June 9th (Untoutch Me #1) by Emha Goliesh Pre-Order Event + #Giveaway

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Untouch Me 
Book #1
Emha Goliesh

Author: Emha Goliesh
Publisher: INCLUDAS Publishing
Release Date: 10/19/16

Book Synopsis:

June 9th: a night to love or a night to hate? A night to embrace or a night to erase? College freshman, Lacey Shyver, has no clue. Growing up with a neuromuscular disease, Lacey knows people only pretend to be nice—pity her, really, for looking different. That is, until graduating senior, Blake Nivey, enters her life. 

Breaking down her walls and lifting her spirits with just one touch, he’s not like the others. He cares about her well-being and makes her laugh. He unlocks something within Lacey that captures her soul, yet Lacey’s internal struggles surface. Is she just a charity case for him? Blake can’t possibly like someone with limited mobility when there are prettier girls wrapping their arms around him. Or can he? Just as Lacey begins to see where Blake’s heart truly lies with her, everything changes. Because once June 9th begins, it never ends.

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When I was nine years-old, I was sure I’d be a math teacher. That lasted until I got to middle school, where I realized that that wasn’t in the numbers for me. From there, I fantasized about being an actress. That lasted until high school, where I realized that sticking to a script wasn’t my thing—I wanted to take the characters on their own journeys and adventures. But somewhere between high school and the days of college graduation, I got lost in the pressures of reality. It wasn’t until I took a step back to evaluate my life when I realized I wanted to embrace my true self. To go back to the days of a six year-old kid who hid under a desk, writing about life in a little blue and pink journal. I couldn’t believe it took me so long to fall back into my happy place. Yet, I wouldn’t have had it any other way, because if after twenty years of exploring life, I still ached to create stories, then it must had been true love. http://juneninthbook.com/ 

 

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Triumph of Chaos (Red Magic #3) Review + #Giveaway

 

Triumph of Chaos

Red Magic

Book #3

Jen McConnel

Genre: YA Paranormal Fantasy

Release Date: March 8, 2016

Publisher: Month9Books

ISBN: 978-1942664864

ASIN: B01BS9SZDU

Pages: 311

Goodreads Rating: 3.50

My Rating: 5.0

Book Description:

After the disaster in Europe, Darlena’s starting to get desperate. She knows the only way to defeat Hecate and the other crazy Red Gods is by banding together with other Witches, but is it any wonder she has a hard time trusting them?

With Izzy’s support, Darlena begins making fragile strides toward repairing the mess she made, but she just can’t catch a break. As chaos runs rampant around her, Darlena begins to think that things would be better if she’d never become a Red Witch in the first place. But there’s no way to change the past…is there?

The final book in the Red Magic series brings Darlena face to face with impossible odds, and a terrifying choice.

My Take on the Book:

Wow. Just wow.

I loved this book more than I can say. when I first heard about Daughter of Chaos a while back, I really didn’t have the time to sign up for the review tour but marked it as a TBR on Goodreads but we all know how that goes, so it kinda just sat there waiting for me to remember....

When I got this new email and saw that my calendar for march was basically barren I was super excited to get the opportunity to not only read this book but its 2 predecessors including Daughters of Chaos. Everything just kind of lined up,  and it was perfect timing.

The book, the plot, the characters, they were all great on their own but together they made for an amazing book. The author did a great job creating this world and these characters that it feels bittersweet knowing that it's over. There were great highs and some of the most heart wrenching lows. It was a myriad of emotions and I feel like that somehow made everything all the more endearing. And while I know all things must end and not all things are perfectly wrapped in a bow this story doesn’t feel like it was properly put to bed.

5 Quills

I can’t say I've read anything like this before but I can say that it was a completely enjoyable experience. I can only hope that this isn’t the complete end for these characters, that there might be more to Darlena, Izzy and Justin's story. There real are so many unanswered questions and the ending really was open ended, and while I kinda sorta maybe liked that aspect it also left me with a hollow feeling akin to that feeling you get when you watch a movie with an anticlimactic ending.

