Friday Finds #12

This is a meme hosted by Should Be Reading. What yah do is post up books that you discovered through bookstores, friends, goodreads, etc. Whichever way you discovered them. But only post up the books the books you discovered during that Friday week only.

Book I found this week


Title: The Boys Next Door (The Boys Next Door #1)
Author: Jennifer Echols

Synopsis:

Cute, available, and one cabin over....

Lori lives for summertime on the lake. She spends all season wakeboarding, swimming, and hanging with her friends—including the two hotties in the house next door. With the Vader brothers, Lori's always been one of the guys.

But while Lori and the "baby" brother, Adam, are inseparable friends, she can't deny a secret crush on Sean, the older Vader boy. This year Sean's been paying Lori a lot of attention, and not in a brotherly way.

But just as Lori decides to prove to Sean she's girlfriend material, she realizes that her role as girlfriend to Adam may be even more important. And by trying so hard for the perfect summer romance, she could be going way overboard....

Book Blitz: Candace Knoebel

Book Blitz: Evernight (Night Watchmen #2) by Candace Knoebel

Publisher: Candace Knoebel
Release Date: October 31st 2014
Genre: Paranormal, Romance, Young Adult
Link: Goodreads | Amazon

Synopsis:
The stunning sequel to the thrilling paranormal romance novel Everlasting!

One lie will change everything.

Faye Middleton has secured the Dagger of Retribution for the High Priesthood, but in doing so, she’s opened the door to more demands set by them. She now has to break the Holy Seal, and soon. Trapped in the alluring Ethryeal City, Faye is pushed to the breaking point trying to discover just what she is truly capable of, even if it means destroying herself in the process.

With the clock ticking down to the war between both Covens, and the truth about her parent’s mysterious disappearance within her reach, Faye is faced with tough choices that will forever change her. Will Faye be able to handle the demands from the Priesthood, and still be able to continue her search for her parents?

But more importantly, can she survive the truth she finds?

Excerpts
Prologue

PEOPLE LIE. EVERY SINGLE DAY.
In fact, most of our world was built on the foundation of lies, some with the intent to serve the greater good, and others with the intent to serve one person’s giant ambitions. But the root of every lie is exactly the same. They’re all equally deceitful, treacherous propositions spewed from the mouths of men and woman alike.
Lies have the power to sound right, yet feel wrong. They have the ability to confuse your heart and twist your mind. The problem is, sometimes these lies become easier to believe than the truth. They become a sort of safety net from reality, a way to avoid what lingers in the back of your mind. And some say that over time, if you believe them long enough, they become real.
At least, that’s what my mother had hoped would happen in my case. But just like every lie ever told, all it takes is one small crack in that foundation for the whole thing to come crashing down.
And it did.
Because everything I thought I knew about myself was a lie. A beautiful and heartrending lie. I wasn’t the Defect my parents would regretfully see off to college before turning their backs on me. I wasn’t the weak friend who didn’t have enough backbone to stand up for what’s right, nor was I the loner without a purpose or a chance at real love. And I sure as hell wasn’t the weapon Bael and the members of the Darkyn Coven intended me to be.
But I am the weapon the Primeval Coven needs me be. Or so they keep saying.
In my Coven, there are two kinds of people: The Hunters and the Witches. They used to hate each other, even though they were on the same team, back in the old days when cars didn’t exist and time was tracked on a sundial. They hated each other so much that eventually a war was brought on by one of the original Witches—a Divine named Mourdyn.
The war was known as the Great Battle of the Covens. It was meant to wipe out the existence of every Hunter, and it devastated the population of my people, the Primevals. It annihilated the population of the Darkyns—the Witches who abandoned our Coven to follow the whims of Mourdyn and his persuasive lies.
But even though a lie can be struck down—imprisoned even—it can’t ever be fully erased. The scars it leaves behind on this earth and in our hearts are eternal, and somewhere along the way, someone will pick that lie back up and breathe life into it once more. Give it the wings it needs to rise again. Only, this time, that lie will be stronger, with an even greater purpose.
And that’s the part that scares me the most.
I glance down at my leg. The burn marks left behind from Bael’s wrath still tingle with echoes of the scorching fire he sent after me after I escaped with Weldon, reminding me that I’m nowhere near ready for the fight that’s sure to come.
And that has to change.
That’s part of why I agreed to come here to Ethryeal City—to the heart of our Coven. It’s where Hunters and Witches in an affinity bond enter as Night Watchmen and leave as Elites. Where those who have broken our Coven laws go to face the High Priesthood. Where those who need refuge… those like me… come to hide.
The only thing is, I never agreed to being separated from everyone I know. They call it debriefing, but with every day that passes, I’m beginning to wonder… to question how long it actually takes.
It’s been seven days and fourteen hours since my unfortunate and unplanned encounter with Bael—the Demon King of the Underground. In these last seven days, I’ve made more promises than I can count on two hands. And in those promises, I think I’ve told more lies than I ever have in my life.
Honesty seems to have slipped out of her bedroom from inside my integrity and, in her place, deceit has crept in with the offer of survival. If I just nod along with the many blending faces all interviewing me, then maybe somehow, I’ll make it out of this phase in my life alive. I’ll make it back into Jaxen’s arms and back into the graces of the friends I’ve come to trust.
But what deceit doesn’t offer is solace, because you can’t fool deceit. It knows every trick in the book.
Every day, twice a day, for the past four days, I’ve recounted in specific order how my friends and I nearly lost our lives in hopes that we’d gain an advantage on the Darkyn Coven and intercept them from taking the Dagger of Retribution. The one that has the power to initiate the removal of the Veil that separates the Underground and all its evil from the humans. The very Dagger that only I have the power to touch.
I’ve been singularly interviewed by every member on the Priesthood, and then by every general and Elder within the hierarchy of our Coven.
And I’m so very tired.
For the past four days, since I left the safe house beneath the church owned by the Night Watchmen, when I haven’t been in a laboratory undergoing strenuous testing, I’ve spent the remaining hours kept in a holding cell stripped of all personality. Chained down by claustrophobia. Shackled to the fears given free rein to destroy my hope.
I don’t have a home anymore. I have four white walls, one white jumpsuit, a white bed, white sheets… the color was bleached from my life the moment I crossed into the legendary Ethryeal City. I keep trying to remember the last time I saw Jaxen’s face, but my soul has fed so often on the happiness of that memory, I fear it’s disappearing. And I don’t know when I’m going to see him again.
They took everything away from me just to keep me repressed. Controlled. But what they don’t know is they cannot control what they do not own, and they do not own me. I can’t trust anyone. No one but myself, because all I know is I am more of a threat to them than I thought.
And the High Priesthood doesn’t know what to do with me.


