Throwback Thursday #38: One Foot in the Grave by Jeaniene Frost

Throwback Thursday is a bookish meme hosted every two weeks by me and Christina @ Booksane where we feature books that we've read in the past but are still crazy about. 

It could be a book you read as a child and still remember and love or maybe just a book that you haven't read in a long time and want to show your love for.

Each week we'll be featuring a new random question to answer!

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One Foot in the Grave by Jeaniene Frost

Night Huntress #2

Read from February 26 to 28, 2011

You can run from the grave, but you can’t hide…

Half-vampire Cat Crawfield is now Special Agent Cat Crawfield, working for the government to rid the world of the rogue undead. She’s still using everything Bones, her sexy and dangerous ex, taught her, but when Cat is targeted for assassination, the only man who can help her is the vampire she left behind.

Being around Bones awakens all her emotions, from the adrenaline rush of slaying vamps side by side to the reckless passion that consumed them. But a price on her head—wanted: dead or half-alive—means her survival depends on teaming up with Bones. And no matter how hard Cat tries to keep things professional between them, she’ll find that desire lasts forever…and Bones won’t let her get away again. Original.

I love all Night Huntress books but One Foot in the Grave always has been a top favorite of mine. Cat and Bones reunited is fun to read about and let's not forget chapter 32!

Quote:

“You called her Kitten? And she let you? She put me in a coma for three days when I called her that! My balls never recovered from her smashing them into my spine!”

Poor Juan! ;)

Quote:

“Now I am short on some props, and there isn't nearly enough time in one night to run through all the ways I've fantasized about taking you, but I promise you this..." His voice deepened, "You'll be scandalized in the morning when you can think again.” 

Chapter 32, baby!

Question of this week:

Any special books being read this christmas?

I'm going to try to read Let It Snow. I wanted to last year but I never got to it. This year I must!

Next question (January 15): 

What book did you just finish?

Throwback Thursday is going on holiday hiatus and won't be back until mid January.

Happy Holidays, everyone! 

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Throwback Thursday #37: Iced by Karen Marie Moning

Throwback Thursday is a bookish meme hosted every two weeks by me and Christina @ Booksane where we feature books that we've read in the past but are still crazy about. It could be a book you read as a child and still remember and love or maybe just a book that you haven't read in a long time and want to show your love for.

Each week we'll be featuring a new random question to answer!

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Iced by Karen Marie Moning
Fever #6
Read from November 19 to 28, 2012



From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning comes the first book in her hotly anticipated new urban paranormal trilogy, set in the world of her blockbuster Fever series.

The year is 1 AWC—After the Wall Crash. The Fae are free and hunting us. It’s a war zone out there, and no two days are alike. I’m Dani O’Malley, the chaos-filled streets of Dublin are my home, and there’s no place I’d rather be. 

Dani “Mega” O’Malley plays by her own set of rules—and in a world overrun by Dark Fae, her biggest rule is: Do what it takes to survive. Possessing rare talents and the all-powerful Sword of Light, Dani is more than equipped for the task. In fact, she’s one of the rare humans who can defend themselves against the Unseelie. But now, amid the pandemonium, her greatest gifts have turned into serious liabilities.

Dani’s ex–best friend, MacKayla Lane, wants her dead, the terrifying Unseelie princes have put a price on her head, and Inspector Jayne, the head of the police force, is after her sword and will stop at nothing to get it. What’s more, people are being mysteriously frozen to death all over the city, encased on the spot in sub-zero, icy tableaux. 

When Dublin’s most seductive nightclub gets blanketed in hoarfrost, Dani finds herself at the mercy of Ryodan, the club’s ruthless, immortal owner. He needs her quick wit and exceptional skill to figure out what’s freezing Fae and humans dead in their tracks—and Ryodan will do anything to ensure her compliance.

Dodging bullets, fangs, and fists, Dani must strike treacherous bargains and make desperate alliances to save her beloved Dublin—before everything and everyone in it gets iced.

What can I say about Iced. It was different because it's mostly about Dani but it still rocked. I used to dislike Dani but I came to like her in Iced. Also there's more Ryodan and Christian in this one so that's always a plus! ;)

Quote: 

“The more excited I get, the more I vibrate."
"Now there's a thought," Lor says.
"If you mean what I think you mean, you want to shut the fuck up and never think it again," Ryodan says.” 

