Posts Tagged ‘ dark fantasy

Fallen by Lauren Kate

Fallen by Lauren Kate. © 2009 Delacorte Press. ISBN 978-0-385-738934. Hardback. Young Adult/Fantasy. 452 pages. $17.99 US. [ Purchase ] Source: Books-A-Million purchase

Synopsis: There’s something achingly familiar about Daniel Grigori.

Mysterious and aloof, he captures Luce Price’s attention from the moment she sees him on her first day at the Sword & Cross boarding school in sultry Savannah, Georgia. He’s the one bright spot in a place where cell phones are forbidden, the other students are all screw-ups, and security cameras watch every move.

Even though Daniel wants nothing to do with Luce–and goes out of his way to make that very clear–she can’t let it go. Drawn to him like a moth to a flame, she has to find out what Daniel is so desperate to keep secret . . . even if it kills her.

Dangerously exciting and darkly romantic, Fallen is a page turning thriller and the ultimate love story.

Review: It has been 23 hours since I finished this book. I miss it already.

I’ll be honest. The cover was the first thing that pulled me to this book. It reminded me so much of the work I’ve seen on DeviantArt (wonder why lol). The artist, Fernanda Brussi Gonçalves, did a superb job and this only has me aching to get back into my own manipulation artwork. But enough about the cover (seriously, I could go on and on about it)… Read more

Teresa

Teresa (nom de plume: Torrance Sené) is a self-proclaimed geek, a Janeite, a lover of werewolves and bad-ass angels, an aspiring novelist and an avid book reader who freelances as a web designer. You can follow her on Twitter at @eireannoir.

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Crashing Paradise by Christopher Golden & Tom E. Sniegoski

Crashing Paradise: A Novel of the Menagerie by Christopher Golden and Tom E. Sniegoski. © 2007 Ace Books. (August 28, 2007) ISBN 978-0-441-01532-0. Paperback. Dark Fantasy. 278 pages. $7.99 US. [ Purchase ]

In the fourth novel of the Menagerie, the Legion of Doom is hell-bent on breaking into Eden, and they’ve got the perfect captive to assist them: Eve, mother of all humanity—and all vampires. Only Doyle and the Menagerie can stop them from turning a blessed garden into a paradise lost.” [from the back cover]

While this is the first of the Menagerie series that I have read, I enjoyed it immensely nonetheless (this is one series you can pick up at anytime and still get the gist and understand what’s going on). Co-author Tom Sniegoski, known for the highly suspenseful and riveting “Fallen” series (dealing with fallen angels, recently made into a three part miniseries by ABC Family), has let this knowledge of Biblical mythos seep into the pages and help create a whole new world for readers to enjoy, while Christopher Golden displays some of his best supernatural work since the Buffy series. This book is chalked full of vampires, shape shifters, demons, angels and more, yet isn’t overwhelming to the reader to keep up with everyone and everything. Read more

Teresa

Teresa (nom de plume: Torrance Sené) is a self-proclaimed geek, a Janeite, a lover of werewolves and bad-ass angels, an aspiring novelist and an avid book reader who freelances as a web designer. You can follow her on Twitter at @eireannoir.

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