Posted April 14, 2015 by Carmel in Fresh Meat / 9 Comments
Urban Fantasy:
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Edge of Dreams (Diamond City Magic #2)
by Diana Pharaoh Francis
Urban Fantasy
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
And a pound of flesh.
Magical tracking expert Riley Hollis is on a mission to save five teenagers lost inside a mountain. But nothing is what it seems, and soon Riley finds herself bruised, bloodied, and embroiled in a battle to bring down a sadistic criminal dealing in human souls and the darkest of magics.
Her only hope may be to swallow her pride and ask for help from her not-quite-ex-boyfriend and his notorious brother—Tyet criminal boss, Gregg Touray. Even that may not be enough to protect her. Something has gone very wrong in the trace dimension and in Riley’s head.
If she doesn’t figure out how to handle the past, the present, the trace, and the bad guys, the road to hell is going to look like a great alternative.[/learn_more] |
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Prison of Hope (Hellequin Chronicles #4)
by Steve McHugh
Urban Fantasy
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]Long ago, Olympian gods imprisoned the demon Pandora in a human—Hope—creating a creature whose only purpose was chaos and death. Remorseful, the gods locked Pandora away in Tartarus, ruled by Hades.
Now, centuries later, Pandora escapes. Nate Garrett, a 1,600-year-old sorcerer, is sent to recapture her and discovers her plan to disrupt the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, killing thousands in a misplaced quest for vengeance.
Fast forward to modern-day Berlin, where Nate has agreed to act as guardian on a school trip to Germany to visit Hades at the entrance to Tartarus. When Titan King Cronus becomes the second ever to escape Tartarus, Nate is forced to track him down and bring him back, to avert a civil war between those who would use his escape to gain power.[/learn_more] |
Science Fiction / Fantasy:
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A Crown for Cold Silver
by Alex Marshall
Fantasy
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]“It was all going so nicely, right up until the massacre.”
Twenty years ago, feared general Cobalt Zosia led her five villainous captains and mercenary army into battle, wrestling monsters and toppling an empire. When there were no more titles to win and no more worlds to conquer, she retired and gave up her legend to history.
Now the peace she carved for herself has been shattered by the unprovoked slaughter of her village. Seeking bloody vengeance, Zosia heads for battle once more, but to find justice she must confront grudge-bearing enemies, once-loyal allies, and an unknown army that marches under a familiar banner.
FIVE VILLAINS. ONE LEGENDARY GENERAL. A FINAL QUEST FOR VENGEANCE.[/learn_more] |
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Window Wall (Glass Thorns #4)
by Melanie Rawn
Fantasy
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]For nearly two years, Cade has been rejecting his Fae gift, his prescient Elsewhens–simply refusing to see or experience them. But the strain is driving a wedge between him and his theater troupe, Touchstone, and making him erratic on stage and off. It takes his best friend Mieka to bully Cade into accepting the visions again. But when Cade finally looks into the possible futures, he sees a royal castle blowing up, though his vision does not tell him who is responsible. But he knows that if it is in his visions, he can take action to stop it from happening. And when he finally discovers the truth, he takes the knowledge to the only man in the Kingdom who would believe him: his deadly enemy the Archduke.
Melanie Rawn’s delightful creation of the world of Albeyn is a place where the magical races have joined with humans in a melting pot of powers, and everyone loves the theater of magic. In Window Wall, her irrepressible cast of characters mature–at least a little. Not that they’ll ever settle down.[/learn_more] |
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Clash of Iron (Iron Age #2)
by Angus Watson
Fantasy
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]LEADERS ARE FORGED IN THE FIRES OF WAR
Iron Age warriors Dug and Lowa captured Maidun castle and freed its slaves. But now they must defend it.
A Roman invasion is coming from Gaul, but rather than uniting to defend their home, the British tribes go to battle with each other — and see Maidun as an easy target.
Meanwhile, Lowa’s spies infiltrate Gaul, discovering the Romans have recruited British druids. And Maidunite Ragnall finds his loyalties torn when he meets Rome’s charismatic general, Julius Caesar.