Question of this week:

What characters from a book do you wish were real? 

Adrian Ivashkov!
Who else?

Also Mac from the Fever series would be cool to hang out with and Magnus Bane from The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices too! <3

Next question (December 18): 

Any special books being read this christmas?

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Throwback Thursday #36: Splintered by A.G. Howard

Throwback Thursday is a bookish meme hosted every two weeks by me and Christina @ Booksane where we feature books that we've read in the past but are still crazy about. It could be a book you read as a child and still remember and love or maybe just a book that you haven't read in a long time and want to show your love for.

Each week we'll be featuring a new random question to answer!

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Splintered by A.G. Howard
Splintered #1
September 08 to 27, 2012

Alyssa Gardner hears the whispers of bugs and flowers—precisely the affliction that landed her mother in a mental hospital years before. This family curse stretches back to her ancestor Alice Liddell, the real-life inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Alyssa might be crazy, but she manages to keep it together. For now.

When her mother’s mental health takes a turn for the worse, Alyssa learns that what she thought was fiction is based in terrifying reality. The real Wonderland is a place far darker and more twisted than Lewis Carroll ever let on. There, Alyssa must pass a series of tests, including draining an ocean of Alice’s tears, waking the slumbering tea party, and subduing a vicious bandersnatch, to fix Alice’s mistakes and save her family.

She must also decide whom to trust: Jeb, her gorgeous best friend and secret crush, or the sexy but suspicious Morpheus, her guide through Wonderland, who may have dark motives of his own.

Splintered is one of my favorite books ever. I love anything Wonderland and the way A.G. Howard writes is just gorgeous. Also... #TeamMorpheus!

Quote: 

He's a contradiction: taut magic coiled to strike, gentleness at war with severity, a tongue as sharp as a whip's edge, yet skin so soft he could be swathed in clouds.

Question of this week:

Do you know books with funny titles?

Next question (December 4): 

What characters from a book do you wish were real? 

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Throwback Thursday #35: Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning

Throwback Thursday is a bookish meme hosted every two weeks by me and Christina @ Booksane where we feature books that we've read in the past but are still crazy about. It could be a book you read as a child and still remember and love or maybe just a book that you haven't read in a long time and want to show your love for.

Each week we'll be featuring a new random question to answer!

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Shadowfever by Karen Marie Moning
Fever #5
Read from November 04 to December 22, 2011

 

“Evil is a completely different creature, Mac. Evil is bad that believes it’s good.” — MacKayla Lane was just a child when she and her sister, Alina, were given up for adoption and banished from Ireland forever. — Twenty years later, Alina is dead and Mac has returned to the country that expelled them to hunt her sister’s murderer. But after discovering that she descends from a bloodline both gifted and cursed, Mac is plunged into a secret history: an ancient conflict between humans and immortals who have lived concealed among us for thousands of years.

What follows is a shocking chain of events with devastating consequences, and now Mac struggles to cope with grief while continuing her mission to acquire and control the Sinsar Dubh -- a book of dark, forbidden magic scribed by the mythical Unseelie King, containing the power to create and destroy worlds.

In an epic battle between humans and Fae, the hunter becomes the hunted when the Sinsar Dubh turns on Mac and begins mowing a deadly path through those she loves.

Who can she turn to? Who can she trust? Who is the woman haunting her dreams? More important, who is Mac herself and what is the destiny she glimpses in the black and crimson designs of an ancient tarot card?

From the luxury of the Lord Master’s penthouse to the sordid depths of an Unseelie nightclub, from the erotic bed of her lover to the terrifying bed of the Unseelie King, Mac’s journey will force her to face the truth of her exile, and to make a choice that will either save the world . . . or destroy it.

A lot of questions get answered in this book. Not all of them, of course, because what would this series be without all the mystery?

Quote:

He pulls me around and kisses me. "You're Mac," he says. "And I'm Jericho. And nothing else matters. Never will. You exist in a place that is beyond all rules for me. Do you understand that?" I do.
Jericho Barrons just told me he loves me.

Question of this week:

Most intimidating book you've read?

I'm actually still amazed that I read this book. It was a buddy read on Kindle and it took us 3 months because we only read about 5 chapters a week. But damn, it was amazing! The length of this book is what intimidated me the most when I first started. Longest book I have ever read!

