The Phantom Paragrapher

    Review: Simplicity - Valia Lind - December 2010 Are you a fan of books where the cast of the novel are stranded on an island ? Did you enjoy  Wrecked by Elle Casey or The Island by Tracey Garvis-Graves ? If so, then you may enjoy Simplicity which tells the story of Alexis whose life is looking up and getting better by the minute when she is offered a manager's position of a new branch for her job. The thing though, she has to head over to London and meet the new account she will be handling. During the flight though, tragedy strikes and the plane goes down - no survivors except for Alexis. She finds herself on an island which already has some other stragglers whose plane went down five years ago and they have been living on the island waiting for the day when they will be rescued. On the island, we read as Alexis makes friends with the other occupants including John , Brandon , Gabe and of course the hunky Jake whom she likes ALOT. One thing t...

Title: Deer in Headlights (Good Gods #1) Author: Staci Hart Release Date: Feb. 4th, 2013 Goodreads Amazon Aphrodite never loses, not when it comes to love. Immortality has its perks and its downsides. Boredom, for one, is unavoidable, but instead of playing parcheesi, the gods devised a game that uses humans as pawns. Remember Shakespeare? That was Apollo. Bonnie and Clyde? Aphrodite versus Ares. Aphrodite is on deck once again, and she’ll defend her domain of love as she works to get the humans together before the clock runs out, while her opponent tries to keep them apart. Game one is against Apollo, and Aphrodite knows she has her work cut out for her when he chooses Dean, a brooding rock star man-whore who believes women can’t be trusted. Aphrodite decides on Lex, a perfect match for Dean, even though her heart is guarded, locked away tight. She’d never let anyone in. Not ever. Of course, she hasn’t met Dean. But there’s always more at stak...

COVER REVEAL FIRE OF STARS AND DRAGONS By Melissa A. Petreshock New Adult Romance Releasing April 2014 Publisher: Swoon Romance Following the death of her vampire uncle, twenty-one-year-old CAITRIONA HAYDEN finds herself in the midst of a trio of quintessential alpha male suitors in 22nd century sovereign America where human females should be seen and not heard.   Theo Pendragon claims her as his ward, ordained to guard her through to a long-awaited destiny unbeknownst to Cait, but finds more than he expected when passion ignites within the dragon for the first time. Always drawn to the pursuit of knowledge rather than the heat of desire, powerful demigod Dante cannot deny everything his future holds in Caitriona. America's monarch, ancient vampire Corrin, has no interest in the frivolity of love, yet marrying Cait could be the answer to his continued survival.   Soon, Cait goes from studying for college exams to choosing a husband in seven days, ...

Book Title: Mobster's Angel Author: Amy Rachiele Genre: Romance/Family Saga/Action Adventure Release Date: December 15, 2013 Hosted by: Book Enthusiast Promotions Vito has grown up in the underworld of the mob. He has recently reached age eighteen. His family has been involved since the thirties. In 2014, the rules haven’t changed much. What worked then, works now; power, violence, and loyalty. Love isn’t something you can control. As much as Vito, mobster enforcer, wish he could, he can’t. And falling in love with someone who is close to jailbait age is even tougher. Vito bides his time and waits. For a hasty guy with limited self-control, it’s difficult to curb his impulses. At age fifteen, Erin just wants to forget. Erin’s world came crashing down when she learned her family was not what they seemed. She’s been living in a lie. No one told her her family was mob. The cliché ignorance is bliss becomes a sharp stabbing realization when she has to learn to cope with th...

    Review: The Coldest Girl in Coldtown - Holly Black - September 2013 If you are one of those few people out there who don't think that Vampire Fiction is dead and buried and a thing of the past, then you will love Holly Black's new book "The Coldest Girl in Coldtown". For me, I was in two minds with this book as it started off amazing and quite captivating with the main girl Tana waking up in the bathtub after a hard night's party to a room filled with dead people and her ex-boyfriend jerk Adrian tied to a bed post and next to him on the floor a vampire named Gavriel. The book then jumped into the past where Tana explained the history of Coldtown with it's different vampire attacks over the years and then a lot of memories of when her mother was bitten by a Cold one and had the Cold Disease which is the Vampiric disease. The novel then goes to Tana helping out Gavriel as it seems he is in some trouble and Adrien tags along and we wonder ...