Showing posts with label Taken At Dusk. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 12, 2012

ARC Review: Taken At Dusk (Shadow Falls, #3) by C.C. Hunter

Step into author C.C. Hunter's spectacular Shadow Falls series with Taken at Dusk, and enter into the camp for teens with supernatural powers. Here friendship thrives, love takes you by surprise, and our hearts possess the greatest magic of all.

Kylie Galen wants the truth so badly she can taste it. The truth about who her real family is, the truth about which boy she’s meant to be with—and the truth about what her emerging powers mean. But she’s about to discover that some secrets can change your life forever…and not always for the better.

Just when she and Lucas are finally getting close, she learns that his pack has forbidden them from being together. Was it a mistake to pick him over Derek? And it’s not just romance troubling Kylie. An amnesia-stricken ghost is haunting her, delivering the frightful warning, someone lives and someone dies. As Kylie races to unravel the mystery and protect those she loves, she finally unlocks the truth about her supernatural identity, which is far different—and more astonishing—than she ever imagined.


Hunter has done it yet again! This is an author after my own heart. Shadow Falls really is a series that's jammed packed with just about every paranormal element and romantic triangle twist that readers could ever hope for. Our main character Kylie is going to catch a break anytime soon if Hunter has anything to say about it. Readers will once again be thrust right into the thick of all the problems and chaos reigning down around Kylie and her friends. Mario and Red are still out to get her, Lucas and Derek are still fighting over her, and she's no closer to finding out who or what she is exactly.

I thought after leaving off at the end of the last book, that maybe things would slow down coming into the third installment, but Hunter proved me wrong. She maintained the same fast pace, action packed plot that readers and fans of this series have come to expect. While a lot of the same problems still surround Kylie, new ones have popped up too, like an ex-girlfriend of one of her love interests, and boy did my heart go out to her over that whole situation. Yikes! All I can say is that she's a lot tougher than I think I would be, and handled things a lot better than I would have been able to. Hunter writes fun and endearing characters, but they're also strong and formidable at the same time. They're characters that readers can relate to while also looking up to them and their high moral codes.

While Kylie still has her hands full in this third installment, she certainly has enough good friends and family to support her and be there for her the whole way through. If you're a fan of this series, your excitement and love for this series can only grow with this latest installment. Now all that's left is to yet again start the countdown to the release of Hunter's fourth installment in the Shadow Falls series...here we go again!

I gave Taken At Dusk (Shadow Falls, #3) 4 shamrocks!!!!




Sunday, April 1, 2012

In My Mailbox (46)

This is a meme that I first heard about from Kristi over at The Story Siren and immediately wanted to jump on board. I'm always picking up new books, because I never tire of reading, but the other thing I like about this meme is that it gives everyone an opportunity to check out what other book fanatics, bloggers, etc... got for themselves. I've gotten great recommendations from this meme and hope that keeps up in the future.

Here's what I got, what did you guys get this week?


For Review:

Darkness Before Dawn by J.A. London (Thanks to HarperTeen)

This electrifying new trilogy blends the best of paranormal and dystopian storytelling in a world where the war is over. And the vampires won.

Humans huddle in their walled cities, supplying blood in exchange for safety. But not even that is guaranteed. Dawn has lost her entire family and now reluctantly serves as the delegate to Lord Valentine, the most powerful vampire for miles. It isn’t until she meets Victor, Valentine’s son, that she realizes not all vampires are monsters....

Darkness Before Dawn is a fresh new story with captivating characters, unexpected plot twists, a fascinating setting, and a compelling voice. Written under the name J. A. London by a talented mother-son team, the trilogy is perfect for fans of True Blood and the House of Night and Morganville Vampires series.


Such A Rush by Jennifer Echols (Thanks to Jennifer)

The wildly popular author of Going Too Far, Forget You, and Love Story returns with a sexy and poignant romantic tale of a young daredevil pilot caught between two brothers.

High school senior Leah Jones loves nothing more than flying. While she’s in the air, it’s easy to forget life with her absentee mother at the low-rent end of a South Carolina beach town. When her flight instructor, Mr. Hall, hires her to fly for his banner advertising business, she sees it as her ticket out of the trailer park. And when he dies suddenly, she’s afraid her flying career is gone forever. But Mr. Hall’s teenage sons, golden boy Alec and adrenaline junkie Grayson, are determined to keep the banner planes flying. Though Leah has crushed on Grayson for years, she’s leery of getting involved in what now seems like a doomed business—until Grayson betrays her by digging up her most damning secret. Holding it over her head, he forces her to fly for secret reasons of his own, reasons involving Alec. Now Leah finds herself drawn into a battle between brothers—and the consequences could be deadly. Engrossing and intense, Such a Rush is a captivating story from an author with a rising star.


Elemental by Emily White (Thanks to Spencer Hill Press)

Just because Ella can burn someone to the ground with her mind doesn't mean she should.

But she wants to.

For ten years—ever since she was a small child—Ella has been held prisoner. Now that she has escaped, she needs answers.

Who is she? Why was she taken? And who is the boy with the beautiful green eyes who haunts her memories?

Is Ella the prophesied Destructor… or will she be the one who's destroyed?


Taken At Dusk (Shadow Falls, #3) by C.C. Hunter (Thanks to St. Martin's Press)

Step into author C.C. Hunter's spectacular Shadow Falls series with Taken at Dusk, and enter into the camp for teens with supernatural powers. Here friendship thrives, love takes you by surprise, and our hearts possess the greatest magic of all.

Kylie Galen wants the truth so badly she can taste it. The truth about who her real family is, the truth about which boy she’s meant to be with—and the truth about what her emerging powers mean. But she’s about to discover that some secrets can change your life forever…and not always for the better.

Just when she and Lucas are finally getting close, she learns that his pack has forbidden them from being together. Was it a mistake to pick him over Derek? And it’s not just romance troubling Kylie. An amnesia-stricken ghost is haunting her, delivering the frightful warning, someone lives and someone dies. As Kylie races to unravel the mystery and protect those she loves, she finally unlocks the truth about her supernatural identity, which is far different—and more astonishing—than she ever imagined.


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