This book takes place a few years ahead in the future where magic has bested technology. Usually, every couple of days the magic flares, leaving technology dead - cars don't work, lights go out, and creatures of all kinds come out to play. People that have natural magical abilities are strongest at this time. Then technology will rise again for a few days and the world is back to "normal." However, people with magical abilities are still able to perform, although at a somewhat weaker pace.In Continue Reading
Random Bits on a Friday
I think I have a new boyfriend (sorry Barrons and Adam Hauptman), his name is Curran and he can shapeshift into an eight foot lion. I am LOVING the "Magic" series by Ilona Andrews. I just finished the second book, Magic Burns, last night and I can't wait to start the latest in the series, Magic Strikes tonight. Once I am done, I will be sure to write about the book and series in more depth.I just saw two books that I must have - both by Carolyn Jewel.Forbidden Desires, coming May 26th just Continue Reading
Mark Your Calendars – Chat with JR Ward and The Brothers
Tuesday, May 19th at 8pm EST there will be an online chat with JR Ward to discuss Lover Avenged and everything else BDB related.If you have never been to one of her chats you are missing out. She will come online first and do a question/answer session. That is crazy enough...there are always tons of people online and everyone wants to talk and the moderators have their hands full keeping everyone in order. But that is nothing compared to when JR Ward logs off. There is a little window that Continue Reading
New Moon Werewolves
What do we think of the New Moon werewolves? I found this pic over at Just Jared's site.Left to right are: Paul (Alex Meraz), Sam (Chaske Spencer), Jared (Bronson Pelletier), and Embry (Kiowa Gordon).I pictured Sam as older, but I can't remember the others very well...I read New Moon too long ago. My, my, the werewolves have some nice abs.Here is the latest pic of Edward (Robert Pattinson) from the set:Yeah, still Team Edward! Continue Reading
Then Comes Seduction – Mary Balogh
It is fun when Mary Balogh has a new series out because they usually all come out within a couple of months of each other. I loved the first book in the series so much, First Comes Marriage, that I just went right on to the second.Baron Montford, Jasper to his friends and well known rake, makes a wager one drunken night - he will seduce and bed Miss Katherine Huxtable. He figured it would be more challenging to seduce an innocent virgin, and he really couldn't think of another wager that he Continue Reading
Sneak Peek at True Blood Season Two
One of my favorite shows on TV, True Blood on HBO, based on Charlaine Harris' Sookie Stackhouse series, starts up again June 14th. Here is a little preview. I've only read the first three books in the series but I am definitely going to finish it before season two starts. As with any book that is turned into a television series or movie, things are changed but I think they did a pretty good job with sticking to the overall plot with the first season. I'm pretty sure I know what hunts down Continue Reading
First Comes Marriage
Viscount Lyngate, also known as Elliott Wallace, finds himself at a country assembly in the small town of Throckbridge, where he has caught the attention of every single girl in town. Of course he wants none of it, he wants to get along with his business and back to fashionable society as soon as possible. Vanessa Huxtable, second oldest of four siblings, and recently widowed decides Viscount Lyngate is most disagreeable, and somewhat of a snob, but she makes the best of it when she is forced Continue Reading
Immortal Warrior
Immortal Warrior - Lisa HendrixBook one in Immortal Brotherhood SeriesBook summary:Ivar Graycloak is a brave warrior, a man known for his strength and integrity. He is also a man with a terrible secret. Long ago he was part of a Viking crew cursed by an evil sorceress to live for eternity as were-creatures. An eagle by day and a man by night, Ivar has lived a solitary existence for over two centuries. Then the king orders him to marry.Lady Alaida is everything a man could want in a Continue Reading
Win an ARC of Branded by Fire!
Go to Nalini Singh's web journal for a chance to win an ARC of Branded By Fire! I am so excited for this book. This will be book six in her Psy/Changeling series - featuring Mercy and Riley...both shape shifters - one a leopard, one a wolf. She is one of my absolute favorite authors..this book can not get here soon enough! Continue Reading
Passion Unleashed Giveaway
Head on over to Yankee Romance Reviewers to have a chance to win Passion Unleashed - Larissa Ione. Book blurb:Serena Kelley is an archaeologist and treasure hunter-and a woman with a secret. Since she was seven, she's been the keeper of a powerful charm that grants her health and immortality . . . as long as she stays a virgin. But Serena isn't all that innocent. And when a dangerously handsome stranger brings her to the brink of ecstasy, she wonders if she's finally met the one man she cannot Continue Reading