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Review: Tiger’s Quest (The Tiger Saga #2) by Colleen Houck
Kelsey Hayes has just arrived home in Oregon from her adventure packed and emotional summer abroad in India. Kelsey has been helping two brothers, Ren and Kishan, try and break an ancient curse. She and Ren successfully fought off deadly monkeys to break the first part of the curse, but they still have to complete a series of challenges to break the entire curse. While they have been tracking down the clues that will break the curse, Kelsey and Ren have also fallen in love. Kelsey is scared to death that Ren will break her heart so she does what she thinks is best–she runs like hell back to Oregon…
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Review: Dark Angel: A Gothic Fairy Tale by T.J. Bennett
Strong winds and storm surges batter the hull of a ship carrying the young widow Catherine Briton home to England. Catherine spots land and tells the captain that they should abandon ship and try to make it to the island. To her dismay the captain refuses and denies that he even saw the land. The ship eventually sinks and Catherine is left floating in the ocean waiting for death to overtake her. Instead of dying, she wakes up on the beach of the island she saw from the ship. A stranger rescues her and takes her back to his castle. When she awakes she finds that the man, Gerard, not…
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Review: Tiger’s Curse (The Tiger Saga #1) by Colleen Houck
For recent high school graduate, Kelsey Hayes, the summer is all about finding a job so she can start community college in the fall. But in a sleepy Oregon town, there are not a lot of job opportunities for high school grads so when she is offered a job at a traveling circus she quickly accepts. The jobs sounds pretty easy: selling tickets, helping clean up after shows, and she gets to live on sight….oh and she has to help care for the circus tiger. She isn’t really sure what to do about the tiger, on one hand he scares her but she finds him oddly intriguing and comforting. Every…
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Giveaway: The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Barker
Witches, wizards, and fairies….oh my! If you are looking for a new magical novel to enchant you then don’t miss your chance to win a copy of The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Barker! If you enjoyed the All Soul’s Trilogy then this novel is right up your alley! Thanks to the publisher, I am ecstatic to be able to offer a copy of The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic for your enjoyment! Giveaway runs 8/16/13 to 8/23/13 Winners will be announced 8/24/13. (how to enter) On this blog you must leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway. Your comment MUST include your email…
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Review: The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Barker
Nora Fischer wants a new life. Any will do really. She just wants things to be different and she doesn’t really care how…just different. Well you know what they say….be careful what you wish for because you just may get it. Nora is crashing and burning on her English thesis and post graduate work, her serious boyfriend just broke it off with her to marry someone else and suddenly this plain Jane finds herself at her friends wedding forced into an awkward social situation with her ex. She just needs to take a little breather before the wedding. She wakes up one morning to go for a brisk walk in…
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Announcement: Winner Shadow of Night (All Souls Trilogy #2) by Deborah Harkness
And the winner of Shadow of Night (All Souls Trilogy #2) by Deborah Harkness is….. Liz L (follows on Twitter) The winner will be notified via email. Thank you to everyone who entered and a huge thank you to Viking/Penguin for making this giveaway possible! If you didn’t win a copy you can still participate in the BookTalk Nation chat with Deborah Harkess happening June 4 at 2 EST! Cheers!
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Giveaway: Shadow of Night (All Souls Trilogy #2) by Deborah Harkness
In celebration of the upcoming paperback release of the second book in All Soul’s Trilogy, I am thrilled to offer a copy of the book and some bitchin’ alchemy buttons to go with thanks to Viking/Penguin books! One lucky winner will receive a paperback copy of Shadow of Night (All Soul’s Trilogy #2) by Deborah Harkness and these buttons! SHADOW OF NIGHT picks up exactly where A Discovery of Witches left off: Diana Bishop and Matthew Clairmont, a witch historian and vampire geneticist respectively, have timewalked to Elizabethan England on their hunt for a magical alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782—its sudden appearance and sudden disappearance have upended the delicately ordered world of magical creatures (witches, vampires, and…
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Announcement: BookTalk Nation Features Shadow of Night (All Souls Trilogy) by Deborah Harkness
The latest book in the All Soul’s Trilogy, Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness, is out in paperback on May 28th! In celebration of the release, Harkness and her editor Carole DeSanti, the author of The Unruly Passions of Eugénie R, are participating in a virtual book event on BookTalk Nation on June 4th at 2pm EST. Fans can join by phone and buy personalized copies of the book by ordering online here. Make sure to reserve a space as I’m sure spots will fill up quickly! Since I know a lot of my readers are HUGE fans of this series, I am thrilled to be participating in the release of this novel! Coming…
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Review: Seduction (The Reincarnationist #5) by M.J. Rose
Complex, exotic scents bring this novel alive! This isn’t just a tale of historic fiction– it’s a novel with a unique blend of the paranormal, romance, mystery, and psychology. In 1843 the renowned author Victor Hugo discovers that his beloved daughter, Didine, has drowned. In his grief he turns to the occult in hopes of communicating with his daughter. His wife, family, and friends all being having séances and they soon discover they can communicate with the dead. Soon the séances turn into something more….Victor fears he has open an unwanted door to the spirit world when he starts being visited by the Shadow of the Sepulcher (the devil) who…
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Review: Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices #3) by Cassandra Clare
The Infernal Devices are without pity. The Infernal Devices are without regret. The Infernal Devices are without number The Infernal Devices will never stop coming. Tessa Grey is preparing for what should be the most joyous day of her life…..her wedding to Jem. Tessa loves Jem without question but there is still part of her that loves Will. Though she tries to shut out her feelings for Will, it is hard to section off a part of your soul that only one other person can touch but somehow Tessa does it. All the Shadowhunters at the London Institute are preparing for the wedding to take place when Gabriel Lightwood shows…