Burn Bright

Burn Bright
 by Patricia Briggs
 308 pages

Bran leaves Charles in charge while he is away to see Samuel in Africa, but after a mysterious call to Bran's office puts everyone on high alert his trip excuse starts to fall apart. Now Anna needs to help her husband find the traitor in their pack that sent Bran running for the hills.

Silence Fallen

Silence Fallen
by Patricia Briggs
371 pages

After Mercy is kidnapped from their home turf Adam must find her with the help of some local vampires and fae.

Heather's March Reads

Kiss of the Rose Princess by Aya Shouoto
 Vol. 7 180 pages
 Vol. 8 178 pages
The final showdown begins between Anise and her father who is more than he appears to be.

Clamp School Detectives by Ray Yoshimoto
 Vol. 1 192 pages
 Vol. 2 192 pages
 Vol. 3 192 pages
A little series of cute short mysteries being solved by bored rich children!

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up by Marie Kondo
 213 pages
 Some of the tips and techniques go a little too far with de-cluttering but I have a lot less junk piling up because I can't figure out if I need/want it or not.

Fire Touched by Patricia Briggs
 342 pages
 Mercy puts Adam and the pack in another difficult situation, this time against the homeland of the fae. With some help from new friends and old Mercy again pulls off the impossible to stop an all out war between the wolves and fae that would make them the targets of all humans.

Wedding Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke
 304 pages
 Hannah finally says yes to marriage and everything seems perfect until one of the judges in the Food Network Bake Off turns up dead in Sally's walk in freezer. Now Hannah needs to solve the murder while competing for first place and helping plan her wedding.

Vampire Academy 352 pages
Frost Bite 352 pages
Shadow Kiss 464 pages
 by Richelle Mead
 Set in the boring back woods of Montana we are introduced to a world of vampire killing, light lovey dovey stuff, teen angst, and sarcasm galore. I can't wait to get to the next three books.

January 2015 Books

Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs 294 pages
 Anna is learning more about herself and werewolves in general than she has in the entire three years since she was turned. Now she is helping Charles take down a dangerous wolf who could threaten the safety of all packs.

Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs 286 pages
 Charles takes Anna to a werewolf summit for negotiations on coming out to the human population. Unfortunately someone is hiring vampires to kidnap and kill certain wolves. Now they have to figure out who and why and restore the peace between packs.

Fair Game by Patricia Briggs 293 pages
 Bran sends Anna with Charles to Boston to help the FBI catch a serial killer who has been taking out werewolves and fae. Now they just have to catch it before it takes them down.

Black Butler Vol. 18 by Yana Toboso 172 pages
 Yay! We finally find out the reason behind Derrick Arden's disappearance and hopefully have no more cricket to read through. Now Ciel is off to Germany to uncover the truth behind some mysterious deaths.

The Earl and the Fairy Vol. 1 by Ayuko 177 pages
The Earl and the Fairy Vol. 2 by Ayuko 208 pages
 This is a cute series, there are two more volumes but I just could not get into them. Most of the character's relationships are just too confusing and trying to figure out who The Earl is just leaves you with a headache.

Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld 599 pages
 Going back and forth between the writer and subject is a little confusing at first but turns out a wonderful show of the way a story develops. I think I will read this one again after a few years.

Storm Glass by Maria V. Snyder 488 pages
Sea Glass by Maria V. Snyder 416 pages
Spy Glass by Maria V. Snyder 476 pages
 This trilogy brings us to Opal, a young woman who we are introduced to in in the Study series by Snyder. It starts a few years after the Davian takeover and finds her in a strange position in the magical community. These books take us her journey through unsure waters to becoming a confident woman who knows what she wants.

December Books 2014

Blood of Olympus 502 pages by Rick Riordan
 Our heroes are still trying to make a deadline to stop Gaea from destroying the world. More hardships as well as humor are thrown their way and all the heroes must prove what they are made of.

