Review: Eternal Kiss of Darkness by Jeaniene Frost

Format Read: PrintNumber of Pages: 361 pagesRelease Date: September 1st 2010Publisher: AvonFormats Available: Paperback, EbookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, Book Depository UK, Book Depository US

Book Blurb:

An immortal war has been brewing in the darkness . . . And now one woman has stumbled into the shadows.Chicago private investigator Kira Graceling should have just kept on walking. But her sense of duty refused to let her ignore the moans of pain coming from inside a warehouse just before dawn. Suddenly she finds herself in a world she’s only imagined in her worst nightmares.At the center is Mencheres, a breathtaking Master vampire who thought he’d seen it all. Then Kira appears—this fearless, beautiful . . . human who braved death to rescue him. Though he burns …

Review: Reckless by Anne Stuart

Format Read: E-ARC from NetgalleyNumber of Pages: 400 pagesRelease Date: September 1st 2010Publisher: MiraFormats Available: Paperback, EbookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, Book Depository UK, Book Depository US

Book Blurb:

A Most Charming and Passionate Nihilist Adrian Alistair Rohan lost his faith, and now, a dedicated member of the depraved Heavenly Host, he loses himself in his only pleasure: the seduction and debauchery of beautiful women. Rich, charming, and devastatingly skilled in the arts of love, he never fails in his conquests, until Charlotte Spenser. Charlotte is facing a desolate, passionless future, none of which matters to Adrian, who imagines her a toy until better prey arrives. But beneath her drab exterior, Charlotte is a woman as enchanting as she is brilliant, and, lured into Adrian’s world, soon she becomes the seducer, and …

Review: The Eternal Ones by Kristen Miller

Format Read: Print BookNumber of Pages: 416 pagesRelease: Date: August 10, 2010Publisher: RazorbillFormats Available: Hardcover, Paperback, EbookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, Book Depository UK, Book Depository US

Book Blurb:

What if love refused to die?Haven Moore can’t control her visions of a past with a boy called Ethan, and a life in New York that ended in fiery tragedy. In our present, she designs beautiful dresses for her classmates with her best friend Beau. Dressmaking keeps her sane, since she lives with her widowed and heartbroken mother in her tyrannical grandmother’s house in Snope City, a tiny town in Tennessee. Then an impossible group of coincidences conspire to force her to flee to New York, to discover who she is, and who she was.In New York, Haven meets Iain Morrow and is swept …

Review: The Light of Asteria by Elizabeth Isaacs

Format Read: E-bookNumber of Pages: 380 pagesRelease: Date: March 2010Publisher: iUniverse, Inc.Formats Available: Paperback, EbookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, Barnes and Noble (e-book)

Book Blurb:

If Nora Johnson hadn’t been on campus that day she would have never known her true destiny. Helping her friends move into the dorm that she wanted to call home, Nora accidentally collides with mysterious stranger, Gavin Frey. His very first touch sends flames through her heart. The world seems different-something within her has changed.Nora tries to resume her mundane life, but she is now consumed with the one whose very presence ignited her soul, the one with eyes of emerald. Nora soon learns that an energy buried deep within has been unleashed. She now wields unimaginable power and has become Gavin’s source, his strength. Her newfound joy is shaken when …

Review: Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl

Format Read:  Paperback from Penguin (Australia)Number of Pages:  516 pagesRelease Date:  October 12thPublisher:  Penguin UKFormats Available:  Hardcover, Paperback, CD-Audio, ebookPurchasing Info: Authors Website,  Goodreads,  Amazon,  Book Depository U.S,  Penguin (Australia)

Book Blurb:

Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in plain sight all along. A Gatlin that harbored ancient secrets beneath its moss-covered oaks and cracked sidewalks. A Gatlin where a curse has marked Lena’s family of powerful supernaturals for generations. A Gatlin where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen.

Sometimes life-ending.

