A Message from Kimberly...

Due to personal obligations and other interests I will no longer be available to update reviews on the Darque Reviews website or blog. Thank you all for following my reviews over the past few years, and I hope that you’ll understand my decision.


Kimberly

Promo - Sharon Ashwood's Program for Injured Animals

Injured dogs and cats that have been abandoned, are strays, or who belong to the homeless or to lower-income women and children in transition will benefit every time someone downloads a FREE alternative greeting card on http://www.sharonashwood.com/.

Each card offers unique and fun sentiments related to paranormal romance author Sharon Ashwood’s most recent book, SCORCHED. For example: “Chestnuts SCORCHED on an open fire. Hell hounds nibbling at your nose… Here’s hoping your Christmas is fiendishly merry!”

For every card downloaded, Ashwood, a native of Victoria, Canada, will donate 54 cents, Canadian, to the Greater Victoria Animal Crusaders (GVAC). All donations will help defray veterinary costs for one of GVAC’s injured pets. Once that animal’s expenses have been covered, all donations from Ashwood’s program will then go toward the health care costs of another dog or cat. The author says she settled on 54 cents as the donation amount because that’s the current cost for a Canadian first-class postage stamp.

Since GVAC is run completely by volunteers and has no shelter or facilities to maintain (the strays and abandoned pets either live in “foster homes” while waiting to be adopted or are boarded at a veterinary hospital while healing), 100% of all donations to GVAC are used for direct costs related to the animals’ care. Read more about this terrific organization at: http://www.animalcrusaders.ca/.

Ashwood selected GVAC as beneficiary for the donations because she’s a long time animal lover. In fact her own beloved pet, The Demon Lord of Kitty Badness, was a rescue animal.

Author of The Dark Forgotten series, which began with RAVENOUS (February 2009, Signet Eclipse) and continues with SCORCHED (Dec. 1, 2009, Signet Eclipse), Ashwood is offering three alternative greeting cards on her site: one each for Christmas, warm winter wishes and Valentine’s Day.

At least one of these cards will be available for download from Nov. 16, 2009, through Feb. 28, 2010: Christmas and warm winter wishes Nov. 16 – Dec. 25; warm winter wishes and Valentine’s Day Dec. 26 – Feb. 14; warm winter wishes only Feb 14-28.

Photos of GVAC pets and artwork for the greeting cards can be found at: http://www.sharonashwood.com/gvac.php.

Review - Bound to Shadows by Keri Arthur

A new review has been posted on the website for Bound to Shadows by Keri Arthur. This is the eighth installment in the Riley Jenson series.
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Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.com

Review - Tempted by P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast

A new review has been posted on the website for Tempted by P. C. Cast and Kristin Cast. This is the sixth installment in the House of Night series.
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Review - Doubleblind by Ann Aguirre

A new review has been posted on the website for Doubleblind by Ann Aguirre. This is the third installment in the Sirantha Jax series.
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Review - Skin Game by Ava Gray

A new review has been posted on the website for Skin Game by Ava Gray. This is the first installment in the Skin series.
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Review - The Better Part of Darkness

A new review has been posted on the website for The Better Part of Darkness by Kelly Gay. This is the first installment in the Charlie Madigan series.
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Film Review - The Open Door

A new review has been posted on the website for The Open Door, a movie produced by Clint Carmichael, Gregory Hobson, and Doc Duhame.
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Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.com

Promo - Darker Angels by M L N Hanover

Darker Angels
The Black Sun’s Daughter, Book 2
M. L. N. Hanover
Pocket Books
September 29, 2009
ISBN# 978-1-4165-7677-8

About the book:
In the battle between good and evil, there's no such thing as a fair fight.

When Jayné Heller's uncle Eric died, she inherited a fortune beyond all her expectations -- and a dangerous mission in a world she never knew existed. Reining in demons and supernatural foes is a formidable task, but thankfully Jayné has vast resources and loyal allies to rely on. She'll need both to tackle a bodyswitching serial killer who's taken up residence in New Orleans, a city rich in voodoo lore and dark magic.