About Author

Candace Knoebel is the award-winning author of Born in Flames-book one in a young adult fantasy trilogy. She discovered in 2009 through lunch breaks and late nights after putting her kids to bed, a world where she could escape the ever-pressing days of an eight to five Purgatory. And an outlet for all the voices residing in her head.

Published by 48fourteen in 2012, Born in Flames went on to win Turning the Pages Book of the Year award in February of 2013. In January of 2014, the last book in the trilogy, From the Embers, was released, thusly completing the trilogy. She now works on the Night Watchmen Series, while guzzling Red Bulls and pretending to be a ninja on Heelys.

Authors Links: Website | Blog | Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads

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Born in Flames (Born in FLames Trilogy #1)

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Embracing the Flames (Born in Flames Trilogy #2)

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From the Embers (Born in Flames Trilogy #3)

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Everlasting (Night Watchmen #1)

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The Gramm Curse (Night Watchmen #0.5)

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Giveaway

Ends November 14th 2014 (giveaway is set and managed by author not Xpresso Book Tours)

1. Paperback copy of Evernight signed by the characters (US only)
2. e-Copy of the entire Night Watchmen Series (INTL)
3. e-Copy of the entire Born in Flames trilogy (IINTL)
4. Night Watchmen button swag pack (US only)
5. 5 bookmark swag packs (US only)
6. Bracelet with charms (US only)
7. 5$ Amazon gift card (INTL

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Cover Reveal: Emma Raveling

Release Date: TBA

Genre: Urban Fantasy, Young Adult
Links: Goodreads

Synopsis:

They are the Strange, those born of magic, myths, and legends. Beings who defy scientific explanation, whose physical and mental abilities far surpass the limitations of the human body.

When they first appeared, the world resisted, frightened by their powers. But after decades of bloodshed, humanity finally accepted that the Strange were here to stay.

A tenuous peace exists. For now.

WELCOME TO BRANNIGAN CITY

Seventeen-year-old Delaney Corbeau is one of the Skilled. As a Chancer, she uses her magic to help humans find everything from misplaced keys and hidden heirlooms to lost pets.

She can find anyone and anything…except the two people she needs the most.

Liam Connelly is an Earth Shifter and son of Brannigan City’s Alpha. When his older brother goes missing, he must turn to his former childhood friend for help. Delaney’s the only person who can locate him.

The problem is they haven’t spoken in four years.

When a reclusive art collector hires Delaney to locate a stolen antique Japanese book, her path crosses with Liam once again. Soon, the simple retrieval job becomes something much more terrifying.

