Weekly Recap for January 23rd - 29th

Welcome to our Weekly Recap. We will be sharing what books and goodies we got and will go over some of our favorite posts, giveaways, book covers and anything else that peeked our interest during the past week. Lets start things off with sharing what books we got.

     

Purchased

- Signed copy of Darker After Midnight by Lara Adrian

For Review

- The Wolf Who Loved Me by Lydia Dare
- Dire Needs by Stephanie Tyler
- The Vampire Shrink by Lynda Hilburn

This past week at Paranormal Haven

Monday - Review of To Walk the Night by E.S. Moore
Tuesday - Upcoming releases from our favorite authors
Wednesday - Picture of the Week
Thursday - Beyond the Blog with The Book Nympho
Friday - Urban Fantasy Giveaway
Saturday - Review and giveaway of All Things Wicked by Karina Cooper

Giveaways We Found

- Author Katie Reus is giving away goodies all during her blog tour and the grand prize is a new Kindle.
- Pen to Paper is giving away books 1-4 of The Vampire Diaries: Stefan's Diaries by L. J. Smith
- Red Hot Books is giving away an audiobook of Third Grave Dead Ahead by Darynda Jones
- Author Rose Pressey is giving away a copy of You Dropped a Blonde on Me by Dakota Cassidy

Cover Talk

 

I don't know if it's because I've really been into the color purple lately or if it's the cool blades on her arms but I like the cover for The Eldritch Conspiracy. The 5th book in the Siren Song series currently doesn't have a release date. 

Archer is looking pretty bad ass on the cover of his upcoming release.  I haven't even read book 2, Hunter's Prey, and I'm already excited for Archer's Lady!  The 3rd book in Moira Rogers' Bloodhounds series will be out on July 3rd.

Book Review and Giveaway: All Things Wicked by Karina Cooper

All Things Wicked
Author:  Karina Cooper
Series:  Dark Mission, book
Publisher: Avon
ISBN-10: 0062046934
ISBN-13: 978-0062046932
Buy it here:
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Book Depository

For more information visit Karina Cooper's website


Juliet has lost her sister, and the coven she was a part of. She finds the man responsible for destroying her coven, Caleb, and decides that she is going to destroy him. When she manages to corner him, she calls what is left of the coven, only they are not as happy to see her as she thought.

This is the third book in the series, and there may be a couple spoilers from the first two books. After this book, I definitely encourage readers to start at book one. There is a great amount of back story that has been building in the first two novels that comes out in this one. The biggest issue is that the story’s hero was not the nicest guy in the books before this. In fact Caleb has been known to torture witches and steal their powers. He wasn’t on my good side, and I thought it would be impossible for me to like him. I was very glad to be wrong, he is a little dense, but I actually found myself enjoying his POV far more than Juliet’s.

Juliet has found ways of being sheltered. Caleb describes her often in the book as being soft, and he is right, she is very soft. I had a hard time with her because of her constant freak outs. Her knees often buckle, and she shuts down into fits of tears, or screams until she is not just soft, but weak. At the start of the novel her magic is described really well, and she is easy to identify with, but as the novel goes on this side of her does not come off as strong. Her character draw backs were not enough to deter me from the conflict and attraction she has with Caleb. The steamy scenes were not as steamy for me as the ones before it, but still enjoyable.

This book took the series in a direction I didn’t see coming, and introduced some new characters. There is a lot of action going on, and the story is very fast paced, but the action itself lost me. I found myself rereading more than once, and wondering how much of the novel before this one I forgot. That being said, I did enjoy this one a little more than the installment that came before it. It took away from the church vs. witches theme, and landed it somewhere else.

I hope this isn’t the last book. There are some characters that seem like they might take the next book, and the story isn’t finished. They have more to do. Freedom for the witches, saving the world, or just changing it would make me a happy camper. It leaves off with a mystery solved, but the world is not all better, there is still a mean evil Church, and witches to save. I have not yet heard anything about another book, so if this is it I am left disappointed in the overall scope. If not then I still look forward to the next mix of romance, post-apocalyptic and magical installment.
My Rating:

Reviews for other books in the series:
Blood of the Wicked
Lure of the Wicked





We are giving away a copy of All Things Wicked. Open internationally and ends on January 31st, the release date for All Things Wicked.

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