Tag: Kira Brady

Guest Author: Kira Brady + a Giveaway!

Posted August 8, 2012 by Tracy in Reviews | 10 Comments

Thanks for having me Tracy! Since the Desert Island Keepers blog started in 2008, I have been waiting to do my author interview. (Tracy: OMG I had no idea!  I’m so sorry!) I never got my chance, but for old time’s sake, here are my answers!

Favorite Reading Position
Any way and every way I can get it. I used to read a book a day, but since I had a baby, I’m lucky to read one a month.

Best love song
Forever and Always by Shenia Twain. It was the first dance at my wedding.

Favorite Heroine
Kate Daniels from Ilona Andrews’s Kate Daniels series. She’s smart, sarcastic, and kicks ass.

Author everyone loves but you don’t
I’d have to refrain from saying, but I’ll admit I have trouble getting into the old skool books everyone seems to love. I came too late to the romance genre.

If you could be in one book/series/world which would you pick
Meljean Brook’s Iron Seas series. I’d get mechanical arms and become an airship pirate.

How old is your inside voice
Five.

If you could be a hero who would you be
Curran. Everybody wants to be a cat.

What heroine is most like you
Molly Somerville from Susan Elizabeth Philips’s This Heart of Mine. She’s a children’s book author and illustrator with an impulsive streak, a lot creative, a bit sensitive.

What heroine would you like to be
Kate Daniels.

Favorite book set on a tropical island
Once an Angel by Teresa Medeiros. It’s set in New Zealand. The heroine is too young for the hero and absolutely impulsive, but I can’t help loving their romance anyway. It’s got that magic.

What hero would you like to be your significant other
Rhys Trahaearn from Meljean Brooks’s The Iron Duke.

If you were stuck on a desert island what 3 things would you bring
Sunscreen, paper and a pencil so I could write.

Favorite Drink to Bring to the DIK party?
Glögg. It’s a scandinavian drink with mulled wine, bourbon, and spices. The characters drink it in the Deadglass stories. 🙂

What six books would you take on a desert island?
1. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
2. The Last Unicorn by Peter S Beagle
3. The annotated Peter Pan by JM Barrie
4. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
5. Sabriel by Garth Nix
6. Watership Down by Richard Adams

AUTHOR BIO:A native Seattleitte, Kira spent her childhood hiking the rainy forests of the Pacific Northwest and drying out by the fire with a good book and a mug of something hot. She graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania, where she met her real life Prince Charming and promptly dragged him back to sunless Seattle. She fell in love with historic, haunted cities in graduate school. Now she writes about the twisted cities of her imagination, where wraiths and shape-shifters stalk the night and love redeems even the darkest heart. When not writing, she can be found drinking inordinately large mugs of Assam tea, knitting wool socks, and raising a wee heroine-in-training. Her website is http://kirabrady.com

HEARTS OF DARKNESS:

In the first of a dazzling new romantic trilogy, one woman’s courageous search plunges her into a millennia-old supernatural war—and an irresistible passion…

Nurse Kayla Friday has dedicated her life to science and reason. But for her, Seattle is a place of eerie loss and fragmented, frightening memories. And now the only clue to her sister’s murder reveals a secret battle between two ancient mythologies…and puts Kayla in the sights of lethally-sexy werewolf mercenary Hart. He’ll do whatever it takes to obtain the key to the Gate of the Land of the Dead and free what’s left of his soul. But seducing the determined Kayla is putting them at the mercy of powerful desires neither can control. And as the clock ticks down to hellish catastrophe, the untested bond between Kayla and Hart may lead to the ultimate sacrifice.

Tracy: Thanks so much for visiting today, Kira! Congrats on the new book. And to all you readers out there…I read Hearts of Darkness and it was really good! So good that I just decided, as I’m typing this, that I’m gonna give away an ebook copy of this book to one lucky winner. I can work out details with the winner later. 🙂  So leave a comment on this post, along with your email address, no later than say…August 13th at midnight (pacific) to enter.

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What I Read Last Week

Posted June 18, 2012 by Tracy in Features | 5 Comments

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. It was hotter than hell here but I managed to stay in a lot in the various places I went so that was good. Father’s Day was nice – my hubby was a homebody but hey, that’s what he wanted. 🙂
DFAT is still going strong! I managed to read 6 DFRAT books last week – woohoo! Go me. lol 
Here is the schedule for all of the blogs involved in the Digital First Read-A-Thon for this week:
Monday, June 18th
Alina Adams Book Binge
Nancy Cassidy  RR@H Novel Thoughts
Charlie Cochrane The Book Reading Gals
HelenKay Dimon Book Binge
Liz Strange RR@H Novel Thoughts
Tuesday, June 19th
Ruthie Knox Book Binge
Larry Benjamin RR@H Novel Thoughts
Lillian Grant The Book Reading Gals
Mary Hughes Tracy’s Place

