Book Review: 100 Fathoms Below by Steven L. Kent and Nicholas Kaufman

100 Fathoms Below

Author: Steven L. Kent and Nicholas Kaufman
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing (October 9, 2018)
Kindle edition, 272 pages
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Summary
100 fathoms below ...The depth at which sunlight no longer penetrates the ocean.1983. The US nuclear submarine USS Roanoke embarks on a classified spy mission into Soviet waters. Their goal: to find evidence of a new, faster, and deadlier Soviet submarine that could tip the balance of the Cold War. But the Roanoke crew isn't alone. Something is on board with them. Something cunning and malevolent.Trapped in enemy territory and hunted by Soviet submarines, tensions escalate and crew members turn on each other. When the lights go out and horror fills the corridors, it will take everything the crew has to survive the menace coming from outside and inside the submarine.In the dark.Combining Tom Clancy's eye for international intrigue with Stephen King's sense of the macabre, 100 Fathoms Below takes readers into depths from which there is no escape. 

Book Review: Ogre Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

Ogre Enchanted

Author: Gail Carson Levine
Series: Ella Enchanted, Book 0.5
Publisher: Harper Collins (October 16, 2018)
Hardcover, 352 pages
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Summary
In this prequel to Ella Enchanted, which can stand on its own, young healer Evie is transformed into an ogre by the meddling fairy Lucinda. She’ll turn back only if someone proposes and she accepts!

Returning to the land and many of the characters from her beloved Newbery Honor–winning Ella Enchanted, Gail Carson Levine has written a delightful tale about a clever and endearing heroine who is determined to defy expectations.

Evie is happiest when she is healing people, diagnosing symptoms, and prescribing medications, with the help of her devoted friend (and test subject) Wormy. So when Wormy unexpectedly proposes to her, she kindly turns him down; she has far too much to do to be marrying anyone. And besides, she simply isn’t in love with him.

But a certain meddling fairy named Lucinda has been listening in, and she doesn’t approve of Evie’s rejection. Suddenly, Evie finds herself transformed from a girl into a hideous, hungry ogre. Evie now has only sixty-two days to accept another proposal—or else be stuck as an ogre forever.



Blog Tour: Hot Winter Nights by Jill Shalvis


Who needs mistletoe?
Most people wouldn’t think of a bad Santa case as the perfect Christmas gift. Then again, Molly Malone, office manager at Hunt Investigations, isn’t most people, and she could really use a distraction from the fantasies she’s been having since spending the night with her very secret crush, Lucas Knight. Nothing happened, not that Lucas knows that—but Molly just wants to enjoy being a little naughty for once . . .
Whiskey and pain meds for almost-healed bullet wounds don’t mix. Lucas needs to remember that next time he’s shot on the job, which may be sooner rather than later if Molly’s brother, Joe, finds out about them. Lucas can’t believe he’s drawing a blank on his (supposedly) passionate tryst with Molly, who’s the hottest, smartest, strongest woman he’s ever known. Strong enough to kick his butt if she discovers he’s been assigned to babysit her on her first case. And hot enough to melt his cold heart this Christmas.

About the Book

Hot Winter Nights
by Jill Shalvis
SeriesThe Heartbreaker Bay Series
GenreAdult
Contemporary Romance
PublisherAvon Books
Publication DateSeptember 25, 2018
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Book Review: Grilled Cheese and Goblins: Adventures of a Supernatural Food Inspector by Nicole Kimberling

Grilled Cheese and Goblins: Adventures of a Supernatural Food Inspector

Author: Nicole Kimberling
Publisher: Blind Eye Books (October 9, 2018)
Paperback, 317 pages
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Summary
Vampire Hunter. Leprechaun Fighter. Food Inspector. Keith Curry has his work cut out for him. NATO's Irregulars Affairs Division is a secret organization operating in thousands of cities around the globe. Its agents police relations between the earthly realm and those beyond this world, protecting citizens from both mundane and otherworldly dangers. Former chef turned NIAD food inspector, Special Agent Keith Curry found out about magic the hard way and is now determined to keep dinner safe for everybody. Includes the novellas Cherries Worth Getting, Magically Delicious and the never-before-published Bring Out Your Best plus bonus shorts and more!

#blogoween: Halloween Creatures 2.0 Tag

AH! So excited to be tagged for Halloween Creatures 2.0 Tag in #blogoween! Thanks to Patricia (or should I say "Bat-tricia"?) over at Bookish Geek for tagging me.

