Book Review: So I Married a Werewolf

So I Married a Werewolf (Seattle Wolf Pack #3) By Kristin Miller

Carter Griffin, enforcing officer for the Seattle Wolf Pack, has a problem. He's been offered the promotion of his dreams…if he can find a wife to prove he's over his playboy ways. But Carter's already walked the matrimonial road and bought the stinkin' T-shirt. Besides, a werewolf only gets one fated mate. Been there, done that.

All werewolf dog trainer Faith Hamilton wants to do is earn enough green stuff to put her younger brother through college. Okay, okay, so she also totally wants Carter, her sexy next-door neighbor, to look at her as more than a friend. It's too bad size 12 and plain isn't his type. At all.

The two friends strike a deal to help one another out. They must face a variety of challenges from a psycho ex-girlfriend to a Yorkie with a shoe fetish...and that pesky problem of only having one-fated mate in a lifetime. Will a relationship ruin their friendship…or spark a love neither anticipated?

 ebook, 260 pages

Expected publication: July 28th 2014 by Entangled: Covet 

I received this book via Netgallery,

Review

Carter Griffin is ready for the promotion of his life, but there's one little catch and a little white lie that he spew to his commanding officer and pack mates. He must be in a stable relationship . . . almost ready to claim his fated mate in holy matrimony.

But Carter been there and done it, but his fated mate died and is been told that werewolves cannot have more than one fated mate. Or can they?

Faith Hamilton hadn't found her fated mate yet and is waiting for the right guy to come, but when Carter her best friend and neighbor has himself in a pickle she offered to help. 

A Proposition of marriage & Friends with Benefits

Can Carter and Faith keep with the charades that they're suppose to be madly in love with each other or will this proposition of a fake love be known?  

I give this a Four Cat's Tails Up, Perhaps it is possible to have more than one luminary in one werewolf's lifetime I love the twist of the luminary concept that Kristin gave to Carter's story while Faith was just someone waiting for her Fated Mate to come along, maybe he was next door all this time.  

Meow . . . Meow . . . Meow

I've been a BIG BIG fan of Kristin's Seattle Wolf Pack books since Gone with the Wolf came out and into my life, I love how she continue to bring in new and familiar characters and giving them a story. While I didn't know Carter from any of the other books, or any hint that there's be a Carter story but now I can see why Carter needed a story of his own. 

We're so used to having our male werewolves find their luminary but I never thought of it the other way around where they did find one but had died. This was a twist in the story and having to watch Carter move on as well living as a lone wolf as well developing the playboy image for the last couple years.

The one thing I wish I knew was how Carter's luminary died, each time he thought about his fated mate and their ups and downs I still kept on wondering what had happen to her, What did happen to her? That question still lingers in my mind. 

Now Faith is a spunky girl who's a blogger so already right there I can relate to her however she's a doggie blogger and trains dogs for a living and that where we fall out of context. Anyways she's actually Carter's next door neighbor and have always secretly has a crush on him. In Faith's story she already a turned werewolf which makes her different from the other female characters we met.

Ready for a Game of CHARADES . . .

These two opted to play a role that they were madly in love and ready for marriage however they're both just friends RIGHT? But when they spontaneously get married to prove Carter's work friends and pack mates that he was serious things gets a little complicated between Faith and him. Confused about their feelings towards one another and playing this role that they're married when really they just did because Carter just wanted to earn that promotion points that he "thinks" deserve.

The ending had Faith and Carter both seeing different sides of each others or well a different side of Carter, 
Like I didn't think Carter would be that controlling boyfriend/husband/friend but he is then realizes his mistake and secretly planned to confront Faith at the ceremony for his promotion.

Carter apologize to Faith in wolf form and still got the promotion he wanted but also a second chance with Faith to set things right in their relationship. The pack forgave him of his lies that he created in order to get the promotion but they also saw that he found his second fated mate.

Be sure to check out my review of Gone with the Wolf here and Four Weddings and a Werewolf here

Hide & Seek

It's Hide & Seek day! and today reveal is The Donor Part Two by Nikki Rae . . .

Here's is Part One Cover and Synopsis

Casey Williams and her family are poor. Her parents work non-stop and so does she, just so they can keep the trailer roof from leaking.

They’re getting by fine enough when the headaches start. Then there’s the nosebleeds. And the inevitable doctor’s bills.

Fortunately for Casey, there’s MyTrueMatch.com: an exclusive, quick, and almost easy way to pay it all back before her parents even have to know.

All she has to do is give a man she’s never met whatever he wants from her body.

Inside or out.

