CandleWax

Candlewax

Expected publication: April 3rd 2012 

Published by: Terabyte Press

A medieval masterpiece of adventure, romance and horror, younger readers of Paolini and Cashore will gobble up this award-winning debut.

About The Book:
An Ancient Prophecy. A Powerful Relic. An Insatiable Evil. When all three converge, the fate of every living thing will be in peril.

All her life Catherine had hoped to see a fairrier cat. No book, no scroll provided to her by her tutors had ever mentioned this legend, much to her frustration, and now-at the worse possible time-she was getting her wish. Only, in her wish the cat wasn't about to kill her.

A 732-year-old fairrier cat the size of a horse has killed his fair share of hunters. Driven to the brink of extinction for the supernatural powers of his coat, is he indeed the last of his kind?

Sheltered, 16-year-old Catherine is about to find out. Unwitting heir to the Ancient Onyxes, she flees an arranged marriage only to stumble upon the cat's secrets, the force of the ancient relic she wears, and the dangerous mission they must undertake.

Hidden under a desert that was once a fertile land, millions of predators are waiting to feast again. Catherine must discover the secret of the Ancient Onyxes and stop the creatures known as trodliks before they consume everything in their path. A whispered prophecy becomes her only guide and a rejected suitor just might be the one warrior she desperately needs. 


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About The Author

Photo Credit to Shannon Hicks

C. Bailey Sims was born in CA. and as a teenager moved to the Colorado Rockies where she attended a very small high school, learned how to ski race, ride a horse, mountain climb, and target shoot at tin cans.  She now lives with her family in the much tamer but equally beautiful hills of Connecticut in a very creative household of artists and musicians.  This book is a book that I had to write because Spelopokos wouldn't leave me alone. 

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The Dawn Of Angels

Title: The Dawn of Angles

Author: Vivieene Malynn & Sean Kade

Publisher: Sutherland Press (January 3, 2012)

Summary:

Left by her mother at a young age, Kyra has grown-up in the foster system, leaving her angry and hateful towards the world. The only person she can trust is Hammond, her case worker who has watched over her since the time her mother left. When Hammond places Kyra in a foster home located in a small town, strange things begin happening and Kyra starts unraveling the mystery of her past. When Kyra's life is threatened, she is saved by an angel, her guardian angel, Ashur, who falls from heaven to save her. Together, Ashur and Kyra must figure out why her life is in danger and stop a strange cult from bringing about the end of days. 

Excerpt:

"I didn't just fall from heaven to save your life…" Ashur pulls me in closer until my chest touches his. "…I came here because after all those years, I could not spend another moment of eternity knowing that you would not be there."
He begins to sweep his head down toward mine. I know what's coming and I can't allow it. Turning away, I say, "I can't." My objection is not that I don't love him, but that I can't love him. He is an angel, I am a mortal. Two worlds that never have, and never will exist together. "You know as well as I do that this can never be. No matter how desperately we may want it. What will become of us?"
"I don't know," he says. "I don't care."
"Well, I do," I say. "All this will end and you will have to go back. And I will be left here alone."
"But…"
"No," I say, sternly. "It's better this way."
Our eyes meet and I look away, but his eyes do not retreat as if they are holding me in place, preventing me from leaving.

My Thoughts ~ 

If you follow me on Twitter, then you know I had a tough time finishing this book.

I just couldn't seem to get into it.

Kyra seemed to be like every other girl left in foster care.

She is angry. Rebellious.  A bitch, really.

She pushes everyone away from her and yada, yada, yada....

After beating her foster brother, whom was 23 and as Kyra says

"Getting a little too fresh for my taste"

with a baseball bat to the face, Kyra is sent to another home.

Hammond, Kyra's social worker, comes to take her to the new home,

but since she is almost 17, they stop first at a bank for something her mother left her.

He gives her the key to a safety deposit box and she goes in.

In the box in a locket and a letter.

She doesn't read the letter, and tells Hammond that she can hock the locket for a bus ticket.

 After Kyra gets to her new 'home' with the Gregor's, Jeff and Justine,

she finally takes the time to look at the locket and open the letter.

The locket contains a clipping of hair and the letter says, simply,

TRUST NO ONE.

There is something 'off' about Jeff and Justine.

"I don't want you to think we don't want you here, because we do. 

Jeff and I aren't allowed to have children."

"You mean you can't have children?"

"Yes, that's what I meant."

[See what I mean? Off.]

That night, we meet Ethan.

Ethan started working for Jeff the day Kyra arrives.

[Isn't that strange to anyone else?]

Jeff invites him to dinner.

Ethan is strange. 

He talks of "his people" and seems to drift off while talking.

Before he leaves for the night, he asks Kyra to come see him at work the next day.

Justine and Kyra  go out the next day, and Kyra stops by the shop.

Ethan isn't there, but she talks to the shop owner about her locket.

He tells her that the symbols on her locket are actually the 'angelic language.'

After she leaves the shop, she meets back up with Justine and they go to the bookstore.

While in the bookstore, Kyra sees a man following her.

He tells her that she is going to die that night.

She runs to Justine and they go to lunch.

[What? Really? I may die tonight, so let's go have lunch!]

 

In the diner, we meet Liv. Liv lives next door to the Gregor's.

[Why wasn't she invited to dinner instead of Ethan?]

Liv is sweet. She reminds Kyra of an old foster sister.

One who was killed by her father after Kyra was removed from the home 

for stabbing him because he was beating them.

Liv is on her way to "see her mother', and  invites Kyra along.

Justine warns then to be home before dark.

Turns out, Liv's mother is dead and they are going to her grave.

  

 Liv asks for a few minutes alone at the grave site, so Kyra wanders around.

The stranger from the bookstore appears. 

"I'm your guardian" he says.

"My guardian?"

"You would call me a guardian angel"

"If you are an angel, then where are your wings and halo?"

After he proves to her that he is, in fact, an angel, Kyra hears Liv scream.

She is being attacked by the Shadow People.

Will Ethan save them?

Will the stranger, Ashur?

What really happened to Kyra's mother?

Read the book to find out!

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About the Authors:  Vivienne Malynn and Sean Kade are the parents of five lively children and live in a rural suburb surrounded by eagles and coyotes. They spend their free time reading, writing, and playing make-believe with their children. In their not so free time, they teach.


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MARCH 2012

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
			1 Reading It All	2 The Hollow Readers*
5 Singing and Reading in the Rain The Hollow Readers*	6 Adventures of Frugal Mom 4 the LUV of SANITY	7 The Hollow Readers* Asha Butterflys	8 Intriguing Reads Colorimetry	9 The Hollow Readers Sweet Southern Home
12 Rachel's Book Reviews The Hollow Readers*	13 Book Lover Stop	14 The Hollow Readers Catch the Lune!	15 Jenn's Book Blog Escape In Words	16 Reading by Kindle Fire The Hollow Readers*
19 The Blonde Who Reads	20 Stressed Rach Hollow Readers	21 WTF Are You Reading? Book Ruckus	22 Doctor's Notes The Hollow Readers	23 Little Library Muse Books and Beyond
26 It's All About Me  The Hollow Readers	27 Carabosse's Library Wakela Runen's World	28 Witches' Way Forget About TV, Grab A Book	29 Ali's Bookshelf Escape in Words	30 Guardian of the Crossroads Always a Booklover