New Release by J.R Ward

I'm just slightly late on this post but I think everyone will forgive me. 

The beautiful and wonderful J.R Ward has released her newest book in the amazing Black Dagger Brotherhood series. 

For those who like Paranormal Romance or hell if you just like Paranormal books this is the series for you. 

J.R Ward is having a signing event this weekend in Cincinnati, Ohio that I will sadly not be attending. I wish everyone that is going, a great time and I can't wait to see pictures. 

The woman is not only a genius with words but she's also hilarious. I loved seeing her at the Karen Marie Moning signing a couple years ago and I can't wait to be able to go to another event again. 

HAPPY READING EVERYONE!!!!

Twice Tempted by Jeaniene Frost--Sorry

There are a few reasons I haven't been on here lately and really they're just excuses. In actuality I should be on here more. See this is why I don't have an actual website of my own.

Anyway, I'm getting used to my husband's laptop right now, so I'm slower than usual typing. The plan though is to totally catch up today. A tall order when I'm so far behind.

Today we're starting with Twice Tempted by Jeaniene Frost, the second book in the Night Prince Series. I can say series because there will be a fourth book coming out, I believe next year.

In book two of the Night Prince series, Leila tries to show Vlad just how much she loves him. However, Vlad refuses to face that fact and it leads to Leila moving out. 

Maximus is charged with getting her back to her best friend, Marty, safely. It seems fine and Leila wants to get back to  normal, to try and heal here broken heart. It's just not as easy as it sounds. 

Marty found someone to  replace her in their circus act and the trailer is actually too small for three people to live in. While trying to sell some of the jewels Vlad had made her leave with, Marty's trailer explodes. Thankfully, Leila was still covered in Vlad's aura so the fire that had melted everything around her, just passed over her. 

Maximus, who should have left after dropping Leila off, teams up with her to find out who killed Marty and the new kid in the trailer. Not wanting to believe it, Leila has to accept Maximus' idea that it could be Vlad behind the attack. 

It doesn't take too long before Leila is kidnapped....again. It seems that it's becoming a new fad to kidnap her and quite frankly Leila is getting tired of it. 

During her captivity though, she discovers it's not Vlad behind the attacks and she's more powerful than she realized at first. Her emotions power her electricity and it helps when she slays every vampire on the ship where she's being transported to God only knows where to an unknown buyer.  

The last thing that she wanted to do was go back to living with Vlad yet he gives her no choice. When he comes to  get her and save Maximus and other humans on the boat that was his ultimatum to her.

Being back with Vlad hurts them both more than Leila had realized. Yet when she says she loves him again Vlad insists that she only knows the man in fantasies not him.

You know staying safe with Vlad is one thing, especially now that her powers are slowly killing her. When she over uses her psychic powers, Leila dies unless she gets vampire blood immediately.

That doesn't stop her though from going down to the weapons room and running her hand across all the weapons, learning about Vlad's past through his his eyes. Thus proving she loves him and not some made up version of him.

Once Leila gets Vlad to admit that he loves her the wedding happens immediately. Yes, I know that we've set aside the actual plot of finding out who kidnapped Leila, for romance but after all it is a paranormal romance.

This also solidifies that Leila is Vlad's greatest weakness. The love that they have is so strong and he is so old fashioned, he MUST protect her. Not to mention is something happened to her, the world would burn. Those were his words somewhere in the book lol.

It takes some effort but Leila does figure out who is behind everything. A witch that Vlad used to bed, Cynthiana. Though she's not in it alone.

However the downfall is, Leila does die. In using her powers too much, this time saving her sister and human friend Sandra from one of Vlad's people turned traitor. Having ingested so much of Vlad's blood though, started the transformation.

Vlad got there just in time to be able to finish turning Leila into a vampire. She had made the choice to turn but her ability of choosing when and easing her family into it was taken from her.

It takes time for her to get herself right again. The bloodlust in the beginning really does make you crazy. Her father stops talking to her because he doesn't approve of her choices yet it's her sister, Gretchen that surprises her.

Gretchen not only approves but since she was there and watched her sister die, she's so elated that Vlad was able to bring her back to her. It actually brought the two closer than they had been in a while.

Together, Leila and Vlad will find who is behind these attacks and together they will bring them down.

As it turns out though, it's just one. An enemy that Vlad thought he had destroyed ages ago. Vlad knows who he is now and it's time to set things right and make sure he's dead....for good this time.

Twice Tempted by Jeaniene Frost

My seventh book of the year was Twice Tempted by Jeaniene Frost. Now I saw that many know of this series and the author but I still like putting up the synopsis on the back of the book for those who don't know about it.

I personally love the series and find it addicting but then again I can bury myself in almost any world that's not my own.

Please enjoy this synopsis and I'll try to be back this afternoon for my own little overview. I'll even try not to give out any spoilers.

"Dating the Prince of Darkness has its challenges...

Leila's psychic abilities have been failing her, and now she isn't sure what the future holds/ If that weren't enough, her lover Vlad has been acting distant. Though Leila is a mere mortal, she's also a modern woman who refuses to accept the cold shoulder treatment forever--especially from the darkly handsome vampire who still won't admit that he loves her...

