BLOG TOUR - WICKED HEART by LEISA RAYVEN - STARCROSSED # 3 - NEW ADULT CONTEMPORARY ROMANCE - PAN MACMILLAN

By: Leisa Rayven
Published By: Pan Macmillan, St Martin's Press
Released : Available Now
Details : Digital copy for honest review from publisher

RATING: 5 LIAM QUINN & A SIDE ORDER OF JOSH STARS

Blurb: Goodreads

Liam Quinn is talented, gorgeous, and one of the biggest movie stars in the world.

He's also only man Elissa Holt has ever truly loved.

After being out of her life for six years, he and his gorgeous fiancé are set to star in the new Broadway show Elissa is stage managing. Both Elissa and Liam try to ignore the connection they both still feel, but when late night rehearsals bring them together, the line between what is and what could have been get blurred.

Elissa knows that falling for Liam again would be a tragedy in the making, but as any good romantic will tell you, love doesn't always follow the script.



BOOK REVIEW by Michelle:

Wicked Heart is my FAVORITE in the Starcrossed series.

Why?

Liam.

Elissa.

Liam.

I know it’s cliché, but he had me at hello.

And a side order of Josh.

Now things are never not angsty in this series and Leisa delivers a bucket load, but safe to say not as much in this book as in Bad Romeo and Broken Juliet.

Elissa as a lot of readers would already know is Ethan’s sister and she is a respected stage manager. I really liked her character. 

Again, Leisa knows her theatrical acting shiz and all the things that come with it and it shows. I felt like I was backstage or side stage or wherever Elissa does her managing and I was peering over her shoulder.


If I had to choose between Liam or Ethan, it is too easy.

LIAM. QUINN!


Liam. Even his name is sexy.

What I loved about this book was it was 99% in the present.

Praise the laaaawd.

There was no flipping back and forth. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but I read Bad Romeo and Broken Juliet one after the other and ... * face plant * I did enjoy both books.

Josh, the sub character and friend to Elissa, is pretty adorable in this installment.  

*stage whispers* I wanted to not like Angel...but...ya simply can’t. She is a nice chick who grew on me.

All in all, the pages turned and I swept through this book unable to stop.

Standing ovation for Wicked Heart.

Well done , Leisa.

Michelle

BOOK REVIEW - THE DIRT ON NINTH GRAVE by DARYNDA JONES - CHARLEY DAVIDSON # 9 - PARANORMAL ROMANCE - PIATKUS

By: Darynda Jones

Published By: Piatkus, St Martin's Press

Released : Available Now so get your Charley Davidson on.

Details: Paperback from library ( I'm a gonna get this series for my shelf ) 326 Pages

RATING: 5 FARK-I-LOVE-THIS-SERIES STARS!

Blurb: Goodreads

In a small village in New York lives Jane Doe, a girl with no memory of who she is or where she came from. So when she is working at a diner and slowly begins to realize she can see dead people, she's more than a little taken aback. Stranger still are the people entering her life. They seem to know things about her. Things they hide with lies and half-truths. Soon, she senses something far darker. A force that wants to cause her harm, she is sure of it. Her saving grace comes in the form of a new friend she feels she can confide in and the fry cook, a devastatingly handsome man whose smile is breathtaking and touch is scalding. He stays close, and she almost feels safe with him around.

But no one can outrun their past, and the more lies that swirl around her—even from her new and trusted friends—the more disoriented she becomes, until she is confronted by a man who claims to have been sent to kill her. Sent by the darkest force in the universe. A force that absolutely will not stop until she is dead. Thankfully, she has a Rottweiler. But that doesn't help in her quest to find her identity and recover what she's lost. That will take all her courage and a touch of the power she feels flowing like electricity through her veins. She almost feels sorry for him. The devil in blue jeans. The disarming fry cook who lies with every breath he takes. She will get to the bottom of what he knows if it kills her. Or him. Either way.

BOOK REVIEW by Michelle:

I absolutely adore this series.

Funny.

Sexy...erm that would be Reyes.

Witty...mainly Charley and her dialogue, throw in some Angel, Swopes, Cookie, Bobert ( no that is not a mispelling) ...

If you haven’t picked up a Charley Davidson book...dudes, so missing out.

You are simply in for a good time, with a little feels thrown in on the side, and of course Reyes. 

A sexy time will be had when Reyes enters the pages. You will get all gooey eyed for him. You will wish you were Charley. 

Or is that just me?

Darynda is out to make you laugh.

She will throw in the odd twist.

