade, leaving raw emotion—and unbridled passion.

Passion that could heal...or cause irreparable damage to their future.

Warning: this book contains unbelievably explicit sex, including multiple cowboy/cowgirl/cowboy ménage scenes, juicy, hot, male on male action, a bucketful of politically incorrect situations and true Western ideology.

REVIEW, The Harlequin

They will play with us, then destroy us...they are what we fear in the dark

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The Harlequin

Series: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, book 15

Pub: 2007, Headline

Author: Laurell K. Hamilton

Cat: paranormal fiction

Format: paperback (mid); 481 pp w/ 47 chapters

Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis

The first warning is unexpected, calculated. The second warning is a gift: a plain white mask, carefully wrapped. But white is good—white means we are only being watched.

It seems the power that connects me, Anita Blake, with Jean-Claude, Vampire Master of the City, and Richard, leader of the werewolves, is attracting very unwelcome attention—from creatures so feared no vampire will willingly speak their name. They are known as the Harlequin, and they have the authority to pass judgement upon me.

It is forbidden to speak of the Harlequin unless you’ve been contracted. And to be contracted is to face a sentence of death.

REVIEW, Heaven Sent

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Heaven Sent: includes Heaven and Purgatory

Series: Heaven Sent, book 1 & 2

Pub:  2006, Looseld

Author: Jet Mykles

Genre: erotic romance

Format: paperback (mid); 310pp

Whose: Tyler & Johnnie / Lucas & Reese

Age Range: adult

 

        Synopsis

HEAVEN Desperate to save his family’s hotel, Tyler sinks his hopes and what’s left of his money into a new venture: a nightclub at the hotel. Everything rides on The White Room’s success—without it the hotel will go under. Tyler’s nervous, but Lady Luck smiles on him, in the form of mega-popular rock band Heaven Sent signing on to play at the club.    Tyler’s a huge fan of the group, but even so, he’s not prepared at all to come face-to-face with the painfully gorgeous lead-singer, Johnnie Heaven. But, the bomb that goes off in his brain can’t be lust. Sure, Johnnie’s probably the most beautiful person he’s ever seen, but Tyler is straight. It has to be a misguided form of hero worship that he’s feeling—has to.     When Johnnie learns that Tyler shares his obsession with video games, he invites Tyler to his room to play. Of course, Tyler jumps at the chance. Who wouldn’t snap up the opportunity to spend time with his idol? He and Johnnie have a great time together, but Tyler soon discovers that Johnnie aims to introduce Tyler to a whole new level of game play.

PURGATORY Tall and sleek with gorgeous red hair and deep, dark eyes to drown in, it’s no wonder that famous bass player, Lucas Sloane, stars in so many dewy-eyed teenager’s dreams.    Reese used to be one of those teens—back when Heaven Sent was the house band for the local club, Purgatory. Back then, it was easy to get to know Luc, even become friends with him. But he took it too far, worked up the courage to confess his love to Luc—only to be soundly rejected.    Now, six years later, Luc’s back in town for a visit and more gorgeous than ever. Much to Rees’s surprise, Luc not only apologizes for the way he treated Reese, he also comes onto him! Seems Luc’s discovered the pleasure of being with a man and wants to know what it’s be like between the two of them.    But Reese can’t. He just can’t. He lives the straight and narrow. He teaches high school math. He’s got a girlfriend. A normal life. He can’t be gay. Of course, it’s really very hard to deny the man who defines beautiful to Reese’s artistic mind.

POSTED #7

When Pleasure Rules, J. K. Beck

Enemy Lover, Karin Harlow

Heaven Sent, Jet Mykles

Rough, Raw, And Ready, Lorelei James

Late addition

Vampire Knight, vol 8 & 9, Matsuri Hino

REVIEW, the shadow Wolf

Vanak turns up the heat in this scintillating romance in which sworn enemies become lovers....

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The Shadow Wolf

Series: Khamsin, book 10

Pub: 2011, Mills & Boon (harlequin)

Author: Bonnie Vanak

Genre: paranormal romance

Format: paperback (sm); 229pp w/ 24 chapters

Whose: Megan & Gabriel

Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis

On the run from authorities, gutsy Megan Moraine knows shadow wolves like herself have no place in this world. But she’s still prepared to do anything to protect her young charges. That resolve is tested when the trio are captured by Gabriel Ronichaux.

Everyone knows Gabriel is a ruthless bounty hunter, a member of an elite group called the Enforces. Why then is Megan so attracted to her enemy—a wolf who hunts his own people? A wolf whose languid, sexy drawl makes her dream the impossible.