Now the Synopsis for Part Two

 

When Casey joined MYTrueMatch.com, she never imagined she would meet a man who not only helps her pay the bills, but has been nothing but a gentleman. 

As the nose bleeds make way for worse symptoms, Casey can’t help the feelings she has for Jonah, despite how he may never return them. And he’s been keeping things from her. 

Big things. How does he make his money, and who is that girl in the picture?

 

With the clock ticking, can she find the answers she’s looking for?

And now for the Reveal of the Cover for The Donor Part Two

 

What do you think about that SEAHORSE????

 Cover credit goes to Nikki herself :-)

 

 

Mouse Watch

Squeak! Squeak . . . Squeak Squeak! What is that I hear? Mouses!!!!

Opposition (Lux #5) by Jennifer L Armentrout

Katy knows the world changed the night the Luxen came.

She can't believe Daemon welcomed his race or stood by as his kind threatened to obliterate every last human and hybrid on Earth. But the lines between good and bad have blurred, and love has become an emotion that could destroy her—could destroy them all.

Daemon will do anything to save those he loves, even if it means betrayal.

They must team with an unlikely enemy if there is any chance of surviving the invasion. But when it quickly becomes impossible to tell friend from foe, and the world is crumbling around them, they may lose everything— even what they cherish most—to ensure the survival of their friends…and mankind.

War has come to Earth. And no matter the outcome, the future will never be the same for those left standing.

Paperback, 400 pages

Expected publication: August 5th 2014 by Entangled: Teen

I really can't believe that this is the last book in the Lux series! I mean it was just last summer that I got into the books just in time for Origin to come out. I fell in love with Daemon and Katy love story and the inseparteable bond they both share, now after seeing a few teasers I'm really nervous about what's going to happen because you know those teasers were just like "WHAT?!?" "WTH HAPPEN WITH DAEMON?" "POOR KATY" so yes I'm excited and nervous.

Visions (Cainsville #2) by Kelley Armstrong

As #1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong’s new Cainsville series continues, Olivia’s power to read omens leads to the discovery of a gruesome crime with troubling connections to her new hometown.

Omens, the first installment in Kelley Armstrong’s exciting new series, introduced Olivia Taylor-Jones, daughter of notorious serial killers, and Gabriel Walsh, the self-serving, morally ambiguous lawyer who became her unlikely ally. Together, they chased down a devious killer and partially cleared her parents of their horrifying crimes.

Their success, however, is short-lived. While Olivia takes refuge in the old, secluded town of Cainsville, Gabriel’s past mistakes have come to light, creating a rift between the pair just when she needs his help the most.

Olivia finds a dead woman in her car, dressed to look like her, but the body vanishes before anyone else sees it. Olivia’s convinced it’s another omen, a sign of impending danger. But then she learns that a troubled young woman went missing just days ago—the same woman Olivia found dead in her car. Someone has gone to great lengths to kill and leave this young woman as a warning. But why? And what role has her new home played in this disturbing murder?

Olivia’s effort to uncover the truth places her in the crosshairs of old and powerful forces, forces that have their own agenda, and closely guarded secrets they don’t want revealed.

Hardcover, 432 pages

Expected publication: August 19th 2014 by Dutton (first published August 14th 2014)

Reading Omens was so different from what I usually read, what drew me in was the concept and idea. Olivia is someone who doesn't really know who she is when a reporter find a hidden secret that Olivia may just be the daughter of a world famous serial killers. So she travels away from home, chose the small town Cainsville and more things begins to unrevealed even part of her memories that she could never figure out where they came from until now. I have a Love/Hate for Gabriel and wish that there was a spark between him and Olivia but it might happen you never know. I'm curious to read and learn his secrets in Visions.

Blood Games (Chicagoland Vampires #10) by Chloe Neill

While Merit didn’t choose to become a vampire or Sentinel of Cadogan House, she vowed to fight for her House and its Master, and she’s managed to forge strong alliances with powerful supernaturals across Chicago. But even though Merit has had wild adventures, this may be her deadliest yet...

A killer is stalking Chicago, preying on humans and leaving his victims with magical souvenirs. The CPD hasn’t been able to track the assailant, and as the body count rises, the city is running out of options. Vampires and humans aren’t on great terms, but murder makes for strange bedfellows. Can Merit find the killer before she becomes a target?

Paperback, 352 pages

Expected publication: August 5th 2014 by NAL Trade

Sadly I still haven't read the Chicagoland Vampires (YET) I really want to though but I do love all the covers which is partial why it's on my Mouse Watch. But really it a book that I want to read (eventually).  Merit is still hard core ass-kicking vampire chick.

