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    Something Wicked is back on the blog! And this is a VERY special Something Wicked because it is the WICKEDEST day of the year! Halloween!!! Yay! So for today’s post I have a Giveaway and author Tish Thawer visiting the blog today and she has brought us an awesome guest post from BEHIND the scenes look of her upcoming release: Aradia Awakens!!!!! I happened to read the short story prequel to this novel over the weekend and let me tell you it is a GREAT start to what is sure to be a fantastic series! Aradia Awakens Prophecy’s Child (The prequel to Aradia Awakens Available now!) AndRead More →

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Title: The Ghost and the Goth Author: Stacey Kade Genre: YA paranormal/fantasy Format: print and Ebook Publisher: Hyperion 2010   Synopsis (courtesy of GoodReads) Alona Dare–Senior in high school, co-captain of the cheerleading squad, Homecoming Queen three years in a row, voted most likely to marry a movie star… and newly dead. I’m the girl you hated in high school. Is it my fault I was born with it all-good looks, silky blond hair, a hot bod, and a keen sense of what everyone else should not be wearing? But my life isn’t perfect, especially since I died. Run over by a bus of bandRead More →

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Title: Jessica’s Guide to Dating on the Dark Side Author: Beth Fantaskey Genre: YA paranormal/fantasy Format: Ebook and Print Publisher: Graphia (reprint edition 2010)   Synopsis (courtesy of Amazon) The undead can really screw up your senior year . . . Marrying a vampire definitely doesn’t fit into Jessica Packwood’s senior year “get-a-life” plan. But then a bizarre (and incredibly hot) new exchange student named Lucius Vladescu shows up, claiming that Jessica is a Romanian vampire princess by birth—and he’s her long-lost fiancé. Armed with newfound confidence and a copy of Growing Up Undead: A Teen Vampire’s Guide to Dating, Health, and Emotions, Jessica makesRead More →

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Title: Shade Author: Jeri Smith-Ready Genre: YA paranormal/fantasy Publisher: 2010 Simon Pulse Format: Print and Ebook   Synopsis (courtesy of GoodReads) Love ties them together. Death can’t tear them apart. Best. Birthday. Ever. At least, it was supposed to be. With Logan’s band playing a critical gig and Aura’s plans for an intimate after-party, Aura knows it will be the most memorable night of her boyfriend’s life. She never thought it would be his last. Logan’s sudden death leaves Aura devastated. He’s gone. Well, sort of. Like everyone born after the Shift, Aura can see and hear ghosts. This mysterious ability has always been annoying,Read More →

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  Title: Endure (Need #4) Author: Carrie Jones Genre: YA paranormal, fantasy Format: Ebook and Print Publisher: Bloomsbury May 2012   Synopsis (courtesy of GoodReads) Zara is at the center of an impending apocalypse. True, she’s successfully rescued Nick from Valhalla, but it simply isn’t enough. Evil pixies are ravaging Bedford, and they need much more than one great warrior; they need an army. Zara isn’t sure what her role is anymore. She’s not just fighting for her friends; she’s also a pixie queen. And to align her team of pixies with the humans she loves will be one of her greatest battles yet. EspeciallyRead More →

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  Title: Juliet Immortal  Author: Stacey Jay  Genre: YA fantasy  Format: Paperback and Ebook  Publisher: Delacorte Books for young readers, August 2011  Synopsis (courtest of GoodReads) The most tragic love story in history . . . Juliet Capulet didn’t take her own life. She was murdered by the person she trusted most, her new husband, Romeo Montague, a sacrifice made to ensure his own immortality. But what Romeo didn’t anticipate was that Juliet would be granted eternity, as well, and would become an agent for the Ambassadors of Light. For 700 years, she’s fought Romeo for the souls of true lovers, struggling to preserve romanticRead More →

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Title: Fairytale Author: Cyn Balog Genre: fantasy Format: Print and Ebook Published in June 2009 by Delacorte Books for Young Readers  Synopsis (courtesy of GoodReads) A captivating and witty dark fantasy that will have girls lusting after it. Morgan Sparks has always known that she and her boyfriend, Cam, are made for each other. But when Cam’s cousin Pip comes to stay with the family, Cam seems depressed. Finally Cam confesses to Morgan what’s going on: Cam is a fairy. The night he was born, fairies came down and switched him with a healthy human boy. Nobody expected Cam to live, and nobody expected hisRead More →

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Title: Ethereal (Celestra #1) Author: Addison Moore Genre: Paranormal YA Format: Ebook   Synopsis (courtesy of GoodReads): When her newly remarried mother moves the family to Paragon Island, to a house that is rumored to be haunted, Skyla finds refuge in Logan Oliver, a boy who shares her unique ability to read minds. Skyla discovers Logan holds the answers to the questions she’s been looking for, but Logan’s reluctance to give her the knowledge she desires leaves her believing Logan has a few secrets of his own. Skyla’s bloodlines may just be connected to the most powerful angelic beings that roam the earth, and theRead More →

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Title: A Beautiful Dark (Beautiful Dark #1) Author: Jocelyn Davies Publisher: Harper Teen, 2011 Format: Print and Ebook Genre: Young adult paranormal, fantasy Synopsis (courtesy of GoodReads) On the night of Skye’s seventeenth birthday, she meets two enigmatic strangers. Complete opposites;like fire and ice;Asher is dark and wild, while Devin is fair and aloof. Their sudden appearance sends Skye’s life into a tailspin. She has no idea what they want, or why they seem to follow her every move only that their presence coincides with a flurry of strange events. Soon she begins to doubt not just the identity of the two boys, but alsoRead More →

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Title: Hounded Author: Kevin Hearne Format: Ebook Publisher: May 2011 by Del Rey Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal, young adult   Synopsis (courtesy of GoodReads): The first novel in an original, back-to-back three-book series The Iron Druid Chronicles—introducing a cool, new, funny urban fantasy hero Atticus O’Sullivan, last of the Druids, lives peacefully in Arizona, running an occult bookshop and shape-shifting in his spare time to hunt with his Irish wolfhound. His neighbors and customers think that this handsome, tattooed Irish dude is about twenty-one years old—when in actuality, he’s twenty-one centuries old. Not to mention: He draws his power from the earth, possesses a sharp wit,Read More →