Ghosts. Always I-see-dead-people.

Ghost animals.

More witty dialogue.

Awesome chapter T-shirt quotes.

More sexy Reyes...but he can also rip your spine from your body, so tread carefully.

Love, loss and all things Charley brings to the table makes this a brilliant series to grab yourself a wine and just let Charley roll at her pace. I really should see what it's like reading and wining this series, sober it is hilarious.

Imagine with wine.

Another installment where Darynda just throws in that twist when I’m not paying attention and gets me all nawwwww.

I tell you what give me fifteen minutes with Reyes any day, as long as he didn’t want to do his dark and scary killing thing.

Just keep on writing 'em Darynda and I will keep on reading 'em.

There were quotes a plenty, like I always pluck out of a CD book, but I was reading so intently I forgot to page note them.

Trust me the book is filled with them.

I Recommend.

Nuff said.

Get your Charley Davidson on people.

Michelle

Coming June 28th

BOOK REVIEW - SEVENTH GRAVE AND NO BODY by DARYNDA JONES - CHARLEY DAVIDSON # 7 - PARANORMAL ROMANCE - PIATKUS - ST. MARTINS PRESS

By: Darynda Jones

Published By : Piatkus, St. Martin's Press

Released : Available Now

Details: Paperback from library, 322 Pages

RATING: 4.5 SHENANIGAN STARS!

Blueb: Goodreads

Twelve. Twelve of the deadliest beasts ever forged in the fires of hell have escaped onto our plane, and they want nothing more than to rip out the jugular of Charley Davidson and serve her lifeless, mangled body to Satan for dinner. So there’s that. But Charley has more on her plate than a mob of testy hellhounds. For one thing, her father has disappeared, and the more she retraces his last steps, the more she learns he was conducting an investigation of his own, one that has Charley questioning everything she’s ever known about him. Add to that an ex-BFF who is haunting her night and day, a rash of suicides that has authorities baffled, and a drop-dead sexy fiancé who has attracted the attentions of a local celebrity, and Charley is not having the best week of her life.

A tad north of hell, a hop, skip, and a jump past the realm of eternity, is a little place called Earth, and Charley Davidson, grim reaper extraordinaire, is determined to do everything in her power to protect it.

We’re doomed.

BOOK REVIEW by Michelle:

Things are starting to move along with Charley and her powers.

Shiz is going down with hellhounds and Beep is cooking in the oven nicely.

Reyes is forever smexy and one must fan themselves with a particularly hot scene.

Charley as always pretty much does not shut up the whole book. LOL! She is a scream to listen to and total verbal diarrhoea and I love her for it. She can inner monologue about anything.


In fact, if I were totally honest, that scowl only added to the allure that was Reyes Farrow. Damn it. When I scowled, I looked constipated. Leave it to the son of Satan to turn a scowl into the stuff of fantasies.

There is an interesting twist and Ubie has his own problems.

Throw in a bit of a psycho stalker and you have another Charley Davidson instalment.

I really can’t wait to see Reyes as a daddy.

Oh and Osh, he knows how to wear a top hat.

Highly recommend. What are you waiting for? Dive on in and get yourself some laughter and shenanigans that abound no matter what Charley does.

Nothing about her environment would be safe. I caused more trouble than gonorrhoea.


Oh and Mr Wong...there is a hint about Mr Wong...but only a hint...then we get nothing. I really am intrigued about Mr Wong.

Michelle

BOOK REVIEW - SIXTH GRAVE ON THE EDGE by DARYNDA JONES - CHARLEY DAVIDSON # 6 - ADULT PARANORMAL ROMANCE - ST MARTIN'S PRESS - PIATKUS

By: Darynda Jones

Published By : Piatkus, St Martin's Press

Released : Available Now

Details : Paperback From Library, 326 Pages

RATING: 4.5 CHARLEY STARS!

Blurb: Goodreads

Charley Davidson—part-time P.I. and full-time Grim Reaper—is back in this new novel from the New York Times bestselling author

Sometimes I wrestle my demons. Sometimes we just snuggle.—bumper sticker

Most girls might think twice before getting engaged to someone like Reyes Farrow—but Charley Davidson is not most girls. She’s a paranormal private eye and grim reaper-in-training who’s known to be a bit of a hell-raiser, especially after a few shots of caffeine. Her beloved Reyes may be the only begotten son of evil, but he’s dark and sultry and deeply sexy and everything Charley could hope for. Really. But when the FBI file on Reyes’s childhood happens to land in her lap, she can’t help herself: She opens it...and then the real fun begins. First, Charley finds a naked corpse riding shotgun in her car. Then, a man loses his soul in a card game. Throw in a Deaf boy who sees dead people, a woman running from mobsters, and a very suspicious Reyes, and things can’t get any worse for Charley. Unless, of course, the Twelve Beasts of Hell are unleashed...


