Review of 8: The Previously Untold Story of the Previously Unknown 8th Dwarf by Michael Mullin

Description 

Written in verse, this is the previously untold story of the previously unknown 8th dwarf, named Creepy. He is banished to the basement for being different and, well, weird. Yet he plays a vital - and of course previously unknown - role in the popular tale of Snow White (whose title character is an intruder Creepy refers to as "the Maid").



My Thoughts
Well i got this book for free and i read it on my computer. The author emailed me saying that i could and asking me to review it if i was able to. I was like as long as its short i will. The cover is a bit funny and childish to me but oh well.

So the book was more of a poem to me but it was very interesting. I liked how the idea of another Dwarf is truely great and it made me laugh when thinking of the normal story. Michael Mullin has a great talent to think of ideas and to be able to write in verses. The diagrams in the book was also very interesting. Some words stood out by making it bolder as well.

Well the main character is this 8th Dwarf which never knew existed. I don't know why but i felt sorry for him even though he was a bit mean and miserable and not doing as the others wanted. Maybe they should of just kicked him out instead of locking him up.

My overall opinion of this book is that its not my usual read and it wasnt as interesting as the books i normally read but i enjoyed it very well and it was enough for the rating i rated it.

Tara

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Review of Haunted (Women of the Otherworld #5) by Kelley Armstrong

My Thoughts

Eve Levine—half-demon, black witch and devoted mother—has been dead for three years. She has a great house, an interesting love life and can't be killed again—which comes in handy when you've made as many enemies as Eve. Yes, the afterlife isn't too bad—all she needs to do is find a way to communicate with her daughter, Savannah, and she'll be happy. 

But fate—or more exactly, the Fates—have other plans. Eve owes them a favor, and they've just called it in. An evil spirit called the Nix has escaped from hell. She feeds on chaos and death, and is very good at persuading people to kill for her. The Fates want Eve to hunt her down before she does any more damage, but the Nix is a dangerous enemy—previous hunters have been driven insane in the process. As if that's not problem enough, the only way to stop her is with an angel's sword. And Eve is no angel…

*This is an adult book and may contain sex, and it does contain strong language*

My Thoughts
This book is the 5th in the series and the Description sounds amazing and the main character has changed. The symbol on the book is linked to the story line as you know from the description an angel's sword. Rest in Peace? Not in the afterlife states its going to be about people who have died and about the afterlife. This book was also from my sister.. but bad news I can't read the next one until I buy it because its missing.

WOW!... is the first word I'm going to say to this utterly amazing book. I think now I know why they did this book about Eve. I was confused when I first saw the description and it said Eve.. but then DUH.. the afterlife. Anyway.. I thought the style of writing is like as I said before the same as the other book but I am very used to it now. The layout of the book and the way everything is described is really good. The POV is with Eve.. Savannah's mum who is dead.

Their is many characters in this book, but as I have before I only talk about the ones who I like or who plays a major role in it. Eve obviously plays a major role in it as she is he main character. I actually love her, she is such a great and loving mother and I feel sorry for her that she is dead and she can't contact her daughter. She is brave and will do anything it takes to get what she wants to help people. The Nix is the bad guy (women), she is evil and hell bent on ruining the world. Trsiel is an angel and he also plays a major role as he helping Eve with getting the Nix as he has been a part of trying to get her in the past. The only other person I want to talk about is Kristof, who was Eve's partner and Savannah's father who played a part in book 3, but died. So basically he is in the afterlife with Eve and helps her to capture Nix as well as Trsiel.

My overall opinion of this book is ... IT WAS BRILLIANT :D  - I need to get the next one. :D
I recommend this book to all Kelley Armstrong lovers... who has started reading this series... and who reads adult books.

Tara

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Review of Industrial Magic (Women of the Otherworld #4) by Kelley Armstrong

Description 
Meet the smart, sexy—supernatural—women of the otherworld. This is not your mother’s coven…

Kelley Armstrong returns with the eagerly awaited follow–up to Dime Store Magic. Paige Winterbourne, a headstrong young woman haunted by a dark legacy, is now put to the ultimate test as she fights to save innocents from the most insidious evil of all…

In the aftermath of her mother’s murder, Paige broke with the elite, ultraconservative American Coven of Witches. Now her goal is to start a new Coven for a new generation. But while Paige pitches her vision to uptight thirty–something witches in business suits, a more urgent matter commands her attention.

