It's a Sacrifice, But Someone Has to L♥ve What They Read

 

   

READING, WRITING, AND RAISING THE DEAD When Chess Putnam is ordered by an infamous crime boss—who also happens to be her drug dealer—to use her powers as a witch to solve a grisly murder involving dark magic, she knows she must rise to the challenge. Adding to the intensity: Chess’s boyfriend, Terrible, doesn’t trust her, and Lex, the son of a rival crime lord, is trying to reignite the sparks between him and Chess. Plus there’s the little matter of Chess’s real job as a ghost hunter for the Church of Real Truth, investigating reports of a haunting at a school in the heart of Downside. Someone seems to be taking a crash course in summoning the dead—and if Chess doesn’t watch her back, she may soon be joining their ranks.
 As Chess is drawn into a shadowy world of twisted secrets and dark violence, it soon becomes clear that she’s not going to emerge from its depths without making the ultimate sacrifice.

 
    

My Kind of Princess!

Yes this is a book blog, but I have a feeling that this will be my new favorite movie. What do you think? Is it a movie worthy of a midnight showing?

A Royal Wish

Royal Street by Suzanne JohnsonPublisher: Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC
Publication date: 4/10/2012   

As the junior wizard sentinel for New Orleans, Drusilla Jaco’s job involves a lot more potion-mixing and pixie-retrieval than sniffing out supernatural bad guys like rogue vampires and lethal were-creatures. DJ's boss and mentor, Gerald St. Simon, is the wizard tasked with protecting the city from anyone or anything that might slip over from the preternatural beyond.

Then Hurricane Katrina hammers New Orleans’ fragile levees, unleashing more than just dangerous flood waters.

While winds howled and Lake Pontchartrain surged, the borders between the modern city and the Otherworld crumbled. Now, the undead and the restless are roaming the Big Easy, and a serial killer with ties to voodoo is murdering the soldiers sent to help the city recover.


To make it worse, Gerry has gone missing, the wizards’ Elders have assigned a grenade-toting assassin as DJ’s new partner, and undead pirate Jean Lafitte wants to make her walk his plank. The search for Gerry and for the serial killer turns personal when DJ learns the hard way that loyalty requires sacrifice, allies come from the unlikeliest places, and duty mixed with love creates one bitter gumbo.

Learn more about Suaznne Johnson on her blog. Pre order Royal Street at Barnes and Noble and Amazon.   

B.O.B - Bug Out Books - The Top Ten Books I Would Grab In Disaster Times

Welcome to Top Ten Tuesday, a meme hosted by The Broke and The Bookish. This week's question is what books would you grab if your house were on fire. I have a different take on this weeks question and would love to hear your thoughts on your B.O.B. (Bug Out Book) I have two books with sentimental value. Number one on the list is my autographed ARC of Nightshade by Andrea Cremer. I won it on a blog in April before it was released.  It was my first ARC and ignited a new passion in my life, this blog. Plus, it has been one of my favorite books. If I had to grab one book before bolting out of my home that would be it.   The second book would by The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting. Again it has sentimental value.   Several years ago my cousin was at the heart of some Tornado's in the south. For three days she had to hunker down at home without electricity with her young family. For three days they read Harry Potter books by flashlight. It helped pass time and took the kids mind off the howling wind and pounding rain.  For me reading is an escape from reality. I can forget my cares, problems and responsibility when I am lost in a book and for that reason I have books packed in my bug out bags (72 hour emergency bags). I imagine that if I had to deal with the stress of natural disaster the stories would be a comfort to me and my family. This is also the reason I have a hard time jumping on the ereader wagon. I want to be able to read a good book when I have no access to electricity.  Here are a couple of books I have packed in my kits:  The big no brainer is Harry Potter. Its magic, its perfect for old and young. Harry Potter is comfort reading for me.   I thought about having Hunger Games but it might hit too close to home if the cause of said disaster is because of war or government issues. Although, it may serve as survival inspiration too.    Peter and the Starcatchers. Peter Pan is one of the best stories and Dave Barry/Ridley Person's take on a classic story is a fun adventure.    In my personal bag I would have The Iron Druid Chronicls and Mercy Thompson series.            What about YOU? What is YOUR Bug Out Book?