Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Wednesday Wish List
Please list the books/manga/manhwa/yaoi manga from your wishlist that you are hoping to add to your shelves in a comment, thanks.
Zombies, demons, vampires, shapeshifters -- another day in the life of Nick Gautier -- and those are just his friends. But now that he's accepted the demon that lives inside him, he must learn to control it and temper the very emotions that threaten the lives of everyone he cares for. Something that's hard to do while trying to stay off the menus of those who want his head on a platter. And no one wants him more than the dark gods who created his race. Now that they know where he is, they will stop at nothing to reclaim him. And without knowing it, Nick has just embraced the one person he should never have trusted. The one person who will hand him over to his enemies to get back the life they lost.
Nick has finally accepted his fate, now he must learn to defy his destiny, and the dark, deadly forces that will stop at nothing to destroy everyone he loves so that they can again return to the world of man and own it, in the next Chronicles of Nick novel, Instinct, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon.
Two brothers bound by more than blood fight to change a brutal destiny in the heart-wrenching new novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood by #1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward.
Trez “Latimer” doesn’t really exist. And not just because the identity was created so that a Shadow could function in the underbelly of the human world. Sold by his parents to the Queen of the S’Hsibe as a child, Trez escaped the Territory and has been a pimp and an enforcer in Caldwell, NY for years- all the while on the run from a destiny of sexual servitude. He’s never had anyone he could totally rely on except for his brother, iAm.
iAm’s sole goal has always been to keep his brother from self-destructing - and he knows he’s failed. It’s not until the Chosen Serena enters Trez’s life that the male begins to turn things around but by then it’s too late. The pledge to mate the Queen’s daughter comes due and there is nowhere to run, nowhere to hide, and no negotiating.
Trapped between his heart and a fate he never volunteered for, Trez must decide whether to endanger himself and others - or forever leave behind the female he’s in love with. But then an unimaginable tragedy strikes and changes everything. Staring out over an emotional abyss, Trez must find a reason to go on or risk losing himself and his soul forever. And iAm, in the name of brotherly love, is faced with making the ultimate sacrifice.
Play a song for me
Musicians are being murdered in New Orleans. But Arnie Watson apparently died by his own hand. When Tyler Anderson plays the saxophone he inherited from Arnie, a soldier and musician who died soon after his return, he believes he sees visions of his friend's life — and death. He becomes convinced Arnie was murdered and that the instrument had something to do with whatever happened, and with whatever's happening all over the city.
Tyler knows his theory sounds crazy to the police, so he approaches Danni Cafferty, hoping she and Michael Quinn will find out what the cops couldn't. Or wouldn't. After all, Cafferty and Quinn have become famous for solving unusual crimes.
They're partners in their personal lives, too. Quinn's a private investigator and Danni works with him. When they look into the case, they discover a secret lover of Arnie's and a history of jealousies and old hatreds that leads them back to the band Arnie once played with — and Tyler plays with now.
They discover that sometimes, for some people, the line between passion and obsession is hard to draw. Only in uncovering the truth can they hope to save others — and themselves — from the deadly hands of a killer.
www.SharonSala.net
Past Sins Cast a Long Shadow
Dallas Phillips refuses to believe her father committed suicide, even though things were tough on his farm and he was deeply in debt. When she hears he'd told a neighbor about an upcoming windfall, she grows suspicious, and her suspicion only deepens when she realizes someone is lurking in the nearby mountains after dark.
For help, she turns to Trey Jakes, local police chief — and her former lover. As they begin to investigate, another mystery comes to light. Trey's mother is beginning to remember events from thirty years ago, something shadowy that happened in the mountains, and Dallas's father was there, too. Is what happened that night connected to his "suicide"? As they search for the truth, Trey and Dallas struggle to fight their attraction, but they may not be able to fend off another force — a killer who's more than willing to kill again to make sure old secrets stay buried.
New York Times bestselling author Gena Showalter introduces the Original Heartbreakers — three not-quite-reformed bad boys about to meet the women who will bring them to their knees
Just released from prison, Jase Hollister has one goal: stay out of trouble. Strawberry Valley, Oklahoma, sounds like the perfect place for him and his two brothers-by-circumstance to settle down and live a nice, simple life. But model citizen isn't exactly this rugged bachelor's default setting — especially when it comes to a certain hot-blooded Southern beauty.
