Thank you to everyone who entered, spread the word or even looked at this post!
The winner was comment #6 by Marjie!
Winner has been notified, but if I don't hear back from them within 48 hours I will draw a new winner.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Cover Whore, yes TWO times today!
I absolutely HAD to share this cover! Calling it gorgeous doesn't even do it justice!
Blood Rights - By Kristen Painter
Cover Whore
I figured that since it's been a while I thought I'd share some of the beauties that I've come across lately!
Daughter of Smoke & Bone - By Laini Taylor
Instantly this cover caught my eye, it's SO different and exotic!
The Space Between - By Brenna Yovanoff
There's something surreal about this cover, but there are so many things hidden in it that it catches your eye.
Devil Without a Cause - Terri Garey
We all know why I like this one!
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Rosemary and Rue (October Daye Series - Book #1) - By Seanan McGuire
Release Date: 9/1/2009
Website: Seanan McGuire
Publisher: DAW Books
The world of Faerie never disappeared: it merely went into hiding, continuing to exist parallel to our own. Secrecy is the key to Faerie's survival—but no secret can be kept forever, and when the fae and mortal worlds collide, changelings are born. Half-human, half-fae, outsiders from birth, these second-class children of Faerie spend their lives fighting for the respect of their immortal relations. Or, in the case of October "Toby" Daye, rejecting it completely. After getting burned by both sides of her heritage, Toby has denied the fae world, retreating into a "normal" life. Unfortunately for her, Faerie has other ideas.
The murder of Countess Evening Winterrose, one of the secret regents of the San Francisco Bay Area, pulls Toby back into the fae world. Unable to resist Evening's dying curse, which binds her to investigate, Toby is forced to resume her old position as knight errant to the Duke of Shadowed Hills and begin renewing old alliances that may prove her only hope of solving the mystery...before the curse catches up with her.
In October Daye's world all she wants to forget is the Faerie world, to isolate herself and never return. Too bad life is never easy, especially for Toby. After spending over a decade missing she now finds herself being sucked back in, because now her life depends on it.
Toby struck me as such a strong character, but at the same time she's at her weakest. What she's gone through in the last 14 years has left her vulnerable, scared and alone. But now being bound to find a killer that is using iron to kill, and thugs to do the dirty work, that's just icing on the cake. She might only be half Fae, which means her magic is weak, but she'll have to pull every trick in her small book to figure this mystery out. Sneaking her way into the crime scene Toby is able to use blood magic to relive the few final moments of her friends life, seeing things that will help piece together why someone would go to such an extreme to murder a Fae. There's a high price for blood magic and Toby knows this, but the direction that it sends her in is one that she's more afraid of then any other.
Suddenly she finds herself going Home, and I'm not talking a cozy cottage where she'll have tea with her mom, I'm talking the place that changelings (half breed Fae), go when they have no where else to turn. It's the one place she told herself she would never go back to. Yet now here she is selling basically her soul for answers and leads. Not to mention the emotional turmoil that she has even looking at the place, and it's so not what she wants in the middle of a murder case. Yes returning Home was hard, but Toby now has to face old demons and return to the people she let down over a decade ago. Coming down to the wire Toby MUST piece this puzzle together or Winterrose's curse will take her under. Yet threw gun chases, ambushes, doppelganger look-a-likes, then more twists & turns then I can name, the ride that Toby is on makes this one hell of a book! The detail that the characters posses, from looks to personality traits, makes Rosemary and Rue unlike any other book I've come across.
Couldn't put this book down!
There are books that I get into, then there are books that I completely and utterly fall in love with. They're the ones that leave me buzzing for days afterward, with the inability to focus on another book. It's like a really good high....and it's totally legal. This was a book that left me felling giddy, excited, and wanting to run out to the book store in the middle of the night just to get the next one in the series! If you don't own this book, buy it, borrow it, sell your first born to get a copy if you have to, because it's just the beginning of a series that promises nothing but sheer awesomeness in the future!
5/5
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Talkative Tuesday 4/12/11
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Oh man, what a morning! Tuesdays are turning into the new Monday for me....such chaos! Today I'm introducing a great new blog who's name I absolutely LOVE! Everyone say hi to the AwesomeSauce Book Club, and their amazing admin Amber :) |
With a fairly new review site, Amber sure is able to show her reading passion well. She's met a ton of amazing authors, a few of my favorites, and it totally down to earth.
There are heart-felt reviews, amazing contests, and Teaser Tuesdays. So make sure that you all follow her blog, join the Facebook group, and stalk her Twitter!
Teaser Tuesday 12.4.2011
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading.
The rules are:
- Grab your current read
- Open to a random page
- Share two teaser sentences from somewhere on that page
- Be careful not to include spoilers
- Share the title and author too so that other Teaser Tuesday participients can add the book on their TBR lists, if they like your teasers!
"Never in his life had Rudolf felt such profound relief as when the Telanak dropped anchor in the roadstead of Batavia. The long sea voyage, so eagarly anticipated as a gripping adventure, had turned out to be exceedingly tedious: 107 1/2 days of being confined to the cramped spaces reserved for passangers on deck and in the midship, cheek by jowl by a motley assortment of individuals whom he could not imagine ever consorting with of his own free will."
Can you imagine over 100 days at sea?!
Monday, April 11, 2011
True Blood Season 4: Waiting Sucks (#5)
Mondays are starting to become a great friend of mine. Simply for this reason, and this reason only:
This gave me the chills, like creepy chills....
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