Teaser Tuesday #9 ~ "Howling at the Moon"

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 comes from Howling at the Moon by Karen MacInerney.  

"Not unless your mother can call him back from the dead.  Let's face it, Sophie.  If we don't find out who did it, your poor mom's going to be reading tarot cards in jail."  She leaned forward.  "Can you imagine your mother spending twenty years without her changing crystals?  No full-moon meditations?" 

p. 42.

In My Mailbox #9

In My Mailbox is a bookish meme hosted by Kirsti @ The Story Siren and was inspired by Alia @ Pop Culture Junkie.

I bought some books this week but never made it to the library (which I should have as there is a book waiting for me there!).  No books for review or won this week!

If you haven't already make sure you enter my 150+ followers giveaway and myH.P. Mallory giveaway - click on the links on my right hand side bar.

Title: Vicious Circle
Author: Linda Robertson

A girl's got to do what a girl's got to do.... 

Being a witch doesn't pay the bills, but Persephone Alcmedi gets by between reading Tarot cards, writing her syndicated newspaper column, and kenneling werewolves in the basement when the moon is full -- even if witches aren't supposed to mingle with wolves. She really reaches the end of her leash, though, when her grandmother gets kicked out of the nursing home and Seph finds herself in the doghouse about some things she's written. Then her werewolf friend Lorrie is murdered...and the high priestess of an important coven offers Seph big money to destroy the killer, a powerful vampire named Goliath Kline. Seph is a tough girl, but this time she bites off more than she can chew. She needs a little help from her friends -- werewolf friends. One of those friends, Johnny, the motorcycle-riding lead singer for the techno-metal-Goth band Lycanthropia, has a crush on her. And while Seph has always been on edge around this 6'2" leather-clad hunk, she's starting to realize that although their attraction may be dangerous, nothing could be as lethal as the showdown that awaits them. 




Title:  Changeless
Author: Gail Carriger

Alexia Tarabotti, now Lady Maccon, awakens in the wee hours of the mid-afternoon to find her husband, who should be decently asleep like any normal werewolf, yelling at the top of his lungs. Then he disappears -- leaving her to deal with a regiment of supernatural soldiers encamped on her doorstep, a plethora of exorcised ghosts, and an angry Queen Victoria.

But Alexia is armed with her trusty parasol, the latest fashions, and an arsenal of biting civility. Even when her investigations take her into thebackwaters of ugly waistcoats, Scotland, she is prepared: upending werewolf pack dynamics as only a soulless can.

She might even find time to track down her wayward husband, if she feels like it. 


Title: Blameless
Author: Gail Carriger

Quitting her husband's house and moving back in with her horrible family, Lady Maccon becomes the scandal of the London season.

Queen Victoria dismisses her from the Shadow Council, and the only person who can explain anything, Lord Akeldama, unexpectedly leaves town. To top it all off, Alexia is attacked by homicidal mechanical ladybugs, indicating, as only ladybugs can, the fact that all of London's vampires are now very much interested in seeing Alexia quite thoroughly dead.

While Lord Maccon elects to get progressively more inebriated and Professor Lyall desperately tries to hold the Woolsey werewolf pack together, Alexia flees England for Italy in search of the mysterious Templars. Only they know enough about the preternatural to explain her increasingly inconvenient condition, but they may be worse than the vampires -- and they're armed with pesto.

18 & Over Book Blogger Tag Along Friday #6

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.  

Follow Friday #10 & Book Blogger Hop #9

HAPPY FRIDAY :)  I'm joining in with Follow My Book Blog Friday again this week!  If you jump to the bottom of this post you'll find a round up of my week and kinks to enter my contests!

To join the fun and make now book blogger friends hop on over to Parajunkee.com for details on how to join in and a bit about her featured blog of the week betweenthecoversblog.net

"What is your reading suggestion for the week?"
I've got two.  If you are after an excellent new urban fantasy author check out Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble by H.P. Mallory which I really enjoyed, read my review here.  I would also like to recommend Darkfever by Karen Marie Moning if you haven't read it yet, read my review here.

I'm also taking part I am also taking part in the Book Blogger Hop hosted by Book Blogger Hop hosted by Crazy For Books so head on over there to join in the fun too!  This weeks question is from Christina who blogs at The Paperback Princess

"When you read a book that you just can't get into, do you stick it out and keep reading or move on to your next title?"
Once I start a book I really like to finish it before I move onto something else.  But I'm a bit of a mood reader so sometimes a book just does not suit me at the time so I'll put it aside for a couple of days then finish it.  I almost always finish a book I start, I think I've only permanently abandoned about two ever!!

A round up of what's been happening at the Magic Faerie's Paranormal Review in the last week - missed something?  Click on the post title!

150+ Followers giveaway - Enter my giveaway to win a book from a choice of six (open where the Book Depository ships)
Interview with H.P. Mallory and giveaway - win an ebook of one of H.P. Mallory's new urban fantasy novels.
Review: Bound by Blood by Danielle Bourdon & Kimberly Hoyt
Contest: Win the chance to become a character in H.P. Mallory's next book Toil and Trouble - fantastic opportunity for her to actually write you into her next book!!!
Jeaniene Frost book news! more boks in the Night Huntress series and a new series for Vland.
In My Mailbox
Teaser Tuesday
Waiting On Wednesday

Contest: Become a Book Character!!

