Fiction
Vincent Zandri is the No. 1 International Bestselling Amazon Kindle author of THE INNOCENT, GODCHILD, THE REMAINS, MOONLIGHT FALLS, CONCRETE PEARL and the forthcoming MOONLIGHT RISES. He is also the author of the bestselling digital shorts, PATHOLOGICAL and MOONLIGHT MAFIA. Harlan Coben has described his novels as “…gritty, fast-paced, lyrical and haunting,” while the New York Post called THE INNOCENT, “Sensational…Masterful…
Brilliant!” In March, April and May of 2011, he sold more than 100,000 Kindle E-Books editions of his novels, and is rapidly closing in on the 200K mark all totaled. An MFA in Writing graduate of Vermont College, Zandri’s work is translated into many languages including the Dutch, Russian and Japanese. An adventurer, foreign correspondent, and freelance photo-journalist for RT, Globalspec, IBTimes and more, he divides his time between New York and Florence, Italy.
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When Dick Moonlight wakes up in the emergency room, he finds out he had been dead. In Moonlight Rises by Vincent Zandri, Dick remembers watching the love of his life crying over him, and then being pulled into an embrace by another man. Dick isn’t sure if he’s dreaming it, or if she is cheating on him over his body. Dick remembers being beaten by men in President Obama masks and being told to stay away from his newest client. But Dick is determined to find out who is trying to kill him, and what this client has that is so important.
I really struggled with this book. I didn’t like that Dick Moonlight blacks out periodically through the book and we don’t know what had happened. I did not finish this book. I couldn’t get into it, and didn’t really care for the use of the f* word, or of the constant references to Dick’s erections from his head injury. This book was a little vulgar for my tastes. I feel bad at not finishing it, but I really couldn’t recommend this book to anyone with me personally not liking it. I did enjoy Vincent’s sense of humor and his writing was really good. I hope that you can read it and prove my review wrong. I don’t like to write bad reviews because I know that authors put a lot of work into their writing.
Moonlight Rises is the second book in the Dick Moonlight series (I was unable to determine the reading order of the books, sorry!)
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Title: Moonlight Rises
Author: Vincent Zandri
Format: eBook
AISN: B005HB16Y6
Publisher: StoneGate Ink
Release Date: August 2011
Available for purchase: Amazon
Reviewer: Jocee
**I received a copy of this book from the Partners in Crime Tours but was not required to provide a review and it did not impact my review in any way.
Hard to believe it has been so long since I have done a news posting but I am finally trying to catch up.
Melissa Marr (Wicked Lovely) and Kelley Armstrong (The Summoning) are teaming up to write a middle-grade series for Little Brown Books for Young Readers titled The Blackwell Pages. You can read more here.
Cassandra Clare has finally released the full cover of Clockwork Angels, the second book in The Infernal Devices series and available December 2011.
Random House has announced they are going to republishing its Loveswept titles in ebook format. You can browse all 900 titles at Romancewiki. The program will launch in August of this year.
Alyxandra Harvey has posted the fourth book in The Drake Chronicles series, Bleeding Heart, available October 2011.
Bloomsbury has also announced that they will release 500 titles that are out-of-print in ebook and print by request format.
Paddywax has released author inspired scents for use in diffusers, including Austen and Whitman.
Rick Riordin has posted the cover for Son of Neptune, the second book in the The Heroes of Olympus series, available October 2011.
The Barnes and Noble Romance blog has some great advice for those who are in a reading slump. I am ashamed to admit that this has happened to me but these are some good suggestions for those in that dread slump.
Irritated from purchasing an ebook only to find out two days later the price has dropped? eReaderIQ is a service that will track the prices of your favorite books for you and send you notifications when the prices drop.
Carina Press has a great new page (okay, maybe it isn’t new to you but it is to me) where you can see the covers and the lists of books that are coming out soon.
Romance at Random has finally launched their site, they are doing giveaways, guest posts and other great events.
Pamela Palmer has announced that she has scheduled two final books in the Feral Warriors series and she has a vampire series in the works.
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Free Reads:
Julia Quinn has posted the first chapter of Just Like Heaven.
