I received this Arc at no cost to me for a honest review.

 

Treat yourself to this sexy page-turner with a tough heroine, snarky humorous, sensuality and family drama.

I thoroughly enjoyed HAVEN. I’m more of a romance reader than urban fantasy, and the connection between Alexander and Rina captivated me, while family mysteries and great world building kept me enthralled. I guess you could say I am in the target audience that the author was looking for! 

 

Carina who owns a nightclub with amazing and loyal friends. The only thing odd about her is the lapse in memory from when she was younger and to make things even more weird she is attacked by a crazed witch.  Uh oh!!

Rina is a fun party girl and her sassy, and not exactly snarky, voice is strong—you experience this story powerfully through her eyes, from deep within her point of view. I am hoping for a good reason that Rina never gets to see her father in this book since he is still in Italy. There was no better way to protect her than stripping her of all her memories? Especially when these are the highest level in the vampire society and they can't handle her protection?

The story kept you interested but all the characters have a history and secrets in their past. Yet when you did find out about the history your left without answers to explain or elaborate more. I felt a bit flustered from this but I was able to still highly enjoy this book. Told in the first person, this also for me, runs the risk of, "See how clever and feisty I am?" but I never got annoyed with Rina's narration.

 

Each turn of the page was juicy and had me rereading it to make sure nothing was missed. You should pick this one up!

Happy Halloween!! Hope you all have a creeptastic holiday!

This is an excellent resource for the frazzled, the short-on-time, the not-particularly-interested-in-detailed-crafting, and anyone else who wants to DIY decorate for Halloween but finds the idea of haunting daunting.
It is full of cute ideas, all family-friendly, all cost-effective, and all easy-to-finish. The projects come with simple, easy-to-follow instructions and pictures.
There are recipes, Jack-o-Lantern ideas and templates, dog costume ideas, and general decor tips.
The one frustration a person could have when trying to re-create some of these works is that Matthew Mead is a designer and he prints, sketches, and draws better than the rest of us so our signs and the henna designs on our pumpkins won't be nearly as impressive.
I would highly recommend this to beginning Halloween crafters, to families that want to throw neat Halloween parties but never are quite sure how, and anyone who collects How To...Halloween books.

This collection is wonderful because of an emphasis on the vampire family who live next door to the Scary Godmother on The Fright Side. There's Max, an old school Nosferatu, Ruby, his beloved who's more a B movie Queen of the Night, and their darling son, Orson.There's a day at the beach story, a Valentine's story, and a Christmas story, among other fun bits, like how to make your own comic. And some recipes for snacks.Highly recommended to kids, and their parents.