tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59940833770701407712024-03-19T06:46:03.736-05:00I'd Rather Be ReadingI'm a book junkie, and I go through withdrawal if I don't read every few days. My habit contributes to my procrastinating tendencies.Eva / TXBookjunkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05934030103779551827noreply@blogger.comBlogger73125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994083377070140771.post-49229370758353982862013-03-05T06:30:00.000-06:002013-03-05T06:30:03.194-06:00To Buy or Not To Buy<div style="text-align: justify;">
The hard decisions that a booklover/reader goes through. To buy or not to buy? Today I have the difficult task of deciding whether or not to buy an anthology. Nalini Singh's <a href="http://nalinisingh.com/wildinvitation.php" target="_blank">Wild Invitation</a> is out today. I love Nalini's writing and she is an autobuy for me. However, I tend to stay away from anthologies. Usually, in an anthology, there is only one, maybe two, author whose story I'm interested in reading. That's an expensive short story. But sometimes it pays off. You end up reading all the stories in the anthology and sometimes you end up discovering a new to you author whose story really grabs you. I was introduced to Meljean Brooks as well as a few other authors this way.</div>
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But this anthology features only Nalini Singh stories. Which is awesome if it wasn't for the fact that I've already read and own two of the four stories provided in this anthology. And of the two new stories I'm really only interested in one (and early reviews have many proclaiming it as good as I expected). So do I buy the anthology where I'm basically paying $7.99 for one short story? Okay, two short stories because I'll read the other story too if I have it. Or do I wait and hope for the standalone release of the short story that I really want? Decisions, decisions...</div>
Eva / TXBookjunkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05934030103779551827noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994083377070140771.post-86123286784140368352013-02-02T10:57:00.000-06:002013-02-02T10:57:48.567-06:00Reading Habits: Nibbler or Devour-er?<div align="justify">
<span style="font-family: arial;">I love the weekends. Not just because I don't have to work but it means I get more then just a few hours to read. I can read in to the wee hours of the night or all day (or even all weekend if I'm being extremely lazy about chores and my to do list). I obviously really enjoy long holiday weekends. Those provide awesome opportunities to binge read and do series/author re-reads.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">I occasionally get in some reading during the weekday. I'll sneak read at work if it's slow even though I feel like I'm back in elementary school when I do this. I use to read in class with my book in my lap while my textbook was on my desk. Now, instead of a book, my Kindle is sitting to the side of my monitor. I try not to start new books on weekday evenings since I prefer to read books in one sitting (I'm a fast reader) but mainly because I have no self control and will stay up reading until I finish the book. Of course there are exceptions - like when an auto-buy author releases a new book that I've been dying to read. Staying up all night to read a new Nalini Singh or Kristen Ashley story is not a hardship.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">So, are you a nibbler - reading bits here and there when time permits, or do you devour up your books in big bites like I like to do?</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">The last full day of AAD started out overcast and rainy. It stormed while I breakfasted with Jen (@Twimom227) before we headed out to a field trip of the Garden District with author Theresa Meyers. I'm so glad I packed my umbrella and new rain boots. </span><span style="text-align: justify;">We visited Lafeyette Cemetery and walked around the Garden District looking at the historic homes.</span><br />
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On our return to the hotel, we ran into the crowds showing their support of the Red Dress Run a.k.a. another excuse to party down on Bourbon Street.<br />
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We returned just in time for the big booksigning. </div>
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We kicked the evening off at the Samhain reception before splitting up for the evening. Some of us went off to the Author Pub Crawl. Jennifer and I got into author Adrian Phoenix's tour of Dante's French Quarter. I haven't read her series but it sounded pretty interesting after I heard about the characters and the storyline from the author as we walked around the French Quarter so I'm adding it to my TBR list. We made stops at Lafitte's Tavern, St. Louis Cathedral, Cafe du Monde, and the Mississippi River. It was a fun way to end my trip of the Big Easy. However, t<span style="text-align: start;">he best part of the trip for me was all the people I met - the bloggers I follow, friends I'd made on Twitter, authors (new and old to me), and new friends I made. I can't wait to decide what reader's convention to go to next year!</span></div>
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Here are more pictures of my NOLA trip (not all of these pictures were taken by me and are so noted):<br />
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I got some sightseeing in today. I met up with Felicia (@thegeekyblogger) for breakfast (I would not recommend their eggs and grits since they needed seasoning but the bacon was tasty) at Cafe Beignet before heading over to the Jackson Square area.<br />
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We stopped by Cafe du Monde and had some beignets. I now can say I prefer Cafe Beignet's beignets because they're fluffier; although the crispy Cafe du Monde ones were good too.<br />
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We walked around the area and did a little shopping until lunch when we stopped by Oceania for a po boy. So. Good. I was adventurous and went with the blackened alligator. I can't exactly describe what it tastes like (not exactly like chicken though), and the first bite had a gamy aftertaste. However, it was delicious! The spices, the coleslaw, and the crunchy French bread it was on melded together so well.<br />
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I spent the rest of the afternoon in panels and various events.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me with Tori (@smexys_sidekick) and Pamela (@SpazP)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mandi (@Smexybooks) and me <br />(Doesn't Mandi look like she just came from the beach with her pretty, tropical-looking dress & fruity drink?)</td></tr>
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</div>Eva / TXBookjunkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05934030103779551827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994083377070140771.post-42678558937510889352012-08-09T23:50:00.000-05:002012-08-10T06:31:11.482-05:00Day Two: Authors After Dark Conference<br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/txbookjunkie/IDRatherBeReading?authkey=Gv1sRgCMyA3r-e8e7_Jg#5775005378461050258'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZfIpxOLAlGIbwGATlfEa3x2plMzKOaToZPpkN12fYm06KGV2mxKF8rZk5x2nTdOL-MDfEJLOHvq7Sl8G0zF5iDImcbbZFuyDTkL_7W1HRctZO4mDvtUS-DaT-IO9hlCwqn_as8JMw4tc/s288/2.jpg' border='0' width='281' height='210' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />First day of Authors After Dark panels today. I happened to attend several panels Cynthia Eden was on (really, I went for the topics not to stalk her...sort of). It's so interesting listening to the authors answer questions about the writing process (what influences their writing, how they come about with their ideas, how they keep things research to keep things realistic, etc). They're so friendly, and it's fun talking to them - they're readers too who enjoy reading the same books that you also love who also happen to write some of the stories you love. The panels also introduces me to authors I have not read yet but will now go check out after hearing them speak about their book.<br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/txbookjunkie/IDRatherBeReading?authkey=Gv1sRgCMyA3r-e8e7_Jg#5775005463057004898'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWLa-i_f-oa0BEL2nWbMwfEV8K1SgFRVwm0RJ_s83pujWFatOJ6bENhb6tlxs4W_0fw623F-xOXs5Jj3N9UCqq9sOWdVFdUAvOlbchM9997BbZTc6WK-uaFfdEZJNljMvStb9UEHWhCOI/s288/3.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />I finally had a chance to get some beignets on this trip. These are from Cafe Beignet, which is across the street from the hotel. It's been a while since I've had some from Cafe du Monde so I can't say whose is better but I thought these were pretty tasty. <br /><br />I ended up visiting Pat O'Brien's again - this time for dinner. I ran into Jen (@Twimom) in the hotel lobby and ended up tagging along. A huge group of us enjoyed some classic New Orleans drinks and foods. Here's a pic of part of the group at dinner. <br /><br /><center><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/txbookjunkie/IDRatherBeReading?authkey=Gv1sRgCMyA3r-e8e7_Jg#5775005588324615106'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv9YhCeaQafE7YM4xcIuybrwx6wDJlj55iIXlqrYrS_ewW0dbkp4UH5avn8SnLYyvX5z8KSu6o-69R49iFKqnlFoDBF23ingk2fCATAgv1luVtXmDt4Ui3VFbWjyO9WWoBpb1yKwoDZKU/s288/8.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a></center><br />Calling it an early night tonight. We're going to be up late tomorrow to hit a burlesque show at midnight!<br />Eva / TXBookjunkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05934030103779551827noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994083377070140771.post-75001984006025582582012-08-08T18:42:00.001-05:002012-08-11T04:12:11.683-05:00Reader's Conference: Authors After Dark in New Orleans<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><br /><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhob4-wV68aH3rCUX6n7n2cTc1c04n6f9HtTbD3dma_1b_5z8ouY1tsOAZlLKmNCbzf56ppfRFkKjfQhgBnXESZuOY3fdCrC65Qa-jJVnzywRRLk5RoWJkSy86f_ghRNtvHWtbUJMfnM0k/s1600/AADImageheader.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="75" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhob4-wV68aH3rCUX6n7n2cTc1c04n6f9HtTbD3dma_1b_5z8ouY1tsOAZlLKmNCbzf56ppfRFkKjfQhgBnXESZuOY3fdCrC65Qa-jJVnzywRRLk5RoWJkSy86f_ghRNtvHWtbUJMfnM0k/s320/AADImageheader.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><br /><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr><br /></tbody></table><br /><div align="justify"><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">I'm currently attending the Authors After Dark conference. It's a reader conference, and it's being held in New Orleans, Louisiana this year. I've been to reader conferences before but I'm a newbie at the Authors After Dark conference. </span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">I'm really looking forward to meeting my Twitter friends and exploring New Orleans (French Quarter, yummy beignets, etoufee, etc.). The opportunity to meet Cynthia Eden, Jeaniene Frost, and other authors whose works I enjoy is frosting on top. I've already enjoyed some New Orleans cuisine - turtle soup (which I'm not sure actually contained turtle since it was very thick, soup like but tasty) and jambalya.</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><br /><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5t16MsdSVWy7w1ja4YF6LMpXx7SEpBrF_kDScTHmrgl9gJEjCT-WcvEZbR1vOzV0Gt9OK-iE7ylVBBL67Ox9IenAYX3BTN3NItCv6CCMyfbh1ttcsdo_bI0zg9CpUpaGyzbujO1l_XYY/s1600/IMG_0030%5B1%5D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5t16MsdSVWy7w1ja4YF6LMpXx7SEpBrF_kDScTHmrgl9gJEjCT-WcvEZbR1vOzV0Gt9OK-iE7ylVBBL67Ox9IenAYX3BTN3NItCv6CCMyfbh1ttcsdo_bI0zg9CpUpaGyzbujO1l_XYY/s320/IMG_0030%5B1%5D.jpg" width="240" /></a></td></tr><br /><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Turtle Soup</td></tr><br /></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: left;">I'm already tired and we haven't even really started. