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January 24, 2016
Release Blitz Viscountess of Vice
About the Book 
Title: Viscountess of Vice
Author: Jenny Holiday
Genre: Historical Romance
Secrets and lies, scandals and spies.
All Lady Catharine, Viscountess Cranbrook, wants is a little excitement. Bored of playing the role of the ton’s favorite slightly scandalous widow, she jumps at the chance to go undercover as a courtesan to help with an espionage mission. After all, beneath her outrageously low bodice beats the heart of a patriot.
Social reformer James Burnham is conducting a stud...
Mini-Reviews: Convalescence, The Lives Between Us, Your Heart & Mind
Time for some mini-reviews! What are mini-reviews, you ask? As the title suggests, these are short reviews, consisting of one paragraph tops, about a book. It’s a way to catch up on the books I’ve read a while ago, but never got around to reviewing.
Convalescence
Tite: Convalescence
Author: Maynard Sims
Genre: Horror
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase:
Amazon
Who will protect the children?
Fourteen-year-old James has seen his family wiped out by tuberculosis in the England of the 1960s. When he is...
January 23, 2016
Book Excerpt Becoming Famous
My name is Bebe Barkley. I’ve never released a sex tape. I’ve I’m not America’s Next Top Model. I didn’t get pregnant at sixteen and I’ve never auditioned for American Idol. In fact I’m holed up at the Waldorf totally depressed. But, even though I don’t know it yet, I’m about to become famous. This is my story and how it all went down.
Let’s face it: At the moment I’m a hot mess. How do I know this? I haven’t showered or gotten out of bed for three days. I’ve been watching reruns of Keeping U...
Mini-Reviews: Time to Die, Lost Girls, Sentinels
Time for some mini-reviews! What are mini-reviews, you ask? As the title suggests, these are short reviews, consisting of one paragraph tops, about a book. It’s a way to catch up on the books I’ve read a while ago, but never got around to reviewing.
Time to Die
Tite: Time to Die
Author: Caroline Mitchell
Genre: Paranormal, Thriller
Rating: 4,5 stars
Purchase:
Amazon
He will predict your life… and your death. Don’t ever cross his palm with silver. He will reveal your most shameful secrets....
Stacking The Shelves (20)
The purpose of this meme is to share the books that came into our house last week with our readers. These can be ARCs, books we purchased ourselves, books requested for review by authors and publishers, eBooks, free reads we stumbled upon and audiobooks. The only thing that doesn’t count are library books.
Stacking The Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga’s Reviews.
Click HERE to view all my ‘In My Mailbox’ posts.
In My Mailbox
January 22, 2016
Book Review: Asylum by Madelein Roux
Title: Asylum
Author: Madeleine Roux
Genre: Young Adult, Horror
Age Group: Young Adult
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.
Asylum is a thrilling and creepy photo-novel perfect for fans of the New York Times bestseller Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.
For sixteen-year-old Dan Crawford, New Hampshire College Prep is more than a summer program—it’s a lifeline. An outcast at his high school, Dan is excit...
January 21, 2016
Mini-Reviews: The Dead House, If You Wrong Us, The Girl With No Past
Time for some mini-reviews! What are mini-reviews, you ask? As the title suggests, these are short reviews, consisting of one paragraph tops, about a book. It’s a way to catch up on the books I’ve read a while ago, but never got around to reviewing.
The Dead House
Tite: The Dead House
Author: Dawn Kurtagich
Genre: Horror, Young Adult
Rating: 3 stars
Purchase:
Amazon
Part-psychological thriller, part-urban legend, this is an unsettling narrative made up of diary entries, interview transcri...
January 20, 2016
Promo Post The Other Side of Life
The Other Side of Lifeby Andy Kutler
Publication Date: August 11, 2015
Neverland Publishing Company LLC
Formats: Trade Paperback and Kindle
Pages: 360
Genre: Historical Fiction
December 1941, Pearl Harbor. A peaceful Sunday morning turns into a devastating attack on American soil. Naval officer Malcolm “Mac” Kelsey is severely wounded while defending his ship. A flawed man abandoned long ago by his alcoholic wife, Kelsey has been mired in despair and hopelessness following t...
Book Review: Daughters Unto Devils by Amy Lukavics
Title: Daughters Unto Devils
Author: Amy Lukavics
Genre: Young Adult, Horror, Historical Fiction
Age Group: Young Adult
Rating: 5 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy purchased by yours truly.
When sixteen-year-old Amanda Verner’s family decides to move from their small mountain cabin to the vast prairie, she hopes it is her chance for a fresh start. She can leave behind the memory of the past winter; of her sickly ma giving birth to a baby sister who cries endlessly; of the terrifying visions...
Book Review: Calasade: Sanguinem Isle by Mark Stone
Title: Calasade: Sanguinem Isle
Author: Mark Stone
Genre: Fantasy
Age Group: Adult
Rating: 4 stars
Purchase: Amazon
Review copy provided by Enchanted Book Promotions in exchange for an honest review.
Caderyn Fortis has been many things—loyal husband, soldier, war veteran, public servant. Now he is a fallen nobilis and gambling addict, an alcoholic who never got over the murder of his wife. In his darkest hour an opportunity comes that can help him recover his self-worth and make up for the m...
