BOOK BLITZ: You Are Mine & Mine To Tarnish by Janeal Falor

Title: You Are Mine + Mine To Tarnish

Author: Janeal Falor

Release date: May 6^th, 2013 and December 2^nd, 2013

Genre:  Young Adult, Paranormal/Fantasy  

Tour: Irresistible Reads Book Tours

You Are Mine ( Mine #1)

Serena knows a few simple things. She will always be owned by a warlock. She will never have freedom. She will always do what her warlock wishes, regardless of how inane, frivolous, or cruel it is. And if she doesn’t follow the rules, she will be tarnished. Spelled to be bald, inked, and barren for the rest of her life—worth less than the shadow she casts.

Then her ownership is won by a barbarian from another country. With the uncertainty that comes from belonging to a new warlock, Serena questions if being tarnished is really worse than being owned by a barbarian, and tempts fate by breaking the rules. When he looks the other way instead of punishing her, she discovers a new world. The more she ventures into the forbidden, the more she learns of love and a freedom just out of reach. Serena longs for both. But in a society where women are only ever property, hoping for more could be deadly.

You can read my review HERE

Mine To Tarnish (Mine #0.5)
Katherine’s place is the same as any woman’s—on the shelf next to the dresses and bolts of cloth. When she’s sold to a warlock, life grows even bleaker. Her new owner is as old and rancid as he is cruel, driving her to do the unthinkable: run.

Nothing prepared her for being on her own. And she’s definitely unprepared for the warlocks hunting her down. But she must stay one step ahead because if caught, the best she can hope for is death.

 

Author Bio:

Amazon best selling author Janeal Falor lives in Utah with her husband and three children. In her non-writing time she teaches her kids to make silly faces, cooks whatever strikes her fancy, and attempts to cultivate a garden even when half the things she plants die. When it's time for a break she can be found taking a scenic drive with her family or drinking hot chocolate!

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WAITING ON WEDNESDAY #51: The Half Life of Molly Pierce by Katrina Leno

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

A mysterious and visceral page-turner about a seventeen-year-old girl who unravels the secrets of her alternate personality, reminiscent of the film Memento.

You live and you remember.
Me, I live and I forget.
But now-now I am remembering.

For all of her seventeen years, Molly feels like she's missed bits and pieces of her life. Molly suffers from dissociative identity disorder, and since she was a little girl, she's played host to Mabel, a completely separate and individual personality. When Mabel is in control, Molly experiences the blackouts she's been so scared of. But now Mabel is letting Molly in on her secrets; she's letting Molly remember. And in doing so, Molly uncovers the separate life she seems to have led...and the love that she can't let go.

The Half Life of Molly Pierce is a suspenseful, evocative psychological mystery about uncovering the secrets of our pasts, facing the unknowns of our futures, and accepting our whole selves.

Expected publication: July 8th 2014

I'm always looking for something a little outside of the norm and I think a girl with dual personalities about covers that. This book sounds just about perfect!!!
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TEASER TUESDAY #5: Tragic Love (Sulfur Heights #2) by M.S. Brannon

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading.

• Grab your current read

• Open to a random page

• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page

• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what your share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

*****

“From the moment I locked eyes with hers, we've had this undeniable connection that was and will always be wicked. A love that would literally kill me if it didn't survive, but lately, could kill me if it did.” ~Drake Evans.

For Drake and Presley, life has handed them more challenges than any one person should ever face in a lifetime. Together, they've survived Presley’s captivity from her deranged uncle, but now they must learn how to live with the events that surrounded her time spent with him, while keeping the details of her rescue a secret. 

For Presley Quinn, living the last two years has been practically unbearable, constantly drowning in nightmares put there by a man responsible for the violent images continually playing in her mind. She keeps moving forward, but is barely clinging onto the edge when she’s faced with another obstacle from her past that is so unavoidable, so tragic, it threatens to break her apart—herself.

Drake will do anything to protect Presley from ever feeling pain again. His love is irrefutable. He walks side by side with her, vowing he will never let anyone harm her again. However, when an unexpected event turns Presley against everyone she’s ever loved, Drake is faced with trying to save the only woman he’s ever loved or severing the only lifeline she’s ever had—himself.

**Mature Content Warning** 17 years and older for language and sexual content.

Teaser
Her eyes are filling with tears. They start to pool and spill down her cheeks as she squeezes my arm, however I feel nothing. - 19% on Kindle

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REVIEW: Awakening Foster Kelly by Cara Rosalie Olsen

If only a pile of wayward curls and the inability to stay on her feet were seventeen year-old Foster Kelly’s most pressing concerns. Unfortunately, stubborn hair and clumsiness are just the tip of it. At the age of five when Foster is told, “You don’t belong here,” it was only a mistake, but the result is one broken heart. These four carelessly spoken words have shaped and shadowed Foster, and now—a senior at Shorecliffs High-school—she seeks the wallflower’s existence, denying herself the most casual of friendships, much too afraid that someone will see what she believes is certain: she does not belong anywhere—or with anyone. 

This reality would continue to suit her just fine; however . . . Love has a long-standing history of undoing broken hearts.

Like a comet, an unexpected arrival knocks Foster out of the crowded, starry sky, sending her directly into the limelight. Exposed and afraid, she will attempt to regain anonymity; but it isn’t so easy now that someone is watching. He pursues this shy enigma, confronting Foster’s deepest fears head-on, and in the process falls wholly and completely in love with her. But there is something he is not saying . . . a secret capable of certain ruin. Either he will break her heart once and for all, or he will heal it.

In the end, though, it is Foster who must decide if she is worth mending.

My Thoughts:

“To be nobody but 

yourself in a world 

which is doing its best day and night to make you like 

everybody else means to fight the hardest battle 

which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”

― E.E. Cummings

When I opened to the first page of Awakening Foster Kelly, I was daunted. Daunted by it's length. At over 700 pages, it is more than twice the length of most young adult reads. I wondered what the author could have to say to fill so many pages. And when I started reading, I admit to being overwhelmed by how wordy the story was. The author delved deeply into even the most basic things, and then there were times when the choice of a certain word pulled me up and I had to stop and actually check it's meaning. This wasn't just once every now and then, but at least once every few pages. It was for these reasons that I struggled to connect with the story to begin with. I actually nearly gave up on it. To be honest, I can't even say what kept me reading. Maybe it was that I wanted to find out what made Dominic treat Foster the way that he did when they first met. Maybe it was that I wanted to see Foster Kelly's awakening. Or maybe it was a mix of both of those reasons. But continue to read I did. And nestled in amongst all of those words is a story that was so utterly fantastic!!!

Foster Kelly is extremely intelligent, but timid, incredibly shy and socially awkward. After moving to a new town, she can't boast to having many friends. But the ones she does have are loyal, loving and just the sort of people that any one of us would want to be surrounded with. Then Foster meets Dominic and the impact this boy will have on her life is amazing. He challenges her. He supports her. He guides her. And he loves her. A lot of the time Foster appeared so much older than her years, but when it comes to friendships and love she is a teenage girl so full of fears. Fears that Dominic will make her face and attempt to deal with. 

Dominic had me believing that those flaws, the things I loathed about myself, were what made me special and unique. He made me feel special and unique.

I have to say that Dominic is one of the sweetest book boys ever!! I didn't like him at first. I didn't understand him at all. But boy didn't he change that. He had me so taken in with him, that I devoured the scenes he was in.

Dominic was the magic; I was simply the hat he pulled things from.

There is no denying the beauty of the authors writing. She puts words to paper that blend together to form these incredibly vivid sentences. But I stick by my original thought, that at times, there were just too many words. I think the story could have been trimmed down and made for a much more smoothly flowing story. I have to admit to there being times that I skimmed a few paragraphs here and there.

Then there is that ending!!! If while I was reading this someone had asked me how I thought the ending was going to go, you could have given me 100 guesses, and I would have used each and every one of them and still have not guessed correctly. The ending completely sold the book for me. It was fantastic, original and brilliant.

Awakening Foster Kelly is in no way a fast paced read. You walk with these characters at quite a leisurely pace and you get to know them fairly deeply. So if you prefer action every page, then maybe this book isn't for you. So, I'm really torn as to how to rate this book. It's a definite five stars for the writing and the storyline, but then there is the amount of times I had to stop reading and go in search of a words meaning or I was just overwhelmed with a mass of words and descriptions. One thing I am sure of is that I will definitely read more from Cara Rosalie Olsen.

