Tuesday, June 26, 2012

Promotional Post: The Hallowed Ones by Laura Bickle

 The Hallowed Ones
Author: Laura Bickle
Release Date: September 25, 2012
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Graphia
ISBN:   0547859260
ISBN13: 9780547859262
Genre: Young Adult/Dystopian

If your home was the last safe place on earth, would you let a stranger in?

In this captivating thriller, an Amish settlement is the last safe haven in a world plagued by an unspeakable horror…

Katie is on the verge of her Rumspringa, the time in Amish life when teenagers are free to experience non-Amish culture before officially joining the church. But before Rumspringa arrives, Katie’s safe world starts to crumble. It begins with a fiery helicopter crash in the cornfields, followed by rumors of massive unrest and the disappearance of huge numbers of people all over the world. Something is out there...and it is making a killing.

Unsure why they haven’t yet been attacked, the Amish Elders make a decree: No one goes outside their community, and no one is allowed in. But when Katie finds a gravely injured young man lying just outside the boundary of their land, she can’t leave him to die. She refuses to submit to the Elder’s rule and secretly brings the stranger into her community—but what else is she bringing in with him?


I just finished reading The Hallowed Ones and I was pleasantly surprised with how much I enjoyed it. What are your thoughts after reading the blurb?

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Laura Bickle's professional background is in criminal justice and library science. When she's not patrolling the stacks at the public library, she can be found reaming up stories about the monsters under the stairs. She has written several contemporary fantasy nov-els for adults, and THE HALLOWED ONES is her first young adult novel. Laura lives in Ohio with her husband and five mostly-reformed feral cats. For more about Laura, please visit her website at: www.laurabickle.com.

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New Releases: 6/24-6/30

 
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Monday, June 25, 2012

Giveaway: Cursed by Benedict Jacka

Cursed
Author: Benedict Jacka
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Publisher: Ace
Alex Verus Book #2
ISBN:   1937007596
ISBN13: 9781937007591
Genre: Urban Fantasy


Benedict Jacka's acclaimed Alex Verus series continues with Cursed.

Since his second sight made him infamous for defeating powerful dark mages, Alex has been keeping his head down. But now he's discovered the resurgence of a forbidden ritual. Someone is harvesting the life-force of magical creatures—destroying them in the process. And draining humans is next on the agenda. Hired to investigate, Alex realizes that not everyone on the Council wants him delving any deeper. Struggling to distinguish ally from enemy, he finds himself the target of those who would risk their own sanity for power...

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Sunday, June 24, 2012

Week in Review: 6/17-6/23



Books Ive Bought/received

* In a Fix by Linda Grimes- eArc- Netgalley

* Consumed by Rebecca Zanetti- eArc- Netgaley

  
Books I read

Darkness Devours by Keri Arthur
Chosen by Sable Grace
Midnights Master by Donna Grant
Consumed by Rebecca Zanetti
Rogue's Pawn by Jeffe Kennedy

Reviews posted

Stalking the Others by Jess Haines
Echo Falls by Jaime McDougall
Black-Hearted Betrayal by Kasey MacKenzie
Chasing Magic by Stacia Kane


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* New Releases for the week. Was there anything you were looking forward to reading?

*Wednesday Author of Echo Falls Jaime McDougall Stopped in with a guest post on Investigating Werewolves.

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*If you see something on my books Ive read list that you are dying to know about let me know I'm back logged on reviews and can move it up on the list if I know people are wanting one.

* I love comments so if you see something you like (or not) please comment away and let me know.
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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Early Review: Chasing Magic by Stacia Kane

Chasing Magic
Author: Stacia Kane
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Publisher: Del Rey
Downside Ghosts Book #5
ISBN:   0345527526
ISBN13: 9780345527523
Genre: Dystopian/Urban Fantasy
Review Copy Source: Netgalley

A DEADLY HIGH

Magic-wielding Churchwitch and secret addict Chess Putnam knows better than anyone just how high a price people are willing to pay for a chemical rush. But when someone with money to burn and a penchant for black magic starts tampering with Downside’s drug supply, Chess realizes that the unlucky customers are paying with their souls—and taking the innocent with them, as the magic-infused speed compels them to kill in the most gruesome ways possible.

As if the streets weren’t scary enough, the looming war between the two men in her life explodes, taking even more casualties and putting Chess squarely in the middle. Downside could become a literal ghost town if Chess doesn’t find a way to stop both the war and the dark wave of death-magic, and the only way to do that is to use both her addiction and her power to enter the spell and chase the magic all the way back to its malevolent source. Too bad that doing so will probably kill Chess—if the war doesn’t first destroy the man who’s become her reason for living.

These books just get better and better.

Oddly enough Chess isn't working a church case in book 5. The relationship between Chess and Terrible is still going, They obviously love each other. There are still issues with Chess thinking about how she isn't good enough or he wont trust her enough but she is getting a bit better with that and she is making a bit of progress with her personal issues. Terrible and Chess make great strides towards healing all the things that have happened to their relationship in the time they have been together. Chess' drug use is still heavy, at one point she gets herself into a scary situation and she was suitably scared by it. I'm not sure if that will make her cut back or not, I'm kinda hoping it does. I would love to see Chess drug free. Chess does a lot of thinking throughout the book on her "relationship" with Lex and if she truly wants to continue to have him in her life as a friend. He does some pretty crappy things in the book in my opinion but when he was needed he was there for her. I'm hoping she sticks with her final decisions though. 

I don't want to give away and spoilers so I will end this with saying that CHASING MAGIC was a great addition to the series.  I have not been disappointed with any of the books to date and I'm always excited to grab the next book in the series. 

I gave it 5/5 stars 

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Friday, June 22, 2012

Winner: Bleeding Out by Jes Battis

Thank you to everyone who entered!!

Prize: Print copy of Bleeding Out
The Winner chosen by Rafflecopter is.....
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Early Review: Black-Hearted Betrayal by Kasey MacKenzie

Black-Hearted Betrayal
Author: Kasey MacKenzie
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Publisher: Ace
Shades of Fury Book #3
ISBN:  1937007650
ISBN13: 9781937007652
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Review Copy Source: Publisher

Riss Holloway has taken a leave of absence from her mortal job as Boston’s Chief Magical Investigator to focus on an unsettling friction brewing in the Sisterhood—only to be ushered into a tumultuous civil war drawing every other god and goddess into the chaos as well.


I really love all the covers of this series. Riss's leave of absence doesn't end up going so well. There is actually a line in the book that explains it best, She is now taking a leave of absence from her leave of absence. I was looking forward to seeing Riss with her niece now that she is a fury so I was kinda sad that that was put off until later.

Riss and Scott are still very much together and happy, they don't really have any alone time with each other but they are still a great team and still growing their relationship together. There was a lot more mythology added into book 3, more gods and goddesses are introduced into the book and new situations fill the pages. I expected the bad guy to go down at the end but I was totally shocked by all the events that made it happen and the outcome of Marissa completing her task. I know that the new situations certain people find themselves in at the end of the book will bring plenty of action and excitement in future books.

Like the other book in the Shades of Fury series BLACK-HEARTED BETRAYAL is filled with action and suspense. Riss and her allies hardly have room to breathe before the enemies are on them again. I thought that there was a lot more brought to the table compared to book 2 and I hope that it continues with book 4.

I gave it 4/5 stars
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