RS Review: Run from Fear [Mass Market Paperback]

I've finished "Run from Fear" the 3rd book in a series by Jami Alden.

Product Description

With each step she takes, he tracks her every move, waiting for the perfect time. The perfect revenge. Until then, he'll watch her . . .

RUN FROM FEAR

More than anything, Talia Vega wanted to leave behind her harrowing past. Moving eight hundred miles away, she succeeded . . . until the one man who knows her darkest secrets wanders into the restaurant where she works. Now the agonizing memories come crashing back-along with an undeniable desire for Jack Brooks, the ex-Green Beret who rescued her from a sadistic monster two years ago.

Jack Brooks knows that showing up unannounced is a purely selfish move. Talia doesn't need his protection anymore, but he can't get the raven-haired beauty out of his mind. And when a twisted madman is hell-bent on resurrecting her torturous past, Jack vows to do anything to keep her safe - even risk his own life to save the only woman he's ever loved.

About the Author

Jami Alden is the Holt Medallion nominated author sexy romantic suspense. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her socially well adjusted alpha male husband, her sons, and a german shepherd who patiently listens to dialog and help her work out plot points. You can find out more about Jami and her books at www.JamiAlden.com, www.facebook.com/jamialden, or by following her on Twitter @jamialden.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Forever; Original edition (March 1, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0446572810
ISBN-13: 978-0446572811

My Review:

Talia Vega has finally rebuilt her life around with her sister Roseario in northern California after the horrors she suffered at the hands of Nate Brewster, David Maxwell and Margaret Grayson-Maxwell.

She thought everything was going great until she starts getting gifts similar to ones that David gave her.  Then an old friend comes back into her life Jack Brooks who she hasn't wanted to see.  Jack has been keeping tabs on her and Roseario for the last two years.  Talia is still dealing with the fact she was kidnapped and tortured and doesn't really trust men anymore.

Jack has gone through a terrible family life with a alcoholic and abusive father and a mother who let it happen and turned a blind eye.  He also tried to save his friend and her son from a Green Beret and feels guilty about the aftermath.  He has always loved Talia and has been waiting for her.

This book had some very tense moments with graphic crime scene details.

We learn who the killer is early in the book and we get his thoughts and feelings.  He admires Nate Brewster and is determined to do what Nate failed to do - kill Talia Vega - she would be his ultimate kill.

At times I didn't really like Talia especially when she was rude to Jack (he was only trying to protect her for her own good) but at the end she redeemed herself when she finally admitted she loved Jack and wanted a life with him.

I really like Jack because he was so protective of Talia and Roseario and he was hot and sexy.

3/5

Thanks Hachette Book Group Canada for sending me this book to review, greatly appreciated!

RS Review: Broken Wings [Paperback]

I've finished "Broken Wings" by Alexandrea Weis.

Product Description

As a wildlife rehabilitator in southeast Louisiana, Pamela Wells has dealt with her fair share of wild animals, but her reclusive life is forever changed when she meets an elusive former soldier named Daniel Phillips. Sent to Pamela’s wildlife sanctuary as part of his parole requirements, Daniel and Pamela quickly clash until Daniel’s troubled past unexpectedly comes to light. After serving in Iraq, Daniel suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder. Pamela tries to help ease his condition by introducing him to the healing power of animals. Daniel begins to find peace, and an unexpected kindred spirit in Pamela. Fearing one day she will be forced to give up her beloved sanctuary, Pamela confides in Daniel about her debilitating health. United by their misfortunes, the relationship turns romantic. Just when Pamela has found someone to love and share her burdens, Daniel skips town, crushing her heart. Suddenly Pamela finds herself alone and in a desperate situation. She has no choice but to turn to a ruthless Louisiana attorney, Bob Patrick, for help. Bob promises Pamela financial security in exchange for a life as his obedient wife. When Daniel unexpectedly returns, Bob is not willing to give Pamela up. Like an ensnared bird, Pamela struggles to free herself of her cruel capture. The fight may prove deadly, but Daniel is willing to do anything to save her. Can two broken souls eventually find happiness or, like the broken wings of a dove, will they be forever kept from reaching the heights of heaven.

About the Author

Alexandrea Weis is a registered nurse from New Orleans who has been writing novels and screenplays for over twenty years. Her first novel, To My Senses, was a finalist for commercial fiction in Eric Hofer Book Awards, a finalist for romance in the Foreword Magazine Book of the Year awards, and a finalist for romance in the USA Book Awards. Her second novel, Recovery, was ranked #1 on the Amazon top rated for romantic suspense in kindle books. Buyer Group International, an independent production company in Austin, has optioned the motion picture rights for Recovery. Ms. Weis is also a permitted wildlife rehabber with the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries and when she is not writing, Ms. Weis is rescuing orphaned and injured wildlife. She lives outside of New Orleans with her husband and a menagerie of pets.

Product Details
Paperback: 270 pages
Publisher: World Castle Publishing (February 5, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1937593363
ISBN-13: 978-1937593360

My Review:

Pamela Wells is an wildlife rehabber and owns the Second Chance Wildlife Rehabilitation Center.  She nurses sick and hurt animals back to health and re-establishes them back into the wild.  She suffers from a chronic disease Lupus which means her body has difficulty telling the difference between her body and a foreign object like a virus.  It attacks her joints which causes swelling and pain and may destroy her kidney, liver, lung and heart.  Lupus has destroyed her marriage, health and children.

Daniel Phillip was arrested for assault and battery and was sentenced to serve one hundred hours of community service.  He's assigned to work with Pamela and they rub each other the wrong way when they first meet.  Daniel suffers from PTSD, anger issues and panic attacks.

This is a very heartwarming love story which isn't your typical romance book but with two scarred people who find comfort in each other and caring for animals.

The author did a great job in writing about Daniel's PTSD and how affects the person suffering from this disease and people around them and Pamela's Lupus and the way one suffers from it.  Glad she didn't let that stop her from doing what she loves best - care for wildlife and give them another chance to survive.

Carol Pamela's friend was hilarious and I loved the way she would push Daniel towards Pamela.  It was so funny how she would tease Pamela about sex, etc.!

5/5

Thanks Alexandrea for sending me this book to review, greatly appreciated!

In the Mail Saturday 2012 (Mar 31)

In the Mail Saturday is hosted every Saturday at Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Reviews.

I received this in the mail this week.

Guilty Wives [Hardcover]

Product Description

No husbands allowed

Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender: to the sun and pool, to the sashimi and sake, to the Bruno Paillard champagne. For four days they're free to live someone else's life. As the weekend moves into pulsating discos, high-stakes casinos, and beyond, Abbie is transported to the greatest pleasure and release she has ever known.

What happened last night?

In the morning's harsh light, Abbie awakens on a yacht, surrounded by police. Something awful has happened -- something impossible, unthinkable. Abbie, Winnie, Serena, and Bryah are arrested and accused of the foulest crime imaginable. And now the vacation of a lifetime becomes the fight of a lifetime -- for survival. GUILTY WIVES is the ultimate indulgence, the kind of nonstop joy-ride of excess, friendship, betrayal, and danger that only James Patterson can create.

