#Giveaway with @Running_Press and Are You There God? It’s Me, Margarita by @TimFederle

I am here today to share with you a wonderful collaboration with Hachette Book Group who is offering a chance to win copies of several drink recipe books by Tim Federle, author of “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margarita,” as well as a margarita mixer and entertainment set! So check out the book below and then click the link and enter to win! 

#BookReview: Killer Instinct (Killer Instinct, #1) by @segreenauthor

About the Book:

She’s not evil, but she has certain... urges.

Lane is a typical teenager. Loving family. Good grades. An afterschool job at the local animal hospital. Martial arts enthusiast. But her secret obsession is studying serial killers. She understands them, knows what makes them tick.

Why?

Because she might be one herself.

Lane channels her dark impulses by hunting criminals—delivering justice when the law fails. The vigilantism stops shy of murder. But with each visceral rush the line of self-control blurs.
And then a young preschool teacher goes missing. Only to return... in parts.

When Lane excitedly gets involved in the hunt for “the Decapitator,” the vicious serial murderer that has come to her hometown, she gets dangerously caught up in a web of lies about her birth dad and her own dark past. And once the Decapitator contacts Lane directly, Lane knows she is no longer invisible or safe. Now she needs to use her unique talents to find the true killer’s identity before she—or someone she loves—becomes the next victim...

#BookBlitz: The Devil to Pay (Shayne Davies, #1) by @jackiemayauthor #Giveaway @XpressoTours

The Devil to Pay
Jackie May
(Shayne Davies, #1)
Publication date: September 18th 2018
Genres: Adult, Urban Fantasy

When it comes to talented new recruits at the Federal Underworld Agency, Nora Jacobs is only half the story…

The Devil to Pay is the first book in Jackie May’s companion series to Nora Jacobs, set in the same urban fantasy Detroit, sharing several supporting characters (hello, Nick Gorgeous), but with a new main character, Shayne Davies. This series can be enjoyed on its own, but readers of the Nora Jacobs books will be more familiar with the world and its characters.
As a fox shifter, Shayne Davies gets no respect in an underworld run by the fearsome and powerful—werewolves and vampires, sorcerers, demons, and mythical faerie creatures. Even at home, Shayne is still treated like the brat of the pack. Her mom constantly nags; her intended (but unwanted) mate ensures plenty of awkward silences, and Shayne is even expected to act submissive to the pack’s future alpha…a six year old.
Yeah. Time for Plan B.
All Shayne wants is to prove that she’s got what it takes to run with the big dogs, which is why she is constantly hounding Nick Gorgeous to make her an agent at the “Double D”, the Detroit Division of the FUA. That’s an easy “No” for Gorgeous, who keeps a strict “No Shayne Davies” policy. Well, never say never. When mysterious underworld criminals steal a load of bomb materials, the FUA picks up a messy case nobody wants to touch. It’s bad enough that a demon horde is involved, but now the annoying FBI has sent out an agent to babysit the investigation. To make matters worse, the notoriously uncooperative master vampire Henry Stadther has control over what may be the only key to breaking the case: a handsome human detective.
The whole thing’s a hopeless disaster.
So guess what, Shayne? You’re hired!

#CoverReveal: When Stars Come Out by @ScarlettStClai1, designed by Mae I Design

When Stars Come Out
Scarlett St. Clair
Publication date: October 31st 2018
Genres: Urban Fantasy, Young Adult

Anora Silby can see the dead and turn spirits into gold coins, two things she would prefer to keep secret as she tries to lead a normal life at her new school. After all, she didn’t change her identity for nothing.

As it turns out, hiding her weirdness is just one of many challenges. By the end of her first day, she’s claimed the soul of a dead girl on campus and lost the coin. Turns out, the coin gives others the ability to steal souls, and when a classmate ends up dead, there’s no mistaking the murder weapon.

