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The Gargoyle Reader Interview Review
Maree from Just Add Books interviewed me about my recent reading of The Gargoyle written by Andrew Davidson.Maree - I've seen this book pop up on few book blogs lately, which is how I heard about it. How did you hear about it?
Me - I had seen some information about this book on the Random House/DoubleDay website and was really interested so when I had the chance to grab an ARC took… Continue
Added by Book Zombie on December 17, 2008 at 9:46am — No Comments
Hex Appeal by Linda Wisdom
SynopsisJazz and Nick’s dream romance has turned into a nightmare…
Feisty witch Jasmine Tremaine and drop-dead gorgeous vampire cop Nikolai Gregorovich have a hot thing going on, but it’s tough to keep it together when nightmare visions turn their passion into bickering, and it’s tearing them apart.
With a little help from their friends – a motley bunch of ghosts with attitude, rule breaking witches, supernatural hotties and sinister elves – Jazz and Nick are in… Continue
Added by Book Zombie on November 17, 2008 at 5:16pm — No Comments
Warrior by Cheryl Brooks
Synopsis
Even near death, his sensuality is amazing… Leo arrives on Tisana’s doorstep a beaten slave from a near-extinct rave with feline genes. As soon as Leo recovers his strength, he’ll use his extraordinary sexual talents to bewitch Tisana and make a bolt for freedom…
She has only one chance to tame him… Tisana, whose healing powers are legendary, already knows Leo’s the one who can help her fulfil her destiny, she can’t let him get away now.
Forced… Continue
Added by Book Zombie on November 17, 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments
The Reluctant Widow by Georgette Heyer
Synopsis
Elinor Rochdale is rather surprised that her new employer is quite rich, and more so at the decayed grandeur of the house to which she is transported. Realizing that there has been a case of mistaken identity, she nevertheless agrees to an audacious plan and is swept into a dangerous adventure. Overnight, Elinor becomes mistress of a ruined estate. By midnight she is a bride, by dawn a widow...
Review
I’ve never before read a Georgette… Continue
Added by Book Zombie on November 17, 2008 at 5:00pm — No Comments
Pemberley By The Sea by Abigail Reynolds
SynopsisMarine biologist Cassie Boulton likes her coffee with cream and her literature with happy endings. Her favorite book is Pride and Prejudice, but Cassie has no patience when a modern-day Mr. Darcy appears in her lab. Silent and aloof, Calder Westing III doesn’t seem to offer anything but a famous family name.
But there is more to Calder than meets the eye, and he can’t get enough of Cassie Boulton. Especially after one passionate night by the sea. But… Continue
Added by Book Zombie on November 17, 2008 at 4:54pm — No Comments
Lydia Bennet's Story by Jane Odiwe
SynopsisHow does impulsive, high-spirited Lydia turn out?
Lydia is a girl of untamed expressiveness and vulnerability, and all she can think of are pleasure and marriage. She’s convinced George Wickham is the man of her dreams, but quickly discovers her hero is not the man she believes him to be. In this spicy sequel to Jane Austen’s Pride And Prejudice, Lydia is reunited with the Bennets, Bingleys and Darcys for a grand ball at Netherfield Park, where she’ll… Continue
Added by Book Zombie on November 17, 2008 at 4:52pm — No Comments
Lala Pipo by Hideo Okuda
Synopsis“This sleazy novel is not recommendable for ladies or gentlemen.”