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-align: justify;">The conference doesn't really have anything happening today (Wednesday) - just registration, a meet and greet for bloggers, and the welcome event for all the attendees. </span></div><br /><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/txbookjunkie/IDRatherBeReading?authkey=Gv1sRgCMyA3r-e8e7_Jg#5774692283030799330'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo7lPFWjegXKNK_481dnB494Gs_qhj-89FxffGPQTZ3fh2UwFWjUrQPhSZyRwLUOepg_CFKz_jVfmQz4Vw06ZLNqbPYsxsuR1VmAfg5tlFyitiakzEEH46lrqba4ioGJXvyxdPeCbFytA/s288/0.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">After the welcome event we grabbed a slice of pizza at Big Easy Daiquiris and then hung out on the back patio of Pat O'Brien's with a few authors (Laurie London, Shellie Stevens, Cynthia Eden <-- fan girl squee!!), bloggers, and others in the publishing industry. We also tried their famous hurricanes (mine is the skinny glass since I'm allergic to alcohol).<br /></span></div><br /></div><br /><a href='https://picasaweb.google.com/txbookjunkie/IDRatherBeReading?authkey=Gv1sRgCMyA3r-e8e7_Jg#5774692378065618994'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioeFpzehQ5lcw0xxxfAzV3TRBhFTfAqpVB6Ogt_iPGqbmHi0crt7hvFNHGhwdu5zNxRR15bKqlSLNmNux0KWSCD4qDnx36kMZN7CFEBt4hDaIOwOJq3DihOECzkCHMPPZuVVzdM_d9DdI/s288/1.jpg' border='0' width='210' height='281' style='margin:5px'></a><br /><br />Eva / TXBookjunkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05934030103779551827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994083377070140771.post-44919504656315539242012-01-12T01:04:00.000-06:002012-01-12T01:04:04.817-06:00"Lothaire" Book Tour<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGR_ALl5f7dk4HBVj8EqlaNKrwI6_SbX6E5qElDtKeTb1vCJMfMNqD1-zsA8ziiR_VRmutoRzKQWEob6PLuHEW-z4FamSijW2Oe1du6-KOCqXdo-iiRoV48vZKpzoovjg9HA_OzXI-924/s1600/Lothaire.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGR_ALl5f7dk4HBVj8EqlaNKrwI6_SbX6E5qElDtKeTb1vCJMfMNqD1-zsA8ziiR_VRmutoRzKQWEob6PLuHEW-z4FamSijW2Oe1du6-KOCqXdo-iiRoV48vZKpzoovjg9HA_OzXI-924/s320/Lothaire.jpg" width="211" /></a></div><br />
I attended Kresley Cole's Book Tour for "Lothaire" (Book 12 of her Immortals After Dark series) tonight in Austin, Texas. So much fun! I enjoyed meeting up with some of my Twitter friends (some for the first time in person) - @SpazP, @LouisaEdwards, @AnaFarrish, and @CrankyAmy. It was lots of fun talking books with several of the other attendees prior to the start of the book signing.<br />
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</tbody></table>Kresley brought along her editor, Simon & Schuster's Executive Editor, Lauren McKenna, and the cover model for "Lothaire", Paul Marron. Kresley and Paul signed books for a nice sized crowd of fans, old and new. Kresley also answered some questions after the book signing (and pictures) about her writing process (she doesn't write sequentially but by scene), the future of the IAD series (she and her editor were taking suggestions/votes for the next IAD book - I vote for Furie!), and how her crushes make it into her books (Mike Rowe).</div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br />
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<div>Paul Marron, the cover model, is as hot in person (if not hotter) as he is on the "Lothaire" cover. He was really nice and was wearing colored contacts to be in character at the book signing.</div></div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">I was slightly distracted when Kresley began her Q&A (see above picture), so the first few minutes are missing in this video of the Q&A.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">I highly recommend trying to make it to one of the book signings if it's in your area. There are prizes if you know your IAD (t-shirts, book bags, and a Nook were given out at our stop). The tour bus will be making a stop at:</div><ul style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"><li> Katy Budget Books in Houston, Texas (January 12),</li>
<li>Garden District Books in New Orleans, Louisiana (January 13), and</li>
<li>Books-A-Million in Tampa, Florida (January 14).</li>
</ul><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;">Here is more information regarding the </span><a href="http://kresleycole.com/downloads/LothaireTourSchedule.pdf" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" target="_blank">Tour Schedule</a><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> or visit </span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/KresleyCole?sk=events" style="text-align: -webkit-auto;" target="_blank">Kresley Cole's Events page on Facebook</a><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto;"> for details.</span> <br />
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</tbody></table>Eva / TXBookjunkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05934030103779551827noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994083377070140771.post-82385663634827450312011-08-30T11:00:00.000-05:002011-08-30T11:00:02.556-05:00Tuesday's Most Wanted: August 30, 2011<div align="justify">I love Tuesday's partly because it's not Monday, but mostly because it's release day for new books. Lots on my "to buy" list, but my most wanted release today Maya Bank's <i>In Bed with a Highlander</i>, the first book of Bank's new McCabe trilogy.<br />
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Here's the back cover blurb:<br />
<blockquote><b><i>Bestselling author Maya Banks’s beguiling new trilogy features three unforgettable brothers risking everything to save their clan and their legacy—and to surrender their hearts to love.</i></b><br />
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Ewan McCabe, the eldest, is a warrior determined to vanquish his enemy. Now, with the time ripe for battle, his men are ready and Ewan is poised to take back what is his—until a blue-eyed, raven-haired temptress is thrust upon him. Mairin may be the salvation of Ewan’s clan, but for a man who dreams only of revenge, matters of the heart are strange territory to conquer.<br />
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The illegitimate daughter of the king, Mairin possesses prized property that has made her a pawn—and wary of love. Her worst fears are realized when she is rescued from peril only to be forced into marriage by her charismatic and commanding savior, Ewan McCabe. But her attraction to her ruggedly powerful new husband makes her crave his surprisingly tender touch; her body comes alive under his sensual mastery. And as war draws near, Mairin’s strength, spirit, and passion challenge Ewan to conquer his demons—and embrace a love that means more than revenge and land.</blockquote>An <a href="http://www.mayabanks.com/books/in-bed.php">excerpt</a> is available on the author's<a href="http://www.mayabanks.com/"> website</a>.</div><br />
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Eva / TXBookjunkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05934030103779551827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994083377070140771.post-40796445510064820632011-08-30T08:50:00.000-05:002011-08-30T08:50:00.878-05:00Release Day - August 30, 2011<div align="justify"><span style="font-family: arial;">August is going out with a bang - on my wallet. Here's this week's list of books that I have on my want list:</span><br /><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><b>Riptide</b></i> by Cherry Adair</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">(Book 2 of Cutter Cay series)</span></li><br /></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9QTJMPSbubsaMC5vws8SjBsHSZzCyWUEITWcC9pKYoZKNTZFviNPG5flbCV8OYfA4B0hMZyLLpUnx2ue1Km7tIktU0Qe6iyq4lDYvJgXWUjwVCC4dkJYI0g-qo99DzHn_Sa1Z9sxEBAc/s1600/Riptide.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9QTJMPSbubsaMC5vws8SjBsHSZzCyWUEITWcC9pKYoZKNTZFviNPG5flbCV8OYfA4B0hMZyLLpUnx2ue1Km7tIktU0Qe6iyq4lDYvJgXWUjwVCC4dkJYI0g-qo99DzHn_Sa1Z9sxEBAc/s320/Riptide.jpg" width="196" /></a></div><ul><i><span style="font-family: arial;">She's swept into treacherous waters</span></i></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">Princess Bria Visconti demands the return of the money her brother rashly invested in Cutter Salvage. Treasure hunter Nick Cutter is too reckless, too arrogant—and far too handsome—for his own good. But he can’t charm his way out of this one. Bria plans to make Nick pay up even if she has to board his boat, don a wet suit, and dive for the treasure herself…</span></ul><ul><i><span style="font-family: arial;">He fights the relentless pull</span></i></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">Nick sees Bria as a beautiful but spoiled princess who’s never done a day’s work in her pampered life. But once they set sail for the dive site, and the legendary fortune in gold the wreck carries, Nick begins to see Bria in a new light. This princess may be out of her depth, but she’s ready to take on the hidden danger and excitement a treasure hunt stirs to the surface. Together they must fight unexpected enemies—and reveal their darkest secrets—before they’re pulled into a rip current of danger.</span></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><b>In Bed with a Highlander</b></i> by Maya Banks</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">(Book 1 of McCabe trilogy)</span></li><br /></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDDDQTNGOhBVVfqfLABIy1Kh9DSTBtb0hrLZixez7CLp59TScZbbspxuaSxiIDt1zrwWJpWaiqQCyviqcjJ3yBdHTdXR6g8Us4AURLT0ZnWizOE6bj1R6b7Cp_I_7j7op6sXHK99VjLfQ/s1600/InBedwithaHighlander-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDDDQTNGOhBVVfqfLABIy1Kh9DSTBtb0hrLZixez7CLp59TScZbbspxuaSxiIDt1zrwWJpWaiqQCyviqcjJ3yBdHTdXR6g8Us4AURLT0ZnWizOE6bj1R6b7Cp_I_7j7op6sXHK99VjLfQ/s320/InBedwithaHighlander-2.jpg" width="195" /></a></div><ul><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Bestselling author Maya Banks’s beguiling new trilogy features three unforgettable brothers risking everything to save their clan and their legacy—and to surrender their hearts to love.</span></i></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">Ewan McCabe, the eldest, is a warrior determined to vanquish his enemy. Now, with the time ripe for battle, his men are ready and Ewan is poised to take back what is his—until a blue-eyed, raven-haired temptress is thrust upon him. Mairin may be the salvation of Ewan’s clan, but for a man who dreams only of revenge, matters of the heart are strange territory to conquer. </span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">Though the illegitimate daughter of the king, Mairin possesses prized property that has made her a pawn—and wary of love. Her worst fears are realized when she is rescued from peril, only to be forced into marriage by her charismatic and commanding savior, Ewan McCabe. But her attraction to her ruggedly powerful new husband finds her craving his surprisingly tender touch; her body comes alive under his sensual mastery. And as war draws near, Mairin’s strength, spirit, and passion challenge Ewan to conquer his demons—and embrace a love that means more than revenge and land.</span></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><b>Canyons of Night</b></i> by Jayne Castle</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">(Book 8 of Harmony series/Book 3 of Looking Glass trilogy)</span></li><br /></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4zmqt454bYx5M-XRwSVDajP99dZ5ckTJ82lm3Og55I8qHnP8E1TxgAz2SfNDOM4HalQ7PiLULjLz2BQLVlKBVjV2Qug6YO9BjKEw250-nqle4ziTGHu-N1oE3i05caTNR-TR1Dsnt01k/s1600/CanyonsofNight1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="258" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4zmqt454bYx5M-XRwSVDajP99dZ5ckTJ82lm3Og55I8qHnP8E1TxgAz2SfNDOM4HalQ7PiLULjLz2BQLVlKBVjV2Qug6YO9BjKEw250-nqle4ziTGHu-N1oE3i05caTNR-TR1Dsnt01k/s320/CanyonsofNight1.jpg" width="160" /></a></div><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">The island of Rainshadow is home to the mysterious, privately-owned woods known only as the Preserve. Now, after fifteen years away, both Charlotte Enright and her teen crush, Slade Attridge, have returned. But will their psi talents and Slade’s dust bunny companion be enough to keep them from getting drawn into the darkness at the heart of the Preserve?