Review of Double Dead by Chuck Wending

Overview
Coburn’s been dead now for close to a century, but seeing as how he’s a vampire and all, it doesn’t much bother him. Or at least it didn’t, not until he awoke from a forced five-year slumber to discover that most of human civilization was now dead—but not dead like him, oh no.

See, Coburn likes blood. The rest of the walking dead, they like brains. He’s smart. Them, not so much. But they outnumber him by about a million to one. And the clotted blood of the walking dead cannot sustain him. Now he’s starving. And nocturnal. And more pissed-off than a bee-stung rattlesnake. The vampire not only has to find human survivors (with their sweet, sweet blood), but now he has to transition from predator to protector—after all, a man has to look after his food supply.

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                    About Double Dead

Available as: Paperback $9.99 from Amazon.com ,  E-book $5.15 from Amazon.com Kindle's Edition , Paperback $9.99 from The Book Depository 

                            Recommended Ages: 15 and Up

Paperback: 320 pgs

Published: November 15th 2011 by Abaddon (first published November 10th 2011)

For This Review: *Bought a paperback book copy!*

The Taker Fan Pack Winner well actually 2 Winners!

Lisa Richards/alterlisa and Maegan Morin both won The Taker fan pack.

Congratulations! 

T.V. Casual Talk: The Legend of Korra on Nickelodeon "No Bender is Safe"

In "The Revelation" (Episode 3) - Book One: Air
On April 21, 2012 a new episode of The Legend of Korra. Another great episode full of adventure and danger.

Korra, Bolin, and Mako are hard at work on their probending training when the proprietor of the probending sport informs them that they need to gather a whole lot of money that they obviously don't have. Bolin and Mako revealing to Korra that as orphans they have to worry most of the time life about surviving Bloin wanting to help bring in money tries to come up with a plan but he ends up involving himself with the Triple Threat Triad.

Review of The Pearl Wars (Skyship Academy #1) by Nick James

Overview
A devastated Earth's last hope is found in Pearls: small, mysterious orbs that fall from space and are capable of supplying enough energy to power entire cities. Battling to control the Pearls are the Skyship dwellers—political dissidents who live in massive ships in the Earth's stratosphere—and the corrupt Surface government.

Jesse Fisher, a Skyship slacker, and Cassius Stevenson, a young Surface operative, cross paths when they both venture into forbidden territory in pursuit of Pearls. Their chance encounter triggers an unexpected reaction, endowing each boy with remarkable—and dangerous—abilities that their respective governments would stop at nothing to possess.

Enemies thrust together with a common goal, Jesse and Cassius make their way to the ruins of Seattle to uncover the truth about their new powers, the past they didn't know they shared, and a shocking secret about the Pearls.
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                     About The Pearl Wars

Available as: Paperback $9.95 from Amazon.com ,  E-book $7.69 from Amazon.com Kindle's Edition 

                                                        Recommended Ages: 15 and Up

Paperback: 376 pgs

Published: September 8th 2011 by Flux

For This Review: *Bought a paperback book copy!*

Review of The Courtesan's Bed by Sandrine O' Shea

Overview

She vows to protect her heart...until love burns away her resistance.

Regine Laflamme rules as the Queen of Fire, the Paris demimonde's most notorious and accomplished courtesan. Wealthy men shower her with riches and vie to become her next conquest. Respectable women shun her. Other courtesans envy her.

No one knows she was once an innocent young governess, ruined and turned out by a cruel lord. And now, years later, she spies her seducer's son-a man who never answered her frantic pleas for help.

Darius, Earl of Clarridge, has never stopped searching for the woman who haunts him. He doesn't expect her to believe that her letters never reached him. No, he will regain her trust in a way she understands-by promising to give her more pleasure than she's ever known.

In spite of her misgivings, Regine is intrigued and takes Darius up on his boast. To her surprise, he conquers not only her body, but captures her very heart.

Yet beyond the haven of her boudoir, two men scheme to possess her for their own. When one of them kidnaps and enslaves her, she clings desperately to a new hope-that this time Darius will find her before it's too late.

