Book Of The Week {Wattpad}

And the Book Of The Week Nominations are:
 
Click on the book covers to sample the works.

A Kind of Bravery: A Mulan Retelling (YA Adventure)

Falling to Pieces (Coming of Age / Short Story)

Love? Never (Romance)

Blog Tour Excerpt & Giveaway - The Vampire, the Hunter, and the Girl by Martin Lastrapes

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The Vampire, the Hunter, and the Girl

(The Vampire and the Hunter Trilogy #1)

Author: Martin Lastrapes

Publication Date: March 18th, 2015
Genres: Adult, Horror, Paranormal

Book Description:

Adam and Jesus (the vampire and the hunter) have an innate antagonism, which is only heightened once they discover they’re competing for the affections of the same girl. Olivia (the girl) is an aspiring author struggling to write a vampire novel. What none of them yet know is there’s a menacing force looming that will change the course of their lives forever. With the first installment of The Vampire and the Hunter Trilogy, Martin Lastrapes has created a vampire tale that is scary, funny, thrilling, and satisfying to the very last drop.

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Chapter Reveal - Blessed Are Those Who Mourn by Kristi Belcamino

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Blessed Are Those Who Mourn

Author: Kristi Belcamino

Genre: Mystery / Detective

Date Published: September 29, 2015

Publisher: HarperCollinsPublishers

Book Description:

San Francisco Bay Area reporter Gabriella Giovanni has finally got it all together: a devoted and loving boyfriend, Detective Sean Donovan; a beautiful little girl with him; and her dream job as the cops' reporter for the Bay Herald. But her success has been hard-won and has left her with debilitating paranoia. When a string of young co-eds starts to show up dead with suspicious Biblical verses left on their bodies—the same verses that the man she suspects kidnapped and murdered her sister twenty years ago had sent to her—she begins to question if the killer is trying to send her a message.

It is not until evil strikes Gabriella's own family that her worst fears are confirmed. As the clock begins to tick, every passing hour means the difference between life and death to those Gabriella loves...

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Cover Reveal - The Casquette Girls by Alys Arden

The Casquette Girls

Author: Alys Arden
Published by: Skyscape
Publication Date: November 17th, 2015
Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult

Book Blitz - The 52nd by Dela

The 52nd
Author: Dela
Publication Date: October 27th, 2014
Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult

Book Description:

Not one of the sacrifices chosen over the long history had survived–until now.

On the tip of the Yucatan peninsula, the immortal Castillo family gathers in Tulum. Weary and haunted, they receive the names of fifty-two human sacrifices chosen once every fifty-two years for the Underworld, a tradition thought to have disappeared with the fall of the Aztec and Mayan empires.

Driving home one night, college freshman Zara Moss swerves to avoid hitting a ghastly figure in the road. Lucas Castillo witnesses the car crash, but when it comes time to supervise her abduction from the wreckage, he intervenes. Something is different about Zara: Lucas has been having dreams of her arrival for five hundred years.
As Lucas and Zara come together to put an end to the bloody sacrifices, they discover that the ancient tradition isn’t so easily broken. The gods are angry, and they have until the Winter Solstice to drag Zara to the Underworld.

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Cover Reveal - Atlantis Quest by Gloria Craw

Atlantis Quest

Author: Gloria Craw

Release Date: 02/02/16

Publisher: Entangled Teen

Pages: 356

Promo Blitz & Giveaway - Reflections of Infinity by C.W. Holcomb

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Reflections of Infinity
Book 1

Epic Fantasy
Author: C.W. Holcomb

Date Published: February 2015

Book Description:

Amid the power struggle for the throne of a vast Empire, mortals and newly born magical gods come into contact for the first time on the Known Worlds. Meanwhile a young boy is swept along with a fierce group of warriors on their expedition to a only recently discovered Wild World where otherworldly dangers and treasures await!

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Blog Tour Excerpt & Giveaway - Rival Dreams by Natalie Decker

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Rival Dreams

(Rival Love #3)

Author: Natalie Decker
Published by: Swoon Romance
Publication Date: September 1st, 2015
Genres: Romance, Young Adult

Book Description:

Skylar Fletcher and Caleb Morgan have been together for almost two years. On the surface, everything is great. Skylar is kicking major butt in swimming and has been offered the captain spot. Caleb is the top quarterback in the league. And even though their schedules can be a little hectic at times, they’ve always seem to make time for one another.

But once Caleb is approached by the NFL, his behavior turns odd. He flakes out on appointments to check out apartments and doesn’t call her on the nights when they’re apart.

Pro football has been Caleb’s dream since forever. But what kind of idiot asks a girl to drop everything so he can follow his dream?

RIVAL DREAMS is the dramatic and heartwarming conclusion to Natalie Decker’s RIVAL LOVE series.

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Blog Tour Excerpt - Outside, Inside by Cindy Helms

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Outside, Inside

Author: Cindy Helms

Genre: Children's Book (4-8)
Date Published: August 25, 2015

Book Description:

Have you ever felt like all of your friends had forgotten about you?  Have you ever felt left out?  This is exactly what happens to Birdie in Outside, Inside.  When Birdie does not see his friends around, he decides to go out and look for them.  He quickly finds that something strange is going on.  Birdie’s friends are really planning a super fun surprise that gives Birdie a change of heart.  Outside, Inside is a simple story about the joy of friendship and giving.  Using 35 easy words and vivid, colorful characters, this story is enchanting for the youngest of readers.

