October Releases

4th
ShockWave - John Sandford
Night Moves - Stephanie Tyler
Night After Night - Janelle Denison
Stay Hungry - Lorie O'Clare
Sweet Revenge - Christy Reece

18th
Bonnie - Iris Johansen

25th
The Fall of Lucas Kendrick - Kay Hooper
Against the Storm - Kat Martin
In Close - Brenda Novak
Hide from Evil - Jami Alden

Follow My Blog #10

If you are new to the FF fun, Feature & Follow Friday is a blog hop that expands your blog following by a joint effort between bloggers. Feature & Follow Friday is now hosted by TWO hosts, myself of course and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it'll allow us to show off more new blogs!

How does this work? First you leave your name here on this post, then you create a post on your own blog that links back to this post (easiest way is to just grab the code under the #FF picture and put it in your post) and then you visit as many blogs as you can and tell them "hi" in their comments (on the post that has the #FF image). You follow them, they follow you. Win. Win. Just make sure to follow back if someone follows you!

Now to make this #FF interesting we do a FEATURE blogger. If you are interested in becoming a Feature click on the drop down link above FEATURES > Feature & Follow Friday and get on the waiting list!  It is also required, that if you participate you must follow the hosts (Parajunkee & Alison Can Read) and the two Feature blogs.

This Meme is hosted by Rachel from Parajunkee's View and Alison Can Read on Fridays.

To join the fun and make now book blogger friends, just follow these simple rules:

1. Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Host {Parajunkee.com} and (Alisoncanread.com}and any one else you want to follow on the list.

2. Follow our Featured Bloggers - The Bookaholic and Starcrossed.

3. Put your Blog name and URL in the Linky thing.

4. Grab the button up there and place it in a post, this post is for people to find a place to say hi in your comments

5. Follow Follow Follow as many as you can.

6. If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love ... and the followers

7. If your new to the Follow Friday Hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog!

The Friday Follow Features are ...

The Bookaholic

Hello!

I'm Pixie and it's a pleasure to be here.

My insane love for books began as just a kid. Instead of collecting dolls or rocks or seashells or something "normal" kids would, I was seeking books.
Now over a decade later, I still have the crazy love for them, and I like to share my love with discussions and reviews on my blog. Blogging has become the greatest outlet for me, someone who doesn't have very many people to talk about books with in person.

I am an aspiring author struggling to get published. I reside in Texas and I have a cat who bullies me. She's the boss around here.

"The Bookaholic" is a blog dedicated to my obsession. Books. Of course, isn't that why we're all here? Sometimes I post my own writing there to share with readers, but it's only small excerpts and not often.
I read a little bit of everything, but I enjoy mostly YA, Paranormal, Fantasy, Dystopian and Historical Fiction. I am also a huge fan of Shakespeare, with upcoming plans of getting my favorite Shakespearean quote tattooed on me for my birthday.

Thank you for taking the time to learn a little about me.

Starcrossed

I started blogging years ago, but just for personal use. My days as a book blogger started just last month. I've always been a huge reader (and writer). I started getting into book blogs mainly because of all the giveaways.

Then I started thinking about all the books I read. I read them, then put them back on the shelf. If the book effected me strongly, all I could do was tell a couple friends or coworkers about it and recommend it to them.

But it seemed like such a waste for the books. I felt like...if a book was THAT good, then why not share with as many people as possible and help it get a following?

Q. What book that hasn't been turned into a movie (yet) would you most like to see make it to the big screen, and who would you like cast as your favorite character?

I would love to see the Eve Dallas series turned into a movie but I'm not really sure who I would like to be cast as the main characters.

18 and Over Book Blogger #8

18 & Over Book Blogger Follow is a weekly feature that begins on Fridays and runs through the weekend hosted by Crystal from Reading Between the Wines and Kelly at Secrets of a Book Lover.

The 18 & Over Book Blogger Follow is a Friday blog hop with the objective to find and visit other book blogs that share the same interest as you, namely books geared towards the 18 and over crowd, and make new friends!

How to join in:

You should run a book blog that features and reviews mostly adult reads, some Y.A.’s are okay but 18 &  Over adult reads should be your majority.

Make a separate post for the 18 & Over Book Blogger Follow on your blog.

Copy the html for the button above and place it at the top of your post.

List and answer the ‘Question of the Week.’

Place your name and blog title in the linky below and the url for a direct link to your post

Visit the other blogs on the list. If you like what you see make sure to leave a comment and follow so the blog owner knows you stopped by and can return the favor. Following each blog is not mandatory but I know it is always appreciated, and if someone comments saying they’re a new follower it’s polite to follow back. It’s always nice to spread the 18 & Over Book Blog love!

Question of the Week:

Which paranormal creature would you like to see more of in paranormal romances? 

