Yasmine Galenorn Contest

Amberkatze's guest interview this week is with one of my all time favorites, Yasmine Galenorn. I love everything from her first name to the awesome books she writes. Head on over to : http://amberkatze-amberkatze.blogspot.com/2009/01/author-interview-contest-with-yasmine.html to read more about Yasmine and enter a contest to win a copy of the book of your choice from the Sisters of the Moon series.

Chosen

House of Night #3: Chosen by PC and Kristin Cast

Book 3 of a series that has not disappointed me too much yet. Zoey is getting herself into serious boyfriend trouble, unable to break the imprint with the human Heath and unable to resist the adult vampire Loren. Erik is caught in the middle and bails. Her friends trust is slipping and her dependence upon her once enemy, Aphrodite is growing. Can't wait to read book four, but will need to get my hands on a copy first, lol.

Betrayed

House of Night #2: Betrayed by PC & Kristin Cast

This series continues to be very, very good. Zoey is the most gifted fledgling that has been seen at the house of night, but someone is killing human teens and all signs point to the house of night. Zoey and her friends must find out who or what is killing the teens before Zoey's ex-boyfriend becomes the next victim. To make matters worse, there is a traitor in their mist.

Contest time at Amberkatze's

This week Amber interviewed Justin Gustainis, author of Evil Ways & Black Magic Woman. The winner of the contest will receive an autographed copy of Evil Ways. To enter, you must post a comment with your New Year's Resolution (or lack of one). The contest entry page can be found at http://amberkatze-amberkatze.blogspot.com/2009/01/guest-blog-contest-with-justin.html

Contest at Amberkatze's Blog

Amber once again has out-did herself. This week's give-away is for an autographed copy of Casey Daniel's latest book Night of the Living Dead. Go on over to : http://amberkatze-amberkatze.blogspot.com/2008/12/author-interview-and-contest-with-casey.html and enter to win. The lucky winner will be announced on Sunday, January 4th.

Marked

House of Night #1: Marked by PC & Kristin Cast

Ok, Blue Bloods is my favorite teen-vampire series, but this one comes in a very close second. Even though I feel like the vampire high and vampires being an exceptable state of being is pulled from the wizards and witches in Harry Potter, I still liked the idea of the special school and of this just being the way things are. I liked the Native American undertone in this one as well. Overall, I really liked the book and have already stared book number two in the series, Betrayed.

Twilight

I admit it, I listened to all the books on audio and got hooked on the first one. The last one left a bit to be desired (I thought by the third book, Meyer had written herself into a corner it would be hard to get out of, I was right!) So, I went to see the movie this weekend with my two daughters. They both came out saying it wasn't as pre-teen stupid as they thought it would be, but not oscar material. I thought it was pretty good and I will go see the others. It stuck to the main story pretty well. Some of the things I did not like - I thought Bella came off as flat out rude most of the time- girl with an attitude and what did they do to Edward's eyebrows?? Geezzz, they look horrible. I hope they tone those down for the next movie. I liked Robert Pattinson in the Harry Potter films, but I'm not sure he is right for this part. I always thought of Edward as being a very, unreal kind of handsome and between his eyebrows and his flatten nose (did they do something to it? I thought he was much cuter in HP), he just didn't fit the picture I had in my mind. Neither did Dr Cullen, he came off a bit wierd looking. The girls were great, especially Alice and Esme, they were perfect matches, but Dr Cullen and Edward? I expected them all to be drop dead gorgeous and they just weren't. Looking at pictures of them elsewhere, they are all pretty good looking guys, but the movie makeup made them look I don't know, bad. Jasper looked great and Emmett was ok, but Dr Cullen and Edward need some major makeup tone down before New Moon.