GRAVE WITCH by KALAYNA PRICE
ALEX CRAFT SERIES # 1
RELEASED : 16TH DECEMBER 2010
PUBLISHED BY : ROC
Not even death can save her now.
As a grave witch, Alex Craft can speak to the dead-she's even on good terms with Death himself. As a consultant for the police, she's seen a lot of dark magic, but nothing has prepared her for her latest case. When she's raising a "shade" involved in a high profile murder, it attacks her, and then someone makes an attempt on her life. Someone really doesn't want her to know what the dead have to say, and she'll have to work with mysterious homicide detective Falin Andrews to figure out why...
GRAVE DANCE
by KAYLAYNA PRICE
ALEX CRAFT SERIES # 2
After a month of down time, Grave Witch Alex Craft is ready to get back to solving murders by raising the dead. With her love life in turmoil, Alex is eager for the distractions of work. But when her new case forces her to overuse her magic, it might be the last mystery the Grave Witch ever gets to solve...
DUE FOR RELEASE 5TH JULY 2011
I stumbled across Kalayna through Goodreads and I liked the reviews, so I am keen to read this series.
Sounds rather awesome!!
Love the covers.
VAMPIRE SHIFT by TIM O'ROURKE
Publishes : 26th June 2011
I DO LOVE THIS COVER!!
QUITE STRIKING!!
When twenty-year-old police recruit Kiera Hudson is posted to the remote town of The Ragged Cove, her life is changed forever. Investigating a series of horrific murders, grave desecrations and missing persons, with her unique ability of 'seeing', Kiera soon realises her life is in danger. But when Kiera falls in love with Police officer Luke Bishop, not only is her mind and her heart opened to a terrifying new world, she comes to suspect that Luke might be involved in the killings. In a race against time to unearth the truth, Kiera must discover the identity of who or what is behind the gruesome deaths on the 'Vampire Shift'.
Book one in the Kiera Hudson Trilogy.
There's something that just makes me want to read Vampire Shift. I commented on Goodreads and a comment I received back was it was awesome!! I checked Jennifer Goehl's review "Deserves more than 5 stars", so ...it's got to be on my wish list. I love enthusiasm. Sounds like a page turner.
IN THE ARMS OF STONE ANGELS
by JORDAN DANE
PUBLISHED : 1ST APRIL 2011
HARLEQUIN
Two years ago, Brenna did the unthinkable. She witnessed the aftermath of a murder and accused her only true friend--the first boy she ever loved--of being a killer.
Now sixteen, Brenna returns to Oklahoma only to discover that Isaac "White Bird" Henry isn't in juvie. The half-breed outcast is in a mental hospital, frozen in time, locked in his mind at the worst moment of his life. And when Brenna touches him, she's pulled into his hellish vision quest, seeing terrifying demons and illusions she doesn't understand.
Feeling isolated and alone, she's up against the whole town, targeted by bullying former classmates, a bigoted small town sheriff, and a tribe who refuses to help one of their own. But when Brenna realizes she's as trapped by the past as White Bird is, this time she won't turn her back on him. She's the only one who can free them both.
Even if she has to expose her secret--a "gift" she's kept hidden her whole life.
I found this on NetGalley a while back , I haven't read it yet as it is hard sitting at computer all day reading . I have to save up the $$$ and get an ereader. This book blurb just intrigued me.
DARKNESS BECOMES HER
by KELLY KEATON
GODS AND MONSTERS SERIES # 1
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| CHECK OUT THIS COVER!! RELEASED : 9TH JUNE 2011 SIMON AND SCHUSTER |
Ari can’t help feeling lost and alone. With teal eyes and freakish silver hair that can’t be changed or destroyed, Ari has always stood out. And after growing up in foster care, she longs for some understanding of where she came from and who she is.
Her search for answers uncovers just one message from her long dead mother: Run. Ari can sense that someone, or something, is getting closer than they should. But it’s impossible to protect herself when she doesn’t know what she’s running from or why she is being pursued.