</span></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><b>One Grave at a Time</b></i> by Jeaniene Frost</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">(Book 6 of the Night Huntress series)</span></li><br /></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9GvJBfMO3nSkjxgdYER5AsezqeuERhXCyDA_3kyIx9q_MMoAXFFdzZ5xXi0geq1uqhYIQsVczMqB0KF-QyiNzAukRcKS8noFPXhGT-SXKLFJuzOjDbfnouADttuuG9o9GrZrU5f9bJYk/s1600/OneGraveAtaTime.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9GvJBfMO3nSkjxgdYER5AsezqeuERhXCyDA_3kyIx9q_MMoAXFFdzZ5xXi0geq1uqhYIQsVczMqB0KF-QyiNzAukRcKS8noFPXhGT-SXKLFJuzOjDbfnouADttuuG9o9GrZrU5f9bJYk/s320/OneGraveAtaTime.jpg" width="198" /></a></div><ul><i><span style="font-family: arial;">How do you send a killer to the grave when he’s already dead?</span></i></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">Having narrowly averted an (under)world war, Cat Crawfield wants nothing more than a little downtime with her vampire husband, Bones. Unfortunately, her gift from New Orleans’ voodoo queen just keeps on giving–leading to a personal favor that sends them into battle once again, this time against a villainous spirit. Centuries ago, Heinrich Kramer was a witch hunter. Now, every All Hallows Eve, he takes physical form to torture innocent women before burning them alive. This year, however, a determined Cat and Bones must risk all to send him back to the other side of eternity–forever. But one wrong step and they’ll be digging their own graves.</span></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><b>Snapped</b></i> by Laura Griffin</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">(Book 4 of Tracers series)</span></li><br /></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBQR9_mu-ZMVB3T9MK7FjAYdEgnQbSABZfSKgzIbrfTF6otMBIOoO4yhl7Cu2JWLYyuxGKyYhLPZRy55DrI1pzl_UopI9FX-R76laTYgWRcbk4vHQtHZtarg50LvTq1wKab91ctGn9R2k/s1600/Snapped.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBQR9_mu-ZMVB3T9MK7FjAYdEgnQbSABZfSKgzIbrfTF6otMBIOoO4yhl7Cu2JWLYyuxGKyYhLPZRy55DrI1pzl_UopI9FX-R76laTYgWRcbk4vHQtHZtarg50LvTq1wKab91ctGn9R2k/s320/Snapped.jpg" width="198" /></a></div><ul><i><span style="font-family: arial;">Sophie Barrett thinks she's lucky to be alive. She may be dead wrong.</span></i></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">On a sweltering summer afternoon, Sophie Barrett walks into a nightmare. A sniper has opened fire on a college campus. When the carnage is over, three people—plus the shooter—are dead, and dozens more injured. Sophie escapes virtually unscathed. Yet as details emerge from the investigation, she becomes convinced that this wasn’t the random, senseless act it appeared. No one wants to believe her—not the cops, not her colleagues at the Delphi Center crime lab, and definitely not Jonah Macon, the homicide detective who’s already saved her life once.</span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">Jonah has all kinds of reasons for hoping Sophie is mistaken. Involving himself with a key witness could derail an already messy investigation, not to mention jeopardize his career. But Sophie is as determined and fearless as she is sexy. If he can’t resist her, he can at least swear to protect her. Because if Sophie is right, she’s made herself the target of a killer without a conscience. And the real terror is only just beginning. . . .</span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><b>Viscount Breckenridge to the Rescue</b></i> by Stephanie Laurens</span><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">(Book 1 of Cynster Sisters trilogy)</span></li><br /></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCMV5Mn3D5KGpcfIignh3z4Lq0PVVF1CVvu4frPnz5EFlvrwE6wI9u7ErctA13Rl76euj_ZcYLnlrP3Kl3HfX3HJCnwu9Lg0vtAHyUQrt64jqZEVP4DPDxU3nZ4r8Msrpgn7KLdwaW4ug/s1600/ViscountBreckenridgetotheRescue.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCMV5Mn3D5KGpcfIignh3z4Lq0PVVF1CVvu4frPnz5EFlvrwE6wI9u7ErctA13Rl76euj_ZcYLnlrP3Kl3HfX3HJCnwu9Lg0vtAHyUQrt64jqZEVP4DPDxU3nZ4r8Msrpgn7KLdwaW4ug/s320/ViscountBreckenridgetotheRescue.jpg" width="198" /></a></div><ul><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Three heros, three rescues, three weddings.</i></span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>You are cordially invited to the wedding of Miss Heather Cynster</i></span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">...but not before she encounters kidnappers, danger, and a daring rescue at the hands of Viscount Breckenridge.</span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">Determined to hunt down her very own hero, one who will sweep her off her feet and into wedded bliss, and despairing of finding him in London's staid ballrooms, Heather Cynster steps out of her safe world and boldly attends a racy soiree.</span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">But her promising hunt is ruined by the supremely interfering Viscount Breckenridge, who whisks her out of scandal-and straight into danger when a mysterious enemy seizes her, bundles her into a coach, and conveys her out of London.</span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">Now it's up to the notorious Breckenridge to prove himself the hero she's been searching for all along</span></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><b>Supernatural</b></i> an anthology featuring G.A. Aiken, Larissa Ione, Alexandra Ivy, and Jacquelyn Frank</span></li><br /></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTpaftfRm3grVW703bc6-avCnuwEekPxz_GtVbMc4QIpZ18KK91pVkvR_taNNkUp_TrYKs9_iGCXn7ZLehkXrdrGPqFigIkVbDqy8VZw-UBnxbo7GuwgbCz-OG7ZRdWCPZ9PbnnDhzkJs/s1600/Supernatural.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTpaftfRm3grVW703bc6-avCnuwEekPxz_GtVbMc4QIpZ18KK91pVkvR_taNNkUp_TrYKs9_iGCXn7ZLehkXrdrGPqFigIkVbDqy8VZw-UBnxbo7GuwgbCz-OG7ZRdWCPZ9PbnnDhzkJs/s320/Supernatural.jpg" width="198" /></a></div><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">"Dragon on Top" by G.A. Aiken: Escorting the highborn Bram through deadly Sand Dragon territory will try Ghleanna's patience…and her resolve. For Bram is determined to enhance the journey with a seduction no female could resist...</span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">"Vampire Fight Club" by Larissa Ione: When a wave of violence forces shape shifter Vladlena to go undercover, her first stop is a haven of vice - with a dangerously sexy vamp in charge. Both Vladlena and Nathan are hiding something, but they can't conceal the lust that simmers between them...</span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">"Darkness Eternal" by Alexandra Ivy: After being held captive by one vampire for four centuries, Kata had no intention of taking another one to the underworld with her. Yet even in the pits of hell, there's no ignoring the intoxicating desire awakened by his touch...</span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">"Kane" by Jacquelyn Frank: Kane knows Corrine was meant to be his...just as he knows that truly possessing the lovely human is forbidden. But on the night of the Samhain moon, the beast in every demon in stronger than reason, and Kane's hunger is more powerful than any punishment...</span></ul><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">What are you looking forward to this week?</span> </div><br />Eva / TXBookjunkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05934030103779551827noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994083377070140771.post-88251851655839281812011-08-02T13:00:00.000-05:002011-08-02T13:00:03.252-05:00Tuesday's Most Wanted: August 2, 2011<div align="justify">I love Tuesday's partly because it's not Monday, but mostly because it's release day for new books. Today's most wanted release is Thea Harrison's <i>Storm's Heart</i>, book two of Harrison's The Elder Races series.<br />
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Here's the back cover blurb:<br />
<blockquote><i>He’s a wyr warrior, a god of storms. She’s the heir to the Dark Fae throne. But desire will bring both to their knees in this all-new Novel of the Elder Races.</i><br />
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During the rule of her murderous Dark Fae uncle, Thistle “Tricks” Periwinkle found sanctuary among the wyr in New York. Her ethereal beauty and sparkling personality won the hearts of the public, but after her uncle’s death, there are those who don’t want to see her ascend to the throne…<br />
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Able to wield thunder and lightning, wyr sentinel Tiago Black Eagle has ruled the skies for centuries. His massive build and thunderous power make him one of the wyr’s best weapons. And he’s sent to protect Tricks when she’s almost assassinated in Chicago.<br />
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Soon, both Tiago and Tricks will fall prey to the stormy hunger that engulfs them—a passion that will shake the very foundation of all the worlds…</blockquote>An <a href="http://www.theaharrison.com/storms_heart.html">excerpt</a> is available on the author's<a href="http://www.theaharrison.com/"> website</a>.</div>Eva / TXBookjunkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05934030103779551827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994083377070140771.post-50965689629309263082011-08-02T08:00:00.021-05:002011-08-02T08:00:03.590-05:00Release Day - August 2, 2011<div align="justify"><span style="font-family: arial;">Looks like August is going to be an expensive month for me. Here's this week's list of books that I have on my want list:</span><br />
<ul><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><b>Blood Hunt</b></i> by Shannon K. Butcher</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;">(Book 5 of Sentinel Wars series)</span></li>
</ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgguSuM9GTuC5Bv_KSz14YAC9aHCHHHULC3htALQ3ATDeMcFj35XJLoPmiqEEGzYhBNcSIxOGtaY-9t8mPkrXMWLnFDNvJPa-nkvbJYU3Cv_RKRYW_1jdnZQEGZuvsCvLtyeenr5nQP_Lg/s1600/BloodHunt.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgguSuM9GTuC5Bv_KSz14YAC9aHCHHHULC3htALQ3ATDeMcFj35XJLoPmiqEEGzYhBNcSIxOGtaY-9t8mPkrXMWLnFDNvJPa-nkvbJYU3Cv_RKRYW_1jdnZQEGZuvsCvLtyeenr5nQP_Lg/s320/BloodHunt.jpg" width="198" /></a></div><ul><i><span style="font-family: arial;">They are the Sentinels. Three races, ancient guardians of mankind, each possessing unique abilities to protect humanity against their eternal foes: the Synestryn. Now, for one Sentinel, the only way to reclaim her forgotten past is to follow the blood.</span></i></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">Hope appeared out of nowhere, naked and alone, a woman without past. The only thing she knows is that she is imbued with a strange power. It's in her blood. And two men want to possess it.</span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">One is Logan, a Sanguinar demon-fighter who needs Hope's essence to survive. As a vampire he's well-equipped to find her a like-blooded mate whose progeny could sustain his race for generations. The other is Krag, a Synestryn lord whose desire is to enslave Hope, and drain her of the lifeforce. With it he could control humanity forever.</span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">When Hope and Logan both fall prey to Krag, a powerful desire grows between them. But is it enough to thwart their captor's diabolical plan and his demon warriors, and survive a vampire's destiny written in blood?</span></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><b>Heart Search</b></i> by Robin D. Owens</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;">(Book 10 of Celta series)</span></li>