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Cover Reveal - Romancing the Nerd by Leah Rae Miller

Romancing the Nerd

Author: Leah Rae Miller

Release Date: 02/02/16

Publisher: Entangled Teen

Pages: 352

Blog Tour Excerpt - Deceptive by M.D. Melai & C.S. Leigh

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Deceptive

Author: M.D. Melai & C.S. Leigh

Genre: Contemporary Romance
Date Published: February 5, 2015

Book Description:

Twenty-one year old Liliana Dapprima was living her life exactly how she planned. She had an amazing job as an interior designer and lived with her best friend Violet in Toronto. But, everything changes when her father forces her to move to New Jersey to re-design his businesses in New York City. Upon her arrival in New Jersey, she finds out she must live with her old flame, Emilio Amante, who had completely tore apart her heart.

She must learn to live alongside Emilio as she tries to start a new relationship with the new man in her life, Lucas. And to make matters even more complicated, Emilio is Lucas’ boss.

Dealing with a love triangle is hard enough, but then Lily must also deal with secrets from and about her family. She is constantly lied to and when she gets attacked multiple times by a rival family, she wants answers and will go to any extent to get them.

Liliana has been living in a world where everyone and everything is not what it seems.

What will happen when tragedy strikes and secrets are revealed?

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Blog Tour Interview - The Teddy Bear Eye Club by Suzanne M. Hurley

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The Teddy Bear Eye Club
Author: Suzanne M. Hurley
Publisher: Wings ePress
Pages: 286
Genre: Young Adult
Format: Kindle/Nook

Book Description:

Depressed, fourteen-year-old Mayah Lewis hides from the world, until she befriends new girl, beautiful bald-headed Celeste Daniels.

Everything begins looking up, until one day, Celeste disappears.

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Promo Blitz & Giveaway - The God Thought by Dave Cravens

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The God Thought
Author: Dave Cravens

Genre: Science Fiction

Date Published: April 23, 2015

Book Description:
A MASSIVE EXPLOSION… levels a small town in Kansas and rips apart the commercial airliner flying overhead. The wife and child of Oliver Wells are among the thousands reported dead. Authorities blame the tragedy on an accident at a fertilizer plant not up to code. A year later, still grappling with his depression, Oliver is accosted by a mysterious stranger who offers another answer:

A FARMER CAUSED THE EXPLOSION.

AN EXPLOSION BORN OF THOUGHT.

A THOUGHT SO PERFECT AND DIVINE IT'S SAID TO MIRROR WHAT GOD THOUGHT TO CONCEIVE THE UNIVERSE.

Thrust into a hidden world of conspirators and luminaries who would do anything to attain the farmer's knowledge, Oliver finds himself in a race to confront the man who killed his family. To do so, he must test the limits of his sanity... AND UNLOCK THE POWER OF THE GOD THOUGHT FOR HIMSELF.

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Blog Tour Excerpt & Giveaway - The Deep Beneath (H.A.L.F) by Natalie Wright

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The Deep Beneath (H.A.L.F)
(H.A.L.F #1)
Author: Natalie Wright
Publication Date: January 7th, 2015
Genres: Science Fiction, Young Adult

Book Description:

H.A.L.F. 9 has taken his first breath of desert air and his first steps in the human world. Created to be a weapon, he proved too powerful for his makers and has lived a sedated life hidden from humans. But H.A.L.F. 9 has escaped the underground lab he called home, and the sedation has worn off. He has never been more alive. More powerful. Or more deadly.

Erika Holt longs to ride her motorcycle east until pavement meets shore. She bides her time until graduation when she’ll say adios to the trailer she shares with her alcoholic mother and memories of her dead father. But a typical night in the desert with friends thrusts Erika into a situation more dangerous than she ever imagined.

Circumstances push the two together, and each must make a fateful choice. Will Erika help H.A.L.F. 9 despite her “don’t get involved” rule? And will H.A.L.F. 9 let Erika live even though he was trained to kill?

The two may need to forget their rules and training and if either is to survive the dangers of the deep beneath them.

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Book Blast & Giveaway - Better Than Chocolate by J. Lynn Rowan

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Better Than Chocolate

Author: J. Lynn Rowan

Genre: Chick Lit Romance

Book Description:

Carmella Sannarelli just found out that her best friend, Sadie Miller, has broken her engagement and is eloping on St. Croix. Though Carmella agrees to act as the maid of honor, she’s determined to find out what went wrong between her friends.

But she’s not counting on coming face to face with Ryan Wutkowski (the jilted fiancé) on the plane, or with staying at his hotel during a two-day stopover in San Juan. They try to act like nothing’s changed. But Carmella’s totally flustered by the weird vibes Ryan sends her, as well as how tingly and off-kilter she feels every time he so much as looks at her.

Now Carmella can’t stop thinking about Ryan or his behavior, even though most of her time in St. Croix is taken up by pre-wedding activities and dodging advances from the womanizing best man. And she knows there’s more to the story behind Ryan and Sadie’s breakup than either of them will admit to her.

Especially after Ryan shows up at the rehearsal dinner and gets himself invited to the wedding...

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Blog Tour Interview & Giveaway - The Convenient Wedding by Susie Warren

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The Convenient Wedding

Author: Susie Warren

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Book Description:

The Convenient Wedding

A reluctant socialite is pulled into a scandal and must choose between her families’ reputation and her future happiness.

Lucia Montgomery is from an old and powerful political family in Connecticut and desperately wants to shed her reputation as a superficial socialite. Against her family’s wishes, she seeks a position working for a fiercely contested political campaign and the dark horse in the race, Anderson Adams. She is thrown into the middle of a scandal of her own making when she is tricked into going to his hotel room. Anderson persuades her to play along with a pretend engagement then an actual wedding to save her reputation and his campaign. The media falls in love with the charismatic couple and they must figure out how to reconcile their public image with their private life.

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