Becoming
Daughters of Saraqael, Book #1
Raine Thomas

Review brought to you by OBS staff member Annabell

Synopsis:

Every three years, Amber Hopkins explodes. Okay, not a blown-to-smithereens explosion, but whatever it is always hurts like hell and leaves her life in shambles. She’s already worked her way through five foster placements, and she’s doing whatever she can to avoid getting blasted into a sixth.

As her eighteenth birthday approaches and she feels the strange and powerful energy building, disaster looms. When the inevitable explosion occurs, her life gets its biggest shakeup yet. She’ll not only learn how her fellow foster and best friend, Gabriel, really feels about her, but she’ll discover that she isn’t really without family.

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Central
Daughters of Saraqael, Book #2
Raine Thomas

Review brought to you by OBS staff member Annabell

Synopsis:

For avid student Olivia Murdoch, life on the Estilorian plane is filled with wondrous adventure. Every lesson about her new existence is both exciting and challenging. Along with her sisters, she embraces this non-human half of herself.

Helping with her lessons is her Gloresti, James. Teacher, scholar and distractingly attractive, James takes on his roles of Olivia’s guide and protector with equal dedication. As he learns the human emotions that Estilorians no longer experience, he starts to see Olivia as much more than just an assigned pairing.

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The Beginning
LS, Book #1
Kelvin O’Ralph

Review Brought to you by Connie

I give this book 3 stars. I didn’t finish the book…I got through half of it but it doesn’t keep my interest.

The Basics:

Stephen Wilson comes to Sloutenville, Wisconsin from Africa to go to college. His parents are wealthy and provide him a home to live in and a car as well when he gets to the US. He lives with a cousin Stacy that is going to the same college.

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Darke Conteur

Review brought to you by OBS staff member Annabell

Synopsis:

His first day of work wasn’t what Martin Cunningham expected. A sultry boss, a classy receptionist, the drama-queen foreigner, and a painfully shy techie who prefers hiding to human interaction, was the oddest group of characters he’d ever met. When an assassination attempt is made against his new boss, Martin comes face to face with the stuff of nightmares.

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Christine Feehan is an award-winning author of more than 40 novels. She was amazing enough to take some time to answer some questions for us about her writing, her loyal fans and inspiration for her work.

You’ve had a successful career spanning 40 novels in a genre that has been consistently growing in popularity – what is the secret to your success? What is it do you think that readers find in your books that they don’t elsewhere?

A lot of hard work, discipline and absolutely fantastic, loyal, supportive readers. I hope that readers find a sense of family, women’s issues, women empowerment along with action and romance.

How has the genre changed since you’ve been writing?

It’s opened up to include almost anything. It’s so diverse there is no end to the writer’s imagination. It gives authors the ability to write anything so there is so much out there for the readers now.

How has your writing changed over the years and 40 novels?

I strive to do a better job with every book as most authors do. I try to do better with the research. Hopefully I am able to give my readers a better story with each book that is written.

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When I first saw the cover of this book I immediately thought of Sin City – the poster with Bruce Willis pointing a gun down at someone, surrounded by other characters in the cast including Jessica Alba and Benicio Del Toro etc. That reminder gave a more than apt vision of this novel – action, action and more action.

The premise of the novel revolves around a serial killer, Chandler and a cop, Kate searching for a missing child. Chandler is a former prosecutor who wreaks his own personal brand of revenge on criminals who abuse children, while Kate is the cop who is pursuing him. Together these characters stumble into the supernatural world, while trying to deal with the harsh realities of the case they are following.

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ESME CULLEN MAY CALENDAR WALLPAPER

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Club Dead
Sookie Stackhouse/ Southern Vampires, Book #3
Charlaine Harris

Review brought to you by OBS staff member Heidi

Club Dead is the third installment of Charlaine Harris’s popular Sookie Stackhouse series that HBO’s true blood is loosely based on.

In this installment, Bill is being very distant as he is working on a secret project for the Queen of Louisiana.  Sookie has decided to spend time away from him while he works which he happily agreed to (a little too happily in Sookie’s opinion) and he tells her that he will be traveling to Seattle.

Then, several days later Pam and Eric inform her that Bill is missing.  That he had been in Jackson, Mississippi (not Seattle) and has fallen back with a female vampire he used to be involved with, Lorena.

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Vicious Circle
Persephone Alcmedi, Book #1
Linda Robertson

Review brought to you by OBS staff member Verushka

There is nothing more hilarious than seeing a name spelled like “Gavyn” in an urban fantasy novel. It reeks of someone trying too hard to make a character stand out and more often than not plays out like an overbearing mother trying too hard to make her kid unique.

Then there are names like Persephone Isis Alcmedi, a mouthful I would pity any child having. However, we meet Seph as she is called in this book as an adult, a pagan witch who is currently living with her grandmother, Demeter and their great Dane puppy Ares, formerly known as Poopsie. No really. Seph’s is named for the Greek Queen of the Underworld, Persephone and Isis, the Greek Goddess of motherhood, magic and fertility, not to mention a friend of slaves, sinners and the downtrodden.

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The Gathering
Darkness Rising, Book #1
By Kelley Armstrong

Review brought to you by OBS staff member Annabell

Synopsis:

Sixteen-year-old Maya is just an ordinary teen in an ordinary town. Sure, she doesn’t know much about her background – the only thing she really has to cling to is an odd paw-print birthmark on her hip – but she never really put much thought into who her parents were or how she ended up with her adopted parents in this tiny medical-research community on Vancouver Island.

Until now.

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