Brook Lynn Dillon has always been responsible. Not that it's done her much good. The down-on-her-luck waitress is broke, single and fun-deprived. Until Jase comes along. He is dangerous, sexy and tempting as sin, and the sizzling passion between them is undeniable. But can it melt her resistance? After all, the right kind of trouble might be just what they both need.
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Manga Review: Vampire Knight, Vol. 19
I've finished "Vampire Knight Vol. 19" by Matsuri Hino.
Product Description
Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students: the Day Class and the Night Class. At twilight, when the students of the Day Class return to their dorm, they cross paths with the Night Class on their way to school. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the Guardians of the school, protecting the Day Class from the Academy's dark secret: the Night Class is full of vampires!
Kaname vows to sacrifice himself. Yuki vows to sacrifice herself to stop him.
Zero takes a weapon in hand to protect what is dear to him.
Whether parted for eternity or close enough to touch, they each will always desire their beloved.
About the Author
Matsuri Hino burst onto the manga scene with her title Kono Yume ga Sametara (When This Dream Is Over), which was published in LaLa DX magazine. Hino was a manga artist a mere nine months after she decided to become one. With the success of her popular series Captive Hearts and MeruPuri, Hino has established herself as a major player in the world of shojo manga.
Product Details
Series: Vampire Knight (Book 19)
Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC (October 14, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1421573911
ISBN-13: 978-1421573915
My Review:
I will write a review some time this week/weekend since I'm a little tired and will be heading off to bed!
5/5
Labels:
Manga Review,
Matsuri Hino,
Vampire Knight,
Vol. 19
New Releases 2015 (Mar 24)
New Releases
When a local doctor is found dead in Willow McQuade’s medicinal garden, she must find the killer to clear her boyfriend’s name in this third clever book in the Natural Remedies Mystery series.
Dr. Willow McQuade, owner of Nature’s Way Market & Café, has put the finishing touches on a new medicinal plant garden for Greenport’s annual Maritime Festival and is ready for the festivities to begin. But it’s not all flowers and sunshine at the grand opening, when Willow discovers the body of another contestant, Dr. Charles White, face down in her garden.
Willow’s hunky boyfriend, Jackson Spade, immediately becomes a suspect due to a recent fight with Dr. White. Willow knows she has to remedy the situation, but it won’t be easy with the other applicants’ vendettas and vandals wrecking her garden at every turn. And when she finds buried treasure in her garden that just might belong to the legendary Captain Kidd, the stakes become even higher. Was Dr. White searching for that treasure? Did someone kill him to get to it first? With the help of Jackson and her eccentric ex-boyfriend, Willow follows the clues to uncover the truth that someone wants buried.
But can she dig up enough evidence before she becomes the killer’s next victim?
Manga:
Nai -- a young man who travels in search of another by the name of Karoku, a lone bracelet his only lead. Gareki -- a willful young man who earns his daily bread by thieving and picking pockets. Thrown together at an eerie mansion, where they are entrapped and framed, Nai and Gareki are soon hunted down as criminals by national security forces. As they are driven into a corner, before them appears the most powerful defense agency in the country, "Circus"!
From the ultimate nightmare that is Walpurgis Night, Sorath escapes to modern Japan. There, he lives in an unconventional household that includes Nonoha, the daughter of his dearest friend, and Mephistopheles, the Duke of Hell, who bides his time for a chance to kill his master.
This time, these hands will protect my loved ones --
That's Sorath's wish, but somehow Nonoha is slipping through his fingers. Will Sorath's hands once again be stained by the blood of the person he cherishes most?
are bound to each other by a crimson chain. Never, ever forget that.
When Dealer Swallow suddenly appears, Kana learns in the ensuing scuffle just what it means to be a pureblood vampire's "thrall." With the lycanthrope Jin now fighting beside Kana and Aki as an ally, the three begin their search for the other Stigmas in a dangerous quest.
