Showing posts with label Mortal Path Series. Show all posts
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Saturday, October 1, 2011

Top 5 Sundays #59 – Books/Series That Should Be Movies!

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Hi guys!

I have to share with you guys the reason I decided to add this theme in the last couple “Top 5 Sundays” polls.

I have to be honest and say that I tend to not being a fan of Books turning into movies. Not that I don’t LOVE the idea of seeing my fave characters in the flesh, but after being more burned than not, I tend to be cautious.

Don’t get me wrong, I will be a fan girl and rush to the theater for those movies, but more often than not they usually don’t reach even close to my expectations =/

However, a couple of years ago I read an Urban Fantasy book that made me for the first time EVER think: “This would make an awesome movie!” – So much so that I rushed to my dad to tell him about the plot and gush and simply go and on as he stood there looking at me like I was crazy LOL

Oh well! hehe So that is the reason for this theme and the book I was just talking about is the first one listed bellow =D

I can’t wait to see your lists!

 

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Books That Should Be Movies! = 15 (78%)

Favorite Reading Spots! = 4 (21%)

 

The theme for today is:

Books/Series That Should Be Movies!

 

But first, a little bit about this feature and the rules to join in…

Every Sunday I will post a TOP 5 list on the blog. It can be about anything and every week I'll have a new theme {You can vote on next week’s theme on my left sidebar!} and I will ad the Mr.Linky bellow the post so you can do a list with the theme and add you link to it.

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This week’s theme is Favorite Book Boyfriends! Part II

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Dark Time by Dakota Banks

Dark Time (Mortal Path, #1)

This is the book I mentioned in my text in the beginning of the post. AWESOME book!

 

Night Huntress Series by Jeaniene Frost 

 

Can you imagine all the Bones, Vlad and Ian HOTNESS on the Silver Screen?? WOW!

 

Kate Daniels Series by Ilona Andrews 

On the same note… Curran on the big screen would be heaven… not to mention all the awesome action!

 

Katherine “Kit” Kat Series by Gini Koch 

A bit of Sci-fi mixed with humor! Something new to step in for Men In Black… Bring in some fresh meat =D

 

Cassie Palmer Series by Karen Chance

The plot is so intricate and so interesting, it would be fantastic!

 

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World of Lupi Series            |          Mercy Thompson Series 

Fever Series

   

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Friday, June 10, 2011

BHSV – Dakota Banks' Guest Blog + SIGNED Book & 25$ Amazon GC Giveaway!

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Zzzzzz... Wait, I have to do more than sleep on my dream vacation! The first requirement is a bunch of no's. No book deadlines, no promo deadlines, no conference dates, no time schedule, and no cell phone. Okay, maybe a cell phone in the car for emergencies. At least three weeks stretching out in front of me on a fine June morning. Road trip!



I'd take my husband because he loves to drive long distances and I don't. My two sons? Nah, they're in college and have their own lives. Can't imagine them wanting to be captive in the minivan with Mom and Dad for a minimum of twenty-one days. Remembering our earlier vacations with kids in tow, I silently applaud when the kids turn down the half-hearted invitation. After all, this is a dream vacation, and now that my husband and I are alone, we get to act silly and do you-know-what.



We set out across Missouri from St. Louis. I have to admit driving across Missouri can be dull, but I tell myself it's only because I've done it a number of times. A virgin visitor would surely be fascinated with the cows in the pastures and the fields of corn and the rolling hills and the June-cut hay rolled into large bales that are scattered across the fields like giant rabbit turds. Kansas has windmills, oil rigs pumping in the fields like those birds that are always drinking from a cup, and sunflowers. It's too early for the sunflowers to bloom, so there will be none of them in the highway median and no big fields of sunflower heads all facing toward the sun. The promise is there, though. Western Kansas dissolves into prairie land, miles and miles of it, that reminds me what the Great Plains must have been like, with pioneer wagons afloat on its shifting sea of grass. We're not in any hurry, so we spend a little time in Kansas, stopping at a pizza restaurant we've been to before. The last time they burned the cheese on top of our pizza and we thought it must have been accidentally overcooked. Looking around this time, we see that everyone's cheese is burned, and have a good laugh about it. That's the kind of thing you can laugh about on a road trip.