Sorry, I don't read paranormal books so there isn't a creature that I would like to see. 

Pleating for Mercy (Magical Dressmaking Mystery, Book 1) [Paperback]

I've finished "Pleating for Mercy" the 1st book in her Magical Dressmaker Mystery series by Melissa Bourbon.

Product Description

All the Cassidy women possess special gifts. Harlow Jane Cassidy's is creating beautiful dresses. But she's about to discover secrets in her own family and another gift-one that can reach beyond the grave ....

When her great-grandmother passes away, Harlow leaves her job as a Manhattan fashion designer and moves back to Bliss, Texas. But soon after she opens Buttons & Bows, a custom dressmaking boutique in the old farmhouse she inherited, Harlow begins to feel an inexplicable presence ....

One of her first clients is her old friend Josie, who needs a gown for her upcoming wedding. But when Josie's boss turns up dead, it starts to look as if the bride-to-be may be wearing handcuffs instead of a veil.

Suddenly, Josie needs a lot more from Harlow than the perfect dress. Can Harlow find the real killer - with a little help from beyond?

Product Details
Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: Signet; Original edition (August 2, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0451234367
ISBN-13: 978-0451234360

My Review:


I really enjoyed this cozy and can't wait till the next book comes out.

Harlow's grandmother Mee-Maw has just passed away so she moves back to Texas after quitting her fashion designer job in New York City.  She has inherited Mee-Maw's house and opens up her own shop Buttons and Bows in the house.  She's related to Butch Cassidy yes that Butch Cassidy!

Her childhood friend Josie commissions her to design her wedding dress and also her bridesmaids.  She is marrying Nate Kincaid the influential family who made a fortune in oil.  Harlow overhears a conversation between two people that night right before one of Josie's bridesmaids Nell is murdered outside her shop.

Now Harlow must investigate who would kill Nell and why to clear her friend Josie's reputation with a little help from beyond.

I really enjoyed how the legend of Butch Cassidy was incorporated into the storyline.  Each of the Cassidy women have special talents:  Grandma is known as the Goat Lady since she has the ability to deal with goats, her mother can make plants grow just by looking at them but no one knows Cassidy's ablity.

Also enjoyed the scenes with Will Flores and his daughter Gracie a budding designer.  I hope that Will and Harlow get together because you can see the sparks between them and he's good for her.

It was funny how Mee-Maw made her presence be known!

4/5

ARC Review: Lethal [Hardcover]

I've finished "Lethal" by Sandra Brown.


Product Description

When her four year old daughter informs her a sick man is in their yard, Honor Gillette rushes out to help him. But that "sick" man turns out to be Lee Coburn, the man accused of murdering seven people the night before. Dangerous, desperate, and armed, he promises Honor that she and her daughter won't be hurt as long as she does everything he asks. She has no choice but to accept him at his word.

But Honor soon discovers that even those close to her can't be trusted. Coburn claims that her beloved late husband possessed something extremely valuable that places Honor and her daughter in grave danger. Coburn is there to retrieve it -- at any cost. From FBI offices in Washington, D.C., to a rundown shrimp boat in coastal Louisiana, Coburn and Honor run for their lives from the very people sworn to protect them, and unravel a web of corruption and depravity that threatens not only them, but the fabric of our society

Product Details
Hardcover: 480 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing (September 20, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1455501476
ISBN-13: 978-1455501472

My Review:

This was a really thrilling, exciting and fast paced mystery thriller with characters not who they are.

Storyline: Lee Coburn is accused of killing 7 people in a warehouse so he is on the run.  He ends up in the backyard of Honor Gillette.  Her four year old daughter Emily announces their is a sick man in our backyard.  Honor goes to check out the sick man while asking her daughter to get her phone from the bedroom.  As she nears the man he's so quick she doesn't have time to react before he's behind her with a arm around her neck and gun pointing right at her heart.

He says he's there to retrieve a package her husband is in possession of and he attempts to terrorize her.  He then proceeds to tear up the house but promises her he would not harm her or Emily if she does exactly what he says.  He hints that Eddie her husband's death wasn't an accident but murder and was killed for what he knows.  He also says the the item he is looking for is of great value and that Honor and Emily are in danger.

She eventually believes him and they are forced to go on the run when the police are called in.  They must find out what Eddie knew and what he had in his possession, who the killers are and the identity of "The Bookkeeper".

Characters: I loved how honor would do anything to keep her daughter Emily alive so she would endear the treatment that Lee forced her.  I also really loved how she believed her husband Eddie was clean and a good cop and wasn't on the sly.

Romance: There wasn't really a build up of romance but you can feel the tension and attraction between Honor and Lee.  Honor was exactly what Lee needed in his life.