Vampire Knight Vol 14 187 pages Matsuri Hino
Vampire Knight Vol 15 187 pages Matsuri Hino
Vampire Knight Vol 16 187 pages Matsuri Hino
Vampire Knight Vol 17 189 pages Matsuri Hino
Vampire Knight Vol 18 189 pages Matsuri Hino
Vampire Knight Vol 19 191 pages Matsuri Hino
 Okay so this is where the story gets weird and confusing. Kaname wants to end all purebloods lives including his and Yuki's so he starts killing them all. Yuki starts the night class again with some of the old night class and new members. Big battles happen and more confusion ending with Kaname's heart in a furnace to make hunter weapons and Yuki ending up with Zero and two kids.

Shifting Shadows 450 pages Patricia Briggs
 This book has the best of Mercy's world all rolled into one volume. Reader favorites and new, never published before stories.

The D.U.F.F. 277 pages by Kody Keplinger
 This one makes me glad I am done with High School and didn't know anyone like some of the people in this book.

Clariel 382 pages by Garth Nix
 Set six hundred years before "Sabriel" we see upsets in the magical community that flow over to the non-magical. We meet some old friends and discover some new along this new path in an old kingdom.

Apple Turnover Murder 292 pages by Joanne Fluke
 Hannah's old assistant professor is in town as her sister Michelle's advisor and Christmas guest. During the Christmas talent show he turns up dead and get what the dirty rotten womanizer deserves.

Plum Pudding Murder 303 pages by Joanne Fluke
 Crazy Larry is doing dirty business during Christmas in Lake Eden and it's up to Hannah to find out who knew enough to want to kill him.

Devils Food Cake Murder 322 pages by Joanne Fluke
 Rev. Bob and Claire finally get a honeymoon and an old friend comes back to hold the fort down while they are away. when he turns up dead it is up to Hannah to uncover the secrets of why he was killed. Meanwhile Norman goes out of town and comes back with his ex-fiance who drops a bomb on their lives.

Cinnamon Roll Murder 363 pages by Joanne Fluke
 During the Lake Eden jazz festival the Cinnamon Roll Six, the band hired to play, has a horrible wreck. Now Hannah has to figure out if the bus driver was murdered or if it was truly an accident as well as find out who killed the keyboard player in the hospital. We find out Dr. Bev is a lying conniving witch and the whole town pitches in to help break up Norman and Dr. Bev.

Red Velvet Cupcake Murder 323 pages by Joanne Fluke
 The evil Dr. Bev is back in town and engaged to a new man but still hitting on anything she thinks she can manipulate. Not surprisingly she winds up dead and it's up to Hannah to find the killer and clear her own name!

Blackberry Pie Murder 339 pages by Joanne Fluke
 A stranger shows up in town pinned under the bumper of Hannah's cookie truck. Now she needs all the help she can get to figure out who he was and stay out of jail for vehicular homicide.

Poison Study 427 pages by Maria V. Snyder
 One of my favorite series, this is the first book, has everything you could want. Magic, spies, politics, intrigue, and creepy bad guys getting what they deserve.

Magic Study 392 pages by Maria V. Snyder
 Yalena travels to her home to meet her family for the first time since she was kidnapped fourteen years ago. From there she travels to the Citadel to learn how to control her magic and all hell breaks loose as usual when Yalena is around. Murders, mistrust, and uncovering the past run rampant through her life in a country where she is supposed to be free.

Strange Brew edited by P.N. Elrod

Strange Brew edited by P.N. Elrod, 371 pages

Since these are all short stories, to say anything would give too much away. So I'm just giving my impression of each:

Seeing Eye by Patricia Briggs -- excellent story and unusual twist. Loved the most with a witch and werewolf as the main characters.

Last Call by Jim Butcher --  completely lost.

Death Warmed Over  by Rachel Caine-- a whole new look at "raising the dead."

Vegas Odds by Karen Chance - my second favorite story in the book. Well written with a shock a the beginning, middle and the end.

Hectate's Golden Eye by P.N. Elrod - There is more than meets the "eye" in this story. It's up to a vampire to figure it out.

Bacon by Charlaine Harris - the title had  me curious until the end. Then it made perfect (and hilarious) sense.

Signatures of the Dead by Faith Hunter - lulled me to sleep.

Ginger by Caitlin Kittredge -- if you haven't read her stories, this is apparently a novella of one and you'd be completely lost like I was.

Dark Sins by  Jenna Maclaine -- A vampire witch but then something more.