Releases: Tuesday, April 16

Cover	Book	Author	Genre	GR Links
	What Really Happened in Peru (Bane Chronicles #1)	Cassandra Clare Sarah Rees Brennan	Paranormal Demons	GR Link
	Taken (Taken #1)	Erin Bowman	Science Fiction Dystopia	GR Link Katy’s Review Mitch’s Review
	True (Elixir #3)	Hilary Duff	Paranormal Romance	GR Link
	Furious	Jill Wolfsons	Paranormal Mythology	GR Link
	Merlin’s Blade (The Merlin Spiral #1)	Robert Treskillard	Fantasy	GR Link
	The Milk of Birds	Sylvia Whitman	Contemporary	GR Link

The Selection, The 100 in Contention at the CW, Delirium Quiet at Fox in Runup to May Upfronts

Every year in May, the “Big Four” US television networks (ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX) plus The CW hold upfront presentations to showcase their new shows for the Fall season. Of course, before that, only the most successful television pilots actually make it to a fall order. This year, three shows based on young adult series are in contention, Kiera Cass’s The Selection, Kass Morgan’s upcoming The 100, both at the CW, and Lauren Oliver’s Delirium at Fox.

Pilots for all three shows have all been filmed, and now comes early word on how they’ve been received by the networks. Supposedly, Delirium has had a weaker start over at FOX, and with the the network presumably having only two free drama hours on its fall schedule (the network only programs two hours per night compared to three for the other major networks), things don’t look so great for Lauren Oliver’s dystopian at the moment. Of course, that can all change quickly, like if one of the network’s other pilots fall out of contention, or if one of FOX’s existing shows suffer a sudden and dramatic spring ratings slide that leads to cancellation.

Over at the CW, which has been suffering in the ratings lately and is likely to clean house with its existing shows, both The 100 and The Selection are looking much better. If the CW picks up five of its eight pilots as it has in seasons past, chances are good for both shows.

Finally, speaking of The Selection, sequel The Elite releases at the end of this month.

The Elite

Taken by Erin Bowman

Taken
by Erin Bowman

Taken (Taken 1)

By: Erin Bowman

Release Date: April 16, 2013

Katy’s Rating: 3 stars

Mitch’s Rating: 2 stars

Summary: There are no men in Claysoot. There are boys—but every one of them vanishes at midnight on his eighteenth birthday. The ground shakes, the wind howls, a blinding light descends…and he’s gone.They call it the Heist.Gray Weathersby’s eighteenth birthday is mere months away, and he’s prepared to meet his fate–until he finds a strange note from his mother and starts to question everything he’s been raised to accept: the Council leaders and their obvious secrets. The Heist itself. And what lies beyond the Wall that surrounds Claysoot–a structure that no one can cross and survive.Climbing the Wall is suicide, but what comes after the Heist could be worse. Should he sit back and wait to be taken–or risk everything on the hope of the other side?

 

Katy’s Review:

I liked that Bowman tried to make this book different with the strange, and slightly disturbing concept. But by the end, I felt that she pulled out all the stops, and it ended up being your typical dystopian. 

THE HEISTS – I’m a huge dystopian fan, but these days, there is such an influx of them, and they really do all start sounding the same. So I’m all for a different concept – even if it’s a bit riske. I think Bowman was very bold to create a society where boys disappear on the 18th birthday. They weren’t exactly oppressed, though their standards of living seemed pretty primitive. And they had to fast-track a lot of things – growing up, training for jobs, slating and mating – as they prepare for the inevitable.

I do think Bowman could have a worked a little more on world-building because 1) I didn’t even know how old Kale was until 2/3 through the book, she’s under 3 by the way and 2) the concept of the wall wasn’t really clear, as in I couldn’t figure out what was the dangerous part beyond the wall, and I wasn’t clear why or especially how these bodies were coming back – do they just magically appeared charred or someone brought them back. And the secret Blaine had been hiding from Gray was very intriguing indeed.

BEHIND IT ALL – With that interesting concept, I have to turn to the big question, “Why was such a society created.” And that was kind of where the book, while entertaining enough, failed to meet my expectations. 

The story was by no means unpredictable. It was not hard to guess who were the good guys and the bad guys, and I knew there were certain people who didn’t seem important would have a greater role in the grand scheme of things.

Here was where the problems started. Bowman began pulling all of the tricks out of her hat into creating your typical dystopian and that I’m left wondering, “Where the heck did that come from, and how is that really going to fit in here?” 

