Title: Betrayed (House of Night #2) Author: P. C. & Kristin Cast Publisher: Atom (UK) | St Martin’s Press US) PublicationDate: Feb 2009 (UK) | Oct 2007 (US) Paperback: 375 pages Genre: Fantasy Young Adult Source: Review Copy Reviewed by: Carolyn RATING: 7/10 GOODREADS SUMMARY: Things seem to be going pretty well for Zoey Redbird. She’s settled in at the House of Night finishing school and is coming to terms with her incredible new powers. It all seems too good to be true. And guess what? Someone has begun murdering…
Title: Marked (HoN #1) Author: P. C. & Kristin Cast Publisher: Atom PublicationDate: Jan 2009 Paperback: 348 pages Genre: Fantasy Reading Level: Young Adult Rating: 7/10 Summary: The House of Night series is set in a world very much like our own, except in 16-year-old Zoey Redbird’s world, vampires have always existed. In this first book in the series, Zoey enters the House of Night, a school where, after having undergone the Change, she will train to become an adult vampire – that is, if she makes it through…
Title: Blood Vice (Nightfall Syndicate #1) Author: Keith Melton Publisher: Samhain Publishing Publication Date: 1 Dec 2009 Paperback: 276 pages Genre: Urban Fantasy Source: Review Copy Reviewed by: Carolyn RATING: 7/10 GOODREADS SUMMARY: Business has never been better for hit man Karl Vance. Boston is awash in mafia blood, and as a master vampire, Vance has a certain fondness for blood. Hes sworn to never again feed on the blood of innocents, preying instead on the criminal underworld. Which makes him a valuable asset to those who deal in death….
Title: The Pagan Stone Author: Nora Roberts Publisher: Piatkus Books PublicationDate: 4 Dec 2008 Paperback: 336 pages Genre: Paranormal Romance REVIEWED BY LAURA RATING: 7/10 SUMMARY (back cover): The Pagan Stone had stood for hundreds of years, long before three boys gathered around it to spill their blood in a bond of brotherhood, unwittingly releasing a force bent on destruction… Gage Turner has been running from his past for a long time. The son of an abusive drunk, his childhood in the small town of Hawkins Hollow was tough –…
Cold Streak by Lewis Aleman Megalodon Entertainment (Nov 2007) Paperback, 272 pages | Thriller Guest Reviewer: Sheila Lewis Aleman has written a book that by looks, I thought I would breeze through this 268 page book in a few sittings. Once inside the mind of Lewis – I discovered I was wrong and I would be here a while basking in deep intelligent writing and a read that was a wild – frightening ride into the mind of Lewis’s created character, Laura. I don’t read much of this genre. It is a stretch…
Title: Blood Brothers (Sign of Seven #1) Author: Nora Roberts Genre: Paranormal Romance Publisher: Piatkus Publication Date: 6th December 2007 Paperback: 320 pages Source: Own Copy Reviewed by: Laura RATING: 7/10 SUMMARY (Back Cover): In the small village of Hawkins Hollow, three best friends who share the same birthday sneak off into the woods for a sleepover the evening before turning 10. But a night of celebration turns into a night of horror as their blood brother oath unleashes a three-hundred-year-old curse. Twenty-one years later, Cal Hawkins and his friends…
Title: Uglies Author: Scott Westerfeld Publisher: Simon & Schuster PublicationDate: 4 March 2010 Reading Level: Young Adult Genre: Science Fiction Rating: 7/10 Summary: Tally lives in a world where your sixteenth birthday brings aesthetic perfection: an operation which erases all your flaws, transforming you from an ‘Ugly’ into a ‘Pretty’. She is on the eve of this important event, and cannot wait for her life to change. As well as guaranteeing supermodel looks, life as a Pretty seems to revolve around having a good time. But then she meets…
Title: Ill Wind (Weather Warden, #1) Author: Rachel Caine Publisher: Allison & Busby Publication Date: 28 April 2008 Paperback: 414 pages Original Pub. Date: Dec 2003 (ROC) Genre: Urban Fantasy Rating: 7/10 Summary (Goodreads) Joanne Baldwin is a Weather Warden. Usually, all it takes is a wave of her hand to tame the most violent weather. But now, she’s trying to outrun another kind of storm: accusations of corruption and murder. So, she’s resorting to the very human tactic of running for her life… Her only hope is Lewis, the…
