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I am part of the Crewel Soul Spinsters Street Squad! We work in teams and go out on social media sites promoting the new book Crewel by Gennifer Albin.

Needless to say, you will be seeing more information about this book over the next few days or weeks. So, there will be plenty of reminders for you to check it out on Goodreads and to make sure you add it to your to-read list.

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The Demon Catchers of Milan Review (ARC)

Goodreads Blurb

Mia's ordinary life is disrupted for good in the most horrifying way possible when she is possessed by a hungry and powerful demon-and saved only by the arrival of relatives from Italy, the country her grandfather fled many decades ago. Now her cousins, the charming and gorgeous Emilio and stern, elderly Giuliano, say the only way to keep Mia safe is for her to come back with them to Milan, to live, to learn Italian, to fall in and out of love, and to master the family trade: fighting all demons with the ancient lore of bell, book, and candle. Milan is not what Mia expected but it will change her forever. 

**3 Stars**

Review is of ARC received via NetGalley. ARC did have some errors and a paragraph was cut off mid-sentence.

MY OVERVIEW: I didn’t hold out high expectations for this book after reading the first two chapters. I was almost ready to put it down, but I always give a book its fair shot, and in this case, I am glad.

PROS: Mia was a great character. A little annoying at times, but a good overall character. I loved almost everyone in her family too, especially Nonno and Nonna. I just wish there was more of Francesca. She was perfect, but not in the book as much as I think she should have been. 

The concept was interesting, and one that I’m not sure I really liked. Don’t get me wrong, I thought it was cool that they were demon catchers and used the candles to actually catch the demons, but what I didn’t like was that there was no difference between a “demon” and a ghost. Any type of spirit was considered a demon and it got confusing.

CONS: Throughout the whole book I thought it was going to be a standalone. The author did a good job of making it look like it was going to end, but it didn’t. It just dropped off and left you hanging. The beginning of the book was very slow and, in my opinion, sloppy. It just didn’t have a flow and when Mia was possessed, it was way too artsy and confusing.

MY FINAL THOUGHTS: I will probably be reading the next in the series (as long as there is a next). I’m still unsure if it is a book I would recommend or not. Probably to the right person, but not a book for an overall recommendation. 

Publication Date: August 28th 2012

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Waiting on Wednesdays - Alice in Zombieland

Waiting on Wednesdays is a weekly book meme hosted by Jill over at Breaking the Spine. Here I get to share with you some of the books that I am anxiously awaiting to be published. 

This week's WoW is Alice in Zombieland by Gena Showalter.

She won't rest until she's sent every walking corpse back to its grave. Forever. 

Had anyone told Alice Bell that her entire life would change course between one heartbeat and the next, she would have laughed. From blissful to tragic, innocent to ruined? Please. But that's all it took. One heartbeat. A blink, a breath, a second, and everything she knew and loved was gone. 

Her father was right. The monsters are real...

To avenger her family, Ali must learn to fight the undead. To survive, she must learn to trust the baddest of the bad boys, Cole Holland. But Cole has secrets of his own, and if Ali isn't careful, those secrets might just prove to be more dangerous than the zombies...

Expected Publication: September 25th 2012

Book One (1) in the White Rabbit Chronicles

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Teaser Tuesdays - The Demon Catchers of Milan

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should be Reading. Anyone can play along, just do the following: 

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page
• Be careful not to include spoilers! (Make sure what you share doesn't give away too much! You don't want to ruin the book for others.)
• Share the title & author so other TT participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teaser.

This week's teaser comes from The Demon Catchers of Milan  by Kat Beyer.

"She has it. She's one of us, through and through, even if she was raised in a mad country."

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