Dawnbreaker by Jocelynn Drake

Dawnbreaker (Dark Days, Book 3)
Jocelynn Drake

This review is for an ARC I received from EOS books

The Premise: This is the third Dark Days novel, narrated by Mira, a 600 year old vampire, known as the Fire Starter, the only nightwalker (aka vampire) with the power over fire. Mira is in the middle of a war [...]

Giveaway winner! and new covers of books I want

OK, should have posted this earlier but I’m never sure where the time goes some days. The winner of the two paranormal ARCs is

SCOTT!!

Congratulations! I’m sending you an email to let you know you won too, and the books will be going out next week.
In other news I’ve been updating my Wishlists (2009 [...]

Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs

Hunting Ground (Alpha & Omega, Book 2)
Patricia Briggs

The Premise: This is the second book of Patricia Briggs parallel series to Mercy Thompson, featuring a mated Alpha and Omega werewolf couple, Anna and Charles. Bran, the Alpha of all werewolves in North America is getting ready to out the existence of werewolves for various reasons and [...]

Giveaway: Two paranormal ARCs

To enter: Send an email to janicu[AT]gmail[DOT]com with the title “Paranormal ARC Giveaway”. I will send the book outside the US, so anyone can enter. You have till September 25th (this Friday), midnight EST to enter.

My Wicked Vampire
Nina Bangs

Dark Legacy by Anna DeStefano

Norse Code by Greg van Eekhout

Norse Code
Greg Van Eekhout

I saw a few reviews of Norse Code when it came out a few months ago (in May), but I had a hard time deciding whether to pick it up based on them. To make my decision for me, the ever awesome calico-reaction sent me a copy and I finally read it [...]

Crazy Beautiful by Lauren Baratz-Logsted

Crazy Beautiful

The Premise: Well. I really think the blurb for this is better than anything I could say because…hooks for hands people:
“In an explosion of his own making, Lucius blew his arms off. Now he has hooks. He chose hooks because they were cheaper. He chose hooks because he wouldn’t outgrow them so quickly. He [...]

For your amusement

I have reviews to do but I’m lazy so here’s a funny book cover that gave me some chuckles. This was from a website that posts particularly hilarous covers and blurbs of self-published books. This too was found through twitter a few months ago but I forgot to post it. This [...]

Everyone’s Reading (free reads from Mills and Boon)

I love twitter. I found out about everyone’s reading there from eagle-eyed @Lou_bookpushers a couple of days ago. I’ve been meaning to try out Deanna Raybourn for a while now, so the first book from her series being out there for free is great. Also amusing: 7 out of the 10 books here have a [...]

Doubleblind by Ann Aguirre

Doubleblind (Sirantha Jax, Book 3)
Ann Aguirre

I’ve been dying to read Doubleblind since, oh last year when I finished Wanderlust. So when I was lucky enough to get a early copy of the book (it comes out Sept 29th), it vaulted past everything else on my TBR (past some other books I’ve really wanted to read) [...]

New Modern Faerie Tale series covers

I noticed that there are new covers for Tithe, Valient, and Ironside. They sort of remind me of the covers for Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies series, no?
 

 
I think Holly Black has good cover karma. These are the older ones:
 

  
 
The hardcover (I really liked this one):