**Notice** Due to transfering back from a godaddy hosted wordpress blog back to blogger, reviews published before june 2017 don`t all have a pretty layout with book cover and infos. Our apologies.

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Random Act of Kindness: March Edition

The girls at Book Soulmates started a very cool project. The concept is to post a wish list and someone might just send a gift to you! Of course, you might wanna be nice to and offer someone something from their wish list as well! Here are the details, from their website. Rules: • Sign up each month you'd like to participate in. • Show off your participation! Grab one of the buttons available :) • Create a wishlist and post it in...

Third Grave Dead Ahead by Darynda Jones

Third Grave Dead Ahead by Darynda Jones Books Stats: Reading level: Adult Genre: Urban Fantasy Hardcover: 310 pages Publisher: St Martins Press Release date: January 31st, 2012 Series: Charlene Davidson #3 Source: Personal Shelf Reviewed by: Christine Purchase: Amazon | Book Depository Charley Davidson—grim reaper extraordinaire, private investigator . . . meh—is practicing her profession under the influence, caffeine...

Tuesday, February 28, 2012

“When I’m not writing” with Gail Carriger + giveaway!

The fangirl in me is *dying* today because Gail Carriger is visiting the blog. She’s the author of one of my favourite series, The Parasol Protectorate, a series of books that are this fantastic blend of steampunk, supernatural, and comedy of manners. There’s nothing out there quite like it, which is why I’m so sad that the final book in the series, Timeless, is being released in two short days. (I’m also edge-of-my-seat excited because I need to...

Monday, February 27, 2012

Fate’s Edge by Ilona Andrews

Fate’s Edge by Ilona AndrewsBook stats: Reading level: Adult Genre: Urban fantasy Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages Publisher: Ace Release date: November 29, 2011Series: Edge #3Source: Personal shelfReviewed by: JennPurchase: Amazon | Book DepositoryThe Edge lies between worlds, on the border between the Broken, where people shop at Wal-Mart and magic is a fairy tale—and the Weird, where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings...

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Books for Sale!

I’ve been doing some cleaning in my shelves as they are overflowing now and there are some books I’d like to get rid of. All the books are brand-new or like-new and we are a smoke-free house. Price: 3$ + shipping for Mass Market and Trade paperbacks 4$ + shipping for HC If you buy 3 books or more, you can choose 1 free ARC from the ARC pile. The more books you buy, the more you save on shipping, it goes without saying =) FYI...

Cinder by Marissa Meyer

Cinder by Marissa Meyer Book Stats: Reading level: Young Adult Genre: Dystopian/Paranormal Hardcover: 400 pages Publisher: Macmillan Release date: January 3, 2012 Series: Lunar Chronicles #1 Reviewed by: Stéphanie Source: Library Purchase: Amazon | Book Depository Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make...

Saturday, February 25, 2012

In Our Mailboxes

As always, a big thank you to The Story Siren for hosting In My Mailbox every week =)Once again my In My Mailbox contribution is really an accumulation of books that I've acquired since my last post. I'd vowed to learn how to vlog before my next one but it hasn't happened yet, thanks to a pesky little thing called my dissertation. Unfortunately, I'm still low-tech so here's my February haul. (Some of them are e-books so they're not in the picture.)...

Friday, February 24, 2012

Announcing Paranormal April Fools'

We are now one month away from our newest event, Paranormal April Fools! We've been hard at work getting things together and now it's finally time for the big reveal. Tynga gave you a sneak peek when she mentioned the event in her most recent In My Mailbox post so some of you may already be intrigued but I wanted to give you some more information to really get you excited.Starting March 23, some amazing authors will be answering questions about their...