Review: Night's Cold Kiss by Tracey O'Hara

Night's Cold Kiss        

A Nights Cold: Kiss by Tracey O'Hara
Release Date: August 25 2009
Publisher: EOS
Pages: 332


Goodreads Blurb:
Watching her mother being savagely murdered left Antoinette Petrescu inflamed with hatred for the vampire race, but she now realizes that to exact her revenge, she needs the help of one of their kind. Little does she know that the bloodthirsty Christian Laroque cloaks his own secret agenda. Guaranteed to raise the pulse of readers who crave dark vampire fiction with strong romance plotlines

IMM

IMM is a great meme as we all know is hosted by Kristi @ The Story Siren So onto this weeks goodies.

I won and  received a copy of

Where She Went (If I Stay, #2)

This week I did buy some books. These are the books I bought



The Darkest Lie (Lords of the Underworld, #6)

Angels' Blood (Guild Hunter, #1)

Archangel's Kiss (Guild Hunter, #2)

archangel's consort

I also bought another book. I thought it was the Darkest Lie by Gena Showalter but it's not. Its Into The Dark its a bunch of short stories from the LOTU series. So I have to exchange that for the right one today.
So I will also have The Darkest Lie today

That's my mailbox this week. What did you get in yours??

Follow Friday



Q. Keeping with the dystopian and apocalypse theme that seems to be running rampant on parajunkee.com, I have one very hard question for you: If you were stocking your bomb shelter, what books would you HAVE to include if you only had space for ten?


Oh wow this is such a hard question this week. Ok if I had to choose..
1 Interview With The Vampire By Anne Rice
3 The Night Huntress series by Jeaniene Frost
4 A Midnight Breed Series by Lara Adrian 

I believe that is more than 10 so i guess I will stop lol  Very hard question this week 

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Review: A Werewolf In Manhattan by Vicki Lewis Thompson

A Werewolf in Manhattan by Vicki Lewis Thompson

Goodreads Blurb:

Emma Gavin writes about werewolves, but that doesn't mean she believes in them-not until a pack of real-life New York weres decide to investigate the striking accuracy of her "fiction".
When Aiden Wallace, son and heir of the pack leader, tries to sniff out Emma's potential informant, he discovers something even more dangerous- an undeniable attraction to her.

Review: At Grave's End by Jeaniene Frost

Release Date: January 1 2009
Publisher: Avon
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 342
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Series: Nighthuntress (#3)
Source: Purchased

Goodreads Synopsis:
Some Things Won’t Stay Buried … At Grave’s End
It should be the best time of half-vampire Cat Crawfield’s life. With her undead lover Bones at her side, she’s successfully protected mortals from the rogue undead. But though Cat’s worn disguise after disguise to keep her true identity a secret from the brazen bloodsuckers, her cover’s finally been blown, placing her in terrible danger.
As if that wasn’t enough, a woman from Bones’s past is determined to bury him once and for all. Caught in the crosshairs of a vengeful vamp, yet determined to help Bones stop a lethal magic from being unleashed, Cat’s about to learn the true meaning of bad blood. And the tricks she’s learned as a special agent won’t help her. She will need to fully embrace her vampire instincts in order to save herself – and Bones – from a fate worse than the grave
My Thoughts:
Another great installment to an already great series. Cat and Bones kick it off with the third book in the series. Cat and Bones have finally been able to live their lives together. Her team and her mother have finally accepted their relationship. But when the team needs some "extra" help, Cat never would have expected for her uncle to agree. 
I seriously cannot write this without including spoilers so all I am going to say is absolutely amazing. Another read that took me less than a day to get through because I could not put it down. I tried believe me but I just couldn't. Jeaniene just sucks you into her world and you never want to leave. A great Urban Fantasy that keeps you hooked from the first page to the last. I love all of Jeaniene's characters. An amazingly kick ass world of danger at every turn, love that nothing can ruin, and loyalty beyond the threads of friendship.
If you have not yet read this amazing series I highly suggest you go out and grab it. You will fall in love with Cat and Bones just like I have.
I give this 5/5 Hearts!

Review: One Foot In The Grave by Jeanine Frost



Goodreads Blurb:
Half-vampire Cat Crawfield is now Special Agent Cat Crawfield, working for the government to rid the world of the rogue undead. She’s still using everything Bones, her sexy and dangerous ex, taught her, but when Cat is targeted for assassination, the only man who can help her is the vampire she left behind.