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             About The Courtesan's Bed

Available as: NEW Paperback $11.70 from Amazon.com, E-book $4.56 from Amazon.com Kindle's Edition 

                                                        Recommended Ages: 17 and Up

E-book: 284 pgs
Published: September 28th 2010 by Samhain Publishing, Ltd (first published September 13th 2010)

For This Review: *E-book Copy Provided by Author For Review Purposes*

Review of Verita (The Verita Series #1) by Tracy Rozzlynn

Overview
My parents died, my boyfriend cheated, and my best friend essentially dumped me. Truly alone in the world, I agree to help colonize the newly discovered planet, Verita. Now I’m on a strange new world. I have an overwhelming attraction to Brody, despite the fact that he's totally not my type. Another boy Ryan, utterly hates me for reasons out of my control. And there are creatures in the forest that would like nothing more than to eat us for dinner. My heart and mind are fighting with each other. I'm constantly fighting with Ryan. Concentrating on my job is becoming more and more difficult. Plus I can’t ignore how strange it is that all my friends are falling head-over-heal in love. But when I find myself stranded in the wilderness. The only thing that matters is survival.

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                         About Verita

Available as: Paperback $10.99 from Amazon.com ,  E-book $2.99 from Amazon.com Kindle's Edition

                                                        Recommended Ages: 15 and Up

E-book: 219 pgs
Published: May 16, 2012 by Smashwords

For This Review: *E-book Copy Provided by Library Thing's Reviewer's Program*

Giveaway Book Winner of The Weeping Online Book Tour

Regan Walsh won the book of The Weeping by O' Dell Hutchison!

She has already responded to the message and gladly can say that her book is on the way. Everyone who didn't win don't feel discouraged there will be giveaways to come under the blog's tabs-  Giveaways on the Blog.


For those of you who missed the Online Book Tour for The Weeping by O' Dell Hutchison.
See the posts [below]:

An Anime Series Review: Kaze No Stigma (2007)

Director: Junichi Sakata

Anime Planet Overview: Years after having been exiled from the Kannagi household for being unable to utilize their fire magic, Kazuma returns to Japan, only to discover that the Kannagi family's very existence is threatened. Unknown to them, during his absence, he had become a Contractor and thus acquired a vast strength in wind magic. Not showing any remaining contempt for them, he offers to help solve the Kannagi household’s problems in return for large sums of money. Together with his younger brother Ren and the feisty heir to the Kannagi household, Ayano, he fights to protect those he cares about... for a price!

                                        



A  Kaze No Stigma Review
Kaze No Stigma Episode Count: 24 episodes

Tsui-Ling (Top right), Kazuma (Top middle), Ren (Bottom left), Kirika (Far left) and Ayano (Bottom right) 

T.V. Casual Talk: The Legend of Korra on Nickelodeon "Like The Cycle of the Seasons, The Cycle of the Avatar Began Anew"

The premiere of The Legend of Korra on April 14, 2012 at 11:00 am was fantastic! The Legend of Korra the sequel to Avatar: The Last Airbender promises to continue the amazingly excting series of the Avatar world we all fell in love with (me included!). For this viewer the humor that is pure genius in making you laugh held sway much like in Avatar: The Last Airbender. Avatar: The Last Airbender which aired was an animated t.v. show that had this world that was obviously fantasy-like that managed to bring with every episode some incredible diverse adventures and life lessons to life by creators:  Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. Avatar: The Last Airbender followed Aang a young boy with the ability to work the wind which is often referred to as airbend making him an airbender. Who also happend to be the last of his kind after the ruthless people of the Fire Nation who are people who can control fire wipe out his people. He also happened to be the Avatar who's master of all four elements of air, water, earth, and fire. His destiny involves keeping peace in the world and along the way he meets Katara a girl who's a waterbender and happens to believe he can save the world from the oppresive Fire nation.

Free E-book Download until April 19, 2012 of Sela (Book Two of The Leland Dragon series) by Jackie Gamber!

Sela's premise
Peace was fleeting. Vorham Riddess, Venur of Esra Province, covets the crystal ore buried deep in Leland's mountains. His latest device to obtain it: land by marriage to a Leland maiden. But that's not all. 

Among Dragonkind, old threats haunt Mount Gore, and shadows loom in the thoughts of the Red who restored life to land and love. A dragon hunter, scarred from countless battles, discovers he can yet suffer more wounds. 

In the midst of it all, Sela Redheart is lost, driven from her home with only her old uncle to watch over her. As the dragon-born child of Kallon, the leader of Leland's Dragon Council, she is trapped in human form with no understanding of how she transformed, or how to turn back. 

Wanderers seek a home, schemes begin to unfurl, and all is at risk as magic and murder, marriage and mystery strangle the heart of Esra. A struggle for power far older and deeper than anyone realizes will leave no human or dragon unaffected. 

In a world where magic is born of feeling, where the love between a girl and a dragon was once transformative, what power dwells in the heart of young Sela?