Someone is murdering the teenage offspring of the underworld’s most influential Cabals—a circle of families that makes the mob look like amateurs. And none is more powerful than the Cortez Cabal, a faction Paige is intimately acquainted with. Lucas Cortez, the rebel son and unwilling heir, is none other than her boyfriend. But love isn’t blind, and Paige has her eyes wide open as she is drawn into a hunt for an unnatural–born killer. Pitted against shamans, demons, and goons, it’s a battle chilling enough to make a wild young woman grow up in a hurry. If she gets the chance.

*This is an adult book and may contain sex, and it does contain strong language*

My thoughts

Well i have to read this because I read the one before and that was good so I am hoping for this to be better. Once again the cover is such an amazing cover the image at the front symbolises something important in the book. You will know what it means once you have read it. Someone's about to make a killing... This sounds very... interesting and it helps me to think that the book will be good. This book was also from my lovely sister.

Well its really hard talking about this book without giving away any spoilers, but I will try. The writing style is the same as the 3 books before and the POV is with Paige again witch is great. Bits in this book a little slow and boring but the book made up with it by the great and interesting parts. The ending I have to say was the best ending ever. Kelley Armstrong has to be the best Author out there because she is such a great writer.

There is many characters in this book and yes SOME characters from the first and second are in it as well which makes this book a great one. Paige is in it as the 2 before.. she is still so overprotective of Savannah which I am very pleased about. She is brave, honest , strong and she does everything she can to help others and she thinks before acting (most the time). Lucas is in this again and he plays a much more important role than before also his family is in this book as the whole book is about the Cabal companies and all that. Elena, Clay and Jeremy are also in this book, not as a major role but still in it, which I am glad of course because without them this book may not of ended the way it has. Savannah is such a sweety and I love her to bits, though she is still young she is so powerful and she loves Jeremy as well as Lucas and Paige. There is many more Characters but I find it hard talking about evil or not as involved in the book character.

My overall opinion on this book is it is full of magic, death and interesting characters. I loved this book though some parts were boring or not as good.
I recommend this book to people who love Kelley Armstrong's books.. or like reading Adult books or people who are currently reading this series.

Tara

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Review of Dime Store Magic (Women of the Otherworld #3) by Kelley Armstrong

Description 
Leader of the American Coven, guardian to the preteen daughter of a black witch … it’s not the lifestyle twenty-three year-old Paige Winterbourne imagined for herself, and it’s wreaking hell on her social life.
But she’s up to the challenge. When half-demon Leah O'Donnell returns to fight for custody of Savannah, Paige is ready. She’s not as prepared for the team of supernaturals Leah brings with her, including a powerful sorcerer who claims to be Savannah’s father. Cut off from her friends, accused of witchcraft, Satanism, necromancy, murder…Paige quickly realizes that keeping Savannah could mean losing everything else. Has she finally found a battle she isn't willing to fight?

*This is an adult book and may contain sex, and it does contain strong language* 

My Thoughts

So the third in the serious whoop :D. I know that this is going to be good... I can tell this is more to do with magic than werewolves.. how?.. because of the description and title. I love the line underneath the authors name. Prepare to be enchanted. . . - This seems interesting and good. Anyway This was also from my sister.

The writing style is exactly the same as the two books before this..:D.. and I its easy to read it if you don't mind long books. The story-line is different two the 2 before which I am very glad of though it does mention characters from the book before and has some in. Paige is the main character here and the POV is her. She was in the last book but didn't play a major role., but in this she does. Is it just me are is the font getting bigger..or is it just that I'm getting used to it.. whatever the reason I feel its getting easier to read these books which I am glad. Though at first it was a but slow and uninteresting but after it started rolling and I was glued to the book and wanted to finish it.

The main character in this book is Paige and she was an all right character not as good as Elena but still an alright character. She's strong and determined to keep the ones she loves as safe as possible and will do anything to do just that. Savannah is so young but yet so powerful and her love for her mother and even Paige is so strong and I just love her so much as a character. Lucas is also a main character and I actually love him to bits. He just wanted to help Paige and yeah it started out professional.. but then.. it turned out he really is a great and kind guy and I loved him to bits. Leah, let me think of what I can say about her other than she is such a mean character and I hate her to bits.  There was many other characters and not just good ones the bad characters are just as bad.

My overall opinion on this book is that it was a good read and I loved it enough to read the next book .. even if I hated it I would :D
Some of the characters was just so utterly amazing and I am glad they were in it.. though I wished that more of the characters from the last book was in it.
I recommend this book to all adult and people who have been reading this series so far.

Tara

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Results of my poll: Twilight or Harry Potter? (Movie or Book)

So.. for a joke.. and maybe just to actually find out. 
I set this poll up to see out of them which one is more popular. 