Working alongside Karen Black, a highly confident and enigmatic ex-FBI agent, Jayné races to track down the demon's next intended host. But the closer she gets, the more convinced she becomes that nothing in this beautiful, wounded city is exactly as it seems. When shocking secrets come to light, and jealousy and betrayal turn trusted friends into adversaries, Jayné will soon come face-to-face with an enemy that knows her all too well, and won't rest until it has destroyed everything she loves most....

You can read the first chapter of Darker Angels: HERE

Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.com

Review - Magic in the Shadows by Devon Monk

A new review has been posted on the website for Magic in the Shadows by Devon Monk. This is the third book in the Allie Beckstrom series.
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Review - Grave Secret by Charlaine Harris

A new review has been posted on the website for Grave Secret by Charlaine Harris. This is the fourth book in the Harper Connelly series.
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Review - Silent Night, Haunted Night by Terri Garey

A new review has been posted on the website for Silent Night, Haunted Night by Terri Garey. This is the fourth book in the Nikki Styx series.
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Review - Scorched by Sharon Ashwood

A new review has been posted on the website for Scorched by Sharon Ashwood. This is the second book in The Dark Forgotten series.
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Review - Born of Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon

A new review has been posted on the website for Born of Night by Sherrilyn Kenyon. This is the first book in The League series.
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Review - Apocalypse Happens by Lori Handeland

A new review has been posted on the website for Apocalypse Happens by Lori Handeland. This is the third installment in the Phoenix Chronicles.
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Review - Cursed to Death by L. A. Banks

A new review has been posted on the website for Cursed to Death by L. A. Banks. This is the fourth installment in the Crimson Moon series.
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Review - On the Edge by Ilona Andrews

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Review - Dawnbreaker by Jocelynn Drake

A new review has been posted on the website for Dawnbreaker by Jocelynn Drake. This is the third installment in the Dark Days series.
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Review - Frostbitten by Kelley Armstrong

A new review has been posted on the website for Frostbitten by Kelley Armstrong. This is the tenth installment in the Women of the Otherworld series.
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Review - My Wicked Vampire by Nina Bangs

A new review has been posted on the website for My Wicked Vampire by Nina Bangs. This is the fourth installment in The Castle of Dark Dreams series.
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Review - Hex in High Heels by Linda Wisdom

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Review - Instinctive by Cathryn Fox

A new review has been posted on the website for Instinctive by Cathryn Fox. This is the first installment in the Eternal Pleasure series.
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Review - Queene of Light by Jennifer Armintrout

A new review has been posted on the website for Queene of Light by Jennifer Armintrout. This is the first book in the Lightworld/Darkworld series.
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Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.com

Review - Shadowfae by Erica Hayes

A new review has been posted on the website for Shadowfae by Erica Hayes. This is the first installment in The Shadowfae Chronicles.
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Review - Wild Blue Under by Judi Fennell

A new review has been posted on the website for Wild Blue Under by Judi Fennell. This is the second installment in the Tritone Trilogy.
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Review - Covet by J. R. Ward

A new review has been posted on the website for Covet by J. R. Ward. This is the first installment in The Fallen Angels series.
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Review - Hunting Memories by Barb Hendee

A new review has been posted on the website for Hunting Memories by Barb Hendee. This is the second installment in the Vampire Memories series.
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Review - Big Bad Wolf by Christine Warren

A new review has been posted on the website for Big Bad Wolf by Christine Warren. This is the eighth installment in the Others series.
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Review - The Renegade Hunter by Lynsay Sands

A new review has been posted on the website for The Renegade Hunter by Lynsay Sands. This is the third installment in the Rogue Hunter series.
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Review - Reign or Shine by Michelle Rowen

A new review has been posted on the website for Reign or Shine by Michelle Rowen. The is the first installment in the Demon Princess series, and is geared towards young adults.
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Review - Doom With a View by Victoria Laurie

A new review has been posted on the website for Doom With a View by Victoria Laurie. This is the seventh installment in the Psychic Eye Mysteries series.
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Review - After the Kiss by Michele Hauf

A new review has been posted on the website for After the Kiss by Michele Hauf. This is an ebook that follows the Wicked Games print series.
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Review - Must Love Hellhounds - anthology

A new review has been posted on the website for Must Love Hellhounds.