MAJOR SPOILERS ALERT! DO NOT PROCEED IF YOU HAD NOT READ THE BOOK! (View spoiler on my Goodreads.)

So overall, did I like this book? Yes, I was entertained because there was a good mix of a unique concept, some strange but evident romance (although the last quarter kind of pissed me off), interesting characters, and a little bit of action at the end. However, despite the intriguing start, the rest of the book just failed to blow me away, and I felt Bowman wasted such great potential.

Mitch’s Review:

Taken is one of those books that relies on secrets and lies to build suspense leading up to the big payoff, which means two things. One, unfortunately it’s a tough book to review because spoilers are a definite no-no, can’t ruin it for those of you yet to read it, can I? But more importantly two, what’s behind the curtain has to be good, or at least worth the price of admission of pulling it back.

And in Taken‘s case, it wasn’t. I want to say I felt like Dorothy inThe Wizard of Oz who’s just peeked behind the curtain and found a mere man instead of the all powerful wizard she was expecting, but that’s not even the case; the mystery behind the Heist is so painfully obvious once Gray really starts digging into the disappearances the curtain was really a transparent shower curtain and I could see the fuzzy outlines of my disappointment a mile away. I guess a good comparison would be with M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village, another story about an isolated village of people living in medieval accommodations with a similarly themed dark secret about the town – checking the rotten reviews on Rotten Tomatoes gives me dozens of choice yet apt critiques that completely apply to this book:

‘I’m not sure exactly why I’m protecting the Shocking Twist, because it certainly doesn’t deserve to be protected.’

Or:

‘It’s hard to care about situations that have been designed only to obscure the ultimate twist.’

And my favorite because it’s absolutely on target here:

‘Picturesque, slightly haunting but silly in a frustrating way.’

And that’s about it. You have a book divided into four parts, Part One being Gray’s life in ‘The Village’ of Claysoot where he’s glumly accepting of his ultimate fate until his brother gets Heisted and he stumbles onto a clue that points him toward the ultimate secret behind the Heists. It’s not bad, Erin Bowman goes all out creating a society where the guys disappear at eighteen (requiring a lot of teen fathers!!), but beyond the one or two mysterious clues Gray digs up, there’s really no movement towards any answers. Why? Bowman also goes all out protecting the reason why the guys are disappearing – absolutely nothing is explained at all, the only development is certain people behaving suspiciously because of course there’s a conspiracy. That or Gray and/or his (girl)friend Emma pointing out various inconsistencies in the setup I could’ve and did notice myself. Very useful you two.

After all the intentional confusion in Part One, I was hoping for some answers in Part Two, when Gray finally builds up the courage to leave town, confront the dangers beyond, and get to the truth. And Gray gets to the truth, I got answers, that’s not my problem. No, my problem’s that it’s obvious Bowman’s thinking ahead to Parts Three and Four, so she’s giving away a twisted version of the truth, sort of making Claysoot a dystopian society within a dystopian society, with more secrets and conspiracies in the bigger dystopian society outside Claysoot, like peeling back the layers of an onion. In a way, it works, explaining why we’d have this messed up town – except, Bowman doesn’t really do a good job with this bigger dystopian society. Claysoot was fine, but the stuff outside with the government conspiracy, secret police, malevolent dictatorship, all of it is just generic and doesn’t stand out from every other dystopian premise. Even worse, once the secrets come spilling out, the version of the truth Gray’s presented in Part Two is so painfully transparent I called the entire setup – including the purpose of Claysoot and the Heists – immediately upon the return of a certain character. After that, Taken just failed to surprise me – ever.

I wish I had positive things to say about Parts Three and Four, but they were just your average take down the evil, corrupt establishment plot I’ve read so many times now I’d pay a lot of good money to an author who can actually surprise me with something unique and different. Ok, maybe Bowman did surprise me a little bit, but she did it by introducing a superfluous love triangle late in the game to, I don’t know, annoy people who hate love triangles? Because it certainly wasn’t well done or anything, you can’t just write a triangle from a male point of view by recycling the same two guy characters from every other book and making them girls instead. And there was something about cloning too (none of it I actually saw), called Forgeries here, except it didn’t do much of anything for the plot expect provide another reason to hate the dystopian government who can now add human experimentation to the long list of its crimes. Yawn.

So Taken starts from a good premise, and kept my interest at first by not showing its hand and revealing the true extent of what’s going on. But once that first card was revealed, the rest of the hand becomes so transparent the story did nothing for me after that. Disappointing.

