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The Dusk Gate Chronicles Boxed Set, Books 1-4 by Breeana Puttroff My rating: 5 of 5 stars Have you ever read a book so vivid it stayed with you long after you finished it? A book that crept into your dreaming mind and left you with full vivid dreams that you remembered even after you woke up? This book, or should I say books since it's the first four books in the series did exactly that! I was in a reading funk looking for something completely different to cleanse my reading palate and now I'm hooked on this world. This is sort of a combination of sci-fi, with it's alternate dimension, a love story that transcends worlds (literally), some high fantasy with a struggle to reclaim her throne and some of the most memorable characters I've come across in a long time. Fans of S.L. Morgan's Guardians series will love this one. There are a lot of the same elements and story tropes found in both books with one exception...The Dusk Gate Chr...

Hey everyone thank you so much for participating Tuesday in our Chloe Neill blog tour and leaving your awesome comments. We've listed the winners below so if you see your name please email Roxanne at roxanddak@yahoo.com with your preferred mailing address so we can get your book swag goodies out to you. Without further ado our winners are below: Kristen Michelle: you have won the Chicagoland Vampires book covers bookmarks Eva@all books considered: You've won the Cadogen House Lanyard Our Grand Prize Winner of the Limited Edition Cadogen House Pennant and cadogen stickers is..... ANNE!! Anne we only have your first name so we're copying your comment below so you know which one we're speaking about.   " Great questions, but Merit possibly having shifter blood was a complete surprise. It never occurred to me to think it was a possibility yet she does have that connection.... She better get her HEA, I can't take much more after last night's...

First let us say thank you to Chloe Neill for choosing us as one of her stops on her book blog tour for Midnight Marked ! Thank you Chloe Neill you were amazing to have on here. Secondly we'd like to thank all of our readers for stopping by and leaving a comment. We love reading and we love reviewing books here on our site and nothing gives us more pleasure than hearing from our readers. You all are the reason we do this so THANK YOU to everyone that came by. We are closing the raffle now and we'll be drawing names this evening. Check back here tomorrow to see if you're one of the lucky winners of some sweet book swag. The winner of the limited edition Cadogen House Pennant will also be posted tomorrow. Friday's winners post will be the last one for this month of February and then we'll be back in March to kick off our newer book reviews. We'll hosting another raffle in March to all those that subscribe to our blog and that lucky winner will win an eboo...

A Hold On Me by Pat Esden Thank you to Netgalley for a copy of this arc in exchange for a fair review! I don't even know where to start with this! I don't know what I expected, some romance with some thrills, but this was so much more! I liked the cover and I read the synopsis and thought okay this will give me a bit of love and all the darkness I just have to have! I didn't expect a few things, and I am still deciding if it would spoiler to review some of that! Annie (Stephanie) is a buyer of antiques and artifacts, and she is with her father when they make a purchase that seems innocent enough. Until her dad begins to change, and Annie desperately covers for him until a mistake with an antique poison ring alerts her father's lawyer that something is wrong. After she loses a battle with her Aunt and Grandfather over guardianship of her father, Annie returns to the home, her father fled from many years ago. Immediately things begin to change, and as Annie noti...

Love Me, Love Me Not By Alyxandra Harvery Thank you to Netgalley for a copy of the Arc in exchange for a fair review.     Okay I really wanted to love this, but it fell short for me. I will get into the good, and bad here in a minute. I have read and loved other books by Alyxandra Harvey and will continue to do so. I picked this book and really didn't read the synopsis. I thought the cover looked great and I wanted to review some romance this month.... so then I saw reviews and no one was impressed and that worried me a tad, but I don't normally let anyone's opinion sway me, because I often find that what appeals to me can totally be unappealing to someone else. So if you look at reviews as your sole recommendation for reading a book, I think you should stop! lol no seriously you can use to as a tool, but I would never let another person's opinion make that decision for you. You may miss out on something wonderful for you. The Good:       I love th...

Chloe Neill is with us today and she has graciously answered a few of the questions that you all submitted to her. 1. Is there a chance of a spin off series that focuses on the next generation of these characters? I have many ideas for book series of all varieties, but there are no concrete plans at this time. There will be 13 Chicagoland Vampires books and at least 3 Devil's Isle books. 2: Does Merit have shifter blood in her lineage? Nope! She was entirely human before becoming a vampire. 3: Does Mallory become an Ombusdman in this book or is she still going to become connected to House Cadogen as discussed in House Rules? Mallory is not an Ombudsman employee, and she doesn't work for Cadogan House. She does volunteer for both. 4: Midnight Marked is the second to last book in the Chicagoland Vampire Series. How do you feel about being so close to end of their story? I'll begin writing the last Chicagoland Vampires novel very soon (probably ...

Hello and happy Monday faithful readers and followers!! Don't forget tomorrow we'll be hosting Chloe Neill on our blog in anticipation of her new book Midnight Marked out in stores and online March 1st!! That's right next week you only have a few days left to pre-order your copy of the next book in the ChicagoLand Vampires series!!

We only have a week and half left in the month of February and with that in mind here's your list of our favorite couples from Romance Novels. Our number one pick from the New Adult Contemporary Romance Genre is Lily and Lo from the "Addicted"  Series. This series has everything we loved from this genre. It was placed in today's time frame so the technology and situations were relatable to almost everyone. What can I say about this book that hasn't been said before? The main character Lily Calloway is an invisible heiress to a soda company with a shameful, dark, addiction and her best friend Loren Hale is the heir to Hale Industries a family based company that manufactures baby items. She's a sex addict and He's an alcoholic. The Addicted series will take you on a no holds barred journey through two people's struggle to confront their addictions, and the damage it's done to their families and friends all while finding themselves and their love...

It's fairly rare that a piece of fiction catches me off guard and sends me sideways down the rabbit hole and yet this novel did exactly that! I'm ashamed to say that I pre-judged this book by it's cover. I saw the traditional bodice ripping, dime store paperback, romance novel cover and ALMOST  didn't read it. As it is I pushed off reading this book for months and it was only now that I'm going through my TBR list of books that I decided to give this a chance and I'm so glad that I did. Lily Silver this book cover does not do this story justice at all! This is hands down the best gothic romance story I've read in YEARS! It has everything lovers of the Bronte Sister, Bram Stoker, and Thomas Hardy could ask for. It's dark and twisted and so, so Gothic!! I did not see this coming at all I began reading this book expecting one thing and ended up with something spectacular. The book begins in England with the main character Elizabeth O'Flaherty as...

Almost Midnight by Teresa McCarthy My rating: 3 of 5 stars Almost Midnight, was a free read from Amazon and it was surprisingly good. I had never heard of this author before and I was taking a chance on her story. The book begins with a prophetic dream of when she'll meet her soulmate and it just gets more cinderella-ish from there. You won't be let down by this free read from Amazon and there are more books in the series if you want to stay and play in her universe for awhile. View all my reviews

Ohhhh This book!!! This is the second Karen McQuestion book we've been lucky enough to review on our blog and her stories just get better and better. This book is written for middle schoolers so think age range between 12-14 years old. That being said I read this book with my 9 year old son and he and I both LOVED it. This book has so many shades of creepy it's hard to pin it down but I'm going to try. If you were a kid in the 90's you probably read a lot of R.L. Stine and his wildly successful horror series Goosebumps. This book is like a combination of that and Neil Gaiman's Coraline. It's creepy and hauntingly beautiful. The book begins with a young 10 year old girl Hadley whose parents are away on a cruise trip. Hadley is a dancer she has natural talent and the dedication to practice for hours to improve her natural talent. In other words Hadley has PASSION for dancing. This is important to note because passion is what the two "Aunts" are a...