The newly formed alliance between Tsuzuki and Arcana has Tsukimiya on edge. She's certain the organization has its own agenda for God's Relics. But more pressing matters have come to light: Every location where God's Relics have appeared has been destroyed by an organization that calls themselves the God Buriers -- and its next target is the Arcana building itself! Tsukimiya has little trust to spare for Arcana, but she'll have to work with Arcana if either of them want to escape with their lives -- and their relics!
By all appearances, the ties that bind High King Madeth and the knight Lalvan, his childhood friend, are made of the sternest stuff. But in truth, their friendship has always struck a most delicate balance. With the arrival of Lady Prima and the birth of her son, Perseus, not long after, the precarious harmony between Madeth and Lalvan crumbles. And when the young Perseus, harboring questions about his lineage, seeks out Lalvan, will the repercussions be much greater than a friendship lost?
A lone angel, its eyes replete with sadness, looks on as the tragedy unfolds.
After the Alice Fixed Holiday, Alice is ready to return to the task at hand: killing the White Rabbit. But Hatter, determined to break his fealty to the Queen of Hearts and get his time moving again, has other ideas. He leaves Alice in the hands of a courtly armed stranger with a horse-drawn carriage ready to take Alice to the Land Through the Looking-Glass as its queen?! When Alice and Hatter meet again through the looking-glass not long after, will bodyguard and ward still be on the same page?
Amid the hormones and the angst of middle school adolescence, Kazuki and Kanata go from being boy and girl friends to boyfriend and girlfriend. But with love comes intense emotions and, with their model student reputations on the line, they must learn to suppress these earnest feelings or run the risk of getting caught red hand-in-handed!
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New Releases 2015 (Mar 24)
Monday, March 23, 2015
Weekly Book Reads (Mar 23)
Weekly Book Reads
Weekly Book Reads is a weekly Monday Meme that is hosted by Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Reviews:
Post the books read last week and books you plan on finishing this week.
Read Last Week:
1. Private Vegas - James Patterson
2. The Shotgun Arcana - R.S. Belcher (1st Half)
3. The First Wife - Erica Spindler (1st Half)
4. Vampire Knight Vol. 18 - Matsuri Hino
5. Vampire Knight Vol. 19 - Matsuri Hino
Weekly Book Reading:
1. The First Wife - Erica Spindler (2nd Half)
2. The Night Before - Lisa Jackson
3. The Shotgun Arcana - R.S. Belcher (2nd Half)
4. Rumor Has It - Tami Hoag
5. Godchild Vol. 1 - Kaori Yuki
6. Godchild Vol. 2 - Kaori Yuki
Sunday, March 22, 2015
Library Haul 2015 (Mar 22 - 28)
Library Haul
Here's the list of books/manga/manhwa/yaoi manga I picked up this week at the library:
Softcover:
1. The Night Before - Lisa Jackson
2. The Ripper's Wife - Brandy Purdy
3. Maplecroft: The Borden Dispatches - Cherie Priest
Hardcover:
1. Rumor Has It - Tami Hoag
Manga:
1. Food Wars Vol. 1 - Yuto Tsukudo
2. Kitchen Princess Vol. 1, 2 and 4 - Natsumi Ando
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Saturday, March 21, 2015
Manga Review: Vampire Knight, Vol. 18
I've finished "Vampire Knight Vol. 18" by Matsuri Hino.
Product Description
Cross Academy is attended by two groups of students: the Day Class and the Night Class. At twilight, when the students of the Day Class return to their dorm, they cross paths with the Night Class on their way to school. Yuki Cross and Zero Kiryu are the Guardians of the school, protecting the Day Class from the Academy’s dark secret: the Night Class is full of vampires!
Yukio and Zero team up to go after Kaname. Yuki and Kaname fight each other in the headquarters of the Hunter Society while Sara tries to control Zero through her blood. The female progenitor’s origin metal intervenes, and Yuki realizes there is only one way to stop Kaname.
About the Author
Matsuri Hino burst onto the manga scene with her title Kono Yume ga Sametara (When This Dream Is Over), which was published in LaLa DX magazine. Hino was a manga artist a mere nine months after she decided to become one.