Go to Katy’s review on Goodreads.

Go to Mitch’s review on Goodreads.

Dark Triumph by Robin LaFevers

Dark Triumph by Robin LaFevers

Dark Triumph

By: Robin LaFevers

Release Date: April 2, 2013

Rating: 4 Stars

Summary: Sybella arrives at the convent’s doorstep half mad with grief and despair. Those that serve Death are only too happy to offer her refuge—but at a price. Naturally skilled in both the arts of death and seduction, the convent views Sybella as one of their most dangerous weapons. But those assassin’s skills are little comfort when the convent returns her to a life that nearly drove her mad. Her father’s rage and brutality are terrifying, and her brother’s love is equally monstrous. And while Sybella is a weapon of justice wrought by the god of Death himself, He must give her a reason to live. When she discovers an unexpected ally imprisoned in the dungeons, will a daughter of Death find something other than vengeance to live for? This heart-pounding sequel to Grave Mercy serves betrayal, treachery, and danger in equal measure, bringing readers back to fifteenth century Brittany and will keep them on the edge of their seats.

Review:

Now this is the book Grave Mercy was supposed to be. I was on the fence about Ismae’s story, basically when I discovered (along with everyone else) that the assassin nuns weren’t so much espionage, murder, and mayhem as much as forbidden romance and courtesan intrigue, but I ultimately came down on the ‘pro’ side because the backdrop of Anne of Brittany’s attempts to keep her duchy independent and out of French hands resonated with this admitted historical junkie. Still, I think it’s probably telling my favorite character in Grave Mercy wasn’t Ismae but Anne, and I really didn’t have any expectations about Sybella’s story or Dark Triumph.

Well, what a difference one book makes – Dark Triumph certainly surprised me by being a sequel that ultimately is not Grave Mercy. Not at first, I wasn’t too keen on the first few chapters because, frankly, nothing really happens as Sybella goes about her assignment in d’Albret’s household, though her interactions with d’Albret and her brother Julian do delve into her tragic past and answer many of Ismae’s questions about her character from the first book. But beyond a poisoned glove here and an eavesdropped conversation there, I was starting to get the distinct impression that, plotwise at least, Dark Triumph was going to be Grave Mercy all over again – except worse, because Anne’s role and the historical aspect is dramatically diminished while d’Albret looms large as this brutal, yet untouchable, villain. In fact, the low point comes as Sybella’s completing the assignment given to her by the Abbess to help the Beast of Waroch, who’s been taken prisoner, escape, and she poisons d’Albret’s entire garrison, and I don’t know, but rather than escaping with one prisoner, if the entire garrison’s unconscious, wouldn’t it be the perfect time to rally the townspeople and get them to rise up and kill d’Albret instead?

Ok, so you might be wondering, didn’t I just say Dark Triumph isn’t Grave Mercy? What’s going on? I did, that’s absolutely true, but I guess LaFevers takes her time until after Sybella escapes d’Albret with the Beast to show it. The seeds are already there, Sybella for one is a very different character from Ismae, a tortured character, and not only does she not have any hesitation towards killing, she actually revels in it. But although Sybella is wickedly good with throwing knives, crossbows, and a garrote, rather than mindless violence, Sybella going up against the French and d’Albret’s men serves two purposes, one showing just how, not just her, but her entire family, is damaged by d’Albret’s cruelty, and the other really a question of theology and faith, trying to get at the true purpose of Saint Mortain, his marks, and whether the Abbess is really serving him or her own agenda. Grave Mercy sort of explores these issues as well, but d’Albret as seen through Ismae’s eyes is nothing like the d’Albret in Dark Triumph, and Ismae’s realizations about Mortain seem almost trite in comparison to what Sybella discovers, and how that puts her and her relationship with her family in perspective.

It’s that perspective on Sybella and her family that really forms the bulk of my appreciation for Dark Triumph. Julian was always a hard character to pin down, particularly his unclear motives and of course the incest, but in the end I’m impressed LaFevers has made Julian really a tragic hero who shows just what the depths of d’Albret’s depravity did to that whole family. It’s telling that at the start of this book I really didn’t understand Julian at all, and by the end he’s pretty much my favorite character of the series by far. I’m a bit less impressed with Sybella bonding with Beast over his sister, Sybella’s stepmother – I tolerated Ismae and Duval in Grave Mercy because I was really reading for Anne and the political intrigue, but Sybella and Beast are harder to ignore here, mostly because Sybella’s character development (which is great) is the main point of this book. I suppose in a way Sybella and Beast are better than Ismae and Duval, heck they certainly fight better than Ismae and Duval, but despite how Beast is a different kind of love interest, the brutish, ugly kind, I guess the way he’s portrayed as protecting Sybella just came off as a different kind of romantic cliche, the protective tough guy kind.

