New Releases: 1/14-1/20

Mon. Jan. 15th

 Danger's Cure (Holly Danger #4) by Amanda Carlson

Tue. Jan 16th

 Blood and Sand (Untitled #1) by C. V. Wyk
 Dangerous Mating (A.L.F.A. #3) by Milly Taiden
 Deadly Sweet (The Spellwork Syndicate #1) by Lola Dodge
 Iron Gold (Red Rising Saga #4) by Pierce Brown
 The Myth Manifestation (SPI Files #5) by Lisa Shearin 
 The Night Masquerade (Binti #3) by Nnedi Okorafor

 Poison's Cage (Poison's Kiss #2) by Breeana Shields
 Red Clocks by Leni Zumas

Happy Reading!!

Promo: Legend by K.N. Lee

Legend
Dragon Rising #1
Amazon

Dive into the world of fallen angels, dragon shifters, demons, and vampires in the Dragon Rising novellas, where one woman must decide if she is content with hiding, or if she will grab her sword, shield, and armor to fight the evil destroying our world. Fans of The Vampire Diaries and True Blood will love Legend.

An angel. Two dragons. A demon. Rae must confront her past to protect her future. But, how can she fight evil when its so intriguing?

Once a general in the Divine Army, Rae now spends her days masquerading as a human. Falling in love with the handsome surgeon in her hospital was dangerous enough. But, when her demon ex-boyfriend starts stalking her, he is the worst of her problems. A powerful dragon shifter wants her in his harem, and will do anything to get her, even destroy the world to win her heart.

New York Times bestselling author, K.N. Lee presents a unique urban fantasy world that mixed sword and sorcery with paranormal romance. Download your copy of this fast-paced novella serial today!

Trigger Warning: Adult situations, violence, cliffhanger ending. For mature audiences.
THIS IS A SERIAL/SERIES OF NOVELLAS. EXPECT SHORT, ACTION-PACKED FANTASY

 

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K.N. Lee is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author who resides in Charlotte, North Carolina. When she is not writing twisted tales, fantasy novels, and dark poetry, she does a great deal of traveling and promotes other authors. Wannabe rockstar, foreign language enthusiast, and anime geek, K.N. Lee also enjoys helping others reach their writing and publishing goals. She is a winner of the Elevate Lifestyle Top 30 Under 30 "Future Leaders of Charlotte" award for her success as a writer, business owner, and for community service.

She is signed with Captive Quill Press and Patchwork Press.

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Week in Review: 1/7-1/13

Books Received for Review

The Myth Manifestation by Lisa Shearin
Judgment Road by Christine Feehan

Books I've Read

The Emerald Lily by Juliette Cross
How to Save an Undead Life by Hailey Edwards
How to Claim and Undead Soul by Hailey Edwards

Reviews Posted

The Collectors' Society Series by Heather Lyons

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* Wednesday- DNF's of 2017

* Friday- Guest Blog + Giveaway for Storm Crossed by Dani Harper

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Guest Blog + Giveaway: Storm Crossed by Dani Harper

UFI welcomes Author Dani Harper. Thanks for Joining us!!

Did you ever think of the setting of a story as a character by itself?

Palouse Falls becomes a faery portal in Storm Crossed Photo credit: Bigstock.com

Imagine it -- the smells, the sounds, the sights, the feel. The direction and strength of the wind, and the long light cast at sunset that caresses the land just so. The brick face of an old downtown building that’s still radiating the heat of the day after dark. There’s a tangible chemistry there that’s almost a presence.

I’ve been fortunate to live in some amazing places, so it’s been very natural for those places to appear in my paranormal novels. My first wolfen shapeshifter series took place in northern Canada and Alaska, for instance. Not only did I write my surroundings into my stories, my surroundings often inspired the stories.

There are two main settings for my new Grim Series. One is the immortal faery realm beneath the country of Wales. For that, I resort to a wealth of old legends, stories I was told as a child, my imagination and dreams, and occasionally Google Earth.

But the magical realism in any of the Grim novels—comprising most of the story—is firmly set in present-day eastern Washington State. This is where my mountain man husband and I landed when we left Alaska. I’m fascinated by the arid landscape around me, a combination of jutting rock and rolling hills, enormous boulders and silver-green sagebrush. This land was scoured by the torrential flooding of ancient inland seas and monstrous glaciers, then blanketed with soft windblown silt that grows just about anything. It’s a wonderland of fascinating geographic features in unexpected places.
And a vast new faery territory lies beneath it...

In Storm Crossed, my latest standalone in the series, the spotlight is on the incredible Palouse Falls. There, the water freefalls about 200 feet into a great round rock basin of blue-green water – a perfect portal for the fae! It’s a place I visit frequently. Sometimes for picnics, sometimes for research, but more often just to walk around and allow my characters to talk to me.

Fortunately for me, they talked a lot for this book! As in the old legends, actions in the immortal faery realm impact the mortal world. And in Storm Crossed, modern humans are not only affected but actively involved. I love to place ordinary people into extraordinary situations, and see how they respond – in fact, I think that’s why I love writing paranormal and fantasy romances so much. What do you do when the impossible is standing in front of you? Is your life changed for good or ill? Are you changed?

With this story, things have been turned around a little… What effects could a mortal have on a fae? 

