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| Series: Shadow #3 Date/Publisher: September 2011 by Kensington Books Cover Artist: N/A Cover Source: Erin Kellison on Dark Central Station Author Comments: “…I received my cover for my September 2011 release, Shadowman! It’s the third in my Shadow series, though each book was written to stand alone. The first two books, Shadow Bound and Shadow Fall, were released through Dorchester Publishing and will be rereleased through them in trade paperback in August and September.” My Thoughts: |  |
GHOSTS
They haunt the halls of the Segue Institute, terrifying the living, refusing to cross over. But one soul is driven by a very different force.
LOVE
It survives even death. And Kathleen O’Brien swore she would return to those she was forced to leave too soon.
SHADOWMAN
He broke every rule to have her in life; now he will defy the angels to find her in death.
THE GATE
Forging it is his single hope of being reunited with his beloved, but through it an abomination enters the world. Leaving a trail of blood and violence, the devil hunts her too. Pursued through realms of bright fantasy and dark reality, Kathleen is about to be taken. . .
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| Series: Time of Transition #2 Date/Publisher: April 2011 by Tor Books Cover Artist: N/A Cover Source: Author’s blog Author Comments: “Big, long, awe-filled sigh.” My Thoughts: While bare skin, tattoos and claw marks aren’t unusual on UF covers, I like how this one is done. The cover model has a hint of androgyny about him, setting him apart from the pack. |  |
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| Series: Bloodhounds #1 Date/Publisher: March 1, 2011 by Samhain Publishing Cover Artist: N/A Cover Source: Fiction Vixen Author Comments: N/A My Thoughts: |  |
Wilder Harding is a bloodhound, created by the Guild to hunt down and kill vampires on America's frontier. His enhanced abilities come with a high price: on the full moon, he becomes capable of savagery beyond telling, while the new moon brings a sexual hunger that borders on madness.
Rescuing a weapons inventor from undead kidnappers is just another assignment, though one with an added complication--keeping his hands off the man's pretty young apprentice, who insists on tagging along.
At odds with polite society, Satira's only constant has been the aging weapons inventor who treats her like a daughter. She isn't going to trust Wilder with Nathaniel's life, not when the Guild might decide the old man isn't worth saving. Besides, if there's one thing she's learned, it's that brains are more important than brawn.
As the search stretches far longer than Wilder planned, he finds himself fighting against time. If Satira is still at his side when the new moon comes, nothing will stop him from claiming her. Worse, she seems all too willing. If their passion unlocks the beast inside, no one will be safe. Not even the man they're fighting to save.
Warning: This book contains a crude, gun-slinging, vampire-hunting hero who howls at the full moon and a smart, stubborn heroine who invents mad-scientist weapons. Also included: wild frontier adventures, brothels, danger, betrayal and a good dose of wicked loving in an alternate Wild West.
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| Series: Other #2 Date/Publisher: September 2011 by Flux Cover Artist: N/A Cover Source: Kate at The Neverending Shelf Author Comments: N/A My Thoughts: There’s something very Gothic in this composition, making Brock’s eyes and the moon in the background all the more powerful. Another beautiful cover for this series. |  |
It isn’t working. The doctor said it would, but it isn’t, even though I keep taking the pills, and I keep seeing Dad sneak into the bathroom and count how many are left. As if I would stop taking them. As if I would let myself become a beast.
Brock Koeman lost his brother to werewolves. Now he’s in danger of losing himself. Bitten by a werewolf at sixteen, he fights the transformation, taking the excruciating pain as a punishment for his mistakes. With the help of a risky drug called Lycanthrox, he’s managed to stay human for two full moons. But he knows he can’t last much longer.
Hungry for revenge, Brock vows to kill the silver wolf who bit him. But Brock’s ex, the fiery Cynthia Lopez, still cares about him enough not to let him do anything suicidally dangerous—never mind that Cyn gets her thrills from danger herself. Together again, the heat between them rekindles, but Brock feels like a beast beside her beauty. He can’t stay with her; he can’t ignore the werewolves howling outside his window. When he hunts down the pack, Cyn doesn’t sit on the sidelines. She’s right beside him as they get taken hostage and start running with the werewolves, the police hot on their tails. Brock has to get a grip on who he truly is—before the wolf within kills him, or someone else does.
