Review: The Boat by Nam Le

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 271Release Date: 16 March 2010Publisher: VintageFormats Available: PaperbackPurchasing Info: Nam Le’s Website, The Book Depository, Good ReadsBook Blurb: A stunningly inventive, deeply moving fiction debut: stories that take us from the slums of Colombia to the streets of Tehran; from New York City to Iowa City; from a tiny fishing village in Australia to a foundering vessel in the South China Sea, in a masterly display of literary virtuosity and feeling.

In the magnificent opening story, “Love and Honor and Pity and Pride and Compassion and Sacrifice,” a young writer is urged by his friends to mine his father’s experiences in Vietnam — and what seems at first a satire of turning one’s life into literary commerce becomes a transcendent exploration of homeland, and the ties between father and son. “Cartagena” provides a …

Review: Humor Me by Ian Frazier (editor)

Format Read: ARC

Number of Pages: 336

Release Date: May 11, 2010

Genre: Humor
Publisher: Ecco

Formats Available: Hardcover

Purchasing Info: Goodreads, Amazon, Author’s website

Book Blurb:

Humor Me is a literary cavalcade of contemporary American funnymen—and funnywomen—of the page. Selected by the renowned humor-ist Ian Frazier and featuring more than fifty pieces of the greatest comic writing of our time, the book includes such masters of the form as Roy Blount, Jr., Bruce Jay Friedman, Veronica Geng, Jack Handey, Garrison Keillor, Steve Martin, and Calvin Trillin, as well as work by newer comic stars like Andy Borowitz, Larry Doyle, Simon Rich, George Saunders, and David Sedaris.

The pieces were published in the past thirty years in such popular magazines as The New Yorker, McSweeney’s, The Atlantic, National Lampoon, and Outside. But the book also includes a handful of older comic masterpieces that nobody in need of a laugh …

Review: Broken Wing by Judith James

Format Read: Print Number of Pages: 350 pages Release Date: November 1st 2008 Publisher: Medallion Press Formats Available: Paperback, Ebook Purchasing Info: GoodReads, Amazon, Book Depository

Book Blurb:

Set during the chaotic beginnings of Napoleon’s rule, this saga tells the story of Gabriel St. Croix, a street survivor searching for a place to belong. Abandoned as a child and raised in a brothel, he has never known friendship or affection. Hiding physical and emotional scars behind an icy façade, his only relationship is with a young boy he has spent the last five years protecting from the brutal reality of their environment. But all that is about to change. The boy’s family has found him, and they are coming to take him home.
Sarah Munroe blames herself for her brother’s disappearance. When he’s located, safe and unharmed despite where …

Review: My Soul To Take by Rachel Vincent

Format Read: PaperbackNumber of Pages: 279Release Date: August 1, 2009Publisher: HarlequinFormats Available: Paperback, Ebook, AudioPurchasing Info: Amazon, Goodreads, Rachel Vincent’s Website

Book Blurb:She doesn’t see dead people, but… She senses when someone near her is about to die. And when that happens, a force beyond her control compels her to scream bloody murder. Literally. Kaylee just wants to enjoy having caught the attention of the hottest guy in school. But a normal date is hard to come by when Nash seems to know more about her need to scream than she does. And when classmates start dropping dead for no apparent reason, only Kaylee knows who’ll be next…This is my first Rachel Vincent book, I have them all, at least all that are out so far, but I have yet to pick any up…but I have read …

Review: The Iron King by Julie Kagawa

Format Read: eBookNumber of Pages: 363 pagesRelease Date: January 21st 2010Publisher: Harlequin TeenFormats Available: eBook, PaperbackPurchasing Info: GoodReads, Author’s Website, Amazon

Book Blurb:

Meghan Chase has never fit in at her small-town high school, and now, on the eve of her 16th birthday, she discovers why. When her half brother is kidnapped, Meghan is drawn into a fantastical world she never imagined–the world of Faery, where anything you see may try to eat you, and Meghan is the daughter of the summer faery king. Now she will journey into the depths of Faery to face an unknown enemy . . . and beg the help of a winter prince who might as soon kill her as let her touch his icy heart. The Iron King is the first book in the Iron Fey series.