War is coming. Who will pay its price?[/learn_more] |
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The Ways of Walls and Words
by Sabrina Vourvoulias
Fantasy
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| [learn_more caption=”Book Description”]Anica and Bienvenida pass prayers and small comforts through the gaps in the prison walls. Incarcerated by the Inquisition for the faith she won’t surrender, Anica longs for solace for her family and freedom for herself. And Bienvenida, heir to her mother’s Nahua magic, now practiced out of sight of the Spanish religious authorities, will trade a great deal for the fragile chance at friendship and snippets of poetry.[/learn_more] |
Paranormal Romance:
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Demon’s Vengeance (The Asylum Tales #3)
by Jocelynn Drake
Paranormal Romance
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]The complete novel that comprises Demon’s Fury, Demon’s Vow and Inner Demon.
Powerful warlock and tattoo artist Gage has managed to escape the magical Ivory Towers who terrorize the rest of humans and monsters—but at a price. Now he must join forces with his nemesis, Gideon, to stop an entity that is using forbidden Death Magic to commit gruesome murders across the nation. And if that’s not keeping him busy enough, an investigator recruits Gage to help her track a killer … who might be targeting tattoo artists.
When Gage discovers a demon locked away, it offers him access to dark magic in exchange for its freedom—a dangerous opportunity, but one that could save his loved ones. Gage must choose between what is right and what is easy.[/learn_more] |
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The Story of Son
by J.R. Ward
Paranormal Romance
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]First released in the anthology Dead After Dark, dive into this hot novella from #1 New York Times bestselling author J.R. Ward. Available for the first time ever as a standalone ebook, get lost in the sinful pleasures of a vampire so obsessed with one woman, he will relinquish her blood, if only he can have her heart…
Held captive by a dark, seductive vampire with an unworldly hunger, the beautiful Claire Stroughton fears her life as a lawyer has irrevocably taken a turn for the worse. But when this deeply sensual-and highly dangerous-vampire convinces Claire that his desire for her is stronger than his lust for blood, she is compelled to give everything up to him, body and soul…[/learn_more] |
Paranormal Mystery:
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Aunt Dimity and the Summer King
(Dimity #20)
by Nancy Atherton
Paranormal Mystery
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]Cozy mystery lovers’ favorite paranormal sleuth is back with her twentieth otherworldly adventure.
There’s trouble in Finch. Four recently sold cottages are standing empty, and the locals fear that a developer plans to turn their cozy village into an enclave of overpriced weekend homes. But for once Lori Shepherd can’t help.
Her infant daughter, her father-inlaw’s upcoming wedding, and the crushing prospect of her fortieth birthday have left her feeling inadequate and overwhelmed. Until, that is, she has a chance encounter with an eccentric inventor named Arthur Hargreaves. Dubbed the Summer King by his equally eccentric family, Arthur is as warmhearted as the summer sun. In his presence, Lori forgets her troubles—and Finch’s.
But Lori snaps out of her happy trance when she discovers detailed maps of Finch in the Summer King’s library. Next, a real estate agent comes knocking. Is Arthur secretly plotting Finch’s demise?
With Aunt Dimity’s otherworldlym help—and her new daughter in her arms—Lori mounts a crusade to save her beloved village from the Summer King’s scorching greed.[/learn_more] |
Young Adult:
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Forged (Taken #3)
by Erin Bowman
Young Adult / Dystopian
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]Gray Weathersby and his group of rebels must make their final stand in the epic conclusion to the Taken trilogy, which New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu called “an action-packed thrill ride from beginning to end.”
The Order is building an unstoppable army, with every generation of Forgeries harder to detect and deadlier than the one before. It’s time for Gray and his fellow rebels to end the Order’s world of lies. But when the most familiar faces—and even the girl he loves—can’t be trusted, Gray will have to tread carefully if he wants to succeed. Or survive.[/learn_more] |
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Hit (Hit #1)
by Delilah S. Dawson
Young Adult / Dystopian
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]In order to save her mother, a teen is forced to become an indentured assassin in this sizzling dystopian thriller.
No one reads the fine print.
