Friday, October 3, 2014

Review: Melt by Selene Castrovilla


Melt by Selene Castrovilla

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SYNOPSIS

Based on true events, MELT is both a chilling tale of abuse, and a timeless romance. MELT will hit you like a punch in the face, and also seep through the cracks in your soul.

MELT is a brutal love story set against the metaphorical backdrop of The Wizard of Oz (not a retelling). When sixteen year old Dorothy moves to the small town of Highland Park, she meets, and falls for Joey – a “bad boy” who tells no one about the catastrophic domestic violence he witnesses at home. Can these two lovers survive peer pressure, Joey’s reputation, and his alcoholism? 

Told in dual first person, Joey’s words are scattered on the page – reflecting his broken state. Dorothy is the voice of reason – until something so shattering happens that she, too, may lose her grip. Can their love endure, or will it melt away?




MY REVIEW


*I received a copy of this book through Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.*

2.5 Stars
Meh. Just Meh. This book was disappointing. I am a HUGE Wizard of Oz fan and so naturally I was allllllll about reading this book. The cover is lovely. I am a knitter and have a yarn dyer friend who does amazing inspirational dyes, and I could totally see her dyeing up something amazing from the cover. Other than the main character's name being Dorothy and some quotes from the story, there was zero parallels between this story and the Wizard of Oz. It was a big let down for me. 

The editing was great, however Joey's "voice" was very distracting and I found myself having to reread his chapters to figure out what the heck he was trying to say. 

Like a bad soap opera, I had to keep reading. Oddly enough, despite Joey's "voice," the story read quickly for me. The ending left me very unsatisfied. The story builds and builds and you think FINALLY justice is going to be served! But no. It ends quite abruptly and I was left feeling all meh. 

So, 2.5 stars, mainly because the editing was great and the story held my attention enough to finish it.
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Release Day: Deception by K.A. Robinson




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Please note: This isn’t your typical love story. Things are messy. Characters aren’t always what they appear to be. Wrong decisions are made. If you’re not a fan of the darker side of love, this might not be the book for you. Read at your own risk.

I’m strong—or at least, I want to be. I try to be. Oh, how I’ve tried.
But life screwed me over. When I was at my weakest and lowest, desperate and alone, he found me.
Robert changed everything. He gave me everything.
He was every woman’s dream—rich, powerful, and charming. He made me forget the fact that he’s twenty-four years my senior.
He made me feel alive, and for the first time in my life, I was content.
Until I met Cooper—his son.
And Robert? He began to change.
I’m despicable. I know I am. I’m ashamed of what I want.

Things are never what they seem.

Greed.
Lust.
Lies.
Murder.

Deception.


                                                                                                                                                         Teaser
"I have no idea what you’re talking about.” I whispered as I took a step back. My back hit the wall, but he continued to step closer. He stopped right in front of me and rested his hands on the wall next to my head so that he caged me in.

“You’re a terrible liar, Claire. Even now, you want me. Your pupils are dilated and your breathing is uneven. You know what I can do and you want it. You want to be the one on my bed with my head buried between your legs.” He leaned closer so that his lips touched my ear. “All you have to do is ask. I promise you’ll be screaming when I’m done with you.”

Complete Ch 1: http://authorkarobinson.blogspot.com/2014/06/deception-chapter-one.html
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                            About The Author

 K.A. Robinson is the New York Times and USA Today Best Selling Author of The Torn Series and The Ties Series. She lives in a small town in West Virginia with her husband and toddler son. When she isn't writing, she is reading or listening to rock music.
Author links:
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Other books by K.A. Robinson:
Torn Series:
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Twisted: http://amzn.to/1m0s9PK
Tainted: amzn.to/19SJIRw    
Ties Series:
Shattered Ties: http://www.amazon.com/Shattered-Ties-K-Robinson-ebook/dp/B00GM0PF7A/ref=sr_1_1_bnp_1_kin?ie=UTF8&qid=1399865729&sr=8-1&keywords=Shattered+Ties
Twisted Ties: http://www.amazon.com/Twisted-Ties-The-Series-Volume/dp/1495269655/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1399865729&sr=8-2&keywords=Shattered+Ties

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Thursday, October 2, 2014

Cover Reveal: Revive Me by Charity Ferrell



Revive Me by Charity Ferrell 
Publication date: November 2014 
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23166933-revive-me?ac=1




SYNOPSIS

When I lost him, I lost myself.

Tessa Benson is lost.
The most important person in her life is dead.
And everyone she loves left her.
She’s doing anything she can to mask her pain.
Even if it means traveling down the road of destruction.


Dawson Thomas has loved her for years.
But she’s his dead best friend’s sister.
He made a promise to stay away from her.
He also made the promise to always protect her.
She’s destroying herself and time is running out.
Will he hurt her by keeping his word or break it to save her?