An old evil is stirring and it’s determined to punish every living being in Brannigan City, both Strange and human.

Delaney and Liam will have to work together if they want to survive.

Lost Blood is the first book in Emma Raveling’s new Chancer series, featuring two unlikely allies and a mysterious, thrilling adventure set in a dark world full of monsters and magic.

Author Bio
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They are the Strange, those born of magic, myths, and legends. Beings who defy scientific explanation, whose physical and mental abilities far surpass the limitations of the human body.

When they first appeared, the world resisted, frightened by their powers. But after decades of bloodshed, humanity finally accepted that the Strange were here to stay.

A tenuous peace exists. For now.

WELCOME TO BRANNIGAN CITY

Seventeen-year-old Delaney Corbeau is one of the Skilled. As a Chancer, she uses her magic to help humans find everything from misplaced keys and hidden heirlooms to lost pets.

She can find anyone and anything…except the two people she needs the most.

Liam Connelly is an Earth Shifter and son of Brannigan City’s Alpha. When his older brother goes missing, he must turn to his former childhood friend for help. Delaney’s the only person who can locate him.

The problem is they haven’t spoken in four years.

When a reclusive art collector hires Delaney to locate a stolen antique Japanese book, her path crosses with Liam once again. Soon, the simple retrieval job becomes something much more terrifying.

An old evil is stirring and it’s determined to punish every living being in Brannigan City, both Strange and human.

Delaney and Liam will have to work together if they want to survive.

Lost Blood is the first book in Emma Raveling’s new Chancer series, featuring two unlikely allies and a mysterious, thrilling adventure set in a dark world full of monsters and magic.

Author Links: Website | Twitter | Facebook | Goodreads

Waiting on Wednesday #12

This is a weekly event posted by Breaking The Spine where bloggers spotlight upcoming releases that they are eagerly anticipating.

Book that I am most eagerly waiting for this week is :

Until You Find Me

by Amber Hart

Release Date: November 11th 2014

Publisher: Flirt

Genre: New Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Links: Goodreads

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

Raven Moore, a twenty-year-old college student from Michigan, feels out of place in the beautiful, treacherous jungles of Cameroon, staying in the habitat where her father gave his life to help protect endangered gorillas. He left home years ago; now Raven refuses to return home until she unravels the truth about his last days.

Raven certainly doesn’t count on crossing paths with a handsome young hunter—especially one as charismatic and intense as Jospin Tondjii. Instantly, she’s hooked. But Jospin is hiding a dark truth: He is the heir to a powerful poaching empire, part of a ruthless black market that is responsible for the dwindling gorilla population.

Their fathers may have been enemies, but Raven and Jospin forge a bond that goes beyond blood, a relationship that is tested as Raven draws closer to the source of her father’s death. Can she and Jospin bear the weight of the secrets of the wild—and the secrets of their pasts? Or will the rain forest destroy them both?

Top Ten Tuesdays #11

Top 10 Sexy Musicians 

Top Ten Tuesdays is an original weekly meme created by The Broke and The Bookish

No specific order. But add to you Goodreads.

1. David Ferris - Lick by Kylie Scott

2. Mal Ericson - Play by Kylie Scott

3. Jimmy Ferris - Lead by Kylie Scott

4. Ben - Deep by Kylie Scott

5. Zachary Fox - Rock Addiction by Nalini Singh

6. Jag Steele - Jag by Stevie. J Cole

7. Luke Anderson - Love of a Rockstar by Nicole Simone

8. Saxon Tate - Saxon by Chantal Fernando

9. Damien Blue - The Right Kind of Love by Kennedy Kelly

10. Christian Meyer - Blurring the Lines by Mia Josephs

Review: Lick (Stage Dive #1)

Lick (Stage Dive #1) by Kylie Scott

Publisher: Momentum, 2013

304 pages, paperback

Source: Purchased through Kmart

Genre: Romance, New Adult, Contemporary

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

Evelyn Thomas's plans for celebrating her twenty-first birthday in Las Vegas were big. Huge. But she sure as hell never meant to wake up on the bathroom floor with a hangover to rival the black plague, a very attractive half-naked tattooed man, and a diamond on her finger large enough to scare King Kong. Now if she could just remember how it all happened.

One thing is for certain, being married to rock and roll's favourite son is sure to be a wild ride

My Review:

This book goes beyond my expectations, it bloody rocked my world and to me Heavens gates, David Ferris you are a bloody rock star and book boyfie legend and Evelyn aka Eve was outstanding and the blood perfect opposite to this sexy rock star legend.

