Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Book Review: Death on Heels by Ellen Byerrum

Death on Heels (A Crime of Fashion Mystery #8) 



Author: Ellen Byerrum
Series: Crimes of Fashion #8
My Rating: 5 cups
Blurb (from Goodreads):


Never! D.C. style scribe Lacey Smithsonian always swore she would never go back—back to Sagebrush, Colorado, that scruffy hard-luck Western boomtown where she'd earned her reporter’s spurs. But then three young women are murdered, their bodies left barefoot on lonely country roads, and the accused is her old boyfriend, Sagebrush rancher Cole Tucker. Lacey cowgirls up and heads out West (in her best cowboy boots) to prove Tucker's innocence. And perhaps to resolve the last of her old feelings for the man she had loved and left. Naturally, Lacey's plan doesn’t sit well with her current beau, private investigator Vic Donovan, who has his own history (and game plan) in Sagebrush.

Tucker takes one look at Lacey and kicks over everyone's game plan: He abducts her in a daring courthouse escape into the badlands of northern Colorado. On the run from the law with her old flame, in stolen vehicles and on horseback, with Vic and the posse in pursuit, Lacey's world turns upside down. Who can she trust? Tucker or Vic? The law or her own feelings and her reporter's instincts? Caught between two men, with a vicious killer on her trail, Death on Heels is a whole new—and potentially fatal—frontier for this fashion reporter.

Amazing! That's the first word that comes to my mind when thinking about this book. I don't even know where to begin, since I loved the entire book. It had everything: it had humor, sarcasm, action, romance and everything in between.

I loved Lacey. She's so funny, sassy, sarcastic, incredibly curious, stubborn. It was so fun reading about her adventures. I also loved her fashion articles and recommendations. They were fun to read and for someone who has nothing in common with fashion they were actually full with good ideas. Though I'm not sure I want to give up my old, favorite bag yet :P

I am new to this series and I am very sorry for that, because I feel like I almost lost an amazing story and a great heroine. I have to go back and learn more about her friends, Brooke and Stella, and about how Lacey and Vic reunited. Also, I want to read more of Lacey's Fashion Bites columns and about the troubles she's getting into.

If you haven't yet started this series and you want to read something fun and entertaining and something new, don't wait any longer! Read this series NOW!



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Monday, March 12, 2012

Cover Love (9)

Rabid Reads - Cover Love


This feature is hosted by Carmel @ Rabid Reads. The rules are very simple. Choose a cover (or two, or three), preferably new-ish, and share what you like about it. Grab the graphic or don't just so long as you link back.


My pick this week:

The Forever Girl: Sophia's Journey (Forever Girl, #1)






I love the eye-shadow. That's actually the first thing I noticed, to be honest. And the collar. And then there's the parasol. Plus, the girl reminds me of Taylor Swift for some reason. Anyway, I do love this cover.








Sophia Parsons’ family has skeletons, but they aren’t in their graves...

Solving the mystery of an ancestor’s hanging might silence the clashing whispers in Sophia's mind, but the cult in her town and the supernaturals who secretly reside there are determined to silence her first.

As Sophia unknowingly crosses the line into an elemental world full of vampire-like creatures, shapeshifters, and supernatural grim reapers, she meets Charles, a man who becomes both lover and ally.

But can she trust him?

It’s not until someone nearly kills Sophia that she realizes the only way to unveil the source of her family's curse: abandon her faith or abandon her humanity. If she wants to survive, she must accept who she is, perform dark magic, and fight to the death for her freedom.

What's your pick for this week's Cover Love?

Why I hate the first week of spring

I've been absent this last week for a very good reason: spring. Or more to the point, spring asthenia. I'm one of those rare people that sometimes suffer from it. Add a weird virus in the mix and the beginnings of a cold and you should have an idea about how craptastic my week has been. Between coughing, sneezing and being tired and sleepy all the damn time, I couldn't even manage to eat like a normal person. Anyway, I am feeling better, so I'm back on the blog :D I do hope your spring start was better than mine.

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Cover Love (8)


Rabid Reads - Cover Love


This feature is hosted by Carmel @ Rabid Reads. The rules are very simple. Choose a cover (or two, or three), preferably new-ish, and share what you like about it. Grab the graphic or don't just so long as you link back.


My pick this week:

All's Fair in Vanity's War (The Seer's Seven Deadly Fairy Tales)



There's something incredibly creepy about this cover. For some reason, when I first saw it, I thought of Great Expectations set in modern times. I also love the broken mirror and the crows and the spider. I'm also wondering if she actually has that look on her face or if her reflection is sort of "watching" her and is coming alive. I know it sounds weird, but anyway...

What is your pick for this week?

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Dirty Little Secret (4)




Dirty Little Secret is a weekly meme hosted by Under The Covers.

The rules are simple:

1. Be a follower of Under the Covers.
2. Create a post in your blog taking the meme image and copy instructions.
3. Answer the weekly question.

For more information and for signing up, go to the Under The Covers blog.


This week's question is:

Which author introduced you to urban fantasy or paranormal romance?



That would be Charlaine Harris with her Sookie Stackhouse series. Then I read J. R. Ward's Black Dagger Brotherhood series and then Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark Hunters.

What about you?

February in Retrospect

This month has been a lot slower. I've been studying a lot, so I had less time for posting and reading than I liked. I did manage to read a few books, though.

Here are the books I managed to read in February:



  1. On Message - Joyce T. Strand
  2. Ugly To Start With - John Michael Cummings
  3. Mistress Christmas - Lorelei James
  4. Miss Firecracker - Lorelei James


Here are the reviews I posted this month:


  1. Ugly To Start With - John Michael Cummings
  2. On Message - Joyce T. Strand
  3. Midnight Playground - Eliza Gayle
  4. Hotel Transylvania - Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

Reading Challenges Progress:


  1. TBR Pile Reading Challenge 2/20  
  2. New Author Challenge  6/25 
  3. 100 Books In A Year Reading Challenge 12/100
How was your month?
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