When Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder. Much less a murder commited by three teenagers covered with odd markings. This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons--and keeping the odd werewolves and vampires… Continue reading Book Twenty-Two of 2013: CITY OF BONES by Cassandra Clare
Mercedes "Mercy" Thompson is a talented Volkswagen mechanic living in the Tri-Cities area of Washington. She also happens to be a walker, a magical being with the power to shift into a coyote at will. Mercy's next-door neighbor is a werewolf. Her former boss is a gremlin. And she's fixing a bus for a… Continue reading Book Twenty-One of 2013: MOON CALLED by Patricia Briggs
Hello, all! I wish that I could say that today has been a very eventful day, but it's kind of hard to place doing the dishes and reading as "eventful". However, something great has happened. My little boy is conjuring up sentences! I was giving a choice of shirts for him to wear and he… Continue reading “That One”
Emma Bannon, forensic sorceress in the service of the Empire, has a mission: to protect Archibald Clare, a failed, unregistered mentath. His skills of deduction are legendary, and her own sorcery is not inconsiderable. It doesn't help much that they barely tolerate each other, or that Bannon's Shield, Mikal, might just be a traitor… Continue reading Book Twenty of 2013: THE IRON WYRM AFFAIR by Lilith Saintcrow
Yes, I haven't really posted in a while. And, yes, I haven't been very social on the net for a while. I could blame being busy. I could blame having writer's block. But, really, I'll blame that I was going through Husband Withdrawl (luckily, it wasn't the catatonic annoying withdraw that Bella had when Edward… Continue reading Five Days And Counting!
Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern town of Gatlin has ever seen, and she's struggling to conceal her power, and a curse that has haunted her family for generations. But even within the overgrown gardens, murky swamps and crumbling graveyards of the forgotten South, a secret cannot stay hidden forever. Ethan Wate, who… Continue reading Book Nineteen of 2013: BEAUTIFUL CREATURES by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl
“When summer falls, the Lord of Winter will arise…” In the seaside village of Watchcombe, young Kate is determined to make the most of her last week of summer holiday. But when she discovers a mysterious painting entitled ‘The Lord of Winter’ in a charity shop, it leads her on an adventure she never… Continue reading Book Eighteen of 2013: DOCTOR WHO: SUMMER FALLS by James Goss
VELOCITY is the last installment to the GRAVITY SERIES by Abigail Boyd, an independent author. I fell in love with her first book, GRAVITY, and had to jump into the others as soon as possible. If you read my reviews for UNCERTAINTY and LUMINOSITY, then you would know that I devoured them both in… Continue reading Book Seventeen of 2013: VELOCITY by Abigail Boyd
There are many things that Annah would like to forget: the look on her sister's face before Annah left her behind in the Forest of Hands and Teeth, her first glimpse of the Horde as they swarmed the Dark City, the sear of the barbed wire that would scar her for life. But most of… Continue reading Book Sixteen of 2013: THE DARK AND HOLLOW PLACES by Carrie Ryan
Lately, everything has been great. The laundry is updated, I'm almost completely packed for my glorious trip to Rhode Island, and I finished some needed work (my Paypal officially has my married name and I deposited a check). However, for some reason I feel like raging. It's not like I'm even pissed at anything. I… Continue reading Rage On
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