Posted February 10, 2015 by Carmel in Fresh Meat / 24 Comments
Paranormal Romance:
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The Seduced (Rogues of Scotland #4)
by Donna Grant
Paranormal Romance
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]HER NEED
For centuries, Innes MacKay’s family has been tasked with protecting a sleeping warrior prophesied to be the savior of their clan. From the moment Innes took over guardianship, the handsome Highlander became her closest confidant – and the object of her fantasies. When fate makes clan MacKay ripe for takeover, Innes wakes the man from his enchanted sleep ready to do whatever is necessary to save her people, even if it means never giving in to her heart.
HIS DESIRE
Kept ageless and asleep for two hundred years, Daman Thacker wakes with no memory and no voice, his driving desire to find the woman who comforted him during his endless slumber. Her voice and touch seduced him, and now that he’s awake, he will do anything to find her and make her his. Unfortunately, helping her save her clan may require letting her go…[/learn_more] |
Urban Fantasy:
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Deadly Spells (Prospero’s War #3)
by Jaye Wells
Urban Fantasy
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]MAGIC IS A DRUG.
ADDICTIVE AND DEADLY.
After the grisly murder of a dirty magic coven leader, Kate Prospero and The Magical Enforcement Agency team up with the local police to find the killer. When a tenacious reporter sticks her nose in both the investigation and Prospero’s past in the covens, old ghosts resurface.
As the infighting between covens turns ugly, an all-out war brews in the slums of Babylon.[/learn_more] |
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Finn Fancy Necromancy
by Randy Henderson
Urban Fantasy
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]Finn Gramaraye was framed for the crime of dark necromancy at the age of 15, and exiled to the Other Realm for twenty five years. But now that he’s free, someone—probably the same someone—is trying to get him sent back. Finn has only a few days to discover who is so desperate to keep him out of the mortal world, and find evidence to prove it to the Arcane Enforcers. They are going to be very hard to convince, since he’s already been convicted of trying to kill someone with dark magic.
But Finn has his family: His brother Mort who is running the family necrotorium business now, his brother Pete who believes he’s a werewolf, though he is not, and his sister Samantha who is, unfortunately, allergic to magic. And he’s got Zeke, a fellow exile and former enforcer, who doesn’t really believe in Finn’s innocence but is willing to follow along in hopes of getting his old job back. [/learn_more] |
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The Lost Chalice (Relic Seekers #3)
by Anita Clenney
Urban Fantasy
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]Relic hunter and archaeology expert Kendall Morgan has a lot on her mind. After finding the Fountain of Youth—and discovering that Nathan, her handsome billionaire boss, might actually be her long-lost childhood love—she could really use some time to think. Except a two-thousand-year-old Protettori guardian has just teleported into her bathroom, desperate for help.
The Reaper, an ancient and sinister being consumed with finding the world’s most powerful relics, is after the Holy Grail. Now Kendall must use her sixth sense to find it first. With both Nathan and her brooding bodyguard, Jake, by her side, Kendall sets out to find the lost chalice in a dangerous quest that will test her abilities, her heart, and everything she thought she knew.[/learn_more] |
Science Fiction / Fantasy:
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Obsession in Death (In Death #40)
by J.D. Robb
Science Fiction
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]Eve Dallas has solved a lot of high-profile murders for the NYPSD and gotten a lot of media. She—and her billionaire husband—are getting accustomed to being objects of attention, of gossip, of speculation.
But now Eve has become the object of one person’s obsession. Someone who finds her extraordinary, and thinks about her every hour of every day. Who believes the two of them have a special relationship. Who would kill for her—again and again…
With a murderer reading meanings into her every move, handling this case will be a delicate—and dangerous—psychological dance. And Eve knows that underneath the worship and admiration, a terrible threat lies in wait. Because the beautiful lieutenant is not at all grateful for these bloody offerings from her “true and loyal friend.” And in time, idols always fall… [/learn_more] |
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The Diabolical Miss Hyde
(Electric Empire #1)
by Viola Carr
Science Fiction / Steampunk
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]Forensic science, magic, mystery, and romance mix in this edgy steampunk fantasy—a retelling of the horror classic, in which Dr. Eliza Jekyll, daughter of the infamous Dr. Henry Jekyll—pursues a dangerous murderer in an alternate Victorian London.
