Book recommendation: Declan and Tori by Shiloh Hunter

Book 1 Tori McAdams was a sensible woman. She didn’t believe in hocus-pocus, she didn’t believe in ghosts, and she definitely didn’t believe in vampires…not until the night she was attacked by one. Alone, starving and afraid, she doesn’t know what’s happening but at least she had somebody to turn to… Declan Reilly was normally […]

Review: The Sleeping Beauty by Mercedes Lackey

The Particulars: Fantasy, Luna, e-book, library book. Grade: B- The Blurb: Godmother Lily serves the Kingdom of Eltaria, which may be the most imperiled of all the Five Hundred Kingdoms. It has the misfortune of being small, rich, and surrounded with enemies. Governing it has been a constant juggling trick. But now The Tradition has […]

Series review: The Desire,Ok novels by Leah Brooke

At first, I considered to review  the books seperately, but then I started to think about why I liked the books, and changed my mind. For me, Leah Brooke’s novels are like crack.  They don’t have the most exciting plots, if you read more than two in a row they start to blur.  But they […]

Review: Truth and Consequences by Linda Winfree

  The particulars: Romantic Suspense, Samhain, available as e-book and in print. Grade: A- Blurb: For undercover FBI agent Jason Harding, coming face to face with the grown-up version of his adolescent dreams is a nightmare. Kathleen Palmer sees him as a despicably corrupt small-town law officer and a murder suspect. Trapped in a web […]

Review: The Witch of Agnesi by Robert Spiller

The Witch of Agnesi by Robert Spiller The particulars: Mystery, Medallion Press, available as e-book and in print.  Grade: B Blurb: Bonnie Pinkwater is a teacher, a good one. She cares about her students. So when Peyton Newlin, a thirteen-year-old math genius, disappears, Bonnie starts nosing around.One by one, students who were competing with the […]

Switching Grade system

Until now, I have used Goodreads stars as a grading, but I have been getting more and more frustrated over the inflexibility in that system. So I have decided  to switch to A-F grading system on the blog.  Also, I’ll be post reviews on the blog first, and then Goodreads instead of the other way […]

Mixed book related links

So, Amazon and Overdrive have started to roll out the Library books for Kindle.  The impression I have gotten is that it is built on the Kindle’s innate lend me function.  Which raises the question how this will effect the Lending sites. I discovered Grab My Book, a nifty plugin for Firefox this week.   It […]

Fictionwise coupon

All right, this is just a quick heads up. Fictionwise has a 45% discount code that expires tomorrow.  ( The code is 091611)   I bought the following books:Cast in Shadows by Michelle Sagara ( secure Ereader)Blood bound by Rachel Vincent  ( secure Ereader)Forbidden Stranger by Marilyn Pappano ( secure Ereader)Singer and St Jude by […]

A whole lotta Ilona Andrews

Ilona Andrews has a slew of stories that will be published the upcoming months. It started last week with offering A Mere Formality as a free download on her webpage ( if you haven’t read Ilona Andrews, I recommend that you download A Mere Formality, or Questing Beast), a couple of days later Magic Graves […]