I guess what happens in Vegas should stay in Vegas. Waking up with a huge hangover in your hotel room and you spot this sexy rock star guy half naked beside you. huh? Well if it was me I'd take him back to bed and have my wicked way with him, but if your name is Evelyn well then you freak the hell out. Eve had a goal in her mind when she headed into Vegas to celebrate her BIG 21st have one HUGE sexual encounter to rebuff the horrible one she had. But after a night of the town, drinking tequila she cannot seem to remember a thing from the night before or the sex rock star legend guy that is in her room next to her. But she does remember was that she was not wearing a 5 carat diamond ring when she got there.

David Ferris is upset that Eve doesn't remember anything from the night before. He didn't realise she was that drunk. He thought they really had something special between them. But Eve has no memories of their night before. She didn't even realise he was this famous rock star who plays the guitarist for the most popular band, Stage Dive. Eve is distraught knowing she has made a huge mistake, she give David the ring back and she flees back home to portland hoping to get their marriage annulled without anyone finding out. But the news of their marriage traveled fast to the paparazzi and now everyone in the world knows.

It's not until the plane ride home that she even realizes who he was: David Ferris, the lead guitarist and songwriter for Stage Dive, one of the hottest rock bands of the time. No matter, Evelyn is just a simple girl, who actually prefers country music (thus why she never recognized him) and attempts to move on, until the press gets a hold of her. Then, at David's request, she comes out to stay with him and the band in LA, where he promises they can better handle the situation until the annulment is finalized.

Shocked and overwhelmed by the rock star lifestyle, both the opulence and abundant sex and drugs, Evelyn doesn't know what to think, especially when David seems intent on ignoring her. But then one thing leads to another and little by little they start opening up to one another, even as external forces seem to conspire to keep them apart. Soon the passion is undeniable, but could a relationship between a plain girl and a rock star ever truly work?

My Rating:

ARC Review: Almost Like Love

Almost Like Love by Abigail Storm

Publisher: Montlake Romance

Source: Netgalley

Genre: Romance, Chick Lit, Contemporary, Romance

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

Television writer Kate Meredith is having the day from hell. First, her show was canceled. Then her fiance left her for another woman. Now, she's courting disaster by flirting with the hard-bodied, tattooed, motorcycle-riding bad boy of her dreams - who also happens to be the man who fired her.

If people had told Ian Hart that he'd be firing Kate in the morning and dancing with her that night, he'd have laughed in their faces. Despite her leggy body, the sweet but geeky redhead isn't his type. At least, that's what he thinks before spotting her in a club wearing an outfit that reveals her surprisingly delectable assets.

Before he knows it, Ian becomes Kate's knight on a shining motorcycle, escorting her home to prevent her from running off with some random guy. But when the night is over, "Little Miss Boring" and her sexy former boss just might turn their oh-so-wrong feelings into something very right.

My Review:

Kate Meredith is probably having the worst day ever known to mankind she received a double whammy! She loses her job, her fiance dumps her which I think is a dick move (sorry for the language) and then she is convinced by her bestie to dress up outside her comfort zone for a night out of the town. After only a couple of drinks Kate is more then determined to find a Mr. Bad Boy to a fun night with, she runs into Ian.

Ian has just fired her because of the bad ratings which is a big thing in television. He is Mr. Corporate Shark but he has a secret no one knows about as a bad boy he has the piercings, tattoo and even owns a bike all the things Kate wants and Ian comes to her rescue loads of times regarding her dickwad (sorry for the language) ex.

Ian and Kate fall for one another but our Mr. Bad Boy Ian has had a rough time with the L Word, so thats a big issue with them. But when Ian faces his feelings for Kate, she wants nothing to do with him and now he has to try and win her back.

Even though the humor wasn't consistent through the whole book, I really did enjoy this book, cant wait for more from the author.

My Rating:

ARC Review: Come Back To Texas (Twelve Beats In A Bar #1)

Come Back To Texas (Twelve Beats In A Bar #1) by K.K. Hendin

Publisher: Not available, 2014
274 pages, kindle edition

Source: Purchased through Amazon and also given by Xpresso Book Tours

Genre: New Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Synopsis (from Goodreads):
Everyone thought we’d be the ones who made it through high school. The ones who’d get married and stay married forever. The example of how young love can work.

We thought so, too.

Too bad life had other plans.

It’s been three years since Hayley and Nate broke each other’s hearts. Three years, and a lot has changed. Hayley’s a freshman in Bushwick University, and the only things keeping her sane are stress baking, and her a cappella group, Twelve Beats in a Bar.

Nate’s a Marine, stationed in Afghanistan. The only thing that’s keeping him sane is the last picture he has of him and Hayley, and the hope that maybe when the hell of deployment is over, he can find her again and apologize.