Wednesday, June 20th
Annie Nicholas Book Binge
Eugenia O’Neill Book Binge
Cathy Perkins RR@H Novel Thoughts
Phoebe Conn The Book Reading Gals
Barbara Meyers Tracy’s Place
Thursday, June 21st
Lynne Connelly RR@H Novel Thoughts
Julie Rowe Book Binge
Born of Empire by Simon Brown Giveaway Book Binge
Georgie Lee RR@H Novel Thoughts
Desiree Holt The Book Reading Gals
Kay Keppler Tracy’s Place
Friday, June 22nd
Veronica Scott RR@H Novel Thoughts
Renee Wildes The Book Reading Gals
Mari Carr Tracy’s Place
Hope Tarr Book Binge
Saturday, June 23rd
Jessica Scott Book Binge
Anne Hope The Book Reading Gals
Cathleen Ross Tracy’s Place
Sunday, June 24th
A. Catherine Noon and Rachel Wilder Book Binge
Serenity Woods Tracy’s Place
Lots of great authors to read about and lots of giveaways as well!
On to what I read this week:
I started off the week with Tempting by Hope Tarr. This story is Hope’s take on Pygmalion. In this case an aspiring member of Parliament, Simon, finds a woman in the attic of a brothel and ends up taking her home with him and trying to make her speech and dress suitable enough to find her a position as a governess or lady’s maid. Life, of course, doesn’t turn out the way he planned and he ends up falling in love with Christine and all the angst that brings to the story. It was a very good book and one I’d recommend it. 4.25 out of 5 (read for Book Binge)
Next was His Heart’s Obsession by Alex Beecroft. This was the story of Robert who is in love with his shipmate and friend, Hal. Hal, however, is in love with his straight captain, William. Robert professes his love but with Hal so gone over William it’s a battle to prove his feelings for Hal. This was a good m/m story that I very much enjoyed. You can read my full review here. 4 out of 5
Next was About Last Night by Ruthie Knox. This story is about an American woman who is living in England. She is all sewn up and proper as she feels she should be since her life prior to that had been a complete mess – as far as she’s concerned. She meets banker Nev who is much more than what he seems on the surface and learns a whole lot about herself while falling in love with him. It was a really good book – fun and funny and it just hit all the right buttons with me. Definitely worth the read. 4.5 out of 5 (read for Book Binge)
Next up was Black Wolf by Jade Buchanan. This book had Adam, a tabby cat shifter, who left home and is working at a bar when he meets his mate, Marcus – a wolf. He is in trouble with his landlord though who wants to have more from Adam than his money and isn’t afraid to knock him around to make him see his point of view. The story has Marcus and Adam dealing with the situation as well as falling in love. It was very short but pretty darned cute. 3.25 out of 5
After that was the next book in the Wolf Creek series by Jade Buchanan, Duck Fart.. Bailey is a friend of Adam’s (from book 1). He actually followed Adam because he wanted to tell Adam how he felt about him. He’s shocked when he finds Adam mated. He’s confused but horny and ends up going home with a mallard shifter named Drake. Drake is nuts and funny but uses humor as a shield. He is a kinky little thing though and ends up putting a cock cage on Bailey and then can’t find the key. Enter Keith who is a cousin to Marcus (book 1) so he knows about shifter. Keith gets Bailey out of his predicament and the three end up spending the weekend together. There’s a whole lot more going on in this story but I don’t want to tell all. It was very good and I really liked it. 4 out of 5
Thief of Shadows by Elizabeth Hoyt was next and it was Oh So Good. I’ll post my review for the book later this week.
Next was Somebody Like You by Candis Terry. This is book 3 in The Sugar Shack trilogy and a good one as well. I’ll post this review this week as well so keep your eyes open.
Last on the list was Hearts of Darkness by Kira Brady. I know it doesn’t come out until August but I just couldn’t help myself. This is Kira’s first novel and well worth the read. The story is about dragon shifters who are trying to open a gate to hell so they can take over the world. The Kivati who are shifters who have pledged to protect humans from the dragon shifters (a completely separate shifter race). Kayla goes to Seattle after the death of her sister and finds a world she had no idea existed. She meets wolf shifter Hart and she thinks he’s helping her complete a mission for the Kivati when he’s actually working for his boss the dragon shifter. It’s a story about love and loss and betrayal. It’s written so well and there are so many different intricacies in the story that it just caught me and didn’t let go. I’ll post a review of this one when it gets nearer release time but keep it on your radar. 4.25 out of 5
My Book Binge reviews that posted last week:

Happy Reading!

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