Overall though, Dark Triumph is a book that, as its title suggests, is far darker than its predecessor, but in a way that uses that darkness to create some incredibly compelling characters. It’s not a book without flaws, and probably requires a degree of patience, but it certainly delivers, both in terms of action and character arcs, in the end. Sure, I’m left with questions about Mortain’s true purpose, but here’s hoping Mortal Heart provides the answers.

Go to Mitch’s review on Goodreads.

Releases: Tuesday, April 9

Cover	Book	Author	Genre	GR Links
	Hammer of Witches	Shana Mlawski	Historical Fiction	GR Link
	Nine Days	Fred Hiatt	Thriller	GR Link
	Awakening (Tankborn 2)	Karen Sandler	Dystopian	GR Link

Releases: Thursday, April 4

And the last list for this week (pfew!):

Cover	Book	Author	Genre	GR Links
	Silent Saturday (Forbidden Spaces Trilogy #1)	Helen Grant	Mystery Thriller	GR Link
	White Lines	Jennifer Banash	Contemporary Realistic Fiction	GR Link
	This Is What Happy Looks Like	Jennifer E. Smith	Contemporary Romance	GR Link
	Fractured (Slated #2)	Teri Terry	Science Fiction Dystopia	GR Link Katy’s Review

Going Vintage by Lindsey Leavitt

Going Vintage by Lindsey Leavitt

Going Vintage

By: Lindsey Leavitt

Release Date: March 26, 2013

Rating: 3 Stars

Summary: When Mallory’s boyfriend, Jeremy, cheats on her with an online girlfriend, Mallory decides the best way to de-Jeremy her life is to de-modernize things too. Inspired by a list of goals her grandmother made in1962, Mallory swears off technology and returns to a simpler time (when boyfriends couldn’t cheat with computer avatars). The List: 1. Run for pep club secretary 2. Host a fancy dinner party/soiree 3. Sew a dress for Homecoming 4. Find a steady 5. Do something dangerous But simple proves to be crazy-complicated, and the details of the past begin to change Mallory’s present. Add in a too-busy grandmother, a sassy sister, and the cute pep-club president–who just happens to be her ex’s cousin–and soon Mallory begins to wonder if going vintage is going too far.

Review:

I think most people will fall into one of two camps with Going Vintage. It’ll either be a fairly enjoyable reading experience, because it’s a cute, fluff read – or, it’ll be an about average reading experience, precisely because it’s a cute, fluff read. I on the other hand fall into a third camp, I actually think Going Vintage is more than a cute, fluff read, and it only seems like one because its message is scattered and ineffective.

First of all, the message is right there, in the summary. Mallory’s cheated on, she eschews technology, it’s a whole expose on the excesses of technology and social media thing. And ends with Mallory learning how to improve as a person and engage in real life, offline, of course. I actually totally digged the beginning – the first few chapters just rolls with the premise and Mallory’s indignant reactions are really good, like:

My boyfriend is cheating on me with a cyberwife.

And then:

I click on a book and chuck it at his head. His icon starts to bleed. I laugh. This game is addictive.

Yeah, nothing beats random acts of petty revenge. Then again, too bad the book opens with a bang with the better quotes before falling off as the story progresses, although the writing’s still good for the type of contemporary.

Really, the problem is that Lindsey Leavitt has the whole cheating scenario down, but then doesn’t really build on the excesses of social media premise for the rest of the book. There’s some stuff, like all the mean things random people say to Mallory online, but besides Mallory just insisting how the sixties were better because the internet didn’t exist to strip away a vital layer of social interaction between everyone, I just didn’t see a coherent message, so a lot of what ends up happening just seems totally random. Like it’s not clear exactly what Mallory ‘going vintage’ actually entails – she starts off with no phone, no computer, nothing that’s not available in the sixties, but then there’s one scene of her sister Ginnie going through her room and removing all her stuff, leaving only hilarious Post It notes to the effect of how so and so item wasn’t available in the sixties and had to be removed – huh? I mean, sure what Ginnie does is funny, but what is Leavitt saying with that scene? I’m not sure, so Mallory ends up feeling wishy washy and insincere, her vintage agenda seems to be riddled with more holes than Swiss cheese, and I just kept asking myself, what is Leavitt trying to do?

