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Sep.11.2008
Title: Doppelganger (re-released in 2008 as Warrior)
Author: Marie Brennan
Genre: Fantasy
Stand Alone or Series: First book in the Doppelganger duology
Summary: (from amazon.com)When a witch is born, a doppelganger is created. For the witch to master her powers, the twin must be killed. But what...
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Sep.05.2008
As the grand finale of our mini-week special on Dark Fairy Tales, we contacted Melissa Marr for a brief chat--and she was kind enough to take some time out of her hectic schedule (it was right after Wicked Lovely won the Rita Award) to answer a few of our questions! As Thea and I are unabashedly...
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Sep.05.2008
Title: Ink Exchange
Author: Melissa Marr
Genre: Young Adult, Dark Fantasy
Stand Alone or Series: Second book in the series.
Summary: (from HarperCollins.com)Unbeknownst to mortals, a power struggle is unfolding in a world of shadows and danger. After centuries of stability, the balance among the...
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Sep.03.2008
Title: Wicked Lovely
Author: Melissa Marr
Genre: Young Adult, Dark Fantasy
Stand Alone or Series: First book in the series.
Summary: (from HarperCollins.com)Rule #3: Don't stare at invisible faeries.
Aislinn has always seen faeries. Powerful and dangerous, they walk hidden in mortal world....
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Sep.02.2008
Title: Fables: Legends in Exile Vol. 1
Author: Bill Willingham, Lan Medina, Steve Leialoha, Craig Hamilton
Genre: Graphic Novel
Stand alone or series: First volume in the Fables comics; collects issues 1-5.
Summary: (from Vertigo)Who Killed Rose Red?In Fabletown, where fairy tale legends live...
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Aug.29.2008
Hello, my name is Ana and I am a nalinisinghholic. My addiction started a bit late and only after I read Book 2, Visions of Heat. But from that moment on I was intrigued by the world-building, by the Psy-Changeling dynamics and above all I was completely captivated by the love stories within each...
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Aug.28.2008
Title: Hostage to Pleasure
Author: Nalini Singh
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Stand Alone/ Series: Book 5 of Psy-Changeling series.
Summary: Separated from her son and forced to create a neural implant that will mean the effective enslavement of her psychically gifted race, Ashaya Aleine is the...
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Aug.27.2008
Title: Mine to Possess
Author: Nalini Singh
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Stand Alone / Series: 4th Full length novel of the Psy-Changeling series
Summary:Clay Bennett is a powerful DarkRiver sentinel, but he grew up in the slums with his human mother, never knowing his changeling father. As a young...
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Aug.26.2008
Title: Caressed by Ice
Author: Nalini Singh
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Stand Alone/ Series: Book 3 of the Psy/Changeling series.Book 1 - Slave to Sensation Book 2 - Visions of Heat
Summary: As an Arrow, an elite soldier in the Psy Council ranks, Judd Lauren was forced to do terrible things in the...
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Aug.25.2008
Genre: Shomi - Sci fi Romance
Stand Alone / Series: Stand Alone
Summary: Molly Anderson is not your average twenty-one-year-old. It’s been six years since she and her family escaped into a bunker, led by her conspiracy theorist father and his foreknowledge of a plot to bring about the apocalypse....
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Aug.23.2008
After our Long Weekend with Loretta Chase, Susan approached us with a chance to read and review her historical fiction novel The King's Favorite. Having come highly recommended by Loretta, we eagerly agreed--and fell in love with her book. Susan, who is totally cool and a fellow sports nut (as Thea...
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Aug.22.2008
Title: The King's Favorite
Author: Susan Holloway Scott
Genre: Historical Fiction
Why did we read this book: During our recent Chat With an Author, Loretta Chase mentioned Susan Holloway Scott's The Royal Harlot as one of her inspirations for her new series, beginning with Your Scandalous Ways....
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Aug.21.2008
For this episode's unearthings: the wonderful works of Christopher Pike!
Any other Christopher Pike fans in the house? Anyone that grew up in the 80s and 90s is familiar with a few key authors that wrote young adult series'. There's "Francine Pascal" of Sweet Valley Twins fame. There's R...
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Aug.19.2008
Hunter Kiss is the prequel to a new series by Marjorie Liu (the first full length novel is called The Iron Hunt). It has everything I could hope for in a book. A captivating narrative voice (in first person), a very interesting world where demons co-inhabit with humans and a sweet and heart...
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Aug.18.2008
What exactly is a "book smuggler"?
Wise question, young grasshopper. We are two completely obsessed, sad, sick addicts when it comes to books. We’re not just talking a meager fix of scifi here or a quick shot of romance there. We’re talking full-blown, unrestrained, junkie-shuffling...
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About The Book
Ana Grilo and Thea James are two completely obsessed, sad, sick addicts when it comes to books. Faced with threats and cynicisms from our significant others and because of the massive amounts of time and money we spend at Amazon.com, we resorted to getting...
The Book’s Favorite Books
Ana's:Lord of Scoundrels, The Woman in White, The Shadow of the Wind, His Dark Materials Trilogy, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, The Sandman Graphic Novels, Demon...