Archive for the ‘On My Wishlist’ Category

On My Wishlist is a weekly meme hosted by Book Chick City.  It is a chance for me to list a couple of books that are on my TBR list but that I don’t currently own.

Stolen by Kelley Armstrong

I have just finished reading the first book in this series ( you can see my review for Bitten here) and I absolutely loved it.  Now I can’t wait to get my hands on this one!

It’s time to bite back…  Elena Michaels is a wanted woman.  She hasn’t done anything wrong.  Well, not recently, anyway.  But ten years ago her lover turned her into a werewolf: the only female werewolf in the world, in fact.  And now, just as she’s finally coming to terms with this rather startling situation, a group of scientists learns of her existence.  They’re hunting her down, and Elena is about to run straight into their trap.  But they haven’t reckoned on Elena’s adoptive family, her Pack, who will stop at nothing to get her back.  They haven’t reckoned on Elena herself, either, and that’s a big mistake…

Paranormalcy by Kiersten White

Sixteen-year-old Evie’s job is bagging and tagging paranormals.  Possessing the strange ability to see through their glamours, she works for the International Paranormal Containment Agency.  But when someone – or something – starts taking out the vamps, werewolves, and other odd beasties she’s worked hard to help become productive members of society, she’s got to figure it out before they all disappear and the world becomes utterly normal.
Normal is so overrated.

What’s on your wishlist this week?

On My Wishlist is a weekly meme hosted by Book Chick City.  It is a chance for me to list a couple of books that are on my TBR list but that I don’t currently own.  There is only one book on my wishlist this week.  I have already read the other books in this series and I can’t wait until this next installment is released on 18th May!!! Seeing as it is being released so close to my birthday, I know exactly what I’ll be asking my husband to buy me!

Spirit Bound by Richelle Mead

Book 5 in The Vampire Academy Series

Dimitri gave Rose the ultimate choice.  And she made the wrong one…  After a long and heartbreaking journey to Dimitri’s birthplace in Siberia, Rose Hathaway has finally returned to St. Vladimir’s Academy — and to her best friend, Lissa.  But Rose’s heart still aches for Dimitri, and she knows he’s out there, somewhere.  She failed to kill him when she had the chance.  And now her worst fears are about to come true — Dimitri has tasted her blood, and now he is hunting her.  Only this time, he won’t rest until Rose joins him… forever.

Other books in the series (click on link to see my review):
1. Vampire Academy
2. Frostbite
3. Shadow Kiss
4. Blood Promise

On My Wishlist is a weekly meme hosted by Book Chick City.  It is a chance for me to list a couple of books that are on my TBR list but that I don’t currently own.  There is only one book on my wishlist this week.  I am currently reading the first book in this series (Undead and Unwed) and I’m loving it, so I’m hoping to get my hands on the second book sometime soon!!!

Undead and Unemployed by Mary Janice Davidson

And the first who shall noe the Queen as a husband noes his Wyfe shall be the Queen’s Consort and shall rule at her side for a thousand yeares.’  The Book of the Dead.  ‘If that rat bastard Sinclair thinks I’m going to be his wife for a thousand years, he’s out of his f***** mind.’  From the private papers of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth I, Empress of the Undead, Rightful Ruler of the Vampires, Consort of Eric I, Lawful King.
Nothing can make Betsy Taylor give up her shoe fetish – even dying and rising as the new Queen of the Vampires.  Only being royally undead doesn’t mean there aren’t still credit card bills to be paid.  Things couldn’t be better – except for her new friends who keep pestering her while she’s at work.  As if she has time to socialise when there are deliciously sinful shoes to try on – and buy at a discount.  It seems there’s been a string of vampire murders in town and they’re all clamouring for Betsy to do something about it.  The worst part is she’ll have to enlist the help of the one vamp who makes her blood boil: the oh-so-sexy Eric Sinclair.  Only the last time she ran into Sinclair she accidentally fulfilled an ancient prophesy – and ended up married to him.