With the success of her popular series Captive Hearts and MeruPuri, Hino has established herself as a major player in the world of shojo manga. Vampire Knight is currently serialized in LaLa magazine.
Product Details
Series: Vampire Knight (Book 18)
Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC; First Edition edition (May 6, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1421564335
ISBN-13: 978-1421564333
My Review:
Lots of non-stop action and the drawings are still gorgeously drawn. Glad to see Yuki and Zero are getting along and fighting along side each other.
Yuki and Zero chase Kaname down and confront him many times but he gets away as usual!
We learn the reason why Kaname is on his mission and what he intends to do!
Sarah finally dies (good riddance to her) and it wasn't soon enough for me!
Yuki takes away Zero's memory of her and Kaname to save his life.
5/5
Bunny Express Saturday 2015 (Mar 21)
Bunny Express Saturday is hosted every Saturday at Paranormal and Romantic Suspense Reviews.
I received these in the mail this week.
For Review:
Brianna Hai runs an occult shop that sells useless trinkets to tourists -- and real magic supplies to witches and warlocks. The magical painting that hangs in Brianna's apartment is the last portal between the fae and human worlds.
A shocking magical assault on her home reveals to Brianna that her father, High King Liu of the Fae, is under attack. With the help of her gargoyle, Pug, her friend David, and Angelo, a police detective who doesn't believe in magic, Brianna recovers what was stolen from her and becomes an unwilling potential heir to the throne.
A suspenseful urban fantasy with a hint of romance, The Exile is the first solo novel by C. T. Adams, who is half of USA Today bestselling author Cat Adams. Like the Cat Adams Blood Singer novels, The Exile is set in a world where magic is real and contains Adams's trademark blend of suspense, action, humor, and strongly emotional writing.
Thanks TOR Books!
Thursday, March 19, 2015
MT Review: Private Vegas (Hardcover)
I've finished "Private Vegas" the 4th book in his Jack Morgan series by James Patterson.
Las Vegas is a city of contradictions: seedy and glamorous, secretive and wild, Vegas attracts people of all kinds -- especially those with a secret to hide, or a life to leave behind. It's the perfect location for Lester Olsen's lucrative business. He gets to treat gorgeous, young women to five-star restaurants, splashy shows, and limo rides -- and then he teaches them how to kill.
Private Jack Morgan spends most of his time in Los Angeles, where his top investigation firm has its headquarters. But a hunt for two criminals leads him to the city of sin -- and to a murder ring that is more seductively threatening than anything he's witnessed before. PRIVATE VEGAS brings James Patterson's Private series to a sensational new level.
About the Author
James Patterson has had more New York Times bestsellers than any other writer, ever, according to Guinness World Records. Since his first novel won the Edgar Award in 1977 James Patterson's books have sold more than 240 million copies. He is the author of the Alex Cross novels, the most popular detective series of the past twenty-five years, including Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider. He writes full-time and lives in Florida with his family.
Product Details
Series: Private
Hardcover: 384 pages
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company (January 26, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 031621115X
ISBN-13: 978-0316211154
My Review:
This was a very fast paced thriller from beginning to ending that never stopped!
The villains were very vile and disgusting people who got away because they had immunity but they sure got their comeuppance at the end! YEAH!
I'm glad that Justine has a found a new guy that she really likes and who treats her right! I feel sorry for Jack though we he finds out who it is at the end!
TOMMY is back and bad as ever!
4/5
Thanks Hachette Book Group Canada for sending me this book to review, greatly appreciated!
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Jack Morgan,
James Patterson,
MT Review,
Private Vegas
Lazy Morning Breakfast Casserole Recipe
Lazy Morning Breakfast Casserole
Ingredients
8 slices of bread (cubed)
1 lbs. ground sausage (cooked)
3/4 cup cheddar cheese
1/2 cup mushrooms (sliced and sautéed)
5 eggs
1 3/4 cups milk
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Place cubed bread in casserole dish, sprinkle cooked sausage on top. Add cheddar cheese and mushrooms. In a separate bowl, beat eggs and milk and then pour over top. Let stand for 5 minutes, then bake for 35 minutes until bubbly.
