Bewitching Book Trailer

Title: Bewitching
Series: Kendra Chronicles
Author: Alex Finn
Goodreads Summary:

Bewitching can be a beast. . . .

Once, I put a curse on a beastly and arrogant high school boy. That one turned out all right. Others didn't.

I go to a new school now--one where no one knows that I should have graduated long ago. I'm not still here because I'm stupid; I just don't age.

You see, I'm immortal. And I pretty much know everything after hundreds of years--except for when to take my powers and butt out.

I want to help, but things just go awry in ways I could never predict. Like when I tried to free some children from a gingerbread house and ended up being hanged. After I came back from the dead (immortal, remember?), I tried to play matchmaker for a French prince and ended up banished from France forever. And that little mermaid I found in the "Titanic" lifeboat? I don't even want to think about it.

Now a girl named Emma needs me. I probably shouldn't get involved, but her gorgeous stepsister is conniving to the core. I think I have just the thing to fix that girl--and it isn't an enchanted pumpkin. Although you never know what will happen when I start . . . bewitching.

Chasing Magic Book Cover

Title: Chasing Magic
Series: Downside Ghosts
Author: Stacia Kane
Goodreads Summary:
A DEADLY HIGH

Magic-wielding Churchwitch and secret addict Chess Putnam knows better than anyone just how high a price people are willing to pay for a chemical rush. But when someone with money to burn and a penchant for black magic starts tampering with Downside’s drug supply, Chess realizes that the unlucky customers are paying with their souls—and taking the innocent with them, as the magic-infused speed compels them to kill in the most gruesome ways possible.

As if the streets weren’t scary enough, the looming war between the two men in her life explodes, taking even more casualties and putting Chess squarely in the middle. Downside could become a literal ghost town if Chess doesn’t find a way to stop both the war and the dark wave of death-magic, and the only way to do that is to use both her addiction and her power to enter the spell and chase the magic all the way back to its malevolent source. Too bad that doing so will probably kill Chess—if the war doesn’t first destroy the man who’s become her reason for living.

Once Burned Book Cover

Finally, a Vlad book. :)


Title: Once Burned
Series: Night Prince
Author: Jeaniene Frost
Goodreads Summary:
She’s a mortal with dark powers...

After a tragic accident scarred her body and destroyed her dreams, Leila never imagined that the worst was still to come: terrifying powers that let her channel electricity and learn a person’s darkest secrets through a single touch. Leila is doomed to a life of solitude... until creatures of the night kidnap her, forcing her to reach out with a telepathic distress call to the world’s most infamous vampire...

He’s the Prince of Night...

Vlad Tepesh inspired the greatest vampire legend of all — but whatever you do, don’t call him Dracula. Vlad’s ability to control fire makes him one of the most feared vampires in existence, but his enemies have found a new weapon against him – a beautiful mortal with powers to match his own. When Vlad and Leila meet, however, passion ignites between them, threatening to consume them both. It will take everything that they are to stop an enemy intent on bringing them down in flames.

Steel Book Cover

Title: Steel
Series: N/A
Author: Carrie Vaughn
Goodreads Summary:
It was a slender length of rusted steel, tapered to a point at one end and jagged at the other, as if it had broken. A thousand people would step over it and think it trash, but not her.

This was the tip of a rapier.

Sixteen-year-old Jill has fought in dozens of fencing tournaments, but she has never held a sharpened blade. When she finds a corroded sword piece on a Caribbean beach, she is instantly intrigued and pockets it as her own personal treasure.

The broken tip holds secrets, though, and it transports Jill through time to the deck of a pirate ship. Stranded in the past and surrounded by strangers, she is forced to sign on as crew. But a pirate’s life is bloody and brief, and as Jill learns about the dark magic that brought her there, she forms a desperate scheme to get home—one that risks everything in a duel to the death with a villainous pirate captain.

Time travel, swordplay, and romance combine in an original high-seas adventure from New York Times bestseller Carrie Vaughn.

Ghosts of Memories Book Cover

Title: Ghosts of Memories
Series: Vampire Memories
Author: Barb Hendee
Goodreads Summary: N/A

Endure Book Cover

Title: Endure
Series: Need
Author: Carrie Jones
Goodreads Summary:
It’s all-out war (and no-holds-barred romance) in the climactic conclusion to Carrie Jones’s bestselling series.

Zara is at the center of an impending apocalypse. True, she’s successfully rescued Nick from Valhalla, but it simply isn’t enough. Evil pixies are ravaging Bedford, and they need much more than one great warrior; they need an army. Zara isn’t sure what her role is anymore. She’s not just fighting for her friends; she’s also a pixie queen. And to align her team of pixies with the humans she loves will be one of her greatest battles yet. Especially since she can’t even reconcile her growing feelings for her pixie king . . .

Unexpected turns, surprising revelations, and one utterly satisfying romantic finale make Endure a thrilling end to this series of bestsellers.

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Title: Dark Heart Surrender
Series: Dark Heart
Author: Lee Monroe
Goodreads Summary:
ONE GIRL. TWO WORLDS. SHATTERED. Jane's world has changed now that Luca, love of her live, inhabits it, and she's happier than she ever thought she could be. But how can a werewolf survive in the real world? When an immortal lives in the mortal world, the natural order of things must change. And what seems perfect, becomes destructive. They've overcome different worlds. But nothing could prepare Jane for this ...

Darkness Becomes Her Book Cover

Title: Darkness Becomes Her
Series: Offspring
Author: Jaime Rush
Goodreads Summary: N/A

Tainted Night, Tainted Blood Book Cover

Title: Tainted Night, Tainted Blood
Series: Kat Redding
Author: E.S. Moore
Goodreads Summary: N/A

Shadows Before the Sun Book Cover

How did I miss this cover? I love this series.