If you haven’t figured out by now, the rest of this review is one big I didn’t get it. I didn’t get the subplot with Mallory’s mom and her blog (which is mentioned out loud by Mom at one point when it was still supposed to be a big secret hidden from the family – huh?) and what it says about Mallory’s anti-social media slash pro-vintage campaign. I didn’t get her attitude towards Mallory and Oliver, especially the Jeremy’s cousin thing – is she the one character actually living in the sixties? I didn’t get most of the scenes with Grandma, because it seemed to me like she was supposed to represent how Mallory’s relationship and social problems aren’t just exclusive to modern girls but were around in the sixties too, but that was never made explicit or clear. I didn’t get what the point of the List was except as more filler, because Mallory originally treats it as some sort of empowering thing to do but the idea seemed to be dropped completely by the end with the way Mallory takes shortcuts on some tasks and the book brushing over others. And it goes on, so much so that I felt like Going Vintage is one idea – Mallory discovering the cheating and ending up with Oliver – split between a few chapters at the beginning and a few at the end, with the rest just random, weird filler that somehow was supposed to go with the return to a better time theme but really just jumbled up whatever message Leavitt had in mind.

Don’t get me wrong, I still wouldn’t call Going Vintage empty fluff because Mallory does learn things and grow as a character by the end. But the middle is so muddled I just can’t say the whole plot was all that effective.

Go to Mitch’s review on Goodreads.

Releases: Tuesday, April 2

Long list for today:

Cover	Book	Author	Genre	GR Links
	Die For Her (Revenants #2.5)	Amy Plum	Paranormal Romance	GR Link Katy’s Review
	Rise (Eve #3)	Anna Carey	Science Fiction Dystopia Romance	GR Link
	One Day More (Life After Theft Prequel)	Aprilynne Pike	Paranormal Ghosts Romance	GR Link
	Stung	Bethany Wiggins	Science Fiction Dystopia Post Apocalyptic Zombies	GR Link
	Saved at Sunrise (Shadow Falls #4.5)	C.C. Hunter	Paranormal Vampires	GR Link
	Prophecy Girl (Angel Academy #1)	Cecily White	Paranormal Angels	GR Link
	Walking Disaster	Jamie McGuire	Contemporary Romance (new adult)	GR Link
	Vengeance Bound	Justina Ireland	Fantasy Mythology	GR Link
	The Witch Collector Part 1	Loretta Nyhan	Paranormal Witches	GR Link
	Sacrifices (Shadow Grail #3)	Mercedes Lackey Rosemary Edghill	Paranormal Magic	GR Link
	Light (Gone #6)	Michael Grant	Science Fiction Dystopia	GR Link
	The Sweetest Dark (The Sweetest Dark #1)	Shana Abe	Fantasy Historical Fiction	GR Link
	Naturals (Lost Souls #2)	Tiffany Truitt	Science Fiction Dystopia	GR Link

Happy Birthday, Mitch!

The Collector by Victoria Scott

The Collector by Victoria Scott

The Collector

By: Victoria Scott

Release Date: April 2, 2013

Rating: 4 Stars

Summary: Dante Walker is flippin’ awesome, and he knows it. His good looks, killer charm, and stellar confidence have made him one of hell’s best—a soul collector. His job is simple: weed through humanity and label those round rears with a big red good or bad stamp. Old Saint Nick gets the good guys, and he gets the fun ones. Bag-and-tag. Sealing souls is nothing personal. Dante’s an equal-opportunity collector and doesn’t want it any other way. But he’ll have to adjust, because Boss Man has given him a new assignment: Collect Charlie Cooper’s soul within ten days. Dante doesn’t know why Boss Man wants Charlie, nor does he care. This assignment means only one thing to him, and that’s a permanent ticket out of hell. But after Dante meets the quirky Nerd Alert chick he’s come to collect, he realizes this assignment will test his abilities as a collector…and uncover emotions deeply buried.

Review:

I’m gonna learn how to be flippin’ awesome… oh wait I already am XD

And later…

I must say, I had a hell of a time following Dante Walker. Here’s the kind of guy who can insult cats and old people in the space of a single breath, and if what I’d just said doesn’t spark at least morbid curiosity, well, then The Collector is probably not the right book for you. But besides the easily offended, for the rest of us looking for a little edge to our black comedy, it’s always refreshing to see a character so unapologetically craven.

