In My Mailbox

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Great haul this week. Had to share.  Also I want everyone to bow their heads in a moment of silence and just send some positive winning energy to Miami....Go Saints! Take a moment to view the youtube.com video below, our city has gone completely nuts in the last week. Nothing has been accomplished, it has been a non-stop party and just happiness all around.  Chris Rose a very popular columnist in New Orleans wrote in one of his columns a description of post-Katrina New Orleans as a city where 90% of the population was on Prozac.  Got to say he was spot on. We were in a daze and a little loopy.  Well we are all off the Prozac and dancing around like idiots. I'm was on Bourbon Street last night - CRAZY. I will be there for the game tonight. Hopefully I'll be back tomorrow, LOL.

Ok back to books.
Library Haul



Rosemary and Rue: An October Daye Novel  | Green | Stargazer


Purchase Haul

Peeps 


Review Haul
  
Titus and Atreus | Mister Monday (Keys to the Kingdom, Book 1)


Contest Haul (Won)



The Dark Divine | Dancing With Werewolves: Delilah Street, Paranormal Investigator (Delilah Street; Paranormal Investigator)

Evernight by Claudia Gray - Quickie Review

Evernight (Evernight, Book 1) by Claudia Gray
Paid for by me!
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PJV's Quickie POV: Read this right before I started PJV. Picked it up after I had tore through the Twilights. I just got to the second in the series, so I thought I would revisit Evernight with a quickie review. I enjoyed this book tremendously, and had planned on sucking down the sequel quickly, but with an out of control TBR it took me awhile.

Review: Under duress, Bianca is forced to attend a creepy and snobbish school called Evernight Academy.  Bianca's parents are teachers at the school and they are hoping the school will help Bianca with her incompetent social skills.

Bianca really doesn't fit in though, and her parents aren't exactly happy that Bianca falls in with the least likely of candidates a very angry and controlling gent by the name of Lucas. Lucas is an enigma to Bianca and she knows that hooking up with him might lead to even more shunning from the other students. While this is going on there is also a lot of hinting to the fact that something odd is afoot at Evernight Academy.

A true Romeo & Juliet retelling, Evernight was highly enjoyable and I felt myself wanting more the moment the last page was turned. There were a few problems with the novel, but nothing that drove me crazy.  A lot of critics haven't liked the "reveal" but I enjoyed it and thought it was a good way to turn things on end instead of the usual "Girl Meets Vamp" YA happiness.  Check this book, it is worth the read, especially since Hourglass is about to be released, you won't have long to wait.

Recommendations: Fans of Meyer's Twilight series, Mead's Vampire Academy  and the Cast's House of Night series. Both adults and teens, parents, nothing to be worried about but a few kisses.

Waiting on Wednesday Part II - Burned - House of Night Book 7

I got this in my inbox today, so I thought I would include.  Kind of a Cover Feature & WOW. Isn't that cover pretty? I'm assuming that is Stevie Rae.

 

Burned the next House of Night Book

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Releasing April 27th 2010

IThings have turned black at the House of Night. Zoey Redbird’s soul has shattered. With everything she’s ever stood for falling apart, and a broken heart making her want to stay in the Otherworld forever, Zoey’s fading fast. It’s seeming more and more doubtful that she will be able pull herself back together in time to rejoin her friends and set the world to rights. As the only living person who can reach her, Stark must find a way to get to her.  But how?  He will have to die to do so, the Vampire High Council stipulates.  And then Zoey will give up for sure. There are only 7 days left…

Enter  BFF Stevie Rae.  She wants to help Z but she has massive problems of her own.  The rogue Red Fledglings are acting up, and this time not even Stevie Rae can protect them from the consequences.  Her kinda boyfriend, Dallas, is sweet but too nosy for his own good.  The truth is, Stevie Rae’s hiding a secret that might be the key to getting Zoey home but also threatens to explode her whole world.

In the middle of the whole mess is Aphrodite: ex-Fledgling, trust-fund baby, total hag from Hell (and proud of it).  She’s always been blessed (if you could call it that) with visions that can reveal the future, but now it seems Nyx has decided to speak through her with the goddess’s own voice, whether she wants it or not.  Aphrodite’s loyalty can swing a lot of different ways, but right now Zoey’s fate hangs in the balance.

Three girls… playing with fire… if they don’t watch out, everyone will get Burned.

From HouseofNight.com