WISHFUL THINKING

It's been months since the ghost of Anna Korlov opened a door to Hell in her basement and disappeared into it, but ghost-hunter Cas Lowood can't move on. His friends remind him that Anna sacrificed herself so that Cas could live—not walk around half dead. He knows they're right, but in Cas's eyes, no living girl he meets can compare to the dead girl he fell in love with. Now he's seeing Anna everywhere: sometimes when he's asleep and sometimes in waking nightmares. But something is very wrong...these aren't just daydreams. Anna seems tortured, torn apart in new and ever more gruesome ways every time she appears. Cas doesn't know what happened to Anna when she disappeared into Hell, but he knows she doesn't deserve whatever is happening to her now. Anna saved Cas more than once, and it's time for him to return the favor.   The sequel to Anna Dressed In Blood. A male protagonist wielding a powerful knife, with a slightly caust...

Love, or hate it, but his covers always catch your eye. Yep, I'm talking about Nekro, the Spanish artist who has captured the reading YA crowd's eyes with his searingly brilliant (and mostly bright red) book covers! So from what I see, I can analyze that this man likes his details. The swirls and trills are perfect, as is what seems to be his favorite palette of colors- white, red, black- the black always metallic and simply gorgeous! He works for most of the major publishing houses, and his credentials include the Norma Editorial book 13 Inches. His book covers that you will recognize include: THE WEREWORLD SERIES The Anna Dressed in Blood series The Blood Rights series   Article 5                       13 Inches (his book)                            ...

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine where we feature the books we're waiting for! So this Wednesday, I'm waiting for the sequel to the awesome Anna Dressed in Blood... read currently-reading to-read Added to my books! add my review Loading... Loading... Girl of Nightmares  by Kendare Blake   Girl of Nightmares (Anna, #2)   In this follow-up to Anna Dressed in Blood , Cas begins seeing Anna everywhere: sometimes when he’s asleep, and sometimes in wa...

Soooo. This is THE book I've been waiting to read for so long. I'll give you the Q and A version of a review for this one. S ynopsis Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead.   So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a ghost he sought to kill. Now, armed with his father's mysterious and deadly athame, Cas travels the country with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat. Together they follow legends and local lore, trying to keep up with the murderous dead—keeping pesky things like the future and friends at bay. When they arrive in a new town in search of a ghost the locals call Anna Dressed in Blood, Cas doesn't expect anything outside of the ordinary: track, hunt, kill. What he finds instead is a girl entangled in curses and rage, a ghost like he's never faced before. She still wears the dress she wore on the day of her brutal murder in 1958: once white, now stained red and dripping wi...

Ok, someone please explain how i can buy this and then sleep. IF anyone’s taken a peek at the gallery or the sidebars, they’ll know that I’m crazy in love with digital art, photo manipulation and stock photography. Beyond Twilight and its gorgeous covers- which I really think is what started pushing publishers into recognizing the importance of good cover-art- we’ve had a lot of good, beautifully done covers coming in. Basically in the Paranormal genre, these covers give a real pick-me-up-now scream. But sometimes- some awful times- the cover designs are so terrible that I just had to post about what they should never be like! (okay, this is my personal opinion as a cover designer and artist. If you guys disagree with me…good! It means I’m eliciting a response. I’m a glass half full kind of person) 1)       This Bloody Book:  Yes, this seems to be the most popular choice with publishers right now. Seriously, I think I can recognize a book for being ab...