</ul><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd4qiTpxFBmEYeR2dheqDZTFt1Ftwb2Ewt4O_9ut2aTVDfAExXjFkuCiPGtzRmECesiR7_BB8YWfvTw7yE6PR_e3ViT9vuC6M_5UR00DVEAQrSCrDyjjqp2qOLxJM1Su1ig3WkfZAy5Cs/s1600/HeartSearch.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd4qiTpxFBmEYeR2dheqDZTFt1Ftwb2Ewt4O_9ut2aTVDfAExXjFkuCiPGtzRmECesiR7_BB8YWfvTw7yE6PR_e3ViT9vuC6M_5UR00DVEAQrSCrDyjjqp2qOLxJM1Su1ig3WkfZAy5Cs/s320/HeartSearch.jpg" width="214" /></a></div><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">Laev T'Hawthorn -- one of the highest nobles in the land -- must rebuild his life after a devastating mistake. He married a woman he believed was his HeartMate, only to learn she was a greedy social climber. She callously used him, stealing his family heirlooms. He is determined to reclaim all that he has lost -- beginning with his self-respect.</span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">Abandoned at fifteen, Camellia Darjeeling values her independence above all. She's fought to establish her own businesses -- elegant tearooms -- only to have her father and uncle re-enter her life. They emotionally scourge her and extort money. Trusting men, even her HeartMate, is too risky.</span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;"> When Laev and Camellia meet, they refuse to acknowledge that they are true HeartMates. After her shady relatives are implicated in the theft of Laev's property, Camellia and Laev's lives become ever more entangled bringing each to the brink of despair and passion...and a destiny they can no longer avoid.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><b>Midnight Sins</b></i> by Lora Leigh</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;">(Book 1 of Heroes and Heartbreakers)</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: arial;">(part of the Dark-Hunters series)</span></li>
</ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNh0Oe0GPqcL0DiItQraTyA1kppgWk_tYrgkrXYri_WGPsX7x-lccPWpm1G0WPIHftJuSYYAulRwry-QwcETBFdlkxozjghOdq5aNrGOM3fsfK1GRPGuauIXCWpZtGdJadNBJqabunQuE/s1600/Retribution.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNh0Oe0GPqcL0DiItQraTyA1kppgWk_tYrgkrXYri_WGPsX7x-lccPWpm1G0WPIHftJuSYYAulRwry-QwcETBFdlkxozjghOdq5aNrGOM3fsfK1GRPGuauIXCWpZtGdJadNBJqabunQuE/s320/Retribution.jpg" width="184" /></a></div><ul><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Harm no human…</i></span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">A hired gunslinger, William Jessup Brady lived his life with one foot in the grave. He believed that every life had a price. Until the day when he finally found a reason to live. In one single act of brutal betrayal, he lost everything, including his life. Brought back by a Greek goddess to be one of her Dark-Hunters, he gave his immortal soul for vengeance and swore he’d spend eternity protecting the humans he’d once considered prey.</span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">Orphaned as a toddler, Abigail Yager was taken in by a family of vampires and raised on one belief- Dark-Hunters are the evil who prey on both their people and mankind, and they must all be destroyed. While protecting her adoptive race, she has spent her life eliminating the Dark-Hunters and training for the day when she meets the man who killed her family: Jess Brady.</span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>A gun in the hand is worth two in the holster…</i></span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">Jess has been charged with finding and terminating the creature who’s assassinating Dark-Hunters. The last thing he expects to find is a human face behind the killings, but when that face bears a striking resemblance to the one who murdered him centuries ago, he knows something evil is going on. He also knows he’s not the one who killed her parents. But Abigail refuses to believe the truth and is determined to see him dead once and for all.</span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">Brought together by an angry god and chased by ancient enemies out to kill them both, they must find a way to overcome their mutual hatred or watch as one of the darkest of powers rises and kills both the races they’ve sworn to protect.</span></ul><ul><li><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><b>Storm's Heart</b></i> by Thea Harrison</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;">(Book 2 of The Elder Races series)</span></li>
</ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgteQ-IB4LyBinsr3vYUQqOk2fNK1wxgHMCHyYFYRID6LFeFJDadSBPVzSvbDSbeK1uLyWtc1Dxa-5KuqpAXe6AuS9gN0yOf6TCAMMM2yoP79yJ_Y69LiqFAwIkVjc8yLE4cqVuO3PvHrA/s1600/StormsHeart.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgteQ-IB4LyBinsr3vYUQqOk2fNK1wxgHMCHyYFYRID6LFeFJDadSBPVzSvbDSbeK1uLyWtc1Dxa-5KuqpAXe6AuS9gN0yOf6TCAMMM2yoP79yJ_Y69LiqFAwIkVjc8yLE4cqVuO3PvHrA/s320/StormsHeart.jpg" width="198" /></a></div><ul><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>He’s a wyr warrior, a god of storms. She’s the heir to the Dark Fae throne. But desire will bring both to their knees in this all-new Novel of the Elder Races.</i></span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">During the rule of her murderous Dark Fae uncle, Thistle “Tricks” Periwinkle found sanctuary among the wyr in New York. Her ethereal beauty and sparkling personality won the hearts of the public, but after her uncle’s death, there are those who don’t want to see her ascend to the throne…</span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">Able to wield thunder and lightning, wyr sentinel Tiago Black Eagle has ruled the skies for centuries. His massive build and thunderous power make him one of the wyr’s best weapons. And he’s sent to protect Tricks when she’s almost assassinated in Chicago.</span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">Soon, both Tiago and Tricks will fall prey to the stormy hunger that engulfs them—a passion that will shake the very foundation of all the worlds…</span></ul><span style="font-family: arial;">What are you looking forward to this week?</span></div>Eva / TXBookjunkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05934030103779551827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994083377070140771.post-46243708658897688342011-07-26T09:00:00.003-05:002011-08-02T00:55:29.047-05:00Tuesday's Most Wanted: July 26, 2011<div align="justify">I love Tuesday's partly because it's not Monday, but mostly because it's release day for new books. Today's most wanted release is Nancy Gideon's <i>Bound by Moonlight</i>, book four of Gideon's Moonlight series.<br />
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Here's the blurb:<br />
<blockquote>Detective Charlotte Caissie is suddenly sharing drawer space and making media news with her shape-shifter lover Max Savoie. Knowing the reformed mobster is determined to be accepted by her peers, how can she ask him to return to his criminal roots to help her solve a complex case<br />
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Going undercover to find the vicious serial killer who kidnapped a colleague’s daughter, Cee Cee is caught between the partner whose integrity she relies on and her fiercely possessive lover. In calling on Max to use his preternatural talents to aide a hated enemy, she crosses a line that strains their relationship to its limits.<br />
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With his secret spreading beyond those he can trust, Max is forced to make dangerous alliances to protect his family and his clan. The only certainty he has is his love for his human mate, until the loyalties that define them threaten to divide them forever.</blockquote>An <a href="http://www.nancygideon.com/moonlight-books/49-bound-by-moonlight-experpt.html">excerpt</a> is available on the author's <a href="http://www.nancygideon.com/">website</a>.</div>Eva / TXBookjunkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05934030103779551827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994083377070140771.post-32468352450223539302011-07-12T08:57:00.005-05:002011-08-02T01:12:06.743-05:00Tuesday's Most Wanted: July 12, 2011I love Tuesday's partly because it's not Monday, but mostly because it's release day for new books. Today's most wanted release is Emma Holly's <i>Hidden Talents</i>.<br />
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Here's the blurb:<br />
<blockquote>Werewolf cop Adam Santini is sworn to protect and serve all the supes in Resurrection, NY—including unsuspecting human Talents who wander in from Outside.<br />
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Telekinetic Ari is hot on the trail of a mysterious crime boss who wants to exploit her gift for his own evil ends, a mission that puts her on a collision course with the hottest cop in the RPD. Adam wants Blackwater too, but mostly he wants Ari. She seems to be the mate he’s been yearning for all his life, though getting a former street kid into bed with the Law could be his toughest case to date.</blockquote><br />
An <a href="http://www.emmaholly.com/excpt-hiddentalents.htm" target="_blank">excerpt</a> is available on the author's website.Eva / TXBookjunkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05934030103779551827noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994083377070140771.post-81042359707956787632011-06-15T07:00:00.002-05:002011-06-15T07:00:14.433-05:00Review: "Tempting the Enemy" by Dee Tenorio<div align="justify"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">I recently received an advance reader's copy (ARC) of Dee Tenorio's <i>Deceiving the Protector</i>, Book 2 of Tenorio's Resurrection series. I really enjoyed the series' first book, <i>Tempting the Enemy</i>, so I decided to do a quick re-read before diving into <i>Deceiving the Protector</i>.</span><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgcJ2l9Gc-YArxnhRGWkNueOXO6_2MGP8o308c7v7W7IbMWE7A_Jf43GyKJxJ45GEg34-RonvEgaD6nxJc8sTEV8U7sd0opyucabXh-qiUlLXXKLCBoO0Cb8Xq3h_Oard_jR55QEXDju0/s1600/DT_TemptingtheEnemy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="cover for Tempting the Enemy" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgcJ2l9Gc-YArxnhRGWkNueOXO6_2MGP8o308c7v7W7IbMWE7A_Jf43GyKJxJ45GEg34-RonvEgaD6nxJc8sTEV8U7sd0opyucabXh-qiUlLXXKLCBoO0Cb8Xq3h_Oard_jR55QEXDju0/s320/DT_TemptingtheEnemy.jpg" width="202" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: small;">Here's the blurb for <i>Tempting the Enemy</i> from the author's website:</span><br />
<blockquote><i><span style="font-size: small;">Detective Pale Rysen, an Alpha, is determined to secretly rebuild the Wolf packs from the ashes of genocide. When a killer starts picking off young females looking for sanctuary, it's his job to protect them. Forced to work with a hated enemy, he fears his cover will be blown.</span></i></blockquote><blockquote><i><span style="font-size: small;">Jade-Scarlet's membership in the powerful Order of the Sibile has always been controversial. A half-wolf, Jade's unstable psychic powers are a disappointment to her mercenary handlers. So when the Oracle commands her to work with Pale, Jade must prove herself...even if it means challenging the enigmatic shifter.</span></i></blockquote><blockquote><i><span style="font-size: small;">Yet Pale triggers more than her curiosity. He sends her into Heat, and the intense sexual attraction could mean losing control of her gifts—something she can't allow. As the number of victims rises, so does the danger. A murderous darkness wants them both dead. But even if they stop the killer, how long can they fight each other?</span></i></blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Tempting the Enemy</i> was just as enjoyable the second go around. It was an interesting world with very likeable characters. I loved how Tenorio wrote Pale; he's a true alpha hero - honorable, possessive, but patient and tender with his potential mate. The heroine isn't a push over either. Jade is a beautiful match for an alpha; she can protect herself but knows when she needs help or should heed advice. I love this scene in which Jade allows Pale to show his possessiveness yet lets him know that its because she allows it. </span></span><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: small;">She was safe. Safe and exactly where she needed to be. That is, until Rysen reached down and swept her up into his hold. Cradled in his arms, she opened her mouth to protest, but the hard command in his eyes kept her silent. Something...Wolf was going on and he needed her not to fight it...If she was right and Rysen was the Alpha of this particular group, undermining his authority would be about as healthy for her as slashing her own wrists.</span></blockquote><blockquote>Besides, his arms around her felt good.</blockquote><blockquote>Still. "You know I'm allowing this, right?"</blockquote><blockquote>His mild grunt was matched with a slight squeeze around her thighs. "If you say so."</blockquote><blockquote>So he knew he was being pandered to. She shrugged and slid her arms around his neck, breathing him in and letting him have his way. She pulled a touch of moonlight, just enough to make her point, and let her palm heat against his neck as they passed the two other men. Not to sizzle, just to tease. She smiled into his shoulder when she felt his breath hitch. She brought her lips to Rysen's ear. "Just so you don't forget."</blockquote><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">The whodunit was also a nice backdrop for the growth of Pale and Jade's relationship. Definitely a nice twist. I highly recommend trying out Dee Tenorio's work. Rating: 5/5</span><br />
