ANGELS IN THE SNOW by Sarah Morgan PUBLISHER: Mills & Boon RELEASE DATE: Oct 2010 FORMAT: Paperback, 376 pages GENRE: Contemporary Romance Have yourself a very magical Christmas, full of romance and sparkles! Stella Martin has come back home to the Lake District for Christmas. But is she brave enough to face the man who proposed, then immediately dumped her two Christmas Eve’s before? Daniel Buchannan is not looking forward to Christmas – and even less when Stella reappears in the village. But this year will be different! Patrick Buchannan…

Title: The Spy Who Saved Christmas   Author: Dana Marton   Publisher: Harlequin   Publication Date: October 2010   Paperback: 224 Pages   Genre: Romance Suspense Source: Review copy from publisher   Reviewed by: Laura   RATING: 6/10 – Good   BACK COVER SUMMARY:   In one unforgettable moment, Lara Jordan broke all the rules in her play-it-safe handbook and spent an incredible night with Reid Graham, a practical stranger. But before she even had time to bask in her fearlessness, a suspicious fire stole him away and left her…

Magic in the Wind by Christine Feehan (Drake Sisters #1) Berkley ( Sept 2005) Paperback, 103 pages Paranormal Romance So, this book is…a little bit silly. It’s a novella, not a novel, and it begins a series I’m fond of. However in this one everyone’s still finding their feet, and some of the characters come across as caricatures of who they are in later books. Magic in the Wind is the short beginning to Christine Feehan’s seven book Drake Sisters series, a series about seven sisters from generations of seven…

Title: Angelfire (Angelfire #1) Author: Courtney Allison Moulton   Publisher: Harper Collins   Publication Date: February 2011   ARC Ebook: 291 pages   Genre: Urban Fantasy   Young Adult Source: Review Copy Reviewed by: Laura RATING: 6/10 – Good GOODREADS SUMMARY: When seventeen-year-old Ellie starts seeing reapers – monstrous creatures who devour humans and send their souls to Hell – she finds herself on the front lines of a supernatural war between archangels and the Fallen and faced with the possible destruction of her soul. A mysterious boy named Will…

Title: Waking The Witch (Women of the Otherworld #11) Author: Kelley Armstrong Publisher: Orbit (UK) / Dutton Adult (US) Publication Date: Aug 2010 (UK) / July 2010 (US) Hardcover: 309 pages Genre: Urban Fantasy Source: Review Copy Reviewed by Laura RATING: 6/10 – Good, would probably recommend BOOK COVER SUMMARY: Columbus is a small, fading town, untouched by the twenty-first century. But when three young women are found dead – victims of what appear to be ritual murders – things start to get very dark, and very dangerous …Private investigator…

Title: Sunglasses After Dark (Sonja Blue #1) Author: Nancy A. Collins Publisher: White Wolf Games Studio PublicationDate: 10th March 2000 (first published 1989) Paperback: 372 pages Genre: Horror Reviewed by Zosia RATING: 6/10 BOOK COVER SUMMARY: A debut horror novel featuring a vampire, Sonja Blue, who escapes from a mental hospital leaving a trail of corpses in her wake. As we learn about her early life, we are taken on a nightmarish tour of a world inhabited by other types of non-humans – ogres, zombies and, of course, vampires. REVIEW:…

Title: Dark and Disorderly Author: Bernita Harris Publisher: Carina Press PublicationDate: May 2010 Ebook: 262 pages Genre: Urban Fantasy Source: Own Copy Reviewed by: Laura RATING: 6/10 – good BACK COVER SUMMARY: “I was standing there naked when my dead husband walked into my bathroom…” Lillie St. Claire is a Talent, one of the rare few who can permanently dispatch the spirits of the dead that walk the earth. Her skills are in demand in a haunted country, where a plague of ghosts is becoming a civic nuisance. Those skills…

Wicked Appetite (Lizzy & Diesel #1) by Janet Evanovich Headline (Sept 2010) | Paperback, 313 pages Paranormal Mystery Wicked Appetite has everything I was hoping for from Evanovich: quirky characters, fun plot and a smidgen of romance. This is an incredibly light read but it’s entertaining and amusing. I liked the characters, who are all a bit nuts in their own way. Lizzy is a pastry chef working at Dazzle’s Bakery in Salem with friends Glo and Clara. Her life if pretty ordinary until two mystery men enter the bakery a few minutes apart….

