YA Indie Carnival - Best Scares

This week's YA Indie Carnival topic is Best Scares. Now, I'mgoing to flat-up (my niece's favorite thing to say) tell you I never have and probably never will read ascary book. For all those same reasons, I do not watch terrifying shows or sitthrough horror movies. I know...I know I am in the minority, and I'm okay withmy lot in life. I just can't do horror in any fashion.

By contrast, I LOVE to read - and write - paranormalromance. There are aspects of the paranormal genre which allows me toexperience the excitement of getting to know the character's 'magical' talents withouthaving the bejesus scared out of me. When their mystical traits are coupledwith a solid romantic story-line, I can really devote some undivided attentionto the offering's of the author's imagination. 

SinceI have no frightening books to share, I'm going to talk about the paranormalromance I just finished, Everlasting byAlyson Noel.The final book of The Immortals Series is the perfect ending to a series filled with love,hate, romance, passion, regret, and the effects (positive and negative) of karma. 
We'veknown for a while that Ever, Damen, and Jude have met in each of theirlifetimes. This book opens us up to the possibility that everyone lives the samelife over and over until they get it right, and the karma from our past keepshaunting use until we've made amends to those wronged...and the universe. 
Travelingdown Ever's road, we find an entire population of people who have gotten caught upin - and keep getting caught up in - her cosmic adventure, one which includes auras, witches, telepathy, apothecary, and magic. Equally obvious is Ever'sdesire to go to heaven (to join her family) and her fear of landing in hell(lost an alone) for the choices she makes. 
Like the rest of the books in the series, Ever and Damen are ignorant when it comes to theimpact of their slip-ups. Because of this, they are prevented from journeying toward the worldof enlightenment they claim to seek.  Worse, they make the sameblunders over and over. Some of their worst mistakes are made when they try to do what they think is best for the other.  
Asin life, some of the characters are memorable, and others are not. By far, myfavorite characters of the series are Riley and Jude. If I were writing thisstory, they would become soul mates in their next life.  
Thisfinal book rights most wrongs while hinting at a new series...or even a seventhbook. It will be interesting to see which wins out. 1.Laura A. H. Elliott author of Winnemucca & 13 on Halloween, Book 1 in the Teen Halloween Series2.Bryna Butler, author Midnight Guardian series3.Heather Self4.T. R. Graves, Author of The Warrior Series5.Suzy Turner, author of The Raven Saga6.Darby Karchut, author of GRIFFIN RISING7.Lexus Luke8.PJ Hoover, Author of SOLSTICE, Blogging at ROOTS IN MYTH9.Cheri Schmidt, author of the Fateful Trilogy10.Rachel Coles, author of Into The Ruins, geek mom blog 11.K. C. Blake, author of Vampires Rule and Crushed12.Patti Larsen, The Hunted series and The Hayle Coven series13.Courtney Cole, author of The Bloodstone Saga 14.Amy Maurer Jones, Author of The Soul Quest Trilogy15.Dani Snell's Refracted Light Reviews 16.Fisher Amelie, author of The Understorey17.M. Leighton, Blood Like Poison Series, Madly, The Reaping 18.Abbi Glines, author of Breathe and The Vincent Boys19.Kimberly Kinrade, Bits of You & Pieces of Me, Forbidden Mind20.Madeline Smoot, Missing, Summer Shorts, and The Girls21.Cidney Swanson, author of Rippler22.Nicole Williams, author of Eternal Eden, Falling Eden 23.Gwenn Wright, author of Filter24.Abbi Glines: Breathe, The Vincent Boys, Existence25.Be Afraid!