Review: Crazy by Eve Langlais

Format Read: Ebook
Number of Pages: 52
Release Date: 22 November 2010
Publisher: Liquid Silver Books
Formats Available: EBook
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon

Blurb:

Institutionalized at a young age after the breakup of her parents, Ella’s always heard voices. Even worse, the voices in her head like to act. She thinks she’s crazy and destined to be a patient for life until the night she meets a vampire and for the first time in her life, the voices shut up.

Zane just wants to enjoy his usual blood buffet, instead he runs into a wisp of a woman who makes him feel emotions he thought long dead. Rescuing her from the insane …

Review: A Lot Like Love by Julie James

Format Read: e-Book ARC provided by Author for reviewLength: 304 PagesRelease Date: March 1, 2011Publisher: Berkley SensationFormats Available: Paperback, e-Book, KindlePurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Book Depository, Amazon.com, Borders, Barnes & Noble, Powell’s, IndieBound, Chapters, Kindle, Nook.

Book Blurb:

The FBI wants her cooperation.

As the daughter of a billionaire and the owner of the city’s top wine store, Jordan Rhodes is invited to the most exclusive parties in Chicago. But there’s only one party the FBI wants to crash: the charity fundraiser of a famous restaurateur, who also happens to launder money for the mob. In exchange for her brother’s release from prison, Jordan is going to be there—with a date supplied by the Bureau.

Agent McCall just wants her.

As the top undercover agent in Chicago, Nick McCall has one rule: never …

Review: Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 266Release Date: 1 October 1993Publisher: Jove BooksFormats Available: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio Book, EBookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon

Blurb:

When St. Louis’s most powerful vampire comes to Anita Blake for help, she is faced with her greatest fear-a man capable of arousing in her a hunger strong enough to match his own.

My Thoughts:

I can’t believe I waited this long to start this series. It is awesome!

Anita Blake is a necromancer, which basically means that she can raise the dead, making zombies. With vampires out in public, Anita doesn’t have to hide her powers because seriously what’s more scary, a vampire or a chick that can make …

Review: What I Did For A Duke by Julie Anne Long

Format Read: e-ARC provided by NetgalleyNumber of Pages: 384 pagesRelease Date: February 22nd 2011Publisher: AvonFormats Available: Paperback, EbookPurchasing Info: Author website, Goodreads, Amazon

Book Blurb:

For years, he’s been an object of fear, fascination . . . and fantasy. But of all the wicked rumors that shadow the formidable Alexander Moncrieffe, Duke of Falconbridge, the ton knows one thing for certain: only fools dare cross him. And when Ian Eversea does just that, Moncrieffe knows the perfect revenge: he’ll seduce Ian’s innocent sister, Genevieve—the only Eversea as yet untouched by scandal. First he’ll capture her heart . . . and then he’ll break it.

But everything about Genevieve is unexpected: the passion simmering beneath her cool control, the sharp wit tempered by gentleness . . . And though Genevieve has heard the whispers about the duke’s …

Review: "What She Needs", by Anne Rainey

Format Read: e-Book ARC provided by Author for reviewLength: 54 pagesSeries: A Cape May Book IIIRelease Date: February 22, 2011Publisher: Samhain PublishingFormats Available: e-Book, Kindle, NookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Kindle, Samhain Publishing, B&N Nook, Books On Board

Book Blurb:

Part 2 of Tory, Devon and Con’s love triangle

Taking turns was never their strong suit…

Devon Mason and Con Walker are sexy, honorable, loving, and completely devoted. In other words, everything Tory looks for in a relationship. But what’s she supposed to buy her two lovers on V Day? Chocolate? How average is that? Their little love triangle is anything but average!

When Con surprises her with a weekend in Cancun, just the three of them, Tory is all over it—until she realizes Con forgot to include Devon in the package. Now their little love triangle is …

Review: "Turn It Up", by Vivian Arend

Format Read: e-Book provided by Novel Sidekick for review courtesy of the AuthorLength: NovelSeries: Turner Twins, Book TwoRelease Date: February 8, 2011Publisher: Samhain PublishingFormats Available: e-Book, KindlePurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Kindle, Samhain Publishing, B&N Nook, Books On Board

She wants it. He’s got it…and a whole lot more.

