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Book Blitz: The Keeper: Awakening

Title: The Keeper: Awakening ~ Author: O. L. Ramos ~ Genre: Paranormal Romance ~ Blitz Host: Lady Amber's Tours



Elizabeth is a brilliant loner with a troubling secret she doesn't even know. As if the trauma of her mother being abducted before her eyes as a young girl wasn't enough, the small town she lives in thinks she’s crazy. That all changed when she met Michael, a mysterious and handsome man who identified with her like no one else before. Michael’s long time friend Vincent visits and drops the bombshell of a lifetime on Elizabeth and her world becomes completely unraveled.



Vincent’s information has revealed the world for what it is; a place where the impossible is real, and myths and legends walk slyly in shadow. A world that Elizabeth will learn she too is a member. Now, the three are caught up in a thousand year long conspiracy they never could have imagined. The three must rely on one another and the secret connection they all share if they have a chance to survive.







O.L. Ramos was born in Miami, Florida to Cuban immigrant parents. From a very young age he found himself drawn to books and telling stories to anyone who would hear it. His job titles have been so diverse, from being a sales manager to a retail giant to even being a deputy sheriff, but his love of the written word never left. After a work related injury as a deputy sheriff forced him to tone down his workload, he was able to use that as an excuse to finally dedicate his sole focus to writing



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Cover Reveal: Before by Keeley Smith + Giveaway

Cora and Jack are childhood friends who have always lived next door to each other in a beautiful, idyllic part of Lancashire. What binds them as lifelong friends are their powers.
As young witches, life is hard. If the commoners find out their secret, they will be killed. But Cora is lucky, she has her best friend Jack by her side.
Having grown up together they know each other, they trust each other, they love each other. However their blossoming relationship is cut short by the events of one day. A date that will bring their perfect worlds crashing down around them.
20th August 1612
Cora and Jack are forced to face the reality of being a witch during these turbulent times, however they don’t know that their lives will become part of one of the most famous witch trials to have ever hit England.
The Pendle Hill witch trials of 1612.




Author Bio: I've always loved reading, it is a common known fact that I pretty much demolish a book a day. Expensive hobby, but a great one! I've dabbled with writing since the day I could actually write. So, it was only fitting that I had my first book published when I was 15.
If I'm not writing you would generally find me reading, trawling social networking sites and listening to music, I will pretty much listen to any kind of music but I have two favourites, country music has been with me since I was a little toddler so this is a massive favourite of mine. I also love to listen to movie scores, especially when I'm writing!
I currently live in Yorkshire with my husband. 
Thanks for reading!
Keeley xx
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Moon Stealers ~ A Book Review + Giveaway

Peter Crisp, a boy with an unusual gift of being able to see things that others cannot, goes missing after spending the night in a graveyard. Two of Peter's school friends, join forces with a Knight of King Arthur to attempt to find him but come across some mysterious engravings which propel them on an adventure beyond their imagination.

Meanwhile MI6 operative Steven Knight is sent from London to investigate a meteor landing site, but Steven is advised by his own boss not to trust the puppeteers that hold the strings to his investigation. Within the core of the meteor is an alien bacteria that evolves at an alarming rate that not only puts Steven's life at risk, but the entire human race.

By unraveling ancient codes and riddles the children journey within the bowels of Edinburgh Castle as they attempt to find the key to Peter’s disappearance. The children not only need to save Peter, they need to save the world while they’re at it.


My Review: 
This book took me on a thrilling ride unlike anything I've read before.  I absolutely love the different points of  view, the characters you get to see the story through. The story is not only interesting, but thought provoking, thrilling, and will leave you dying to read the next book! 
The Moon Stealers is a genius story full of adventure! I hadn't even gotten through the first chapter before I knew there was no way I was putting the book down until I finished it. This is one of those books I read in one sitting. 
Thank you Tim, for another fantastic read! 

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And now . . . the giveaway!
I have one SIGNED copy of The Moon Stealers: The Quest for the Silver Bough, a bookmark, and a *meteorite (alien not included) to giveaway to one lucky winner! (US only, sorry!) 
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Sorry about my absence!

Sorry about the lack of posts! I know I promised you all a month of reviews and I have just gotten so far behind. Between editing and real life I am getting stressed out, panicking, and trying my best to keep on track with Only Half Alive.

