The Phantom Paragrapher

Today's Halloween read is the latest book in the Blue Bloods series by author Melissa De La Cruz.                                                                         Review : Misguided Angel - Book #5 - Blue Bloods Series - November 2010                                                 " Young, Fabulous and Fanged" Melissa De La Cruz's series Blue Bloods are what you get when you cross Vampires and Gossip Girl together , Upper Class rich Vampire snobs who think that just because they have money, power and fame. They can do whatever they want, and unfortunately they can. For half-vampire, half-human and now an outcast Schuyler Van Alen is on the run with her Blue Blood lover Jack Force aka an Fallen Angel/ Vampire. They are on the run to Italy to open and find the gates of Paradise which will hopefully free Jack from his bond to his twin Mimi. However of course, things in these novels don't always fall into place as if they did -it wouldn't be muc

Today's Halloween read is a special one as it not only marks the end of the October Halloween read month , but it is in fact actually Halloween -October 31st today in New Zealand , not that Halloween is actually very big and celebrated widely in New Zealand .                                                                                                                           Review : Moonstone -Book #1 - Marilee Brothers - August 2008 Ever wondered if you were made for bigger and better things than the life you have been dealt ? For Allie , she has , but she just doesn't realise the full extent of it yet and what trouble and triumph it may bring for her. Allie is living in what some people may call a Trailer Trash family , just her and her mum Faye who by the sounds of it by reading the story has that disease Munchhausen Syndrome - that is if you have watched the movie The Sixth Sense with Bruce Willis - a disease that you put all these illnesses on yourself and ma

Today's book is a sad but amazing and touching story , it is a fictional based story on the incident of a 17yr old Suicide bomber Palestine girl.                                                                                             Synopsis of : Before we say Goodbye - Gabriella Ambrosio - August 2010 The book is based on a true story of a suicide bombing which was committed by a seventeen year-old Palestinian girl from the Deheisha refugee camp at a supermarket in Kiryat Yovel, Jerusalem in 2002. The book narrates the final hours in the lives of the bomber and her victims – a seventeen year-old girl from Jerusalem and the security guard whose intervention, with his own body, saved the lives of the rest of the people at the busy market on that Passover Eve. The story begins at seven o’clock in the morning on the day of the attack and ends with the horrifying explosion. Despite the very short time span – a mere seven hours - seen from the points of view of the different

Today's book is special and close to my heart and I feel proud to be reviewing it on my site as I give you great pleasure to introduce some kiwi blood on my website amongst all the fabulous American/Other authors I have featured. Being from New Zealand myself and the fact I live only a couple hours drive from where this author resides. I present today "Michelle Holman" and her latest release "Barefoot".                                                                                                                                           Review : Barefoot - Michelle Holman - November 2010 Kiwi Writer Michelle is back for some more laughs and mayhem. This time round we see a sequel to her book Bonkers. For those who have read Bonkers we find out the sex of Lisa and Dan's baby , read more of Ben's sexual escapades and how he's lost so much weight and of course, what would this sequel be if it didn't feature our two loveable and hateable

Since I review a mixture of books on my website , I figured that I needed also an appropriate picture for Children's/ Juvie Fiction and I  thought that this was also a cute illustration . Who Here remembers The Series "The Babysitters Club" by Ann .M. Martin ? I used to read the series and I ended up reading all of them from the ages of 9-12, Imagine my surprise when at work arrived the books 1 and 2 with new covers. Review : Kristy's Great Idea - Ann. M. Martin - Reprinted April 2010 The Cover on the left hand side is the cover that I grew up with , with all the characters of the Babysitters Club on the left hand side of the book and the picture in the middle featured all of the BSC and was set in accordance to whatever the story was or if it was about a certain individual character , they would feature on the cover in the setting of the story. The cover on the right-hand side is the new covers , to me I think that they are a bit plain and I'm not sure how

Today is my first ARC Tour Post with International Book Tours and Today's book is one I have been hanging out to read , it is the first in the newest series by Anna Godbersen, most famous for her series "The Luxe" which was like a 18th/19th Century Gossip Girl.                                                                                                                                Review : Bright Young Things - Anna Godbersen - October 2010 Author Anna Godbersen has a gift for writing books set in New York in the eras of the 1920's and 1930's. The era of flappers and country clubs , soirees and burlesque clubs - women singing jazz and opera. Bright Young Things sets us on a journey from a little town of Union, Ohio to the big bright lights of New York City. In Union, Ohio - two girls Cordelia Grey and Letty Larkspur want action, adventure and to be rid of their small town life. Cordelia escaping on her wedding night with best friend in tow , they rus