There's a certain turn of Interstate 70 in Colorado when the gray fluff at the horizon resolves into the foothills of the Rockies. Approaching Denver, I wonder if we'll stay more than a few hours. I'm sure it's a fascinating city, worthy of a visit all by itself, but having gotten this far, the Rocky Mountains are exerting a tremendous gravitational pull. We bypass the city's enticements and head for Rocky Mountain National Park. The drive there is spectacular, full of twisty canyon curves. I snap photos excitedly, attempting to distract my husband's white-knuckled gaze on the narrow road with "Ooh, look at that!" and "Aw, you missed it." At 4:30 am the next morning, we head to a particular pasture in the park. We cut the headlights as we approach other parked cars and carefully back into a spot so we can look forward into the large open expanse where rangers tell us that big horn sheep and elk come down from the mountains to graze. We have one pair of binoculars we eagerly pass back and forth, refocusing each time, trying to get a glimpse of the critters as dawn creeps up on us with that eerie purple-gray that is as much an emotion as a lighting condition. People in a car nearby snap a useless photo, with the flash reflecting on the inside of the windshield. Finally sun slants across the meadow and all of us leave in a dejected parade. Repeat for the next three mornings. Hope springs eternal.



Many small moments are spent in the park, seeing mountain springs that I use when I want to go to my happy place, and crossing the Rockies high enough to see (but not walk on) a fragile tundra landscape. The air is crisp and my lungs are in love with it.



Skip ahead to the next park, Bryce Canyon in the southwestern part of Utah. Bryce is about 9,000 feet in elevation and the wind is always blowing. At dawn, it reddens your cheeks and chills the inside of your nostrils even in June. There could be a dusting of snow, but this time we don't see any. Bryce is more of a semicircular amphitheater than a canyon. The sunrise glow lights up the reddish, wind-sculpted columns called hoodoos and sets them afire. We have to be there at just the right time and this morning we hit it perfectly. While the Grand Canyon is vast and almost too much to take in, Bryce Canyon's exquisite shapes are personal, its beauty easily absorbed and retained. Because of its isolated location, Bryce is always less crowded than the other western parks. On this early summer dawn, I feel as though all this beauty was set out for me alone. As I stand there, the weather clouds and I catch a snowflake on my tongue.



Now we're going down the steps, as they call it, to Zion National Park, still in Utah. The elevation in this park drops from 8,000 feet to about 3,000 feet. With such a variety of zones, Zion has something for everyone: canyons, mountains, and natural arches. I sit on a sun-warmed rock ledge overlooking Checkerboard Mesa, a massive sandstone rock form with a grid on its surface that looks like the gods have been playing games and left their board behind. A lizard crawls near my foot and then I have a companion sunning itself on the same rock I'm on. Probably I'm the one who has encroached on its regular spot. But I remain still and the lizard graces me with his presence.



We stay at the Bumbleberry Inn near Zion and I have the obligatory piece of Bumbleberry pie. There are no such berries; the pie is made of mixed regular old berries. They happily maintain the fiction, and so does everyone else who stays there. That night I walk a bit away from the Inn and find another sight that burns itself in my mind as deeply as the Bryce Canyon hoodoos in the red light of dawn. The night sky there is the clearest I have every seen it (and I'm something of an aficionado of night skies). So many stars shine down, so brightly, and the Milky Way splashes across the sky so clearly, that I almost feel the weight of all that matter pressing down on me. Astonishing. I don't want to go inside so I fall asleep under the stars and a blanket. Something else occurs to me before I sleep. Checkerboard Mesa, now out of my view, is over in the park doing its thing as it has for thousands of years, daylight or night, and it will when I leave this place. When I am back at my office, all of this will be here--the stars, the mountain, the lizard. Even more, it will be here year after year. Lifetime after lifetime, one age of the earth after another. I have a sense of myself as part of this grand turning wheel. Concerns melt away. My dream vacation has worked its magic. 