Killer(s):  The killers were very deadly and really enjoyed the killings.  They took their order from "The Book Keeper" who is a mystery and never been identified.  This person who was the Book Keeper wasn't someone I expected it to be until I had some clues to make me suspicious of them.  They really got off on killing people they thought was in the way or to make a statement to employees. 

4/5

Waiting on Wednesday

Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection are:

Shock Wave (A Virgil Flowers Novel) [Hardcover]

Product Description

The thrilling new Virgil Flowers novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author.
The superstore chain PyeMart has its sights set on a Minnesota river town, but two very angry groups want to stop it: local merchants, fearing for their businesses, and environmentalists, predicting ecological disaster. The protests don't seem to be slowing the project, though, until someone decides to take matters into his own hands.

The first bomb goes off on the top floor of PyeMart's headquarters. The second one explodes at the construction site itself. The blasts are meant to inflict maximum damage - and they do. Who's behind the bombs, and how far will they go? It's Virgil Flowers's job to find out . . . before more people get killed.

Product Details
Hardcover: 400 pages
Publisher: Putnam Adult (October 4, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0399157697
ISBN-13: 978-0399157691

Night Moves: A Shadow Force Novel [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

Anything can happen under the cover of darkness.

Kell Roberts has walked the thin line between life and death for so long that it now feels like home. He is a soldier, a survivor, and a loner. Still, Kell cannot turn his back on the beautiful woman caught in his firefight against the drug lords of Mexico. She says her name is Teddie, but Kell senses there’s much more to her story — and it’s about to pull him into a mission he didn’t sign on for: keeping her alive.

Teddie knows this lean, mean rescuer just saved her life, but the steel glint behind those soft gray eyes seem to be hiding something deep. The men after Teddie are deadly, but the man who holds her life in his hands and tempts her with his wicked touch is even more dangerous. He could make her dream about living and loving again. And if they can survive, maybe, just maybe, they can stop fighting the world and each other — and simply surrender.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Dell (October 4, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0440423058
ISBN-13: 978-0440423058

 Night After Night [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

USA Today bestselling author Janelle Denison turns up the heat in her latest novel about the men of The Reliance Group, who mix business and pleasure with reckless abandon . . .

WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS . . .

The son of a con-artist, Sean O'Brien learned the hard way that living by your own rules comes with a price.  After a brief time behind bars, Sean is now ready to live an honest life, and pay for his past mistakes.  But even his gorgeous face and seductive charms can't make up for his prison record . . .until a member of The Reliance Group sees Sean's potential for good and gives him a job at the Onyx Casino.

WILL KEEP THEM COMING BACK FOR MORE . . .

Zoe Russo has met all types of men on the Vegas strip.  But when Sean pays a visit to her casino boutique, she knows she's in luck.  They share an immediate, irresistible attraction, and for the first time in her life she's found a man she thinks she can trust.  But when Zoe stumbles onto the truth about Sean and his reasons for persuing her, she can't help but question his feelings for her.  Is he for real, or has she been a fool for love?  Until now, nothing has prepared her for the thrill, and risk, of gambling on love.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks; First Edition edition (October 4, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312372280
ISBN-13: 978-0312372286

Stay Hungry [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

One of the best manhunters in the business, Jake King usually chases fugitives on the run. But now he’s been hired to protect a beautiful private eye who’s flirting with danger. Her name is Angela, and the last thing she wants is hired muscle getting in the way of her investigation. But this time she’s so deep undercover, she could use all the muscle she can get her hands on …

Jake agrees to play by Angela’s rules — and lay low while she gets close to one of the deadliest crime lords to have entered the States. But the closer Angela gets to her target, the closer she feels to Jake. As her bodyguard, he has more than just a professional interest in her body — and he’ll do anything to keep her safe.

But Angela is playing a dangerous game with a criminal mastermind who can make any woman his slave. And she could be next …

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks; First Edition edition (October 4, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0312372183
ISBN-13: 978-0312372187

Sweet Revenge: A Last Chance Rescue Novel [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

Jamie Kendrick went on a trip to hell at the hands of Stanford Reddington, a monster protected by money and power. Now, asking for Last Chance Rescue’s help, Jamie makes plans for her revenge. And Dylan Savage, one of LCR’s most skilled operatives, is given an assignment he despises but can’t refuse — to train the lovely Jamie but thwart her revenge plot at all costs. With tender ruthlessness, he pries open her most intimate secrets, and the attraction they’ve both tried to deny explodes into a scorching love affair — an affair that Dylan has to end. Months after Jamie stormed away from Dylan and LCR, the two meet again — at the home of Stanford Reddington. In the grips of hurt, anger, desire, and undercover danger, Jamie and Dylan will risk more than broken hearts: they’re risking everything to stop an evil fiend from destroying more lives, including their own. 