This novel though not nessecarily classed as a Christian Fiction, it talks about Sacrifices so I thought in more ways than one it should fall under this symbol. Review : Sweetie - Kathryn Magendie- November 2010 One lucky thing with being a member of Netgalley is that as long as you play your part and agree to write reviews for the books that you have read , you get the occasional galley that of a book that is yet to be available to the mighty hordes of public. Sweetie by Kathryn Magendie is a book that though it took me a little while to get into and understand where the story was taking me , it was a book that I was able to persevere with as normally I am one of those people who If I can't get into a book after the first couple of chapters I normally give up. I am glad I continued with this book as what I saw unfold from the odd prologue was an amazing and touching novel of two girls who became the best of friends , Melissa who was slightly on the chubby side and wore glass

TGIF , and get ready for the 18 and Over Book Tag A Long Weekend . What I Read and Reviewed: Jewels - LaKisha Spletzer The Macgregors Daughter - Dee Julian In Golden Blood - Stephen Woodsworth Song of Eidolons - Jessica McHugh Salvation - Jacqueline Paige The Seance - Heather Graham This Week Question's ? What was your favourite book that you have read in the past week ? Mine was I Kissed a Zombie, and I Liked it by Adam Selzer

Today's October Halloween read is about Ghosts and written by Heather Graham the writer  not the celebrity , though in it's own way the author is also a celebrity.                                                                                                    Review : The Seance - Heather Graham - March 2010 I've  never actually read any of Heather Graham's books before as though I had seen them come through returns at work continuously they had never really grabbed me and silently yelled "READ ME" . However , at work the other day , The Seance came through and it had a different cover than the picture above , it was a cover that really grabbed me and I thought why not give it a go , who knows I might enjoy it and I did. I read it in about 1 hr and 15 mins over my morning tea and lunch break at work today. In The Seance we are presented with the main character Christina who in the beginning of the novel is a 12yr old girl who sees the ghost of her

Welcome to Today's Book Blogger Hop and it also Celebrates the Last Hop for October :) Today's Question is : "What is the one bookish thing you would love to have, no matter the cost?"                                                                       Today's Answer : Not really sure if it is considered a bookish thing , but it semi has to do with books LOL , is that Kate Spade "The Handbag Designer" has bought out a line of clutches called Book Clutches - they cost American Dollars $325 which would be $435.40 in NZ Dollars. Here is a Picture of one of them :) Today's Question For Reader's ? In the Age Old Debate of are you a Team Edward or A Team Jaob ? Which do you fancy ? on November 7th on Down the Rabbit Hole http://amberinblunderland.blogspot.com/   I'll be featuring in a Team Edward Vs Team Jacob Debate and I'm Team Edward.  

                                                        The Pandoran War is being re-released this month , so readers if you are into Science Fiction Novels , love Novels that are similar to Resident Evil but in Space then this is the book to read. Synopsis of The Pandoran War - Dante D'Anthony - October 2010 11 centuries from the present day Earth and Deneb 4 engage in a nuclear first strike, a holocaust, against the Arcturian Colonials, creating a dark age. Mankinds galactic civilizations falter for a millennium. But the worst has only begun. Psychic, parasitic entities of dark matter, galvanized by humanities horrific war, begin to reveal themselves-soul eating, macabre, and legion. It has taken them the long centuries to cross the intergalactic void in number since the holocausts. They are hungry. 4217. The long dark Age of Pandora is about to break its mottled, imperfect peace with a new and horrific war of galactic proportions. The smuggling Guild is contacted by a ps

Hey all you funky readers out there , do you need saving ? Come check out today's Virtual Book Tour provided by Goddess Fish Promotions "Salvation" by Jacqueline Paige. We have in store for you today , a blurb of the book , a sneak peek into a chapter of the book "for your eyes only" and a guest post written by the lovely Jacqueline Paige on her views on Why an Ebook and not Print ? A topic that ever since the release of ebooks and ebook readers has been an ongoing debate/discussion of sorts.                                                                                                                                                         Synopsis of Salvation - Jacqueline Paige - October 2010 Tagline:  Two centuries of not existing is about to change... Blurb: Lost in a place between living and dying, confined to roam endlessly over the same grounds for all eternity and cursed to never be seen again, Jareth wanders through time alone and longing

