REVIEW, Obsidian Butterfly

I was covered in blood, but it wasn’t mine, so it was okay

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Obsidian Butterfly

Series: Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, book 9

Pub: 2000, Headline

Author: Laurell K. Hamilton

Cat: paranormal fiction

Format: paperback (mid); 675 pp w/ 67 chapters

Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis

Edward is a hit man. He specialises in monsters. Vampires, shape-shifters, anything and everything. These are people like me, Anita Blake, who do it legally, but Edward doesn’t sweat the legalities or, hell, the ethics. He is an equal opportunity killer. I may be one of the few friends that Edward has, but it’s like being friends with a tame leopard. It may curl up on the foot of your bed and let you pet its head, but it can still eat your throat out...

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Posted # 3

Vol 2 & 3 Vampire Knight by Matsuri Hino

and, yeah, okay, this is a borrow, but....

vol 61 One Piece by Eiichiro Oda

                                                              AHH, I really can't wait!!!!

MANGA REVIEW, Scott Pilgrim vol 1

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Scott Pilgrim’s Precious Little Life (vol 1)

Pub: 2004, Oni Press, Inc.

Story & Art: Bryan Lee O’Malley

Cat: life

Format: graphic novel, paperback;

Age Range: YA [?]

    Synopsis

Everything Is Totally Sweet

Scott Pilgrim’s life is so awesome. He’s 23 years old, in a rock band, “between jobs,” and dating a cute high school girl. Everything’s fantastic until a seriously mind-blowing, dangerous fashionable, rollerblading delivery girl named Ramona Flowers starts cruising through his dreams and sailing by him at parties. But the path to Ms. Flowers isn’t covered in rose petals. Ramona’s seven evil ex-boyfriends stand in the way between Scott and true happiness. Can Scott beat the bad guys and get the girl without turning his precious little life upside-down?

You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. This is Scott Pilgram. This is your life.

REVIEW, Dead to the World

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Dead to the World

Series: Southern Vampire series, book 4

Pub: 2004, Gollancz

Author: Charlaine Harris

Cat: paranormal fiction (mystery)

Format: paperback (mid); 321 pp w/ 15 chapters

Age Range: Adults                                           

            Synopsis

Sookie Stachouse is a cocktail waitress in Bon Temps, Louisiana. She’s pretty. She does her job well. But she has only a few close friends, because not everyone appreciates Sookie’s gift: she can read minds. That’s not exactly every man’s idea of date bait – unless they’re undead; vampires and the like can be tough to read. And that’s just the kind of guy Sookie’s been looking for. Maybe that’s why, when she comes across a naked vampire on the way home from work, she doesn’t just drive by. He hasn’t got a clue who he is, but Sookie has: Eric looks just as scary and sexy – and dead – as the day she met him. But now he has amnesia, he’s sweet, vulnerable, and in need of Sookie’s help – because whoever took his memory now wants his life.

           

Sookie’s investigation into what’s going on leads her into a battle between witches, vampires and werewolves. But there could be ever greater danger – to Sookie’s heart – because the kinder, gentler Eric is very hard to resist.

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REVIEW, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

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The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight

Series: --

Pub:  2012, Headline publishing group

Author: Jennifer E. Smith

Cat: contemporary fiction

Format: paperback (full); 215pp w/ 19 chapters

Age Range: YA                                                 

            Synopsis

Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?

Today should be one of the worst days of Hadley’s life...

Her father is getting married in London to a woman she’s never even met, and she’s just missed her flight.

Hadley has never believed in destiny or fate before...

But, stick at the airport in New York, today is also the day she meets Oliver. He’s British. He’s cute. He’s cute. And he’s on her new flight.

Set over twenty-four hours, Handley and Oliver’s story will make you believe that true move finds you when you’re least expecting it.

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Bought #2

Tempted by Blood by Laurie London

Roayl House of Shadows Jessica Anderson/Nalini Singh

Guardian Wolf by Linda O. Johnston

Forgiven by Jana Oliver

the Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith

REVIEW, Dreams of a Dark Warrior

An ancient tale of obsession and betrayal. And a powerful love that echoes throughout time...

