GINNY'S BOOK NEWS OF THE WEEK

Hello everyone, here is my book news of the week filled with all the shiny new books that are coming out this week.
I hope you find many new books to add to your bookshelf.

'I promise I wasn't buying any books'

TUESDAY TEASER

Good day my fellow fur and human friends, welcome to another edition of Tuesday Teaser a meme I created, where I post a teaser section for a book I have recently read.
I hope you all enjoy.
Ginny

PUG REVIEW: SKINWALKER BY FAITH HUNTER

SKIN WALKER- -JANE YELLOWROCK #1-FAITH HUNTER
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A year ago Jane nearly lost her life taking down an entire blood family of deadly rogue vampires that preyed on the helpless local populace of an Appalachian town. Now, after months of recuperation, she’s back and ready to fight again. Except this time, she’s hired by those she’s trained to kill—vampires…
Jane Yellowrock is the last of her kind—a skinwalker of Cherokee descent who can turn into any creature she desires and hunts vampires for a living. Back from hiatus, she’s hired by Katherine Fontaneau, one of the oldest vampires in New Orleans and the madam of Katies’s Ladies, to hunt a powerful rogue vampire who’s killing other vamps.
Amidst a bordello full of real “ladies of the night,” and a hot Cajun biker with a panther tattoo who stirs her carnal desire, Jane must stay focused and complete her mission—or else the next skin she’ll need to save just may be her own.

THROWBACK THURSDAY

Hello everyone today post is hosted by My World...in words and pages. This post is about books that already on our shelves just waiting to be read.

PUG REVIEW: HOURGLASS BY MYRA MCENTIRE

HOURGLASS- HOURGLASS #1- MYRA McENTIRE
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     One hour to rewrite the past . . .

For seventeen-year-old Emerson Cole, life is about seeing what isn't there: swooning Southern Belles; soldiers long forgotten; a haunting jazz trio that vanishes in an instant. Plagued by phantoms since her parents' death, she just wants the apparitions to stop so she can be normal. She's tried everything, but the visions keep coming back.

So when her well-meaning brother brings in a consultant from a secretive organization called the Hourglass, Emerson's willing to try one last cure. But meeting Michael Weaver may not only change her future, it may also change her past.

Who is this dark, mysterious, sympathetic guy, barely older than Emerson herself, who seems to believe every crazy word she says? Why does an electric charge seem to run through the room whenever he's around? And why is he so insistent that he needs her help to prevent a death that never should have happened?

PUG REVIEW: DEMON IN ME BY MICHELLE ROWAN

DEMON IN ME- LIVING IN EDEN #1- MICHELLE ROWAN
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View our feature on Michelle Rowen’s The Demon in Me.

Hell hath no fury like a woman possessed...

After her hunky police detective partner guns down a serial killer in front of her, "psychic consultant" Eden Riley realizes that she's no longer alone. A voice in her head introduces himself as Darrak. He's a demon. But not in a bad way. He was cursed 300 years ago and he wants to find a way to break free. Eden's psychic energy helps him take form during daylight, and she's going to have to learn to live with this sexy demon...like it or not.




 

PUG REVIEW: SOMETHING WICKED BY MICHELLE ROWAN

SOMETHING WICKED- LIVING IN EDEN #2- MICHELLE ROWAN
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In her new Living in Eden novel, Michelle Rowen proves that being a little wicked isn't all bad...

Every woman has a sexy demon inside her just waiting to get out, but for Eden Riley it's a little different. Her inner demon is named Darrak, and he's been inhabiting bodies for the past three hundred years. In the daytime, thanks to her special psychic energy, he's able to take physical shape—a shape she wouldn't mind getting her hands on, it it wasn't a threat to her immortal soul...

Because of her possession, Eden now has uncontrollable black magic at her fingertips, and she and Darrak are trying to end the curse that binds them before the situation gets any worse. To do it, they'll have to get tangled up with some unsavory characters from the underworld. When sparks and spells fly, they could get the distance they need...or each will have their own private hell to pay

PUG REVIEW: GRAVE DANCE BY KALAYNA PRICE

GRAVE DANCE- ALEX CRAFT #2- KALAYNA PRICE 
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         Whoever said dead men tell no tales obviously never met   Alex Craft.

After a month spent recovering from a vicious fight with a sorcerer, grave witch Alex Craft is ready to get back to solving murders by raising the dead. With her love life in turmoil thanks to the disappearance of Fae Investigation Bureau agent Falin Andrews and a shocking “L” word confession from Death himself, Alex is eager for the distractions of work. But her new case turns out to be a deadly challenge.

The police hire Alex to consult on a particularly strange investigation in the nature preserve south of Nekros City. The strange part: There are no corpses, only fragments of them. A serial killer is potentially on the loose, and Alex has no way to raise a shade without a body, so she’ll have to rely on the magic of others to find leads. But as she begins investigating, a creature born of the darkest magic comes after her. Someone very powerful wants to make sure the only thing she finds is a dead end—her own

PUG REVIEW: KISS OF FROST BY JENNIFER ESTEP

KISS OF FROST- MYTHOS ACADEMY #2- BY JENNIFER ESTEP
                                                             
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I’m Gwen Frost, a second-year warrior-in-training at Mythos Acad­emy, and I have no idea how I’m going to sur­vive the rest of the semes­ter. One day, I’m get­ting schooled in sword­play by the guy who broke my heart—the drop-dead gor­geous Logan who slays me every time. Then, an invis­i­ble archer in the Library of Antiq­ui­ties decides to use me for tar­get prac­tice. And now, I find out that some­one at the acad­emy is really a Reaper bad guy who wants me dead. I’m afraid if I don’t learn how to live by the sword—with Logan’s help—I just might die by the sword

FIRST EVER PUG INTERVIEW WITH CASSIE ALEXANDER

Today is my first ever pug interview! so I'd like you all to give a big pug clap and tail wag to our first guest, Cassie Alexander!

