Downcast
Author: Cait Reynolds
Genre: YA Fantasy
Publisher: Booktrope
Publication Date: May 28th, 2015
Friday, 17 April 2015
Bookvie: Far From the Madding Crowd - out May 1, 2015 (USA / UK)
Who's in it:
Carey Mulligan, Tom Sturridge, Matthias Schoenaerts
Carey Mulligan, Tom Sturridge, Matthias Schoenaerts
Thursday, 16 April 2015
Blog Tour Excerpt & Giveaway - Never Sleep by Cady Vance
Never Sleep
Author: Cady Vance
Publication Date: March 15th, 2015
Genres: Science Fiction, Young Adult
Book Description:
Author: Cady Vance
Publication Date: March 15th, 2015
Genres: Science Fiction, Young Adult
Book Description:
Thora Green had a life once upon a time. But that ended the day her parents
enrolled her in a sleep clinic prison. At the facility, her chronic months-long
insomnia is observed by scads of doctors, but she is never actually treated for
her dire disease. In a feat of desperation, Thora escapes for New York City.
Buried deep in the city’s underbelly, there is rumored to be a secret haven
called the Insomniac Café: a place where people like Thora can find relief.
As Thora joins forces with Aiden and Florence, two fellow insomniacs, their midnight quest will take them from the dusty bookshelves of The Strand, to the smokey underground clubs in the Lower East Side, to countless taxi and subway rides. Clues leading to their final destination are waiting for them at every turn. But so are Sleepers—a powerful core of sworn-enemies to all Insomniacs—who wish to see Thora and her friends destroyed at any cost.
As Thora joins forces with Aiden and Florence, two fellow insomniacs, their midnight quest will take them from the dusty bookshelves of The Strand, to the smokey underground clubs in the Lower East Side, to countless taxi and subway rides. Clues leading to their final destination are waiting for them at every turn. But so are Sleepers—a powerful core of sworn-enemies to all Insomniacs—who wish to see Thora and her friends destroyed at any cost.
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Blurb Blitz & Giveaway - Metamorphosis: The Trey Parker Story by R.W. Reels
Metamorphosis: The Trey Parker Story
Author: R.W. Reels
Genre: Paranormal Suspense
Book Description:
Metamorphosis: The Trey Parker Story, the first novel in a
three-part paranormal thriller series. A young male is forever changed after a
near death experience. His incident invites the attention of a covert
Government agency. A gritty detective remains diligent in discovering the facts
of the incident and encounters opposition from the unlikeliest of places.
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Blog Tour Interview & Giveaway - Prison of Hope by Steve McHugh
Prison of Hope
Author: Steve McHugh
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Book Description:
Long ago,
Olympian gods imprisoned the demon Pandora in a human—Hope—creating a creature
whose only purpose was chaos and death. Remorseful, the gods locked Pandora
away in Tartarus, ruled by Hades.
Now,
centuries later, Pandora escapes. Nate Garrett, a 1,600-year-old sorcerer, is
sent to recapture her and discovers her plan to disrupt the 1936 Berlin Olympic
Games, killing thousands in a misplaced quest for vengeance.
Fast
forward to modern-day Berlin, where Nate has agreed to act as guardian on a
school trip to Germany to visit Hades at the entrance to Tartarus. When Titan
King Cronus becomes the second ever to escape Tartarus, Nate is forced to track
him down and bring him back, to avert a civil war between those who would use
his escape to gain power.
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Wednesday, 15 April 2015
Blog Tour Spotlight - The Creator’s Eye: Mover of Fate, Part I by R.N. Feldman
The
Creator’s Eye: Mover of Fate, Part I
The Creator’s Eye
Book I
R.N. Feldman
Genre: Science Fiction/ Fantasy
Date of Publication: November 26, 2014
Number of pages: 270
Word Count: 58,401
Cover Artist: R.N. Feldman and Caroline Miller
Book Description:
On a hidden archipelago, people known as Movers manipulate matter with their minds while strange Folds in space transform the landscape into wondrous and often deadly anomalies.
When a young Mover named Michael Edwards discovers that he is descended from a long line of beings who can not only Move matter, but actually Create it, he finds himself at the center of a cosmic struggle for power.