I highly recommend this series leaving you with this warning: This book, its plot and its characters are highly addictive so be sure to find the time to pull yourself away to grab a meal or 2!

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About The Author

A Michigander by birth, Jen McConnel now makes her home in the beautiful state of North Carolina. She writes NA, including the recently released Adventures Abroad series (Bloomsbury Spark), the award winning YA novel Beautiful Curse (Swoon Romance), and various other works. When she isn’t writing, she can be found on her yoga mat or wandering off on another adventure. Once upon a time, she was a middle school teacher, a librarian, and a bookseller, but those are stories for another time. Visit www.JenMcConnel.com to learn more!

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Fify Percent Vampire Review

   

Fifty Percent Vampire
D.K. Janotta

Genre: YA Paranormal Fantasy

Release Date: September 5, 2015

Publisher: Blue Tom Publications

ASIN: B0150GNDMA

Pages: 281

Goodreads Rating: 3.57

My Rating: 4.0

Book Description:

TEENAGE GIRL FLEES THE UNDEAD!!!

Living at home is driving seventeen-year-old Astrid Sonnschein nuts. She's desperate to leave her parents behind, and why not, with stepfather George a foul-tempered old vampire, and Mom - well, the less we say about Mom the better.

And our heroine has another compelling reason for getting out of Dodge. If she stays home much longer she's in grave danger of being transformed forever, and the last thing she wants is to become the newest Nosferatu.

So it's off to Rosenberg High and relative safety. Except it's far from safe when her relatives are holier than holy Aunt Jean, beer-swilling couch potato Uncle James and devious, cat-loving cousin Emma. And that's just evenings and weekends. Astrid Sonnschein's schooldays teem with teeth-sinkable challenges, the man of her dreams refuses to play by the rules, and the plethora of pitchfork-bearing peasants are beginning to mutter.

Peasants-schmeasants! It's when the full moon rises that Astrid's real troubles begin ...

 My Take on the Book:

That was a both cute and disturbing book. Seriously though, I don’t know how the author managed that.

This book was a bit slow to begin with but once it picked up I was not willing to put the book down.

I found myself kind of regretting that I choose to read this book so late at night due to some of the more disturbing scenes and wondering how I was going to possibly forget what I had read. Or how I didn’t see any of it coming.

The Great (Pros):

• Unique. The story in itself was kinda different from what I’m used to. It had a Vampire Kisses type feel but a maturity those books didn’t. 

• Characters. I really liked the characters of this story, the good, the bad, the main and the minor. They were well written and planned out.

• Subject matter. While this had me feeling a bit uncomfortable at times, I liked the diversity in this book. There is a bit of everything including some disturbing scenes that I’m likely not to forget anytime soon. Normally I’m not a fan of those more disturbing ones, especially in books that feature younger characters but I felt like it really worked for this book and made it all the better.

•  Curve balls. I liked that a lot of the expected is not well to put it simply… right. At least in my case that is. I found that most of what I was anticipating never came to fruition. That in itself was a curveball. I really enjoyed that aspect of this book.

The Not So Great (Cons):

 

• Predictably. Like so many before it, there were some instances of predictability that really peeved me. I’m usually ok with some ‘aha I knew it’ moments but in a book that was heavy on the curveballs the minor and easily avoidable moments that were predictable and slightly clichéd bothered me. 

• Pace. I was kind of thrown off by the switch in pace. It happened frequently and through off the flow of certain scenes which left me reeling at important moments wonder what the fluff was happening. 

• Character Shifts. The back and forth attitude changes of characters was not something I could follow easily. It broke up the flow of the story and had me scratching my head. And while I did enjoy some of the curveballs that the characters brought in the story, I felt like this was one of this book’s biggest flaws. The facts just didn’t add up and I tend to get really irked by conflicting facts and dates.