ABOUT THE AUTHOR


Charity Ferrell was born and raised in Indianapolis, Indiana and still resides there with her future hubby, two Yorkies (who run the house), and cat. When she's not writing, you can find her reading, spending time with her crazy family or watching too much TV.

You can interact and find more information at: 
twitter: charity_ferrell
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Blog Tour: Charlotte by M. Sembera

The true measure of a person's worth lies not within what they can offer you but what you have to offer them. No matter how desirable, are they worth your time, patience, forgiveness, loyalty, friendship, love, respect, understanding, compassion, trust? If not, they are worth more than you have to offer.
They deserve for you to let them go.
Charlotte Roberts and Augustus (Auggie) Caffrey may never have known each other, if it were not for William Caffrey. They would have simply moved on with their own lives without the anger and resentment that followed, when William fell for Charlotte almost six years ago.
Under the pretense of introducing Trace Delgado, her soon to be fiancé, to her adoptive parents, Emerson and Amila Roberts, Charlotte arrives back in her small southern hometown to personally collect on the forgiveness William promised he would give her if she ever returned.
Spending his days at the hospital with his brother William and his nights tending bar at The Dog House, Auggie knows it is only a matter of time before he loses the brother he has tried his entire life to protect.
When Auggie finds out Charlotte is in town, to no doubt torment his brother on his death bed, he wants her to stay as far away from William as possible. All Charlotte wants is to be forgiven and move on with a clear conscience. While, William's dying wish is to ensure the two people he cares about most step outside of their comfort zones and see that life is not as cut and dry as they think it is.
Charlotte's guilt and Auggie's brotherly devotion compel them to, secretly, follow through with William's last requests forcing them to begrudgingly spend time together. The more time they spend together, the closer they become. And the harder it is to keep what is taking place between them secret.
Late nights visits and stolen moments cause Charlotte to fall hard. But when a reminder of what brought them together stops Auggie dead in his tracks, he starts to question how far he's willing to go with someone who was his brother's first.
*Blog Tour Special*
M. Sembera was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and now lives in Brazoria, Texas with her husband, three kids, three dogs and two cats. After writing her first short story when she was in high school, M. instantly fell in love with writing. However, life sometimes gets in the way of aspirations and it wasn't until years later, when her life calmed down, M. was able to start writing again.
'For me, each new book I write or character I create feels like the first time and I find myself falling in love with writing all over again'


www.BrokenBirdMedia.com
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Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Blitz: Base Branch Series by Megan Mitcham


Base Branch Series by Megan Mitcham 
Genres: Adult, Romance, Suspense


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 BOOK ONE


SYNOPSIS

When friends become enemies and enemies become lovers.

Born in the blood of Sierra Leone’s Civil War, enslaved, then sold to the US as an orphan, Base Branch operative, Sloan Harris is emotionally dead and driven by vengeance. With no soul to give, her body becomes the bargaining chip to infiltrate a warlord’s inner circle, the man called The Devil who killed her family and helped destroy a region.


As son of the warlord, Baine Kendrick will happily use Sloan’s body, if it expedites his father’s demise. Yet, he is wholly unprepared for  the possessive and protective emotions she provokes. Maybe it’s the flashes of memory. Two forgotten children drawing in the dirt beneath the boabab tree. But he fears there is more at stake than his life.



In the Devil’s den with Baine by her side, Sloan braves certain death and discovers a spirit for living.






BOOK TWO



SYNOPSIS

For justice. For country. For love.


After witnessing her friend’s sexual assault, seven year senior, Magdalena Wells escapes an attack with a few bruises and a thousand  questions. As a journalist in practice, if not in pay, Mags vows to utilize the skills she mastered in the Democratic Republic of Congo and answer every single one, just as soon as she gets the hell out of town.



Law Pierce’s aim is rest and relaxation after two years undercover in South Africa on an extended Base Branch mission, but restlessness puts him in trouble’s path. As a servant of justice, Law will do everything in his power to keep trouble safe. The fact that trouble’s petite stature and luscious curves stir his every primal instinct is a massive inconvenience he struggles to ignore.



Together Magdalena and Law uncover a web of corruption and dirty lies that could set their country’s top official ablaze, if the inferno doesn’t consume them first.





BOOK THREE



SYNOPSIS

One takes control. One finds balance in letting go.


Base Branch operative, Ryan Noble is accustomed to taking orders whether from his commander or his overbearing mother. His best friend urged him to take control of his life, but the only thing worse than an angry woman is a teary one. He has no desire to upset his mother’s fragile emotions. Losing his sister was hard enough, his mom couldn’t bear losing another child. Even if it is to the other side of D.C. It’s a damn good thing she doesn’t know what he does for a living.



