A Charmingly Quirky Perfect Pick

September 25, 2011 by unwasted words

Texas Gothic by Rosemary Clement-Moore Texas Gothic is filled with charming quirkiness, and great writing. What’s there not to like with a cute cranky cowboy, tree climbing Houdini goats, Go Go Gadget Gidget girl, rump scratching cows, and a love story like a prize fight. Amy Goodnight is an island of normal in a sea of crazy. As the self appointed Gatekeeper, Amy straddles the line between magic and mundane constantly providing damage control for her above average family. The […]

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Dark Dismal and Depressing

September 25, 2011 by unwasted words

Fury by Elizabeth Miles read by Emma Galvin The most dynamic thing about this book is the cover. The Furies are more like modern day mythological mean girls who have nothing better to do than to dole out retributions of a hundred fold felony from a misdemeanor crime. Em has an eye for her best friend’s boyfriend, Chase is all about image and pride. They both will pay the price for their petty mistakes in the furies twisted view of […]

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Full of Action and Intrigue

September 25, 2011 by unwasted words

The Gray Wolf Throne (A Seven Realms Novel) by Cinda Williams Chima Raisa, the would-be queen of the Fells is having a hard time getting home. Of course anyone could see how the constant assault of assassins would pose such difficultly. But Raisa is determined to ensure her place in the succession of the throne. Yet there are still quite a few factions that would love nothing better than to seat a more malleable queen in power and they’re coming […]

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In Between Adult and YA. AdultLite.

September 25, 2011 by unwasted words

Witches of East End (The Beauchamp Family) by Melissa de la Cruz Something Wicked this way comes in Del La Cruz’s more grown up version of YA fiction. Witches of East End is like her Blue Bloods series just with more graphic sexual content. I know I was a bit surprised not knowing before I read this that it wasn’t YA. If you like the world where vampires are fallen angels then you’ll love witches who were Norse gods. The […]

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Nice Quick Read

September 25, 2011 by unwasted words

Torn by Erica O’Rourke Mo has been groomed to be a good girl. Quiet, accepting, never talking back, she’s been taught not to think not to act. Her demure state becomes the basis for her biggest regret, the night her best friend Verity is murdered in front of her. Mo wakes in the hospital and finds herself the only lead to the grisly attack but the ambush wasn’t normal. She can’t exactly tell the police and her family about the […]

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Haven or Hades

September 25, 2011 by unwasted words

All You Desire (Eternal Ones) by Kirsten Miller Haven and Iain have been living happily ever after in Italy for the past year. Iain has been laying low after his assumed demise, Haven as a clothing designer with her own modest shop. But paradise isn’t in the cards for the soul mates. Haven’s inheritance is being contested and her best friend Beau has gone missing, everywhere Haven turns she thinks she’s being watched, followed. Of course number one bad guy […]

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An Interesting Mythical Potluck.

September 25, 2011 by unwasted words

Viper Moon: A Novel of the Earth Witches by Lee Roland Got myths? Well, there’s probably a reference to it in this book, in some way. Cassandra Archer is a Huntress for the Earth Mother. On her eighteenth birthday she took a vow to serve and save children abducted by the Darkness. She’s committed herself to the hunt in Duivel, Missouri where the Mother has created a prison to bind her nemesis the Darkness. For ten years she has gone […]

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