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Review: Mercy Thompson Series by Patricia Briggs

I accidentally purchased book 5 in the Mercy Thompson Series. Accidentally meaning thatit drives me nuts notto be able to read books in order. So when I found books 1-4 really cheap, I jumped on them.

Title:

Moon Called(Book 1)

Blood Bound (Book 2)

Iron Kissed (Book 3)

Bone Crossed (Book 4)

Author: Patricia Briggs

Publisher: Ace

Release date: January 2006/ January 2007/ January 2008/January 2010

Pages: 304

ISBN-10: 0441013813 / 0441014739 / 0441015662 /044101836X

ISBN-13: 978-0441013814 / 0441014736 / 0...

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Published on January 17, 2013 21:00

Review: Moonglow by Kristen Callihan

I read the first book in The Darkest London Series last year and fell in love with the world and the writing. I HAD to read book two.I mean, look at the covers. They’re gorgeous!

Title: Moonglow (Darkest London)

Author: Kristen Callihan

Genre: Historical Paranormal Romance

Publisher: Forever

Release date: July 2012

Pages: 432

ISBN-10: 1455508586

ISBN-13: 978-1455508587

Rating:★★★☆☆

DESCRIPTION:

Once the seeds of desire are sown . . .

Finally free of her suffocating marriage, widow Daisy Ellis Craigmore...

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Published on January 16, 2013 21:00

Movie Review: The Dark Knight Rises

Synopsis~

It has been eight years since Batman vanished into the night, turning, in that instant, from hero to fugitive. Assuming the blame for the death of D.A. Harvey Dent, the Dark Knight sacrificed everything for what he and Commissioner Gordon both hoped was the greater good. For a time the lie worked, as criminal activity in Gotham City was crushed under the weight of the anti-crime Dent Act. But everything will change with the arrival of a cunning cat burglar with a mysterious agenda. F...

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Published on January 15, 2013 21:00

Review: Partials by Dan Wells

Are you surprised I didn’t pick the paranormal book or did you guess which one I’d choose?

Title: Partials

Author: Dan Wells

Genre: Young Adult/Science Fiction

Publisher: Balzer + Bray

Release date: February 2013

Pages: 528

ISBN-10: 006207105X

ISBN-13: 978-0062071057

Rating:★★★★½

DESCRIPTION:

The human race is all but extinct after a war with Partials—engineered organic beings identical to humans—has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by RM, a weaponized virus to which only a f...

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Published on January 14, 2013 21:00

New Year…2013…What?

This about sums up how the new year went for me.

No dogs were harmed in the taking of this photo.

My devil cold, otherwise known as my sinus infection, is finally going away. I hope. Three months is long enough, by golly. The baby dog (can you guess which one is only 6 months old?) had a vet check-up last week and passed with flying colors. Too bad he hid under my chair the whole time the vet was in the room. Yeah, just a little awkward. It took me a good 15 minutes after the vet left the room...

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Published on January 14, 2013 16:24

Movie Review: The Avengers

Synopsis~

Marvel Studios presents ‘Marvel’s The Avengers’—the Super Hero team up of a lifetime, featuring iconic Marvel Super Heroes – Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), the Hulk (Mark Ruffalo), Thor (Chris Hemsworth), and Captain America (Chris Evans). WhenLoki and his army threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as S.H.I.E.L.D., finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a...

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Published on December 30, 2012 21:00

What I’m reading…

I decided to give YA one more try. Apparently, I stock-piled a few of them up, and they need to be read. I wanted to read a dystopian novel, but the one I selected was written ina dialect that drove me nuts after two pages. *shutter*

Here are the blurbs:

Isle of Night: The Watchers ~

IS LIFE OFFERING FEWER AND FEWER OPTIONS? THEN JOIN THE DEAD.

When Annelise left for college, it meant good riddance to her abusive father and stepmother—until a bureaucratic screw-up left her without a diploma, flat...

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Published on December 29, 2012 21:00

Movie Review: The Raven

Synopsis~

The macabre and lurid tales of Edgar Allan Poe are vividly brought to life – and death -in this gothic thriller. A brutal killing spree terrorizes 19th-century Baltimore and a young detective turns to notorious author Edgar Allan Poe for help getting inside the mind of a serial killer.

The previews quickly caught my attention. Edgar Allan Poe is a master in the art of writing, butI wasn’t sure how that would translate into the movies. Despite my reservations, I rented this movie.

Boy,...

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Published on December 29, 2012 12:28

Review: Storm by Brigid Kemmerer

I cheated a little this week on the book challenge. The YA went so well last week, I decided to read the other book that was in the challenge.Here’s a little re-cap: