Review: Beautiful Creatures

Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl Caster Chronicles #1 YA Gothic Fiction/Paranormal Romance, Published 2009 Challenges: RIP V, 2010 YA, Series IV Read Oct 2010, 563 pages Source: Purchased Verdict: 4.5/5 First sentence: There are only two kinds of people in our town. Book Blurb: Lena Duchannes is unlike anyone the small Southern [...]

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Review: Magyk

Magyk by Angie Sage Septimus Heap Series #1 YA Fiction/Adventure/Fantasy, Published 2005 Challenges: YA, Series IV Read: Oct 2010, 560 pp. Shelf Life: 2.5 years – Purchased: 3-19-08 Verdict: 5/5 Book Blurb: Septimus Heap, the seventh son of the seventh son, disappears the night he is born, pronounced dead by the midwife.  That same night, [...]

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Review: The Masque of the Black Tulip

The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig The Pink Carnation Series #2 Historical Fiction/Romance/Mystery, Published 2005 Challenges: Series Challenge IV Read: September 2010, 429 pp. Verdict: 4/5 Book Blurb: Modern-day graduate student Eloise achieved the academic coup of the century when she unmasked one of history’s greatest spies, the Pink Carnation, who saved [...]

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Review: Soulless

Soulless by Gail Carriger The Parasol Protectorate #1 Fantasy/Horror/Romance, Published 2009 Challenges: Series Challenge IV, Fangtastic Fiction Challenge, RIP V Challenge Read: Sept 2010, 357 pp Verdict: 5/5 Book Blurb: First, she has no soul.  Second, she’s a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead.  Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking [...]

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Review: McMurtry’s Sin Killer – A Sin of A Book!

Sin Killer by Larry McMurtry, Audio narrated by Alfred Molina The Berrybender Narratives #1 Fiction – Historical/Westerns, Published 2002 Challenges: Audio Book Challenge, Series Challenge IV Read June 2010 2/5 Book Blurb: From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Larry McMurtry comes the first leg of an epic journey through the early American frontier, introducing a pioneer family [...]

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Dockside at Avalon’s Willow Lake

Dockside by Susan Wiggs Lakeshore Chronicles #3 Fiction/Romance, Published 2007 Read April 2010 Challenges: Series Challenge IV Shelf Life: 2 yrs, 1 mo. – Purchased 3-19-08 Verdict: 4.2/5 #1: Summer at Willow Lake #2: The Winter Lodge From the Cover: With her daughter grown and flown, Nina Romano is ready to embark on a new [...]

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Review: Crazy Cool – Steele Street Steamy Romance ♥

Crazy Cool by Tara Janzen Steele Street #2 Romance/Romantic Suspense – Steamy, Published 2005, 415 pp. Received from paperbackswap.com Challenges: Series Challenge IV Shelf Life: N/A – Received from PBS 4-20-10 Read April 2010 Verdict: 3/5 From the Cover: He called her Bad Luck Dekker, a gorgeous socialite who trailed trouble in her wake.  Christian [...]

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Review: The Clan of the Cave Bear

The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel, Audio narrated by Sandra Burr Earth’s Children Series #1 Fiction, Published 1980 Challenges: Audio Book Challenge, Series Challenge IV Read April 2010 Story: 4/5, Narration: 5/5 Book Blurb: This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries [...]

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Eragon – a fast paced adventure tale and this is just the beginning

Eragon by Christopher Paolini, Audio narrated by Gerard Doyle Inheritance Cycle #1 YA Fiction, SciFi/Fantasy, Published 2005 Challenges: Audio Book Challenge, 2010 YA Reading Challenge, Once Upon a Time IV, Series Challenge IV Read April 2010, March 2005 Story: 4.5/5, Narration: 4/5 From the Cover: When Eragon finds a polished blue stone in the forest, [...]

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Truly, Madly (ARC) by Heather Webber (Lucy Valentine #1)

Truly, Madly by Heather Webber Lucy Valentine Series #1 Fiction/Chick-Lit, Published 2010 ARC from LibraryThing Early Reviewers Series Challenge IV Read Jan 10 4.5/5 From the Cover: Lucy hails from a long line of matchmakers known as Valentine, Inc.  According to family legend, the Valentines have been blessed by Cupid with the psychic ability to [...]

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