Death And The Girl Next Door (Darklight #1) by Darynda Jones Paranormal Romance/YA October 2, 2012 St. Martin's press Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Turtles are not the innocent, harmless creatures everyone thinks they are. Mark my words.” Darynda Jones hooked me solid with her adult Charley Davidson series, so I jumped quickly and trampled a few friends when offered a chance to read her debut YA series-Death And The Girl Next Door. I’m not proud of my actions, but I can live Continue Reading
Review: Mate Claimed by Jennifer Ashley
Mate Claimed by Jennifer Ashley (Shifters Unbound #4) Paranormal Romance Released: October 2, 2012 Berkley Reviewed by May Favorite quote: His cock rose with delighted memory, and Eric gave it a calming stroke. Iona is a half shifter living without a collar that is reaching her maturity, aka the time when she’s in heat and is going to want to find a guy to nonstop mate with. Eric is the alpha of the local shifter town, he can smell the heat on her, and he’d like to get on that. Iona has Continue Reading
Review: Immortal Surrender by Claire Ashgrove
Immortal Surrender by Claire Ashgrove (The Curse of the Templars #2) Paranormal Romance Released: September 25, 2012 Tor Romance Reviewed by Helyce Farran de Clare is a loyal member of the Knights Templar and for centuries he has fought to rid the earth of Azazel and his minions even as the darkness threatens to take him under. When the archangel Gabriel tasks Farran with the job of protecting Dr. Noelle Keane as she travels to return a sacred relic overseas, he agrees. What he Continue Reading
Review: Rapture by J.R. Ward
Rapture by J.R. Ward (The Fallen Angels #4) Released: September 25, 2012 Paranormal Romance Berkley Reviewed by Mandi Please Note: The hero of this book has been kept pretty hush hush. If you want to go into the book with a totally clean slate, please don’t read this review. Rapture is book four in JR Ward’s Fallen Angel series. I wasn’t a big fan of the first two, but the last book was an enjoyable read. Rapture falls down the middle. It is an okay book, slow at times, but Continue Reading
Review: Poison Princess by Kresley Cole
Poison Princess (Arcana Chronicles #1) by Kresley Cole YA Paranormal Releases: October 2, 2012 Simon & Schuster Reviewed by Tori Poison Princess is Kresley Cole’s debut into Young Adult. An interesting premise of a world pushed into an apocalypse (referred to as the Flash) and a young girl’s realization that her “hallucinations” are actually visions of the future and she is part of prophecy dating back to the beginning of time. Very Hunger Games oriented, the first chapter opens to Continue Reading
Review: How to Date a Henchman by Mari Fee
How to Date a Henchman by Mari Fee Paranormal/Superhero Romance Released: September 3, 2012 Carina Press Reviewed by May Superheroes. They were as addictive as celebrities, and like celebrities, most of them failed to venture into Canada. Canada passed laws against vigilantism rather than reinterpreting the existing Criminal Code to allow exceptions for the exceptional, and as a result there weren’t many superheroes operating north of the Fourty-Nineth. Privately Gina thought it had Continue Reading
Review: Dragon’s Moon by Lucy Monroe
Dragon’s Moon by Lucy Monroe (Children of the Moon #4) Paranormal Romance Released: September 4, 2012 Berkley Reviewed by May This story takes place in 1149AD Scotland, where the groups of shifters have been forced to live with human clans so that they do not become extinct. They keep their true identities secret from all but a select few – but they are more in the open than ever before. They also have issues between themselves, as over the years the wolves and crows have come to Continue Reading
Review: Hanging by a Thread by Sophie Littlefield
Hanging By A Thread by Sophie Littlefield Paranormal YA September 11, 2012 Delacourte Books Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “I wondered if I could live with the version of me that Rachel was trying to create.” Clare, a budding fashion designer and clothing repurposer, doesn't remember a whole lot about the sleepy seaside town of Winston, California, having moved away as a child. After her parents get divorced, she and her mother move back into the “haunted” family home and are Continue Reading
Review: Playing with Fire by Tamara Morgan
Playing with Fire by Tamara Morgan Paranormal Romance Released: September 7, 2012 Entangled Reviewed by May Theirs was a classic tale- if classic played by Freudian rules. Boy spurns girl, girl sucks a lot of teenage cock, and thus begins a lifetime of bad decisions related to men. Ian Jones is a scientist, and currently he’s working on some super secret stuff to try and help track down the Corrupted and keep the world a safer place. Fiona Nelson took some conversion serum and got Continue Reading
Review: Primal Possession by Katie Reus
Primal Possession by Katie Reus (Moon Shifter #2) Paranormal Romance Released: September 4, 2012 Penguin Reviewed by May December doesn’t trust shifters, and she just wants to run her shop and be left alone to live a happy normal life. Unfortunately, a shifter hating group already knows that Liam Armstrong is a lupine shifter (second-in-command actually) and that he has strong feelings for December. She is now a target for the group – they hope to make Liam go crazy (by trapping the woman Continue Reading