Dirty (Dan & Ellie #1) by Megan Hart Mills & Boon (Spice) (June 2009) Ebook, 432 pages | Contemporary Erotic Romance I started reading Megan Hart a couple of months ago, when I came across her erotic horror serial The Resurrected. I wondered how on earth two such different genres would work, but they really did. This was down to Hart’s great writing style which I instantly fell in love with. I’d heard a lot about her erotic romances, so thought I’d try one out. Dirty was a completely addictive read. From…
DAUGHTER OF THE FLAMES (Ruan #1) by Zoë Marriott PUBLISHER: Walker Books RELEASE DATE: 3rd March 2008 FORMAT: Paperback, 362 pages GENRE: Fantasy, Young Adult What if your deadliest enemy was the only one who could save you? Inside an ancient temple in the mountains, fifteen-year-old Zira trains in the martial arts to become a warrior priestess who can defend the faith of the Ruan people. Bearing a scar on her face from the fire that killed her parents, the orphaned Zira is taught to distrust the occupying Sedornes. Terror strikes when…
Water Witch by Carol Goodman (Fairwick Chronicles #2) Ebury Publishing (Sept 2012) Paperback, 339 pages Paranormal Romance Warning: contains spoilers Water Witch continues a little way on from the ending of Incubus, with Callie having banished Liam to the Borderlands. Who’s Callie? Who’s Liam? Okay, a quick catch up for those of you that haven’t read or can’t remember my review of Incubus. Callie Mcfay is a half fey, half witch Professor at Fairwick College. When she first arrived in Fairwick she fell in love with a beautiful old house, and its…
Taken (Alex Verus #3) by Benedict Jacka Orbit Books (Sept 2012) | Paperback, 319 pages Urban Fantasy Taken by Benedict Jacka is the third novel in the Alex Verus series, featuring everyone’s favourite mage shopkeeper and diviner, Alex Verus. Following on from the events of both Fated and Cursed, Alex and his apprentice, Luna, are going about their daily business, with Alex running his shop in Camden whilst Luna attends her apprentice classes. Of course, this can’t last for long and soon Council mage Talisid approaches Alex with another mission. Being…
Lady Sophie’s Christmas Wish (Windham #4) by Grace Burrowes | Paperback, 404 pages Sourcebooks Casablanca (Oct 2011) Historical Romance Lady Sophie’s Christmas Wish by Grace Burrowes is a great historical romance for the holiday season, filled with lust, scandal and Christmas spirit. We begin with Wilhelm Charpentier, otherwise known as ‘Vim’, being unable to acquire a room in London and offered a room at Lady Sophia Windham’s ducal mansion. This initial meeting yields no indication of either individual’s social status, with Vim presuming that Sophie is merely a housekeeper, as the rest…
GREAVEBURN (Greaveburn #1) by Craig Hallam PUBLISHER: Inspired Quill RELEASE DATE: 20th Aug 2012 FORMAT: Paperback, 259 pages GENRE: Steampunk Fantasy A Hero murdered. A Girl alone. A city of Villains. From the crumbling Belfry to the Citadel’s stained-glass eye, across acres of cobbles streets and knotted alleyways that never see daylight, Greaveburn is a city with darkness at its core. Gothic spires battle for height, overlapping each other until the skyline is a jagged mass of thorns. Archduke Choler sits on the throne, his black-sealed letters foretell death for the person named inside….
