Review: Urban Shaman by C.E. Murphy

Format read: ebook from library
Genre: urban fantasy
Series: Walker Papers, #1
Release Date: June 1, 2009 (reprint edition; original edition published June 1, 2005)
Number of pages: 416 pages
Publisher: Luna
Formats available: ebook, paperback, audiobook
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Books-a-Million, Barnes & Noble, Book Depository

Book Blurb:

Joanne Walker has three days to learn to use her shamanic powers and save the world from the unleashed Wild Hunt.

No worries. No pressure. Never mind the lack of sleep, the perplexing new talent for healing herself from fatal wounds, or the cryptic, talking coyote who appears in her dreams.

And if all that’s not bad enough, in the three years Joanne’s been a cop, she’s never seen a dead body–but she’s just come across her second in three days.

It’s been a bitch of a week.

And it isn’t over yet.

My Thoughts:

I’d been looking forward to trying this UF series for quite some time. As far as urban fantasy institutions …

Review: Love Story by Jennifer Echols

Format read: paperback
Genre: young adult romance
Release Date: Julyy 19th, 2011
Number of pages: 241 pages
Publisher: MTV books
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon, Book Depository (UK), Book Depository (US)

Book Blurb:

SHE’S WRITING ABOUT HIM. HE’S WRITING ABOUT HER. AND EVERYBODY IS READING BETWEEN THE LINES.

For Erin Blackwell, majoring in creative writing at the New York City college of her dreams is more than a chance to fulfil her ambitions – it’s her ticket away from the tragic memories that shadow her family’s racehorse farm in Kentucky. But when she refuses to major in business and take over the farm herself someday, her grandmother gives Erin’s college tuition and promised inheritance to their maddeningly handsome stable boy, Hunter Allen. Now Erin has to win an internship and work late nights at a local coffee shop to make her own dreams a reality. She should despise Hunter…so why …

Review: Take Me There by Carolee Dean

Format Read: Paperback
Length: 325 Pages
Genre: YA Contemporary
Release Date: 20 July 2010
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Formats Available: eBook, paperback,
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon, Book Depository

Blurb:

ON THE RUN AND HEADED NOWHERE FAST

Dylan has a bad-boy past and a criminal record. He knows that rich, beautiful Jess is way too good for him – but she has always been the one person who sees through his tough exterior and straight to his heart, and he has been hopelessly in love with her from the first time they met. He would change his life for a chance with her.

But trouble follows Dylan wherever he goes, and a deadly mistake soon forces him to hit the road and leave his dreams behind. He’s on the run and in search of answers – answers to questions he wishes he’d never asked

My Thoughts:
I was really excited to read Take Me There, but all I …

Review: Casting Shadows by J. Kelley Anderson

Format Read: eARC from author
Pages: 230
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Publisher: World Castle Publishing
Formats Available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: author’s website , Amazon

Blurb:

Edward Kelley wants to destroy the world. His family is dead and his odd habits have made him a pariah in the small town of Hurst, Ohio. After the unexpected arrival of an anonymous package, Edward quickly discovers the tools to forge his malevolent fantasies into reality. Yet, he soon finds that he is not the villain of his own story and, with the help of a surrogate grandmother, an undead servant, and a foul-mouthed cop, he is fast on the road to becoming an unlikely hero. Casting Shadows is a quirky amalgamation of Contemporary Fantasy and Magical Realism, with a sprinkling of Classical Literature, Necromancy, and Russian Folklore added for good measure.

My Thoughts:
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Dual Review: Supernaturally Kissed by Stacey Kennedy

Release Date: January 5th 2012
Series: Book #1 in the Frostbite series
Publisher: Ellora’s Cave
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Formats Available: Kindle Edition, e-book
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s website, Amazon, Barnes&Noble

Blurb:

Ghosts harass and annoy Tess Jennings to save their souls. Sometimes she helps them. Other times she ignores them. But one ghost will give her no choice.

Kipp McGowen, a cop with the Memphis Police Department, will stop at nothing to gain her help, including using his ghostly charms to seduce her.

Tess must help solve the five-year old cold case of Hannah Reid, because solving the case will save Kipp.

But a bigger problem presents itself. Tess is falling in love with a ghost. Now she must decide. Keep Kipp forever or find the killer…

Our thoughts:

Anna: I think we should start this review by talking about the heroine, Tess. I pretty much …

Review: Dangerous Charade by Elizabeth Means

Format read: ebook
Release Date: 1 September 2011
Number of pages: 288 pages
Publisher: English Tea Rose
Formats available: ebook, paperback
Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Author’s Website, Amazon

Blurb:

To escape an arranged marriage Gabrielle Broussard flees her home and becomes an undercover investigator with an elite, all-female investigative agency. Her first assignment, as governess at Westford castle to investigate the suspicious death of the Countess of Westford, quickly becomes complicated when she finds herself attracted to her number one suspect. Lord Julian Blackwell is a survivor. After his father’s bankruptcy, he becomes a self-made man in Victorian England’s booming industrial era. Trapped into a loveless marriage, he has survived the shock of his wife’s sudden death. But now he must survive rumors and outright accusations. Hiring a private agency to investigate and prove his innocence seems like a good idea…until desire threatens to compromise both the case and the life of the investigator.

My Thoughts: When I …

Dual Review: Accidental Abduction by Eve Langlais

Format Read: review & bought copyNumber of pages: 111 pages (pdf)Release Date: 22 Ma 2011Formats available: eBookGenre: erotic scifi romancedPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Author’s website, AllRomance, B&N, Smashwords

Book Blurb:

Abducted by a space pirate, she fights the temptation to let him plunder her goods.

A boyfriend’s attempted murder leaves Megan floundering in the ocean. Sinking without hope, the bright light she sees in the night sky isn’t her doorway to heaven, but rather the beginning of her accidental abduction by a space pirate. While thankful of his rescue, Megan stays true to form and just can’t keep her mouth shut, even when he keeps threatening to kill her–or auction her off to the highest bidder. Even odder, despite her decision to not get involved with her wickedly hot captor, she can’t help craving his touch.Tren retired …

Review: Fatal Embrace by Aris Whittier

Format Read: Ebook

Number of Pages: 251

Release Date: 2 October 2005
Publisher: Five Star

Formats Available: Paperback, E-book, Hardcover
Purchasing Info: Author’s Website, Goodreads, Amazon

Book Blurb:Several years ago, Michael Craven gave up his career as a detective when his fiancé was killed and her killer never caught. Living with the guilt, he throws himself into his Montana ranch and his solitary existence. But, when a serial killer starts making his way through a nearby town, Michael is asked to come back and help a good friend and fellow detective, solve the crime. In doing so, he must hire someone to take his place on the ranch. When horse trainer, Jess Stanson shows up, it takes Michael by surprise. Jess turns out to be Jessica. Jessica convinces him to let her stay. Over time they established a fragile friendship. Although, on the inside …

Review: Pride and Prejudice: Hidden Lusts by Mitzi Szereto

Format Read: ARC provided by the publisherNumber of pages:  224 pagesRelease Date: 1 July 2011Formats available: PaperbackPublisher: Cleis PressPurchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Book Depository, Author’s website, Cleis PressBook Blurb:

Imagine that Jane Austen had written the opening line of her satirical novel Pride and Prejudice this way: “It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a good romp and a good wife — although not necessarily from the same person or from the opposite sex.” In Pride and Prejudice: Hidden Lusts Mr. Darcy has never been more devilish and the seemingly chaste Elizabeth never more turned on.

The entire cast of characters from Austen’s classic is here in this rewrite that goes all the way. This time Mr. Bingley and his sister both have designs on Mr. …