{Blog Tour Review} First Bite by Dani Harper

Series: Dark Wolf #1

Publication date: October 15, 2013

Publisher: Montlake Romance

ISBN-13: 9781477807590

Synopsis  

Neva was trying to end things before she became a killer, before she lost her identity, before she became like them. But sadly her hopes to save humanity from herself don’t go as planned, especially when Travis Williamson comes along to save her preaching that her life isn’t over.

Now Neva will learn to trust this stranger that has helped her more than once, while they keep moving away from her sire and all the messed up things she entitles. While learning that the guy with the permanent scold may not be as bad as the alternative, and that maybe the life she was forced into isn’t as bad as she was made to believe.

Review

First Bite is a story told from different perspectives in a way that you don’t really need a main title every time the point of view changes from character, it has been a long while since I’ve read something with more than two different P.O.V.’s and I don’t feel like I am trying to figure out just who the hell is the owner of the voice I am reading.

I liked Neva, she may have found it really hard to trust Travis but honestly that just added to the excitement and thankfully she got over it before it got old. Travis on the other hand is hunted by his past and may be in denial of some of the things happening right in front of him, he is strong and refuses to leave Neva until she is no longer a danger to society and he shows her that being a changeling doesn’t equal being a murderer.

Most of the characters that come into play where fun to read, I do have some issues with the villain and her relationship whit our heroin, the foundation of it all leaves to believe some of the things wouldn’t have developed the way they did if their past was truly what we end up learning.

Sometimes this story would throw me of my game with some of the revelations or plot twists it we got, sometimes it was really on the safe side of thing when I feel that this story could have taken some of those opportunities to shine.

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{Review} Wolfsbane by Andrea Cremer

Publication date: July 26, 2011

Publisher: Philomel

ISBN-13: 9780399254833

Synopsis

Last time we saw Calla she had found out the life she had always lead was all based in lies, searchers, guardians and keepers don’t really play the parts she’s been told. Now captured by the enemy Calla starts learning who is playing which part.

It is time to own up to the consequences of leaving her pack, starting to trust the enemy and deciding the leave everything to protect the boy she loves.

Review

Calla left everything for Shay, the guy that the keepers want dead and the searchers need. The ending in the first book was so good, the cliffhanger was killing me so let’s just say that I entered Wolfsbane the bar was really really high.

The beginning of the book was interesting the tension between the new environment, Calla must learn if she can trust the searchers now that the guardians and the keepers are after her for ditching in an attempt to save Shay.

The main issue with this book is that it tried to get the reader to know everything this world was hiding from us now that Calla decided to open her eyes to the truth.  There are three main subjects in this book and only 390 pages to let us know all of them.

All those main subjects in hand plus character development, the expansion of the Nightshade world and all those past and possible future outcomes that call for your attention become a bit of distraction and I couldn’t really get lost on the story.

By the end of the book I couldn’t believe this was the book I had been waiting for a whole year!!! (Yes this book came out on 2011 but it was one of those book that you buy and then suddenly you get scared because they might not be as good as you expected) I am unsure if I’ll be reading Bloodrose, there are many missions ahead and just one book to go, I don’t know if all those stories will have space to breath and let the reader enjoy the story.

Have you read the Nightshade story?? What do you think about it??

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{Trailer Sunday} The Calling by Kelley Armstrong

Publication date: April 10th 2012

Publisher: Harper

ISBN-13: 9780061797057

Maya Delaney's paw-print birthmark is the mark of what she truly is -a skin-walker. She can run faster, climb higher, and see better than nearly everyone else. Experiencing intense connections with the animals that roam the woods outside her home, Maya knows it's only a matter of time before she's able to Shift and become one of them. And she believes there may be others in her small town with surprising talents.

Now Maya and her friends have been forced to flee from their homes during a forest fire they suspect was deliberately set. Then they're kidnapped, and after a chilling helicopter crash, they find themselves in the Vancouver Island wilderness with nothing but their extraordinary abilities to help them get back home.

In THE CALLING, the sizzling second book in the Darkness Rising trilogy, New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong pumps up the romance, danger, and suspense that left readers of THE GATHERING clamoring for more.

{Blog Tour Review} The Siren's Secret by Heather Ostler

Series: The Shapeshifter’s Secret

Publication date: June 11, 2013

Publisher: Cedar Fort

ISBN-13: 978146112234

Synopsis

Julia’s world was turned upside down last year. She had to abandoned her life at New York… well we could say she had to leave her life on earth as we know it to save her life. As a result she found out her father had kept a dimension full of secrets all her life.

Now after surviving some quality time with her mother, Julia is ready for another school year at her other dimension boarding school. What she doesn’t expect is that her appearance starts to change in drastic ways, her shifting abilities decrease and the fact that she is cursed force her to leave school and go to Serenity.

 Review

Heather found a way to twist the story into a way that I hadn’t expected. When I read the title I was super excited, what could a shapeshifter have to do with a siren? How would Caleb and Terrence fit into this story? What more does Ossai have to offer?

