ARC Review City of Monsters by Andrea Speed

5/5
I loved Andrea Speed's Josh of the Damned series so naturally I was really excited for this. Hunter is living in Nightshade, a city of monsters, there are Vampires, Weres, Zombies, Yetis and other assorted scarys running around and Hunter is one of them, though he's not actually sure what exactly he is. Hunter works as a finder a sorta detective whom as the name implies finds things, on such a mission he runs into a new arrival, a cute guy who has just arrived at Nightshade. Scared and confused Sakari tags along with Hunter on his search for a missing fairy. Oh and there's a talking haunted blender. Yea, like you need another reason to love this.

Hideous by Devon McCormack

4/5
Hideous is a rather dark book that I actually enjoyed greatly. scarred and cursed after a demon possesses his father and kills his family Luke is put into a low paying job and monitored closely, for those who have been marked by a demon are more susceptible too demonic possession. In the attack that killed his family Luke lost an arm and an eye leading to some major self worth issues therefor he has problems believing anyone could possibly be interested in someone as "hideous" as him. Then comes Zack who is really an awesome guy, really. Zack is part of a little club that help cursed people like Luke and is who Luke turns to when his worst nightmare comes true and the demon who once possessed his father comes back for him. Though the book is rather gritty it is also a lovely love story.

Tequila Mockingbird by Rhys Ford

5 Stars!
The Sinner series is an amazing series about how a broken band is reborn. First the singer Miki, overcomes his grief to fall in love with a sexy Irish cop in Sinner's Gin then the guitarist, Damien returns from the dead in Whiskey and Wry and now Forest the drummer. A brand new member's story in Tequila Mockingbird.

Forest has a troubled past. Having a neglectant druggy mother and living on the streets and doing what he had to in order to survive as a child. He later finds a home with an aging hippy who takes him in but when his adoptive father is murdered he finds solace in the hunky Irish Lieutenant who takes to looking after him.

Conner is straight, or so he likes to think but after meeting the cute blond, Forest he can't seem to stop thinking about him and he starts a thinkin' that maybe it's time to throw that hereroness out the window.

Oh but this book isn't just a cute little gay for you love story, nope, it's also a kinda suspenseful mystery book what with someone gunning after hunter and killing and destroying left and right Conner has his hands full trying to protect his lil drummer boy.

Really great read seriously I am just In love with the Conner family and dreaming one day I'll find my own gorgeous Irish cop. (The last sentence in this book! OMG so can't wait for the next book!)

ARC Review Tristant and Elijah by Jennifer Lavoie

3/5
Tristant has had a crush on Elijah forever but he knows that he's straight and therefore off limits so imagine his surprise when Elijah seems to show interest in him, bringing him coffee and actually talking to him. Tristant comes across an old letter of his great great uncle's in an old book of trains with a seemingly scandalous message, intrigued he goes to his grandmother who directs him to boxes of old stuff where he comes across Uncle Glenn's old diary Elijah and him read the journal and are shocked to discover Glenn's secret.

City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare

5 Estrellas! JEEEEM!!! Jem Jem Jem Jem was in this he was he was! :D I love Jem. Okay. City of Heavenly Fire is the last book of The Mortal Instruments. Sebastian is creating an army of Zombie like evil shadowhunters and trying to take over the world or whatever. Clary and friends set off into a demon realm to find and defeat Sebastian before his evil shadowhunter zombies kill off everyone in the city. In this book we get a deeper view at what happened before and after the epilogue of Clockwork princess and a look at the new characters that will be staring in the next shadowhunter series, they seem awesome and i'm already excited. COHF was amazing and it ended nicely this whole series is awesome i love Cassandra Clare's writing and can't wait for the next Series.

The Darkest Craving by Gena Showalter

4 Stars. Kane is the keeper of disaster and he hates it, hates his demon and the messes it makes. Josephina is the bastard daughter of the fae king and is treated as a blood slave and servent she gets sent to hell after being punished for something her sister, the keeper of irresponsibility, does and there she ends up finding and saving Kane from his torture in return she asks that he kills her to which he refuses. She runs off and he chases. They both end up in the fairy relm where Kane ends up engaged to the wrong woman and an evil Phoenix keeps trying to kill Josephina. Another LOTU book that I love. Okay I love all the lords especially Torin in fact I'm now part of Touch me Torin!

Shock & Awe by Abigail Roux

5! 5 wonderful Stars! Nick and Kelly!!! I've already read this sucker several times and I swear it gets better every time! After the events of Touch & Geaux that left Kelly with a bullet hole in the chest he goes home to recover with a sexy Irish boy acting as a nurse. After one too many painkillers Kelly gets curious about the dark side and asks Nick for a kiss, that one leads to more. Nick gets spooked by the rightness of it all and Kelly is forced to rethink things about himself. After Shock & Awe there's the short: Bait & Switch which starts with Nick paying Zane a visit during a short leave and ends with him and Kelly making an...a hurm...Home Vid. Very hot. As Awesome as this was it's not enough to sustain my need for Ty and Zane 'til Ball & Chain.