Embraced by Darkness – Keri Arthur

Book Five of the Riley Jensen series opens with Riley on vacation.  For the first three weeks, she was with a lover and enjoyed herself immensely.  The last three have been trying.  Of course, she’d prefer the dullness to what happens.
The leader of Pack Riley contacts her and orders her to investigate the disappearance of [...]

Dangerous Games by Keri Arthur

Dangerous Games is the first Riley Jensen novel since Riley became a full fledged guardian and found out who was behind the labs that created Misha and the others.  You’d think that her life would be settled down now, but Gautier is still on the loose and, what’s more, there’s a new threat. Add that [...]

The Twilight Series by Stephenie Meyers

I read the last three of the four books one after another in the last two weeks, so I decided to write about them all at once.
All of you know the plot, so I won’t bother with much of that.  All of you know that Stephenie Meyer is an amazing writer, so I won’t even [...]

Murder on a Girl’s Night out by Anne George

Somewhere I read a review of this book and thought I should get it.  Since (as you might have guessed if you’ve seen my categories) I have something of an interest in both mysteries and books by Southern authors who books that take place in the South. 
Murder on a Girls’ Night Out is funny in [...]

Marked by PC Cast + Kristin Cast

Along with Blue Bloods, Marked nearly made me break the No New Books Pledge. Seriously.
Written by a mother and daughter, Marked is a Young Adult novel that reads genuinely “teenage” yet is still understandable to adults. (Like, me at 42 years old!) I’ve read some YA novels that [...]

Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz

I’ve come across two new series. The first is Blue Bloods by Melissa de la Cruz.
I have found that young adult novels are often as good as adult novels and, in many cases, better. In this case, I’d say better. Since the author can’t rely on gratuitous sex and violence, they actually [...]

Fed Up – Jessica Conant-Parks and Susan Conant

I’m sad to say that this is the last book in the Gourmet Girl series. There isn’t any indication of that on the book but I emailed one of the authors to ask a question and she told me. I’m even more sad because the book leaves us with its usual cliffhanger [...]

Kitty Raises Hell by Carrie Vaughn

Now, I know I said I wasn’t going to buy any new books until I read at least half of the books I already have. I’ve been doing pretty well, too, but then there I was at the local superstore and I saw this book. And it was only $4.97, so I bought it. [...]

Tempting Evil by Keri Arthur

Training to be a Guardian with the Directorate of Other Races is not something Riley Jensen really likes. She has to do it since she has every intention of finding out who is destroying her life but she doesn’t have to like it. The thing is – she sort of does like [...]