The Cat's Meow: New Look

 

As you can see . . . SassyCat got a new look! There's a blonde(me) avi, there's a zebra lounge couch which I love and the numerous options for backgrounds so far I'm head over heels on the zebra (pink or white).

So how did I end up changing up the look without notice? Well it better to be surprise then spew out a few words that there were going to be some changes done. However Rachel of Parajunkee Design hosted a giveaway on FB for a free Blogger Template $50 dollars worth. All you had to do was like comment and share and I did all out of the two (I believe) and I actually won it! 

It was a much needed thing for SassyCat, even though the look I was going for or wanted requires custom designs and the money which I don't have. So that dream and idea is put on hold, for now I can ogling on the new look that actually in many ways suits me as a person. So I might be in trouble when figuring out how far I want to go for customization. 

So I like to thank Rachel of Parajunkee, for actually putting it up because my laptop wouldn't do a single thing and I couldn't figure out on the main computer because the files were Zipped. So I just had her do it and she got it done in seconds! Like really in seconds after I made her admin and talking to her via FB. 

But I did figure out how to unzipped the files on the main computer (thanks to a little feature that my laptop doesn't have) so I saved everything on there, now I might switch to black and white zebra print or change the font colors, gadgets colors. You never know so don't be surprise if you see a little changes here and there. Also I'm so super excited about the avi and having it as my twitter profile and my google+ profile. I have raters and a FB cover however I still have to set up a FB page, the the one I love that I have always wonder "how the heck do they get that?" Is the book description box. Now that I have that feature don't be surprise to see that more often. 

So again thank you Rachel and now I need to make it a goal to set up that FB page.

Catty Chat Discussions: Spin offs

MEEOOWW! I've finally come up with a great title for discussions posts! I present to you the

 Catty Chat!

So let's talk spin offs on books, 

 

Do you like them?

Do you dislike them? If so why?

Does it work?

Does the author stay true to the world? 

How do you feel about Ghostwriters?

 

There's all sort of questions to consider when reading a series spin off, in my opinion some spin off are great for TV but I don't know about books. I don't actually think I've had read any spin off books . . . 

 

So let's look at the following books that are in spin offs,

 

Vampire Academy/Bloodlines

Bloodlines series by Richelle Mead, she had taken characters from vampire Academy and given them their own story. Now I haven't pick up either of the series but if you are one of those that read the entire Vampire Academy and follow through with the next series.

Vampire Diaries

I'm sure everyone is pretty familiar with The Vampire Diaries (TV show) but I want to talk about the books, I've only read the first two and then I got onto other books but while I followed the show I ingore the books and come to find out that there were three other spin off!

The Vampire Diaries features The Awakening: Volume I (1991), The Struggle: Volume II (1991), The Fury: Volume III (1991), Dark Reunion: Volume IV (1992).

The Return trilogy featurs The Return: Nightfall (2009), The Return: Shadow Souls (2010), The Return: Midnight (2011) .

The Hunters trilogy features The Hunters: Phantom (2011) (Written by a ghostwriter), The Hunters: Moonsong (2012) (Written by a ghostwriter), The Hunters: Destiny Rising (2012) (Written by a ghostwriter)
 

The Salvation trilogy features The Salvation: Unseen (2013) (Written by Aubrey Clark), The Salvation: Unspoken (2013) (Written by Aubrey Clark), The Salvation: Unmasked (2014) (Written by Aubrey Clark).

 

WOW I'm amazed that readers are still in tuned with the books! Like I don't know if I could read three other spin off books, now have you read any of the other spin off books in The Vampire Diaries world?

Mortal Instrument

Now the Mortal Instruments, I've read all but the last book that just came out in May . . .  I really want to read it but I just hadn't had the time! Cassandra Clare wrote the Infernal Devices as well set in 1878. This is a struggling time for the shadowhunters. 

She also written The Bane Chronicles all on Bane the most powerful warlock POV, I haven't gotten any of those books but I've always enjoyed reading TMI between Bane and Alec. 

 

Cassandra announce that she was writing a spin off of the Mortal Instrument called The Dark Artifices sets about 5 years later after whatever happens in City of Heavenly Fire. She is bringing new characters and new dangers. I can't wait for it to come out, there a couple other talks she had about even more spin off and here's a message that she share about spins off.

 

Nightshade

Andrea Creamer have drawn us in her young adult/fantasy world of Nightshade, she spends a great deal about historical influences in her fantasy world. So you know that she would write spin-off that take you back to the past about where everything started that lead up to Calla's story. She also wrote Snakeroot that takes place after Bloodrose which I have not read yet but do have it on my shelf. 

