Showing posts with label Caitlin Kittredge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Caitlin Kittredge. Show all posts

Thursday, June 2, 2011

SteamPink by Sea


A few boats are docked seaside as 11% came by boat.

Based on the manifest (steampink teaser), passengers include...

Celia
- visit her site today to read her corsets & clockwork review (part one)

Kiwi aka Pirate Kiwi (second place winner of rum + plunder gold coin hunt from May)

The Iron Thorn
by Caitlin Kittredge
win this at My Bookish Ways -ends July 5
or
win this at adventures of cecelia bedelia -ends June 4

Description from the amazon:
In the city of Lovecraft, the Proctors rule and a great Engine turns below the streets, grinding any resistance to their order to dust. The necrovirus is blamed for Lovecraft's epidemic of madness, for the strange and eldritch creatures that roam the streets after dark, and for everything that the city leaders deem Heretical—born of the belief in magic and witchcraft. And for Aoife Grayson, her time is growing shorter by the day.

Aoife Grayson's family is unique, in the worst way—every one of them, including her mother and her elder brother Conrad, has gone mad on their 16th birthday. And now, a ward of the state, and one of the only female students at the School of Engines, she is trying to pretend that her fate can be different.

Heart of Steel
A Novel of the Iron Seas
by Meljean Brook
Release date: November 2011
signup to win this book

Description from the amazon:
Growing up in the dangerous world of the Iron Seas, the mercenary captain of the airship Lady Corsair, Yasmeen, has learned to keep her heart hard as steel. Ruthless and cunning, her only loyalty is to her ship and her crew-until one man comes along and changes everything...

Treasure hunter Archimedes Fox isn't interested in the Lady Corsair-just the captain and the valuable da Vinci sketch she stole from him. When it attracts a dangerous amount of attention, Yasmeen and Archimedes journey to Horde-occupied Morocco- and straight into enemy hands.

Bluebeard's Machine
by Mari Fee
ebook

Description from the amazon:
Love, science, death. She is all three.

A Silk, Steel and Steam story.

Determined to discover what new experiment is stealing her husband’s attentions, Annette Parker ventures into forbidden territory—his study—only to discover a secret he would kill to keep. She is his fifth attempt to clone the original Annette and, according to his journal, he’s planning a sixth…after he dissects her dead body.

Unsure of who or what she is, she assumes a new identity and flees to the Orkney Islands and her last hope. The man she once rejected.

Isaac Ward’s first instinct is to get this mysterious “Miss Ada” out of his undersea laboratory—and out of his life—before he repeats the mistakes that drove him there in the first place. Her wild stories and stubborn insistence that they’re true wear his patience thin, but it doesn’t matter. She is as irresistible as the tide.

Then the truth appears right outside the portholes of his lab, stripping away her dubious disguise. Exposing a secret that could kill them both…unless Isaac abandons the science he knows for a second chance with the woman who broke his heart.

Warning: contains mad scientists, wanton murder, identity crises, and boiling hot underwater sex. Submersible instructions not included.

Let me know in comments which of these capture your interest.

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* Let me know in comments which of the books above captures your interest.

* image source steampunk boat by Doug

!^^ Steampink schedule ^^!


Monday, March 7, 2011

Seeking Narwal: Second Sea

Seeking Narwal
a monthly saga
posted on the 7th of each month - until the narwal is found
details here

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The search continues for the narwal and stolen treasure...

Fresh from their last adventure in the Mediterranean Sea with mermaids, Captain Vix and her crew are forced to go ashore.

The Rusty Dagger sails into the port of a small town on the coast of Italy. A mermaid had told Captain Vix that this particular town holds a secret to help with the search for the infamous narwal.

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The Adriatic Sea is a body of water separating the Italian Peninsula from the Balkan peninsula, and the system of the Apennine Mountains from that of the Dinaric Alps and adjacent ranges. The Adriatic Sea is a northwest-to-southeast arm of the Mediterranean Sea. - per wikipedia

The Adriatic Sea is situated largely between the eastern coast of Italy and Croatia, which are both major tourist attractions. It was used by the ancient Romans to transport goods (including animals and slaves) to Ostia (the Roman port). - per wikipedia


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When the captain and crew disembark, they go their separate ways.

