Book Review: The Crow Box

The Crow Box (The Shadow & Ink Series) by Nikki Rae

Synopsis:

The small wooden box is dirty, the size of a human fist, and sealed with wax. When Corbin takes it upon herself to clean it and break the seal, a voice she has tried to ignore gathers strength. Shadows play on the walls at night, and with a family history of mental illness, Corbin fears the worst. But the voice tells her it is real. That its name is Six and it will prove it in time. 

Drawn to this mysterious entity, Corbin isn't sure what to believe and the line between reality and her imagination blurs more every day. 

Some doors should not be opened; can this one be closed.

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The Crow Box is a little kind of weirdly, that's the best term to describe it, It's not a bad thing I know Nikki loves to write weirdly dark things. The character Corbin (which is a very interesting name for a girl), she starts hearing voices . . . well actually A voice.  

There's some interesting connection between the Voice and black feathers? 

Corbin is not one of those average girls most people read about, she pretty much keeps to herself and keeps her home life pretty in secrets. Her mom has a Mental condition and throughout the book Corbin starts to hear a voice and starts wondering if she's becoming like her mom. 

The voice named Six, is some unexplained form is the best way I can say it. I'm still not sure what he is or who he is, what's his purpose and what's his interest in Corbin? All bunch of questions that still leaves me in thoughts. 

Towards the end of the book, something happens Corbin she gets lost into her own delusional/hallucinations state and then the Voice is near but sounds more real than a mist of a form that leaves behind black feathers. 

I give this 4 Cat Paws Up,  I like the weirdly factor Nikki put into this book. 

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Book Review: Wolf Bait

Wolf Bait (Wolf Cove #1) by Nina West

When life turns to hell, most people talk about running away. Abbi Mitchell actually does it. Determined to escape her humiliating heartbreak and her overbearing mother, Abbi takes a summer job at a resort in Alaska. It's supposed to be four months of snow-capped mountains, peaceful wilderness, and figuring out if she should wait for her lifelong sweetheart to come back, as he has promised he'll do.

Instead, it's Henry Wolf.

Owner of the luxury hotel chain, Henry Wolf is cool and composed, successful with everything he touches, and undeniably beautiful. And for some reason Abbi can't fathom, he wants her—the farm girl from small town, USA with no corporate experience—as his personal assistant.

Abbi scrambles to meet his professional demands while she battles her growing attraction to him. Physical feelings she shouldn't have because he's her boss, because she's way out of her league with him, and because they'll never be reciprocated.

Until they are.

Will Abbi be able to let go of herself—her values, her dreams, and her inhibitions—to give him all that he's demanding of her?

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Published November 16th 2015

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TO be honest, I read this like last month but due to my lack of wanting to Review that Wolf Bite was just sitting waiting to be review.  I love the story so it wasn't like I didn't like it or love it otherwise that would be more difficult to write the review. 

I also thought this was a werewolf book as well, can you figure out why I thought that?

Abbi grew up in a much devoted christian family, however when she learns of her now ex cheated on her. She couldn't continue on with the relationship, although everyone else wanted her to give him a second chance. to forgives his sins so to speak. 

Abbi decided that she wanted to go on an adventure by taking a job for a resort out in Alaska, surrounded by breath-taking views and an breath-taking, sexual-driven, masculine man named Henry Wolf the owner of Wolf Hotels establishment.  Although Abbi doesn't stand a virgin chance with him, Henry was determine to learn about her. 

Wolf Bait explores sexual fantasies that Abbi never had dream of, including losing her virginity card but can she keeps a separate relationship between her BOSS Henry and Henry that got her heart pounding? 

But Henry got some secrets of his own . . .

This was a great start off for the series, the ending was just too much! Like where will Abbi stand now? Now that she learn a truth that just may put her job at jeopardy and possibly lose her job at Wolf Cove. 

I give this 4.5 Cat Paws Up! I can't wait for book two Wolf Bite.

