Guest Blog by Marissa Miranda and Night World No.1 Review and Giveaway!! :)

Hey folks! Please welcome Marissa Miranda of Don't Judge Me by My Cover! This is the first guest blog I've had thankyouverymuch :) Thanks Marissa! Be sure to say happy birthday today because well, it's her birthday today! :D Happy birthday!!!


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Guest Blog: Night World No. 1, Review and Giveaway

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Vampires, werewolves, witches, shapeshifters -- they live among us
without our knowledge. Night World is their secret society, a secret
society with very strict rules. And falling in love breaks all the
laws of the Night World.

Summaries:

The Night World is a place that no human can know about. If a member
of the Night World tells a human about it, both of them are put to
death. The Night World is hidden in our cities. Its members walk among
us. But something is happening. The human world and the Night World
are beginning to lose their boundaries.

Secret Vampire

Poppy is a tiny girl with a huge addiction to trance music and her
best friend James. When she is diagnosed terminal cancer and given
only weeks to live, she thinks her life is going to be over forever.

Then James steps forward and reveals something to her. James is a
vampire in the secret Night World, and he can make her immortal, but
this immortality comes with a cost.

Daughters of Darkness

Three vampire sisters born and raised in a vampire community have
decided to stake out a new life in a rural community of humans. Their
brother doesn't agree with their decision and arrives in town to haul
them home. All of the siblings plans are derailed when their next door
neighbors, a brother and a sister, stumble their way into the
vampire's secrets.

A rogue werewolf, a dead vampire, and a mystery with a surprise twist
may keep them from ever reaching their dreams.

Spellbinder

Blaise is the boy magnet. Thea is the animal lover. They are two
cousins with nothing in common but their origins; they are both
witches. When both of them set their sights on one boy, it doesn't
seem like anything new to either of them. They each set out to win him
using magic. Then the magic goes wrong.

Now Blaise and Thea must work together to save everyone. It's a battle
between black magic and white magic.

The Night World trilogy is a re-release of a series of books written
by L.J. Smith in the 90's. Each book in the three volume series
contains three complete novels. Night World No. 1 includes,
Secret Vampire, Daughters of Darkness, and
Spellbinder.

Review:

I'll admit, I picked up this book at Walmart because I'm a sucker for
thick books that don't cost much. I didn't expect much out of this
book and ended up being very pleasantly surprised.

The stories, while containing exceedingly dark subject matters, all
had a touch of intrigue and humor in them. Each story stood alone, but
the overarching plot of the Night World and the human world slowly
growing closer bound them together well. Recurrent characters made me
flip through the pages as quickly as possible, hoping to see more
about the characters I had already met and loved even as I got to know
new characters. Almost all of the characters were incredibly faceted,
and I adored the fact that the "villain" of the first story was
redeemed in the second story.

Each story stands alone but is made much richer by the stories before
it. I'm glad the publisher decided to re-release the books in this
format because it really reinforces that fact. The plots are
interesting on their own, and the overarching plot drew me in more and
more in each story. I absolutely enjoyed reading each new story and
seeing where the background story was headed. I cannot wait to finish
the series!

The only quibble I had with this book was that it went by too fast!
Even though it had 752 pages, I read it in a day and immediately
wanted to go buy the next book in the series. (I still haven't picked
it up yet, but I will as soon as I can!)

I heartily recommend this book and give it a 5 out of 5! Be sure and
pick it up and your local library or bookstore as soon as you get a
chance!

Giveaway:

I met robin_titan when she won a book through another giveaway of mine
and I fell in love with her blog. I don't comment much, but I love
keeping up on pop culture though her! =P I was extremely pleased when
she agreed to let me guest blog here for all of you. (Thank you,
robin_titan!!!!!)

So, when I was looking at the calendar to figure out when I wanted to
guest blog, I decided to celebrate my birthday with all of you! (Yes,
today is my birthday!) I'm going to give one lucky reader a copy of
Night World No. 1.

The contest will run from today, July 3rd, through July 10th, next
Friday, at 12 PM EST. Between now and then, leave a comment and you'll
be entered to win! The winner will be determined by a random number
drawing and announced after noon on July 10th.

You can get multiple entries if you do the following things.
+1 entry for commenting
+1 entry for Twittering about this contest
+1 entry for blogging about this contest on any blog including
facebook and myspace (if you have multiple blogs and make a post on
each blog, you can get one extra entry per blog. Multiple posts on the
same blog only count for one entry though!)
+1 entry if you are follow me on Twitter (@marissamiranda)
+1 entry if you are follow robin_titan on Twitter (@robin_titan)
+2 entries if you follow my blog on Blogger (Don't Judge Me By My
Cover) or on Livejournal (marissamiranda).
+2 entries if you follow this blog! (T.V. and Book Addict)

Please only comment once and include a list of all of the things you
have done so I can calculate your total entries. Include links to blog
and twitter posts please! If you end up doing more things later, you
can come back and let us know in another comment, but try to keep
comments to a minimum, only so that you don't fill up robin_titan's
inbox!

Good luck!

Marissa Miranda aspires to be a young adult fantasy author. She
blogs about writing, reviews young adult fantasy books, and blabbers
about a variety of other things on her blogs http://dontjudgemebymycover.blogspot.com/">Don't Judge Me By My
Cover and http://marissamiranda.livejournal.com/">marissamiranda. She
will adore you forever and ever if you decide to give her a birthday
present by following one of her blogs!

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