Thursday, April 28, 2011

Giveaway - follow the link

Down the Rabbit Hole is having a 1000 Followers giveaway.  There are books.  So head over there and enter.  Here is the LINK.

Monday, April 25, 2011

Supernatural - Frontierland

Great episode!

Sam, Dean & Bobby go into the Campbell's secret library looking for something about the Mother of All.  They stumble across a book that says the ashes of a Phoenix can hurt her.  So then they start looking for information about a Phoenix.  Dean stumbles across the journal of Samuel Colt and in it he says that he killed a Phoenix.  So they have a time and place on where to get Phoenix ashes.  Dean suggests they go back in time and call upon Castiel.

Castiel agrees to do it but he can only let them stay for 24 hours since anything longer than that will be hard to retrieve them.  So Dean is excited because he loves the old west and he goes shopping.  Once there they witness a hanging.  The man getting hung threatens the people hanging him and then dies.  But he's not really dead and comes back to kill those responsible for his death.

Sam goes to find Samuel Colt to get him to kill the Phoenix and Dean stays back to entrap the Phoenix, which is the guy that was hung.  He gets one of the guys he's after and uses him as bait in the jail.  The Phoenix comes but iron hurts him so he shoots the guy in the jail cell and chases after Dean.

Sam finds Colt and after convincing him that he is from the future by showing him his phone, he lets him take the Colt since he's retired.  Sam comes back just in time while Dean is being chased and a showdown happens and Dean kills him.  Just as he's about to gather the dust they get zapped back to the present.

Castiel gets wounded by his Lieutenant when she confronts him on the things he's doing to win the war.  Which apparently are not good things.  He kills her and then makes it back to Bobby's.  He says he can't bring Sam and Dean back because he's still weak but if he can touch Bobby's soul he can regenerate faster.  So that's what he does and it's not pleasant for Bobby.

All hope seems lost when the boys get back without the ash but there's a knock on the door.  It's a package for Sam Winchester from Samuel Colt.  It's the Phoenix ash and he apparently got the address from Sam's phone.  So now they have something to hurt the Mother with.

Supernatural: Old West Style
Review: Supernatural, “Frontierland”(S0618) Sam leads Bobby and Dean to the Campbell family library in a bid to find something that might help them against the mother of all, Eve. In the library they

Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Book in a Series - The Wolves of Mercy Falls

Don't you hate it when you are reading a book and it's part of a book series and you have to wait FOREVER for the next book to come out.  Then you get the next book and you can't remember where it left off?  Well I'm going to summarize a book in a series that I've read so that when I get the next book I can look at my summary and know what happened.  Warning, the following contains spoilers!

The Wolves of Mercy Falls
Linger - Maggie Stiefvater
Linger

Forever - 07/12/11

Sam is human and has remained human throughout the winter due to Grace and Isabel giving him meningitis.  There are new werewolves that were made by Beck and only two come back and that is Cole and Victor.  Victor ends up dying and Cole being the son of a scientist figures out that there was something in Victor's brain that killed him.  

Grace and Sam are caught in bed together by her parents and they forbid her to see him.  Sam had been spending the nights since he was so lonely.  Of course they do not stay away from each other.  She has not been feeling well and gets hospitalized.

Isabel and Cole start spending a lot of time together.  She finds out he used to be a rock star.  With the help of Cole, Sam learns that Grace will die unless she is bitten again and turned into a wolf and that the "cure" will only last 10 years and that's why life expectancy for when they are permanently wolves is only that long.  He said it had to do with the brain and when they stop changing they have 10 years.  So basically Sam only has 10 years to live.  So Grace gets bitten and turned into a wolf and the book ends that way.

So it looks like the new book will deal with finding a permanent cure.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Supernatural - My Heart Will Go On

Supernatural was back with a new episode.  I liked it!

