Category: Books

New Release: Safe With Me by Kristen Proby + Giveaway

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 as adrenaline pumps hard and fast through me. It doesn’ t take a Navy SEAL to figure out how to line up the sights, and I squeeze the trigger, again and again, my body taught with aggression that I didn’ t even know I’ d been holding. Shooting is great therapy. When the magazine is empty, Caleb wordlessly shows me how to switch it out, and I continue to throw the bullets down the range, clip after clip, until all four are spent. I set the heavy gun on the shelf, pull my goggles and earmuffs off and step back. I have to lock my knees because my legs feel like Jell-O and I’ m afraid I’ ll fall. My arms are humming, I’ m panting, and I swear to God, I could run a marathon. Suddenly, Caleb steps up behind me and presses the button to bring the target back to us. “Take a deep breath,” he whispers against my ear and I instinctively respond, pulling in a long, deep breath. He presses his […]

First Excerpt from Fire & Flood by Victoria Scott + Giveaway!

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 back. The doors swing open. I’ m not sure whether to celebrate or freak out. I decide to do neither and slip inside. As I walk around the inside of the museum, listening to the sound of my footsteps echo off the walls, I imagine I am moments from death. It’ s sad, I think, that this is all it takes to break my sanity. Two curling flights of stairs bow out from the first-floor lobby, and red and white tiles cover the floors. There are gilded picture frames everywhere. So many that I think the placement of the frames — and not their contents — is the real art. Everything, absolutely everything, smells like wax. I mosey up to an abandoned reception desk and leaf through the glossy pamphlets littering the surface. I hold one of the pamphlets up to my nose. Yep, wax. I glance around, having no idea what to look for. Will there be a sign like at school registration? Students with last names A–K this way? On my left, I […]

My Reactions to Shark Out of Water (Grab Your Pole #3) by Jenn Cooksey

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) cover of Shark Bait caught my eye. I bought it, read it and fell in love. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read the book since..but it’s been quite a few and…and I will probably read this series many, many more times in the future. This series is amazing. The first book, Shark Bait, in it’s entirety is told from Camie Ramsey’s point a view. The Second book, The Other Fish in the Sea, is mainly told from Camie’s POV, but every once in a while, we’ll get the POV of another female character in the story. Now this book…in this book we experience the aftermath of what happened in TOFitS, through the POVs of all of the Male Characters, including the recently introduced Brandon. I love that we’re able to get into the minds of Tristan, Jeff, Pete and Brandon in this book. I think that being in the minds of the boys might be even more entertaining then being in the minds of the girls, including Jillian! Being that we’re in […]

Book Review: Chaos by Christine O’Neil + Giveaway

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 wants to mess with Maggie for no good reason. He seems to know how to push her buttons just right and that’s not a good thing for him or Maggie. — I have to be honest, it took a while for the story to get going but once it did I really started to enjoy the book. I loved Maggie and the things that came out her mouth. She was witty, sarcastic and full of attitude and had no problem saying what was on her mind. When you put her and Mac Finnegan together. Wowie! The chemistry between was electric, though both of them try to deny it’s there. The bickering between the two of them was entertaining and sometimes it seemed as though Maggie wanted to attack and kiss him, while other times she wanted to attack and kill him. It’s interesting to see Maggie’s character develop throughout the book as she learns more about where she comes from and how to control her new powers and try to be the best that she […]

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 […]