#BookTalks: What book made me a reader?

  So this week I thought I would share what was the first book I ever really read.  Well that is a tale.  When I was 19 we ended up being homeless for almost a year.  During that time I didnt have much to do so I ended up grabbing a book that I paid .50 cents for and well now I own a few copies of it since its so hard to find and out of print.  The book is below.  Its a great fantasy and its adult but an easy read.  I LOVED it.  I really need to read it again soon! 

#Review & #Giveaway of In Too Deep (#Hacker #2) by @authorsherry

Add it to Goodreads One talented hacker.
One dead body.
One explosive secret.
When one reckless night leads Farris Barnett to the dead body of a classmate, she's as willing as everyone else to write it off as a suicide. That is, until cryptic messages start coming in from someone who knows the truth, and they want Farris on the case. Putting her hacker skills to work, she begins to unravel the life of a victim who might just have been the guiltiest of them all.
Her personal life in turmoil, Farris turns to the only person she can trust to help her get to the bottom of things—a friend on the verge of becoming much more. Together, they confront a killer with a secret not even she could have decoded.
The biggest bombs, the ones that do the most damage, are the ones you never see coming.

#Review of Wild Swans by @jessica_shea

Add it to Goodreads The summer before Ivy’s senior year is going to be golden; all bonfires, barbeques, and spending time with her best friends. For once, she will just get to be. No summer classes, none of Granddad’s intense expectations to live up to the family name. For generations, the Milbourn women have lead extraordinary lives—and died young and tragically. Granddad calls it a legacy, but Ivy considers it a curse. Why else would her mother have run off and abandoned her as a child?

But when her mother unexpectedly returns home with two young daughters in tow, all of the stories Ivy wove to protect her heart start to unravel. The very people she once trusted now speak in lies. And all of Ivy’s ambition and determination cannot defend her against the secrets of the Milbourn past….

#Review of Darkness by @TheKarenRobards

Add it to Goodreads New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards continues her penchant for “fantastic storytelling” (RT Book Reviews) with this next heart-pumping romantic suspense novel, the tale of a brilliant ornithologist trapped on the remote Attu Island in Alaska, fighting for her life—and that of a handsome stranger—before they’re swallowed up in darkness forever.

BOOM. That’s the sound that changes everything for Dr. Gina Sullivan, a renowned ornithologist on a group research grant trip on the remote island of Attu, Alaska. When an everyday outing turns sinister at the onset of one of Attu’s infamous storms, Gina expects thunder and lightning—but what she doesn’t see coming is the small jet plane that drops out of the sky and into the water mere feet from her boat. Even more unprecedented: there’s a sole survivor from the crash, and he needs Gina’s help. But it turns out that rescuing the stranger and getting them both out of the oncoming storm is just the beginning. Because the more Gina learns about James “Cal” Callahan, he of brooding eyes and muscled frame, the more she fears—for herself, and for him.

Cal has made a career of trading on government secrets and emerging unscathed—until a routine pickup goes horribly wrong and lands him in ice-cold water. Literally. He knows the plane crash was no accident and that there could very well be an enemy force currently combing the Alaskan island ensuring there were no survivors. Now if only the arrestingly beautiful bird-watcher with the clear-blue gaze would stop watching him, well, like a hawk. Cal convinces Gina to return to base camp and help him covertly get off the island. But when Gina makes it safely back to camp and finds her entire team murdered, all bets are off, and as darkness envelops the island, she must decide: trust a man she barely knows, or go it alone and risk running straight into the arms of a killer? 

{Top10Tuesday}: 10 Of My Most Recent 5 Star Reads #hosted @brokeandbookish

 

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#teasertuesday: BECAUSE I LOVE YOU by @trigbywrites! #yareads @BlazePub

Welcome to Ten Weeks of Teasers for the YA Contemporary Romance BECAUSE I LOVE YOU by Tori Rigby! We're getting to know this book before it releases May 17, so mark your calendars. You can preorder from Amazon or get a signed copy from website. Add it to your Goodreads now, sign up for the awesome promotions ahead (like getting your hands on an ARC), and join us at the Facebook Release Party May 17 from 12pm to 11pm EST.

World Building and Magic ~The Awakening of Ren Crown (Ren Crown #1) by @AnneZoelle {Tour & Review & Giveaway}

  Add it to Goodreads It took a single moment for her life to change. And she'll do anything to change it back.

