Waiting On Wednesday (36)

"Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at “Breaking the Spine”, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

My Picks This Week!

Title: Renegade
Author: J.A. Souders
Publisher: Tor
Release Date: November 2012

Since the age of three, sixteen-year-old Evelyn Winters has been trained to be Daughter of the People in the underwater utopia known as Elysium. Selected from hundreds of children for her ideal genes all her life she’s thought that everything was perfect; her world. Her people. The Law.

But when Gavin Hunter, a Surface Dweller, accidentally stumbles into their secluded little world, she’s forced to come to a startling realization: everything she knows is a lie. Her memories have been altered. Her mind and body aren’t under her own control. And the person she knows as Mother is a monster.

Together with Gavin she plans her escape, only to learn that her own mind is a ticking time bomb... and Mother has one last secret that will destroy them all. (Goodreads)

Why I’m Waiting

First off, I do love the cover! Now just read that blurb, how awesome does this sound?!?! Renegade sounds like it’s going to be a super exciting fantasy with some nice romance thrown in. It’s going to be so hard waiting for this one!!!

Title: Angels’ Flight
Author: Nalini Singh
Publisher: Berkley
Release Date: February 28, 2012
ISBN-10: 0425246817
ISBN-13: 978-0425246818

In Angel’s Wolf a vampire becomes fascinated with the seductive angel who rules Louisiana. But all is not what it appears to be in her court.

In Angels’ Judgment a hunter must track one of her own gone bad, while surviving the deadly tests placed in her way by the archangels themselves. Unexpected backup comes from a stranger who might just be the most lethal threat of all...

Plus FIRST TIME IN PRINT

In Angels' Pawn a vampire hunter faces off against two rival factions and the angel manipulating them both, and a vampire whose help is not entirely selfless...

And NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED

In Angels’ Dance an angel trapped in the mountain stronghold of the Refuge finds herself under siege by a warrior angel from a martial court. (Goodreads)

Why I’m Waiting

I am so excited that I only have a few more days to wait for this!!! I love this series and I can’t wait to read more about Jessamy. I have been so curious about why her wing is twisted ever since Jessamy was introduced into the series.

What are you waiting for?

Cover Reveal: INBETWEEN (Kissed by Death, #1) by Tara Fuller

OK y’all, I am super excited to be a part of the cover reveal for Inbetween by Tara Fuller! Inbetween looks so good. Check it out:

Title: Inbetween
Author: Tara Fuller
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Entangled Teen
Release Date: August 7, 2012 
ISBN-10: 1620610833
ISBN-13: 978-1620610831
Author’s Website

Since the car crash that took her father’s life three years ago, Emma’s life has been a freaky—and unending—lesson in caution. Surviving “accidents” has taken priority over being a normal seventeen-year-old, so Emma spends her days taking pictures of life instead of living it. Falling in love with a boy was never part of the plan. Falling for a reaper who makes her chest ache and her head spin? Not an option.

It’s not easy being dead, especially for a reaper in love with a girl fate has put on his list not once, but twice. Finn’s fellow reapers give him hell about spending time with Emma, but Finn couldn’t let her die before, and he’s not about to let her die now. He will protect the girl he loves from the evil he accidentally unleashed, even if it means sacrificing the only thing he has left...his soul.

Sounds awesome right?!?! Here is your Amazon link to Pre-Order and Goodreads link to say you want to read it, cause you know you want to!

Happy Reading,

Sexy Saturday Review: Destined for an Early Grave by Jeaniene Frost

I thought I would try to quench my want of by Jeaniene Frost upcoming book Once Burned by re-reading Destined for an Early Grave, as there is a lot of Vlad in this book. I think it may have backfired on me.

Title: Destined for an Early Grave
Author: Jeaniene Frost
Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Avon
Release Date: July 28, 2009
ISBN-10: 0061583219
ISBN-13: 978-0061583216
Author’s Website
Source: Self purchase

Hopes for a perfect Paris holiday are dashed when half-vampire Cat Crawfield begins having visions of a vampire named Gregor who's more powerful than Cat's undead lover, Bones, and has ties to her past that even Cat herself doesn't know about. (Goodreads)

 

Review

It’s no secret that I love this series. Destined for an Early Grave tore me to pieces at times. Cat has a past that even she doesn’t know about and while she and Bones are trying to have a vacation, her past comes back to get her and take her away from bones.

There is an actual chance that Bones could lose Cat and well he goes off the deep end a bit. Cat and Bones have faced many advisories but none like the Gregor, a vampire who can actually snatch you out of your dreams. Bones tries to protect Cat at all cost even if that means not telling her things…well how does withholding information normally work with your partner? Yeah, it doesn’t go well for them either. Cat goes to Gregor to try to try to stop the war between he and Bones. When she returns, what Bones does and says. I was heartbroken for both of them.

With nowhere to go Cat goes with Vlad. Oh my goodness! I am in love with Vlad!!! When he was first introduced into the series I thought he was just a quirky character to get on Bones nerves. I was all kinds of wrong! He takes Cat in when she needs a friend most, and that is what he is to her. I love that he is honest with Cat. Vlad just want companionship when it comes to Cat not to get in her pants. It was a nice change.

