Tuesday, 13 December 2011

Waiting On Wednesday (9).

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

52 Reasons to Hate My Father

by Jessica Brody

3rd July 2012 Farrar Straus & Giroux

If she wants to receive her beloved trust fund, every week for the next year, seventeen-year-old Lexi Larrabee must take on a different low-income job. All 52 jobs have been carefully pre-selected by her father himself.

What Lexi doesn’t know is that each job was at one point held by one of world’s most influential people. The goal is to teach his daughter a few lessons about life, compassion, work ethic, and the value of a hard-earned dollar. If each of these jobs eventually led to wealth and success, at least one of them has to work for Lexi.

Left with no other choice, Lexi grudgingly sets off on her quest, each week being comically presented with a highly undesirable job. All of them are designed to turn Lexi into an entirely different person.

Silver

by Rhiannon Held

5th June 2012 Tor Books

The Girl is Running. She's alone; a werewolf without a pack, a shape-changer who cannot change, an intruder in Roanoke's territory. It's Andrew Dare's job to catch her, expel her, or kill her. He's the enforcer, after all, in charge of security. But when he catches her at last, he finds someone he wants to protect, not kill. A tortured stranger who needs him...and who warns of a threat to all the packs of North America

Wicked Nights (Angels of the Dark #1)

by Gena Showalter

26th June 2012 Harlequin

From the New York Times bestselling author who brought you the Lords of the Underworld comes a dark, seductive new series featuring angels poised at the brink of destruction…

Leader of the most powerful army in the heavens, Zacharel has been deemed too dangerous, too ruthless, and if he isn’t careful, he’ll lose his wings. But this warrior with a heart of ice will not be deterred . . . until a vulnerable human tempts him with a carnal pleasure he’s never before known.

Accused of a crime she did not commit, Annabelle Miller has spent four years in an institution for the criminally insane. Demons track her every move, and their king will stop at nothing to have her. Zacharel is her only hope for survival, but is the brutal angel with a touch as hot as hell her salvation—or her ultimate damnation?

The Temptation (Kindred #1)

by Alisa Valdes

24th April 2012 HarperCollins Publishers

His touch was electric.
His eyes were magnetic.
His lips were a temptation....
But was he real?

After crashing her car on an empty highway, Shane is miraculously saved by Travis, a mysterious cowboy who walks out of nowhere. She is instantly attracted to him, and for the first time, she believes in “soul mates.” But Shane soon discovers that Travis is dead and that strict rules from the Underworld govern kindred spirits of different dimensions. Breaking these rules could destroy both their souls. And while Travis is almost impossible to resist, temptation proves to be the kindest enemy they encounter.

Can true love surpass the power of pure evil? Part love story, part supernatural thriller, this first book in the Kindred trilogy will leave readers lusting for more!

Book Review (31).

Midnight Rising (Midnight Breed #4)

by Lara Adrian

Publication: 25th March 2008

Publisher: Dell

Pages: 384

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Age Appropriate: Adult

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

In a world of shadows and dark, cosuming hungers, desire is the deadliest weapon...

For journalist Dylan Alexander, it began with the discovery of a hidden tomb, thrusting her into the center of a gathering storm of violence and secrets. But nothing is as dangerous as the scarred, lethally seductive man who rises from the shadows to draw her into his world of dark desire and endless night.

Fueled by pain and rage over a shattering betrayal, the warrior Rio has pledged his life to the war against the Rogues. He will let nothing stand in his way—least of all a mortal woman with the power to expose the entire vampire race. For an ancient evil has been awakened, and a stunning darkness is on the rise. Suddenly Dylan is powerless to resist Rio’s touch, even as she uncovers a shocking link to her own past. And now she must choose: Leave Rio’s midnight realm, or risk it all for the man who has shown her true passion and the infinite pleasures of the heart. . . .

My Thoughts.

This book would have to be my favourite so far in the series, ever since Rio was in the explosion I've been wanting to read his story.

The story starts with Dylan on holiday with her Mum's friends (she took her Mum's place after she was diagnosed with cancer) and she see's the ghost of a woman that leads her to a cave where she comes across an empty coffin and heiroglyphs on the wall and inside is Rio who is planning on blowing up the cave with himself inside it.

Of course Dylan being a reporter she comes back the next day and takes photos and sends them off to her editor, once Rio realises he goes after Dylan to steal back the photos before they go public and to scrub her memory until he finds out she's a breedmate.

Rio has to come to terms with his horrific scars enough to believe that Dylan could fall in love with him regardless of his appearance, and to overcome the betrayal of his wife who set him up to receive his injuries.

I loved this book and they seem to keep getting better as the series goes on.

I give this 5/5

Monday, 12 December 2011

Book Review (30).

Wildcat Fireflies: A Meridian Novel (Fenestra #2)

by Amber Kizer

Publication: 1st December 2012

Publisher: Random House Australia

Pages: 528

Genre: Paranormal

Age Appropriate: Young Adult

**Warning may contain spoilers from previous book.**

Meridian Sozu is a Fenestra—the half-human, half-angel link between the living and the dead. She has the dark responsibility of helping souls transition safely into the afterlife. If people die without the help of a Fenestra, their souls are left vulnerable to be stolen by the Aternocti, a dark band of forces who disrupt the balance of good and evil in the world and cause chaos.

Having recently lost her beloved Auntie—the woman who showed her what it meant to be a Fenestra—Meridian has hit the road with Tens, her love and sworn protector, in hopes of finding another Fenestra. Their search leads them to Indiana, where Juliet, a responsible and loving teenager, works tirelessly in the nursing home where she and several other foster kids are housed. Surrounded by death, Juliet struggles to make a loving home for the younger kids, and to protect them from the violent whims of their foster mother. But she is struggling against forces she can't understand . . . and even as she feels a pull toward the dying, their sickness seems to infect her, weighing her down. . . .

Will Meri and Tens find Juliet in time to save her from a life of misery and illness? And will Meri and Tens' own romance weather the storms of new discoveries?

My Thoughts.

This book takes place one month after the first book and Meridian and Ten's have driven around in that time looking for the girl and the cat which was mentioned in a newspaper at the end of the first book.

We have alternating chapters in this book between Meridian and the Fenestra they're trying to find Juliet, who is a foster kid under the guardianship of a horrible woman who beats the children and forces them to look after the elderly who are sent there to die.

Juliet doesn't know who or what she is and so when someone in the house dies she faints and ends up with their injuries not knowing she needs to create a window to let the souls through.

We have some new characters Father Anthony 'Tony' who is linked with Tens and Juliet's pasts, Rumi who's parents were both Fenestra's and the foster kids Bodie, Sema and Nicole.

With the alternating chapters in this book I would have loved chapters from Tens pov just so we know what he's thinking and to perhaps find out more about him.

I look forward to the next book to see how Juliet copes with being a Fenestra and quite possibly the discovery of more Fenestra's and Protector's.

I give this 4/5

A big thanks to Dorothy @ Random House Australia.