One explosion will change everything.

When a bomb kills all of Nate’s unit, leaving him missing a leg and eyesight in one eye, he’s sent back home to Texas. Texas, where he loved Hayley more than he could possibly imagine ever loving anyone else.

With seemingly endless amounts of free time and needing something to distract himself, Nate starts making YouTube videos, imploring Hayley to come back to him, and come back to Texas.

Hayley’s life is wrapped around the Beats, making sure she doesn’t flunk out of biology class, and babysitting Ohio’s smallest monster, Brandon. She doesn't want to admit it, but she misses Nate more than anything.

It’s too bad she doesn’t know just how much he misses her, too…It’s been three years since Hayley and Nate broke each other’s hearts. Three years, and a lot has changed. Hayley’s a freshman in Bushwick University, and the only things keeping her sane are stress baking, and her a cappella group, Twelve Beats in a Bar.

Nate’s a Marine, stationed in Afghanistan. The only thing that’s keeping him sane is the last picture he has of him and Hayley, and the hope that maybe when the hell of deployment is over, he can find her again and apologize.

One explosion will change everything.

When a bomb kills all of Nate’s unit, leaving him missing a leg and eyesight in one eye, he’s sent back home to Texas. Texas, where he loved Haley more than he could possibly imagine ever loving anyone else.

With seemingly endless amounts of free time and needing something to distract himself, Nate starts making YouTube videos, imploring Hayley to come back to him, and come back to Texas.

Hayley’s life is wrapped around the Beats, making sure she doesn’t flunk out of biology class, and babysitting Ohio’s smallest monster, Brandon. She doesn't want to admit it, but she misses Nate more than anything.

It’s too bad she doesn't know just how much he misses her, too…

My Review:

I Loved this book from both point of views and even through the flashbacks we got to see throughout the book, our characters are high school sweethearts who were separated by circumstances and it also has a military theme to it so it is simply perfect for me.

Hayley and Nate are our high school sweethearts who are totally devoted to one another one hundred percent up until certain circumstance had pushed them further apart. 3 years later Hayley is working and studying harder than ever in college, still wondering in the back of her head what has happened with Nate and is missing him terribly. Nate is overseas serving his country with the Marines until an incident leaves him possibly fighting a different kind of battle that needs to be overcome with faith and trust. And all Nate can envision is having Hayley in his arms and future and he beings a series of videos which he posts on to Youtube to try and win Hayley back but has he left it too little too late?

This is a romantic book  that captured me whole from the first line to the middle to the last full stop. This book will stay on my shelves and my kindle to be read again and again. I'm really looking forward to Book 2 A Different Kind of Fine and more books from this author.

My Rating:

Book Blitz: Jane Lark

I Need You (Starting Out #3) by Jane Lark

 Title: I Need You

Series: Starting Out #3

Author: Jane Lark

Publisher: Harper Impulse

Date of Release: 23rd October 2014

Genre: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance

Link: Goodreads | Amazon | B & N

Other Books In The Series

Synopsis 

Guilt can eat away at you, but love can cut like a knife…

Wanting after his best friend’s girlfriend is a cliché Billy knows well – it’s the tightrope he’s walked for years.
But now Jason and Lindy have broken up and Billy can’t help but be there for the girl he’s loved from afar for so long. She’s hurting.

Fighting to find a road to the future, Lindy’s heart hurts. She’s trying to escape the truth, but Billy keeps making her face it – and it’s ugly. How can she keep living when everything is made of glass and it keeps shattering?

Her one constant is Billy. Only, rebound isn’t his style and when Lindy starts to see him in a different light, he just can’t trust her. He’s no one’s second best.

