Carnton Plantation, 1894: Carrie McGavock is an old woman who tends the graves of the almost 1,500 soldiers buried there. As she walks among the dead, an elderly man appears--the same soldier she met that fateful day long ago. Today, he asks if the cemetery has room for one more. Based on an extraordinary… Continue reading Book Twenty-Five of 2013: THE WIDOW OF THE SOUTH by Robert Hicks
Gruesome murders are rocking New Orleans. But Jazzmyn Livaudais is too busy running her restaurant to pay attention to the sensational headlines. And when the charismatic Julian Devereau enters Jazzmyn’s life, she becomes even more distracted by the handsome stranger. Seduced by Julian’s charm, Jazzmyn is swept up in a passionate romance. Then she… Continue reading Book Twenty-Four of 2013: THE SATYR’S CURSE by Alexandrea Weis
Demons don't die without a fight... After destroying the demon Lucien, Braden—son of Belle Dam’s most powerful warlock, Jason Thorpe—doesn’t need the power of his witch eyes to see that everything in his life is turning against him: friends, family, and even his visions. When disturbing nightmares of Lucien’s return haunt him, Braden discovers… Continue reading Book Twenty-Three of 2013: DEMON EYES by Scott Tracey
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
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
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