Haunted (Anna Strong Chronicles #8) by Jeanne C. Stein Urban Fantasy August 28, 2012 Ace Favorite Quote: “What am I?” I whisper then. “Vengeance.“ Haunted, #8 in the Anna Strong Chronicles, brings back the dynamic action packed life of Anna Strong-bounty hunter turned vampire, that I missed in book 7. Anna was turned into a vampire through violent means and without her consent. While it has been a wild adventure for Anna, she has accepted her role in being the Chosen. She is content Continue Reading
Review: Night Seeker by Yasmine Galenorn
Night Seeker (Indigo Court #3) by Yasmine Galenorn Urban Fantasy July 3, 2012 Penguin Reviewed by Tori Favorite quote: “There is much to fear in the dark. There are monsters under the bed and in the closet, and now they walk aboard at will. “ Wind witch and owl shifter, Cicely Waters, rescued her lover, Fae Prince Grieve from the Indigo Court, but not before Myst, the Queen Of Winter, turned him. The rescue destroyed Cicely’s alliance with Lainule, the Queen of Summer and Continue Reading
Review: Full Blooded by Amanda Carlson
Full Blooded (Jessica McClain #1) by Amanda Carlson Urban Fantasy Released: September 11, 2012 Orbit Favorite Quote: “How do you like me now?” Jessica McClain is the only female to be born pack in the last couple hundred of years. As she is regarded as, “the evil apocalypse that will end their race” and constantly fighting for her life, she leaves the pack and heads to the city to live on her own in seclusion. When she awakes in the middle of the night, in the throes of her first Continue Reading
Review: To Catch a Vampire by Jennifer Harlow
To Catch A Vampire (F.R.E.A.K.S Squad Investigation #2) by Jennifer Harlow Urban Fantasy Released: September 8, 2012 Midnight Ink Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “You are a stalking, creepy pervert who needs a hobby.“ Beatrice Alexander is now an official member of The F.R.E.A.K. Squad -Federal Response to Extra-Sensory and Kindred Supernaturals. A top secret branch of the FBI who hunt the supernatural monsters of society. Taken into the group after she almost killed her brother, Continue Reading
Review: The Kingmakers by Clay Griffith & Susan Griffith
The Kingmakers (Vampire Empire #3) by Clay and Susan Griffith Urban/Steampunk Fantasy Trade September 4, 2012 Pyr Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “How will history judge me? I care not.” The Kingmakers is the dramatic, pulse pounding, emotional, heart wrenching conclusion to Clay and Susan’s epic Vampire Empire trilogy. From the first sentence of The Greyfriar (book one), I was instantly swept away into an incredible adventure of unimaginable horror, and an impossible romance so Continue Reading
Review: Seawitch by Kat Richardson
Seawitch (Greywalker #7 ) by Kit Richardson Urban Fantasy August 7, 2012 Roc Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Welcome to the freak show. “ Seawitch, the seventh installment in Richardson's Greywalker series, pits magic against good old police skills in a swashbuckling seafaring adventure when Harper Blaine teams up with a Seattle police detective to investigate a decades old mystery. When a boat (the Seawitch) that has been missing for 27 years suddenly turns up, abandoned in its Continue Reading
Review: Widow’s Web by Jennifer Estep
Widow's Web by Jennifer Estep (Elemental Assassin #7) August 21, 2012 Urban Fantasy Simon & Schuster Reviewed by May Favorite Quote: This was a matter of the heart – and one problem that all my knives and all my prowess as the Spider wouldn’t help me solve. Gin Blanco is an assassin. Oh, she’s semi-retired and she tries to live her life as normally as she can now running her BBQ joint the Pork Pit and spending time with her friends, sister Bria, and her lover Owen. But things happen, Continue Reading
Review: The Asylum Interviews–Bronx by Jocelynn Drake
The Asylum Interviews: Bronx (The Asylum Tales #0.5) By Jocelynn Drake Urban Fantasy July 3, 2012 Harper Voyager Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “Most trolls only have one child.” “Really? Why?” “The mother tends to eat the spares.” The Asylum Interviews is a prequel to Jocelynn Drake’s newest series, The Asylum Tales, which releases its first in the series, Angel’s Ink, in October. In this short novella, we get an introduction to the series main character, Gage, and the Continue Reading
Review: Precinct 13 by Tate Hallaway
Precinct 13 by Tate Hallaway Urban Fantasy August 7, 2012 Berkley Reviewed by May I was always one of those kids who got labeled with an “overactive imagination” because I always thought I saw trolls under bridges, fairies in the garden, gargoyles on the rooftops, and all those fanciful things. Things started to get rough when my mother died… Gayle, the stepmonster as I came to think of her, convinced everyone that my imagination was a product of hallucinations and pathology. Next came Continue Reading
Review: Shadows Before the Sun by Kelly Gay
Shadows Before The Sun (Charlie Madigan #4) by Kelly Gay Urban Fantasy July 31, 2012 Pocket Books Reviewed by Tori Favorite Quote: “I’ve fucking died and gone to Harry Winston’s.“ Detective Charlie Madigan has placed everything on hold to prepare for her trip to the heavenly Elysia to rescue her partner Hank and bring him back home. Only, once she gets there, she finds out there is nothing heavenly about Elysia at all. Soon embroiled in a siren revolution, Charlie places her life on Continue Reading