This is absolutely a Sunday for reading! Last night around 1am I finished Ashes, Ashes by Jo Treggiari so that’s one checked off the list. I’m trying not to have a million different books on the go all the time, but it never seems to work out that way so I wouldn’t be surprised if […]
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The Guild: Knights of Good
ARC provided by the publisher via NetGalley in exchange for a fair and honest review. Synopsis: Set before the first season of the show, these hilarious stories delighted fans and newbies alike and introduced plots that influenced the show itself, including season 5’s backstory of Tink, originally hinted at in these pages. Featuring a huge […]
Read the rest of this entry »House of Night Legacy- P.C. Cast
Synopsis: Until recently, Zoey Redbird was an average high-school student worrying about grades, boys, and breakouts. But priorities have a way of changing when you are Marked as a vampyre, enroll in the vampyre academy House of Night, and have to figure out a whole new social hierarchy, affinities for elemental magic, and physiological changes […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Pros & Cons of Graphic Novels
Pros 1. The visuals- Yup, this part is blatantly obvious. Graphic novels have pretty, pretty pictures… how clever of me for noticing. They are fantastic though and they change the way you experience a story. When you’re reading a graphic novel set in a world you know from a book it can be really exciting […]
Read the rest of this entry »Dollhouse: The Epitaphs – Andrea Chambliss
Synopsis: The Rossum Corporation”s Dollhouse technology has gone viral with a synchronized phone call that wiped the minds of everyone it reached, turning them into mindless killers. Those who avoided the call – including show favorites Echo, Alpha, Mag, Zone, and Griff – must try to survive in the sudden apocalypse and be wary of […]
Read the rest of this entry »Welcome to Graphic Novel Week!!
Three cheers for feature weeks! This time we’re taking a close look at some new and upcoming graphic novel titles. Alas, not actually Watchmen but that has always been the icon for all things graphic novel in my mind. I should probably read it then, huh? Graphic Novels have always been something that I wish […]
Read the rest of this entry »World War Z- Max Brooks (Audiobook)
The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote […]
Read the rest of this entry »A little bit of BEA wisdom
1. Rooms in New York are a lot smaller than you’re used to. I had stayed in NYC before but you never really appreciate it until you and three other women are staying in a tiny room with 300 books. Eep! We managed just fine, but it did take some creative thinking to keep everyone’s […]
Read the rest of this entry »Haunted- Kelley Armstrong
Synopsis: Eve Levine — half-demon, black witch and devoted mother — has been dead for three years. She has a great house, an interesting love life and can’t be killed again — which comes in handy when you’ve made as many enemies as Eve. Yes, the afterlife isn’t too bad — all she needs to […]
Read the rest of this entry »Honey, I’m home!!!
Hello, hello! As promised, I have returned. I’m all kinds of jet lagged but back all the same. Don’t worry, this is not an excuse not to jump back into things, I have been hard at work on various posts during my time away and have a few little revamps planned for the summer months […]
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