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I had a chance to read a few chapters this past weekend, and so far the story is really pulling me in. This looks to be a compelling contemporary suspense novel. Just a heads up though - it was a bit confusing at the beginning of the story because Virgil is using an alias when he's first introduced. So, from page one I was trying to figure out if the blurb had the wrong name or if the character I thought was to be Virgil was actually someone else. It becomes clearer as the heroine discovers more about Virgil and the situation, but it did have me puzzled with the storyline for a moment. <br />
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Here's the back cover blurb for <i>Inside</i>:<br />
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<blockquote>Virgil Skinner served fourteen years for a murder he didn't commit. He's finally been exonerated, but he can't escape the gang he joined in order to survive. They'll do anything to keep him from telling what he knows. And if they can't get to Virgil they'll go after his sister and her kids. <br />
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The California Department of Corrections needs someone to infiltrate another gang, one that's taking control of the state's most notorious supermax. Virgil's the perfect candidate - and he'll do it in exchange for his sister's protection. <br />
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Assistant deputy warden Peyton Adams is opposed to having Virgil in her prison. How will she protect him if things go bad? Besides, she's attracted to him; she might even be falling in love with him. That makes her all the more desperate to keep him safe - and it gives him someone else to lose.</blockquote>Eva / TXBookjunkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05934030103779551827noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994083377070140771.post-91009670114872542282011-04-10T20:39:00.002-05:002011-04-10T20:54:52.694-05:00Review: Steam & Sorcery by Cindy Spencer Pape<div align="justify" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Book 1 of Cindy Spencer Pape's Gaslight Chronicles, "Steam and Sorcery" is a sweet romantic, steampunk read that takes a while to build up steam. (yeah - I went there. I couldn't resist.) I almost gave up on this after the first quarter of the book but forced myself to forge ahead. I think all the background story built up too slowly. Practically the first quarter of the book passed before the hero and heroine even appear together for more than a paragraph. I would have enjoyed this book more if the first half of the book could have been condensed into a few chapters. A few scenes were jarring to me as a historical romance reader even though the author provides an explanation. An example: the heroine, in her role as governess, is invited to dine at a dinner party - hosted by the hero's boss, a duke. The author provides an explanation, but it just didn't seemed historically accurate to the time period steampunk is set in. I understand she's not exactly of the same class as the downstairs servants, but she's not even a distant relationship or presented as such before the invite.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div>The children/orphans the hero takes in were interesting and definitely stole the show. I'd especially be interested in reading Wink's story. This e-book is available now from Carina Press. Below is the back cover blurb:</div><blockquote><i><br />
Sir Merrick Hadrian hunts monsters, both human and supernatural. A Knight of the Order of the Round Table, his use of magick and the technologies of steam power have made him both respected and feared. But his considerable skills are useless in the face of his greatest challenge, guardianship of five unusual children. At a loss, Merrick enlists the aid of a governess.<br />
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Miss Caroline Bristol is reluctant to work for a bachelor but she needs a position, and these former street children touch her heart. While she tends to break any mechanical device she touches, it never occurs to her that she might be something more than human. All she knows is that Merrick is the most dangerously attractive man she's ever met—and out of reach for a mere governess.<br />
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When conspiracy threatens to blur the distinction between humans and monsters, Caroline and Merrick must join forces, and the fate of humanity hinges upon their combined skills of steam and sorcery...</i></blockquote><br />
Rating: 2.5/5<br />
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ARC courtesy of NetGalleyEva / TXBookjunkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05934030103779551827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994083377070140771.post-69876008466209090272011-03-25T12:12:00.002-05:002011-04-10T20:43:09.248-05:00Review: "Eternal Rider" by Larissa Ione<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7maCQ44KXyNEfdk91_niWsERy6Ye29DU2SvptVW-qkKE5Vuey3hoWrDbWWpor5Z8D3yy4hw0AAhzugvqze98bZ_pFknaZY5GtGhY1vevFgmXZ3JqrgAXT9hfbdu-BqbPYtSCMdllY-aQ/s1600/Eternal_Rider.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7maCQ44KXyNEfdk91_niWsERy6Ye29DU2SvptVW-qkKE5Vuey3hoWrDbWWpor5Z8D3yy4hw0AAhzugvqze98bZ_pFknaZY5GtGhY1vevFgmXZ3JqrgAXT9hfbdu-BqbPYtSCMdllY-aQ/s320/Eternal_Rider.jpg" width="199" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
Book one of Larissa Ione's new Lords of Deliverance series, <i>Eternal Rider</i> is a little slow in places with all the world building and numerous cast of characters. However, when the action starts you can't read fast enough in your need to discover what happens. <br />
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From the back cover blurb:<br />
<blockquote>His name is Ares, and the fate of mankind tests on his powerful shoulders. If he falls to the forces of evil, the world falls too. As one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, he is far stronger than any mortal, but even he cannot fight his destiny forever. Not when his own brother plots against him.<br />
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Yet there is one last hope. Gifted in a way other humans can't - or won't - understand, Cara Thornhart is the key to both this Horseman's safety <i>and</i> his doom. But involving Cara will prove treacherous, even beyond the maddening, dangerous desire that seizes them the moment they meet. For staving off eternal darkness could have a staggering cost: Cara's life.</blockquote><br />
This new series stands on it's own from Ione's previous Demonica series, but characters from the Demonica series do make an appearance. Reading the Demonica series may help with understanding the world <i>Eternal Rider </i>is set in and the background of the characters from Demonica that make an appearance. Ione does a good job of introducing new readers to the demon world she has built (as well as reminding those already familiar with Demonica) and what happened previously in the Demonica series that affect this new series and the characters involved. I definitely recommend referencing the provided glossary before starting the book.<br />
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The ending was a little anti-climatic for me, but I did like how Ione resolved the issue with Cara and the agimortus, the object/thing/person that would convert Ares into War and trigger the fall of the world if it breaks. I'm looking forward to seeing how the other Horsemen are dealt with - especially <span class="readable" id="reviewTextContainer145347964"><span id="freeText10128482045906690606">Pestilence, who has truly turned evil.</span></span><br />
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Rating: 4/5Eva / TXBookjunkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05934030103779551827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994083377070140771.post-7549720587521519042011-03-07T23:47:00.002-06:002011-03-25T12:13:55.711-05:00I'm Weak<center><a href="https://picasaweb.google.com/asianleo8/WhilingMyDaysAway02?authkey=Gv1sRgCKr50qPB4eel0gE#5581581719969088962"><img border="0" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGL4qTbq2VD4_RgDJkpDMmgPfrqTqup4deJzCTZfgbj_BVcGlCzfo_Xo3ldrUrI-V7DhDBfJhom8nvZ13rbLIwU6iVveaatkRS-TArHO9eoxZZszMvrpk2ZIIfg1JwgGDDUiCdz9nQ8gRi/s288/0.jpg" style="margin: 5px;" width="210" /></a></center><br />
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I have no willpower. I need to cut back on expenses and get myself on a budget. One way to cut back on expenses is to cut back on my spending on books. I easily spend $100+ a month on books (hard copies and e-books). <br />
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Results of the first few days into my self-imposed buying ban: purchased four books at Borders' during their going out of business sale and two e-books via Kindle. I'm pathetic.Eva / TXBookjunkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05934030103779551827noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994083377070140771.post-91190432797358257832010-11-17T09:00:00.004-06:002010-11-17T09:00:01.225-06:00Review: "In the Dark of Dreams" by Marjorie M. Liu<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Marjorie M. Liu's latest installment in her Dirk and Steele series is the November 30, 2010 release of <em>In the Dark of Dreams</em>. I haven't had a chance to read all the books in this series, but I greatly enjoyed reading <em>The Fire King</em>, the 9th book in this series.</span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of these days I'll hunt down the rest of her backlist to read this series in order. However, while this story is part of the Dirk and Steele series and previous characters from the Dirk and Steele world make an appearance, this story can stand on it's own. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was interesting to see how the chance meeting between the hero and heroine as young children created a bond between the two that affected their futures. Each has suffered loss and disappointment, and it was nice seeing the author have the two work to open themselves up to each other and not just rely on their bond to create an instant relationship between the two. The only time I was jarred out of the story was when the hero and heroine finally have sex. After days of running from the bad guys, swimming in the ocean, crawling through a jungle, and more swimming in the ocean, wouldn't you have wanted a shower to wash off all that salt water as soon as you were in a safe place? I'm not familiar with fishing vessels, so perhaps there wasn't a shower in the head. Books usually don't go into detail about personal needs, but I think a mention of her doing the best she could to freshen up the first morning she was on the boat would have been helpful and realistic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the blurb for <em>In the Dark of Dreams</em></span>:<br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She could never forget the boy with the ice blue eyes...She was only twelve when she saw the silver boy on the beach, but Jenny has never stopped dreaming about him. Now she is grown, a marine biologist charting her own course in the family business - a corporation that covertly crosses the boundaries of science into realms of the unknown...and the incredible. <br />
