Author: Erin

Aliens Abducting August: UtopYA Giveaway!

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 industries, will have something for established and aspiring authors and screenwriters to improve their craft and advance their careers, as well as FUN panels for fans where then can directly influence and interact with their favorite authors! For more information check out the Utopya Con Website: http://utopyacon.com/ GIVEAWAY Enter below to win One (1) regular ticket to utopYA, which includes admission to 3-day conference, Awards & afterparty, public signing event, and write-in. a Rafflecopter giveaway Terms & Conditions: No purchase necessary. Must be 18 years of age and older to enter. The retail value of the ticket is $45.00 USD. The number of eligible entries received determines the odds of winning. Winners will be selected after August 31st, 2013 randomly by Rafflecopter. Entries will be reviewed for accuracy. MEReadALot is not liable for purchasing, shipping or emailing the items, winner not receiving the items, or lost items shipped/emailed. This sweepstakes is sponsored by Utopya Con and entry to Utopya 2014 will be provided by Utopya Con. If the items are not claimed via email within […]

Book Review: Speak Easy by Melanie Harlow!

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 hidden compartments, gambling or picking up the shipment of booze that’s just come in over the lake. One day, about a week after Tiny notices “The Sheik”, aka Enzo, coming into her family’s grocery store. Enzo comes into her store asking her to pass something on to her father. That night her father goes missing. Oh no, what’s a girl to do? Enters Joey, a serious pain in Tiny’s ass, but someone she and her family have known all her life. With his help, she is able to collect the ransom money needed to get her dad back. The chemistry between Enzo and Tiny is explosive, and Tiny tries to use it to her advantage. But what’s this? An almost unwanted attraction for Joey has decided to sneak up on Tiny. Who is she going to choose? The mobster whose family has kidnapped her dad, or the boy from down the street that she’s known all her life and has done all he can to help her get her dad back? ————— Once I started reading […]

Frigid (by J. Lynn) Official Trailer Reveal + Giveaway

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 ‘man’ in man-whore. He’ s never stayed with a girl longer than a few nights, and with it being their last year in college, Syd doesn’ t want to risk their friendship by declaring her love. Kyler has always put Syd on a pedestal that was too high for him to reach. To him, she’ s perfect and she’ s everything. But the feelings he has for her, he’ s always hidden away or focused on any other female. After all, Kyler will always be the poor boy from the wrong side of tracks, and Syd will always be the one girl he can never have. But when they’ re stranded together at a posh ski resort due to a massive Nor’ easter, there’ s nothing stopping their red-hot feelings for each other from coming to the surface. Can their friendship survive the attraction? Better yet, can they survive at all? Because as the snow falls, someone is stalking them, and this ski trip may be a life-changer in more ways than one. Buy […]

Erin’s One & Only Hottest YR Award goes to: Trey Chapman

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 to sitting at the computer for the hours it takes me to write a review. ha..but it took no time for me to swoon all over Trey. 😛 That said, I told Magan today by twitter that I would’ve LOVED to have read a certain scene that we didn’t get to witness in the book because I JUST KNOW that Trey had it planned out to be super freakin’ romantic and SWOONTASTIC as he did with other things that happened in the book. 😀 She replied and told me that she may have written the scene in hopes that Trey would make the NA Tourney crush and it was going to be used as an incentive to keep Trey going in the tourney. BUT TREY DID NOT MAKE IT IN THE NA CRUSH TOURNEY. SADFACE. SUPERSADFACERIGHTHERE. 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁 But you know what, Trey doesn’t need the NA Crush Tourney. HE WON MY OWN HOTTEST YOUNG REPUBLICAN TOURNEY RIGHT HERE ON THE BLOG. It only took one vote and […]

BOOK Review: Losing Hope by Colleen Hoover (@colleenhoover)

I went into this book thinking it was going to be the same story as Sky’s but from a different POV. IT’S NOT. It’s much more than that. It was almost like reading a new book, only not. Because we do get some rehashing of scenes that we experienced in Hopeless, but with Holder’s inner dialogue it made it a new experience. This book invoked so many emotions I would probably forget a few trying to list them off. It was one of the most intense emotional roller coasters I’ve been on. Holder’s story starts a year before Hope aka Sky comes back into his life. Right before the turning point that made Holder question his ability to protect the ones he loves. We get to experience the loss of Les, Holder’s sister, and everything that happens afterwards. When preparing for Les’s funeral, Holder comes across a blank leather-bound journal in her closet. Thus begins the Letters to Les. Les, You left your jeans in the middle of your bedroom floor. It looks like you just stepped out of them. It’s weird. Why would you leave your jeans on the floor if you knew what you were about to do? Through Holder’s letters to his sister, we discover that Holder is angry at his sister, because he doesn’t understand why she would kill herself and he feels that he failed as a brother. He also tells his sister about things that are going on with his life, now that she […]

Cover Reveal: ORIGIN by @JLArmentrout! Tell us what you think of it!

