Title: Long Lankin Author: Lindsey Barraclough Publisher: The Bodley Head (RHCB) Publication Date: April 2011 ARC: 455 pages Genre: Horror, Ghost Young Adult Source: Review Copy Reviewed by: Carolyn RATING: 7/10 – very good, definitely leaning towards an 8/10 BOOK COVER SUMMARY: When Cora and her little sister Mimi are sent to stay with their elderly aunt in the isolated village of Bryers Guerdon, they receive a less than warm welcome, and are desperate to go back to London. But Auntie Ida’s life was devastated the last time two…
Title: Delirium (Delirium #1) Author: Lauren Oliver Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd (UK) | Harper Teen (US) Publication Date: February 2011 ARC: 441 Pages Genre: Science Fiction Young Adult Source: Review Copy Reviewed by: Laura RATING: 7/10 – Very good, would definitely recommend GOODREADS SUMMARY: Before scientists found the cure, people thought love was a good thing. They didn’t understand that one love -the deliria- blooms in your blood, there is no escaping its hold. Things are different now. Scientists are able to eradicate love, and the governments demands that…
Title: Virals (Virals #1) Author: Kathy Reichs Publisher: Arrow (UK) | Penguin (US) Publication Date: Nov 2010 Paperback: 454 pages Genre: Paranormal Mystery Young Adult Source: Review Copy Reviewed by: Carolyn RATING: 7/10 – very good, would definitely recommend GOODREADS SUMMARY: Tory Brennan, niece of acclaimed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan (of the Bones novels and hit TV show), is the leader of a ragtag band of teenage “sci-philes” who live on a secluded island off the coast of South Carolina. When the group rescues a dog caged for medical…
Title: Darklife (Darklife #1) Author: Kat Falls Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Books (UK) | Scholastic Press (US) Publication Date: May 2010 (UK & US) Paperback: 297 Pages Young Adult Genre: Science Fiction Source: Review Copy Reviewed by: Laura RATING: 7/10 – Very good, would definitely recommend GOODREADS: Dive deep into the vivid underwater world of Dark Life! The oceans rose, swallowing the lowlands. Earthquakes shattered the continents, toppling entire regions into the rising water. Now, humans live packed into stack cities. The only ones with any space of their…
Title: Night of the Living Trekkies Author: Keven David Anderson & Sam Stall Publisher: Quirk Books Publication Date: July 2010 Paperback: 253 pages Genre: Horror, Zombies Source: Review Copy Reviewed by: Carolyn RATING: 7/10 – very good, would definitely recommend GOODREADS SUMMARY: This sci-fi /zombie/comedy/adventure follows a group of rag-tag Trekkies getting together for the fifth annual FedCon (billed as the “largest Starfleet Convention in the western Gulf Coast region”). Our heroes are dressed in homemade uniforms and armed with prop phasers but soon find themselves defending their hotel and…
Title: Here To Stay (Kendrick/Coulter/Harrigan #10) Author: Catherine Anderson Publisher: Signet Books Publication Date: Jan 2011 Paperback: 412 Pages Genre: Contemporary Romance Source: Own Copy Reviewed by: Laura RATING: 7/10 – Very good, would definitely recommend GOODREADS SUMMARY: Mandy Pajeck had a tough childhood. Now 28, she feels responsible for the accident that took her younger brother’s sight. But his complete reliance on her care is making them both miserable. When she meets handsome Zach Harrigan and his mini guide horse,…
Title: Ravaged (Werewolves #2) Author: David Wellington Publisher: Piatkus (UK) | Three Rivers Press (US) Publication Date: Oct 2010 (UK)|(US) Paperback: 424 pages Genre: Urban Fantasy Source: Review Copy Reviewed by: Carolyn RATING: 7/10 – very good GOODREADS SUMMARY: Be careful what you search for. You just might find it …When a strange wolf’s teeth slashed Cheyenne Clark’s ankle to the bone, her old life ended, and she became the very monster that haunted her nightmares for years. Worse, the only one who can understand what Chey has become is…