Being around Bones awakens all her emotions, from the adrenaline rush of slaying vamps side by side to the reckless passion that consumed them. But a price on her head – wanted: dead or half-alive – means her survival depends on teaming up with Bones. And no matter how hard Cat tries to keep things professional between them, she’ll find that desire lasts forever … and Bones won’t let her get away again.

Giveaway Just because I feel like it open Internationally

Ok guys. I decided that I need to do a giveaway because I have been neglecting all of you lately. So I am going to do a random giveaway because I feel like it. This is going to be a short giveaway. I should have signed up for the hop but I didn't. So I know that everyone has entered all of those giveaways on the hop that have a million entries to each. So I am doing one for all my lovely readers.

I am going to offer up a book of choice from The Book Depository. I am going to set a $10 limit on this one. So you have the chance to win your book of choice up to $10. This is open Internationally as long as The Book Depository ships to you :)

So just leave a comment below with your email addy. You don't have to be a follower but I won't mind if you decide to :)

 It will end Saturday at 12am EST. So go ahead leave your comments and let me know what you are looking forward to reading. Not that I need any more books to add to my wishlist but hey like I say. You can never have enough choices right!!

Ok so yea enough with my rambling. Go ahead and comment and I will choose a winner Sunday morning!!
Good Luck and have a great Easter weekend :)

Follow Friday

This is a great meme hosted by Parajunkee over at Parajunkee Reviews Onto This Weeks Follow Friday





What is on your playlist?
3 days grace
drake
j lo
p diddy
3 doors down
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Review: Lover's Betrayal The Misfits of The Lore series by J.E Hopkins

Lover's Betrayal

Goodreads Blurb:
A Vampire Out to Clear Her Son's Name.

A Former Lover Bent on Revenge.

But Neither is Prepared for What Happens Next...

Vampire couple Olivia and Lucian were forced to separate nearly two centuries ago, but now a series of murders has brought them back together. Their task? To investigate who's responsible for the grisly killings. And the prime suspect is none other than Olivia's son, Kaden.

For Olivia, the reunion brings back all the pain of their shattered love—a love she abandoned to marry another. The decision held fateful consequences for herself and her troubled, warring sons. But her new mission also offers a chance at redemption as she risks everything to prove Kaden's innocence and put back together a fractured family before it's too late.

Through it all, Olivia faces the seemingly unyielding hate of Lucian, a powerful leader of the Council, the enforcers of all immortals. He's determined to seek vengeance on Olivia and her son—but can his hatred withstand the love his heart can't deny

Upcoming Release May 2011

Thanks to Penquin Teen I have noticed a new release coming out in May 3 2011. A great book called So Much Closer by Susanne Colasanti. Here is the Trailer for this new release. Check it out!!




I cannot wait until May 3rd! I am very excited for So Much Closer. What do you think?

Books Vs Movies What Do You Think?

Ok so I recently saw the movie I am Number Four after I read the book. I did this on purpose because I have been noticing lately that a lot of great books are being turned into film. This is a great thing for those who aren't that into reading but they can still enjoy the same story that we do. Now I find that turning books into film can either be really good or really bad because I find that it is extremely hard to turn a book into a good film. There is just to much descriptions in the books that it does not transcend onto film very well, depending on the book.

I find that I will always try to read the book before I see a movie because as everyone know's the books are usually much better than the film only because you just cannot put a 350 page book into an hour and a half worth of film. Well you can but you have to leave out a lot of the good stuff and that's what bothers me. I find that when a book is made into a movie they always leave the best parts of the books out of the films. I also find that they don't or can't include all of the information that they need to.

Review Red Riding Hood by Sarah Blakely-Cartwright

Red Riding Hood

Goodreads Blurb:
The blacksmith would marry her.
The woodcutter would run away with her.
The werewolf would turn her into one of its own. 

Valerie's sister was beautiful, kind, and sweet. Now she is dead. Henry, the handsome son of the blacksmith, tries to console Valerie, but her wild heart beats fast for another: the outcast woodcutter, Peter, who offers Valerie another life far from home. 

