Ascension by Sable Grace

The gates of hell have opened, and one woman will stand in the crossfire as the Dark Breed -- vampyre, demons, shape shifters -- and mankind fight their last battle for survival.

Kyana is half Vampyre, half Lychen... and the last of her kind. Determined, dangerous, and damned, she has no love for the mortals who have imprisoned and misused her. But when the Order of Ancients entrusts her with a mission -- to find the key that will send the Dark Breed back into Hell for eternity -- Kyana has no choice but to accept.

She is furious to learn her assignment comes with an escort... Ryker, a demigod and fierce warrior who long ago found a way under her skin and stayed there. In a shaky alliance, they discover an ancient cult with dangerous motive and a god who seeks to destroy all others. And as Kyana begins to feel the heat that threatens to bind her to Ryker, she knows she has to resist. For it could only mean the undoing of them both...

about the author~

Sable Grace is the writing team of Heather Waters & Laura Barone, long time critique partners and friends who came together by fluke to discover their voices fit together quite nicely during an experiment of "I'll write the first sentence, you write the next." It was meant to be nothing more than a warm up exercise for each of them to get started on their own projects, but soon, the story became far more interesting than what they were supposed to be working on and Sable Grace was born.

Both Heather and Laura reside in Florida, are happily married, and are, well, complete opposites. (Think the Odd Couple on crack here.) Still, there's enough common ground for them to weave their words together in the voice of Sable Grace.Heather also writes medieval romances under her real name, which you can find at www.heatherwaters.net, and Laura is a Golden Heart finalist for her highly sensual manuscript, Mr. Right Now.

You can reach them both at sablegrace(AT)ymail.com

my thoughts~
Loved it! Ok, it did take me a minute to really get into it, but once I did! Woo! Kyana is an a*s kicking Vampyre/Lychen who I just wanted to win! And Ryker, well who doesn't like a 'surfer boy' warrior/ Demi-God? Yeah. They make a heck of a team that makes me glad that this is book #1 in the Dark Breed series and anxious to read the second! I always wonder how an author (or in the case authors) come up with some of these ideas? I bow to their great imaginations and hope that the rest of the series will be as great as Ascension is.

Still Sick...

I know, I'm falling way behind, I have giveaway winners to announce, books to read & review, and I've posted no weekly meme's for the last 2 weeks. When I am reading, it's books that I've read before. Nothing that I need to think to much about. Consider all giveaways open until winners are announced.

Driftwood Cottageby Sherryl Woods

Single mom Heather Donovan's dreams of home and family are tantalizingly within reach when she settles in Chesapeake Shores. The welcoming arms of the boisterous, loving O'Brien clan embrace her and her son. But accepting their support seems to further alienate her son's father, Connor O'Brien. His parents' divorce and his career as a high-powered divorce attorney have left him jaded about marriage.

Then everything changes. Will the possibility of a future without Heather make Connor look at love and his career differently? Heather's just about given up on her old dreams - of love, of family and especially of Driftwood Cottage, the home she secretly wishes were hers. It's going to take a lot of persuasion - and some help from the O'Brien family - to make Heather believe that some dreams are worth fighting for.

my thoughts~
This was my first visit to Chesapeake Bay, but this isn't going to be my last! I loved Heather & Conner's story! I know that issues from your parents divorce can effect a person for a long time and Conner sure is having a difficult time with his parents divorce and the fact that they have gotten back together after all these years has not help Conner at all! Conner & his family are at odds, Heather & her family aren't on the best of terms, but as with any good romance, with a little hard work & love in your heart, all things are possible.  I found the story to be heartwarming and insightful and I'm glad that  Ms. Woods has given me a book that I will read again & again!

My Ramblings On...The Black Dagger Brotherhood Seriesby J.R. Ward

There might be some spoilers below. If you haven't read all of the books, don't read any further!

You've been warned!

While I've been sick this week, I took the opportunity to finish reading (again!) the Black Dagger Brotherhood series. Call me smitten, but they are are still as good the 4th time I read them as the first! Zsadist is still my favorite but really, there isn't a brother I don't like!

I know that it's already been announced that Tohr's book is next, and I think she will have him with No 'One, but I can't help but wonder, HOW? I mean he was devastated when Wellsie was killed. And he was definitely bonded with her. I mean come on, he freaking disappeared for 8 months and was living off of deer blood. And about No 'One. She died, then was given the ok to stay on the other side and help care for the Chosen and is now back on this side, with Payne (& Xhex). Is she alive? Or would that be living? And if the Virgin Scribe can give her human form again so she lives, why couldn't she do that with Doc Jane? I mean Doc Jane is her Daughter-In-Law. Hmmm...