Next question (November 6): 

Do you know books with funny titles?

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Throwback Thursday #34: Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Throwback Thursday is a bookish meme hosted every two weeks by me and Christina @ Booksane where we feature books that we've read in the past but are still crazy about. It could be a book you read as a child and still remember and love or maybe just a book that you haven't read in a long time and want to show your love for.

Each week we'll be featuring a new random question to answer!

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Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Lux #1
Read from August 06 to 09, 2012


 

Starting over sucks.

When we moved to West Virginia right before my senior year, I'd pretty much resigned myself to thick accents, dodgy internet access, and a whole lot of boring... until I spotted my hot neighbor, with his looming height and eerie green eyes. Things were looking up.

And then he opened his mouth.

Daemon is infuriating. Arrogant. Stab-worthy. We do not get along. At all. But when a stranger attacks me and Daemon literally freezes time with a wave of his hand, well, something... unexpected happens.

The hot alien living next door marks me.

You heard me. Alien. Turns out Daemon and his sister have a galaxy of enemies wanting to steal their abilities, and Daemon's touch has me lit up like the Vegas Strip. The only way I'm getting out of this alive is by sticking close to Daemon until my alien mojo fades.

If I don't kill him first, that is.

Ah, Obsidian... the book that started my love for JLA. I read this book two years ago and well, it's been one of those books that rocked my world. Four words: Daemon Black! Fuck yeah!

Quote:

My palms itched to have a close encounter of the bitch-slap kind with his face.

Question of this week:

Last book you bought at a bookstore?

The Iron Trial by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare

How could I not buy this when I saw it? Honestly! Some books just have to be bought.

Next question (October 9): 

Most intimidating book you've read?

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Throwback Thursday #33: Dreamfever by Karen Marie Moning

Throwback Thursday is a bookish meme hosted every two weeks by me and Christina @ Booksane where we feature books that we've read in the past but are still crazy about. It could be a book you read as a child and still remember and love or maybe just a book that you haven't read in a long time and want to show your love for.

Each week we'll be featuring a new random question to answer!

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Dreamfever by Karen Marie Moning
Fever #4
Read from October 29 to November 04, 2011

 

MacKayla Lane lies naked on the cold stone floor of a church, at the mercy of the erotic Fae master she once swore to kill. Far from home, unable to control her sexual hungers, MacKayla is now fully under the Lord Master’s spell.…In New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning’s stunning new novel, the walls between human and Fae worlds have come crashing down. And as Mac fights for survival on Dublin’s battle-scarred streets, she will embark on the darkest—and most erotically charged—adventure of her life.

He has stolen her past, but MacKayla will never allow her sister’s murderer to take her future. Yet even the uniquely gifted sidhe-seer is no match for the Lord Master, who has unleashed an insatiable sexual craving that consumes Mac’s every thought—and thrusts her into the seductive realm of two very dangerous men, both of whom she desires but dares not trust.

As the enigmatic Jericho Barrons and the sensual Fae prince V’lane vie for her body and soul, as cryptic entries from her sister’s diary mysteriously appear and the power of the Dark Book weaves its annihilating path through the city, Mac’s greatest enemy delivers a final challenge.…

It’s an invitation Mac cannot refuse, one that sends her racing home to Georgia, where an even darker threat awaits. With her parents missing and the lives of her loved ones under siege, Mac is about to come face-to-face with a soul-shattering truth—about herself and her sister, about Jericho Barrons…and about the world she thought she knew.

What more can I say about this series? It's one of my favorite and Dreamfever was really intriguing and a bit different from the other books. Can't wait to re-read it! 

Quote:

“You're leaving me, Rainbow Girl.”

This quote is short but so full of feels I can't even describe. You have to read the book to understand. ♥

Question of this week:

Favorite and least favorite book you read so far this year

Favorite:

Unhinged (splintered #2) by A.G. Howard

Choosing my favorite book of this year is really hard because a lot of the books that I loved are all on the same line for me. I ended up choosing Unhinged because I loved it (obviously) but also because it's a second book in a series and it was just as good as the first one.

Least favorite:

Beauty's Beast by Amanda Ashley

For a Beauty and the Beast retelling this was really bad. I didn't enjoy it at all and struggled to finsih it. I recently posted my review of it so you can go look there to read all my thoughts about it.

Next question (September 25): 

Last book you bought at a bookstore?

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