 

Iron Fey

Julie Kagawa have brought the world of Fairies, yes you read that right fairies . . . I have not read the books but I have just about every one of them thank to my friend gifting them to me for Christmas/birthday. Now all I have to do is find a time to read that series as well the spin off. So who like the spin-off? Is the world still true to the first series The Iron Fey?

Others . . . .

So I've heard that Amanda Hocking was going to do a spin off series off the Tyrlle world, but I had no idea when so I completely forgot all about it until EW feature the cover of her new book Frostfire. Granted it gained my attention, however I'm not sure why I feel the way that I do . . . But I have mix feelings about the spin off. It's been nearly 3 years since Ascend(Trylle #3) been published. 
Am I concern that the world won't be as great as it was when I first read Switched? Or will this spin off be working too hard to match the readers expectations? I don't know I'm just "shrug shoulders" type, how will the spin off go?

But I'm willing to read it and try and keep an open mind, hopefully I can get that same reaction like I did before when I first read the trylle series.

I'm not even going to start about the Harry Potter spin off, I mean these books been coming out since I've been in middle school for crying out loud! We just ended the movie in 2011! So just don't go there . . . 

 

 

So how about you? What do you feel about spin offs and if you have read spin off books what did you think of them?

 

Book Review: Partials

Partials (Partials Sequence #1) by Dan Wells 

For fans of The Hunger Games, Battlestar Galactica, and Blade Runner comes the first book in the Partials Sequence, a fast-paced, action-packed, and riveting sci-fi teen series, by acclaimed author Dan Wells.

Humanity is all but extinguished after a war with Partials—engineered organic beings identical to humans—has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island. But sixteen-year-old Kira is determined to find a solution. As she tries desperately to save what is left of her race, she discovers that that the survival of both humans and Partials rests in her attempts to answer questions about the war's origin that she never knew to ask.

Playing on our curiosity of and fascination with the complete collapse of civilization, Partials is, at its heart, a story of survival, one that explores the individual narratives and complex relationships of those left behind, both humans and Partials alike—and of the way in which the concept of what is right and wrong in this world is greatly dependent on one's own point of view.

Supports the Common Core State Standards

Hardcover, 1st Edition, 468 pages

Published February 28th 2012 by Balzer + Bray 

Review

How does a species survive?
When everything is in the world is meant to eliminates for what you are . . . Kira Walker doesn't have much to call her world perfect, she watches and studies babies that dies hours after its birth from the RM virus . . . a virus that is responsible to wiping the human species to near extinct.

The war between the humans and the Partials is halted but why when the Partials have the advantage, but what if there's a reason?

Kira wants to starts saving her species and stop unnamed newborns becoming a statistics over and over again ,. . . her plan? Find a Partial and Study it hoping to find the answer.

Partials present an futuristic science-fiction scenario where human species is near extinct and Partials are the enemy or so history says.

I'm giving this a Four Cat's Tail Ups, because while I like the futuristic component as well the two species that are struggling to survive there were parts that made the story drone out of my interest rather than keep me interested. 

MEOW . . . MEOW . . . MEOW

So this is my second time reading Partials, I read Partials back in 2012 and while I had enjoy it back then I wasn't as an active reviewer back then so after getting Fragments and Ruins. I had set my goal of reading series books for the year of 2014.

The time is set in 2076, human population is nearly extinct . . . the RM virus was engineered by the Partials to kill . Young Kira Walker is just your ordinary strong-willed medic, she as well everyone else wishes there was a way to fight the RM virus and save the future of the human species.

My first impression of this world is that it would be quiet scary to have that happen, a virus that kills humans and we became a dying species. I like that Kira was someone who decided that she couldn't let this virus continue to kill newborns since they are the one that dies from the virus. What drove Kira to do something is when one of her friends becomes pregnant, she wasn't going to let her friend's baby become another statistic. 

The plan her plan . . . Find a Partial and Study it. Simple right? nope you got the Voices to worry about, as well the rest of the city that is in ruins. Kira's mission place herself in danger but also reaching her primary goal in finding a Partial. 

Meet Samm the Partials, quiet as well the enemy . . . Kira has 5 days to study him learning about his Anatomy and Physiology and what she found out was an amazing new discovery and a possibility that RM can be cure.  
But Samm also reveals something to Kira, that much to my amazement was not surprising, but there has to be pros and cons about the two very different species. 

What I know is that the partials has a plan, some sort of plan but where and what will be the big question.

