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WINTER FLINGS – 31 BOOKS JUST WAITING FOR YOU TO FALL IN LOVE WITH THEM!!

All the way through July, you can have your wicked way with one of 31 fantastic Hachette books.

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Brigands MC - Robert Muchamore (Thursday's book)

The Red Necklace - Sally Gardner (Friday's book)

In line with the planned website upgrade of this site in the next month or so, we’re gearing up a notch. As of today we’re taking on several new reviewers to help Bec with the influx of review copies we’re receiving. Some of you already know Belinda Hamilton who prepares my newsletter, and Amy Parker who is the administrator of my messageboard, Parrish’s Patch. Well now I’d also like to introduce Jamie Marriage.

Some of the reviews upcoming are The Eternal Kiss, a paranormal antho, Meridian by Amber Kizer, Infinity by Sherrilyn Kenyon and Torment by Lauren Kate, Moment of Truth by Michael Pryor, and two Michelle Cooper Montaray books.

If you have a book you’d like reviewed or are a YA author who’d like to be interviewed then you are welcome to query us direct. Please submit your query to Bec Stafford at burnsbrighter at gmail dot com.

We’ve been talking to a lot of great people, and Bec’s got lots of reviews coming up, but I haven’t actually mentioned my book (the reason for this site!) for a while. Well the news to date is that it will be released in January, and I’m entering the last rewrite phase. Zoe is about to brief on the cover, and once we have a cover, the site will be redesigned by Austin Designworks. AD are responsible for the fantastic look of both my Marianne de Pierres and Marianne Delacourt sites.

I so love this book and impossibly impatient for it to come out!

MDP says

I’m slowly reading the House of the Night series and found book 2, Betrayed, to warm into an exciting climax. Other than Zoe’s propensity to stop and chat about ‘anything’ in the middle of something important, the story definitely gathered momentum and for a moment or two, I felt like I was sixteen again and part of the story. The hook was strong enough for me to read the next book and I’ll be interested to see how Zoey Redbird develops. Highpoint: Heath’s cute sense of humour, Zoey’s mind games with Neferet. Trip ups: the amazingly understanding policeman.

MDP Says

Bec started this conversation a while ago and it’s been hovering around in my hindbrain. I’m reading the second book in the House of the Night series (which is nicely atmospheric series) at the moment and I’m struck by how dysfunctional most of the relationships between the teen fledgling vampires and their parents are. I guess normal, supportive family relationships make for boring reading. But every now and then it would be nice to think we can build YA stories around other premises.

The parent/teenager relationship is so fascinating and dynamic that we should be able to tackle some of the more interesting aspects of it without having to resort too … my parents are evil.