Friday, March 30, 2012

Friday Recommends #2

Friday Recommends #2

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Friday Recommends is a weekly meme hosted by Pen to Paper. This a weekly book blog hop where we as bloggers choose a book that we have read and recommend it to our fellow bloggers. We can then visit each others blogs to see what other bloggers recommend and find new books to add to our TBR list. Hopfully we all will have new followers from visiting each blog on the linky list.







The rules for Friday Recommends are:


  • Follow Pen to Paper as host of the meme.
  • Please consider adding the blog hop button to your blog somewhere, so others can find it easily and join in too! Help spread the word! The code will be at the bottom of the post under the linky.
  • Pick a book that you've read, and have enjoyed enough to recommend to other readers. It can be a book you've read recently, or a book you read years ago - it's up to you - but make sure you tell us why you love the book (like a mini review). You make the post as long or as short as you like.
  • Add your blog to the linky at the bottom of post on host site Pen to Paper after posting your blog post.
  • Put a link back to pen to paper (http://vogue-pentopaper.blogspot.com) somewhere in your post.
  • Visit the other blogs and enjoy!





My Recommed for this week:



Not Without My Daughter Not Without My Daughter by Betty Mahmoody, William Hoffer

Goodreads synopsis:

In August 1984, Michigan housewife Betty Mahmoody accompanied her husband to his native Iran for a two-week vacation. To her horror, she found herself and her four-year-old daughter, Mahtob, virtual prisoners of a man rededicated to his Shiite Moslem faith, in a land where women are near-slaves and Americans are despised. Their only hope for escape lay in a dangerous underground that would not take her child..

Now the true story of this courageous woman and her breathtaking odyssey bursts upon the screen in the Pathe Entertainment production starring Academy Award-winner Sally Field!

My Thoughts

Betty Mahmoody and her 4 year old daughter Mahtob went with her husband Moody to Iran to visit his family in a time of war. Her husband took her passport and would not let her return to America. Over time he became violent with Betty and Mahtob. He held Betty prisoner in his families home and then in another family members home.

When she finaIly convinced him that he could trust her again and was allowed to go to town she found a man that let her use the phone so she could call her family in America. Betty could have divorced her husband and left Iran but in Iran the man had soul custody of the child and the woman had no say what so ever. So she had to find a way to leave with Mahtob. She found this group of people that could help them escape together . They went to Turkey and the back to America and to the American Embassy.

I really enjoyed this book a lot and after all these years since I read it I still think about it a lot. Betty was a brave and loving woman to go through what she did to save her child. There are some women /mothers out there that would have divorced their husband and left their child there.

Have you read Not Without My Daughter? What did you think?

If you are a new follower leave a comment below so that I will know and can follow you back. Also leave a link to your Friday Recomend so that I can visit you and see what you picked.

Feature & Follower Friday #1

Feature & Follower Friday #1


The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee’s View and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it’ll allow us to show off more new blogs!



This weeks two featured blogs are Alluring Reads and Justin's Book Blog.

Parajunkee of Parajunkee’s View Featured Blog


Alluring Reads


Alison of Alison Can Read Featured Blog






RULES

To join the fun and make new book blogger friends, just follow these simple rules:


  • (Required) Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Hosts {Parajunkee & Alison Can Read}
  • (Required) Follow our Featured Bloggers
  • Put your Blog name & URL in the Linky thing. You can also grab the code if you would like to insert it into your posts.
  • Grab the button up there and place it in a post, this post is for people to find a place to say “hi” in your comments and that they are now following you.
  • If you are using WordPress or another CMS that doesn’t have GFC (Google Friends Connect) state in your posts how you would like to be followed
  • Follow Follow Follow as many as you can, as many as you want, or just follow a few. The whole point is to make new friends and find new blogs. Also, don’t just follow, comment and say hi. Another blogger might not know you are a new follower if you don’t say “HI”
  • If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love…and the followers
  • If you’re new to the follow friday hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!


This weeks Question:

Do you read one book at a time or do you switch back and forth between two or more?

