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February 27, 2013
Waiting on Wednesday: Day After by Emi Gayle
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme, showcasing books that we are waiting to read hosted by Breaking the Spine.
I loved, loved, loved After Dark. The story continues from Winn’s point of view. *sigh* Winn…
Description
Demon crypts. Vampire lairs. Glowing angels. Sexy sirens. The stuff of fiction.
Or so Winn Thomas always thought.
Since being accepted into the fold of the supernatural, he knows better. None of what he imagined is true, but everything he feared is, and binding himself to his Changeling girlfriend until her nineteenth birthday will give him an education far beyond what he’d get at his human high school.
Luckily, Winn’s not giving up, he won’t back down, and he definitely isn’t going to run away with his tail between his legs. After all, only werewolves have tails. Right?
In this, the second of the 19th Year trilogy, Winn’s facing the challenge of one lifetime. If he doesn’t learn the truth about mythological creatures, his girlfriend Mac Thorne won’t either. That means, in six months, when she chooses her final form, she won’t know what to pick.
Winn, though, has his own ideas about Mac’s final selection—plans she knows nothing of.
He intends to have her pick human.
Whether she can or not.
Tagged: 2013, Books, Fiction, Fun, Just for Fun, Musings, Novels, Opinion, Opinions, Paranormal Romance, ramblings, Random, Random Thoughts, Reading, Romance, Teens, Waiting on Wednesday, Writers, Writing, YA, YA books, YA Paranormal Romance, YA urban fantasy, Young Adult, Young Adult Books
February 25, 2013
Cover Reveal: Tied by Laney McMann
HOW FREAKING AWESOME IS THIS COVER?
TIED
Fire Born #1
by Laney McMann
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Back of the Book
Normal people don’t believe their nightmares stalk them. They don’t fall in love with boys who don’t exist, either.
Seventeen-year-old Layla Labelle, though, is far from normal. Her delusions walk the earth. Her hallucinations hunt her, and her skin heats to a burn every time her anger flares.
Or is that all in her head?
Layla doesn’t know what to believe any more because if none of that’s true, Max MacLarnon must be an illusion, and her heart must still be broken.
No matter how much she wants to believe Max is real, doing so would mean everything else is, too. How, then, is that possible?
The answers lie in an age-old legend the supernatural aren’t prepared to reveal, and with a curse that could tear Layla and Max apart forever—if it doesn’t kill them both first.
In TIED, book one in the Fire Born trilogy, learning the truth will mean fighting an arsenal of demons, and being with Max will put Layla on a path toward her own destruction.
Just how far will Layla go to protect the one she loves?
The answer may never be far enough … away.
Tagged: 2013, Authors, Books, Cover Reveal, Fiction, Fun, Novels, Opinion, Opinions, Paranormal Romance, Photos, ramblings, Random, Random Thoughts, Reading, Teens, Writers, Writing, YA, YA books, YA Paranormal Romance, Young Adult Books
February 21, 2013
Rockin’ Thursdays: Ho Hey by the Lumineers
Tell me you don’t sing this song every single time you hear it? I don’t believe you. 
“I belong with you…”
Tagged: 2013, Fun, Just for Fun, Music, Musings, Opinion, Opinions, ramblings, Random, Random Thoughts, Rockin' Thursdays, The Lumineers, Videos
February 20, 2013
Waiting on Wednesday: Gameboard of the Gods by Richelle Mead
Blurb: In a futuristic world nearly destroyed by religious extremists, Justin March lives in exile after failing in his job as an investigator of religious groups and supernatural claims. But Justin is given a second chance when Mae Koskinen comes to bring him back to the Republic of United North America (RUNA). Raised in an aristocratic caste, Mae is now a member of the military’s most elite and terrifying tier, a soldier with enhanced reflexes and skills.
When Justin and Mae are assigned to work together to solve a string of ritualistic murders, they soon realize that their discoveries have exposed them to terrible danger. As their investigation races forward, unknown enemies and powers greater than they can imagine are gathering in the shadows, ready to reclaim the world in which humans are merely game pieces on their board.
Gameboard of the Gods, the first installment of Richelle Mead’s Age of X series, will have all the elements that have made her YA Vampire Academy and Bloodlines series such megasuccesses: sexy, irresistible characters; romantic and mythological intrigue; and relentless action and suspense.
Richelle Mead could write bad recipes and I’d read every single one because of the suspense and sexual tension between the spices.
Tagged: 2013, Books, Fiction, Fun, Just for Fun, Musings, Novels, Opinion, Paranormal Romance, ramblings, Random, Random Thoughts, Reading, Romance, Waiting on Wednesday, Writers
February 14, 2013
Rockin’ Thursdays: Two Black Cadillacs by Carrie Underwood
I’m continuing with the country theme this week, mainly because I cannot get this song out of my head lately. Love Carrie. Yeah, it’s not all that romantic for Valentine’s Day, but still….