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Download it now- Sela (Book Two of The Leland Dragon series) by Jackie Gamber in Amazon.com's Kindle Edition
The promotion will run from Wednesday, April 18th (beginning at midnight Pacific Time Zone in the USA), through Thursday, April the 19th, 2012.

And when you are done getting your free copy, visit the SSP eBook page to discover many more titles, from more Michael West such as Cinema of Shadows, to fantasy, urban fantasy, sword and sorcery, YA fantasy, epic fantasy, and other genres. Click here to visit the SSP eBook page with direct links to each title, none of which is over $2.99: 

Check out the e-books @ Seventh Star Press's Website 

Author Interview with Marie Harbon author of "Seven Point Eight" & 3 Day Free E-book Download

Marie Harbon's Bio:

Marie Harbon wrote her first novel length story at the age of twelve, which in retrospective was an early prototype of 'Lost', in that her secondary school class were shipwrecked on an island and had to contend with giant rabbits and aliens. Since then, she has written on and off, evolving her style and literary maturity.

'Seven Point Eight' began life as a short story in the early nineties but on realising the idea could be grown into something more substantial, it was later developed into a trilogy. When it became clear how vast an epic it was becoming, it was finally born as a full five part series of books. Work on 'The Second Chronicle' has already begun.

 Discussions have just begun to turn 'Seven Point Eight' into a movie or TV series.

Aside from writing, Marie has two children and lives with her son and four guitars in the town of Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, which is in England. She is a self-confessed fabric geek and purveyor of beautiful, often ostentatious clothing.

Author Interview
Questions and Answers

NEWS: The First Chronicle goes FREE in the Kindle store: Mon April 16, Tues 17th, Weds 18th and Thu 19th , 2012.

Download it: Seven Point Eight: The First Chronicle on Amazon.com's Kindle Store

Learn About Seven Point Eight: The First Chronicle: Review of Seven Point Eight: The First Chronicle by Marie Harbon

1. How can you introduce your novel "Seven Point Eight" to readers?


Be prepared for a journey, an expedition that draws together fringe science, psychic powers, alternate dimensions, time travel, past lives, miracles, folklore, consciousness,

Seven Point Eight: The First Chronicle (Volume 1)

 conspiracy and nostalgia, in a soap opera for the soul.  Welcome to the new paranormal/science fiction series entitled  'Seven Point Eight'.


Written in the style of a TV series,  'Seven Point Eight'   interweaves the human dramas of love, betrayal, bitterness and above all, courage in a world where everyone must face their own dark shadow. Plus, it asks some pretty existential questions regarding the meaning of our lives and destiny, our karma and dharma, and last but not least, God and the universe. 
'Seven Point Eight: The First Chronicle’ lays the groundwork, and sweeps through the 40s, 50s and 60s to modern day in a wild nostalgic, scientific, paranormal ride.  The physicist, Paul, begins a quest to measure the soul but soon founds himself swept into Max’s world, where research is sold to the military at the highest bid.  When the talented psychic, Tahra, walks into his life, they soon embark on a ground-breaking project designed to stretch the frontiers of exploration, only to make a reality shattering discovery….


2. What set you on the road to writing "Seven Point Eight"?


The original concept revolved around a group of extraordinary people, although the over-arcing story came together over the period of a few years. I wrote a short story in the 90s featuring the machine and consciousness travel, and I liked the idea so much that I developed it further.

Latest in Blog Visiting of the Week of April 9-15, 2012

Check Out!

The favorite blogs of the week and why their content made them the favorite of the week!


1.  Civilian Reader blog:  Stefan interviews Gini Koch an author some of you might know. She's the author of the Alien series, yes!

Contains a fantastic giveaway as well!

Post visited @ Civilian Reader-Interview with Gini Koch & Giveaway 

Not a lot as you can see happened this week for much of the reason was busy with a lot of things. Most of which wasn't too blogging related. 

Take a Look at the Week's Content @ Book & Movie Dimension a Blog

[For those of you that missed anything for the week of April 9-15, 2012. Only popular posts mentioned below though.]

Reviews

• Fantasy 

Review of Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident by Eion Colfer

Eoin Colfer's bestselling antihero is back in Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident--the superb sequel to the hyper-hyped Artemis Fowl, shortlisted for the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year. The Arctic Incident sees the slightly older, perhaps slightly more mellow arch-criminal Artemis recovered from his last adventure, richer now that he has his half of a hoard of fairy gold, and happier since the Clarice Starlingesque superfairy Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon returned his mother's ailing mind to full health. 