Together they can face anything Gatlin throws at them, but after suffering a tragic loss, Lena starts to pull away, keeping secrets …

Review: A Safe Harbor by Moira Rogers

Format Read: ebook from the AuthorsNumber of Pages: 84 pagesRelease Date: July 13th 2010Publisher: Samhain PublishingFormats Available: e-bookPurchasing Info: Author’s website, GoodReads, BooksOnBoard, Amazon

Book Blurb:

Find out how it all began…During the bite of the Great Depression, sole female dominant Joan Fuller struggles against the rise of cruelty among her alpha counterparts. The men tolerate her interference–until she breaks from the pack and allies with a witch and a vampire. Now the Boston alpha intends to bring them all forcibly back into the fold–and teach her a lesson she may not survive.Seamus Whelan and his werewolf bootleggers intend to retire from smuggling and savor their fortune, but first they must do a favor for an old friend: escort some female wolves to safety. An easy job, if their leader wasn’t a prim ex-debutante …

Review: Amidst a Crowd of Stars by Megan Hart

Format Read: ebookNumber of Pages: 52 pages Release Date: September 7th 2010 (republished)Publisher: Samhain Publishing Formats Available: e-book Purchasing Info: Author’s website, GoodReads, BooksOnBoard

Boor Blurb:

When Marrin Levy sends away for a field-husband to help her on her homestead, the most she hopes for is a man who can help her survive on the harsh desert planet of Lujawed. Keane Dealcore’s heart is as strong as his back, and he brings Marrin more than just his help in the fields. He brings her the love she thought she’d never feel again…

My Thoughts:
Perhaps I shouldn’t start writing this review before my tears are dried but I just can’t help myself. Amidst a Crowd of Stars is probably the best short story I have ever read. It caught my heart on the first page and didn’t let me go until …

Review: The Ways of Khrem by D.Nathan Hilliard

Format Read: ebook from the authorNumber of Pages: 248Release Date: June 15th, 2010 Publisher: Pill Hill PressFormats Available: ebook Purchasing Info: Author’s website , GoodReads, Amazon

Book Blurb:

The Ways of Khrem, D. Nathan Hilliard’s three part novel features: The Reach of Talanturos, The Cistern, & The Ghost of Candlewalk Lane. Cargill the Bookseller lives a quiet life, in a modest house, overlooking the vast city of Khrem…a magical metropolis of cavernous streets, lofty spires, and dark secrets. His life is turned upside down when Captain Wilhelm Drayton of the City Watch arrives at Cargill’s doorstep and confronts him with his criminal past. Cargill is required to assist the Captain in solving mysteries and the action soon explodes when he unmasks a horrific killer stalking the rooftops. Soon he finds himself forced to throw the rules out the …

Review: Hurt Me So Good by Joely Sue Burkhart

Format Read: E-ARC from the Author Number of Pages: 176 pages Release Date: October 5th 2010 Publisher: Samhain Publishing Formats Available: e-book Purchasing Info: Author’s website, GoodReads, Samhain Publishing

Book Blurb:

One sub to please the Master…in any way he wishes.

Victor Connagher is no stranger to the Dallas BDSM scene. As CEO of a risqué cable channel that caters to adventurous adults, he ensures the lifestyle is portrayed in a positive light. He even supports a local bondage club. Yet behind the cool, confident mask, Victor lives in fear. Once, and only once, he lost control of his inner Dom—and it cost him his fiancée. Now, no one knows how hard he works to keep his darker appetite for pain buried. No matter how much his saucy, confident associate producer makes his fingers itch to once …

Review: Scoundrel by Zoe Archer

Format Read: E-ARC from the Author Number of Pages: 320 pages (411 pages on my Reader) Release Date: October 5th 2010 Publisher: Zebra Formats Available: Paperback, ebook Purchasing Info: Author’s website , GoodReads , Amazon, Book Depository UK, Book Depository US

Book Blurb:

The Blades of the Rose are sworn to protect the sources of magic in the world. But the work is dangerous—and they can’t always protect their own…

Ready For Action

London Harcourt’s father is bent on subjugating the world’s magic to British rule. But since London is a mere female, he hasn’t bothered to tell her so. He’s said only that he’s leading a voyage to the Greek isles. No matter, after a smothering marriage and three years of straitlaced widowhood, London jumps at the opportunity—unfortunately, right into the arms of Bennett …