Heart of Iron (London Steampunk #2) by Bec McMaster Sourcebooks Casablanca (May 2013) | Ebook, 448 pages Steampunk Romance Warning: contains spoilers for book one Heart of Iron starts a few years following the end of Heart of Steel with Honoria happily married to Blade, brother Charley safe in the care of the newlyweds and Lena living with their secret half brother Leo in the Echelon. Following a daring kiss by Lena at the end of book one Will moved out of the house he shared with Blade to avoid chance meetings with the enticing…
Planesrunner (Everness #1) by Ian McDonald Jo Fletcher Books (Jan 2013) Hardback, 371 pages Young Adult, Science Fiction There is not one you. There are many yous. There is not one world. There are many worlds. Ours is one among billions of parallel earths. When Everett Singh’s scientist father is kidnapped from the streets of London, he leaves young Everett a mysterious app on his computer. Suddenly, this teenager has become the owner of the most valuable object in the multiverse—the Infundibulum—the map of all the parallel earths, and there are…
Unforeseen by Lauren Grimley Malachite Quills (Sept 2012) | Ebook, 322 pages Urban Fantasy To be honest, after the first couple of chapters I began to worry that this book was trying to emulate the Black Dagger Brotherhood series by J. R. Ward. There were many similar themes to begin with: there was a band of vampires living among humans whilst trying to protect them from a rogue group of vampires who want to be on the top of the food chain; a king or leader who is trying to hold things together,…
Scent of Magic (Healer #2) by Maria V. Snyder MIRA Books (Dec 2012) Paperback, 404 pages Young Adult, Fantasy As the last Healer in the Fifteen Realms, Avry of Kazan is in a unique position: in the minds of her friends and foes alike, she no longer exists. Despite her need to prevent the megalomanical King Tohon from winning control of the Realms, Avry is also determined to find her sister and repair their estrangement. And she must do it alone, as Kerrick, her partner and sole confident, returns to Alga…
Shield of Fire by Boone Brux (The Bringer and the Bane #1) Entangled Publishing (Dec 2011) Ebook, 320 pages Paranormal Romance Shield of Fire begins in the middle of the action: at an abbey where Ravyn is being attacked by the Bane of the title, but we are not bombarded with information which might be confusing. On the contrary, in many ways it is a story we’ve all read before: Ravyn is, at least at first, the damsel in distress who needs the big, brave man to come and save her….
RAINSHADOW ROAD (Friday Harbour #2) by Lisa Kleypas PUBLISHER: Piatkus Books RELEASE DATE: 28th February 2012 FORMAT: Paperback, 308 pages GENRE: Contemporary Romance Lucy Marinn is a glass artist living in mystical, beautiful, Friday Harbor, Washington. She is stunned and blindsided by the most bitter kind of betrayal: her fiancé Kevin has left her. His new lover is Lucy’s own sister. Lucy’s bitterness over being dumped is multiplied by the fact that she has constantly made the wrong choices in her romantic life. Facing the severe disapproval of Lucy’s parents, Kevin…
Blood by Moonlight (Anthology) by Jocelynn Drake, Terri Garey & Caris Roane Avon Impulse (Oct 2012) Ebook, 224 pages Paranormal Romance | Urban Fantasy Needing something quick and easy to read during my commutes to work, I decided to read this anthology which has been sitting on my kindle since late last year. So did this collection make the journeys more pleasurable or did they make me want to jump out of the car? OF MONSTERS AND MEN by Jocelynn Drake This was an enjoyable little romp in a series…
Yesterday’s Heroes by Heather Long (Bookers #1) Carina Press (Sept 2012) Ebook, 89 pages Sci-Fi Romance If you follow this blog and have read a number of my posts, you will know how much I love a good old Superhero tale, whether in print or on screen. So when asked to review this book, I was giddy with excitement for this looked like it was going to mash my love of Superhero’s with my soft spot for a good old romance. And in many aspects, Yesterday’s Heroes really does fulfil both of these…
THE ASSASSIN AND THE UNDERWORLD & THE ASSASSIN AND THE EMPIRE (Throne of Glass #0.3 & #0.4) By Sarah J. Maas PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury RELEASE DATE: 2012 FORMAT: Kindle, 101/96 pages GENRE: Fantasy, Young Adult REVIEWER: Becs THE ASSASSIN AND THE UNDERWORLD: When the King of the Assassins gives Celaena Sardothien a special assignment that will help fight slavery in the kingdom, she jumps at the chance to strike a blow against an evil practice. The misson is a dark and deadly affair which takes Celaena from the rooftops of the city to the bottom…
Silver by Rhiannon Held Tor Books (June 2012) | Paperback, 317 pages Urban Fantasy Silver by Rhiannon Held is a werewolf novel with a difference, as there is barely any human interaction throughout the book. It is purely about the wolf packs and the threat that may be hunting them, with their foe making a vicious torture method out of silver. The book begins with main character Andrew Dare on the hunt in the woods for a mysterious lone wolf whose scent he has detected. His role is that of an…
MURDER TAKES THE CAKE (Daphne Martin Cake Mystery #1) by Gayle Trent PUBLISHER: Gallery Books RELEASE DATE: 29th Mar 2011 FORMAT: Paperback, 265 pages GENRE: Mystery A routine cake delivery becomes a culinary nightmare when a small-town baker discovers her first client’s dead body in this irresistible new mystery series. It’ll take more than a little sugar to convince folks Daphne Martin’s freshly baked spice cake was not to blame for the mysterious death of town gossip Yodel Watson. Getting her new cake decorating business, Daphne’s Delectable Cakes, off the…
The Hunting Ground by Cliff McNish Indigo (Jan 2012) | Paperback, 274 pages Paranormal YA Glebe House is Ben and Elliot’s fathers’ next project as he has been asked to renovate it for the owners to sell, all they know about the history of the house is that something tragic had happened there in the past, and they are about to find out the history the hard way. The Hunting Ground is a novel narrated in the third person set in an old abandoned mansion called Glebe House, which was once…
Devil’s Bargain by Rachel Caine (Red Letter Days #1) Mira Books (Oct 2012) Paperback, 331 pages Paranormal Romance Devil’s Bargain was a book that I was not keen to pick up, the problem for me is the title, give me vampires, werewolves or zombies any day, give me a devil and I go running for cover. I think, because I believe in God I also believe in a devil, so much so, that this is the creature of my nightmares and to make a bargain with one is just asking for…
Darn Good Cowboy Christmas (Spikes & Spurs #3) by Carolyn Brown | Sourcebooks Casablanca (Oct 2011) Paperback, 378 pages | Western Romance Darn Good Cowboy Christmas contains two elements every woman should have in her books at least once a year – cowboys and Christmas! This was just my type of festive treat! Set in small town, ranching Texas, it’s the third book in Carolyn Brown’s Spikes and Spurs series. I’ve read books two and three, but not the first and I personally didn’t think that it mattered. Brown portrays a fun and cosy community…
Mr Real by Carolyn Crane (Code of Shadows #1) Self-published (Oct 2012) Ebook, 360 pages Paranormal Romance Mr Real lives up to the saying ‘be careful what you wish for’ and it’s unfortunate that Alix hadn’t thought of that before she ordered herself up the fictional character Sir Kendall. Alix discovers the hard way that she has inherited more from her aunt than just a nice house. Within her aunt’s belongings is a computer programme that allows her to select an image from the internet and voila, twenty four hours later…
