New Releases ~ week of 10/09/2017

A Cajun Christmas Killing by Ellen Byron (#3 A Cajun Country Mystery Series)

A Clash of Storms by Bella Forrest (#50 Shade Of Vampire)
A Long Day in Lychford by Paul Cornell (#3 Witches of Lychford)
All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater
An Irish Country Practice by Patrick Taylor (#14 Irish Country)
Berserker by Emmy Laybourne (#1 Berserker)
Children of the Fleet by Orson Scott Card (#1 Fleet School)
Come Back To Me by Kathryn Shay (#5 To Serve and Protect)
Dead Man Talking by Jana DeLeon (#1 The Happily Everlasting)
Death in St. Petersburg by Tasha Alexander (#12 Emily Ashton)
Death Overdue by Allison Brook (#1 A Haunted Library Mystery)
Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao (#1 Rise of the Empress)

Game On by Victoria Denault (#6 Hometown Players)
Hexed on Bourbon Street by Deanna Chase (#8 Jade Calhoun)
Homicide for the Holidays by Cheryl Honigford (#2 Viv and Charlie Mystery)
Into the Bright Unknown by Rae Carson (#3 The Gold Seer Trilogy)
Jax by Cristin Harber (#10 Titan)
Midnight Unleashed by Lara Adrian (#15.5 Midnight Breed)
Mr. Lemoncello's Great Library Race by Chris Grabenstein (#3 Mr. Lemoncello)
Murder on the Toy Town Express by Barbara Early (#2 Vintage Toyshop Mystery)

Necessary Roughness by Julie Brannagh (#7 Love and Football)
Never Say Die by Anthony Horowitz (#11 Alex Rider)
Nine Lessons by Nicola Upson (#7 Josephine Tey)
Playing with Danger by Joya Ryan (#2 Desire Bay)
Quarry's Climax by Max Allan Collins (#14 Quarry)
Rescuing Bryn by Susan Stoker (#6 Delta Force Heroes)
Running Out of Time by Suzanne Trauth (#3 A Dodie O'Dell Mystery)
Skeleton Paints a Picture by Leigh Perry (#4 Family Skeleton Mystery)
Spy School Secret Service by Stuart Gibbs (#5 Spy School)
The Doors at Dusk and Dawn by Bradley P Beaulieu (#0.1 Song of the Shattered Sands)
The Downward Spiral by Ridley Pearson (#3 Lock and Key)
The Four Horsemen by Gregory Dowling (#2 Alvise Marangon)

The Knowing by Sharon Cameron (#2 The Forgetting)
The Mother of Zuul by Michael James Ploof (#4 Epic Fallacy)
The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman (#.5 Practical Magic)
The Sea Peoples by S. M. Stirling (#14 The Emberverse)
The Silver Mask by Cassandra Clare, Holly Black (#4 Magisterium)
The Stone in the Skull by Elizabeth Bear (#1 Lotus Kingdoms)
To Guard Against the Dark by Julie E Czerneda (#3 Reunification)
Tool of War by Paolo Bacigalupi (#3 Ship Breaker)
Twelve Slays of Christmas by Jacqueline Frost (#1 A Christmas Tree Farm Mystery)

New Releases ~ week of 04/25/2016

In the Game by Kiki Thorpe (#12 Never Girls)

A Buccaneer at Heart by Stephanie Laurens (#2 The Adventurers Quartet)
Ain't She Sweet by Marie Force (#6 Green Mountain)
All Murders Final! by Sherry Harris (#30 Sarah Winston Garage Sale Mystery)
Antiques Fate by Barbara Allan (#12 Trash 'n' Treasures Mystery)
Blood and Ink by Adam Christopher (#2 Elementary)
Bossa Novas, Bikinis, and Bad Ends by Mary McHugh (#4 Happy Hoofers Mystery)
Bright Blaze of Magic by Jennifer Estep (#3 Black Blade)
Burn For You by Stacey Kennedy (#4 Pact of Seduction)
Debauched by Jennifer Dawson (#4 Undone)
Extreme Prey by John Sandford (#26 Lucas Davenport)

