I’ve had the Glory St. Clair series by Gerry Bartlett as one of my challenges this year and I have no idea why I’ve waited this long to read it. The first novel, Real Vampires Have Curves was a really fun read.  It was hard coming up with a summary for this novel, but [...]

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I finished When Twilight Burns by Colleen Gleason tonight and all I can say is…SCORE!  Okay, if you’ve been following my reviews of the series, then you probably know what I’m talking about.  That’s all I’m going to say on the matter so I won’t spoil it for anyone else…yeah, like that’s going to happen…if [...]

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Literary Escapism would like to welcome Lisa Hendrix, author of Immortal Warrior.  She’s here to give us a glimpse into the Immortal Warrior and we’ll even get some tidbits about her next novel in the Immortal Brotherhood series, Immortal Outlaw, which will be out June 2, 2009.
Make sure you stick around and enter the contest [...]

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The third novel in Colleen Gleason’s Gardella Vampires Chronicles, The Bleeding Dusk, finally answers some of my questions!
We’re still in Rome and Victoria is dealing with the loss of her Aunt Eustacia and the betrayal of Max.  Granted, she hasn’t seen Max since he gave her his vis bulla, but they both needed time to [...]

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I just finished Rises the Night, the second novel in Colleen Gleason’s Gardella Vampires Chronciles and I’m kind of annoyed.  I think this is the first time I’ve come across a novel, wanting and expecting one thing, seeing how wrong I was throughout the entire novel and then finding out I was possibly right at [...]

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Today’s guest blogger is Loucinda McGary, author of the Wild Sight. She’s going to be talking about the persistence of memory and we’re even offering up a contest with an awesome prize at the end. So make sure you stick around.
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No, this is not a blog about the weird painting by Salvador Dali [...]

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The latest novel in the Dark-Hunter series, One Silent Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon takes us through the eyes of a man we have come to hate. One Silent Night is Stryker’s story, the leader of the infamous Daimons.
In an act of vengeance, Stryker goes to the Underworld to let loose a power that has the [...]

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I grew up reading historical romance novels, so I’m always love finding ones that also include the paranormal element. When I heard of Coleen Gleason’s Gardella Vampire series, they immediately caught my attention. It took me awhile, but I finally got my hands on the Rest Falls Away, the first novel in this [...]

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Jesse has given me permission to cross-post his two excerpts for his NaNoWriMo novel, The Autobiography of Ziggy Swift.  As of right now, he’s at 51,315 words and he’s only written about 1/3 of it.
Kibbel clamped his hands over his eyes and trembled. In the distance the wagon creaked and groaned as the off-kilter hoofbeats [...]

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I just finished the latest Meredith Gentry novel by Laurell K. Hamilton and I have to wonder…is Swallowing Darkness the end?
At the end of Lick of Frost, we found out that Meredith was pregnant with twins by six of her guards.  Then she gets kidnapped by Taranis, the King of Light and Illusion or the [...]

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