Personal Demons (Megan Chase #1) by Stacia Kane | Juno Books (May 2008) Paperback, 303 pages | Urban Fantasy This is the first book in the Megan Chase series by Stacia Kane. I read it last year but as I received Demon Inside to review I thought I would refresh my memory and re-read Personal Demons. Megan is a psychological counsellor who hosts her own radio show. Her slogan is “how can I slay your personal demons?”. Megan also happens to be slightly psychic and uses her ability to see…
Title: Retribution Author: Jeanne C. Stein Genre: Urban Fantasy Publisher: Ace Publications Date: 25 Aug 2009 Paperback: 296 pages Rating: 7/10 Summary (back cover) A Newly turned vampire, Anna is forging an uneasy balance between her old life and her new supernatural on. still, with her partner out of town. her family abroad and her mentor estranged, she doesn’t have anyone to turn to – which is why she’s keeping a low profile. But now young vampires are turning up dead, completely drained of their life force. Although Anna worries…
The Reformed Vampire Support Group by Catherine Jinks Quercus | Paperback, 355 pages | Paranormal YA This book is very different from the usual vampire novel in that the vampires are neither beautiful, sexy supernatural beings or complete monsters. Instead they are pasty, skinny, sickly vampires with no supernatural powers and who have to feed off Guinea Pigs and wear sunglasses so their eyes don’t hemorrhage, even in artificial light. I wasn’t sure if I liked this take on the vampire or not. I usually enjoy reading about the sexy vamp or…
Title: The Wisdom of Dead Men Author: Oisin McGann ReadingLevel: Young Adult Publisher: Corgi Childrens PublicationDate: 3 Sept 2009 Paperback: 469 pages Rating: 7/10 Summary (book Cover) As the head of the rich and ruthless Wildenstern family, Berto is determined to change their cruel ways. And Nate, his younger brother, must protect him while he does so. But the burned remains of women are being discovered in and around the city. Nate joins his sister-in-law, Daisy, to investigate the deaths, and they quickly realise that it’s not just their back-stabbing relatives they need to…
Title: Strange Angels Author: Lili St. Crow Genre: Urban Fantasy Age Group: Young Adult Publisher: Quercus Publication Date: 3rd Sept 2009 Paperback: 307 pages Rating: 7/10 Summary (back cover) Dru knows that The Real World – peopled with ghosts, suckers and zombies – is a frightening place. She’s ready to kill first and ask questions later, so it’s going to take her a while to work out just who she can trust. Dru Anderson has been ‘strange’ for as long as she can remember, traveling from town to town with…
BLOODY GOOD (Bryetwood #1) by Georgia Evans PUBLISHER: Kensington Fantasy RELEASE DATE: June 1st 2009 FORMAT: Paperback, 320 pages GENRE: Paranormal Romance While the sounds of battle echo through the sky, a lady doctor has more than enough trouble to keep her busy, even in a sleepy hamlet outside London. But the threat is nearer home than Alice knows. German agents have infiltrated her beloved countryside – Nazis who can fly, read minds, and live forever. They’re not just fascists. They’re vampires. Alice has no time for fantasy, but when…
Title: Frostbitten (Women of the Otherworld #10) Author: Kelley Armstrong Publisher: Orbit (UK & US) Publication Date: Oct 2009 (UK) | Sept 2009 (US) Hardback: 339 pages Genre: Urban Fantasy Source: Review Copy Reviewed by: Carolyn RATING: 7/10 SUMMARY: The Alaskan wilderness is a harsh landscape in the best of conditions, but with a pack of rogue werewolves on the loose, it’s downright deadly. Elena Michaels, the American Werewolf Pack’s chief enforcer, knows all too well the havoc ‘mutts’ can wreak. When the Pack learns of a series of gruesome…
