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'

PUG REVIEW: BETA BY RACHEL COHN

BETA (ANNEX #1) RACHEL COHN
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Elysia is created in a laboratory, born as a sixteen-year-old girl, an empty vessel with no life experience to draw from. She is a Beta, an experimental model of a teenage clone. She was replicated from another teenage girl, who had to die in order for Elysia to exist.

Elysia's purpose is to serve the inhabitants of Demesne, an island paradise for the wealthiest people on earth. Everything about Demesne is bioengineered for perfection. Even the air induces a strange, euphoric high, which only the island's workers--soulless clones like Elysia--are immune to.

At first, Elysia's life is idyllic and pampered. But she soon sees that Demesne's human residents, who should want for nothing, yearn. But for what, exactly? She also comes to realize that beneath the island's flawless exterior, there is an under-current of discontent among Demesne's worker clones. She knows she is soulless and cannot feel and should not care--so why are overpowering sensations cloud-ing Elysia's mind? 

GINNY'S GIVE AWAY

Hello everyone, here is my first ever give away! All you have to do is guess what book this cover is from and you could win one out of two books. The winners will be picked at random. I will ship internationally if the winner is willing to pay shipping.

THROWBACK THURSDAY

Hello my fellow internet friends, its THROWBACK THURSDAY time again! This post is ran by my world...in words and pages visit for more great posts!

WHAT'S STACKING MY SHELF #3

Hello everyone here is what stacking my pug reading shelf this week.
Enjoy!
Ginny
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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 TOUCHED BY AN ALIEN BY GINI KOCH

TOUCHED BY AN ALIEN- KATHERINE (KITTY) KAT 1#
                                                         
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 How can a sexy marketing manager join forces with an Alpha Centauri male in Armani to save the planet-using hairspray, a Mont Blanc pen, and rock n' roll?

Easy...

She's Touched by an Alien

Marketing manager Katherine "Kitty" Katt steps into the middle of what appears to be a domestic dispute turned ugly. And it only gets uglier when the man turns into a winged monster, straight out of a grade-Z horror movie, and goes on a killing spree. Though Kitty should probably run away, she springs into action to take the monster down.

In the middle of the chaos a handsome hunk named Jeff Martini appears, sent by the "agency" to perform crowd control. He's Kitty's kind of guy, no matter what planet he's from. And from now on, for Kitty, things are going to be sexy, dangerous, wild, and out of this world.

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…

ZOMBIE BOOKS OF THE WEEK

Hello fellow bookworms, today post is all about Zombies! Click the authors names to be taken to their Zombie lairs :)
This weekend's Zombies stars are;

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...

THE PUG REVIEW: EVEN WHITE TRASH ZOMBIES GET THE BLUES!

EVEN WHITTE TRASH ZOMBIES GET THE BLUES BY  Diana Rowland- WHITE TRASH ZOMBIE #2

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Angel Crawford is finally starting to get used to life as a brain-eating zombie, but her problems are far from over. Her felony record is coming back to haunt her, more zombie hunters are popping up, and she's beginning to wonder if her hunky cop-boyfriend is involved with the zombie mafia. Yeah, that's right--the zombie mafia.
Throw in a secret lab and a lot of conspiracy, and Angel's going to need all of her brainpower--and maybe a brain smoothie as well--in order to get through it without falling apart.

PUG REVIEW: WANDERLUST BY ANN AGUIRRE

WANDERLUST (SIRANTHA JAX #2) BY ANN AGUIRRE
                                               
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Sirantha Jax doesn’t take chances…she jumps at them…

Sirantha Jax is a “Jumper,” a woman who possesses the unique genetic makeup needed to navigate faster than light ships through grimspace. Jax has worked for the Farwan Corporation her entire career. But now the word’s out that the Corp deliberately crashed a passenger ship, and their stranglehold on intergalactic commerce has crumbled—which means that Jax is out of a job.

She’s also broke, due to being declared dead a little prematurely. So when the government asks her to head up a vital diplomatic mission, Jax takes it. Her mandate: journey to the planet Ithiss-Tor and convince them to join the Conglomerate.

But Jax’s payday is light years away. First, she’ll have to contend with Syndicate criminals, a stormy relationship with her pilot, man-eating aliens, and her own grimspace-weakened body. She’ll be lucky just to make it to Ithiss-Tor alive…

• Genre: sci-fi, young adult, 16+

• Chapters: 55

• Pages: 312

•  Published August 26th 2008 by Ace

 

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Key points: Aliens, war, space, female heroine, sexual content 

In short: Another great, fast pace, action packed, heart wrenching book

 

Ginny’s review:

Wanderlust is the second instalment in the Sirantha Jax series and it just as feisty as Grimspace and I loved every minute of Sirantha new adventure.

This adventure is very emotional for Sirantha with her past coming to haunt in ways she could never imagined and this plotline leaves the readers shocked and surpirsed when the cloaked is finally removed and we finally find out who plan and started the mishaps that occurred in Sirantha attempt to complete the job she has been given at the beginning of this book, I also believe this was a great and interesting way to learn more about Sirantha before she was kidnapped off of the psych ward way back in Grimspace. 

This new adventure takes us far across the galaxy with Sirantha and her beloved crew mates March, Diana and a host of new crew mates that they pick up on the way. Each characters is made memorable and loved and hated for all the right reasons, the author has done a great job of making her characters very 3D with also leaving plenty of room for development.

The readers will also be shocked to find out what happens to March and Sirantha and I hope we hear more about this subject in the third book as this is left very open at the end of wanderlust.

This was a great fast paced read with unexpected twists and turns with an interesting plotline and lots of character development and change. A recommend read for anyone. Can’t wait to get my paws on book three Doubleblind.

Another thing I loved about this book was it use of the Wanderlust in the story, how many times can you find the title in the pages of this book?

OTHER BOOKS IN SIRANTHA JAX'S SERIES:

 

  

HOPE YOU ALL ENJOYED THE REVIEW, SEE YOU NEXT TIME!

GINNY