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And now he has found her again, her boy grown into a man: Perrin, powerful and masculine, and so much more than human, leaving Jenny weak with desire, and aching for his touch.<br />
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But with their reunion comes danger. For Perrin and Jenny - and all living creatures - their only hope for preventing the unthinkable lies in a mysterious empire far beneath the sea...and in the power of their dreams. </span></div><br />
<span ?color:="" arial,="" black;?="" helvetica,="" sans-serif;=""><strong>SOURCE: </strong>e-ARC courtesy of HarperCollins via NetGalley</span>Eva / TXBookjunkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05934030103779551827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994083377070140771.post-29104748901769916362010-10-25T06:00:00.147-05:002010-10-26T09:52:44.472-05:00Review: "Crown of Crystal Flame" by C.L. Wilson<div align="justify"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl6NQulNEo-mYdEX_8V2EuqV_PLI8N_JXJVUAVohk6k3MU7sw2Z_BoLglDCOPEWIR7EdHUevd2BoU9KM_F5ryxf6DdSufPCTOu3eMT2qp1oozQVeaKoi2ssZOFrVnK_y7k5-CAVgfswMA/s1600/Crown_of_Crystal_Flame.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl6NQulNEo-mYdEX_8V2EuqV_PLI8N_JXJVUAVohk6k3MU7sw2Z_BoLglDCOPEWIR7EdHUevd2BoU9KM_F5ryxf6DdSufPCTOu3eMT2qp1oozQVeaKoi2ssZOFrVnK_y7k5-CAVgfswMA/s320/Crown_of_Crystal_Flame.jpg" width="201" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Cover and blurb from the Author's Website:</strong></span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em><strong>Journey Back to the Magical World of the Fading Lands. </strong></em></span><br />
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<em><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Song of Love won her heart. </span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Song of Darkness haunted her soul. </span></em><br />
<em><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Song in the Dance would seal her fate. </span></em><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seers had long foreseen an extraordinary destiny for Ellysetta Baristani. Already she had won the heart of the Fey King - the magnificent Rain, ever her ally, eternally her love. She had saved the offspring of the magical tairen and fought beside her legendary mate against the armies of Eld. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But the most powerful - and dangerous - Verse of her Song had yet to be sung. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As the final battle draws nigh and evil tightens its grip upon her soul - will Ellysetta secure the world for Light or plunge it into Darkness for all eternity? As she and Rain fight for each other, side by side, will they find a way to complete their truemate bond and defeat the evil High Mage of Eld before it's too late, or must they make the ultimate sacrifice to save their world?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>My Thoughts:</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Crown of Crystal Flame</i> by C.L. Wilson was an awesome wrap-up to the Tairen Soul series. I was a bit hesitant to start this book since the previous book, <i>Queen of Song and Souls</i> (Book 4 of the series), seemed to drag (I actually ended up skimming it). However, this final book was action packed! Danger surrounds Rain and Elly at every turn. I was a third of the way through the book, and I couldn't imagine what else Rain and Elly would have to confront. There were definitely several chapters that ended on cliff hangers - leaving you wondering if they were going to be able to escape the threat facing them and/or their people.<br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Rain and Elly eventually get their happy ever after ending, but I'm not sure if I liked the way the final showdown ended. It seemed a little too pat and fairy tale like for me. I know Elly - and Elly and Rain together - are powerful, but this still just seemed a bit much to me. I guess I imagined something more complex to resolve the threat after all Elly has gone through leading up to the final showdown. Although, now that I think it over, Elly sure does escape capture quite often via fantastical rescues. Then again, this is a fantasy book. So maybe I'm being a little too critical.<br />
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I'd definitely recommend reading books 1 through 3 (<i>Lord of the Fading Lands</i>; <i>Lady of Light and Shadows</i>; and, <i>King of Sword and Sky</i>) prior to reading this book. I don't think I really missed much skipping most of book 4 (<em>Queen of Song and Souls</em>). Wilson seemed to do a decent job recapping events that were pertinent from book 4. </span></div><div align="justify"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>SOURCE: </b>e-ARC courtesy of HarperCollins/Avon Books via NetGalley </span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Long ago, in the magical holocaust known as the Mage Wars, the immortal Fey and their allies fought to defeat the grasping evil of the Elden Mages and their dark-gifted supporters. During those wars, in a fit of grief-induced madness caused by the death of his mate, Fey shapeshifter Rain Tairen Soul nearly destroyed the world in a blaze of tairen fire.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, a thousand years later, the fierce Fey king must fight to save his race from the brink of extinction and once again stop the evil rising in the homeland of his enemies, the Eld. The key to his success lies in the mortal city of Celieria, where the Mage Wars began, and with a young woman whose soul sings to him in ways no woman’s ever has, whose presence reawakens the primal fury of the tairen within his soul, and whose vast, untapped power can either save or destroy him and his people.</span><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">BOOK 2 of the TAIREN SOUL SERIES</span></strong></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since her earliest memories, Ellysetta Baristani has feared magic, even as she has been inexorably drawn to all things Fey, especially the poetry and legends of Rain Tairen Soul. Now claimed as Rain’s truemate and no longer able to deny her own magic, Ellysetta is swept into the very center of a struggle filled with the magic and darkness she has always feared. The High Mage of Eld wants to capture her. The most murderous dahl’reisen who ever lived wants her dead. And her enemies will corrupt even the people she loves most in their quest to claim her magic for themselves.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Returning to the Fading Lands with his Celierian truemate, Rain discovers a dissension among the most powerful members of his own council. As the Eld plot their next deadly strike, Ellysetta struggles to master her powerful magic and discover how to save the tairen, while Rain confronts open challenge to his rule and prepares to lead the Fey army to war.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>BOOK 4 of the TAIREN SOUL SERIES</strong></span></div><br />
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<div align="left"><span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The first deadly battles of the new Mage Wars have been fought, and victory has been won at a terrible price. As the toll of an unfulfilled matebond and the torment of war begins tips Rain towards madness, Ellysetta knows if she cannot find a way to defeat the darkness growing inside her and complete the truemate bond, Rain will die and she will become the prophesied monster Vadim Maur uses to destroy the Fey and enslave the World. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div>Eva / TXBookjunkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05934030103779551827noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994083377070140771.post-30909040294235405892010-09-07T09:00:00.076-05:002010-09-07T09:00:01.300-05:00Release Day - September 7, 2010<div align="justify"><span style="font-family: arial;">Looks like September is going to be an expensive month for me. Here's this week's list of books that I have on my want list:</span></div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><b><i>Atlantis Betrayed</i></b> by Alyssa Day (Book 6 of the Warriors of Poseidon series)</li>
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<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><b><i>Assassin's Heart</i></b> by Monica Burns (Book 2 of the Order of the Sicari series)</li>
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<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><b><i>Chains of Fire</i></b> by Christina Dodd (Book 4 of the Chosen Ones series)</li>
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></ul><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4SYUSIvdeqEeaqHVy53t8qKjKzCJB6UN4FyoIL_IiroCTFMHEeIJsJmqI6I9kwfzIBYZzIu4JEYMkqpLxrTmzUDEKW4gIfEdr5rPvTLMDSIh1j4_qsju6WW_xI9nkmouk1jwaeM5Vmus/s1600/Chains_of_Fire.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4SYUSIvdeqEeaqHVy53t8qKjKzCJB6UN4FyoIL_IiroCTFMHEeIJsJmqI6I9kwfzIBYZzIu4JEYMkqpLxrTmzUDEKW4gIfEdr5rPvTLMDSIh1j4_qsju6WW_xI9nkmouk1jwaeM5Vmus/s320/Chains_of_Fire.jpg" /></a></div><ul style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Samuel Faa, the adopted son of servants, is a gypsy lawyer with the power to control minds. Isabelle Mason of the Boston Masons is wealthy, privileged, refined, and has the gift for healing. Two of the Chosen Ones, they hide a past filled with love and betrayal, and a future denied by fate--until the day they’re trapped underground. No way out. No way to deny the passion that still burns beneath the surface. And when danger threatens, Isabelle has only one choice: to place her trust in the power of the one man she could never forgive, or forget…</span></ul><ul></ul></div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><b><i>Healer's Choice</i></b> by Jory Strong (Book 3 of the Ghostland World series)</li>
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiusa7k-unWhYu7o2UJLA8KWhnUqxabtIu9GdaRu8HKD3F6APOf9tMlysjYn7zTAkrJq8Kzcs9kE4rJluuYK5qgfrNy-1JOG7I0y6o3FFlXrZi6oLbEnWApneJO2SlPPHLnBzzDrDiiyMs/s1600/Healers_Choice.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiusa7k-unWhYu7o2UJLA8KWhnUqxabtIu9GdaRu8HKD3F6APOf9tMlysjYn7zTAkrJq8Kzcs9kE4rJluuYK5qgfrNy-1JOG7I0y6o3FFlXrZi6oLbEnWApneJO2SlPPHLnBzzDrDiiyMs/s320/Healers_Choice.jpg" /></a></div><ul style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">In a post-Apocalyptic world where supernaturals have emerged from hiding, ancient, unseen enemies play a game that began at the dawn of human civilization. War is coming and neutrality isn’t an option. For Were shapeshifters, a healer’s gift holds the key to their survival…</span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></ul><ul style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Born into a world of violence and paid-for-sex, Rebekka longs for a family of her own and dreams of freeing those trapped in the shapeshifter brothels of the red zone. A witch’s prophecy claims she’ll one day use her gift to heal the Weres made outcast by their mixed human-animal forms. But Rebekka knows all too well that everything comes at a cost.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></ul><ul style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Made a pawn in a game she can barely glimpse, by beings whose motives she can only guess, she must navigate a dangerous course that might well cost her life. With her gift changed in terrifying ways, a plea to save five children sends her into the arms of Aryck, a Jaguar enforcer—and into territory controlled by pure Weres.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></ul><ul style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It’s a place where humans and outcasts aren’t welcomed. Where dead ancestors watch from the shadowlands and have the power to judge and punish the living. It’s a place where plague threatens and the fate of the Weres hangs in the balance. And where the choices Rebekka and Aryck make are paid for with their hearts…if not their souls. </span></ul><ul></ul></div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><b><i>The Darkest Hour</i></b> by Maya Banks (Book 1 of the KGI series)</li>