Product Details
Hardcover: 448 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (March 26, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 031609756X
ISBN-13: 978-0316097567

Thanks Hachette Book Group Canada!

What did books did you get in your mail this week?

Nobody's Angels and Wide Open Winner

I have picked the winner of my K.T. Wells Nobody's Angel and Deborah Coates Open Wide Giveaway and they are:

CONGRATULATIONS:

1.  Na

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Follow My Blog Friday #92


If you are new to the FF fun, Feature and Follow Friday is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort between bloggers. Feature & Follow Friday is now hosted by TWO hosts, myself of course and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it'll allow us to show off more new blogs!

How does this work? First you leave your name here on this post, then you create a post on your own blog that links back to this post (easiest way is to just grab the code under the #FF picture and put it in your post) and then you visit as many blogs as you can and tell them "hi" in their comments (on the post that has the #FF image). You follow them, they follow you. Win. Win. Just make sure to follow back if someone follows you!

Now to make this FF interesting we do a FEATURE blogger. If you are interested in becoming a Feature click on the drop down link above FEATURES and Features and Follow Friday and get on the waiting list!  It is also required, that if you participate you must follow the hosts (Parajunkee and Alison Can Read) and the two Feature blogs.

This Meme is hosted by Rachel from Parajunkee's View and Alison from Alison Can Read on Fridays.

To join the fun and make now book blogger friends, just follow these simple rules:

1. Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Host {Parajunkee.com} {Alisoncanread.com}and any one else you want to follow on the list.

2. Follow our Featured Bloggers - Alluring Reads and Justin's Books and Life.

3. Put your Blog name and URL in the Linky thing.

4. Grab the button up there and place it in a post, this post is for people to find a place to say hi in your comments

5. Follow Follow Follow as many as you can

6. If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love ... and the followers

7. If your new to the Follow Friday Hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!

The Friday Follow Feature are ...


Alluring Reads






I’m a 24 year old married mom of two little ones. Now that my kids are getting a bit older I’m really getting back into reading and found after joining GoodReads that I really enjoy reviewing books that I read. Some of my favorite books are The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver, Interview With The Vampire by Anne Rice, The Mist by Stephen King and The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern. I’m really into contemporary and paranormal YA.

Justin's Books & Life

Hi, my name's Justin. I'm 22 years old, and I have loved reading since I was young, and what really set me on the path for where I am now was Harry Potter back when it came out in the US in 1998. That series opened up the door for me and showed me how great reading is. I'm so glad I decided to pick them up, and I am glad to be where I am today.

I started blogging simply to share my opinions on books I love to read. And I am loving doing that, and also seeing other peoples opinions on books that I have either read or want to read. It's a really awesome community to be a part of.

Q: Do you read one book at a time or do you switch back and forth between two or more?

I usually read one book at a time but if it's one that doesn't hold my attention I will start another one.

RS Review: Celebrity in Death [Hardcover]

I've finished "Celebrity in Death" the 34th book in her In Death series by J.D. Robb.

Product Description

Lieutenant Eve Dallas is no party girl, but she's managing to have a reasonably good time at the celebrity - packed bash celebrating The Icove Agenda, a film based on one of her famous cases. It's a little spooky seeing the actress playing her, who looks almost like her long-lost twin. Not as unsettling, though, as seeing the actress who plays Peabody drowned in the lap pool on the roof of the director's luxury building. Now she's at the center of a crime scene - and Eve is more than ready to get out of her high heels and strap on her holster and step into the role she was born to play: cop.


About the Author

J.D. Robb is the pseudonym for a number one New York Times bestselling author of more than 190 novels, including the futuristic suspense In Death series. There are more than 400 million copies of her books in print.

Product Details
Reading level: Ages 18 and up
Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Putnam Adult; 1 edition (February 21, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0399158308
ISBN-13: 978-0399158308

My Review:

Nadine Furst wrote a book The Icove Agenda based on the Icove case that Eve Dallas lived through.  Now it's being made into a movie which Eve and Dallas are checking out.  The actors and actresses playing their counterparts are doing a great job with their characteristics and looks they could all be twins.

Eve, Roarke, Peabody, McNab, Dr. Mira and her husband, Mavis and her husband and Nadine are at a gathering with the cast of the movie.  During dinner Eve exchanges some unpleasant words with K.T. Harris the actress portraying Peabody in the movie.  As everyone is watching a gag movie K.T. is murdered and Eve has to solve the case.

As Eve digs deeper into the case she discovers K.T. was keeping alot of secrets and liked to disrupt her fellow co-stars lives by blackmailing them or coercing them to do what she wanted.  Eve also learns secrets of all the other major players and finally figures who the killer is.

This book deals with the deeper development of  Eve and Roarke's relationship.  Eve is finally coming to terms about what happened in Texas and Roarke is still worried about her and how she changed his outlook since she came into his life.

I really liked how detailed the characteristics of the characters which made them seem so real and I got the feeling of what they were like.  K.T. was a pretty nasty person who loved to manipulate her fellow co-stars.

Glad to see Nadine take a more active role in this book and became a hero in helping prevent a character from dying.

Loved the witty lines!

4/5

Other books in series:

1.   Naked in Death
2.   Glory in Death 
3.   Immortal in Death
4.   Rapture in Death
5.   Ceremony in Death
6.   Vengeance in Death
7.   Holiday in Death
8.   Conspiracy in Death
9.   Loyalty in Death
10. Witness in Death
11. Judgement in Death
12. Betrayal in Death
13. Seduction in Death
14. Reunion in Death
15. Purity in Death
16. Portrait in Death
17. Imitation in Death
18. Divided in Death
19. Visions in Death
20. Survivor in Death
21. Origin in Death
22. Memory in Death
23. Born in Death
24. Innocent in Death
25. Creation in Death
26. Strangers in Death
27. Salvation in Death
28. Promises in Death
29. Kindred in Death
30. Fantasy in Death
31. Indulgence in Death
32. Treachery in Death
33. New York to Dallas
34. Delusions in Death - Sept 13, 2012
35. Time of Death - Nov 27, 2012

Thanks Penguin Canada for sending me this book to review, greatly appreciated!

PNR Review: Fair Game (Alpha And Omega) [Hardcover]

I've finished "Fair Game" the 3rd book in her Alpha and Omega series by Patricia Briggs.

Product Description

Patricia Briggs, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mercy Thompson novels, "always enchants her readers." (Lynn Viehl, New York Times bestselling author) Now her Alpha and Omega series-set in a world of shifting shapes, loyalty, and passion - brings werewolves out of the darkness and into a society where fear and prejudice could make the hunters prey ...

They say opposites attract. And in the case of werewolves Anna Latham and Charles Cornick, they mate. The son - and enforcer - of the leader of the North American werewolves, Charles is a dominant alpha. While Anna, an omega, has the rare ability to calm others of her kind.

