Follow Friday #8 & Book Blogger Hop #7

Hi everyone! It's Friday again so I'm taking part in Follow Friday and Book Blogger Hop!! HAPPY FRIDAY :)
 I have not been online much this week due to internet connection problems :(
 Think I've got things back to usual now :)

Follow on Friday is hosted my Rachel at Parajunkee.com

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

• Follow the Follow My Book Blog Friday Host { Parajunkee.com } and any one else you want to follow on the list
• Follow our Featured Bloggers - Books With Bite
• Put your Blog name & URL in the Linky thing.
• 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
• Follow Follow Follow as many as you can
• If someone comments and says they are following you, be a dear and follow back. Spread the Love...and the followers
• If you want to show the link list, just follow the link below the entries and copy and paste it within your post!
• If your new to the follow friday hop, comment and let me know, so I can stop by and check out your blog.

I am taking part in in the Book Blogger Hop again this week hosted by Crazy-for-books to explore all the great book blogs out there!

The Hop lasts Friday-Monday every week, so if you don't have time to Hop today, come back later and join the fun! This is a weekly event! And stop back throughout the weekend to see all the new blogs that are added! We get over 300 links every week!!

This week's question is from Book Couture

"How do you spread the word about your blog?
(e.g. Social Networking sites, Book Blog Directories, comments on other blogs...)"


I don't get the time to do as much to promote my book blog as I would like.  I take part in some of the book blooger tag alongs, like these ones, and try to visit sveral of my favourite blogs and leave comments.  I have also joined BookBlogs but have not used it to it's full potential yet.  Really I want to do a lot more, go and comment more to build up relationships with bloggers who share my reading taste, maybe promote on Facebook and Twitter.


Look out for my 150 follower contest soon!!! 

18 & Over Book Blogger Tag Along Friday #4

Calling all 18 and over book bloggers, are you looking for more bloggers like yourself? Well please join in so we can tag along with each other. This is for a specific group and your blog needs to primarily have book reviews and post adult book content. In other words, if you read books like erotic and adult romance and have adult pic., then you can play tag along. Sorry YA readers, but if you read both (I know some of you do) you can tag along also. Just make sure you have both YA and adult romance on your blog.
I wanted to do this not only for myself, but for others out there that are looking for more adult book blogs.
It doesn't matter what you read if its paranormal, suspense, historical, contemporary or mystery, along with erotic with any genre. As long as it is adult then your in.

To join in the fun drop by Bitten By Paranormal Romance for more details and to see who else is taking part!

Welcome to my blog!  I read mainly 18+ paranormal romance and urban fantasy.  I on occasion delve into YA and erotica too.  

Waiting on Wednesday #6 ~ "Crave" by J.R. Ward

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine which spotlights eagerly anticipated upcoming releases!

It's Wednesday again!  The book I'm waiting for this week is Crave by J.R. Ward the second book in the Fallen Angels series.  The links all take you to the Goodreads pages!

Title: Crave

Author: J.R. Ward

Series: Fallen Angels #2

Genre: Urban Fantasy

Publisher: Signet

Release date: 5 October 2010

The battle between good and evil has left the future of humanity in the hands of a reluctant saviour and his band of fallen angels. Seven deadly sins that must be righted. Seven souls that must be saved. 

While his first task was success, Jim Heron is battling a demon that can take any form for the soul of someone he must identify on his own. If that weren't enough, his old boss Matthias wants Jim to assassinate an AWOL member of The Firm - Isaac, the man Jim is pretty sure he is supposed to save. Jim knows first hand that once you're in The Firm, there's no getting out. But when Jim finds Isaac to warn him, he has been picked up by the police for illegal street fighting, and it is clear that Isaac is falling for his gorgeous public defender. Is their love the redemption that will save Isaac's soul? Or has the demon Devina set an elaborate trap? 


You can read my review of the first book in the Fallen Angels series here, Covet

Teaser Tuesday #6

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My teaser this week is from Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning.  I'm doing one of my group reads from Paranormal Addicts & Newbies - Paranormal Romance & Urban Fantasy group on Goodreads as it is a book I've wanted to read for ages, I've heard so many good things about the Fever series.  So far I have not been disappointed.  Back to review requests next read!