Bah, Humbug! by Heather Horrocks Word Garden Press (Sept 2011) | Kindle, 96 pages Contemporary Romance I selected Bah, Humbug! for one of my Christmas reads, as this year I’m lacking the whole Christmas spirit. I love the meaning behind Christmas but dislike greatly the cost, especially as this year is going to be my tightest one yet, so yes bah, humbug! is very apt. Bah, Humbug! is told from the third person view point as we follow Kyle, an author who hates Christmas and who’s using his struggle to meet a deadline for…
Dead Harvest (The Collector #1) by Chris F. Holm Angry Robot Books (Feb 2012) | Paperback, 416 pages Urban Fantasy Sam is a soul collector and quite successful at his job until he is ordered to collect the soul from 17 year old Kate who is accused of viciously killing her family. Sam believes Kate to be innocent of her crime and they both end up on the run from those who want her dead. It doesn’t take long, in fact just a few near death experiences, before Sam realises that…
Christmas Eve at Friday Harbour (Friday Harbour #1) by Lisa Kleypas | Piatkus Books (Nov 2010) Paperback, 320 pages | Contemporary Romance This was such a lovely story. I thoroughly enjoyed it and devoured it quickly. My only real complaint was that it was too short and I would have loved to have read more about the main characters. It has a sad beginning when Mark’s sister dies and he is given custody of his six-year old niece, Holly. As a bachelor, he doesn’t know the first thing about children, but…
Stray Souls (Magicals Anonymous #1) by Kate Griffin Orbit Books (Oct 2012) | Paperback, 454 pages Urban Fantasy The story starts with Facebook. ‘Facebook! Facebook?! I’ve got a city infested with horrors of the night crawling nether darkness; I’ve got monsters and demons and missing fucking goddesses and creatures whose footsteps burn the night and wards failing and meetings – bloody hell, I’ve got blooding fucking fiscal meetings with the director’s board – and they’re doing this with Facebook?!” Sharon Li, the unlikely hero of this tale, decides to use Facebook to start…
Heartless by Gail Carriger (The Parasol Protectorate #4) Orbit Books (July 2011) Paperback, 311 pages Steampunk Romance Warning: contains spoilers for previous books Heartless by Gail Carriger picks up where Blameless left off, with the pregnant Lady Alexia Maccon continuing to cause all manners of trouble whilst still having time to stop for those all-important cups of tea. Our heroine is eight months pregnant and frustrated with her inabilities to function as she used to, as mobility is fast becoming an issue. The frequent scenes in which she has to be…
LUCKY PENNY (Coulters Historical #5) by Catherine Anderson PUBLISHER: Signet RELEASE DATE: January 2012 FORMAT: Paperback, 413 Pages GENRE: Historical Romance To support her orphaned niece, impoverished Brianna O’Keefe accepts work with a Colorado rancher. To guard herself from the unwanted attention, she resorts to a harmless little lie: that she’s married to a Denver gold miner named David Paxton. When her boss forces her to write her “husband,” hoping he’ll take Brianna off his hands, she can only pray that there is no real David Paxton who can expose…
Wishful Thinking by Gabi Stevens (Time of Transition #3) Tor Books (April 2012) Paperback, 310 pages Paranormal Romance Warning: may contain spoilers for previous books Wishful Thinking by Gabi Stevens marks the end of the Time of the Transition series, in which three women have discovered that they are the next fairy godmothers, and must strive to protect both the Arcani world and the Groundling world. In the previous two books we were introduced to Reggie and Kristin, the first two godmothers to be discovered in the time of transition. Now it…
DOUBLE DEAD (Double Dead #1) by Chuck Wendig PUBLISHER: Abbadon Books RELEASE DATE: 15 November 2011 FORMAT: Paperback, 320 pages GENRE: Horror, Zombies Coburn’s been dead now for close to a century, but seeing as how he’s a vampire and all, it doesn’t much bother him. Or at least it didn’t, not until he awoke from a forced five-year slumber to discover that most of human civilization was now dead—but not dead like him, oh no. See, Coburn likes blood. The rest of the walking dead, they like brains. He’s smart….
THE CIRCLE (Engelsfors #1) by Sara B. Elfgren & Mats Strandberg PUBLISHER: Hammer RELEASE DATE: 7th June 2012 FORMAT: Paperback, 596 pages GENRE: Horror, Young Adult Only together can they survive. Engelsfors. A beautiful name for a scrubby little town in Sweden where six girls have just started high school. They have nothing in common — except they are all hunted by an ancient evil. The autumn semester has just started when a student is found dead in one of the school toilet cubicles. Everyone suspects suicide. Everyone except those that know…
