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Supernatural Fun Facts: A Guest Post by Sherry Seoule
“Supernatural Fun Facts” Today’s post is provided by author Sherry Soule, who is celebrating the release of her newest novel, IMMORTAL ECLIPSE. If you like supernatural suspense mingled with a dash of chick-lit and a healthy dose of paranormal romance, then this is the book for you! Sherry has put together three supernatural fun facts about her newest novel. In this post, you can learn more about the intriguing, supernatural legends that makeup the eerie world of the Summerwind Mansion. Supernatural Fun Fact #1 A doppelganger is believed to be a ghostly double of a living person that haunts its living…
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Infinityglass Giveaway!
You may have seen my earlier review of Infinityglass, the last in the Hourglass series. If not, you can check it out here! I really enjoyed this finale to an awesome set of books and, despite my being sad that there’s no more, I felt totally complete at the end. This book is great! The stakes have risen even higher in this third book in the Hourglass series. The Hourglass is a secret organization focused on the study of manipulating time, and its members — many of them teenagers -have uncanny abilities to make time work for them in mysterious ways. Inherent…
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Book Review: Infinityglass (Hourglass #3)
Media Type: Print Book Title: Infinityglass *Series: Hourglass #3 Author: Myra McEntire Publisher: EgmontUSA Pages: Hardcover; 336 Release Date: August 6, 2013 Source: Publisher ———————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who have loved this series and are waiting to see what happens! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N The stakes have risen even higher in this third book in the Hourglass series. The Hourglass is a secret organization focused on the study of manipulating time, and its members — many of them teenagers -have uncanny abilities…
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Book Review: Ashes on the Waves
Media Type: Print Book Title: Ashes on the Waves Author: Mary Lindsey Publisher: Philomel/Penguin Pages: Hardcover; 373 Release Date: June 27, 2013 Source: Library ————————————————- Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy dark books, with romance. Also, Edgar Allen Poe references! Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Liam MacGregor is cursed. Haunted by the wails of fantastical Bean Sidhes and labeled a demon by the villagers of Dòchas, Liam has accepted that things will never get better for him—until a wealthy heiress named Annabel Leighton arrives on…
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A Really Awesome Mess Giveaway!
Hello fellow bibliophiles! Ready for another giveaway? This time Trish Cook and Brendan Halpin’s A Really Awesome Mess is up for grabs. Check out the synopsis. B&N / Amazon / Indiebound A hint of Recovery Road, a sample of Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, and a cut of Juno. A Really Awesome Mess is a laugh-out-loud, gut-wrenching/heart-warming story of two teenagers struggling to find love and themselves. Two teenagers. Two very bumpy roads taken that lead to Heartland Academy. Justin was just having fun, but when his dad walked in on him with a girl in a very compromising position, Justin’s…
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Guest Post + Giveaway: Catherine Stine, author of Ruby’s Fire!
Another great author is on the blog today! Catherine Stine, author of Fireseed One and now Ruby’s Fire, is on tour! I’ve read Fireseed One and can honestly say it’s amazing. I can’t wait to dive into Ruby’s Fire as well. Check out the synopsis! If everything about you changes, what remains? Seventeen year-old Ruby, long-pledged to the much older Stiles from the Fireseed desert cult, escapes with only a change of clothes, a pouch of Oblivion Powder and her mute little brother, Thorn. Arriving at The Greening, a boarding school for orphaned teens, she can finally stop running. Or can she? The…
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Book Review: Escape From Eden
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Escape From Eden Author: Elisa Nader Publisher: Merit Press Pages: Hardcover; 272 Release Date: August 18, 2013 Source: Publisher —————————————————————– Content Screening: Mild Violence HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for a haunting read dealing with a cult mindset. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N Since the age of ten, Mia has lived under the iron fist of the fundamentalist preacher who lured her mother away to join his fanatical family of followers. In Edenton, a supposed “Garden of Eden” deep in the South American…
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Quarantine Series Giveaway!
Yesterday, if you’ll recall, I reviewed Quarantine: The Loners by Lex Thomas. You can check my ramblings out here, if you’re interested! I know that at the end of the first book, I was eager for the second and I was lucky enough to have both to devour. Which brings me to my point: You too can have both of Lex Thomas’ books to devour! EgmontUSA has been so kind as to offer up a paperback copy of Quarantine: The Loners and a hardback copy of Quarantine: The Saints to one lucky winner! Open to U.S. mailing address only. Giveaway ends August 4, 2013.…
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Book Review: Quarantine: The Loners
Media Type: Print Book Title: Quarantine: The Loners *Series: Quarantine #1 Author: Lex Thomas Publisher: EgmontUSA Pages: Hardcover; 416 Release Date: July 10, 2012 Source: Publisher ————————————————– Content Screening: Violence; Adult Language HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who love reads like Lord of the Flies and Gone. Add it on: Goodreads / Shelfari / Amazon / B&N It was just another ordinary day at McKinley High—until a massive explosion devastated the school. When loner David Thorpe tried to help his English teacher to safety, the teacher convulsed and died right in front of him. And…
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Nomad Book Blitz + Giveaway!
Well my bibliophile friends, it’s that time again! Time to share with you another book that you should absolutely have on your radar. J.L. Bryan, author of Jenny Pox, has a new book coming out and it looks like a winner to me! A new dystopian novel from the author of Jenny Pox – coming July 26. They took everything: her family, her home, her childhood. By the age of nineteen, Raven has spent most of her life in the sprawling slums of America, fighting as a rebel against the dictatorship. When the rebellion steals an experimental time-travel device, she…