Excerpt
My finger kept hovering over Billy’s name in the contacts list on my cell. I’d seen the psychiatrist and she’d told me I had to start seeing her regularly, to talk out all the stuff going on in my life––and in my head. Then I’d come home and all the stuff going on in my life had hit me in the face. There was an atmosphere in the house. Fear. Loneliness. Pain. Because Mom was sick––she couldn’t help being sick––but I had to watch her wither away. It was too hard––I didn’t want to let her go.
My head, belly and heart ached. Life had been hard and cruel for too long. That’s why I’d tried to end it––I’d just been selfish for a moment. I’d tried to escape everything; Mom and Jason. His baby had been the thing that slid me over the Niagara Falls of despair, though.
But I wouldn’t do it again. I’d learned my lesson. Guilt was heavy. Mom had looked hurt and disappointed and Dad hadn’t been able to hide how bad he’d have felt if I’d succeeded.
If I was meant to die I’d have died. I was meant to face up to all this bullshit and keep going.
And Mom…
Now I could see all the stuff I’d been blind to.
I felt lousy, not because I’d swallowed a massive dose of happy pills, but because I’d hurt my parents.
Mom had every reason to bow out, and she didn’t––I’d tried.
I needed someone to hold me. I felt sore inside.
I touched the screen. Billy’s picture and details came up. He smiled at me out of the cell, with those warm dark-blue eyes of his. My thumb hovered over his number.
We hadn’t spoken since just after New Year, until I’d called him the other day. But I had no one else. He’d been the closest person to me other than Jason for years.
I wished what had happened, hadn’t…
I shut my eyes––I wish, I wish, I wish. If I had shiny red shoes on and clicked my heels, I wondered if I could go back in time, to when everything was right, then I could make sure everything stayed right.
That’s what my life had become––wishes that things had not happened, wishes that they wouldn’t, wishes that people would stay in my life.
I’d lost my friends. I’d given them up in favor of Jason, and look how that had ended. He’d moved on and left me behind. The only friend I’d had left was his best friend, until I’d messed that up too.
I was super-good at messing things up.
I sighed. Courage. I wasn’t going to fix things with the only possible friend I had left unless I made the move. He’d taken the first step the other day when he’d texted me––now it was my turn. I just had to do it.
I tapped the icon.
“Hi.” He answered, right off. My heart pounded.
“Billy?”
“You. Okay?”
“Yeah. I’m at home now. Dad picked me up at seven last night and brought me back. I appreciate you helping me out. I’m sorry you had to see me like that. I’m––”
“It’s okay, Lind. I’m glad you’re home. How did you get on with the shrink?”
When Jason had gone to New York, Billy had become my best friend, as well as Jason’s. But then he’d ended up in the middle of everything when Jason had deserted me.
“Okay, I have to see someone regularly.”
“Well that’s probably a good thing isn’t it?”
“Yeah.”
“How are you today?”
“Down.” I sighed. The psychiatrist had told me to be honest rather than keep things trapped inside. “Jason having the baby makes me feel like crap still. Is that a bad thing to admit? Only the woman at the hospital told me I should admit how I feel.”
“Lind, if it’s how you feel, it’s how you feel, it just is. I know all this stuff is hard on you. I’m not judging you. Like I said the other day, I feel like I’ve let you down… Do you want me come around so we can talk?”
“Yeah.” God the thought of having someone to talk to outside of my house, and everything weighing down the atmosphere in here, was wonderful. Like an oasis in a desert.
“I’ll come over now then…”

About Author

Jane is a writer of authentic, passionate and emotional Historical and New Adult romance and author of a No.1 bestselling Historical Novel,'The Illicit Love of a Courtesan, as well as a Kindle overall Top 25, bestselling author.

She began her first historical novel at sixteen, but a life full of adversity derailed her as she lives with the restrictions of Ankylosing Spondylitis.

When she finally completed a novel it was because she was determined not to reach forty still saying, I want to write.

Now Jane is writing a Regency series as well as contemporary, new adult, stories and she is thrilled to be giving her characters life in others' imaginations at last.

You might think that Jane was inspired to write by Jane Austen, especially as she lives near Bath in the United Kingdom, but you would be wrong. Jane's favourite author is Anya Seton, and the book which drew her into the bliss of falling into historical imagination was 'Katherine' a story crafted from reality.

Jane has drawn on this inspiration to discover other real-life love stories, reading memoirs and letters to capture elements of the past, and she uses these to create more realistic plots.

'Basically I love history and I am sucker for a love story. I love the feeling of falling in love; it's wonderful being able to do it time and time again in fiction.'

Jane is also a Chartered Member of the Institute of Personnel and Development in the United Kingdom, and uses this specialist understanding of people to bring her characters to life.

Giveaway
A signed copy of I Found You, the first book in the series and a back pack (INTL)
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Friday Finds #11

This is a meme hosted by Should Be Reading. What yah do is post up books that you discovered through bookstores, friends, goodreads, etc. Whichever way you discovered them. But only post up the books the books you discovered during that Friday week only.

Book I found this week

Title: Evidence of Things Not Seen

Author: Lindsey Lane

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

When high school junior Tommy Smythe goes missing, everyone has a theory about what happened to him. Tommy was adopted, so maybe he ran away to find his birth parents. He was an odd kid, often deeply involved in his own thoughts about particle physics, so maybe he just got distracted and wandered off. He was last seen at a pull-out off the highway, so maybe someone drove up and snatched him. Or maybe he slipped into a parallel universe. Tommy believes that everything is possible, and that until something can be proven false, it is possibly true. So as long as Tommy’s whereabouts are undetermined, he could literally be anywhere.

