• Book Reviews

    Book Review: Meridian

    Media Type: Print Book Title: Meridian Author: Amber Kizer Publisher: Delacorte Pages: Hardcover; 320 Release Date: August 11, 2009 Source: Library ================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild violence HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Half-human, half-angel, Meridian Sozu has a dark responsibility. Sixteen-year-old Meridian has been surrounded by death ever since she can remember. As a child, insects, mice, and salamanders would burrow into her bedclothes and die. At her elementary school, she was blamed for a classmate’s tragic accident. And on her sixteenth birthday, a car crashes in front of her family home and Meridian’s…

  • Book Blitzes/Promo Posts

    Interviewing (the swoon worthy) Magnus from the Blood Coven series!

    The ever stunning (and talented) Mari Mancusi is on the blog today. Lucky me!!! She’s here to promote the newest book in the Blood Coven Series, Blood Ties. I cannot wait for this one! For those of you who may not be familiar with this series, the snarky wit and delicious chemistry of the characters is to die for. Part humor, part vampire lore, all scrumptious, these are books to watch out for. I was lucky enough to score an interview with the handsome, debonair, and very swoon worthy Magnus. He’s in love with Sunny, but reading these books makes me…

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    Book Review: Werewolf Descent

    Media Type: Book Title: Werewolf Descent Author: Elizabeth J. Kolodziej Publisher: Self-published Pages: Paperback; 375 Release Date: July 15, 2011 Source: Author ==================== Intended Reading Group: Upper YA/Adult Content Screening: Mild language HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Last witch in the world, Faith Scott, and her Irish vampire boyfriend Trent have just come back from fighting for their lives to recover the Vampiric Blood gem and Werewolf Moon gem. Thinking they could finally relax and work on the romance growing between them, they now meet a mysterious psychic vampire named Vincent who has his heart set on being…

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    Book Review: Graveminder

    Media Type: Book Title: Graveminder Author: Melissa Marr Publisher: William Morrow & Company Pages: Hardcover; 324 Release Date: May 17, 2011 Source: Publisher ===================== Intended Reading Group: Adult Genre: Paranormal Fiction HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Melissa Mar is known to young adult readers as the author of the popular faery series Wicked Lovely. Her debut leap into adult fiction lands her in the small community of Claysville, a town where the dead walk free unless there their graves are not properly tended. Into this eerie maelstrom, Rebekkah Barrow descends as she returns to a place that she…

  • Book Blitzes/Promo Posts

    A look into Torn by Erica O’Rourke

    Tweet Today I have Erika O’Rourke, author of Torn, here to give us a look into the book. She’s given us a little extra excerpt from the book’s main character, Mo.  Mo is quite a fiery and loyal friend. I truly loved her. Take a look at her inner thoughts as she battles with what has just happened. ********** This was supposed to be our best year ever. Verity and me, seniors, our last hurrah before we escaped to New York and started fresh. No more whispers about my family. No more pitying looks. Verity and me, with the world…

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    Book Review: Hourglass

    Tweet Media Type: Book Title: Hourglass Author: Myra McEntire Publisher: Egmont USA Pages: Hardcover; 397 Release Date: June 14, 2011 Source: Publisher/TBS ==================== Intended Reading Group: Young Adult Content Screening: Mild language HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart One hour to rewrite the past . . . For seventeen-year-old Emerson Cole, life is about seeing what isn’t there: swooning Southern Belles; soldiers long forgotten; a haunting jazz trio that vanishes in an instant. Plagued by phantoms since her parents’ death, she just wants the apparitions to stop so she can be normal. She’s tried everything, but the visions keep…

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    Talking Characters with Allison van Diepan

    Tweet Please give a warm welcome to the fabulous Allison Van Diepan! On a blog tour to promote her newest book, The Vampire Stalker, Allison is here to share with us a bit of background to the book. I love this post. As fellow readers, I’m sure you all wished one of your favorite characters really existed at some point. Allison van Diepan understands that, but I’ll let her explain. Could the characters we love be real? In The Vampire Stalker, Amy discovers that her favorite book character, the dashing Alexander Banks, is actually a real person. In fact, all of…