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January 30, 2014
Life of A Blogger: Genres of Music
"Life of a Blogger" is a weekly meme hosted by Jessi @ Novel Heartbeat. Each week, she chooses a topic to talk about to help her readers get to know her. The topic are non-book related so readers can get to know other bloggers on a more personal level.
I know that there are a lot of people that look down on country music as a bunch of hillbillies and rednecks writing about riding down dirt roads in their trucks, drinking beer/chewing tobacco, and women, but it is so much more than t...
January 28, 2014
Review: Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead
Vampire Academy
Series: Vampire Academy #1Author: Richelle Mead
SynopsisSt. Vladimir’s Academy isn’t just any boarding school—it’s a hidden place where vampires are educated in the ways of magic and half-human teens train to protect them. Rose Hathaway is a Dhampir, a bodyguard for her best friend Lissa, a Moroi Vampire Princess. They’ve been on the run, but now they’re being dragged back to St. Vladimir’s—the very place where they’re most in danger...Rose and Lissa become enmeshed in forbi...
January 25, 2014
Book Tour Promo: Indigo Incite by Jacinda Buchmann
Indigo Incite
Author: Jacinda Buchmann
Publication Date: September 7th, 2013
Genre: Contemporary, New Adult, Romanc Paranormal, Young Adult
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There are no secrets.
Sixteen-year-old Tyler believed that his extra-sensory powers were a secret, but when his twin brother, Toby, is kidnapped by a covert government agency, he realizes that he has no secrets, and he has nowhere to hide.
He’s not alone.
Now, in order to save himself and rescue his brother, Tyler must call upon...
January 23, 2014
Book Blitz and Giveaway: Rubber Soul by Greg Kihn
Rubber Soul
by Greg Kihn
Greg Kihn is a rock star, seasoned radio host and author. Rubber Soul, his latest novel is inspired by intimate interviews that he conducted with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Pete Best, Yoko Ono and Patti Harrison. Though Rubber Soul is fiction, as Greg says it is “100% historically accurate” and an candid glimpse of the phenomenon that is The Beatles. Rubber Soul is a an innovation in the Rock Thriller genre, taking readers on a rollicking ride through The...
January 22, 2014
Book Blitz and Giveaway: Brilliant Darkness by A.G. Henley
THE SCOURGE
(Brilliant Darkness, Book 1)
Seventeen-year-old Groundling, Fennel, is Sightless. She's never been able to see her lush forest home, but she knows its secrets. She knows how the shadows shift when she passes under a canopy of trees. She knows how to hide in the cool, damp caves when the Scourge comes. She knows how devious and arrogant the Groundlings' tree-dwelling neighbors, the Lofties, can be. And she's always known this day would come--the day she faces the Scourge...
Book Tour and Giveaway: Escape from Eden by Elisa Nader
Escape from Eden
Author: Elisa Nader
Publication Date: August 18th 2013
Genre: Thriller, Young Adult
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(Available on Kindle at the Promo price of $1.99 until Jan 31st)
SynopsisSince the age of ten, Mia has lived under the iron fist of the fundamentalist preacher who lured her mother away to join his fanatical family of followers. In Edenton, a supposed “Garden of Eden” deep in the South American jungle, everyone follows the Reverend’s strict but arbitrary rules—even the mandate...
January 21, 2014
Book Blitz and Giveaway: The Skinwalker's Apprentice by Claribel Ortega
The Skinwalker's Apprenticeby Claribel OrtegaRelease Date: 02/24/14Summary from Goodreads:“Welcome to The Empire State, where banshees, witches, and skinwalkers wait…”
Margo Pennyfeather is being hunted. The 16-year-old witch has always been an outcast, in her home back in England, and now in the village of East Hampton New York where her family has settled. No one but her family has ever cared for Margo, but now the most important witch in the magic world wants her as an apprentice, givi...
January 18, 2014
Book Tour and Giveaway: Crashing Into You by B.D. Rowe
Crashing Into You
Author: B.D. Rowe
Publication Date: October 3rd 2013
Genre: Contemporary, New Adult, Romance
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Bookish college sophomore Sydney Baker wants Evan Taylor with every ounce of her being. The hottest stud on campus, Evan is six foot four, ripped, stacked with muscles. He’s even easy to talk to.
There’s just one problem: he’s her roommate Melanie’s boyfriend.
But when Melanie tragically dies after a night of wild partying, Sydney and Evan turn to each oth...
January 15, 2014
Book Tour and Giveaway: Stir Me Up by Sabrina Elkins
Stir Me Up
Author: Sabrina Elkins
Publication Date: 10/01/13
Publisher: Harlequin Teen
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Cami Broussard has her future all figured out. She'll finish her senior year of high school, then go to work full-time as an apprentice chef in her father's French restaurant, alongside her boyfriend, Luke. But then twenty-year-old ex-Marine Julian Wyatt comes to live with Cami's family while recovering from serious injuries. And suddenly Cami finds herself questioning everything s...
January 13, 2014
Book Blitz and Giveaway: Full Steam Ahead by Valerie Chase
Full Steam Aheadby Valerie ChaseRelease Date: 01/14/14Summary from Goodreads: Seven days aboard a luxury cruise. The perfect getaway from it all.
At least, that’s what Georgia Cantwell was hoping for.
Georgia wishes she could run away from the nightmare that has consumed her life, but she can’t. With her inbox filling with menacing emails, all she can do is try to get through her sorority’s winter break cruise without anyone realizing how wrecked she is. So she really doesn’t need Jace McL...