Title: Origin Series: The LUX Series Author: Jennifer L. Armentrout Release Date: August 27th, 2013 Pre-Order: Amazon / B&N Publisher: Entangled Teen Check it out on: Goodreads Synopsis Daemon will do anything to get Katy back. After the successful but disastrous raid on Mount Weather, he’ s facing the impossible. Katy is gone. Taken. Everything becomes about finding her. Taking out anyone who stands in his way? Done. Burning down the whole world to save her? Gladly. Exposing his alien race to the world? With pleasure. All Katy can do is survive. Surrounded by enemies, the only way she can come out of this is to adapt. After all, there are sides of Daedalus that don’ t seem entirely crazy, but the group’ s goals are frightening and the truths they speak even more disturbing. Who are the real bad guys? Daedalus? Mankind? Or the Luxen? Together, they can face anything. But the most dangerous foe has been there all along, and when the truths are exposed and the lies come crumbling down, which side will Daemon and Katy be standing on? And will they even be together? About Jennifer L. Armentrout # 1 NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY Bestselling author Jennifer Armentrout lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia. All the rumors you’ ve heard about her state aren’ t true. When she’ s not hard at work writing. she spends her time reading, working out, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write, and hanging out with her husband and […]

Release Event: Damaged 2 by H.M. Ward + Giveaway

Title: DAMAGED 2 Author: H.M. WARD Publisher: Laree Bailey Press Release date: June 24, 2013 Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance Age Group: New Adult Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17800786-damaged-2 Amazon: http://amzn.to/137ys0A B&N: http://bit.ly/11LWLuK The steamy sequel to the New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling New Adult novel DAMAGED by H.M. Ward. Home isn’t supposed to be dangerous, but for Sidney it is. Returning home means that she has to face her past. It’s not just the man who hurt Sidney that makes it horrible, but the family that didn’t believe her. They were dead to her, but now that her mom is really dying things seem different. It’s a chance to set things right. What Sidney doesn’t realize is that she’s dragging Peter into a collision course with his past. Peter must deal with the demons haunting him if he wants to move forward with Sidney. He’s willing to give up everything for her, even wade deeper into his past life to help her move forward. But, Peter isn’t sure if he can get over what happened to him in New York. Genre: New Adult Romance Length: Novel, ~325 pgs Sequel to the Bestselling phenomenon DAMAGED Excerpt from Damaged 2 Tension lines Peter’ s neck and shoulders. His jaw shifts from side to side, like the conversation he just had pissed him off. His eyes flick up from the floor and meet mine. “My brother’ s an asshole.” I smile at him. “So is mine.” Peter watches me for […]

#TeamTristan #YACrushTourney Grab Your Pole Series by @Jenn_Cooksey Giveaway

Giveaway Every time Tristan Daniels advances in the YA Crush Tourney, I will give away a copy of Shark Bait and a copy of The Other Fish in the Sea from the book series, Grab Your Pole, that Tristan hails from, to ONE person. Click here to read my review for the first book in the series, Shark Bait. 😉 Enter below to win ebooks of Shark Bait AND The Other Fish in the Sea. You have until midnight Friday Night 6/28/13 to enter. Winner will be announced on Saturday. 🙂 CLICK HERE TO VOTE FOR TRISTAN DANIELS!! 🙂 a Rafflecopter giveaway

Book Review: Shark Bait (Grab Your Pole #1) by Jenn Cooksey + Giveaway

I came across Shark Bait when I was scouring through the bowels of Amazon in September of 2012 thinking that I finally read everything there is to be read on Amazon when I found Shark Bait. It caught my eye and I took a gander at it and thought it sounded interesting so I bought it. I instantly got hooked and I don’t think I put my iPad down til I finished the book. Shark Bait is an amazing YA book with references to the best TV, Movies and Music of the 80s & 90s, a cute and hilarious protagonist named Camie, a stealthy 12 year old named Jill, and a boy named Tristan who will make you swoon all over yourself. I have to give it to Jenn Cooksey, you don’t always find a book where the main character is a female that doesn’t annoy the crap out of you. Camie never did, said or really whined about anything that made you go “WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?!” like some female characters (who shall remain nameless..*cough*Bella/Ana/etc.*cough* :P) Most of the time she was making me laugh and I’m glad I found a book where I actually LIKED the Main Female character. Along with the awesomesauce Camie, the supporting characters in this book are just as amazing and funny too. Kate is smart, sweet and being one of Tristan’s Best Friends, she is able to give Camie the 4-1-1 as the story goes along. “Dear Jeff” is hilarious […]