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September 7, 2013
Book Review: Haunted Asylums, Prisons and Sanatoriums by Jamie Davis
Title: Haunted Asylums, Prisons and Sanatoriums
Author: Jamie Davis
Genre: True Haunting, Non-Fiction
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Llewellyn, Amazon, B&N
Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
The Shadow Man haunts penitentiary cell blocks. A chilling wind runs through the Death Tunnel.The Red Eyes Apparition lurks in abandoned hallways.
Explore frightening ghost stories and true paranormal encounters at ten well-known, haunted instituti...
Book Tours: Starter Day Party The Unleashed
I’m happy to host the starter day party today for YA dystopian novel “The Unleashed”. I won’t have the time to review it myself, but maybe I will after the tour. It sounds like an excellent book though.
Tour Schedule
September 7th: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading
September 7th: Book Excerpt @ Book Suburbia
September 9th: Book Excerpt @ Deal Sharing Aunt
September 12th: Book Review @ Alessandra’s Place
September 12th: Book Excerpt @ Kristy Centeno’s Blog
September 13th: Author Interview @ Majanka...
September 6, 2013
Book Review: The Ghosts of Chicago by Adam Selzer
Title: The Ghosts of Chicago
Author: Adam Selzer
Genre: True Haunting, Non-Fiction
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
Rating: 4,5 stars
Purchase: Llewellyn, Amazon, B&N
Review copy provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.
From Resurrection Mary and Al Capone to the Murder Castle of H. H. Holmes and the funeral train of Abraham Lincoln, the spine-tingling sights and sounds of Chicago’s yesteryear are still with us . . . and so are its ghosts.
Seeking to find out what we really know a...
September 5, 2013
Book Review: Blind Study by Jacquelyn Sylvan
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itle: Blind Study
Author: Jacquelyn Sylvan
Genre: YA Supernatural Thriller
Age Group: Young Adult
Rating: 4,5 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.
Eighteen-year-old Alice has spent the last year of her life in a hospital bed, held hostage by pain from a freak accident. Doctors can neither explain nor cure her condition, and her medical insurance is about to run out. Then, she’s offered one last chance—inclusion in a study for a r...
September 4, 2013
Book Review Kiss and Tell by Monica Corwin
Title: Kiss and Tell
Author: Monica Corwin
Genre: Erotic Romance
Age Group: Adult (18+)
Publisher: Breathless Press
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon, Are, Publisher
Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.
In a world of one night stands and friends with benefits, Tony is ready to experience all life has to offer, if only Jeremy could allow her to forget his hands, his mouth, and his proposal.
Tonya McGregor has everything a girl could want except…a man. Well,...
Book Review: Sometimes It Is Rocket Science by Kara Thorpe
Title: Sometimes It Is Rocket Science
Author: Kara Thorpe
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Age Group: Adult (18+)
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.
More comfortable in the lab than in the boardroom, engineering genius Georgiana Collier has been floundering in her role as CEO of her late father’s company. Raising her teenaged brother isn’t easy, either – ever since a fatal car accident he spends his days in a depressed fog...
September 2, 2013
Book Tours: Starter Day Party Kiss and Tell
I’m hosting the starter day party today for erotic romance novel “Kiss and Tell”. I’ll be reviewing the book on September 5th.
Tour Schedule
September 2nd: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading
September 4th: Author Interview @ Cassidy Crimson’s Blog
September 5th: Book Review @ I Heart Reading
September 7th: Book Excerpt @ Regina May Ross’ Blog
September 8th: Promo Post @ Book Suburbia
September 9th: Book Review @ Books, Books and More Books
Kiss and Tell
Title: Kiss and Tell
Author: Monica Corwin
Genre:...
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? (34)
It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? is a weekly meme hosted by Sheila of Book Journey. It’s where book bloggers gather to talk about what books they read and reviewed last week, what books they’re currently reading and what books they’re planning to read. This is a great way for me to plan my reading week, and to take a sneak peek at what others are reading.
Click HERE to view all my ‘It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?‘ posts.
Finished Reading
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Elegy (Watersong #4) b...
September 1, 2013
Book Tours: Starter Day Party Sometimes It’s Rocket Science
I’m happy to host the starter day party today for contemporary romance novel “Sometimes it is Rocket Science”. The tour runs from September 1st to September 8th. I’ll be reviewing the book on September 4th.
Tour Schedule
September 1st: Starter Day Party @ I Heart Reading
September 2nd: Book Excerpt Post @ Snifferwalk
September 3rd: Promo Post @ Book Suburbia
September 4th: Book Review @ I Heart Reading
September 5th: Book Excerpt Post @ Editor Charlene
September 7th: Book Review @ Brooke Blogs
Someti...
August 31, 2013
Book Review: A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
Title: A Discovery of Witches
Author: Deborah Harkness
Genre: Urban Fantasy / Paranormal Romance
Age Group: Adult (18+)
Rating: 0.5 stars
A richly inventive novel about a centuries-old vampire, a spellbound witch, and the mysterious manuscript that draws them together.
Deep in the stacks of Oxford’s Bodleian Library, young scholar Diana Bishop unwittingly calls up a bewitched alchemical manuscript in the course of her research. Descended from an old and distinguished line of w...
