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REVIEW: Glass Houses by Rachel Caine

Title: Glass Houses
Author: Rachel Caine
Source: Library book

From the author of the popular Weather Warden series comes the debut of an exciting new series set in Morganville, Texas, where you would be well advised to avoid being out after dark.

College freshman Claire Danvers has had enough of her nightmarish dorm situation. When Claire heads off-campus, the imposing old house where she finds a room may not be much better. Her new roommates don't show many signs of life, but they'll have Claire's back when the town's deepest secrets come crawling out, hungry for fresh blood.


MY REVIEW:

Claire is a 16 year old college student, something that is already not easy, but when she makes the mistake of correcting the wrong person being the youngest persons campus has become HELL, and also dangerous.  Seeking safety from the dorms Claire ends up at the home of Michael Glass and his renters, Shane and Eve, where she starts to learn the truth of what is going on in Morganville.  From the vampire's who run the town to the payments (taxes) that each resident, even the unknowing students at the university pay.

In a town where you are protected or not, Claire is trying to protect the ones who took her in when she needed it.

Like in all books, though the hero/heroine stand out in your minds, there is sometimes that friend that you just love and Eve in this book is that character, her Gothic clothing as a way to stick it to the man, or in this case the undead.  She has this need to not be controlled by the vampires in the town, working for who she thinks is a normal human at a coffee shop who has some sort of power over the vampires to protect the humans.  Even though Eve does not like the Vampires in this town with their rules and "protection" she knows that sometimes to save herself and her friends she needs to accept the rules and the protection that is offered even if really she just wants to be free to do as she completely pleases.

The book was a great opening to the series, showing the make of the town while still leaving you with places and people to see in later books.  With a little romance mixed in with the mystery of the town, this book keeps you on the edge of your seat while you wait for the moment that each character admits to their feelings.

MY RATING: B+
Purchase:  Amazon.com
Glass Houses (The Morganville Vampires, #1)

100 Books in a Year Reading Challenge 2013!


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CHALLENGE DETAILS

  • Timeline: 01 Jan 2013 – 31 Dec 2013
  • Rules: Read 100 books in 2013 (any genre)
  • You don’t have to select your books ahead of time, you can just add them as you go. Also if you do list them upfront you can change them, nothing is set in stone! The books you choose can crossover into other challenges you have on the go.
  • You can join at anytime. All books read in 2013 count towards the challenge regardless of when you sign up.
  • At the beginning of Jan 2013, you will find a link to specific month to add your reviews.
  • Audiobooks are accepted.
  • Only fiction, no non-fiction.
  • This challenge can crossover to other challenges.

BOOKS READ


The 2013 Literary Exploration Reading Challenge


For the Challenge over at literary-exploration.com I have decided to Challenge myself to go for the INSANE level of 36 books.  Below you will see a list of the genres that the books need to come from, so let the reading begin.


Insane Challenge
  1. Adventure
  2. Auto-Biography/Biography
  3. Chick-Lit
  4. Childrens Book
  5. Classics
  6. Cyberpunk
  7. Drama
  8. Dystopian
  9. Educational
  10. Erotica
  11. Espionage
  12. Fantasy
  13. Graphic Novels
  14. Gothic
  15. Hard-Boiled
  16. Historical Fiction
  17. Horror
  18. Humour
  19. Literary Fiction
  20. Magical Realism
  21. Mystery
  22. Noir
  23. Non Fiction
  24. Paranormal
  25. Philosophical
  26. Poetry
  27. Post-Apocalyptic
  28. Romance
  29. Science Fiction
  30. Steampunk
  31. Supernatural
  32. Thriller
  33. True Crime
  34. Urban Fantasy
  35. Victorian
  36. Young Adult

Movie Review: A Warrior's Heart


A Warrior's Heart came up on my watch list on my Netflix account and I will admit that I was iffy on watching it mostly because it is a sports movie, something that I sometimes enjoy (Remember the Titans) but I do not always come to like them all.

Now I will go ahead and say early on this movie starts two Twilight Stars, not just one.  We have Kellan Lutz and Ashley Greene, two of my favorite actors in the Twilight Series.  Ashley Greene stars as Brooklyn the daughter of the Lacrosse coach at Conor Sullivan's new school he has transferred too.  Conor has a problem sharing the spotlight in a "team" sport and likes to be the one leading the plays.  But when his father is killed in action Conor takes to destruction to school property, getting himself arrested.

Taken to tear down a old building by one of his fathers old military buddies for his transgressions and to help him clean up his act, he ends up on the native reservation in their version of Juvenile Detention.  This is where Conor learns the true meaning of Lacrosse and the fact that it is the sport of a true warrior where the Native Americans are concerned.

This movie was great and it has some great moments by Lutz and Greene.  But lets not forget about the other actors who you see in this movie.  Chord Overstreet who you may know as "Trouty Mouth" on Glee is one of the Lacrosse players on Conor's team.  Gabrielle Anwar from Burn Notice plays Conor's mom.


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MY RATING: A

Review: Master of Submission by Jan Bowles

Title: Maser of Submission
Author: Jan Bowles
Source: Amazon.com Kindle
Thirty-year-old English lawyer Emma Parkes believes Club Submission holds the key to her best friend's disappearance. Well out of her comfort zone, Emma's eyes are opened wide when she observes the Masters of Submission at work. They're so confident and sexually arousing—especially beautiful blue-eyed Master Zane.

Submission member and Dom Zane Anders frequently enjoys all the club has to offer. The wealthy, forty-year-old diamond importer has everything he could possibly need—everything except for love. A natural dominant, he's not looking for a permanent submissive in his life. But perhaps he'll make an exception for the stunning lawyer from London.

When Club Submission is plunged into a high-profile murder investigation, its very existence is put in jeopardy.

Can Emma unlock the truth, or will the devastatingly handsome Zane Anders, a Master of Submission, unlock her deepest sexual desires, instead?
MY REVIEW :
For straight-laced English woman Emma, Club Submission is really the last place she would have ever went but it might just have led her on the adventure of a lifetime while looking for her best Chloe.  With just e-mails exchanged with one "Orion" Emma is lost in the last place she knew Chloe to have gone. 
Master Zane Anders was easily drawn to the blonde that looked as if she had never been into a BDSM club before, and knew that breaking her into the scene would be something he would thoroughly enjoy doing.  And when she follows him home he is even more shocked but mostly because he thinks she is a reporter trying to get a story on the club and its members not that she is looking for her missing friend who she just "knows" something has happened too.  Next thing he knows is he is being questioned about his relationship to member "Giselle" who is actually Emma's friend Chloe. 
Can the mystery of Chloe Watts be solved before the Strong brothers have to close Club Submission for good since the police think the club has everything to do with the disappearance. 
Personally I have fallen in love with this series with just the first book and I have instantly added the other books to my Kindle Wish List.  But I have a feeling I will be buying them before I get them gifted to me.  I am looking forward to reading the next books in the series as well as other books by Jan Bowles that I own or put on my wish list

Rating: A


Master of Submission (Masters of Submission #1)

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