Rick Riordin has posted the first two chapters of Son of Neptune.
Nan Hawthorne has posted an excerpt of Beloved Pilgrim.
Carolyn Hayes has posted the first two chapters of Bones of a Feather.
Carolyn Clemmons has posted an excerpt of The Most Unsuitable Wife.
Carly Phillips has posted the first chapter of Serendipity.
Pamela Palmer has posted a sneak peak of Ecstasy Untamed.
I love books, obviously, and I am happy to buy books at full price so the author gets all the money they deserve for a well crafted novel (and so they have incentive to keep writing) but I LOVE getting a good deal on books. I do not support book pirating so all links will be to legally free or discounted books. If you are like me, with summer starting you start to have more time to read, either you are on vacation with more down time or you find yourself not as busy with the usual tasks. However it is that you end up with more reading time, I thought I would share some great deals that I have found and some incredible titles that are free (hooray for free!!). Unfortunately, most of these deals are for ebooks, but to those of you still only reading print copies it will give you some great ideas for the next time you visit your favorite book store.
Avon Publishing has over 30 ebooks priced from $1.99, you can get good deals on books from authors Pamela Palmer, Sandra Hill, Jane Feather, and many others. Find the complete list here and here.
Harlequin has a $1.99 sale going on, most of these titles on print copies and include some Love Inspired and titles from numerous different imprints including their paranormal lines. Find the complete list here.
Besides reading some great new titles, for me summer is also a time to pull out some treasured favorites reads. There is nothing like pulling out an old friend and knowing that you are going to enjoy spending some time with them. I recently discovered that some of my favorites from growing up are available for free courtesy of either the copyright has run out or they are currently available for free from the publisher.
L.M. Montgomery’s classic Anne of Green Gables is available for free here. The rest of the Anne series is also free at Gutenberg.org.
My husband has been enjoyably working this way through Allan Quartermain series by Henry Rider Haggard, you can find his books for free here. I have to admit the only way I know the name Allan Quartermain is courtesy of the movie The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, (Sean Connery does a great job as Quartermain).
Georgette Heyer’s Cotillion is currently free on Kindle here, and on the Nook here. Her The Black Moth is available on Kindle for less than a $1.00 here.
If you are in the mood for a mystery or thriller, there are some great deals on ebooks starting at less than a dollar including Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale and A Little Death in Dixie by Lisa Turner here.
Finally, but definitely not last on my reading list, are the young adult novels. There are some great YA novels available for less than a dollar including Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer, both Need and Captivate by Carrie Jones and many other great reads here.
Realize that these deals won’t last long but regardless of what you are in the mood for, there is something great out there, so enjoy!
Joanna O’Keefe is devastated when she arrives out west to join her husband only to find he had been murdered. In The Range Queen by Jane Candia Coleman, Joanna sees the condition of the land her husband lost his life over and immediately sees its potential but realizes it is going to take some bold action to make it profitable. Joanna knows that as a woman it is going to be difficult for her to convince the other land partners to let her stay, let alone follow her daring plan to save the ranch but it is only way for her to support herself in this strange new land.
Angus is shocked when the beautiful woman he meets on the train is the widow of his brother’s ranching partner. Angus is new to the West but is willing to do whatever it takes to make sure that Joanna’s dreams come true, even if it means taking a large herd of cattle on a drive that could end in death for all of them. The real question becomes whether Joanna will see him as anything other than another hand.
The Range Queen is a fabulously descriptive novel covering the hardships endured by those brave enough to try and tame a piece of the West for themselves. Coleman does a great job of portraying the adventuresome spirit of the pioneers, a couple of times it felt like the story was overshadowed by the descriptions of the land. It also felt like Joanna experienced everything that a pioneer woman could experience. However, the story was well researched and covered the travails of the cattle drives in detail.
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Title: The Range Queen
Author: Jane Candia Coleman
Format: eBook
AISN: B004QGYSVG
Publisher: Dorchester
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Available for purchase: Amazon, Dorchester
Reviewer: Jessica
**I received a copy of this book from NetGalley but was not required to provide a review and it did not impact my review in any way