What is on your wishlist this week?

On My Wishlist is a weekly meme hosted by Book Chick City.  It is a chance for me to list a couple of books that are on my TBR list but that I don’t currently own.  There is only one book on my wishlist this week but I can’t wait to get my hands on it!  This week I finished reading ‘How to be Married’ by the same author (read my review here) and I absolutely loved it, so now I want to read some more of her books.

The Rise and Fall of a Yummy Mummy by Polly Williams

One woman’s struggle to fit back into her old self.  Amy Crane is in crisis.  Six months after the birth of her baby, Amy still looks pregnant and can’t remember the last time she had a wax, or an orgasm.  Motherhood is stirring up disturbing questions about her own childhood.  And she suspects her boyfriend is cheating.  Enter Alice, yummy mummy superior, on a mission to transform Amy’s body, and love life.  As Amy swaps breast pads for Botox and climbs out of a vortex of self-doubt, her libido awakens from its long nap and things get rather more complicated…

What is on your wishlist this week?

On My Wishlist is a weekly meme hosted by Book Chick City.  It is a chance for me to list a couple of books that are on my TBR list but that I don’t currently own.

The Hollow by Jessica Verday

Growing up in the town of Sleepy Hollow, the mystery and intrigue over Washington Irving’s classic legend are all part of daily life for sixteen-year-old Abbey.  But when her best friend, Kristen, vanishes at the bridge near Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Abbey’s world is suddenly turned upside down.  While everyone is all too quick to accept that Kristen is dead, Abbey refuses to believe that she is really gone.  And when Abbey meets the gorgeous, but mysterious, Caspian at Kristen’s memorial she starts to feel like she has something to hold on to for the first time since Kristen’s disappearance.  But when Abbey finds a diary hidden in Kristen’s bedroom, she begins to question everything she thought she knew about her best friend.  How could Kristen have kept silent about so much?  And could this secret have led to her disappearance or even her death?  Hurt and angry at Kristen’s betrayal, Abbey turns to Caspian for support… and uncovers a frightening truth about him that threatens both their emerging love and her sanity…

The Dark Divine by Bree Despain

A prodigal son.  A dangerous love.  Haunted yearning… Grace Divine, daughter of the local pastor, always knew something terrible happened the night Daniel Kalbi disappeared and her brother Jude came home covered in his own blood.  Now that Daniel’s returned, Grace must choose between her growing attraction to him and her loyalty to her brother.  As Grace gets closer to Daniel, she learns the truth about that mysterious night and how to save the ones she loves, but it might cost her the one thing she cherishes most: her soul.

Soulless by Gail Carriger

Alexia Tarabotti is laboring under a great many social tribulations.  First, she has no soul.  Second, she’s a spinster whose father is both Italian and dead.  Third, she was rudely attacked by a vampire, breaking all standards of social etiquette.  Where to go from there?  From bad to worse apparently, for Alexia accidentally kills the vampire – and then the appalling Lord Maccon (loud, messy, gorgeous, and werewolf) is sent by Queen Victoria to investigate.  With unexpected vampires appearing and expected vampires disappearing, everyone seems to believe Alexia responsible. Can she figure out what is actually happening to London’s high society?  Or will her soulless ability to negate supernatural powers prove useful or just plain embarrassing?  Finally, who is the real enemy, and do they have treacle tart?

What’s on your wishlist this week?

On My Wishlist is a weekly meme hosted by Book Chick City.  It is a chance for me to list a couple of books that are on my TBR list but that I don’t currently own. I’ve only got one book on my wishlist this week but I absolutely LOVE the cover!!!

Nightshade by Andrea Cremer

While other teenage girls daydream about boys, Calla Tor imagines ripping out her enemies’ throats.  And she wouldn’t have it any other way.  Calla was born a warrior and on her eighteenth-birthday she’ll become the alpha female of the next generation of Guardian wolves.  But Calla’s predestined path veers off course the moment she saves the life of a wayward hiker, a boy her own age.  This human boy’s secret will turn the young pack’s world upside down and forever alter the outcome of the centuries-old Witches’ War that surrounds them all.