Top 10 Tuesday: 2015 Books I Wanted

It's that time again!  Top Ten Tuesdays hosted by the ladies of The Broke And The Bookish

This week's topic: Top Ten 2015 Releases I Meant To Get To But Didn't

 So the Top four books were ones I really really wanted but most of my book were all hardcover so I had to draw the line. 
 
1. Nowhere but Here by Katie McGarry

2. Deceptions by Kelley Armstrong 

3. November 9 by Collen Hoover

4. The Drafter by Kim Harrison

5. Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver

6. All the Rage by Courtney Summers

7. Black Iris by Leah Raeder 

8. Hero by Samantha Young

9. Hotel Ruby by Suzanne Young

10. Every Last Breath by Jennifer L Armentrout

I almost didn't get the most talk books of the year which were

Red Queen
An Ember in the Ashes
Six of Crows 

However I got them before the new year came along.  

Book Review: What a Werewolf Wants

What a Werewolf Wants (San Franciso Wolf Pack #3) by Kristin Miller

A paranormal category romance from Entangled's Covet imprint...


They may not be the perfect match…But they’re having fun.
 
Going to the chapel, and her sister is going to get married…no matter what.

Josie Cole might be unlucky in love, but she’s a pro at matching other couples. When her sister gets married to the man of her dreams, it’ll be Cole Matchmaking Services one-hundredth match, and secure Josie a television special that would boost business.

Private investigator–and werewolf–Ryder McManus doesn’t believe in marriage. Catching cheating spouses has taught him there is no such thing as happily ever after. But then he never expected to find his fated mate, Josie, at his best friend’s wedding festivities.

When Josie and Ryder are together, the chemistry heats up. While he’s trying to stop the wedding, she’ll do whatever it takes to give the couple a dream day. But the secret he’s trying to expose might just ruin everything…

Released January 11th, 2016

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What a Werewolf Wants is Kristin's (6th werewolf book), third in the San Francisco Pack.
An Stubborn Ryder McManus thinks he knows everything about relationships, love and marriage. He believes that they are not meant to last based on all his works of trailing lying boyfriends, cheating fiances and unfaithful husbands.

Looking for your perfect match? Josie Cole is the ultimate matchmaker, she just recently paired up her 100th successful match which happens to be her sister and everything about this 100th match was going to be film. It's the kind of promotion her successful business need however if she is such a wonderful matchmaker why hadn't she found her one true match?

Both Josie and Ryder have this instant connection upon their first meet.

As you know Kristin's werewolves books deals with a wolf finding his luminary, what made Ryder so different from all the other male wolves she written was his determination that he never wants to get marry, have children or find love. Ryder believes he knows everything about marriage and relationships but I think he's never really had one either.

Josie on the otherhands has no problems with having a relationship but she got so caught up in her business that she never set out there. But when she meets Ryder, she felt that connection that she does when pairing up couples.

The most funny part of this book was the big Wolf reveal, Ryder's best friend Mitch who marrying Josie's sister gets himself so drunk that he shifted in the back of a bar alley. I guess one of the reasons why Mitch "Carelessly" did this was because Ryder kept pushing and nagging on him that he had to tell Carrie the truth about what he is. Again Ryder wanted to show Mitch what he saw in his eyes about marriage, but clearly that backfires.

Even the coded conversation that Carrie and Josie had while being film was hilarious, I was almost afraid that Liza was going to pick up on the fact that they might not be talking about a dog. Both Josie and her sister Carrie agreed to be turned, I love Carrie's and Mitch Idea but at the same time I enjoyed Josie and Ryder's idea just doing it after being together for a couple months.

I really have to give this 5 Cat's Paws, everything that I said in my review reflects why I gave it five Cat's Paws.