 

4 Quills

Even with the cons that I encountered, I found myself really enjoying this book. I loved the whole who dun it mystery aspect as well and the supernatural/paranormal twist but I think what I loved most was the reminiscent quality it had to the  ‘Vampire Kisses’ series. I feel like this is what that book would have been were it a bit more mature and less about wanting to be a vampire or obsessed with vampires in general.

Totally worth it if you have the time and you’re looking for a nice vampire read. Also its free for those with Kindle Unlimited!

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About The Author

D.K. Janotta was born and raised in England and Wales but now calls a chalet on a mountainside overlooking beautiful Lake Geneva in Switzerland home. He has worked in Belgium, The Netherlands, Norway, France, South Korea, and several states of the USA. He subverts the vampire genre to ask questions about and reflect on the meaning of human life.

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Ashes in the Sky Review + #Giveaway

Ashes in the Sky

Fire in the Woods Series

Book #2

Jennifer M. Eaton

Genre: YA Romantic Science Fiction

Release Date: March 15, 2016

Publisher: Month9Books

ISBN: 978-1942664413

ASIN: B01AR4ZK5S

Pages: 331

Goodreads Rating: 4.86

My Rating: 4.5

Book Description:

After inadvertently saving the world, eighteen-year-old Jessica Martinez is ready to put adventure behind her and settle back into the familiar routine of high school.

Though when she’s offered an opportunity to photograph the inside of an alien space ship, Jess jumps at the chance. After all, she’d be crazy to turn something like that down, right?

Spending time with David on the ship has definite advantages and the two seem to pick up right where they left off. But when Jess discovers a plot to sabotage David’s efforts to establish a new home for his people on another planet, neither David’s advanced tech nor Jess’s smarts will be able to save them.

ASHES IN THE SKY is an action-packed, romantic Sci Fi adventure that will leave readers screaming for more.

My Take on the Book:

Oh mah lawwddie

This book was literally one massive tear jerker for me. I kinda wish I hadn’t waited this long to read it because a tear jerker and a cold does not make for a happy nose lol.

On that note, I wasn’t absolutely crazy about book 1. I found that I really liked the concept but the execution felt like it was lacking. It didn’t have the drive and for lack of better words but personality and character as book 2. Everything about book 1 that I wasn’t a fan of either went poof or made book 2 all the better.

I feel like the characters got a better chance at developing. While I was reading Fire in the Woods, I couldn’t connect with our main characters until literally the very very end. But book 2 managed to wow me and make me feel for these characters and what they needed to accomplish. Every moment between them left me emotionally invested.

I honestly hope this is not the last of these characters!

In this book you are reintroduced to the main characters of the last book but you get a slightly more mature version. A tougher and slightly smarter version. You also get a glimpse into some characters from book 1 that didn’t get a chance to connect with the reader and boy am I glad that I did. 

 4.5 Quills

If there was a reward for most innovative Sci-Fi, this one definitely be in the running. I felt like this was a massive improvement because I was able to connect with Jess and David in ways that I couldn’t bring myself to do in book 1. In Fire in the Woods, I was just reading about any ole characters, I was kind of just going through the motions but in this follow, the characters felt more solid and developed. A definite improvement! I also enjoyed the action and descriptions more in this book then the last! It was ‘out of this world’… I need to stop making these horrible puns I know!

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About The Author

Jennifer M. Eaton hails from the eastern shore of the North American Continent on planet Earth. Yes, regrettably, she is human, but please don’t hold that against her. While not traipsing through the galaxy looking for specimens for her space moth collection, she lives with her wonderfully supportive husband and three energetic offspring. (And a poodle who runs the spaceport when she’s not around.)

During infrequent excursions to her home planet of Earth, Jennifer enjoys long hikes in the woods, bicycling, swimming, snorkeling, and snuggling up by the fire with a great book; but great adventures are always a short shuttle ride away. Who knows where we’ll end up next?

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Curse of the Sphinx Review, Promo Video + #Giveaway

Curse of the Sphinx
Sphinx Series
Book #1
Raye Wagner

Genre: YA Romantic Fantasy, Mythology

Release Date: August 11, 2015

ISBN: 978-1515305712

ASIN: B013PD4U5O

Pages: 344

Goodreads Rating: 3.71

My Rating: 4.5

Book Description:

How long can a monster stay hidden in plain sight?