Now that the werewolves have revealed themselves to humans, they can't afford any bad publicity. Infractions that could have been overlooked in the past must now be punished, and the strain of doing his father's dirty work is taking a toll on Charles.

Nevertheless, Charles and Anna are sent to Boston, when the FBI requests the pack's help on a local serial killer case. They quickly realize that not only the last two victims were werewolves - all of them were. Someone is targeting their kind. And now Anna and Charles have put themselves right in the killer's sights.

About the Author

#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Briggs lives in Washington state with her husband, children, and a small herd of horses.

Product Details
Reading level: Ages 18 and up
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Ace Hardcover; 1 edition (March 6, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0441020038
ISBN-13: 978-0441020034

My Review:

This book opens right after River Marked so there are scenes relating to the outcome of the ending of that book.

Charles is starting to unravel mentally and starting to see ghosts, pushing Anna away and giving in to his blood thirsty nature after killing several werewolves.  His father Bran sends Charles and Anna to Boston to assist with the FBI on their serial killer case that has lasted for several decades.  At first they had a typical pattern (mostly Asian teenagers) but now they have included werewolves and fae.  The bodies have been found carved with symbols, raped and then killed.

A high ranking fae's human daughter has been kidnapped and the FBI, werewolves and fae have only a few hours to save her.  As they dig deeper into the case they discover a long dead witch and a strange kind of fae are involved.  If they don't be careful Anna will be their biggest conquest.

I really enjoyed the detailed graphic crime scenes and the research the author incorporated into storyline.

Some great secondary characters were introduced in this book Leslie the tough FBI agent, Issac the Boston Alpha werewolf and Beauclaire the high ranking and powerful fae.

Really glad to see Anna has grown and being more assertive by going against Marrock and being more vocal.

This book is more darker that the previous two with black magic, powerful unknown killers and bloody crime scenes.

4/5

Other books in series:

1. Cry Wolf
2. Hunting Ground

Thanks Penguin Canada for sending me this book to review, greatly appreciated!

Help with Questions to Ask a Cover Model?

Hi my blogger friends,

I need some help composing some questions to ask a Cover Model.

I was wondering what questions would you like me to ask him, thanks?

Waiting on Wednesday

 Waiting on Wednesday

Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection are:

Queen of Hearts [Mass Market Paperback]


Product Description

Congressman Kiel Whellen had been chosen by the president himself to negotiate with terrorists during an airline hijacking. The stakes were high: his own fiancee was aboard the plane. But in the tragedy he failed to avert, Kiel's love perished. And Rhiannan Collins, young wife and mother, lost her husband, her children, her dreams... The years haven't erased Rhiannon's sorrow; nor has she forgotten the man she holds responsible. And he's here, aboard the luxury yacht on which she ekes out a living as a blackjack dealer. She's determined to hate him - until Kiel dares her to let passion make two hurting hearts feel, touch, and care again. But also aboard is someone who could shatter Rhiannon's world ... unless she fights for her future with the only weapon she has left - the invincible power of a woman's love.


Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Zebra; Reprint edition (April 1, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1420125761
ISBN-13: 978-1420125764

Betrayal: A Bella Terra Deception Novel (Scarlet Deception) [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

Only New York Times bestseller Christina Dodd could bring you this series about three brothers, tormented by their pasts ...

At nineteen, Noah Di Luca was Bella Terra's golden boy, handsome, confident, and untouched by the shadows that tormented his brothers ... or so it seems. Driven by ambition, beautiful teenage Penelope Alonso fought her way out of the ghettos. During one hot summer, they came together in the sweetness of first love ... until his past reared its ugly head and Noah walked away.

Nine years later, Penelope returns, never imagining she'd see Noah or that one glance would wake their fiery passion. As peril builds around them, Penelope has one choice: to survive, she must once again trust the man who betrayed her.

Even with terror stalking through Bella Terra's streets, love may be the most dangerous choice of all.

Product Details
Reading level: Ages 18 and up
Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Signet Select; Original edition (April 3, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0451413202
ISBN-13: 978-0451413208


 

A Killer Read (An Ashton Corners) [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

For the first meeting of the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese Straws Society, six friends gather in Molly Matthews's old Southern mansion-including Lizzie Turner, a reading specialist with a penchant for mysteries. But the mystery book club meeting becomes the scene of an actual murder when a stranger is shot-and nobody knows who the victim is, or how Molly' antique gun came to be used as the murder weapon.

Then Lizzie begins finding mysterious manuscript chapters in her mailbox. As she and the book club members try to read between the lines, Molly surfaces as the next name on the killer's list ...

Product Details
Reading level: Ages 18 and up
Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Berkley; Original edition (April 3, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0425247031
ISBN-13: 978-0425247037

Magic Unchained: A Novel of the Nightkeepers (FINAL PROPHECY) [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

Cara Liu is determined to unite the forces under her leadership but when Nightkeeper Sven enters the scene, Cara has trouble separating her duty to her people from her desire for her ex-lover. Their secret affair will not only jeopardize a tenuous alliance among the Nightkeepers, but it also distracts them from a danger within their own ranks planning a vicious betrayal ...

Product Details
Reading level: Ages 18 and up
Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: Signet; Original edition (April 3, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0451236424
ISBN-13: 978-0451236425

Savage Awakening: An Alpha Pack Novel [Mass Market Paperback]

A group of former Navy SEALS, the Alpha Pack is a top-secret team of wolf shifters with Psy powers combating the greatest dangers in the world. But sometime those dangers are more intimate than they bargained for ...

After a mission goes wrong, Aric Savage is taken prisoner. Half-dead and despairing, he makes a stunning discovery: his Pack mate Micah Chase, who was reported dead, is a fellow captive. When the Alpha team goes into full-rescue mode, accompanying them is an absolute stunner with sable hair -- and a spine of solid steel.

LAPD officer and Psy Dreamwalker Rowan Chase has one priority: her brother Micah's recovery. Still, she can't help but be drawn to Aric, the ruggedly handsome wolf shifter who pleasures her as no man ever has -- however fleeting their affair is destined to be. But when Aric's life is endangered, Rowan must ask herself what she's willing to sacrifice in the name of love, for the man fated to be her Bondmate.

Product Details
Reading level: Ages 18 and up
Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Signet; Original edition (April 3, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0451236440
ISBN-13: 978-0451236449

Black Heart (Curse Workers) [Hardcover]

Product Description

Cassel Sharpe knows he’s been used as an assassin, but he’s trying to put all that behind him. He’s trying to be good, even though he grew up in a family of con artists and cheating comes as easily as breathing to him. He’s trying to do the right thing, even though the girl he loves is inextricably connected with crime. And he’s trying to convince himself that working for the Feds is smart, even though he’s been raised to believe the government is the enemy.

But with a mother on the lam, the girl he loves about to take her place in the Mob, and new secrets coming to light, the line between what’s right and what’s wrong becomes increasingly blurred. When the Feds ask Cassel to do the one thing he said he would never do again, he needs to sort out what’s a con and what’s truth. In a dangerous game and with his life on the line, Cassel may have to make his biggest gamble yet — this time on love.

