today’s SOTD comes from Brandon Flowers, also known as the singer from the Killers. it’s called “CROSSFIRE” and it’s absolutely amazing!

what do you all think??

BOUGHT :  ”By Midnight” by Mia James, “Nevermore” by Kelly Creagh, “Paranormalcy” by Kiersten White, “Unraveled” by Gena Showalter, “Once Dead, Twice Shy” by Kim Harrison, “Kiss Me Deadly” edited by Trisha Telep, and “SHADE” by Jeri Smith-Ready.

What did you get in your mailbox this week?

now on to my next contest, which is a copy of the UK version of the fabulous book SHADE by my friend (and favourite author) Jeri Smith Ready!

A little bit about SHADE : (from jerismithready.com)

Love ties them together.
Death can’t tear them apart.

Best. Birthday. Ever. At least, it was supposed to be. With Logan’s band playing a critical gig and Aura’s plans for an intimate after-party, Aura knows it will be the most memorable night of her boyfriend’s life. She never thought it would be his last.

Logan’s sudden death leaves Aura devastated. He’s gone.

Well, sort of.

Like everyone born after the Shift, Aura can see and hear ghosts. This mysterious ability has always been annoying, and Aura had wanted nothing more than to figure out why the Shift happened so she can undo it. But not with Logan’s violet-hued spirit still hanging around. Because dead Logan is almost as real as ever. Almost.

It doesn’t help that Aura’s new friend Zachary is so understanding—and so very alive. His support means more to Aura than she cares to admit.

As Aura’s relationships with the dead and the living grow ever complicated, so do her feelings for Logan and Zachary. Each holds a piece of Aura’s heart…and clues to the secret of the Shift.

SHADE is one of my favourite books of 2010, and I will be giving away one copy to a lucky INTERNATIONAL winner. all you need to do is email me at jennzahling@gmail.com and tell me, if you could see ghosts, who would you most want to see as a ghost and who you most wouldn’t want to! make sure you put SHADE CONTEST in the subject heading. for extra entries, you can blog about this contest, tweet about this contest, or facebook link this contest. just make sure you put the links in with your email to me! Contest ends September 30th, 2010, so get your entries in!

Good luck!

LOVE IT!!! absolutely LOVE IT!!!

Remember, there’s only 10 more days to get your entries in for the BY MIDNIGHT contest! see the previous entry for details!

a little bit about BY MIDNIGHT :

(from AMAZON.CO.UK)

April Dunne is not impressed. She’s had to move from Edinburgh to Highgate, London, with her parents. She’s left her friends – and her entire life – behind. She has to start at a new school and, worst of all, now she’s stuck in a creepy old dump of a house which doesn’t even have proper mobile phone reception. Ravenwood, her new school, is a prestigious academy for gifted (financially or academically) students – and the only place her parents could find her a place, in the middle of term, in the middle of London, on incredibly short notice. So she’s stuck with the super-rich, and the super-smart . . . and trying to fit in is when the rest of the students seem to be more glamorous, smarter, or more talented than she is, is more than tough. It’s intimidating and isolating, even when she finds a friend in the conspiracy-theorist Caro Jackson – and perhaps finds something more than friendship in the gorgeous, mysterious Gabriel Swift. But there’s more going on at Ravenwood than meets the eye. Practical jokes on new students are normal, but when Gabriel saves her from . . . something . . . . in the Highgate Cemetery, and then she discovers that a murder took place, just yards away from where she had been standing, April has to wonder if something more sinister is going on. . . . and whether or not she’s going to live through it . . . More on the Ravenwood series can be found at www.ravenwoodmysteries.com

BY MIDNIGHT is only available in the UK right now, but i will be giving this book away INTERNATIONALLY! all you have to do is email me at jennzahling@gmail.com with the subject BY MIDNIGHT CONTEST, along with an address for if you win, and i’ll put you into the drawing. Contest will end September 3rd, 2010, so hurry up and get your entry in! you can also get an extra entry in by blogging or tweeting about this contest and letting me know in your email.

Good luck!

PARANORMALCY by Kiersten White – CANNOT WAIT! see me drooling rivulets of drool?? only have to wait about 15 more days now!

NEVERMORE by Kelly Creagh – it looks so temptingly good

Sequel to INTERTWINED, so excited for this one

Ciara Griffin is back, and she’s now almost finished with her Marketing degree! This means that the deal that she made with the Control, a government agency that deals with the paranormal, has come due. Along with living with her vampire boyfriend, Shane, and her job at WVMP, Ciara’s got a pretty full plate.

Then some weird kind of virus starts taking lives in Sherwood… and nobody seems to be safe. Nobody human, that is. And vampires aren’t all that’s lurking in the depths of the night.

From the moment I picked up this book, til the very last page, I was hooked. Jeri’s writing is majestic, spellbinding storytelling that keeps you on the edge of your seat. What will Ciara and the WVMP camp do amidst the terror that’s spreading through Sherwood? You stay moulded to the seat of your chair in anticipation of the next chapter in this book.

BRING ON THE NIGHT is a roller-coaster ride of sex, blood, and lets not forget Rock and Roll. oh yeah, ZOMBIES. did I mention Zombies?? Along with a spine tingling twist in the WVMP world that will have readers feeling as though they’ve just come off the Tilt-A-Whirl, this book is an engaging, fast paced read that you wont want to put down.

Now, how long til the next installment???

FIVE STARS OUT OF A POSSIBLE FIVE (if i could go any higher, i would).