Waiting On Wednesday.

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking The Spine where you can spotlight an upcoming release that you're eagerly anticipating.

This week I'm waiting on....

Lover At Last (Black Dagger Brotherhood #11)

by J.R. Ward

March 2013

On JR Ward's Facebook for March 31st 2013: 

THEIR TIME HAS COME. 2013- NEXT BDB HARDCOVER.....BLAY & QHUINN!!!!

I'm Sooooo Excited For This One!

Falling For You

by Lisa Schroeder 

1st January 2013 By Simon Pulse

Rae's always dreamed of dating a guy like Nathan. He’s nothing like her abusive stepfather—in other words, he’s sweet. But the closer they get, the more Nathan wants of her time, of her love, of her...and the less she wants to give. 

As Rae’s affection for Nathan turns to fear, she leans on her friend Leo for support. With Leo, she feels lighter, happier. And possessive Nathan becomes jealous. 

Then a tragedy lands Rae in the ICU. Now, hovering between life and death, Rae must find the light amid the darkness…and the strength to fight for life and the love she deserves.

Snow White Sorrow (The Grimm Diaries #1)

by Cameron Jace

30th October 2012 By Akmal Elidin Farouk Shebl

What if all you knew about fairy tales was wrong?

Sixteen year old Loki Blackstar is no Prince Charming. His mother is a ghost. His only friend is a red Cadillac that talks to him through the radio. He looks like an Angel but acts like jerk. No wonder he has been banned from Heaven, which is the least of his troubles. Loki needs a job to pay for school and support himself.

Still, Loki has a rare gift: He is a Dreamhunter. One of the few in the world who can hunt and kill immortal demons in their dreams so they never wake up again.

When Loki is sent to kill a sixteen-year-old vampire girl the locals call Snow White Sorrow, he is pulled into a magical but dangerous world. The locals believe the monster to be Snow White.

The real Snow White... living in the ruins of an ancient castle in a small town. She is described as horribly beautiful, terrifyingly enchanting, and wickedly lovely.

What he finds instead is a beautiful monster girl filled with rage and hurt, who has an epic untold story to tell of things such like why the Brothers Grimm altered the fairy tale, who the Evil Queen really is, where the mirror came from, and who possessed it.

Snow White has killed every person who has dared come near the castle where she once lived with the queen. Mysteriously, she lets Loki live.

My Name is Rapunzel

by K.C. Hilton 

2013

Fairy tales are for children. My name is Rapunzel and I will tell you my story. I will tell you the truth.

Crash (Visions #1)

by Lisa McMann

8th January 2013 By Simon Pulse

Jules lives with her family above their restaurant, which means she smells like pizza most of the time and drives their double-meatball-shaped food truck to school. It’s not a recipe for popularity, but she can handle that.

What she can’t handle is the vision. Over and over, Jules sees a careening truck hit a building and explode... and nine body bags in the snow.

She has no idea why this is happening to her or if she’s going crazy. It hardly matters, because the visions are everywhere--on billboards, television screens, windows--and she’s the only one who can see them.

But it’s not until the vision starts coming more frequently, and revealing more clues, that Jules knows what she has to do. Because now she can see the face in one of the body bags, and it's someone she knows. Someone she’s been in love with for as long as she can remember.

The Sweet Dead Life

by Joy Preble

2013 By Soho Press

“I found out two things today. One, I think I’m dying. And two, my brother is a perv.”

So begins the diary of 14-year-old Jenna Samuels, who is having a very bad eighth-grade year. Her single mother spends all day in bed. Dad vanished when she was eight. Her 16-year-old brother, Casey, tries to
hold together what’s left of the family by working two after-school jobs— difficult, as he’s stoned all the time. To make matters worse, Jenna is sick. When she collapses one day, Casey tries to race her to the hospital in their beat-up Prius and crashes instead.
Jenna wakes up in the ER to find Casey beside her. Beatified. Literally. The flab and zits? Gone. Before long, Jenna figures out that Casey didn’t survive the accident at all. He’s an “A-word.” (She can’t bring herself to utter the truth.) Soon they discover that Jenna isn’t just dying: she’s being poisoned. And Casey has been sent back to help solve the mystery that not only holds the key to her survival, but also to their mother’s mysterious depression and father’s disappearance.

Rapture Blog Tour.

The Rapture Blog Tour Is To Take Place Over The Next Week Or So.

I Will Be Hosting Q&A From Lauren Kate On The 15th June, Here Are The Dates And Links Of The Other Blogs Participating.

