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A BIG thank you and a GIVEAWAY!
As you all know, I try to thank my lovely readers as often as I possibly can. If you don’t know how much you mean to me well shame on you! I ADORE you all! I blog for you. I vlog for you. I wake up early to finish books so I can share them with you :). You are my inspiration. To those of you who comment weekly and keep open ties with me. Thank you immensely from the bottom of my heart. You make it all worthwhile! Now. A Giveaway. Brenda was sweet enough to allow me to…
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Book Review: The Sapphire Talisman
With the local vampire coven decimated, Julia and Nicholas try to begin a somewhat normal life together. Bound by secrecy from a shape shifter determined to see Julia’s world-saving prediction come to fruition, Julia isn’t allowed to tell Nicholas the leader survived, ransacking her happiness with guilt. When Alora returns, bent on revenge, the reunion forces Nicholas and Julia to choose what they are willing to live and die for. –From Goodreads Cover Inspection: Stunning! I love this one even more than the first one because I’m partial to blue. First Thoughts: Great flashbacks to previous books! *** My Review:…
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Book Review: The Emerald Talisman
To be normal, sixteen-year-old Julia Parker would shed her empathic gift in a second. Life has been difficult since her mother’s mysterious disappearance ten years earlier – an event she witnessed, but can’t remember. Julia’s situation becomes more complicated after a near death experience from a blood thirsty stalker. As high school students go missing it is clear there is a connection to her own experience–past and present. Someone has to stop the madness and a chance encounter with a creepy psychic foretells that only Julia is the key to stopping the madness, but it may require the life of…
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A day of rest.
This morning when I woke up I looked like this. So, since I refuse to be sick again so soon, I spent the day doing pretty much nothing. Yes I did some cleaning, spread out over multiple hours :). I also did some reading and video gaming. It was quite the relaxing day! Tomorrow my blogging resumes as normal. Plus yes, next week I’ll vlog again :). I know there are some of you out there that miss it when I don’t! Much love.
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Book Review: The Monstrumologist
These are the secrets I have kept. This is the trust I never betrayed. But he is dead now and has been for nearly ninety years, the one who gave me his trust, the one for whom I kept these secrets. The one who saved me . . . and the one who cursed me. So starts the diary of Will Henry, orphan and assistant to a doctor with a most unusual specialty: monster hunting. In the short time he has lived with the doctor, Will has grown accustomed to his late night callers and dangerous business. But when one…
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In which, the zombies really do walk.
Zombies. Those undead suckers just so happen to be some of my favorite fodder for television shows, movies and of course books! Why? Well when zombies attack our survival instincts take over. People are at their weakest, and yet at their strongest at the same time. Complete strangers bond together. Oh, and did I mention there’s a whole lot of target practice? Yes, I’m a little morbid sometimes. I admit it! Anyway I digress. Last weekend Long Beach had it’s yearly zombie walk and the BF went out to capture some of them on camera. It was truly surreal how…
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Blog Tour: Cry of the Fallen – Book Review
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Black Chronicles: Cry of the Fallen Author: Joel M. Andre Publisher: Darkcountry Publications Pages: Paperback; 216 Release Date: September 8, 2010 Source: Pump Up Your Book Promotions ———————————————— Genre: Thriller / Mystery HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who appreciate blood and gore mixed in with their mystery. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N On a warm summer afternoon, in Northern Arizona, a double homicide stains the ground with blood. Detectives are called out to handle the investigation, each plagued with their own internal demons, and aren’t prepared for what they…
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Book Review: Majix: Notes from a Serious Teen Witch
Kestrel (don’t call her Susan) Murphy is angry. Forced to leave her posh San Francisco Bay Area home by her father’s illness, she’s living in Jurupa (sounds like vomiting), Southern California. It’s too hot. The people are stupid. And you have to chew the air to get the oxygen out of it. On the plus side, Kestrel is a witch. Well, a witch-in-training. And she’s going acquire the magic she needs to get her life back to normal. At first, she barely notices the people around her-Aunt Ariel, who’s taken her in and is herself a well-known white witch; Jose…
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Book Review: The Sevenfold Spell
Have you ever wondered what happens to the other people in the fairy tale? Things look grim for Talia and her mother. By royal proclamation, the constables and those annoying “good” fairies have taken away their livelihood by confiscating their spinning wheel. Something to do with a curse on the princess, they said. Not every young lady has a fairy godmother rushing to her rescue. Without the promise of an income from spinning, Talia’s prospects for marriage disappear, and she and her mother face destitution. Past caring about breaking an arbitrary and cruel law, rebellious Talia determines to build a…
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Waiting on Wednesday (13)
“Waiting on” Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine where we share upcoming releases that we just cannot wait for! A richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and the mysterious manuscript that draws them together. Deep in the stacks of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of witches, Diana wants nothing to do with sorcery; so after a furtive glance and a few notes, she banishes the book to the stacks. But her discovery…