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Saturday, May 3, 2014
Friday, May 2, 2014
Suddenly - A Review of A GIRL CALLED FEARLESS by Catherine Linka
Avie Reveare has the normal life of a privileged teen growing up in L.A., at least as normal as any girl’s life is these days. After a synthetic hormone in beef killed fifty million American women ten years ago, only young girls, old women, men, and boys are left to pick up the pieces. The death threat is past, but fathers still fear for their daughters’ safety, and the Paternalist Movement, begun to "protect" young women, is taking over the choices they make.Like all her friends, Avie still mourns the loss of her mother, but she’s also dreaming about college and love and what she’ll make of her life. When her dad "contracts" her to marry a rich, older man to raise money to save his struggling company, her life suddenly narrows to two choices: Be trapped in a marriage with a controlling politician, or run. Her lifelong friend, student revolutionary Yates, urges her to run to freedom across the border to Canada. As their friendship turns to passion, the decision to leave becomes harder and harder. Running away is incredibly dangerous, and it’s possible Avie will never see Yates again. But staying could mean death.From Catherine Linka comes this romantic, thought-provoking, and frighteningly real story, A Girl Called Fearless, about fighting for the most important things in life—freedom and love.
Available May 6, 2014
About the Author:
Catherine Linka was almost thrown out of boarding school for being “too verbal.” Fortunately, she learned to channel her outspokenness and creative energy into writing. A passionate traveler who has visited Iceland, the Amazon, and the Arctic circle, Catherine has seen 5 types of whales in the wild, but no orcas. Yet. She doesn’t believe in fate, but she did fall in love with her husband on their first date when he laced up her boots, because she had a broken hand.
My Review:
I was tangled up in a giant knot the entire time I was reading this book. The tension is thick and often like a predator lying in the tall grasses waiting to pounce.
This is a story that I struggle to review because I do not want to spoil anything. I can say that it reminds me of Delirium and Shatter Me because there is a general feeling of citizens being brain-washed. While everyone knows of the events that lead to the world losing fifty million American women within a short span of time, there is still a lot of debate about what is the best course of action for the future. Girls of a certain age are completely kept away from boys. They have bodyguards and are educated separately. Their futures are often decided by their fathers behind closed doors.
Avie Reveare can't understand why she has to stay away from Yates. He has been her closest friend since she was very young so why all of a sudden was their friendship forbidden? She has been reduced to sneaking waves at him as her limo speeds by the cafe where he works.
Avie discovers that her father has entered her into a contract to be married to a very wealthy politician. Even though these types of arranged marriages are not uncommon, Avie is still in shock that HER father would do this to HER. And the more Avie learns about her intended, the farther she wants to run.
In a scene reminiscent of Romeo and Juliet, the local priest offers to help Avie escape her arranged marriage, with the help of Yates, of course. While the priest doesn't offer Avie a fake poison to drink, his offer of "help" may have the same effect.
I was completely on the edge of my seat (and bed) the entire time I was reading A GIRL CALLED FEARLESS, and while the ending may have been wrapped up a little too quickly for me, this was a great debut from an author I hope to be reading more from in the future.
Thank You to St. Martin's Griffin and Netgalley for providing an ARC in exchange for a fair and honest review.
4 out of 5 stars
MUSIC:
Cover Reveal: HARD TO COME BY by Laura Kaye
We are extremely excited to bring you the cover reveal for Laura Kaye’s HARD TO COME BY! Published by Avon Impulse, an imprint of HarperCollins, HARD TO COME BY is a thrilling Romantic Suspense novel in Laura’s Hard Ink Series. It is the third full-length novel in the series and is due to be released on November 25th!!
And don’t miss the other Hard Ink books, now available:
Hard to Hold On To(8/19/14)
"Hard As You Can is another five star read. The characters Ms. Kaye has created are wonderfully broken and the drama is gritty, but the burgeoning romance and the tight-knitted relationship of the team leaves you with a sense of redemption. A must read series!" ~San Francisco Book Review For Hard As It Gets:
"Edgy, sexy and full of suspense! A great read from a great new author!" ~ #1 NYT Bestselling Author J.R. Ward
"Sizzling romance... The intriguing tattoo parlor and military background will appeal to fans of Suzanne Brockmann and Lindsay McKenna." ~Publishers Weekly Review
"Kaye's depiction of sexual tension and her sex scenes are masterful and this will appeal to fans of Maya Banks' KGI and Julia Ann Walker's Black Knight's series." ~Booklist
ABOUT LAURA KAYE:
Laura is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over a dozen books in contemporary and paranormal romance. Growing up, Laura’s large extended family believed in the supernatural, and family lore involving angels, ghosts, and evil-eye curses cemented in Laura a life-long fascination with storytelling and all things paranormal. She lives in Maryland with her husband, two daughters, and cute-but-bad dog, and appreciates her view of the Chesapeake Bay every day.
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Hard to Come By on Goodreads
Thursday, May 1, 2014
Cover Reveal FALLING STARS by JL Brooks
We've JL Brooks upcoming release FALLING STARS cover.
Check out the fabulous cover and blurb.
