Review: Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 418Release Date: 27 MayPublisher: DefinitionsFormats Available: PaperbackPurchasing Info:  Author’s Website, Goodreads, BookDepository US, BookDepository UK, Amazon,Book Blurb: 

“You’ve always been my best friend, my soul mate, and now I’ve fallen in love with you too. Why is that such a crime?”

She is pretty and talented – sweet sixteen and never been kissed.
He is seventeen, gorgeous and on the brink of a bright future.
And now they have fallen in love. But…
They are brother and sister.

My Thoughts:

Warning: This book is NOT suitable for younger teens.

That was possibly the most horrifyingly moving book I have ever read.

The Whitely kids don’t have it easy. …

Review: The Book of Lost Threads by Tess Evans

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 368Release Date: June 2010Publisher: Allen and UnwinFormats Available: Paperback Purchasing Info: The Book Depository.co.uk, The Book Depository.com, Good Reads, Allen and Unwin

Book Blurb:

Tender, funny and memorable, Book of Lost Threads is a story about love and loss, parents and children, hope, faith and the value of simple kindness.

Moss has run away from Melbourne to Opportunity on the trail of a man she knows only by name. But her arrival sets in train events that disturb the long-held secrets of three of the town’ s inhabitants: Finn, a brilliant mathematician, who has become a recluse; Lily Pargetter, eighty-three-year-old knitter of tea cosies; and Sandy, the town buffoon, who dreams of a Great Galah.

It is only as Moss, Finn, Lily and Sandy develop unlikely friendships that they find a way to lay their …

Review: Crazy for Love by Victoria Dahl

Format Read: eARCNumber of Pages: 384 pagesRelease Date: July 1st, 2010Publisher: HQN BooksFormats Available: eBook, MMPBPurchasing Info: GoodReads, Author’s Website, BookDepository, Amazon.com

Book received from netgalley.

Book Blurb:

Chloe Turner thought she was going to marry the perfect man-until her fiancé’s plane crashed. And then she got the really bad news: he’d tried to fake his own death to avoid marrying her. Now America’s most famous bridezilla (a tag she most definitely does not deserve), Chloe escapes to a remote island to avoid the paparazzi. And right next door is a man who just might be the cure
for Chloe’s heartache….

A magnet for wild, complicated women, Max Sullivan is relieved to have finally found someone “normal.” Chloe is his girl-next-door fantasy come to life, and best of all, she gets him. With her, he can be himself, …

Interview: Author, Vicki Pettersson + Giveaway

We are very happy to have Vicki Pettersson here today. She’s the author of the Sings of the Zodiac series and here today to talk about her newest release Cheat the Grave (review can be found here). She also offers a huge prize pack for one lucky commenter so be sure to read till the end.Please give her a warm welcome.The Geeky Lover: Hey Vicki. So great to have you here. Perhaps we should start with a few essentials: Tell us a bit about yourself?

You know, I met a woman the other day who was my age, also nearing the fourth decade of her life, and who had also been born and raised in Las Vegas. It’s funny how meeting someone like that is akin to running into an old relative. You have the same recollection of events …

Review: Cheat the Grave by Vicki Pettersson

Format Read: digital ARCNumber of Pages: 464 pagesRelease Date: June 1st, 2010Publisher: EosFormats Available: Paperback, eBookPurchasing Info: GoodReads, Author’s Website, Book Depository

Book Blurb:Las Vegas socialite and otherworldly avenger Joanna Archer gave up everything when she embraced mortality—abandoning her powers and altering her destiny to save a child . . . and a city. Now her former allies are her enemies—and her enemies have nothing to fear.

Yet still she is bound to a prophecy that condemns her to roam a nightmare landscape that ordinary humans cannot see and dare not enter. And a beast is on her trail—an insane killer blinded by bloodlust, who’s determined to rip much more from Joanna than merely her now-fragile life. Survival is no longer an option in this dark realm where good and evil have blurred into confusing shades of gray—unless she can …

Review: Carson’s Night by Teal Ceagh

Format read: EbookNumber of Pages: 67 pagesRelease Date: April 2nd, 2010Publisher: Ellora’s CaveFormats Available: Hardcover, EbookPurchasing Info: Author Website, Ellora’s Cave

Book provided by author for this review

Book Blurb:It’s August 1977 in New York City and the weird sculptor Moss Alex Meinhardt lies dead at the foot of an ugly gargoyle he’s half completed. Natalia Grey’s demon-hunter father is also dead, and his new partner, the astonishingly sexy Carson Connors, can’t remember how it happened.Carson isn’t sure what role he has played in Natalia’s father’s death, but after one look at Natalia, he does know that guilty or not, he’s doomed.Natalia must take up her father’s sword and her heritage as a demon hunter and figure out what happened, for the gargoyles Meinhardt carved have life they shouldn’t have …

Explore this: Prague

As bookish people, we seek out our favourite reading spot and allow ourselves to be swiftly taken to different times and places. My new feature here focuses on the “places”. Call me your armchComposeair reference guide to the (literal) world of books; the less expensive way to explore our world, right here at your fingertips.

 I reviewed Vampire a Go-Go by Victor Gischler here yesterday. It starts off in anytown America…I don’t think it ever tells you where “Gothic State University” is, so that part is unimportant. We’re quickly whisked away to Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. To quote the Wikipedia entry, “Situated on the Vltava River in central Bohemia, Prague has been the political, cultural and economic centre of the Czech state for more than 1100 years. For many decades during the Gothic and Renaissance eras, …