Creative Fire (Ruby’s Song #1) by Brenda Cooper Pyr, November 2012 Paperback, 400 pages Science Fiction, Young Adult Nothing can match the power of a single voice… Ruby Martin expects to spend her days repairing robots and avoiding the dangerous peacekeeping forces that roam the corridors of the generation ship The Creative Fire. Her best friend has been raped and killed, the ship is falling apart around her, and no one she knows has any real information about what’s happening to them. The social structure on board Creative Fire is rigidly divided,…
DEAD ROMANTIC by C. J. Skuse PUBLISHER: Chicken House RELEASE DATE: 4th Feb 2013 FORMAT: Paperback, 328 pages GENRE: Young Adult, Paranormal Camille wants to find the perfect boy, with an athlete’s body and a poet’s brain. But when she’s mocked at a college party, she kows there isn’t a boy alive who’ll ever measure up. Enter Zoe, her brilliant but strange best friend, who takes biology homework to a whole new level. She can create Camille’s dream boy, Frankenstein-stylee. But can she make him love her? (Goodreads) REVIEWER: Rebecca…
NO RESERVATIONS (Bad Girls Know #1) by Lilly Cain PUBLISHER: Carina Press RELEASE DATE: 29th October 2012 FORMAT: Ebook, 44 pages GENRE: Contemporary Erotic Romance Travis Morgan is thrilled to encounter the one woman who’s never failed to get his blood pumping. Seeing Alicia Davis again brings it all back: their fierce academic rivalry, and the fact that he never followed through on his erotic fantasies about her. Alicia can’t resist Travis’s smoldering sensuality–or the opportunity to finally bed the man who starred in so many of her lustful daydreams…
THE HERETIC LAND by Tim Lebbon PUBLISHER: Orbit Books RELEASE DATE: 2 August 2012 FORMAT: Paperback, 408 pages GENRE: Fantasy Arrested by the Ald, scholar Bon Ugane and merwoman Leki Borle find themselves on a prison ship bound for the island of Skythe – a barren land and the site of long-ago wars. Warped and ruined by the ancient conflict, survival on the island is tough and its original inhabitants are neither friendly nor entirely still human. But something else waits on the island, a living weapon whose very existence is…
Dracula’s Desires by Linda Mercury (Blood Wings #2) Kensington Press (Sept 2012) Ebook, 269 pages Paranormal Romance Warning: contains spoilers I am coming to the conclusion lately that I should just stick to the first book in a series. If I am honest, which I always try to be with my reviews, I was rather disappointed with Dracula’s Desires. I was expecting this to be a continuation of Dracula’s Secret, but apart from a couple of the story lines, it was totally new. Sadly, I found it hard to follow and…
FADE (The Ragnarök Prophesies #1) By A. K. Morgen PUBLISHER: Curiosity Quills Press RELEASE DATE: 7th September 20132 FORMAT: Ebook, 320 pages GENRE: Paranormal, Young Adult What do you do when you realize nothing in your life is what you’ve believed it to be? When Arionna Jacobs loses her mother in a tragic accident, her world is turned upside down. She’s forced to leave her old life behind and move in with her father. Dace Matthews, a teaching assistant at her new college, is torn in two, unable to communicate…
HAUNTED LEGENDS by Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas PUBLISHER: Tor Books RELEASE DATE: 14 September 2010 FORMAT: Paperback, 352 pages GENRE: Horror Darkly thrilling, these twenty new ghost stories have all the chills and power of traditional ghost stories, but each tale is a unique retelling of an urban legend from the world over. Multiple award-winning editor Ellen Datlow and award-nominated author and editor Nick Mamatas recruited Jeffrey Ford, Ramsey Campbell, Joe R. Lansdale, Caitlin Kiernan, Catherynne M. Valente, Kit Reed, Ekaterina Sedia, and thirteen other fine writers to create stories unlike…