Manipulated by friends, family, and an ominous prophecy, he allies himself with a host of strange creatures and characters as he fights to become Mover of his own destiny.
The Creator’s Eye
Book I
R.N. Feldman
Genre: Science Fiction/ Fantasy
Date of Publication: November 26, 2014
Number of pages: 270
Word Count: 58,401
Cover Artist: R.N. Feldman and Caroline Miller
Book Description:
On a hidden archipelago, people known as Movers manipulate matter with their minds while strange Folds in space transform the landscape into wondrous and often deadly anomalies.
When a young Mover named Michael Edwards discovers that he is descended from a long line of beings who can not only Move matter, but actually Create it, he finds himself at the center of a cosmic struggle for power.
Manipulated by friends, family, and an ominous prophecy, he allies himself with a host of strange creatures and characters as he fights to become Mover of his own destiny.
Book Blast & Giveaway - Boxford Stories by Kristen Carson
The Boxford Stories
Author: Kristen Carson
Book Description:
'Welcome to the world of the Runyons and the Feldsteds, two Mormon families in 1970s Maryland. Far from their Western American roots, they cling to each other like exiles clutching a precious box of topsoil from the old country.
"In The Boxford Stories you will meet Ada Runyon who always turns to Ruthalin Feldsted when she needs an ear—sharing her deepest confidences, her everyday musings, and her bits of horrified gossip. Yet Ada dies inside whenever Ruthalin’s country-cousin manners poke out in public.
"Latham Runyon, a history professor, and Erval Feldsted, a hospital engineer, bond every Sunday night over gooey desserts and vigorous religious discussion, a game their children call Stump the Rabbi. Underneath their balding heads and graying temples, each man desperately seeks a sign that God would choose him as a buddy.
"The Feldsted and Runyon children, running breathlessly through each other’s houses and backyards, have long considered each other substitute cousins. However, Ginni Runyon plots to change herself from the girl next door to the girl Marc Feldsted can’t live without.
"And when Boxford’s Mormons mix with the rest of the town, everybody could use a field guide to the other species.
"Laugh, cry, and shake your head with the Runyons and Feldsteds as they make their way through the decade that brought us leisure suits and urban decay."
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Blog Tour Spotlight - Czar Nicholas, The Toad, and Duck Soup: A Memoir of Marriage, Mime, and Moving On by Elisabeth Amaral
Czar Nicholas, The Toad, and Duck Soup: A Memoir of Marriage, Mime, and Moving On
Author: Elisabeth Amaral
Publisher: iUniverse
Pages: 324
Genre: Memoir
Format: Paperback/Kindle
Book Description:
The mid-1960s through the mid-1970s was a heady, turbulent time. There was a lot going on back then, and author Elisabeth Amaral was in the middle of it all: the fights for women’s rights, racial equality, a music revolution, be-ins, love-ins, riots in the streets, the rage against the Vietnam War, and sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It was an amazing time to be young.
The mid-1960s through the mid-1970s was a heady, turbulent time. There was a lot going on back then, and author Elisabeth Amaral was in the middle of it all: the fights for women’s rights, racial equality, a music revolution, be-ins, love-ins, riots in the streets, the rage against the Vietnam War, and sex, drugs, and rock and roll. It was an amazing time to be young.
In Czar
Nicholas, The Toad, and Duck Soup, Amaral shares her recollections of those
times. She and her husband gave up their jobs in New York City, relocated to Boston with their infant son because of mime,
unexpectedly started a children’s boutique, and opened a popular restaurant in Harvard Square.
Most of all it is a coming-of-age story about herself and her husband as they
embarked on an improbable and moving journey of self-discovery.
With sincerity and humor, Czar Nicholas, The Toad, and Duck Soup offers a personal and
revealing account that reaches out to those who find themselves striving to
make a relationship work that, by its very nature, may be doomed. But this
story is also one of friendship—and of finding the courage to move on.
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Book Blast & Giveaway - Bittersweet by Michele Barrow-Belisle
Bittersweet
Author: Kimberly Loth
Genre: YA Fantasy / Romance
Genre: YA Fantasy / Romance
Book Description:
To save
the Faery world and her mother’s life, seventeen year old Lorelei sacrificed
everything, and the dangerous bargains she made in Nevermore had lasting
repercussions. Now safely back in her own world, Lorelei seems the same to her
high school friends and her supernatural boyfriend, despite the dark magic
growing within her. Love across dimensions is complicated, especially when an
invisible veil between the two worlds is sealing, threatening to separate
Lorelei and Adrius forever.
