Dracula’s Secret by Linda Mercury (Blood Wings #1) Kensington Press (July 2012) Ebook, 269 pages Paranormal Romance Well, Dracula’s Secret is going to mess with your mind a bit in the beginning! Throw away what you ever thought about Dracula and rewrite him as a female. Yep, thats right, Vladimir Dracula is a girl! He/she still becomes a vampire however, so we are not totally shunning tradition Way back, when Dracula was born, her dad (gawd that feels so wrong) was looking for an heir to help carry on the family…
Dark Soul: The Complete Collection by Aleksandr Voinov Riptide Publishing (Oct 2011) | Kindle Edition, 310 pages Erotic Romance | M/M Romance Ok, this is a genre I haven’t read before. In fact the only novel that comes close is Laid Bare by Lauren Dane. But to be honest, Dark Soul is a completely different kettle of fish. Firstly it’s m/m and secondly the sex scenes are totally out of my comfort zone – but boy, was this book good! I heard about Dark Soul and the author from a fellow blogger…
REBEL HEART (Dust Lands #2) By Moira Young PUBLISHER: Scholastic RELEASE DATE: 2nd August 2012 FORMAT: Paperback, 393 pages GENRE: Dystopian, Young Adult Danger. Betrayal. Destiny. Passion. The superb sequel to Blood Red Road, the most exciting YA debut of 2011 Saba has rescued her kidnapped brother and defeated the fanatical Tonton. But the price to be paid for her violent victory is terible. Jack has disappeared – and can no longer be trusted. A new and formidable enemy is on the rise in the dustlands. No one is safe. And…
The Iron Duke (Iron Seas #1) by Meljean Brook Berkley UK (Apr 2012) | Paperback, 378 pages Steampunk Romance The Iron Duke by Meljean Brook is a thrilling book that really embraces the new steampunk genre, set in an alternate version of England that is recovering from the rule of the Horde. The Horde appears to have been an organization that ruled England through the use of nanoagents that were snuck into the food supplies and ingested by the population. These nanoagents are bugs that can be controlled by radio frequencies, allowing the…
THE VAMPIRE STALKER By Allison Van Diepen PUBLISHER: Scholastic RELEASE DATE: 1st July 2011 FORMAT: Paperback, 250 pages GENRE: Paranormal, Young Adult What if the characters in a vampire novel left their world–and came into yours? Amy is in love with someone who doesn’t exist: Alexander Banks, the dashing hero in a popular series of vampire novels. Then one night, Amy meets a boy who bears an eerie resemblance to Alexander. In fact, he IS Alexander, who has escaped from the pages of the book and is in hot pursuit of…
DEVIL OF THE HIGHLANDS (Devil of the Highlands #1) by Lynsay Sands PUBLISHER: HarperCollins AUDIOBOOK RELEASE DATE: 20th April 2010 FORMAT: Audiobook, 8 hours and 50 mins NARRATOR: Marianna Palka GENRE: Historical Romance They call him the Devil… He is the most notorious laird of Scotland: fierce, cold, deadly… and maybe even worse. Yet Evelinde has just agreed to wed him. Anything, she thinks, is better than her cruel stepmother. Though Evelinde should be wary of the rumors, she can’t help but be drawn to this warrior… for the Devil…
The Silent Touch of Shadows by Christina Courtenay Choc Lit (July 2012) Paperback, 323 Pages Paranormal Romance The Silent Touch of Shadows is the fourth Christina Courtenay novel I’ve read. It’s really two stories in one. The main story of Melissa is a contemporary romance, with a paranormal twist. And the second story a historical romance. The main story tells of Melissa, a young mother recovering from a divorce who goes to stay with her great-aunt in the haunted Ashleigh Manor. There she begins to have dreams and strange experiences…
EARTH GIRL by Janet Edwards PUBLISHER: Harper Voyager RELEASE DATE: 16th August 2012 FORMAT: Paperback, 358 pages GENRE: Science Fiction, Young Adult 2788. Only the handicapped live on Earth. While everyone else portals between worlds, 18-year-old Jarra is among the one in a thousand people born with an immune system that cannot survive on other planets. Sent to Earth at birth to save her life, she has been abandoned by her parents. She can’t travel to other worlds, but she can watch their vids, and she knows all the jokes…
Shadow’s Edge by J. T. Geissinger (Night Prowler #1) Montlake Romance (June 2012) Paperback, 359 pages Paranormal Romance I came across Shadow’s Edge completely by accident after trawling through some recommendations on my Amazon Kindle. Normally, these can be more miss than hit but this time I was pleasantly surprised. The plot centres on the heroine, Jenna Moore, who grew up on the run with her parents. Jenna was irrevocably marked by the sudden disappearance of her father when she was ten and the subsequent breakdown and early death of her mother….