On My Wishlist is a weekly meme hosted by Book Chick City.  It is a chance for me to list a couple of books that are on my TBR list but that I don’t currently own.

1. Firespell by Chloe Neill

As the new girl at the elite St. Sophia’s boarding school, Lily Parker thinks her classmates are the most monstrous things she’ll have to face.  When Lily’s guardians decided to send her away to a fancy boarding school in Chicago, she was shocked.  So was St. Sophia’s.  Lily’s ultra-rich brat pack classmates think Lily should be the punchline to every joke, and on top of that, she’s hearing strange noises and seeing bizarre things in the shadows of the creepy building. The only thing keeping her sane is her roommate, Scout, but even Scout’s a little weird – she keeps disappearing late at night and won’t tell Lily where she’s been.  But when a prank leaves Lily trapped in the catacombs beneath the school, Lily finds Scout running from a real monster.  Scout’s a member of a splinter group of rebel teens with unique magical talents, who’ve sworn to protect the city against demons, vampires, and Reapers, magic users who’ve been corrupted by their power.  And when Lily finds herself in the line of a firespell, Scout tells her the truth about her secret life, even though Lily has no powers of her own – at least, none that she’s discovered yet…

2. Storm Born by Richelle Mead

Just typical.  No love life to speak of for months, then all at once, every horny creature in the Otherworld wants to get in your pants… Eugenie Markham is a powerful shamen who does a brisk trade banishing spirits and fey who cross into the mortal world.  Mercenary, yes, but a girl’s got to eat.  Her most recent case, however, is enough to ruin her appetite.  Hired to find a teenager who has been taken to the Otherworld, Eugenie comes face to face with a startling prophecy – one that uncovers dark secrets about her past and claims that Eugenie’s first-born will threaten the future of the world as she knows it.  Now Eugenie is a hot target for every ambitious demon and Otherworldy ne’er-do-well, and the ones who don’t want to knock her up want her dead.  Eugenie handles a Glock as smoothly as she wields a wand, but she needs some formidable allies for a job like this.  She finds them in Dorian, a seductive fairy king with a taste for bondage, and Kiyo, a gorgeous shape-shifter who redefines animal attraction.  But with enemies growing bolder and time running out, Eugenie realizes that the greatest danger is yet to come, and it lies in the dark powers that are stirring to life within her.

What is on your wishlist this week?

On My Wishlist is a weekly meme hosted by Book Chick City.  It is a chance for me to list a couple of books that are on my TBR list but that I don’t currently own.

1. Magic Bites by Ilona Andrews

Future Atlanta is an interesting place to live: one moment magic dominates, and cars stall and guns fail.  The next, technology takes over and the defensive spells no longer protect your house from monsters.  Here skyscrapers topple under the onslaught of magic; the Pack, a paramilitary clan of shapechangers, prowl through the ruined streets; and the Masters of the Dead, necromancers driven by their thirst for knowledge and wealth, pilot blood-crazed vampires with their minds.  Kate Daniels likes her sword a little too much, and she has a hard time controlling her mouth.  The magic in her blood makes her a target, and she’s spent most of her life hiding in plain sight.  But when Kate’s guardian is murdered, she must choose to do nothing, and remain safe, or to risk her life by pursuing his preternatural killer. Hiding is easy, but the right choice is rarely easy…

2. City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

Sixteen-year-old Clary Fray is an ordinary teenager, who likes hanging out in Brooklyn with her friends.  But everything changes the night she witnesses a murder, committed by a group of teens armed with medieval weaponry. The murderous group are Shadowhunters, secret warriors dedicated to driving demons out of this dimension and back into their own.  Drawn inexorably into a terrifying world, Clary slowly begins to learn the truth about her family – and the battle for the fate of the world.