The good news is that the USA is finally out of debt. The bad news is that we were bought out by Valor National Bank, and debtors are the new big game, thanks to a tricky little clause hidden deep in the fine print of a credit card application. Now, after a swift and silent takeover that leaves 9-1-1 calls going through to Valor voicemail, they’re unleashing a wave of anarchy across the country.
Patsy didn’t have much of a choice. When the suits showed up at her house threatening to kill her mother then and there for outstanding debt unless Patsy agreed to be an indentured assassin, what was she supposed to do? Let her own mother die?
Patsy is forced to take on a five-day mission to complete a hit list of ten names. Each name on Patsy’s list has only three choices: pay the debt on the spot, agree to work as a bounty hunter, or die. And Patsy has to kill them personally, or else her mom takes a bullet of her own. Since yarn bombing is the only anarchy in Patsy’s past, she’s horrified and overwhelmed, especially as she realizes that most of the ten people on her list aren’t strangers. Things get even more complicated when a moment of mercy lands her with a sidekick: a hot rich kid named Wyatt whose brother is the last name on Patsy’s list. The two share an intense chemistry even as every tick of the clock draws them closer to an impossible choice.[/learn_more] |
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Dream a Little Dream (Silber #1)
by Kerstin Gier
Young Adult / Fantasy
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]Mysterious doors with lizard-head knobs. Talking stone statues. A crazy girl with a hatchet. Yep, Liv’s dreams have been pretty weird lately. Especially this one where she’s in a graveyard at night, watching four boys perform dark magic rituals. The really weird thing is that Liv recognizes the boys in her dream.
They’re classmates from her new school in London, the school where’s she’s starting over because her mom has moved them to a new country (again). But they seem to know things about her in real life that they couldn’t possibly know, which is mystifying. Then again, Liv could never resist a good mystery. . .[/learn_more] |
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Bloodkin (The Maeve’ra Trilogy #2)
by Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
Young Adult / Fantasy
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]Some lines should never be crossed.
Sixteen-year-old Kadee is proud to be a part of the Obsidian guild, whose members refuse to bow to anyone in Midnight—including the vampires who claim to rule this world and the shapeshifter royals who obey them. She knows firsthand what it’s like to live with the Shantel and serpiente, and she’ll never forgive these shapeshifters for taking her from her real father as a sick and frightened human child. Fortunately, Kadee is the master of her own life and decisions now, but some of the choices she’s made to protect her Obsidian family—and one of her peers in the guild—have begun to haunt her.[/learn_more] |
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The Wondrous and the Wicked
(The Dispossessed #3)
by Page Morgan
Young Adult
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]For fans of Lauren Kate’s Fallen series comes the exciting conclusion to the trilogy that includes The Beautiful and the Cursed and The Lovely and the Lost. The Waverly sisters must save themselves before all is lost.
Since the Waverlys arrived in Paris, the streets have grown more fearsome by the day. As Ingrid learns to master her lectrux gift, she must watch Axia’s power grow strong enough to extend beyond her Underneath hive. By all indications, the fallen angel’s Harvest is near-and the timing couldn’t be worse.
Targeted by vengeful gargoyles, Gabby has been exiled to London for her own protection. Meanwhile, the gargoyle castes are in disarray, divided between those who want Luc to lead them and those who resent him and his fondness for humans. The Alliance is crumbling from the inside as well, its members turning against one another, and possibly against the Waverlys, too.
Axia has promised that the world will burn. And now, unable to trust the Alliance, separated from Luc, Gabby, and her twin, Grayson, Ingrid is left to face the demon uprising alone.[/learn_more] |
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The Fearless
by Emma Pass
Young Adult
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]For fans of The Hunger Games, Matched, Divergent, and The Fifth Wave, this fast-paced futuristic thriller tells the story of seventeen-year-old Cass and her fight to protect her younger brother from an unimaginably terrifying enemy.
The Deadliest Enemy feels no fear.
When the Fearless invaded, they injected everyone in their path with the same serum that stripped them of humanity.
Life became a waking nightmare.