Determined
to find a solution, Lorelei resorts to exploring her new found powers. But when
her friends fall ill, and her healing touch only makes things worse, Lorelei
can’t help but wonder if she's responsible.
Nightmares
from the Nevermore tighten their icy hold when someone arrives determined to
destroy Lorelei’s world, starting with those closest to her. Once again she’s
forced to choose between her family… her friends… and a love that was ill-fated
from the start.
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Blog Tour Interview & Giveaway - The Christmas Dragon / Strings by Ruthanne Reid
The Christmas Dragon
Author: Ruthanne Reid
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Book Description:
All Katie Lin wants is to get away from her family: from the
magic, from the mayhem, and from the never-ending war.
Unfortunately, someone has other ideas, and sends her a box. A box
that jumps.
The tiny fire hazard inside may just force her back to Wales - and
right into the path of a dragon war, the Crow King, and at least one reluctant
elf prince. Sometimes, running away just doesn't work as planned.
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Tuesday, 14 April 2015
Blog Tour Spotlight & Giveaway - Piercing the Darkness by Angela Dennis
Piercing
the Darkness
Shadow Born Series
Book 2.5
Angela Dennis
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Word Count: 27,000
Cover Artist: Kanaxa
Book Description:
Love knows no bounds.
Cursed by the dark mage who killed her, Hilda Janssen has wandered the Earthly plane as a ghost for fifty years, finally finding her place as an IRT hunter, policing supernatural misfits trapped on Earth after a brutal war.
Shadow Born Series
Book 2.5
Angela Dennis
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Date of
Publication: April 7, 2015
Number of pages:
86 Word Count: 27,000
Cover Artist: Kanaxa
Book Description:
Love knows no bounds.
Cursed by the dark mage who killed her, Hilda Janssen has wandered the Earthly plane as a ghost for fifty years, finally finding her place as an IRT hunter, policing supernatural misfits trapped on Earth after a brutal war.
When a demon
attacks, putting her team in mortal danger, Hilda sacrifices herself to save
her friends. She’s already died once; what difference will doing it again make?
But instead of meeting a final death, Hilda is cast into the Void, a magical
prison from which there is no escape.
Her only hope is
Cade Kerrigan, the lover she left behind after her first death. Their bond and
his magic are the only things strong enough to pull her through the Veil. But
Cade has no idea his soulmate came back as a ghost, and he isn’t too happy to
have been left in the dark.
They must put
aside the baggage of the past to save Hilda from a fate worse than death.
Book Blitz & Giveaway - The Truth About Jack by Jody Gehrman
The Truth About Jack
Author: Jody Gehrman
Release Date: 04/14/15
Publisher: Entangled Crush
Summary from Goodreads:
Dakota McCloud has just been accepted into a prestigious art school. Soon she'll leave behind the artists' colony where she grew up―hippie dad, tofu since birth, yurt―and join her boyfriend and best friend on the East Coast. It was the plan…until Dakota finds out her boyfriend and best friend hooked up behind her back.
Hurt and viciously betrayed, Dakota pours out her heart on a piece of paper, places it in a bottle, and hurls it into the ocean. But it doesn't quite go where she expects…
Jack Sauvage finds the bottle washed up on the shore and responds to Dakota's letter. Except what if his straight-laced life doesn’t jive with the free-spirited girl he’s only seen from afar? As Jack creates a persona he believes she’ll love, they slowly fall for each other with each new letter. Now Jack is trying to find a way to make this delicate, on-paper romance happen in real life…without revealing his deception.
Hurt and viciously betrayed, Dakota pours out her heart on a piece of paper, places it in a bottle, and hurls it into the ocean. But it doesn't quite go where she expects…
Jack Sauvage finds the bottle washed up on the shore and responds to Dakota's letter. Except what if his straight-laced life doesn’t jive with the free-spirited girl he’s only seen from afar? As Jack creates a persona he believes she’ll love, they slowly fall for each other with each new letter. Now Jack is trying to find a way to make this delicate, on-paper romance happen in real life…without revealing his deception.