Fast and Loose by Fern Michaels (#5 Men of the Sisterhood)
Fire Bound by Christine Feehan (#5 Sisters of the Heart Series)
Gold of Our Fathers by Kwei Quartey (#4 Darko Dawson)
Hide Away by Iris Johansen (#21 Eve Duncan Forensics)
How I Married a Marquess by Anna Harrington (#3 Secret Life of Scoundrels)
In Shining Armor by Elliott James (#4 Pax Arcana)
Jilo by J. D. Horn (#4 Witching Savannah)
Kill Switch by Jonathan Maberry (#8 Joe Ledger)
Ladies Man by Katy Evans (#3 Manwhore)
Let the Wind Rise by Shannon Messenger (#3 Let the Sky Fall)

Lone Heart Pass by Jodi Thomas (#3 Ransom Canyon)
Love of the Game by Lori Wilde (#3 Stardust, Texas)
Magnate by Joanna Shupe (#1 The Knickerbocker Club)
Make Me Desperate by Beth Kery (#4 Make Me)
Out Rider by Lindsay McKenna (#11 Jackson Hole)
Red Knight Falling by Craig Schaefer (#2 Harmony Black)
Redemption by Debra Driza (#3 MILA 2.0)
Return of the Bad Boy by Jessica Lemmon (#4 Second Chance)
Ride Hard by Laura Kaye (#1 Raven Riders)
Sharp Ends by Joe Abercrombie (#7 First Law)
Silence of the Lamps by Karen Rose Smith (#5 Caprice De Luca Mystery)
Sleeping Giants by Sylvain Neuvel (#1 Themis Files)

Soldier by Julie Kagawa (#3 Talon Saga)
Starfish Moon by Donna Kauffman (#3 Brides of Blueberry Cove)
Temptations of a Wallflower by Eva Leigh (#3 The Wicked Quills of London)
That Darkness by Lisa Black (#1 Gardiner and Renner)
The Earl Takes All by Lorraine Heath (#2 Hellions of Havisham)
The Raven King by Maggie Stiefvater (#4 Raven Cycle)
The Wedding Pact by Katee Robert (#2 The O'Malleys)
The Worst Night Ever by Dave Barry (#2 Class Trip)
Water's Wrath by Elise Kova (#4 Air Awakens)
Z by Larissa Ione (#12.5 Demonica)

New Releases ~ week of 10/20/2014

Beta by Jasinda Wilder (#2 Alpha)

Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater (#3 Raven Cycle)
Burn Me Down by R G Alexander (#3 Fireborne)
Change of Heart by Jude Deveraux (#9 Edilean)
Covering Kendall by Julie Brannagh (#4 Love and Football)
Dangerous Surrender by Katie Reus (#4 Serafina: Sin City)
Demon's Vow by Jocelynn Drake (#3.2 The Asylum Tales)
Desert God by Wilbur Smith (#5 Ancient Egyptian)
Gray Bishop by Kelly Meade (#2 Cornerstone Run Trilogy)
Into Darkness by J. T. Geissinger (#6 Night Prowler)
Liberators by James Wesley Rawles (#5 Patriots)
Loving Him Off the Field by Jeanette Murray (#2 The Santa Fe Bobcats)
One Night with Her by Lauren Blakely (#3.5 Seductive Nights)

Rowdy by Jay Crownover (#5 Marked Men)
Seventh Grave and No Body by Darynda Jones (#7 Charley Davidson)
Shopaholic to the Stars by Sophie Kinsella (#7 Shopaholic)
Snowfall by Shelley Shepard Gray (#3.5 Days of Redemption)
The Abyss Beyond Dreams by Peter F. Hamilton (#1 Chronicle of the Fallers)
The Land Uncharted by Keely Brooke Keith (#1 Uncharted)
The Lost Empress by Steve Robinson (#4 Jefferson Tayte)
The Maverick's Thanksgiving Baby by Brenda Harlen (#5 Montana Mavericks: 20 Years in the Saddle)
The Nightingale Before Christmas by Donna Andrews (#18 Meg Langslow)
The Ties That Bind Cooper by Liliana Hart (#4.5 The MacKenzie Brothers)
Time's Edge by Rysa Walker (#2 The Chronos Files)
Wait for Signs by Craig Johnson (#10.5 Walt Longmire Mysteries)

Stacking the Shelves

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga at Tynga's Reviews to share your weekly book haul. It can be what you bought, received, borrowed, or were gifted. For more info you can go here.

Not a lot going on around here. Shopping for the little one's birthday and then turning around and trying to figure out what to get for Christmas since he just got all his birthday gifts.
Short list this time around. Have a Great Week and Happy Reading!

