Blood,Sweat and Books

Whether your a fan of Dickens or Dr. Seuss Christmas books are an integral part of the Holiday season for many of us. We all have our favorites and this year I figured I'd share mine with all of you. #10 The New Evil (Cheerleaders #7) by R.L. Stine Corky and the Shadyside cheerleaders are sure that the evil spirit is destroyed. The terror is over. Then Hannah is mysteriously thrown through the car window. And Naomi is nearly burned to death. One horrifying accident after another. And now Corky can no longer keep her greatest fear to herself — the evil is back! But where is it? Corky, Kimmy, and Debra aren't waiting to find out. They have a plan to draw the evil out. Draw it out and destroy it for good. Unless, of course, the evil destroys them first.. OK don't laugh but I really loved this one when I read it years ago. You see plenty of Christmas based Horror when it comes to movies but books not so much. I think that is why this one has stuck with me so long.  ...

Author: Claire C. Riley Series: Dead Saga 0.5 Genre: Horror, Zombies Expected Publication: December 27, 2013 When hell claws its way up from the dark depths of the earth, and the dead begin to walk again, for several people the zombie apocalypse doesn’t just mean the end of the world as they know it, it is also the beginning of a brave new life for them. For some it offers freedom, for others a deeper torment and unforgiving life than they ever thought possible. The coward, the street rat, the hero, and the lovers, everyone has their place. What really decides their fate in this new existence, nature, or nurture? Who they become when the world goes to hell is the true decider on their own humanity, and will ultimately decide their fates. Forever changed, they have to learn to adapt to this dangerous and dark new world before they become one of the living dead themselves. Odium Origins is an accompaniment to the novel Odium. It contains several short stories featuring some ...

Expected Publication Date: January 21, 2014 from Balzar + Bray Of the various star systems that make up the Confederation, most lie thousands of light-years from First Earth—and out here, no one is free. The agencies that govern the Confederation are as corrupt as the crime bosses who patrol it, and power is held by anyone with enough greed and ruthlessness to claim it. That power is derived from one thing: metatech, the devices that allow people to travel great distances faster than the speed of light. Jeth Seagrave and his crew of teenage mercenaries have survived in this world by stealing unsecured metatech, and they're damn good at it. Jeth doesn't care about the politics or the law; all he cares about is earning enough money to buy back his parents' ship, Avalon, from his crime-boss employer and getting himself and his sister, Lizzie, the heck out of Dodge. But when Jeth finds himself in possession of information that both the crime bosses and the government...

Author: Livia Blackburne Series: Midnight Thief 0.5 Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult Publisher: Lion's Quill Press Publication Date: September 24, 2013 James is skilled, efficient, and deadly, a hired blade navigating the shifting alliances of a deteriorating Assassin’s Guild. Then he meets Thalia, an alluring but troubled dancing girl who offers him a way out—if he’ll help her kill a powerful nobleman. With the Guild falling apart, it just might be worth the risk. But when you live, breathe, and love in a world that’s forever flirting with death, the slightest misstep can be poison. Review I love when a Novella can completely surprise me by feeling like a full length novel. Poison Dance follows an Assassin named James. His leader has been killed, his new boss doesn't trust him and then there's Thalia the beautiful dancing girl who is more than she appears to be. What's an Assassin to do? What I loved about this Prequel Novella was how it set the world...

On Tour with Prism Book Tours The Bookblast!! Mistress of the Wind Author: Michelle Diener Genre:New Adult/Sci-Fi Fantasy Paperback, 342 pages Expected publication: December 19th 2013 Bjorn needs to find a very special woman . . .   The fate of his people, and his own life, depends on it. But when he does find her, she is nothing like he imagined, and may just harbor more secrets than he does himself. Astrid has never taken well to commands. No matter who issues them . . .   She's clashed her whole life with her father, and now her lover, the mysterious man who comes to her bedroom in darkness and disappears to guard his mountain by day as a bear, is finding it out the hard way. And when he's taken by his enemies, no one is prepared for Astrid's response.  It is never wise to anger the mistress of the wind . . .   A captivating and magical adult retelling of the fairy tale East of the Sun, West of the Moon. Praise for Mistress of the Wind:...

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly blog post hosted by  Breaking The Spine . For this weeks Waiting On Wednesday I chose: Banished by Liz de Jager Expected Publication: February 27, 2014 by Tor UK Sworn to protect, honour and slay. Because chaos won’t banish itself… Kit is proud to be a Blackhart, now she’s encountered her unorthodox cousins and their strange lives. And her home-schooling now includes spells, fighting enemy fae and using ancient weapons. But it’s not until she rescues a rather handsome fae prince, fighting for his life on the edge of Blackhart Manor, that her training really kicks in. With her family away on various missions, Kit must protect Prince Thorn, rely on new friends and use her own unfamiliar magic to stay ahead of Thorn’s enemies. As things go from bad to apocalyptic, fae battle fae in a war that threatens to spill into the human world. Then Kit pits herself against the Elder Gods themselves – it’s that or lose everyone she’s learnt...

Add To Goodreads Author: Joanna Wiebe Series: The V Trilogy #1 Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal Publisher: BenBella Books Expected Publication: January 14, 2014 So many secrets for such a small island. From the moment Anne Merchant arrives at Cania Christy, a boarding school for the world’s wealthiest teens, the hushed truths of this strange, unfamiliar land begin calling to her—sometimes as lulling drumbeats in the night, sometimes as piercing shrieks. One by one, unanswered questions rise. No one will tell her why a line is painted across the island or why she is forbidden to cross it. Her every move—even her performance at the school dance—is graded as part of a competition to become valedictorian, a title that brings rewards no one will talk about. And Anne discovers that the parents of her peers surrender million-dollar possessions to enroll their kids in Cania Christy, leaving her to wonder what her lowly funeral director father could have paid to get her in… and why. ...