12th June: http://treasuredtalesforyoungadults.wordpress.com/

13th June: http://www.girl.com.au/

14th June: http://beautyandlace.net/

15th June: http://headstuckinabook.blogspot.com.au/  - This Is Me

18th June: http://eleusinianmysteriesofreading.blogspot.com.au/

19th June: http://bookprobereviews.com/

20th June: http://www.shiirleyysbookshelf.blogspot.com.au/

21st June: http://nicegirlsreadbooks.com/

22nd June: https://www.facebook.com/fallenbooks

So Please Come Join Me And All The Others Taking Part In This Blog Tour, Arranged By Dot From Random House Australia.

Book Review (95).

Succubus Lost (From the Files of the Otherworlder Enforcement Agency #2)

by Tiffany Allee

Publication: 24th May 2012

Publisher: Entangled Publishing

Pages: 211

Genre: Urban Fantasy

Age Appropriate: Young Adult

Someone is kidnapping and incinerating otherworlders beyond recognition, and detective Marisol Whitman, a succubus, races to find the murderer before he claims another victim. But her pursuit is derailed when her responsible younger sister vanishes. Marisol suspects foul play and enlists support from an unlikely source: an agent from the Otherworlder Enforcement Agency, Valerio Costa.

When the trail pointing to everyone from vampires to witches dries up, Agent Costa admits to knowing more than he’s shared. Marisol’s sister’s kidnapper harnesses more magic than she can imagine—and they’re running out of time. To find her sister before her powers are drained and twisted beyond recognition, Marisol must connect the dots between cases and put her trust in Costa, a salamander who may burn her before she can solve either case.

My Thoughts.

I'd never heard of this author or series before starting this book but was intrigued by the title, and I can say after finishing this in about 3 hours or so that I absolutely loved it, the only problem being that I didn't realise this was the second book in the series but luckily enough you can get by without reading it and the world that this book is set in is explained and it's easy to follow along the storyline.

The story focuses on Marisol a succubus who is a detective in the police department, she is partnered up with Valerio Costa who works for the OWEA (Otherworlder Enforcement Agency) after her younger sister Elaine (also a succubus) doesn't return home one night and with her sister being the responsible type she immediately knows that something is wrong, Costa informs her that there has been a spate of missing succubi and that they are being sold as sex slaves, she is also helping on another case involving Otherworlder victims being burnt beyond recognition, burnt so bad that they can't even tell what kind of Otherworlder it is, Marisol finds that there seems to be quite a few bodies like this found around quite a few states and that they may tie in some way to her missing sister's case.

I loved the assortment of different Otherworldly types in this series your usual succubi, vampires, witches and some new ones including Salamanders which Costa happens to be who can produce fire , although the better they are with their powers the resistance to  fire themselves lessens.

I loved the chemistry between the two leads in this story and just wished that the story was longer, so involved in the story I was disappointed when it ended.

It's not often that I find a book that I'm so involved in that I finish it in one sitting but the fantastic storyline had me burning through the pages desperate to see what was going to happen next.

Everybody needs to give this series a go you won't be disappointed.

I give this 4/5.

A Big Thanks To Entangled Publishing.

Book Review (94).

Fallen in Love (Fallen #3.5)

by Lauren Kate 

Publication: 24th January 2012

Publisher: Random House

Pages: 201

Genre: Paranormal

Age Appropriate: Young Adult

**Warning May Contain Spoilers From Previous Books In The Series**

Unexpected. Unrequited. Forbidden. Eternal. Everyone has their own love story.

And in a twist of fate, four extraordinary love stories combine over the course of a romantic Valentine's Day in Medieval England. Miles and Shelby find love where they 
least expect it. Roland learns a painful lesson about finding-and losing love. Arianne pays the price for a love so fierce it burns. And for the first -and last- time, Daniel and Luce 
will spend a night together like none other.

Lauren Kate's FALLEN IN LOVE is filled with love stories . . . the ones everyone has been waiting for.

True love never says goodbye. . .

My Thoughts.

I've been a huge fan of the Fallen series ever since the first book was released, so being asked a couple of weeks ago by a publisher to be a part of an upcoming Rapture blog tour was pretty exciting and I jumped at the chance, so while I've been sitting here waiting for my review copy of said book to come (it still hasn't arrived and since the tour is on the 15th June  plus it's now the weekend and Monday is a public holiday, well I'm getting pretty worried that I won't be able to read and review it in time) I realised that I still hadn't read this book , and while I enjoyed it it's been sooo long since I read the last book I honestly can't remember what happened in the previous book nor most of the characters (obviously I remember Daniel and Luce but the rest, not so much).