But there is still much unfinished business: Artemis Fowl Sr. disappeared when a daring escapade designed to free his family from their criminal--not to mention deeply lucrative--past and move the family's assets into legitimate enterprises went horribly wrong. Held captive by the Mafiya (the Russian organized crime syndicate) for over two years, he has been declared officially dead, but Artemis Jr. knows in his heart (yes, he does have one) that his beloved father is still alive, and he is determined to find him. Meanwhile Captain Short is temporarily on assignment to Customs and Excise as punishment for letting Fowl separate her and her People from their gold and is finding her stakeout duties a little dull. It soon becomes obvious that the pair have need of each other's considerable skills, and before long they are on track for an adventure that will ultimately have far-reaching consequences for both of them.

The second book in Colfer's fairy fantasy series is just as good and find out more in the review!

• Vampires 

Review of Crave (Crave #1) by Laura J. Burns and Melinda Metz

Shay could never do the things her friends could--never try out for sports, never go to parties, never fall in love. Because of the mysterious and incurable blood disorder she was born with, she can barely make it through three days of school a week. 

But now, her doctor-turned-stepfather has a brand-new treatment that he thinks will change everything. And it does. As soon as the new blood starts pumping into Shay's veins, she has visions of a different life...Gabriel's life. She sees an orphanage, loss, fangs, blood, and lust that she can't explain. 

Is Gabriel real? And if he is, could he really be what she thinks he is? 

This was a rather unique vampire book that you should read about if your a fan of vampires.

Online Book Tour

Sela Online Book Tour: From The Vantage Point of a Big Fan! Author Interview with Jackie Gamber author of " The Leland Dragon series "
Come read a very in-depth author interview with Jackie Gamber!

Sela Online Book Tour: Review of Sela (Book Two of The Leland Dragon series) by Jackie Gamber
Also read a review for Jackie Gamber's second book in The Leland Dragon series.

That was all everyone. What a busy blogging week I'll tell you.

Thanks to Stefan! at  Civilian Reader blog  for the idea to the post creation of Latest in Blog Visiting with his Week In Review posts. See his latest Week In Review (Mar.31-April .7).

Sela Online Book Tour: From The Vantage Point of a Big Fan! Author Interview with Jackie Gamber author of "The Leland Dragon series"

Jackie Gamber's Bio:

Jackie Gamber is an Award-Winning author, Jackie writes stories ranging from ultra-short to novel-length, varieties of which have appeared in anthologies and periodical publications, including Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, The Binnacle, ParABnormal Digest, and Shroud. She is author of the Leland Dragon Series of novels, released by Seventh Star Press, and an upcoming steampunk fantasy novel by New Babel Books. Jackie is winner of the 2009 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Award for Imaginative Fiction, was named honorable mention in L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Award, and received a 2008 Darrell Award for best short story by a Mid-South author. She is also a member of the professional organizations Science Fiction Writers of America and Horror Writers Association.


Author Interview
Questions and Answers

NEWS: Sela Online Book Tour: Review of Sela (Book Two of The Leland Dragon series) by Jackie Gamber

1. It's a real honor Jackie to be able to ask you questions @ Book and Movie Dimension a Blog! Especially since as of recently been reading your books and really have become a fan of your fantasy series of The Leland Dragon series. 

 For anyone who hasn't yet discovered your Leland Dragon series how would you introduce them to it as?

Thank you, Cassandra! I’m so glad to hear you’re enjoying the series. In introducing the series, I like to ask people “What do you like to read? Romance? Adventure? Mystery? Magic?” And I can honestly tell them, “That’s in my series! With dragons.”


2. How long did it take you to write Redheart? Sela? Can you share what were your favorite moments in writing each of them?


REDHEART was the first, and took the longest to write, because I dabbled at it for years, before finally promising myself I would take myself, and my writing, seriously. The novel went through a lot of incarnations before it finally gelled into the novel it is now. One of my favorite personal moments in writing REDHEART came after I’d typed “The End”. I was a busy mom of two little ones at the time, involved in their school activities, and working part time to pay for writing courses. My husband had moved ahead to a new job while I stayed behind until the house sold. When I told my mother-in-law I had finished the novel, her eyes went wide. She said, “With all that’s going on, with the move and everything, you had the discipline to find the time for that! That’s amazing.” That’s when it dawned on me. I did have what it took. And it was amazing.