Seventeen-year-old Hope Nicholas has spent her entire life on the run. But no one is chasing her. In fact, no one even knows she exists. With her mom, she’s traveled from town to town and school to school, barely staying long enough to meet anyone, let alone make friends. And she’ll have to keep it that way. It’s safer.
When her mother is brutally ripped away from her, Hope’s life shatters. Is this the fulfillment of Apollo’s curse, murder from the shadow monsters of the Underworld, or have the demigods finally found her? Orphaned and alone, Hope flees again, but this time there’s no one to teach her who to trust—or how to love.

Set in a universe where mythology is alive and well in the modern world, Curse of the Sphinx irresistibly blends action, suspense and romance. 

My Take on the Book:

First and foremost let me say that I loved this book! I’m a huge fan of mythology, Greek, Norse and Egyptian being my favorites so this was a book right up my alley.

With that said, there were a couple of off putting moments and personality traits of some characters and the story did drag a bit at times but it in NO WAY took away from the story’s overall greatness.

I loved the Sphinx mythology and I’m gonna get my hands on the prequel to get a more in depth look into this universe.

The characters were solid and likeable and I found myself giddy with the cuteness that the romance in this story brought to the whole picture this author was painting us.

I think the off putting moments were mainly in the tone. I found myself a bit lost in terms of who knew what. At moments I felt like our main character was interacting with 2 different male leads as opposed to the one. I also found myself questioning if he was who I thought he was or if he lost his memory or something along those lines.

BUT, I still loved Athan and Hope. I thought they were adorable! 

4.5 Quills

I think I mainly want to read the next book to see where these characters go and how they develop because this was a pretty great beginning to what has the makings of a great series. There is so much we don’t know and I’m excited to learn it all.

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Raye Wagner grew up in Seattle, the second of eight children, and learned to escape chaos through the pages of fiction. As a youth, she read the likes of David Eddings, Leon Uris, and Jane Austen. Inspired by a fictional character, Raye pursued a career in nursing, thinking to help the world one patient at a time.

One summer afternoon, when her then young children were playing in the pool, a plot dropped into her head, and she started writing.

She enjoys baking, puzzles, Tae Kwon Do, and the sound of waves lapping at the sand. She lives with her husband and three children in Middle Tennessee.

Origin of the Sphinx, a novella detailing the story leading up to the creation of the mythological creature, is her first publication. It is the beginning of the Sphinx series.
Curse of the Sphinx, the first book in the series, is completed, and set to be released in August 2015.

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Love Me, Love Me Not Review + #Giveaway

Love Me, Love Me Not

Alyxandra Harvey

Genre: YA Fantasy

Release Date: February 22, 2016

Publisher: Entangled Crave

ISBN: 978-1633755352

ASIN: B01B1NC13S

Pages: 211

Goodreads Rating: 3.49

My Rating: 5.0

Book Description:

Dating isn’t easy when you’re in the middle of a blood feud.

Anastasia Vila’s family can turn into swans, but just once she’d like them to turn into responsible adults.

After hundreds of years, they still cling to the blood feud with the Renard family. No one remembers how it started in the first place—but foxes and swans just don’t get along.

Vilas can only transform into their swan shape after they have fallen in love for the first time, but between balancing schoolwork, family obligations, and the escalating blood feud, Ana’s got no time for love. The only thing keeping her sane is her best friend, Pierce Kent.

But when Pierce kisses Ana, everything changes.

Is what Pierce feels for her real, or a by product of her magic? Can she risk everything for her best friend? And when the family feud spirals out of control, Ana must stop the fight before it takes away everything she loves.

Including, maybe...Pierce.

This Entangled Teen Crave book contains language, violence, and lots of kissing. Warning: it might induce strong feelings of undeniable attraction for your best friend.