I am happy with results :D 


Twilight : 2 votes :)
Harry Potter: 12 voted :D
None: 3 votes :-)





So as you can see.. Harry Potter is the most loved :D
And Twilight is the least. 


Tara
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Review of Stolen (Women of the Otherworld #2) by Kelley Armstrong

Even though she’s the world’s only female werewolf, Elena Michaels is just a regular girl at heart -- with larger than normal appetites. She sticks to three feasts a day, loves long runs in the moonlight, and has a lover who is unbelievably frustrating yet all the more sexy for his dark side. Like every regular girl, she certainly doesn't believe in witches. Then again, when two small, ridiculously feminine women manage to hurl her against a wall, and then save her from the hunters on her tail, Elena realizes that maybe there are more things in heaven and earth than she’s dreamt of.
Vampires, demons, shamans, witches -- in Stolen they all exist, and they’re all under attack. An obsessed tycoon with a sick curiosity is well on his way to amassing a private collection of supernaturals, and plans to harness their powers for himself -- even if it means killing them. For Elena, kidnapped and imprisoned deep underground, separated from her Pack, unable to tell her friends from her enemies, choosing the right allies is a matter of life and death.

*This is an adult book and may contain sex, and it does contain strong language*



After reading the first one I had to grab the second one as soon as possible and start reading it. The description just makes me fall into the book, and I just wanted to read it all. Once again the cover is just amazing and I knew what the book was roughly about before I even read the blurb.


This book was even better than the first one. If I could rate this higher than I have I would. This one had hardly any sex scenes and that meant there was more action. From the very first chapter to the very last I may have put the book down at times but that's only if I was in college.. or on the laptop or going to sleep. Other than that I was glued to it and I didn't want to stop reading. The plot and writing style is so good. The plot is basically what the blurb/description says. The writing style is the same as the book before. The POV is once again Elena, I love the POV being Elena I do not know how I am going to like the POV being different in the next book.


Well what can I say about the characters.. It is the same characters as the book before.. but a lot more characters are also introduced, and not just good ones, bad ones too. Elena is once again the main character, she is brave, strong and I love her to bits, once again she tries anything to save her life and others. Clay. Jeremy is also in the book but they don't play a major role as they did with the book before. Paige and Ruth are witches and they come into the book to warn the werewolf's about what has been happening and to join forces to fight whatever it is to fight. Adam is a half demon and is also in this book.. to me he isn't a main character but he is in it more than Clay and Jeremy. Cassandra is also in this book and she is a vampire.. I really don't like her, she was just to me a really bad character, I am so glad she didn't have a major role. Leah is also a half demon but she has a different ability to Adam. Savannah is a witch and she is only a young girl who was kept underground with Leah and soon to be Elena. Savannah may be young but she is powerful. There is many more characters but I don't want to bore you with them all. I am just going to say all character have something interesting about them.




My overall opinion is that I liked most of the characters and the plot was utterly amazing. The ideas in this book is phenomenal and I will never forget about this book either.
I recommend this book to anyone who reads Adult books and love supernatural creatures such as.. Vampires, Werewolf's , witches, demons etc..

Tara

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Review of Bitten (Women of the Otherworld #1) by Kelley Armstrong

Description
Elena Michaels is your regular twenty-first-century girl: self-assured, smart and fighting fit. She also just happens to be the only female werewolf in the world...

It has some good points. When she walks down a dark alleyway, she's the scary one. But now her Pack - the one she abandoned so that she could live a normal life - are in trouble, and they need her help. Is she willing to risk her life to help the ex-lover who betrayed her by turning her into a werewolf in the first place? And, more to the point, does she have a choice?

*This is an adult book and contains sex and strong language*

My Thoughts 
My sister has had these for a while and because its an adult book I couldn't really read it until a certain age.. hence why I'm them now :D. The cover lured me in and the description helped a lot. There is so many covers out there with the characters at the front.. this is different.

The book was Amazing. There wasn't to many sex scenes thank god. It was mostly the plot and action, which was great. I love books with werewolves and this impressed me so much. The writing style of this book is great and it is very descriptive. The writing was small but I got used to it after a few chapters because I was glued into the book (Not literally lol). The POV was mainly on Elena who is the main character in this book.

There is many characters in this book but the main one is the one I mentioned just now. Elena Michaels is not your regular women.. nope she's a werewolf, the only werewolf which is around because werewolf genes is only passes on to sons unless bitten and when your bitten you may not survive. She's a strong willed women/werewolf and she tries to make the right decisions though some aren't so great. She willing to try anything to help her life.. but some things are just.. out of your hand as you see in the book. Clayton is another main character who is a werewolf.. and he has a history with Elena which you find out in the book (not gonna spoil it). He is strong, feisty, hot and is protective. I love him so much and I never ever want to forget this character. Jeremy is the pack alpha which means he's in charge of the pack which Clay and (kind of) Elena is part of. He is such a kind and Understanding guy but I feel some decisions he makes are stupid and I feel that Elena or another character should of been alpha, but other than that he's a great werewolf and character and he's just got that spark which I love.