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu-OR4OF95r8w1jNNrHMrE7TbmzjBqKr3hkRmDpwoTlFrv4QlG-0-ATS3xycMHhsLW0ORtHT_aWrG-4pIxDgm5gVm5h71-0CIIVVC5CcfSnHgJs3qrVFmnUpo1RR5Di94CxFBg9hFg8zA/s1600/Darkest_Hour.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: right; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu-OR4OF95r8w1jNNrHMrE7TbmzjBqKr3hkRmDpwoTlFrv4QlG-0-ATS3xycMHhsLW0ORtHT_aWrG-4pIxDgm5gVm5h71-0CIIVVC5CcfSnHgJs3qrVFmnUpo1RR5Di94CxFBg9hFg8zA/s320/Darkest_Hour.jpg" /></a></div><ul style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>The Kelly Group International (KGI):</strong> A super elite, top secret, family-run business.</span></ul><ul style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Qualifications:</strong> High intelligence, rock hard body, military background. </span></ul><ul style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><strong>Mission:</strong> Hostage/kidnap victim recovery. Intelligence gathering. Handling jobs the US government can’t…</span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></ul><ul style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">It’s been one year since ex-Navy SEAL Ethan Kelly last saw his wife Rachel alive. Overwhelmed by grief and guilt over his failures as a husband, Ethan shuts himself off from everything and everyone.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></ul><ul style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">His brothers have tried to bring Ethan into the KGI fold, tried to break through the barriers he's built around himself, but Ethan refuses to respond… until he receives anonymous information claiming Rachel is alive.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></ul><ul style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">To save her, Ethan will have to dodge bullets, cross a jungle, and risk falling captive to a deadly drug cartel that threatens his own demise. And even if he succeeds, he’ll have to force Rachel to recover memories she can’t and doesn’t want to relive—the minute by minute terror of her darkest hour—for their love, and their lives, may depend on it.</span></ul><ul></ul></div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><b><i>No Mercy</i></b> by Sherrilyn Kenyon (Book 19 of the Hunter series; part of the Were-Hunter series)</li>
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7sh2YCA4yIQ-I1X-4p3FG6sBZC7wJYoRYwqpRIQMkonoZFsddtbMl7FcFe5GTlNkBrorNxrQAf0tuXQLV1aSKemM7jnAa974X2ieKV6MGLUFJxTURJ40lTFjgVxLDu7-0rnNhALgv5Ls/s1600/No_Mercy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7sh2YCA4yIQ-I1X-4p3FG6sBZC7wJYoRYwqpRIQMkonoZFsddtbMl7FcFe5GTlNkBrorNxrQAf0tuXQLV1aSKemM7jnAa974X2ieKV6MGLUFJxTURJ40lTFjgVxLDu7-0rnNhALgv5Ls/s320/No_Mercy.jpg" /></a></div><ul style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Live fast, fight hard and if you have to die then take as many of your enemies with you as you can. That is the Amazon credo and it was one Samia lived and died by. Now in contemporary New Orleans, the immortal Amazon warrior is about to learn that there’s a worse evil coming to slaughter mankind than she’s ever faced before.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></ul><ul style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Shapeshifter Dev Peltier has stood guard at the front of Sanctuary for almost two hundred years and in that time, he’s seen it all. Or so he thought. Now their enemies have discovered a new source of power- one that makes a mockery of anything faced to date.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></ul><ul style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">The war is on and Dev and Sam are guarding ground zero. But in order to win, they will have to break the most cardinal of all rules and pray it doesn’t unravel the universe as we know it.</span></ul><ul></ul></div><div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">
<li style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><b><i>Cruel Enchantment</i></b> by Anya Bast (Book 2 of the Dark Magic series)</li>
</span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZaryki_hOc7zwN6ICXAraOG8WwnbodpC2Zw9_Zgodasy_FoB-2pnsLSU5xlT1FaadP8uuJSUzMJ8DtlEYE42LlBKPidlWHlTQK7hiQAuygiTsXCz981Cq16euHWBrHP4FWVfRyW-BUbw/s1600/Cruel_Enchantment.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZaryki_hOc7zwN6ICXAraOG8WwnbodpC2Zw9_Zgodasy_FoB-2pnsLSU5xlT1FaadP8uuJSUzMJ8DtlEYE42LlBKPidlWHlTQK7hiQAuygiTsXCz981Cq16euHWBrHP4FWVfRyW-BUbw/s320/Cruel_Enchantment.jpg" /></a></div><ul style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><strong><span style="font-family: arial;">Even the most powerful hands need a delicate touch…</span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></strong></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">Emmaline Gallagher is a master of wielding personal glamour. As a free fae who lives among humans, she must hide her true self at all times as she works undercover within the powerful Phaendir—for if certain factions within the Phaendir gain control, the fae will be wiped from existence. Now, an object of fae power lies within a locked ancient box. And there is only one fae who can forge the key.</span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></ul><ul style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Known as “the Blacksmith” Aeric O’Malley can create or destroy almost anything with his forging skills. Emmaline has come to him in need, but he and Emmaline have a past—and he has spent centuries wanting to take revenge on her for her transgressions. But now that he has her within his grasp, something about her keeps him from exacting his vengeance—or is it merely her glamour blinding him?</span><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></ul><ul style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Trapped by fate, Emmaline must hope that she can reach Aeric’s furious heart before it’s too late…</span></ul></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">What are you looking forward to this week?</span></span></div></div><div></div>Eva / TXBookjunkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05934030103779551827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994083377070140771.post-50748358741336964302010-08-31T04:00:00.003-05:002010-08-31T04:00:04.479-05:00Release Day - August 31, 2010<div align="justify"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;">Here's this week's list of books that I have on my want list:</span><br />
<ul><span style="font-family: arial;">
<li><b><i>Midnight Crystal</i></b> by Jayne Ann Krentz (Book 3 of the Dreamlight Trilogy; Book 9 of the Arcane Society series)</li>
<span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEAnUqtIB69AGgA3SYU0KERhgiSv6e_vbHpZB5Gscpjo0_HRlaVuqGt5OZZLmbZyQntA7yXoUQazaUjglFHPi7quXoF4aYkds3lTw1FbxwvEXrx5w05LQE7YUQMrTQHduR6HbzpHQFF2c/s1600/MidnightCrystal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEAnUqtIB69AGgA3SYU0KERhgiSv6e_vbHpZB5Gscpjo0_HRlaVuqGt5OZZLmbZyQntA7yXoUQazaUjglFHPi7quXoF4aYkds3lTw1FbxwvEXrx5w05LQE7YUQMrTQHduR6HbzpHQFF2c/s320/MidnightCrystal.jpg" /></a></div><ul><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">For many earthly centuries, a legendary curse has plagued the Winters family, stemming from the tumultuous founding of the Arcane Society. But now, on the futuristic world of Harmony, the curse’s final mystery will be unraveled...</span> <span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">Adam Winters has enough responsibility as the new head of the local Ghost Hunter Guild without being saddled with the family curse. He’s convinced his recent nightmares and hallucinations will lead to him becoming a psychic rogue—unless he can find a stolen relic and a woman who can read dreamlight.</span> <span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">Marlowe Jones rides into his life on a motorcycle and with a dust bunny at her side. Though a descendant of the rival Arcane family, she’s just what Adam needs: a psychic private investigator and dreamlight reader extraordinaire.</span> <span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">Together, amid the glowing catacombs and steamy underground jungles of Harmony, Adam and Marlowe must break the curse, save the entire underworld—and fight a passion that could destroy them both... </span> <span style="font-family: arial;"> </span> <span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
<li><b><i>Renegade</i></b> by Lora Leigh (Elite Ops series)</li>
</span></span></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCnEZw9gKCJVnt3LrxT_HqkrWI0EznjdQjdod1-G1RF9931XZz_-y9XADJfmLTlMti1sW1x2geUIyG1HGouKj2TpKZgZ6WGPtY3qEMbfDxEvYIZPOh_WzyvaVBU3Bvd80KMvjG5dRwUSE/s1600/Renegade.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCnEZw9gKCJVnt3LrxT_HqkrWI0EznjdQjdod1-G1RF9931XZz_-y9XADJfmLTlMti1sW1x2geUIyG1HGouKj2TpKZgZ6WGPtY3qEMbfDxEvYIZPOh_WzyvaVBU3Bvd80KMvjG5dRwUSE/s320/Renegade.jpg" /></a></div><ul><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">As a bridal shop owner, Mikayla Martin helps make women’s wedding dreams come true. Her own life, however, has become a nightmare since she witnessed a murder—and got an up-close-and-personal look at the killer. What’s worse: She knows she knows him. But the police, after doing an alibi check, don’t believe her. It’s up to Mikayla to prove them wrong…and do whatever it takes to solve the murder by herself.<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">Elite Ops agent Nikolai Steele, code name Renegade, is asked to pay an old comrade a favor. This friend swears he’s no killer—and Nik believes him—even though he’s been mistaken as one by Mikayla. So Nik goes to set her straight…but the moment he lays eyes on the fiery and determined beauty, he knows he’s in too deep. A woman this irresistible can only mean trouble and, sure enough, after sticking her nose in one too many places, someone wants Mikayla dead. Now Nik must find a way to keep her safe, clear his friend’s name, and find the real killer, who remains on the loose…</span> <span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
<li><b><i>When Blood Calls</i></b> by J.K. Beck (Book 1 of Shadow Keepers series)</li>
</span></span></ul><ul><i><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">FYI: J.K. Beck is the newpen name for Julie Kenner.</span></span></i></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzx6gDrJmE-Q47GVBDwHhJqDUBlxaN6FOaqSv9ZMzb7jA_iE3jGnLeP0wMArwjcwTkQ1BjIkKxgRHnriyQaK85Ik2hYYx-YCq9Dyr1HweBYEUXNhooJlXauNw6XCDe4bA43DMa8VsDZVk/s1600/WhenBloodCalls.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzx6gDrJmE-Q47GVBDwHhJqDUBlxaN6FOaqSv9ZMzb7jA_iE3jGnLeP0wMArwjcwTkQ1BjIkKxgRHnriyQaK85Ik2hYYx-YCq9Dyr1HweBYEUXNhooJlXauNw6XCDe4bA43DMa8VsDZVk/s320/WhenBloodCalls.jpg" /></a></div><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">Sara Constantine is one of the country’s most tenacious prosecuting attorneys—and she’s just secured a well-earned promotion. At first she’s thrilled. Then she finds out her new job involves prosecuting vampires and werewolves. And nothing prepares Sara for the shock she receives when she meets the first defendant she’ll be trying to put away: Lucius Dragos, the sexy stranger with whom she recently shared an explosive night of ecstasy.<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">When Lucius Dragos kisses the beautiful woman sitting next to him at the bar, he’s only hoping to blend into the crowd and avoid the perceptive gaze of the man he’s following…and planning to kill. But what starts as a simple kiss to secure his cover ignites into a fierce hunger that leads to an all-consuming passion. Charged with murder, Luke knows Sara will do whatever it takes to see him locked away—unless he can convince her that he’s not the monster she thinks he is. And that might mean making the greatest sacrifice a vampire can make.</span> <span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
<li><b><i>Close Quarters</i></b> by Lucy Monroe (Book 5 of The Goddard Project series)</li>
