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…
CHASERS (Alone #1) By James Phelan PUBLISHER: Kensington Publishing RELEASE DATE: 30th October 2012 FORMAT: Ebook, 256 pages GENRE: Dystopian, Young Adult Four Teenagers. One Destroyed City. Thousands of Infected Predators. Jesse is on a UN Youth Ambassadors camp in New York when his subway carriage is rocked by an explosion. Jesse and his three friends, Dave, Mini and Anna, crawl out from the wreckage to discover a city in chaos. Streets are deserted. Buildings are in ruins. Worse, the only other survivors seem to be infected with a virus that…
Dracula’s Desires by Linda Mercury (Blood Wings #2) Kensington Press (Sept 2012) Ebook, 269 pages Paranormal Romance Warning: contains spoilers I am coming to the conclusion lately that I should just stick to the first book in a series. If I am honest, which I always try to be with my reviews, I was rather disappointed with Dracula’s Desires. I was expecting this to be a continuation of Dracula’s Secret, but apart from a couple of the story lines, it was totally new. Sadly, I found it hard to follow and…
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…
SPIDER’S LULLABY (Deacon Chalk: Occult Bounty Hunter #1.5) by James R. Tuck PUBLISHER: Kensington RELEASE DATE: 26th June 2012 FORMAT: Ebook, 79 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy He lives to kill monsters. He keeps his city safe. And his silver hollow-points and back-from-the-dead abilities take out any kind of unnatural threat. But between this bad-ass bounty hunter and rescuing the most helpless of victims stands the one evil he can’t defeat… For Deacon Chalk, loyalty is worth dying for. And now that something has taken were-spider Charlotte’s un-hatched children and one…
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…
The Lingering Dead (Jackie Rutledge #3) by J. N. Duncan PUBLISHER: Kensington Publishing RELEASE DATE: 1st April 2012 FORMAT: Paperback, 352 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy Jackie Rutledge has faced down everything from the darkest sorcery to uber-vengeful revenants. But heading up the Bureaus special paranormal unit is presenting unexpected challenges. Handling other-worldly egos and politics has never come easy to this loner agent. And opening up to her sexy, vampire lover, Nick, is as unnerving as her unwanted new ability to slip between the realms of the living and the…
TOUCH OF FROST (The Mythos Academy #1) by Jennifer Estep PUBLISHER: Kensington Publishing RELEASE DATE: 1st August 2011 FORMAT: Paperback, 350 pages GENRE: Paranormal, Young Adult My name is Gwen Frost, and I go to Mythos Academy a school of myths, magic and warrior whiz kids, where even the lowliest geek knows how to chop off somebody’s head with a sword and Logan Quinn, the hottest Spartan guy in school, also happens to be the deadliest. But lately, things have been weird, even for Mythos. First, mean girl Jasmine Ashton was murdered in…
BLOOD AND BULLETS (Deacon Chalk #1) by James R. Tuck PUBLISHER: Kensington RELEASE DATE: February 2012 FORMAT: ARC, 352 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy SOURCE: Publisher He lives to kill monsters. He keeps his city safe. And his silver hollow-points and back-from-the-dead abilities help him take out any kind of supernatural threat. But now an immortal evil has this bad-ass bounty hunter dead in its sights… Ever since a monster murdered his family, Deacon Chalk hunts any creature that preys on the innocent. So when a pretty vampire girl “hires” him to…
THE VENGEFUL DEAD (Jackie Rutledge #2) by J. N. Duncan PUBLISHER: Kensington RELEASE DATE: 1st October 2011 FORMAT: Ebook, 352 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy Jackie Rutledge just can’t put her past to rest. Her Bureau partner is dead, but not gone. And her sanity is becoming as fragile as her career. Worst of all, her wrenching journey into Deadworld has given her unwanted new abilities – and exhuming memories she hoped to keep buried… Now a merciless force capable of possessing humans is on a killing spree, killing the guilty…
DEADWORLD (Jackie Rutledge #1) by J. N. Duncan PUBLISHER: Kensington RELEASE DATE: April 2011 FORMAT: Ebook, 420 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy She’s as tough as anything haunting Chicago’s streets. But to deal with an inhuman power that won’t stay buried, this FBI agent needs help that comes at an immortal price… Jackie Rutledge has seen her share of supernatural killers. But her latest murder case is what recurring nightmares are made of. Brutally exsanguinated human victims, vanishing-into-the-ether …moreShe’s as tough as anything haunting Chicago’s streets. But to deal with an inhuman…
THAT THING AT THE ZOO (Deacon Chalk #0.5) by James R. Tuck PUBLISHER: Kensington Books RELEASE DATE: January 2012 FORMAT: Ebook, 80 pages GENRE: Urban Fantasy Shredding monsters is his stock and trade. He sniffs them out, tracks them down, and corners them. End of story. But when the tables are turned, expect the unexpected. Knowing his enemy is a rule Deacon Chalk swears by. But he’s never seen anything like whatever is leaving the Atlanta Zoo’s most dangerous predators bloodless, skinned, and hanging high in the treetops. And he’s…
BLOODY GOOD (Bryetwood #1) by Georgia Evans PUBLISHER: Kensington Fantasy RELEASE DATE: June 1st 2009 FORMAT: Paperback, 320 pages GENRE: Paranormal Romance While the sounds of battle echo through the sky, a lady doctor has more than enough trouble to keep her busy, even in a sleepy hamlet outside London. But the threat is nearer home than Alice knows. German agents have infiltrated her beloved countryside – Nazis who can fly, read minds, and live forever. They’re not just fascists. They’re vampires. Alice has no time for fantasy, but when…