My overall opinion on which you could probaly guess is that i loved this with a passion and i never ever want to forget this book :) I think this is like one of my top ten books ever and maybe the Number 1 book in this month :)
I recocmend this book to Adult reader or who reads Adult books and if they love Werewolfs :D (I mean it .. Get a copy).

Tara

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Review of Tithe (The Modern Faerie Tales #1) by Holly Black

Description
Sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she travels from city to city with her mother's rock band until an ominous attack forces the sixteen-year-old back to her childhood home. There, amid the industrial, blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye soon finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms -- a struggle that could very well mean her death.



My Thoughts 
So.. I knew my sister has had this for a while.. but I never thought of reading it until I read all of the other books my sister had read and I loved them so why not try this one. The cover is very intriguing to me and it well is also to do with the book which is great. So I was getting excited to read this.. and how I was glad to read it.

The writing style of this books is easy and great, the font in the book is big so it was an easy and quick read but it never lacked in anything. Love wasn't a great deal but yet was apart of it. The POV kept changing but it was mostly on Kaye seen as to me she was the main character :D. I loved how this book was a bit different to other faerie books which I am glad.. I say, what's the point in every book being the same. I love the plot and the ideas of the whole book.

Kaye is such a great character and she doesn't even know the full truth. She is brave, strong and she is a loving character. As in other books she doesn't want what is happening but she will have to live with it and get used to it, and I think she deals with it in away I might of if I was told what she was told. Rye is a faerie and he plays a good part in this book. Cornelius also plays a part in this book and the way he accepts it is well a lot better than I thought... a bit unreal but oh well. He is brave and charming. All characters in this book I feel in love with or liked a lot, even the bad guys. (yeah I know, I'm mental).

My overall opinion of this book is that it is amazing and I truly loved it. It was an easy read and loveable characters. I recommend this book to anyone who loves a good faerie story/book.

Tara

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Review of Bleeding Hearts (Drake Chronicles #4) by Alyxandra Harvey

Description 

The Drakes and friends will be tested when an infestation of deadly vampires threatens Violet Hill.

Lucy's cousin Christabel has come to live in Violet Hill, and adjusting to the difference between life in a small mountain town and her home in the city is difficult enough. The strict curfew that Lucy's parents enforce is the worst part. Something really dangerous couldn't possibly happen in this tiny town.

But Christabel has noticed some mysterious happenings, and it seems like Lucy, her boyfriend Nicholas and his brother Connor are all in on a secret that Christabel doesn't understand—one that seems deadly serious. Although she won't admit it, Christabel would love to be in on any secret with Connor Drake. But when she is kidnapped by the ruthless Hel-Blar vampires, Christabel must cause more and more trouble in Violet Hill, Lucy and Connor finally fill Christabel in on all the undead drama. Together, they must find a way to stamp out the Hel-Blar for good.

My Thoughts
Well when my sister came home saying she bought two books I was so excited... and I jumped for joys when I saw this was one of them. After she read it I stopped reading what I was reading and started reading this.. I would say I read it within a day. The cover relates to the book to me, and I love how if you saw it you would be drawn into it.

This book is so well written and well thought out, I didn't really forget the characters though I did get confused at some parts of the book, but that might be because I am one confused girl. The POV changes with each chapter and takes turn. So 1 chapter is Lucy.. the other is Connor and then the next Christabel. This is a great plot and though some characters arent the main ones in this book they still pay an important role. Solange kind of creeps me out in this book.. you will see why, if and when you read this, or if you have already.

The characters in this book are either human, or a vampire, OR maybe a Hel- Bar. Christabel is here because of a certain reason and she is trying to get used to living in violet hill, she doesn't know anything about the vampires but she soon learns about it, she is brave and an interesting character and I loved her love for books and poetry. Lucy was a character in the last 3 books so i don't really need to say much apart from I loved her still and I liked how she is so brave even knowing that danger is out there. Connor is one of the Drakes brothers and how I like is point of view. He is one tough vampire and I love how he risked everything to do a certain thing in the book. (not saying what :) )

My overall opinion on this book is.. its as good as the other 3 before :D .. If you loved the others.. or if you haven't read them yet.. then GET your hands on them.


(PS. WHAT an ending :O )

Tara

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