Title: Shadows Before the Sun
Series: Charlie Madigan
Author: Kelly Gay
Goodreads Summary: N/A

Wicked Games French Book Cover

Title: Wicked Games
Series: WVMP Radio
Author: Jeri Smith-Ready
Goodreads Summary:
LATE NIGHT RADIO YOU CAN SINK YOUR TEETH INTO

Recovering con artist Ciara Griffin is trying to live the straight life, even if it means finding a (shudder!) real job. She takes an internship at a local radio station, whose late-night time-warp format features 1940s blues, '60s psychedelia, '80s goth, and more, all with an uncannily authentic flair. Ciara soon discovers just how the DJs maintain their cred: they're vampires, stuck forever in the eras in which they were turned.

Ciara's first instinct, as always, is to cut and run. But communications giant Skywave wants to buy WVMP and turn it into just another hit-playing clone. Without the station — and the link it provides to their original Life Times — the vampires would "fade," becoming little more than mindless ghosts of the past. Suddenly a routine corporate takeover is a matter of life and undeath.

To boost ratings and save the lives of her strange new friends, Ciara rebrands the station as "WVMP, the Lifeblood of Rock 'n' Roll." In the ultimate con, she hides the DJs' vampire nature in plain sight, disguising the bloody truth as a marketing gimmick. WVMP becomes the hottest thing around — next to Ciara's complicated affair with grunge vamp Shane McAllister. But the "gimmick" enrages a posse of ancient and powerful vampires who aren't so eager to be brought into the light. Soon the stakes are higher — and the perils graver — than any con game Ciara's ever played...

Magic Burns Book Discussion Part One

Hey all! Hope everyone had a good holiday. It seems like it has been forever. Melissa and I are back to discussing books on Thursday. This week, we're discussing part one of Magic Burns by Ilona Andrews. Feel free to join in.

Melissa's

- Could the magic flares be in relation to all the Morrigan/Fomoire troubles? Or vise versa, Morrigan/Fomoire troubles causing the flares?
- What problem do you think the Witch Oracles is having that they can't get fixed?
- Why do you think Bolgor the Shepard wants with Julie?
-Will Kate be able to find Julie's mom? Alive?

Robyn's

-I have to ask, haha. Curran. Do you think Kate and him will end up together or will he just be the beast lord who is there to help her? If there are feelings there from Curran, why does he not want to give his approval to Crest?
- What is up with this Bran guy? What does he really want?
-I still want to know what is up with Kate's blood. Any ideas?
-Do you think Red is a nice kid or is he up to something?

Nice Girls Don't Bite Their Neighbors Book Trailer

Title: Nice Girls Don't Bite Their Neighbors
Series: Jane Jameson
Author: Molly Harper
Goodreads Summary:
Just as Jane Jameson’s unlife seems to be stabilizing, fate sinks its fangs firmly into her butt. Despite her near-phobia of all things marital, her no-frills nighttime nuptials to her sexy boyfriend Gabriel are coming along smoothly. But the road to wedded bliss gets bumpy when a teenage acquaintance is fatally wounded in front of Jane’s shop and she turns him to save his life. The Council pronounces Jane responsible for the newborn vamp until he can control his thirst.

Jane’s kitchen at River Oaks barely holds enough Faux Type O to satiate the cute teen’s appetite and maintain Gabriel’s jealous streak at a slow simmer. As if keeping her hyperactive childe from sucking the blood out of the entire neighborhood isn’t enough to deal with, the persnickety ghost of Jane’s newly deceased Grandma Ruthie has declared a war on the fanged residents of River Oaks. Suddenly,
choosing monogrammed cocktail napkins and a cake that she can’t eat seems downright relaxing in comparison.

Tensions inside the house are growing…and outside, a sinister force is aiming a stake straight for the center of Gabriel’s heart. Most brides just have to worry about choosing the right dress, but Jane fears that at this rate, she’ll never make it down the aisle for the wedding all nice girls dream of…

Nightwalker Book Cover

Title: Nightwalker
Series: Stormwalker
Author: Allyson James
Goodreads Summary:
When someone comes to slay Janet Begay's resident Nightwalker, Ansel, Janet and Mick find themselves embroiled in another round of trouble. Book 4 of the Stormwalker series.

Changeling Book Cover

Title: Changeling
Series: MetaWars
Author: Kelly Meding
Goodreads Summary: N/A

The Unnaturalists Book Cover

Title: The Unnaturalists
Series: N/A
Author: Tiffany Trent
Goodreads Summary:
Vespa Nyx wants nothing more than to spend the rest of her life cataloging Unnatural creatures in her father’s museum, but as she gets older, the requirement to become a lady and find a husband is looming large. Syrus Reed’s Tinker family has always served and revered the Unnaturals from afar, but when his family is captured to be refinery slaves, he finds that his fate may be bound up with Vespa’s—and with the Unnaturals.

As the danger grows, Vespa and Syrus find themselves in a tightening web of deception and intrigue. At stake may be the fate of New London—and the world.

Before I Wake Book Cover

Title: Before I Wake
Series: Soul Screamers
Author: Rachel Vincent
Goodreads Summary: N/A

City of Lost Souls Book Cover

Title: City of Lost Souls
Series: Mortal Instruments
Author: Cassandra Clare
Goodreads Summary:
In Book 5: City of Lost Souls, the Shadowhunters struggle to piece together their shattered world after a betrayal by one of their own leaves them reeling.

Stalking the Others Book Cover

Title: Stalking the Others
Series: H&W Investigations
Author: Jess Haines
Goodreads Summary: N/A