ONE BLOOD By Qwantu Amaru PUBLISHER: The Pantheon Collective RELEASE DATE: 1st December 2011 FORMAT: Kindle, 488 pages GENRE: Horror For every action… Lincoln Baker, born a ward of the state, has gone from orphan, to gang banger, to basketball superstar, to lifer at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in the space of eighteen years. During his prison term, he meets Panama X, a powerful and mysterious father figure who gives Lincoln a reason for living – he must assassinate Randy Lafitte, the sitting Governor of Louisiana. There is an equal…
Savage Hunter by Terry Spear (Heart of the Jaguar #1) Sourcebooks Casablanca (Oct 2012) Paperback, 341 pages Paranormal Romance Savage Hunter by Terry Spear is the first in a new series about shifters that can change at will into jaguars. This makes a change from the abundance of werewolf fiction, so I was ready to give this book a chance to make a good impression. It begins with a flashback to events a year prior to the novel, in which heroine, army captain Kathleen McKnight, is trapped in the Amazon rainforest…
Dark Shadows: Angelique’s Descent by Lara Parker (Dark Shadows #1) Tor Books (April 2012) Paperback, 432 pages Paranormal Romance Dark Shadows: Angelique’s Descent by Lara Parker is based upon the old Dark Shadows TV series, and details the history of witch Angelique, and her relationship with vampire Barnabas. Having never seen the Dark Shadows TV series, or the recent Dark Shadows movie starring Johnny Depp, I was a little confused when starting this book, as it seemed as if background knowledge of the characters was needed in order to fully connect with…
CRIMSON GROVES (Crimson #1) by Ashley Robertson PUBLISHER: Self-published RELEASE DATE: 9th November 2011 FORMAT: Ebook, 282 pages GENRE: Paranormal, Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Abigail Tate was a normal human girl. Until the day Bronx the vampire barges into her life and turns her against her will. Held captive while forced to deal with never ending cravings for blood, Abby prays for a way to escape. Only when an opportunity arises, it’s with the aid of an innocent human named Tyler–except vampires are forbidden to interact with the unbitten. But…
THE LADY MOST LIKELY by Julia Quinn, Eloisa James & Connie Brockway PUBLISHER: Piatkus Books RELEASE DATE: May 2012 FORMAT: Paperback, 372 pages GENRE: Historical Romance Three of the brightest stars of historical romance invite you to a party at the countryhome of the Honorable Marquess of Finchley. Hugh Dunne, the Earl of Briarly, needs a wife, so his sister hands him a list of delectable damsels and promises to invite them – and a few other gentlemen – to her country house for what is sure to be the event…
Archer’s Lady by Moira Rogers (Bloodhounds #3) Samhain Publishing (July 2012) Ebook, 137 pages Steampunk Romance What can I say. I was rather disappointed in Archer’s Lady by Moira Rogers. I have really enjoyed the the previous two books in the Bloodhounds series, but this one seemed somewhat lacking in what made the other two so enjoyable. Yes, there is a plot, but its one thats getting rather tired for me now. It’s all starting to seem very same same, with just the main female and male characters changing. I will…
15 MILES by Rob Scott PUBLISHER: Gollancz RELEASE DATE: August 2010 FORMAT: Paperback, 368 pages GENRE: Horror Samuel “Sailor” Doyle has transferred from Vice to Homicide in the Virginia State Police. He has a mistress, an alcohol problem, a prescription drug dependency, and a burgeoning self-loathing that alienates his wife and family. The rookie investigator is assigned to a double homicide on a rural farm some 15 miles outside Richmond. One of the victims has been interred in a makeshift tomb, while the other is stuck half-in, half-out of a…
CIRCLE OF FIRE (Damask Circle #1) by Keri Arthur PUBLISHER: Piatkus (UK) | Imajinn books (US) RELEASE DATE: 2009 (UK) | August 2001 (US) FORMAT: Paperback, 298 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy SOURCE: Own Copy Sixteen teenagers missing. Eleven bodies recovered, completely drained of blood. Some believe vampires are responsible, but Jon Barnett knows it’s something far worse. To stop the killers, he needs help from recluse Madeline Smith, who is afraid of her psychic abilities which have killed. When “ghost” Jon Barnett warns Maddie of danger and her nephew disappears,…
