DEAD TO THE WORLD (Sookie Stackhouse #4) by Charlaine Harris PUBLISHER: Gollancz RELEASE DATE: 2009 PAPERBACK: 321 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy Sookie comes to the rescue of a naked, amnesiac vampire – and ends up in the middle of a war between witches, werewolves and vampires! Sookie Stackhouse is a small-town cocktail waitress in small-town Louisiana. She’s pretty. She does her job well. She keeps to herself – she has only a few close friends, because not everyone appreciates Sookie’s gift: she can read minds. That’s not exactly every man’s…
Welcome to our new feature where we talk about random things we’ve seen around the blogosphere. It could be an interesting article, a book trailer, maybe a fun piece of news we feel you should know about, and maybe even a stylish pair of shoes or handbag we’ve seen (if Laura has her way!). Basically it’s a bit of a mashup! Enjoy. Hi guys. Carolyn here with this week’s Monday Mashup. I’ve come across a few things that I just HAVE to show you. Some of you may have already…
Hi Guys! Hope you’re having a great weekend. Here is the low down on what happened on BCC this week… GUEST AUTHORS • Rhiannon Frater, author of As the World Dies series, The First Days, Fighting to Survive and Siege, stops by on her blog tour to talk about her two leading ladies: Jenni & Katie. (Giveaway to win the entire trilogy is still running!) REVIEWS 10/10 Rating - The Cabin in the Woods (Movie Review) 8/10 Rating - Plague Town by Dana Fredsti 8/10 Rating - Hexed by Kevin Hearne 7/10 Rating - Blood & Bullets by James R. Tuck 6/10 Rating - Wilder’s…
CAROLYN This month has been a great reading month, I’ve read lots of fab (mostly zombie) books. But these three are my recommendations of the month. To start off with, WHITE HORSE by Alex Adams [UK|US] turned out to be a surprisingly great dystopian (review coming soon), DRAGON BOUND by Thea Harrison [UK|US] was a fantastic paranormal romance (review coming soon), and PLAGUE TOWN by Dana Fredsti [UK|US] was a fast-paced zombie horror with a great leading heroine (review here). All receiving an 8/10 from me, and all three I would recommend you read!…
We’ve found some lovely new covers this week. Below are some of our favourites! We’ve kept the images nice and large so you can take a good look! Enjoy EARTH GIRL (#1) Release Date: Aug 2012 | Publisher: Harper Voyager | Genre: Dystopian YA | Artist: Unknown JANET EDWARDS ONLINE Website | Twitter | Amazon UK CAROLYN’S THOUGHTS: I think this UK cover is gorgeous. You are in no doubt what genre this is when you look at the cover. I love the sun shining behind the Empire State Building and the birds flying into the sky….
THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (2012) DIRECTOR: Drew Goddard STARRING: Chris Hemsworth, Jesse Williams, Fran Kranz, Kristen Connelly, Amy Acker GENRE: Horror CERT: 15 REVIEWER: Gemma The best way to experience THE CABIN IN THE WOODS is to go in completely blind. Avoid the trailer, in fact why are you reading this review anyway? Ah, because you want to know what the buzz is all about. Well, the brains behind this gem of a movie are two names that are instantly recognisable to all fans of genre TV and movies….