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Charlaine Harris
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Nalini Singh
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Ilona Andrews
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Meljean Brook
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Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.com

Review - Seduced by Shadows by Jessa Slade

A new review has been posted on the website for Seduced by Shadows by Jessa Slade. This is the first installment in The Marked Souls series.
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Review - HeavenSent.com by Stefanie Worth

A new review has been posted on the website for HeavenSent.com by Stefanie Worth. This is her story from the Holiday Brides anthology.
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Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.com

Review - To Tempt the Wolf by Terry Spear

A new review has been posted on the website for To Tempt the Wolf by Terry Spear. This is the third installment in her werewolf series.
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Review - Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs

A new review has been posted on the website for Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs. This is the second installment in the Alpha and Omega series.

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Review - To Crave a Blood Moon by Sharie Kohler

A new review has been posted on the website for To Crave a Blood Moon by Sharie Kohler. This is the third installment in the Moon Chasers series.

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Review - Barely Bewitched by Kimberly Frost

A new review has been posted on the website for Barely Bewitched by Kimberly Frost. This is the second book in the Southern Witch series.

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Review - Time for Eternity by Susan Squires

A new review has been posted on the website for Time for Eternity by Susan Squires. This is the eighth installment in The Companion series.

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Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.com

Review - The Treasures of Venice by Loucinda McGary

A new review has been posted on the website for The Treasures of Venice by Loucinda McGary. This is a Starred Read.

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Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.com

Review - Dreamfever by Karen Marie Moning

A new review has been posted on the website for Dreamfever by Karen Marie Moning. This is the fourth installment in the Fever series.

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Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.com

Promo - Re-launch of the Blood Lines series by Maria Lima

With the upcoming third release in the Blood Lines series by Maria Lima, Juno/Pocket Books are re-launching the series starting this month with Matters of the Blood. Now is your chance to read Matters of the Blood and Blood Bargain before the release of Blood Kin in October (2009).

Matters of the Blood
Blood Lines, Book 1
Maria Lima
Juno/Pocket Books
September 2009
ISBN# 978-1-4391-5674-2

Book Blurb:
If you thought your family was strange...

Try being Keira Kelly. A member of a powerful paranormal family, Keira elected to stay among humans in the Texas Hill Country when the rest of the clan moved (lock, stock, and grimoire) to Canada. But family duty means still having to keep an eye on cousin Marty -- a genetic aberration who turned out 100% human, poor guy. And recently Keira's been having violent dreams -- or are they visions? -- featuring Marty as the victim of a vicious murder. Something sinister seems to be brewing in little Rio Seco. Can Keira get to the bottom of it all while avoiding entanglement with her former lover, Sheriff Carlton Larson? And what does she plan to do about the irresistible and enigmatic Adam Walker? When this old friend shows up as the new owner of a local ranc and wants to get better acquainted, Keira is more than happy to be welcoming...until she suspects that Adam could be intimately connected to the dangerous doings in Rio Seco.


A review for Matters of the Blood can be found:
http://darquereviews.blogspot.com/2007/09/matters-of-blood-by-maria-lima.html

A review for Blood Bargain can be found:
http://darquereviews.blogspot.com/2008/11/review-blood-bargain-by-maria-lima.html


For more information on the Blood Lines series visit:

Maria Lima - http://www.thelima.com/

Juno Books - http://www.juno-books.com/

Pocket Books (Simon and Schuster) - http://www.simonandschuster.com/

You can also ‘Browse Inside’ Matters of the Blood:
http://books.simonandschuster.com/Matters-of-the-Blood/Maria-Lima/9781439156742/browse_inside


Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.co

Review - Friday Night Bites by Chloe Neill

A new review has been posted on the website for Friday Night Bites by Chloe Neill. This is the second installment in the Chicagoland Vampires series and is a Starred Read!