BOOK REVIEW by Michelle:

Reading another installment in the much loved Charley Davidson series, is like coming home to your favorite bed and frolicking about in it and all the good times that happen in that bed.

Hmmm, not sure if that metaphor worked?

Those that have read this series will understand that a character like Charley Davidson is one we really feel like we know and love. She has a BIG heart, she doesn’t fit the bill of your average story telling Grim Reaper.

Cookie is always there for her friend whether it be as her personal assistant, so to speak, her best friend or the person she bounces her banter off.

I always look forward to my Cookie moments.

Reyes. He is just the cream and ...err...nuts on the chocolate cake. Charley is one special lady to get this man aka son of Satan in her life. The guy is just sexy to the max and knows how to handle Charley.

They handle each other very well.

“Yeah, but you’re a big fat liar. You don’t count. I mean, look at your dad. Pathalogical liar numero uno. Lying is in your genes.”

He leaned forward. “There’s only one thing in my jeans right now.”


Cookie wants some of that!


Cookie sighed. “That’s what I want, damn it.” She pointed to us and questioned Garrett. “Is that asking too much?”

Garrett looked horrified by the thought.



In this installment, I had a hilarious good time.

Did I learn anymore about the whole good guy vs BIG BAD GUY?

A little. 

Did Charley learn more about herself and her capabilities.

A little more than a little.
This installment was more the regulation PI cases, Ubie needing a swift kick up the bum when it came to Cookie.

How the tables turn.

Much female ogling of one Reyes.

Ghosts be appearing.

Captain Eckert be on Charley’s case.



The man held out a hand and I looked up to thank him, only to come face-to-face with Captain Eckert. He’d followed me. Had he been in the same car? I never saw him. He was wearing a tan jacket and knit cap, clearly a master of disguise. Then again, I did have a girl stuck to my face on the ride up.



Swopes...*sigh*... I do love me some Swopes.

“Now, now,” Garrett said, wrestling the gun from him. “Charley brings out the worst in all of us. It’s not her fault.”


I leaned toward him and whispered, “Why were we holding bands downstairs, playing star-crossed lovers, if I have to go in here alone?”

The grin that spread across his face was so full of mischief, I almost laughed.

“You are a dirty, rotten scoundrel,” I said, teasing him.

He winked as I straightened my shoulders, then really knocked.



A new character comes into the mix.

“You know, between Reye’s cryptic answers, that Cleo guy’s ambiguous prophecies that Swopes is looking into, and your mysterious quips, I’ve had about enough of the lot of you. Can you just give me one straight answer?”

“I’ll give it my best shot.”

Intrigued. Much.

Prophecies are trying to be understood.

Angel has been doing some embellishing.

Mr WONG! I love me some Mr. Wong, even if he doesn’t do anything. But, new things have come to light with Mr. Wong.

I’m intrigued.

“I’m just asking him about Mr. Wong. No one seems to know anything about him except he has a power or a force around him.”

Aaaaannnd then at the end of all of that...we get some WHAHHHHH information.

Bring on, Seventh Grave and No Body.

‘Cause, the ending to this installment is simply begging for me to get my hands on # 7!

Michelle

RANDOM POST # 77 - BEST OF 2012 READS FOR MICHELLE

MICHELLE'S BEST OF READS FOR 2012

Happy New Year!!

YA/NewAdult Contemporary Romance

They made my heart bleed

The snot flow

The cry was ugly

Take a bow ladies

Colleen Hoover - Simon & Schuster - Slammed

Colleen Hoover - Self Published - Hopeless

Katie McGarry - Harlequin Teen

YA/New Adult Contemporary Romance

Passionate Boys.

Tough life lessons.

One sitting reads.

Emotion that will grab you.

Easy - Penguin

Beautiful Disaster - Simon & Schuster

Ten Tiny Breaths - Papoti Books

Hale Maree - Self Published

Aussie Female Authors

Who Rocked It!!

Urban Fantasy/Steampunk/Adult

Chaos Born - Escape Publishing

Kiss of Steel - Source Books Casablanca 

Reviews That Took Longer To Write 

Than Reading The Book.