We start out with the boys watching Bobby drink and they finally go to say something and he kicks them out.  They see a potential job in a string of "accidents" and go and investigate.  Oh and Ellen is married to Bobby, Jo is alive and the boys drive a Mustang!  But everything is normal to them and they go like nothing is wrong.  First they figure the people being killed are all related but then someone dies that is not related.  They talk to Ellen and then figure out the connection between all of them is that their family all came to America on the same boat, The Titanic.  No one has ever heard of it and so Sam investigates.  There was a near miss where they nearly hit an iceberg but someone named I.P. Freely spotted it in time.  They find a picture of the crew and it's Balthazar that spotted it.  So they do a ritual and bring him and he says he hated the movie and that's why he did it.  He also tells them that because of it certain things got changed, no Impalas and Ellen and Jo are alive.  He leaves and they find out someone is killing them.  They try to save a guy and he is hit by a bus and they see a woman nearby.  Sam says she looks like a Librarian and Dean asks "Your kind of Librarian or my kind?"  to which Sam replies "Well she had clothes on."  They go to investigate and nearly get killed by her but are saved just in time by Castiel.  He tells them that it's Fate and they need to "tempt Fate" and kill her and that Balthazar has the weapon to do it.  So they walk around and there are several near misses and finally almost get killed by something falling off the roof.  Time stops and Castiel talks to Fate.  She tells him that because the Apocalypse never happened she has no job and there's no one in Heaven to tell her what to do.  So she was trying to correct things when Balthazar unsunk the Titanic.  She asks Cas if it is about the souls and how he needs more souls for his war.  She says if he kills her she has 2 more sisters that are worse than her and they will Target Sam & Dean.  So he agrees to sink the Titanic and put everything right so Sam and Dean can be safe.  They wake up in the Impala and both think they've had the same dream.  Castiel tells them he wanted them to remember everything.


Next week, they will travel back in time to the old west and meet the maker of the Colt.

Friday, April 15, 2011

Supernatural is back!

It is an all new episode of Supernatural tonight.  I've missed the Winchesters!  We left off last episode with Rufus and Samuel both dying.  Also found out that The Mother of All wants to get rid of humans and take over earth and she is creating new monsters.

Tonight's episode:  My Heart Will Go On
Fate (Katie Walder) intervenes after Balthazar changes history by stopping the Titanic from sinking; Castiel tells Sam and Dean they must kill Fate if they want to survive.

I can't wait!
Supernatural

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

Book in a Series - Fallen Series

Don't you hate it when you are reading a book and it's part of a book series and you have to wait FOREVER for the next book to come out.  Then you get the next book and you can't remember where it left off?  Well I'm going to summarize a book in a series that I've read so that when I get the next book I can look at my summary and know what happened.  Warning, the following contains spoilers!


Fallen Series
Torment - Lauren Kate

Passion - 06/14/11
Rapture - Spring 2012

This starts out with Luce going to a new school in California, Shoreline.  It is a school with Nephilim but it does  have some humans attending.  Luce will be protected there and that way Daniel along with Cameron can hunt Outcasts.  They have made an 18 day truce.  The Outcast are the immortals who want to kill Luce.

Of course Daniel doesn't tell Luce about why she is going to Shoreline or about the truce.  Which makes Luce angry that he treats her like a little kid so every time they do see each-other they fight.  At Shoreline she meets Shelby, a Nephilim and her roommate.  She also meets Miles, another Nephilim that she develops feelings for. We also learn that Shelby and Daniel had a fling, although Daniel basically denies it.

Luce learns that the Announcers can be used to view a past event.  So she tries to use them to learn more about her past.  She ends up visiting a sister she left behind and when they touch she gets flashes of her old life.

At the end of the book while everyone is at her parent's house for Thanksgiving some Outcast come.  They are here for Luce and said she is the key to get them back into heaven.  Then as they are leaving Cam shoots Luce with a Starshot ( a special arrow that kills angels, but will not harm humans) and she dies.  Not really since Miles made a replicate of her while she hid.  So everyone including the Outcasts think she's dead and they leave.  After they leave Luce comes out and they all see she's okay and she opens up an Announcer and steps in.  So now she is in a past life and Daniel must find her and save her.

Monday, April 11, 2011

Book in a Series - The Morganville Vampires Series

Don't you hate it when you are reading a book and it's part of a book series and you have to wait FOREVER for the next book to come out.  Then you get the next book and you can't remember where it left off?  Well I'm going to summarize a book in a series that I've read so that when I get the next book I can look at my summary and know what happened.  Warning, the following contains spoilers!


The Morganville Vampires Series
Ghost Town - Rachel Caine
Ghost Town (Morganville Vampires, Book 9)
Bite Club - May 3, 2011

Claire is being punished for killing a vampire by making her repair the borders that were put up to prevent people from leaving Morganville.  She is required to work without any sleep until it is fixed.  She manages to fix it and Myrnin puts his touches on it and it causes everyone in Morganville to forget the last 3 years.  That includes both humans and vampires.