Ren Crown is a high school senior searching for her identity when a devastating attack on her twin brother thrusts her into a hidden world of magic. Fighting forces that she is woefully unprepared for, Ren illegally enrolls in a prestigious secret university where magic is plentiful and danger is absolute.

Determined to set her family back to rights, she is blocked at every turn and faced with a new reality of boundless fascination and possibility. Animated creations, enchanted gadgets, and marvelous machines vie with the students themselves: mischievous engineers, diabolical tacticians, battle-hardened warriors, and terrifying roommates.

But even amidst an eclectic student body, there is something off about Ren's magic...and the wrong people have started to notice.

Caught in a tightening web, Ren's values stand trial, as does the fate of the world.

#Review of Shadows of Angels by L.G. Rollins

Add it to Goodreads After the forest dwellers destroy her home and kill her father, Aerbrin sets off on a journey to find the truth about her people, her kingdom, and the mysterious Zaad stone that contains a power she never imagined. Magic and mystery join forces in this intriguing fantasy world. Full of shifting alliances and twists you won’t see coming, it’s a can’t-miss read.

Starflight (Starflight #1) by @Melissa_Landers #Review @ReadBookclub

Life in the outer realm is a lawless, dirty, hard existence, and Solara Brooks is hungry for it. Just out of the orphanage, she needs a fresh start in a place where nobody cares about the engine grease beneath her fingernails or the felony tattoos across her knuckles. She's so desperate to reach the realm that she's willing to indenture herself to Doran Spaulding, the rich and popular quarterback who made her life miserable all through high school, in exchange for passage aboard the spaceliner Zenith. When a twist of fate lands them instead on the Banshee, a vessel of dubious repute, Doran learns he's been framed on Earth for conspiracy. As he pursues a set of mysterious coordinates rumored to hold the key to clearing his name, he and Solara must get past their enmity to work together and evade those out for their arrest. Life on the Banshee may be tumultuous, but as Solara and Doran are forced to question everything they once believed about their world—and each other—the ship becomes home, and the eccentric crew family. But what Solara and Doran discover on the mysterious Planet X has the power to not only alter their lives, but the existence of everyone in the universe...

A Day in the Life with @WitchReader

Welcome to my post where I share stuff that is going on in my everyday life.  Not sure if this will be a regular meme or not.  Well just have to see how it goes.  

So this week I found a great article online about How to Stop Sibling Rivalry in Kids. I thought it was wonderful and wanted to share it with you. 

You can find it here

#Review of Camp Rolling Hills: Book One by @CampRHbooks

Add it to Goodreads A hilarious and heartfelt series about the particular magic of summer camp—a place where reinvention is possible and friends are like family—from a sparkling debut talent.

Finally, it's summer! Stephanie—aka Slimey—has been counting the days until she can return to her favorite place in the entire world, Camp Rolling Hills. And this year she's especially happy to be back—she'll have eight blissful weeks away from home, where life has been decidedly rocky.
         New kid Bobby, on the other hand, is pretty sure he's in for the worst summer of his life. He does not understand his weirdo cabinmates, the group singing, and the unfortunate nicknames (including his: Smelly). But he does understand Slimey, and the two soon fall in crush. This summer might not be so bad after all!
         But then a fight sets off an epic, campwide, girls-versus-boys prank war. Bunks are raided! Boxer shorts are stolen! And it's up to Slimey and Smelly to keep the peace.

#BookTube #TakeControlTBR with @WitchReader

Well to round out this month we thought we would help Jessica out and post about her two TBR Challenges!  So this is for a last hurrah so vote vote vote!!! 

#BEA16 Updates with some tips from @emmmabooks

Thanks for checking out this weeks updates!  Well after a lot of looking we have out hotel!  Its a nicer one so thats good and only 25 minutes from the Event.  So thats a plus!  Me and Rachael are back to driving since taking the train and then a taxi and or the bus was going to be way to much money!  So we've mapped out our drive (well my drive since she doesnt drive)  

Parking is paid for and were now just counting down the days before we leave (which is May 8th if you were wondering)  The only sad thing is was that taking the train we would have been able to visit DC and well ive never been there so that would have been really cool!  

But all well maybe some day.  

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#Review of Holding Court by @kcheld

Add it to Goodreads Sixteen-year-old Jules Verity knows exactly what's in store at her new job at castle-turned-dinner-theater Tudor Times. Some extra cash, wearing a fancy-pants dress, and plenty of time to secretly drool over the ever-so-tasty--and completely unavailable--Grayson Chandler. Except that it's not quite what she imagined.

