Healer’s Choice by Jory Strong (Ghostland #3) Urban Fantasy September 7, 2010 Trade Paperback, 384 Pages Berkley Trade Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “I’ll be your first. And your last.” Rebekka is a healer who lives in the red zone; a district filled with shape shifter brothels. Having grown up in this violent and oppressive atmosphere, her life has never been easy but she cannot abandon the outcasts who ply their trade with often disastrous results. With just a Continue Reading
Review: As Lie The Dead by Kelly Meding
As Lie The Dead (Dreg City #2) By Kelly Meding Urban Fantasy July 27, 2010 Paperback, 416 Pages Dell Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: "The brass no longer controlled me. I was done being their bitch." As Lie The Dead picks up right where Three Days To Dead left off. Evangeline Stone (Evy) and Wyatt have survived the battle with the goblins and are trying make sense of all that happened. When Evy is approached by one of the last surviving Owlkins, Phineas (Phin), and Continue Reading
Review: Wildthorn by Jane Eagland
Wildthorn by Jane Eagland YA Historical Fiction September 6, 2010 Hardcover, 359 Pages Houghton Mifflin Books for Children Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: "The light goes out in the room. I’m in the dark again. The fear is waiting.” Louisa never imagined that a simple trip to her new position as a governess would end with her institutionalized against her will. As she is stripped of her possessions and identity, Louisa attempts to maintain her sanity all while trying to Continue Reading
Review: My Lord Scandal by Emma Wildes
My Lord Scandal (Notorious Bachelors #1) by Emma Wildes September 7, 2010 Historical Romance Paperback, 336 Pages Signet Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: "Others may not know you, but I know you." Lady Amelia has led a rather sheltered life in the country. When her father brings her to London for her introduction to the ton she is an instant success. Dubbed the "Elusive Venus", her beauty commands sonnets and brings the fortune hunter out of the Continue Reading
Review: Cross Your Heart by Michele Bardsley
Cross Your Heart (A Broken Heart Novel #7) by Michele Bardsley Paranormal Romance September 7, 2010 Paperback, 320 Pages Signet Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: "Jesus. That vocabulary of yours makes me hot...but that snooty tone of yours is what really gets me hard." While Elizabeth Bretton didn't expect to live forever; she did expect to live for awhile. After her husband’s death, she comes home to the family estate in Broken Heart, Oklahoma only to be Continue Reading
Review: Petty Like a God by Brian Fatah Steele
Petty Like A God by Brian Fatah Steele Urban Fantasy May 5, 2010 Paperback, 304 Pages Self Published Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Look...it’s cheerleader pop.” “What’s wrong with Zima?” “You want it in alphabetical order or just the important points?” Petty Like a God is the first book in Brian Fatah Steele’s Godlings series. Here we meet the Godlings-son’s and daughters of the Gods. Using an interesting mixture of mythology and religion, Steele takes us on Continue Reading
Review: Atlantis Betrayed by Alyssa Day
Atlantis Betrayed (Warriors of Poseidon #6) by Alyssa Day September 7, 2010 Paranormal Romance Paperback, 304 Pages Berkley Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “We’re better together then apart. Isn’t that what love truly means?” What could Christophe, a powerful Warrior of Poseidon, have in common with Fiona Campbell, the notorious jewel thief known as the Scarlet Ninja? Answer-the Siren. A legendary Crown Jewel that Fiona has targeted for her next heist. It's said to be Continue Reading
Review and Giveaway: Sin Undone by Larissa Ione
Sin Undone (Demonica, Book 5) By Larissa Ione Paranormal Romance August 24, 2010 Paperback, 400 Pages Grand Central Publishing Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: "A tremor shook her body at the undercurrent of possession in his tone. He wasn't done because he hadn't gotten what he wanted from her yet. And as she looked into his heated glaze, she knew what he wanted. Her soul." As the only female Seminus demon ever born, master assassin Sinead Donnelly is used to Continue Reading
Review: Fallen Embers Lauri J. Owen
Fallen Embers (Book 1 of the Ember Series) by Lauri J. Owen Urban Fantasy September 1, 2010 Paperback, 384 Pages Pearlsong Press Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: "Fury consumed her, comforted her, caressed her. The fire was her heart and it was burning. She wanted to strike out, ease her fear... but she couldn't seem to remember anything but the rage." A violent attack leaves a young attorney and her nephew in an alternate time ruled by a class of decadent Continue Reading
Review: Halo by Alexandra Adornetto
Halo (Halo, #1) by Alexandra Adornetto Paranormal Young Adult August 31, 2010 Hardcover, 496 Pages Feiwel & Friends Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “She had the face of an angel I saw mirrors in her eyes We were one and the same, she I Both bound by potent lies.” Bethany is an young angel sent to Earth with her “brother and sister” to bring good well and stop the spread of darkness. Bethany is the least experienced but the most human in her emotions. As Continue Reading