Navigating the loss of her Poppa, her mother’s unpredictable behavior, and Roundtable, an anonymous student gossip app threatening to expose her, are hard enough. Now she must find the person who stole her coin before more lives are lost, but that means making herself a target for the Order, an organization that governs the dead on Earth–and they want Anora and her powers for themselves.

#TBR #ReadingChallege #2 Winners are @BodifordLauren and @itsSANiiii & @sheaernshaw @KendareBlake

Thank you all for voting in my poll! The winners of last weeks giveaway are @BodifordLauren and @itsSanIIIII Find out the winning titles below! As well as make sure to check out the new polls on our Twitter Click Here

#BookReview: Tough Mothers: Amazing Stories of History’s Mightiest Matriarchs by Jason Porath

About the Book:

The author of Rejected Princesses returns with an inspiring, fully illustrated guide that brings together the fiercest mothers in history—real life matriarchs who gave everything to protect all they loved.

Mothers possess the "maternal instinct"—an innate fierceness that drives them to nurture, safeguard, fight, and sacrifice for the most important things that matter to them. For some mothers, it’s their children. For others, it’s artistic expression, invention, social cause, or even a nation that they helped to birth. In Tough Mothers, Jason Porath brings his wisdom and wit to bear on fifty fascinating matriarchs.

In concise, deeply researched vignettes, accompanied by charming illustrations, Porath illuminates these fearsome women, explores their lives, and pays tribute to their accomplishments. Here are famous women as well as lesser known figures from around the globe who have left their indelible mark as they changed the course of history, including:


The Mother Who Sued to Save Her Children from Slavery—Sojourner Truth
The Mother of Rock n’ Roll—Sister Rosetta Tharpe
The Mother of Holocaust Children—Irena Sendler
The Mothers of The Dominican Republic—The Mirabal Sisters
The Mother of Yemen’s Golden Age—Arwa al-Sulayhi
A celebration of motherhood and female achievement, Tough Mothers reminds us of the power of women to transform our lives and our world.

#CoverReveal: Kate’s Congressman (Bright Sisters, #1) by Carmela Goff @XpressoTours

Kate’s Congressman
Carmela Goff
(Bright Sisters, #1)
Publication date: October 5th 2018
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Kate Bright lost the love of her life to tragedy. Now all she wants is to pick up the pieces and shelter herself from further pain. The last thing she needs is the attention of a handsome, arrogant politician who hungers for publicity. But Kate has a hunger of her own, whether she likes it or not. Being with Blake will require her to step into the limelight in spite of her private torment. Do his feelings for her extend beyond the public stage?
Kate’s Congressman is the first standalone novel in the Bright Sisters Romance series.
Watch for other volumes, including June’s Arresting Officer, coming soon.

#BookTour: A Heart in a Body in the World by @debcaletti #Giveaway @JeanBookNerd

About the Book:

When everything has been taken from you, what else is there to do but run?

So that’s what Annabelle does—she runs from Seattle to Washington, DC, through mountain passes and suburban landscapes, from long lonely roads to college towns. She’s not ready to think about the why yet, just the how—muscles burning, heart pumping, feet pounding the earth. But no matter how hard she tries, she can’t outrun the tragedy from the past year, or the person—The Taker—that haunts her.

Followed by Grandpa Ed in his RV and backed by her brother and two friends (her self-appointed publicity team), Annabelle becomes a reluctant activist as people connect her journey to the trauma from her past. Her cross-country run gains media attention and she is cheered on as she crosses state borders, and is even thrown a block party and given gifts. The support would be nice, if Annabelle could escape the guilt and the shame from what happened back home. They say it isn’t her fault, but she can’t feel the truth of that.

Through welcome and unwelcome distractions, she just keeps running, to the destination that awaits her. There, she’ll finally face what lies behind her—the miles and love and loss…and what is to come.