This week (hopefully) Only Half Alive will go to the second round of Beta Readers and I will have a little time to blog more. In the meantime, I have pre-scheduled some posts to post on the 28th and 29th. One is a cover reveal (and it's gorgeous) and one is a giveaway! Don't miss out on either! :)

Release Day Blitz: Octavian's Undoing by Airicka Phoenix

Octavian’s Undoing by Airicka Phoenix
Book Name: Octavian’s Undoing ~ Series Title: Sons of Judgment Series ~ Author: Airicka PhoenixPublisher: Airicka Phoenix ~ Release date: June 24, 2013 ~ Genre: New Adult, Paranormal RomanceWarnings: Sexual content, Language ~Formats: eBook & Paperback

No good deed goes unpunished.Riley Masters learns this the hard way when she finds a wallet and decides to do the right thing. But returning it will cost her much more than she bargains for.
Abandoned by her mother, raised by an indifferent father, Riley has accepted the fact that she would be alone always. She has no idea that a single act of kindness would propel her into a world where creatures that shouldn’t exist guard the human race from the demons that lurk in the shadows. That it will cost her the lives of those she loves while unearthing a destiny she never imagined with a man who is forbidden to love her. She finds passion, romance and the family she’d been searching for her entire life, but at what cost and what is she willing to sacrifice to find answers and happiness?
Octavian Maxwell has always known his place. He is a Caster, a Son of Judgment. His job is to protect the mortal world from the creatures plotting to destroy it. Instead, his world is shattered when a human girl walks into Final Judgment, a girl he has been searching for his entire life, a girl he is forbidden to ever touch. Being with her will break the oath he’s sworn to never love a mortal. But his heart has already found its mate and it refuses to let go.
Final Judgment… a place undetected, a gateway to a evil and a legend that will undo everything anyone has ever known about our world.
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Airicka Phoenix is the best-selling author of The Touch Saga, The Dare Trilogy and Games of Fire with short stories in Whispered Beginnings: A Clever Fiction Anthology and Midnight Surrender Anthology. When she's not hammering away at the keyboard, she can be found banishing pirates or crawling through the attic looking for lost treasure with her kids. She loves baking, gardening and reading. She also likes to travel and take pictures of everything she comes across. When asked, Airicka describes herself as a sarcastic basket case that has an unhealthy addiction to chocolate, old movies and really bad jokes. She loves to laugh, make friends and write. If she could have one wish granted, it would be to spend one day as a fly-on-the-wall inside Stephen King's mind. If she could have two wishes granted, she would ask for a castle dedicated entirely to her overwhelming collection of books.
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Cover Reveal: Awakening The Fire by Jake Bonsignore

Title: Awakening the Fire: Book Two of The Inferno Unleashed
Author: Jake Bonsignore (Author)
Genre: YA Fantasy / Thriller
Release: August 30, 2013
Book Design: Regina Wamba of Mae I Design and Photography
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17992776
Book Trailer: http://youtu.be/oKfRtBcb_jo (by Amygdala Art)











Breena Taljain’s idyllic days in Araboth came to a skidding halt when circumstances forced her into the dangerous hinterlands. The dire sacrifice she made to protect her comrades tainted her heart with hatred and despair. To cleanse herself she must outrun Death’s relentless pursuit and venture into the bleak unknown. With the odds stacked against her, stumbling into love when she least expects it may very well be her saving grace.

Meanwhile, succumbing to the Patriarch’s devious traps has Galbrecht Atalir questioning his motives. The folly of his recklessness has left him physical scarred and mentally traumatized. Now he must overcome more adversity as the wrath of the Sin Ministry bears down upon him. He will need more than wits and quick fists to find the truth he has sought for seven years.

Alas, every second Breena is apart from Galbrecht draws her further into strife. With her world rapidly crumbling inwards, she puts everything on the line for a last stand against the ruthless force that threatens to destroy all she holds dear….


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Only Half Alive Teaser

I figure seems how I'm not giving you book reviews as promised this entire month, I might as well put something on here for you to read, right? So without further ado, a teaser from my novel, Only Half Alive:


~ Only Half Alive ~ Teaser ~ 
. . . I pull away from his grasp. He doesn't relent. 
“Christina! Are you in trouble?” 
“No, Finn! I just need to go. Now.” I say with force. 
He lets my arm go but his eyes won’t look away from mine. If I thought for a second his eyes could change colors, I would say they just went from silver to black. “I will see you tomorrow. Same place. We can pick up where we are leaving off.” He waits for me to reply. 
“Of course. I will see you tomorrow.” If I’m still alive. ~ Coming September 27th 2013 ~


 Feel free to add it to your Goodreads TBR list! 



Only Half Alive
The World's darkest creature,  will be their brightest hope! 
While darkness haunts her, she craves the light. Christina is a demon, but she doesn't want to be. She is willing to sacrifice everything to change it. Only one person stands in her way, and he will stop at nothing to keep her the way she is.

The greatest battle of light vs dark threatens every living creature, a battle that could destroy all. And the demon in love will only have one chance to save everyone.

Timespell ~ A Book Review

Sixteen-year-old Julia Corona is a Daughter of Fate, destined to travel through time to battle the creatures of Mythos who seek to change history. Julia would rather use her powers to ditch PE than fulfill her duties as the Daughter of Present, but her best friend Angie, the Daughter of Past, can’t stand the thought of their magic fading away, which is what will happen if they can’t find the third Daughter soon. 

Then they discover the Daughter of Future is Kaitlyn, the bullying bad girl who tried to steal Angie’s boyfriend. Suddenly a world ruled by demons doesn’t seem so bad compared to being magically bound to Kaitlyn for the rest of their lives.

