My Wishlist: The Absolutely-Must-Have-Now Urban Fantasy Edition

Hi Everyone!

It’s been a long time since I last did a My Wishlist post as I was trying to be good and not make my pleading TBR pile explode, but you know how it is with us bookaholics, we just can’t stop or say no for that matter… So take a look at all the new releases I have been coveting and yearning for, I know that my creaking TBR pile will understand and be happy to welcome these new additions, I mean who wouldn’t be ecstatic to get their hands on these fantastic books?

So let me show you which books I can’t wait to add to my shelves!

Shadow Bound by Rachel Vincent

Book #2 in the Unbound series

If you live in the dark long enough, you begin to forget the light…

Kori Daniels is a shadow-walker, able to travel instantly …

The Good, the Bad and the Are-You-Kidding-Me?

Today we want to talk about a topic that irks the hell out of us. We are sure you noticed this too but we finally couldn’t hold back any longer. Changing the cover model in the middle of the series seems to be a bigger habit than we thought so we tried to come up with a few examples to show you how it’s well and not so well done. Here’s what we found. Let us know what you think about our selection.

Susi: Our first example is probably also the one where this whole different cover model problem is handled best. You can’t really see her face on Alpha so it’s harder to noticed that it’s not the same girl. I actually really like how they …

Review: Stray by Rachel Vincent

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 618Release Date: 1st June 2010Publisher: MiraFormats Available: Paperback, EbookPurchasing Info:  Author’s Website; Goodreads; BookDepository.com, BookDepository.co.uk, Amazon,Book Blurb:

I look like an all-American grad student. But I am a werecat, a shape-shifter, and I live in two worlds.

Despite reservations from my family and my Pride, I escaped the pressure to continue my species and carved out a normal life for myself. Until the night a Stray attacked.

I’d been warned about Strays – werecats without a Pride, constantly on the lookout for someone like me: attractive, female and fertile. I fought him off, but then learned two of my fellow tabbies had disappeared.
This brush with danger was all my Pride needed to summon me back… for my own protection. Yeah, right. But …

Review: My Soul To Keep (Soul Screamers, #3) by Rachel Vincent

Format Read: BookNumber of Pages: 304Release Date: June 1, 2010Publisher: HarlequinFormats Available: Paperback, Ebook, AudioPurchasing Info: Amazon, Book Depository, Goodreads, Rachel Vincent’s Website

Book Blurb:

WHEN KAYLEE CAVANAUGH SCREAMS, SOMEONE DIES
AND KAYLEE IS ABOUT TO SCREAM HER HEAD OFF…

Kaylee has one addiction: her very hot, very popular boyfriend, Nash. A banshee like Kaylee, Nash understands her like no one else. Nothing can come between them.

Until something does.

Demon’s breath. No, not the toothpaste-challenged kind. The Netherworld kind. The kind that really can kill you. Somehow, the super-addictive substance has made its way to the human world. But how? Kaylee and Nash have to cut off the source and protect their friends—one of whom is already hooked.

And when the epidemic hits too close to home, Kaylee will have to risk everything to save those she …

Review: My Soul To Save by Rachel Vincent

Format Read: BookNumber of Pages: 279Release Date: December 29, 2009Publisher: Harlequin Formats Available: Paperback, Ebook, AudioPurchasing Info: Amazon, Goodreads, Rachel Vincent’s Website

Book Blurb:“If she were going to die, I’d already be screaming. I’m a banshee. That’s what we do.”

The last thing Kaylee needs right now is to be skipping school, breaking her dad’s ironclad curfew and putting her boyfriend’s loyalty to the test. But starry-eyed teens are trading their souls for a flickering lifetime of fame and fortune in exchange for eternity in the Netherworld — a consequence they can’t possibly understand. Kaylee can’t let that happen, even if trying to save their souls means putting her own at risk….

My Thoughts:Ok first of all I just have to say it: WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON WITH NASH?! This boy…I love him, I really do, he’s …

Review: My Soul To Take by Rachel Vincent

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 279Release Date: August 1, 2009Publisher: HarlequinFormats Available: Paperback, Ebook, AudioPurchasing Info: Amazon, Goodreads, Rachel Vincent’s Website

Book Blurb:She doesn’t see dead people, but… She senses when someone near her is about to die. And when that happens, a force beyond her control compels her to scream bloody murder. Literally. Kaylee just wants to enjoy having caught the attention of the hottest guy in school. But a normal date is hard to come by when Nash seems to know more about her need to scream than she does. And when classmates start dropping dead for no apparent reason, only Kaylee knows who’ll be next…This is my first Rachel Vincent book, I have them all, at least all that are out so far, but I have yet to pick any up…but I have read …

Review: Shift by Rachel Vincent

Format Read: eBook

Number of Pages: 441
Release Date: March 1st 2010
Publisher: Mira
Formats Available: Paperback, eBook
Purchasing Info: GoodReads, Author Website, Book Depository

Book received as a Review Copy from netgalley.

Book Blurb:Being the first female werecat enforcer isn’t easy. Scars accumulate, but I’m stronger in so many ways.As for my personal life? It’s complicated. Choices worth making always are. Ever since my brother’s death and my father’s impeachment, it’s all I can do to prevent more blood from spilling. Now our Pride is under attack by a flight of vicious thunderbirds. And making peace with our new enemies may be the only way to get the best of our old foe. With the body count rising and treachery everywhere, my instincts tell me to look before I leap. But sometimes a leap of faith is the only real option…

My …