As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’m going to be writing about my Holiday Reading – the books on my list to read during the break and reviews of the books I manage to finish!

If you are doing something similar on your blog, I’d love to hear from you, so leave me a comment below and don’t forget to leave your link so that I can come and visit you and spread some Christmas cheer :)

Also, if you have read any of the books on my Holiday Reading List please leave me a comment letting me know what you thought!

You can find all my other Holiday Reading posts here!

The next book on my Holiday Reading List is:

Friday Night Bites
Release Date: 8th April 2010
Publisher: Victor Gollancz Limited (Aus)

VAMPIRES IN CHICAGO!You’d think a headline like that would have made the fine citizens of the Windy City to take up arms against us bloodsucking fiends. Instead, ten months later, we’re enjoying celebrity statue and fending off the paparazzi, who are only slightly less dangerous than angry stake-wielding slayers. Don’t get me wrong – Joe Public isn’t exactly thrilled to be living side by side with the undead, but at least they haven’t stormed the castle . . . not yet . . . But it could be a matter of time. There’s a first-time reporter sniffing around vampire society, and if he uncovers the Raves – mass feeding parties, where vampires round humans up like cattle and drink themselves silly. The fact that it’s majorly frowned upon by vamp society won’t make a difference to that kind of a headline, or a new reporter who’s out to impress his family.So now my ‘master’ – the centuries-old yet gorgeously well-preserved Ethan Sullivan – wants me to reconnect with my own upper-class family and act as liaison between humans and vampire . . . and use the opportunity to keep the less savoury aspects of vamp existence out of the media spotlight. Tough job, when it seems someone doesn’t want vamps and humans to play nicely – someone with a serious, ancient grudge . . .

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As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’m going to be writing about my Holiday Reading – the books on my list to read during the break and reviews of the books I manage to finish!

If you are doing something similar on your blog, I’d love to hear from you, so leave me a comment below and don’t forget to leave your link so that I can come and visit you and spread some Christmas cheer :)

Also, if you have read any of the books on my Holiday Reading List please leave me a comment letting me know what you thought!

You can find all my other Holiday Reading posts here!

The next book on my Holiday Reading List is:

Some Girls Bite by Chloe Neill
Release Date: 7th April 2009
Publisher: Victor Gollancz Limited (Aus)

Sure, the life of a graduate student wasn’t exactly glamorous, but it was mine. I was doing fine until Chicago’s vampires announced their existence to the world – and then a rogue vampire attacked me. But he only got a sip before he was scared away by another bloodsucker . . . one who decided the best way to save my life was to take it.Turns out my saviour was the master vampire of Cadogan House. Now I’ve traded sweating over my thesis for learning to fit in at a Hyde Park mansion full of vamps loyal to Ethan ‘Lord o’ the Manor’ Sullivan. Of course, as a tall, green-eyed, four hundred year old vampire, he has centuries’ worth of charm, but unfortunately he also seems to expect my eternal gratitude – and servitude. Right . . .But my burgeoning powers (all of a sudden, I’m surprisingly handy with some serious weaponry), an inconvenient sunlight allergy, and Ethan’s attitude are the least of my concerns. Someone’s out to get me. Is it the rogue vampire who bit me? A vamp from a rival House? An angry mob bearing torches?My initiation into Chicago’s nightlife may be the first skirmish in a war – and there’s going to be blood . . .

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If you liked this book you may like to read more books for teenage girls like Winter’s Shadow M.J. Hearle, Sirensong by Jenna Black and Bloodlines by Richelle Mead!

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’m going to be writing about my Holiday Reading – the books on my list to read during the break and reviews of the books I manage to finish!

If you are doing something similar on your blog, I’d love to hear from you, so leave me a comment below and don’t forget to leave your link so that I can come and visit you and spread some Christmas cheer :)

Also, if you have read any of the books on my Holiday Reading List please leave me a comment letting me know what you thought!

You can find all my other Holiday Reading posts here!

The next book on my Holiday Reading List is:

Nevermore by Kelly Creagh
Release Date: 31 August 2010
Publisher: Atheneum Books

Cheerleader Isobel Lanley is horrified when she is paired with Varen Nethers for an English project, which is due—so unfair—on the day of the rival game. Cold and aloof, sardonic and sharp-tongued, Varen makes it clear he’d rather not have anything to do with her either. But when Isobel discovers strange writing in his journal, she can’t help but give this enigmatic boy with piercing eyes another look.