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      Tuesday, September 28, 2010

      Author Guest Post & SIGNED Book Giveaway w/ Dakota Banks! – A.K.A. Talking With Myself!

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      Thanks, Larissa, for having me as a guest on your blog. I love being here and having the chance to talk with you and your followers.
      Dakota Banks is a pen name. I crossed the border this week and signed a check as Dakota Banks when I should have signed my real name, Shirley Kennett. I'm sinking into the Dakota persona so that I have to stop and think which "me" is appropriate for the situation. I have no idea how authors with several pen names manage. But you're in for a treat today! I've decided to let my real self (SK) interview my writing self (DB), and it should be fun and revealing, because SK knows all the juicy questions to ask.

      SK: Okay, let's start off with an easy one. What's the worst review you've ever gotten?

      DB: Do I have to answer that? It's embarrassing.

      SK: Suck it up. You're no delicate rose.

      DB: This is from Dark Time, book 1 in the Mortal Path series. "Save your money or spend it on something more worthwhile to read... like a match book or a stenciled toilet paper roll." Ask a nice question next.

      SK: How much money do you earn?

      DB: Sheesh! How much do you earn?

      SK: I asked first.

      DB: A first-time genre writer typically gets an advance of $5,000 - $10,000 a book at a large publishing house, with the advances going up as readership grows.

      SK: You sidestepped the question.

      DB: So I did.

      SK: Not going to budge, eh? Next question: Many writers I know spend a lot of time on the first sentence of their novels. There are even contests for the best first sentence. What's the first sentence of Sacrifice and how long did you spend on it?

      DB: The first sentence is "The diversion would be the wet and bloody kind, though not something that really sang to him."

      SK: (snort) Sounds like you spent all of five minutes on it.

      DB: Actually I think it was less. Can we up the quality of these questions?

      SK: It took you several years from getting the basic idea for the Mortal Path books to releasing the first one. Most authors can write a book in a year or less. What took you so long?

      DB: The basic idea was this: Something from Sumeria survived to the present. That was it. Kind of hard to hang a story line on, much less compelling characters. All I knew was that paranormal elements were going to be involved, romance had to play a part, and since I came from writing thrillers, some thriller stuff was bound to sneak in. I increased my reading in the paranormal genre, and what I saw there stirred up a lot of worry. The Sumerians weren't exactly known for their vampire, werewolf, and witch stories. If I wanted to keep the basis of the story in Sumeria, I'd have to go off the radar as far as the creatures that dominate the paranormal genre. Would it even work? Would people be interested in reading it?

      In an effort to fit my story into the mainline of the paranormal genre, I came up with a version of the Mortal Path in which a group of vampires had been put into a deep sleep by a Sumerian priest, to protect his people. An earthquake revealed their cavern in the modern day, and a beautiful young archaeologist indulged her fantasy when the rest of her team left the area. She kissed one of the vampires, unexpectedly awakening him. And so on. But this story could be from any time period. Just substitute a different kind of priest who put the vampires under a spell. It wasn't fresh, and the few chapters I wrote made it clear I wasn't writing enthusiastically. I wouldn't buy this book, even if it was published with my name on it.

      No, I had to take the risk and stay off the well-traveled road if I was going to stay true to my original ideas. By this time, the main character of Maliha Crayne was popping into my head in quick, disconnected scenes. I made notes, but put Maliha aside while I researched extensively for a solid background in Sumerian mythology. As a plot based on Sumerian demons remaining alive on Earth came into focus, romance and thriller elements fell into place too. Then there was a lot of additional research so that Maliha could be a martial artist and proficient with ancient and modern weapons, and able to travel to exotic locations with convincing authenticity. This series is the most research-intensive writing I've done as a novelist.

      I tried out different versions of Maliha and of her close companions. Dozens of combinations were scrapped. The demon-carved scale on her belly that comes to life to track lives she's saved came to me in a vivid dream. The books you see today have been through an amazing process of world and character building. Somewhere along the way, I fell in love with Maliha, and I put all the passion I can into writing about her.

