Stacking The Shelves #17

Welcome to  Stacking The Shelves!  Stacking the Shelves is hosted by Tynga Reviews and is a meme to share those books, both print and e-book, that have been added to your shelves in the last week/s.

Very quiet week on the book gathering front, which was not necessarily a bad thing as what I did receive was quality and it gave me a chance to get more reading and review writing done.

Ebooks For Review (Penguin Teen Australiavia Netgalley)

The Rapunzel Dilemma  by Jennifer Kloester

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Lily's had a charmed life so far, and now she's off to London to pursue her dream of becoming a great actor. But life at the London Drama Academy is full of surprises – and for the first time, Lily finds that things don't always go her way.

It's not just the other students who are making life difficult. Lily's got a secret she's not sure how to handle, but she finds that a room in one of the Academy's deserted towers makes a perfect refuge. Lily can't stay locked in the tower forever, though. And when she meets the mysterious Ronan Carver, everything starts to change . . .

A fast-paced modern fairytale and companion novel to The Cinderella Moment, from talented YA author Jennifer Kloester.

Purchased: 

House Rules (Chicagoland Vampires #7)  by Chloe Neill

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In a city full of vampires, trouble never sleeps.

At the tender age of twenty-seven, Merit became a sword-wielding vampire. Since then, she’s become the protector of her House, watched Chicago nearly burn to the ground, and seen her Master fall and rise. Now she’ll see her mettle—and her metal—tested like never before.

It started with two . . . Two rogues vanishing without a trace. Someone is targeting Chicago’s vampires, and anyone could be next. With their house in peril, Merit and her Master, the centuries-old Ethan Sullivan, must race to stop the disappearances. But as they untangle a web of secret alliances and ancient evils, they realize their foe is more familiar, and more powerful, than they could have ever imagined.

So what did you add to your shelves this week?

Teaser Tuesday #70 Drink Deep by Chloe Neill

Welcome to Teaser Tuesdays.

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

1. Grab your current read

2. Open to a random page

3. Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too muchaway! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

4. Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!


My current read is Drink Deep (Chicagoland Vampires #5) by Chloe Neill and my paragraph is from Page 101:

The pressure in the room suddenly thickened, and the smell became stronger, both cloyingly sweet and sour enough to make my mouth water. The room seemeed to sway back and forth. It wasn't like any other magic I'd felt. This was magic of a different caliber. Of a different age, maybe. Like magic that had been born in a different time. In an ancient era.

Clouds are brewing over Cadogan House, and recently turned vampire Merit can't tell if this is the darkness before the dawn or the calm before the storm. With the city in turmoil and the state threatening to pass a paranormal registration act, times haven't been this precarious for vampires since they came out of the closet.

Purchase: Book Depository | Amazon

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link  to your own Teaser Tuesdays post, or share your ‘teasers’ in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks!

In My Mailbox #50

Welcome to  In My Mailbox, a meme run by The Story Siren where each week over 200 bloggers post on their blogs the books they have bought, received to review or won in the past week.

To find out more information, get involved yourself or see what's in other bloggers mailboxes this week head over to The Story Siren or to find out what is in my mailbox this week, keep reading.

Don't forget to comment and post your IMM link or just let me know what's in your mail box this week.

Slow week for reading and reviewing this week between the not well baby and job interviews/training days on this week.  Thankfully i had the majority of the week's posts already scheduled.

May have gone just a wee bit crazy at the library though.  I visited one of my library's other branches and found a few titles by one particular author that I have been meaning to read for a while along with a few other interesting titles or ones i had heard good things about.

I am also awaiting some pre-orders that finally came out this week so hopefully they will arrive in my mailbox over the next few weeks.

Library: 

Picked up a couple of reserved books and found Crewel available so borrowed this earlier in the week.

Crewel (Crewel World  #1) by Gennifer Albin

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Twice Bitten (Chicagoville Vampires #3) by Chloe Neill 

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Drink Deep (Chicagoville Vampires #5) by Chloe Neill 

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Then on Friday I visited a different branch of my local library while taking my daughter to the pool and remembered there were a few Mercedes Lackey Tales of the 500 Kingdoms books I have been meaning to read  and saw some other interesting ones along the way.