In an electrified Victorian London, Dr. Eliza Jekyll is a crime scene investigator, hunting killers with newfangled technological gadgets. She will need every advantage available to catch a terrifying new psychopath splattering London with blood. Hidden in the grimy shadows, the fiendish murderer preys on beautiful women, drugging them before slicing off their limbs. Finding the “Slicer” can make Eliza’s career . . . or unmask her darkest secret. Like her father, she has a hidden second self that emerges when she drinks his forbidden magical elixir. Just a few sips, and a seductive and impulsive Lizzie Hyde is unleashed.
The members of the Royal Society do not trust Eliza, and they send their enforcer, the mercurial Captain Lafayette, to prove she’s a dangerous sorceress. The careful doctor knows that one wrong step can make her prey to the clever Lafayette, a man who harbors an evil curse of his own. No matter how much she craves the elixir, she must resist.
But as the Slicer case draws her into London’s luminous magical underworld, Eliza will need the potion’s power to help her . . . even if it might attract the attentions of Lafayette. .
Even if it means setting the wild Lizzie free. . . .[/learn_more] |
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The Autumn Republic (Powder Mage #3)
by Brian McClellan
Fantasy
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]IN A RICH, DISTINCTIVE WORLD THAT MIXES MAGIC WITH TECHNOLOGY, WHO COULD STAND AGAINST MAGES THAT CONTROL GUNPOWDER AND BULLETS?
The capital has fallen…
Field Marshal Tamas returns to his beloved country to find that for the first time in history, the capital city of Adro lies in the hands of a foreign invader. His son is missing, his allies are indistinguishable from his foes, and reinforcements are several weeks away.
An army divided…
With the Kez still bearing down upon them and without clear leadership, the Adran army has turned against itself. Inspector Adamat is drawn into the very heart of this new mutiny with promises of finding his kidnapped son.
All hope rests with one…
And Taniel Two-shot, hunted by men he once thought his friends, must safeguard the only chance Adro has of getting through this war without being destroyed…[/learn_more] |
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The Very Best of Kate Elliott
by Kate Elliott
Fantasy
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]Strong heroines and riveting storytelling are the hallmark of groundbreaking fantasy author Kate Elliott (Crown of Stars, Crossroads). Elliott is a highly-compelling voice in genre fiction, an innovative author of historically-based narratives set in imaginary worlds. This first, retrospective collection of her short fiction is the essential guide to Elliott’s shorter works. Here her bold adventuresses, complex quests, noble sacrifices, and hard-won victories shine in classic, compact legends.
In “The Memory of Peace,” a girl’s powerful emotions rouse the magic of a city devastated by war. Meeting in “The Queen’s Garden,” two princesses unite to protect their kingdom from the blind ambition of their corrupted father. While “Riding the Shore of the River of Death” a chieftain’s daughter finds an unlikely ally on her path to self-determination.
Elliott’s many readers, as well as fantasy fans in search of powerful stories featuring well-drawn female characters, will revel in this unique gathering of truly memorable tales.
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The Glittering World
by Robert Levy
Fantasy
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]When up-and-coming chef Michael “Blue” Whitley returns with three friends to the remote Canadian community of his birth, it appears to be the perfect getaway from New York. He soon discovers, however, that everything he thought he knew about himself is a carefully orchestrated lie. Though he had no recollection of the event, as a young boy, Blue and another child went missing for weeks in the idyllic, mysterious woods of Starling Cove. Soon thereafter, his mother suddenly fled with him to America, their homeland left behind.
But then Blue begins to remember. And once the shocking truth starts bleeding back into his life, his closest friends—Elisa, his former partner in crime; her stalwart husband, Jason; and Gabe, Blue’s young and admiring coworker—must unravel the secrets of Starling Cove and the artists’ colony it once harbored. All four will face their troubled pasts, their most private demons, and a mysterious race of beings that inhabits the land, spoken of by the locals only as the Other Kind…[/learn_more] |
Young Adult:
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Greta and the Glass Kingdom
(Mylena Chronicles #2)
by Chloe Jacobs
Young Adult / Fantasy
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]Once upon a dark time…
Greta the human bounty hunter never quite fit into the shadowed, icy world of Mylena. Yet she’s managed to defeat the demon Agramon and win the love of the darkly intense Goblin King, Isaac. Now Isaac wants her to rule by his side—a human queen. And the very announcement is enough to incite rebellion…
To make matters worse, defeating Agramon left Greta tainted with a dark magick. Its unclean power threatens to destroy her and everything she loves. With the Goblin King’s life and the very peace of Mylena at stake, Greta must find a cure and fast.
