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You asked for it, folks, so here you go: a BITING COLD teaser!
WARNING - This teaser contains a fairly obvious DRINK DEEP spoiler, so read at your own risk! You’ve been warned!
I’m still warning you!
Alright, you’re just not listening. Get to reading, chicas.
He marched to the center of the room, interrupting a cadre of half a dozen vampire who were sparring on the tatami mats that covered the floor.
“Out,” he bellowed, and no one stopped to ask for clarification. Without a word, they gathered up their things and headed for the door.
“Lock it,” Ethan directed, and I closed and locked the door behind us, my heart thudding in anticipation.
When I turned around again, he was pulling his half-buttoned shirt over his head, and his shoes were gone. His Cadogan medal hung just above the scar that puckered his chest—the mark he bore from taking Celina’s stake.
I don't know about you but I love the Chicagoland Vampires series and I cannot wait for the upcoming release of Biting Cold!
Adaptation by Malinda Lo
releases 9.18.2012
Malinda Lo has a giveaway on her site for an ARC of Adaptaion on now HERE.
Book Blurb:
Reese can’t remember anything from the time between the accident and the day she woke up almost a month later. She only knows one thing: She’s different now.Across North America, flocks of birds hurl themselves into airplanes, causing at least a dozen to crash. Thousands of people die. Fearing terrorism, the United States government grounds all flights, and millions of travelers are stranded.Reese and her debate team partner and longtime crush David are in Arizona when it happens. Everyone knows the world will never be the same. On their drive home to San Francisco, along a stretch of empty highway at night in the middle of Nevada, a bird flies into their headlights. The car flips over. When they wake up in a military hospital, the doctor won’t tell them what happened, where they are—or how they’ve been miraculously healed.Things become even stranger when Reese returns home. San Francisco feels like a different place with police enforcing curfew, hazmat teams collecting dead birds, and a strange presence that seems to be following her. When Reese unexpectedly collides with the beautiful Amber Gray, her search for the truth is forced in an entirely new direction—and threatens to expose a vast global conspiracy that the government has worked for decades to keep secret.Adaptation is a bold contemporary science-fiction thriller from the acclaimed author of Ash.
Jessica Spotswood had a reveal on the title of the second book for the Cahill Witch Chronicals: Born Wicked was book one, and now book two will be titled: Star Cursed.
Star Cursed releases 2.7.2013
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DABWAHA is on peeps and we are up to Voting on Set Three today. The Rose Garden's author Susanna Kearsley shows readers just what the books have in store for them during DABWAHA with her great new video:
Trying to get through college and survive in the normal world is hard enough, but McKenzie Lewis tow the line through the mundane and the fae with her tracking abilities. As the knowledge of her astute skills pass through the warring kingdom, McKenzie's status as a rare Shadow Reader are getting around and as the opposing factions square off against each other McKenzie and her abilities will be coveted by all.
What was really amazing about the Shadow Reader was the world building and the characters. McKenzie is a strong willed character fighting for what she believes is right in her helping the fae, or really being in service of the fae, and as the plots thicken and McKenzie realizes the truth in what is being said about the court she held high from the rebel forces MxKenzie changes her alliances at the possible cost of her life. What you cannot have have, then no one else will seems to be a common motto along the lines of some fae.
With a pair of leading male characters, McKenzie has to find the truth that she believes in herself and what she believes is worth fighting for because there is are fae on both sides of the fight that she has feelings for. Will their want of her talents override McKenzie's safety, or will McKenzie's power turn the tides in the civil war among the fae.
Shadow Reader will catch readers in the middle of a war that started long before McKenzie came into her powers but which could cause her destruction. As if living and finding love in the real world was hard enough, imagine finding love in the arms of a rebel and a swords master of the Court.
Book Blurb from the Publisher:
There can only be one allegiance. It’s her time to choose. Some humans can see the fae. McKenzie Lewis can track them, reading the shadows they leave behind. But some shadows lead to danger. Others lead to lies. A Houston college student trying to finish her degree, McKenzie has been working for the fae king for years, tracking vicious rebels who would claim the Realm. Her job isn’t her only secret. For just as long, she’s been in love with Kyol, the king’s sword-master—and relationships between humans and fae are forbidden. But any hope for a normal life is shattered when she’s captured by Aren, the fierce and uncompromising rebel leader. He teaches her the forbidden fae language and tells her dark truths about the Court, all to persuade her to turn against the king. Time is running out, and as the fight starts to claim human lives, McKenzie has no choice but to decide once and for all whom to trust and where she ultimately stands in the face of a cataclysmic civil war.
Darkness Shows The Stars
by Diana Peterfreund
releases 7.12.2012
Balzer & Bray
Book Description
It's been several generations since a genetic experiment gone wrong caused the Reduction, decimating humanity and giving rise to a Luddite nobility who outlawed most technology.Elliot North has always known her place in this world. Four years ago Elliot refused to run away with her childhood sweetheart, the servant Kai, choosing duty to her family's estate over love. Since then the world has changed: a new class of Post-Reductionists is jumpstarting the wheel of progress, and Elliot's estate is foundering, forcing her to rent land to the mysterious Cloud Fleet, a group of shipbuilders that includes renowned explorer Captain Malakai Wentforth—an almost unrecognizable Kai. And while Elliot wonders if this could be their second chance, Kai seems determined to show Elliot exactly what she gave up when she let him go.But Elliot soon discovers her old friend carries a secret—one that could change their society . . . or bring it to its knees. And again, she's faced with a choice: cling to what she's been raised to believe, or cast her lot with the only boy she's ever loved, even if she's lost him forever.Inspired by Jane Austen's persuasion, For Darkness Shows the Stars is a breathtaking romance about opening your mind to the future and your heart to the one person you know can break it.