On her Facebook page she mentions 'And now it's time to finish Rhage and Mary's slice of life :D *shares Tootsie Pops*' I'm assuming it's a novella. Could it be that they will soon be adopting a child? I would love to see that happen! I've kind of missed Rhage's beast in the last few books, too. 

In Love Mine, Lash (the bastard) thinks how he has Quinn's brother in deep freeze. Did I cough my way through what became of him? For the life of me, I can't remember! 

I look forward to more of Payne & Manny in the future. And I'm glad that so far Manny isn't having to change. I think it's great that Butch & Manny are half brothers and that they've found each other! Which opens up the possibility of Manny becoming a Vampire, since both he & Butch are descended from Wrath!

I'm still hoping for a Quinn & Blay book. Color me confused, I'm not sure where the WARDen is going with this whole Layla thing. I will  be very disappointed if she has Quinn end up with Layla. I mean he's already thrown off his bonding scent with Blay. I wish I could just tell her: don't follow the NORM with these two. Let Quinn & Blay have their romance, please don't make them follow what society considers 'normal' romance.

Well those are just some of my ramblings about the BDB series. I have more, but I think those will be posted later! Have a fabulous Saturday!

Sorry...

Sorry I haven't posted anything this week. I've been terribly sick, and still am really. This morning I woke up a little bit better so I will try to get back on track next week!

Altamont Augie by Richard Barager

With Vietnam looming like a scythe over an entire generation, University of Minnesota sophomore David Noble bolts from an anti-war teach-in his girlfriend coaxes him to and enlists in the marines. Her pride wounded by his rush to war, Jackie Lundquist ignores David's letters from Vietnam, where he serves out his enlistment burrowed into the blood-red clay of Khe Sanh, surviving a brutal siege before returning home to find Jackie immersed in a counterculture world of drugs and militancy.

To Jackie, the faltering war in Vietnam is a failure of national conscience; to David it is a failure of national honor. But neither her rise to fame as the growing anti-war movement's alluring Radical Queen nor David's defiant counter-protest activities in support of the war can extinguist their passion for one another. Both their tumultuous affair and the Age of Aquarius itself cartwheel into the decade's last great rock festival: Altamont, the death rattle of the Sixties, where shame and honor collide, and tragedy awaits redemption.

To me, this book got a little boring at times. It started off a little slow, but gradually hooked me into the love story between two of the characters. I feel that the author goes into too much detail about racial issues in the book and at times uses words that have to be looked up in a dictionary to understand what is being said. The chapters about the Vietnam War were interesting, but I was disappointed in the book as a whole.

Friendly Fireby Megan Hart

After Agent Kendall Frasier's partner is shot in "friendly fire" during a drug bust, she agrees to take a week's vacation on a tropical island as part of her psychiatric evaluation. Sand, sun, sea—what could be better to help her work through her guilt? Even if the presence of the man responsible for the shooting, Agent Zane Vincent, seems counterproductive to her mental health. As Kendall gets to know Zane, and realizes he feels worse about what happened than she does, it becomes impossible to hate him. And their mutual attraction becomes impossible to deny.
Kendall and Zane soon agree to put the event that brought them together in the past—and spend the present exploring their most erotic desires. Do they have a future in the real world when their week in paradise is over?

my thoughts~ Take a look at that cover! Smoking HOT! This novella (I guess you would call it a novella since it is only about 55 pages long) is not a book that you will find hard to read! Anyone who has read Megan Hart knows that she packs a big punch in these books! I was laughing out loud during the fake "O" scenes! Think When Harry Met Sally, only in reverse! The love scenes were steamy, the conversations believable and the main characters were likable.

In My Mailbox04/17/11)

Now that the weather has improved, I will not be reading quite as much. 

This week, I didn't not buy, receive or check out any books!

Unbelievable I know! But true all the same! I will continue reading, just at a slower pace!

Weekly Wrap Up(04/16/11)

 

reviews

Once Bitten, Twice Shy

Quick review for the Jaz Parks series

posts

Teaser Tuesday

Waiting On Wednesday

giveaways

Eternal Rider

Never A Gentleman

The Sweetest Thing

Happy Blogoversary Giftcard Giveaway  

(ends Sunday!)

my week

Wow! This week I've read Once Bitten, Twice Shy, Another One Bites The Dust, Biting The Bullet, Bitten To Death, One More Bite & Bite Marks by Jennifer Rardin! I am almost finished with the books that have been published and almost ready to move onto the ARC, The Deadliest Bite, woohoo! I finished listening to Suzanne Brockmann's Ladies Man on audio (does that count toward number of books read? hmmm...) and started listening to Blood Brothers by Nora Roberts. I bought a bike last week, so I've been listening while I ride to the library. It's really nice! But it's been raining off & on since yesterday and I'm feeling claustrophobic! LOL!