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Legend, lore, love, and magic. These are the hallmarks of Dani Harper’s transformational tales of faeries, shapeshifters, ghosts, and more, for a mature audience. 

A former newspaper editor, Dani’s passion for all things supernatural led her to a second career writing fiction. There isn't anything she likes better than exploring myths and legends from many cultures, which serve to inspire her sizzling and suspenseful stories.

A longtime resident of the Canadian north and southeastern Alaska, she now lives in rural Washington with her retired mountain-man husband. Together they do battle with runaway garden gnomes, rampant fruit trees, and a roving herd of predatory chickens.

Dani Harper is the author of Storm Crossed, Storm Warned, Storm Bound, Storm Warrior (the Grim Series), as well as First Bite (Dark Wolf), for Montlake Romance. She is also the author of a Yuletide ghost story, The Holiday Spirit, plus a popular shapeshifter series, which includes Changeling Moon, Changeling Dream, and Changeling Dawn.

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Storm Crossed
Grim #4
Amazon

The latest stand-alone novel in Dani Harper’s Grim Series will delight old and new fans alike, transporting them to the ancient fae realm beneath the modern human world, where magic rules and menace abounds…

Heir to a noble fae house, Trahern is forced to watch helplessly as his twin brother is cruelly changed into a grim—a death dog—as punishment for falling in love with the wrong person. Trahern doesn’t believe love exists, but he will do anything to keep his brother alive—even join the Wild Hunt and ride the night skies of the human world.

Lissy Santiago-Callahan believes in love but has no time for it. She’s busy juggling her career as an academic and her home life as a single mom to a young son with Asperger’s. Her hectic life in sleepy Eastern Washington is made even more chaotic with the sudden arrival of a demanding fae and his unusual “dog.”

Mortal and immortal have nothing in common, and the attraction between Lissy and Trahern surprises them both. But when their desire places Lissy and her child in the path of a deadly faery feud, will the connection last, or will their separate worlds prove too great a divide?

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Series Review: The Collectors' Society by Heather Lyons

The Collectors' Society

Hidden Library

The Forgotten Mountain 

The Lost Codex

Author: Heather Lyons

Publisher: Cerulean Books

The Collectors' Society Book #1-4

Genre: New Adult Fantasy

Review Copy Source: Purchased

This series was recommended to me when I asked for suggestions on Facebook. It took me a while to start them, but once I did I didn't want to put them down.

THE COLLECTORS' SOCIETY was a great introduction to the series. I loved the alternate take on the different fairy tales and the way the author brought them to life.

THE HIDDEN LIBRARY started off  a little slow, but kept me guessing. I enjoyed diving more into her character and learning more about her past. I have to admit that I was truly heartbroken to learn all that Alice has had to give up and endure. 

THE FORGOTTEN MOUNTAIN wasn't my favorite of the series. A few things got a bit tiresome and boring at times and I didn't feel like there was a lot of progression in book three.

I can't say the series ended like I expected in THE LOST CODEX, but it totally worked.  I would love to read more in this world, but it ended well.

I loved all of the characters. Again, I found it so neat the way the author made their stories and characters come to life and the different spins she put on them. The romance was great. I have to admit that once I found out about the White King I was kind of sad that him and Alice had to part and was kinda looking for a way for them to be together again. BUT I really fell in love with Alice and Finn and couldn't imagine either with any other characters.

This is one of those series that I would love to see come to life on the big screen. I would pre-buy my tickets and be in the first showing.

I gave the series 4/5 stars

DNF's of 2017

 I really hate to give up on books so it isn't often that I mark a book as Did Not Finish (aka DNF). I only marked 3 books as DNF in 2017 and here is why. 

 

New York 2140 

by Kim Stanley Robinson

Marked DNF about 3 chapters in, I just couldn't connect with the story. The dialogue did not flow well and I just couldn't get into the characters. I was just plain old bored out of my mind and didn't see any reason to continue being bored.

Magic Fire 

by Catherine Vale 

The cover drew me in, but I didn't make it far into the book before I gave up. Things happened a bit too fast and I didn't 'feel' anything the characters were supposed to be giving out. I didn't care for the way the main character talked which made me not like her very much. If you don't like the main character what is the point of continuing to read? I think I made it through 4 chapters.

Black Dawn

by Malory McCartney

 

     I marked this DNF after about 6 chapters. I didn’t understand the world, the characters are kinda just thrown around with no real explanation of who they are and the storyline had yet to really kick in. I just needed more than what it gave to keep my attention.

Have you read any of my DNF marked books? Did you mark any books as DNF in 2017?? 

New Releases: 1/7-1/13

Tue. Jan 9th

 Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children #3) by Seanan McGuire
 Blood Fury (Black Dagger Legacy #3) by J.R. Ward
 The Curses (The Graces #2) by Laure Eve
 The Infernal Battalion (The Shadow Campaigns #5) by Django Wexler
 Sinless (Eye of the Beholder #1) by Sarah Tarkoff
 Storm Crossed (Grim #4) by Dani Harper

 Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe #2) by Neal Shusterman
 Unearthed (Unearthed #1) by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner

Wed. Jan. 10th

 Mikhail (Brothers of Ash and Fire #2) by Lauren Smith

Happy Reading!!