Product Details
Reading level: Ages 14 and up
Hardcover: 304 pages
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books (April 3, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1442403462
ISBN-13: 978-1442403468

A Darker Dream [Paperback]

Product Description

In all his four hundred years, Rayven never met a woman like Rhianna McLeod. She is a vision of light, of warmth, of everything he is not -- nor can ever be. Doomed to live forever in darkness and solitude, he knows all too well the risk in getting close to her, yet he hungers for her with a fierce passion he swears he will never allow himself to feel.

Rhianna's father sold her to Rayven to put food on the table so she had no choice but to go with the dark stranger. To her surprise, he gives her everything she wants: the finest clothes, education, and the run of the castle everything, that is, except his touch. For although she senses danger beneath the soft-spoken manner, although even Rayven himself warns her to stay away, she is drawn to this creature of the night, and loves him as she will no other. 

Product Details
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: DP (April 3, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1428516638
ISBN-13: 978-1428516632

Deeper than the Night [Paperback]

Product Description

The townsfolk of Moulton Bay said there was something otherworldly about Alexander Claybourne. Some people whispered that, with his dark arresting features and mesmerizing eyes, the seductive stranger looked every inch a vampire. They never guessed how near the truth they were - or that after more than two hundred years of resisting temptation, Claybourne had found a woman he had to possess.

Never one to be scared off by superstitious lore, Kara Crawford laughed at the local talk of creatures lurking in the dark. What harm could come of befriending the handsome stranger with the haunted look in his midnight eyes? No matter what shadowy secrets Alexander hid, Kara felt drawn to him, compelled to join him beneath the silver light of the moon, where they would share a love DEEPER THAN THE NIGHT.

Product Details
Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: DP (April 3, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1428516611
ISBN-13: 978-1428516618

Real Vampires Hate Skinny Jeans [Paperback]

Product Description

Someone is eating for two ...

Full-figured vampire Glory St. Clair thinks things are finally going her way. She's no longer possessed by a demon, the legions of hell aren't on her tail, and her love life is heating up since she managed to reconnect with her maker - and longtime lover - Jeremy Blade.

When a pregnant demon shows up on her doorstep, Glory knows that everything is about to go to hell. Alesa is claiming that the baby she's carrying is Rafe's, conceived while she was inhabiting Glory's body. A clever trap? Or could it be true?

Booties and bibs are the last thing on Glory's mind when she discovers dark secrets from her own forgotten past. Who is she? What is she? And how will the men in her life deal with the fact that she may be more powerful than she knew? One thing is certain. Glory has way more to worry about than fitting into her favorite pair of jeans ...

Product Details
Reading level: Ages 18 and up
Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Berkley Trade; Original edition (April 3, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0425245624
ISBN-13: 978-0425245620

The Duke's Perfect Wife (Berkley Sensation) [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

Lady Eleanor Ramsay is the only one who knows the truth about Hart Mackenzie. Once his fiancee, she is the sole woman to whom he could ever pour out his heart.

Hart has it all -- a dukedom, wealth, power, influence, whatever he desires. Every woman wants him -- his seductive skills are legendary. But Hart has sacrificed much to keep his brothers safe, first from their brutal father, and then from the world. He's also suffered loss -- his wife, his infant son, and the woman he loved with all his heart though he realized it too late.

Now, Eleanor has reappeared on Hart's doorstep, with scandalous nude photographs of Hart taken long ago. Intrigued by the challenge in her blue eyes -- and aroused by her charming, no-nonsense determination -- Hart wonders if his young love has come to ruin him . . . or save him.

Book Four of the Highland Pleasures (Mackenzies) series.

Product Details
Reading level: Ages 18 and up
Mass Market Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Berkley; Original edition (April 3, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0425247104
ISBN-13: 978-0425247105

Manga:

Sakura Hime: The Legend of Princess Sakura , Vol. 7 [Paperback]

Product Description

Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T.

Sakura is the granddaughter of a mysterious moon princess who slew demons with her Blood Cherry Blossom sword. All her life Sakura has been forbidden to look at the full moon without knowing why. Then one night, unhappy over her impending marriage, Sakura gazes up at the moon, only to see a demon attacking her...

Every time Asagiri uses her powers, she shortens her life span. In spite of this, she continues to use her powers to fight her former lover, Ukyo. Though Ukyo will not attack her, this is a fight Asagiri cannot win.
Product Details
Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC; Original edition (April 3, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1421541122
ISBN-13: 978-1421541129

A Devil and Her Love Song, Vol. 2 [Paperback]

Product Description

Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T.

Meet Maria Kawai — she’s gorgeous and whip-smart, a girl who seems to have it all. But when she unleashes her sharp tongue, it’s no wonder some consider her to be the very devil! Maria’s difficult ways even get her kicked out of an elite school, but this particular fall may actually turn out to be her saving grace.

Maria’s bold attitude may be exactly what she needs when she inspires an unlikely ally to come to her defense. And when she’s given the task to lead her class in a choral competition, she’s going to need all the gumption she can muster!

Product Details
Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC; Original edition (April 3, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1421541653
ISBN-13: 978-1421541655

Dawn of the Arcana, Vol. 3 [Paperback]

Product Description

Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T.

Princess Nakaba of Senan is forced to marry Prince Caesar of the enemy country Belquat, tantamount to becoming a hostage. While Caesar is pleasing to the eye, he is also selfish and possessive, telling Nakaba outright: “You are my property.” With only her attendant Loki at her side, Nakaba must find a way to cope with her hostile surroundings, her fake marriage...and a mysterious power!

Princess Nakaba of Senan and Prince Caesar of Belquat only married each other for the sake of peace between their two warring countries, so no one expected there to be love between the unlikely couple. Nakaba is starting to warm to Caesar, however, and her attendant Loki doesn’t like this one bit. Are Loki and Caesar destined to be enemies? And how does Nakaba’s power, the Arcana of Time, fit into all this?

Product Details
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC; Original edition (April 3, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1421541068
ISBN-13: 978-1421541068

Theresa Meyers The Half-Breed Vampire Blog Tour with Giveaway

 

About Theresa Meyers:

Raised by a bibliophile who made the dining room into a library, Theresa has always been a lover of books and stories. First a writer for newspapers, then for national magazines, she started her first novel in high school, eventually enrolling in a Writer's Digest course and putting the book under the bed until she joined Romance Writers of America in 1993.

In 2005 she was selected as one of eleven finalists for the American Title II contest, the American Idol of books. She is married to the first man she ever went on a real date with (to their high school prom), who she knew was hero material when he suffered through having to let her parents drive, and her brother sit between them in the backseat of the car. They currently live in a Victorian house on a mini farm in the Pacific Northwest with their two children, three cats, an old chestnut Arabian gelding, an energetic mini-Aussie shepherd puppy, several rabbits, a dozen chickens and an out-of-control herb garden.

You can find her online on Twitter, Facebook, at her Web site or blogging with the other Lolitas of STEAMED!

http://www.theresameyers.com/
http://www.theresameyers.com/blog/
http://twitter.com/Theresa_Meyers
http://www.facebook.com/TheresaMeyersAuthor
http://www.ageofsteam.wordpress.com/
 
I am so excited to have Theresa Meyers here at Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Reviews.

