Sometimes simplicity works. And that’s what this disaster movie was: simplicity itself. A geologist has been studying ways to predict earthquakes. Her prediction method works and … holy cow, the big one’s coming! Now she has to dodge multiple pre-shocks as she tries frantically to reach her step-daughter and save her. That’s it. That’s what […]
Author Archive: Christine
Book Review: Secret Life of a Vampire (Love at Stake, #6)
The undead son of Cassinova has quite a reputation to live up to! Jack meets Lara when he throws a bachelor party for Ian and things get a bit out of control. Lara, a police officer, is called to the disturbance. It shouldn’t have been a big deal. All Jack had to do was erase […]
Movie Review: Avengers Age of Ultron
This movie contained some laugh-out-loud one-liners. I particularly liked Hawkeye saying, “The city is flying and we’re fighting an army of robots. And I have a bow and arrow. Nothing makes sense.” Indeed. Nothing made sense. Honestly, the movie was long, dull, and ridiculous. The plot was thin, the character development almost painful (especially the […]
All I Want for Christmas is a Vampire (Love at Stake, #5)
Poor Ian. The man is almost 500 years old, and until recently (book 4, to be exact), he looked 15. Luckily, thanks to a new stay-awake-during-the-day drug, he has aged 12 years, one for every day he stayed awake. Finally, he is ready to find the love of his life, the woman who wouldn’t have […]
Time is Relative for a Knight of Time: Giveaway + Excerpt
Blurb: Meet Rolland Wright – a seventeen year old orphan living out of his car in rural Woodland Hills, California. Aside from grappling with the fact of being abandoned by his drunken father two years previous following his mothers mysterious murder, his life mostly revolves around finding a warm place to sleep at night. When […]
TV Review: Continuum Season 1
Available on Netflix Streaming, I present to you for your summer binge-watching: Continuum Season 1! This show starts off fairly well. A terrorist attack takes down a building and the people responsible are all sentenced to death. Kiera, a protector (future cop), helps with the arrest and is present at their execution. Except, things don’t […]
Book Review: The Undead Next Door (Love at Stake, #4)
Jean Luc, famous French fashion designer and vampire, has to go into hiding because people are starting to wonder why he hasn’t aged in 70 years! He decides to his out in Texas, where he meets Heather, schoolteacher, single mom, and aspiring designer. Although she’d prefer to design clothes for real women. Aside: Has anyone […]
Madison’s Song Cover Reveal
Cover artist: Tamian Wood Her voice is enchanting; his soul is black… Madison Carter has been terrified of Scott Lee since the night he saved her from an evil sorcerer – then melted into a man-eating monster before her eyes. The werewolf is a slave to the moon, but Madison’s nightmares are not. Despite her […]
Book Review: Be Still My Vampire Heart (Love at Stake, #3)
This quirky series continues with Emma, the vampire slayer, out to rid the world of vampires. Except the malcontents (the bad vampires) don’t think a mere human could possibly kill them, so they blame the good vampires. Angus, a 500-year-old vampire, is charged with convincing Emma to discard her deadly mission, but first he has […]
Book Review: Vampire and the City (Love at Stake #2)
The silly fun continues in this second book in a vampire series that works by not taking itself too seriously. In this volume, Darcy, a young vampire recently freed from Roman’s harem, wants to get a serious job reporting the news like she did in her human life. But in the vampire world there’s only […]