"P" A - Z CHALLENGE

A to Z Team [2015]

Arlee Bird @ Tossing it Out
Ninja Captain Alex J. Cavanaugh
Jeremy @ Hollywood Nuts
Nicole Ayers @ The Madlab Post
Author Stephen Tremp
Heather M. Gardner
AJ Lauer
Pam @ An Unconventional Librarian
Matthew MacNish @ The QQQE
Zalka Csenge Virág @ The Multicolored Diary
S. L. Hennessy @ Pensuasion
C. Lee McKenzie @ The Write Game
Joy Campbell @ The Character Depot
Susan Gourley @ Susan Says
John Holton @The Sound of One Hand Typing
Lisa Buie-Collard, Author

Personal Demons (Desolation Diaries #1)

by Ali Cross

The Desolation Diaries #1

What happened after the story ended?

A Desolation Novella


What do you do when your past comes back to bite you in the ass--with very sharp, pointy teeth?


James thought life was good--living in Paris with Miri, not a single bad guy in sight.


Until the goddess Hel came to reclaim him.

 

REVIEW: 

 

This is the story of James and how he became Hel's toy....

   

Forgetting how deeply he loves Miri, he is trapped and enslaved by Hel, the underworlds goddess.

 

I have enjoyed reading the Desolation series by Ali Cross and Personal Demons is another great read. Suitable for Young Adult audiences, who like to read about the battles between good and evil and angels and demons.

 

Ali has shown her talent as a writer once again in this story which links to the other novels in the series.

The Angels Are Here (Paradox #1)

by Patti Roberts

 

Two mysterious strangers arrive just in time to help a little girl, Grace Connors, as she struggles to cope with the death of her father. But are the intentions of these strangers as innocent as they seem, or is there something else on their agenda?

Meanwhile, in an a faraway Realm, a race of fallen Angels clash with a ruling house of Angels. Their battle changes events in the Ancient World and the New World forever. A realm where a year can last centuries and an ancient magical people still rule, a realm where even the immortals face danger.

A story that will indeed leave you asking... Who, When, Where? WHAT!
My name is Juliette. Nine hundred years ago, I died. Today, I am alive... This is my story.

 

REVIEW: 

 

This story is deep, dark and complex and readers will be intrigued from the very start.

 

Paradox - The Angels Are Here is based on the journey of souls from the moment of creation, tackling the cycles of life and death.

 

It is a book you need to concentrate to read and understand, but is well worth the effort. Patti Roberts' style of writing impressed me and her view of life and death in this novel certainly intrigues.

 

 

Planet Urth (Planet Urth #1)

by Jennifer Martucci, Christopher Martucci

 

More than two hundred years into the future, human beings are an endangered species. The planet has been battered by war, its inhabitants plagued by disease and death. Few humans survived and remained unaffected. Most changed dramatically and evolved into something else entirely. Irrevocable alterations caused by chemical warfare have created a new species. North America is in ruins and has been overtaken. Humanity has fallen at the hands of mutants known as Urthmen.
Seventeen year-old Avery is alive and unchanged. But she has not been immune to the harshness of the new world. She has lived on the run for much of her life, in terror.
After losing her father, Avery is the sole guardian of her eight-year-old sister, June. Avery is now charged with June’s safety as well as her own, a nearly impossible task.
Forced to hide deep in the forest and away from the cities overrun by Urthmen, Avery and her sister are constantly hunted. Danger awaits them at every turn. They fear they are the only human beings left, that they are the last of their kind.
But are they truly alone?
Find out in this raw and rousing first installment of the Planet Urth series.

 

REVIEW: 

 

Lurkers roam the land at night hunting. Avery and her sister, June hold up in a cave their father set up before he died.

 

Avery hunts and foragers every day to ensure their survival. Her afternoons are spent training June, but it is imperative they are both inside the cave and the huge carved boulder to block the entrance is in place before nightfall.

 

After a time Avery needs to travel further away to find food and one day happens to come across another family of humans. Hesitant, she watches from a hiding place among the bushes, not daring to make her presence known.

 

This intense story by Jennifer Martec will leave readers feeling somewhat unsettled by the hardship and loneliness the two girls face every day of their lives, just to stay alive. 

 

 

Poison's Kiss (Deadly Beauties #2)

by C.M. Owens

 

Alyssa has spent her entire life foolishly believing things are only laid out in black or white, but now she finds herself stuck in the gray area. The inner battle she faces with her own dark power that she has denied for too long starts to brew all the more fiercely. Kane's coldness breaks her heart even more than it's already broken, but fate's cruel sense of humor forces them to band together despite their torrid conflict.

The biggest problem... There are consequences she didn't know she'd have to face after giving herself to Kane, and she finds herself in pain each and every time she's near him. A pain that leaves her feeling like a puppet.
Hope rests on the shoulders of her enemies, and her allies pile up in all the wrong forms. When tragedy strikes, she's faced with more dark choices to make. Everything gets twisted, and she becomes stuck in the middle of an internal game of tug-of-war. Gage is there, but he's just as much her enemy as a night stalker. How can she trust any of them?
The world is fully of deadly beauties, and deception is their best played game. Alyssa keeps learning the hard way how true this is.

 

REVIEW: 

 

Poison's Kiss is the second book in the series, Deadly Beautie, by CM Owens and continues the story of Alyssa, a witch with a very powerful family.

 

She is being hunted by Night Stalkers and has distanced herself from Kane, the guy she fell head over heels for in book one, believing him to be a werewolf.

 

CM Owens has written an exciting sequel where the plot develops to give answers to some of the questions raised in book one.

 

I am sure this book will be enjoyed by readers who enjoy the paranormal. It is targeted to a New Adult audience because of the light sexual scenes.