On a routine mission to destroy a cargo free human trafficking facility and exterminate it’s operators, Ryan blows his extraction to rescue a woman he finds chained inside.



Piper Vega is caught between metal and a hard place. She needs information and it has taken far too long to cull it from her leads, also known as her captors. She finally has the facts she needs to complete her task, but it’ll take a miracle to set her free and see it achieved. Santo Padre knows she never expected her good favor to come in the form of a man.



Ryan takes the reins of life in his sturdy grip while Piper discovers balance in loosening hers. Through intense battles of will, both find the unexpected.





ABOUT THE AUTHOR


Megan was born and raised among the live oaks and shrimp boats of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, where her enormous family still calls home. She attended college at the University of Southern Mississippi where she received a bachelor's degree in curriculum, instruction, and special education. For several years Megan worked as a teacher in Mississippi. She married and moved to South Carolina and worked for an international non-profit organization as an instructor and co-director.

In 2009 Megan fell in love with books. Until then, books had been a source for research or the topic of tests. But one day she read Mercy by Julie Garwood. And Oh Mercy, she was hooked!

Megan lives in Southern Arkansas where she pens sizzling suspense novels.

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Cover Reveal: Destroyed by L.A. Starkey


Destroyed by L.A. Starkey 
(Soul Keeper Series #2) 
Publication date: November 2014
Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult





SYNOPSIS

They say a soul is the immaterial essence, the animating principal, the actuating cause of an individual life.

But what if you had to share yours with the one person you hated the most?

The soul mate principal states that for every one soul there is another that will recognize its match, hence creating the perfect union.

But what if you had two soul mates, which would you choose?

What if your choices had eternal ramification?

Destroyed, the second novel in the Soul Keeper Series, is a modern day love story about the implications of having more than one soul mate, and having to choose between the two of them. The decisions of the gods has left the next generation, their heirs, torn between fate and reality, and the balance of the future hangs in anticipation of what’s to come.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR


Laurie Starkey is the author of the upcoming Soul Keeper Series, a supernatural young adult series, and The Liarus Detective Series, a supernatural middle grade series. She lives in Houston, Texas with her husband, Jacob and three beautiful kiddos.

She is a CPA by trade, a church planter and entrepreneur at heart; however, writing and reading are passions she just can't help but indulge in. With more ideas than one person should be allowed, she is blessed to have a muse that doesn't seem to take a vacation and more energy that one might consider healthy.

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Cover Reveal: Take a Bow by C.J. Wells


Take A Bow by C.J. Wells
Perfect Plans #2
Pre-order link: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NU7WHAQ/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23266538-take-a-bow
Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLydhhMNdkx48W7iX1qYFKYmqJI                    6vryuCU


SYNOPSIS

Sometimes, dreams come true.  
And, sometimes…
They seem too good to be true.

So many questions, one affirmation…I am in love with Alexander Tate.  Everything I’ve ever dreamed of was standing right in front of me. My ultimate fantasy come true.  My more.  So, why am I running?
Alex and Aby’s story continues in the powerfully sensual sequel in The Perfect Plans Series, Take a Bow.  The final installment of their story is wrought with jealously, endless desire, sinfully decadent sex, betrayal, humour, empowerment and, of course, love.  




AUTHOR BIO

Co-Authors, and sisters, Christa Gibbs and Jill Syed reside in Ontario, Canada. Born and raised on da’Rock [a.k.a. St. John’s, Newfoundland], their laid back personalities and eclectic sense of humor is indicative of their native roots. Although fluent in Newfinese, both are quite eloquently spoken, showing no remnants of an accent unless alcohol is involved.

Fluent in air-guitar [she trained in Europe], Christa, by day, transforms into her Executive role in the Property Management World. This wonderful position lends credence to her altruistic life experiences lived vicariously through the many residents within her keep. This translates beautifully to her evening endeavors, which include creating lovable characters and interesting storylines [when she’s not catering to her loving ‘Oooge’ — a.k.a. biker hubby]. An avid reader of erotic romance [upwards of two to three novels per week], Christa decided to give her own incessant fairytale sex-capade fantasies a voice.

When she is not behind the camera in her Photography Studio, Jill spends portions of her days mentally cataloging all the reasons why she shouldn’t become an indulgent drinker at the helm of her three young children during the absences of her Pilot husband [though you will hear her undying love and devotion for them often: “blessed”]. Passionately creative, Jill spent many years capturing life moments on film, canvas and even paper. Having dabbled in the writing of many children’s books, all of which ended up covered in dust and never carried through, clarity hit once she collaborated with her sister: “Ohhh, the steamy sex was the missing ingredient”.






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