Naomi's Reading Palace: July 2012

Teaser Tuesdays #1 (July 31)

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page • BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want...

Suzanne Lazear and my Bag of Man Swag!!

I wanted to share my Bag of Man Swag that I won from Author Suzanne Lazear. I entered a contest she had on her website where there were 2 bags full of Adult books and swag (swag and more swag!) and I happened to win one of the bags!! It is the biggest prize that I’ve won and the five books I received were: · Cowgirls Don’t...

Any Suggestions For Meme's??

As I am new to the whole Blogging process, I’m running out of ideas to post on my blog, so I wanted to get some suggestions of Meme’s to sign up to and run with. I did my first Meme this week, Twas the Night Before Payday, which is a monthly Meme. There are so many different and fun Meme’s out there and I’m not sure what else I should try, so I was...

Vaempires: Revolution by Thomas Winship

Author: Thomas Winship Title: Vaempires: Revolution Series: The Evolutionary War- 1 Publisher: Smashwords Edition Published: December 2011 Format: Ebook won on Blog Tour Goodreads Summary It is the morning of Princess Cassandra’s sixteenth birthday. Everyone’s attention is focused on the heir to the vampire throne. World leaders, the rich...

Vaempires: A White Christmas: A prelude to the Evolutionary War by Thomas Winship

Author: Thomas Winship Title: Vaempires: A White Christmas: A prelude to the Evolutionary War Series: The Evolutionary War – 0.5 Publisher: Smashwords Edition Published: December 2011 Format: Ebook won on Blog Tour Goodreads Summary It’s almost Christmas. With the global holiday days away, the people of the world should be turning...

Twas the Night Before Pay Day

This is a new feature hosted by The Reflections of a Bookworm Go here to check it out! Twas the Night Before Pay Day is a monthly feature hosted right here that will take place the Wednesday before the Last Friday of each month. After writing up your monthly budget, seeing that it doesn't leave much for new books, ripping it up and...

Cleopatra’s Perfume by Jina Bacarr

Author: Jina Bacarr Title: Cleopatra’s Perfume Publisher: Mira Books Published: 2009 Format: Paperback I purchased myself This book is for Adult readers, it contains sex scenes. Goodreads Summary Europe 1939 The world may be teetering on the brink of war, but that's no reason for the privileged classes to deny themselves the satisfaction...

What To Tackle Next??

I’ve got all these books in the cupboard and I don’t know what to read next!! Some of them I won, others I purchased myself and some are second hand. What do you think?? The Night Angel Trilogy by Brent Weeks The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins House of Commare Series (1-3) by Kirsten Painter The Vampire Shrink by Lynda Hilburn Graveminder by...

The Vampire Academy Series by Richelle Mead

Today I wanted to share one of my favourite set of books with you, the Vampire Academy Series by Richelle Mead. I haven’t actually written a review on any of the books (as yet) but I have read them all twice. Each book has a different plot all written from one POV. Richelle has done a fantastic job writing the series, tying all the books together...

Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa

Author: Julie Kagawa Title: The Immortal Rules Series: Blood of Eden Publisher: Harlequin Teen Published: May 2012 Format: Paperback purchased myself Goodreads Summary "In a future world, vampires reign. Humans are blood cattle. And one girl will search for the key to save humanity."Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle...

Artemis Rising by Cheri Lasota

Author: Cheri Lasota Title: Artemis Rising Publisher: Spirehouse Books Published: September, 2011 Format: ebook Artemis Rising is an Ebook Category Finalist in the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards! I won this ebook on another author’s blog and Cheri sent it to me. I contacted her to let her know that I was going to feature it on my...

Look what I won from Moonlight Reader!

I received these books in the mail early last week. Ange at Moonlight Reader, who happens to also be a fellow Aussie Blogger, was hosting her One Year Blogerversary and I won second prize and I got to choose two fabulous books from a list of 24 books over 6 genres. It was so hard to pick just two, but after a long process of elimination,...

Mea Culpa by Christine Fonseca

Author: Christine Fonseca Title: Mea Culpa Series: Requiem 1.5 Publisher: Compass Press Published: June 2012 Format: ebook supplied by author Goodreads Summary Everything has a price, especially duty. And love. Azza's attacks are always deadly...ALWAYS. But that was before Nesy. And before Mikayel and Zane. Now, death has a new enemy. But,...

Lacrimosa by Christine Fonseca

Author: Christine Fonseca Title: Lacrimosa Publisher: Compass Press Published: March 2012 Format: Hardcover won from Author Goodreads Summary It's been three thousand years since the fall of Azzaziel and the rebirth of evil; three thousand years since the Sentinal Order, an elite group of warrior angels, returned to Celestium....

Dies Irae by Christine Fonseca

Author: Christine Fonseca Title: Dies Irae Series: Requiem 0.5 Publisher: Compass Press Published: 2012 Format: Paperback won from author Goodreads Summary Some sacrifices should never be made—even for love. Mikayel lives by one rule—obey the orders of the angelic Council at all costs. That is, until he and his friends, Azza and Demi, are...