Day: October 22, 2010

Review: Forsaken by Shadow by Kait Nolan

Posted October 22, 2010 by Tracy in Reviews | 3 Comments

Cade Shepherd is on top of the world as this year’s Ultimate Fighting Champion. He doesn’t even remember his life as Gage Dempsey, a Shadow Walker with the ability to magically transport himself from shadow to shadow. In fact, he can’t remember anything before waking up in a cheap motel room ten years ago with mysterious burns on his hands–not even the woman he almost died for.


Embry Hollister has picked up the pieces of her life, learned to control her ability to generate flame, and now works an enforcer for the Council of Races. But when her father is captured by the human military and the Council refuses to mount a rescue mission, Embry has no choice but to go rogue. All she has to do is find the man with the new name and new life who was completely wronged by her people, give him back the memories they stole, convince him to join her on what’s probably a suicide mission, and hope that after ten years of living as a regular guy he still remembers what her father taught him.

And after that, she just has to leave him. Again.
Imagine waking up in a hotel room with no memories. That’s exactly what happened to Cade Shepherd. He had no idea who he was or even where he was. He eventually heads to a hospital where they find out he’s really a missing person. Jump 10 years and Cade is a UFC Champion who still remembers nothing from his life before. He always had this feeling though that there was a woman that he loved. He had no idea who she was but he just remembered a woman.
Embry is that woman. When he sees her at one of his fights he is drawn to her but has no idea why. Embry is there to give him his memories back in order to save her father’s life. But bringing Cade/Gage back into the life of the Mirus (paranormal beings) puts him in danger of losing his life.
This was my first read by Kait Nolan and it won’t be my last. The 91 action packed pages of this book kept me interested from start to finish.
The romance was sweet and touching while still having the tension that I always like in my romance books. The world that was built was done seamlessly throughout the story – there was no info dump that got it all out of the way and it was something I greatly appreciated.
Ms. Nolan has caught my attention and I definitely want to read more in this series when it’s published.
Rating: 4 out of 5


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YA Spooktacular Starts Today!

Posted October 22, 2010 by Rowena in | 1 Comment

The YA Spooktacular storytelling has officially begun today! You catch the start of both stories at the below links! There are lots of things popping off with this fantastic event so you won’t want to miss out!


Click on the picture to hit the first stop on the Story 1 train, Danielle from Frenzy of Noise is hosting part 1 and is having an awesome contest so hit her blog up for more details!


For the first part of Story 2, you’ll want to hit up Page Turners Blog to check that out. There’s plenty of goodness going on over there as well! I’ll be keeping a running tab of where the next part of the stories will be so stay tuned for that as the days go on.

Things are looking great so really, go forth and read!

..and that’s your scoop!


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Author Spotlight: Rachel Trivia to win free Book.

Posted October 22, 2010 by Rowena in Features | 2 Comments

Want a shot to win a free copy of Nothing but Trouble by Rachel Gibson? Try your luck at answering the Rachel Gibson trivia and the more answers you get right, the more chances you get of winning your very own copy of Nothing but Trouble.

1. What was the first book that Rachel Gibson got published?
2. When was Rachel Gibson’s first book published?
3. Who is the heroine of Simply Irresistible?
4. Name all of the books in the writers series.
5. Which hero falls in love with Claire Wingate?
6. How many books by Rachel Gibson are considered hockey books?
7. What is the name of Rob Sutter’s hometown?
8. What was Mick Hennessy’s occupation?
9. Which hero found out he was the father of a 9 year old little boy in his book?
10. Which heroine was a writer for a tabloid magazine?

Winners will be announced on the last day of the month!

Good luck!


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Review: The Reckless Bride by Stephanie Laurens.

Posted October 22, 2010 by Rowena in Reviews | 0 Comments

Publisher: Avon, Harper Collins


Rowena’s review of The Reckless Bride (The Black Cobra Quartet, Book 4) by Stephanie Laurens.

Hero: Rafe Carstairs
Heroine: Loretta Michelmarsh

He races to complete their mission against escalating odds–his task made more perilous when he loses his heart.

She’s determined to defy convention and live a solitary life–until she tastes the reckless pleasure found only in his arms.

Drawn together by fate, united by fiery passion, they pursue their shared destiny…one they’ll live to see only if they unmask the Black Cobra.

This is where the road ends for the four brave soldiers that risked their lives to bring the Black Cobra to justice and to avenge their friend. Man, I can’t believe the end is already here and when I jumped into this book, I was so jazzed to finally be reading Rafe’s story. I’ve been so ready for Rafe’s story since Del’s story. Right from the very beginning, I knew that Rafe was going to be my favorite hero of the bunch and while I loved him through out the series, I felt a bit let down by his story.

In this story, we finally get to see what the heck Rafe has been up to since he departed India all those stories ago. In the last three books, we could only speculate on his whereabouts and I just knew that he was out there battling the bad guys right along with Del, Gareth and Logan…but of the four of them, Rafe’s journey was so much tamer in comparison. He was the most reckless of the four soldiers and his story was mostly made up of him hooking up with Esme and Loretta and then fighting his growing feelings for Loretta.

While that’s all good and dandy, the emotional drama between Rafe and Loretta drove me bat shit crazy throughout most of the book. I spent equal time being annoyed with both Rafe and Loretta. I mean, Loretta knows about the seriousness of his mission. How important this mission is to Rafe because duh, he lost a friend to the bastard that is the Black Cobra and yet she keeps right on distracting him from his mission but on the other hand, there’s Rafe. While Loretta is throwing herself at him at every opportunity, Rafe is rebuffing her, telling her no more than one. How many times do you need to get rejected before your pride gets the best of you and you let him come to you? I mean seriously.

There was a lot of the going back and forth between the two of these guys and it got tiring for me. Among the back and forth, there’s all of the words that Stephanie Laurens just loves to have us read through and by the time Rafe and Loretta are in England and everything is coming together for the capture of the Black Cobra, I was kind of ready for the book to end. I wanted to like this book so much more than I did but that just wasn’t the case.

Rafe was a good, solid hero but the hype I gave him in my head throughout the series was too much for him to live up to. While I didn’t hate the book, I wasn’t over the moon about it either. The book was slow to pick up and then it dragged some in the middle and by the time I got to the end, I was glad. Not finishing the book was out of the question because I needed to know for my sanity how the whole thing came to an end and when we find out what we find out about the Black Cobra, I rolled my eyes.

There were things about this book that I liked. I adored Esme. I thought she was such a great old lady and every time she was on the pages, I smiled because she’s the bomb. I loved the way that her part of the storyline ended too. When Rafe and Gabriel are handling Esme’s light weight, I cheered because she had such great guys on her side. I think for me, Esme’s devil may care attitude won me over and I was glad that things ended the way that they did for her.

It wasn’t the ending that I was looking for with this series but I’m glad that I finished it because now I know. I’d recommend this book only because if you’ve read the other books in this series, it shows how the entire series comes to an end.

Grade: 3 out of 5

This book is available from Avon. You can buy it here or here in e-format.


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