For one, the costume Jules has to wear is awful. Then there's the dead body she finds that just kind of...well, disappears. Oh, and there's the small issue of Jules and her episodes of what her best friend calls "Psychic Tourette's Syndrome"--spontaneous and uncontrollable outbursts of seemingly absurd prophecies.

The only bright side? This whole dead body thing seems to have gotten Grayson's attention. Except that the more Jules investigates, the more she discovers that Grayson's interest might not be as courtly as she thought. In fact, it's starting to look suspicious... 

The Nightmare Affair (The Arkwell Academy #1) by Mindee Arnett @ReadBookclub March Picks

Genres: Fantasy Pages: 367 Source: Purchased Add it to Goodreads Sixteen-year-old Dusty Everhart breaks into houses late at night, but not because she’s a criminal. No, she’s a Nightmare.

Literally.

Being the only Nightmare at Arkwell Academy, a boarding school for magickind, and living in the shadow of her mother’s infamy, is hard enough. But when Dusty sneaks into Eli Booker’s house, things get a whole lot more complicated. He’s hot, which means sitting on his chest and invading his dreams couldn’t get much more embarrassing. But it does. Eli is dreaming of a murder.

Then Eli’s dream comes true.

Now Dusty has to follow the clues—both within Eli’s dreams and out of them—to stop the killer before more people turn up dead. And before the killer learns what she’s up to and marks her as the next target. 

#Review of Before the Fall by @noahhawley

Add it to Goodreads From the Emmy, PEN, Peabody, Critics' Choice, and Golden Globe Award-winning creator of the TV show Fargo comes thethriller of the year. 

On a foggy summer night, eleven people-ten privileged, one down-on-his-luck painter-depart Martha's Vineyard on a private jet headed for New York. Sixteen minutes later, the unthinkable happens: the plane plunges into the ocean. The only survivors are Scott Burroughs-the painter-and a four-year-old boy, who is now the last remaining member of an immensely wealthy and powerful media mogul's family. 

With chapters weaving between the aftermath of the crash and the backstories of the passengers and crew members-including a Wall Street titan and his wife, a Texan-born party boy just in from London, a young woman questioning her path in life, and a career pilot-the mystery surrounding the tragedy heightens. As the passengers' intrigues unravel, odd coincidences point to a conspiracy. Was it merely by dumb chance that so many influential people perished? Or was something far more sinister at work? Events soon threaten to spiral out of control in an escalating storm of media outrage and accusations. And while Scott struggles to cope with fame that borders on notoriety, the authorities scramble to salvage the truth from the wreckage. 

Amid pulse-quickening suspense, the fragile relationship between Scott and the young boy glows at the heart of this stunning novel, raising questions of fate, human nature, and the inextricable ties that bind us together.

We've switched to @disqus for Comments! #Giveaway for Top Commenters! Check it out!

We we love like LOVE having comments!  And we try to comment back if you leave a link to your site if you have one.  We also love replying.  

So after some thought we have switched to Disqus comments and with this comes an awesome little giveaway that I used to have!  At the end of each month ill see who the top three commenters are and those three people will win a mystery book pack!  

So make sure you comment!  

So how will you know you won?  Well for this only ill do an end of the month post/video and state who won.  So make sure you subscribe so you know!  

!GIVEAWAY! 

Since were just starting out with this the top comments are empty!  So the first person who gets on it will win a pre order of their choosing from Book Depository ($20USD or less) 

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#Shadowhunters : @cassieclare Episode 11 Pirates @Bookcon and the lasted Discussion via @emmmabooks

Episode 11:

Thanks for checking out this Saturdays post all about Shadowhunters! This past Tuesday episode 11 aired and with it we were told the wonderful lie about Jace and Clary being brother and sister.  Of course any fan of the books knows its not true.  What do you guys think of this episode?  

I kinda wished that of all the things they have cut and added that this although it was a major plot in the books. I wished they would have skipped it.   

Pirates: 

In other Shadowhunter news I found a Facebook group that is all Shadowunters pirating Clare's books so that was reported. 

BookCon:
Well if you are going to BookCon this year in Chicago you will get to hopefully see Cassandra Clare as she is going to be there!  We so can't wait!!!

