Today we are pleased to welcome Ashlyn Chase, author of the Strange Neighbours paranormal romance series. You can read our reviews of The Werewolf Upstairs and The Vampire Next Door. Ashlyn is here today to talk about the first book in her new paranormal romance series, Flirting Under a Full Moon. So, please welcome Ashlyn… Have you ever noticed the similarities between childbirth and authoring a book? I have. For those of you who are readers and not authors, please bear with me. We talk about conceiving an idea. All books begin…
Fragments (Partials Sequence #2) by Dan Wells HarperCollins (Mar 2013) Ebook, 482 pages YA Dystopian Warning: contains spoilers for book one In Partials, Kira set out to find the cure for the RM virus and in finding it, she also found out that she was more than human. Fragments, starts out where Partials ended, with one viable cure procured and her best friend’s baby saved. Kira sets out to find the answer to why she was created, leaving a cure sample for her ex, Marcus, to work from and to…
Blood and Silver by James R. Tuck (Deacon Chalk: Occult Bounty Hunter #3) Kensington (March 2013) | Paperback, 352 pages Urban Fantasy Deacon is back! Blood and Magick is book number 3 in Tuck’s Deacon Chalk series (if you don’t count the additional novellas), and as always within the first page you’re thrown into a serious, edge of your seat action scene. This series gives you very little time to breathe, there are just too many evil, bad guys. Witches it would seem this time. Deacon is an occult bounty-hunter…
The Guardian of Bastet by Jacqueline M. Battisti (The Guardian of Bastet #1) Carina Press (Aug 2012) Ebook, 197 pages Paranormal Romance Trinity is a small-town veterinarian, who is not only able to hear animals speak to her but shifts into a were-cat at the full moon. Daughter of a powerful witch and a were-puma, she considers herself a magical dud. That is, until the local vampire gifts her with a magical amulet and tells her she is the next Guardian of Bastet. Armed with the amulet and a crash…
NEW SERIES ALERT THE SERIES: Dragon Kings BOOK #1: Caged Warrior | GENRE: Paranormal Romance PUBLISHER: Pocket Books | RELEASE DATE: June 2013 The first installment in this fierce and sensual new paranormal romance series features demonic gladiators, ruthless mafia villains, and a proud race on the brink of extinction. Ten years ago, Audrey MacLaren chose to marry her human lover, making her an exile from the Dragon Kings, an ancient race of demons once worshiped as earthly gods. Audrey and her husband managed to conceive, and their son is the first natural-born Dragon…
Cutest Couple by Kate Davies (Girls Most Likely to… #2) Carina Press (April 2013) Ebook, 79 pages Contemporary Romance Cutest Couple is the second instalment in the Girls Most Likely to… Series. This edition follows the antics of Marc and Bree. The pair were the golden couple when it came to high school duos, so much so that they were voted Cutest Couple. This lasted up until their high school graduation night where they had the mother of arguments which crushed their relationship. Marc swiftly joined the military and Bree…
King of the Dead by Joseph Nassise (Jeremiah Hunt #2) Tor (Nov 2012) Hardback, 352 pages Urban Fantasy King of the Dead by Joseph Nassise picks up where Eyes to See left off, with Jeremiah, Dmitri and Denise on the run from the FBI and wanted for serial murder. Wrongly accused of being serial killer The Reaper from book one, Jeremiah and his friends flee across America in a desperate attempt to outrun the FBI taskforce that has proclaimed Hunt as their number one most wanted. Lying low in motel rooms…
Hi Guys! Hope you’re having a great weekend. Here’s the low down on what happened at BCC this week… REVIEWS 4.5 Star Review – Silent Witness by Shirley Wells 4 Star Review – Tall, Dark and Divine by Jenna Bennett 4 Star Review – Pretty When She Kills by Rhiannon Frater 4 Star Review – Dead Silent by Shirley Wells 3.5 Star Review – The Gilded Fan by Christina Courtenay 3 Star Review – Blacque/Bleu by Belinda McBride 2.5 Star Review – Oz The Great and Powerful (Friday Film Review)…
Welcome to Sunday Love-in! This is a new feature where an author shares one of their favourite smexy-time scenes from their latest book, tells us the reason for their choice and then shares the scene with us with a delicious excerpt. Enjoy. Nicki Elson and her favourite smexy scene… Divine Temptation straddles the line between reality and paranormal. Maggie Brock’s story is very much one that deals with realistic human problems – adjusting to life after divorce, raising her children, navigating romantic obstacles – but a paranormal influence is inserted via visitations…
THE AUTHOR Theresa Rizzo is an award-winning author who writes emotional stories that explore the complexity of relationships and families through real-life trials. Born and raised in Grosse Pointe, Michigan, she now lives outside of Boulder, Colorado with her husband of thirty years. THE BOOK RELEASE DATE: June 2013 | PUBLISHER: Self-Published | GENRE: Contemporary Romance He Belongs to Me is a love story… a tale of betrayal and deception and of a young mother’s determination to recover what belongs to her. Forced to leave her baby and tricked into relinquishing her…
BOOKISH NEWS Hi, and welcome to our new feature, in which we highlight and discuss some of the news that has been big in the bookish world this week. BBC Adapts (Another) Book Having not made a series based on a book for – oh, about five minutes – the BBC have puchased the rights to Kathy Lette’s novel To Love, Honour and Betray. The story is set in Australia, and tells the story of a mother and daughter who are both involved in a love triangle (yes, the same…
OZ: THE GREAT AND POWERFUL (2013) DIRECTOR: Sam Raimi STARRING: Mila Kunis, James Franco, Michelle Williams GENRE: U CERT: Fantasy OZ: The Great and Powerful is a love letter to the original 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz. However, it fails to step away from the classic films shadow. In this film, the Dorothy character is replaced by Franco’s Oz, a sideshow magician who has dreams of grandeur. Its this flaw that causes him to leave a trail of brokenhearted women after he has seduced them, giving them some sob…
Iron Guns, Blazing Hearts by Heather Massey Lyrical Press (Feb 2013) | Ebook, 156 pages Steampunk Romance Iron Guns, Blazing Hearts is the story of Violet Whitcomb, daughter and assistant to her father, Professor Whitcomb, a brilliant scientist and expert in the field of automata. The story opens with Violet and her father on a train journey to San Francisco in order to present his latest and greatest invention. It is on this journey that Violet meets the enigmatic Logan and her world changes forever. Violet is for the most part a very…
I’m very pleased to welcome author Paul Cornell to the blog today. London Falling is Paul’s new urban fantasy novel published by Tor Books. Please give him a warm welcome. London Falling is my first urban fantasy novel. It’s about a group of modern London undercover police who, in the course of an investigation, accidentally gain the ability to see the magic and the monsters of the capital. They panic, of course, but they finally decide that the only way they’re going to survive is to use (real) police methods…
Tall, Dark and Divine by Jenna Bennett Entangled Publishing (July 2012) Ebook, 177 pages Paranormal Romance Tall, Dark and Divine manages to stand out from the ever crowded Paranormal Romance books out there by shunning the still popular vampire, werewolf and demon characters. Instead, Bennett reaps the world of God’s and Goddesses for her otherworldly occupants. Set in the present, it seems that the God’s and Goddesses of the numerous caches have either chosen or been forced to live among us mere mortals. Eros, or Ross as his chosen human…