If you're not familiar, Blogoween is month-long blog event hosted by several different bloggers across the blogosphere with a month of prompts specifically celebrating Halloween and fall. There are three tiers to sign up under, and you can check it out here if you're interesting in learning more.

Witch : a magical character or book

Mildred Hubble from The Worst Witch series of books is the first most magical character that comes to mind for me.








Werewolf: a perfect book to read at night

As a mom of a couple of small goblins, most of my perfect books to read at night are books I read with them. A favorite of ours for this time of year is Little Boo. It's about a pumpkin seed who wants so badly to be grow up to be spooky, and it's basically the perfect bedtime story for Halloween. 





Frankenstein: a book that truly shocked you

Shoot the Messenger, for the same reasons that Kesh is the person I chose for the Skeleton category for someone I have a bone to pick with. BIGGEST PLOT TWIST EVER AND I JUST ABOUT PEED MY PANTS.


The Devil: a dark, evil character

...George R. R. Martin.


Grim Reaper: a character that never should have died

No spoilers, but if you've read Arrows Fall by Mercedes Lackey, then you know.









Zombie: a book that made you "hungry" for more

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant. I need more killer mermaids, please. Now please. *grabby hands*

"The seas did not forgive, and they did not welcome their wayward children home."






Gargoyle: a character that you would protect at all costs

Any MC written by Sally Thorne.



Vampire: a book that sucked the life out of you

The Grapes of Wrath, because someone forced me to read it and that's all it's good for - sucking life.


Ghost: a book that still haunts you

I am haunted by the friendly ghost of Anne of Green Gables. It speaks to me and sometimes random quotes and things come out, and nobody knows what I'm talking about. I suppose there are worse things than to be haunted by the spirit of Anne Shirley. (Boy, she'd sure like to think of her spirit haunting someone long after she's gone, giving them romantical ideas and suggesting ridiculous names for things. Imagine the scope for the imagination!)





Demon: a book that really scared you

Honestly, I don't know if there is one. I don't go in for horror much, and when I do it tends to be stuff I like and an acceptable level of scare-ability... Even Into the Drowning Deep was more like "cooooool!" than "AHHHHH!"


Skeleton: a character you have a bone to pick with

Kesh Lasota from Pippa DaCosta's Shoot the Messenger. Such utter and total BETRAYAL!








Mummy: a book you would preserve throughout time

Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand forever, even if other people don't understand my love of this play. 

Creepy doll: a cover too scary to look at

Nope, sorry, I don't do horror and if the cover is too scary to look at, I'm not looking at it. My Halloween is strictly lil' round ghosties, happy smiling pumpkins, and candy corn witches. I don't do the horror gore thrill factor, kthxbye.


The Monster Mash! 

It's fun to be with friends on Halloween! 

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Monthly Wrap-Up: September 2018

2018 Reading Challenge

Books read in September: 16


Books read in 2018: 140/175*
*Updated my challenge to 175 in August, since I was getting TOO CLOSE TO ACTUALLY ACHIEVING MY GOAL, and I'm apparently a glutton for punishment. x.X;;

#LetsDiscuss2018


Progress in September: 3
Total Progress: 19/21

#2018BeatTheBacklist

hosted by Novel Knight
Progress in September: 1
  • Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Total Progress: 6/20

#2018AtoZChallenge


Progress in September: 0


Total Progress: 23/26

Letters remaining: Q, X, Z (The hard ones!)

#12Months24Covers

hosted by The Hufflepuff Basement group on Goodreads

Progress in September: 1
  • Fire - 
  • Chair/Throne - Grilled Cheese & Goblins (There's a stool, I'm counting it!)
 Total Progress: 9/24

Book Review: Not His Vampire by Annie Nicholas

Not His Vampire

Author: Annie Nicholas
Series: Not This, Book 3
Published: November 20, 2017
Kindle, 288 pages
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Summary
Magic is real. Shifters exist. Trixie Russell know this. Everyone does. But no one told her about the monster lurking in the basement of the dragon’s castle. Not until it was too late. 

Victor Petrov is ancient, and vampires his age should not lose control of their hunger. And yet, thanks to the dragon who chained him in a dungeon to protect the citizens of New Port, that’s exactly his problem. Then in walks a human female with cotton candy hair who smells like sunshine incarnate, her pulse a melody in his parched ears, and the fragile thread of his control snaps. 
Like or not, Trixie is now tied to an ancient vampire forever, and he seems short a few marbles. She plans on making his eternity a misery until he reveals the mission. It turns out they have an enemy in common, and Trixie is totally on board with helping him escape so she could get her revenge. After that, she’s done. They’re over. She wouldn’t be his vampire. 

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