Title: Jane Slayre – The Literary Classic… With a Blood-suckingTwist Author: Sherri Browning-Erwin & Charlotte Brontë Publisher: Simon & Schuster PublicationDate: 13th April 2010 Paperback: 416 pages Genre: Horror REVIEWED BY LAURA RATING: 6/10 BACK COVER SUMMARY: Raised by vampyre relatives, Jane grows to resent the lifestyle’s effect on her upbringing. No sunlight, nighttime hours, and a diet of bloody red meat is no way for a mortal girl to live. Things change for Jane when the ghost of her uncle visits her, imparts her parents’ slayer history, and charges…

Soulless by Gail Carriger (The Parasol Protectorate #1) Orbit Books (Sept 2010) Paperback, 291 pages Steampunk Romance Soulless is a fun, entertaining read which has a plot that kept me turning the pages until the very end. It’s a fairly fast paced read too. One evening Alexia Tarabotti is attacked by a vampire who doesn’t seem to understand the code of etiquette by trying to feast on her, but also hasn’t been told that Alexia, being Soulless, can actually neutralise all supernatural beings. This is rather odd but before she…

Title: Killing Kiss (Book 1 of the Vampire Gene Trilogy) Author: Sam Stone Publisher: The House of Murky Depths Publication Date: Sep 2008 Paperback: 240 pages Genre: Horror, Vampires REVIEWED BY LAURA RATING: 6/10 – good BACK COVER SUMMARY: He’s looking for a girl; not just any girl, and dark haired, brown-eyed Carolyn is the one. But does Gabriele Caccini, a student at Manchester University, really know what he wants? When a beautiful curvaceous blonde comes into his life he starts to question his motives and emotions; even a Seventeenth…

Title: Blood & Ice Author: Robert Masello Publisher: Vintage PublicationDate: July 2010 Paperback: 495 pages Genre: Horror, Vampires Source: Own Copy Reviewed by: Carolyn RATING: 6/10 – good SUMMARY: When journalist Michael Wilde is commissioned to wrote a feature about a remote research station deep in the frozen beauty of Antarctica he is prepared for some extraordinary sights. But on a diving expedition in the polar sea he comes across something so extraordinary as to be almost unbelievable – a man and woman chained together, deep in the ice. The…

Title: Water Bound (Sisters of the Heart #1) Author: Christine Feehan Publisher: Piatkus (UK) / Penguin Group (US) PublicationDate: July 2010 Paperback/Ebook: 400 pages Genre: Paranormal Romance .. REVIEWED BY LAURA RATING: 6/10 BACK COVER SUMMARY: For Lev Prakenskii, the last thing he remembers is being lost in the swirling currents of the ocean and sucked deeper into the nothingness of a freezing black eddy off the coastal town of Sea Haven. Just as quickly, just as miraculously, he was saved – pulled ashore by a beautiful stranger – but…

Title: Magic in the Blood (Allie Beckstrom, #2) Author: Devon Monk Publisher: Penguin Books (ebook version) PublicationDate: July 2009 Ebook: 368 pages Genre: Urban Fantasy REVIEWED BY LAURA RATING: 6/10 GOODREADS SUMMARY: Working as a Hound—tracing illegal spells back to their casters—has taken its toll on Allison Beckstrom. But even though magic has given her migraines and stolen her recent memory, Allie isn’t about to quit. Then the police’s magic enforcement division asks her to consult on a missing persons case. But what seems to be a straightforward job turns…

Title: Warrior (The Blades of the Rose #1) Author: Zoe Archer Publisher: Zebra Books PublicationDate: Sep 2010 ARC Ebook: 370 pages Genre: Paranormal/Historical Romance REVIEWED BY LAURA RATING: 6/10 – good GOODREADS SUMMARY: To most people, the realm of magic is the stuff of nursery rhymes and dusty libraries. But for Capt. Gabriel Huntley, it’s become quite real and quite dangerous… IN HOT PURSUIT… The vicious attack Capt. Gabriel Huntley witnesses in a dark alley sparks a chain of events that will take him to the ends of the Earth…