There was so much going on in Destined for an Early Grave. Some characters that you love may not make it out alive. Others will change for the better through gruesome acts done to them. Cat and Bones bave the biggest battles after three books was each other. For Cat it is the  insecurity that she will never measure up to the other women Bones has had in his life. For Bones it is his insecurity that Cat will just never open up, as he can read everyone else but her because she blocks him.

The end of this book is so awesome I think I cheered a little the first time I read it! If you are one of those people who have still not started this incredible series, why?

Happy reading,

 

Awesome! Reread worthy.

Recommended For

Adults: For language, violence, and graphic sex.       

Guest Review: Lies Beneath by Anne Greenwood Brown

Title: Lies Beneath
Author: Anne Greenwood Brown
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Release Date: June 12, 2012 
ISBN-10: 0385742010
ISBN-13: 978-0385742016
Authors Website
Source: NetGalley/Publisher

Calder White lives in the cold, clear waters of Lake Superior, the only brother in a family of murderous mermaids. To survive, Calder and his sisters prey on humans, killing them to absorb their energy. But this summer the underwater clan targets Jason Hancock out of pure revenge. They blame Hancock for their mother's death and have been waiting a long time for him to return to his family's homestead on the lake. Hancock has a fear of water, so to lure him in, Calder sets out to seduce Hancock's daughter, Lily. Easy enough—especially as Calder has lots of practice using his irresistable good looks and charm on ususpecting girls. Only this time Calder screws everything up: he falls for Lily—just as Lily starts to suspect that there's more to the monsters-in-the-lake legends than she ever imagined. And just as his sisters are losing patience with him. (Goodreads)

Review

This was my first mermaid book, other than the Little Mermaid in my daughter's bedtime book, and I really enjoyed it. These are not your Disney mermaid...mer-people at all. Calder White spends as much time as possible in the warm waters of the tropical ocean away from his sisters, who are all mentally linked at all times when they are close to each other, sounds like fun right? Calder was human, but fell from a boat as a toddler and was resuscitated by his mer-mother. He doesn't really remember his parents or life as a human, but lately he is wanting more freedom from his mer-family and resisting killing, which has weaken him. It's understandable, not only because he was human, but they kill when humans are at their happiest to gain more positive energy, being rather a depressed species themselves. The love story is good, but what I liked most of was the way the story unfolded the mystery slowly. There were some things you saw coming, like his relationship to one of his sisters, but other things like the real reason for his mother's death were not as obvious. I didn't realize it was the first in a series when I got it off NetGalley, but it would stand up well as a single novel. However, I will be reading the second in the series, because I am hoping to find out the rest of Calder's history and find out exactly what Lily is...

Lies Beneath was good, go read it.

Happy Endings,

Kelly

Awesome! Reread worthy.

Recommended For

YA, Adult:  Pretty clean read, I don't remember any profanity and there is mild making out, nothing really serious...yet : )

Waiting On Wednesday (35)

"Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at “Breaking the Spine”, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

My Picks This Week!

Title: Endlessly 
Author: Kiersten White
Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: HarperTeen
Release Date: July 24, 2012
ISBN-10: 0061985880
ISBN-13: 978-0061985881
Author’s Website

The third book in the Paranormalcy trilogy.
The final chapter of Evie's adventures. Old friends, new ones, all wrapped up in impossible decisions. And some ball gowns. Because what's a life of normal and paranormal drama without a ball gown or two? (Goodreads)

Why I’m Waiting?

I have loved this series from the start. There are all types of paranormal beings in this series to get to know.  It is hard to believe this will be the last time I get to escape with Evie. I am going to bleeping miss this series and all its unique characters. I’m going to miss them but I hate waiting:)

 

Title: Once Burned
Author: Jeaniene Frost
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Avon
Release Date: June 26, 2012
ISBN-10: 006178320X
ISBN-13: 978-0061783203
Author’s Website

She’s a mortal with dark powers...

After a tragic accident scarred her body and destroyed her dreams, Leila never imagined that the worst was still to come: terrifying powers that let her channel electricity and learn a person’s darkest secrets through a single touch. Leila is doomed to a life of solitude... until creatures of the night kidnap her, forcing her to reach out with a telepathic distress call to the world’s most infamous vampire...

He’s the Prince of Night...

Vlad Tepesh inspired the greatest vampire legend of all — but whatever you do, don’t call him Dracula. Vlad’s ability to control fire makes him one of the most feared vampires in existence, but his enemies have found a new weapon against him – a beautiful mortal with powers to match his own. When Vlad and Leila meet, however, passion ignites between them, threatening to consume them both. It will take everything that they are to stop an enemy intent on bringing them down in flames. (Goodreads)

Why I’m Waiting?

I have loved everything I have read by Jeaniene Frost! I love Vlad’s character in the Night Huntress series. Vlad is a true friend to Cat and a major badass in the series. There is a new HOT excerpt on Jeaniene’s blog and there is a giveaway going on Goodreads for Once Burned! I totally want this book right now!!!  

What are you waiting on?