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…
DEAD MANN WALKING (Hessius Mann #1) by Stefan Petrucha PUBLISHER: Roc RELEASE DATE: 4th October 2011 FORMAT: Paperback, 352 pages GENRE: Horror, Urban Fantasy After Hessius Mann was convicted of his wife’s murder, suppressed evidence came to light and the verdict was overturned-too bad he was already executed. But thanks to the miracles of modern science Hessius was brought back to life. Sort of. Now that he’s joined the ranks of Fort Hammer’s pulse-challenged population, Hessius attempts to make a “living” as a private investigator. But when a missing persons case…
Ironskin (IronSkin #1) by Tina Connelly Tor Books (Oct 2012) | Hardback, 304 pages Fantasy YA I will admit that with Ironskin I fell into the trap of judging a book by its cover. I came across this novel completely by chance on NetGalley and requested an early copy purely based on the beautiful front cover. Lucky for me I was not let down and I was completely engrossed in the story of Jane Eliot from the first few pages and could not put it down. Ironskin is a well-rounded fusion of…
DAUGHTER OF THE SWORD (Fated Blades #1) by Steve Bein PUBLISHER: Roc Trade RELEASE DATE: 2nd Oct 2012 FORMAT: Paperback, 455 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy Mariko Oshiro is not your average Tokyo cop. As the only female detective in the city’s most elite police unit, she has to fight for every ounce of respect, especially from her new boss. While she wants to track down a rumored cocaine shipment, he gives her the least promising case possible. But the case—the attempted theft of an old samurai sword—proves more dangerous than…
Edge of Oblivion by J. T. Geissinger (Night Prowler #2) Montlake Romance (Oct 2012) Paperback, 380 pages Paranormal Romance Warning: contains spoilers for book one I was very excited when an advanced copy of Edge of Oblivion popped through the letterbox. I really enjoyed the first novel of this series, Shadow’s Edge and was looking forward to finding out what came next in the story of the Ikati and whether Geissinger could follow up on her excellent debut novel. The book starts with a brief history of the Ikati before launching…
Twenties Girl by Sophie Kinsella Random House Audio (Nov 2009) Audiobook: 14h & 32m Paranormal Romance I’m not really a huge fan of the ‘chick-lit’ genre. Having fallen out of love with the ‘my life is a disaster, I wear giant pants and have an awful love-life’ theme. I did however, used to really love them. And while I no longer read them, Sophie Kinsella has always been an exception to this rule. Because her books are just so immensely funny. Twenties Girl has an added bonus for me, in that…
Tremble (Part 3) by Tobsha Learner Piatkus Entice (July 2012) | Ebook, 399 pages Erotic Romance This is the final part of my review on the collection of short stories in Tremble and I have to say that on the whole the collection has ended on a rather high note. There was only one story that I didn’t really like. Read on to find out which one it was. CUSTODIAN For me this was another highlight to the collection. It had a very similar theme to The Picture of Dorian Gray, where…
13 (Women of the Otherworld #13) by Kelley Armstrong PUBLISHER: Orbit (UK) | Penguin (USA) RELEASE DATE: July 2012 FORMAT: Hardback, 444 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy War is coming to the Otherworld. A sinister cult known as The Supernatural Liberation Movement is hell-bent on exposing the truth about supernaturals to the rest of the world. Their violent, ruthless plan has put everyone at risk: from werewolves to vampires, from witches to half-demons. Savannah Levine – fiery and unpredictable – stands at the heart of the maelstrom. There is a new, dark…