Told in a series of first-person narratives from people who knew Tommy and third-person chapters about people who find the things Tommy left behind—his red motorbike, his driving goggles, pages from his notebook—Particles explores themes of loneliness, connectedness, and the role we play in creating our own realities

Waiting on Wednesday #11

This is a weekly event posted by Breaking The Spine where bloggers spotlight up coming releases that they are eagerly anticipating.

Book that I am most eagerly waiting for this week is :

Waterfall (Teardrop #2)
by Lauren Kate

Release Date: October 28th 2014
Publisher: Random House Children's (UK)
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance
Links: Goodreads

Synopsis (from  Goodreads):
Eureka's tears have flooded the earth and now Atlantis is rising, along with its evil king, Atlas. Eureka is the only one who can stop him – but first she must learn how to fight.

She travels across the ocean with Ander to try and make sense of the dark world her sorrow has created. But dark secrets are hidden in the depths – will she be strong enough to defeat Atlas, or is her broken heart just what he needs to power his rising kingdom?

Eureka has the chance to save the world. But she'll have to give up on everything – even love . . 

Top Ten Tuesdays #10

Top 10 Series I Wouldn't Mind Reading Again

Top Ten Tuesdays is an original weekly meme created by The Broke and The Bookish.

No specific order. But add to your Goodreads.

1. Embrace, Entice, Emblaze, Endless and Empower by Jessica Shirvington

2. Switched, Torn and Ascend by Amanda Hocking

3. Until November, Until Trevor, Until Lilly and Until Nico by Aurora Rose Reynolds

4. Crave, Covet and Consume by Melissa Darnell

5. Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse and Breaking Dawn by Stepenie Meyer

6. Mercy, Exile, Muse and Fury by Rebecca Lim

7. Sweet Evil, Sweet Peril and Sweet Reckoning by Wendy Higgins

8. The Goddess Test, Goddess Interrupted and Goddess Inheritance by Amiee Carter

9. Firelight, Vanish and Hidden by Sophie Jordan

10. The Hollow, The Haunted and The Hidden by Jessica Verday

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Review: Embrace (The Violet Eden Chapters #1)

Embrace (The Violet Eden Chapters #1) by Jessica Shirvington

Publisher: Hachette Autralia, 2010
382 pages, paperback
Source: Purchased through Dymocks
Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal, Fantasy, Romance, Supernatural

Synopsis (from Goodreads):
It starts with a whisper: “It’s time for you to know who you are…”

Violet Eden dreads her seventeenth birthday. After all, it’s hard to get too excited about the day that marks the anniversary of your mother’s death. As if that wasn't enough, disturbing dreams haunt her sleep and leave her with very real injuries. There’s a dark tattoo weaving its way up her arms that wasn't there before.

Violet is determined to get some answers, but nothing could have prepared her for the truth. The guy she thought she could fall in love with has been keeping his identity a secret: he’s only half-human—oh, and same goes for her.

A centuries-old battle between fallen angels and the protectors of humanity has chosen its new warrior. It’s a fight Violet doesn't want, but she lives her life by two rules: don't run and don't quit. When angels seek vengeance and humans are the warriors, you could do a lot worse than betting on Violet Eden…

My Reivew:
Embrace is about Violet Eden, her mum died the day she was born and on her 17th birthday weird things start happening. She is having weird dreams and she gets cuts from these dreams and these markings start to appear on her wrists. she also gets a letter from her mum that her father has been saving for this occasion, it talks a lot about heap of things and she finds out this majorly huge secret that the one person in her life that was her anchor and his name is Lincoln.

When she finds out this secret that he knew and she doesn't know who she can trust anymore and she also meets new people and also meets this new guy Phenix. I really loved this book I've seen a lot of mixed reviews about it, but I wasn't going to let those reviews get to me. This book had awesome quotes, awesome moments sad, angry and happy.

I loved how different this book is to other storylines that feature angels, I loved all the characters, Im extremely a big sucker for love triangles the fact that it had that it was entertaining as hell for me, I thought it was just dark and a lot of things were happening left, right and centre it was a slow book but it kept going and going and going and was great.

My Rating:

ARC Review: Whisper The Dead (The Lovegrove Legacy #2)

Whisper The Dead (The Lovegrove Legacy #2) by Alyxandra Harvey

Publisher: Bloomsbury Children, 2014
408 pages, Hardcover

 Source: Netgalley

Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal

Synopsis (from Goodreads):

Cousins Gretchen, Emma, and Penelope are all dealing with what it means to be a Lovegrove. For Gretchen, it means she often feels like her head is going to explode. As a Whisperer, Gretchen constantly hears the whispers of other witches' spells. And while this does help her to know when one of her own spells is going wrong, the incessant buzzing and pain the whispers cause makes it difficult to use her gift.