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Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.com

Movie Review - Thicker than Water by Writer/Director Philip Messerer

A new review has been posted on the website for Thicker than Water. This is the first of three movies in the Vampire Diaries Trilogy by Writer/Director Philip Messerer.
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Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.com

Promo - The Child Thief by Brom

The Child Thief
Brom
EOS
August 25, 2009
ISBN# 9780061671333

The acclaimed artist Brom brilliantly displays his multiple extraordinary talents in The Child Thief—a spellbinding re-imagining of the beloved Peter Pan story that carries readers through the perilous mist separating our world from the realm of Faerie. As Gregory Maguire did with his New York Times bestselling Wicked novels, Brom takes a classic children’s tale and turns it inside-out, painting a Neverland that, like Maguire’s Oz, is darker, richer, more complex than innocent world J.M. Barrie originally conceived. An ingeniously executed literary feat, illustrated with Brom’s sumptuous artwork, The Child Thief is contemporary fantasy at its finest—casting Peter Pan, the Lost Boys, even Captain Hook and his crew in a breathtaking new light.

Book Blurb:

Peter is quick, daring, and full of mischief—and like all boys, he loves to play, though his games often end in blood. His eyes are sparkling gold, and when he graces you with his smile you are his friend for life. He appears to lonely, lost children—the broken, hopeless, and sexually abused—promising to take them to a secret place of great adventure, where magic is alive, and you never grow old. But his promised land is not Neverland. . . .

With this haunting, provocative, relentlessly thrilling reconsideration of a timeless children's classic, the acclaimed artist Brom dramatically displays another side of his extraordinary talent. Exploring the stygian blackness that gathers at the root of the beloved Peter Pan legend, he carries readers into a faerieland at once magically wondrous and deeply disturbing.

Fourteen-year-old Nick would be lying dead in a Brooklyn park—murdered by drug dealers—had Peter not sprung out of the trees to save him. Now the irresistibly charismatic wild boy wants Nick to follow him into a strange and unsettling mist swirling around the bay. Even though he is wary of Peter's crazy talk of faeries and monsters, Nick agrees. After all, nowhere in New York City is safe for him now. And what more can he possibly lose?

There is always more to lose.

Accompanying Peter to a gray and ravished island that was once a lush, enchanted paradise, Nick finds himself unwittingly recruited for a war that has raged for centuries. He must learn to fight or die as he struggles to fit in with the "Devils"—Peter's savage tribe of lost and stolen children.

Here, Peter's dark past is revealed: left to wolves as an infant, despised, tormented, and hunted, Peter moves between the worlds of faerie and man, struggling to understand what he is and where he belongs. The Child Thief is a leader of bloodthirsty children, a brave friend, and a creature driven to do whatever he must to kill the dreaded Captain and stop his murderous crew of "Flesh-eaters" before they blight every trace of magic left in this dying land.

Beautifully illustrated by the author with haunting portraits and indelible images, Brom's The Child Thief is a daring novel of darkest contemporary fantasy that will, at once, haunt and exhilarate any reader who agrees to follow Peter on his desperate crusade.

You can learn more about The Child Thief by visiting Brom’s website: HERE

Eos is giving readers a chance to win original artwork from THE CHILD THIEF. To enter, fans can visit www.thechildthief.com or http://www.harpercollins.com/features/ChildThief/.


Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.co

Giveaway Winner - Set of Feral Warriors

Good Morning All!

Thanks so much to everyone who stopped by to comment on the guest post from Pamela Palmer. The winner for a set of the first three books in the Feral Warrior series is: #10

elnice

Congratulations! Please email me: darquereviews AT gmail DOT com with your mailing address.

Happy Reading!

Kimberly Swan

Guest Post and Giveaway with Pamela Palmer

Today Darque Reviews welcomes Pamela Palmer with a guest post and a giveaway sponsored through the nice folks at HarperCollins. Thanks so much for joining us Pamela!

Thanks for having me at Darque Reviews!