Diana Peterfruend brought us into a world new world of snarky heroines and the unicorns out to kill them in her previous series so with this latest upcoming release I cannot wait to see her interpretation on Jane Austen's Persuasion. Diana Peterfreund writes new life into her characters and her books make for great reads. Now It is all about waiting until June.
I really enjoyed this twist on the Little Mermaid Tale. The book is set with two main characters who alternate the chapters throughout the book Margrethe a northern princess, and Lenia a mermaid princess. From the voices of these two characters we see the world through two sets of eyes and their heartfelt love over the same man, a southern prince through two similar hearts.
What was really breathtaking about Mermaid was that these two princesses loved the same man and while there jealously, there was also interlaced compassion and a sense of purpose to their actions. While one princess felt into love and left her element to win his heart and gain the much needed soul part to become truly human, the other princess married to unite two kingdoms and save both from a ravaging war. Carolyn Turgeon took some of the elements of the classic myth many girls loved and turned it into something unique.
Book Blurb from Publisher:
Princess Margrethe has been hidden away while her kingdom is at war. One gloomy, windswept morning, as she stands in a convent garden overlooking the icy sea, she witnesses a miracle: a glittering mermaid emerging from the waves, a nearly drowned man in her arms. By the time Margrethe reaches the shore, the mermaid has disappeared into the sea. As Margrethe nurses the handsome stranger back to health, she learns that not only is he a prince, he is also the son of her father's greatest rival. Sure that the mermaid brought this man to her for a reason, Margrethe devises a plan to bring peace to her kingdom. Meanwhile, the mermaid princess Lenia longs to return to the human man she carried to safety. She is willing to trade her home, her voice, and even her health for legs and the chance to win his heart... A surprising take on the classic tale, Mermaid is the story of two women with everything to lose. It will make you think twice about the fairy tale you heard as a child, keeping you in suspense until the very last page.
Mermaid: A Twist on the Classic Fairy Tale by Carolyn Turgeon REVIEW
Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo REVIEWvia netgalley
Somebody to Love by Kristan Higgins REVIEWvia netgalley
The Hunt by Andrew Fukuda REVIEWvia netgalley
Hitting The Bookstore For:
The Savage Grace by Bree Despain The Dark and Hallow Places (paperback) by Carrie Ryan The Isis Collar by Cat Adams
Coming in May 2012 is a thrilling new release that will catch readers into the plight of what may possibly be the last humans on earth struggling to, well, not get eaten for one.
When humanity is onto it's last days and everyone else wants to eat us, raw and all, where do we stand when we only have the sun to keep up alive and the night to fear the darkest fear of the things that hunt us in at dark. When it is wicked dark out there and the vampires hunt you there seems to be nothing left on this earth for humans, and sadly that may be so. Humans can only band together and struggle to survive for something. In this new dystopian reality where the vampires want to eat us all and they are not all sparkly and compassionate we meet our main character who in the beginning has no name, since really who needs those anymore that is so like human, names. Then we find out that these vampire types have some of the last humans all stashed up in a secret dome research facility and to keep the populous happy with their current overlord and moral high, he is having the last HUNT of the last humans, or hepers in this case, because a united vampire front all for a lottery of human flesh is totally a way to keep your people loving you.
The crazy part of the last humans is that they have been studied for all of these last years by a scientist and then the real questions is where have these humans come from? Could there actually be more people somewhere, we sure hope that there is a stronghold somewhere with more people right? Or is the struggle over and should these humans just give up, or fight on?
The future is wicked crazy in any dystopian but through The HUNT we find our human counterparts struggling to survive in a society lead by predators and hope in a hopeless world can be hard to muster for anyone, let alone the last of your species.
The HUNT Andrew Fukuda releases 5.8.2012 St Martin's Griffin
My Thoughts On: What if you are down to your last night, and no matter how hard you tried to be unnoticed in the same room as the monsters, it has boiled down to your last day where sunlight is your only ally and the night is their only hunting ground. The Hunt is a masterfully written novel of a future with vampires owning the night, and the last humans struggling to survive. There are no sparkly compassionate vampires in this novel; in fact The Hunt is all about the primordial hunter of the night, slavering at the prospect of flesh and uncontrollable one that first blood is spilled from a human being. The story opens up and introduces us to a boy who has no real name at home, nor at school. Assigning names according to their seats in school we quickly realize that this is not your average high school and that these are not your average students. The Hunt is like a slow reveal about the state of the world, this dystopian future is running at night and you still have to go to school except this time the future is that human are on the verge of extinction and the mass populous is the night thriving vampires. We later find that our lone human in the midst of hunters is named Gene and he has a hard live struggling to keep up the appearances of being a vamp while really falling under the normal problems of being human. Something huge is coming to the populous when it is announced that the last Heper (their term for human) Hunt will commence shortly and through a lottery seven numbers will be drawn and these chose will be the last vampires to hunt the soon extinct hepers. With a surprise around every turn and the fear of being found out driving Gene to try and save not only himself but the captive humans that have been reserved for The Hunt. The Hunt is a fast past thrill run of the trials and loneliness of struggling to survive in a hostile future that has your days numbered in how well you can survive the night. With a fast paced story that will surprise readers, The Hunt will capture readers in the plight of the last humans on Earth while also showing us that there is a great scheme at work hopefully in future books, and everything may not be as we seem. When you are losing every cover that protected you from the hunters and with betrayal hot and thick on your tongue, do you turn to save the last of your kind or do you stay to fight the night?