Now I just wonder  . . . WILL Kristin write MORE??? I already sent her a message about something so I guess I'll see what's she say! Also if you haven't seen some of the posts on facebook and Twitter (I tried to do it on both), I've written a Fan-Fic story on Silas Wilder the big bad wolf from Gone with the Wolf. So far 10 chapters are up, and I'll try to upload more when I get the time. 

Link: https://www.wattpad.com/story/55947728-taming-the-big-bad-wolf

Where I'll be

WHERE I'LL BE . . .

I know I lack blogging lately, but sadly that's only going to continue. I'll be back to school in a week and I'll be doing other things where I can't dedicated myself to blogging. Honestly if you want to know the real truth, I haven't enjoyed blogging like I use to before way back when I first started.

I think part of that is that I took blogging way too serious when it doesn't need to be and to find actual time to do blogging is another problem. When I did my last book review of the year, it was surprisingly painless. I could actually put down the words.

Now that could because I love the book or it could be when I started the review, I started it when I was about half way done and then finished it when I finished the book. I think I'll take that approach when I reading books.

I'll try to take part in challenges and participate in blog tours if I am accepted. Otherwise I'll mostly try to read and since I set my reading challenge at 63 books this year. Kara from Great Imagination made me feel kind of not challenging myself so she was doing 125 books and I met her halfway with 63. Now if I fail, I fail but I'll know in the end I'll have read some amazing books.

I'm also pretty absent on Twitter, I got the darn app on my phone/Ipad but either one or the other will get the notifications and not the other when I have set it up to doing on both devices. So I hope to stay in the Twitter universe while I'm gone from blogging because how else will I hear about new books?

Let's Ring In the NEW YEAR!!!!

Book Review: All In

All In (The Naturals #3) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes 

Three casinos. Three bodies. Three days.

After a string of brutal murders in Las Vegas, Cassie Hobbes and the Naturals are called in to investigate. But even with the team's unique profiling talents, these murders seem baffling: unlike many serial killers, this one uses different methods every time. All of the victims were killed in public, yet the killer does not show up on any tape. And each victim has a string of numbers tattooed on their wrist. Hidden in the numbers is a code—and the closer the Naturals come to unraveling the mystery, the more perilous the case becomes.

Meanwhile, Cassie is dealing with an equally dangerous and much more painful mystery. For the first time in years, there's been a break in her mother's case. As personal issues and tensions between the team mount, Cassie and the Naturals will be faced with impossible odds—and impossible choices.

Hardcover, 378 pages

Published November 3rd 2015 by Disney-Hyperion

 

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All In really got my mind in wonders, how does Jennifer come up with this kind of stuff or much less find the research? Jennifer created a very complex case for the Naturals, I was kind of right about how each book would tie in with one of the characters in each book. This time it was Sloane who can spout tons of statistical facts in the most random times.

Cassie is now dealing with her own personal agenda, the FBI has information regarding her mother's murder but even Cassie can't face the dark memories that haunts her. Can Cassie be ready to finally be able to closed her mom's unsolved murder?

Apart from the great details to make a great case, some of the other characters like Lia, Michael and Dean were kind of absent. They were present but they became more behind the scene than be front and center like they been in the other books.

Although Cassie and Dean have established an "dating" status, there wasn't much going on between them and they were in Las Vegas of all places! I get that neither of them really know what it means to date but come on how about a little hand holding?? Maybe even a kiss???? There wasn't much going on between them.

The dynamic that Sloane has made me feel that she was someone who thrives to be wanted, to be loved but she never got any of that which might be why she's always closed off with her personality because she was ignore. This case became a little more personal for Sloane, but unfortunately I can't say because it's one of the main key component in the book.

I give All In 4.5 Cat's Paws, as usual I love Jennifer's intrigue writing however it felt like some of the characters became at a standstill.

Top 10 2015: Future 2016 Releases

 

Top 10 of books I look forward to seeing in the year of 2016

This is where it ends by Marieke Nijkamp 

10:00 a.m.