Title: FALLING STARS
Author: JL Brooks
Release Date: May 27th, 2014
photo credit Heather Onutz, MHM Photography
photo credit Heather Onutz, MHM Photography
When Lila’s agent uncovers her thrilling secret, it appears as if nothing is off limits when it comes to pitching the story, whether Lila wants to tell it or not. Despite knowing her reluctance is career suicide, she cannot bring herself to open her heart once more to the man who nearly destroyed it.
Given the opportunity to escape her predicament, Hunter attempts to reconcile the pain he has caused, and rekindle the passion that was abandoned long ago. When a series of events causes history to repeat itself, Lila sets off unaccompanied through out the west to test her boundaries with the sensual and surreal, and ultimately come face to face with the only thing that can keep her from falling.
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May Readers Poll: Favorite Fictional Parents
It's time to start thinking about our MAY Readers Poll. This month we will be voting for our FAVORITE FICTIONAL PARENTS. We have a list started, but we still need some more nominations. This first week we will be taking contest entries from people who make nominations. Simply add your FAVORITE FICTIONAL PARENTS in the space provided on the Rafflecopter form. Next week the polls will be up and we will begin voting.
May's prize will be a paperback copy of the book containing the winning FAVORITE FICTIONAL PARENTS.
Here are the early nominations. Be sure to add your favorites on the Rafflecopter form.
Mr & Mrs. Sheridan (Park's Parents) - Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
Mrs. Lancaster (Hazel Grace's mother) - The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
Isabel "Belly" Conklin's mother - The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
Mr. & Mrs Bishop (Oliver's parents) - Where We Fell by Amber L. Johnson
Mr & Mrs. Garrett (Jase's parents) - My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick
Mr. & Mrs. Prior (Tris's parents) - Divergent by Veronica Roth
Uncle Nathan & Uncle Andy (Lola's stand-in parents) - Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
Cover Reveal: INNOCENTS (DUSTY #1) by Mary Elizabeth and Sarah Elizabeth
Releasing July 14, 2014
Bliss knows all about bad choices but has yet to make them herself. With an innocent heart, she searches for freedom and finds it in the delinquent down the hall.
Dusty is a foul-mouthed troublemaker, tear-maker and heartbreaker. The boy with summer sky-blue eyes knows to stay away, but he can't resist the girl who made his house a home.
She's his reason, but he might not catch her when she falls.
She loves him. He loves her crazy.
This is what happens when a love made of secrets is kept with rules instead of promises.
Mary Elizabeth is an up and coming author who finds words in chaos, writing stories about the skeletons hanging in your closets. Known as The Realist, she is one half of The Elizabeths—a duo brave enough to never hide the truth. Born and raised in Southern California, she’s a wife, mother of four beautiful children, and dog tamer to one enthusiastic Pit Bull and a prissy Chihuahua. She’s a hairstylist by day but contemporary fiction, new adult author by night. Mary can often be found finger twirling her hair and chewing on a stick of licorice while writing and rewriting a sentence over and over until it’s perfect. She discovered her talent for tale-telling accidentally, but literature is in her stranglehold. And she’s not letting go until every story is told.
To follow Mary’s upcoming solo and collaborative projects, she can be found at her website http://www.maryelizabethlit.com/.
Brought together by their love of storytelling, Mary and Sarah Elizabeth are a pair of dedicated writers with complementary strengths who’ve cultivated a literary style that captures a Realist’s brutality with a Poet’s grace, uncovering the self-seeking side of tenderness and the undisguised truth of honesty. Inspired by the lyrics of a song, Dusty was born between emails and long G-chats before a single chapter was ever typed. A short story turned into a monster, and more than four years and several edits later, the first half of their collaboration, Innocents, will be released on July 14, 2014. And its conclusion, Delinquents, is set to release on October 23, 2014.
If you’d like to contact The Elizabeths, they can be located on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TheElizabethsDusty?ref=hl.
Listener, messenger, secret keeper, Elizabeth, and TrueLove, Sarah works two jobs by day so that she's able to really work by night. She's written since she was old enough to hold a marker, and her writing bridges the sacred and profane, from first love to forbidden, with a longing for truth and a passion for hearts. She is currently based in Kansas City where her army is comprised of one little buffalo. Her best friends are girls named Moses and Bunny. Her hero is a boy named Bishop, and the one she loves has ocean eyes. In addition to Dusty, Sarah also has a collaborative novella, Light and Wine, due to be released on June 8th, and her solo work will be featured in the anthology Branded, this August.
Brought together by their love of storytelling, Mary and Sarah Elizabeth are a pair of dedicated writers with complementary strengths who’ve cultivated a literary style that captures a Realist’s brutality with a Poet’s grace, uncovering the self-seeking side of tenderness and the undisguised truth of honesty. Inspired by the lyrics of a song, Dusty was born between emails and long G-chats before a single chapter was ever typed. A short story turned into a monster, and more than four years and several edits later, the first half of their collaboration, Innocents, will be released on July 14, 2014. And its conclusion, Delinquents, is set to release on October 23, 2014.
If you’d like to contact The Elizabeths, they can be located on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/TheElizabethsDusty?ref=hl.
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