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Review: Grave Dance by Kalayna Price

Title: Grave Dance
Author: Kalayna Price
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Series: Alex Craft #2

Format: Mass Market Paperback, 371 pages

Summary: After a month of down time, Grave Witch Alex Craft is ready to get back to solving murders by raising the dead. With her love life in turmoil, Alex is eager for the distractions of work. But when her new case forces her to overuse her magic, it might be the last mystery the Grave Witch ever gets to solve... 


My thoughts:  I loved the first book, so when I found out that it was going to be a series; I couldn't wait to pick up the sequel. Grave Dance picks up a month later, with Alex finally out of the lime light and working with her usual clientele. Her friend John who works at the NPD calls Alex in to help him solve a case, but the problem is how can you raise a shade without a body? There's a murderer on the loose, leaving body parts around...foots to be exact which is already weird but what's weirder is all the foots are left foots!

I was sucked in from the first page, and it didn't let me go till the end. Ms. Price does an amazing job of expanding the world of Alex Craft, where we see more of Nekros city, the world of dead, the aetheric plane, and faerie. The second book in the series goes into more of Alex's faerie heritage, and the reader's will get to see plenty more of faerie in this book. The readers will also get to see FIB agent Falin Andrews again, who was MIA for a month, and more of Death who in the last book announce is love for Alex. Other secondary characters like that I like will also have their moment in the spotlight ...Caleb, Holly, John and Tamara.

This book is action packed and full of suspense. I thought I knew who the murderer was near the end of the book, but let me tell you I was so off...and the killer was unexpected! This is an amazing series with two hot guys fighting for alex to boot. If you like reading about witches, magic and faeries, than you'll love this book. Highly recommend to Urban fantasy readers, this is a series not to be missed.

WoW: Waiting on Wednesday

 

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly post started by Breaking the Spine, to show books that we are patiently waiting for.  

BLURB (Via Goodreads): Grace just moved to San Francisco and is excited to start over at a new school. The change is full of fresh possibilities, but it’s also a tiny bit scary. It gets scarier when a minotaur walks in the door. And even more shocking when a girl who looks just like her shows up to fight the monster.

Gretchen is tired of monsters pulling her out into the wee hours, especially on a school night, but what can she do? Sending the minotaur back to his bleak home is just another notch on her combat belt. She never expected to run into this girl who could be her double, though.

Greer has her life pretty well put together, thank you very much. But that all tilts sideways when two girls who look eerily like her appear on her doorstep and claim they're triplets, supernatural descendants of some hideous creature from Greek myth, destined to spend their lives hunting monsters.

These three teenage descendants of Medusa, the once-beautiful gorgon maligned by myth, must reunite and embrace their fates in this unique paranormal world where monsters lurk in plain sight.

 

RELEASE DATE: September 6, 2011

New Releases

New Releases for the week of August 22, 2011

 Ilsa Bick, Ashes

 Stephanie Chong, Where Demons Fear to Tread

  Christine Johnson, Nocturne

Pittacus Lore, Power of Six

 Gretchen McNeil, Possess

 Richelle Mead, Bloodlines

Kenneth Oppel , This Dark Endeavor

 Jackson Pearce, Sweetly

Justina Robson, Down to the Bone

 Gena Showalter, Lord of the Vampires

 Eve Silver, Body of Sin

 Rachel Vincent, Blood Bound

Breaking News

Karen Marie Moning's Fever Series to be adapted by DreamWorks!

 

Via Variety 

With "Harry Potter" finished, "The Twilight Saga" coming to a close and "The Hunger Games" getting steady buzz, DreamWorks is looking to launch its own fantasy franchise, as the studio has acquired feature film rights to all five books in Karen Marie Moning's bestselling "Darkfever" series.

Project was previously set up at 20th Century Fox under its New Regency banner.

Series follows MacKayla Lane, an ordinary young woman from Georgia who travels to Ireland to track down her sister's killer. While overseas, she discovers an extraordinary world filled with ancient secrets and tough-to-kill creatures. Protag, who has special abilities, is tasked with finding the Sinsar Dubh, a powerful yet elusive book that can help her save both the fantasy realm and the mortal world.

No exec has been assigned to oversee the project yet, though it is being envisioned as a potential live-action fantasy franchise.

I love this series, but they shouldn't be comparing HP or this to the Twilight series!! Hope DreamWorks doesn't mess this one up.

In My Mailbox

In My Mailbox (5)

First off, In My Mailbox is a feature that was started over at The Story Siren. Where we share what books we receive in the mail each week.

 

 

For Review:

Low Town by Daniel Polansky

**Thank you to Daniel Polansky and DoubleDay**

Bought:

Storm's Heart by Thea Harrison

Dragon Bound by Thea Harrison

Bad Girls don't die by Katie Alender

Cover Spotlight

Book covers I found on various blogs and sites (3)

The Trylle Trilogy by Amanda Hocking, will be published in 2012 by St. Martin's Griffin
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288

Switched (Trylle Trilogy #1) releases in January 2012

Torn (Trylle Trilogy #2) releases in February 2012

Ascend (Trylle Trilogy #3) Releases in April 2012

I'm loving these book covers, can't wait till they come out. What do you guys think?