Her only hope lies with the strange, elusive faeries in the Glass Kingdom…if she can get there before the evil within her destroys everything.[/learn_more] |
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Red Queen (Red Queen Trilogy #1)
by Victoria Aveyard
Young Adult / Fantasy
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]Mare Barrow’s world is divided by blood—those with common, Red blood serve the Silver- blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities. Mare is a Red, scraping by as a thief in a poor, rural village, until a twist of fate throws her in front of the Silver court. Before the king, princes, and all the nobles, she discovers she has an ability of her own.
To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess and betroths her to one of his own sons. As Mare is drawn further into the Silver world, she risks everything and uses her new position to help the Scarlet Guard—a growing Red rebellion—even as her heart tugs her in an impossible direction. One wrong move can lead to her death, but in the dangerous game she plays, the only certainty is betrayal.[/learn_more] |
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Seeker (Seeker #1)
by Arwen Elys Dayton
Young Adult / Fantasy
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]The night Quin Kincaid takes her Oath, she will become what she has trained to be her entire life. She will become a Seeker. This is her legacy, and it is an honor.
As a Seeker, Quin will fight beside her two closest companions, Shinobu and John, to protect the weak and the wronged. Together they will stand for light in a shadowy world.
And she’ll be with the boy she loves–who’s also her best friend.
But the night Quin takes her Oath, everything changes.
Being a Seeker is not what she thought. Her family is not what she thought. Even the boy she loves is not who she thought.
And now it’s too late to walk away.[/learn_more] |
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All That Burns (All That Glows #2)
by Ryan Graudin
Young Adult / Fantasy
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]All That Glows author Ryan Graudin returns with the fantasy novel’s sequel, rife with intense romance and riveting action. As this alluring mortal-prince-meets-immortal-fairy love story continues, this urban London tale serves up irresistible chemistry and adventure. In this second book, Emrys, the Faery guard to the British royal family, has sacrificed her powers to be with her soul mate, King Richard, choosing love over immortality. But as a strange, dark magic threatens all, Emrys must make the most difficult decision of her life.
The worlds of magic and mortal are colliding as London celebrates its new king, marking an era of unity between the Faery realm and the human one. As Emrys struggles to navigate her place between the Faery queen’s court and London’s lavish galas, danger looms beyond the Thames.
When a prisoner possessing dark magic breaks out of Queen Titania’s labyrinthine prison, endangering Emrys’s king and sparking an uprising, Emrys must question the strength of true love’s binds. Will she reclaim her magic to save Richard’s life and lose him forever? Or stay powerless as the kingdom goes down in flames?[/learn_more] |
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Collide (The Taking #3)
by Melissa West
Young Adult / Science Fiction
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]Military legacy Ari Alexander has survived alien spies, WWIV, and a changing world order. But when the new leader of Earth uses Jackson—the only boy she’s ever let herself care about—to get to her, Ari has no choice but to surrender.
To free Jackson, she agrees to travel to the national bases to train others to fight. What she discovers is a land riddled with dying people. Ari has the power to heal by turning the fighters into aliens—half-breeds like her. If she succeeds, together, they have a chance at overthrowing the alien leader, Zeus. But if she fails, everyone she holds dear will be wiped away forever.
Once again, everything Ari’s come to believe is thrown into question. In a world of uncertainty, loyalties are tested, lies are uncovered, and no one can be trusted. If Ari and Jackson have any hope at survival and at preserving a life for the future, they must fight the final war with their eyes wide open.[/learn_more] |
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I Remember You
by Cathleen Davitt Bell
Young Adult / Science Fiction
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]Lucas and Juliet couldn’t be more different from each other. But from the moment Lucas sees Juliet, he swears he remembers their first kiss. Their first dance. Their first fight. He even knows what’s going to happen between them—not because he can predict the future, but because he claims to have already lived it.
Juliet doesn’t know whether to be afraid for herself or for Lucas. As Lucas’s memories occur more frequently, they also grow more ominous. All Juliet wants is to keep Lucas safe with her. But how do you hold on to someone you love in the present when they’ve begun slipping away from you in the future?[/learn_more] |
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Rebellion (Extraction #2)
by Stephanie Diaz
Young Adult / Science Fiction
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| [learn_more caption=”Book Description”]It’s been seven days since Clementine, Logan, and their allies retreated into hiding on the Surface. Clementine feels almost safe in their company, but she knows it won’t last. The rebels may have won one fight against Commander Charlie, but the fight is far from over. He will find a way to fly his Core battleship to the nearby planet, Marden, no matter how many lives are lost in the process. Unless the rebels defeat him first. The plan is simple: they will infiltrate each sector and weaken his infrastructure from within his ranks. They will convince the underage workers in the camps to join in the uprising. They will hijack ships, enter the Core, and assassinate Charlie. But Charlie has more weapons in his possession than guns and bombs, and he will do whatever it takes to keep the rebels from ruining his plans. With every step, Clementine draws closer to losing Logan and everyone she cares about—and losing control of herself.[/learn_more] |
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The Eterna Files
by Leanna Renee Hieber
Young Adult / Steampunk
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”] London, 1882: Queen Victoria appoints Harold Spire of the Metropolitan Police to Special Branch Division Omega. Omega is to secretly investigate paranormal and supernatural events and persons. Spire, a skeptic driven to protect the helpless and see justice done, is the perfect man to lead the department, which employs scholars and scientists, assassins and con men, and a traveling circus. Spire’s chief researcher is Rose Everhart, who believes fervently that there is more to the world than can be seen by mortal eyes.
