Jenny Pox Author: JL BryanPublished: July 24, 2010Links: Goodreads, Amazon (available as Kindle edition)eBook provided by author for review Description: Jenny is a shy, small-town South Carolina girl whose touch spreads a deadly supernatural plague. She can’t touch anyone for long without killing them. Her life is painfully lonely until she meets a boy named […]
Pushy: One of the curious things about the effects of censorship is to convey upon the item of prohibition an aura of irresistibility. Fortunately, as an adult, I have the ability to decide for myself what I will read and what I won’t. I live in a city with an amazing library, have free access […]
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Seance for a VampireAuthor: the late Fred SaberhagenPaperback available on Amazon.com,192 pagesPublisher: Titan Books; 1 edition (June 22, 2010 rerelease) Description from Amazon: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s timeless creation returns in a new series of handsomely designed, long out-of-print detective stories. From the earliest days of Holmes’ career to […]
The Red Church by Scott NicholsonPaperback and Kindle Edition from Amazon.com Book Description:For 13-year-old Ronnie Day, life is full of problems: Mom and Dad have separated, his brother Tim is a constant pest, Melanie Ward either loves him or hates him, and Jesus Christ won’t stay in his heart. Plus he has to walk past […]
Party Author: Tom LeveenPublished: April 27, 2010Links: Goodreads, The Book Cellar, Anderson’s Bookshop (my local indies),Amazon (available as Kindle edition)free copy won from Random House Description: It’s saturday night in Santa Barbara and school is done for the year. Everyone is headed to the same party. Or at least it seems that way. The place […]
Beautiful Darkness Authors: Kami Garcia and Margaret StohlScheduled to Publish: October 12, 2010Links: Goodreads, The Book Cellar, Anderson’s Bookshop (my local indies),Amazon (available as Kindle edition)free ARC obtained from Travelling ARC Tours Description: Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever […]
Fire Burn & Cauldron Bubble Author: H.P. MalloryPublished: July 2010Links: Goodreads, Smashwordsfree eBook received for review from author Description: A self-deprecating witch with the unique ability to reanimate the dead. A dangerously handsome warlock torn between being her boss and her would-be lover. A six hundred year old English vampire with his own agenda; one […]
Wake Author: Lisa McMannPublished: March 4, 2008Links: Goodreads, The Book Cellar, Anderson’s Bookshop (my local indies),Amazon (available as Kindle edition)Borrowed from library by reviewers Description: Ever since she was eight years old, high school student Janie Hannagan has been uncontrollably drawn into other people’s dreams, but it is not until she befriends an elderly nursing […]
Think of a Number Author: John VerdonPublished: July 6, 2010Links: Goodreads, The Book Cellar, Anderson’s Bookshop (my local indies),Amazon (available as Kindle edition)free ARC obtained from Netgalley Description: Arriving in the mail over a period of weeks are taunting letters that end with a simple declaration, “Think of any number…picture it…now see how well I […]
Sapphique Author: Catherine FisherPublished: Originally published in the UK in September 18, 2008,Scheduled for release in the US on December 28, 2010Links: Goodreads, The Book Cellar, Anderson’s Bookshop (my local indies),Amazon (No Kindle edition currently available)ARC obtained from Traveling ARC Tours/UK edition purchased by reviewer Description: Finn has escaped from the terrible living Prison of […]
Have you ever wandered the library with nothing available on your hold list and not a single name of an author in your head to look up? I was wandering the YA section and decided to go completely on the recc’s by the library staff and being superficial as I am, also by picking out […]
It’s baaaaack! Yes, dear reader, I’ve roped another unsuspecting friend into doing the Mystery Book Exchange. WOOT!!! The lovely Susie from Apples N Feathers has graciously agreed to read one of my favorites, The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield, and in exchanged challenged me to read one of her’s, Geek Love by Katherine Dunn. Both […]
Incarceron Author: Catherine FisherPublished: Originally published in the UK in May 3, 2007,Released in the US January 26, 2010Links: Goodreads, Amazon (No Kindle edition currently available)Audiobook downloaded from Library/Book purchased by reviewer Description: Incarceron — a futuristic prison, sealed from view, where the descendants of the original prisoners live in a dark world torn by […]