Tagged: 2013, country music, Fun, Just for Fun, Music, Musings, Opinion, Opinions, ramblings, Random, Random Thoughts, Rockin' Thursdays, Videos
February 13, 2013
Waiting on Wednesday: Movie Edition
I haven’t been this excited about an adaptation in a LONG TIME! Don’t get me wrong, The Hunger Games was exciting… BUT THIS WILL BE EPIC. Or an epic fail, but I’m reeeeaaaaally hoping for EPIC.
Tagged: 2013, adaptations, Books, Fiction, Fun, Just for Fun, movies, Novels, Opinion, Opinions, Paranormal Romance, ramblings, Random, Random Thoughts, Reading, Romance, Teens, Videos, Waiting on Wednesday, YA, YA books, YA Paranormal Romance, Young Adult, Young Adult Books
February 7, 2013
Rockin’ Thursdays – Super Bowl Commercial Edition
Instead of a music vid today, I’m interrupting this broadcast to tell you why the Dodge Ram commercial beat out the Clydesdales this year.
God made a farmer. Yes, this sealed the deal for me. Growing up on a farm in NE Missouri, I saw the daily struggles of farm life, the hours of work put in each day, and the amount of commitment it took to farm the land. Some farmers, like my uncle, also had full-time jobs along with managing the day-to-day operations of the farm. Seeing Dodge shout out it’s appreciation to the men and women who bust their backs every day so that we can have wheat, soy, corn, etc., swelled my chest with pride. No, I’m not a farmer, nor will I ever be one, but I know many who are; classmates who have followed in their parents footsteps for example. This commercial was about them, and I loved it.
It touched my heart more so than the baby Clydesdale.
Tagged: 2013, Commercials, Dodge, Dodge Ram, Rockin' Thursdays, Super Bowl, Videos
February 6, 2013
Waiting on Wednesday: Resonance by J.A. Belfield
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme, showcasing books that we are waiting to read hosted by Breaking the Spine.
After reading Blue Moon, I wanted this RIGHT AWAY!
Description
Guilt is a heavy burden for the one carrying it.
Jem Stonehouse is no exception to this rule.
What if she’d acted sooner? What if she’d fully recognised the threat? What if she hadn’t allowed the male pack members to head into the witches’ ambush?
For one, youngest pack member Josh Larsen wouldn’t be trapped in the sleep of the dead.
Now, Jem is convinced it’s her job to bring him back to life no matter what it takes—learning more about her heritage, risking pack exposure, or travelling to places she couldn’t have imagined possible.
Even if the journey endangers her soul.
Tagged: 2013, Authors, Books, Fiction, Fun, Just for Fun, Memories, Musings, Novels, Opinion, Opinions, Paranormal Romance, ramblings, Random, Random Thoughts, Reading, Romance, Waiting on Wednesday, Writers, Writing
January 31, 2013
Rockin’ Thursdays: Better Dig Two by The Band Perry
I’ve been on a bit of a country kick lately, which is really odd. Honestly, I haven’t listened to country music in … well, a very long time. Let’s just say Garth Brooks was king of the country scene and leave it at that. Anyway, this song is a definite earworm for me now.
Tagged: 2013, Better Dig Two, Fun, Just for Fun, Music, Musings, Opinion, Opinions, ramblings, Random, Random Thoughts, Rockin' Thursdays, The Band Perry, Videos
January 30, 2013
Waiting on Wednesday: Silent Echoes by Aimee Laine
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme, showcasing books that we are waiting to read hosted by Breaking the Spine.
A new Game of Zeus novel by Aimee Laine?
YES, PLEASE!
Description
For years, Ian Sands has enjoyed his life as a bachelor, taking advantage of singlehood and exploring his own definition of passion—whoever she may be. Blonde. Brunette. Tall. Short. Hot. Not. Five months ago, all that changed.
Ian’s been celibate, frustrated and desperately seeking answers to why one woman, who doesn’t play by girls’ rules, haunts his every waking moment.
As a renovations specialist, Taylor Marsh lives, works and breathes construction—a profession her southern belle of a mother would rather Taylor not touch. The same goes for Ian; Mama Marsh would never approve of him.
Like Ian, though, each time he and Taylor draw near, something compels her to get closer.
Something else tells her to run away.
Fast.
As much as their histories suggest they shouldn’t be together, neither Taylor nor Ian can deny the pull, and the two succumb, indulging in a relationship that brings pleasure to body, mind and soul.
Doing so, though, also ushers in a series of events both should have foreseen as well as one final outcome neither expected.
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