Maxwell Turner considers his stubborn and resourceful attitude a plus. After all, it usually gets him what he wants—except for Natasha Bellingham. The long-time family friend may be ten years older than he, but so what? He’s plenty old enough to know they belong together. Now all he has to do is convince her.

Over the past few years Natasha’s love life has degenerated into a series of bad clichés. Her biological clock is ticking—loudly. As a proven architect with her own house-design company, she’s financially …

Review: The Zero Dog War by Keith Melton

Format Read: ebook ARC provided by authorNumber of Pages: 278 pagesRelease Date: February 15th, 2011Publisher: SamhainFormats Available: various ebook formatsPurchasing Info: Author website, Goodreads, Amazon, BooksOnBoard

Book Blurb:

The first bullet is always free. After that, you gotta pay.

Zero Dog Missions, Book 1

After accidentally blowing up both a client facility and a cushy city contract in the same day, pyromancer and mercenary captain Andrea Walker is scrambling to save her Zero Dogs. A team including (but not limited to) a sexually repressed succubus, a werewolf with a thing for health food, a sarcastic tank driver/aspiring romance novelist, a three-hundred-pound calico cat, and a massive demon who really loves to blow stuff up.

With the bankruptcy vultures circling, Homeland Security throws her a high-paying, short-term contract even the Zero Dogs can’t screw up: destroy a capitalist necromancer bent on …

Review: Metatropolis: Cascadia by Jay Lake, Tobias Buckell, Mary Robinette Kowal, Elizabeth Bear, Ken Scholes & Karl Schroeder

Format Read: AudiobookNumber of Pages: 12 hours 45 minutesRelease Date:  November 16th, 2010Publisher: Audible FrontiersFormats Available: AudiobookPurchasing Info: Audiobook’s Website(audible.com), Goodreads, Amazon

Book Blurb:

The provocative sequel to the Hugo and Audie Award-nominated METAtropolis features interconnected stories by today’s top speculative fiction writers, performed by a galaxy of Star Trek ® stars.

As the mid-21st century approaches, the Pacific Northwest has been transformed — politically, economically, and ecologically — into the new reality of Cascadia. Conspiracies and secrets threaten the tenuous threads of society. The End of Days seems nearer than ever. And the legend of the mysterious Tygre Tygre looms large.

METAtropolis: Cascadia is the creation of Hugo and World Fantasy Award nominee Jay Lake; Mary Robinette Kowal, winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer; New York Times best-selling author Tobias S. Buckell; Hugo Award winner Elizabeth …

Review: A Ghostly Menage by Eve Langlais

Format Read: EbookNumber of Pages: 59 pagesRelease Date: 15 October 2010Publisher: Cobblestone PressFormats Available: EbookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads

Book Blurb:

Forget ghosts who rattle chains, try living with ones that like to grope.

Jenna, desperate for change, buys a repossessed home on a whim. The townsfolk claim it’s haunted, but Jenna’s pretty sure all it needs is some filler to stop the drafts. But before long, even she has to admit, there’s more going on here than the vagaries of an old house. And whatever it is keeps making her panties damp and her dreams hot.

Derrick and Mark, werewolf twins, are stuck in their house as disembodied spirits all because of an evil witch. When their fated mate suddenly becomes the new owner, they …

Review: A Blue So Dark by Holly Schindler

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 266Release Date: 1 May 2010Publisher: FluxFormats Available: Paperback, EBookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon

Book Blurb:

All I see are murky depths that could swallow me whole.

Mom knew that the mermaids – hand carved from driftwood by the owner of a souvenir shop – were all I wanted to take home from Florida. As she bought them, she looked down at me, her eyes not just glittering but snapping with fire like two Fourth of July sparklers. She ran her finger down the length of my nose, almost like you’d stroke a favourite pet, and said to the salesman, “We’re just alike, me and Aura.”

And you know, back then, the …