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My Last Review for the year: Return to Sleepy Hollow (Book 2)by Dax Varley

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Title: Return to Sleepy Hollow (book 2) Author: Dax Varley Published: Aug. 31, 2014 Publisher: Garden Gate Press Pages: 168 Genre: Paranormal Review: ebook provided by author Buy Links: Amazon, Amazon.uk  Katrina has escaped her fate and is hiding in Philadelphia. But she can’t escape the legendary Headless Horseman. As before he comes to her window, beckoning her to him. Why here? Why her? The truth unfolds when hope is lost and Katrina is forced to RETURN TO SLEEPY HOLLOW.

NetGalley Review: The Mafia Hit Man's Daughter by Linda Scarpa with Linda Rosencrance

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Title: The Mafia Hit Man's Daughter Author: Linda Scarpa with Linda Rosencrance Published: Dec. 29, 2015 Publisher: Pinnacle Pages: 320 Genre: True Crime, Biography Review: ebook provided by NetGalley and publisher Buy Links: Amazon , Amazon.uk  “We were always worried. Always looking over our shoulders . . .” Linda Scarpa had the best toys, the nicest clothes, and a close-knit family. Yet her childhood was far from idyllic. Classmates avoided her; boys wouldn’t date her. Eventually she learned why: they were afraid of her father. A made man in the Colombo crime family, Gregory Scarpa, Sr. was a stone-cold killer nicknamed the “Grim Reaper.” Unlike most tight-lipped mobsters, Scarpa talked business—and murder—in front of his kids. But to Linda, he was also a loving, devoted father who played video games with her for hours. In riveting detail, she reveals what it was like to grow up in the violent world of the mob and to come to grips with the truth about her fa

Review: Survival (The Guardians of Vesturon #1) by A.M. Hargrove

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Title: Survival (The Guardians of Vesturon #1) Author: A.M. Hargrove Published: Nov. 14, 2011 Pages: 276 Genre: YA, paranormal Review: ebook provided by author Buy Links: Amazon, Amazon.uk  "Maybe I was caught between the two worlds. I was having serious trouble distinguishing fantasy from reality." While on a backpacking trip in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, nineteen-year-old Maddie Pearce finds her world has been thrown into a vortex and is madly spinning toward the impossible. Abducted by a mad psychopath, Maddie narrowly escapes with her life. But that is only the beginning. Her mysterious rescuer introduces her to a world that Maddie has difficulty accepting as reality. Will this strikingly gorgeous stranger be the key to her future or will she return to her mundane world, scarred from her experience? Follow Maddie as she is forced to make difficult decisions that carry her to mysterious places.

Cover Reveal: Dangerous Ties * A Ties Novel) by: J.L. Beck

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Dangerous Ties (A Ties Novel) by J.L. Beck Genre: Dark Romance Release Date: Feb 1st 2016 Bestselling Author J.L. Beck brings you the next best thing in dark romance. Dangerous ties, a love story so raw and powerful it will set your lady-bits on fire. "I was one of New York's most dangerous criminals. She was the good girl from down the street. I should've know what fate had planned the moment her name showed up on my kill list." Reader Warning: Please be advised this is a dark romance. Some themes may cause triggers. 18+ Only. *** He was bold, intoxicating, and held a darkness that pulled at my heart-strings. I wanted him from the very first moment I saw him across the dance floor at the club. She was quiet, but her eyes, and body said everything her words couldn't. I didn't know who she was when I took her and made her my own. We had already crossed a dangerous line that there was no coming back from. We were on the run. From

Review: A Scrying Shame by: Donna White Glaser

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Title: A Scrying Shame Author: Donna White Glaser Published: July 7, 2015 Publisher: Kindle Press Pages: 242 Genre: Mystery, Thriller Review: ebook provided via Kindle Scout Buy Links: Amazon, Amazon.uk  Following a near death experience, twenty-five-year old Arie Stiles decides she might as well take the job nobody else wants: a crime scene clean-up technician. It’s good money, which she could use, and death doesn’t hold a lot of mystery for her. Or so she thinks. Arie isn’t on the job long before discovering she’s been “gifted” with a new psychic talent—the ability to scry. Whether she wants to or not, Arie can read the memories of the dead in their blood. When she is assigned to clean the crime scene of Marissa Mason, the socialite author of the best-selling gold-diggers' bible, Arie finds herself haunted by blood visions day and night, and to her shock discovers an unexpected family connection to the victim. With her brother suffering the unwanted attention

#PBwkendread Review: Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy #2) by Stephen King