Like choosing between eternal love and a loveless eternity....

Soon circumstances send Leila back to the carnival circuit, where tragedy strikes. And when she finds herself in the crosshairs of a killer who may be closer than she realizes, Leila must decide who to trust--the fiery vampire who arouses her passions like no other or the tortured knight who longs to be more than a friend? With danger stalking her every step of the way, all it takes is one wrong move to damn her for eternity..."

I hope this interests some of you that look for new authors to read.

Falling Behind Again by Three Books

Yes, I know that I made a promise and I'm falling horribly behind on it. See my computer crashed and I had to get it fixed. In the day and a half that I didn't have my computer I went through three books.

Totally involved in the Night Prince Series, I finished them in record time for me. I also started writing again so I put some energy into that as well.

Needless to say I have some catching up to do.

This is the first book in the Night Prince Series by Jeaniene Frost. I posted the synopsis from the back of the book, I believe last Thursday or so. I re-shared it though so feel free to look at it. 

Since I'm done with the book however, this is not a synopsis. 

Leila just wants to live out the rest of her life as normal as possible. It's not that easy to begin with since when she was 13 she touched a live wire behind her house. Now she can electrocute people with the slightest touch and glean psychic impressions with her right hand. With one touch of her right hand she can tell you your darkest sin as well as find your past, find you in the present and sometimes your future. 

She had made herself a decent life working with her vampire friend Marty in a carnival. Then one accident changed all of that. 

While she was out looking for Marty one day, Leila accidentally caught a guy that was going to murder his wife because she had wanted a divorce. That one touch of her hand gave her a status she would live to be thankful for....but the thankful feeling comes later. Much later. 

First she has to get through being kidnapped by, I think, four crazy vampires that kidnap her to try and find the vampire that killed their friend. Weird right, revenge? Anyway, that wasn't the real gold mine. 

The whole point of them finding her and her finding this vamp was for another vampire. Yes, there was one behind the creepy four puling their strings. 

And the vampire Leila had to find....none other than Vlad Tepesh, THE Vlad Tepesh, the vampire behind the Dracula stories but to save your own life, never call him Dracula. 

There's something that burns bright between those two and Leila refuses to accept it at first. She's lived a very jaded life because of her accident and she is not enthused with Vlad's demeanor. 

He's brutal and violent.....and she can't deny that she wants him like she's never wanted anyone before. 

This whole book lays the ground work for a relationship between Leila and Vlad plus it flushes out that Vlad's enemy is one that he's had for centuries. It just took him a while to gather the strength to fight against Vlad. 

This book is a must read in my opinion. I dare not say too much more for I wouldn't want to give anything away.

Enjoy :)

Karen Marie Moning Book Signing 1/24/15

I really meant to post this sooner lol. I've been riding on this really great high since that Saturday.

Most people, I think are like me. They think that when you make it big that the person stops caring about the little people that helped them get there. In fact, I'm finding out that the exact opposite is the truth.

My husband, two friends of ours as well as myself obviously lol, went to Newport on the Levee Friday night to get to this signing. Five hours of driving in snow lol so much fun.

We got there about four in the morning Saturday, maybe a little later because it's harder to drive at night than it is in the morning. The men dropped us girls off in the line then went back to the car to crash.

My crazy ass stood in line in the cold until 9 am when Barnes and Noble started handing out the bands for the Q&A with Karen Marie Moning and J.R Ward.

They started sitting people at like 12:15. I am happy to say that I was number 33 so my seat was safe lol. I was so excited though, my friend Jessie told me it was like watching her kids at Christmas. THe excitment was just too much to contain. Then when the authors started talking I was much farther than cloud nine. 

J.R Ward is too funny and it was amazing to just sit back and watch. Jessie egged me on saying I wanted to raise my hand but with this being my very first signing I was happy to just listen. 

There's a website called PopWrapped that did a coverage on the Q&A. It was an amazing job so you may want to check it out. 

Karen was very personable with her audience as well. My phone had died before the signing but when I went up for her to sign my book she said she liked my outfit. 

I may not have had a camera but I will NEVER forget that moment. I don't think that I can even look at that outfit the same ever again!!!!!!

The End of Strange Angels by Lili St Crow

I know that I haven't been on here a whole lot but I'm trying to catch up today.

Strange Angels was actually finished a few weeks ago and I've read one book and started another since then.

The problem, with doing this is I don't want to give you the ending.

After chapter 14, Dru got a werewolf to deal with. At least she thinks her friend Graves is a werewolf, turns out he's just loup-garou. He can shift at will pretty much and not as dangerous as an actual werewolf.

Dru also has now confirmed that she's a female djamphir, svetocha. THis means that she is half of what she's been hunting. Dru is part monster, she's part vampire.

How does a girl deal with that plus the death of her father plus being the one that an ancient vampire is trying to kill because she's part sucker.

The plan is for new ally Christophe who is a djamphir himself, to get Dru and Graves to the extraction point...alive.

Yeah, piece of cake ;)

Strange Angels 1-14

Ok so I didn't do this book chapter by chapter and for this book it's pretty ok to do that.

See the chapters in this book are pretty short. We're talking about eight to maybe fifteen pages if you're lucky. It was really easy to get to chapter 15.

From chapter one you're introduced to a relatively normal sixteen-year-old girl. From the synopsis it's pretty hard to believe, I know. Dru worries about the same things we did in high school, hair, make up a female body, you know the usual lol.

Here's the difference: her father and her hunt things that go bump in the night. I know, I know, that line is so cliche but it's true. Lili St. Crow calls it different stuff but it's basically the same. They hunt vampires (suckers) and werewolfs (werewulf) and other random demons and nasties.

Dru's always been the assistant, never the brains or brawn of the duo. But when her dad busts through her kitchen door a zombie, Dru has to act fast. It's hard to kill your own dad even though it's not really him anymore. Somehow she does and leaves him rotting on their frozen living room floor. Dru never turned the heat on the night before while she was waiting for her dad to come home from his hunt.

With her father dead, what will she do now? Enter her new "friend", Graves. She made his acquaintance the first time she skipped school. He gave her a normal place to be at rest for a few hours. Except now she couldn't afford any type of normal. She was digesting killing her father, her father turning into a zombie. The biggest one was that she killed him. When Graves sat in front of her at the mall's food court, his company was not welcome.

Thankfully though he didn't pay attention to her attitude. Graves bought her food and gave her a place to hole up for a while.  Oh yeah and he did this with no questions asked. The break only lasted for a day though, come night time again trouble had found her again.

A burning dog "the size of a shetland pony" had found her in the mall. Thankfully it was after closing time and there was no one there but her and Graves but Graves had gone to someplace else in the mall. Dru had no idea what this thing was, nothing that they had ever encountered before with her dad.

While trying to dodge it she runs into a dumbfound Graves. The burning dog drowns in the mall fountain and behind Graves is a werewulf. Dru raises her gun to fire too slow and it attacks Graves. Sadly it bites him in the shoulder. She fires again and blows out the wolf's jaw, buying her time to get Graves and run.

Think Dru, think. She can' stay in the mall, she has an injured boy that's loosing a lot of blood and going in shock. Oh yeah and he can turn anytime within twelve hours because he was bit and "infected". Dru forces herself to go to the only place that will offer them any shelter: Her house. You know the one where she just shot her dad.

Once they got there and it was a long journey, Dru was so tired she wasn't thinking straight. She striped them both down to underwear and huddled under her blanket in her room. Classic way to fight hypothermia.

Of course she wakes up first and instantly starts thinking again. Need to tie Graves up, wipe down more and get something in her stomach. She wasn't impressed with the plan but it was all she had. If Graves changed she'd be in trouble and more than likely dead. Better to be safe and tie him up.

She wipes down, eats cereal and tried to think about what comes next when Graves wakes up. Needless to say it was an interesting scene, or it would have been for them if she hadn't had the gun in her hand the whole time she was asking questions. The last one asking if he's a virgin and the gun to his head. Yeah, Dru traumatized the poor boy. Satisfied though she untied him and went back downstairs.

So here's where we are in the book now. Graves comes to the conclusion that Dru isn't all that bad and sticks around to help her and asks her twenty questions about what's really out there. Dru is still trying to figure out what to do next. Though having someone with her that isn't abandoning her....at least yet makes her feel a little better.

The burning question in her right now is who hurt her dad and turned him into a zombie because it WAS done on purpose. This was no accident.

I Seem to be Falling Way Behind Here

I'm falling way way way behind on here. After I finished Bloodlines I started a new book almost immediately but I forgot to post about it.

Over the past week or so I have been reading Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow. I had borrowed this book a while ago from the library in Maryland and last year for Christmas my husband bought me the whole collection of them. He's so sweet to me :)

Sadly though I just got around to re-reading the first book this year. It's November now and I have also come to the conclusion that I won't make my hundred book goal for the year. I tried but things got a little crazy this year.

Anyway back to Strange Angels. Since this is the first post about the book, I'll start by giving everyone the synopsis that's on the back of the book and let you make your own judgement from that right now.

"The Real World is a frightening place. Just ask sixteen-year-old orphan Dru Anderson, a tough girl who has taken down her fair share of bad guys. She's armed, dangerous, and ready to kill first and ask questions later. So it's gonna take her a while to figure out who she can trust...

Dru Anderson has been "strange" for as long as she can remember, travelling from town to town with her father to hunt the things that go bump in the night. It's a weird life, but a good one- until it all explodes in an icy, broken-down Dakota town, when a hungry zombie busts through her kitchen door. Alone, terrified, and trapped, Dru;s going to need every inch of her wit and training to stay alive. The monsters have decided to hunt back- and this time, Dru's on their menu. Chances of survival? Slim to none.

If she can't last until sunup, it's game over..."

Sounds ominous huh? Let me know your first impressions :)