So after much deliberation... 4/5 Fantastic Ending Stars

COVER REVEAL & GIVEAWAY: You Found Me by Kanettra Holmes

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You Found Me
by Kanettra Holmes
Publication: April 7th, 2014
Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance

When eighteen-year-old Mia Graham runs away, she thinks she's left the memory of the most horrible night of her life behind her. But the past isn't done with her yet, no matter how far she runs. Now she’s faced with a tough and confusing decision and has no idea what to do.

Then along comes Aiden Kincaid, quiet and withdrawn. From the moment he crosses paths with Mia, he is instantly intrigued by her.

Mia promised herself she would never trust another man again, though, and Aiden still harbors guilt from a tragic accident and never wanted anyone else in his life. Neither of them is looking for love. But fate has different plans.

Will Mia and Aiden give into their fears and continue to let their pasts control them, or will they realize that sometimes fate steps in and sends you the person you never knew you were looking for?

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I was born and raised in none other than the great state of New York. I moved to Florida when I was seventeen and fell in love with the warm weather and sunshine. Now nine years later I curse the heat and cherish the cool days.

When I'm not closed off from the world in my home reading or writing, I like to go to the zoo or the aquarium or anyplace I can be around animals. Or walking the trails and enjoying nature. I also always enjoy a nice meal out, and Karaoke night at Applebees is always fun.

Random Facts:
1) I ALWAYS laugh at my own jokes, while others laugh at me ;)
2) I LOVE THE RAIN!!!

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COVER REVEAL : Seeress (Runes #3) by Ednah Walters

Book Title: Seeress
Series: A Runes Novel #3
Author: Ednah Walters
Expected Release Date: April 2014
Genre: YA Paranormal Romance
Publisher: Firetrail Publishing
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I love Torin St. James...

I crave his touch...

I need his strength...

Raine Cooper is certain of two things: her love for Torin St. James and her destiny to be a powerful seeress. But when she starts having premonitions, they are unclear and disturbing. Worse, they involve Torin. Not sure what to do, she keeps quiet.

But when the visions are about her and another man, Raine realizes she needs to talk to someone. Just her luck two new students arrive at her school and they seem to have answers. When with them, her powers are enhanced and her visions become clear. There is only one problem: Torin does not want Raine to have anything to do with the two girls but he won't explain why.

Can their love survive the secrets they are keeping from each other?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
EDNAH WALTERS grew up reading Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys and dreaming of one day writing her own stories. She is a stay-at-home mother of five humans and two American short-hair cats (one of which has ADHD) and a husband. When she is not writing, she’s at the gym doing Zumba or doing things with her family, reading, traveling or online chatting with fans.

Ednah is the author of The Guardian Legacy series, a YA fantasy series about children of the fallen angels, who fight demons and protect mankind. AWAKENED, the prequel was released by Pill Hill Press in September 2010 with rave reviews. BETRAYED, book one in the series was released by her new publisher Spencer Hill Press in June 2012 and HUNTED, the third installment, was released March 2013. She’s working on the next book in the series, FORGOTTEN. Visit her at www.ednahwalters.com.

Ednah also writes YA paranormal romance. RUNES is the first book in her new series. IMMORTALS is book 2. She just released book 3, GRIMNIRS December 2013. Read more about this series and the world she's created here www.runestheseries.com.

Under the pseudonym E. B. Walters, Ednah writes contemporary romance. SLOW BURN, the first contemporary romance with suspense, was released in April 2011. It is the first book in the Fitzgerald family series. Since then she has published five more books in this series. She's presently working on book seven. You can visit her online at or www.ebwalters.com.

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WAITING ON WEDNESDAY #50: Forget Me by K.A. Harrington

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

An edge-of-your seat psychological thriller with a romantic twist

On the three-month anniversary of her boyfriend Flynn’s death, Morgan uploads her only photo of him to FriendShare to get some closure—but she’s shocked when the facial recognition software suggests she tag him as "Evan Murphy." She’s never heard of Evan, but a quick search tells her that he lives in a nearby town and looks exactly like Flynn. Only this boy is very much alive.

Digging through layers of secrets and lies, Morgan is left questioning everything she thought she knew about her boyfriend, her town, and even her parents' involvement in this massive web of lies.

Expected publication: August 14th 2014 

An edge-of-your seat psychological thriller with a romantic twist

That one sentence right there, pretty much sums up why I can't wait to read this one. 

What book are you patiently waiting for the release of?