Cass has the invasion seared in her memory. Seven years later, she and her brother, Jori, are living on Hope Island in a community of survivors. No one can enter, and no one can leave.
It’s the only way to stay safe.
But when Hope Island’s security is breeched and Jori is taken by the Fearless, Cass will risk everything to get him back.[/learn_more] |
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The Prom Goer’s Interstellar Excursion
by Chris McCoy
Young Adult
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]It’s Superbad meets Spaceballs in this hilarious extraterrestrial road trip!
Just a few days before prom, Bennett pulls off something he never imagined possible: his dream girl, Sophie, agrees to be his date. Moments afterward, however, he watches Sophie get abducted by aliens in the middle of the New Mexico desert.
Faced with a dateless prom (and likely kidnapping charges), Bennett does the only thing he can think of: he catches a ride into outer space with a band of extraterrestrial musicians to bring her back.
Can he navigate alien concert venues, an extraterrestrial reality show, and the band’s outlandish egos to rescue his date in time for the big dance? Fans of King Dork and Winger won’t want to miss this![/learn_more] |
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Denton Little’s Deathdate
by Lance Rubin
Young Adult
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]Denton Little’s Deathdate takes place in a world exactly like our own except that everyone knows the day on which they will die. For Denton, that’s in just two days—the day of his senior prom.
Despite his early deathdate, Denton has always wanted to live a normal life, but his final days are filled with dramatic firsts. First hangover. First sex. First love triangle—as the first sex seems to have happened not with his adoring girlfriend, but with his best friend’s hostile sister. (Though he’s not totally sure—see, first hangover.) His anxiety builds when he discovers a strange purple rash making its way up his body. Is this what will kill him? And then a strange man shows up at his funeral, claiming to have known Denton’s long-deceased mother, and warning him to beware of suspicious government characters. . . . Suddenly Denton’s life is filled with mysterious questions and precious little time to find the answers.
Debut author Lance Rubin takes us on a fast, furious, and outrageously funny ride through the last hours of a teenager’s life as he searches for love, meaning, answers, and (just maybe) a way to live on.[/learn_more] |
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Tags: April 2015, Fresh Meat
Dream a Little Dream looks really good. 🙂 But I *will* restrain myself from buying anything despite the fact that I have a GC burning a hole in my pocket. I need to read a few more books from my shelves first. 😉
Bookworm Brandee recently posted…Character Interview ~ Éire’s Devil King ~ Sandi Layne
I’m actually really excited for Dream a Little Dream, I loved that author’s other series. 🙂
Kelsey recently posted…Review: Lying Season by Karina Halle
Looks like there are some fun ones out today! Thanks for posting this!
kindlemom1 recently posted…Blog Tour Book Review: Zombie-Saurus Rex by Mark Souza
I enjoyed Dream a Little Dream! Kerstin Gier has a really fun sense of humor that manages to come through really well even though her books are translated from German:) I need to read the Page Morgan series, I’ve heard amazing things about those books!
All of the books I’m excited about this week are in the Young Adult category. Interesting. The Prom Goer’s Interstellar Excursion looks hilarious, and I loved Kerstin Gier’s Ruby Red trilogy so I can’t wait to begin her new Silber series. Thank you for sharing this week’s new releases!
E.J. Stevens recently posted…Paranormal Road Trip: Destination Spokane with Danielle Annett
If only I had unlimited funds and unlimited reading time …
Aurian recently posted…Nancy Warren – Kate – The Almost Brides Club – Read for #LLC2015
Forged is already in my Kindle and I’m awaiting The Wondrous & The Wicked on the mail and hoping it’ll arrive soon!!
Pili recently posted…Mark This Book Monday: Summer on the Short Bus by Bethany Crandell!!
OK, I just finished my pre-order, Seeds of Inequity, now I want more! LOL I just got HIT, I caught a preview and sounded very interesting! I hope it’s good 🙂
Thank you Carmel!
Lupdilup recently posted…Dark Instincts Audiobook by Suzanne Wright (REVIEW)
I just found out about Hit – that look interesting. Not sure about the Ward book. I’m over the BDB but maybe this will be different.