Yeah baby!!

Imagine my insane.....er...great delight when I was checking out Charlaine Harris' website and discovered this awesome cover for the next Sookie book. Plus....wait for it......the first chapter is up!!
Head on over to Ms. Harris' website and check it out.

Besos!

Merry Christmas and A Winner

Hey everyone! It's Christmas! Hope you all are having a great one wherever you are today.

The winner (according to random.org) for a copy of Wicked Lovely, Ink Exchange, and Fragile Eternity is....cue drum roll......throuthehaze! Congrats Raelena! E-mail me at brk.nlssn@gmail.com with your address.

Thanks for playing all and if you didn't win don't worry, there will be more contests in the new year.

Muah!

Winter Memories

This is from when I lived in NC. I miss it there. We had a lovely house and a great neighbourhood.











Thanks for looking. Hope your holidays are beautiful this year no matter where you are :)

It Has Arrived!!

Ok, since the lion is out of the bag, as it were, I can now show you what I got Ilona Andrews for Christmas. TA DA!



Isn't he adorable? And as Ilona said, "He's PINK. And he SINGS." LOL. I want one for myself soooooo very bad. Maybe if I'm naughty....er...nice then Santa will bring me one. ;)

Hehehe

So, my sis and I were in the bookstore the other night, just browsin. She's sooo not into paranormal and vamps and all that delisciousness. Anyway, I go to One Foot In The Grave since there's like 500 copies on the shelf and pick it up. I tell her that I'm gonna read Ch 32 because it's legendary and she grabs the book from me. She starts reading. At any point I was waiting for her to put the book back, telling me that it just wasn't her style, but she kept reading. I try to talk to her and she shushes me. So I wander off to browse the UF section. I come back and she's still reading with a rapt look on her cute lil face. She grabs another book and tells me what page she's on, so we can read together. After the scene ends, she puts the book down and with a glazed look in her eyes says, "Let's go get chocolate chip cookies. I need chocolate chip cookies."

Congrats Ms. Frost, you have popped her vampire cherry ;)

Review: The Year of Living Shamelessly

So, I did not finish this book. And rather than get into a rant (which is very tempting to do) about all the reasons why I didn't finish, I'm going to keep it simple. Basically, I hated the characters and didn't give a shit what happened to them. I didn't even read the sex scenes to see if they made up for everything. I just didn't like anyone in this book enough to finish. I did check the ending to see if they all were killed in a massive and tragic explosion, but sadly, this was not to be.

Review of Seducing St. Nic by Emma Petersen

I had already read Master of the Game, a novella by Emma Petersen and LOVED IT. So when she asked me if I'd like a copy of Seducing St. Nic, her holiday novella, I said, "Bring it on sista."
Here's the blurb:

Book 1 in Dating the Undead series.



Barbara Jean Ruiz’s life has never been what anyone would call glamorous. She lives in an okay apartment, in an okay neighborhood and has an okay job with less-than-okay wages. Her life is…okay.



Then her luck starts to change. She wins a gorgeous fur coat. She gets promoted and her new boss is none other than the super-sexy St. Nic. Cypriano San Nicolo is everything a woman could want. He’s tall, dark, handsome, rich, successful and, oh yeah, the evil undead.



After nearly a century of self-imposed sleep, St. Nic has only two uses for humans—blood and sex. Until he meets Barbara Jean, his irreverent, wisecracking assistant. If he shows up at her apartment just before dawn, she’ll have to take him in. Into her bed, if everything goes as planned.

Seducing St Nic stars Barbara Jean, Barbie to her family, and her hot hot boss, Cypriano San Nicolo, also known as St. Nic to our plucky heroine. I like Barbara Jean for the most part. She did get lost talking to her "bad Barbara Jean" a lot and that wasn't quite as funny as I think it was meant to be, but otherwise she's smart, funny and loving. Our hero is a bit enigmatic for most of the story, and while he's definitely a yummy alpha man, he's not so alpha that you just want to rip his dick off and stab him with it. The sex is hawt and the characters are interesting, even the side characters. It's hard for me to say too much about this because it's a novella and hard not to give away too many spoilers; however, I will say that Ms. Petersen is great at the art of writing a pretty complete story in the confines of a novella. Yes, there are going to be unanswered or unshown aspects of the story, but it always feels satisfying and pretty complete within itself and that's a rare talent. I like that her leads, especially the female protagonist, have families and friends and actual lives when the stories start. It makes them feel more fleshed out and interesting to me as a reader.

In the end, I didn't like this one quite as much as I did Master of the Game. Master of the Game would earn an A- from me while Seducing St. Nic gets a solid B.

I definitely recommend both and you can find them both at Ellora's Cave as e-books.

A link to Seducing St Nic here

And one for Master of the Game here