Melody Burning by Whitley Strieber

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Blood Witch & Dark Magick (Sweep Omnibus Editions #3-4) (Chicagoville Vampires #3) by Cate Tiernan 

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Bunheads by Sophie Flack 

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City of Lost Souls (Mortal Instruments #5) by Cassandra Clare

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The Sleeping Beauty (Five Hundred Kingdoms #5) by Mercedes Lackey

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One Good Knight (Five Hundred Kingdoms #2) by Mercedes Lackey 

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The Snow Queen (Five Hundred Kingdoms #4) by Mercedes Lackey

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The Wizard of London (Elemental Masters #5) by Mercedes Lackey

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So what was in your mailbox this week?

WWW Wednesday #12

WWW Wednesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…
• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you will read next?

What are you currently reading?

The Indigo Spell by Richelle Mead

So excited to be reading this and enjoying it so far :-)

What did you recently finish reading?

Storm (Elemental #1) by Brigid Kemmerer

Read this in a matter of hours last night.  Review to come.

Daynight by Megan Thomason

Review to be posted 28th January

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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
See my review here

Some Girls Bite by Chloe Neill

A new series I just started reading.  It's pretty good so far.  Review to come.

Friday Nite Bites (Chicagoland Vampires #2) By Chloe Neill

Book 2 was better than book 1.  Now waiting on library to have books 3 & 4 available to borrow.

Fracture by Megan Miranda

Review to come.

What do you think you will read next??

Poison Princess (The Arcana Chronicles #1) by Kresley Cole

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kresley Cole introduces The Arcana Chronicles, post-apocalyptic tales filled with riveting action, the dark mysticism of Tarot cards, and breathtaking romance.

She could save the world—or destroy it.

Sixteen year old Evangeline “Evie” Greene leads a charmed life, until she begins experiencing horrifying hallucinations. When an apocalyptic event decimates her Louisiana hometown, Evie realizes her hallucinations were actually visions of the future—and they’re still happening. Fighting for her life and desperate for answers, she must turn to her wrong-side-of-the-bayou classmate: Jack Deveaux.

But she can’t do either alone.

With his mile-long rap sheet, wicked grin, and bad attitude, Jack is like no boy Evie has ever known. Even though he once scorned her and everything she represented, he agrees to protect Evie on her quest. She knows she can’t totally depend on Jack. If he ever cast that wicked grin her way, could she possibly resist him?

Who can Evie trust?

As Jack and Evie race to find the source of her visions, they meet others who have gotten the same call. An ancient prophesy is being played out, and Evie is not the only one with special powers. A group of twenty-two teens has been chosen to reenact the ultimate battle between good and evil. But it’s not always clear who is on which side….

Purchase: Book Depository

Comment: Bought an e-copy of this recently and my reservation for a print copy at the library just became available

Devil's Bargain by Rachel Caine

What's the price of a deal with the devil?

Playing by the psychic underworld's rules has cost.

Jazz Callender's whole life just got turned upside down. Her friend Ben's been convicted of a crime he didn't commit, and Jazz is determined to clear his name, even if it means enlisting the help of dark forces.

Enter James, a stranger with a mysterious offer. If Jazz pledges to work for The Cross Society, a shadowy secret organisation, he'll help her save Ben.

But as she's thrust into a world of psychic powers and dangerous magic, Jazz isn't just bargain for her friend's freedom. She's bargaining for her soul too.

And how high a price is she willing to pay?

Purchase: Book Depository

Comment: Reviewing this for the blog.

So what are you reading this week?

Teaser Tuesday #45

Welcome to Teaser Tuesdays.

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

1. Grab your current read

2. Open to a random page

3. Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too muchaway! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

4. Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!


My current read is Friday Night Bites by Chloe Neill and my two lines are from page 270:

I wasn't a saint.

My eyes wide, decision made and the repercussions be damned, I nodded.

The story of a young heiress's initiation into the dark society of the Chicagoland Vampires continues:

Ten months after vampires revealed their existence to the mortals of Chicago, they're enjoying a celebrity status usually reserved for the Hollywood elite. But should people learn about the Raves--mass feeding parties where vampires round up humans like cattle--the citizens will start sharpening their stakes.

So now it's up to the new vampire Merit to reconnect with her upper class family and act as liaison between humans and bloodsuckers, and keep the more unsavory aspects of the vampire lifestyle out of the media. But someone doesn't want peace between them--someone with an ancient grudge.