Crux (Southern Arcana #1) by Moira Rogers Samhain Publishing (March 2009) Ebook, 239 Pages | Paranormal Romance This is one of those books that I have had sitting on my ereader for quite a while now but have never quite got around to reading it. Then as soon as I started it, I wondered why I’d left it so long as it was thoroughly enjoyable. Moira Rogers is the name for a writing team of two ladies, Bree and Donna, in their words: “a former forensic science and nursing student obsessed with…
Title: Tales of the Otherworld Author: Kelley Armstrong Publisher: Orbit (UK) | Random House Publishing Group (US) Publication Date: March 2010 Paperback: 547 pages Genre: Urban Fantasy Source: Review copy Reviewed by: Laura RATING: 7/10 – Very good, would definitely recommend GOODREADS SUMMARY: Have you ever wondered how lone wolf Clayton Danvers finally got bitten by the last thing he ever expected: love? Or how the hot-blooded bad-girl witch Eve Levine managed to ensnare the cold, ruthless corporate sorcerer, Kristof Nast in one of the Otherworld’s most unlikely pairings? Would…
Title: and, Falling, Fly Author: Skyler White Publisher: Berkley Trade Publication Date: March 2010 Paperback: 352 pages Genre: Urban Fantasy Source: Review copy Guest Review by Jo RATING: 7/10 – Very good, would definitely recommend GOODREADS SUMMARY: An edgy, erotic blend of fantasy and romance-from a debut author whose star is on the rise. In a dark and seedy underground of burned-out rock stars and angels- turned-vampires, a revolutionary neuroscientist and a fallen angel must pit medicine against mythology in an attempt to erase their tortured pasts…but at what cost?…
Archangel’s Consort (Guild Hunter #3) by Nalini Singh | Gollancz (Feb 2011) Paperback, 324 pages | Paranormal Romance Archangel’s Consort is the third instalment in the Guild Hunter series by Nalini Singh. I adored the first two books and fell instantly in love with Elena and Raphael. Although I did enjoy this book, it just didn’t measure up to the first two. In fact it felt a bit formulaic; the intense romance, vampire murders, which Elena has to solve by using her tracking ability and lots of hot passionate sex –…
Title: The Heir of Night (Wall of Night #1) Author: Helen Lowe Publisher: Orbit (UK) | Eos (US) Publication Date: March 2011 (UK) | October 2010 (US) Paperback: 464 Pages Genre: Fantasy Source: Review CopyReviewed by: Laura RATING: 7/10 – Very good, would definitely recommend GOODREADS: If Night falls, all fall . . . In the far north of the world of Haarth lies the bitter mountain range known as the Wall of Night. Garrisoned by the Nine Houses of the Derai, the Wall is the final bastion between the…
Title: Shadow of the Sun (Timeless #1) Author: Laura Kreitzer Publisher: iUniverse.com (UK) | Obsidian Mountain Publishing (US) Publication Date: Feb 2010 Paperback: 524 pages Genre: Urban Fantasy Source: Review copy Reviewed by: Laura RATING: 7/10 – Very good, would definitely recommend BACK COVER: Gabriella’s past is a mystery, but that never stopped her from achieving her goals. As a supernatural specialist, and far more intelligent than anyone her age, she has always been ignored by her peers. Because of the isolation she has always felt, she put her…
No Turning Back (Suspense Series #3) by Kaylea Cross Wild Rose Press (March 2010) | Ebook, 454 Pages Romantic Suspense This isn’t a sweet or even an easy reading romance. Set in Afghanistan, Kaylea Cross addresses some of the harsher realities of the Iraq war. With the treatment of hostages, torture and barbaric deaths included, to the plight of the people living there and the everyday struggle for survival amidst poverty, terrorist rule and brutality. So this may not appeal to some romance readers, but fans of military romances and stories with…
Goddess of Legend (Goddess Summoning #7) by P.C. Cast | Piatkus Books (Jan 2011) Paperbook, 368 pages | Paranormal Romance I have always loved the Arthurian tales, and after reading the summary for this, I was really excited to see a paranormal twist on my favourite legend. After a car accident, Isabel is saved by the Water Goddess and sent back in time to the legendary Camelot with one task – to seduce Lancelot from Guinevere and therefore saving Camelot. If Isabel can do this, she will be given her life…