Sacrificial Magic (Downside Ghosts #4) by Stacia Kane | Harper Voyager (May 2012) Paperback, 403 pages | Urban Fantasy LAURA: It was with eager anticipation that I opened my copy of Sacrificial Magic I’d read all three in the series back to back last year, my love of the series growing with each book. Chess and Terrible are such unorthodox characters, that each time I enter their lives I want to applaud Kane on her guts to be different and her vivid characterisation. Maybe I was just too excited to pick…
BLOOD AND SILVER (Deacon Chalk: Occult Bounty Hunter #2) by James R. Tuck PUBLISHER: Kensington RELEASE DATE: 7th August 2012 FORMAT: Paperback, 352 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy Deacon Chalk normally has no trouble telling innocent victims from real monsters. So protecting an abused pregnant were-dog is a no-brainer…until a vicious lycanthrope leader and his brotherhood target Deacon, other shape-shifters, and any humans in their way. Suddenly, Deacon is outnumbered, outgunned, and unsure who – or what – to trust. The only edge he has left is a weapon hungry for his…
THRONE OF GLASS (Throne of Glass #1) by Sarah J. Maas PUBLISHER: Bloomsbury Publishing RELEASE DATE: 2nd August 2012 FORMAT: Digital Advance Reader Copy, 426 pages GENRE: Paranormal, Young Adult Meet Celaena Sardothien. Beautiful. Deadly. Destined for greatness. In the dark, filthy salt mines of Endovier, an eighteen-year-old girl is serving a life sentence. She is a trained assassin, the best of her kind, but she made a fatal mistake: she got caught. Young Captain Westfall offers her a deal: her freedom in return for one huge sacrifice. Celaena must…
SWITCHED (Trylle Trilogy #1) by Amanda Hocking PUBLISHER: Tor Books RELEASE DATE: 5th January 2012 FORMAT: Paperback, 335 pages GENRE: Paranormal, Young Adult What if your entire world was built on a lie? Wendy Everly knew she was different the day her mother tried to kill her and accused her of having been switched at birth. Although certain she’s not the monster her mother claims she is – she does feel that she doesn’t quite fit in… She’s bored and frustrated by her small town life – and then there’s the secret…
Wild & Steamy (Anthology) by Carolyn Crane, Jill Myles, Meljean Brook Self-Published (Aug 2011) Kindle Edition, 119 pages Paranormal & Steampunk Romance KITTEN-TIGER & THE MONK by Carolyn Crane Reviewer: Gemma Reading shorts in an anthology can be a hit or a miss at times. You either have the short stories, which are part of a series that read like they are deleted scenes and you really need to be up-to-date with that series to have a Scooby on what is going on. Or you have the other short stories, that although they…
The Silver Bough by Lisa Tuttle Jo Fletcher Books (July 2012) | Hardcover, 455 pages Fantasy When I first started to read The Silver Bough I thought it was a quaint tale of three American women, all suffering from the bereavement of either a loved one or their way of life. They have all moved to the small town of Appleton in Scotland looking for a change or a means of escape from the sadness in their lives. Appleton was once a successful town, famous for its apples, especially the Appleton…
