Lani Woodland The Yara Silva trilogy

I am going to review both of these since I just read them back to back! I started with Intrinsical. It had a unique story line that intrigued me and quite honestly the cover is beautiful.

Sixteen-year-old Yara Silva has always known that ghosts walk alongside the living. Her grandma, like the other women in her family, is a Waker, someone who can see and communicate with ghosts. Yara grew up watching her grandmother taunted and scorned for this unusual ability and doesn't want that to be her future. She has been dreading the day when she too would see ghosts, and is relieved that the usually dominant Waker gene seems to have skipped her, letting her live a normal teenage life. However, all that changes for Yara on her first day at her elite boarding school when she discovers the gene was only lying dormant. She witnesses a dark mist attack Brent, a handsome fellow student, and rushes to his rescue. Her act of heroism draws the mist's attention, and the dark spirit begins stalking her. Yara finds herself entrenched in a sixty-year-old curse that haunts the school, threatening not only her life, but the lives of her closest friends as well. Yara soon realizes that the past she was trying to put behind her isn't going to go quietly

I have to admit, that though the story line was interesting, the story itself was a bit slow through the first half and I almost didn't finish this book. I'm glad I kept with it because the ending was amazing and it left me eager to start reading the second book in this Trilogy Indelible.

Yara is beginning to understand just how much her life will change now that her Waker abilities have emerged. She has come to terms with the fact that seeing ghosts is part of her life, but she isn’t ready to let being a Waker dictate her choices. All she wants is a ghost-free senior year with her boyfriend, Brent, and her best friend, Cherie. But Yara soon discovers that there are more dark secrets in her school’s history than just the curse she broke. While an angry ghost makes Yara question everything she thought she knew about spirits, she and Brent learn that there are long reaching consequences to last year’s adventures. As new enemies emerge and old ghosts resurface, Yara finds herself in the center of another deadly mystery, and this time she has to contend with the living as well as the dead.

The second book in this series was fantastic!! It has everything, Great characters, a believable relationship, mystery, and an amazing ending. Lani did it again with Indelible. I can't wait for the third in this series Inevitable due out Fall 2013. 

You can buy Intrinsical here
You can buy Indelible here

Another new release -Darynda Jones

I love the Charley Davidson series and now Darynda Jones has a new YA series. The first book Death and the Girl Next Door is out today! Darynda is a fantastic author and this one is sure to please.

Synopsis:
Ten years ago, Lorelei's parents disappeared without a trace.  Raised by her grandparents and leaning on the support of her best friends, Lorelei is finally beginning to accept the fact that her parents are never coming home.  For Lorelei, life goes on.
High school is not quite as painful as she thinks it will be, and things are as normal as they can be.  Until the day the school's designated loner, Cameron Lusk, begins to stalk her, turning up where she least expects it,  standing outside her house in the dark, night after night.  Things get even more complicated when a new guy—terrifying, tough, sexy Jared Kovach—comes to school.  Cameron and Jared instantly despise each other and Lorelei seems to be the reason for their animosity.  What does Jared know about her parents?  Why does Cameron tell Jared he can't have Lorelei?  And what will any of them do when Death comes knocking for real?  Thrilling, sassy, sexy, and inventive, Darynda Jones's first foray into the world of teens will leave readers eager for the next installment.

Buy 

Death and the Girl Next Door here

First Grave on the Right here

Second Grave on the Left here

Third Grave Dead Ahead here

*Pre-order* Fourth Grave Beneath my Feet here

Darynda's web site

Newly released!

I just wanted to quickly share with you two books that are now available! The first is Something Witchy This Way Comes by H.P. Mallory. H.P. is a fantastic writer of paranormal romance. Something Witchy This Way Comes is the fifth and final book in the Jolie Wilkins series. She also has a series featuring the ass kicking fairy Dulcie O'Neil. Both are amazing!!

The other book is How to Date a Demon by Rose Pressey. This is the thrid book in the Rylie Cruz seires.

"I enjoy writing quirky and fun novels with a paranormal twist. The paranormal has always captured my interest. The thought of finding answers to the unexplained fascinates me." -RosePressey.com

Enjoy!


Buy 
Something Witchy This Way Comes by H.P. Mallory here
How to Date a Demon by Rose Pressey here

Me? A writer? Nah

Recently I have had more than one person suggest that I try to be a writer. And my first thought was Me? A Writer? I'm a reader, not a writer. But I think about it sometimes and wonder if I really could do it. I mean doesn't it sound like the perfect job for a stay at home mom? Write in the morning before the kids get up. And again at nap time and any spare minute I can find through out the day. It sounds perfect, but right now I don't have many spare moments. I mean you should see my kitchen floor. I can hardly find the time to sweep and mop. And forget about my kids letting me sit and pound out a few thousand words. Ha! Right now I am pushing my two year old off my lap so I can just finish this sentence.
I won't lie. I think I would like to write something, but can I? I guess I'll never know till I try.

The Fabulous Cl Parker!

I LOVE LOVE LOVE this author!!  A friend of mine told me about this amazing author, CL Parker. I gobbled up her first book Supernova like a starving woman would devour a chocolate bar. Yes, it was that good! The characters are funny, sexy and real. The world she created in her books is one you can easily get lost in. She's a fantastic writer! I finished the first book and immediately bought the second book Cataclysm. And yes, it was just as fabulous as the first. I am now eagerly awaiting the third book in the saga Nexus. Sept 27th can't get here fast enough!!

Synopsis (as seen on Goodreads): As part of a chosen bloodline, Kerrigan Cruz has inherited a gift: supernatural powers which give her the ability to protect a person's free will from those who wish to alter destiny for their own design. After her grandmother's passing, Kerrigan meets Dominic Grayson, an alluring stranger with a secret of his own. Dominic has been cursed, touched by both darkness and light, and Kerrigan is the only one who can save him. In their world, only three things are certain: His curse. Her gift. Their destiny.

You can pre-order Nexus here. 

The Morganville Vampires

Welcome! I am going to start with the Morganville Vampire series because that's what I'm reading now.
Let me start by saying, I haven't read anything else by Rachel Caine, but I definitely will! I love the Morganville series!

Synopsis:
Claire Danvers is young for a college freshman. She's 16 and she's just started college at TPU in Morganville, Texas. She's quickly learning that Morganville is not your average small sleepy town. She's making friends and a few enemies as she learns how to adjust to life in Morganville - the town run by vampires.

The series is one freaky adventure after another. I highly recommend this series. The books are:

Glass Houses
The Dead Girls' Dance
Midnight Alley
Feast of Fools
Lord of Misrule
Carpe Corpus
Fade Out
Kiss of Death
Ghost Town
Bite Club
Last Breath
Black Dawn
Bitter Blood (releases Nov. 6, 2012)