Post your latest book review link here!

[Rachel Hare]

I love searching through the wonderful blogs associated with this group, but sometimes I'd just like to find a new book to read! I thought this would be a great place to JUST post review links! Here's my latest:

Jodi Picoult's "Handle With Care" http://bookwormzreader.blogspot.com/2009/04/book-review-handle-with...

Please post your latest review here! Thanks!

[Belle's Bookshelf]

Revisiting Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta

http://bellesbookshelf.blogspot.com/2012/01/revisit-saving-francesc...

[Agnieszka]

Shattered Souls by Mary Lindsey

(YA paranormal romance)

http://nookofbooks.blogspot.com/2012/01/review-2-shattered-souls-by...

[ManOfLaBook.com]

No One is Here Except All of Us by Ramona Ausubel is a fic­tional book tak­ing place dur­ing World War II. The book fol­lows a small group of Jew­ish vil­lagers who lives in a town on a river bank.

The pub­lisher is giv­ing away one advanced read­ers copy (ARC) of this book— enter at the end of the post.

http://manoflabook.com/wp/?p=4149

[Alison M.]

My review of "Scary School"

It's a fun kids book about a monster school. I have an ebook giveaway starting tomorrow for the book!

[Sharon Henning]

Story: Joe Box is a rough and tough Vietnam vet trying to eke out a living as a private investigator in Cincinnati. He lives in a beat up apartment with his cat, Noodles, whom he rescued from a couple of drunks who were trying to set the poor thing on fire. One day at his office he gets a call from one of his “bros,” as he calls the men from the squad he fought in back in Vietnam. He hasn’t heard from any of them in years so this comes as a surprise. This “bro” who’s called “little Bit” is panic stricken and tries to warn Joe that someone from their past in Vietnam has come back into their lives and is going to wreak revenge on everyone in their unit. Joe dismisses little Bit’s ravings as drunken hysteria since apparently little Bit is not entirely sober, judging from his slurred speech. Joe hangs up on him and the next morning he gets a call from little Bit’s wife that her husband is dead. In the next two weeks three more of the squad also wind up dead.

Gently Mad

[Tabitha Sanchez]

Looking for Alaska by John Green

http://tabithabookblog.blogspot.com/2012/01/book-review-looking-for...

[Stephanie Riass]

My latest review is The Puzzle Ring by Kate Forsyth

[Jill Elizabeth]

Two incredible, I-can't-rate-them-more-highly reviews and giveaways right now: Grandpa Hates the Bird (hilarious and darling kids's stories) and The Price (paranormal-type mafia story full of whiz-bang magic)... check them out!! 

http://blog.jill-elizabeth.com/category/giveaway/

Giveaway | All Things Jill-Elizabeth

blog.jill-elizabeth.com

[Sherry Gloag]

Here's the link to one of my favourite revews for my current book From Now Until Forever http://boookup.blogspot.com/2012/01/sherry-gloag-from-now-until-for...

 

and this review for my debut novel The Brat, blew me away

http://firepages.wordpress.com/2010/09/27/the-brat-defining-a-new-r...

[Sandra "Jeanz" Richardson]

Check out this brilliant book, I loved it and just couldn't put it down.

BLURB from Goodreads

A love story with bite …... 

Walking home after a night out drowning her sorrows with her best friend, Carrie, Alexandra Jones stupidly takes a phone call from her cheating ex-boyfriend, Eddie, and in her anger hurls her phone into the forest before her. 

But when Alex goes to retrieve her phone from the undergrowth, she and Carrie come face-to-face with a monster they never even knew existed, a Vârcolac (a nightmarish vampire-werewolf hybrid) and he's in search of fresh blood. The next thing Alex knows, she is staring at the impossibly handsome but mysterious Nathan who has helped bring her back to life, but not to the life she left. 

To her horror, she discovers she has now become a blood-drinking Vârcolac herself and she is the only female of her kind, with the potential for breeding a whole new army of Vârcolacs if they can only track her down and press her into service. 

And while Alex gets to know Nathan and his shape-shifting family as they offer her the protection she so desperately needs, unbeknown to all of them, the Vârcolacs are getting closer …

MY REVIEW

I liked the cover and initially thought oh its going to be a vampire novel,  Oh Wow! I knew it would be good as I read Samantha's other book The Bringer and I loved that one. This book was much much more than a vampire story. Alex is bitten by a Várcolac, which is a vampire-werewolf hybrid.....the thing is women don't usually survive.....well....Alex does! Which means that she is very valuable to the Varcolac who obviously wish to reproduce! Alex was "Lucky" to be rescued by the gorgeous *swoon* Nathan. Nathan, his father Jack and younger brother Sol *swoons more for Sol* nurse her back to health and offer her protection.

Alex has lots of things to over come such as the fact her best friend/more like a sister Carrie was killed by the Várcolac , Alex also has to come to terms with the fact she can never return to her family or friends again, as she would put them in danger with the Várcolacs. alex also has to learn to accept certain traits and "talents" she now has such as she has to drink blood......sure its animal blood that the gorgeous Nathan brings her regularly but its still blood! Alex also has improved hearing, sight and strength too. Alex also finds her self attracted to Nathan, even though he seems to resent her presence and at times hate her too, even though he is the one that saved her.  Alex also knows that there is something different about Jack, Nathan, and Sol, it turns out that they are shifters.

I really don't want to go into the plot and spoil the book for anyone but I will say that Alex ends up being sold out to the enemy which causes another great loss of life to happen just when she is beginning to believe that she can cope and live with what life has thrown at her.

I picked my kindle up with this book on and put it down for 10 minutes to eat tea, then went to bed later still reading it, I truthfully did not, could not put it down. This book made me gasp in shock, sit on the end of my seat with suspense, tears well up and my heart ache for certain characters and what happens to them. The book is wonderfully written you can imagine the scenery as well as the gorgeous shape-shifter family too *phwoar*

I felt these books were easily, easily on a par if not better than the Women of The Otherworld Series by Kelley Armstrong, The Shifter Series by Rachel Vincent, and The Resurrection Series by Dee Tenorio too. 

So did I enjoy it? Yes Would I read more in the series? Oh Yes! can't wait!! Would I recommend them? Definitely. Must, Must read!

[Ryan St.Onge]

My review of Boneshaker, a steampunk zombie adventure novel by Cherie Priest.

My Life in Books

[Joseph Arellano]

This is a review of Fault Lines: A Novel by Anne Rivers Siddons -

http://josephsreviews.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/i-feel-the-earth-move/