Once again, Top Ten Tuesday is brought to us by The Broke and The Bookish. Click the picture for a link. This weeks isn’t so much a genuine top ten as the first ten that struck my interest from my ‘Read’ shelf on Goodreads, but here it is none the less… The top ten characters […]
Read the rest of this entry »Blood Promise- Richelle Mead
The recent attack on St. Vladimir’s Academy devastated the entire Moroi world. Many are dead. And, for the few victims carried off by Strigoi, their fates are even worse. A rare tattoo now adorns Rose’s neck, a mark that says she’s killed far too many Strigoi to count. But only one victim matters . . […]
Read the rest of this entry »Shadow Kiss- Richelle Mead
Synopsis: Is Rose’s fate to kill the person she loves most? It’s springtime at St. Vladimir’s Academy, and Rose Hathaway is this close to graduation. Since Mason’s death, Rose hasn’t been feeling quite right. She has dark flashbacks in the middle of practice, can’t concentrate in class, and has terrifying dreams about Lissa. But Rose […]
Read the rest of this entry »Iron Crowned- Richelle Mead
Synopsis: Shaman-for-hire Eugenie Markham is the best at banishing entities trespassing in the mortal realm. But as the Thorn Land’s queen, she’s fast running out of ways to end the brutal war devastating her kingdom. Her only hope: the Iron Crown, a legendary object even the most powerful gentry fear. . . Who Eugenie can […]
Read the rest of this entry »Moon Called- Patricia Briggs
Synopsis: Mercy Thompson’s sexy next-door neighbor is a werewolf. She’s tinkering with a VW bus at her mechanic shop that happens to belong to a vampire. But then, Mercy Thompson is not exactly normal herself … and her connection to the world of things that go bump in the night is about to get her […]
Read the rest of this entry »The Black Jewels Trilogy- Guest post by Chelle
It’s a rather odd experience: donning the robe of a wary evangelist. For all the warmth it offers, that robe is a heavy garment, woven together as it is with thick threads of deeply-hued love, brightly embellished with moments and hours spent immersed in an another world, and held together by zigzag seams of worry […]
Read the rest of this entry »Favorite Authors Month- Carrie Vaughn
Welcome to favorite’s month! One straight month of me gushing week after week about my favorite authors and hopefully convincing some of you to pick up their books. This week, we’re jumping right in with Carrie Vaughn. Carrie is best known for her Kitty Norville books, the most recent of which, ‘ Kitty’s Big Trouble’, […]
Read the rest of this entry »Kitty’s Big Trouble- Carrie Vaughn
Synopsis: Kitty Norville is back and in more trouble than ever. Her recent run-in with werewolves traumatized by the horrors of war has made her start wondering how long the US government might have been covertly using werewolves in combat. Have any famous names in our own history might have actually been supernatural? She’s got […]
Read the rest of this entry »Fave Reads of 2011- So far!
I love, love, love this idea. I can always use an excuse to gush about the books I’ve read. I tried not to reuse any books but it didn’t work out that well. I’ve read 44 books so far this year, but what can I say, some were just better than others. I think my […]
Read the rest of this entry »Favorite’s Month
I am officially declaring August to be ‘Favorites Month’ at ReaWrite. I will be dedicating each of the four weeks of August to one of my favorite authors. I’ll be reviewing a couple of their books, doing a giveaway for each author, yammering on about why I love them, and I even have an author […]
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