New Releases: 9/15-9/21

Tue Sept 17

 3:59 by Gretchen McNeil 

 The Burning Sky (The Elemental Trilogy #1) by Sherry Thomas 

 The Clockwork Scarab (Stoker & Holmes #1) by Colleen Gleason

 Delia's Shadow by Jaime Lee Moyer

 The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle #2) by Maggie Stiefvater

 Frozen (Heart of Dread #1) by Melissa de la Cruz

 Help for the Haunted by John Searles

 Kinslayer (The Lotus War #2) by Jay Kristoff

 Once We Were (The Hybrid Chronicles #2) by Kat Zhang

 The Wicked Within (Gods & Monsters #3) by Kelly Keaton

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Review: Requiem For the Dead by Kelly Meding

Requiem For the Dead

Author: Kelly Meding

Release Date: September 16, 2013

Publisher: Self-Published

Dreg City Book #5

N/AGenre: Urban Fantasy
Review Copy Source: Author

She's died twice while protecting her city…and she'd do it again to save the people she loves.

After a deadly, artificial infection forces the vampire Families into a self-imposed isolation, the city's protective Watchtower forces are depleted by one third, leaving humans and shifters to shoulder the burden. Human enforcer Evangeline Stone is determined to find a way to help her vampire allies, but she already has her hands full—investigating an escalating series of goblin attacks, dealing with her half-werewolf lover, locating three missing werewolf teenagers, and learning to trust her non-human coworkers.

When a potential cure for the vampires' infection is given to her by an unlikely source, it's just as quickly stolen—collateral damage in a power play within the were-cat Clan that leaves one human ally dead and another horribly injured. With Wyatt Truman still adjusting to his new life as a half-werewolf, Phineas missing in action, and her shifter allies crippled by internal anarchy, Evy has to rely on her own strength and instincts to steal back the cure, stop a murderer, and to save the Watchtower before it's destroyed from the inside out.

This is one of those series that you can not help but want to read more of after you have started it. Make sure to start from book 1. There is way to much back story that you would miss starting anywhere else. Some of the books have been better than others but put them all together and they all make for a great read. REQUIEM FOR THE DEAD will be the first in the series to be self-published by Kelly Meding.

It is hard to imagine the Evy that woke from the dead in book 1. She has changed and grown so much since then. The events that have made her who she is are pretty gruesome and so unfair but she is still fighting strong for herself and those she cares about. Wyatt and Evy continue to grow in their ever-changing relationship. They always seem to have something on one of their ends that makes them pause but they managed to push through everything and arrive at the same place during book 5. This series always brings death, I was saddened by those we lost. Some members were hit harder than others with lost loved ones but everyone grieved just the same. Phineas is still gone searching for others of his kind. I miss him, he is needed and I hope he comes back soon.
I have lots of questions that I need answered after reading REQUIEM FOR THE DEAD. I am glad that Kelly has decided to keep the series going by self-publishing and I look forwards to reading what comes next because this series is far from done in my mind.

I gave it 4/5 stars

Week in Review: 9/8-9/14

Books Ive Bought/received

* Immortal Revenge by Mary Abshire- eARC - Tour Provider

* Realm Walker by Kathleen Collins- eARC- Author

* Wicked Misery by Tracey Martin- eARC- Author

Books I Read

Archangel's Legion by Nalini Singh
Seven Years by Dannika Dark
Immortal Revenge by Mary Abshire
Realm Walker by Kathleen Collins
Wicked Misery by Tracey Martin

Reviews Posted

The Outside by Laura Bickle
Blood Bond by Jeanne C. Stein

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* Monday- Guest Blog & Giveaway for Deamhan by Isaiyan Morrison

* Thursday- Promo & Giveaway for Monsters by Ilsa J. Bick

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Review: The Outside by Laura Bickle

The Outside

Author:Laura Bickle

Release Date: September 3, 2013

Publisher: HMH Books

The Hollowed Ones Book #2

ISBN:   0544000137

ISBN13: 9780544000131

Genre: Young Adult/Dystopian
Review Copy Source: Netgalley

One girl. One road. One chance to save what remains…

After a plague of vampires is unleashed in the world, Katie is kicked out of her Amish community for her refusal to adhere to the new rules of survival. Now in exile, she enters an outside world of unspeakable violence with only her two “English” friends and a horse by her side. Together they seek answers and other survivors—but each sunset brings the threat of vampire attack, and each sunrise the threat of starvation.

And yet through this darkness come the shining ones: luminescent men and women with the power to deflect vampires and survive the night. But can these new people be trusted, and are they even people at all?

In this edge-of-your-seat thriller, it’s up to one Amish girl to save her family, her community, and the boy she loves . . . but what will she be asked to leave behind in return?

I absolutely adored THE HOLLOWED ONES, it was nothing like I thought it would be and so much better than I could have imagined. THE OUTSIDE follows Katie and her "English" friends after they were kicked out of her Amish community.

I continued to enjoy the characters. Katie does not change much but I liked her the way she was so that was no big deal. Alex was protective and loving and Ginger was a good companion. They journeyed long and hard and met other survivors along the way. I cried a few times but I'm an emotional reader so that is to be expected. There were a few odd parts in THE OUTSIDE. Without going into spoilers I will say that I think maybe because one was pretty religious and "miracle" like and the other was too alien for me. Was not impressed by those parts at all and they were big moments. There was plenty of fighting and danger with close calls keeping the characters on their toes.

The ending was OK. I was hoping for something a little more but it ended well.Overall THE OUTSIDE did not blow me away like book 1 did. It was still great but it just did not pull me in as much as I wanted it to. 

I gave it 3.5/5 stars

Promo & Giveaway: Monsters by Ilsa J. Bick

Monsters 

Ashes Trilogy #3

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The Changed are on the move. The Spared are out of time. The End...is now.

When her parents died, Alex thought things couldn't get much worse-until the doctors found the monster in her head.

She headed into the wilderness as a good-bye, to leave everything behind. But then the end of the world happened, and Alex took the first step down a treacherous road of betrayal and terror and death.

Now, with no hope of rescue-on the brink of starvation in a winter that just won't quit-she discovers a new and horrifying truth.

The Change isn't over.
The Changed are still evolving.
And...they've had help.

With this final volume of The Ashes Trilogy, Ilsa J. Bick delivers a riveting, blockbuster finish, returning readers to a brutal, post-apocalyptic world where no one is safe and hope is in short supply.

A world where, from these ashes, the monsters may rise.

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