Bought

Blood Lite edited by Kevin J Anderson
The Prince of Nothing Trilogy by R. Scott Bakker
-The Darkness that Comes Before
-The Warrior Prophet
-The Thousandfold Thought

Library
The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black
The Fairy-Tale Detectives by Michael Buckley

New Releases ~ week of 9/16/2013

*links go to Goodreads

Frozen by Melissa de la Cruz (#1 in Heart of Dread )

Dexter's Final Cut by Jeff Lindsay (#7 in Dexter)
The Rose and the Thorn by Michael J Sullivan (#2 in Riyria Chronicles)
The Lonely Lake Monster by Suzanne Selfors (#2 in Imaginary Veterinary)
Thankless in Death by J. D. Robb (#37 in In Death)
No Way Out by Alan Jacobson (#6 in Karen Vail)
The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater (#2 in Raven Cycle )
The Wicked Within by Kelly Keaton (#3 in Gods & Monsters)
The Burning Sky by Sherry Thomas (#1 in Elemental Trilogy)
Saving Raphael Santiago by Cassandra Clare (#6 in Bane Chronicles)
Seven for a Secret by Lyndsay Faye (#2 in Gods of Gotham)
She Can Scream by Melinda Leigh (#3 in She Can...)
Once We Were by Kat Zhang (#2 in The Hybrid Chronicles )

Deadly Heat by Richard Castle (#5 in Nikki Heat)
Long Gone Man by Phyllis Smallman (#1 in Singer Brown Mystery)
The Taming of the Tights by Louise Rennison (#3 in Misadventures of Tallulah Casey)
CassaStorm by Alex J. Cavanaugh (#3 in CassaStar)
A Little Too Far by Lisa Desrochers (#1 in A Little Too Far )
The Final Cut by Catherine Coulter, J. T. Ellison (#1 in Brit in the FBI)
The Clockwork Scarab by Colleen Gleason (#1 in Stoker & Holmes)
Beneath the Bleak New Moon by Debra Purdy Kong (#3 in Casey Holland Mystery)
What Once Was Lost by Kim Vogel Sawyer (#2 in What Once Was Lost)

My Spy by Dana Marton (#2 in HQ: Texas)
How to Entice an Enchantress by Karen Hawkins (#3 in Duchess Diaries)
United We Spy by Ally Carter (#6 in Gallagher Girls)
Battle of the Ampere by Richard Paul Evans (#3 in Michael Vey )
Dancing by Laurell K. Hamilton (#22.5 in Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter)
Dumb Jock: The Musical by Jeff Erno (#4 in Dumb Jock)
Johnny Alucard by Kim Newman (#4 in Anno Dracula)
Anarchy by James Treadwell (#2 in Advent)
The Secret Sea Horse by Debbie Dadey (#6 in Mermaid Tales)
Something Borrowed, Someone Dead by M. C. Beaton (#24 in Agatha Raisin)
Fatal Tide by Pete Nelson, Lis Wiehl (#3 in The East Salem Trilogy )
Kinslayer by Jay Kristoff (#2 in Lotus War Trilogy)
The Screaming Staircase by Jonathan Stroud (#1 in Lockwood & Co)
The Shogun's Daughter by Laura Joh Rowland (#17 in Sano Ichiro)

Waiting on Wednesday

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill over at Breaking The Spine. It's a weekly event that spotlights upcoming releases we are eagerly anticipating.

The Dream Thieves (The Raven Cycle #2)

by  Maggie Stiefvater
published by Scholastic Inc
expected release date: September 17, 2013

Summary (Goodreads): Now that the ley lines around Cabeswater have been woken, nothing for Ronan, Gansey, Blue, and Adam will be the same. Ronan, for one, is falling more and more deeply into his dreams, and his dreams are intruding more and more into waking life. Meanwhile, some very sinister people are looking for some of the same pieces of the Cabeswater puzzle that Gansey is after...

**I really enjoyed the first book and have been waiting for this one since I finished reading The Raven Boys.

Stacking the Shelves

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga at Tynga's Reviews to share your weekly book haul. It can be what you bought, received, borrowed, or were gifted. For more info you can go here.

Bought
I've actually bought a lot but they are all Christmas gifts (hubby, son, and myself). Since I don't actually have them to read yet I'll post them on my Christmas post.