Cassie Alexander Debut novel nightshifted was published on May 22nd 2012 by St. Martin's Press.
                                                   
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 From debut author Cassie Alexander comes a spectacular new urban fantasy series where working the nightshift can be a real nightmare.

Nursing school prepared Edie Spence for a lot of things. Burn victims? No problem. Severed limbs? Piece of cake. Vampires? No way in hell. But as the newest nurse on Y4, the secret ward hidden in the bowels of County Hospital, Edie has her hands full with every paranormal patient you can imagine—from vamps and were-things to zombies and beyond...

Edie’s just trying to learn the ropes so she can get through her latest shift unscathed.  But when a vampire servant turns to dust under her watch, all hell breaks loose. Now she’s haunted by the man’s dying words—Save Anna—and before she knows it, she’s on a mission to rescue some poor girl from the undead. Which involves crashing a vampire den, falling for a zombie, and fighting for her soul. Grey’s Anatomy was never like this.

PUG REVIEW: MAGIC BITES BY ILONA ANDREWS

Magic Bites- Kate Daniels #1- Ilona Andrews
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 When the magic is up, rogue mages cast their spells and monsters appear, while guns refuse to fire and cars fail to start. But then technology returns, and the magic recedes as unpredictably as it arose, leaving all kinds of paranormal problems in its wake.

Kate Daniels is a down-on-her-luck mercenary who makes her living cleaning up these magical problems. But when Kate's guardian is murdered, her quest for justice draws her into a power struggle between two strong factions within Atlanta's magic circles.

The Masters of the Dead, necromancers who can control vampires, and the Pack, a paramilitary clan of shapechangers, blame each other for a series of bizarre killings—and the death of Kate's guardian may be part of the same mystery. Pressured by both sides to find the killer, Kate realizes she's way out of her league—but she wouldn't have it any other way…

PUG REVIEW: DISCOUNT ARMAGEDDON BY SEANAN McGUIRE

DISCOUNT ARMAGEDDON BY SEANAN McGUIRE- INCRYPTID #1
                                                    
 
















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Ghoulies. Ghosties. Long-legged beasties. Things that go bump in the night... The Price family has spent generations studying the monsters of the world, working to protect them from humanity-and humanity from them. Enter Verity Price. Despite being trained from birth as a cryptozoologist, she'd rather dance a tango than tangle with a demon, and is spending a year in Manhattan while she pursues her career in professional ballroom dance. Sounds pretty simple, right? It would be, if it weren't for the talking mice, the telepathic mathematicians, the asbestos supermodels, and the trained monster-hunter sent by the Price family's old enemies, the Covenant of St. George. When a Price girl meets a Covenant boy, high stakes, high heels, and a lot of collateral damage are almost guaranteed. To complicate matters further, local cryptids are disappearing, strange lizard-men are appearing in the sewers, and someone's spreading rumors about a dragon sleeping underneath the city...

PUG REVIEW: TOUCH OF POWER BY MARIA V.SNYDER

TOUCH OF POWER BY MARIA. V. SNYDER, HEALER 1#

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Laying hands upon the injured and dying, Avry of Kazan absorbs their wounds and diseases into herself. But rather than being honored for her skills, she is hunted. Healers like Avry are accused of spreading the plague that has decimated the Fifteen Realms, leaving the survivors in a state of chaos.

Stressed and tired from hiding, Avry is abducted by a band of rogues who, shockingly, value her gift above the golden bounty offered for her capture. Their leader, an enigmatic captor-protector with powers of his own, is unequivocal in his demands: Avry must heal a plague-stricken prince—leader of a campaign against her people. As they traverse the daunting Nine Mountains, beset by mercenaries and magical dangers, Avry must decide who is worth healing and what is worth dying for. Because the price of peace may well be her life...

 

• Genre:  fantasy, young adult 15+, magic

• Pages: 390

• Chapters:26

Published December 20th 2011 by Mira

Key points:  magic, journey, romance, war, violence

In short: A great exciting read with a great journey and brilliant characters.

Paw rating:  

Ginny's (The Pug's) Review:

I and my owner are a big fan of Maria V.J. Snyder, (although we were not overly enthusiastic about the ending of spy glass), nether the less we were excited about getting our paws on her new series (healer).

This book was very much similar to her glass series with a similar magical universe that I was glad to see again, as I loved the varied magicians and magical beings that were presented in both this new series and in her last couple of books.

This book focus on the main character’s Avry journey as she struggles with the emotional and physical manifestations of the views of the people to her natural talent, which has been accused of starting the plague that killed thousands of people who lived in the fifteen realms casing anyone with healer powers to be killed.

Just when things are looking the worse for our Avry she is kidnapped by a band of rogues who have a hidden agenda in helping her to survive, because of this we are taken on an exciting, heart pounding, saddening and physical journey that keeps you turning the pages late into the night.

The characters that are presented to us in this book are lively and very 3D although there is still plenty of potential to develop them further in very interesting ways.  I was truly saddened and cried a few pugs tears when some of the characters who I became to truly love were given their final role in this book never to resurface, although you will have to read the book to find out who bites the dust.  

I thoroughly enjoy this book as the journey given to us is neither too long nor too short and presents a beautifully written complex storyline that unfolds slowly like the petals of a beautiful flower.

Although this story is a slow burner it has great action with in its pages and I definitely suggest everyone to read it. 

Can’t wait to read book two.

OTHER BOOKS IN THE SERIES:

  COMES OUT: December 27th 2012

I hope you all enjoyed the review :) see you all soon.

Ginny xx