The Books Made My Brain Buzz

Stormdancer - Pan Macmillan

Iced - Delacorte - Review nearly written

MOST INTRIGUING YA READS

The Farm - Penguin

The Hunt - Simon & Schuster

Breathe - Bloomsbury

Poison Princess - Simon & Schuster

NEW YA Series I GREEDILY WANT MORE OF!!

Alice In Zombieland - Harlequin Teen

Death and the Girl Next Door - St. Martin's Press

In A Fix - Tor Books

Storm - Allen & Unwin

Totally Muddled In The Brain 

What Book Boyfriend Team I Am On?

Everneath - Simon & Schuster - Team Jack or Team Cole ??

The Gathering Dark - Indigo - Team Mal or Team Darkling ??

YA Genre - Funny / Witty/ Action

BEAUTIFUL GI JOE BOYS.... *drool* ...

Lila Series - Sarah Alderson - Woot!!

Stand Out Blog Tour Reads

Kings & Queens - Little Prince Publishing

A Sliver of Shadow - Pocket Books

Streamline - Omnific

On The Island - Self Published

MOST *face plant * ENDING - YA Genre

Pandemonium - Harper Teen

Funniest , Sharpest Wit by an Author

I have still to read Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet - Charley Davidson Series - St Martin's Press

Most Smexi Hold On To Your Panties Series

Male Vampires

Urban Fantasy

I read in 2012

Night Huntress Series

Bones is simply * drool worthy * 

I have not read First Drop of Crimson - Spade's Book

or

Eternal Kiss of Darkness - Mencheres Book

You must read in this order or you miss stuff.

Urban Fantasy/ PNR Genre Series - Adult

 I want to read more..... I'm invested.

  

Dark Mission series - Karina Cooper

Paladin Warriors - Tes Hilaire

BEST RECOMMEND
SELF PUBLISHED AUTHOR

Valerie Dearborn Trilogy - Caroline Hanson
Devilishly Smexi

Last But Not Least!!

The New Adult/Adult Series 

Mixed Bag of Emotions
SELF PUBLISHED AUTHOR

Funny

Sad

Gasp!!

WTH!!!

Banter

Gorey

Action

Stop Your Heart Moments
Quirky Characters
British Humor

Kiera Hudson 1st Series
by Tim O'Rourke

Vampier Shift # 1

Vampire Wake # 2

Vampire Hunt # 3

Vampire Breed # 4

Wolf House # 4.5

Vampire Hollows # 5

   

Kiera Hudson 2nd Series

Dead Flesh # 1
Dead Night # 1.5
Dead Angels # 2
Dead Statues # 3
Dead Seth # 4
Dead Wolf # 5

BOOK REVIEW - DEATH AND THE GIRL NEXT DOOR by DARYNDA JONES - DARK LIGHT # 1 - 5 STARS! - ST MARTIN'S PRESS

By: Darynda Jones

Published By: St Martin's Press

Released : 2nd OCTOBER 2012

Details: Digital ARC ,  via Netgalley , 286 Pages

RATING : 5 JARED & CAMERON & THE GLITCH STARS!

Darynda Jones, author of The New York Times bestselling series that began with First Grave on the Right, brings us Death and the Girl Next Door, a thrilling Young Adult novel garnering high praise and early buzz from major authors

Ten years ago, Lorelei's parents disappeared without a trace. Raised by her grandparents and leaning on the support of her best friends, Lorelei is finally beginning to accept the fact that her parents are never coming home. For Lorelei, life goes on.

High school is not quite as painful as she thinks it will be, and things are as normal as they can be. Until the day the school's designated loner, Cameron Lusk, begins to stalk her, turning up where she least expects it, standing outside her house in the dark, night after night. Things get even more complicated when a new guy—terrifying, tough, sexy Jared Kovach—comes to school. Cameron and Jared instantly despise each other and Lorelei seems to be the reason for their animosity. What does Jared know about her parents? Why does Cameron tell Jared he can't have Lorelei? And what will any of them do when Death comes knocking for real? Thrilling, sassy, sexy, and inventive, Darynda Jones's first foray into the world of teens will leave readers eager for the next installment.

"Unique, witty, and touching—I LOVED THIS BOOK!" —P.C. Cast, New York Times bestselling author of The House of Night Series

BOOK REVIEW by Michelle :

I read this book from Netgalley and darn it I wish I had a paperback copy in my hands so that I could have shown you all the sticky coloured flag note thingys that would have been plastered all over the pages. The noted quote pages just kept piling up in my notebook. Darynda spews forth such wonderful quotes from her characters.

