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Monday, February 7, 2011

City of Fallen Angels Chapter Hunt


I'm so excited to announce our exciting news, as Cassie just posted this!

Next week we are one of five blogs who we will be revealing a part of one chapter from City of Fallen Angels. Each blog will reveal at least some part of the same chapter, but will have a few key pieces missing from their post. You will need to visit each of our blogs in order to piece together the whole chapter.

I'm thrilled that Mundie Moms will be kicking off the chapter hunt next MONDAY, FEBRUARY 14th! The hunt will run through the 18th.

Be sure to visit each of the blogs here-

MondayMundie Moms
TuesdayWondrous Reads
WednesdayNovel Novice
ThursdayNaughty Book Kitties
FridayStory Siren

Be sure to visit Cassie's site here for more-
http://www.mortalinstruments.com/hunt.php

Book Review- Tiger's Curse (The Tiger Saga #1)


By Colleen Houck
Published by Sterling
Released on Janurary 11th, 2011
Source- ARC from Publisher
4 stars- It's A Great Read

Passion. Fate. Loyalty.


Would you risk it all to change your destiny?


The last thing Kelsey Hayes thought she'd be doing this summer was trying to break a 300-year old Indian curse. With a mysterious white tiger named Ren. Halfway around the world.
But that's exactly what happened.
Face-to-face with dark forces, spell-binding magic, and mystical worlds where nothing is what it seems, Kelsey risks everything to piece together an ancient prophecy that could break the curse forever.
Tiger's Curse is the exciting first volume in an epic fantasy-romance that will leave you breathless and yearning for more (quoted from Goodreads)

Tiger's Curse is a romance laced with adventure, history and lore, set in the lush beautiful jungles of India. I really liked the unique story Colleen introduced me to, and the adventure she takes me on. With the story's vivid descriptions it wasn't hard to imagine what it was like hiking through the jungles of India with Ren and Kelsey. I really enjoyed the cast of characters I got to meet, Ren and Mr. Kadam were two of my favorites as their history and loyalty together were very intriguing.

The story's main protagonist, Kelsey really started out as a strong character and someone I really came to like. She is very brave, and determined, and will do anything to protect Ren, the white tiger she has come to love. After learning about his curse, she didn't wavier on wanting to help him and the way she felt about him. In the second half of the story I become really frustrated and confused with Kelsey's character. Kelsey went from someone who admits to herself she loves Ren, and she knows without a doubt that he loves her in the first half of the book, to someone who becames full of self doubt and wanted nothing more than to fight with Ren and push him away. I felt like she became two different characters from the first half of the story to the second, and I was left trying to figure out what kind of character she is after I thought I just got to know her. Had her self-doubting happened earlier on in the story, it would have made more sense, but not after everything they've been through. What she does in the last part of the book to Ren really irked me though I love how he handles her with confidence.

Despite my character flaw issues with Kelsey, I liked the way Ren and Kelsey's connection was written. It was intense, sincere, beautiful and very romantic. Ren is quite the charmer and I loved the way he respects Kelsey. It wasn't hard to fall in love with Ren's character. Despite how often Kelsey says how good looking he is, I really liked his mannerisms, his confidence and loyalty. I'm sure he'll have readers swooning for him as much as he made Kelsey swoon. He's definitely a stronger character who is very sure of himself, but in a very grounded way. It's not hard to see why Kelsey is so drawn to him, no matter how hard she fights it.

Over all I really enjoyed the story, as I got wrapped up in the love story, the history of the story's curse, and enjoyed being swept away into a beautiful, vividly detailed setting. I am really looking forward to reading the next two books in this series, to see how things come together. I want to know where Ren and Kelsey's relationship will go, how they will obtain breaking the curse entirely and what will happen to Ren's brother. Though I am very frusterated with losing my character connection with Kelsey, there is still a lot things that take place in the story that I enjoyed, which is why I'm giving Tiger's Curse a 4 star rating. It's a great debut and one I think other's will enjoy as much as I did. Wait till you meet the character behind those hypnotic blue eyes on the cover.....

Interview with Once In A Full Moon author, Ellen Schreiber

I'm very excited to have Ellen on our site today. Recently Ellen released Once In A Full Moon, which I was so excited to finally get my hands on, as it's about wolves (werewolves). I'm looking forward to sharing my review for it later this week.

Recently I was able to ask Ellen a few questions about Once In A Full Moon-


Vampire Kisses is a huge series with a large following. Did you find it hard or just as fun to write about the werewolves? I found it fun! I was only challenged in the fact that I didn’t want the werewolf to be unattractive and dog-like. But once I began writing, Brandon turned into this amazing and hot, and heroic werewolf. I really longed to write more scenes where he was turning.

I'm a huge werewolf fan. In three words, how would you describe your werewolves?
Romantic. Hot. Heroic.

What do you enjoy writing the most- action, suspense or the romance?
I love the romance. There is nothing like sitting down and writing a juicy scene! I do love writing the suspense and action, too. But sometimes I do that late at night and wind up scaring myself.

How has Celeste grown as character from when you first sat down to write Once In a Full Moon to now?
She really has become a humanitarian and makes decisions for the good of others before herself. She volunteers at a nursing home and is really an upstanding person. I love how we get to see that side of her, the relationships she gets from helping out at a retirement community and the independence it brings her. She also struggles with the conflict of her friends being from the Eastside and her one true love being from the Westside. One thing she starts to battle is that she longs for Brandon to be a werewolf--the one thing they are fighting against. And that has made her have to grow and think about what is really important to her.

Is there a paranormal/supernatural character you haven't written about that you would like to?
I think ghosts--or the people who can communicate with them. I do have some ideas when I get time. :)

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Thank you Ellen for joining us today! We're looking forward to your next paranormal book.

Once in a Full Moon

Be sure to visit the Dark Days of Super Natural page (http://www.harperteen.com/feature/darkdays/) to read an excerpt of Once In A Full Moon, grab your widget and much more.

You can also click Ellen's picture to be taken to her Harper Teen page or the picture of Once In A Full Moon to be taking to Dark Days of Super Natural Tour's facebook page.

Mundane Monday #72

Happy Monday!!! This weekend flew by a little too fast. I'm thinking this post might make your Monday's A LOT better, as who wouldn't want to receive an awesome Valentine's with one of your favorite TMI or ID characters on it.



I'd say these are the perfect Mundie Moms Valentine's! You can snag one of these and see the other awesome TMI Valentine's over on our affiliates site Novel Novice. They make some pretty awesome Valntine's. Be sure to visit them here to grab yours-

Later today we'll be announcing something really exciting, on the blog. I can't wait!!

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