Theresa Meyers is currently touring to promote her newest release The Half-Breed Vampire.

Thanks so much Theresa and Bewitching Book Tours for allowing me to join your blog tour.

THE HALF-BREED VAMPIRE

by Theresa Meyers
Book Three in the Sons of Midnight mini-series
Harlequin Nocturne
February 21, 2012
ISBN-10: 0373618794
ISBN-13: 978-0373618798

Ignorant of his true heritage, half-breed vampire Slade Donovan is fated to feel like an outsider among his clan. Until a mysterious woman arrives with the ability to unlock his secrets—and make him crave a future he never believed he could have….

As a Game Warden, Raina Ravenwing has only one mission in the Cascade Mountains: to track down a pack of rare wolves that is terrorizing her tribe. Her instant attraction to Slade is a distraction the beautiful wolf whisperer can't afford, unless she agrees to let him help her. Yet working so closely together only intensifies their passion…even as the unfolding truth of Slade's identity threatens everything Raina holds sacred and could potentially destroy both their worlds.

 Giveaway Rules

Enter for your chance to win a copy (print or electronic) of the latest book in Theresa Meyers’ Sons of Midnight mini-series, The Half-Breed Vampire, a Love Bites mug for your hot beverage of choice along with a bag full of decadent Bliss chocolate. US and Canada only. 5 winners will be chosen!

* Winners will not be posted on this blog, thanks!

New Releases 2012 (Mar 27)

 
Lover Reborn (Black Dagger Brotherhood) [Hardcover]

Product Description

Tohrment, the Brother who had it all, but lost everything to the enemy, is destined for a second chance at love and life. But will the past and his bitterness hold him back?

Ever since the death of his shellan, Tohrment has been unrecognizable from the vampire leader he once was. Physically emaciated and heartbroken beyond despair, he has been brought back to the Brotherhood by a self-serving fallen angel. Now, fighting once again with ruthless vengeance, he is unprepared to face a new kind of tragedy.

When Tohr begins to see his beloved in his dreams — trapped in a cold, isolated netherworld far from the peace and tranquillity of the Fade — he turns to the angel in hopes of saving the one he has lost. But because Lassiter tells him he must learn to love another to free his former mate, Tohr knows they are all doomed.

           

Except then a female with a shadowed history begins to get through to him. Against the backdrop of the raging war with the lessers, and with a new clan of vampires vying for the Blind King’s throne, Tohr struggles between the buried past and a very hot, passion-filled future … but can his heart let go and set all of them free?

Product Details
Reading level: Ages 18 and up
Hardcover: 592 pages
Publisher: NAL Hardcover (March 27, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0451235843
ISBN-13: 978-0451235848

Wanted: Undead or Alive (Love at Stake) [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

He's a vampire from the big city . . .

Phineas McKinney thought New York City was tough, until he was attacked by Malcontents — evil vampires who consider mortals to be snacks. Saved by the good vampires, Phin swore to devote his now undead life to stopping the Malcontents. He's got his job cut out for him when word comes that their enemy may be hiding in Wyoming. What does a city boy like him know about horses and campfires? Good thing he's got Brynley Jones with him . . . if only she didn't hate every vampire on earth.

She's a werewolf princess . . .

Bryn believes vampires are seductive and charming, and that makes them dangerous. So she's more than a little annoyed about teaming up with Phin, even if he is the only bloodsucker able to make her inner wolf purr. But as they hunt down the new leader of the Malcontents, danger threatens . . . and Phineas and Brynley discover a passion that will rock the foundation of their supernatural world.

Once Burned (Night Prince, Book 1) [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

After a tragic accident scarred her body and destroyed her dreams, Leila never imagined that the worst was still to come: terrifying powers that let her channel electricity and learn a person's darkest secrets through a single touch. Leila is doomed to a life of solitude ... until creatures of the night kidnap her, forcing her to reach out with a telepathic distress call to the world's most infamous vampire...

Vlad Tepesh inspired the greatest vampire legend of all -- but whatever you do, don't call him Dracula. Vlad's ability to control fire makes him one of the most feared vampires in existence, but his enemies have found a new weapon against him - a beautiful mortal with powers to match his own. When Vlad and Leila meet, however, passion ignites between them, threatening to consume them both. It will take everything that they are to stop an enemy intent on bringing them down in flames.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Avon (June 26, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 006178320X
ISBN-13: 978-0061783203

Temptation Rising [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

Washington D.C. police officer Kalina Harper still dreams about that night, two years ago, when a huge cat-like creature saved her from a crazed attacker. Although she kept the truth to herself, Kalina can never forget the ferocious strength of the beast’s fangs and claws — or the raw animal hunger in its eyes. Until she meets Roman Reynolds…

Muscular, magnetic, and all man, Roman is a high-powered attorney with a predatory smile and seductive charm. He is also a criminal suspect with suspicious connections to the Amazon jungle. But when Kalina discovers that Roman is linked to a secret race of shapeshifting jaguars — who hunt down maneaters — she is forced to put her trust in a man who unleashes her wildest fantasies and fears. A fierce creature of the night whose nature is to protect his female at any cost …

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks; First Edition edition (March 27, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312549105
ISBN-13: 978-0312549107

The Unseen [Hardcover]

Product Description

1800s. San Antonio, Texas: In room 207 at the Longhorn Saloon, in the long shadow of the Alamo itself, a woman renowned for her beauty was brutally murdered. Her killer was never found.

One year ago: In that same historic room, another woman vanished without a trace. Her blood was everywhere … but her body was never recovered.

Now: In the last month, San Antonio has become a dumping ground for battered bodies.

All young women, many of them long missing, almost all forgotten. Until now.

Texas Ranger Logan Raintree cannot sit by and let his city's most vulnerable citizens be slain. So when he is approached to lead a brand-new group of elite paranormal investigators working the case, he has no choice but to accept the challenge. And with it, his powerful ability to commune with the dead.

Among Logan's new team is Kelsey O'Brien, a U.S. marshal known for her razor-sharp intuition and a toughness that belies her delicate exterior. Kelsey has been waiting all her life to work with someone who can understand her ability to "see" the past unfolding in the present. Now she has her chance.

Together, Kelsey and Logan follow their instincts to the Alamo and to the newly reopened Longhorn, which once tempted heroes with drink, cards and women. If the spirits of those long-dead Texans are really appearing to the victims before their deaths, only Kelsey and Logan have the skills to find out why.

And if something more earthly is menacing the city's oldest, darkest corners, only they can stop it — before more innocent women join the company of San Antonio's restless ghosts ….

Product Details
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Mira (March 27, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0778313298
ISBN-13: 978-0778313298

A Perfect Storm [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description 

He never saw her coming …

Spencer Lark already knows too many secrets about Arizona Storm, including the nightmare she survived and her resulting trust issues. But in order to expose a smuggling ring—and continue avenging his own tragic past — the bounty hunter reluctantly agrees to make Arizona a decoy. Yet nothing has equipped him for her hypnotic blend of fragility and bravery, or for the protective instincts she stirs in him.