"Without taking his eyes off the road, for which I was eminently grateful at a hundred and four miles an hour, he said, "There are three main players in the city that have also been searching for the book.  I want to now if they've found anything.  You, Ms. Lane, are my bloodhound'" he shouted back."

p. 133

In My Mailbox #6

In My Mailbox is a bookish meme hosted by Kristi @ The Story Siren and inspired by Alea @ Pop Culture Junkie.

I have received some ebooks for review this week all from the authors, my book descriptions are all taken from, and link back to Goodreads!  Author's name to their website/blog.

Summary of titles received for review from the authors
Moonlight Bleu by Renee Rearden
Cattitude by Edie Ramer
Incredible Dreams by Sandra Edwards
Shades of Gray: A Jude Magdalyn Novel by L.M. Pruitt


Moonlight Bleu by Renee Rearden

Saari Mitchell sees a psychologist in order to understand why-500 years later-she's still dreaming of her dead lover. Her shrink isn't helping, the nightmares come every time she closes her eyes, and the lack of sleep is interfering with her job at Sacred Heart Hospital. With her psychic ability to heal the human spirit on the fritz, her auric radar becomes as reliable as her spotty cell phone service. By day, Dhelis Guidry works as a detective for the new Angeles Police Department investigating the missing or murdered women in the Full-Moon Killer case. In his spare time he hunts rogue vampires as a Tueri executioner. Brogan Vincent is a Tueri healer. Though he could offer his miraculous talents to the rich and powerful, he has chosen anonymity and peace by only using his psychic abilities among the Tueri. One look into Saari's tri-colored eyes and both men realize she is Tueri. One touch tells them each she's their soul mate. But can either of them protect her from the Full-Moon Killer? 

 Cattitude by Edie Ramer


It's all in the Cattitude...After Belle the cat switches bodies with a psychic on the run from a murderer, she wants her perfect cat body back instead of this furless human one. But she doesn't count on falling in love with her former owner. Or that a CEO and a beauty queen want to use up her nine lives. Now is her chance to prove anything a human can do, a cat can do better."Cattitude is a magical tale that you won't soon forget. Edie Ramer has a writing voice that charms, and she pulls the reader right into Belle's amazing world." -Cynthia Eden, author of Deadly Fear and I'll be Slaying You 

Incredible Dreams By Sandra Edwards


Incredible Dreams is the story of a modern-day ghost whisperer who travels through time to save the life of a WWII fighter pilot, and ends up jeopardizing her own existence. 

Izzy Miller prefers to call herself a spiritual therapist because she thinks it makes her sound more professional than plain old ghost-whisperer. She expects her latest project to be quick and easy because exorcising military personnel is pretty routine. 

But there's nothing easy or routine about Captain Jack Baker—he's a rather forgetful spirit and somewhat mischievous. And even though he's intrigued by the US Government's latest attempt to remove him from the only place he can ever remember being... he has no intentions of going anywhere. 

Plans to exorcise Jack are quickly sidelined when Izzy discovers a portal into the past inside her dreams and sets out to change his fate. Trouble is...when she gets back there, she can't remember anything but her name. She still sees ghosts, but is far less accepting of her gift. And, to make matters worse, a demonic force pretending to be the forgetful heroine's sister has her own plans—to steal Izzy's soul. 


Shades of Gray: A Jude Magdalyn Novel by L.M. Pruitt

Jude Magdalyn Henries has what some--okay, many--would call an unconventional life. Orphaned at birth, raised by nuns, teenage runaway, fake tarot card reader--there is very little about Jude that’s normal. Jude plays hard, which means she has to work at least semi-hard, but when she accepts an invitation to do a private tarot reading, “unconventional” takes on a whole new meaning.

Almost nothing shocks Jude anymore, but when she finds out that she’s the last in a line of matriarchal leaders of a magical group, shock is definitely what she feels. The Covenant has been waiting for Jude to come into her birthright for the past twenty five years. And then there’s the war between vampire factions for control of the city of New Orleans. In the end, the fate of the city hinges on one last battle, ranging from roof top to Bourbon Street to the bottom of the Mississippi River.

