Review: Urban Shaman by C.E. Murphy

Format read: ebook from library
Genre: urban fantasy
Series: Walker Papers, #1
Release Date: June 1, 2009 (reprint edition; original edition published June 1, 2005)
Number of pages: 416 pages
Publisher: Luna
Formats available: ebook, paperback, audiobook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Books-a-Million, Barnes & Noble, Book Depository

Book Blurb:

Joanne Walker has three days to learn to use her shamanic powers and save the world from the unleashed Wild Hunt.

No worries. No pressure. Never mind the lack of sleep, the perplexing new talent for healing herself from fatal wounds, or the cryptic, talking coyote who appears in her dreams.

And if all that’s not bad enough, in the three years Joanne’s been a cop, she’s never seen a dead body–but she’s just come across her second in three days.

It’s been a bitch of a week.

And it isn’t over yet.

My Thoughts:

I’d been looking forward to trying this UF series for quite some time. As far as urban fantasy institutions …

Review: Blushing Violet by Ann Mayburn

Format read: ebook copy provided by author
Release Date: 18 November 2011
Number of pages: 110 pages
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon

Blurb:

Shy and quirky Violet Bishop has finally found the perfect way to meet a man who could fulfill her hidden submissive desires, something that she has never dared to ask her conservative and uptight ex-boyfriends to do. She joins an on-line matchmaking site that puts couples together based on the books that they love, in this case the BDSM erotica that lines her bookshelves.

Two Dominant best friends and business partners, Carlos Romano and Morgan Kane, are matched with Violet. They both want to date her and rather than fight about it they decide to keep the fact that they know each other away from her and let her pick who she wants to be with. A good idea in theory but something that …

Review: Frostbite by Moira Rogers

Format read: ebook received from author for review
Series: Book #5 in the Last Call Series
Genre: erotic paranormal romance
Release Date: April 10th, 2012
Number of pages: 35 pages
Formats available: ebook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, All Romance Ebooks, Barnes & Noble, Amazon (UK)

Book Blurb:

Kelsey Almeida has lived every one of her lifetimes in relative silence. Her voice is a lure, one that can overcome the strongest of wills. Magic has enabled the Siren to live a normal life…except when it comes to sex. When she’s aroused, no charm can obscure the call of her voice.

Frostbite: Looking for a partner immune to supernatural seduction.

Nothing pierces the icy cool of Cain’s armor. A reaper can’t afford to be swayed by human emotions, even if he still has human needs. Kelsey’s voice heats his blood, but it’s the pleasure of unraveling her secrets that threatens to melt …

Review: Discount Armageddon by Seanan McGuire

Format Read: Paperback purchased by reviewer
Number of Pages: 368 pages
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Publisher: DAW
Series: InCryptid, #1
Formats Available: Mass Market Paperback, e-book
Purchasing Info: Goodreads,  Author’s Website,  Amazon,  Book Depository, Barnes & Noble

Book Blurb:

Cryptid, noun: Any creature whose exsistence has not yet been proven by science. See also “monster.”

Cryptozoologist, noun: Any person who thinks hunting for cryptids is a good idea. See also “idiot.”

Ghoulies. Ghosties. Long-legged beasties. Things that go bump in the night… The Price family has spent generations studying the monsters of the world, working to protect them from humanity-and humanity from them. Enter Verity Price. Despite being trained from birth as a cryptozoologist, she’d rather dance a tango than tangle with a demon, and is spending a year in Manhattan while she pursues her career in professional ballroom dance.

Sounds pretty simple, right? It would be, if it weren’t for the talking mice, the telepathic mathematicians, the asbestos …

Review: Green – Eyed Demon by Jaye Wells

Format Read:Paperback purchased by reviewer
Number of Pages:376 pages
Release Date:March 1st 2011
Publisher:Orbit
Series: Sabina Kane Book 3
Formats Available: Paperback,e-book, Kindle Edition, Audio CD
Purchasing Info: Goodreads,  Author’s Website,  Amazon,  Amazon Kindle,  Kobo,  Book Depository

Book Blurb:

Things to do:

1. Rescue sister.
2. Murder grandmother.
3. Don’t upset the voodoo priestess.

The clock is ticking for Sabina Kane. Her sister has been kidnapped by her grandmother, the Dark Races are on the brink of war, and a mysterious order is manipulating everyone behind the scenes.

Working on information provided by an unlikely ally, Sabina and her trusty sidekicks–a sexy mage named Adam Lazarus and Giguhl, a Mischief demon–head to New Orleans to begin the hunt for her sister. Once there, they must contend with belligerent werewolves, magic-wielding vampires and–perhaps most frightening of all–humans.

But as much as Sabina is focused on surviving the present, the past won’t be ignored. Before she …