Lasted Discussion for Episode 10 via emmmabooks  




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#Review of Mystery of the Map (Poptropica #1) by Jack Chabert, Kory Merritt, Jeff Kinney & #Giveaway via @abramskids

Add it to Goodreads Based on a concept by Wimpy Kid author Jeff Kinney comes Poptropica, a brand-new graphic novel adventure series by Jack Chabert and Kory Merritt. In "Mystery of the Map," Oliver, Mya, and Jorge take a ride in a hot-air balloon, only to crash-land on an unknown island filled with extinct animals and a horde of angry Vikings. Welcome to Poptropica, an uncharted group of islands whose existence is hidden from the rest of the world. As the three friends embark on a perilous search for a way home, they quickly discover the shocking reason they were brought there something that threatens the very existence of Poptropica and their ability to ever make it off the island!" 

#Review of Dream House: A Novel by CutiePieMarzia by Marzia Bisognin

Add it to Goodreads From YouTube sensation Marzia “CutiePieMarzia” Bisognin comes a debut young adult paranormal thriller about a girl whose dream house quickly becomes a nightmare.

When Amethyst stumbles upon the house of her dreams, she can’t help but be enchanted by it, even if there’s something a little…off about the place.

It’s everything she’s ever wanted in a home, so when the Blooms invite her to stay the night to avoid an impending storm, she instantly accepts.

Yet when she awakes the next morning, alone and unable to bring herself to leave, Amethyst comes face-to-face with unexpected twists and turns—like Alfred, the creepy gardener; Avery, the handsome but secretive neighbor, and a little girl who keeps appearing and vanishing within the house.

As Amethyst searches for the Blooms and tries to unravel the truth, her connection to the house only grows stronger. Will she be able to break free of the house’s allure, or will its secrets keep her trapped forever?

#Review of The Girl From Home by Adam Mitzner

Add it to Goodreads The acclaimed author, whose recent novel of suspense Losing Faith was declared “startling…a well-crafted story” (Kirkus Reviews), takes you on a gripping psychological thrill ride in this electrifying tale of a millionaire who will go to deadly lengths to get what he wants.

Jonathan Caine is a true master of the universe—a currency wizard with a trophy wife, a penthouse condo with a view of the Statue of Liberty, and the desire for more—when his world comes crashing down, spiraling him into a relentless fall from grace. Devastated, Jonathan returns to his hometown to care for his ailing father and attend his twenty-fifth high school reunion, where he becomes reacquainted with former prom queen Jacqueline Williams. Back in the day, Jackie didn’t even know Jonathan existed. Now she is intrigued by the man he has become. But their budding relationship has problems, not the least of which is Jackie’s jealous and abusive husband. Jonathan is determined to learn from his mistakes, but is he capable of complete transformation? Or will a shocking temptation test his desire for redemption beyond anything he could have imagined?

#Review of No One Knows by @thrillerchick

Add it to Goodreads In an obsessive mystery as thrilling as The Girl on the Train andThe Husband’s Secret, New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison will make you question every twist in her page-turning novel—and wonder which of her vividly drawn characters you should trust.

The day Aubrey Hamilton’s husband is declared dead by the state of Tennessee should bring closure so she can move on with her life. But Aubrey doesn’t want to move on; she wants Josh back. It’s been five years since he disappeared, since their blissfully happy marriage—they were happy, weren’t they?—screeched to a halt and Aubrey became the prime suspect in his disappearance. Five years of emptiness, solitude, loneliness, questions. Why didn’t Josh show up at his friend’s bachelor party? Was he murdered? Did he run away? And now, all this time later, who is the mysterious yet strangely familiar figure suddenly haunting her new life?

In No One Knows, the New York Times bestselling coauthor of the Nicholas Drummond series expertly peels back the layers of a complex woman who is hiding dark secrets beneath her unassuming exterior. This masterful thriller for fans of Gillian Flynn, Liane Moriarty, and Paula Hawkins will pull readers into a you’ll-never-guess merry-go-round of danger and deception. Round and round and round it goes, where it stops…no one knows.

#TakeControlTBR The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer #1) by Michelle Hodkin

So this week I did a book that ive had for a long long time.  I had both books one and two and well. Lets just say it didnt work out so well for me.  This one I didnt get far in it before I just decided it wasnt for me.  It really reminded me of the Fallen series but where that one in gaged me. This one just bored me to death.  So for me the start of this one was amazing but once the story got going it fell apart pretty quickly. 

#Tour: @The_FFBC Siren's Song (The Storm Siren Trilogy #3) by @mchristineweber #Review

Siren's Song (The Storm Siren Trilogy #3)
by Mary Weber
Publisher: Thomas Nelson / HarperCollins
Release Date: March 1st 2016

Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy, Magic, Fiction, Paranormal
Rate: 5

Synopsis:

Nym and Draewulf prepare to face off in a battle destined to destroy more lives than it saves.