Arizona wants to reclaim her life, which means acting as bait to lure the enemy into a trap. Sure it's dangerous, especially with a partner as distractingly appealing as Spencer. But as their plan — and their chemistry — shifts into high gear, Arizona may discover there's an even greater risk in surrendering her heart to a hero.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 448 pages
Publisher: HQN Books; Original edition (March 27, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 037377656X
ISBN-13: 978-0373776566
 

Run Wild [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

Hot on the trail of a cold-blooded killer, a small-town sheriff risks his life — and his heart — with one sexy partner …

Raised in a family of professional bounty hunters, Natasha King knows the dangers of tracking down fugitives — especially when they’re wanted for murder. But this is no ordinary mission. This time, it’s personal. The suspect is her own long-lost father — and the lawman hunting him down is dangerously close to catching her off-guard…

In all his years as sheriff, Trent Oakley has never seen a woman as strong-willed — or as scorching hot — as Natasha. With her big-city experience and black-belt training, she’s his best chance for tracking down the Trinity Ranch killer. Problem is: Can he trust her? As the trail gets hotter, their attraction burns wilder, and soon Trent’s not sure who’s hunting who. But one thing’s for sure: Natasha is one woman who always gets her man …

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks; First Edition edition (March 27, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312534566
ISBN-13: 978-0312534561

Through the Night [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Descripiton 

As the Executive Casino Hostess for The Onyx in Las Vegas, Valerie Downing is always on the lookout for the night’s biggest winners. When she spots a man — one of the sexiest she’s ever laid eyes on — generating huge excitement at the craps table, she knows she’s in luck. Her goal: To make sure the high rollers stay at her hotel, and that any further gambling is invested right back into the casino. His: To enjoy some other “perks” that Valerie might have to offer …

Turns out Chase Pierson is already a VIP guest who happens to be working with Valerie’s boss on a top-secret mission for the Reliance Group — one for which she too has been recruited. But Valerie, bold and gorgeous as she is, is first and foremost a professional. No fraternizing with Onyx clientele is her motto … and this hard-bodied, infuriatingly charming client is no exception. Even if Chase knows that the harder the hunt, the hotter the surrender …

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks; First Edition edition (March 27, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312372310
ISBN-13: 978-0312372316

Deadly Dance [Mass Market Paperback]

 

Product Description

As the intelligence officer for A-Tac, a black-ops CIA unit masquerading as Ivy League faculty, Hannah Marshall is used to working behind the scenes. But when a brutal murder hits too close to home, Hannah finds herself in the middle of the action, falling in love while racing to outwit a sadistic mastermind.

A KILLER CLOSES IN

After the death of her A-Tac partner, Hannah doubts everything she thought she knew about love and loyalty. When handsome Harrison Blake joins the team, she's reluctant to trust him - or to act on her intense attraction to him. Then Hannah receives a podcast of a gruesome murder, and the only person who can help her find the killer is Harrison.

Harrison has spent years trying to hunt down the cunning monster who killed his sister. Now investigating with Hannah, he faces a shocking possibility - his sister's murderer has resurfaced. As the danger escalates, Hannah and Harrison grow closer, the desire simmering between them ignites. And when Hannah disappears, Harrison has only one chance to save the woman he loves.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Forever; Original edition (March 27, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0446582948
ISBN-13: 978-0446582940

Manhwa:

13th Boy, Vol. 11 [Paperback]

Product Description

With Won-Jun out of the picture, Hee-So finds herself paying more and more attention to Whie-Young...his dark hair and eyes, his slender frame, the kind heart he tries to conceal...Finally, she confronts him and asks how he feels about her! Hee-So's getting pulled into Whie-Young's orbit, but maybe she should keep an eye on her beloved Beatrice! Having learned the truth about Whie-Young's supernatural powers, Beatrice makes a drastic decision, and -?!

Product Details
Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Yen Press (March 27, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316190829
ISBN-13: 978-0316190824

Videogame:

Silent Hill: Book of Memories

Product Description

Book of Memories is an all-new game in the Silent Hill series, with a unique premise and storyline. The story begins with a strange book that is received and inside that book is your entire life story to this point, everything that’s ever happened to you; all of your memories. You discover that by altering what’s written… you can actually change the past. You can write your own ideal history.

A departure for the series, with a focus on co-operative multiplayer action rather than traditional Psychological Horror. Players can work together as they explore several different Otherworlds, solving puzzles and defeating creatures to advance through the Nightmares and uncover the truth behind the Book of Memories. Scare rooms, limited resources, and dark atmosphere all return — but in a gameplay package specifically designed to take advantage of the PlayStation Vita handheld entertainment system.

Book of Memories is a macabre celebration of the best that Silent Hill has to offer. Players will encounter items and Creatures culled from over a decade of Silent Hill lore, including a special someone who walks softly and carries a gigantic knife. 

Product Details
Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
ASIN: B006476318
Item Weight: 8.3 ounces
Media: Video Game
Release Date: March 27, 2012

New Release 2012 (Mar 26)

Guilty Wives [Hardcover]

Product Description

No husbands allowed

Only minutes after Abbie Elliot and her three best friends step off of a private helicopter, they enter the most luxurious, sumptuous, sensually pampering hotel they have ever been to. Their lavish presidential suite overlooks Monte Carlo, and they surrender: to the sun and pool, to the sashimi and sake, to the Bruno Paillard champagne. For four days they're free to live someone else's life. As the weekend moves into pulsating discos, high-stakes casinos, and beyond, Abbie is transported to the greatest pleasure and release she has ever known.

What happened last night?

In the morning's harsh light, Abbie awakens on a yacht, surrounded by police. Something awful has happened -- something impossible, unthinkable. Abbie, Winnie, Serena, and Bryah are arrested and accused of the foulest crime imaginable. And now the vacation of a lifetime becomes the fight of a lifetime -- for survival. GUILTY WIVES is the ultimate indulgence, the kind of nonstop joy-ride of excess, friendship, betrayal, and danger that only James Patterson can create.

Product Details
Hardcover: 448 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (March 26, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 031609756X
ISBN-13: 978-0316097567

RS Review: Before She Dies [Mass Market Paperback]

I've finished "Before She Dies" by Mary Burton.

Product Description

In death, they are purified. Holding his victims under water, he washes away their sins as they struggle for their last breath. Then he stakes their bodies to the ground, exposing them for what they really are. Witches, sent to tempt and to corrupt. No one knows about defense attorney Charlotte Wellington's murdered sister, or about her childhood spent with the carnival that's just arrived in town. For Charlotte, what's past is past. But others don't agree. And as a madman's body count rises, she and Detective Daniel Rokov are drawn into a mission that's become terrifyingly personal.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Zebra; Original edition (January 31, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1420110217
ISBN-13: 978-1420110210


My Review:

Charlotte Wellington is a defense lawyer with a secret past.  She's well respected by her peers and is high powered defense lawyer.  She hides before a mask and has built a wall around herself to protect her privacy.

