If you guys pay any attention to me at all, you know that I absolutely love the Grab Your Pole book series by Jenn Cooksey. It’s an amazing series with even more amazing characters, including the most kick ass 12 year old you’ll ever meet in a book… and Tristan..SWOON. I was #TeamTristan all the way during this year’s YA Crush Tourney and I even went the way of bribing people (I like to think that Jillian […]
So I’m listening to the audiobook version of Opal by Jennifer L. Armentrout at work. I totally forgot that in Opal Katy, Daemon and Dawson have a George Romero zombiethon in this book where during it Daemon morphs into a zombie (lolol)… I immediately thought of Daemon as a zombie and then remembered that the new season of The Walking Dead premiered last night..and then I had a genius thought…and then I giggled and opened […]
Erin’s Review: We first meet John Boy in The Only Exception when he is introduced to us as Trey Chapman’s Big Brother at their Fraternity Alpha Mu. In The Only Exception he appears to be your stereotypical Frat Boy; Only there for the Booze, Girls & Parties… He continues t0 give us this impression at the beginning of The Only One, being that it’s a halloween party and he’s only wearing a loin cloth(say […]
Melissa has the year from Hell and somehow her best friend Elaine has managed to talk her into running away for a week at a spa thousands of miles away from the mess that her life is. While sitting at the hotel bar drinking the only cocktail she could think of that she doesn’t even like, she somehow catches the attention of the sexy Derek Alexander. When Derek comes her way, she’s floored by this […]
Don’t Look Back by Jennifer L. Armentrout Release Date: April 15th, 2014 Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Goodreads: Add to your bookshelf Pre-Order: Amazon | B&N Samantha is a stranger in her own life. Until the night she disappeared with her best friend, Cassie, everyone said Sam had it all-popularity, wealth, and a dream boyfriend. Sam has resurfaced, but she has no recollection of who she was or what happened to her that night. As she tries to piece together […]
This book started out slow for me. It took a while for me to warm up to Lily, but eventually I got there. Like other female characters of JLA’s, Lily was full of some good snark and I think that is what finally got me. Lily is one kick-ass girl who hardly ever gets into a situation that she can’t get herself out of. Though, that doesn’t mean she doesn’t have a guardian angel looking […]
Royally Lost by Angie Stanton Release Date: May 6, 2014 Publisher: Harper Collins Genre: Contemporary Romance Age Group:Young Adult/New Adult (Harper Collins is releasing it as YA, however, the characters are 18 and out of high school. It is a sweet book appropriate for any age.) Goodreads: Add to your bookshelf Dragged on a family trip to Europe’ s ancient cities, Becca wants nothing more than to go home. Trapped with her emotionally distant father, […]
Title: Safe with Me Series: With Me in Seattle #5 Author: Kristen Proby Release: September 24th, 2013 Genre: Contemporary Romance Buy Now: Amazon | B&N Goodreads: Add to your bookshelf Excerpt: “Easy,” Caleb murmurs behind me. “I’ m fine.” Maybe if I keep saying it I’ ll start to believe it myself. He moves up behind me and nudges my legs apart. “Widen your stance for balance.” I fire again, and my blood thickens […]
Recklessly Royal by Nichole Chase Series: Suddenly #2 Release Date: March 25, 2014 Publisher: Avon Books Pages: 384 Pre-Order: Amazon | B&N Goodreads: Add to your bookshelf Catherine has spent her life being the perfect princess. She’ s kept her hands clean, her head down, and most importantly-men at arm’ s length. After all, most men are after only one thing, and for Cathy there’ s a lot more at stake than her bed; she has […]
FIRE & FLOOD by Victoria Scott Scholastic, February 2014 First Excerpt Reveal I drove across the US of A, left my family without an explanation, and now I’ m either too late or there was never anything here to begin with. F my life. Rearing back, I kick the door as hard as I can. Then I wrap both hands around the door handles and release a noise like a wild banshee as I pull […]
I kept track of my reactions to the book, Shark Out of Water, by Jenn Cooksey as I read. This image pretty much sums up the whole book, and if you’ve read it. You’ll totally get it. I absolutely LOVE this series. I came across Shark Bait when I was scouring through the bowels of Amazon in September of 2012 looking for something, ANYTHING interesting to read. Finally after pages and pages of books…the (original) […]