November 9 By Colleen Hoover In honor of Valentine's Day, my first HEA is November 9 by Colleen Hoover. This is or was my second book by her and I admit that I fully intend to keep reading all of her books, because the feels...the feels are something else. I first read Ugly Love, and a lot of people complain about the book, but I think the title suits it and the book was a total tear fest and so many feels. So I was a little apprehensive about reading November 9, and I was totally right, I cried and cried during this book. Fallon and Ben meet by total chance when he pretends to be her boyfriend while she is having a horrible dinner with her father. They hang out after and agree to not have any contact and to met again in one year at the same place. And so it begins while they want to make sure what they have is real, so every year it's no contact and meeting on the same date every year. All during the year the struggle with their feelings for each other and the things...

Welcome back for another week of LOVE. Last week kicked off our "Love is in the Ink" February book theme with classical literary couples. We share with you how these classical love connection influenced most of today's current literary trends and we hope you took the time to pick up one of those classics and give a go yourself. This week we're focusing on one our favorite genre's to read and blog about Paranormal/Urban Fantasy. We love Dracula, and the dark and twisted love of such classics as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights so to today we're bringing you our top picks for Paranormal/Urban Fantasy literary couples. Each of these couples has faced their own trials and tribulations in the worlds that their authors created for them. If you're looking for a Happily Ever After you may have to wait a few years to get it but I guarantee you will love the journey. Up first is one of mine and Roxanne's favorite literary couple to date coming to us from t...

This week we've brought you our favorite literary couples from classical pieces of work, our first February book review on Dark and Twisted Love in MISSING PIECES by Heather Gudenkauf and now as promised by us here is your first HEA book review! For those that are new to the Romance genre of fiction there are certain acronyms that are used to describe the "flavor" of that particular romance novel. To help you out with this we'll start by listing a few of those acronyms and their meanings as we go through this months book reviews. Today we'll be exploring a series that has HEA's by the boatload. ( HEA stand for Happily Ever After and is used to denote a type of romance novel that will always have a happy ending with no cliff hangers. ) The Billionaire Bachelors Series by Melody Anne has everything you want in an HEA romance novel. It has hot, gorgeous men, beautiful, fierce, damsels (sometimes in distress), and WEDDINGS!! yes Weddings and you  know you...

Missing Pieces By Heather Gudenkauf Thank you to Netgalley for a copy of the Arc.       Where to start, I started reading Heather Gudenkauf almost by accident. A friend of mine was talking about The Weight of Silence and I was intrigued, so I read it and liked it. Then I joined this book club on Goodreads and decided to catch up on past reads so I picked up Little Mercies and was blown away, and then I read One Breath Away, and well you see where this is going. I have read all but one of her past books, so when I saw this on Netgalley I had to request it. Jack and Sarah are returning to Penny Gate after his Aunt Julia fell down the stairs. Sarah believes a lot of things about Jack's past, but within days begins to find out there are a lot of things he hasn't told her, including what really happened to his mother and father, and that he lied to her about pretty much everything. Sarah begins to wonder what else her husband is hiding from her and beg...

We love our fictional couples here at the Book Whisperers and we've dedicated entire blog posts to awesomeness of such couples as, Ethan and Merit (Methan) and Tamlin and Feyre (A Court of Thorns and Roses) but like most people we began our love of literary couples long before these stories existed. In honor the authors that came before us we've listed our favorite literary couples that have inspired everything from love to lust throughout the ages. Up first is Vladislav Basarab Dracul and his soulmate Mina. We'd like to thank Bram Stoker for taking this real life Romanian hero and turning him into a bloodsucking fiend of the night with a heart. Where would Ethan and Merit, Cat and Bones, Spade and Denise, be without Bram Stokers Dracula and Mina pioneering the way. If you haven't read the original Dracula by Bram Stoker then we HIGHLY encourage you to pick up that classic and read it. It's pionent and dark and moving in ways that almost defy description. You...

It's the coldest month of the year and the month to celebrate all things mushy, gushy, and sentimental. In honor of the month of Love we're reviewing books that have some Happily Ever After's. We'll also be listing our favorite literary couples throughout the month and challenging you our readers to share with us your favorite HEA'S and literary couples. This month no genre is off limits because love transcends all boundaries.