Continuing on the thread of October Halloween reads , we have today a fantasy type book which has a bit of a twist to it.                                                                                           Review : Song of Eidolons - Jessica McHugh - November 2009 This novel starts off in what seems like a different world , one that is not in this universe , it kind of gave off a fantasy medieval type feel to it and we witness a mother with child running from captors as her husband is killed and she is next. The novel then flips over to what can only feel like today's world where Delaney Lortal is living with her Grandfather Dags in his house since the day her parents passed away. For Delaney, life within the house has been all she has ever known as for 22 years of her life , she has been like Rapunzel -locked away in her tower . This kind of reminded me of the part on Sweeney Todd where Sweeney Todd's Daughter had been locked away and kept inside the mansion or

This symbol of the Christy Award is alot more clearer to see than the one I had before. Today's book is a story that if you are a Christian and have read your bible or attended Sunday School etc you will be highly familiar with.                                                                      Review : Chosen - The Lost Diaries of Queen Esther - Lost Loves of the Bible Series - Ginger Garrett - March 2010 Gosh, where do I start . This book was absolutely and utterly amazing and it is now one of my most favourite books ever. If you have ever read the bible or attended church or even Sunday School like myself , you would have been brought up on or heard the story of Queen Esther .Chosen as one of the maidens to be set before the King as one of his brides to become the new Queen of Persia. The story as we all are familiar with takes us back to the marketplace where Hassadah aka Esther is an orphan living with her cousin Mordecai and selling roses at the marketplace. It is

I joined the meme Top Ten Tuesday last week and this week with Labour Weekend and work Ive kind of been in a bit of a tizz , so here's the Top Ten Tuesday on a Thursday and this week's topic was Halloween Reads. Books are not in any particular order :) The Legend of Sleepy Hollow : Who can forget Ichabold Crane and The Headless Horsemen stories , one of my all-time favourites. Dracula - Bram Stoker - The True Vampire Novel , that basically symbolises whether or not you are a Vampire fan or not hangs on whether you have read this book. Sunshine - Robin McKinley - Another all-time favourite Vampire Book of mine that I have read over and over again. Twilight Saga - It has Vampires and Werewolves  and Vampires and Werewolves are Supernatural and Supernatural =Halloween ( Noticing a pattern with Vampire Stories) Van Helsing : Vampire Hunter : I love the story of Van Helsing and having Hugh Jackman play him in the movie version helps of course. The Hollow - Jessica Verday

Today's featured October Halloween read is a Tween-Teen story that features Ghosts , and not Casper the Friendly ones either.                                                                                                                                Review : Haint Misbehavin' - Book #1 -Ghost Handler Series - Maureen Hardegree - June 2010 Do you prefer The Ghost Whisperer and Medium over True Blood and The Vampire Diaries ? , If so then readers especially if you are in between the ages of about 14 - 20's then I have the perfect book for you. Haint Misbehavin' by Maureen Hardegree is to The Mediator Series by Meg Cabot , just with a little bit more humor. In Haint Misbehavin' we see poor Heather - the middle sister who seems to be getting not only picked on by her older sister Audrey and humiliated at the pools with the hot lifeguard watching the scene unfold and for Heather - its triple embarrassing as she has a huge crush on him. Of course , we all reme

                 As we continue in the month of October , Today's read is about Werewolves.                                                                                                                         Review : Shiver - Maggie Stiefvater When this book first came into the library , I tried to read it and was one that I had to put down as I couldn't get into it , with the release of the third novel , I decided that I would give it another go and to my surprise I actually enjoyed it and have got the 2nd book Linger out to read - so readers, a review of that will follow in the next week or so. In Shiver we are introduced to two main characters Grace - a human girl who was bitten by a werewolf when she was little and is one of the few that have never changed , as a girl she was saved by the werewolf Sam who plays a huge part in Shiver and is the second of our main characters. Sam is the wolf that visits and protects Grace every winter as in this novel , when the

Today's read for Halloween October reads is a title that I have been looking forward to reading and I was glad when our library's copy arrived today :)                                                                                     Review : The Replacement - Breanna Yovanoff - September 2010 This is one book that I have secretly been coveting and it's been on my to buy/read list , so lucky for me when I discovered it in the new books bin at work today. I work by day at Greerton Library, Tauranga, New Zealand. I hadn't exactly grasped before I read the novel what it was about , just that it was a new teen supernatural and the cover looked totally awesome , it reminds me of the scene at the start of the movie "Hook" where Peter's pram and him in it are abandoned. For those who don't know "Hook" is a take-off of Peter Pan with Robin Willams as Peter Pan and Dustin Hoffman as Captain Hook. Meet Malcom "Mackie" Doyle , well