Carolyn first reviewed Frostbitten back in 2009 – here is Laura’s take… FROSTBITTEN (Women of the Otherworld #10) by Kelley Armstrong PUBLISHER: Orbit Books RELEASE DATE: September 2009 FORMAT: Hardback, 339 Pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy Smart, sexy, supernatural – the men and women of the Otherworld live and love, fight and die, among us. Unseen and unsuspected, this realm of witches, ghosts, and werewolves is now threatened with exposure by a brutal series of bizarre murders that has left even the supernatural world baffled – and cold with terror. Being…
HIT LIST (Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter #20) by Laurell K. Hamilton PUBLISHER: Headline (UK) | Penguin (USA) RELEASE DATE: 7th June 2011 FORMAT: Harback, 320 Pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy A serial killer is hunting the Pacific Northwest, murdering victims in a gruesome and spectacular way. The local police suspect “monsters” are involved, and have called in Anita Blake and Edward, US Marshals who really know their monsters, to catch the killer. But some monsters are very real. The Harlequin have been the bogeymen of the vampire world for more than a…
All I Want For Christmas is a Vampire by Kerrelyn Sparks (Love At Stake #5) Avon Books (Oct 2008) Paperback, 350 Pages Paranormal Romance I listened to How To Marry A Millionaire Vampire as an audiobook earlier in the year, the first book in Sparks’ Love At Stake series and had a few issues with it. So I picked up All I Want For Christmas is a Vampire to review, without having read any of the interim instalments, and I have to say I was pleasantly surprised. Sparks’ writing has really improved….
PERSONAL DEMONS (Personal Demons #1) by Lisa Desrochers PUBLISHER: TOR Teen RELEASE DATE: September 2010 FORMAT: Paperback, 365 Pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy, Young Adult Frannie Cavanaugh is a good Catholic girl with a bit of a wicked streak. She has spent years keeping everyone at a distance – even her closest friends – and it seems as if her senior year is going to be more of the same… until Luc Cain enrolls in her class. No one knows where he came from, but Frannie can’t seem to stay away…
Title: Shakespeare’s Landlord (Lily Bard Mystery #1) Author: Charlaine Harris Publisher: Gollancz (UK) | Berkley Prime Crime (US) Publication Date: 2011 (UK) | 2005 (US) Format: Paperback, 224 pages Genre: Mystery Source: Review copy from publisher Reviewed by Carolyn Buy your copy from Amazon UK Kindle | UK Paperback | US Kindle | US Paperback OR The Book Depository SUMMARY: Disguising herself with short hair and baggy clothes, Lily Bard has started over in the sleepy town of Shakespeare, Arkansas, where – working as a cleaning lady – she can sweep away the…
Always Angel by Heather Killough-Walden (The Lost Angels #0.5) Headline (Oct 2011) Kindle, 68 pages Paranormal Romance It is no secret that I loved Avenger’s Angel and because of that I purchased Always Angel the day it was released. It has many of the aspects I loved about Avenger’s Angel, from the great writing to intriguing plot line and sexy characters. Always Angel is very short, too short in my opinion, and because of this there’s not much plot. It’s not a self-contained story as there’s no real beginning, middle and end. It’s…
Red’s Hot Cowboy (Spikes & Spurs #2) by Carolyn Brown Sourcebooks Casablanca (Sept 2011) Paperback, 384 Pages | Western Romance Red’s Hot Cowboy was a fun, hot, contemporary romance. Pearl has given up her banking job and partying lifestyle in the city to run the 1950s motel her aunt has left her. On Christmas Eve, hoping for a quiet night, a storm and local power cut gives her a full house and leads the police to her door. It’s a case of mistaken identity for Wil Marshall who somehow finds himself in handcuffs…
Karma Girl by Jennifer Estep (Bigtime #1) Self-Published (July 2011) Kindle Edition, 376 pages Sci-Fi Romance Karma Girl is such a fun book – I really enjoyed it! I haven’t read a paranormal romance with superheroes before, and I thought it was fresh and original. I loved the storyline and the characters. The awful cover you see above does absolutely nothing to portray the entertaining, quirky and original story inside – in this case it’s definitely don’t judge a book by its cover! Our heroine is Carmen, a very likeable…
Secondhand Spirits (Witchcraft Mystery #1) by Juliet Blackwell | Signet (July 2009) Paperback, 313 pages | Paranormal Mystery Secondhand Spirits is a cosy paranormal mystery. It’s warm, inviting and cute. I had fun reading this book, the first in the Witchcraft Mystery series by Juliet Blackwell. Lily Ivory is a witch who has settled down in San Francisco after moving around for many years. She owns a vintage clothes shop and is enjoying putting down some roots and has even begun to make friends, especially with her two co-workers, Maya and Bronwyn….