I will read anything Darynda writes as she just has this wonderful humour she injects into her pages. I adore her Charlie Davidson, adult,Urban Fantasy series. Now, Darynda is writing the Dark Light series and her characters are loveable and funny and dark. 

Where there is good there is bad.

The setting for this tale is Riley’s Switch, New Mexico.

The height of our fun trio is five feet , their age, 16, right across the board. The short, Three Muskateers.

Lorelei, Brooklyn and Casey Niyol Blue-Spider ( yes, that is his name, don’t laugh) aka The Glitch, are a team of friends that stick together through thick and thin. I likened in my mind them to the ICarly trio, Carly, Sam and Freddie....well, err.... except, Lorelei has pasty white skin and curly auburn hair. Brooklyn has dark skin, brown eyes and long sable hair. The Glitch is a child of two nations, half Native American, half Irish with dark coppery skin and hazel green eyes.

What I mean, is, the way they all look out for each other and bicker and talk smart mouth to each other. Maybe I shouldn’t have used the ICarly thing. Lorelei’s parents disappeared ten years prior and the week before the anniversary of their disappearance and the week after, Glitch and Brooklyn are there 24/7 for Lorelei as it is a difficult time for her. Lorelei lives with her grandparents and has these two wonderful endearing friends.

Lorelei has visions and her two friends know virtually everything there is to know about each other.....or do they?

Brooklyn and Glitch have a great .... LOL, friendship. Brooklyn just eats Glitch up with her snark. The guy is crushing badly, you know that whole, ‘when best buds starts to take a turn and nobody is wising up.’ This makes for some funny and also awwww, ‘poor Glitch’ moments.

Enter Cameron Lusk, Mr Stalker. Shoulder length blonde hair, sophomore. Lorelei has known Cameron since she was a little tacker, but now he is showing stalker qualities. Something has gone down with Glitch and Cameron and this remains a mystery. The more you read into the book, the more it is a thing I want to know the answer to.

Intriguing , much.

Now enter , dark haired Hottie!!! Humma, Humma!! Talk, dark and muscular and tattooed. Air high five!

Sounds like a lovely recipe for a lad, doesn’t it?

I don’t want to give away any of the story because this book just kept evolving. Where you start , to where the story winds up in this first instalment, is , well, far from the start. Lots of curveballs and sub characters that come into the mix and lovely surprises await you.

And you will LAUGH! and you will go EEeeepp!!

There is all this ‘all is not what it seems’, with a big bag of funnies thrown in. There is this wonderful take on the thing I can’t say, well several things.

Now you might look at the title of this book and think you are a smarty pants and have it pretty much sussed in your brain...well, no!

Darynda has a lovely creative take on her tale. I can’t wait to see where she takes me.

I love Cameron and Dark dude. Now what I love is we think there is a love triangle from the cover...........well......maybe not the triangle you assume. *raises one eyebrow* That is if there is a triangle?

This book comes with a bag of funnies and a bag of surprises. I can’t wait for , ‘Death Doom and Detention’, due for release March 2013. Now considering this one isn’t released yet.....oh the pain of the wait J

FAVE QUOTES: I’ll have to hold myself back.....

The realisation of what these two buttheads must have been doing for the past two days sparked a fury inside me. I had been so worried, sick with it. And these two geniuses spent the entire time in a pissing contest?



She scowled at Cameron. “First you wanted to kill him because he was going to take her. Now you want to kill him because he didn’t. Bipolar much?


She raised the gun farther, her hand shaking. But Glitch and I were right by her side, Glitch with his bravado and me with my fists. If she got clobbered, we all got clobbered.



“Trust me, “ Cameron cut in, “there ain’t a thing wrong with those two, unless you count the unusual and exquisite length of their legs.”

Brooklyn turned a tight-lipped smile on him. “Thanks so much for that penis-driven observation.”

“Anytime, moon-pie”, he said with a smirk. “Jealous?”



“You are wine on my tongue and honey in my veins, I cannot get enough of you.” He leaned forward and whispered in my ear. His warm breath sent shivers cascading over my body. “You intoxicate me, Lorelei McAlister. You will be my downfall.”



“I wonder what they’re up to.”

“I wonder what it’s like to have the intelligence of squirrel feces.”