After her sister's violent death, Valerie's world begins to spiral out of control. For generations, the Wolf has been kept at bay with a monthly sacrifice. But now no one is safe. When an expert Wolf hunter arrives, the villagers learn that the creature lives among them--it could be anyone in town. 

It soon becomes clear that Valerie is the only one who can hear the voice of the creature. The Wolf says she must surrender herself before the blood moon wanes...or everyone she loves will die. 

Based on a screenplay written by David Leslie Johnson

Review: The Eternal Ones by Kirsten Miller

The Eternal Ones (Eternal Ones, #1)

Goodreads Blurb:
Haven Moore can't control her visions of a past with a boy called Ethan, and a life in New York that ended in fiery tragedy. In our present, she designs beautiful dresses for her classmates with her best friend Beau. Dressmaking keeps her sane, since she lives with her widowed and heartbroken mother in her tyrannical grandmother's house in Snope City, a tiny town in Tennessee. Then an impossible group of coincidences conspire to force her to flee to New York, to discover who she is, and who she was.
In New York, Haven meets Iain Morrow and is swept into an epic love affair that feels both deeply fated and terribly dangerous. Iain is suspected of murdering a rock star and Haven wonders, could he have murdered her in a past life? She visits the Ouroboros Society and discovers a murky world of reincarnation that stretches across millennia. Haven must discover the secrets hidden in her past lives, and loves¸ before all is lost and the cycle begins again

Review Dead Beautiful by Yvonne Woon

Dead Beautiful (Dead Beautiful, #1)Dead Beautiful by Yvonne Woon
Release Date: September 21 2010
Publisher: Hyperion
Format: Hardcover
Pages:464
Genre:YA/Supernatural
Series Dead Beautiful (#1)
Source: Purchased

 Goodreads Blurb:
On the morning of her sixteenth birthday, Renée Winters was still an ordinary girl. She spent her summers at the beach, had the perfect best friend, and had just started dating the cutest guy at school. 
No one she'd ever known had died. But all that changes when she finds her parents dead in the Redwood Forest, in what appears to be a strange double murder.
After the funeral Renée’s wealthy grandfather sends her to Gottfried Academy, a remote and mysterious boarding school in Maine, where she finds herself studying subjects like Philosophy, Latin, and the “Crude Sciences.”
It’s there that she meets Dante Berlin, a handsome and elusive boy to whom she feels inexplicably drawn. As they grow closer, unexplainable things begin to happen, but Renée can’t stop herself from falling in love. It’s only when she discovers a dark tragedy in Gottfried’s past that she begins to wonder if the Academy is everything it seems.
Little does she know, Dante is the one hiding a dangerous secret, one that has him fearing for her life.
Dead Beautiful is both a compelling romance and thought-provoking read, bringing shocking new meaning to life, death, love, and the nature of the soul.

 My Thoughts:
The day of her 16th birthday Renee Winter's experiences the most horrible thing a child could ever go through. After going to the beach with her friend Renee decides to drive a different way home, she's not sure why but she is pulled in the other direction the longer way home. While driving she spots her parents car. She gets out and searches the woods for her parents. She finds them dead and looking much older than she should have. 


After the tragic experience, Renee is left in the care of her grandfather who she hasn't seen in years after him and her parents had a falling out. Renee's grandfather uproots her from her home and moves her halfway across the country to go to a boarding school because he believes that Renee is no longer safe where she is.


Renee is thrust into the world of the elite and proper and she knows that she doesn't belong at all. This school is nothing like Renee has ever seen. The only thing that about this new life that Renee can enjoy is the brooding and mysterious Dante. 


As Dante and Renee get closer than they are allowed to do,she starts to realize that nothing is as it seems in this secluded school and Renee's life as she knows it will never ever be the same.


I thoroughly enjoyed Dead Beautiful. A very mysteriously haunting read that was very gripping. I couldn't get enough of this book. The forbidden relationship between Renee and Dante and all the secrets that go on with this new world that Renee lives in was amazing.. Dante wants to love Renee but physically cannot do it without hurting her.


I really really enjoyed this. A great paranormal YA read. I definitely recommend Dead Beautiful to anyone who loves YA, the paranormal and forbidden love!



In My Mailbox

Ok so this week was a little slow for books but I did get two amazing ones!

