Lets Hop!(July 2nd)

I love Hopping!!!  You find some really great blogs out there.  The hop is hosted by Jennifer over at Crazy for Books and it runs the weekend, so if you can't today, hop on tomorrow!  Just remember, visit some of the blogs and get to know em, if you start to follow tell em you met them through the hop!

This week Jennifer is adding a little twist, she will be including a different ? for us to answer in our hop blog post.  This weeks ? -

Your name and why you started blogging

My name is Paula Calvanico.  I started officially blogging in May of 09.  My other blog is dedicated to my scrapbooking and my life doings in general.  I have been an avid book reader and lover since I was a little girl, this post here explains more, Books, Sweet Delicious Glorious Books. I decided to start a blog dedicated just to my passion of reading.  I love pnr, uf, some romance, I can't handle really silly mushy sloppy romance, and some chick lit.  I adore crazy pshyco thrillers, the wackier the baddie the better.  Gretchen Lowell of Chelsea Cain's Heartsick series is just wickedly delish ; ) and the fact that she's a woman, well all the better.  My favorite vamp from a series, Vishous from Black Dagger Brotherhood by JR Ward, the luscious Bones from the Night Huntress series by Jeaniene Frost, and then last but most certainly not least, Eric from Charlaine Harris' Southern Vampire series.

So that's a bit about me, come aboard, I love new friends, say hi, and lets HOP!!!

Oh and a Happy and safe 4th to all!

Whacha Reading Friday(July 2nd)

This is a weekly end of the school/work week wrap-up hosted here by moi at the Tome.  Stop by share what you're reading, what you read, and what you're going to read : )



Glory In Death
J.D Robb
Paperback 320 pgs
Berkley






This is book #2 of the In Death series.  I really enjoyed the 1st, Naked In Death and wish I would've started it sooner since I've had it sitting in e-book form on my puter for several months now.  I am also participating in the In Death Challenge hosted by Christine over at The Happily Ever After.  You can join by clicking on her blog title, or on the In Death Challenge button in my scroll bar to the left.  I'm slightly behind, but I don't care, this is a great challenge!  J.D Robb(Nora Roberts) has really got a great series here, witnessed by the fact that there's like 31 of these suckers ; )

I am looking forward to getting to know the characters better, Eve is wonderful and I want to see her layers peeled back, also seeing Roarke free fall for her is just exquisite.

I will try to read at least # 3 as well, but after this book I will tackle Voyager, #3 in the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon for my 500 pg challenge that I host each month.  If you haven't joined give it a shot!

Pleasure Unbound Review (Demonica Series #1)

  Pleasure Unbound
  Larissa Ione
  Paperback 416
  Forever





 This was a good book.  Larissa Ione has done a good job of creating an alter world of demons that move about humans undetected for the most part.  They come and go from their world into ours through passages called Harrowgates.  There are different species of demons and she's trying to show that like humans, not all demons are bad or evil.

 Tayla is an Aegis Guardian.  This is a group of warriors if you will, that hunt and kill the demons so that humans are protected.  In a fight with one of the bad demons, she is brought to a demon hostpital-Underworld General where the head Doc and hospital founder is Eidolon, a gorgeous Seminus Demon who exudes hunky sex appeal.  There are vamps and shifters that work in the hospital as well.  Eidolon's 2 brothers, Shade, a paramedic, and Wraith, a vamp with mucho issues is sort of a gopher that is kept there so he stays out of trouble, or tries to anyway.  The 3 are half brothers with different mom's, and are close for the most part.  When Tayla is brought in all want her done away with since she is a slayer.  Eidolon doesn't allow that to take place.

The story progresses with Tayla learning that the demon world is not so black and white, there is plenty of gray.  Never mind the issues she carries with her from her childhood.  Of course she is immensely attracted to Eidolon, and he to her.  We travel through their trying times, and the matters that keep coming between them.  The love scenes are not over the top, nor raunchy and uncomfortable, just enough to put a nice smile on your face ;)

Ione takes us through learning some of the characters backgrounds, doesn't drag it down with unnecessary  descriptions of her world which is fantastic.  I had a bit of a problem with Dead Witch Walking, #1 in the Hollow Series due to that.  She makes it abundantly clear that there will be another book, but you aren't left dying in suspense, phew!!

