Two hundred years after the Raintree clan defeated and abandoned them on a small Caribbean Island, the Ansara wizards are rising again to take on their bitterest foes. Despite their extraordinary powers and supernatural origin, the Raintree have largely blended into the modern world. They are bankers, cops, husbands, wives and lovers in the society… Continue reading Book Twenty-three of 2012: INFERNO by Linda Howard
A lost friend, a new love, and a town full of secrets... One night in the town of Hell, Ariel's best friend goes missing. Those around her believe Jenna ran away, but when Ariel is tormented by nightmares and paranormal activity, she realizes Jenna's disappearance was part of a bigger mystery. Ariel's obsession with haunted… Continue reading Book Twenty-two of 2012: GRAVITY by Abigail Boyd
Lord Adam Calthorpe had been rash in his promise to look out for a fellow soldier's sister who was killed at waterloo. Miss Katherine Payne was a golden eyed shrew who took genuine delight in flouting Adam's authority at every turn. One of my favorite books of all time is PRIDE AND PREJUDICE by… Continue reading Book Twenty-One of 2012: LORD CALTHORPE’S PROMISE by Sylvia Andrew
At the core of New Orleans lie the otherworldly vampires and shape-shifters that hide in plain sight among mankind. As one of the Keepers, an elite group possessing superior skill and strength, Fiona MacDonald's duty is to maintain peace in a place where one vampire's bite could ignite war. When Detective Jagger DeFarge, a vampire,… Continue reading Book Twenty of 2012: THE KEEPERS by Heather Graham
Set in Victorian England, Arthur Kipps, a junior solicitor in London, is summoned to Crythin Gifford to attend the funeral of Mrs. Alice Drablow, and to sort through her papers before returning to London. It is here that Kipps first sees the woman in black and begins to gain an impression of the mystery surrounding… Continue reading Book Nineteen of 2012: THE WOMAN IN BLACK by Susan Hill
"Deception, illusion, and wits. Who can out-maneuver the other?" When a false murder charge sends Jim Taylor and his family fleeing from an enraged mob, they find themselves entrenched in a new world. Areane is a land of myth, infused with magic and creatures of legend, but it quickly proves to be as dangerous as… Continue reading Book Eighteen of 2012: THE KING’S FIRST JOURNEY by Launa Sorensen
To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both fantasy and nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to a werewolf Jacob Black, she has endured a tumultuous year of temptation, loss,… Continue reading Book Seventeen of 2012: BREAKING DAWN by Stephenie Meyer
Diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer at 13, Hazel was prepared to die until, at 14, a medical miracle shrunk the tumours in her lungs... for now. Two years post-miracle, sixteen-year-old Hazel is post-everything else, too; post-high school, post-friends and post-normalcy. And even though she could live for a long time (whatever that means), Hazel… Continue reading Book Sixteen of 2012: THE FAULT IN OUR STARS by JOHN GREEN
As you know, I have been reading books and displaying my own opinions on them. All of the books I've read have been published for a while, but technically my thoughts on them could be considered as reviews. That said, I've seen some book review blogs have rating scales and others without. I want to… Continue reading Should I have a rating scale?
Indiana, 1818. In a one-room cabin, nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his mother's bedside. "My baby boy..." she whispers before dying. Only later will the grieving Abe learn that his mother's fatal affliction was actually the work of a vampire. Gifted with his legendary height, strength, and skill with an ax, young Lincoln sets out… Continue reading Book Thirteen of 2012: ABRAHAM LINCOLN VAMPIRE HUNTER by Seth Grahame-Smith
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