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Blood Bound- Mercy Thompson Book 2: Patricia Briggs

Recommend.

Amazon Summary:
A sorcerer-turned-vampire wreaks havoc on Washington’s Tri-Cities, causing death, destruction and a paranormal faceoff in the second of Briggs’s series featuring Mercy Thompson, a mechanic and “walker”: one who can turn into a coyote at will. After attempts by the paranormal community to destroy the malevolent sorcerer fail, Mercy finds herself pulled into the fray: though her werewolf and vampire friends are stronger than she, it turns out that Mercy’s abilities make her the only one in town who can save them all. While she discovers the truth about her powers, she also learns more about her past, and the werewolves who raised her. Though the romantic subplot-involving two rival werewolves, Alpha wolf Adam and Mercy’s roommate Samuel-fizzles, Briggs has a refreshing knack for imbuing her characters (even non-humans) with lived-in human qualities. When it gets going, this paranormal adventure story is engaging, but a flabby first-person narrative stunts the suspense.

  • Hardcover: 352 pages
  • Publisher: Ace Hardcover (January 4, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0441020070
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Bearers of the Black Staff: Terry Brooks

I was so excited when I read that Terry was going to be continuing his Shannara series. He has written them in a confusing order.
The Shannara Series is set in the future (although it seems more like the past) and has like 17 books to it.
Then it goes WAAAAAYYYYY back to the Word and Void series.
Then we start connecting it all with the Genesis of Shannara series.

This is after the Genesis series but before the Shannara series.
Need more of an explanation? Here you go:

Word & Void

  • Running with the Demon
  • A Knight of the Word
  • Angel Fire East

Pre-Shannara
Genesis of Shannara

  • Armageddon’s Children
  • The Elves of Cintra
  • The Gypsy Morph

Legends of Shannara

Shannara
The Original Shannara Novels

  • The Sword of Shannara
    • In the Shadow of the Warlock Lord – first 1/3 of The Sword of Shannara
    • The Druids’ Keep – middle 1/3 of The Sword of Shannara
    • The Secret of the Sword – last 1/3 of The Sword of Shannara
  • The Elfstones of Shannara
  • The Wishsong of Shannara

A Shannara Short Story

  • Indomitable – An epilogue to The Wishsong of Shannara

A Shannara Graphic Novel

  • Dark Wraith of Shannara

The Heritage of Shannara

  • The Scions of Shannara
  • The Druid of Shannara
  • The Elf Queen of Shannara
  • The Talismans of Shannara

A Shannara Prequel

  • First King of Shannara

The Voyage of the Jerle Shannara

  • Ilse Witch
  • Antrax
  • Morgawr

High Druid of Shannara

  • Jarka Ruus
  • Tanequil
  • Straken

Confused yet? Well don’t be.
Just start with this trilogy and if you like it, go from there.
It’s very Lord of the Ring-esq and a great read. If you are like me and get attached to characters and series, this is great because there are SO many of them!

Anyways, I was so happy that Terry decided to keep the series going awhile longer and so this book just came out.

It was great. I loved it!
5 stars and totally recommend!

  • Hardcover: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Del Rey (August 24, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0345484177
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Mockingjay: Suzanne Collins

Now this was a fantastic conclusion to this trilogy!

It wraps everything up and has everything that you would be looking for for in Book Three.

I am not really going to write a lot about it, but to say that I loved it.

If you have read Hunger Games and Catching Fire then you will love this book!

5 stars and definitely recommend it!

So go read it!

  • Reading level: Young Adult
  • Hardcover: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Scholastic Press; 1 edition (August 24, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0439023513
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First Trimester Hiatus

Well, the most awful thing has happened, reading gives me motion sickness!
So I am taking a forced hiatus on reading for the next few weeks until I can read without running to the toilet.
This is totally sad because Mockingjay and Clockwork Angel both come out in the next 2 weeks, PLUS the 3 books I have waiting on my Kindle… I have a lot to catch up on!

Until then, what are you reading?

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Summer 2010 Reading List- End of July Assessment

So here we are at the end of July and boy have I drifted from my 2010 Summer Reading List!

Okay, so here is the assessment of where I am at:

BOOKS READ:
Brightly Woven
Wicked Lovely
The Forest of Hands and Teeth
The Crescent
The Bride Collector
The Forgotten Garden
Moon Called

BOOKS TO READ:
Assassins Apprentice
Green
Little Bee

Not too bad! I hopefully can get them all done by the end of August (which to me is the end of Summer). It just is hard because I keep finding all kinds of other goodness that keeps stealing my attention! But such is the life of a reader 🙂