I'm really excited about this contest!!   H.P. Mallory is offering one lucky reader the chance to actually be featured in her next book Toil and Trouble!!  It is the second book in the Jolie Wilkins seires following on from Fire Burn & Cauldron Bubble, (read my review here.)
Here are the contest parameters
H.P. Mallory says:

Here are the contest parameters:
Enter to be written as a character in my book, Toil and Trouble. I'll create your character using your name, description and personality (I'll have to send over a questionnaire, etc. to find out all about you!)

I already know which character you'll be and without giving away too much, this character is:

* integral to the storyline
* mentioned in Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble
* will play a part in all future books in the Jolie Wilkins series


The winner will get:

* A written part in Toil and Trouble and future Jolie Wilkins books
* The ability to read Toil and Trouble before it's released to the public
* Added to the Acknowledgments page of Toil and Trouble
* Interviewed on my blog
* A signed (with dedication) paperback copy of Toil and Trouble
* A signed paperback copy of Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble and To Kill A Warlock

To enter  follow this link to her blog!


Giveaway!  


There is still time to enter to win one of two ebooks being given away on my blog.  One copy each of Fire Burn & Cauldron Bubble and To Kill A Warlock.  To enter visit my interview and giveaway post!

Review: "Bound By Blood" by Danielle Bourdon & Kimberly Hoyt

Title: Bound by Blood
Author: Danielle Bourdon and Kimberly Hoyt
ISBN 10: 0982831714
ISBN13:  9780982831714

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Published: 20 September 2010
Publisher:  Wildbloom Press
Website: Danielle Bourdon

** I received an ebook copy from the author in exchange for an honest review**

About the book (from Goodreads)


He was willing to give up eternity to have her, but would he die to keep her?

HER IMMORTAL SAVIOR

Prince Sebastian Thorn is known in the vampire world for his protectiveness of mortals, but when he helps the all-too-human Laurel Mayfield escape a stalker, he is unprepared for the humanity and the passion she reawakens in him. Would she want him if she discovered his secret?

HIS MORTAL PASSION

Laurel Mayfield is a small-town girl with big-city dreams and a cautious view on men … until she meets Sebastian in a cemetery. Sophisticated, drop dead gorgeous, controlled and chivalrous, he's every woman's Prince Charming, but with a dark edge she can neither understand or resist.

THEIR TIMELESS LOVE

Drawn to each other with inexplicable heat, can their desire survive the truth of his nature, and the scheming vampires that seek his power? When they revisit his past, will she choose the hot-blooded mortal man he once was, or the dark Prince he has become?

My Review

A story of love, attraction and emotion about a mortal woman and a sexy vampire, just right for paranormal romance. Bound by Blood focuses intensely on the developing relationship and love between Laurel and Sebastian, everything else in the story is to illustrate their unfolding tale of all consuming love. We hear the point of view of Laurel and Sebastian, clearly they both love each other with all their heart and soul.

Laurel is an easy character to like, she seems genuine and like someone you might meet where ever you go. That makes Sebastian all the more of a contrast to her. Handsome, sexy and a little distant he is always wonderful with Laurel, he treats her like a princess (or should that be Dutchess?) which makes sense for a man who “died” in Henry V111’s court in the sixteenth century!
 
Sebastian is a Prince of the vampires, his territory being Europe where of course there are various problems he has to solve and ends up getting injured just as his relationship with Laurel is developing. Even at home he faces a close ally plotting against him which is not full resolved in this book so I’m hoping there will be a sequel!

Laurel wants to see Sebastian as he was when mortal so they travel back to the Tudor era. Once there however he actually is mortal and Laurel is left to find a way to get him back though the portal to their present. Like any good heroine she ins her man and finds a way!

Mortal Sebastian remains in the present, will Laurel choose the man she fell in love with but is a vampire? Or will she choose to keep the energetic and very much alive Sebastian who is out of his time? I’m not going to tell you! Read the book!

Find out more about Danielle Bourdon: website/blog, twitter, facebook
Buy a copy: Amazon, Amazon UK, 
 

Waiting on Wednesday #8 ~ "How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf" by Molly Harper

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 How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf by Molly Harper.  I was drawn to this book just by the title, it kind of pulls you in does it not!  Once I read the blurb I knew I had to add i to my to read list!

Title: How to Flirt with a Naked Werewolf

Author: Molly Harper

Series: Naked Werewolf, #1 

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Publisher: Pocket

Release date: 22 February 2011


Even in Grundy, Alaska, it's unusual to find a naked guy with a beartrap clamped to his ankle on your front porch.

But when said guy turns into a wolf, recent southern transplant Mo Wenstein has no difficulty identifying the problem. Her surly neighbor Cooper Graham-who has been openly critical of Mo's ability to adapt to life in Alaska-has trouble of his own. Werewolf trouble. For Cooper, an Alpha in self-imposed exile from his dysfunctional pack, it's love at first sniff when it comes to Mo. But Cooper has an even more pressing concern on his mind. Several people around Grundy have been the victims of wolf attacks, and since Cooper has no memory of what he gets up to while in werewolf form, he's worried that he might be the violent canine in question.

If a wolf cries wolf, it makes sense to listen. Mo is convinced that Cooper is not the culprit. But if he's not responsible, then who is? And when a werewolf falls head over haunches in love with you, what are you supposed to do, anyway? The rules of dating just got a whole lot more complicated.