What’s on your wishlist this week?

On My Wishlist is a weekly meme hosted by Book Chick City.  It is a chance for me to list a couple of books that are on my TBR list but that I don’t currently own.

1. Ink Exchange by Melissa Marr

After suffering a terrible trauma at the hands of her brother’s dealer friends, Leslie becomes obsessed with the idea of getting a tattoo – it’s the one thing that will allow her to reclaim her body, renew her self-confidence.  And when Rabbit, her local tattoo artist, shows her a secret book of his own designs, she finds one of them irresistible.  Soon, her back is adorned with a pair of mysterious eyes, framed by black wings.  Leslie feels good – more than good.  Nothing bad can touch her.  But what she doesn’t know is that her new tattoo binds her tightly to the faery whose symbol she chose: Irial, the exquisitely dangerous king of the Dark Court!

2. The Dead Girls’ Dance by Rachel Caine

Claire has her share of challenges.  Like being a genius in a school that favours beauty over brains; homicidal girls in her dorm, and finding out that her college town is overrun with the living dead.  On the up side, she has a new boyfriend with a vampire-hunting dad.  But when a local fraternity throws the Dead Girls’ Dance, hell is really going to break loose.

What’s on your wishlist?

On My Wishlist is a weekly meme hosted by Book Chick City.  It is a chance for me to list a couple of books that are on my TBR list but that I don’t currently own.

1. Red-headed Stepchild by Jaye Wells

In a world where being of mixed-blood is a major liability, Sabina doesn’t really fit in.  And being an assassin – the only profession fit for an outcast – doesn’t help matters.  But she’s never brought her work home.  Until now.  Her latest mission is uncomfortably complex, and threatens the fragile peace between the vampire and mage races.  As Sabina scrambles to figure out which side she’s on, she uncovers a tangled political web, some nasty facts about her family and some unexpected new talents.  Any of these things could be worryingly life-changing, but together, they could be fatal…

2. Spider’s Bite by Jennifer Estep

My name is Gin, and I kill people.
They call me the Spider.  I’m the most feared assassin in the South – when I’m not busy at the Pork Pit cooking up the best barbecue in Ashland.  As a Stone elemental, I can hear everything from the whispers of the gravel beneath my feet to the vibrations of the soaring Appalachian Mountains above me.  My Ice magic also comes in handy for making the occasional knife.  But I don’t use my powers on the job unless I absolutely have to.  Call it professional pride.
Now that a ruthless Air elemental has double-crossed me and killed my handler, I’m out for revenge.  And I’ll exterminate anyone who gets in my way – good or bad.  I may look hot, but I’m still one of the bad guys.  Which is why I’m in trouble, since irresistibly rugged Detective Donovan Caine has agreed to help me.  The last thing this coldhearted killer needs when I’m battling a magic more powerful than my own is a sexy distraction… especially when Donovan wants me dead just as much as the enemy.

So what’s on your wishlist?

On My Wishlist is a weekly meme hosted by Book Chick City.  It is a chance for me to list a couple of books that are on my TBR list but that I don’t currently own.

1. Succubus Nights by Richelle Mead

Georgina Kincaid’s job sucks..  Literally.  Love hurts, and no one knows it better than Georgina Kincaid.  If she so much as kisses her new boyfriend, she’ll drain his life force.  Georgina is a succubus – a demon who draws her power from other men’s pleasure.  Admittedly, the shapeshifting and immortality perks are terrific, and yes, Georgina did choose to join the ranks of hell centuries ago.  But it seems completely unfair that a she-demon whose purpose is seduction can’t get hot and heavy with the one mortal who knows and accepts her for who she is.  It’s not just her personal life that’s in chaos.  Doug, Georgina’s co-worker at a local bookstore, has been exhibiting bizarre behavior, and Georgina suspects that something far more demonic than double espressos is at work.  She could use help finding out, but Bastien, an irresistibly charming incubus and her best immortal friend, is preoccupied in the suburbs with corrupting an ultra-conservative talk radio star – and giving Georgina some highly distracting come-hither vibes.  Georgina is going to have to work solo on this one – and fast because soon, Doug’s life won’t be the only one on the line…

2. Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs

Anna Latham didn’t know how complicated life could get – until she became a werewolf.  And now she’s not just part of any pack, but under the direct supervision of Bran, leader of the North American werewolves.  And her mate is his son Charles, the pack enforcer.  With all the advances that have been made in forensics, the werewolves will not be able to hide their existence from humans much longer – and Bran wants their coming out party to be on his terms.  But his European counterparts don’t see things the same way.  Anna and Charles are chosen to represent Bran at a key meeting.  But when a French werewolf, one of Bran’s most vocal opponents, is found murdered, Charles’s reputation shoots him to the top of the suspect list.  And among the wolves, there is one penalty for breaking the law: death.  The killer must be found, or Charles will take the fall.

What’s on your wishlist?

On My Wishlist is a weekly meme hosted by Book Chick City.  It is a chance for me to list a couple of books that are on my TBR list but that I don’t currently own.

1. The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson

Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan.  Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder – and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family.  He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate.  When the pair link Harriet’s disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history.  But the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves.

2. Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder

Choose: A quick death… or a slow poison… About to be executed for murder, Yelena is offered an extraordinary reprieve.  She’ll eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace – and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia.  And so Yelena chooses to become a food taster.  But the chief of security, leaving nothing to chance, deliberately feeds her Butterfly’s Dust – and only by appearing for her daily antidote will she delay an agonising death from the poison.  As Yelena tries to escape her new dilemma, disasters keep mounting.  Rebels plot to seize Ixia and Yelena develops magical powers she can’t control.  Her life is threatened again and choices must be made.  But this time the outcomes aren’t so clear…

3. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

Grace is fascinated by the wolves in the woods behind her house; one yellow-eyed wolf in particular.  Every winter, she watches him but every summer, he disappears.  Sam leads two lives.  In winter he stays in the frozen woods, with the protection of the pack.  In summer, he has a few precious months to be human… until the cold makes him shift back again.  When Grace and Sam finally meet they realize they can’t bear to be apart.  But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human – or risk losing himself, and Grace, for ever.

On My Wishlist is a weekly meme hosted by Book Chick City.  It is a chance for me to list a couple of books that are on my TBR list but that I don’t currently own.

1. The Iron King by Julie Kagawa

Meghan Chase has a secret destiny— one she could never have imagined…
Something has always felt slightly off in Meghan’s life, ever since her father disappeared before her eyes when she was six.  She has never quite fit in at school…or at home.
When a dark stranger begins watching her from afar, and her prankster best friend becomes strangely protective of her, Meghan senses that everything she’s known is about to change.
But she could never have guessed the truth—that she is the daughter of a mythical faery king and is a pawn in a deadly war.  Now Meghan will learn just how far she’ll go to save someone she cares about, to stop a mysterious evil no faery creature dare face… and to find love with a young prince who might rather see her dead than let her touch his icy heart.

2. Succubus Blues by Richelle Mead

When it comes to jobs in hell, being a succubus seems pretty glamorous.  A girl can be anything she wants, the wardrobe is killer, and mortal men will do anything just for a touch.  Granted, they can often pay with their souls, but why get technical?  But Seattle succubus Georgina Kincaid’s life is far less exotic.  Her boss is a middle-management demon with a thing for John Cusack movies.  Her immortal best friends haven’t stopped teasing her about the time she shape-shifted into the Demon Goddess getup complete with whip and wings.  And she can’t have a decent date without the sucking away part of the guy’s life.  At least there’s her day job at a local bookstore – free books; all the white chocolate mochas she can drink; and easy access to bestselling, sexy writer, Seth Mortensen, aka He Whom She Would Give Anything to Touch but Can’t.  But dreaming about Seth will have to wait.  Something wicked is at work in Seattle’s demon underground.  And for once, all of her hot charms and drop-dead one-liners won’t help because Georgina’s about to discover there are some creatures out there that both heaven and hell want to deny…