Purchase: Book Depository

PLEASE LEAVE A COMMENT with either the link  to your own Teaser Tuesdays post, or share your ‘teasers’ in a comment here (if you don’t have a blog). Thanks!

In My Mailbox #48

Welcome to  In My Mailbox, a meme run by The Story Siren where each week over 200 bloggers post on their blogs the books they have bought, received to review or won in the past week.

To find out more information, get involved yourself or see what's in other bloggers mailboxes this week head over to The Story Siren or to find out what is in my mailbox this week, keep reading.

Don't forget to comment and post your IMM link or just let me know what's in your mail box this week.

So got right back in to my reading this week, getting through a couple of books this week.  Not as much blogging as I would have liked.  Unfortunately my computer is in the hottest room of the house and with the extra hot weather this week, I didn't spend too much time there.  Hoping to get a pile of posts: reviews/memes and blasts finished and scheduled over the next couple of days.  Great week in books though.

To Review:

So So excited for this one.  It is on my top 10 books I am looking forward to in 2013, so when my Netgalley request was approved yesterday, I started jumping round the house for joy and promptly started downloading then reading it!

The Indigo Spell (Bloodlines #3) by Richelle Mead

In the aftermath of a forbidden moment that rocked Sydney to her core, she finds herself struggling to draw the line between her Alchemist teachings and what her heart is urging her to do. Then she meets alluring, rebellious Marcus Finch--a former Alchemist who escaped against all odds, and is now on the run. Marcus wants to teach Sydney the secrets he claims the Alchemists are hiding from her. But as he pushes her to rebel against the people who raised her, Sydney finds that breaking free is harder than she thought. There is an old and mysterious magic rooted deeply within her. And as she searches for an evil magic user targeting powerful young witches, she realizes that her only hope is to embrace her magical blood--or else she might be next.


Populated with new faces as well as familiar ones, the Bloodlines series explores all the friendship, romance, battles, and betrayals that made the #1 New York Times bestselling Vampire Academy series so addictive—this time in a part-vampire, part-human setting where the stakes are even higher and everyone’s out for blood.

Pre-Order: Book Depository

Library: 

Some Girls Bite (Chicagoland Vampires #1) by Chloe Neill

I enjoyed Chloe Neill's Dark Elite series and have good things about the Chicagoland Vampires series so reserved the first three at my local library. This is the first one.



Sure, the life of a graduate student wasn't exactly glamorous, but it was Merit's. She was doing fine until a rogue vampire attacked her. But he only got a sip before he was scared away by another bloodsucker-and this one decided the best way to save her life was to make her the walking undead.

Turns out her savior was the master vampire of Cadogan House. Now she's traded sweating over her thesis for learning to fit in at a Hyde Park mansion full of vamps loyal to Ethan "Lord o' the Manor" Sullivan. Of course, as a tall, green-eyed, four-hundred- year-old vampire, he has centuries' worth of charm, but unfortunately he expects her gratitude- and servitude. But an inconvenient sunlight allergy and Ethan's attitude are the least of her concerns. Someone's still out to get her. Her initiation into Chicago's nightlife may be the first skirmish in a war-and there will be blood.

Purchase: Book Depository

Brighid's Quest by P.C. Cast

I have a feeling i have read this before but i saw it at the library and the blurb didn't sound all that familiar so borrowed it anyway.



Torn between the possibilities . . .
Fleeing her centaur clan's increasingly militant beliefs, Brighid Dhianna has begun to find peace and acceptance among the humans of Clan MacCallan. Still, she agrees to leave her newly formed friendships to guide her clan chieftain's grieving brother home.

As she journeys, Brighid discovers that the long-dormant Shaman blood that runs so thickly in her veins will no longer be silenced. As seductive new powers begin to beckon, Brighid glimpses a future that is more impossible -- and more magical -- than any she could have dared to imagine.

But when tragedy summons her back to the Centaur Plains, Brighid must make a decision that will affect not only her friendship with the humans, but the centaur herd and indeed the world. For the Great Goddess Epona has set her on a new path that demands everything she has to give.

When the whole world is turning to her for help, healing the heart of a warrior doesn't sound so daunting . . .


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The Secret Circle #1 (The Initiation & The Captive Part 1) by L. J. Smith

I saw the pilot of the tv series made from this book series and didn't mind it so thought I would give it a go.