Michelle

RANDOM POSTING # 66 - BOOKS RELEASING IN 2012 & EARLY 2013 THAT I AM LOOKING FORWARD TO READING

Starting Clockwise to center

Flashes by Tim O'Rourke 

Lullaby by Amanda Hocking - Watersong # 2 - Nov 2012

Frost Burned by Patricia Briggs - Mercedes Thompson # 8 - March 2013

Shadows Before The Sun by Kelly Gay - Charlie Madigan # 4 - July 2012

Guardian by Heather Burch - Halflings # 2 - October 2012

Promised by Caragh O'Brien - Birthmarked # 3 - October 2012

Chosen at Nightfall by C.C. Hunter - Shadowfalls # 5 - April 2013

Because It Is My Blood Gabrielle Zevin - Birthright # 2 - September 2012

Etiquette & Espionage by Gail Carriger - Finishing School # 1 - February 2013

Wicked Kiss by Michelle Rowen - Nightwatchers # 2 - February 2013

Carnival Of Souls by Melissa Marr - September 2012

Outpost by Ann Aguirre - Razorland # 2 - September 2012

Witch Born by Amber Argyle - Witch Song # 2 - September 2012

Starting Clockwise to Center

Tiger's Destiny by Colleen Houck - The Tiger Saga # 4 - September 2012

Rebel Heart by Moira Young - Dust Lands # 2 - October 2012 

Cowgirls & Vampires 2 by Tim O'Rourke - Late 2012

The Queen Is Dead by Kate Locke - The Immortal Empire # 2 - February 2013

Poison Princess by Kresley Cole - The Arcana Chronicles - October 2012

Scarlet by Marissa Meyer - Lunar Chronicles # 2 - February 2013

The Lazarus Machine by Paul Crilley -Tweed & Nightingale Adventures # 1 - November 2012 

Altered Souls by Karice Bolton Witch Avenue Series # 2 - October 2012

Enduring Light by Alyssa Rose Ivy - The Afterglow Trilogy # 3 - 2013

Gilded Wings by Amy Lignor - The Angel Chronicles # 2 - November 2012

Fallen by Evangeline Ravecraft - The Forgotten # 1 - May 2012

Natural Born Angel by Scott Speer - Immortal City # 2 - April 2013

Splintered by A.G. Howard - January 2013

These are just some of the books I am looking forward to checking out by some published and some indie authors.

Michelle

BOOK REVIEW: BARGAINS & BETRAYALS (13 to Life Novel) by SHANNON DELANY

BARGAINS AND BETRAYALS

by

SHANNON DELANY

Publisher:  St Martin's Press

Pages:306, paperback

Acquired:  Personal Purchase

RATING

4 out of 5 MISSION READY RUSAKOVA STARS!

Description via Goodreads:

Locked away at Pecan Place, Jessie finds her situation to be even more dangerous than she feared. While she struggles to maintain her sanity and discover answers about the group that seems less and less like any legitimate government agency, Pietr fights to keep their relationship alive. But very aware that his mother’s time is running out, Pietr makes a deal he doesn’t dare tell Jessie about. Because the deal Pietr’s made could mean the death of far more than his tenuous relationship with the girl he loves.

MARISSA'S REVIEW:

Bargains and Betrayals is book #3 in the 13 to Life series by Shannon Delany. I have been really enjoying this series - not too taxing on the brain and a nice easy and enjoyable read from from beginning to end.  

 Jess finds herself in a greater predicament than she could imagine...Pecan Place - home of nutters and one particularly dastardly therapist/scientist - Dr. Jones.  She is one evil woman! And just when Jess thought no-one could be worse being around Dr Jones....it's being around Derek - the ex with the mind control and vision power feeding off Jess' emotions like it's 24/7 free buffet!

Jess uncovers sinister plots and begins to second guess the whole CIA/government/mafia involvement and obsession with herself and the Rusakovas.

Littered throughout the book are POV's from Alexei - former eldest brother and alpha of the Rusakova pack/family......thrust from his position after being found out that he was only adopted and challenged as Alpha by Pietr.  Alexei's insight throughout the story sheds a whole new light on the characters.

Peitr finds himself in a hard place throughout this book.......he has such intense feelings for Jess - that keep growing and becoming deeper and even frustrating at times for him!  He has to deal with quite a lot of emotional baggage throughout Bargains and Betrayals - accepting himself, defining his love with Jess and saving his mother from the horrid clutches of the CIA/Company before she dies.....oh and throw in some mafia involvement!

Shannon Delany has added another great addition to the 13 to Life series - a really great YA read.  With action, espionage, romance and passion......guns, werewolves, an aura reader, mind controller and even zombie guards!  Shannon packs it in and delivers more than we bargained for!  

Next in the series is Destiny and Deception (book #4).

ENJOY!

MARISSA