Jennifer Rardin...

If you've been reading the blog at all this week, then you know that I've just found & fallen in love with Jennifer Rardin's Jaz Parks series. I went to her website today and learned that she passed away in September 2010. R.I.P. Ms. Rardin, you were a talented woman! Thanks for a great series.

quick review for the Jaz Parks seriesbooks 2-4

Jaz Parks has enough trouble in her personal life. What she doesn't need is more trouble with her vampire boss and another mission. This time she has to retrieve a vital piece of biotechnology by killing the maniac who stole it: an ancient Chinese vamp. Their cover in this mission: professional entertainers at the Corpus Christi's Winter Festival.

The crew's all here: a psychic, a techno-wizard, a singing vampire, a juggling PI, and Jaz. Holy crap in a bottomless well, Jaz is going to bellydance. It's definitely, probably, quite possibly going to be the end of the world as we know it.

 This is a mission unlike anything my vampire boss, Vayl, and I have ever been on. It's not our usual take them out and run; it's an undercover mission that needs the whole gang: a psychic, an interpreter, and a weapons specialist. We're joining a Special Ops team to nail the Wizard, a major terrorist thorn in the military's side. We've never gone in with such heavy artillery before, but the more the merrier, right? Um . . . nope. At least not since Vayl and I learned part of our job is to ferret out a mole concealed in our unit.
To add to our problems, we're being harried by a pack of reavers bent on revenge, and targeted by a Seer who wants to share Vayl's power - at any cost. Oh yeah, and let's not forget the army of demonic, soul-sucking parasites either. This is going to be a blast.

Jaz Parks here. My latest mission has taken me to the ancient Greek city of Patras; but instead of soaking up its splendor, I'm here to infiltrate a Vampere Trust. Only two vamps have ever escaped the tightly bound communities and lived to tell the tale: Edward "The Raptor" Samos, the most reviled criminal mastermind in recent memory, and Vayl, the CIA's number one assassin who also happens to be my boss. The Raptor is trying to take over Vayl's former Trust. Unfortunately the Trust's new leader has her own plans.

This job is going to be the death of me.

my thoughts~ I can't believe I'm hooked on another series! I need to stop! lol! I love the premise of these books. Jaz is the assistant to Vayl, the CIA's number one assassin, who just so happens to be a Vampire. In these books, Jaz & Vayl are getting closer (just not close enough, *wink wink*) and fulfilling their jobs the CIA is sending them on. I find these books hilariously entertaining and quick witted reads. Jaz is a kick ass heroine that keeps me laughing out loud.

Waiting On Wednesday(04/13/11)

If I Die by Rachel Vincent

 Product Details

• Reading level: Young Adult
• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Harlequin; Original edition (September 20, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0373210329

Nope, there isn't even a cover yet, but I'm anxiously awaiting If I Die!

Teaser Tuesday (04/12/11)

Teaser Tuesday is weekly meme hosted by Miz B of Should Be Reading! It's a great way to check out what your fellow bloggers are reading. Anyone can play! Here are the rules:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from the page. PLEASE DON'T INCLUDE SPOILERS!
• Share the author and title of the book so that others can add it to their TBR list if they want.

my teaser~
"Sometimes the best way to win a brawl is never begin it in the first place."
"Yeah, sure," I said. "People are so good at that."
 
Biting The Bullet (Jaz Parks series) by Jennifer Rardin
eBook, page 105

Blog Tour & Giveaway!Eternal Rider by Larissa Ione

They are here. They ride. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
His name is Ares, and the fate of mankind rests on his powerful shoulders. If he falls to the forces of evil, the world falls too. As one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, he is far stronger than any mortal, but even he cannot fight his destiny forever. Not when his own brother plots against him.
Yet there is one last hope. Gifted in a way other humans can't-or won't-understand, Cara Thornhart is the key to both this Horseman's safety and his doom. But involving Cara will prove treacherous, even beyond the maddening, dangerous desire that seizes them the moment they meet. For staving off eternal darkness could have a staggering cost: Cara's life.