I bought City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare
City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4)

You can see my review here

I Received for Review
Lover's Betrayal: Misfits of the Lore Series

I also got some amazing signed swag from Kiki Hamilton Author of The Faerie Ring which is set to release October 1st 2011

I want to thank J.E Hopkins and Kiki Hamilton for sending me some amazing treats this week!!

What did you get in your mailbox?

Review City Of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare

City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4)City Of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare
Release Date: April 5 2011
Publisher: Margaret K McElderly Books
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 424
Genre: YA/Supernatural
Series: The Mortal Instruments (#4)
Source: Purchased

 Goodreads Synopsis:
City of Fallen Angels is the fourth book in the bestselling series The Mortal Instruments. 

“City of Fallen Angels takes place two months after the events of City of Glass. In it, a mysterious someone’s killing the Shadowhunters who used to be in Valentine’s Circle and displaying their bodies around New York City in a manner designed to provoke hostility between Downworlders and Shadowhunters, leaving tensions running high in the city and disrupting Clary’s plan to lead as normal a life as she can — training to be a Shadowhunter, and pursuing her relationship with Jace. As Jace and Clary delve into the issue of the murdered Shadowhunters, they discover a mystery that has deeply personal consequences for them — consequences that may strengthen their relationship, or rip it apart forever. Meanwhile, internecine warfare among vampires is tearing the Downworld community apart, and only Simon — the Daylighter who everyone wants on their side — can decide the outcome; too bad he wants nothing to do with Downworld politics. Love, blood, betrayal and revenge: the stakes are higher than ever in City of Fallen Angels.

 My Thoughts:
After the War in Idris, Clary and Jace are back in New York. Clary has started her training to be a Shadowhunter and learning how to use her power. The Accords have finally made it so that the Downworlder's and the Shadowhunters are living at peace for the first time.
She can finally be with Jace and her life is finally where she wants it to be. But when Jace starts detaching himself from her and becoming withdrawn she doesn't know what to think. She sets out to find away to help Jace come to grips with his past and move forward. But this just leads them down a path that no one was expecting. 


Someone is killing Shadowhunter's and leaving them in each territory of the Downworlder's someone who wants to cause chaos amongst the peace that they have finally accomplished. Everyone that Clary has grown to depend on and look to for help cannot help her anymore. Simon being a new vampire has his own issues to deal with. Since Clary gave him The Mark of Cain everyone wants a piece of him. Not only is he a Daywalker but he cannot be killed now. Everyone wants to be allies with Simon but Simon just wants to be normal. But he is quickly beginning to learn that isn't a possibility for him.


The young Shadowhunter's are all put through a test as they try to figure out who wants Simon, what is going on with Jace and Clary and who is killing the Shadowhunters. They never could have expected who is behind all of there troubles. 


The amazing Mortal Instruments series continues with book four. Cassandra Clare never ceases to amaze me with her amazing writing style and her imagination. She is an author that can captivate and keep me hooked from page one. 
A gripping read that leaves you begging for more. The books don't last long enough for me I cannot get enough. I am absolutely in love with the Mortal Instruments.


The Body Finder By Kimberley Derting

The Body Finder (The Body Finder, #1)

Goodreads Blurb:

Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodies—or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes the dead leave behind in the world . . . and the imprints that attach to their killers.
Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find dead birds her cat left for her. But now that a serial killer is terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he's claimed haunt her daily, Violet realizes she might be the only person who can stop him.
Despite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Violet find the murderer—and Violet is unnerved by her hope that Jay's intentions are much more than friendly. But even as she's falling intensely in love, Violet is getting closer and closer to discovering a killer . . . and becoming his prey herself.

Follow Friday and a message to my wonderful followers :)

Ijust wanted to thank all of my great followers who have stuck by me over the last couple of weeks i haven't been able to post as much as i have wanted to due to my new job but you guys are awesome and i wanted to thank you all for reading all of my ramblings :) you guys rock!!!


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Question: Do you judge a book by it's cover?
Unfortunately I am going to say yes. I know it is absolutely horrible but I think that the cover art to a book is very important. But I know that I have read some books that I haven't liked the covers at all the books were really good and vice versa. It's horrible to say that I do. but yes I do?

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BLB Tour: Guest Post and Giveaway from Keta Diablo, Amber Scott, Elise Hepner and Stacey Kennedy.