My Thoughts:Even though I love getting …

Review: The Bloodgate Guardian by Joely Sue Burkhart

Format Read: eBookNumber of Pages: 271 pagesRelease Date: June 14th 2010Publisher: Carina PressFormats Available: eBookPurchasing Info: GoodReads, Author’s Website,Carina Press

Book Blurb:Worlds within worlds await through the Maya Bloodgate…

Dr. Jaid Merritt doesn’t do digs. The last time she ventured into the jungle, someone died. Now she’s content to decipher Maya glyphs from pictures sent to her by her famous archaeologist father. But when he goes missing while trying to perform a ritual based on her translations of an ancient codex, Jaid must put aside her fears and travel to Guatemala to find him.

After misusing the Bloodgates to bring his twin brother back from the afterlife, the Maya priest known as Ruin was cursed by the gods to stand as the guardian for all time. He was unable to stop Dr. Charles Merritt from opening the gates, and …

Review: Sanctuary’s Price by Moira Rogers

Format Read: Ebook Number of Pages: 127 pages Release Date: October 27th 2009 Publisher: Samhain Formats Available: Ebooks Purchasing Info: Good Reads, Author Website, Amazon

Book Blurb:He’s only been surviving. Her magic can show him how to live.

After a decade under a corrupt alpha’s thumb, Dylan Gennaro is still reeling from the changes in his life: a new home, a new alpha, a pack at war. Even normal things like an ending relationship. Still, when he’s asked to work with an outcast witch, he agrees without hesitation. Maybe by protecting her, he’ll rediscover his own inner strength. If, indeed, it exists.
Sasha Wallace lost her mentor in a vicious attack that left her scarred in spirit as well as body. While she’s grateful for the refuge offered by the Red Rock alpha, it’s tough living with the pack’s …

Review: Bring On The Night by Sonya Clark

Format Read: eBookNumber of Pages: 70Release Date:  May 17th , 2010Publisher: Lyrical Press, IncFormats Available:eBookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Lyrical Press, IncBook received by the author for review.Book Blurb:If there’s one thing Jessie hates, it’s going after her own kind.

She may be used to taking a bite out of human killers, but she leaves her fellow immortals alone. It’s only after a series of gruesome murders have her suspecting vampires and werewolves are going after innocents does she set out to put a stop to it.It’s not long that Jessie finds herself racing against the waxing moon to stop an ambitious gang of monsters with a sinister agenda.

Only a vampire can own the night.

My Thoughts:

This is was the first time that I encountered an Urban Fantasy book in such a short format. I have found that it is usually Paranormal Romance novels that come …

Review: 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson

Format Read: BookNumber of Pages: 336Release Date: October 1, 2006Publisher: HarperTeenFormats Available: Paperback, EbookPurchasing Info: Maureen Johnson, Goodreads, BookDepository

Book Blurb: When Ginny receives thirteen little blue envelopes and instructions to buy a plane ticket to London, she knows something exciting is going to happen. What Ginny doesn’t know is that she will have the adventure of her life and it will change her in more ways than one. Life and love are waiting for her across the Atlantic, and the thirteen little blue envelopes are the key to finding them in this funny, romantic, heartbreaking novel.

My Thoughts:I had heard about this novel, and seen it around several times before, while at the book store it sparked my attention enough to buy. The cover, as well as the synopsis, really intrigued me, it sounds and looks like a …

Review: Crazy In Love by Ashley Ladd

Format Read: eBookNumber of Pages: 33Release Date:  March , 2010Publisher: Total E-BoundFormats Available:eBookPurchasing Info: Author’s Website, Total E-Bound

Book received by the author for review.

Book Blurb:The ghost of Kacey’s crazy great-grandfather threatens her life but just might save her marriage.

When the ghost of Kacey’s crazy great-grandfather mistakes her for her great-grandmother, he threatens to kill her for cheating on him. Meanwhile her husband, Heath, finds out she believes he’s fallen out of love with her and he sets out to show her just how much he loves her. However, he fears she’s crazy as she claims to see homicidal ghosts.

Although Kacey longs to save her marriage, she doesn’t know if she can stay with a man who doesn’t believe her and thinks she’s insane.

My Thoughts:I don’t really know where to begin. I started reading and I thought this book …