So reads the jacket of the Japanese edition of this collection of six dark, interrelated, tragicomic chapters dealing with themes of desire, inadequacy, and failure, using the underbelly of sex… Continue
Added by Book Zombie on October 23, 2008 at 1:12pm — No Comments
Year Of Secret Assignments by Jaclyn Moriarty
SynopsisIn The Year of Secret Assignments, a tenth grade English teacher attempts to unite feuding schools by launching a pen-pal project. Best friends Cassie, Emily and Lydia initiate the correspondence, and are answered by Matthew, Charlie and Seb. Emily and Lydia are more… Continue
Added by Book Zombie on October 23, 2008 at 1:09pm — No Comments
King of Sword and Sky by CL Wilson
SynopsisKing of Sword and Sky is Book 3 of the Tairen Soul series. Returning to the Fading Lands with his Celierian truemate, Rain discovers a dissension among the most powerful members of his own council. As the Eld plot their next deadly strike, Ellysetta struggles to master her… Continue
Added by Book Zombie on October 23, 2008 at 1:06pm — No Comments
Fables Volume 1 - Legends In Exile
Fairy Tales have always been something I love, whether they are the classic Grimm stories or the more modern Disney versions. So when I heard about a graphic novel series featuring all of the classic fairy tale characters together in a place called FableTown, I knew I had to read… Continue
Added by Book Zombie on October 23, 2008 at 1:03pm — No Comments
Fables Volume 2 - Animal Farm
SynopsisCollecting FABLES #6-10, the second story arc of the fan-favourite, critically acclaimed VERTIGO series. Travel to upstate New York, where the non-human Fable characters have found refuge on a farm, miles from mankind. But all is not well on the farm — and a conspiracy… Continue
Added by Book Zombie on October 23, 2008 at 12:58pm — No Comments
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
SynopsisClay Jenkins returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers 13 cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, his classmate and crush, who committed suicide two weeks earlier. On tape, Hannah explains that there are… Continue
Added by Book Zombie on October 23, 2008 at 12:53pm — No Comments
Fables Volume 3 - Storybook Love
Volume 3 of Fables is structured a little differently from the first two. Instead of a single plot running throughout the novel, this volume features two single stories, one four parter and a two part story. But this doesn’t hurt the series in any way, in fact I found it almost impossible to put down. With… Continue
Added by Book Zombie on October 23, 2008 at 12:50pm — No Comments
Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
SynopsisBod is an unusual boy who inhabits an unusual place-he's the only living resident of a graveyard. Raised from infancy by the ghosts, werewolves, and other cemetery denizens, Bod has learned the antiquated customs of his guardians' time as well as their timely ghostly… Continue
Added by Book Zombie on October 23, 2008 at 12:38pm — No Comments
Roald Dahl's Book Of Ghost Stories
SynopsisWho better to investigate the literary spirit world than that supreme connoisseur of the unexpected, Roald Dahl? Of the many permutations of the macabre or bizarre, Dahl was always especially fascinated by the classic ghost story. As he relates in the erudite introduction to this… Continue
Added by Book Zombie on October 23, 2008 at 12:30pm — No Comments
Arsenic Soup For Lovers by Georgia Z. Post
SynopsisIn a world where few people laugh at themselves, Arsenic Soup For Lovers is the perfect blend of short stories guaranteed to make you step back and look at the world from a different perspective. In this tart and wickedly amusing collection by author Georgia Z. Post,… Continue
Added by Book Zombie on October 23, 2008 at 12:26pm — No Comments
Miracle Girls by Anne Dayton and May Vanderbilt
SynopsisMeet the miracle girls of Half Moon Bay … They may look ordinary, but each one is living out her second chance at life. Too bad it’s their last chance at surviving high school!
Ana Dominguez was happy in San Jose, but everything changed when her dad moved the family to… Continue
Added by Book Zombie on October 15, 2008 at 9:30am — No Comments
Green Beauty Guide by Julie Gabriel
SynopsisThe promise of beauty is as close as the drugstore aisle—shampoo that gives your hair more body, lotions that smooth away wrinkles, makeup that makes your skin look flawless, and potions that take it all off again. But while conventional products say they'll make you more… Continue
Added by Book Zombie on October 2, 2008 at 3:25pm — No Comments
Schooled by Anisha Lakhani
SynopsisWhen Anna Taggert lands a teaching job at an elite private school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, her dreams of chalk boards and lesson plans are quickly dashed by the grim realities of her small pay check. It’s not easy to overlook the fact that tuition for each of your students… Continue
Added by Book Zombie on October 2, 2008 at 3:23pm — No Comments
The Black Whole by Jacqueline M Jones
SynopsisWhen tasting the broad range of flavours Jackie Jones has assembled got you in The Black Whole, remember that your tastes tomorrow will be much different than today’s. More than that, though, what you read here will alter you just a tad, so that tomorrow you might re-read with a… Continue
Added by Book Zombie on October 2, 2008 at 3:21pm — No Comments
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