Tag: vampires

Jun 05

{Review+Giveaway} Your Guardian Angel by Skyla Madi

Welcome to my stop on The Guardian Angel series blog tour hosted by YA Bound. Click HERE to see the full blog tour schedule! Your Guardian Angel by Syla Madi Kindle Edition, 235 pages Published December 2012 by Limitless Publishing Age Group:YA Series: The Guardian Angel Series #1 Source: ecopy from Author Summary: For Ruby Moore life is far more complicated than that of your average teen, for she is in no It has been one year since her normal life was brutally taken from her. Still adjusting to the shock of the change from mortal to immortal, her world is rocked again and she is taken under the wings of a guardian angel back to Sage Sanctum- a school beyond reach from the vampires that are determined to destroy her. There, she is freed from her vampiric chains and her normal needs and urges return. However a new urge arises… Lust. A forbidden lust toward her savior, her guardian angel. Attempting to control these desires is difficult, very difficult and when things… Read more »

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Apr 24

{Review+Giveaway} Blood and Snow by RaShelle Workman

Welcome to my stop on the Blood and Snow blog tour Be sure to check out the rest of the stops on the tour Blood and Snow by RaShelle Workman Paperback, 55 pages Published June 5th 2012 by Polished Pen Press Age Group: YA Source: ecopy from Author Series: Blood and Snow #1 Summary: Every thousand years the Vampire Queen selects a new body, always the fairest in the land, and this time she’s chosen Snow White.Snow isn’t an ordinary girl. She doesn’t know that yet. When Snow gets bitten by a Hunter, her life is thrown into a whirlwind of change where instead of worrying about what to eat, she has to fight not to drink the blood of fellow high school students. She becomes a revenant – not quite human, not quite vampire. With the help of an eccentric old Professor, his seven adoptive sons, and her best friend, Snow learns to control her blood craving. Sort of. She drinks a bloodlust tea, but she’d rather drink from her Hunter. Or, a human. She also discovers… Read more »

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Jan 01

{Review+G!veaway} Fate’s Design by Lola James

Welcome to my stop on the Fate’s Design blog tour! Fate’s Design by Lola James Paperback, 346 pages Published March 27th 2012 by LJ Pubishing, Inc. Age Group: New Adult Source: ecopy from Author Series: Fate #1 Summary: During a summer trip to Italy, Megan falls in love and is pulled into the world of vampires, witches, and magical powers. As she becomes more deeply entrenched, her nightmares begin to make sense, and she realizes that she’s been part of this new world since birth. Fate’s Design was the last book that I read in 2012, and I am happy to say that I ended the year with a book that I really enjoyed. Fate’s Design takes place mostly in Italy. I have always wanted to visit Italy. Throw in a very attractive guy that is so gentlemanly and some cool paranormal elements. What’s not to love?? Megan is the main character along with her twin sister, Morgan. At first I kept getting the two of them confused because their names… Read more »

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Oct 16

{ARC Review+Kindle Fire G!veaway} Violet Midnight by Lynn Rush

Happy release day to Lynn Rush’s new YA book- Violet Midnight! It is the first in a new exciting trilogy. Violet Midnight by Lynn Rush 254 pages Published October 2012 by Crescent Moon Press Age Group: New Adult Source: eARC from publisher Series: Violet Night #1 Buy this Book: Amazon Summary: Let the Hunt begin…Blending in with her college co-eds proves difficult for vampire Hunter, Emma Martin, considering the mystical tattoo on her wrist glows whenever Vamps are near. And after three months of silence, the glow is back with a vengeance.Jake Cunningham witnesses Emma, a violet-eyed beauty, using unimaginable powers to fight off a fanged creature. Finally, after two years of searching, he may have found out what he’s become—a Hunter, like Emma.Thankful for an ally in the fight against the Vamps, Emma finds hope and comfort in Jake’s arms. As she learns more about her new love’s family and its dark heritage, she may be forced not only to hunt them but to sacrifice her life to save… Read more »

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Oct 14

{Excerpt} Shadow of the Blood Moon by Robin P. Waldrop

Check out my review of Book 1 HERE Title: Shadow of the Blood Moon Series: Blood Moon, #2 Author: Robin P. Waldrop Release Date: August 27, 2012 Pages: 321 Buy Links: Amazon | Smashwords Blurb: Genevieve Labreck is back with a score to settle. Her mom has been kidnapped by Zane, hybrid and all-around monster. Rumors fly that Gen’s mom is holed away in Prague, a city recognized by humans for its serene beauty and intense culture, but Gen and Will know something humans don’t. Prague is haunted by dark, evil forces. Can Genevieve and William save her mom, or will they be too late? Some will live, others will fall. At what price do you walk away from those you love? ——————————————————— And now, please enjoy the first chapter of the third book in the Blood Moon Series! Chapter 1 Claw-fingered shadows hung over my bed in the darkness and shredded my skin. I screamed out in terror, blood spewing everywhere. Then, like almost every night since my capture, I… Read more »

