Entries Tagged as ‘Reviews’

August 14, 2008

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer

Favorite Lines: “There was a squeal against the window-someone deliberately scraping their steel nails across the glass to make a horrible, cover-your-ears, goose-bumps-down-your-spine noise. I shuddered.” (p. 29)
Bella Swan is about get married, be turned into a vampire and never ever be 19. With her fiance, Edward, and her families planning an elaborate wedding, all [...]

August 12, 2008

Insatiable Desire by Rita Herron

Favorite Lines: “The deep shadows of the Smoky Mountains hid monsters. Beasts and evil that fed off the weak. Creatures not quite human.” (ARC p. 1)
Vincent Valtrez has bad blood. His blood is a darkness living inside of him, and allows him to find the worst serial killers. The darkness also brings bad thoughts. For [...]

August 5, 2008

Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs

Favorite Lines: “Her wolf didn’t like seeing his unhappiness, wanted to bind him to her, to them, with chains of love until he could never think of leaving them again. (p. 114)
Anna has survived being changed into a werewolf, losing her family and three years of abuse. Not expecting to survive after she calls the [...]

July 31, 2008

Nightwalker by Jocelynn Drake

Favorite Lines: “The naturi wanted nothing more that to rid the entire earth of all humans and nightwalkers. For them, protecting the earth was only possible through removing its greatest threat-mankind. (p. 30)
Mira, aka Fire Starter, has been a nightwalker (vampire) for centuries. She is 603-years-old and an enforcer in America. She is different from [...]

July 29, 2008

Lucinda, Darkly by Sunny

Favorite Lines: “I looked down and saw my womb glowing with his light where he filled me, where he lay buried deep inside me. And I watched with awe and wonder that dance of iridescent light play upon my dusky skin, lighting me from within and without as he began to move. Then I could [...]

July 23, 2008

Today I got

two packages. Yippee!!!! I got Vicious Circle by Mike Carey and Beautiful Liars by Kylie Adams from Romance Review Today, and a good buddy sent me Nightwalker by Jocelynn Drake.

July 22, 2008

My website is at

a standstill for the moment. I’ve got a ton of reviews to reformat, and even more to write. I need a full two or three days to focus completely on scooperspeaks.com if I’m ever going to complete it.
I think I’m going to start playing Thursday 13 again on a variety of topics. The site is [...]

July 21, 2008

Happy Hour of the Damned by Mark Henry

Favorite lines: “Their tiny hands stretched out toward him, becoming claws, their blunt little Chicklet teeth gone needle pointy. Their eyes were deep black death holes,portals to somewhere else-where the screams live (or go to die). (p. 266)
Amanda Feral is an undead, zombie socialite crunching her way through Seattle one homeless person at a time. [...]

July 17, 2008

His Wicked Sins by Eve Silver

Favorite lines: “Catching her wrist, he drew her hand up, turned her palm forward. With no concern for propriety, he pushed her fingers inside his coat and his vest, against the thin linen of his shirt. Against his heart.
Warmth flooded her, the heat of his body. The heat of his gaze, so focused, so [...]

July 16, 2008

Dead people and Twitter

I’m finally doing what a co-worker told me to do a month or two ago. What? I’m working with dead people (obit clerk) and learning to Twitter. I’m hoping to pick it up quickly, but please have patience with me as I learn. Tomorrow I should have Eve Silver’s soon to be released book reviewed.