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Once Burned Review

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Title:  Once Burned

Author:  Jeaniene Frost

Published:  June 2012 by Avon

Genre:  Paranormal Romance

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Leila tries to hide her powers by traveling with the circus.  She had an accident when she was younger which gave her some unique psychic abilities, along with an electrical current that runs through her body and shocks those that touch her.  Leila figures that the safest place for her is the circus; her fellow performers accept her, and if any circus patron ever gets suspicious, the circus is always on the move.

Leila is practicing her circus routine when she gets ambushed and kidnapped by a few vampires.  They force her to use her psychic powers to locate the vampire named, Vlad.  Something different happens when she locates Vlad however; he can see her, and he’s not too happy about being spied on….

I love Jeaniene Frost’s Cat and Bones series, especially the first few books.  Ms. Frost also wrote a few books with the secondary characters from that series, but this one is much better.  I’ve always been interested in Vlad, especially because he is the original Dracula.  I loved the fast pace of the book, it flowed beautifully and I never got bored.  I wish there was a little more leading to Vlad and Leila getting together, but that’s my only complaint.

So if you enjoy the Cat and Bone’s series then definitely pick this up.  If you’ve never read the other series, you can still read this one first; it’s the first book in a new series.  Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

 

 

My Rating:  4 out of 5 stars

 

Happy reading!

 

~Pam

Cover Reveal: The Violet Fox & Giveaway

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Teaser blurb:

Run. That’s what instinct tells me. But in order to save the secrets of my people and to protect my brother I have to become the enemy.

 

Title:  The Violet Fox

Author: Clare C. Marshall

Publisher: Faery Ink Press

Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Release date: October 13, 2012

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Long blurb:

 

There are two kinds of people in the land of Marlenia. The Marlenians, who live on the surface, and the Freetors, who are forced to live underground. The war between them ended two hundred years ago, but the Freetors still fight for the right to live under the sun. Fifteen-year-old Kiera Driscoll embodies the Freetors’ hopes as the Violet Fox. In a violet cape and mask, she sneaks around Marlenia City stealing food and freeing her people from slavery. Then the Elders task her with a secret mission: retrieve a stolen tome that contains the secrets of Freetor magic, something the Marlenians both fear and covet. Kiera must disguise herself as a noblewoman and infiltrate the Marlenian castle. Before the Freetor-hating Advisor finds out her real identity. Before her brother is imprisoned because of the secrets he hides. And before she falls any more in love with the prince she’s supposed to hate. More is happening in the castle than she realizes, and Kiera is faced with a difficult choice. Will she be loyal to her people and their fight for freedom, or will she be loyal to her heart?

 

And here’s the cover…..










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I’m excited to read this book!

What do you guys think of the cover?

Point of Retreat Review

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Title:  Point of Retreat (Slammed #2)

Author:  Colleen Hoover

Published:  2012 by Colleen Hoover

Genre:  Young Adult, Romance

 

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This is the second book in the Slammed series.  Will and Layken are living life as best they can, being young caretakers for both their brothers and they are doing a pretty good job.   Although life is really busy caring for their brothers, Will and Layken are still making time to go to college.  They are happy in their relationship, and things are going pretty well.  At least until Will finds out his ex-girlfriend is in one of his classes.  Will he find himself having feelings for her again, or will he remain loyal to Layken?

If I had known that this book was written in Will’s point of view, I probably wouldn’t have read it.  I know that’s kind of narrow-minded of me, but I like to read what I enjoy, and what I enjoy is generally a females POV.  That being said, I’m glad I did read it because it was pretty good.

There is one conflict in the book with Will’s ex-girlfriend that I could definitely see coming, but then there is another one that comes out of the blue and completely caught me off guard.  I definitely didn’t like this book as much as Slammed, but it was still an enjoyable, fast read.  There is supposed to be a third book in this series, but I think I’m going to stop after this one.  I don’t regret reading this book at all; I am just losing a bit of interest.

 

My Rating:  3 ½ out of 5 stars

 

Happy reading!

 

~Pam

 

 

Feature and Follow Friday # 2

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This is a blog hop, a way to find and follow new blogs,

hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read.

You can follow me by using any one of the options over on the left sidebar.  🙂

Here is this week’s question: Birthday Wishes – Blow out the candles and imagine what character could pop out of your cake…who is it and what book are they from??

Answer:  Honestly, I’d like to meet Claire Randall Fraser.  She’d probably be mad at me though, for taking her from Jamie.  😉  (Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander Series)

(This is a non-sexual answer, lol.  I just think she’s an interesting character who I’d like to meet.  🙂 )

Favorite Quotes

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Since I don’t have a review ready for today, I’m going to post about some quotes that I love from some of my favorite books.  This first one is from Diana Gabaldon, who wrote my favorite series, The Outlander Series.  If you haven’t read it yet, I highly recommend doing so.  This quote is from a book later on in the series, A Breath of Snow and Ashes.

 

“Time is a lot of the things people say that God is. There’s always preexisting, and having no end. There’s the notion of being all powerful-because nothing can stand against time, can it? Not mountains, not armies. And time is, of course, all-healing. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of: all pain encompassed, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Remember, man, that thou art dust; and unto dust thou shalt return.

And if time is anything akin to God, I suppose that memory must be the devil.” — Diana Gabaldon (A Breath of Snow and Ashes)

 


 

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The next one is from The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien.  This series got me interested in reading again when I was a sophomore in college.

“All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken, A light from the shadows shall spring; Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.”  – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring




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This one is from Divergent.  Although I wasn’t too fond of its sequel, Divergent is a really good book.

“We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.”  – Veronica Roth, Divergent






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Up next are two from my second all-time favorite series, The Fever Series by Karen Marie Moning.

“Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures, when ninety-nine percent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.” – Karen Marie Moning, Bloodfever

 




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“Time heals.
No, it doesn’t.  At best, time is the great leveler, sweeping us all into coffins.  We findways to distract ourselves from the pain.  Time is neither scalpel nor bandage. It is indifferent. Scar tissue is not a good thing. It is merely the wound’s other face.”  – Karen Marie Moning, Shadowfever




 

And lastly, one of my favorites:

“You don’t have a soul, you are a soul.  You have a body.” –  CS Lewis

What are some of your favorite quotes?