The principal of Opportunity, Alabama's high school finishes her speech, welcoming the entire student body to a new semester and encouraging them to excel and achieve.

10:02 a.m.
The students get up to leave the auditorium for their next class.

10:03
The auditorium doors won't open.

10:05
Someone starts shooting.

Told over the span of 54 harrowing minutes from four different perspectives, terror reigns as one student's calculated revenge turns into the ultimate game of survival.

The Flame Never Dies by Rachel Vincent 

For fans of Cassandra Clare and Richelle Mead comes the unputdownable sequel to The Stars Never Rise, a book Rachel Caine, author of the bestselling Morganville Vampires series, called “haunting, unsettling, and eerily beautiful.”

ONE SPARK WILL RISE. Nina Kane was born to be an exorcist. And since uncovering the horrifying truth—that the war against demons is far from over—seventeen-year-old Nina and her pregnant younger sister, Mellie, have been on the run, incinerating the remains of the demon horde as they go.

In the badlands, Nina, Mellie, and Finn, the fugitive and rogue exorcist who saved her life, find allies in a group of freedom fighters. They also face a new threat: Pandemonia, a city full of demons. But this fresh new hell is the least of Nina’s worries. The well of souls ran dry more than a century ago, drained by the demons secretly living among humans, and without a donor soul, Mellie’s child will die within hours of its birth.

Nina isn’t about to let that happen . . . even if it means she has to make the ultimate sacrifice.

The Long Game by Jennifer Lynn Barnes 

Tess Kendrick, teen fixer extraordinaire, returns in a pulse-pounding thriller about a deadly conspiracy at the heart of Washington.

For Tess Kendrick, a junior at the elite Hardwicke School in Washington D.C., fixing runs in the family. But Tess has another legacy, too, one that involves power and the making of political dynasties. When Tess is asked to run a classmate's campaign for student council, she agrees. But when the candidates are children of politicians, even a high school election can involve life-shattering secrets.

Meanwhile, Tess's guardian has also taken on an impossible case, as a terrorist attack calls into doubt who can--and cannot--be trusted on Capitol Hill. Tess knows better than most that power is currency in D.C., but she's about to discover first-hand that power always comes with a price.

Perfect for fans of Harlan Coben and Ally Carter, the second book in this thrilling series will leave readers breathless.

Reign of Shadow by Sophie Jordan

 

Seventeen years ago, an eclipse cloaked the kingdom of Relhok in perpetual darkness. In the chaos, an evil chancellor murdered the king and queen and seized their throne. Luna, Relhok’s lost princess, has been hiding in a tower ever since. Luna’s survival depends on the world believing she is dead.

But that doesn’t stop Luna from wanting more. When she meets Fowler, a mysterious archer braving the woods outside her tower, Luna is drawn to him despite the risk. When the tower is attacked, Luna and Fowler escape together. But this world of darkness is more treacherous than Luna ever realized.

With every threat stacked against them, Luna and Fowler find solace in each other. But with secrets still unspoken between them, falling in love might be their most dangerous journey yet.

Riders by Veronica Rossi

For eighteen-year-old Gideon Blake, nothing but death can keep him from achieving his goal of becoming a U.S. Army Ranger. As it turns out, it does.

Recovering from the accident that most definitely killed him, Gideon finds himself with strange new powers and a bizarre cuff he can't remove. His death has brought to life his real destiny. He has become War, one of the legendary four horsemen of the apocalypse.

Over the coming weeks, he and the other horsemen--Conquest, Famine, and Death--are brought together by a beautiful but frustratingly secretive girl to help save humanity from an ancient evil on the emergence.

They fail.

Now--bound, bloodied, and drugged--Gideon is interrogated by the authorities about his role in a battle that has become an international incident. If he stands any chance of saving his friends and the girl he's fallen for--not to mention all of humankind--he needs to convince the skeptical government officials the world is in imminent danger.

But will anyone believe him? 
  