With the loss of Tulla still fresh in mind, Rasha’s fate unknown, and Lord Myles taken over by the dark ability, Nym and the few Bron soldiers rush to warn Cashlin’s queen. Only to discover it may already be too late for the monarch and her eerie kingdom. As the Luminescents are sifting through Nym’s past memories and the queen is reading into her future, Nym is given a choice of how to defeat Draewulf, but the cost may be more than she can bear. And even then there are no guarantees.

With that reality burrowing into her bones—along with the guilt of the lives she will sacrifice—Nym returns to her homeland of Faelen to raise an army of peasants through promises of freedom. But when the few friends she has left, along with the world and citizens she loves, are staring down the face of a monster and his undead army, will Nym summon every element her blood is capable of controlling . . . or surrender to a different strength—one of sacrifice?

Because in the end, death may be more merciful for them all.

#BookTalks: Reading Giveaways Trades & Sales

 

Welcome to this weeks Book Talks.  We have been asked about how many books we read as well as some questions about trades, giveaways, and sale.  so we wanted to clear some things up.  Each year we read hundreds of books so here is the break down on how we do this.  We also get hundreds of books a year via publishers and authors. So here is a break down on what we do etc.  

#handyarmor iPhone 6/6s Clear Case

So I don't do many product reviews but here is one I was sent via Tomoson and Handy Armor!  

Really wish they made this for the plus :( 

#WOW: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

Twilight was the first book in the YA genre I read...and I don't regret it. I had a friend in 8th grade (2008) suggest it to me and I loved it. I literally read the book in one sitting and then when I got the other books, there was no stopping me. 
TEAM JACOB!! 

#Review of The Haters by Jesse Andrews & #Giveaway via @abramskids

Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary Pages: 352 Source: Publisher Add it to Goodreads From Jesse Andrews, author of the New York Times bestselling Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and screenwriter of the Sundance award–winning motion picture of the same name, comes a groundbreaking young adult novel about music, love, friendship, and freedom as three young musicians follow a quest to escape the law long enough to play the amazing show they hope (but also doubt) they have in them.

Inspired by the years he spent playing bass in a band himself, The Haters is Jesse Andrews’s road trip adventure about a trio of jazz-camp escapees who, against every realistic expectation, become a band. 

For Wes and his best friend, Corey, jazz camp turns out to be lame. It’s pretty much all dudes talking in Jazz Voice. But then they jam with Ash, a charismatic girl with an unusual sound, and the three just click. It’s three and a half hours of pure musical magic, and Ash makes a decision: They need to hit the road. Because the road, not summer camp, is where bands get good. Before Wes and Corey know it, they’re in Ash’s SUV heading south, and The Haters Summer of Hate Tour has begun.

In his second novel, Andrews again brings his brilliant and distinctive voice to YA, in the perfect book for music lovers, fans of The Commitments and High Fidelity, or anyone who has ever loved—and hated—a song or a band. This witty, funny coming-of-age novel is contemporary fiction at its best.

#Review of Stormswept by @SabrinaJeffries & #Giveaway via @Pocket_Books

Genres: Adult Romance Pages: 400 Source: Publisher Add it to Goodreads New York Times bestseller Sabrina Jeffries reignites a daring love affair in this intriguing tale of desire and deception—originally written as Deborah Martin and newly revised for today’s audience.

The first wedding night that Lady Juliana St. Albans spent with the dark and daring Rhys Vaughan was intoxicating, the heady culmination of her new husband’s driving hunger and her own awakened sensuality. When he mysteriously disappeared the next morning, she waited for him in hope and desperation. And when he was finally proclaimed dead in a shipwreck, she bitterly mourned the loss of her love.

The second wedding night that Juliana spent with Rhys Vaughan was six years later, after he returned to claim her just as she was about to wed another. This Rhys was different—bolder, harder, and convinced that she’d betrayed him. Only their blazing passion remains from their years apart. But is it enough to light their way through the maze of mystery, menace, and mistrust—to the love they once shared and would have to find again?

3 Books to Watch For! with @Melissa_Landers @ThatEmilyMartin @Janet_B_Taylor

Welcome to this weeks posting of 3 books you should look out for.  These are books we have read and well if you havent you need to!  

Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch #Review

Add it to Goodreads Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn’t in the mood for Italy’s famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. She’s only there because it was her mother’s dying wish that she get to know her father. But what kind of father isn’t around for sixteen years? All Lina wants to do is get back home.

