Today we’re participating in the book tour of Curvaceous Condemnation with an excerpt and a link to a giveaway.
Category Archives: paranormal
Katiebird reviews: The Blood of Eden series by Julie Kagawa
Blood of Eden series by Julie Kagawa
Book summary:
To survive in a ruined world, she must embrace the darkness…
Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a walled-in city. By day, she and her crew scavenge for food. By night, any one of them could be eaten. Some days, all that drives Allie is her hatred of them—the vampires who keep humans as blood cattle. Until the night Allie herself dies and becomes one of the monsters
Forced to flee her city, Allie must pass for human as she joins a ragged group of pilgrims seeking a legend—a place that might have a cure for the disease that killed off most of civilization and created the rabids, the bloodthirsty creatures who threaten human and vampire alike. And soon Allie will have to decide what and who is worth dying for…again.
Enter Julie Kagawa’s dark and twisted world as an unforgettable journey begins.
Giveaway winners: The Athena Effect and Mackenzie Legacy
I am pleased to announce the winners of the e-books and bracelet giveaway from Derrolyn Anderson, author of The Athena Effect and Mackenzie Legacy.
Giveaway: The Athena Effect Book and Swag
I am so excited to be hosting my first book and swag giveaway!! The author of The Athena Effect, Derrolyn Anderson has just published the second book, The Mackenzie Legacy, in the series.
Katiebird reviews: Wicked Sense (The Singularity series, #1) by Fabio Bueno
Wicked Sense (The Singularity Series, #1) by Fabio Bueno
Book Synopsis:
Witches inhabit our world, organized in covens and hiding behind a shroud of secrecy—the Veil.
Skye’s London coven sends her to Seattle’s Greenwood High to find the Singularity, an unusually gifted witch who may break the Veil and trigger a dangerous new era of witch-hunting. Things get complicated when Skye meets a charming new classmate, Drake. Skye’s job becomes even trickier when she clashes with Jane, an intimidating rival witch.
Drake falls for the mysterious Skye, but odd accidents, potion mix-ups, and the occasional brush with death kind of get in the way of romance. Once he discovers Skye is a witch, he goes to war for her, even though his only weapons are a nice set of abs and a sharp sense of humor.
Fighting off wicked Jane and the other dark forces hell-bent on seizing the Singularity’s immense power, Skye and Drake will risk everything to save the covens.
Going on a date has never been harder.
Shout Out: Dark Light by S.L. Jennings
I have a new book boyfriend and he’s part of the reason this week’s Shout Out goes to Dark Light (Dark Light #1) by S.L. Jennings…
Beyond Contemporary and Erotica: The World of Paranormal and Urban Fantasy
Looking for something different from contemporary romance or erotica?
You might want to check out these paranormal books and authors…
Katiebird Reviews: Aris Returns by Devin Morgan
**I was given an ARC of this book by Net Galley to read for review. That did not influence my review in any way.**
The synopsis:
Psychologist Sarah Hagan thought she had her life under control. She pulled herself together after a painful (and unexpected) divorce. She’s currently dating a successful but neglectful attorney—a relationship that is adequate, if not totally satisfying. She has a few good friends, lives in a beautiful condo in the heart of Chicago, and loves her work as a therapist. From the outside, it looks like her life is almost perfect. it only takes one patient — a handsome younger man named Carlos who is on parole for car theft — to put her well-ordered life into a tailspin. As she regresses him with hypnotherapy, she discovers an unusual presence. Is this some elaborate alter ego that Carlos has created or is something much stranger going on? In Sarah’s attempt to help Carlos deal with his issues of anger and a troubled past, she is captivated by the persona she uncovers through hypnosis Aris. Aris reveals that he is a vampire whose story begins in the time of Alexander the Great. His retelling of his lives, involvement and apparent demise in the court of Henry VIII keep her spellbound and hungry for more. On top of grappling with a phantom vampire, Sarah begins to have the most disturbing (and sensual) dreams. They awake the emotion, passion and vulnerability that she thought she had buried for good. The dreams both terrify and excite her as she struggles to make sense out of her world turned upside down. Sarah genuinely cares about Carlos as a patient and wants to help him find his way to a better life, but he has brought chaos, confusion and danger into her neatly buttoned-up reality. And if that’s not enough to deal with, she is inexplicably drawn to Aris in a way she can’t begin to rationalize. Can Sarah possibly love this vampire ghost or will he destroy everything she treasures?
I would like to say that this book is about vampires, and it is, but that’s not what compelled me to keep reading. I love vampire stories, but they are a dime a dozen now. For me to read one and love it takes a lot. Devin Morgan does an amazing job of telling the story of Aris Returns in the most unusual way. I loved the uniqueness of the way she tells this story. It kept me on the edge of my seat reading.
Katiebird reviews: The Athena Effect by Derrolyn Anderson
The Athena Effect by Derrolyn Anderson
**I was given a copy of this book by the author for an honest review.**
The synopsis:
Country girl Cali has been kept a secret her entire life, raised in isolation by two very troubled people. Despite her parent’s disturbing fits, Cal is perfectly content, living as one with the nature that surrounds her, and finding adventure inside the pages of her beloved books. When an awful tragedy tears her away from her remote cabin in the woods, nothing she’s ever read has prepared her for a world that she knows very little about.
Girls and motorcycles are what bad-boy Cal’s life is all about. Brought up in a raucous party house by his biker brother, he’s free to do as he pleases, going through the motions on his final days of high school. Aimless, Cal stopped thinking about his future a long time ago.
Attacked by a gang of thugs while running an errand for his brother, Cal is in serious trouble until a fierce girl appears out of nowhere to intervene. She chases off three grown men, sparing Cal a brutal beating before disappearing into the night like a spirit. He can’t stop thinking about his mysterious rescuer, and when she turns out to be the weird new girl at school who goes out of her way to avoid him, he can’t contain his curiosity.
He’s never met anyone like her before, and the more he learns about the unusual girl who shares his nickname, the more he wants to know. Cal can’t help falling for Cal, but can he keep her from falling victim to a dangerous enemy from her parent’s tragic past?
Close Encounters with Favorite Paranormal Books
Hi Everyone, so this week I am going to do something a little different here on Bookish. Anyone that knows me knows that I am not the biggest fan of Paranormal novels. It doesn’t mean I don’t like them, because I do, I am just particular about what I will read in the paranormal genre. So to prove a point that there are some Paranormal and fantasy books I love I am going to list them here for you. There are also many more other than these, recently I have read a few I adore, but I can’t name them all in one shot, who knows maybe there will be a part two.