</span></span></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBbaQHa90icIdGECt6nVOQ_TNByH4ta_6S70C6TqhldbUzB55Za2nuuBx9Wp74FLzkZblGgpviuB_NX_cXw9iwv7aad36Ovq5RHSzOHZkPXeE4fYOj-6LO086zVLtgJ0IZJ7QEvJjpnI0/s1600/CloseQuartersjpg.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBbaQHa90icIdGECt6nVOQ_TNByH4ta_6S70C6TqhldbUzB55Za2nuuBx9Wp74FLzkZblGgpviuB_NX_cXw9iwv7aad36Ovq5RHSzOHZkPXeE4fYOj-6LO086zVLtgJ0IZJ7QEvJjpnI0/s320/CloseQuartersjpg.jpg" /></a></div><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">OPPOSITES ATTRACT.<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">IF THEY DON’T COMBUST FIRST.<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">To some, he is an assassin. To others, he’s merely the man who gets the job done when no one else can. Now politico-military black-ops leader Roman Chernichenko has to take out the leak in an espionage plot that could destabilize all of Africa. Nothing will distract him from his mission. Not even the deliciously appealing blonde who’s awoken his deepest desires—and just happens to be his target...<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">Tanya Ruston is a beautiful and brainy do-gooder—and now Roman is supposed to dispose of her when all he really wants to do is seduce her. Soon it’s clear Tanya’s no information agent—and now that his conscience has gotten the better of him, he and Tanya are on the run from the good guys and bad. If they’re going to make it out alive, Roman will have to act fast—and stop thinking about how he’s going to get his feisty new charge down the aisle...<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></span></ul><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">What are you looking forward to this week?</span></span></div>Eva / TXBookjunkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05934030103779551827noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994083377070140771.post-10299768529316602592010-08-24T09:22:00.000-05:002010-08-24T09:22:46.023-05:00Release Day - August 24, 2010<div align="justify"><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;">Here's this week's list of books that I have on my want list:</span><br />
<ul><span style="font-family: arial;">
<li><b><i>Demon From the Dark</i></b> by Kresley Cole (part of the Immortals After Dark series)</li>
<span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_CC-YhXkwlmxbLue6y6UBEkcGGLuKSzbhyphenhyphenn_tJjquC30JArg3MwzKNnMtDYLrH0s2lsh-JWW4jMwJJEqQyPA__MCoLE0jnKas8ITT3PfPOBa0WhyOEoKQPFb2GZ2usU_JgMhdNWX9Chc/s1600/DemonFromTheDark.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_CC-YhXkwlmxbLue6y6UBEkcGGLuKSzbhyphenhyphenn_tJjquC30JArg3MwzKNnMtDYLrH0s2lsh-JWW4jMwJJEqQyPA__MCoLE0jnKas8ITT3PfPOBa0WhyOEoKQPFb2GZ2usU_JgMhdNWX9Chc/s320/DemonFromTheDark.jpg" /></a></div><ul><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">A dangerous demon she can't resist...Malkom Slaine: tormented by his sordid past and racked by vampiric hungers, he's pushed to the brink by the green-eyed beauty under his guard.</span></span> <span style="font-family: arial;"> </span> <span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">A maddening witch he aches to claim...Carrow Graie: hiding her own sorrows, she lives only for the next party or prank. Until she meets a tortured warrior worth saving.</span> <span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Trapped together in a savage prison...For them to survive, Malkom must unleash both the demon and vampire inside him. When he becomes the nightmare his own people feared, will he lose the woman he craves body and soul?</span></span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
<li><b><i>Sin Undone</i></b> by Larissa Ione (last book of the Demonica series)</li>
</span></span></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNr_4qOzLfvQlscCFSw8qKt1PuzE5gX8ZDS4IGduFJoeV6CSjytY3pECKF6RozJ0Q9cWYIWQZHc7KCe0MyTRzn0zgToJk02kWw47OpA4Rulyzfc6JdKrfWBUpNgXWzM4GVyk4ZdaEK_uQ/s1600/SinUndone.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNr_4qOzLfvQlscCFSw8qKt1PuzE5gX8ZDS4IGduFJoeV6CSjytY3pECKF6RozJ0Q9cWYIWQZHc7KCe0MyTRzn0zgToJk02kWw47OpA4Rulyzfc6JdKrfWBUpNgXWzM4GVyk4ZdaEK_uQ/s320/SinUndone.jpg" /></a></div><ul><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">HER TOUCH IS DEADLY</span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"> As the only female Seminus demon ever born, master assassin Sinead Donnelly is used to being treated like an outcast. She spent decades enslaved, and now vows she'll die before she'll relinquish her freedom again. Then Sin's innate ability to kill her enemies goes awry: She creates a lethal new werewolf virus that sparks a firestorm of panic and violence.</span></span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">HIS HUNGER CAN'T BE DENIED Half-werewolf, half-vampire Conall Dearghul is charged with bringing in Sin to face punishment for the plague. And she's no stranger: He's bound to her by blood, and the one sexual encounter they shared has left him hungering for her raw sensuality. Worse, Sin is the underworld's most wanted and Con soon learns he's the only one who can help her . . . and that saving her life might mean sacrificing his own.</span></span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">
<li><b><i>Bond With Me</i></b> by Anne Marsh</li>
</span></span></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3anTDEPeXijVN_FKvKXrrAobHGwf-nzRwqB014XcOec4GuaBq52UJabf4QeNeF7TvsJWQl92Bnds7Mvh2Mtn2kltlXoQbkAUQ1wgeT-0HWCTOUDRUpp2B7Idb97bAKvCKPdt4OuIJbZE/s1600/BondWithMe.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3anTDEPeXijVN_FKvKXrrAobHGwf-nzRwqB014XcOec4GuaBq52UJabf4QeNeF7TvsJWQl92Bnds7Mvh2Mtn2kltlXoQbkAUQ1wgeT-0HWCTOUDRUpp2B7Idb97bAKvCKPdt4OuIJbZE/s320/BondWithMe.jpg" /></a></div><ul><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;">This will only be available as an e-book at this time; the trade paperback from Dorchester Publishing will not be available until May 2011.</span> </ul><ul><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Fallen angels… They rule Moscow’s seedy underworld, promising untold pleasure to the females who dare to mate them. That promise – and Brends Duranov’s own raw sexual power – has hopefuls mobbing the velvet rope outside his elite club G2’s. But Mischka Baran has no intention of hooking up with one of the Fallen. Not even after Brends gives her an unforgettable taste of the sin and seduction he can deliver with those wicked lips. She’s after information, not a stint as some Goblin’s toy of the month. What she doesn’t know is that with a sadistic killer carving up his brethren, Brends is playing for keeps, hunting the one woman whose bloodline can end the mayhem, whose bond can restore his lost wings.</span></span> <span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span> <span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></span></ul><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">What are you looking forward to this week?</span></span></div></div>Eva / TXBookjunkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05934030103779551827noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994083377070140771.post-72204255599217954742010-08-03T01:01:00.001-05:002010-08-24T08:41:20.829-05:00Release Day - August 3, 2010<div align="justify">Here's this week's list of books that I have on my want list:<br />
<ul><li><i>Nauti and Wild</i> anthology with Lora Leigh and Jaci Burton</li>
<li><i>Whisper Kiss</i> by Deborah Cooke(Book 5 of Dragonfire series)</li>
<li><i>Burning Up</i> anthology with Angela Knight, Nalini Singh, Virginia Kantra, and Meljean Brook</li>
</ul>I'm really looking forward to Meljean Brook's novella in the <i>Burning Up</i> anthology. It's a companion novella to her new steampunk series, The Iron Seas. The first novel in the series is <i>The Iron Duke</i>, due out October 5, 2010. What are you looking forward to this week?</div>Eva / TXBookjunkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05934030103779551827noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5994083377070140771.post-18841554864235380852010-07-26T13:36:00.002-05:002010-07-26T13:41:35.592-05:00Feeding the Habit: Sins of the Heart by Eve Silver<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This past weekend, I read Eve Silver's newest book, <em>Sins of the Heart</em>. It's book one of her new Otherkin trilogy. I enjoyed reading her latest paranormal. It was interesting to see bits and pieces of various beliefs regarding the underworld and hell meshed together in Silver's new world. The heroine's loneliness felt a bit spoon-fed. Yes, she's been alone since she's been a teen. Why doesn't she try to make friends though? What's stopping her? The relationship between the hero and heroine seemed more one-sided. The hero seemed to be the one doing more of the giving then the heroine, but I guess you could assume that was due to the heroine being afraid to connect since she'd lost her family when she was young. </span><br />
<a name='more'></a>However, I do like the new world Silver has put together, and I'm interested in seeing how the overall arc of the story resolves itself as well as how the other soul reaper brothers meet their fate. My take: <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI-rxdDFUF4eVZONhPrykZ-zA4LSP66f5a2YdRZY-lUJPEXw50FeRTU0e0klvaAdtR5zu1YoWZKNnNqnU3CPt1cXHUY_Yq6jicH16tBT4KhnVpiMnknHUIltsJQwfbJV8jyeyLBJUIKb8/s1600-h/Green_Heart.gif"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357815665186114066" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI-rxdDFUF4eVZONhPrykZ-zA4LSP66f5a2YdRZY-lUJPEXw50FeRTU0e0klvaAdtR5zu1YoWZKNnNqnU3CPt1cXHUY_Yq6jicH16tBT4KhnVpiMnknHUIltsJQwfbJV8jyeyLBJUIKb8/s200/Green_Heart.gif" style="height: 15px; width: 15px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI-rxdDFUF4eVZONhPrykZ-zA4LSP66f5a2YdRZY-lUJPEXw50FeRTU0e0klvaAdtR5zu1YoWZKNnNqnU3CPt1cXHUY_Yq6jicH16tBT4KhnVpiMnknHUIltsJQwfbJV8jyeyLBJUIKb8/s1600-h/Green_Heart.gif"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357815665186114066" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI-rxdDFUF4eVZONhPrykZ-zA4LSP66f5a2YdRZY-lUJPEXw50FeRTU0e0klvaAdtR5zu1YoWZKNnNqnU3CPt1cXHUY_Yq6jicH16tBT4KhnVpiMnknHUIltsJQwfbJV8jyeyLBJUIKb8/s200/Green_Heart.gif" style="height: 15px; width: 15px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI-rxdDFUF4eVZONhPrykZ-zA4LSP66f5a2YdRZY-lUJPEXw50FeRTU0e0klvaAdtR5zu1YoWZKNnNqnU3CPt1cXHUY_Yq6jicH16tBT4KhnVpiMnknHUIltsJQwfbJV8jyeyLBJUIKb8/s1600-h/Green_Heart.gif"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5357815665186114066" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhI-rxdDFUF4eVZONhPrykZ-zA4LSP66f5a2YdRZY-lUJPEXw50FeRTU0e0klvaAdtR5zu1YoWZKNnNqnU3CPt1cXHUY_Yq6jicH16tBT4KhnVpiMnknHUIltsJQwfbJV8jyeyLBJUIKb8/s200/Green_Heart.gif" style="height: 15px; width: 15px;" /></a>. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's also an electronic prequel, <em>Sin's Daughter</em>, that I'm mulling over whether I want to buy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the blurb for <em>Sins of the Heart</em></span>:<br />
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<span style="color: #274e13; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Half human, half god, Dagan Krayl is the Underworld's most powerful soul reaper. When one of his brothers is murdered, Dagan must use every ounce of his power to hunt down those responsible for his brutal death. But he must move swiftly—and carefully—if he's to have any chance of resurrecting his brother.<br />
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Yet that resurrection could wreak havoc on the mortal world. As an Otherkin, Roxy Tam has sworn to protect the human race, and it's her mission to stop Dagan. But when she sees him face-to-face, she realizes that she has seen him once before—a meeting that changed her life forever.<br />
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Neither Dagan nor Roxy expect to join forces for the sake of mankind. Or to have their loyalties tested as they struggle against the potent desire that threatens to consume them both…</span></div>Eva / TXBookjunkiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05934030103779551827noreply@blogger.com0