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
Wednesday Wish List
Please list the books/manga/manhwa/yaoi manga from your wishlist that you are hoping to add to your shelves in a comment, thanks.
When a local doctor is found dead in Willow McQuade’s medicinal garden, she must find the killer to clear her boyfriend’s name in this third clever book in the Natural Remedies Mystery series.
Dr. Willow McQuade, owner of Nature’s Way Market & Café, has put the finishing touches on a new medicinal plant garden for Greenport’s annual Maritime Festival and is ready for the festivities to begin. But it’s not all flowers and sunshine at the grand opening, when Willow discovers the body of another contestant, Dr. Charles White, face down in her garden.
Willow’s hunky boyfriend, Jackson Spade, immediately becomes a suspect due to a recent fight with Dr. White. Willow knows she has to remedy the situation, but it won’t be easy with the other applicants’ vendettas and vandals wrecking her garden at every turn. And when she finds buried treasure in her garden that just might belong to the legendary Captain Kidd, the stakes become even higher. Was Dr. White searching for that treasure? Did someone kill him to get to it first? With the help of Jackson and her eccentric ex-boyfriend, Willow follows the clues to uncover the truth that someone wants buried.
But can she dig up enough evidence before she becomes the killer’s next victim?
Manga:
Nai -- a young man who travels in search of another by the name of Karoku, a lone bracelet his only lead. Gareki -- a willful young man who earns his daily bread by thieving and picking pockets. Thrown together at an eerie mansion, where they are entrapped and framed, Nai and Gareki are soon hunted down as criminals by national security forces. As they are driven into a corner, before them appears the most powerful defense agency in the country, "Circus"!
From the ultimate nightmare that is Walpurgis Night, Sorath escapes to modern Japan. There, he lives in an unconventional household that includes Nonoha, the daughter of his dearest friend, and Mephistopheles, the Duke of Hell, who bides his time for a chance to kill his master.
This time, these hands will protect my loved ones --
That's Sorath's wish, but somehow Nonoha is slipping through his fingers. Will Sorath's hands once again be stained by the blood of the person he cherishes most?
are bound to each other by a crimson chain. Never, ever forget that.
When Dealer Swallow suddenly appears, Kana learns in the ensuing scuffle just what it means to be a pureblood vampire's "thrall." With the lycanthrope Jin now fighting beside Kana and Aki as an ally, the three begin their search for the other Stigmas in a dangerous quest.
The newly formed alliance between Tsuzuki and Arcana has Tsukimiya on edge. She's certain the organization has its own agenda for God's Relics. But more pressing matters have come to light: Every location where God's Relics have appeared has been destroyed by an organization that calls themselves the God Buriers -- and its next target is the Arcana building itself! Tsukimiya has little trust to spare for Arcana, but she'll have to work with Arcana if either of them want to escape with their lives -- and their relics!
By all appearances, the ties that bind High King Madeth and the knight Lalvan, his childhood friend, are made of the sternest stuff. But in truth, their friendship has always struck a most delicate balance. With the arrival of Lady Prima and the birth of her son, Perseus, not long after, the precarious harmony between Madeth and Lalvan crumbles. And when the young Perseus, harboring questions about his lineage, seeks out Lalvan, will the repercussions be much greater than a friendship lost?
A lone angel, its eyes replete with sadness, looks on as the tragedy unfolds.
After the Alice Fixed Holiday, Alice is ready to return to the task at hand: killing the White Rabbit. But Hatter, determined to break his fealty to the Queen of Hearts and get his time moving again, has other ideas. He leaves Alice in the hands of a courtly armed stranger with a horse-drawn carriage ready to take Alice to the Land Through the Looking-Glass as its queen?! When Alice and Hatter meet again through the looking-glass not long after, will bodyguard and ward still be on the same page?
Amid the hormones and the angst of middle school adolescence, Kazuki and Kanata go from being boy and girl friends to boyfriend and girlfriend. But with love comes intense emotions and, with their model student reputations on the line, they must learn to suppress these earnest feelings or run the risk of getting caught red hand-in-handed!
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