The sights and sounds of the town create an interesting diversion for the crew.

A lady in jangling bangles and swirly skirt urges passerbys to visit...

The Oracle of Stamboul
by Michael David Lukas
win this at Unabridged Chick
win this at Kelly's Lucky You
-ends Mar 19


A barker on the street corner tells tales of...

Lady Doctor Wyre
A Jane Austen Space Opera
by Joely Sue Burkhart
win this at Ex Libris
-ends Mar 11


Freda finds this gem in the dressmaker's shop...

Miss Scarlet's School of Patternless Sewing
by Kathy Cano-Murillo
win this at Freda's Voice
-ends Mar 10


As we walk through the town center, this cloaked gal runs past...

Red Riding Hood
by Sarah Blakley-Cartwright
win this at Sara's Urban Fantasy
-ends Mar 13


And, this wench sits nearby...

The Iron Thorn
by Caitlin Kittredge
win this at Tynga's reviews
-ends Apr 6


A billboard in the town's square sports a poster advertising and inviting one and all to a spectacular event...

Masquerade
by Melissa De La Cruz
win this at Fire and Ice
-ends Apr 1


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Captain Vix makes her way to a nearby tavern to quench her thirst with a wee drink of mead.

She seats herself in front of a window and stares out to sea...



The Winter Sea
by Susanna Kearsley
want my gently read copy?
comment below with your email and
TELL ME:
if you were part of the crew at this italian coastal town,
what would you do or see while on shore leave?
-offer ends Apr 3 -->extended to May 1, 2011


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Contest has ended - winner is here

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C R E W:
Freda of Freda's Voice
Giada of Dr. Stravagante’s Traveling Book Circus
Jo of Fluidity of Time
Kulsuma of sunshine and stardust
Sullivan McPig of Pearls Cast Before a McPig

Crew duties:
Report in for duty: comment below with a link to a picture of something you see or do while on shore leave

Join the crew and earn points towards the Seeking Narwal prize during the tour of the seven seas.

Shore leave doings...

Freda is visiting visiting hubby's family in Bari.


Sullivan McPig tracked down some pizza after all that fish.


Vivien is scuba diving.


Giada is visiting friends in Portonovo


and tasting delicious dishes.


Kulsuma is sightseeing and may visit this island.


Llehn is visiting all the quaint little cafes to try their pastries.

AimeeKay, new crew member, is having a dress made up at the dressmakers shop for the masquerade.

Audra, new crew member, is visiting the fortune teller to see what lies ahead!


Christie is going where her sweet tooth takes her!

JessS delights in the fine cuisine of the area.

Stacy heads straight for the pizza.

Darlyn catches hermit crabs.

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* a mini-challenge for the Iron Seas Challenge

* if you've read Iron Duke by Meljean Brook post your link here to enter to win the next book in the series - Heart of Steel

~~~ seeking narwal schedule ~~~


Monday, June 8, 2009

Black and White by Jackie Kessler and Caitlin Kittredge


Black and White (The Icarus Project, 1)
by Jackie Kessler and Caitlin Kittredge

Date released: June 2, 2009

Description from amazon.com:
It's the ultimate battle of good versus good.

They were best friends at an elite academy for superheroes in training, but now Callie Bradford, code name Iridium, and Joannie Greene, code name Jet, are mortal enemies. Jet is a by-the-book hero, using her Shadow power to protect the citizens of New Chicago. Iridium, with her mastery of light, runs the city’s underworld. For the past five years the two have played an elaborate, and frustrating, game of cat and mouse.

But now playtime’s over. Separately Jet and Iridium uncover clues that point to a looming evil, one that is entwined within the Academy. As Jet works with Bruce Hunter—a normal man with an extraordinary ability to make her weak in the knees—she becomes convinced that Iridium is involved in a scheme that will level the power structure of America itself. And Iridium, teaming with the mysterious vigilante called Taser, uncovers an insidious plot that’s been a decade in the making…a plot in which Jet is key.They’re both right. And they’re both wrong. Because nothing is as simple as Black and White.

I came across book review on Jacqueline's Undercover Book Lover and it sounded like a good Superhero kinda book.

As I'm currently in that Superhero mood with my current read - Dull Boy, I want it!
 
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