There would be no peace among the humans while there's a partial in their area, but that won't stop Kira from getting what she wants. During the time she studied Samm I saw that she was growing towards him, like there was some sort of connection between them but neither her or Samm could figure it out until Kira is in Samm's situation. 

Does the Partials carry the key to saving newborn babies, is Kira Walker a part of that revolution that the people need?

UtopYA Con: Book Hauls

I kept putting this off and off and off, but I know that I have to share what books I got from my UtopYA Con.

I got a scrapbook for all the bookmarks, postcards, swags items . . . Mom got ahead of me and I was not ready to start the scrapbook so she went ahead and started. After telling her to stop one final time she did stop although I think she want to do more the next day.

I'm a creative person don't get me wrong but I wasn't in the mood for it and I was dealing with a minor headache that seems to not go away (it's gone now!)

Anyways my book haul, I took with me total of 17 books and books that was books I gotten at UtopYA CON . . . 43 books. So I came home with exactly 60 books in three different bags. It could have been worst . . . like really worst but I stayed with my budget that I saved and still return home with money left over (shocking)

Here's the books that I brought with me

 

Yes you saw that! There is 8 Jennifer L Armentrout books, while JLA had flight problems these pretties were not signed. Next on the very bottom is Jessica Sorensen who I thought was going to be there I had heard something or maybe I heard it wrong. Anyways I still end up getting a good deal out of buying the first two books of The Secret seriesfeaturing Ella and Micha.

Next we have Crewel which I found awhile back and Gennifer was one of the keynote speakers at UtopYA, I haven't read her books or really heard of her (blogger/reader problem) but I still picked it up anyways. Next is Bridger by Megan Curd who I've know for years through facebook and twitter (she's is awesome!) well in the mist of packing I found that Bridger was unsigned although I've have had it for a couple years but she was gladly to sign it anyways for me :-)

Rachel Harris! I actually met Rachel Harris who is all fun and flirty girly, I got the two My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century for a great price as well. 

Next Syliva Day the (better) romance novelist, the one that actually gain my interest to read her books when Fifty Shades of Gray was popular. But I wasn't ready to buy her books yet until some made their way to the discounts sections so mom and I snagged them. 

It was clear to me that Target was only place that I was going to get a Tiffany King book, so that is what I did and plus I'm a target member so bonus!

Next it's the books that I preordered, I found that preordering books were a guarantee that you'll get the books you want and if there were authors that didn't set up a preorder that I wanted I crossed my fingers and I did get some that were on my list but not preordered.

So what were the books?

Fly House by Misty Provencher

21 days by Bethany Lopez

8 weeks by Bethany Lopez

Cold Blood by Heather Hildenbrand

Blood Bond by Heather Hildenbrand

Prince of Wolves by Quinn Loftis

Blood Rites by Quinn Loftis 

Meant for Her by Raine Thomas

For Everly by Raine Thomas

Reap by Casey Bond

Winter Shadows by Casey Bond

Devil Creek by Casey Bond

The Space Between by Kristie Cook

The Space Beyond by Kristie Cook

I, Zombies by Jo Michaels

The books that I blame my mom for buying and drawing me into it, this one is going to be a long list of names and books.

 My not so Super Sweet Life by Rachel Harris

Cross-Country Christmas by Tiffany King

Reborn by C.C. Hunter

Take me to your Reader Anthology by various author

Wings of Arian by Devri Walls

Wings of Tavea by Devri Walls

Wings of Nestor by Devri Walls

Keegan's Chronicles by Julia Crane

Lucky Number Four by Amanda Jason

Two Little Lies by T.A. Kunz

Time Bound by Rysa Walker

Enchanted Heart by Mindy Ruiz

Evanescent by Carlyle Labuschagne

From the Wreakage by Michele G. Miller

Crossroads by Mary Ting

Bewteen by Mary Ting

Beyond by Mary Ting

Eternity by Mary Ting

From Gods by Mary Ting

Immortal Heart by Inger Iversen

Awakened by Inger Iversen

Awaken by Kristen Day

Forsaken by Kristen Day

Certain by various authors

Never Forgotten by Kelly Risser

Books that were in our bags . . . for a Blogger bag and UtopYA bags

A Secret Life by Rachael Brownell

(2) Angel Burn by L.A Weatherley

And last but not less, is two Journals from the fabulous Mae I Design photographer Regina Wamba, she has more journals that just went live on amazon. You can't say no to journals, I mean where do you think it all started?

So yes I gain 43 NEW books onto my shelf, although not ONE book have been place on my shelf, they still remains in the bags in the living room. So I guess I'm still hungover from UtopYA Con and I've been really busy helping my friend plan her wedding.