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The Monster’s Corner by Christopher Golden
| Series: Anthology Date/Publisher: October 2011 by St. Martin’s Press Cover Artist: N/A Cover Source: Mihai at Dark Wolf’s Fantasy Reviews Author Comments: N/A My Thoughts: |  |
- “The Awkward Age” by David Liss
- “Saint John” by Jonathan Maberry
- “Rue” by Lauren Groff
- “Succumb” by John McIlveen
- “Torn Stitches, Shattered Glass” by Kevin J. Anderson
- “Rattler and the Mothman” by Sharyn McCrumb
- “Big Man” by David Moody
- “Rakshasi” by Kelley Armstrong
- “Breeding the Demons” by Nate Kenyon
- “Siren Song” by Dana Stabenow
- “Less of a Girl” by Chelsea Cain
- “The Cruel Thief of Rosy Infants” by Tom Piccirilli
- “The Screaming Room” by Sarah Pinborough
- “Wicked Be” by Heather Graham
- “Specimen 313” by Jeff Strand
- “The Lake” by Tananarive Due
- “The Other One” by Michael Marshall Smith
- “And You Still Wonder Why Our First Impulse is to Kill You: An Alphabetized Faux-Manifesto transcribed, edited, and annotated (under duress and protest)” by Gary A. Braunbeck
- “Jesus and Satan Go Jogging in the Desert” by Simon R. Green
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| Series: Primal Instinct #7 Date/Publisher: April 2011 by HQN Books Cover Artist: N/A Cover Source: Kaleigha at Wicked Scribes Author Comments: N/A My Thoughts: |  |
Raine Spenser is on the brink. Held prisoner because of her abilities, Raine—a powerful psychic as well as vampire desperately needed a savior. But the last one she expected was the green-eyed soldier who’d once hunted her kind. Since her rescue, she’s tried to forget Seth McConnell, unable to cope with the strange, simmering attraction that draws her to the compelling human.
But their goals—find the Kraven who held Raine captive and destroy him—are the same. The ever-growing web of danger surrounding them draws these two unlikely allies closer together, and anger slowly turns into an explosive passion they’re finding harder and harder to deny....
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| Series: N/A Date/Publisher: September 13th, 2011 by Margaret K. McElderry Cover Artist: N/A Cover Source: Author’s Blog Author Comments: "I am deliriously in love with it [the cover art], and I can't wait to share it with you. So without further ado... (Please pat your hands on your lap so we have drum roll sound effects. Also, imagine a red velvet curtain raising up. And maybe a few trumpets.) ... the cover art for DRINK, SLAY, LOVE!” My Thoughts: |  |
What happens when a vampire is stabbed through the heart by a were-unicorn? She suddenly develops a very inconvenient conscience. Oops.
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| Series: Stormwalker #3 Date/Publisher: June 2011 by Berkley Sensation Cover Artist: N/A Cover Source: Kaleigha at Wicked Scribes Author Comments: N/A My Thoughts: |  |
Racing her motorcycle down a lonely winter highway, Stormwalker Janet Begay feels the ground collapse beneath her feet. After tumbling two hundred feet into an underground cavern, she manages to escape with help from her sexy dragon-shifter boyfriend, Mick—but not before they disturb some dark forces.
As Janet contends with a hotel inspector intent on putting her out of business, as well as her grandmother, who’s taken up residence, Mick’s behavior becomes strange and erratic, until he is a clear danger to Janet and her friends. Janet’s drag-queen, attitude-ridden magic mirror insists that Mick has been “touched by shadows,” and the Stormwalker realizes that someone is out to enslave her dragon. Now she must free Mick before he kills her…
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And my picks for Best & Worst…
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So any new to you covers? Which are your Best & Worst picks?
Great cover art post Julia! My fav is SHADOW WALKER with SHADOWMAN being a close second. Not a fan of AS YOU WISH. The androgynous factor you mentioned is too much for me.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for posting Wilder's Mate! If you'd like an author comment, I say: The only way I could love that cover more is if it did my laundry and bought me a sports car.
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lol, Bree, that's spectacular. I can't wait to read the book that goes with it!
ReplyDeleteAbigail, Shadow Walker is pretty awesome, I just love Janet's attitude on the cover.
I love the Wilder's Mate cover. it is crazy gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteI love the Drink, Slay, Love cover, I hope my cover comes out just as stunning.
ReplyDeleteGah...I only glanced at As You Wish and thought it was a really buff chick to start with which doesn't work for me at all. I don't like the one at all. The others are all good though.
ReplyDeletei really want drink slay love...i love that cover...although I liked the shadowbound and the shadow fall covers i really dont like the shadowman cover...its a little dank for my tastes
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