A Night to Surrender by Tessa Dare (Spindle Cove #1) August 30, 2011 Historical Romance Paperback HarperCollins Reviewed by May Favorite Quote: “You invaded my dreams at least a half-dozen times last night. When I’m awake you keep traipsing through my thoughts. Sometimes you’re barely clothed. What excuse can you make for that?” She stammered to form a response, her tongue tripping against her teeth. “I… I would never traipse.” Tessa Dare has a new trilogy, Continue Reading
Review: Illusions by Aprilynne Pike
Illusions (Wings #3) by Aprilynne Pike Paranormal YA May 3, 2011 Hardcover HarperCollins Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “I closed my eyes....and imagined she was you.” In Illusions, Laurel is back in high school, being a normal teen, with her human boyfriend David. She made a choice between David and Tamani and has every intention of sticking to it. That is until Tamani shows up at her school as a foreign exchange student. He is a sentry and he has sworn to protect Laurel for Continue Reading
Review: Burn the Night by Jocelynn Drake
Burn the Night by Jocelynn Drake (Dark Days #6) Urban Fantasy June 28, 2011 Paperback HarperCollins Reviewed by Tori Burn The Night is the sixth and final book in Ms. Drake’s emotionally charged dark urban fantasy series that bled my soul and bruised my heart throughout. From my first meeting with Savannah vampire master Mira in book one-Nightwalker-I fell in love with this kick ass heroine whose long life has been filled with betrayal, deception, violence, and lies. She has been Continue Reading
Review: Feast by Merrie Destefano
Feast (Harvest Of Dreams, #1) by Merrie Destefano Fantasy Paperback June 28, 2011 Harper Voyager Favorite Quote: ”Rest, my sweet. Save you dreams for me. For no one but me.” Madeline MacFadden (Mad Mac to her fans) spent her summers growing up in Ticonderoga Falls. When her marriage falls apart she brings her son back to this idyllic village in hopes of recapturing the peace it once brought her. But Maddie doesn’t remember everything about Ticonderoga Falls. She doesn’t remember Continue Reading
Review: The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong
The Gathering (Darkness Rising #1) by Kelley Armstrong YA Paranormal Hardback April 12, 2011 Harper Collins Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Oh my God. What are you guys? Twelve?” “No. Just really, really, immature.” This is my first time reading Kelley Armstrong’s YA. Completely character driven, we watch and learn with our protagonist, Maya, about the small research town she lives in and the slow unraveling of it’s secrets. Maya is a great heroine in that she is Continue Reading
Review: Before the Witches by Karina Cooper
Before the Witches by Karina Cooper Paranormal Romance May 17, 2011 E-Book, Novella Harper Collins Reviewed by Mandi Katya has grown up knowing she is different. She can tell if someone is lying or telling the truth. Fleeing from Russia because she is an outcast, she decides to take refuge in America, even if that means selling her body. She is now owned by a dirty man along with several other women – some very young. They are sold as prostitutes and kept in poor conditions. Katya Continue Reading
Review: Angelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton
Angelfire (Angelfire, #1) by Courtney Allison Moulton Paranormal YA February 15, 2011 Hardcover, 464 Pages Katherine Tegen Books Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “I guess true love does make you blind.” “No...true love doesn’t make you blind. It paralyzes you until you can’t breathe or run away from it.” Ellie is your average teenager; hanging with her friends, despairing about school, and waiting for her 17th birthday to arrive. But when the monsters in Ellie’s nightmares Continue Reading
Review: Pale Demon by Kim Harrison
Pale Demon (Rachel Morgan The Hollows #9) by Kim Harrison Urban Fantasy February 22, 2011 Hardcover, 448 Pages Harper Voyager Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “The world had turned its back on me. I should turn my back on it” Rachel Morgan has been officially shunned and accused of black magic. She has three days to get to get to California in order to appear before the Witches Convention to clear her name. If she is found guilty she either has to go to the ever after for good or Continue Reading
Review: Radiant Shadows by Melissa Marr
Radiant Shadows by Melissa Marr (Wicked Lovely #4) YA Paranormal April 20, 2010 Hardcover, 352 Pages Harper Collins Reviewed by KatiAni is one of the Hounds of the Wild Hunt. What does that mean? She’s fae, and is a member of the Dark Court. She’s also different. Ani is able to do something that other members of the Dark Court cannot. She can feed off the emotions of not just humans, but other fae as well. As time has passed, Ani has become more powerful, more dangerous, and more Continue Reading