Here we are, a brand new year. I am so excited to see what great reads I can find. I'm looking forward to trying new to me authors as well as reading more from my faves.
These are the books I want to share with you today.
Brimstone: V Plague Book 16 by Dirk Patton - 5 Stars *****
Left behind as the nerve agent is released in Sydney, John
must find a way to survive and escape the city as it descends into chaos.
Dead: Snapshot: Portland, Oregon by TW Brown
4 Stars ****
Meet Ken Simpson, a retired police officer, Rose Tinnes, a
newly divorced woman trying to get her life back in order, and Jason Edwards, a
man recently paroled and looking forward to his freedom. These three people
form the nucleus of an unlikely group who will struggle to survive as their
city falls to the undead.
As the city of Portland, Oregon spirals into hellish chaos,
it is not just the walking dead that prove to be a problem. In a world suddenly
stripped of any order, it might be the living that pose the greatest threat.
Dead: Snapshot: Leeds, England by TW Brown
4 Stars ****
Dateline: Leeds, England--Reports have flooded in about the
dead returning to life and attacking the living. These reports are confirmed
and all citizens are warned that there may not be any immediate help
forthcoming...
When all order is stripped away, what direction will normal
people take in the end? Shadiyah Kasim has witnessed a brutal attack on her
sister, she seeks vengeance. Not on the dead that are wiping out humanity, but
on the living that harmed her sister.
Simon Wood was about to start a life as a police officer.
His sister died after what seemed like little more than a scratch inflicted by
an attacker that she had dismissed as nothing more than a crazed scratter.
When the dead take over, two people are left to decide in
what direction they will travel with what remains of their lives. Do the old
definitions of "Good and Evil" still hold true?
Dead: Snapshot: Liberty, South Carolina by TW Brown
4 Stars ****
Welcome to Liberty, South Carolina-Population 3,070.
"Where neighbors become friends."
Located in the northwest corner of the state, it is just a
small town like any other you might find in the United States. Then the dead
rise and attack the living.
As the nation and the rest of the world falls to this
terrible apocalypse, the people of Liberty come together and decide to stand
against the tide of undeath and lawlessness that spreads so fast. They quickly
discover that the zombies are only a very small part of the problem.
Will the men and women of Liberty, South Carolina be able to
unify against all the forces which seek to drag them kicking and screaming to
the pits of Hell? And what price are they willing to pay in order to ensure
their own survival?
Junkyard Druid by M D Massey - 4 Stars ****
A cursed druid, blackmailed by a faery queen to find a
missing magic rock. Let's just hope they don't hack the druid off... for
everyone's sake.
Name's Colin McCool. Folks call me the Junkyard Druid. I
hate that name.
Despite my last name, I'm not "cool" like the
other hunters in town. I don't run an occult bookstore, I've never owned a
Harley, and I didn't inherit a family fortune passed down through generations
of hunters before me.
And I kind of have this curse on me that's messed up my
life.
So, things have gone to hell since I was cursed. I live
in a junkyard, my mentor Finn is a heroin addict, I've got the Cold Iron Circle
breathing down my neck, and the local Fae Queen Maeve is blackmailing me into
doing her dirty work.
Now I'm in way over my head trying to retrieve Maeve's
stolen magic rock, all while helping my friend Belladonna solve a series of murders
that may or may not involve the local werewolves.
And did I mention that my girlfriend is a ghost?
If I can just get the Faery Queen's tathlum back, and
help Belladonna solve the murders...
Then I just might live long enough to finish my first
year of college.
V Games by Caroline Peckham - 4 Stars ****
LAST ONE TO THE GRAVE, WINS.
Being a killer wasn't what eighteen year old Selena Grey
ever expected she'd become. But with her stepfather's blood fresh on her hands,
she finds herself walking into an eight by six prison cell where she'll live
out the next twenty five years of her life.
Or so she thought...
When a man as beautiful as he is terrifying walks into the
prison, Selena is the only one seemingly unaffected by his charms. But Varick's
impossibly dark eyes are trained on her and her alone, frightening Selena of
what his presence forewarns. It's not long before she finds out as she wakes on
a ship in the dead of night, a captive of the forbidding Varick who seems more
beast than man.
But when she arrives at a barren and isolated island in the
stormy north sea, she soon realises that the obnoxious Varick may be her only
hope of survival. Because, in a place where polar night reigns for the next six
months, a powerful and cruel family are about to start this year's season of
the V Games. And Selena is marked to participate in the blood sport, hunted by
ravenous vampires and surviving the harsh terrain of the bleak island. And, not
only that, but Selena just became the highest bid on contestant in a century...
Those are my first reads of 2018, I'm pretty pleased. :) I hope you are reading something great.
As always, thanks for stopping by.
Michelle
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