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Ballantine Books; 1st edition (October 4, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0345524055
ISBN-13: 978-0345524058

New Releases 2011 (Sept 27)

The Unquiet [Paperback]

Product Description Five New York Times bestselling authors-five superlative stories.

From J.D. Robb: Eve and Rourke return to investigate a series of murders connected to a brilliant young surgeon in Chaos in Death.

From Mary Blayney: A shopkeeper's solitude is complicated by a magic coin, a daring rogue, and dreams of her late husband, who whispers but one word...wish.

From Patricia Gaffney: A lonely woman and a hotline psychic turn their astonishing connection to the other side into an unexpected romance.

From Ruth Ryan Langan: The shattered soul of an angry spirit imprisoned in a Scottish manor house could be a young widow's only salvation.

From Mary Kay McComas: A young ghost eases his brother's pain and guilt by inviting him into the dreams of an imaginative author of children's books.

Product Details
Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Jove (September 27, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0515149985
ISBN-13: 978-0515149982

Hell to Pay [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

And so it begins . . . again. 

Survivors of a serial killer who invaded their childhood, Lucy Walsh and Jeremy Cavalon are married now, replacing nightmares of their terrifying past with joyful dreams of the upcoming birth of their first child. Fiercely determined to protect the fragile balance of their lives, Lucy doesn’t know that her new husband guards a deadly secret  . . . or that an Act of God is about to unleash a vengeful fury.

For shell-shocked Lucy and Jeremy, the horrible death of a loved one is a tragic accident. But for a shadowy predator, it’s the first step toward completing a deadly mission that was interrupted so long ago. Now, at last, the members of the Walsh and Cavalon families will pay for their sins, one by one . . .


Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Avon (September 27, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061895083
ISBN-13: 978-0061895081

 Reckoning for the Dead: A Sweet Justice Novel [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Description

The official story is that Garrett Wheeler, the Sentinels' chief, is dead -- killed in a covert op gone horribly wrong.

But Alexa Marlowe -- his ex-lover and most trusted agent -- isn't buying it.

Overnight, a new leader has mysteriously assumed control of the elite vigilante organization, a man Alexa Marlowe can't afford to trust. In search of Garrett and the truth, she goes rogue and off the grid, following a deadly trail that leads into Mexico, behind the fortress walls of a murderous drug cartel boss. Alone, Alexa has no one to watch her back, not even her new partner, Jessie.

Ex-bounty hunter, Jessie Beckett, has troubles of her own. Her world is turned upside down when her DNA turns up as evidence in a gruesome murder committed when Jessie was only a child, before her life was shattered by an infamous killer. Solving a very cold case may hold the key to who she really is or kill the only memory she has of a woman she believes is her mother.

For Alexa and Jessie, the dead must have a reckoning.

Product Details
Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Harper (September 27, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0061969699
ISBN-13: 978-0061969690

The Affair: A Reacher Novel (Jack Reacher) [Hardcover]
 
Product Description

Everything starts somewhere. . . .For elite military cop Jack Reacher, that somewhere was Carter Crossing, Mississippi, way back in 1997. A lonely railroad track. A crime scene. A coverup.

A young woman is dead, and solid evidence points to a soldier at a nearby military base. But that soldier has powerful friends in Washington.

Reacher is ordered undercover — to find out everything he can, to control the local police, and then to vanish. Reacher is a good soldier. But when he gets to Carter Crossing, he finds layers no one saw coming, and the investigation spins out of control.

Local sheriff Elizabeth Deveraux has a thirst for justice — and an appetite for secrets. Uncertain they can trust one another, Reacher and Deveraux reluctantly join forces. Reacher works to uncover the truth, while others try to bury it forever. The conspiracy threatens to shatter his faith in his mission, and turn him into a man to be feared.

A novel of unrelenting suspense that could only come from the pen of #1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child, The Affair is the start of the Reacher saga, a thriller that takes Reacher — and his readers — right to the edge . . . and beyond.

Product Details
Hardcover: 416 pages
Publisher: Delacorte Press (September 27, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0385344325
ISBN-13: 978-0385344326

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? (Sept 26)

What Are You Reading is a weekly Monday Meme that is hosted by Sheila from One Persons Journey: http://bookjourney.wordpress.com

Post the books you read last week, book currently being read and books you plan on finishing this week.

Last week I read:

1. Lethal - Sandra Brown
2. New York to Dallas - J.D. Robb

I’m currently reading:

1. Pleating for Mercy - Melissa Bourbon

Books I’m planning on reading this week:

1. Kill Me If You Can - James Patterson

Here's the link:

http://bookjourney.wordpress.com/2011/09/25/its-monday-what-are-you-reading-105