It was nice to see the characters and the story that made this book memorable to me, to walk in Heather Ostler’s New York, Ossai and Lockham Castle.

The direction this story took was really unexpected; it gave me another sense of Ossai and all we haven’t discovered, not only in all the land we still don’t know but all the problems and races that live in it.

This book gets three broken TV’s because even though I enjoyed the story, there were some setbacks the most important one was that I was expecting a bigger growth from the author on this second installment of the Shapeshifter’s Secret. The second thing, and this may just be me guys, is that at some points of the conversation it felt robotic, like the character was just retelling what had just happened or responding in a way totally expected.

I hope you give The Siren’s Secret a try and make the decision for yourself.

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{Trailer Sunday}The Gathering by Kelley Armstrong

Series: Darkness Rising #1

Publication date: April 12th 2011

Publisher: Harper

ISBN-13: 9780061797026

Sixteen-year-old Maya is just an ordinary teen in an ordinary town. Sure, she doesn't know much about her background - the only thing she really has to cling to is an odd paw-print birthmark on her hip - but she never really put much thought into who her parents were or how she ended up with her adopted parents in this tiny medical-research community on Vancouver Island.

Until now.

Strange things have been happening in this claustrophobic town - from the mountain lions that have been approaching Maya to her best friend's hidden talent for "feeling" out people and situations, to the sexy new bad boy who makes Maya feel . . . . different. Combine that with a few unexplained deaths and a mystery involving Maya's biological parents and it's easy to suspect that this town might have more than its share of skeletons in its closet.

{Spotlight} I Kissed a Dog by Carol Van Atta

Series: The Werewolves of the West Series Book One

Publisher: Cambridge Press US under the umbrella of Charles River Press (CRP)

ISBN:  1936185725 

ISBN13: 9781936185726

ASIN: B009SV179U

Cover Artist: Ann Falcone

Book Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeuDqevNSXM

Book Description: 

Chloe Carpenter isn't like other women. She can communicate with animals. A gift she unwrapped following one of her frequent dances with death.

 In her otherwise wacky life, she's finally found a semblance of sanity working at the Plum Beach Wildlife Park, where her unique talents can make life or death differences for the animals in her care. That semblance is shattered when a new veterinarian roars into the park in his spiffed up sports car and sets his golden gaze on her. If she had her way, he'd roar right back out.

Problem: He's her new coworker and he's saved her life twice - in the past twenty-four hours.

Zane Marshall, Enforcer for the Pacific Pack of purebred werewolves, has a job to do - figure out who or what is mutilating the young men of Plum Beach.

With orders to find the woman who talks to animals, he accepts a position working alongside the fiery Chloe Carpenter, a female who ignites his interest far more than he ever expected. Remarkably, she's the one elusive female with potential to bring meaning and passion to his empty existence.

Problem: She despises him.

Together, they're forced to unravel a mystery of supernatural proportions, a murderous mystery with eternal implications for everyone. In the process, they discover opposites really do attract.

Major Problem: Zane is pledged to another woman, and she'll do anything to keep him from Chloe.

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Like most authors, Carol Van Atta is no stranger to the written word. She penned a short novel at age 12 (somewhat frightening illustrations included, and lots of bunnies were involved), and had a creative writing piece published in her high school newspaper (about David Bowie's Diamond Dogs LP). Yes, she's an ex-80's chick.

Devouring books from numerous genres, Carol developed a deep thirst/hunger for more reading material, and could almost always be found with her nose in a book.

She has contributed to several popular inspirational anthologies and devotional books, and lives in the rainy wetland of Oregon with a terrifying teen (another in college) and a small zoo of animals. She is taking an undetermined hiatus away from inspirational writing to delve into her darker side. (Though you can check out her latest spiritual suspense novel, Soul Defenders). It is rumored that this genre-jumping occurred after Carol discovered too suspicious red marks on her neck, and experienced an unquenchable urge to howl at the moon.

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{Review} Otherkin by Nina Berry

Publication date: July 31^st, 2012

Publisher: Kensington

ISBN-13: 9780758276919

Synopsis

Dez knew little about her past when it came to where she comes from. She knew she was adopted, she knows she is a good person and she knows that people don’t normally have to go through what just happened to her.

You see, girls don’t normally get attacked and they wake up in cages, nor do they escape with their next cage neighbor.

Dez worlds has just started changing let’s just hope the boy she escaped with and the world she is now entering have the answers she needs before those that trapped her caught up with them.

Review

When I started Otherking I wasn’t expecting a read that left me feeling that the book flew by, I was expecting something to distract me, to pass time, another were story. I was surprised that I could really sink myself in the story, even if it felt like a fast read I was pleasantly surprised by this story and what it offers.

The big picture behind Otherkin has me fascinated, the world that Dez lives in and the answers that she seeks I feel would be taking us on to bigger adventures and shifting what we think we knew about her world.

This book will be a little evil; it will be giving you answers as well as evoking new questions. Don’t worry it isn’t in a stressing way, but the author has a way to make the journey fun to travel.

I loved Dez and Caleb, but what I loved the most is how well they work together. Dez wins her spot in the story she isn’t a bratty nor a whines about everything, she tries to learn, make the best of the situation she is in and with all the unknowns in the horizon.

With all the answers and the way this plot twisted I can’t wait to see how Nina Berry surprises us on the next installment of this series: Othermoon.

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{Blog Tour Review + Giveaway} House Rules by Chloe Neill

Series: Chicagoland Vampires #7

Publication Date: February 05, 2013

Publisher: New American Library (Penguin)

ISBN-13: 9780451237101

Synopsis

Cadogan house has taken a risky decision; they are now going through a divorce of sorts. Now turning every rock and legal contract they have in hopes they don’t get screwed over. They will find allies and foes in people they may have never expected.

While some bridges burn others are being mended, some of the relationships have turned shaky they are now finding their balance in this post-“hard bitten” edition of Chicagoland Vampires.

If the separation stress wasn’t enough there is a new sort of terror in town, two rouge vampires have gone missing, the city isn’t going to help find them and vampires wouldn’t trust them with the job. So it is up to our favorite fanged duo to check things up before this spreads like wild fire.

Review

“House Rules” is a book in equal parts full of political shenanigans, mystery and action. After the Cadogan vampires decided to take a stand and fight for what they think is the right move for the house they are preparing to face the consequences of their actions trying to get away with it with alive and take in as little damage as possible.

I gotta tell you guys I really enjoyed this book, especially all the Jeff parts in it, why? Well let’s say that our favorite and extremely alpha vamp is taken and I have no intentions of messing that relationship even if its fictional and all I have to do is leave my imagination run wild, I like that relationship so much I wouldn’t dare mess with it not even a little. Also Jeff seems to be getting a bigger role on this series, I love that nerdy shifter he is as entertaining and he is charismatic, and has proven himself time and time again.

I gotta tell you guys I really enjoyed this book, especially all the Jeff parts in it, why? Well let’s say that our favorite and extremely alpha vamp is taken and I have no intentions of messing that relationship even if its fictional and all I have to do is leave my imagination run wild, I like that relationship so much I wouldn’t dare mess with it not even a little.  It is both his confidence and arrogance part of what makes us love him for who he is.

Going back to Jeff, he seems to be getting a bigger role on this series, I love that nerdy shifter he is as entertaining and he is charismatic, and has proven himself time and time again, I can't wait to see how his character and story evolves.

Chicagoland hotties aside (and if you are wondering those are just two of that long list) this books is playing more with the mystery, this time I was 100% hooked I wanted to know the person behind the horrible crimes that are now hunting Chicago, I wanted to know how this person did it and what kind of motives she/he might have.

I can never ever ever fault this series or any of its character about being one dimensional, nor can I say it lacks on the entertainment department Chloe Neill’s characters have a life of their own, you see them grow before your eyes, learn from their mistakes and face the dangers upon them the best way they can.

This was a great book that is part of an exceptional series, if by any chance you want to find redemption on vampires because a book or movie rubbed you the wrong way and you want a story with some romance, tons of action, engaging characters that learn and evolve then give Chicagoland vampires a chance I doubt you will regret it.

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*4.5 Broken TV's

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{Review} Biting Cold by Chloe Neill

Series: Chicagoland Vampires #6

Publication Date: August 7, 2012

Publisher: New American Library (Penguin)

ISBN-13: 9780451237019

Synopsis

So much has happened since Lake Michigan turned dark both politically and supernaturally, now with a quest pending and a promise in the air our favorite Cadogan vampires are out on a hunt in hopes of getting an extremely dangerous artifact back before supernaturals with much more destructive plans in mind get it.

Review

Where to start… Chicagoland Vampires is a series that in my opinion has found a great balance between action, attraction, romance, urban fantasy and a wonderful and quirky sense of humor. This is the Chloe Neill style I fell in love with.

Biting Cold puts all the before mentioned elements in action and makes the characters shine. This book will have you smirking before you read that, that is exactly the reaction the character gave, laughing, shacking with anticipation of what is to come, getting frustrated with the characters about the mystery’s and obstacles they face, blushing and don’t be surprised if you find yourself unable to leave this book until you finish it.

This book takes more twist and turns and is much more active than the previous to books have been. I wouldn’t call this book a fast read, it is more of an action packed read, and even if there is enough movement in the story to go around the supernatural world keeps expanding with the meeting of new characters and new sides to ones with think we knew.

If you haven’t jumped the Chicagoland Vampires I strongly suggest you hop on this vampires and other sups are great characters to read (they feel without a doubt real) adventures that put our beloved character to the test (both in strength and their relationships) and urban fantasy in continuous expansion just when you thought you knew everything about Chicago and the supernaturals that live in this world you find that there is more to learn.

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