She knows only one thing: she must return to her birthplace of New 2, the lush rebuilt city of New Orleans. Upon arriving, she discovers that New 2 is very...different. Here, Ari is seemingly normal. But every creature she encounters, no matter how deadly or horrifying, is afraid of her.
Ari won’t stop until she knows why. But some truths are too haunting, too terrifying, to ever be revealed.
A BEAUTIFUL EVIL
by KELLY KEATON
GODS AND MONSTERS SERIES # 2
DUE FOR RELEASE 21ST FEBRUARY 2012
SIMON PULSE
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A power she can’t deny. A destiny she’s determined to fight.
When Ari first arrived in the dilapidated city of New 2, all she wanted was to figure out who she was. But what she discovered was beyond her worst nightmare. Ari can already sense the evil growing inside her—a power the goddess Athena will stop at nothing to possess.
Desperate to hold on to her humanity and protect her loved ones, Ari must fight back. But Athena’s playing mind games, not just with Ari but with those she cares about most. And Athena has a very special plan for the brooding and sexy Sebastian.
Ari is determined to defeat Athena, but time is running out. With no other options, Ari must unleash the very thing she’s afraid of: herself.
DREAMING AWAKE
by GWEN HAYES
FALLING UNDER SERIES # 2
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She fell for him in a nighttime world. But the time for dreaming is past—and the here-and-now can be just as fragile their love…
When Theia Alderson first encountered a mysterious, handsome boy in her dreams, she never imagined how finding Haden Black—and falling in love—could change her life. To save Haden, Theia sacrificed everything. And the dangerous bargain she made could have lasting repercussions.
Now Theia has returned to Serendipity Falls, and she finds herself struggling with the same deadly hungers that have tortured Haden. When students at their high school fall prey to a mysterious illness, Theia can’t help but wonder if Haden’s control is slipping—and how much longer she’ll have a grip on her own.
And still the nightmare realm of Under won’t let them go. Someone from Haden’s past is determined to destroy Theia from the inside out, starting with those closest to her, forcing Theia to choose between family and friends and a love that may have been doomed from the start.
THE GATES by JOHN CONNOLLY
BOOK #1 SAMUEL JOHNSON SERIES
RELEASED : OCTOBER 6TH 2009
Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund, Boswell, are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Halloween, which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Road. The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with the underworld, but when they unknowingly call forth Satan himself, they create a gap in the universe, a gap through which a pair of enormous gates is visible. The gates to Hell. And there are some pretty terrifying beings just itching to get out....
Can one small boy defeat evil? Can he harness the power of science, faith, and love to save the world as we know it?
Bursting with imagination and impossible to put down, The Gates is about the pull between good and evil, physics and fantasy. It is about a quirky and eccentric boy, who is impossible not to love, and the unlikely cast of characters who give him the strength to stand up to a demonic power.
In this wonderfully strange and brilliant novel, John Connolly manages to re-create the magical and scary world of childhood that we've all left behind but so love to visit. And for those of you who thought you knew everything you could about particle physics and the universe, think again. This novel makes anything seem possible.
SAMUEL JOHNSON vs THE DEVIL , ROUND II
HELL'S BELLS
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Samuel Johnson v. The Devil, Round II. Ask not for whom the bell tolls. Just start running.
Samuel Johnson with a little help from his dachshund Boswell and a very unlucky demon named Nurd has sent the demons back to Hell. But the diabolical Mrs Abernathy is not one to take defeat lying down.
When she reopens the portal and sucks Samuel and Boswell down into the underworld, she brings an ice-cream van full of dwarfs as well. And two policement. Can this eccentric gang defeat the forces of Evil? And is there life after Hell for Nurd?
Win a signed copy of John Connolly's book, enter here:
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John's web page:
http://johnconnollybooks.blogspot.com/2011/05/children-book-tour.html
These 2 books in his series look a lot of fun. That's all the books I have for today , I shall come back tomorrow with another set for my wish list.
Michelle
Some great covers! Would love to read some of these.
ReplyDeleteHi Miranda,
ReplyDeleteGreat covers, all of them:D
Michelle