REVIEW, Dead in the Family

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Dead in the Family

Series: Southern Vampire series, book 10

Pub: 20010, Gollancz

Author: Charlaine Harris

Cat: paranormal fiction (mystery)

Format: paperback (lar); 311 pp w/ 14 chapters

Age Range: Adults                                           

            Synopsis

If you think your relationships are complicated, think again: you haven’t seen anything like the ones in Bon Temps, Louisiana. Sookie Stackhouse is dealing with a whole host of family problems, ranging from her own kin (a non-human fairy and telepathic second cousin) demanding a place in her life, to her lover Eric’s vampire sire, an ancient being who arrives with Eric’s ‘brother’ in tow at a most inopportune moment. And Sookie’s tracking down a distant relation of her ailing neighbour (and ex), Vampire Bill Compton.

    

In addition to the multitude of family complicating her life, the werewolf pack of Shreveport has asked Sookie for a special favour, and since Sookie is an obliging young woman, she agrees. But this favour for the wolves has dire results for Sookie, who is still recovering from the trauma of her abduction during the Fairy War.

REVIEW, blaze2in1

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Long Surrender.... & Long Slow Burn

Series: omnibus (Blaze 2in1)

Pub:  2011, Mills & boon (Harlequin)

Author(s): Kathleen O’Reilly / Isabel Sharpe

Genre: contemporary romance

Format: paperback (sm); 439pp w/ 34 chapters

Whose: Edie & Tyler / Kim & Nathan

Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis

Just Surrender.....

Straitlaced surgeon Tyler Malone hops into a cab at JFK....and goes on the ride of his life! fly-by-night cabbie Edie Higgins takes him on an all-night New York City adventure involving a flat tire, a strip club and diner food. Oh, and a mind-blowing romp in a notoriously naughty hotel!

So when Edie offers to become Tyler’s love sensei, he agrees. Especially since she’s a very hands-on teacher. They couldn’t be more different, but they’re about to learn a lesson: to just surrender. Everything....

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Long Slow Burn

Kim Horton desperately hopes eDating will find her the man of her dreams. Because lately, she’s been distracted by her increasingly sexy roommate...and that’s just trouble!

Nathan Alexander has something of a reputation for beer, girls, and late nights. But, he’s been into his roommate Kim for years. Now he’ll have to get her attention, and keep it—one hot, burning night at a time....

     [CHECKING E-MALES]

In Motion 2.6

Starting Paragraph

The Inn was something out of a picture book, the kind you’d show your grandchildren to make sure they would never go into an abandoned house again. And yet, it was lively, and had one of the greatest atmospheres Ad had ever felt from inside a restaurant before.

Body of Darkness, book 1, page 27

Bought # 7

Fifty Shades of Grey, b1, E. L. James

Just Surrender... & Long Slow Burn (blaze 2in1) Kathleen O'Reilly & Isabel Sharpe

Rush of Darkness, b?, Rhyannon Byrd

the Shadow Wolf, Bonnie Vanak

MANGA Review, Vampire Knight (vol 6&7)

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Vampire Knight vol 6 & 7

Pub: Chuang Yi

Story & Art: Matsuri Hino

Cat: *think about it*

Format: graphic novel, paperback; 25^th Night to 34^th Night

Rated: T+ [of older teens]

    Synopsis

Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students: the Day Class and the Night Class. At twilight, when the students of the Day Class return to their dorm, they cross paths with the Night Class on their way to school. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the Guardians of the school, protecting the Day Class from the Academy’s dark secret: the Night Class is full of vampires!

Yuki sneaks into an exclusive vampire party and sees Aido’s parents introducing their daughter to Kananme. They, like many other Night Class parents, desire an alliance with the pureblood. Kaname is the most eligible bachelor in vampire society—but will he choose Yuki?

REVIEW, the Darkest Pleasure

He can bear any pain but the thought of losing her...

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The Darkest Pleasure

Series: Lords of the Underworld series, book 3

Pub: 2008, Thorndike Press USA

Author: Gena Showalter

Cat: paranormal romance

Format: paperback (sm); 374 pp w/ 27 chapters

Whose: Reyes (Keeper of Pain) & Danika

Age Range: adult

            Synopsis

Reyes is a man possessed. Bound by the demon of pain, he is forbidden to know pleasure. Yet he craves a mortal woman. Danika Ford, more than breath and will do anything to claim her – even defy the gods.

    

Danika is on the run. For months she’s eluded the Lords of the Underworld, immortal warriors who won’t rest until she and her family have been destroyed. But her dreams are haunted by Reyes, the warrior whose searing touch she can’t forget. Yet a future together could mean death to all they both hold dear...

Blog Surfing

So, I just happened to be looking at Cover Art Coverage over on  All Things Urban Fantasy

it's my favourite thing that they have, really, love looking at all the books, and at the way they comment on the covers, it really shows there personalities in the way they look at things than anything else. 

or maybe it's more that there thoughts are side by side so you can see it clearer. 

I don't know but I absolutely love it. love the covers and the comment

love this posting on there blog!

anyway, these are the four covers that shot out and made my fingers itch to buy them

wating for: