Here’s the part 2 of Cover Love I promised last week! Once again, many cover to please the eyes, but even more importantly some great books to come I’m sure!
Eternity is the sequel to Fallen Angel by Heather Terrel. The first book isn’t out just yet but I’m really looking forward to it!
Fallen Angel: December 15th 2010.
Eternity: July 1st 2011.
Always a Witch is also a sequel. Once a Witch by Carolyn MacCullough was the first book in the series.
The second encounter will release August 1st 2011.
Magic Slays is the fifth book in the Kate Daniels series, to be released June 2011. I own the previous books but haven’t started reading them yet. I really need to get onto this Ilona Andrews series!
Magic on the Hunt by Devon Monk is the sixth book in the Allie Beckstrom series (April 2011). I also own this series but haven’t read it yet. I really need to stop slacking lol
When her police contact asks her to look into a "suicide", she suddenly finds herself in a labyrinth of deception, drugs, murder -- and all-too-human corruption. The cops are her allies, except for the ones who want her dead. The hellbreed are her targets, except for the ones who might know what's going on. Her city is in danger, time is running out, and each lead only draws her deeper.
How far will a hunter go when her city -- and her friends -- are on the line? Just far enough.
Step into Redemption Alley...
Redemption Alley is the third book in the Jill Kismet series and overall I enjoyed it. Jill is a hunter and enhanced human being. What do I mean by that? She stroke a deal with a hellbreed (demon) and has a mark on her wrist giving her more strength, speed and better healing abilities. All of which is pretty useful when you spend day and night fighting things that goes bump in the night. This time around, Jill has two main affairs on her hands: Investigating a cop suicide that turned out to be a murder and an out of ordinary scurf invasion (it’s pretty much mutating/decomposing humans/zombies for lack of a better description…).
As mentioned above, I overall enjoyed to book but I have three minor complaints. First, she almost-dies one to many times for my own taste. I mean we get it, the girl is tough, so there’s no need to almost kill her so many times. But hey that’s just my opinion =P Second, Jill had a boyfriend in the second book: Saul, and even though she thinks about him many times, and talks to him on the phone once or twice, he isn’t in the third book, and I loved the guy so I’m kinda disappointed. And last, is a personal opinion really but she changes side-kicks three times in the book, and I have to say it bothered me a bit.
Now onto the positive! Jill is a tough girl and she dives in head first into whatever you throw at her. She finds herself in a serious mess but always try to get the best out of it and I appreciated that. She also has a very awkward and dry sense of humor adding some originality.
Lilith Saintcrow’s writing is very unique and adds an edge to all of her stories. The tone and pace is very different from all other authors I’ve read so kudos for that. She also has a talent about keeping us in the dark. The Jill Kismet series is UF yes, but it’s always built on a mystery/ murder investigation and whatnot and the tension is running high and you never know what to expect. You think you figured out the whole thing? WRONG! Try again!
Redemption Alley was action-packed, mysterious and I’ll say explosive (you’ll know what I mean when reading the book ^^). If you like a good suspense wrapped in an Urban Fantasy world this series is definitely for you!
Jill Kismet series:
Night Shift
Hunter’s Prayer
Redemption Alley
Flesh Circus
Heaven’s Spite
Book Stats:
Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
Publisher: Orbit; Original edition (August 3, 2009)
This is a fan made trailer I,ve seen around on facebook & a few blogs and I had to share it with you because it got me crying and nose running. No kidding. It was awesomely done and it’s make me that much more anxious for the movie.
Today I am very happy to have Lauren Kate, author of Fallen (my review) & Torment with me! I LOVE the Fallen series so I had to ask Lauren if she would stop by and share with us ^^ Her latest release, Torment released on September 28th and has been a huge success! Let’s learn more about her, shall we?
Before I moved to Los Angeles last fall, I was living on a farm.
Two hundred and twenty acres of soy, tomatoes, and alfalfa in the middle of nowhere northern California. It was the place where I first laid eyes on my husband, it was the place where got married (we had a rehearsal dinner/karaoke party in the pole barn the night before), and it’s the place where I wrote Fallen. So when it came time to move to Los Angeles, where my husband is getting his PhD in English Literature, both of us wanted to find a place that retained some of the peace and charm of the rural life we used to live. We settled on Laurel Canyon, which is a windy, scenic, hippy neighborhood in LA. It’s five minutes from the lights and action of the Sunset Strip but feels a world away.
My main stipulation on deciding on a place to live was that I wanted a room with a view. I spend a lot of time staring into space and it helps me greatly to have something pretty to stare at. This is the best seat in the house.
In the mornings, I like to take our dog Milo
for a run in Runyon Canyon, the canyon next door to ours. Earlier this fall, I ran a half-marathon in Disneyland, and Milo was a great training partner. This is his favorite bench to take a break at in Runyon.
Recently, I’ve been writing pretty much all day, every day—but that’s NOT what this blog is about, is it? So I won’t go into detail about my badly battered computer….
My very favorite way to wind down is by cooking something elaborate. I’m a food-blog nut, and when I can’t sleep because I’m on a crazy deadline, I scour the web for cool new recipes. Recently I’ve been making a lot of homemade pasta.
And of course, my all-time favorite past-time is reading. My entire living room is filled with wall-to-wall bookshelves. As a kid, I loved Roald Dahl, Louis Sachar, as a teen, I fell for Virginia Woolf, Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Don DeLillo. These days, I’ve been devouring The Hunger Games, re-reading His Dark Materials, and recently adoring a really dark, amazing book called Tender Morsels by Margot Lanagan.
So there you have it! The moments “when I’m not writing” seem to be few and far between these days, but on those rare occasions, this is exactly what I like to do.
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Thank you so much Lauren for taking the time to share these bits of your life with us! It’s greatly appreciated =)
Here’s a bit more about the Fallen series!
Torment
LOVE NEVER DIES
Lucinda is sure that she and Daniel are meant to be together forever. Now they are forced apart in a desperate bid to save Luce from the Outcasts–immortals who want her dead. As she discovers more about her past lives, Luce starts to suspect that Daniel is hiding something. What if he has lied to her about their shared past? What if Luce is really meant to be with someone else?
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