Marlene

Marlene is a librarian, ebook advocate, science fiction fan, and RPG fan who lives in Atlanta. She and her husband are owned by three cats, just ask them. She's a geek and a nerd and proud of it. She's also an avid reader of everything, including the back of the cereal box, and has been blogging since April 2011 at Reading Reality and is a reviewer at Library Journal as well as active on Goodreads.

Group Review — Nightmare Ink (Living Ink #1) by Marcella Burnard

Publisher: Penguin InterMix Where did we get this book: e-arc from the publisher via NetGalley Release Date: April 15, 2014 With her art and magic, Isa Romanchzyk has the power to create or destroy. In her tattoo shop, Nightmare Ink, Isa helps those in need by binding the power embedded in their Live Ink—the magical […]

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Group Review – Hope Ignites by Jaci Burton

Publisher: Berkely Publish Date: March 25th How we got this book: NetGalley Logan McCormack likes his isolated life on the ranch, until a movie crew starts filming there. When actress Desiree Jenkins blows into his life, she wrecks it harder than the Oklahoma winds with her brutal honesty and soft touch. Des knows this is

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Review–The Clockwork Wolf (Disenchanted & Co #2) by Lynn Viehl

Publisher: Pocket Books Publish Date: February 25, 2014 How I got this book: paperback from the publisher As the proprietor of Disenchanted & Co. in a steampunk version of America, Charmian “Kit” Kittredge makes her living solving magical crimes. But when a snobbish lady begs for help, saving her reputation might very well cost Kit

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Review–Thrown for a Curve (Perfect Fit #2) by Sugar Jamison

Publisher: St. Martin’s Paperbacks Publish Date: February 25, 2014 How I got this book: eARC from the publisher through Edelweiss WHEN YOU’RE A big girl Cherri has often wished she were thin and graceful like a ballerina instead of being a six-foot-tall blonde with curves that require serious caution. Surely a charming Irishman like her

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Review and Giveaway — A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner

Publisher: Penguin/Berkley/NAL Publish Date: Out Now How I got this book: NetGalley A beautiful scarf, passed down through the generations, connects two women who learn that the weight of the world is made bearable by the love we give away…. September 1911. On Ellis Island in New York Harbor, nurse Clara Wood cannot face returning

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Review – Cold Iron by D. L. McDermott

Publisher: Pocket Star Publish Date: February 10, 2014 How I got this book: eARC provided by the publisher through NetGalley The Fae, the Good Neighbors, the Fair Folk, the Aes Sídhe, creatures of preternatural beauty and seduction. Archaeologist Beth Carter doesn’t believe in them. She’s always credited her extraordinary ability to identify ancient Celtic sites

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