Luckily the stories four in all were enjoyable I just might have to skim through the last book to familiarise myself with the world and the characters again before I get to reading Rapture, so I write a small review of each short story.

The first story featured Shelby and Miles who are Luce's friends at Shoreline and if I remember correctly  both Nephilim who accidently while traveling through an announcer finds themselves not back in their own time but in the medieval era, of course while they are there they find that time's reincarnation of Luce who is all upset that Daniel in that time wants nothing to do with her because she's a peasants daughter, but we all know it's because he thinks if he leaves her he's delaying her inevitable death, and Miles and Shelby realise that they both have feelings for each other and their story ends with a kiss.

The second story features Roland who reminisces about a mortal woman Rosaline whom he fell in love with and ultimately broke up with because of the fact she would age he never would and he felt that she deserved a better life, so he went to revisit her and found she was married with a child and another on the way.

Third story was Arriane's and her relationship with Tess (I don't remember her being gay or whether we just found out in this story) she belongs to the Lucifer camp and Tess tries to convince her to join her side, Arriane refuses and a fight ensues and later on Arriane finds Tess trying to cut her wings off, it never really explains whether Tess dies but I assume so and we find out how Arriane got her scars.

And last but certainly not least is the one and only Valentine's Day that Daniel and Luce ever shared (all these stories take part on the same day in the same time) the Luce from our time inhabits the body of Luce in the medieval times so she can get her to go to a dance in hopes that Daniel will be there.

I really enjoyed all the stories in this book and it makes a nice companion novel to the series as well as having another gorgeous cover.

I give this 4/5.

In My Mailbox (31).

In My Mailbox Is A Weekly Meme Hosted By Kristi The Story Siren.

Brought.

Dreamless (Starcrossed #2) - Josephine Angelini
Devine Intervention - Martha Brockenbrough
Blue-Blooded Vamp (Sabina Kane #5) - Jaye Wells
Transcendence - C.J Omololu
Shadow Bound (Unbound #2) - Rachel Vincent
Grim - Anna Waggener
Stunning (Pretty Little Liars #11) - Sara Shepard
Tempest Unleashed (Tempest #2) - Tracy Deebs

Blood Lite 3: Aftertaste Anthology

Kiss The Dead (Anita Blake,Vampire Hunter #21) - Laurell K. Hamilton

Juliet Immortal (Juliet Immortal #1) - Stacey Jay

The Peculiars - Maureen Doyle McQuerry

Awakened (The Guardian Legacy #1) - Ednah Walters

Kiss Of Frost (Mythos Academy #2) - Jennifer Estep

Dark Frost (Mythos Academy #3) - Jennifer Estep

Upcoming Books That Don't Yet Have A Cover.

I'm always finding new books on Goodreads that don't have covers and some of them sound so good I thought I'd put them here on my blog to give people some new books they might want to add to their tbr piles/wishlist.

My Sister's Reaper

by Dorothy Dreyer 

A seventeen-year-old somehow brings her sister back to life, and by doing so, inadvertently angers her sister's reaper, now intent on claiming both girls.

29th May 2013

The Holders (Holders #1)

by Julianna Scott 

17-year-old Becca spent her whole life protecting her brother from, well, everything. The abandonment of their father, the so called 'experts' who insist that voices in his head are unnatural and must be dealt with, and the constant threat of being taken away to some hospital and studied like an animal. When two representatives appear claiming to have the answers to Ryland's perceived problem, Becca doesn't buy it for one second. That is until they seem to know things about Ryland and about Becca and Ryland's family, that forces Becca to concede that there may be more to these people than meets the eye. Though still highly skeptical, Becca agrees to do what's best for Ryland.

What they find at St. Brigid's is a world beyond their imagination. Little by little they piece together the information of their family's heritage, their estranged Father, and the legend of the Holder race that decrees Ryland is the one they've been waiting for. However, they are all--especially Becca--in for a surprise that will change what they thought they knew about themselves and their kind.

She meets Alex, a Holder who is fiercely loyal to their race, and for some reason, Becca and Ryland. There's an attraction between Becca and Alex that can't be denied, but her true nature seems destined to keep them apart. However, certain destinies may not be as clear cut as everyone has always believed them to be.

Becca is lost, but found at the same time. Can she bring herself to leave Ryland now that he's settled and can clearly see his future? Will she be able to put the the feelings she has for Alex aside and head back to the US? And can Becca and Ryland ever forgive their father for what he's done?