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Aug 26

{Book Review} Nightmare by Chelsea M. Cameron

Nightmare by Chelsea M. Cameron Pages: 235 Publication Date: April 14, 2012 Age Group: YA Source: Blog Tour Series: Noctalis Chronicles #2 Challenge(s): Ebook challenge, Young adult reading challenge, 150+ reading challenge,sensational seconds challenge Buy this Book:Amazon Summary(from Goodreads): Ava-Claire Sullivan’s first mistake was becoming vampire Peter Mackintire’s personal blood bank. Her second mistake was falling in love with him.Now it’s Ava’s job to make sure he never loves her in return. A pact Peter made nearly a hundred years ago means loving someone will kill him. If she can figure out how to free him from his promise, it might kill her, make her immortal, or lead to the love she wants so badly.But if she doesn’t, at best, her heart will break…and at worst, Peter will die. See my review of book 1, Nocturnal HERE I think that Nightmare is even better than book one, Nocturnal. I felt like we really got to dive into the meat of the story, and I loved that we got to know… Read more »

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Apr 26

{Review+G!veaway} ReVamped by Ada Adams

ReVamped by Ada Adams Pages: 300 Publication Date: February 20, 2012 Age Group: YA Source: Blog Tour Series: Angel Creek #1 Challenge(s): Ebook challenge, Young adult reading challenge, 150+ reading challenge, Debut Author Challenge, ABC challenge Buy this Book: Amazon Summary(from Goodreads): A simple mission turned deadly.Nineteen-year-old vampire Dawn has led a sheltered life within the confines of her father’s presidential headquarters. Upon being sent on a mission to revamp four goofy misfits into guardians of a peaceful little town of Angel Creek, Dawn believes that all her dreams have finally come true. What starts off as a simple task, turns into something unexpected, changing Dawn’s life forever and leading the action-loving, thrill-seeking vampire teen on a path of mystery, danger and intrigue.When a human girl is kidnapped by a group of rogue vamps, Dawn discovers that there is more going on in Angel Creek than meets the eye. And it all connects to Ethan, the cute newcomer who seems too perfect to be true, Sebastian, the mysterious vampire with a… Read more »

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Apr 24

{Review+G!veaway} Midnight Alley by Rachel Caine

In honor of the 12 days of Morganville Vampires Madness, I’m posting my long overdue review of book 3! And I have a cool giveaway for you too! Midnight Alley by Rachel CainePages: 245Publication Date: October 2nd 2007 by SignetAge Group: YASeries: Morganville Vampires #3Source: BoughtBuy this Book: Amazon Summary(from Goodreads): Morganville is such a nice place to live… And die. If you don’t mind that sort of thing.When Claire Danvers learnt that her college town was run by vampires, she did what any intelligent, self-preserving student would do: she applied for a transfer and stocked up on garlic. The transfer is no longer an option, but that garlic may come in handy.Now Claire has pledged herself to Amelie, the most powerful vampire in town. The protection her contract secures does little to reassure her friends. All of a sudden, people are turning up dead, a stalker resurfaces from Claire’s past, and an ancient bloodsucker extends a chilling invitation for private lessons in his secluded home. This series is really shaping… Read more »

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Apr 21

{Book Review} The Hunted by Kristy Berridge

The Hunted by Kristy Berridge Pages: 582 Publication Date: April 30th 2011 by Sid Harta Publishers Age Group: YA Source: Author for Blog Tour Series: The Hunted #1 Challenge(s): Ebook challenge, Young adult reading challenge, 150+ reading challenge, TBR pile challenge, Witches and withcraft challenge, Dusty Reads Challenge Buy this Book: Amazon Summary(from Goodreads): Elena Manory is by no means an ordinary teenage girl. Being born with the ability to heal herself from any injury, and with the knowledge that on her eighteenth birthday she will become a Vampire, Elena is aware that she is more than a little different from other girls her age.It isn’t until she meets William Granville, an alluring and impossibly handsome vampire, that she begins to question her destiny and what secrets the Institute of Magical Intervention and her adopted family have withheld—secrets that could change the fates of not only her own life, but of the lives of all the immortals.As events spiral out of control, William may be the only person Elena can place her… Read more »

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Apr 15

{Book Review} Dark Heirloom by J.D. Brown

Dark Heirloom by J.D. Brown Pages: 256 Publication Date: March 2012 by Muse It Up Publishing Age Group: Adult/ Urban Fantasy Source: Blog Tour Series: Ema Marx #1 Challenge(s): Ebook challenge, 150+ reading challenge, ABC challenge Buy this Book: Amazon Summary(from Goodreads): You’re a vampire” is so not what Ema Marx wants to hear when she wakes from a two-day coma in a cryptic yet exquisite castle in northern Finland. Unfortunately, it explains a lot. Like why she’s able to see in the dark and walk through solid objects. What she doesn’t understand is why the other vampires expect her to have all the answers. It’s their fault she turned into one of them…right?Jalmari’s hatred for his old-man intensifies when he’s ordered to bring that troublesome girl to their castle. He has a clan to run; there’s no time for babysitting newborn vampires no matter how they were converted to their culture. But when a two-thousand-year-old premonition threatens to take the crown and his life, Jalmari sees no other choice than to… Read more »