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Title: Finders Keepers (Bill Hodges Trilogy #2) Author: Stephen King Published: June 2, 2015 Publisher: Scribner Pages: 431 Genre: Mystery Review: library book Buy Links: Amazon , Amazon.uk  “Wake up, genius.” So begins King’s instantly riveting story about a vengeful reader. The genius is John Rothstein, an iconic author who created a famous character, Jimmy Gold, but who hasn’t published a book for decades. Morris Bellamy is livid, not just because Rothstein has stopped providing books, but because the nonconformist Jimmy Gold has sold out for a career in advertising. Morris kills Rothstein and empties his safe of cash, yes, but the real treasure is a trove of notebooks containing at least one more Gold novel. Morris hides the money and the notebooks, and then he is locked away for another crime. Decades later, a boy named Pete Saubers finds the treasure, and now it is Pete and his family that Bill Hodges, Holly Gibney, and Jerome Robinson must rescue from the ev

Review: The Last Orphans (The Last Orphans #1) by N.W. Harris

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Title: The Last Orphans #1 Author: N.W. Harris Published: Oct. 9, 2014 Publisher: Clean Teen Publishing Pages: 263 Genre: Dystopia, Teens Review: ebook Buy Links: Amazon , Amazon.uk  One horrifying day will change the life of sixteen-year-old Shane Tucker and every other kid in the world. In a span of mere hours, the entire adult population is decimated, leaving their children behind to fend for themselves and deal with the horrific aftermath of the freak occurrence. As one of the newly made elders in his small town, Shane finds himself taking on the role of caretaker for a large group of juvenile survivors. One who just happens to be Kelly Douglas—an out-of-his-league classmate—who, on any other day, would have never given Shane a second glance. Together, they begin their quest to find out why all of the adults were slaughtered. What they find is even more horrifying than anything they could have expected—the annihilation of the adults was only the beginning. Shane

Review: What Lies Within by James Morris

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Title: What Lies Within Author: James Morris Published: June 2, 2015 Publisher: Kindle Press Pages: 2019 Genre: Thriller, YA Review: ebook provided by author Buy Links: Amazon , Amazon.uk “You’re going to die” Shelley Marano is an ordinary, unexceptional high school senior…until the day she receives a cryptic text message, and her world tilts sideways. Now she’s in real danger, although she doesn’t know who would want her dead, or why. As she starts to unravel the mystery, the truth about who she really is proves to be more frightening than she ever imagined. With the lives of her and her friends hanging in the balance, one thing is certain: Nothing will ever be the same.

#PBwkendread Review: Salt & Stone (Fire & Flood #2) by Victoria Scott

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Title: Salt and Stone (Fire and Flood 2) Author: Victoria Scott Published: Feb. 24, 2015 Publisher: Scholastic Press Pages: 320 Genre: YA Review: library book Buy Links: Amazon , Amazon.uk   What would you do to save someone you love? What about risking...everything? In Fire & Flood, Tella Holloway faced a dangerous trek through the jungle and a terrifying march across the desert, all to remain a Contender in the Brimstone Bleed for a chance at obtaining the Cure for her brother. She can't stop—and in Salt & Stone, Tella will have to face the unseen dangers of the ocean, the breathless cold of a mountain, and the twisted new rules in the race. But what if the danger is deeper than that? How do you know who to trust when everyone's keeping secrets? What do you do when the person you've relied on most suddenly isn't there for support? How do you weigh one life against another? The race is coming to an end, and Tella is running out of time, res

Review: The Braid: A Short Story by Angela Yuriko Smith

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Title: The Braid: A Short story Author: Angela Yuriko Smith Publisher: DandiFluff Published: July 31, 2015 Pages: 18 Review: ebook Buy Links: Amazon , Amazon.uk  There is something wrong with Cambria's new babysitting job when she gets drawn into a little girl's game of pulling faces—with no one. Cambria's simple world begins to fragment. It all starts when you tie the knot. The Braid is a satisfying short story that will resonate with readers long after the story is closed.

Review: Demons in the Big Easy by Jamie Marchant

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Title: Demons in the Big Easy Author: Jamie Marchant Published: Jan. 3, 2013 Publisher: Self Pages: 74 Genre: Paranormal Review: ebook provided by author Buy Links: Amazon , Amazon.uk  Adventurous in her youth, Cassandra built gateways between Domhan and its parallel realm of Earth. Now she’s too old for that kind of thing. But something is making it easier for demons to pass into Domhan. Not only that, but their behavior becomes inexplicable: whenever Cassandra banishes one, it laughs at her rather than resists, and it promises it will soon devour her essence and that of every resident of her small village. Cassandra is certain such a thing is impossible, for strong wards protect her village. But then Cassandra’s granddaughter Aine falls through an unstable gateway. Cassandra is the only one within a hundred miles capable of creating a gateway and bringing Aine back. Despite her aching joints, Cassandra goes after her, and the gateway lands her in New Orleans. But so