April 2013 By Strange Chemistry.

Stung

by Bethany Wiggins

Government attempts to save endangered bees by genetic modification causes their sting to induce deadly, flu-like symptoms in humans. A vaccine created in response changes children into ferocious, killer beasts. The uninfected have built a wall to keep the beasts out, & a girl has awakened on the wrong side.

2nd April 2013 By Walker Books

Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

by April Genevieve Tucholke 

Violet's grandmother had warned her about the Devil, had talked about him often, as though he were a best friend, or an old lover. But she never told Violet that the Devil could be real. She never told Violet that the Devil could be a dark-haired boy in vintage clothes who takes naps in the sun and likes old movies and vigilante justice. 

River West is the seventeen-year old stranger renting the guesthouse behind the rotting mansion on the sea, where Violet lives. And as eerie, grim things start happening in Violet's town, she begins to wonder about the boy living in her backyard. Is River just a crooked-smiling, coffee-loving liar with rascally eyes and a mysterious past? Or could he be something else? Something...evil? 

Violet's already so knee-deep in love she can't see straight.

And that's just how River likes it.

15th August 2013 By Dial/Penguin

Ink (The Paper Gods #1)

by Amanda Sun 

I looked down at the paper, still touching the tip of my shoe. I reached for it, flipping the page over to look.

Scrawls of ink outlined a drawing of girl lying on a bench.

A sick feeling started to twist in my stomach, like motion sickness.

And then the girl in the drawing turned her head, and her inky eyes glared straight into mine.

On the heels of a family tragedy, the last thing Katie Greene wants to do is move halfway across the world. Stuck with her aunt in Shizuoka, Japan, Katie feels lost. Alone. She doesn’t know the language, she can barely hold a pair of chopsticks, and she can’t seem to get the hang of taking her shoes off whenever she enters a building.

Then there’s gorgeous but aloof Tomohiro, star of the school’s kendo team. How did he really get the scar on his arm? Katie isn’t prepared for the answer. But when she sees the things he draws start moving, there’s no denying the truth: Tomo has a connection to the ancient gods of Japan, and being near Katie is causing his abilities to spiral out of control. If the wrong people notice, they'll both be targets.

Katie never wanted to move to Japan—now she may not make it out of the country alive

February 2013 By Harlequin Teen

Antigoddess (Antigoddess #1)

by Kendare Blake

Kendare Blake's ANTIGODDESS series, where the ancient, perpetually teenaged Greek gods Athena and Hermes cling to life in the contemporary world, seeking the causes of their mysterious, slow deaths and gathering their allies in reincarnated form: Cassandra, an ordinary girl who was once an extraordinary prophetess; Odysseus, the handsome trickster; and other fickle characters with their own secret motives; they must all band together against Hera and Poseidon who have become horrific caricatures of their former glory in their desperation to survive, again to Melissa Frain at Tor, in a very nice deal, in a three-book deal, by Adriann Ranta at Wolf Literary Services (World).

2013 By Tor Teen

Flood and Stone

by Kiersten White 

Isadora, the teenage daughter of ancient Egyptian Gods, wants to escape her crazy family forever. But can you run away from fate?

2013 By HarperTeen

The Madman's Daughter

by Megan Shepherd

London, 1894. Juliet Moreau has built a life for herself—working as a maid, attending church on Sundays, and trying not to think about the scandal that ruined her life. After all, no one ever proved the rumors about her father’s gruesome experiments. But when she learns her father is alive and continuing his work on a remote tropical island, she is determined to find out if the accusations were true. 

Juliet is accompanied by the doctor’s handsome young assistant and an enigmatic castaway, who both attract Juliet for very different reasons. They travel to the island only to discover the depths of her father’s madness: he has created animals that have been vivisected to resemble, speak, and behave as humans. Worse, one of the creatures has turned violent and is killing the island’s inhabitants. Juliet knows she must end her father’s dangerous experiments and escape the island, even though her horror is mixed with her own scientific curiosity. As the island falls into chaos, she discovers the extent of her father’s genius—and madness—in her own blood.

January 2013 By Balzar + Bray

Transparent

by Natalie Whipple

X-Men meets The Godfather; in which an invisible girl has to stop her dad—an infamous crime lord—from ruining her life.

On the run from her mind-controlling father, the infamously invisible Fiona McClean hides in a small town, hoping to finally rid herself of the crime world she has always known. But playing at “normal life” with a mother she hates, a brother she can't trust, and a boy she can't stand proves more difficult than she ever imagined. Soon her father is hot on her heels, and it’s up to Fiona to protect not only her family, but the friends who’ve taught her that life doesn’t have to be as lonely and cruel as she thought.