In her past, her mother married Grady Tate a Carnival owner when she was eight and her sister Mariah was nine. They didn't have any roots and lived like a gypsy. When their mother died when she was thirteen, Charlotte and Mariah stayed with Grady. Charlotte left the Carnival when she was sixteen when Mariah died from a drowning accident.  Grady promised that he would put Mariah's daughter Sooner up for adoption to give her a real good home. Charlotte wanted to take Sooner with her but Grady refused. Grady liked being in control of everything and everyone.

Charlotte hasn't seen Sooner for eighteen years when one day Grady shows up asking for her help in defending Sooner.  She was arrested for shoplifting and all these years Charlotte thought Sooner was put up for adoption.

Woman are being found dead with the word WITCH tattooed on their foreheads and Detective Rokov and his partner have the lead on the investigation.  When the Carnival rolls into town Rokov take a closer look on the owner Grady. 

Charlotte is in a secret relationship with Rokov which she doesn't want anyone to know about.  Rokov is in love with her and wants more than she can give.

I was so glad that Detective Rokov treated Charlotte with extreme care and understanding.  I liked how he was very determined to bring the killer to justice and solve the case.

This book has an alpha male and female, intriguing secondary characters, gruesome and well descriptive crime scenes, etc.

3.5/5

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? (Mar 26)

What Are You Reading is a weekly Monday Meme that is hosted by Sheila from One Persons Journey: http://bookjourney.wordpress.com

Post the books you read last week, book currently being read and books you plan on finishing this week.

Last week I read:

1. Dark Emerald - Lisa Jackson
2. Afterglow - Cherry Adair
3. A Perfect Blood - Kim Harrison
4. Play Nice - Gemma Halliday
5. Fair Game - Patricia Briggs
6. Dawn of the Arcana Vol. 2 - Rei Toma
7. The Fairy and the Earl Vol. 1 - Ayuko

I’m currently reading:

1.  Carnal Sin - Allison Brennan

Books I’m planning on reading this week:

1.  Explosive Eighteen - Janet Evanovich
2.  Dying Wish - Shannon K. Butcher
3.  Run from Fear - Jami Alden
4.  No One Left to Tell - Karen Rose
5.  13th Boy Vol. 11 - SangEun Lee

Here's the link:

https://bookjourney.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/its-monday-what-are-you-reading-131 

Manga Review: The Earl and The Fairy, Vol. 1 [Paperback]

I've finished "The Earl and the Fairy Vol. 1" by Ayuko.

Product Description


Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T.

Lydia Carlton is a fairy doctor,one of the few people with the ability to see the magical creatures who share our world. During one of her rare trips to London to visit her father, Lydia’s quiet life is suddenly transformed when she is rescued from kidnappers by a mysterious young man!

Edgar Ashenbert claims to be descended from the human ruler of the fairy kingdom, and he urgently needs Lydia’s help to find and claim his birthright, the legendary sword of the Blue Knight Earl. Things will never be the same for Lydia as she is pulled into a dangerous quest against dark forces!

About the Author

God's ultimate creation and legendary holy hermit.

Product Details
Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC; Original edition (March 6, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1421541688
ISBN-13: 978-1421541686


My Review:

This volume opens with a guy with a gun threatening another guy about information on a jewel and finding out about a fairy doctor that can help him.  We later find out he's Edgar Ashenbert the Earl of Ibrazel aka Sir John.

Then we are introduced to Lydia Carlton a fairy doctor who can hear and see fairies among other creatures.  She receives a letter from her father and on her way she is kidnapped and saved by Edgar.  We learn that Edgar is a descendant of the Blue Knight from a fairy tale and he need her help in finding the jeweled sword that the Blue Knight left somewhere.  He has some clues but needs Lydia to decipher them for him.

Also there is a storyline about a guy who fits Edgar's description that has killed hundred people in America and harmed/killed a man named Gotham.  Lydia and her fairy cat Nico are suspicious of Edgar and don't trust him.  It seems once Edgar tells Lydia about his life history she's starting to trust Edgar because he saved her again from Gotham and the circumstances leading to his history with Gotham and the killings.

Edgar has two servants Raven and Ermine who we find out aren't human and have a dark past just like Edgars.  Both are exceptional fighters and good at everything. 

Then we see another Gotham going to Lydia's father and letting him know that Lydia has been kidnapped.  He asks him to work together to find her.

I highly recommend this manga for it's well researched fae culture, great storyline and has some intriguing characters (Edgar, Raven, Ermine, etc.)

4/5

Other manga in series:

1.  The Earl and the Fairy Vol. 2 - June 5, 2012
2.  The Earl and the Fairy Vol. 3 - Sept 4, 2012

Thanks Simon and Schuster Canada for sending me this manga to review, greatly appreciated!

Library Haul 2012 (Mar 25 - 31)

Library Haul

Here's the list of books I picked up from the library this week:

Hardcover:

1.  The Unseen - Heather Graham

Softcover:

1.  The Rebel - Jessica Bird (aka J.R. Ward)
2.  The King's Courtesan - Judith James
3.  Holly Lane - Toni Blake
4.  Bound by Darkness - Alexandra Ivy
5.  Night Moves - Stephanie Tyler
6.  Against the Night - Kat Martin
7.  Wicked Appetite - Janet Evanovich
8.  The Valcourt Heiress - Catherine Coulter
9.  The Heart of a Killer - Jaci Burton
10. If You Hear Her - Shiloh Walker

What library books did you pick up this week?

Manga Review: Dawn of the Arcana, Vol. 2 [Paperback]

I've finished "Dawn of the Arcana Vol. 2" by Rei Toma.

Product Description

Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T.

Princess Nakaba of Senan is forced to marry Prince Caesar of the enemy country Belquat, tantamount to becoming a hostage. While Caesar is pleasing to the eye, he is also selfish and possessive, telling Nakaba outright: “You are my property.” With only her attendant Loki at her side, Nakaba must find a way to cope with her hostile surroundings, her fake marriage...and a mysterious power!

Princess Nakaba of Senan and Prince Caesar of Belquat only married each other for the sake of peace between their two warring countries, but things take a surprising turn when Caesar finds himself falling for his strange wife! Caesar tries to get Nakaba to return his feelings, but she maintains that he is her enemy and that she hates him. So when Nakaba has a vision of Caesar getting killed, will she say anything to save him?


About the Author

Rei Toma has been drawing since childhood, but she only began drawing manga because of her graduation project in design school. When she drew a short-story manga, Help Me, Dentist, for the first time, it attracted a publisher's attention and she made her debut right away. Her magnificent art style became popular, and after she debuted as a manga artist, she became known as an illustrator for novels and video game character designs. Her current manga series, Dawn of the Arcana, is her first long-running manga series, and it has been a hit in Japan, selling over a million copies.