I always read more than one book at a time. I read one book in print. I read one book on my computer with the kindle reading app or with a ebook reader. I read one book on my phone with the kindle reading app or with a ebook reader. Sometimes I borrowor my step sons iPad and read a book on it too. So who knows how many books I maybe reading at one time. So far I have not had a problem remembering what each book is about. I need to be able to read a book where ever I may be at at the moment. But most of the time I am only reading two or maybe 3 at one time. I love technology. Do you read one book at a time or do you read more than one? Leave comment below and let me know. Leave your Feature & Follow Friday link so that I can check out yours too.

Thursday, March 29, 2012

A Moonlit Night (A Moonlit Night #1) By: Adrianna White

A Moonit NightA Moonit Night by Adrianna White
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is a short story from A Moonit Night Saga Episodes 1. Although it is a short story it is still a very good book. I loved it and would have liked for it to be longer. But I guess that is why it is Episode 1. I got this free on Amazon.

Emily goes out to bar/nightclub with her brother and two of her friends to celebrate her acceptance into The College of Charleston. While at the bar she goes outside to get some fresh air. At first she is in the alley alone and then out of nowhere two guys show up and attack Emily. A stranger saves the two guys from killing her. He leaves just as mysteriously as he arrived when her friends come out of the bar to check on her.

The mysterious stranger shows up at her house the next day to explain to her what happened the night before when she was attacked. While he is trying to explain to Emily the truth about who or what he is and why she was attacked her attackers show up at her door. Xander and Simeon fight while Emily is being held by her two attackers. Who wins the fight Xander or Simeon? Why are they fighting? Who or What is Emily? If you have read this please leave comment and let me know what you thought about it. If you have not read it you should read it if you like vampiers and the paranormal.





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Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Wishlist Wednesday #2

Wishlist Wednesday is a book blog hop where we will post about one book per week that has been on our wishlist for some time, or just added (it's entirely up to you), that we can't wait to get off the wishlist and onto our wonderful shelves.

  • Follow Pen to Paper as host of the meme.
  • Please consider adding the blog hop button to your blog somewhere, so others can find it easily and join in too! Help spread the word! The code will be at the bottom of the post under the linky.
  • Pick a book from your wishlist that you are dying to get to put on your shelves.
  • Do a post telling your readers about the book and why it's on your wishlist.
  • Add your blog to the linky at the bottom of the post on Pen to Paper.
  • Put a link back to pen to paper somewhere in your post.
  • Visit the other blogs and enjoy!



On My Wishlist Week #2:

Undeadly (The Reaper Diaries, #1)

Undeadly (The Reaper Diaries #1) by Michele Vail


Expected publication: November 20th 2012 by Harlequin Teen

Goodreads synopsis:

The day I turned 16, my boyfriend-to-be died. I brought him back to life. Then things got a little weird... Molly Bartolucci wants to blend in, date hottie Rick and keep her zombie-raising abilities on the down-low. Then the god Anubis chooses her to become a reaper—and she accidentally undoes the work of another reaper, Rath. Within days, she’s shipped off to the Nekyia Academy, an elite school that trains the best necromancers in the world. And her personal reaping tutor? Rath. Who seems to hate her guts. Rath will be watching closely to be sure she completes her first assignment-reaping Rick, the boy who should have died. The boy she still wants to be with. To make matters worse, students at the academy start turning up catatonic, and accusations fly—against Molly. The only way out of this mess? To go through hell. Literally.

The reason I chose this book is it sounds like it will be a great book. Its about zombies and I like that the school is an academy. She will have to go through hell to get out of the mess that she is in. What does this mean? What is a reaper? I like the cover also. Undeadly has been on my TBR list for a while and it doesn't come out until November. I am a little disapointed.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Top Ten Tuesday #2

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created here at The Broke and the Bookish. This feature was created because we are particularly fond of lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. We'd love to share our lists with other bookish folks and Each week we will post a new Top Ten list that one of our bloggers here at The Broke andwould LOVE to see your top ten lists! the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join. All we ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND add your name to the Linky widget so that everyone can check out other bloggers lists! If you don't have a blog, just post your answers as a comment. Have fun with it! It's a fun way to get to know your fellow bloggers.

For future Top Ten Tuesday topics, check them out here!

This weeks Top Ten Tuesday list is books that I'd Play Hooky With. Yes I did cheat but when I read the Top Ten for this week I thought about it like if I was stranded on a desert island. Like books that you couldn't live without and could read over and over again and never get bored.

My Top Ten Books I'd Play Hooky With


The Stand
The Stand By: Stephen King

The Stand has been my favorite book for a long time, I guess since I first read it in high school. I love all the characters and that the world ends with a super flu that they call captain trips..



One Past Midnight: The Langoliers
The Langoliers By: Stephen King

I have always loved The Langoliers. They travel back in time kind of through a aurora borealis or the northern lights.



Witchblood
Witchblood By: Emma Mills

Witchblood is a page turner, a novel that I could not seem to put down. I lost sleep over this book. A whole new way of becoming a vampire.



Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Roots: The Saga of an American Family By: Alex Haley

This is a great book too, loved it. A birth in 1750, in an African village; it ends seven generations.



Queen
Queen By: Alex Haley
From Goodreads:

Multigenerational saga of Alex Haley's father's family through his grandmother, Queen, the proud daughter born of a slave and a white slave owner.



Gone with the Wind
Gone With The Wind By: Margret Mitchel
From Goodreads:

Revisit the South and fall under the spell of Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler all over again. After six decades, this sweeping saga set against the backdrop of the war-torn South remains one of the most beloved American novels ever written.



Scarlett
Scarlett (Gone With the Wind) By: Alexandra Ripley
From Goodreads:

Come back to Tara...to Scarlett and Rhett...and to the greatest love story in all fiction. This is the book whose initial publication was an instant sensation: selling out immediately, setting new records, and enthralling readers all over the world. This is the book everyone wants to read, savor, and enjoy...



Twilight Set (Twilight, #1-4)
The Twilight Saga (1-4) By: Stephnie Meyers

Bella falls in love with Edward who is a vampire. Her best friend Jacob, is a werewolf doesn't get along with Edward because Edward is vampire and Jacob is in love with her too.



Marked (House of Night, #1)
House Of Night Novels (1-10) By: P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast

I have read 7 books in this series and just love them all. I like the House of Night academy. I like where they each have an affinity for all the elements, except Zoey she has an affinity for all of the elements.



The Lonesome Dove Series
Lonesome Dove Series By: Larry McMurtry

I think I feel in love with Augustus McCrae (Gus) the first time that I read this. They travel cross country in wagons herding their cattle to claim land for their own, to start a new life.

Sunday, March 25, 2012

In My Mailbox #1

In My Mailbox #1




In My Mailbox, Pic for In My Mailbox meme hosted by The Story Siren.

In My Mailbox is weekly meme hosted by The Story Siren.
In this meme we post the books that we recieved this week like in snail mail, email, kindle, the library, author ect...









IMM this week

Paperback from author for review

Darkness Falls (Darkness Falls #1) By: Jessica Sorensen


Ebook from author via Novel Publicity for review


Sykosa
Sykosa By: Justin OrdoƱez


Ebook from author via Goodreads for review


Lure
Lure By: Brian Rathbone


Bought on Amazon

Witch Hunt
Witch Hunt By: Devin O'Branagan


Free on Amazon

Tales of Aradia the Last Witch Volume 2
Tales of Aradia The Last Witch Volume 2 By: L.A. Jones

Descended by Blood
Descended by Blood (Vampire Born Trilogy) By: Angeline Kace

Friday, March 23, 2012

Friday Recommends #1



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Friday Recommends is a weekly meme hosted by Pen to Paper. This a weekly book blog hop where we as bloggers choose a book that we have read and recommend it to our fellow bloggers. We can then visit each others blogs to see what other bloggers recommend and find new books to add to our TBR list. Hopfully we all will have new followers from visiting each blog on the linky list.







The rules for Friday Recommends are:


  • Follow Pen to Paper as host of the meme.
  • Please consider adding the blog hop button to your blog somewhere, so others can find it easily and join in too! Help spread the word! The code will be at the bottom of the post under the linky.
  • Pick a book that you've read, and have enjoyed enough to recommend to other readers. It can be a book you've read recently, or a book you read years ago - it's up to you - but make sure you tell us why you love the book (like a mini review). You make the post as long or as short as you like.
  • Add your blog to the linky at the bottom of post on host site Pen to Paper after posting your blog post.
  • Put a link back to pen to paper (http://vogue-pentopaper.blogspot.com) somewhere in your post.
  • Visit the other blogs and enjoy!





My Recommed for this week:


The Stand The Stand By: Stephen King

Goodreads synopsis:

This is the way the world ends: with a nanosecond of computer error in a Defense Department laboratory and a million casual contacts that form the links in a chain letter of death.

And here is the bleak new world of the day after: a world stripped of its institutions and emptied of 99 percent of its people. A world in which a handful of panicky survivors choose sides—or are chosen. A world in which good rides on the frail shoulders of the 108-year-old Mother Abigail—and the worst nightmares of evil are embodied in a man with a lethal smile and unspeakable powers: Randall Flagg, the dark man.

In 1978 Stephen King published The Stand, the novel that is now considered to be one of his finest works. But as it was first published, The Stand was incomplete, since more than 150,000 words had been cut from the original manuscript.

Now Stephen King's apocalyptic vision of a world blasted by plague and embroiled in an elemental struggle between good and evil has been restored to its entirety. The Stand: The Complete And Uncut Editionincludes more than five hundred pages of material previously deleted, along with new material that King added as he reworked the manuscript for a new generation. It gives us new characters and endows familiar ones with new depths. It has a new beginning and a new ending. What emerges is a gripping work with the scope and moral comlexity of a true epic.

For hundreds of thousands of fans who read The Stand in its original version and wanted more, this new edition is Stephen King's gift. And those who are reading The Stand for the first time will discover a triumphant and eerily plausible work of the imagination that takes on the issues that will determine our survival.



My Thoughts:

Stephen King has been my favorite writer since high school. I have read and own most of his books. The Stand is my favorite book ever although I do read different genres now. I actually can’t remember how many times I have read The Stand. The reason that I love The Stand so much is because of the evil versus the good that the story portrays. I love all the characters in the book too, Stu, Frannie, Nick, Ralph, Glenn, Tom, Larry, Mother Abagail, Harold, Nadine and the Trash Can Man. I love the poem in the book "This is the way the world ends...."

I believe that when Stephen King writes a book that he puts a message in his books that most people do not get. That there is more than evil versus good to his stories. I have wished for a long time now that I could meet Stephen King and ask him what he is really trying to tell the world with the stories that he writes. Stephen King has been the only writer that I have wanted to meet until lately, now I would really like to meet a lot of other writers too, but now I would really like to meet Emma Mills who wrote the novel Witchblood. Have you read The Stand or any of Stephen King’s novels? Did you like The Stand? Do you like anything that he he has written? Please leave a comment and let me know.



Thursday, March 22, 2012

Evernight (Evernight #1) By: Claudia Gray

Evernight (Evernight, #1)Evernight by Claudia Gray
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Bianca's parents are teachers who have gotten a new teaching position at the Evernight Academy where Bianca will be attending for the first time. She is not pleased with attending this new school so she decides to run away on the first day hoping to make a statement that her parents will see and know that she does not want to go to school here and take her back home to her old school. She runs into the woods behind the school where she meets Lucas. Bianca falls in love with Lucas who is human.

Bianca is very shy and has a hard time talking with people. She does't have this problem with Lucas though. I can relate with Bianca on being shy. I know what it is to be shy. You can't talk to someone that you don't know and have a very hard time talking in a group of people even if you've known these people your whole life. But like Bianca when I met my husband I had no problem talking to him well maybe a little but it was way different.

Evernight Academy is a school for vampires. They have decided to allow humans to attend for the first time. Bianca being shy does manage to meet some new friends, Patrice, a vampire, her new roomate, Bathazar who is also a vampire, Raqel and Vic who is Lucas' roomate are both human.

Bianca is a vampire but is a very different type of vampire than her parents or any other vampire. This is what made this book so good and will remain with me for a very long time. How is Bianca different than the other vampires? Read Evernight to find out. You will not be disapointed if you like vampires.





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Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Starters (Starters #1) By: Lissa Price

Starters (Starters, #1)Starters by Lissa Price
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Callie her little brother Tyler and her friend Michael are children who lost their parents in the Spores War and have no one to claim them and be their guardian. Children like Callie live in abandon bulidings and eat whatever they can find on the streets. Callie is a very strong person that grows up very fast to take care of her little brother. She has no choice, she is all he has now.

Callie's little brother Tyler is sick and needs medicine, they have no money. Callie hears about a place called Prime Destinations where young people can donate their bodies so that the old people can rent them and become them so that they can be young again. Callie rents her body out and meets other renters who are trying to find out what Prime Destination is up to. The renters that she meets are trying to find out what Prime Destination did with their grandchildren who also rented out their bodies like Callie did hers.

Prime Destination place a neurochip in Callie's head that allows the renter to take over her body. The neurochip malfunctions and this is how she becomes her renter. She discovers that her renter whats to do more with body than just be young again. Callie's renter plans on using her body to kill the senator. She meets Blake the senator's grandson who is a normal teenager in her body but as the renter and falls in love with him

I recieved Starters from Random House Books, my first paperback ARC. I loved Starters it was very different than anything that I have read. I love how Callie stepped up to take care of her little brother. How she became a parent when she should have been going out on dates and to parties like any teenager normally would be doing. How she wanted to help the other donor's and stop Prime Deatination from taking over their lives. Will Callie stop Prime Destination from taking the young peoples lives from them? You'll just have to read Starters to find out.





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WishList Wednesday #1

Wishlist Wednesday is a book blog hop where we will post about one book per week that has been on our wishlist for some time, or just added (it's entirely up to you), that we can't wait to get off the wishlist and onto our wonderful shelves.

  • Follow Pen to Paper as host of the meme.
  • Please consider adding the blog hop button to your blog somewhere, so others can find it easily and join in too! Help spread the word! The code will be at the bottom of the post under the linky.
  • Pick a book from your wishlist that you are dying to get to put on your shelves.
  • Do a post telling your readers about the book and why it's on your wishlist.
  • Add your blog to the linky at the bottom of the post on Pen to Paper.
  • Put a link back to pen to paper somewhere in your post.
  • Visit the other blogs and enjoy!



On My Wishlist Week #1:
Witch Hunt

Goodreads synopsis:
Leigh has been married to a Hawthorne for a decade, but never knew the family secret: the Hawthornes are witches. When the dynamic Preacher Cody instigates a new world-wide witch hunt, Leigh must choose sides. Will she stand with her husband and children, or will she run? This isn't the first witch hunt the Hawthornes have faced, but it could be their last. Will anyone survive?

A classic novel, updated for the 21st Century!

My reason for choosing Witch Hunt is I like reading almost anything about witches and the Salem Witch Trails. I am always hoping to learn something new about the trails. I've also read some great reviews on Goodreads. Have you read Witch Hunt? What did you think? Please leave comment and let me know. Thanks.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Top Ten Tuesday #1

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created here at The Broke and the Bookish. This feature was created because we are particularly fond of lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. We'd love to share our lists with other bookish folks and Each week we will post a new Top Ten list that one of our bloggers here at The Broke andwould LOVE to see your top ten lists! the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join. All we ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND add your name to the Linky widget so that everyone can check out other bloggers lists! If you don't have a blog, just post your answers as a comment. Have fun with it! It's a fun way to get to know your fellow bloggers.

For future Top Ten Tuesday topics, check them out here!

This weeks Top Ten Tuesday list is books that are released between March 20th and June 21st 2012 or they can be any books that are on your TBR list that you hope to read this spring.

My Top Ten Books to be read this Spring


Enchantment (Channie, #1)

  1. Enchantment (Channie #1) By Charlotte Abel
    This sounds like it will be a good read with dark and forbidden magic and casting spells.

  2. Taken (Channie, #2)

  3. Taken (Channie #2) By Charlotte Abel
    Action packed with love, magic and betrayal.
  4. The Trouble With Spells (Of Witches and Warlocks, #1)

  5. The Trouble with Spells (Of Witches and Warlocks #1) By Lacey Weatherford
    A witch who is a descendant of a long line of witches and warlocks.

  6. The Emerald Talisman (Talisman, #1)

  7. The Emerald Talisman (Talisman #1) By Brenda Pandos
    To be normal, sixteen-year-old Julia Parker would shed her empathic gift in a second.

  8. Entanglements

  9. Entanglements By P.R. Mason
    Fun turns bizarre when Kizzy accidentally opens a vortex and her stepsister is swept through to an evil alternate dimension.

  10. Loramendi's Story

  11. Loramendi's Story (Lords of Shifters) By Angela Carlie
    I added this to my TBR list well because I normally don’t read books where shape-shifters are the main characters and I wanted to give the shape-shifters a chance and thought this would be a good one to start with.

  12. Awakened (House of Night, #8)

  13. Awakened (House of Night #8) By P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast
    I have read the House Of Night Novels 1-6 so 7 is next on the list.

  14. Destined (House of Night, #9)

  15. Destined (House of Night #9) By P.C. Cast, Kristin Cast
    I love the House of Night Novels and plan on reading them all.

  16. Thieves at Heart

  17. Thieves at Heart: The Valley of Ten Crescents (The Valley of Ten Crescents #1) By Tristan J. Tarwater
    I chose this one because I wanted to read something a little different from witches and vampires.

  18. Suffer a Witch

  19. Suffer a Witch By Morgana Gallaway
    I love to read anything that has a witch in it. When I read books with witches in them I hope that their is something in them about the Salem witch trials.
  20. What do you think of my list? What would you have chosen? Please leave comment and let me know what you think.

Wednesday, March 14, 2012

The Forever Girl (Forever Girl Series #1) By: Rebecca Hamilton

The Forever Girl: Sophia's Journey (Forever Girl, #1)The Forever Girl: Sophia's Journey by Rebecca Hamilton
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Sophia is a waitress who is a practicing Wiccan. She hears hissing noises in her mind and she believes the only way to stop them is to solve the mystery of her ancestor’s hanging. She finds a personal document of her ancestor’s in her house that she inherited from her grandfather that starts her on her journey to solve the mystery.

Someone leaves threatening notes taped to Sophia’s door and in her mail box from a woman that her Mother goes to church with. They want Sophia to sell them her house telling her that it is their church.

Sophia doesn’t have many friends only two Ivory and Lauren. Ivory takes Sophia to Club Flesh one night where she meets this gorgeous hunk of a guy named Charles. Charles knows that Sophia is in danger at the club and takes her away. When they leave the club they are followed so they head for the woods where Sophia is attacked. Charles leaves her alone in the woods right before the attack so she thinks. They take her to Ivory’s house where Ivory tells her every one's secret but her own.

Sophia moves in with Charles, in the guest room, she is not quiet ready to make a move like sleeping in his bed yet. Her moving in with Charles is so he can protect her better, yeah right. Charles’ parents come for a visit and when they leave they are kidnapped so Sophia, Charles and Adrian go after them. Sophia wants to help but she is not sure that she can. She has only just found out that she is a witch and doesn’t know how to use her powers and only has a short time to practice.

I kelp seeing all these tweets from Rebecca Hamilton @InkMuse on Twitter saying email her for a free copy of her book The Forever Girl so I thought this sounds like it will be a good book so I emailed her and she sent me The Forever Girl as a Kindle gift. Rebecca Hamilton’s writing style is superb. You would never know that this is her first novel. She takes you into a whole new world of Vampires, witches and shape-shifters as no other book has done before, to a world where no one has gone before. If you would like to try reading something new or different but at the same time you still want to read about vampires, witches or shape-shifters then The Forever Girl is for you.





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Monday, March 12, 2012

Just Enough By: L.J. Stephens

Just Enough is a short story about a man just trying to provide for his family, only having Just Enough so that they want be homeless or living on the streets. Trying to stay ahead of the game having Just Enough food to survive while others have brand new cars, plasma TVs etc.... A man that wants what most men want is to give his family things that they deserve and want, not just the things that need to barley get by.

I was asked by the author L.J. Stephens if I would read his short story Just Enough and that I did not have to write a review if I chose not to but would be appreciated if I did. As he said, which is true I don’t usually read short stories or even books of this genre but I thought I would give it chance and I am very glad I did. It was a great read not knowing where the story was going until the very end. Just Enough kelp you hanging on wanting to know to more of the man’s life, his family who were they, what happened to the guy? How did he get to where he was in his life? I would definitely like to read more of Just Enough.



You can find L.J. Stephens at the sites listed below:

Twitter: LJStep749
Blog: Bartleby's Bookshelf
Smashwords: Just Enough


Friday, March 9, 2012

GReads - Weekly meme



TGIF is a weekly meme hosted by Ginger @ GReads. Each Friday Ginger ask a question about books for all her followers.







This weeks question:
Promote An Author: Is there a particular author you wish got more recognition?
Pick one author & tell us why we should read their work.

This is my first time participating in Ginger's weekly meme but when I read the question I just knew I had to put Emma in the spotlight because she does deserve it. Emma Mills has written her debut novel Witchblood and is working on her second novel Witchcraft The Sequel. Emma is going to be a fantastic writer right up there with all the other top dawg writers. When I read Witchblood I literally could not stop turning the pages it was that good. I've read a lot of books about vampires and witches but none quite like Witchblood. Emma has changed the way of becoming a vampire into something new that I am very sure will grasp the readers attention and won't let go to the very end. Well, I say that when I can't seem to get Witchblood out of my head. I'm eagerly anticipating the arrival of Witchcraft.

You can find Emma Mills at the locations below:
Follow Emma @EmmaMwriter
Facebook Witchblood the Novel
Website WITCHBLOOD...A NEW NOVEL TO SINK YOUR TEETH INTO
GoodReads Emma Mills

Witchblood

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Dark Magick (Wicca #4) By: Cate Tiernan

Dark Magick (Wicca, #4)Dark Magick by Cate Tiernan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Morgan is very upset by the fact that she thinks that she killed Hunter when she threw the athame that Cal gave her for birthday and hit Hunter with it resulting in Hunter going over the Cliff. Morgan takes Cal back to his house and bandages his wrist where the a braigh - a spelled chain meant to hurt witches that Hunter had tied him up with. She tries to send a witch message to Sky, Hunter’s cousin to tell her that Hunter is hurt and needs help. Morgan also calls 911 anonymously to report Hunter’s death.

Cal later takes Morgan to his secret room to where he does Dark Magick. Morgan doesn’t like his room. She can feel all the bad vibes from Cal practicing Dark Magick and she has to get out and fast. She needs to talk to someone about how she is feeling so she goes to see David the owner of Practical Magick, the store where she buys all her books on Wicca. When she arrives Hunter is there and neither one trust the other. Hunter is afraid that Morgan will try to kill him again. Morgan is so in love with Cal that she can’t believe anything that Hunter says. But Morgan and Hunter talk, Morgan still does not know what or who to believe.

She confronts Cal with everything that Hunter tells her. Cal tries to make her believe that it is all lies. When Cal finds out that she had been scrying with fire again he believes her and takes her back to his house and locks her in his secret room and sets it on fire. Morgan sends a witch message to Hunter, Sky, Bree and Robbie. Robbie and Bree come and drive Morgan’s car through the side of the room to get Morgan out and take her to safety.

I like how Cate Tiernan brings out all the characters I mean from the first book Book of Shadows I was sure that Cal and Morgan did not belong together the chemistry just wasn’t right. So therefore I have not been “team Cal” from the beginning. That is very unusual for me because normally I am always on the team of the one that the heroine is in love with first. Dark Magick is a very good read if you want to learn about Wicca, witches and witchcraft.



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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

The Power (The Secret Circle #3) By: L. J. Smith

The Power (The Secret Circle, #3)The Power by L.J. Smith
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Cassie is tired of being blackmailed by Faye and confronts her telling her that it is over that it all ends now. Faye gets very angry and tells Diana all about Adam and Cassie that they are in love with each other that they have been going behind Diana’s back. Everyone in the circle was astonished by what Faye tells them but they know that Faye can’t be trusted most of the time. They hear Adam and Cassie out and they believe Cassie and Adam.

They figure out that Black John is back and that he is Cassie’s Father. Cassie is afraid that when the circle finds out that they will hate her and want nothing to do with her but she is wrong. Black John takes over as Principal at their school and he uses Faye to help him to get the circle to join him.

A hurricane is heading their way and they believe that if they stop Black John the hurricane will turn. They believe that the only that can stop Black John is Cassie. Faye their leader is not with them anymore so they vote Cassie as the new leader. Black John calls Cassie to his house to try and take over the coven. When Cassie and the circle arrive they find Faye is there with him. Will Cassie and the circle stop Black John for good this time so that he doesn’t come back? Does Adam and Cassie become a couple? Does Adam and Diana remain a couple? You’ll just have to read The Power to find out.

I love The Secret Circle and all the characters. L. J. Smith knows how to bring all the characters to life as if you are right there with them helping them with all their problems. Faye and Deborah being like the bad guys and Diana and Cassie the good guys. Its like the symbol for Yin-Yang, good versus evil a balance between the two.

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