2 VERY Important Annoucements

As promised I had another giveaway once I reached 30 followers. You (my beloved readers) got to chose the book that is going out to a lucky winner.
Now due to the fact that one person signed up I would like to Congratulate Beleg on winning Swords of the Six, by Scott Appleton.
Beleg I will be emailing you through the address used to sign up shortly so that I can get your mailing address.

Also I would like to announce a very sad thing. Life for me has gotten a little out of control and I now have to start making decisions on what I keep in my life and what I have to cut back on. For me though I love reading and reviewing and blogging this site in going to be limited. I know it has almost been a year and I have loved reading some wonderful books but I don't feel like I have been giving my full potential to this blog. Therefore I will be cutting back on how many reviews come out. This has been happening slowly for the past few months. So from this point forward only select books will be appearing on Arrowhead for an undefined amount of time.
Please continue to check-in on the blog.

Thank you everyone for all you have done for this blog.

Michelle Archer

Coin Toss Giveaway! (Closed)

Due to a tie with the vote for the giveaway I am going to do a coin toss. Heads for Isle of Fire. Tales for Swords of the Six.

Don't worry if the book you wanted to try for isn't the winner this round, odds are it will show up again for the next giveaway. Now for the flip...

And it is Tales! This Giveaway is going to be for Swords of the Six!

To enter here is what YOU can do.

~You can follow this blog. A follower widget is located on the blog's sidebar. (earns 2 entries)
~You can post about this giveaway on your blog. Comments MUST have a link. Limited to once a week. (earns 2 entries)
If someone comes to this blog from your blog post and comments, you get 1 extra entry. (Make sure to tell them to say you sent them!)
~You can tweet with a link to this post. Comments MUST have a link. Limited to three times week (earns 1 entry each) While you are Tweeting be sure to follow me @GoldarrowGA.
~You can read any of my reviews on this blog and comment on it, as long as you have not already done so on it for another giveaway. (earns 1 entry each)
~You may link this giveaway on facebook. Comments do require links. Limited to once a day. (earns 1 entry each)
~Like me on Facebook. This is a new feature for Arrowhead so I am going to be pushing it, 3 entries for simply liking Arrowhead Reviews. See side bar to like.
Contest ends January 31, 2012. Sorry to say but due to a budget this contest is open to U.S. residents only.

Alienation by Jon S. Lewis

From a perfect life to pure chaos, that is Colt McAlister has been dealt. Shortly after his 16^th birthday his parents were both killed in a car crash. Just it wasn’t any random accident, no it was a hit and run target mission put on by aliens. Since then Colt has moved to Arizona to live with his Grandfather Murdoch, who is a famous -if only in comic form- hero. In Invasion, book one of the CHAOS series, we learned of Colt’s family history with a secret government branch that focuses on protecting earth from aliens forces who are planning on taking over earth. Now it is Colt’s turn to continue the family legacy and join CHOAS Academy with his old friend Danielle Salazar and his new friend Oz Romero. As a team they must learn everything they can before the Thule aliens invade.   
As if this wasn’t enough Colt is constantly in the cross hairs of a master assassin. Watching your back isn’t good enough when the hunter is a skin changer.

I when I picked Alienation up I had just finished two fairly large books, one 500 pages another 400 and was happy to see that Alienation was a grand total of only 274 pages. When more and more authors are going for long 400-800 page books I started to wonder, can an author create a gripping book in so few pages? Well, Jon S. Lewis did it.
We start Alienation where Invasion left off. Colt is living with his grandfather getting ready to leave for CHAOS-Central Headquarters Against the Occult and Supernatural-training.

I really got to know Colt through Alienation. He learns so many things about himself in the book, some good and some not so good things. We see how he is willing to stand up for what he thinks is right and protect those he cares about. He also reacts the same as any other human would, making him more then just a ‘cool’ character, which he is.
Same with Danielle, she doesn’t get enough credit in my opinion. Smart, friendly and a pro-hacker I just loved watching her take over and help Colt as he was going through so much stress, not to mention the death threats.
Now what are we missing in this team? Yep, the muscle in the group. That is covered by Oz, son of CHAOS director Lobo, has grown up in the alien world and knows how to fight. He is a great character that I truly hope will get more of the spot light in the next edition of CHAOS.

We didn’t get to see any alien planets this time but there were gadgets aplenty to make up for it.
I was thrilled with how this book turned out.
Another really cool this is a short 6 page comic that stands in as a prolog. I think that was one of my favorite parts.
So much is packed into such a small book, and the fact that it is small and can be read in a few hours is great. 

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Thanks to Booksneeze for giving me this review copy.

I want YOU to Win!

That's right, right here. YOU can win! What can you win? Well YOU get to decide! Vote on the left side bar poll and the book with the most votes wins! The poll will be open for 2 weeks and then the giveaway will be open for 6 weeks after that. 

So what do YOU say?