The Guest Post:

I’m often asked how I came up with the idea for my Feral Warriors series for Avon Books. Like so many things, it didn’t happen suddenly. The idea didn’t appear, full-blown in my head. In fact, at first, all I knew were the main characters of the first book, which became Desire Untamed -- the girl next door heroine who thought she was human, and the fierce, dangerous male who stole her away for the power she possessed to save his race. I knew they were immortal. But not what kind of immortal.

I’m a huge fan of J.R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood, Alyssa Day’s Warriors of Poseidon, and Suzanne Brockmann’s Navy SEALs. I love the band of brothers theme, the warrior males bound together by a common cause or a common enemy, and the wonderful interactions between them. I knew I wanted to tell that kind of tale. My warriors were immortal, but what were they?
I’ve always loved the concept of men who could shift into animals, but most shape-shifter books deal with packs and prides and although I love reading about them, that wasn’t the story I had in my head. I finally realized my band of warrior brothers weren’t exactly brothers at all. They were shape-shifters, but not a pack. Not a pride. Each man was the last of his unique line. Each shifted into a different animal. Each went by the name of that animal.

And the Feral Warriors were born.

I adore romance, but I also love a good, fast-paced, high stakes story with nasty, evil villains. So after creating the Feral Warriors themselves, I had to discover their world, their enemies, and the dangerous situation they found themselves in. After all, warriors need a good battle now and then. By this point in my discovery process, the floodgates had opened and the ideas were rushing freely. The Mage, or the magic ones, had always been the rivals and enemies of the Ferals and their shape-shifting race. However, the true villains are the Daemons and their master, Satanan, all of whom were imprisoned eons ago. But evil is rising, dark forces gathering to free Satanan and his Daemon horde, and the Feral Warriors are the only ones who stand between us and the destruction of our world.

Passion Untamed, the third book in the series, just hit shelves today! In Passion Untamed, Paenther is faced with his worst nightmare when he falls for the seduction of a sweet beauty and finds himself chained in a Mage lair, a captive of a witch and her evil companions.

His muscles corded as he fought the chains with every ounce of strength he possessed until his skin was damp with sweat. But the chains didn’t budge. He was pinned fast, his arms trapped above his head, his legs spread and tethered.

Ah, goddess. If only you’d stopped me. There was no fate worse. He’d have sold his soul to have escaped this.

Heaven help him. His soul was probably the very thing the witch wanted. To finish what the Mage had started all those years ago – tearing him loose from his animal once and for all.
He caught her scent, that delicate, damning smell of violets. She stepped into the doorway, the ethereal beauty who’d shown him heaven between her thighs then captured him in her net of bewitchment. Lust slammed into him all over again.

Even as hatred seared its way through his blood, his gaze drank in the sight of her. She was slender, with few curves revealing themselves beneath the soft, shapeless blue dress. But her short hair accentuated a long, graceful neck and features that were too fine, too delicate for a cold-hearted witch.

Mage or not, she stole his breath.

She watched him, her eyes wary, as she gently stroked the rabbit in her arms. At her side, a doe pressed her head against the witch’s hip while several excited squirrels chased one another around her ankles.

He’d thought she was human.

Closing his eyes against the sight of her, he prayed that grave error didn’t turn out to be the last mistake he ever made.

Thanks for the opportunity to join you here and to tell you a little about the Feral Warriors!

It’s been a pleasure to have you here Pamela, thanks so much for sharing your time with us.

You can visit Ms. Palmer’s website to learn more about the Feral Warriors: HERE

Be sure to check out the reviews for the first three Feral Warrior installments: HERE

You can also ‘Browse Inside’ each of these books by visiting their pages at HarperCollins:
Desire Untamed: HERE
Obsession Untamed: HERE
Passion Untamed: HERE

The Giveaway:
To enter for a chance to win a set of the first three books in the Feral Warriors series, please leave a comment on this post. If you can remember the first paranormal romance that got you hooked on the genre, we’d love to here it. If you have a question for Ms. Palmer, she has graciously offered to check-in today and answer them. The winner will be announced on September 1, 2009, so be sure to check back! Good luck, and happy reading.

Kimberly Swan, DarqueReviews.com