Claire goes home and realizes that Michael does not remember her or that he is a vampire.  Her dad is hospitalized and her parents are given special permission to leave Morganville for good.

Oliver bites Amelie and takes control of Morganville.  So she is basically alone and when she tries to fix the machine, she can't because Myrnin has gone insane and can't remember her.  Then she goes to Amelie and sees that she's bitten Olivier to take control back and is not herself.

Claire teams up with Shane (who can't remember her) and their friends and also Frank (Shane's dad).  In the end, Frank blows up the machine and dies himself.  Then we see that Myrnin has fixed the machine and used Frank's brain for it because the only way it will work properly is with a brain in it.

Thursday, April 07, 2011

Book in a Series - Sookie Stackhouse (Southern Vampire) Series

Don't you hate it when you are reading a book and it's part of a book series and you have to wait FOREVER for the next book to come out.  Then you get the next book and you can't remember where it left off?  Well I'm going to summarize a book in a series that I've read so that when I get the next book I can look at my summary and know what happened.  Warning, the following contains spoilers!


Sookie Stackhouse (Southern Vampire) Series
Dead in the Family - Charlaine Harris
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Dead Reckoning - May 2011

Sookie is recovering from the previous book in which she was attacked by faires.  She is in a solid relationship with Eric Northman.  His maker Appius Livius Ocello comes to visit with Eric's "brother" Alexei Romanov.  Appius rescued Alexei when his family was slaughtered in Russia.  In the end both Appius and Alexei are killed.

Bill is recovering from silver poisoning and since Lorena is dead he can't fully recover.  Sookie finds Bill's "sibling" Judith.  She was made by Lorena because she resembled Bill's wife.  After Judith finds out that Lorena is dead she gladly comes to visit and her and Bill reconnect and he is happy.

Sookie's cousin Claude comes to live with her since he claims he needs a Fairy close by.  The father of Claudine's baby is after Sookie and he decides not to kill her after he sees her with her nephew Hunter (another telepath and Hadley's son).  Then they find Dermot (who looks exactly like Jason) and free him from the spell he was under.

Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Book in a Series - The Black Dagger Brotherhood Series

Don't you hate it when you are reading a book and it's part of a book series and you have to wait FOREVER for the next book to come out.  Then you get the next book and you can't remember where it left off?  Well I'm going to summarize a book in a series that I've read so that when I get the next book I can look at my summary and know what happened.  Warning, the following contains spoilers!

The Black Dagger Brotherhood Series
Lover Mine - J.R. Ward
Lover Mine (Black Dagger Brotherhood, #8)
Lover Unleashed - was released on March 29, 2011

This last book was about John Mathew and how he rescued Xhex from Lash (half Vampire/half Lesser).  Of course they rescue her and they end up together.  Lash is also falling apart and I believe he dies.  Also John Mathew has Darius' journal and we get to know Darius even more and his friendship with Tohr.  Also we meed Muhrder comes back , he was the one that Xhex fell in love with previously and he pretty much went crazy.  Blay and Quinn pretty much have some tension and you just know they'll end up together.  Also Payne is injured and she finds out that Vishous is alive.  Her mother told her that he had died.  So then V asks Doc Jane to get Manny to fix Payne.  So we are left hanging until Lover Unleashed.

Books in a series and having to wait

Don't you hate it when you are reading a book and it's part of a book series and you have to wait FOREVER for the next book to come out.  Then you get the next book and you can't remember where it left off?  Well I saw this a few days ago on another blog, I can't remember which one but thought it was a great idea.  I'm going to summarize a book in a series that I've read so that when I get the next book I can look at my summary and know what happened.

Monday, April 04, 2011

Earth's Children Series

I read the first book in the series, The Clan of the Cave bear by Jean M. Auel while I was in college.  My mother-in-law had been telling me to read it and when I finally did I loved it.  I then read the rest of the books that were out and the sixth and final book has just come out.  I just got it and only just started.  So glad to finally have a conclusion to the series.  The books follow a girl named Ayla (blonde haired, blue eyed) from the time she is 5 years old until she is an adult.  The books take place 30,000 years ago.  There is an earthquake and her parents die and she is left wandering and she if found by a clan of Neanderthals.  She is adopted into this new clan and must learn to adapt.

The Clan of the Cave Bear (1980)

The Valley of the Horses (1982)

The Mammoth Hunters (1985)

The Plains of Passage (1990)

The Shelters of Stone (2002)

The Land of Painted Caves (2011)

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