      SK: Show me the passion.

      DB: What?

      SK: Show me a scene that's written with this passion you're talking about.

      DB: A scene without spoilers is tough to find. Here's one:

           She used some of her weapons for a brief, intense workout on the wooden planks, cleaned them so that no drop of sweat remained, and took a shower with the hot water set at such force it felt like it was needling her all over.
           In a thin white gown that stuck to her damp skin, Maliha went to her sleeping area. It was a Japanese tatami mat, woven of straw, on a wooden floor. Unrolling a thin futon on top of the mat, she lay down and looked at the sparkling low-voltage lights suspended from her ceiling like stars. After a while, she said, "Lights out."
      In the dark, in her safe place, she was free to evaluate her experiences, feeling the doubts, the longings that often didn't get a chance to surface—especially in the middle of a firefight. That included weaknesses of her body that she usually had to conceal.

      Never show an enemy a weakness, Master Liu would say, or he will know where to add to it.

      She checked over all the parts of her body, working on the hurt places, the wounds, concentrating on helping them speed up their healing. Then she let her mind wander. In her haven, in the dark, Maliha could let the words take shape that represented deep fears. 

           I bear the guilt of doing great evil. Some days it nearly rips me up inside. All those people, dead by my hand. Why didn't I come to my senses earlier? A century earlier would have meant so many lives saved. Instead I stayed young, had a great time traveling all over, bedding princes and sheiks, and the payment was a growing  pile of corpses. Never enough blood to satisfy the demon though. I'm so ashamed. Would any good man want me as a wife knowing what I’ve done in the past? Bedmate, yes. But soul mate?
      She closed her eyes and let tears slide down her cheeks.

      SK: One last question. Is it really true you signed a man's underwear in a convention elevator?

      DB: Yes, it's true. You should know, you were there.

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      Wednesday, August 25, 2010

      Early Review: Sacrifice {Mortal Path, #2} by Dakota Banks

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      “A demon's enslaved executioner--a ravager of lives and souls--Maliha Crayne has been reborn, willing to sacrifice her immortality for a chance at freedom ... and salvation. Now she has an opportunity to prevent the death of thousands to help balance the countless lives she has obliterated over the centuries. To do so, she must locate and destroy an evil cabal of madmen in possession of a weapon of unspeakable power--and survive the immortal assassins who are now after her blood. But it means reverting to the old ways and surrendering once more to the darkness.”

       

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        • Publisher: Eos

        • Release Date: August 31st, 2010

        • My Copy: eARC, Given to me by the author.

        • Pages: 464

        • Series: Mortal Path

        • Genre: Urban Fantasy

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        I LOVED Dark Time, so when I got the chance to read the second book in the Mortal Path series, I couldn’t say YES! fast enough. I don’t know if I found Sacrifice to be better then Dark Time, but it was absolutely just as wonderful in my opinion.

        Sacrifice picks up a little while after the ending in Dark Time. Maliha is still working towards her ultimate goal of getting rid of all demons and of balancing her scale so she doesn’t have to spend eternity is Rabishu’s clutches.

        We learn a couple chapters in what came after the cliff hanger from Dark Time, and we finally find out the secret that surrounds Jake. I really like Jake and I do think that he is a great pair for Maliha, but the addition of Lucius to the story, an ageless that is hunting Maliha and seems to be having the same sort of doubts that made her break her contract with Rabishu, change my focus.

        Lucius is absolutely perfect for Maliha, but this is not a romance series and after Sacrifice, I just know that I should not not expect the HEA I so want for my girl Maliha. I don’t wanna spoil anything, but I couldn’t help but curse the author for putting my heart through the ringer and making me cry in this book, though I have to admit it made for a very intense and rich reading experience.

        I loved that Dakota gave us a couple chapters in different points of view other than Maliha’s, it was a great change of pace and it gave a lot more depth to the characters my understanding of the stakes in Sacrifice.

        Maliha is not an easy heroine to love, she makes tons of mistakes and we just have to sit, read them and shake our heads, but she does learn from them and i could not ask more of a heroine then the willingness to learn and grow from her own mistakes. he thing that bothers me about her is her selfishness and materialism at times, it can get on your nerves but her plea is one that you can no doubt understand.

