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Author Spotlight: Jennifer McMahon
Today’s Author Spotlight highlights the extremely talented writer, Jennifer McMahon! She is the author of multiple works, including those below. I myself have only read Dismantled, but just based off of that I can tell you that McMahon knows how to keep you reading. Her books contain the perfect mix of secrets, mystery, and lies. I’ve had her other works on my reading list for ages, and I’m eager to dive back into her world. That being said, I take great pleasure in announcing that Jennifer McMahon has just released another book. On January 2, 2013 The One I Left Behind hit…
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Audio Book Review: Magic Slays
Media Type: Audio Book Title: Magic Slays * Series: Kate Daniels #5 Author: Ilona Andrews Narrator: Renee Raudman Publisher: Tantor Media Format: Digital MP3 Duration: 13 hours and 7 minutes Source: Library Download ———————————————- Genre: Urban Fantasy HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of the series! Seriously, if you’re not hooked now I just don’t know what to tell you. Add it: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Plagued by a war between magic and technology, Atlanta has never been so deadly. Good thing Kate Daniels is on the job. Kate Daniels may have quit the Order of Merciful Aid, but she’s still knee-deep in paranormal…
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Audio Book Review: Look At Me
Media Type: Audio Book Title: Look At Me Author: Jennifer Egan Narrator: Rachel Warren Publisher: AudioGO Format: MP3 CDs Duration: 20 hours and 6 minutes Source: Audiobook Jukebox ———————————————- Genre: Contemporary HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are drawn in by sarcastic humor and character introspection. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N At the start of this edgy and ambitiously multilayered novel, a fashion model named Charlotte Swenson emerges from a car accident in her Illinois hometown with her face so badly shattered that it takes eighty titanium screws to reassemble it. She returns to New York still…
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Audio Book Review: Magic Bleeds (Kate Daniels #4)
Media Type: Audio Book Title: Magic Bleeds * Series: Kate Daniels #4 Author: Ilona Andrews Narrator: Renee Raudman Publisher: Tantor Media Format: Digital MP3 Duration: 13 hours and 7 minutes Source: Library Download ———————————————- Genre: Urban Fantasy HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of the series! Seriously, if you’re not hooked now I just don’t know what to tell you. Add it: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Atlanta would be a nice place to live, if it weren’t for the magic. When the magic is up, rogue mages cast their spells and monsters appear, while guns refuse to fire and cars fail to start. But…
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Series Spotlight: Deadly Angels Series
It’s time for another…. SERIES SPOTLIGHT!!! This is where I share a new series that has caught my eye with all of you, dear readers! This time it’s all about Sandra Hill and her Deadly Angels series. *********** Sandra Hill Sandra Hill is a graduate of Penn State and worked for more than 10 years as a features writer and education editor for publications in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Writing about serious issues taught her the merits of seeking the lighter side of even the darkest stories. She is the wife of a stockbroker and the mother of four sons.…
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Audio Book Review: Magic Strikes
Media Type: Audio Book Title: Magic Strikes * Series: Kate Daniels #3 Author: Ilona Andrews Narrator: Renee Raudman Publisher: Tantor Media Format: Digital MP3 Duration: 10 hours and 50 minutes Source: Library Download ———————————————- Genre: Urban Fantasy HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of the series! Seriously, if you’re not hooked now I just don’t know what to tell you. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Drafted into working for the Order of Merciful Aid, mercenary Kate Daniels has more paranormal problems than she knows what to do with. And in…
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Book Review: Wild About You
Media Type: Ebook Title: Wild About You * Series: Love At Stake #13 Author: Kerrelyn Sparks Publisher: Avon Books Pages: MMP; 384 Release Date: November 27, 2012 Source: TLC Book Tours ————————————————— Intended Reading Group: Adult Genre: Paranormal Romance ————————————————— HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Both readers of the series and newbies! Lovers of a great paranormal romance novel. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Handsome Howard…Hunky Howard…Hot Howard… It’s not every day that Elsa Bjornberg feels delicate, not when she hosts a home renovation show where she can effortlessly demolish…
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Why Write Short Stories? A Guest Post by Richard Salter.
If you’ve followed my blog for any length of time, you’ll know that I’m completely obsessed with both Science Fiction and Fantasy. Put a book in my hands that takes me to another world? You have me forever. I’m that much of a nerd. So of course I am ecstatic to welcome today’s guest! This is Richard Salter! Contributing author to, and editor of, World’s Collider. An anthology filled with death, destruction, and the terrible nightmarish creatures that bring about both. Can I please say that I’ve been drooling over this book ever since I first set eyes on it? I’ll…
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Audio Book Review: Magic Burns
Media Type: Audio Book Title: Magic Burns *Series: Kate Daniels #2 Author: Ilona Andrews Narrator: Renee Raudman Publisher: Tantor Media Format: Digital MP3 Duration: 9 hours and 38 minutes Source: Library Download ———————————————- Genre: Urban Fantasy HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of the series! It just keeps getting better and better. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Down in Atlanta, tempers-and temperatures-are about to flare… As a mercenary who cleans up after magic gone wrong, Kate Daniels has seen her share of occupational hazards. Normally, waves of paranormal energy ebb…
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Book Review: These Things Happen
Media Type: Print Book Title: These Things Happen Author: Richard Kramer Publisher: Unbridled Books Pages: Hardcover; 272 Release Date: November 7, 2012 Source: TLC Book Tours ———————————————— Genre: Contemporary Fiction HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy stories with great characters and a solid plot. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N A domestic story told in numerous original and endearing voices. The story opens with Wesley, a tenth grader, and involves his two sets of parents (the mom and her second husband, a very thoughtful doctor; and the father who has become…