Product Details
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC; Original edition (February 7, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 142154105X
ISBN-13: 978-1421541051

My Review:

This volume opens with Prince Caesar being nice to Princess Nakaba by buying her some beautiful things but she doesn't want anything to do with them.  Then they go on a trip to the city but she doesn't see anything she wants.  On the way back she sees a hurt bird and takes it home with her to nurse back to health.

Then we learn someone is trying to kill Caesar by first trying to poison him, then he's bitten by a snake and finally someone pushes him into a well.  Of course Nakaba is suspected of being the one who is trying to kill him but Caesar but Caesar stands up for her by saying if she was trying to kill him she would do it in person with a sword in her hand.

Then we meet another of Nakaba servants a young kid who's just like Loki Rito.  Nakaba also has a couple of dreams where she sees Caesar getting hurt and she begins to worry.  Loki reveals his intentions about wanting to kill Caesar and his family and take over the kingdom.  Nakaba doesn't remember her childhood but Loki does and tells her what happened.  He makes Nakaba promise she won't reveal what he plans to Caesar so she doesn't.  She struggling with her feelings for Caesar and not wanting to betray Loki.

At the end she falls into a well where Caesar was pushed into.  They talk and share a very passionate kiss which leaves her feeling guilty and confused.


I really enjoyed the transition of characterization of Caesar from an unfeeling jerk to a caring person.  He's really trying to please Nakaba and figuring out what kind of person she is.  I'm finally glad to hear what Loki has planned for the Caesar and his family.

I feel very sorry for Nakaba being torn up about falling for Caesar and wanting to protect him and keeping Loki's secret. 

4/5

Thanks Simon and Schuster Canada for sending me this manga to review, greatly appreciated!

In the Mail Saturday 2012 (Mar 24) - Part 2

In the Mail Saturday is hosted every Saturday at Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Reviews.

I received these in the mail this week.

Protector (Dark Ops - Berkley Sensation) [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

TRUST, LOVE … AND LIES.

After barely surviving enemy torture, Captain Chuck Tanaka doesn’t trust himself to do more than ride a desk — but new orders leave him no choice. Assigned to the investigation of a mob boss whose luxury cruise ship is reportedly a hub for terrorist activity, Tanaka goes undercover. His target: Jolynn Taylor, the mob boss’s daughter

As a child, Jolynn saw her beloved uncle murdered. Since then, she’s stayed far away from her father’s crooked empire. But when he falls ill, she returns, hoping to mend the gap between them. Instead, she finds herself on the run, one step ahead of unknown enemies. The only thing keeping her alive is the man she knows as Charles Tomas, the only man she’s ever been able to trust.

Unfortunately, he’s also the man determined to destroy her family.

Product Details
Reading level: Ages 18 and up
Mass Market Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Berkley; Original edition (March 6, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 042524699X
ISBN-13: 978-0425246993

Murder Buys a T-Shirt (A Haunted Souvenir) [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

Glory Martine has inherited her uncle's Florida souvenir shop, one stuffed with collectibles, mementos of times gone by -- and ghosts -- who, like her customers, refuse to let go of the past. But things take an even more unexpected turn when a local football hero dies far too suddenly and suspiciously. Now, Glory has to uncover the truth before someone makes her history.
Product Details
Reading level: Ages 18 and up
Mass Market Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Berkley; Original edition (March 6, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0425246663
ISBN-13: 978-0425246665

Ripper [Hardcover]

Product Description

You thought you knew him. You were dead wrong.

Carver Young dreams of becoming a detective, despite growing up in an orphanage with only crime novels to encourage him. But when he is adopted by Detective Hawking of the world famous Pinkerton Agency, Carver is given not only the chance to find his biological father, he finds himself smack in the middle of a real life investigation: tracking down a vicious serial killer who has thrown New York City into utter panic. When the case begins to unfold, however, it's worse than he could have ever imagined, and his loyalty to Mr. Hawking and the Pinkertons comes into question. As the body count rises and the investigation becomes dire, Carver must decide where his true loyalty lies. Full of whip-smart dialogue, kid-friendly gadgets, and featuring a then New York City Police Commissioner Teddy Roosevelt, Ripper challenges everything you thought you knew about the world's most famous serial killer.

Product Details
Reading level: Ages 12 and up
Hardcover: 432 pages
Publisher: Philomel (March 1, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0399255249
ISBN-13: 978-0399255243 

Manga:

Sakura Hime: The Legend of Princess Sakura , Vol. 7 [Paperback]

Product Description

Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T.

Sakura is the granddaughter of a mysterious moon princess who slew demons with her Blood Cherry Blossom sword. All her life Sakura has been forbidden to look at the full moon without knowing why. Then one night, unhappy over her impending marriage, Sakura gazes up at the moon, only to see a demon attacking her...

Every time Asagiri uses her powers, she shortens her life span. In spite of this, she continues to use her powers to fight her former lover, Ukyo. Though Ukyo will not attack her, this is a fight Asagiri cannot win.
Product Details
Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC; Original edition (April 3, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1421541122
ISBN-13: 978-1421541129

A Devil and Her Love Song, Vol. 2 [Paperback]

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Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T.

Meet Maria Kawai — she’s gorgeous and whip-smart, a girl who seems to have it all. But when she unleashes her sharp tongue, it’s no wonder some consider her to be the very devil! Maria’s difficult ways even get her kicked out of an elite school, but this particular fall may actually turn out to be her saving grace.

Maria’s bold attitude may be exactly what she needs when she inspires an unlikely ally to come to her defense. And when she’s given the task to lead her class in a choral competition, she’s going to need all the gumption she can muster!
Product Details
Paperback: 200 pages
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC; Original edition (April 3, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1421541653
ISBN-13: 978-1421541655

Dawn of the Arcana, Vol. 3 [Paperback]

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Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences T.

Princess Nakaba of Senan is forced to marry Prince Caesar of the enemy country Belquat, tantamount to becoming a hostage. While Caesar is pleasing to the eye, he is also selfish and possessive, telling Nakaba outright: “You are my property.” With only her attendant Loki at her side, Nakaba must find a way to cope with her hostile surroundings, her fake marriage...and a mysterious power!

Princess Nakaba of Senan and Prince Caesar of Belquat only married each other for the sake of peace between their two warring countries, so no one expected there to be love between the unlikely couple. Nakaba is starting to warm to Caesar, however, and her attendant Loki doesn’t like this one bit. Are Loki and Caesar destined to be enemies? And how does Nakaba’s power, the Arcana of Time, fit into all this?
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Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC; Original edition (April 3, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1421541068
ISBN-13: 978-1421541068
Manhwa:

13th Boy, Vol. 11 [Paperback]

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With Won-Jun out of the picture, Hee-So finds herself paying more and more attention to Whie-Young...his dark hair and eyes, his slender frame, the kind heart he tries to conceal...Finally, she confronts him and asks how he feels about her! Hee-So's getting pulled into Whie-Young's orbit, but maybe she should keep an eye on her beloved Beatrice! Having learned the truth about Whie-Young's supernatural powers, Beatrice makes a drastic decision, and-?!
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Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: Yen Press (March 27, 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316190829
ISBN-13: 978-0316190824
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