Chelsea

March New Releases: Anne Bishop, Patricia Briggs, Seanan McGuire, Lili St. Crow & more

In an effort to help you keep that to-read list updated, I’ve compiled the hot urban fantasy and paranormal romance releases for March 2014. All dates are U.S. and tentative. Also: Click the title of any book to visit the Amazon page for pre-order or purchase goodness. I’ve included genre classification with each book: UF is urban fantasy, PNR is paranormal romance, F is fantasy and YA is young adult....

Krista

Review: Nameless by Lili St. Crow (Tale of Beauty and Madness #1)

Nameless (Tale of Beauty and Madness #1) Lili St. Crow Published: April 4, 2013 (Razorbill) Purchase at: Book Depository or Amazon Reviewed by: Krista Rating (out of 5): 4.5 stars Lili St. Crow’s dark style lends itself perfectly to this reinterpretation of Snow White. I was drawn into Nameless from the first page and glued until the last. The story begins with our Snow being found during a snowstorm in...

Chelsea

Character cagematches? Who should throw down?

In our If You Like post on Unholy Ghosts and Mind Games, we wondered what would happen if the main characters of Stacia Kane and Carolyn Crane’s novels threw down. The resulting Twitter battle between the two fantastic authors had me giggling. It went a little something like this: @StaciaKane: Oh, please. Chess could kick Justine’s ass. All she’d have to do is sneeze/talk about diseases. @StaciaKane: ask...

Chelsea

Review: Strange Angels by Lili St. Crow

Strange Angels (Strange Angels #1) Lili St. Crow Published: 2009 (Penguin Teen) Purchase at: Book Depository or Amazon Rating (out of 5): 3 stars Dru Anderson’s life isn’t filled with the typical teen minutiae. She’s spent her teen years moving from city to city with her dad hunting supernatural creepy-crawlies. She has what her grandma always called “the touch,” a sense for the supernatural. Dru knows...

Chelsea

Our Holiday Haul

If I ever needed proof my family knows I read a lot of paranormal and fantasy books, the gifts I opened on Christmas Day covered it. Nine books from five different people. See for yourself: (Not pictured was book No. 9, a gluten-free cookbook. Unrelated, I made the most awesome peanut butter chocolate chip cookies this weekend and some damn good gluten-free pumpkin muffins. Very proud of this.) For those...

Chelsea

Waiting on Wednesday: Defiance by Lili St. Crow

I could tell you about how great Lili St. Crow’s books are and how you will adore Dru Anderson, the main character in her YA Strange Angels series. Instead, I’m letting the book trailer for the fourth Strange Angels title Defiance, speak for me. Defiance comes out in April 2011. You can expect we’ll remind you in a few months.

Chelsea

Contest Roundup: Vampires, werewolves and Halloween

Before we get into all the giveaway goodness, we wanted to say sorry for being a bit MIA earlier this week. We were out of town for family stuff, then caught some sort of bug at the airport. Still feeling crummy, but not enough to keep us from reading and digging up excellent giveaways from our blogger friends. Suzanne Johnson is giving away two just-released books filled with vampire goodness: P.C....

Chelsea

Contest Roundup: City of Bones, Strange Angels and more

Great book giveaways this week and a chance at giftcards, too. We also realized we should be planning for our own 500 follower giveaway. So, readers, encourage your friends to follow because we’re putting a prize pack together for when we hit 500 via Google Friend Connect (the “join this site” button makes it happen, folks). On to giveaway goodness: We were super excited to see that Hanging with Bells is...

Chelsea

Contest Roundup: YA lit edition

Just because it sits in the young adult section doesn’t mean a book is just for teens. Usually, it’s more about there being a teen protagonist. We like it; so this week we give you five contests tied to excellent YA novels and series. Oh, The Book Smugglers (we love this blog). They’ve smuggled out two copies of Kim Harrison’s Early to Death, Early to Rise (book 2 in the Madison Avery series) for their...