Cover Reveal: Dead Silence - Kimberly Derting

Dead Silence (The Body Finder #4)

by Kimberly Derting 

Expected publication: April 16th 2013 by HarperCollins

Cover Reveal: Witch Born - Amber Argyle

Witch Born

by Amber Argyle

Brusenna thought it was finished. 

She defeated the Dark Witch, saving the Haven Witches from imprisonment and death. She found love and a place to belong. 

She was wrong. 

Haven is not the sanctuary it appears to be. Even love is in danger of slipping away like water through cupped hands. 

Some things can't be saved. 

A new threat merges with the old as the Witches’ dark history begins to catch up with them. Only Brusenna knows the extent of the danger and how to stop it, though doing so might cost her everything.

Including her life. 

Will Brusenna be required to make the ultimate sacrifice?

Expected publication: September 2012 by Starling Publishing

Upcoming Books That Don't Yet Have A Cover.

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown

by Holly Black

“A refreshing and inventive new twist” on the vampire genre; set in the not-so-distant future, where the vampire population has surged, resulting in the establishment of quarantined cities of vampires and humans where predator and prey coexist in a never-ending blood party of revelry.

Expected publication: September 1st 2013 by Indigo 

A Furious Darkness

by Marjorie M. Liu

A paranormal romance: dystopian, with werewolf gypsy gladiators, zombie armies, and road warrior vampires.

Expected publication: November 27th 2012 by Avon

Conjure (The Hoodoo Apprentice #1)

by Lea Nolan

Be careful what you search for... Sixteen-year-old twins Emma and Jack Guthrie hope for a little summer adventure when they find an eighteenth-century message in a bottle revealing a hidden pirate treasure. With their best friend—and Emma's secret crush—Cooper Beaumont, they discover the treasure, and accidentally unleash an ancient Gullah Hoodoo curse that attacks Jack with the wicked flesh-eating Creep and promises to steal Cooper’s soul on his approaching eighteenth birthday. Determined to save the two people she loves the most, Emma apprentices herself to an elderly sea island hoodoo root doctor who agrees to teach her the magic to undo the hex while she works to unravel the riddle of the pirate’s message. With the clock ticking down to Cooper’s birthday and Jack turning into a walking skeleton, Emma must hone her new skills to conjure visions of the past to discover the curse’s origins, steal an antique ruby, battle a horde of terrifying demon dogs, and summon ancient spirits who can help set things right before it’s too late.

Expected publication: September 24th 2012 by Entangled Publishing, LLC

The Clockwork Key (Secret Order of Modern Amusmentists #1)

by Kristin Welker

Kristin Welker’s YA debut, THE CLOCKWORK KEY, a clockpunk romantic adventure set in Victorian England about a girl who unravels the secrets of a mysterious society of inventors and their most dangerous creation.

Published 2012 by Simon Pulse

In the After

by Demitria Lunetta 

The first book of a post-apocalyptic trilogy where the seventeen-year-old protagonist must survive in a world overrun by vicious, predatory creatures while protecting the abandoned two-year-old she finds in a desolate grocery store, until the pair finds refuge in a secretive survivors' colony...

Expected publication: 2013 by HARPERTEEN

Arclight

by Josin L. McQuein 

There is the Light. There is the Dark. And no one survives The Fade. These are the absolutes... until a teenage girl stumbles out of the shadows with no memory of how she survived.

Her appearance brings hope, but also danger as a race of parasitic, chameleon-like creatures known as The Fade begin attacking those who have given her shelter. Torn between the possibility that she's the key to defeating the Fade, and the growing dissent that would sacrifice the girl in hopes of stopping the attacks, she's hard pressed to find anyone she can trust.

She finds a strained ally in the son of the man who died to bring her to safety. And when the two teens stumble across a captive Fade who begs them for help locating his lost mate, they begin to wonder if it's the girl the Fade are after at all.

A sci-fi thriller.

Expected publication: April 23rd 2013 by Greenwillow

Cover Reveal: Spellcaster - Claudia Gray

Spellcaster

by Claudia Gray

When Nadia’s family moves to Captive’s Sound, she instantly realizes there’s more to it than meets the eye. Descended from witches, Nadia senses a dark and powerful magic at work in the town. Mateo has lived in Captive’s Sound his entire life, trying to dodge the local legend that a curse has been placed on his family that will cause him to go insane. When the strange dreams Mateo has been having of rescuing a beautiful girl—Nadia—from a car accident come true, he knows he’s doomed. 

Despite the forces pulling them apart, Nadia and Mateo must work together to break the chains of his family's terrible curse, and to prevent a disaster that threatens the lives of everyone in the town. Shimmering with magic and mystery, New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray’s new novel is sure to draw fans of the Hex Hall and Caster Chronicles series, and fans of the hit CW TV show The Secret Circle.

Expected publication: March 5th 2013 by HarperTeen 

Cover Reveal: Imposter - Jill Hathaway

Impostor (Slide #2)

by Jill Hathaway 

What if a killer took control of you?

Vee Bell’s gift (or curse) of “sliding”—slipping into the mind of another person and experiencing life, briefly, through his or her eyes—has been somewhat under control since she unwillingly witnessed the horrific deaths of her classmates six months ago.