I began writing the way so many writers do—the moment I learned to wield a pencil. But even as a child, I didn't write "kid" stories. I preferred something more dramatic. Something that didn't include Dick, Jane, and a dog named Spot. I wanted my characters to be named Dracula and my dogs to have names like White Fang or Cujo. I'll always have my parents to thank for that. They never censored my reading material (though I suspect that if they had truly known what was between the covers of some of the books, they'd have been a little more careful,) so when other girls my age were reading Laura Ingalls Wilder and Judy Blume, I was immersing myself in Stephen King and Dean Koontz.
Later, after I'd joined the Air Force and was in dire need of something to read between shifts at the weather station, I continued to read horror, but I'd branched out into fantasy, and then, finally, romance (though I admit I went kicking and screaming to the latter.)
Turned out that I loved romance! So I started writing it, but again, my style and voice leaned toward the dark, paranormal side. Fortunately for me, paranormal romance, as a sub-genre, was booming. I let my imagination fly, and soon I'd sold a series of dark, sexy paranormal romances to Grand Central Publishing.
I still read a lot of horror, science fiction, and fantasy, and in fact, one of my all time favorite books about writing is On Writing, by my favorite childhood horror author, Stephen King. If you're an author or a reader, I highly recommend this book for an insight into an author's mind—which can sometimes be a very scary place.
Go ahead; Seduce your dark side.

Larissa's Sites:

• LarissaIone.com
• Larissa Ione's MySpace page
• Goodreads
• @larissaione
• Facebook

Once Bitten, Twice Shyby Jennifer Rardin

Jaz Parks is an assistant assassin who works for the CIA. She and her boss, Vayl, have just received an assignment to meet, assess, and neutralize a Miami plastic surgeon with some disturbing supernatural connection. A spunky tale with real bite.



my thoughts~ Once Bitten, Twice Shy is the first book in the Jaz Parks series by Jennifer Rardin. I thought it was great! I loved meeting Jaz, Vayl (of course!), Bergman...well the list could go on & on! Jaz is an assassin with the CIA that excels at her job. Vayl, the CIA's golden boy, err, 300 year old Vampire, requests that she become his assistant. This book is set six months after the request & they have been working really well together. Jaz has been experiencing black outs and keeping them from everyone else. She had a traumatic experience awhile back and she doesn't remember much from it. The current assignment is to take out a guy that is the front for a terrorist cell. He's a world famous surgeon who lies and gets people to donate money to 'help' pay the cost of surgeries for children with disfigurements. He is actually working with vamps to bring out The Red Plague, a plague that will wipe out the weakest humans.

In My Mailbox04/10/11)

Bought~
Mr. Darcy Vampyre by Amanda Grange (eBook)
Mr. Darcy, Vampyre starts where Pride and Prejudice ends and introduces a dark family curse so perfectly that the result is a delightfully thrilling, spine-chilling, breathtaking read. A dark, poignant and visionary continuation of Austen's beloved story, this tale is full of danger, darkness and immortal love.


Library~

Under The Boss's Mistletoe by Jessica Hart 
In high school, Jake Trevelyan was Cassie Grey's dream rebel. He surfed, rode a motorbike--now he's her new boss!
It's events planner Cassie's job to transform Jake's mansion into a snow-kissed wedding venue. Not to relive her old fantasy they're the ones getting married. Posing as the happy couple for a publicity photo shoot, Cassie pinches herself as Jake leans in for a show-stopping kiss...but it's just for the cameras, isn't it?
Selfish Is The Heart by Megan Hart
To escape an arranged marriage, Annalise Marony decides to become a Handmaiden of the Order of Solace. But she is thwarted at every turn by Cassian, a teacher of the faith, who must test her dedication. Older than most of the girls, Annalise knows that she will be expected to please a patron in pleasures of the flesh-and she is not shy about teasing Cassian. And as they both play out the game of master and student, the secrets in their souls will either tear them apart-or bind them together forever. 
The Baby Swap Miracle by Caroline Anderson
Sam Hunter had only intended to help his brother fulfill his dream of having children, but now, through an IVF mix-up, a complete stranger is pregnant with his child! To make matters worse, she's utterly gorgeous….
For warmhearted widow Emilia Eastwood, this child was meant to be the final legacy of her husband. The hospital's discovery turns her world upside down. Sam begins to feel fiercely protective of his accidental family, and soon he and Emilia discover that fate can lead to a love you never expected.
Angel's Blood by Nalini Singh (book #1 of the Guild Hunter series) eBook
Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux is hired by the dangerously beautiful Archangel Raphael. But this time, it's not a wayward vamp she has to track. It's an archangel gone bad.
The job will put Elena in the midst of a killing spree like no other—and pull her to the razor's edge of passion. Even if the hunt doesn't destroy her, succumbing to Raphael's seductive touch just may. For when archangels play, mortals break.
Archangel's Kiss by Nalini Singh (book #2 of the Guild Hunter series) eBook
Vampire hunter Elena Deveraux wakes from a year-long coma to find herself changed—an angel with wings the colors of midnight and dawn—but her fragile body needs time to heal before she can take flight. Her lover, the stunningly dangerous archangel Raphael, is used to being in control—even when it comes to the woman he considers his own. But Elena has never done well with authority… They’ve barely begun to understand each other when Raphael receives an invitation to a ball from the archangel Lijuan. To refuse would be a sign of fatal weakness, so Raphael must ready Elena for the flight to Beijing—and to the nightmare that awaits them there. Ancient and without conscience, Lijuan holds a power that lies with the dead. And she has organized the most perfect and most vicious of welcomes for Elena…

