Showing posts with label anita clenney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anita clenney. Show all posts

Friday, November 11, 2011

Book Obsessed Spotlights {16}

PhotobucketI thought I would return a feature I used to do every Monday spotlighting a recently discovered book that I found interesting from its blurb.

This time around I've changed it up a bit. Instead of posting every week about books I haven't read, I'll post about books that I have read and loved, that I want to share with you.


Shut Out
Kody Keplinger

Most high school sports teams have rivalries with other schools. At Hamilton High, it's a civil war: the football team versus the soccer team. And for her part, Lissa is sick of it. Her quarterback boyfriend, Randy, is always ditching her to go pick a fight with the soccer team or to prank their locker room. And on three separate occasions Randy's car has been egged while he and Lissa were inside, making out. She is done competing with a bunch of sweaty boys for her own boyfriend's attention.

Lissa decides to end the rivalry once and for all: she and the other players' girlfriends go on a hookup strike. The boys won't get any action from them until the football and soccer teams make peace. What they don't count on is a new sort of rivalry: an impossible girls-against-boys showdown that hinges on who will cave to their libidos first. And Lissa never sees her own sexual tension with the leader of the boys, Cash Sterling, coming.


Breaking the Rules
Suzanne Brockmann

Sometime in the not too distant past, the once torrid romance between Eden Gillman and her Navy SEAL husband Izzy Zanella took a drastic cooling turn. Both seem permanently wedded to mutual disdain, but then something happens that changes the chemistry: Eden discovers that her younger brother Ben is the victim of abuse by his stepfather. To rescue him from the tyrant's custody, she knows that she must reconstruct her tattered relationship with the man that she had most cherished. What she doesn't yet realize is the full saving strength of that lovers' reunion.


Embrace the Highland Warrior
Anita Clenney

When the powerful demon that left Shay for dead discovers her empty grave, he comes seeking retribution, believing she possesses an ancient book he has sought for centuries. Knowing she can't fight the demon alone, Shay returns to her clan and the Scottish Warrior who betrayed her...the only man she's ever loved, where she discovers that betrayal isn't always what it seems. Sometimes it's far worse.
Book Obsessed

Thursday, November 3, 2011

Review: Embrace the Highland Warrior by Anita Clenney

Embrace the Highland Warrior
Anita Clenney
Series: Conner Clan #2
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Publish Date: November 1, 2011
Mass Market Paperback {p.370}
Source: Publisher
Genre: Paranormal
Shay Logan, Cody Conner
Challenge: 100+
Buy the Book: Amazon

When the powerful demon that left Shay for dead discovers her empty grave, he comes seeking retribution, believing she possesses an ancient book he has sought for centuries. Knowing she can't fight the demon alone, Shay returns to her clan and the Scottish Warrior who betrayed her...the only man she's ever loved, where she discovers that betrayal isn't always what it seems. Sometimes it's far worse.
I must start off by saying how much I enjoyed this addition to the series. However, at times I didn't like Shay all that much. Yes they kept things from her, but they were putting their lives on the line for her and she acted so ungrateful at times.

Shay's ex, Jamie, I absolutely loved! I hope he gets his own book and finds happiness. I was constantly torn throughout this book between Cody and Jamie. I knew going in that it was going to be Shay and Cody, but that was before I met Jamie. Is it bad that I fell for Jamie more than Cody? Don't get me wrong, I liked Cody, but I loved Jamie.

I was pleasantly surprised by the addition of vampires in this installment. I don't recall there being vampires in the previous book; just demons and minions.

Each and every one of the characters are so well written and creditable that they come alive on the pages. Even down to the minions. Plus you have strong, sexy men in kilts. What's not to love! This is definitely a series worth getting hooked on.
Book Obsessed

Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Review: Awaken the Highland Warrior by Anita Clenney

Awaken the Highland Warrior
Anita Clenney {FacebookTwitter}
Series: Highland Warrior #1
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Publication Date: May 1, 2011
Mass Market Paperback {p.448}
Source: Publisher
Genre: Paranormal, Time Travel
Characters: Bree Kirkland, Faelan Connor
Challenge: 100+, Chunkster

Historian Bree Kirkland has always been in love with the past, but when she accidentally wakes an ancient Scottish warrior who's spent the past 150 years sleeping in her backyard, her present is suddenly fraught with danger. Faelan has awakened from the time vault hungry and horny. He grieves for his lost family, wondering who sent the woman to wake him. If she's a demon, Faelan will have to kill her. If she's innocent, she's unleashed the gates of hell in her backyard. Either way they must rely on each other to save their future.

Bree awakens Faelan in modern day New York. Immediately upon seeing her he recognizes her to be his mate, but dismisses it as delusion from being locked in the time vault for all those years.

The two of them embark on a journey of trying to capture the demon Faelan set out to capture all those years ago and stay two steps ahead of the demons currently out to kill them.

The premise of this book sounds great. I went into reading it expecting great action and even greater romance. Bree and Faelan's attraction was there, but it never really got off the ground with me. Sure there was sex between them, but that's all it felt like. Just sex.

The action scenario of the story was somewhat dry to me as well. A lot of backstory and history aspects I could have done without. I found that I tended to skip a couple of pages here and there.
Book Obsessed

Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Teaser Tuesday: Awaken the Highland Warrior by Anita Clenney

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by MizB @ Should Be Reading. To participate, all you have to do is the following:


  • Grab your current/upcoming read
  • Open to a random page
  • Share 2-3 "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
  • Be careful not to include spoilers! (You do not want to ruin the book for others.)

Share the title & author so that others who enjoy your "teaser" may add the book to their TBL pile.
"I have to go out for a while. I won't be long."
"You can't leave. Not alone."
"I'm going to meet a friend."
"Him? The archeologist?"
"Does it matter?" Bree glared at him. "I don't need a bodyguard."
Of course it mattered. He'd just made love to her. He had a right to know where she was rushing off to.

page 158; Awaken the Highland Warrior by Anita Clenney
Book Obsessed

Friday, April 8, 2011

Book Beginnings & Friday 56: Awaken the Highland Warrior

The Friday 56 is a weekly meme hosted by Freda's Voice. Check out the rules and join in the fun.

Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
Turn to page 56.
Find the fifth sentence.
Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your blog or (if you do not have your own blog) in the comments section of this blog. Post a link along with your post back to this blog.


Book Beginnings on Friday is a meme hosted by A Few More Pages. Anyone can participate; just share the opening sentence, or two, of your current read, making sure that you include the title and author so others know what you're reading.

Book Beginnings:
"Bury it." The whisper rasped against darkness as lightning split the sky.

Friday 56:
He turned on the minion. "Time's running out. Find the vault or you'll be replaced."
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