        I loved the storyline of Sacrifice and the fact that the villain was so awful that it took Maliha falling back into her assassin ways and almost losing herself to get close to him and it was even more amazing to see how important her friends, the family she has built is, they keep her grounded and focused.

        Sacrifice was an intense read book i could not stop reading, I just hope that we get more books in this series, I want more Maliha, Jake, Hound and company. Rich characters, out of this world action, fast-paced and heart wrenching romance, what more can I ask from a great Urban Fantasy series? I totally recommend not only Sacrifice but the previous book, Dark Time as well, you won’t regret it! 

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        Review: Dark Time {Mortal Path, #1} by Dakota Banks

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        “What if a woman sold her soul to a demon
        and 300 years later wanted it back?

        In the 17th century, a woman is ripped from her husband's arms, thrown in jail, and then set afire as a witch. Saved from the flames by an ancient Sumerian demon, she becomes the Black Ghost, his Ageless assassin gifted with otherworldly skills and superbly trained in martial arts.
        Centuries pass before Maliha Crayne finds a way out of the life she hates.
        If she saves as many lives as she's taken, she'll break the demon's hold on her.
        If she fails, she will suffer the demon's torment ... forever.”

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          • Publisher: Eos

          • Release Date: August 1st, 2009

          • My Copy: eBook version, personally bought.

          • Pages: 320

          • Series: Mortal Path

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          I remember seeing Dark Time on an eBook online store near its release date and being instantly drawn to it. I bought it and devoured it in only a few hours. I remember that it was one of the rare occasions where I was so excited about the story that I actually had to tell my dad about it right after I finished it.

          Maliha Crayne was born in the 17th century and had a perfect life as her village’s healer, wife to Nathan and expecting her first child. A woman with her sights on her husband accused her of witchcraft and from that moment on our Heroine’s life changed forever. She was burned at the stake, but instead of dying she was taken to the middleworld where she was offered a contract by the Demon, Rabishu.

          She then became Ageless and worked as an assassin for the Demon for the following couple of centuries. Maliha had doubts about the job she was doing but everything changed when Rabishu gave her an assignment that came to close for comfort and she just could not do it. She then broke her contract with the Demon, now she has to balance the scale and save enough people to account for all of those she killed when under Rabishu’s orders. If she doesn’t she will spend her afterlife being tortured in the Demon’s hands.

          Maliha also has taken upon herself to hunt a tablet and the lens to read it, which are known to be the the only way to the world of the Demons from the Underworld. Her quest for the 7 shards that make up the lens is a huge force that drive our heroine, just as much as balancing out the scale.

          I loved Dark Time and it’s characters. Dakota Banks has created such a compelling world, Heroine and side cast of characters, that it is simply impossible not be drawn to it. Maliha is not an easy heroine to love, she can be selfish, hard headed and fickle at times, however her plea is one that I couldn’t help but get behind.

          To help her on her journey, Maliha has friends and a network of men and women that she has saved throughout her quest. They are a great addition to the story and definitely help with making Maliha more human and lovable. Her devotion to her closest friends is admirable and it makes for a great read.

          I also really enjoyed Dakota’s world building, the mythology she has created behind the Ageless and the Demons, based on ancient Gods. It can be a little confusing at times, but it makes for very rich storytelling.

          Maliha’s view on sex can be a bit fickle, but for a woman that has been Ageless for centuries and to whom a regular relationship is out of reach, it can definitely be understandable. I did enjoy her romantic interest, Jake and the cliffhanger left me gasping and whishing I could get my hands of the sequel right away.

          All in all, Dark Time is a terrific Urban Fantasy read that I Thoroughly enjoy and couldn’t get enough of. Dakota’s writing is wonderful and I could actually picture the whole novel as an amazing action movie, that I would absolutely LOVE to watch. One of my favorite reads of 2009, Dark Time is a book that couldn’t recommend more to any Urban Fantasy lover out there!

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