audiobooks from the library~

Blood Brothers by Nora Roberts
In the small village of Hawkins Hollow, three best friends who share the same birthday sneak off into the woods for a sleepover the evening before turning 10. But a night of pre-pubescent celebration turns into a night of horror as their blood brother oath unleashes a three-hundred year curse.
Twenty-one years later, Cal Hawkins and his friends have seen their town plagued by a week of unexplainable evil events two more times - every seven years. With the clock winding down on the third set of seven years, someone else has taken an interest in the town's folklore. Quinn is a well known scholar of local legends, and despite Cal's protests, insists on delving in the mystery. But when the first signs of evil appear months early, it's not only the town Cal tries to protect, but also his heart.

The Hollow by Nora Roberts 
Hawkins Hollow, Maryland, an idyllic town where three boys share not only a birthday- July 7, 1977 - but an innocent ritual of friendship that changes the course of their lives and everything else in Hawkins Hollow. . . . Now those boys are men who must find a way to defeat the evil threatening all they know and love.

eBooks to review~
Friendly Fire by Megan Hart
DEA Agent Kendall Frasier doesn't want to see the man who shot and killed her partner. Zane Vincent wants to forget about the bust gone bad and the man he killed. When both officers arrive at the same tropical island for a department-regulated vacation, more heats up than just the sand and sun. Will they let their past prejudices keep them from giving in to their mutual attraction, or will Zane and Kendall both succumb to a little Friendly Fire?

Twilight Prophecy by Maggie Shayne(Wings In The Night series)
Save the Vampire, Save the World.
According to ancient prophecy, there’s only one chance to avert the complete annihilation of the Undead. Twins James William and Brigit Poe, part human, part vampire, believe that they are that chance. In truth, the key lies with the reclusive—and mortal—scholar Lucy Lanfair.
As Armageddon approaches, antivampire sentiment fuels a war neither side can win, driving James to abandon his moral code and draw Lucy into a deadly battle she wants no part of. But Lucy soon realizes that she holds this powerful immortal’s soul in her hands and that it’s her destiny not only to stop a war but to save him from his inner darkness. If she fails, his race will die—and so will her heart. Is the power of love strong enough to save the world? 

Beyond the Bougainvillea by Dolores Durando
She found her place in a turbulent era of deep passions, heartbreaking sacrifices, and grand dreams.
When scholarly, smart Mary Margaret is sixteen, her father marries her off to a drunken neighbor in return for a tract of land. The year is 1924, and Mary Margaret's motherless childhood has already been hard as a farm girl on the desolate prairies of North Dakota. Abused and helpless, the new Mrs. "Marge" Garrity seems destined for a tragic fate.
But Marge is determined to make her life count, no matter what. Her escape from her brutal marriage takes her to California, where she struggles to survive the Great Depression and soon answers the lure of the state's untamed northern half. There, embraced by the rough-and-ready people who built the great Ruck-a-chucky Dam on the American River, she begins to find her true mission in life and the possibility for love and happiness with an Army Corp engineer of Cherokee Indian descent.
This vivid saga of one woman's life in the early decades of a turbulent century is told from the heart of a true storyteller in the grand tradition of women's sagas.

