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| Series: Women of the Otherworld #12 Date/Publisher: July 1st 2011 by Orbit Cover Artist: N/A Cover Source: SciFiGuy Author Comments: N/A My Thoughts: |  |
Savannah Levine is in terrible danger, and for once she’s powerless to help herself. At the conclusion of Waking the Witch, Savannah swore that she would give up her powers if it would help a young girl. Little did she know that someone would take her up on that promise.
And now, witch hunting assassins, necromancers, half-demons, and rogue witches all seem to be after her. The threat is not just for Savannah; every member of the Otherworld might be at risk. While most her fellow supernaturals are circling the wagons at a gathering of the council in Miami, Savannah is caught on the road, isolated from those who can protect her and unable to use her vast spelling casting talent, the thing she counts on most. In a story that will change the shape of the Otherworld forever, Spell Bound gathers Elena, Clay, Paige, Lucas, Jamie, Hope, and others, who soon learn that the greatest threat to supernaturals just may come from within.
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| Series: N/A Date/Publisher: June 14th 2011 by Knopf Books for Young Readers Cover Artist: N/A Cover Source: Dark Faerie Tales Author Comments: N/A My Thoughts: |  |
When Willie arrives in Indian Territory, she knows only one thing: no one can find out who she really is. To escape a home she doesn’t belong in anymore, she assumes the name of a former classmate and accepts a teaching job at the Cherokee Female Seminary.
Nothing prepares her for what she finds there. Her pupils are the daughters of the Cherokee elite—educated and more wealthy than she, and the school is cloaked in mystery. A student drowned in the river last year, and the girls whisper that she was killed by a jealous lover. Willie’s room is the very room the dead girl slept in. The students say her spirit haunts it.
Willie doesn’t believe in ghosts, but when strange things start happening at the school, she isn’t sure anymore. She’s also not sure what to make of a boy from the nearby boys’ school who has taken an interest in her—his past is cloaked in secrets. Soon, even she has to admit that the revenant may be trying to tell her something. . . .
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| Series: N/A Date/Publisher: June 7th 2011 by HarperCollins Cover Artist: N/A Cover Source: Sophistikatied Reviews Author Comments: N/A My Thoughts: |  |
Drifting in the dark waters of a mysterious river, the only thing Amelia knows for sure is that she’s dead. With no recollection of her past life—or her actual death—she’s trapped alone in a nightmarish existence. All of this changes when she tries to rescue a boy, Joshua, from drowning in her river. As a ghost, she can do nothing but will him to live. Yet in an unforgettable moment of connection, she helps him survive.
Amelia and Joshua grow ever closer as they begin to uncover the strange circumstances of her death and the secrets of the dark river that held her captive for so long. But even while they struggle to keep their bond hidden from the living world, a frightening spirit named Eli is doing everything in his power to destroy their newfound happiness and drag Amelia back into the ghost world . . . forever.
Thrilling and evocative, with moments of pure pleasure, hereafter is a sensation you won’t want to miss.
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| Series: The Otherworldlies #2 Date/Publisher: July 1st 2011 by HarperTeen Cover Artist: N/A Cover Source: Sophistikatied Reviews Author Comments: N/A My Thoughts: |  |
Fern thought discovering she was an Otherworldly and being thrown into a centuries-old vampire feud was odd enough, but it turns out that Fern’s even more Unusual than she ever imagined....
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| Series: The Awakening #1 Date/Publisher: May 31st 2011 by HarperTeen Cover Artist: N/A Cover Source: Sophistikatied Reviews Author Comments: N/A My Thoughts: |  |
Set on the island of Nantucket, STARCROSSED tells the tale of Helen Hamilton, a young woman whose destiny is forever altered when she meets Lucas Delos and tries to kill him in front of her entire high school. Which is terribly inconvenient, not only because Lucas is the most beautiful boy on the island, but also because Helen is so achingly shy she suffers physical pain whenever she is given too much attention.