Wilder’s Mate by Moira Rogers (Bloodhounds #1) Samhain Publishing (March 2011) Ebook, 89 pages Steampunk Romance Well, this is a new sort of style for me. I haven’t come across steampunk before and I have to say I rather like it. We are introduced to Satira who is an apprentice to Nathaniel the local inventor. She lives in the Borderlands, the area just before the ever encroaching Deadlands, a kind of wild west, back of beyond sort of place, where women are often sold as whores, or meals to the…
HEXED (Iron Druid Chronicles #2) by Kevin Hearne PUBLISHER: Orbit Books | Brilliance Audio RELEASE DATE: June 2011 DURATION: 8 hours & 52 mins NARRATOR: Luke Daniels GENRE: Urban Fantasy Atticus O’Sullivan, last of the Druids, doesn’t care much for witches. Still, he’s about to make nice with the local coven by signing a mutually beneficial nonaggression treaty when suddenly the witch population in modern-day Tempe, Arizona, quadruples overnight. And the new girls are not just bad, they’re badasses with a dark history on the German side of World War…
Without a doubt, Jenni and Katie from the AS THE WORLD DIES TRILOGY (THE FIRST DAYS, FIGHTING TO SURVIVE, SIEGE) will forever be two of my favorite characters ever to inhabit my novels. Both are complicated women with their own unique sets of obstacles to overcome. They are bonded by the world gone terribly wrong and strengthened by their friendship. They are also two of the hardest characters I’ve ever had to write. I never set out to create either one of them. They just showed up in my psyche…
BLOOD AND BULLETS (Deacon Chalk #1) by James R. Tuck PUBLISHER: Kensington RELEASE DATE: February 2012 FORMAT: ARC, 352 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy SOURCE: Publisher He lives to kill monsters. He keeps his city safe. And his silver hollow-points and back-from-the-dead abilities help him take out any kind of supernatural threat. But now an immortal evil has this bad-ass bounty hunter dead in its sights… Ever since a monster murdered his family, Deacon Chalk hunts any creature that preys on the innocent. So when a pretty vampire girl “hires” him to…
DARKNESS UNBOUND (Dark Angels #1) by Keri Arthur PUBLISHER: Piatkus (UK) | Dell (US) RELEASE DATE: Oct 2011 (UK) | Sept 2011 (US) FORMAT: Paperback, 364 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy SOURCE: Publisher Risa Jones is as extraordinary as her heritage. Born from a lab-enhanced clone mother and an Aedh father, she can not only talk to the souls of the dying and the dead, but she can see the reapers and walk the gray fields that divide this world from the next. They are skill she rarely uses, however, preferring to…
Plague Town by Dana Fredsti (Ashley Parker #1) Titan Books (April 2012) Paperback, 350 pages Urban Fantasy | Zombies One night when Ashley Parker and her boyfriend, Matt, are having a late night picnic and are busy making out, Ashley feels something’s on her, and at first she’s angry as she thinks it’s Matt getting a bit carried away, but when she shoves Matt off her and he shines a light to see what the problem is, they find a half eaten woman rolling around on the ground, wanting to chomp…
Welcome to our new feature where we talk about random things we’ve seen around the blogosphere. It could be an interesting article, a book trailer, maybe a fun piece of news we feel you should know about, and maybe even a stylish pair of shoes or handbag we’ve seen (if Laura has her way!). Basically, it’s a bit of a mashup! Enjoy… Happy Monday everyone, it’s Laura here. Welcome to the first edition of Monday Mashup! Here’s some interesting news and bits and pieces I’ve come across on the web…
Hi Guys! Hope you’re having a great weekend. Here is the low down on what happened on BCC this week… Guest Authors• Yolanda Sfetsos, author of ‘A Patch of Darkness‘, is featured in Where Stories Are Made. Reviews 8/10 Rating - Grave Witch by Kalayna Price 8/10 Rating - Siege by Rhiannon Frater 7/10 Rating - Mirror Mirror (Movie Review) 6/10 Rating - The Goblin King by Shona Husk 6/10 Rating - The Vengeful Dead by J. N. Duncan 3/10 Rating - Struck by Jennifer Bosworth DNF Rating - Coveted by Shawntelle Madison Carolyn’s Roundup I began the week by finishing up ‘Plague Town‘ by Dana Fredsti, what a fun read – really enjoyed…
‘Cover Crush’ is a regular feature here at BCC. We love covers – they’re the first thing that catches our eye and will be the primary reason we pick up a book. This feature is where we highlight gorgeous covers of books we’ve seen around the blogosphere. We’ve found some lovely new covers this week. Below are some of our favourites! We’ve kept the images nice and large so you can take a good look! Enjoy WIDOW’S WEB (Elemental Assassin series #7) Release Date: Aug 2012 | Publisher: Pocket Books…