Review: Challenge (Ella Bandita and the Wanderer Book 3) by Montgomery Mahaffey

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Title: Challenge (Ella Bandita and the Wanderer book 3) Author: Montgomery Mahaffey Published: May 25, 2015 Publisher: Free Flying Press Pages: 72 Genre: Fantasy Review: ebook provided by author Buy Links: Amazon , Amazon.uk  The Wanderer should have known better. Growing up with the Bard's fireside stories about the predatory seductress Ella Bandita has done nothing to prepare him for meeting her. When he crosses paths with a mysterious vagabond girl in the woods, his loneliness pulls him toward her. But the strange woman spurns his friendship. It should be easy enough to leave her behind. But the Wanderer can't pull himself away, captive to his stubborn will and the haunting dreams that linger when he wakes up every morning. Drawn in by the legendary allure of Ella Bandita, the Wanderer is caught up in a game of cat and mouse fraught with desire that is only fueled by his neighbor's disdain. Soon, the words of his grandfather's warning becomes a f

Interview with author Rebecca Jaycox

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  The Other Inheritance By Rebecca Jaycox ISBN-10: 0990829537 Rocking Horse Publishing Trade paper, 304 pgs. November 14, 2014, $12.15 Also available in ebook formats She touched the frog. Just once. It leaped into the air and hopped away, disappearing under the classroom desks. It had been awaiting its fate as a science experiment, fully dead, the stench of formaldehyde permeating the room . . .   Seventeen-year-old Reggie has been having a tougher time than usual. As if dealing with her alcoholic mother and fighting school bullies isn’t enough, dead things keep coming back to life and this biker dude shows up in her dreams, babbling about magic and a world called the Other.   Reggie’s life is changing, and she has no idea why. Or whether she should believe Rhys, the man in her dreams, who claims she’s in danger and that someone is coming to take her to a safer reality.   And when Asher shows up, things really get crazy.                                      

#PBwkendread: Salt and Stone by Victoria Stone

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Guess what it is the WEEKEND!!!! Well it is the day before the weekend but for me it is the weekend lol. When my librarian told me to read the first one Fire and Flood I finished that sucker quickly just so I could get ready to start Salt and Stone. If you have not read Fire and Flood you HAVE to read it. The story line is amazing and where it lives off you will want to get book two so you can know what will happen next. I will probably have Salt and Stone finished by tonight if I don't have a lot of interruptions. What would you do to save someone you love? What about risking...everything? In Fire & Flood, Tella Holloway faced a dangerous trek through the jungle and a terrifying march across the desert, all to remain a Contender in the Brimstone Bleed for a chance at obtaining the Cure for her brother. She can't stop—and in Salt & Stone, Tella will have to face the unseen dangers of the ocean, the breathless cold of a mountain, and the twisted new rules i

Review: Finding Never (Tasting Never #2) by C.M. Stunich

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Title: Finding Never (Tasting Never #2) Author: C.M. Stunich Published: Feb. 1, 2013 Publisher: Sarian Royal Pages: 208 Genre: Romance, New Adult Review: ebook Buy Links: Amazon , Amazon.uk  Finding Never, a New Adult Novel Recommended for Ages 18 and Up #2 in the series beginning with "Tasting Never" (Books 1-5 are available now - Reading list included below!) "Tell me, Never, do you still love him?" Never Ross and Ty McCabe have come a long way – but they can't stop now. Their pasts are still there, ready to sweep over and consume them if they don't confront them. A visit to Never's family seems like the first logical step, but will it make things better or worse? And what about Noah Scott? Ty is Never's tortured other half, but can he also be the healing balm that she so desperately needs? With McCabe's past still a virtual unknown, Never is going to have to make more than one decision capable of breaking both their hearts. &qu

#PBwkendread Review: Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King

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Title: Mr. Mercedes Author: Stephen King Published: Jan. 6, 2015 Publisher: Gallery Books Pages: 448 Genre: Mystery Thriller Review: Library book Buy Links: Amazon , Amazon.uk  In the frigid pre-dawn hours, in a distressed Midwestern city, hundreds of desperate unemployed folks are lined up for a spot at a job fair. Without warning, a lone driver plows through the crowd in a stolen Mercedes, running over the innocent, backing up, and charging again. Eight people are killed; fifteen are wounded. The killer escapes. In another part of town, months later, a retired cop named Bill Hodges is still haunted by the unsolved crime. When he gets a crazed letter from someone who self-identifies as the "perk" and threatens an even more diabolical attack, Hodges wakes up from his depressed and vacant retirement, hell-bent on preventing another tragedy. Brady Hartfield lives with his alcoholic mother in the house where he was born. He loved the feel of death under the whe