Release Day Blitz & Giveaway - Storm Surge by R.J. Blain
Storm Surge
Author: R.J. Blain
Genre: Fantasy
Date Published: April 14, 2015
Book Description:
Kalen has escaped from Morinvale, but at a heavy price. Blind and crippled, the best hope for his people is for him to choose a new Rift King, forfeiting his life in the process. With his failure to broker peace between Kelsh and Danar, war is inevitable. For the first time in a thousand years, the Rift prepares to ride into battle.
Choosing his successor is only the beginning of Kalen’s troubles: his Guardians have turned against the Code and Covenant. Instead of securing the Ascension of a new Rift King, they’re doing everything in their power to ensure Kalen’s survival, even if it means the destruction of the Six Kingdoms.
To make matters worse, the skreed conjured in Morinvale aren’t just growing stronger. They’re breeding, and they aren’t picky about what—or who—they’ll eat.
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Release Day Blitz & Giveaway - Dangerous Love by Kara Leigh Miller and Jody Holford
Anaiah Press proudly presents
DANGEROUS LOVE by Kara Leigh Miller and Jody Holford
a romantic suspense novel that releases today!
DANGEROUS LOVE by Kara Leigh Miller and Jody Holford
a romantic suspense novel that releases today!
Dangerous Love
Author: Kara Leigh Miller and Jody Holford
Book Blitz & Giveaway - Alice in Wonderland High by Rachel Shane
Check out the promo event for Rachel Shane's YA Contemporary Retelling.
Alice in Wonderland High
Author: Rachel Shane
Release date: April 18th, 2015
Publisher: Merit Press
Publisher: Merit Press
Synopsis via Goodreads:
Sixteen-year-old Alice suppresses her need for rebellion after a petition to start a farmer’s market receives more snickers than signatures. That is until Whitney Lapin, a girl who speaks in cryptic riddles and spends her free time turning abandoned warehouses into beautiful gardens, leads her on a rabbit trail into the underground–aka secret society–of Wonderland High. Curiouser and curiouser.
Even though Whitney’s group of teenage environmental vigilantes operates on the wrong side of the law, Alice has never felt more free to be herself. Soon she stomps on her good girl image by completing a series of environmental pranks to impress them: flooding the school and disguising a pig as a baby in order to smuggle it out of a testing facility. But the group refuses to help with the farmer’s market or reveal their hidden agenda. She wants to trust them, and she especially wants to trust (or maybe kiss) Chester Katz, a boy with a killer smile, a penchant for disappearing, and a secret that will really turn Alice‘s world backwards. When one group member tries to frame Alice for all the pranks, she must figure out their secret before she ends up in front of a jury that’s screaming, “Off with her head!”
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Blurb Blitz Tour & Giveaway - Gideon by Cherry Adair
Gideon
(Stark Brothers #2)
Author: Cherry Adair
Author: Cherry Adair
Genre: Action / Adventure / Romance
Book Description:
T-FLAC is back in an exciting action-adventure romance filled with danger, subterfuge and steamy, red-hot attraction.
T-FLAC is back in an exciting action-adventure romance filled with danger, subterfuge and steamy, red-hot attraction.
NO MEMORY OF HIS PAST
Powerful cartel leader Sin Diaz lives a
dangerous life filled with secrets and lies, and surrounded by people who claim
to have known him all his life. Yet flashes of another life, totally unrelated
to the jungles of Cosio, hang tantalizingly on the edges of his memory. He'll
trust no one until he recalls his true past.
NO DREAMS OF A FUTURE
T-FLAC operative Riva Rimaldi's mission is
simple. Go undercover, learn terrorist Escobar Maza's agenda, then kill him.
But when the helicopter she's on crashes deep in the jungle of the small,
volatile country of Cosio, she finds herself in the wrong hands. Is the sexy as
hell leader of the ANSL, Sin Diaz, the enemy of her enemy, worse than Maza
himself? Or is he someone entirely different than his reputation – and will he
become her lover?
TOGETHER THEY HOLD THE KEY
Sin and Riva must work together to stop a
madman who will go to any lengths to attain his terrifying goal. But can they
unravel the truth in time? The timer is ticking.
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