Making matters worse, Helen is beginning to suspect she’s going crazy. Whenever she’s near Lucas or any member of his family she sees the ghostly apparitions of three women weeping bloody tears, and suffers the burden of an intense and irrational hate. She soon learns that she and Lucas are destined to play the leading roles in a Greek tragedy that the Three Fates insist on repeating over and over again throughout history. Like her namesake, Helen of Troy, she’s destined to start a war by falling in love. But even though Lucas and Helen can see their own star-crossed destiny, they’re still powerfully attracted to each other. Will they give up their personal happiness for the greater good, or risk it all to be together?
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| Series: Dogland Trilogy #1 Date/Publisher: February 1st 2011 by Night Shade Books Cover Artist: Julian Alday Cover Source: Mad Hatter's Bookshelf & Book Review Author Comments: N/A My Thoughts: |  |
Fugitive Rachel Nolander is a newcomer to the city of Dogsland, where the rich throw parties and the poor just do whatever they can to scrape by. Supported by her brother Djoss, she hides out in their squalid apartment, living in fear that someday, someone will find out that she is the child of a demon. Corporal Jona Lord Joni is a demon's child too, but instead of living in fear, he keeps his secret and goes about his life as a cocky, self-assured man of the law. The first book in the Dogsland Trilogy, Never Knew Another is the story of how these two outcasts meet.
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| Series: Highland Warrior #1 Date/Publisher: May 1st 2011 by Sourcebooks Casablanca Cover Artist: N/A Cover Source: Wicked Scribes Author Comments: N/A My Thoughts: |  |
He's had centuries to dream of her...
Mis-adventurous historian Bree Kirkland discovers a one hundred fifty year old warrior buried in a crypt behind her house. But Faelan, the warrior, isn’t dead. When this chauvinistic Scottish Warrior awakes, he has no choice but accept the help of this modern-day woman who’s rescued him, but she’s more fearsome than the demon trying to kill him. If he’s not careful, she’ll uncover every secret his clan has bled and died to protect.
| Series: Warriors of Poseidon #7 Date/Publisher: June 7th 2011 by Berkley Sensation Cover Artist: N/A Cover Source: Wicked Scribes Author Comments: Oh, Daniel, how deliciously hot you are!!!! My Thoughts: |  |
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Immortalis: Hunter & Prey by Katie Salidas
| Series: Immortalis #2 Date/Publisher: January 2011 by Rising Sign Books Cover Artist: Stella Price Cover Source: Dark Wyrm Reads Author Comments: N/A My Thoughts: |  |
Becoming a vampire saved Alyssa from death, but the price was high: the loss of everything and everyone attached to her mortal life. She's still learning to cope when a surprise confrontation with Santino Vitale, the Acta Sanctorum's most fearsome hunter, sends her fleeing back to the world she once knew, and Fallon, the friend she's missed more than anything.
Alyssa breaks vampire law by revealing her new, true self to her old friend, a fact which causes strong division in the group that should support her most: her clan.
Worse yet, her revelation entangles Fallon in the struggle between vampires and hunters and the Acta Sanctorum is ready to attack again, with a new army of hybrid creations: the Frenzy Soldiers.
If Alyssa hopes to survive and keep her mortal friend safe, she'll have to be willing to make a deal with an enemy, and regain her clan's support. It will take everyone working together in a precarious truce to fight against the Acta Sanctorum's new threat.
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The Edinburgh Dead by Brian Ruckley
| Series: N/A Date/Publisher: August 2011 by Orbit Cover Artist: Larry Rostan Cover Source: Orbit Books Author Comments: …For what it’s worth (and the opinion of authors on their own covers is not always worth as much as you might imagine) I like it. I’ll be delighted to have my book wear such a skin. My Thoughts:  I love the blood in water effect and the suave western vibe. |  |
Mixing real history and historical figures with magics and conspiracies, this novel imagines the Edinburgh of 1827, populated by mad alchemists who treat Frankenstein as textbook rather than novel, and by a criminal underclass prepared to treat with the darkest of powers.