But just as things are getting back to normal, Vee has a very bizarre experience: she loses consciousness and finds herself in a deserted area, at the edge of a cliff, with the broken body of the boy who took advantage of her on the rocks below.

As Vee finds herself in stranger and stranger situations with no memory of getting there, she begins to suspect that someone she knows has the ability to slide—and that this “slider” is using Vee to exact revenge on his or her enemies.
Expected publication: March 26th 2013 by Balzer + Bray for HarperCollins

Cover Reveal & Giveaway: The Watcher - Lisa Voisin

Millennia ago, he fell from heaven for her.

Can he face her without falling again?

Fascinated with ancient civilizations, seventeen-year-old Mia Crawford dreams of becoming an archaeologist. She also dreams of wings—soft and silent like snow—and somebody trying to steal them.

 When a horrible creature appears out of thin air and attacks her, she knows Michael Fontaine is involved, though he claims to know nothing about it. Secretive and aloof, Michael evokes feelings in Mia that she doesn’t understand. Images of another time and place haunt her. She recognizes them—but not from any textbook.

 In search of the truth, Mia discovers a past life of forbidden love, jealousy and revenge that tore an angel from Heaven and sent her to an early grave. Now that her soul has returned, does she have a chance at loving that angel again? Or will an age-old nemesis destroy them both?

Ancient history is only the beginning.


Release Date: 4th March 2013.
Published By: Inkspell Publishing


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Book Review (105) Sweet Venom - Tera Lynn Childs

Sweet Venom (Medusa Girls #1)

by Tera Lynn Childs

Publication: 6th September 2011

Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books

Pages: 345

Genre: Fantasy/Mythology

Age Appropriate: Young Adult

Grace just moved to San Francisco and is excited to start over at a new school. The change is full of fresh possibilities, but it’s also a tiny bit scary. It gets scarier when a minotaur walks in the door. And even more shocking when a girl who looks just like her shows up to fight the monster.

Gretchen is tired of monsters pulling her out into the wee hours, especially on a school night, but what can she do? Sending the minotaur back to his bleak home is just another notch on her combat belt. She never expected to run into this girl who could be her double, though.

Greer has her life pretty well put together, thank you very much. But that all tilts sideways when two girls who look eerily like her appear on her doorstep and claim they're triplets, supernatural descendants of some hideous creature from Greek myth, destined to spend their lives hunting monsters.

These three teenage descendants of Medusa, the once-beautiful gorgon maligned by myth, must reunite and embrace their fates in this unique paranormal world where monsters lurk in plain sight.

My Thoughts.

I loved this book, I finished it in less than a day and that's a definite sign to me how much I liked because I didn't want to put it down.

I loved how the myth of Medusa was used in a different way, and that in this story she was never bad it was just a rumor started by Athena because she was jealous, Medusa stopped all the mythological beings from stepping foot into our world with her two sisters Sthenno and Euryale, and all her female descendants after her would take on this job three girls in each generation, each bestowed with a different  gift that they also inherited from Medusa and her sisters.

Hydras have a distinctive odor

From the first line I was intrigued, I didn't really know what a Hydra was at the time but I'm certainly learning a lot of all the mythological creatures that there are.
As all the chapters are alternated between the triplets Gretchen, Grace and Greer and I like how we get a glimpse into their lives and the families that they were adopted out too, we start with Gretchen on the first chapter, as she tracks down the said Hydra from the first line and sends it back from where it came from, Gretchen didn't have the best adoptive parents and chose to run away.

I didn't ask for awful, selfish parents who liked to hit me when the drink and drugs ran out

She was found by Ursula an older lady who knew about Gretchen's destiny and helped her to train to be able to fight the creatures, and that's what she's been doing for the last four years since she was twelve.
Then we have Grace who can't stick up for herself but is an incredibly nice person with great parents and an adopted older brother Thane.

The mom and dad and brother I love more than anything and who love me back just as much

And finally Greer who doesn't appear in the book until about halfway through, she was adopted by a rich couple who are too busy with their work to pay Greer any attention.

I reconciled myself long ago to the fact that my parents aren't the demonstrative, caring, supportive type

 They all eventually find each other first Gretchen and Grace, Gretchen who is training Grace after Ursula goes missing, then they find out that they're triplets not twins like they first thought and they track down Greer who is not interested in anything they have to say and thinks that their stories about Medusa are all made up and that they're both crazy, until she spots one herself that is.
Gretchen's mentor Ursula goes missing, there's a bounty out on the girls' heads and through all that they also have boy problems.
I don't want to get into it any further and wreck the story but I hope you check this book out, I look forward to the next book Sweet Shadows out in September, and I'll leave you with some of my favourite quotes.


Favourite Quotes.

I sigh, "No Such luck." "Trying to will yourself bigger boobs?'

"Next time I'll lend you the fifty cents." "Save it for your implants fund." Vail flashes a sympathetic look at Miranda's less-than-overflowing chest

"How about a pen?' "What?' I blurt. "Forget you were coming to school today?' "Something like that."

"Are you deficient?' I ask, "What about me has ever said, 'Yes, please keep hitting on me'?'

 I give this book 4/5.