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[2 Aug 2010 | 6 Comments]
The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner by S. Meyer

Here’s the thing about the Twilight series – most people have an opinion on it. They either seem to be completely in love with the books, or they completely hate Twilight and all it stands for. As for me, I’m somewhere in the middle. So, when I picked up The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner I wasn’t sure what to think.
Fans of The Twilight Saga will be enthralled by this riveting story of Bree Tanner, a character first introduced in Eclipse, and the darker side of the newborn vampire …

[19 Jul 2010 | No Comment]

Mistwood by Leah Cypess is a story that was able to draw my attention almost without effort.
The Shifter is an immortal creature bound by an ancient spell to protect the kings of Samorna. When the realm is peaceful, she retreats to the Mistwood. But when she is needed she always comes.
Isabel remembers nothing. Nothing before the prince rode into her forest to take her back to the castle. Nothing about who she is supposed to be, or the powers she is supposed to have.
Prince Rokan needs Isabel to be his …

[18 Jun 2010 | 3 Comments]

There is something about Rachel Vincent’s series that always take me a while to warm up to her characters. It took me until Prey to get really excited for her Shifters and now it’s taken me until My Soul to Keep to get excited about the Soul Screamers series.
Kaylee has one addiction: her very hot, very popular boyfriend, Nash. A banshee like Kaylee, Nash understands her like no one else. Nothing can come between them.
Until something does.
Demon breath. No, not the toothpaste-challenged kind. The Netherworld kind. The kind that really …

[10 Jun 2010 | No Comment]

I finally finished the anthology The Eternal Kiss, edited by Trisha Telep, and it was a fairly good collection of stories. Normally, I would give you a rundown of all the stories involved, but I did something a little differently this time – I did mini reviewettes of each story, so they’ve already been posted.  As a recap, here they are:

Falling to Ash by Karen Mahoney
Shelter Island by Melissa de la Cruz
Sword Point by Maria Snyder
The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
Undead Is Very in Right Now by Sarah …

[10 Jun 2010 | One Comment]

Continuing with The Eternal Kiss anthology, edited by Trisha Telep, I just finished the final story, All Wounds by Dina James.
I’m a little behind on my reviews and All Wounds was one that has been waiting around for me.  Initially, I couldn’t remember much about the story, but that’s not necessarily a bad thing.  I tend to read a lot, so stories can get lost in my head, but once I opened up the pages to refresh my memory, man did the story come back to me.
The whole premise is …