Alien in the House - My Favorite Quotes/Lines

* Book provided by the publisher for review

* Spoilers are highlighted like so :)

Here are my favorite quotes/lines from Alien in the House:

“It’s just so damn pink.”

“We want to ensure that everyone continues to think you’re both comfortable and interesting.”

“You are so much smarter than you like to appear.”

“So, I had two new fairy godfathers who were going to protect me by killing people.”

“I meant like you do, Mommy.  In their minds.”

“I chose to never argue when my alien relatives by marriage had some whacked out belief that meant they didn’t hate me.”

“Yes and yes, but we’re still at my telling you all what’s gone on and you shutting the hell up.”

“That I was connecting with someone I still thought of half the time as an asinine twit wasn’t comfort-ing.”

“And suddenly I could see the forest of dense and confus-ing foliage for the distinct tree branches that were really there.”

“I’ll let you.  Because we’re all still in the same band.  We just have to spread out and play solo and separate gigs.  But when it matters, we get the band back together again, with the new members, and we rock it better than anyone ever has or ever will.”

“Yeah.  Let’s all go keep it gangsta and be sure we shoot the other guys before they shoot us.”

“My pardon for your insult is not given,...”

“You’re stuck with us and we’re stuck with you.”

Winner of the Free Comic Book Day Haiku Contest

Congrats to the International winner of the contest (who wins $10 to The Book Depository),

Mary Preston who wrote:

Superman on Earth
Exposes his underwear
The cape is cool though!!


* I'll email Mary and if she doesn't get back to me within a week another winner will be chosen.
* There is no US only winner because nobody entered the contest so it looks like I'll keep all my comics and try the contest again next year.

Top 5 Sundays - Best Book Side Couples {couples other than the main ones}

This feature was thought up by the awesome Larissa's Bookish Life

Rules:

1 - Write a post listing your TOP 5 choices within the theme I chose (or was chosen on a poll) for the week.

2 - Mention this Blog on the post and link back to it.

3 - Feel free to use the Features image

4 - After you've finished your post, add your link (of the post, not your blog's main page) to the Mr.Linky at the end of that week's post.

5 – If you don’t have a blog to post, just leave your list in the comments =)    

Top 5 Sundays -  Best Book Side Couples {couples other than the main ones}

Maria and Michael are a fun couple, I always liked them more then the main couple on the show.

Ron and Hermione are a great couple because I don't know about you but they were much more entertaining and seemed more destined then who Harry ended up with.

Partridge and Lydia make a really interesting couple because of the way they were raised in the Dome and then of course when the both leave the Dome. 

Reader and Paul Gower are my favorite side couple and the couple that I most want to read about if Gini Koch ever does any prequel type stories.  

Finnick and Annie are more fascinating to me as a couple then the main couple even though I truly hate how their story ends.

Gnome Story - Milton Milliner

Gnome Story - Milton Gnome - hat maker extraordinaire

Milton was a gnome with a good head on his shoulders.  He had plenty of common sense and saw a problem that needed to be solved.  For you see this was back before all the gnomes had agreed on the proper type of hat to wear.  As you can imagine gnomes don't exactly look guide in bowler hats and top hats were cool but still not quite right.  Milton had an epiphany one day after a brief nap and realized the perfect hat for all the gnomes to wear.  This floppy hat would be both comfortable and stylish.  He made a prototype then went before the gnome elders.  After a unanimous vote Milton's hat was adopted as the go to hat for all gnomes.

Author Interview - Ninette Swann

Direct Contact by Ninette Swann

 



Tiny Reverse Vampire: What are you writing currently or percolating in your mind to write soon?

Ninette Swann: I have a piece I'm working on about a bounty hunter and a police officer that I hope to get out this coming fall. Should be fast-paced and fun!

Tiny Reverse Vampire: What inspired you to write this book?

Ninette Swann: I saw an open call for a New Reality series, and I'd never written in that genre before. To combine it with romance seemed ideal, and I really love the result.

Tiny Reverse Vampire: How did you come up with the idea for Direct Contact?

Ninette Swann: I was thinking about what kind of things might go on in a dystopian

world, how the government might act, and whether or not the previous

people's would have died out...or lived on.