I know, I didn’t think there could be anything new to the done to death paranormal romance between the good girl and the bad boy either, I think I’d rather gouge my eyes out than finish another one, but Victoria Scott turns the genre on its head with The Collector. In retrospect, it’s so easy, as any Troper would know – Evil Is Fun while Good Is Boring after all, but unlike even those other paranormals written from male points of view, Dante Walker actually is the epitome of unabashed egomaniac. Who knew all that this genre needed was a little shock to the system in the form of one guy who knows how to put some swagger in his step and just exudes overconfidence? I’ll be honest, some of what he’s thinking is a bit uncomfortable to read about, sometimes because it just flies in the face of good taste, sometimes because it’s just too much of a male stereotype (aka ‘is this what women really think of us guys?’), and even sometimes because it’s just too true, but hey this is the book that turns the genre on its head after all, and who better to parody every single other male lead than Dante Walker? I’m ok with it, and plus, also means he’s not boring. Never boring.

If this book has a weakness though, it’d be Charlie Cooper. So she’s Dante Walker’s weakness (get it?), but that’s not what I mean, not really. I’m fine with her being pretty much the stereotype of the good girl, down to the not even a peep when Dante shows up in her room uninvited (her room! her room!!), but umm personally I thought the reasons why Boss Man and Big Guy targeted her made her a bit too super special in my book. Sure, it fits the overall plot of why a big shot like Dante would hang out with little old her, but, yeah, reason why Charlie’s so important in the whole grand scheme of heaven versus hell thing could’ve used a bit more tweaking. Although she’s a good character – mostly as in she’s a good person though, cause Dante is obviously the star of the show and she’s stuck with second fiddle syndrome. But the tradeoff though is Charlie sure has some funny friends and family, include a horny grandmother, a cool best friend in Annabelle, and Blue, who is way more than just the best male friend displaced by the new bad boy, because he’s actually somebody who gets a really good character arc, courtesy of Dante and Blue’s own choices towards the end of the book.

Speaking of Blue, he really goes to show that The Collector, while fairly predictable in some respects, is also very surprising in others. Dante’s voice loses some of his edge as the story progresses, but I chalked it up to him developing that annoying thing known as a conscience. A sign perhaps, that while Victoria Scott put a lot of fun into this, she also knew how to exploit the serious moments, so I can’t say this is not a book without depth. Yeah, it’s mostly fun and games in the first half, but only because there’s character arcs to be had in spades in the second half, both of the expected and the unexpected varieties. A lot of things I’d normally check off as predictable, Dante being the jerk with the heart of gold who Charlie sets on the path of redemption is easily gleaned from the summary, best friend and fellow Collector Max and his relationship with Liberator Valery is fairly transparent too, much of the ending pretty much as well, actually worked here despite not coming out of left field, because again, depth, that and character development. I for one totally guessed the stuff between Dante and his parents for example, but the scenes between him and his mother in particular are still really good for what they do, setting Dante up for where he needs to go. Or Blue again, how could I complain about the ending when he gets the sort of character development that makes me actually respect both him and Dante in the end?

So I didn’t actually learn how to be flippin’ awesome from reading this, but I sure as hell still had a great time. Hey, if Roger Ebert can get behind Bad Santa, I can definitely get behind The Collector.

Go to Mitch’s review on Goodreads.

Releases: Monday, April 1

First list of this week (cause it won’t be the last..):

Cover	Book	Author	Genre	GR Links
	Renegade (A Ripper Novel #2)	Amy Carol Reeves	Historical Fiction	GR Link
	That Time I Joined the Circus	J.J. Howard	Contemporary	GR Link
	Crossing the Line (Pushing the Limits #1.5)	Katie McGarry	Paranormal Angels	GR Link
	If He Had Been with Me	Laura Nowlin	Contemporary Romance	GR Link
	Spellbinding	Maya Gold	Paranormal Witches	GR Link
	Zombies Don’t Forgive (Living Dead #2)	Rusty Fischer	Horror Zombies	GR Link
	Moonset (Legacy of Moonset #1)	Scott Tracey	Paranormal Witches	GR Link

BTW: for those who enjoyed Pushing the Limits: today you can get Crossing the Line for free @ Amazon.com (no joke btw :P)