Review: Fire Burn & Cauldron Bubble by H.P. Mallory

Title: Fire Burn & Cauldron Bubble

Author: H.P.  Mallory

ASIN: B003UNL8OG

Review requested by the author - free ebook

About the book (from Goodreads)

A self-deprecating witch with the unique ability to reanimate the dead. A dangerously handsome warlock torn between being her boss and her would-be lover. A six hundred year old English vampire with his own agenda; one that includes an appetite for witches. The Underworld in a state of chaos. Let the games begin. 

Life isn’t bad for psychic Jolie Wilkins. True, she doesn’t have a love life to speak of, but she has a cute house in the suburbs of Los Angeles, a cat and a quirky best friend. 

Enter Rand Balfour, a sinfully attractive warlock who insists she’s a witch and who just might turn her life upside down. Rand hires her to help him solve a mystery regarding the death of his client who also happens to be a ghost. Jolie not only uncovers the cause of the ghost’s demise but, in the process, she brings him back to life! 

Word of Jolie’s incredible ability to bring back the dead spreads like wildfire, putting her at the top of the Underworld’s most wanted list. Consequently, she finds herself at the center of a custody battle between a villainous witch, a dangerous but oh-so-sexy vampire, and her warlock boss, Rand. 


Genre: Urban Fantasy

Series: Jolie Wilkins #1

Published: 2nd July 2010

Publisher:  Kindle edition or find it on Smashwords

Website: H.P. Mallory - Urban Fantasy Novels

Excert: Chapter one

My Review

Jolie Wilkins is a psychic who is living life quietly running her fortune telling shop until the mysterious Rand, a warlock,  turns up on her doorstep and everything changes forever.  Offered a job she can not refuse Jolie travels to Chicago where she discovers her special talent.  It is this special talent which causes her to be drawn into a world of vampires, magic and mayhem!  Watch out for a fun and fast paced journey into this world as Jolie learns about her new life!

Jolie is a very likeable character, she seems very normal (well except the seeing auras bit and all that) and manages to remain so despite all the incredible things which happen to her once she is plunged into the supernatural world after working for Rand.

Rand is everything an alpha urban fantasy male should be.  Mysterious, hot and more than a little difficult at times, but genuine and wonderful with Jolie.

Fire Burn & Cauldron Bubble is set for the main part in England, this is quite unusual for an urban fantasy book but I loved it (being English!!) and thought H.P. Mallory captured England very well.  Pelham Manor’s description reminded me of many manor houses I’ve seen (I live fairly close to where Pelham Manor is set) and brought it to life wonderfully.

I liked how the characters seemed well rounded and very real to me, not just Rand and Jolie.  I felt I knew exactly what Jolie’s best friend Christa looked like and was like.  The descriptions of how different people saw the fairies was very interesting.  Also watch out for the vampire Sinjin, is he what he seems to be?

I really enjoyed Fire Burn & Cauldron Bubble, it is excellent fun, sexy and a fast paced read.   I am looking forward to the next book in the Jolie Wilkins series, we are left with plenty of questions to keep us coming back!

18 & Over Book Blogger Tag Along Friday (on Saturday)

Calling all 18 and over book bloggers, are you looking for more bloggers like yourself? Well please join in so we can tag along with each other. This is for a specific group and your blog needs to primarily have book reviews and post adult book content. In other words, if you read books like erotic and adult romance and have adult pic., then you can play tag along. Sorry YA readers, but if you read both (I know some of you do) you can tag along also. Just make sure you have both YA and adult romance on your blog.
I wanted to do this not only for myself, but for others out there that are looking for more adult book blogs.
It doesn't matter what you read if its paranormal, suspense, historical, contemporary or mystery, along with erotic with any genre. As long as it is adult then your in.

To join in the fun drop by Bitten By Paranormal Roamnce for more details and to see who else is taking part! I know it's Saturday, but I thought I'd jump tag along anyway!

Welcome to my blog, I favour paranormal romance and urban fantasy books. I do read a few YA books too, but then I drop in a bit of erotica too - almost always has paranormal elements to YA and erotica though. On occasion I can be found reading Romance (contemporary/historical/SciFi/etc) or Janet Evanovich, even a bit of chick lit or SciFi now and then!!