Note: Some of these covers may not be final.
VAMPIRE IN ATLANTIS by Alyssa Day.
Warriors of Poseidon #7
Genre: Paranormal Romance.
Release: June 2011
No synopsis as of yet…
Thoughts: More distinctive than the last; hello back full colour spectrum.
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LICENSE TO ENSORCELL by Katharine Kerr.
A Nola O’Grady Novel.
Genre: Urban Fantasy.
Release: February 1st, 2011.
Psychic Agent Nola O'Grady isn't sure returning to San Francisco, and living near her unusual family, is a good idea. Her job, with a psychic agency so obscure even the CIA doesn't know it exists, can be perilous, and she's afraid of the relatives getting involved.
Then the Agency saddles her with Israeli secret agent Ari Nathan, and she has a bigger problem on her hands, because tact and compromise are not Ari's strong points. Their mission is to track down a serial killer obsessed with werewolves. He sees them everywhere and shoots whenever he thinks he has one in his sights. Ari assumes the man's psychotic, but in truth he's murdering actual werewolves. Nola should know. Her younger brother Pat, a lycanthrope, was the first victim.
Can Nola's psychic talents and Ari's skill with guns keep them alive long enough to unravel the greater mystery behind the killings? Can they save the werewolves and the world while stopping Nola's family from running headlong into danger?
Thoughts: Wolf, undertones, rural topped with city landscape; suspense is had from the overall effects in tow with the synopsis.
THE NEON GRAVEYARD by Vicki Pettersson.
Sign of the Zodiac #6.
Genre: Urban Fantasy.
Release: May 31st, 2011.
No summary available as of yet…
Thoughts: The previous two threw me in style, but THE NEON GRAVEYARD earns points for the demonic cast to eyes, plum gradation and slight familiarity with the first in the series.
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NEVER KNEW ANOTHER by J. M. McDermott.
Dogsland Trilogy #1
Genre: Dark Fantasy.
Release: February 2011
J. M. McDermott delivers the stunning new fantasy novel, Never Knew Another -- a sweeping fantasy novel that revels in the small details of life.
Fugitive Rachel Nolander is a newcomer the city of Dogsland, where the rich throw parties and the poor just do whatever they can to scrape by. Supported by her brother Djoss, she hides out in their squalid apartment, living in fear that someday, someone will find out that she is the child of a demon. Corporal Jona Lord Joni is a demon's child too, but instead of living in fear, he keeps his secret and goes about his life as a cocky, self-assured man of the law. Never Knew Another is the story of how these two outcasts meet.
Thoughts: Coarse and defined meets the potential of those same elements cover-cover. I may venture into this trilogy.
SPELL BOUND by Kelley Armstrong.
Women of the Otherworld Series #12
Genre: Urban Fantasy.
Release: 1st July, 2011
Savannah Levine is in terrible danger, and for once she’s powerless to help herself. At the conclusion of Waking the Witch, Savannah swore that she would give up her powers if it would help a young girl. Little did she know that someone would take her up on that promise.
And now, witch hunting assassins, necromancers, half-demons, and rogue witches all seem to be after her. The threat is not just for Savannah; every member of the Otherworld might be at risk. While most her fellow supernaturals are circling the wagons at a gathering of the council in Miami, Savannah is caught on the road, isolated from those who can protect her and unable to use her vast spell casting talent, the thing she counts on most. In a story that will change the shape of the Otherworld forever, Spell Bound gathers Elena, Clay, Paige, Lucas, Jamie, Hope, and others, who soon learn that the greatest threat to supernaturals just may come from within.
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Thoughts: Polar colour scheme verse series central character. Not enticing but not overly bad.
HUNTER’S FALL by Shiloh Walker.
Hunters #13
Genre: Paranormal Romance.
Release: June 7th, 2011
UNKNOWN PAST
Something strange is happening to Nessa. Ever since she survived a near-death experience she’s not exactly who she used to be—and enjoying every minute of it. Then she’s called upon to go to battle against darkness. If only she could remember why.
UNEXPECTED LOVER
Dominic is having his own problems with memory, sanity, and hallucinations. Sent to Excelsior, the covert Hunter training facility, he senses a female presence that seems so hauntingly familiar. That’s because he and Nessa share a forgotten past.
UNSEEN EVIL
As Nessa and Dominic regain their memories, their strange mission against evil becomes clearer. And all the more dangerous because whether they should trust each other is the still the greatest unknown of all.
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Thoughts: Ragged wear, modern road and a mystery punched with defiance. All blended together and - I want. Besides, Shiloh Walker always hits a button with me.
BOUND BY MOONLIGHT by Nancy Gideon.
by Moonlight #4
Preliminary Cover Art.
Genre: Paranormal Romance.
Release: August 2011
They swore they’d be together forever…
Detective Charlotte Caissie is suddenly sharing drawer space and making media news with her shape-shifter lover Max Savoie. Knowing the reformed mobster is determined to be accepted by her peers, how can she ask him to return to his criminal roots to help her solve a complex case?
But those they trust the most…
Going undercover to find the vicious serial killer who kidnapped a colleague’s daughter, Cee Cee is caught between the partner whose integrity she relies on and her fiercely possessive lover. In calling on Max to use his preternatural talents to aide a hated enemy, she crosses a line that strains their relationship to its limits.
Will do anything to tear them apart.
With his secret spreading beyond those he can trust, Max is forced to make dangerous alliances to protect his family and his clan. The only certainty he has is his love for his human mate, until the loyalties that define them threaten to divide them forever.
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Thoughts: Put the covers of this series side by side and they just bleed together. Not one for the overused-abused originality.
ETERNAL RIDER by Larissa Ione.
A Lords of Deliverance Novel.
Edition: UK
Genre: Paranormal Romance.
Release: 7th April, 2011
The prophecies were there but no one listened. Until now. They are the Lords of Deliverance and they have the power to usher in Doomsday ...or prevent it.
His name is Ares, and the fate of mankind rests on his powerful shoulders. If he falls to the forces of evil, the world falls too. As one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, he is far stronger than any mortal, but even he cannot fight his destiny forever. Not when his own brother plots against him.
Yet there is one last hope. Gifted in a way other humans can't - or won't - understand, Cara Thornhart is the key to both this Horseman's safety and his doom. But involving Cara will prove treacherous, even beyond the maddening, dangerous desire that seizes them the moment they meet. For staving off eternal darkness could have a staggering cost: Cara's life.
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Thoughts: Dude actually has a horse on this cover. I’m stunned – partially. *Rejoice.* But the pink with anything masculine makes me cringe inside. *Dies a little.* Even natural lighting. My preference? Points to it’s darker counterpart. ---->
But it may grow on me. Lots of potential. Since I half love it already.