THE CIRCLE'S POWER HAS LURED HER HOME...

Forced to move from sunny California to gloomy New England, Cassie longs for her old life. Even so, she feels a strange kinship to a terrifying group of teens who seem to rule her school. Initiated into the coven of witched that's controlled New Salem for hundreds of years, she's drawn into the Secret Circle, a thrill that's both intoxicating and deadly. But when she falls for the mysterious and intriguing Adam, Cassie must choose whether to resist temptation or risk dark forces to get what she wants - even if it means that one wrong move could ultimately destroy her.

Purchase: Book Depository

The Edge of Nowhere by Elizabeth George

This is a little different from my usual fare but it sounded interesting so I thought I would give it a go.



The first young adult book by a #1 New York Times bestselling author

Whidbey Island may be only a ferry ride from Seattle, but it's a world apart. When Becca King arrives there, she doesn't suspect the island will become her home for the next four years. Put at risk by her ability to hear "whispers"--the thoughts of others--Becca is on the run from her stepfather, whose criminal activities she has discovered. Stranded and alone, Becca is soon befriended by Derric, a Ugandon orphan adopted by a local family; Seth, a kindhearted musician and high school dropout; Debbie, a recovering alcoholic who takes her in; and Diana, with whom Becca shares a mysterious psychic connection.

This compelling coming-of-age story, the first of an ongoing sequence of books set on Whidbey Island, has elements of mystery, the paranormal, and romance. Elizabeth George, bestselling author of the Inspector Lynley crime novels, brings her elegant style, intricate plotting, incisive characterization, and top-notch storytelling to her first book for teens.

Purchase: Book Depository

Above by Leah Bobet

I have been hearing good things above this book so finally need to get around to seeing for myself


Matthew has loved Ariel from the moment he found her in the tunnels, her bee’s wings falling away. They live in Safe, an underground refuge for those fleeing the city Above—like Whisper, who speaks to ghosts, and Jack Flash, who can shoot lightning from his fingers.

But one terrifying night, an old enemy invades Safe with an army of shadows, and only Matthew, Ariel, and a few friends escape Above. As Matthew unravels the mystery of Safe’s history and the shadows’ attack, he realizes he must find a way to remake his home—not just for himself, but for Ariel, who needs him more than ever before.

Purchase: Book Depository

So what was in your mailbox this week?

WWW Wednesday #7

WWW Wednesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading.

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…
• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you will read next?

What are you currently reading?

Scent of Magic by Maria V Snyder

The sequel to Touch of Power, was so excited to receive this and glad I already had it to read as soon as I finished Touch of Power. Can't wait to finish it though sometimes Avry and Kerrick remind me a little of Yelena and Valek mostly Kerrick reminds me of Valek.

What did you recently finish reading?

The Last Boyfriend by Nora Roberts

I love Nora Roberts. Simple romance with a touch of paranormal. Even though each trilogy generally follows a similar formula, the books are a comfortable and enjopyable read. This was book 2 in the Boonsboro Inn trilogy.

Touch of Power by Maria V Snyder

Book 1 of Maria V Snyder's Healer series. I really enjoyed this book and as mentioned above am currently reading book 2. Review to come.

Firespell,Hexbound & Charmfall by Chloe Neill

I read all three books of this series in the space of 2 1/2 days. The series is about a new girl at a snooty boarding school and magic, which is always a fun combination. An easy read but not sure if there is anymore to come in this series.

What do you think you will read next??

The Perfect Hope (Boonsboro Inn #3) by Nora Roberts

Synopsis (via Goodreads): The Montgomery brothers and their eccentric mother are breathing new life into the town of Boonsboro, Maryland, by restoring its historic hotel. And they’re finding their own lives revamped by love. This is Ryder’s story... Ryder is the hardest Montgomery brother to figure out — with a tough-as-nails outside and possibly nothing too soft underneath. He’s surly and unsociable, but when he straps on a tool belt, no woman can resist his sexy swagger. Except apparently Hope Beaumont, the innkeeper of his own Inn BoonsBoro. And though the Inn is running smoothly, thanks to Hope’s experience and unerring instincts, her big-city past is about to make an unwelcome — and embarrassing — appearance. Seeing Hope vulnerable stirs up Ryder’s emotions and makes him realize that while Hope may not be perfect, she just might be perfect for him...

So what are you reading this week?