My Take on The Book:

This must be the year of the great reads…. Or at least great picks, because I have yet to read something I dislike.

I loved this book. The characters. The premise. It’s so refreshing to get a story with a different kind of take on the shifter genre. Now don’t get me wrong… I love typical werewolf type read but there is something so magical (excuse the pun) about a swan shifter. Swans are such beautiful creatures that I couldn’t fathom them as anything but the majestic bird that they have always seemed to be for me. So to be thrust into this world were girls shift into swans and happen to be some fierce kick ass swan girls, was totally refreshing and enthralling.

Ana is a great, sometimes clueless, but a lovely, loyal and smart lead character with a perfect balance in Pierce.

If anything, I found myself enjoying the parts in his POV more!

5 Quills

There is so much to love about this book that I’m not sure where to start. It’s a relatively fast read even for my standards but I never felt like there was anything missing. You get a little bit of everything one would expect for a YA Fantasy shifteresque story. You have romance, mystery, tradition, action and betrayal. I’m pretty sad that this was a one-shot book because I honestly didn’t get enough of these for lack of a better word, charismatic, characters.

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About The Author

Alyxandra Harvey lives in a stone Victorian house in Ontario, Canada with a few resident ghosts who are allowed to stay as long as they keep company manners. She loves medieval dresses, used to be able to recite all of The Lady of Shalott by Tennyson, and has been accused, more than once, of being born in the wrong century. She believes this to be mostly true except for the fact that she really likes running water, women’s rights, and ice cream. Aside from the ghosts, she also lives with her husband and their dogs. She likes cinnamon lattes, tattoos and books.

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Mystique Review + #Giveaway

 

Mystique

Shari Arnold

Genre: YA Paranormal Fantasy

Release Date: November 17, 2015

ISBN: 978-1518757952

ASIN: B016PMLECE

Ebook Pages: 279

PAperback Pages: 332

Goodreads Rating: 3.67

My Rating: 5.0

Book Description:

Only Bauer Grant can pull off gorgeous while dead. But staying dead is another thing entirely. When he wakes up at his own funeral, the town of Mystique calls it a miracle, until it happens again. Something is bringing the residents of Mystique back to life, but what? Presley Caine finds herself caught up in the mystery when Bauer asks her to visit him. Presley can’t figure out why the most popular guy in school is so drawn to her. And when Bauer is kidnapped soon after, she looks to Bauer’s brooding best friend Sam, whose dad works for the powerful Mystique military base, for answers. In her quest to discover the truth, Presley’s relationship with Sam deepens, her feelings for Bauer are tested, and it becomes clear that her own mysterious past is somehow connected to these strange events. But is she strong enough to handle the truth when it is finally revealed?

My Take:

Wow. Just wow.

I was initially intrigued by the synopsis of this book, but I wasn't sure how everything will pan out. It could have been a great book, or something that's been to the category of notoriously bad reads. Luckily, this turned out to be a great read.

From page 1, the first sentence, I was hooked. It didn't take long for me to be invested in Presley or to become way too curious. There were a lot of moments where the characters annoyed me, but it was to be expected. What they had to go through, is not something someone deals with on a day to day basis so their reactions were warranted; I just happened to be a very impatient woman.

The progression of these characters relationships was also something very spot on. It was very realistic and none of this instantaneous I love you nonsense, that while I occasionally adore in a book with a supernatural quality, I was happy to find that the author took note that this was not that kind of story.

And while this story, this book did have a legitimate ending, I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a little bit sad is that this journey has come to an end.

5 Quills

All good things must come to an end, and this was definitely go so it's not surprising that it did indeed finish, but I am a little disappointed that there will be no more Presley, no more Sam and no more Bauer. I really grew to love these characters and I admit that I would really like to know more about them and where the story could possibly go. Kudos to the author for writing such a unique and riveting tale.

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Shari Arnold grew up in California and Utah but now resides in Connecticut, with her husband and two kids, where she finds it difficult to trust a beach without waves. She writes Young Adult fiction because it's her favorite. And occasionally she takes photographs.

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