Soon, Isobel finds herself making excuses to be with Varen. Steadily pulled away from her friends and her possessive boyfriend, Isobel ventures deeper and deeper into the dream world Varen has created through the pages of his notebook, a realm where the terrifying stories of Edgar Allan Poe come to life.

As her world begins to unravel around her, Isobel discovers that dreams, like words, hold more power than she ever imagined and that the most frightening realities are those of the mind. Now she must find a way to reach Varen before he is consumed by the shadows of his own nightmares.

His life depends on it.

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As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’m going to be writing about my Holiday Reading – the books on my list to read during the break and reviews of the books I manage to finish!

If you are doing something similar on your blog, I’d love to hear from you, so leave me a comment below and don’t forget to leave your link so that I can come and visit you and spread some Christmas cheer :)

Also, if you have read any of the books on my Holiday Reading List please leave me a comment letting me know what you thought!

You can find all my other Holiday Reading posts here!

The next book on my Holiday Reading List is:

Entice by Carrie Jones
Release Date: 14 December 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury

Zara and Nick are soul-mates – they’re meant to be together for ever. But that’s not quite how things have worked out. For starters, Nick is dead, and has been taken to Valhalla, a mystical resting place for warriors. If they can find the way there, Zara and her friends will try to get him back. But even if they do, Zara has turned pixie – and now she’s Astley’s queen! Meanwhile, more teenagers go missing as a group of evil pixies devastates the town of Bedford. An all-out war seems imminent and Zara and her friends need all the warriors they can find…

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As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’m going to be writing about my Holiday Reading – the books on my list to read during the break and reviews of the books I manage to finish!

If you are doing something similar on your blog, I’d love to hear from you, so leave me a comment below and don’t forget to leave your link so that I can come and visit you and spread some Christmas cheer :)

Also, if you have read any of the books on my Holiday Reading List please leave me a comment letting me know what you thought!

You can find all my other Holiday Reading posts here!

The next book on my Holiday Reading List is:

Captivate by Carrie Jones
Release Date: 05 April 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury

Zara and her friends knew they hadn’t solved the pixie problem for good. Far from it. The king’s needs grow deeper every day he’s stuck in captivity, while his control over his people becomes weaker. It’s made him vulnerable. And now there’s a new king in town. A turf war is imminent. The new pixie king is moving in quickly. He swears that he and Zara are destined to be together, that he’s one of the good guys. Zara isn’t so sure. Despite herself, she wants to trust the new king, but there’s a lot more than her relationship with boyfriend Nick at stake. It’s her life – and his.

Purchase the book or the Kindle and iPad friendly version now!

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’m going to be writing about my Holiday Reading – the books on my list to read during the break and reviews of the books I manage to finish!

If you are doing something similar on your blog, I’d love to hear from you, so leave me a comment below and don’t forget to leave your link so that I can come and visit you and spread some Christmas cheer :)

Also, if you have read any of the books on my Holiday Reading List please leave me a comment letting me know what you thought!

You can find all my other Holiday Reading posts here!

The next book on my Holiday Reading List is:

Need by Carrie Jones
Release Date: 08 December 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury

Zara collects phobias the way other high school girls collect lipsticks. Little wonder, since life’s been pretty rough so far. Her father left, her stepfather just died, and her mother’s pretty much checked out. Now Zara’s living with her grandmother in sleepy, cold Maine so that she stays “safe.” Zara doesn’t think she’s in danger; she thinks her mother can’t deal.

Wrong. Turns out that guy she sees everywhere, the one leaving trails of gold glitter, isn’t a figment of her imagination. He’s a pixie—and not the cute, lovable kind with wings. He’s the kind who has dreadful, uncontrollable needs. And he’s trailing Zara.

Purchase the book or the Kindle and iPad friendly version now!

If you liked this book you may like to read more books for teenage girls like Winter’s Shadow M.J. Hearle, Sirensong by Jenna Black and Bloodlines by Richelle Mead!

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’m going to be writing about my Holiday Reading – the books on my list to read during the break and reviews of the books I manage to finish!

If you are doing something similar on your blog, I’d love to hear from you, so leave me a comment below and don’t forget to leave your link so that I can come and visit you and spread some Christmas cheer :)

Also, if you have read any of the books on my Holiday Reading List please leave me a comment letting me know what you thought!

You can find all my other Holiday Reading posts here!