Tiny Reverse Vampire:What has been the funnest character to write?

Ninette Swann: In Direct Contact? Julie, the heroine. She was meant to be a secondary character at first, but she had so much spit-fire, I had to change my whole plot to accommodate her.

Tiny Reverse Vampire: What word is your favorite to say or write?

Ninette Swann: My favorite word to write? Um, sporadically? Serendipitously? Some kind of adverb that begins with an s and sounds super smarmy.

Tiny Reverse Vampire:What’s your favorite quote from something you’ve written?

Ninette Swann: "Feminism needs a hero." But that's from a journalistic piece I'm working on right now.

 

 

Tiny Reverse Vampire: What are you writing currently or percolating in your mind to write soon?

 

Ninette Swann: I have a piece I'm working on about a bounty hunter and a police officer that I hope to get out this coming fall. Should be fast-paced and fun!

 

Tiny Reverse Vampire: What inspired you to write this book?

 

Ninette Swann: I saw an open call for a New Reality series, and I'd never written in that genre before. To combine it with romance seemed ideal, and I really love the result.

 

Tiny Reverse Vampire: How did you come up with the idea for Direct Contact?

 

Ninette Swann: I was thinking about what kind of things might go on in a dystopian

world, how the government might act, and whether or not the previous

people's would have died out...or lived on.

Tiny Reverse Vampire:What has been the funnest character to write?

 

Ninette Swann: In Direct Contact? Julie, the heroine. She was meant to be a secondary character at first, but she had so much spit-fire, I had to change my whole plot to accommodate her.

 

Tiny Reverse Vampire: What word is your favorite to say or write?

 

Ninette Swann: My favorite word to write? Um, sporadically? Serendipitously? Some kind of adverb that begins with an s and sounds super smarmy.

 

Tiny Reverse Vampire:What’s your favorite quote from something you’ve written?

 

Ninette Swann: "Feminism needs a hero." But that's from a journalistic piece I'm working on right now.

 

A Tiny Reverse Vampire Post

Review - Direct Contact

Direct Contact by Ninette Swann

* provided by the author for review

3 and a half tiara wearing bats

This is a good read, short but still has a good story to it.  I like all the little twists and turns to the story a lot of which I did not see coming and some that I did.

It is great to see a Sci-Fi romance that is not just a lot of romance scenes with a Sci-Fi background.  It is actually the Sci-Fi that is the focus here.

Malcolm is my favorite character.  He is funny and I like seeing how he works out things. Gotta love a main character that has to figure it out as the story goes.  The settings are neat and i hope to see some of the concept art if it exists. The dome peaceful city against the backdrop of the near post apocliptic looking runes below are really well described and paint quite a picture.

This book is short and well worth the time to read.

Sentence Sneak Peek - Direct Contact

Direct Contact by Ninette Swann

The first sentence from each chapter of Direct Contact, it's a mini summary of what you can expect to read.

* Spoilers are highlighted like so :)
* Received from the author for review.

“He’ll be there in three minutes.”
 

“He was there again, Julie,” Number Twenty-seven whispered as she struggled into her shirt for the day, “in my dreams.”
 

“Scattered papers covered the metal-tiled floor in the surveillance room. All the file cabinet drawers were opened.”
 

“Malcolm awoke no closer to a solution or to knowing what in the hell Julie was talking about.”
 

“We have four days to inject the girl.”
 

“Malcolm didn’t look up when Julie walked in.”
 

“Malcolm paced near Julie’s lifeless body, fighting the urge to sweep her up and take her to the doctor.”
 

“Teo didn’t know Julie had freed herself—or maybe he was so accustomed to seeing blood on the people he interrogated that he didn’t take note.”
 

“The images came quickly, blinding Malcolm to reality.”

“Julie looked behind her when Malcolm grunted under Anna’s weight.”

“Malcolm laughed aloud when he literally saw the light at the end of the tunnel.”

“The ship bounced and screeched along the small, abandoned road where Malcolm had attempted his landing, waking Julie and Anna who were in the back.”
 

“Julie couldn’t sleep.”
 

“Malcolm made no noise as he rose from the small, uncomfortable cot, careful not to wake Julie.”

“Thirty-four!”