Spooky Little Girl Author: Laurie NotaroPublication Date: April 13, 2010Publisher: Villard Book Description: Death is what happens while you’re busy making other plans. Coming home from a Hawaiian vacation with her best girlfriends, Lucy Fisher is stunned to find everything she owns tossed out on her front lawn, the locks changed, and her fiancé’s phone […]
My Fair LazyAuthor: Jen Lancaster (website, twitter)Publication Date: May 4, 2010Publisher: NAL Hardcover Book Description: It’s a JENaissance! The New York Times bestselling author of Pretty in Plaid gets her culture on. Readers have followed Jen Lancaster through job loss, sucky city living, weight loss attempts, and 1980s nostalgia. Now Jen chronicles her efforts to […]
Dead in the Family Author: Charlaine Harris Publication Date: May 4, 2010 Publisher: Ace Hardcover Book Description (amazon.com): After enduring torture and the loss of loved ones during the brief but deadly Faery War, Sookie Stackhouse is hurt and she’s angry. Just about the only bright spot in her life is the love she thinks […]
The Scarpetta FactorAuthor: By Patricia Cornwell Published: October 2009 Inside Cover Description: It is the week before Christmas. A tanking economy has prompted Dr. Kay Scarpetta – despite her busy schedule and her continuing work as the senior forensic analyst for CNN – to offer her services pro bono to New York City’s Office of […]
Wicked LovelyAuthor: Melissa Marr Published: June 2007 Purchased by reviewer/Borrowed from library by reviewer Description: Rule #3: Don’t stare at invisible faeries. Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in mortal world. Aislinn fears their cruelty—especially if they learn of her Sight—and wishes she were as blind to their presence as […]
The Vampire Diaries The Return: vol 2 Shadow Souls Author: LJ SmithPublished March 2010Amazon Book Description: On the run . . . Elena Gilbert’s love, the vampire Stefan Salvatore, has been captured and imprisoned by demonic spirits who are wreaking havoc in Fell’s Church. While her friends Bonnie and Meredith explore the evil that has […]
I’ve been on a roll with books featuring supernatural creatures for months. The latest books feature vampires and shapeshifters. The Chicagoland Vampires Novels were recommended to me on Amazon.com based on my previous purchases and it only took a glance at the synopsis for book one to get me hooked. The books are about a […]
Stephenie Meyer has thrown us loyal fans a Twilight-sized bone. According to her website, a new novella, The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner, will be published on June 5, 2010. This release is the first new material from Stephenie in two years and is timed perfectly to prepare all of us for the theatrical […]
First Drop of Crimson by Jeaniene Frost Genre: Paranormal RomanceRelease Date: February 9, 2010 Good Reads Amazon -available for Kindle Book Description: The night is not safe for mortals. Denise MacGregor knows all too well what lurks in the shadows – her best friend is half-vampire Cat Crawfield – and she has already lost more […]
Oh yes, oh yes, oh yes!!!!! Welcome to the… Oh, dear reader, how I do love you! You and my fellow bloggers came through to honor Dr. Seuss and celebrate literacy. Without further ado, I’ll give you the recap. The lovely Gisela, who blogs at Adventures in Babymaking (which just makes me smirk every time […]
Alternate Titles for my first post: Hi Heather, I’m Heather (sounds like I’m talking crazily to myself doesn’t it?) or Two out of three Heather’s agree only because the third Heather was in another state at the time I’m Heather aka Call of Duty Widow aka hmmille on twitter. Those of you that know me […]
Everyone has met this girl. The one with her nose stuck in a book, or to update the analogy, the one who’s eyes are glued to her Kindle. The one who looks forward to a long flight or train commute because she has a new novel she’s been dying to read. The girl who falls […]
Heather I’m a PhD Analytical Chemist for a living, a mom and wife for everything that makes life worth living. I enjoy mysteries, thrillers, paranormal romance, urban fantasy, horror, and young adult. And of course music and movies. I’ll admit that listening to BBC World Service has been known to make me tear up every […]