Their first mission: find the Eterna Compound, which grants immortality. Catastrophe destroyed the hidden laboratory in New York City where Eterna was developed, but the Queen is convinced someone escaped—and has a sample of Eterna.
Also searching for Eterna is an American, Clara Templeton, who helped start the project after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln nearly destroyed her nation. Haunted by the ghost of her beloved, she is determined that the Eterna Compound—and the immortality it will convey—will be controlled by the United States, not Great Britain.[/learn_more] |
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The Glass Arrow
by Kristen Simmons
Young Adult / Dystopian
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]In a world where females are scarce and are hunted, then bought and sold at market for breeding, 15-year old Aya has learned how to hide. With a ragtag bunch of other women and girls, she has successfully avoided capture and eked out a nomadic but free existence in the mountains. But when Aya’s luck runs out and she’s caught by a group of businessmen on a hunting expedition, fighting to survive takes on a whole new meaning.
The Glass Arrow: a haunting, yet hopeful, new novel from Kristen Simmons, the author of the popular Article 5 trilogy.[/learn_more] |
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Dead Spots
by Rhiannon Frater
Young Adult / Horror
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]New horror from Rhiannon Frater: in the dead spots, dreams become reality, terror knows your name, and nightmares can kill
The stillbirth of Mackenzie’s son destroyed her marriage. Grieving, Mac reluctantly heads for her childhood home to seek refuge with her mother, who constantly reminds her of life’s dangers.
Driving across Texas, Mac swerves to avoid hitting a deer…and winds up in a dead spot, a frightening place that lies between the worlds of the living and the dead. If they can control their imaginations, people can literally bring their dreams to life—but most are besieged by fears and nightmares which pursue them relentlessly.
Mackenzie’s mother and husband haunt her, driving her to the brink of madness. Then she hears a child call for help and her maternal instincts kick into overdrive. Grant, Mac’s ally in the dead spots, insists Johnny is a phantom, but the boy seems so real, so alive….
As the true horrors of the dead spots are slowly revealed, Mackenzie realizes that time is running out. But exits from the dead spots are nearly impossible to find, and defended by things almost beyond imagination.
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The Ruby Circle (Bloodlines #6)
by Richelle Mead
Young Adult
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]The epic conclusion to Richelle Mead’s New York Times bestselling Bloodlines series is finally here…
Sydney Sage is an Alchemist, one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires. They protect vampire secrets—and human lives.
After their secret romance is exposed, Sydney and Adrian find themselves facing the wrath of both the Alchemists and the Moroi in this electrifying conclusion to Richelle Mead’s New York Times bestselling Bloodlines series. When the life of someone they both love is put on the line, Sydney risks everything to hunt down a deadly former nemesis. Meanwhile, Adrian becomes enmeshed in a puzzle that could hold the key to a shocking secret about spirit magic, a secret that could shake the entire Moroi world. [/learn_more] |
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The Shadow Cabinet
(Shades of London #3)
by Maureen Johnson
Young Adult
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]Rory and her friends are reeling from a series of sudden and tragic events. While racked with grief, Rory tries to determine if she acted in time to save a member of the squad. If she did, how do you find a ghost? Also, Rory’s classmate Charlotte has been kidnapped by Jane and her nefarious organization. Evidence is uncovered of a forty-year-old cult, ten missing teenagers, and a likely mass murder. Everything indicates that Charlotte’s in danger, and it seems that something much bigger and much more terrible is coming.