But when something evil begins to menace Mayfair, Gretchen must find a way to master her power. Along with her cousins, a madcap named Moira, and the icy yet irresistible Tobias Lawless, Gretchen faces deadly threats and unimaginable loss in the hopes of preventing the terrible Greymalkin Sisters from rising again.

The second book in The Lovegrove Legacy trilogy, Whisper the Dead will leave readers spellbound.

My Review:

Lovegrove cousins Emma, Gretchen and Penelope are adapting to their new powers very well, but one Gretchen is struggling a tiny bit because she is what you would call a whisper, in other words it means she can hear other witches spells, but she can't control it, and it makes her head feel like it is may explode. But also due to what happened to the Greymalkin sisters, the keepers don't trust the cousins and are keeping a close eye on them. The Keeper that is watching Gretchen is the rule abiding yet alluring Tobias Lawless. Magic is acting up in mayfair with bones going missing and evil is lurking. As Gretchen tries to learn and master her powers and to discover what the hell is happening in London, will the cousins be able to prevent disaster from striking.

Gretchen is a fierce and strong female character with a mind of her own but she can come across as being modern for the time this book was set which kind of makes her feel like she is unrealistic in the book. Mr. Tobias  Lawless comes across as a sort of control arrogant guy who follows rules by rules but all in all underneath all that he is just very protective and very loyal. It was really nice to see Emma and Cormac in the book, hopefully fingers crossed we get to know Penelope a bit better in the following book.

Whisper The Dead is the enjoyable second book in The Lovegrove Legacy trilogy which is packed with action, Young adult history and paranromal novel. I can't get enough of this series. I loved the Drake Chronicles series, all her series are just fantastic.

My Rating:

Friday Finds #10

This is a meme hosted by Should Be Reading. What yah do is post up books that you discovered through bookstores, friends, goodreads etc, whichever way you discovered them. But only post up the books you discovered during that Friday week only.

Book I found this week:

Title: No One Needs To Know
Author: Amanda Grace

Synopsis (from Goodreads):
Sometimes, the cost of love is too steep

Olivia's twin brother, Liam, has been her best friend her whole life. But when he starts dating, Olivia is left feeling alone, so she tries to drive away Liam's girlfriends in an effort to get her best friend back.

But she meets her match in Zoey, Liam's latest fling. A call-it-like-she-sees-it kind of girl, Zoey sees right through Olivia's tricks. What starts as verbal sparring between the two changes into something different, however, as they share their deepest insecurities and learn they have a lot in common. Olivia falls for Zoey, believing her brother could never get serious with her. But when Liam confesses that he's in love with Zoey, Olivia has to decide who deserves happiness more: her brother or herself?

Waiting on Wednsdays #10

This is a weekly event posted by Breaking The Spine where bloggers spotlight up coming releases that they are eagerly anticipating.

Book that I am most eagerly waiting for this week is :

Eight Days A Week

by Amber L. Johnson

Release Date: November 6th 2014
Publisher: The Writer's Coffee Shop
Genre: Contemporary, Romance
Links: Goodreads

Synopsis (from Goodreads):
Gwen Stone has secrets she’s not ready to reveal. After a recent promotion at work, she needs a caretaker for her children. She’s frenzied and in a lurch and pretty much ready to hire the first person who comes along. So she does.

Andrew Lyons needs to get out of his sister’s apartment, and a Craigslist posting may be the answer to his prayers. But what he thought was an ad for a room rental turns into a job offer he can’t refuse. Accepting the nanny position could change his life, if only he had a clue how to be a grownup.

A working mother, a shirtless manny who looks good in a towel, two children who need more than than a babysitter, and hours of kids’ TV can only spell disaster for everyone involved.

Because a manny should always mind his own business.

And he definitely shouldn’t fall in love with his boss.

Top Ten Tuesdays #9

Top 10 angel books

Top Ten Tuesdays is an original weekly meme created by The Broke and The Bookish.

No specific order. But add to your Goodreads.

1. Embrace by Jessica Shirvington
2. Empower by Jessica Shirvington
3. Fallen by Lauren Kate
4.  Rapture by Lauren Kate
5. Sweet Reckoning by Wendy Higgins
6. Angel Eyes by Shannon Dittemore
7. Divinity by Michelle L. Johnson
8. Her Guardians by Jamie Roberts
9. Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick
10. A Slither of Hope by Lisa M. Basso

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