Fang Meby Parker Blue

The vampires want it. The demons want it, too. And someone is willing to kill Val for it.Val and Fang have to find the powerful Encyclopedia Magicka before either of San Antonio's warring underworld factions locate it or the consequences will be deadly for the entire city. As usual, Val's vampire enemies (they still call her The Slayer) want her dead. Even some of her fellow demons may be less than trustworthy, since they'd like to grab the legendary book of spells before she does. Val has a personal claim to the Encyclopedia--her demon father left it to her when he died--but someone stole it recently. And that can't be good.Battling vamps and dodging demons, Val struggles to unravel the mystery and find the thief. At the same time, she's fighting her attraction to sweet, sexy Shade--her favorite shadow demon. Rumor has it that Val will lose her part-demon, vampire-fighting powers if she gives herself to him.With a crowd of vamps and demons out to trick her or kill her, it's not a good time for her to risk her job as the city's best vampire hunter by falling in love. The stakes are high and aimed right at her heart. But Lola, Val's hungry little lust demon, doesn't like being denied. Will Lola finally get her way?What's a part-lust-demon-teen supposed to do? Whatever it takes.

my thoughts~
Fang Me is book #3 in the Demon Underground series finds Val & Shade searching for the Encyclopedia Magika with Trevor, a new half demon in town who says he's the keeper of the books. I love, love, love this series! I am really enjoying reading about Val coming into her own, I love Fang and his snarky sense of humor and I love Shade because he cares so much about others and he loves Val. There are so many people I would love to see get together (hello? Gwen & Micah!!). I look forward to finding out more about Jack Grady (read the book so you know who I'm talking about) and would love to visit with Erica & Marlena again! Ms. Blue has created a world that I love to visit and look forward to her next book next year.

Weekly Wrap Up(04/09/11)

reviews 
Animal Stories Daddy Told Us By Innocent Emechete 
Stop Looking For a Husband {Find the Love of Your Life}By Marina Sbrochi 
Dark Lover by JR Ward re-read!
Bite Me by Parker Blue
Try Me by Parker Blue

posts this week 
Waiting On Wednesday (4/6/11) 
Teaser Tuesday! 
check THIS out!

current giveaways 
Giveaway! The Sweetest Thing by Jill Shalvis
Happy Blogging Birthday!Gift Card Giveaway!

our week in review
This week was a weird week for me. I started walking and so I'm listening to an audiobook while I walk. But it seems to really cut into my reading time!  So I've read Dark Lover by JR Ward, Bite Me, Try Me & Fang Me by Parker Blue (Fang Me review will be posted later today) and The Neon Graveyard by Vicki Pettersson (look for the review 05/31/11!) and listened to the first 2 CD's of Duma Key by Stephen King which I didn't complete. I just wasn't in the mood for it so I switched to Ladies Man by Suzanne Brockmann. Much better. I just think that I was in the mood for a regular ole romance! It just seems that I've been terribly distracted this week and unable to concentrate on reading. I hope it doesn't last too long, I have some awesome books to read!
How was your week?

Try Meby Parker Blue

This part-demon teen vampire fighter and her faithful terrier hellhound are once again patrolling the dark streets of San Antonio, Texas. Val's hunky human partner, Detective Dan Sullivan, is giving her the cold shoulder since she beheaded his vampire fiancée. Vamp leader Alejandro is struggling to keep the peace between vamps, demons and humans. The mucho powerful Encyclopedia Magicka has been stolen, someone in the Demon Underground is poisoning vamps, and Val's inner lust demon, Lola, is getting very restless since Val's now partnered with sexy Shade, the shadow demon with the blond good looks of an angel.

my thoughts~
Try Me is book #2 in the Demon Underground series. As much as I enjoyed reading Bite Me, reading Try Me was twice as good! Try Me find Val being ignored by Dan because of his uncertainty about Lola (what Val calls the lust demon part of herself) and the age difference between them. But Val is making strides in learning who she is and who she wants to become. All while trying to find out what is causing some Vamps to go crazy & kill people and trying to find the Encyclopedia Magika. During all this she has to learn to help feed her demon side (yippee!) to help keep 'her' under control better. Enter the amazing Shade. I just want to go on record here and say: I hope he turns out to be as amazing in the rest of the books as he seems to be in Try Me. I would love to see them together, more permanent! I really, really liked this book & can't wait to start Fang Me, book #3 in the series!

check THIS out!

I was visiting over at The Owl Bookmark Blog and she is hosting a giveaway for a new custom blog design by Use Your Imagination Designs! I've been following Use Your Imagination Designs for awhile now, wanting one (I mean seriously, have you noticed how many times I've changed the design here?!?) but unable to part with the moo-la. So here's hoping I win! LOL!