3. My Soul to Take by Rachel Vincent

Something is wrong with Kaylee Cavanaugh.
She doesn’t see dead people, but…
She senses when someone near her is about to die.  And when that happens, a force beyond her control compels her to scream bloody murder.  Literally.
Kaylee just wants to enjoy having caught the attention of the hottest guy in school.  But a normal date is hard to come by when Nash seems to know more about the need to scream than she does.  And when classmates start dropping dead for no apparent reason, only Kaylee knows who’ll be next…

What’s on your wishlist this week?

On My Wishlist is a weekly meme hosted by Book Chick City.  It is a chance for me to list a couple of books that are on my TBR list but that I don’t currently own.

1. Evermore by Alyson Noel

Seventeen-year-old Ever is the sole survivor of a car crash that killed her entire family.  Living with her aunt in Southern California, she’s plagued by the ability to hear the thoughts of those around her, and haunted by the ghost of her little sister.  She tries to tune everyone out, shunning her old lifestyle as the pretty, popular cheerleader, but somehow she can’t hide from Damen, the new guy at school.  Stunningly handsome, clever and not a little bit intimidating, there’s something about him that doesn’t quite add up.  Ever realises he’s hiding something, but nothing could prepare her for the truth – especially when the truth involves past lives, murderous enemies, everlasting love and the secret of eternal youth…

2. Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster.  If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war.  Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years, and marry Anne Boleyn.  The pope and most of Europe opposes him.  The quest for the king’s freedom destroys his adviser, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, and leaves a power vacuum.
Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell.  Cromwell is a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people and a demon of energy: he is also a consummate politician, hardened by his personal losses, implacable in his ambition.  But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous.  Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?

What’s on your wishlist?

On My Wishlist is a weekly meme hosted by Book Chick City.  It should be posted on a Wednesday but I am a day behind this week.  It is a chance for me to list a couple of books that are on my TBR list but that I don’t currently own (maybe in the hope that my husband will see this and buy them for me!!!).

1. Bitten by Kelley Armstrong

Summary – Elena Michaels is a model woman for the 21st century: self-assured, keenly intelligent, fighting fit.  And like every modern woman, she has her secrets.  Nothing extraordinary about that.  Except that Elena really is extraordinary.  In fact, she may well be the most extraordinary woman alive.  She is, after all, the only female werewolf in the world…  Ten years ago, against her will, Elena’s lover turned her into a werewolf.  Some days it feels like a gift.  Most days it feels like a curse.  A year ago, she decided to live as a human.  Now she has to go back to New York State, her old home.  Her pack is under seige by a new group of violent, psychotic werewolves that shows no respect for the old ways, and no respect for territory.  Forced into helping her old friends, Elena soon slips back into the reassuring camaradarie of the pack, though she struggles against her dangerous, unpredictable desires.  Hunting down her enemies, Elena prowls through territories usually barred to women.  From dangerous back alleys to the dark, luscious forests of New York State, she must hunt and destroy the renegade pack before they destroy her.

2. Betrayed by P.C. Cast

Summary – It seems that (un)life is going pretty well for Zoey Redbird.  She’s settled in at the House of Night finishing school and is coming to terms with the vast powers the vampyre goddess, Nyx, has given her.  She even has a boyfriend…or two.  Best of all, Zoey finally feels she has found somewhere she belongs.  Then the unthinkable happens.  Human teenagers are being killed, and all the evidence points to the vampires at Zoey’s school.  While danger stalks the humans from Zoey’s past life, she begins to realise that the very powers that made her so unique might also threaten those she loves.  Then, when she needs her new friends the most, death strikes the House of Night.  Zoey finds herself facing a betrayal that could break her heart and jeopardise the very fabric of her world.