Kissed From Beyond: A Paranormal Erotic Romance

This 'must read' anthology will take you to the mystical beyond and back with four erotica novellas from bestselling and award winning authors:
Keta Diablo
Amber Scott
Elise Hepner
Stacey Kennedy
       Can you handle the magic?



Cradle of Dreams Keta Diablo

With visions of battle still fresh in his mind, Roane Bradfield returns home to find the woman he loves betrothed to another. He corners Kendrick Moreland at Dowager Huggins' Grand ball and whisks her to the secluded library. One way or the other, he will know the reason the duplicitous beauty cut him from her life when she promised to wait forever.

Kendrick can't believe her eyes when Roane suddenly appears at the ball. Has he truly risen from the dead? Amid wagging tongues and hushed murmurs, the fantasy of her every dream whisks her from the ballroom. And the expression on his face is anything but loving. Revenge, danger and powerful love collide in Cradle of Dreams.

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'Til We Meet Again Stacey Kennedy

Ethan Thomas has spent years alone, forever trapped between worlds. Once a soldier in the Civil War, he's now a ghost bound to a chaise lounge that once belonged to him. He's spend centuries lingering in Savannah, Georgia, waiting to be saved...

Cassandra Cole is an interior designer hired to restore and old Victorian home. As she begins to furnish the home, strange happenings erupt around her. She suspects the house is haunted. Determined to find out, Cassie will set out to discover who the ghost is, why she feels a connection to him, and what she has to do to free him. The answers will surprise her in ways she couldn't have imagined.

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One Rub More Elise Hepner

Flynn has been cursed for over a century for a social slight he never committed. A voodoo priestess hexed him and forced him into a teapot where he could only be summoned by the rub of a woman's palm. Once free, he grants these women three sexual favors- and cuts off his own emotions in the process. Unable to break free from an invisible cage of lust and sex to fall in love again, he's resigned to being a sex object and nothing more.

Helena has been house sitting far, far away from her complicated past in England- including her former childhood sweetheart, who wasn't satisfied when Helena didn't want to be barefoot and pregnant. She's resigned to leave behind the complications of men and sex. She hopes that logic will win out over her unreliable emotions- but she's put to the test when she accidentally summons Flynn from his teapot prison.

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 A Love Soul Deep Amber Scott

If only Sara had known no man would ever make her feel like Crew did, she would have let him lover her. A regret that can never be undone. His death haunts her dreams and her wishful thinking only reminds her of everything she has lost.

Years Later, a visit to an antique store in sultry Savannah changes everything and makes her deepest wish come true. Her beloved returns to her. Her every fantasy gets the chance to be fulfilled. But she wants more than one night. She wants a lifetime and wonders what magic will let her keep A Love Soul Deep.

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Giveaway:
Keta Diablo and Amber Scott have each generously offered up an  e-book to two lucky commenter's. All you have to do is leave a comment below telling me why you like paranormal or erotic romance?
This giveaway is International. Please leave your email in the comment section as well so I can notify the winners.
 

Keta Diablo Decadent Deceptions, an erotic historical romance. Finalist in the prestigious Molly Contest, erotic romance category. Best-Seller on Amazon Kindle. This book contains graphic sex and voyeurism.
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Amber Scott  Love Lust. A paranormal erotica novella. 5 cups coffee time romance. "Fiercely addictive"
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Review I am Number Four by Pittacus Lore

I Am Number Four (Lorien Legacies, #1)


Goodreads Blurb:
In the beginning they were a group of nine. Nine aliens who left their home planet of Lorien when it fell under attack by the evil Mogadorian. Nine aliens who scattered on Earth. Nine aliens who look like ordinary teenagers living ordinary lives, but who have extraordinary, paranormal skills. Nine aliens who might be sitting next to you now. 

The Nine had to separate and go into hiding. The Mogadorian caught Number One in Malaysia, Number Two in England, and Number Three in Kenya. All of them were killed. John Smith, of Paradise, Ohio, is Number Four. He knows that he is next. 

I AM NUMBER FOUR is the thrilling launch of a series about an exceptional group of teens as they struggle to outrun their past, discover their future—and live a normal life on Earth. 

I AM NUMBER FOUR. 
I AM NEXT.