The next book on my Holiday Reading List is:

The Replacement by Brenna Yovanoff
Release Date: 06 January 2011
Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Mackie Doyle is a replacement – a fairy child left in the crib of a human baby sixteen years ago, to replace the baby when it was stolen away by the fey. So though he lives in the small town of Gentry, Mackie’s real home is the fey world of tunnels and black, murky water, a world of living dead girls ruled by a little tattooed princess. Now, because his fey blood gives him fatal allergies to iron, blood and consecrated ground, Mackie is slowly dying in the human world. Mackie would give anything just to be normal, to live quietly amongst humans, practice his bass guitar and spend time with his crush, Tate. But when Tate’s baby sister goes missing, Mackie is drawn irrevocably back home to the fey underworld of Gentry, known as Mayhem, where he must face down the dark creatures, rescue the child, and find his rightful place – in our world, or theirs.

Purchase the book or the Kindle and iPad friendly version now!

If you liked this book you may like to read more books for teenage girls like Winter’s Shadow M.J. Hearle, Sirensong by Jenna Black and Bloodlines by Richelle Mead!

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I’m going to be writing about my Holiday Reading – the books on my list to read during the break and reviews of the books I manage to finish!

If you are doing something similar on your blog, I’d love to hear from you, so leave me a comment below and don’t forget to leave your link so that I can come and visit you and spread some Christmas cheer :)

Also, if you have read any of the books on my Holiday Reading List please leave me a comment letting me know what you thought!

You can find all my other Holiday Reading posts here!

The next book on my Holiday Reading List is:

Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
Release Date: April 2010
Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Sophie Mercer’s first term at Hex Hall turned out to be quite eventful. First the ghost of her evil grandmother haunted her every move, then her best friend was accused of murder and of course there was the discovery that Archer Cross, aka the boy of her dreams, was actually an undercover demon hunter – which would probably be something she could have worked on, if she hadn’t also discovered that she was actually the demon Archer was hunting…
So, despite their issues, Sophie is actually relieved to be spending the summer in London with her father. But when your father is Head of The Council of Prodigium and your summer is being spent at the headquarters of everything magical, then a quiet holiday isn’t really that likely. And, as Sophie struggles to come to terms with her new found demon powers, she finds herself thrust once again into a world of dark magic and conspiracies. The only thing that could possibly make things more complicated would be for Archer Cross to show up again, which of course he wouldn’t, would he?

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If you liked this book you may like to read more books for teenage girls like Winter’s Shadow M.J. Hearle, Sirensong by Jenna Black and Bloodlines by Richelle Mead!

I love the Christmas holidays! For me it’s a break from the usual routine of getting the kids ready for school, cleaning the house, preparing meals, baths, helping with homework and all those other “Mummy” duties! I have a little army of five here, so with their help the chores get done quicker which gives us all more time to play! And with this new found play time I am planning on getting a book or two read :)

A little birdy whispered in my ear that I may just be getting a iPad from Santa this year, which had me jumping for joy and squeeing all over the place. A new toy and a book fetish enabler all in one device, I am seriously excited!!! So excited infact, that I have already compiled a list of iPad friendly books that will be purchased on Christmas Day and enjoyed during the holidays!

Over the next few weeks I’m going to be writing about the books that I will be endeavouring to read during my break in routine. I’ll also be writing reviews for the books I get to finish, so keep your eye out for them.

If you are doing something similar on you blog, leave me a comment with a link and I’ll come and visit you :)

Ok here we go, the first book on my Holiday Reading List is:

Firelight by Sophie Jordan
Release Date: October 1st 2010
Publisher: HarperCollins (Aus)

Marked as special at an early age, Jacinda knows her every move is watched. But she longs for freedom to make her own choices. When she breaks the most sacred tenet among her kind, she nearly pays with her life. Until a beautiful stranger saves her. A stranger who was sent to hunt those like her. For Jacinda is a draki—a descendant of dragons whose greatest defense is her secret ability to shift into human form.
Forced to flee into the mortal world with her family, Jacinda struggles to adapt to her new surroundings. The only bright light is Will. Gorgeous, elusive Will who stirs her inner draki to life. Although she is irresistibly drawn to him, Jacinda knows Will’s dark secret: He and his family are hunters. She should avoid him at all costs. But her inner draki is slowly slipping away—if it dies she will be left as a human forever. She’ll do anything to prevent that. Even if it means getting closer to her most dangerous enemy.

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If you liked this book you may like to read more books for teenage girls like Winter’s Shadow M.J. Hearle, Sirensong by Jenna Black and Bloodlines by Richelle Mead!