Time is running out as Rory fights to find her friends and the ghost squad struggles to stop Jane from unleashing her spectral nightmare on the entire city. In the process, they’ll discover the existence of an organization that underpins London itself—and Rory will learn that someone she trusts has been keeping a tremendous secret.[/learn_more] |
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Monstrous
by MarcyKate Connolly
Middle Grade / Fantasy
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[learn_more caption=”Book Description”]The city of Bryre suffers under the magic of an evil wizard. Because of his curse, girls sicken and disappear without a trace, and Bryre’s inhabitants live in fear. No one is allowed outside after dark.
Yet night is the only time that Kymera can enter this dangerous city, for she must not be seen by humans. Her father says they would not understand her wings, the bolts in her neck, or her spiky tail—they would kill her. They would not understand that she was created for a purpose: to rescue the girls of Bryre.
Despite her caution, a boy named Ren sees Kym and begins to leave a perfect red rose for her every evening. As they become friends, Kym learns that Ren knows about the missing girls, the wizard, and the evil magic that haunts Bryre.
And what he knows will change Kym’s life.[/learn_more] |
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Tags: February 2015, Fresh Meat
Holy shizzballs. #40 in In Death series by JD Robb?! Ay caramba.
Joy // Joyousreads recently posted…Temptation: Audible First of Series Sale
I know! It’s insanity!
Thank you for posting these!
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Don’t forget to feed your Kindle!
*covering eyes*
Felicia the Geeky Blogger recently posted…Task It Tuesday: EBook TBR Catalog 2013-2015
*waves new pretties in front of your face*
I’m with Felicia. I should seriously avert my eyes from your Fresh Meat posts.
Hi, my name is E.J. and I am a book addict.
I want ALL THE BOOKS, but I’m so far behind. Gah! There are at least three books on this list that I’m buying, even though I don’t know when I’ll be able to read them. I’m not the only one who does this, right?
E.J. Stevens recently posted…Paranormal Road Trip: Destination Louisville with Shiloh Walker
I should make everyone sign a waiver before they click on the post title. “You will not hold RR responsible for whatever book buying frenzy might ensue after reading this post.”
Nooooo! Then I’d have to take full responsibility for my book buying binges.
E.J. Stevens recently posted…February is for Paranormal Romance Q+A with Felicity Heaton + Giveaway
LOL! Well, at least take some of it cuz I’m starting to feel guilty.
I need to catch up on the In Death series, have the books just need to read them
Kristina D recently posted…New Releases ~ week of 02/09/2015
I hope for your sake that you’re not too far behind, otherwise you have your work cut out for ya!
The only one I’m really dying to grab this week is The Shadow Cabinet, so I’m hoping to get it as soon as I can lift my book buying ban!
Red Queen & Glass Arrow are still on the maybes list!
Pili recently posted…Mark This Book Monday: Hover by Melissa West!
I’m behaving myself this week which is saying something considering I have two $10 Amazon GCs burning a hole in my pocket.
Oh Red Queen is out today? I’m very curious about that one, I’m going to have to see if my library has it already. I’ve already reviewed most of my list this week, though I still have The Autumn Republic to read…and of course it has to be a big tome 🙂
Mogsy recently posted…Book Review: The Eterna Files by Leanna Renee Hieber
The Fantasy genre does have a thing for its epic page counts. Eeessh!
So many great new releases this week! I got a copy of Seeker, which was pretty good. I am really looking forward to Red Queen. Despite all of my efforts I have not be able to get my hands on it…yet. I will though. I will probably just buy it for myself. Glass Arrow, Dead Spots, and The Shadow Cabinet look really good. Thanks for the list!
Karen Blue recently posted…SEEKER (Seeker #1) by Arwen Elys Dayton
Hmm… I thought I saw Red Queen up for review on one of the galley sites… Edelweiss maybe? I’m sure you’ll get it one way or another!
The Red Queen is one I’d like to read. And I Remember You looks good. But I’m really excited The Ruby Circle is here, even if I’m going to have to say goodbye to some of my most favorite characters. 🙂
Bookworm Brandee recently posted…Blog Tour Review & Giveaway ~ All Fired Up ~ Madelynne Ellis
Aah, yes, it’s a bitter sweet week for Bloodlines fans.
From these ones the only one I wanted to read was Red Queen, but after reading some reviews… I decided not to.
BookaholicCat recently posted…Audiobook Review: Bound by Flames by Jeaniene Frost
I don’t blame you. They haven’t been very promising.
Dang, there are a few that I want to check out now. Must resist the urge to buy more books. Oh who am I kidding, they went in my wish list and are just gonna have to wait until the next time I go shopping. Which knowing me will be next week. lol
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Wishlists are a great to keep track of titles you need to buy once pay day rolls around. I’d be lost without mine!