 

                                                           
The writing of SELA came during a challenging year, too. Isn’t life full of things like that? All in all, it took me about 6 or 7 months for the first draft, and a couple of major rewrites. Something fun that started developing during writing it was how my dog was getting the hang of my writing routine before I realized I had one. We adopted an English bulldog from a rescue a couple years ago, and since I do so much of my writing from home, in a little corner office in the bedroom, she spends a lot of time near and around my chair. After her morning outing and her breakfast, she began settling at her place by my chair before I was even there, yet. 

Sela Online Book Tour: Review of Sela (Book Two of The Leland Dragon series) by Jackie Gamber

Overview
Peace was fleeting. Vorham Riddess, Venur of Esra Province, covets the crystal ore buried deep in Leland's mountains. His latest device to obtain it: land by marriage to a Leland maiden. But that's not all. 

Among Dragonkind, old threats haunt Mount Gore, and shadows loom in the thoughts of the Red who restored life to land and love. A dragon hunter, scarred from countless battles, discovers he can yet suffer more wounds. 

In the midst of it all, Sela Redheart is lost, driven from her home with only her old uncle to watch over her. As the dragon-born child of Kallon, the leader of Leland's Dragon Council, she is trapped in human form with no understanding of how she transformed, or how to turn back. 

Wanderers seek a home, schemes begin to unfurl, and all is at risk as magic and murder, marriage and mystery strangle the heart of Esra. A struggle for power far older and deeper than anyone realizes will leave no human or dragon unaffected. 

In a world where magic is born of feeling, where the love between a girl and a dragon was once transformative, what power dwells in the heart of young Sela?

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                      Sela Online Book Tour

                                             A Note From The Blogger

Visit Lisa's World of Books to see Jackie Gamber interviewing her character, Jastin Armitage from the Leland Dragon Series!

The tour involves 36 straight dates of blog visits including interviews, reviews, contests, guest blog posts, and more!

The full tour will take place at the following blogs and dates:

March 27 Lisa's Book Reviews 

March 28 Watch Play Read 

March 29 Stuck In Books 

March 30 Fade Into Fantasy 

March 31 Ian's Realm 

April 1 Jelly Bean Chair Reviews 

April 2 Once Upon A Time 

April 3 A Book Vacation 

April 4 Jess Resides Here 

April 5 Soliloquy 

April 6 Vilutheril Reviews 

April 7 Ritesh Kala's Book Review 

April 8 Sci Fi Guys 

April 9 Unputdownable Books 

April 10 Edi's Book Lighthouse 

April 11 Workaday Reads 

April 12 Eva's Sanctuary 

April 13 Book and Movie Dimension Blog

April 14 Babs Book Bistro 

April 15 Azure Dwarf Horde of Fantasy and SciFi

April 16 Fade Into Fantasy 

April 17 Reading Away the Days 

April 18 Splash of Our Worlds 

April 19 Ali's Bookshelf 

April 20 Sheila Deeth 

April 21 I Heart Reading 

April 22 All-Consuming Media 

April 23 Spellbound By Books 

April 24 One Thrifty Gurl 

April 25 Evie Bookish 

April 26 Booklady's Booknotes 

April 27 Ella Bella Reviews 

April 28 I Smell Sheep 

April 29 The Haunting of Orchid Forsythia 

April 30 Darlene's Book Nook 

May 1st From The Bookshelf of T.B. (special tour encore and wrap-up visit)

Its been a pleasure to be one of the many bloggers/book reviewers out there to actually get to review this fantasy book titled,  Sela  , Book Two in The Leland Dragon series. As a lover of dragons and well just fantasy in general Sela was something different from the ordinary. Had this colorful painting in how it created its world and was something that really imprinted itself into your mind. Immensely glad that found The Leland Dragon series which would be sure to follow in the future.


If you haven't had the chance to read any books in this series then, be sure to read the posts below:


Sela Online Book Tour: From The Vantage Point of a Big Fan- Author Interview with Jackie Gamber author of " The Leland Dragon series "

Review of Redheart (Book One of The Leland Dragon series) by Jackie Gamber


If you think you might check out Sela out or any thoughts let me know in the Comments. 
Let the Online Book Tour continue without further distractions!


~ Cassandra (The Book and Movie Dimension Blogger)

                                      About Sela
Available as: NEW Trade Paperback $11.96 from Amazon.com , E-book $2.99 from Amazon.com Kindle's Edition , Softcover Paperback $14.95 from Seventh Star Press website , E-book $2.99 from Seventh Star Press

                                                        Recommended Ages: 15 and Up

Paperback: 284 pgs.

Published: Published 2012 by Seventh Star Press

For This Review: *Paperback Book Copy Provided by Publisher For Online Book Tour*