Julia is ready to kiss the magic goodbye until she meets Ethan, an intense young man who claims to be her protector and seems to know Julia better than she knows herself. He looks at her with a strange mix of longing and resentment that Julia can’t explain. Before she gets a chance to solve the mystery, the creatures of Mythos strike, opening a portal in Revolutionary France.

The Daughters of Fate must set aside their differences and band together with Ethan to travel back in time to close the portal, but someone close to them will betray them, making their task nearly impossible. The history books are changing, and it may already be too late.

My Review: 
This book drags you in from the very first page and keeps you reading until the very end. The detail is amazing, I absolutely love the characters, their interactions, the web of relationships and how they are all connected. Diana is a genius! 
I was there in that book. I wasn't just reading, I was on that adventure with them! 
The story blew me away. I loved the idea just from reading the back cover, and I absolutely love the cover. But the story, it was something different. There are so many twists and turns, ups and downs. I read the book in under 3 hours. That is how into it I was. I couldn't put it down. 
And my goodness, my favorite part? By far is the very ending chapter. After reading the last chapter, so many things made so much more sense. On top of that, it has made it so I am DYING to read the second book! Seriously, go read this book! And then you can suffer with me as we wait together for the second one. :) 
Without a doubt, 
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Reading, Editing, and not sleeping, oh my! ~ A Review

As you all know, June was supposed to be all reviews! It was my way of getting all of the books read that I needed to for review and helping the others I promised to post reviews for. But sometimes life gets in the way. And sometimes one must admit defeat. 
So am I giving up? Most Definitely Not! Do I need a break? Absolutely! 
I am sorry today I wasn't able to post  a book review as it was supposed to be. As much as I tried to have a review ready, life got hectic and my life is just crazy right now! I promise more reviews to come but today, and maybe even most of this week, I won't be able to post a book review. 
Why have I been busy? Only Half Alive needs to be sent to my editor ASAP and I haven't even gone through a second round of Beta Readers yet. I want this book to be absolutely perfect and totally publish worthy so I am striving to make it so. 
This means that I will be going through at least 3 rounds of beta readers, five rounds of edits, then off to my editor it will go. Once she is through, I will get to go through the book AGAIN! And only when each beta reader, and my editor say it is worthy, will I publish it. 
Thank you so much for understanding and being so supportive! 
And in other news, I announced the title of my next novel on my Facebook page (which you can follow HERE). 
Here it is, folks! 

Chase and the Fallen Angel ~ A Book Review

Chase, an uninspired twenty-three year old, trudges through his uneventful life taking for granted the everyday privileges of his human existence. He does not realize how great life is until he is killed in a tragic, freak accident and unwillingly transformed into a guardian angel. Ripped away from his life and loved ones, he now finds himself living in an unfamiliar world where fantasy becomes a reality. He must carry the heavy responsibilities of protecting his Delicate (mortal) from dangers unseen to the human eye. With the help of his two new guardian angel friends, Trevor and Rachel, Chase is taking his first steps on the long journey to eternal peace by becoming a dedicated guardian angel. But the road to eternal happiness is far from easy when Chase has to find his inner strength and courage to battle malicious demons, a deranged priest and a merciless fallen angel.
My Review: 
Alright, I have to start by warning you to NOT be discouraged by the cover. I was at first but R.J kindly gave me the same warning. And once you begin reading the book, the cover is actually quite hilarious in its own way. I smiled the second I realized why the cover is what it is. 
Chase and the Fallen Angel, not at all what I expected. And that isn't a bad thing. So many conflicting feelings go through me about this book. Just when you think you know what is going to happen, you realize that you have no idea. 
R.J does a  good job of keeping you on your toes, making you guess at every turn. Each chapter is a roller coaster, one sentence, you're laughing, the next, you can't breathe, can't think, can't hear anything above the sound of your drumming heart.
This book isn't like any other angel book I have ever read. It is new, it takes on a whole other side of being an angel and/or fallen angel. It brings on new questions and gives you answers at the same time. It is a fun book that makes you slow down and think.  
Gah! Seriously I have so many mixed feelings. Overall? I LOVED it! There are a few scenes that usually make me uncomfortable but I actually thought that they were handled quite well in this book. Taken more seriously, discussed in a way I haven't seen in any other book. And once the topic has been discussed, it is over. No more bringing it up repeatedly throughout the story, which made it so much better. 
I will admit that the writing in the very beginning kinda threw me and made it hard for me to get into the story but once I got past that little opening (about one chapter), I really got into the story and the writing drew me in! 
On another note, this book is a lot longer than most I see these days for this genre! Just over 500 pages. And surprisingly, I found that even with the book being longer than expected and longer than what you find mostly these days, the pacing was very nice. The story didn't  feel like it was dragging at all. 
R.J, very nicely done! I can't wait to read your next book! 




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