Library
The Dragon's Path ( The Dagger and the Coin #1) by Daniel Abraham
The Serpent's Shadow (Kane Chronicles #3) by Rick Riordan
Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake
Magisterium by Jeff Hirsch
Seraphina (Seraphina #1) by Rachel Hartman
The Raven Boys (Raven Cycle #1) by Maggie Stiefvater
The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There (Fairyland #2) by Catherine M. Valente

New Releases ~ week of 9/17/2012

Blood Gold by Kailin Gow (#2 in Brotherhood of Blood)
Crown of Embers by Rae Carson (#2 in Fire and Thorns)
Necromancing the Stone by Lish McBride (#2 in Necromancer)
Burn for Burn by Jenny Han, Siobhan Vivian (#1 in Burn for Burn)
Mark of the Witch by Maggie Shayne (#2 in Portal Trilogy)
Death of a Black Rose by Tish Thawer (#3 in The Rose Trilogy )
Ceaseless by Abbi Glines (#3 in Existence Trilogy)
Seconds Away by Harlan Coben (#2 in Mickey Bolitar)
 The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater (#1 in Raven Cycle )
Adaptation by Malinda Lo (#1 in Adaptation)
Cast in Peril by Michelle Sagara (#8 in The Chronicles of Elantra)
The Angel by Tiffany Reisz (#2 in The Original Sinners)
Winter of the World by Ken Follett (#2 in Century)
The Diviners by Libba Bray (#1 in Diviners)
What's Left of Me by Kat Zhang (#1 in The Hybrid Chronicles )
Stormdancer by Jay Kristoff (#1 in Lotus War Trilogy)
Severe Clear by Stuart Woods (#24 in Stone Barrington)
Mirage by Jack du Brul, Clive Cussler (#9 in The Oregon Files)
Glass Heart by Amy Garvey (#2 in Cold Kiss)
Father Night by Eric Van Lustbader (#4 in Jack McClure)
Lowcountry Boil by Susan M. Boyer (#1 in Liz Talbot Mysteries)
Hearts Untamed by Pamela Palmer (#6.5 in Feral Warriors)
The Incense Game by Laura Joh Rowland (#16 in Sano Ichiro)
Because It Is My Blood by Gabrielle Zevin (#2 in Birthright)
The Forge of Darkness by Steven Erikson (#1 in Kharkanas Trilogy)
The Unfaithful Queen by Carolly Erickson (#9 in Historical Entertainments)

Waiting on Wednesday

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Jill over at Breaking The Spine. It's a weekly event that spotlights upcoming releases we are eagerly anticipating.

The Raven Boys (Raven Cycle #1)
by Maggie Stiefvater
published by Scholastic Press
expected release date: September 18, 2012

Summary: Goodreads: “There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”

It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.

His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.

But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.

For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.

From Maggie Stiefvater, the bestselling and acclaimed author of the Shiver trilogy and The Scorpio Races, comes a spellbinding new series where the inevitability of death and the nature of love lead us to a place we’ve never been before.

**I've been saying all week, this is one of the books I'm looking forward to reading.

Book Review ~ The Scorpio Races

The Scorpio Races
by Maggie Stiefvater
published by Scholastic Inc

Summary (Goodreads): It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line. Some riders live. Others die.

At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them.

Puck Connolly is different. She never meant to ride in the Scorpio Races. But fate hasn’t given her much of a chance. So she enters the competition — the first girl ever to do so. She is in no way prepared for what is going to happen.

My Thoughts: This is my time reading a book by this author and I enjoyed it more than I was expecting. When I first heard flesh eating horses I thought eww. The author was able to give her story without turning me off. Even the parts where there were hungry uisce taking bites were done in a way that made sense to the story.
Both Puck and Sean were strong main characters. Puck was strong when she needed to be even when she was scared of everything that was going on around her. While I liked the relationship that slowly developed between Puck and Sean, the relationships they each had with their horses (Dove and Corr) I found to be more interesting. While I wanted happiness for the people I was more worried about one of the horses not making it to the end of the book.
The only thing that brought this story down were some of the other characters/storylines. While I liked Mr Holly and the conversations he had with Sean, his sudden relationship with the blind sister just came out of nowhere and didn't add anything for me. I also didn't like how weak Puck's brothers were. While this forced her to be strong it just didn't work for me. I liked Finn and kept waiting for him to do something that would completely win me over.
Overall I was pleased with my first reading of this author and will probably make time to finally read her trilogy that has been sitting on my shelves for awhile.

Rating: 4