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Abithica by Susan Goldsmith

This product or book may have been distributed for review, this in no way affects my opinions or reviews.She's found the love of a lifetime, but there's a catch: the body she inhabits belongs to another.
How much change can one soul endure? It would help if she knew what she was or even how such a thing was possible. The one thing she does know is that God has a sense of humor where she's concerned. Why else would He continue to place her in one host body after another without warning or a clear memory of previous switches? Abithica's responsibility is to repair her host's lives while they take a back seat. To ensure her survival and protection, she vows never to get attached, but this latest switch is different from the start. Abithica breaks all her own rules, and is left with a choice. What will happen if she refuses to leave her host's body?
Will love be her downfall or her salvation?


Goodreads Summary

Abithica has an unusual tale to tell.  She is sent from body to body, acting as a parasite-or so she believes.  When Abithica finds herself in Sidney's body, the first temptation comes about in the form of Lane.  The reader will be rooting for Lane and Abithica's relationship, though the odds are highly stacked against them. 

Abithica as a character was great to get to know.  The reader may want to shake some confidence into her, but other than that her other qualities are intriguing and mostly good.  Lane is just as good a person.  He makes it easy for Abithica to forget that the body she resides in is not her own.  The secondary characters are not focused upon quite as much, but they do help to round out the novel. 

The events are fast-paced and original.  Abithica's main journey concerns love.  She experience normal human experiences.  Her thoughts are easily accessible by the reader, leading to a close connection between her and the reader.  The ending was perfect, the author could not have chosen a better way to resolve everything.  This book is highly recommended to young adults/adults.

4 Stars

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A Death at the North Pole by Joel M. Andre Spotlight

Book Details:
Genre:Adult Suspense, Mystery, Thriller,Horror
Publisher: Darkcountry Publications
Publication Date: June 13, 2008


Synopsis:

Detective Lauren Bruni has dealt with death for her entire life. She has watched it ruin lives, and brought people closer together. Her job taught her to separate fact from fiction.
But on a cold December day, all Lauren had believed in would be shattered and tossed aside. Thrust in a world unlike any she has seen before, she investigates a prominent figure’s grisly murder, and searches for answers along a strange new set of people.

All while a killer watchers her every movement from the background. He waits in the shadows, waiting to strike at her when the time is right.

What is the secret of the death at the North Pole, and what is the larger horror at hand? Life lessons are learned and a realization that sometimes the most real things in this world are the ones we believe in the least.



Author Bio:

Joel M. Andre was born January 13, 1981. At a young age he was fascinated with the written word. It was at fourteen that Poe blew his mind, and Andre began to dabble with darker poetry.

Between the years of 1999 and 2007 Joel was featured in various poetry anthologies and publications. In 2008 he released his first collection,Pray the Rain Never Ends.

Knowing there was something deeper and darker inside of his soul, Joel decided to take a stab at commercialism. Releasing the dark tongue in cheek, A Death at the North Pole, created a dark world among the death of Kris Kringle. Ultimately providing a tale of redemption.

October of 2008 saw Joel release his second book, Kill 4 Me. A tale in which a woman is haunted by a vengeful spirit through text messages and instant messaging.

Taking some time off and doing a lot of soul searching, Joel took things in a new direction and dabbled in the Fantasy Genre with, The Pentacle of Light. The tale dealing with five major races battling for control of Earth, and the acceptance of their God.

Finally, after missing his detective Lauren Bruni, he released the book The Return in October 2009, this time moving the action from the North Pole and placing it in the small Arizona community he was raised in.
Andre’s latest book is The Black Chronicles: Cry of the Fallen about a dead man who seeks revenge on the woman that tormented him in peaceful Northern Arizona.

Currently, he resides in Chandler, AZ.



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True Grime by Natasha Deen

Grime cop and teen fairy Pepper Powder lives for one thing: protecting the human species from magical zealots who seek to eradicate them with Violent Illness of Unusual Resistance and Strength (humans call them “viruses,” but their mistake is understandable. The very young often get their words wrong.). When a terrorist leader releases a necrophage bomb, it not only decimates Grime headquarters, it turns Pepper into the magical world’s first fairy amputee—but she’s not going to let a little thing like a missing leg stop her. To catch her criminal, and prevent him from unleashing a VIURS in one of the human world’s biggest shopping centers, West Edmonton Mall, she goes undercover as a human. But once Pepper's theories of humanity collide with the reality of bullies, cliques, and environmental destruction, will she still believe humanity's worth saving?

Goodreads Summary

True Grime concerns the duo, Pepper and Harley, as they attempt to prevent the fairies from doing further damage to humans; their task force is called True Grime.  Claude is the antagonist.  He is portrayed as truly evil-no conscience, no compassion, etc...  Pepper and Harley are sent to stop Claude in his murderous tracks.  The story takes off from there.

The characters overall were fun to get to know.  Pepper's reactions to the human world were amusing as she had never really experienced the human world.  She was a different kind of character-inquisitive, intelligent, and idealistic.  Harley was amusing as well.  Whenever Pepper began to "feel" for him, she would immediately go on the defensive and their little interactions will amuse the reader.  The secondary characters were not focused upon overly much, only the antagonist, Clause, was truly a major part of the story.

Overall, this book was fast-paced and interesting.  This book is recommended to adult readers. 

4 Stars

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