Darkness Become Her by Kelly Keaton

 This was a great read.  Supernatural love story, adventure, mystery, history, it has it all.  This was another absolute steal that I found at Garden Ridge.  $1.99 for a hardback!  I read the inside flap and thought why not, it sounds good and it's $1.99.  SO glad I picked it up.  I think I'm gonna be checking garden ridge more often!  The reason I have two pictures is because there are two covers out there.  I have the one on the left, but there is also the one on the right.  Not sure if this will be a series or maybe a trilogy.  I do know the second installment, A Beautiful Evil, will be available January 1st.  I've found that this also has two different covers.  Weird, I know.  But back to the story.  The story mainly takes place in New 2.  Hurricanes have ravaged the city of New Orleans and it really no longer exists.  The government pretty much disowned it and told everyone to leave that they wouldn't support it anymore.  So New 2 came to be a safe haven for the supernatural and questionable.  There are regular people who live there, but the majority stem from a long history of supernatural.  There are 9 historical families that have been in New Orleans since it was started.  These families pooled there resources and bought
the city from the government and have slowly been restoring parts of the city.  These families consist of vampires, warlocks, shifters, creatures of myth and magic and who knows what else. 
Ari has been through the foster system her whole life and it hasn't been a good one.  She's finally ended up with decent parents who love her but understand her need to figure out who her parents were.  She goes on a journey to an asylum in Louisiana and finds out more about her mom, which leads her to New 2.  Once she gets there, all hell breaks loose.  Strange warrior guys have been sent to try and kill her, she doesn't know who to trust, things keep getting weirder and she doesn't know if she can handle it.  She just wants to figure out who and what she is.  I'm not gonna tell you much more, but things get even more interesting when the gods, as in Athena the goddess of war, is introduced into the story along with some Greek mythology.  It's such a great book with a different edge to it.  I'm upset I have to wait to read the second!  I couldn't put this one down!  VERY happy reading with this one I absolutely loved it.

Elixer & Devoted by Hilary Duff

 This is a trilogy by yes, Hilary Duff.  I know right?  I thought the same thing and I actually found these at Garden Ridge for a STEAL so I decided to try them out.  They were really good.  The story was very original and I had never read anything like it.  It's a love story about soul mates that go through so many obstacles to be together.  He's drank an Elixer that has made him immortal and she is bound to him so much that they always find each other no matter what.  What I mean by that is she is reborn into a different body and life and somehow they always meet.  Yet they are also cursed in that they are always torn apart by her death, someway somehow.  The main thing that drew me into the first book, Elixer, was when she figured out that "he" was in every picture since her birth.  Never plain to see, always in the shadows so much that she'd have to magnify the picture so even see him, always looking the same and wearing the same clothes.  After that littler discovery all bets are off and the story gets better and better.

As I've said, Elixer is the first story and Devoted the second. I did want to read these back to back and also like I said, I found these at Garden Ridge.  Elixer was $2.99 and Devoted was $1.99 which is weird because Devoted is a hard back.  Told you it was a STEAL!!! The third and final installment, True, won't be available until mid April.  Long time to wait!  If you don't like being left to wait for months on end then I wouldn't even start the series until April because after the first you'll want to read the second and the second absolutely just leaves you hanging.  So you'll be pretty ticked that you have to wait until April!  But the books are very good and it really surprised me that this came from Hilary Duff.  Very Good, must read.  Happy Reading!

Tons of posts coming!!!

Okay, I know I've been totally slacking!  So much has been going on but I've still been reading.  So I'm gonna try and start blogging all the books i can remember that I've read since last blogging! I've read some great ones so I hope you enjoy and thanks for being patient!