Wil Parke wakes up to find himself tortured and eventually
kidnapped by a man calling himself Tom Eliot. Tom insists
that a woman calling herself Virginia Woolf wants Wil dead
for a past that Wil can't even remember. What has Wil
forgotten that is so important to everyone? Meanwhile Read more...
Tensions are rising as the uneasy coexistence between humans
and the Others has been shaken up by recent events. The
Others of the Lakeside Courtyard, let by shape shifter Simon
Wolfguard, have a human liaison who is also a blood prophet.
Meg Corbyn is human but her status as a Read more...
Charmain "Kit" Kittredge is surprised when deathmage Lord
Lucien Dredmore asks her to help a client of his with a
favor... but not as shocked as she is by the client in
question. Kit reluctantly agrees to help Lady Eugenia Bestly
by investigating the claim that her now-deceased husband Read more...
Charmain "Kit" Kittredge doesn't believe in magic despite
making a living by debunking and solving alleged magical
crimes. Her latest case involves Lady Diana Walsh, a wealthy
young woman who lives on the Hill. Lady Walsh believes she
has been cursed and is hiding the magical wounds she
receives Read more...
Alex Price is carefully balancing his paying job at the
Columbus Zoo's reptile house with his family heritage as a
cryptozoologist, all while trying to date fellow zoo
employee Shelby Tanner. He thinks he's chosen an easier path
than his sister, working with non-urban cryptids and
specializing Read more...
Lady Diana Furnaval's husband, William, is from a long line
of gatekeepers. William was charged with the responsibility
of watching what ghostly apparitions came through the Derby
gate and banishing any that caused trouble. Unfortunately,
he was unable to resist the tempting allure of meeting
another gatekeeper in Transylvania Read more...
Shame Flynn and Terric Conley have an uneasy alliance. They
are Soul Complements, the only magic users left who can
"break magic" after a magic apocalypse rendered almost all
magic practically useless. Shame wields Death magic while
Terric wields Life magic. Soul Complements are powerful when
they work together but Read more...
Lucille and Harold Hargrave lost their eight year old son,
Jacob, in 1966 due to an accidental drowning. Fifty years
later, he has returned to them, and he is still an eight
year old boy. All around the world, the deceased are
returning back to their families. They are not Read more...
Seventeen year old Layla is used to being an outsider with
the Wardens. After all, the Wardens are charged with
protecting humans from the demons- and Layla is half demon.
Shes' also half Warden but she can't shape shift into the
gargoyle-like form of the Wardens. However, she Read more...
GRIM is a brilliant collection of fairy tales re-imagined by
some of the top young adult authors. The tales range from
sweet to very dark, even gruesome at times but this adds to
their unique flavor. I knew I couldn't resist an anthology
that includes Jeri Smith-Ready Read more...
Jack Crittendon, the features editor for the local
newspaper, and his wife, Pam, are still trying to settle
down after the traumatic events involving Granger Meade (see
Fear Has A Name for more details) when Jack stumbles upon a
possible story involving a local plant. Residents and
neighbors of the Read more...
Garrett Reilly is brash, arrogant, and somewhat of a jerk-
but he has exactly the sort of mind that the US military
needs right now. Garrett is brilliant at seeing patterns
within the numbers and he notices something is awry with the
recent selloff of US Treasury bonds. Is the Read more...
Iris has returned home for her grandmother Bertha's funeral
only to learn that she has unexpectedly inherited her
grandmother's house. Bertha's mind had become very forgetful
over the last years of her life, and her home is full of
memories for Iris, both poignant and happy. As Read more...
Alice Ringwald is an orphan without a memory... and now a
stranger kidnaps her and claims he's taking her to her
mother. Alice's abduction is going to force her to look deep
inside herself and reexamine everything she knows. Will
Alice choose forgiveness or anger when her world Read more...
Christy Snow wants to find her lost locket... but instead
finds herself trapped in a coffin! Her last call before her
cell phone dies is to best friend, Austin Hartt. Now they
are both trapped in a psychiatric hospital where nothing is
as it seems and all the rules they Read more...
Ben Warner is leery about the invitation to a science camp
about quantum mechanics at the college near his new school.
He expects it to be a waste of time but attends to please
his mother. What he doesn't expect to find is a type of
magic, called "actuation Read more...
It all starts with a book....
Elly is determined to protect the ancient book from the
Creeps (supernatural creatures that eat humans) and she
knows only one person to run to for help. Little does she
expect to also find an almost-all-night bookstore owned by a
vampire willing Read more...
All that is needed is one final piece of the Mask of Anoret
to control Avantia's beasts....
Tanner, Gwen, Castor, and Rufus have suffered a lot in their
quest to save Avantia from the evil Derthsin and General
Gor. Each has bonded with a mythical-like beast in their Read more...
When I was a kid, my brother and I were riding in the back of a pickup truck (this was back in the days when that was considered okay!). My parents were in the truck driving us along a dark, forested area on some small road in the middle of nowhere, SC. My brother and I have overactive imaginations and swore we saw "tree people" staring at us and banged loudly on the window and demanded we all squeeze inside the truck so we'd be safe from the "tree people". We still laugh about it to this day!
I love to travel! My favorite place to travel is somewhere new. This summer we explored Las Vegas and went to the Grand Canyon. I also went on my first ghost tour in Savannah, GA.
Love love LOVE Castiel! In fact, I love just about anyone on Supernatural as that still ranks as one of the best tv shows in that genre imo. And Hellboy... who can't help but love Hellboy just cause!
Those 5 things are so very, very true!! I'm so sorry you couldn't find a way to put the Dooziers on a cruise- even the thought has me laughing like a loon. As for your question, I try to avoid hobby groups other than book clubs but yes, I've been in a book club with an individual that should be thankful the members didn't read a lot of mystery novels or I'm sure they'd have figured out a way to dispose of her permanently LOL!!!
I love vampires, shifters, and all sorts of other supernatural creatures... but a zombie? Oh this is one story I MUST read! Love your first paragraph of this blog as it hooked me.
Why do I read? That's almost like asking me why do I breathe?? I've been reading for as long as I can remember. My parents made sure I developed a love of reading. Anyone else old enough to remember the records that accompanied the children's books?? I had my own little record player and I played all of those little 45s and 33s to death!
I usually try to read a book before seeing the movie. There are a few authors I prefer the movies to the books though, and John Grisham is one of those actually.
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