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Dreams of a Dark Warrior

Series: Immortal After Dark series, book 9

Pub: 2011, Simon & Schuster

Author: Kresley Cole

Cat: Paranormal Romance

Format: paperback (mid); 515 pp w/ 59 chapters

Whose: Regin & Declan

Age Range: Adult

                Synopsis

A millennium ago, Northman Aidan the Fierce lost his heart to the Valkyrie Regin the Radiant, but he was murdered before they could wed. Since then, he has been reborn again and again into different bodies, with no memory of the past, only an endless yearning...

    

But this time Aidan has returned as the brutal Declan Chase, a human soldier bent on exterminating all immortals – including Regin, the newest captive in his supernatural prison. Regin recognises her once-proud warrior lover, but he has become a twisted madman who tortured immortals to fulfil his vendetta against them.

    

Declan fixates on Regin, and her only hope of survival is to make him remember her – for his reincarnation comes at a terrible price: in every lifetime, each time her lover remembers his true self, he dies.

    

To save herself from Declan’s torture, can Regin rekindle the memories of the passion they shared, knowing that history will repeat itself, and he’ll be lost to her one more?

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In Motion 2.0

Starting Paragraph: Kore looked down at the child that represented everything she hated. One, being trapped in hell with a man that kidnapped her, the other the man that fathered this child.

Book Chat: Insiders Guides #1

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The Black Dagger Brotherhood an insider’s Guide

Pub: 2008, Piatkus

Author: J. R. Ward

Cat:paranormal romance

Format: paperback (mid); 502pp

Age Range: adults                                            

            The back says

From New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward comes a unique volume that delivers a behind-the-scenes look at Ward’s addictive Black Dagger Brotherhood series.

Prepare to enter the dark, passionate world of the Black Dagger Brotherhood and get up close and personal with each of the Brothers. You’ll find insider information on the Brotherhood, interviews with your favourite characters and deleted scenes, as well as answers to questions about the series posed by readers. You’ll learn what it’s like for J. R. Ward to write each instalment of the series and, in a fascinating twist, you’ll read an interview with the author—conducted by the Brothers themselves.

This is a compendium no Black Dagger Brotherhood fan should miss.

Series

Dark Lover, Lover Eternal, Lover Awakened, Lover Revealed, Lover Unbound, lover Enshrined, [tb], Lover Avenged, Lover Mine, Lover Unleashed, Lover Reborn,

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Book Chat: Discarded Books # 7

where I talk about the books that I have gotten rid of

for whatever reason

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Kiss of Midnight

Series: Midnight breed, book 1

Pub:  2007, Bantam Dell

Author: Lara Adrian

Cat: paranormal romance

Format: paperback; --

Whose: Lucan & Gabrielle

Age Range: adult                                             

            Synopsis

He watches her from across the crowded dance club, a sensual black-haired stranger who stirs Gabrielle Maxwell's deepest fantasies. But nothing about this night—or this man—is what it seems. For when Gabrielle witnesses a murder outside the club, reality shifts into something dark and deadly. In that shattering instant she is thrust into a realm she never knew existed—a realm where vampires stalk the shadows and a blood war is set to ignite.

    

Lucan Thorn despises the violence carried out by his lawless brethren. A vampire himself, Lucan is a breed warrior, sworn to protect his kind – and unwitting humans existing alongside them – from the mounting threat of the Rogues. Lucan cannot risk binding himself to a mortal woman, but when Gabrielle is targeted by his enemies, he has no choice but to bring her into the dark underworld he commands.

    

Here, in the arms of the Breed’s formidable leader, Gabrielle will confront an extraordinary destiny of danger, seduction, and the darkest pleasures of all...

Series

Kiss of Crimson, Midnight Awakening, Midnight Rising, Veil of Midnight, Ashes of Midnight, Shades of Midnight, Taken by Midnight, Deeper than Midnight, a Taste of Midnight,  Darker After Midnight,

     The whys

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”.

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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-fiancé. 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...

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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.

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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....

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?

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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.

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.

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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....

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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