I recommend this book and will read the rest in the series as well, I'll give it 3 1/2 cannolis ; )

Tome's 500 Page Challenge (June)

This is a monthly challenge hosted here at the Tome.  Its quite self  explanatory, read a book 500 pages or more ; ) On the last day of the month I will post the wrap up of what I read and what my new book will be.  Grab my button on my sidebar  if you'd like to join.  If I get enough followers I'll put a Mr. Linky at the bottom for all.

Wow, June has flew by!!  I can't believe tomorrow is the 1st of July already.  I had an awesome reading month, mostly due to the 12 days I spent back east visiting  my family.  I chomped through quite a few books there.  

My challenge review can be found here -

Covet

My total for June was 7 books.  For the year I have now read 35 books, and a total of 12935 pages!!  I've been averaging 6 books a month, I'd like to see if I can bump that to 7, all in all I should have 70 books done in 12 months.  Pretty good.

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Now for my challenge book -

 Voyager (Outlander series #3)

 Diana Gabaldon

 Paperback 1072 pgs.

 Delta

This is double what my challenge is calling for so I'm hoping it doesn't take too long for me to get through.  I really like the characters in this book immensely.  Diana Gabaldon has done an exquisite job crafting a wonderful story here and I look forward to seeing more of Jamie and Claire.

Teaser Tuesday

 Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

 Pleasure Unbound
 Larissa Ione
 Paperback 416 pgs
 Forever






 My Teaser -

 Tayla resisted the urge to thunk herself on the forehead.  "You're a genius."

 Kindle version, location 4401-5


So far so good.  Larissa Ione has crafted a decent world involving demons moving amongst humans.  Trying to give the perspective of good and evil from a demon point of view is interesting.

Whacha Reading Reading Friday (June25th)

This is a weekly end of the school/work week wrap-up hosted here by moi at the Tome.  Stop by share what you're reading, what you read, and what you're gonna read : )


  Pleasure Unbound
  Larissa Ione
  Paperback 416
  Forever






 Amazon's Blurb -

In a place where ecstasy can cost you your life . . .

She's a demon-slayer who hungers for sensual pleasure-but fears it will always be denied her. Until Tayla Mancuso lands in a hospital run by demons in disguise, and the head doctor, Eidolon, makes her body burn with unslakable desire. But to prove her ultimate loyalty to her peers, she must betray the surgeon who saved her life.
Two lovers will dare to risk all.
Eidolon cannot resist this fiery, dangerous woman who fills him with both rage and passion. Not only is she his avowed enemy, but she could very well be the hunter who has been preying upon his people. Torn between his need for the truth and his quest to find his perfect mate before a horrific transformation claims him forever, Eidolon will dare the unthinkable-and let Tayla possess him, body and soul...


 I have started a series I've been wanting to get into for several months, Demonica by Larissa Ione.  I have read so many gals rave about this series and the characters, Eidolon, Wraith and Shade.  I am right in the very beginning of Pleasure Unbound learning about Eidolon, a demon doctor, how he has created a hospital way underground New York City just for the various demons.  His brothers, Wraith and Shade are right there with him.

There are different levels and types of demons and Ione has a glossary in the beginning defining them so you don't get confused.  Of course there are slayers as well to kill the bad demons.  Tayla is one of these slayers called guardians and she has just been brought into the hospital wounded and Eidolon's brothers are livid that he is helping a killer of demons.

When I finish I'll be sure to give a review, it's heating up already and I'm not even 1/4 way in!

Hippity Hop

This is a neat weekly meme hosted by Jennifer at Crazy-for-Books each Friday.  It's a great way to find other blogs with the same interests as you, as well as discover new books and maybe an untried genre.

ABOUT THE HOP:

In the spirit of the Twitter Friday Follow, the Book Blogger Hop is a place just for book bloggers and readers to connect and find new book-related blogs that we may be missing out on!  This weekly BOOK PARTY is an awesome opportunity for book bloggers to connect with other book lovers, make new friends, support each other, and generally just share our love of books!  It will also give blog readers a chance to find other book blogs that they may not know existed!  So, grab the logo, post about the Hop on your blog, and start HOPPING through the list of blogs that are posted in the Linky list at the bottom of Jennifer's blog!!