AS THE WORLD DIES: UNTOLD TALES (Vol. 1) by Rhiannon Frater PUBLISHER: Self-published RELEASE DATE: Aug 2011 FORMAT: Kindle, 154 pages GENRE: Horror, Zombies THE FIRST DAYS: AS THE WORLD DIES introduced Jenni and Katie and their harrowing journey to the makeshift fort in the Texas Hill Country. But theirs is not the only tale to be told. In the first volume of the AS THE WORLD DIES UNTOLD TALES experience three terrifying tales of those who are forced to face the unrelenting and hungry walking dead. Deep in the Texas Hill…
SPELL BOUND (Women of the Otherworld #13) by Kelley Armstrong PUBLISHER: Orbit (UK) | Penguin (USA) RELEASE DATE: August 2011 FORMAT: Paperback, 339 Pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy Savannah Levine is in terrible danger, and for once she’s powerless to help herself. At the conclusion of Waking the Witch, Savannah swore that she would give up her powers if it would help a young girl. Little did she know that someone would take her up on that promise. And now, witch hunting assassins, necromancers, half-demons, and rogue witches all seem to…
What’s A Ghoul To Do? (Ghost Hunter Mystery #1) by Victoria Laurie | Signet (April 2007) Paperback: 292 pages | Paranormal Mystery I’ve had this series on my shelf for a long time, and as it was All Hallow’s Eve and I fancied a mystery I thought it was a good time to start Victoria Laurie’s Ghost Hunter Mystery series. I really enjoyed Laurie’s writing. It’s a nice easy writing style and the pages flew by pretty quickly. The characters are fun, especially MJ’s African Grey parrot who sits on her shoulder…
Title: Demon Dance (Vampire Gene #3) Author: Sam Stone Publisher: The House Of Murky Depths Publication Date: 30 May 2011 Paperback: 297 Pages Genre: Horror Source: Review copy from authorReviewed by Laura RATING: 7/10 – Very good, would definitely recommend SUMMARY: Lilly has been thrown into another dimension at the whim of an unnamed, undefined entity. To return to her life with Gabriele, she must find a new door, prevent a paradox and seek the truth from the past. The youngest vampire in existence, she will travel the world and…
EAT SLAY LOVE (Living with the Dead #3) by Jesse Petersen PUBLISHER: Simon & Schuster (UK) | Orbit (US) RELEASE DATE: Aug 2011 | June 2011 FORMAT: Paperback, 277 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy, Zombies Sarah and David have survived the zombie apocalypse. They stood side by side and fought the undead, mad scientists, and even bionic monsters until the unthinkable happened. A zombie bite. But not even that could stop them. Now, with a possible cure in hand, they’re headed east, looking for a safe zone behind the rumored “Wall.”…
Moon Called (Mercedes Thompson #1) by Patricia Briggs Orbit (June 2008) Paperback, 308 pages Urban Fantasy ‘I didn’t realize he was a werewolf at first. My nose isn’t at its best when surrounded by axle grease and burnt oil…’ Mercedes Thompson runs a garage in the Tri-Cities. She’s a mechanic, and a damn good one, who spends her spare time karate training and tinkering with a VW bus that happens to belong to a vampire. Her next-door neighbour is an alpha werewolf – literally, the leader of the pack. And…
