Monday, November 29, 2010

Spider's Bite An Elemental Assassins Book

Spider's Bite (Elemental Assassin, Book 1) - Mass Market Paperback (Jan. 26, 2010) by Jennifer Estep
Dark Faerie Tale UF Reading Challenge Book #1

"My name is Gin and I kill people" with an opening line like that you know you are in for a killer ride....no pun intended.
 Gin Blanco is The Spider. An assassin that is only spoken about in whispers. She is an Elemental that can control and manipulate stone and has a touch of ice magic, too. Her obstinate, self sufficient ways dictate that she never uses her gifts for her profession, outside of making the occasional, untraceable knife.
 Gin soon has to play the game herself when her handler/mentor is brutally murdered on a horrific attempt to double cross her.  Running on pure anger instead of her usual cold calculation, her world is turned upside down.  Hellbent on revenge makes her join forces with a "hottie" cop, Donovan Caine,who only views the world in black and white and can not accept the grey world through Gin's eyes. Caine grudgingly agrees to help for this case and this case alone, despite the conflict that The Spider assassinated his dirty cop partner.
 From opening page to dramatic ending The Spider weaves her tale, entangling you, barely giving you a chance to come up for air.
 Gin is a tough, kick ass girl with a complex history full of missing puzzle pieces. She fights having "human emotions" and tries to ignore the events of her past that existed before she became The Spider. It is an impossible task. Her hands carry the physical scars that remind her, and are ultimately responsible for her deadly alias.  I absolutely love her and secretly want to be her. As she races to save other people ( which is soooooooo not her job) you will find yourself loving the bad girl assassin , and cheering for her all the way.
 Jennifer Estep is a welcome new voice in my world of urban fantasy and really makes me want to reconsider my childhood dream ....my apprenticeship to assassin school. Hmmmmm, it's never too late.

5 out of 5 wooden stakes v~v

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Dark Faerie Tale Madness

Ok, I have to admit the stress of life has pushed my natural insanity boundaries to the point of no return. The proof in this is I have just jumped on board of a hosted reading challenge (INSERT DARK FAERIE TALES PLUG HERE!!! :) that only has a month left. I am, OF COURSE, completely excited out of my mind to read 15 debut UF books in this short period of time.Those who know my reading abilities may think this is no sweat, but helllooo holidays, that thing called life,work....I am certifiable!!!Hopefully, Dark Faerie Tales will give me mad props for my endeavor. Stay tuned!!! muhahahahahah

Saturday, November 27, 2010

I will take things that suck for $100,Alex." ....An E! rant

So, the demon spawn and I were flipping through channels and stopped on E! because "Top 10 Vampires We Love" was just starting.
Let me begin this rant with I'm NOT anti-Twilight BUT COME ON!!!!!!
There are quite a few vampiric charmers out there BESIDES anything spawned from Stephanie Meyers.
I'm beginning to think if she crapped out something that looked like Sloth from Goonies and had the mentality of  the Jersey Shore cast it would have been considered for this mockery of a list.
They had a few decent mentions among their numbers,like Seline from Underworld,and Eric Northman from True Blood, but how can we gloss over the most important vampire icons that existed before Twilight was even an embryo in SM's head???

#1 David from the Lost Boys played by a very yummy Kiefer Sutherland. "Maggots, Michael, you're eating maggots. How do they taste??" Do I need to say more? I think not.
#2 SPIKE FROM BUFFY (James Marsters) Ya, ya, I know what you are thinking, I apparently have a platinum spiky haired vampire fetish. Naaa, he just was way more chompable then Angel.
#3 Louis and Claudia anyone?? Or is that just me? And we all know we would love to see the outcome of a Claudia and Jane epic battle.
#4 Barnaby Collins...really that's all I really have to say there.
#5 Bela Lugosi and Gary Oldman, representing the big D himself!!

Now as much as I would like to add the literary versions to the list, I stuck to film and TV as not to completely rip E! to shreds. I have to give it some love as it houses my Joel McHale. V~V

DISCLAIMER*** YES THE AUTHOR OF THIS POST IS BITTER AFTER SUFFERING SEVERE MENTAL RAGE THAT THE TEENAGE KIDS, WHO WOULD NAME CALL AND NOT STEP FOOT INSIDE HER PLACE OF EMPLOYMENT FOR FEAR OF ALL THINGS DIFFERENT OR RUN SCREAMING FROM HER IN DARK ALLEYS, ALL OF A SUDDEN THOUGHT VAMPIRES WERE COOL BECAUSE A PSEUDO TEENAGE HEARTTHROB PLAYED ONE IN A MOVIE.

"These aren't vampires,man. These are douche bags." Dean Winchester

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

excuses,excuse

Just a quick lil note during my looooooong absense. Been closing chapters in one saga of my life to be able to come back to this epic saga, which I am most fulfilled at....I have tons more reviews to post & rants to write.
I would like to give a shoutout to a certain someone who gave me that extra little push to get back here & post this. HIDE YO' KIDS!!
Be seeing y'all soon. chomp chomp. v~v