But then Lina is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. Suddenly Lina’s uncovering a magical world of secret romances, art, and hidden bakeries. A world that inspires Lina, along with the ever-so-charming Ren, to follow in her mother’s footsteps and unearth a secret that has been kept from Lina for far too long. It’s a secret that will change everything she knew about her mother, her father—and even herself.

People come to Italy for love and gelato, someone tells her, but sometimes they discover much more. 

#Tour: I Woke Up Dead at the Mall by Judy Sheehan

Add it to Goodreads When Sarah wakes up dead at the Mall of America, she learns that not only was she murdered, her killer is still on the loose.   
When you’re sixteen, you have your whole life ahead of you. Unless you’re Sarah. Not to give anything away, but . . . she’s dead. Murdered, in fact. Sarah’s murder is shocking because she couldn’t be any more average. No enemies. No risky behavior. She’s just the girl on the sidelines.

It looks like her afterlife, on the other hand, will be pretty exciting. Sarah has woken up dead at the Mall of America—where the universe sends teens who are murdered—and with the help of her death coach, she must learn to move on or she could meet a fate totally worse than death: becoming a mall walker.

As she tries to finish her unfinished business alongside her fellow dead teens, Sarah falls hard for a cute boy named Nick. And she discovers an uncanny ability to haunt the living. While she has no idea who killed her, or why, someone she loves is in grave danger. Sarah can’t lose focus or she’ll be doomed to relive her final moments again and again forever. But can she live with herself if she doesn’t make her death matter?

Soul Crossed (Of Demons and Angels #1) by Lisa Gail Green #Review

Add it to Goodreads One Demon.

One Angel.

One Soul.

Josh lived a reckless, selfish life, so upon his death, escaping the eternal torments of Hell by assuming the role of a powerful, soul-corrupting demon is an easy choice. His first soul assignment doesn’t seem too hard: the mortal Camden is already obsessed with weapons, pain, and torture. If only Josh wasn’t distracted by Cam's beautiful friend, Grace.

Grace never expected to die violently at age sixteen, but now she’s an Angel, responsible for saving a soul. She can already see past Camden’s earthly flaws, so the job should be be easy. If only that handsome, playboy Josh would stop getting in the way.

It’s forbidden for an Angel to be with a Demon, so if Josh and Grace stop resisting each other, the results would be disastrous.

And only one can claim Cam’s soul. 

The Red Queen Dies: A Mystery (Detective Hannah McCabe #1) by Frankie Y. Bailey #Review

Add it to Goodreads Frankie Bailey introduces readers to a fabulous new protagonist and an Alice in Wonderland-infused crime in this stunning mystery, which kicks off an exciting new series set in the near future.

The year is 2019, and a drug used to treat soldiers for post-traumatic stress disorder, nicknamed "Lullaby," has hit the streets. Swallowing a little pill erases traumatic memories, but what happens to a criminal trial when the star witness takes a pill and can't remember the crime? When two women are murdered in quick succession, biracial police detective Hannah McCabe is charged with solving the case. In spite of the advanced technology, including a city-wide surveillance program, a third woman is soon killed, and the police begin to suspect that a serial killer is on the loose. But the third victim, a Broadway actress known as "The Red Queen," doesn't fit the pattern set by the first two murders.

With the late September heat sizzling, Detective Hannah McCabe and her colleagues on the police force have to race to find the killer in a tangled web of clues that involve Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, and Abraham Lincoln's assassination. Fast-paced and original, this is a one-of-a-kind mystery from an extremely talented crime writer.

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So this week we thought we would share one of our past #AuthorChat - #ReadOn shows. 

I really loved doing these shows and really hope to do a few more this year!  So here are 4 amazing authors! Check it out! 

#BEA16: Travel

So last week we talked about how its going with our hotel. So far as I'm writing this the hotel issue is still somewhat up in the air. Hopefully we can find one more person to split at least a few days with. 

As for travel. We were going to be driving ok well I was going to be driving while Rachael navigated but after some thought we decided it would be around the same cost (actually a little cheaper) to just take the train.  I haven't been on a train since I was 25 and I was heading out west to meet family for the first time.  So this will be an interesting thing!  

No the next question is am I going to kill my 5 year old before we go? (JK kinda of) She is going with us and well I am kinda of already starting to regret that decision.  I guess I can always change my mind and go without her. I guess well see as the event gets closer. 

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