The plot follows the progress of an officer of the recently formed Edinburgh City Police as he follows a trail of undead hounds, emptied graves, brutal murders and mob violence into the deepest and darkest corners of Edinburgh’s underworld – both literal and magical – and back again to the highest reaches of elegant, intellectual Edinburgh society.
In the process, he will uncover a dangerous merging of necromancy, science and invention that might forever break the boundaries between life and death, and discover that blade and pistol remain as indispensable as any new-fangled techniques of criminal investigation.
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| Series: Balefire Omnibus Date/Publisher: December 16th 2010 by Speak Cover Artist: N/A Cover Source: THE BOOK BUTTERFLY Author Comments: I think it’s fah-bulous! Can’t wait till December! My Thoughts: |  |
The whole Balefire series by Cate Tiernan is now in one edition.
After seventeen-year-old Thais Allard )loses her widowed father in a tragic car accident, she is forced to leave the only home she's ever known to live with a total stranger in New Orleans. New Orleans greets Thais with many secrets and mysteries, but none as unbelievable as the moment she comes face to face with the impossible — an identical twin, Clio.
Thais soon learns that she and the twin she never knew come from a family of witches, that she possesses astonishing powers, and that she, along with Clio, has a key role in Balefire, the coven she was born into.
Fiery Clio is less than thrilled to have to share the spotlight, but the twins must learn to combine their powers in order to complete a rite that will transform their lives and the coven forever.
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| Series: Nola O’Grady #1 Date/Publisher: February 1st 2011 by DAW Cover Artist: N/A Cover Source: Wicked Scribes Author Comments: N/A My Thoughts: |  |
Psychic Agent Nola O’Grady isn’t sure returning to San Francisco, and living near her unusual family, is a good idea. Her job, with a psychic agency so obscure even the CIA doesn’t know it exists, can be perilous, and she’s afraid of the relatives getting involved.
Then the Agency saddles her with Israeli secret agent Ari Nathan, and she has a bigger problem on her hands, because tact and compromise are not Ari’s strong points. Their mission is to track down a serial killer obsessed with werewolves. He sees them everywhere and shoots whenever he thinks he has one in his sights. Ari assumes the man’s psychotic, but in truth he’s murdering actual werewolves. Nola should know. Her younger brother Pat, a lycanthrope, was the first victim.
Can Nola’s psychic talents and Ari’s skill with guns keep them alive long enough to unravel the greater mystery behind the killings? Can they save the werewolves and the world while stopping Nola’s family from running headlong into danger?
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And my picks for Best & Worst…
Best Cover: SPELLBOUND
Worst Cover: IMMORTALIS: HUNTER & PREY
So any new to you covers? Any contenders for Best Sneak Peek Cover 2011? Which are your Best & Worst picks?
The Edinburgh Dead by Brian Ruckley looks killer awesome. The cover really blows me away. Wonder if the book will do it justice. I'll be adding that to my list of books to be read.
ReplyDeleteThe Never Knew Another cover is definitely my favourite! Sounds interesting too.
ReplyDeleteMeghan - I like that one more and more the longer I look at it. I really hope it's as good inside too.
ReplyDeleteAriana - Very grim but fascinating. I'll be interested in hearing some early reviews.
Great commentary. I'm pretty in line with your thoughts. I like Balefire I think best, it is just unique.
ReplyDeleteParajunkee - Balefire is super pretty. Have you read the books? Are they any good?
ReplyDeleteI like the cover of Balefire. The rest of them are okay. One of them just pushes me away,(Never Knew Another) and it's probably a good story. The description is good. But the artwork - no.
ReplyDeleteMardel - I know what you mean about NEVER KNEW ANOTHER...it's not a nice cover. For me that's what I find so appealing about it.
ReplyDeleteWow, the cover for Never Knew Another is really interesting... I'll have to check that one out when it's published.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the covers!