Celebrating the release of Stripped (A Ferro Family Novel), author H.M. Ward is offering an amazing giveaway PLUS we have an excerpt! In Stripped, we get to know another Ferro brother, Jonathan Ferro! Title: STRIPPED – A Ferro Family Novel Author: H.M. WARD Publisher: Laree Bailey Press Release: September 2, 2013 Genre: Contemporary Romance Age Group: New Adult By New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling New Adult author H.M. Ward. […]
Maggie recently has found out that she is what they call a Semi-God..Someone who descends from a god or goddess. In Maggie’s case, it’s Aphrodite, the greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation. She’s slowly coming into her powers and watch out, because if you piss her off you might end up in a coma like her Ex, Eric. Out of nowhere, the New kid, Hot & Irish, Mac Finnegan, has decided that he […]
Trust in Me by J. Lynn / Jennifer L. Armentrout Series: Wait For You Release Date: October 22nd, 2013 Publisher: William Morrow Impulse Pre-Order: Amazon | B&N | iBookStore Goodreads: Add to your bookshelf It’ s Wait for You as you’ ve never seen it. Trust in Me lets you in on Cam’ s side of the #1 New York Times Bestselling story. Cameron Hamilton is used to getting what he wants, especially when it […]
Loving Cara by Kristen Proby Series: Love Under The Big Sky Release Date: January 2014 Publisher: Pocket Books Pre-Order: Amazon | B&N Goodreads: Add to your bookshelf CHEMISTRY WAS NEVER THIS SEXY IN HIGH SCHOOL. In her sizzling new series, USA Today bestselling author Kristen Proby sets the stage for a passionate reunion under the breathtaking Montana sky. Cara Donovan’ s summer tutoring job is turning out to be a challenge—and not just because of her troubled […]
UtopYA Convention: for women writers of supernatural YA and NA fiction and their fans! June 20-22, 2014 at the Millennium Maxwell House Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee The first-of-its-kind convention for women writers of supernatural YA and NA fiction, and their fans! If you love contemporary or paranormal romance, sci-fi, dystopian futures, vampires, werewolves, angels, wizards, demons or demigods, then this unconventional convention is for you. Panels, filled with writers and experts in the publishing and entertainment […]
Blurb: Honor student, manager at the campus coffee shop, owner of an impressive sweater collection – Melanie Wilder has it all together. Then John “John Boy” Walden strolls into her life wearing nothing more than an impish grin and all-too-revealing loin cloth. Soon, make-out sessions replace homework, lust triumphs over work. And to further crumble her perfect world, an unexpected phone call threatens to take away everything she’ s worked for. Now, as Melanie struggles […]
Erin’s Review: Tiny is a 20-year-old girl dreaming of someday finishing nursing school, and moving out of her dad’s house. Tiny works for her father’s bootlegging operation while simultaneously helping out in her older sister’s small grocery store when she is needed. At night, she craves the lifestyle of the flapper, but instead is at home taking care of the kids. NOT HER KIDS, her own little sisters, While their dad is off customizing cars with […]
http://youtu.be/KFjHtnm03_0 JLA is having a Frigid Release Day giveaway! To enter, check out this blog post on her website: Frigid is released contest! For twenty-one-year-old Sydney, being in love with Kyler isn’ t anything new. They’ d been best friends ever since he pushed her down on the playground and she made him eat a mud pie. Somewhere over the years, she fell for him and fell hard. The big problem with that? Kyler puts […]
The amazing author, Magan Vernon, recently gifted me her book, The Only Exception, when she found out that I was in the hospital having my gallbladder removed. It came with a note that said that Trey Chapman will help with my recovery. AND BOY WAS SHE RIGHT!!! 🙂 I’m not going to get to into the details of the book right now, because I am planning to write a review when I feel more up […]
As most of you guys know, In the wee hours of Monday morning the cover for the upcoming book in the LUX series by Jennifer L. Armentrout, ORIGIN, was revealed across the blogosphere. This was the reaction by many females (Regina & myself included) when first glancing upon the newly revealed cover: And of course, after we all recovered from the major swoonfest, this was what we all had to say: […]