Forbidden Wish by Jessica Khoury 

 
She is the most powerful Jinni of all. He is a boy from the streets. Their love will shake the world...

When Aladdin discovers Zahra's jinni lamp, Zahra is thrust back into a world she hasn't seen in hundreds of years -- a world where magic is forbidden and Zahra's very existence is illegal. She must disguise herself to stay alive, using ancient shape-shifting magic, until her new master has selected his three wishes.

But when the King of the Jinn offers Zahra a chance to be free of her lamp forever, she seizes the opportunity—only to discover she is falling in love with Aladdin. When saving herself means betraying him, Zahra must decide once and for all: is winning her freedom worth losing her heart?

As time unravels and her enemies close in, Zahra finds herself suspended between danger and desire in this dazzling retelling of Aladdin from acclaimed author Jessica Khoury.

City of The Lost by Kelley Armstrong 

 
New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author Kelley Armstrong delivers us to Rockton, a secret little town in the far north where the hunted go to hide. And where a hunter has now come to play.

Casey Duncan once killed a man and got away with it. Since then she’s become a talented police detective, tethered only to her job, her best friend, Diana, and the occasional evening with her sexy, no-strings-attached ex-con lover, Kurt. But then Diana's abusive ex finds her again, despite all Casey has done to help her disappear. And Casey’s own dark past begins to catch up with her. The two women need to run—and Diana’s heard of a place where they won’t be found, a town especially for people like them…
  

Passengers by Alexandra Braxen

passage, n.
i. A brief section of music composed of a series of notes and flourishes.
ii. A journey by water; a voyage.
iii. The transition from one place to another, across space and time.

In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves. Thrust into an unfamiliar world by a stranger with a dangerous agenda, Etta is certain of only one thing: she has traveled not just miles but years from home. And she’s inherited a legacy she knows nothing about from a family whose existence she’s never heard of. Until now.

Nicholas Carter is content with his life at sea, free from the Ironwoods—a powerful family in the colonies—and the servitude he’s known at their hands. But with the arrival of an unusual passenger on his ship comes the insistent pull of the past that he can’t escape and the family that won’t let him go so easily. Now the Ironwoods are searching for a stolen object of untold value, one they believe only Etta, Nicholas’ passenger, can find. In order to protect her, he must ensure she brings it back to them— whether she wants to or not.

Together, Etta and Nicholas embark on a perilous journey across centuries and continents, piecing together clues left behind by the traveler who will do anything to keep the object out of the Ironwoods’ grasp. But as they get closer to the truth of their search, and the deadly game the Ironwoods are play­ing, treacherous forces threaten to sep­arate Etta not only from Nicholas but from her path home . . . forever. 

The Great Hunt by wendy Higgins 

Kill the beast. Win the girl.

A strange beast stirs fear in the kingdom of Lochlanach, terrorizing towns with its brutality and hunger. In an act of desperation, a proclamation is sent to all of Eurona—kill the creature and win the ultimate prize: the daughter of King Lochson’s hand in marriage.

Princess Aerity understands her duty to the kingdom though it pains her to imagine marrying a stranger. It would be foolish to set her sights on any particular man in the great hunt, but when a brooding local hunter, Paxton Seabolt, catches her attention, there’s no denying the unspoken lure between them…or his mysterious resentment.

Paxton is not keen on marriage. Nor does he care much for spoiled royals and their arcane laws. He’s determined to keep his focus on the task at hand—ridding the kingdom of the beast and protecting his family—yet Princess Aerity continues to challenge his notions with her unpredictability and charm. But as past secrets collide with present desires, dire choices threaten everything Paxton holds dear.

Inspired by the Grimm Brothers’ tale, “The Singing Bone,” New York Times bestselling author Wendy Higgins delivers a dark fantasy filled with rugged hunters, romantic tension, outlawed magic, and a princess willing to risk all to save her people.

MASQUERADE (Menagerie #2) by Rachel Vincent

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