2013 By HarperTeen

After You

by Jessica Corra

Eighteen-year-old Camilla Jay has the power of second chances. She can rewind to any day and relive it, and she remembers everything. A tragedy like the death of her twin sister Madelyn shouldn’t be possible. Camilla rewinds to the same day over and over, but Madelyn dies each time – by her own hand. Madelyn doesn’t want saving.

Madelyn’s death allows Cam to finally connect with her long-time crush Wall. As they grow closer, Camilla uncovers a series of writings Madelyn did about her own ability to forward in time. Madelyn believed killing herself was the only way to save Camilla from a horrible fate. Cam’s not convinced.

Cam tries to find a way to save Madelyn without bringing about the things her sister saw. Madelyn didn’t think it was possible, and that by trying to save her, Camilla will destroy herself. Camilla doesn’t know what to believe, but one thing becomes clear: if she saves Madelyn, she’ll lose Wall. Is she willing to gamble everything?

2013 By Dial

Book Review (93).

Kill Me Softly

by Sarah Cross

Publication: 20th April 2012

Publisher: EgmontUSA

Pages: 336

Genre: Fantasy

Age Appropriate: Young Adult

Mirabelle's past is shrouded in secrecy, from her parents' tragic deaths to her guardians' half-truths about why she can't return to her birthplace, Beau Rivage. Desperate to see the town, Mira runs away a week before her sixteenth birthday—and discovers a world she never could have imagined.

In Beau Rivage, nothing is what it seems—the strangely pale girl with a morbid interest in apples, the obnoxious playboy who's a beast to everyone he meets, and the chivalrous guy who has a thing for damsels in distress. Here, fairy tales come to life, curses are awakened, and ancient stories are played out again and again.

But fairy tales aren't pretty things, and they don't always end in happily ever after. Mira has a role to play, a fairy tale destiny to embrace or resist. As she struggles to take control of her fate, Mira is drawn into the lives of two brothers with fairy tale curses of their own . . . brothers who share a dark secret. And she'll find that love, just like fairy tales, can have sharp edges and hidden thorns.

My Thoughts.

To say that I loved this book is an understatement, I was entranced from the very first page, I loved the concept of this world and the fairy tale elements made this a magical and wondrous read.

I loved how it had a similar theme to the tv show Once Upon A Time which I also love, the idea that fairy tale characters are real and all living in a town called Beau Rivage  is a fantastic idea.

Mirabelle 'Mira' is about to turn sixteen in a week's time, at her christening when she was three months her parents were killed when the building they were in caught fire, so ever since then she's raised by her tw0 godmothers far away from her birthplace.

Mira has been restricted from being allowed to do a lot of things among them touching anything sharp, she has also been told that she's not allowed back to her birthplace, intrigued and wanting to visit her parents graves she runs away one night eager to see the place she was born.

Once there she takes shelter in a casino and it's there while trying to stay inconspicious that she is accosted by a boy around her age Blue who tells her to get out of his hotel after running away and hiding she is found by Blue's older brother Felix who is a whole lot nicer than Blue and offers her a room for free to stay in and after listening to her story agrees to healing her find her parent's graves since she's had no luck of her own.

But Mira comes to find that not everybody is who they appear to be and that she's in the middle of a town full of fairy tale characters and that also includes Blue and Felix.

She becomes friends with: Viv (Snow White), Henley (The Huntsman), Felix (Prince Charming), Layla (Beauty) and Rafe (Beast) among others and discovers that she is Sleeping Beauty and that all those years of her godmothers not allowing her to touch sharp things had a purpose.

But not everybody is happy with their 'curse' as they call it, and happily ever afters aren't all they're cracked up to be, you see there is not just one Sleeping Beauty or Snow White but a whole lot of the same fairy tale characters who all have the same fate and some aren't happy with their happy ever afters.

So while Mira continues her relationship with Felix all the while Blue is  trying to warn her off she discovers that the two brothers share the same curse and neither will tell her what that is but for them with their curse's they don't get a happily ever after.

I loved Mira and Blue's scenes together they had me laughing and you were just hoping that they'd end up together.

All the characters in this story were interesting to read about and there was never a dull minute, my only wish is that somehow this could be made into a series perhaps with some of the different characters that are still awaiting their stories to carry out.

This is definitely going on the re-read pile.

I give this 5/5.