#NerdBlast: The Iron Flower (The Black Witch Chronicles, #2) by @laurieannforest #Giveaway @JeanBookNerd

About the Book:

Elloren Gardner and her friends were only seeking to right a few wrongs, but their actions have propelled them straight into the ranks of the realm-wide Resistance against Gardnerian encroachment. As the Resistance struggles against the harsh rulings of High Priest Marcus Vogel and the Mage Council, Elloren begins to realize that none of the people she cares about will be safe if Gardneria seizes control of the Western Realm.

With tensions heating up in Verpacia, more and more Gardnerian soldiers continue to descend upon the university…led by none other than Lukas Grey, now commander of the newly rebuilt Fourth Division base. Though Elloren tries to keep him at arm’s length, Lukas is determined to wandfast to her, convinced that she has inherited her grandmother’s magic—the prophesied power of the Black Witch. As his very nearness seems to awaken a darkness inside her, Elloren finds it more and more difficult to believe that she’s truly powerless, as her uncle always claimed.

Caught between her growing feelings for the rebellious Yvan Guriel and the seductive power offered by Lukas Grey, Elloren must find a way to stay true to what she knows is right and protect everyone she loves…even if that means protecting them from herself.

#Discussion: Get Your Blog In Shape Planner!

Get Your Blog In Shape! 

I am not sure about the rest of you but I have a hard time keeping track of all of the information that deals with my website.  I have two calendars now one for reviews and one for promo posts and well I haven’t done a real posting schedule for social media in ages.  But recently I really wanted to take the time and do it the way I should be doing it.  

#Giveaway with @Running_Press and Are You There God? It’s Me, Margarita by @TimFederle

I am here today to share with you a wonderful collaboration with Hachette Book Group who is offering a chance to win copies of several drink recipe books by Tim Federle, author of “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margarita,” as well as a margarita mixer and entertainment set! So check out the book below and then click the link and enter to win! 

#BookReview: Wandfasted (The Black Witch Chronicles, #0.5) by Laurie Forest

About the Book:

Magic, romance and adventure collide in WANDFASTED, the irresistible ebook prequel to THE BLACK WITCH 

"When they painted "Heretics" on our barn and set fire to it, I thought that was the worst it could get.

Until they sent the dragons.

But they didn't count on us having dragons of our own. 

And they certainly didn't count on Her. Our Great Mage. 


The Bringer of Fire. The Storm of Death. The Crow Sorceress. 

Our Deliverance.

The Black Witch."

- From WANDFASTED

#BookReview: The Black Witch (The Black Witch Chronicles #1) by @laurieannforest #Giveaway

About the Book:

A new Black Witch will rise…her powers vast beyond imagining.

Elloren Gardner is the granddaughter of the last prophesied Black Witch, Carnissa Gardner, who drove back the enemy forces and saved the Gardnerian people during the Realm War. But while she is the absolute spitting image of her famous grandmother, Elloren is utterly devoid of power in a society that prizes magical ability above all else.

When she is granted the opportunity to pursue her lifelong dream of becoming an apothecary, Elloren joins her brothers at the prestigious Verpax University to embrace a destiny of her own, free from the shadow of her grandmother’s legacy. But she soon realizes that the university, which admits all manner of people—including the fire-wielding, winged Icarals, the sworn enemies of all Gardnerians—is a treacherous place for the granddaughter of the Black Witch.

As evil looms on the horizon and the pressure to live up to her heritage builds, everything Elloren thought she knew will be challenged and torn away. Her best hope of survival may be among the most unlikely band of misfits…if only she can find the courage to trust those she’s been taught to hate and fear.

#BookReview: The Seven Torments of Amy and Craig by @donzolidis @DisneyHyperion

About the Book: 

Janesville, Wisconsin (cold in the sense that there is no God)
1994

The worst thing that's ever happened to Craig is also the best: Amy. Amy and Craig never should've gotten together. Craig is an awkward, Dungeons & Dragons-playing geek, and Amy is the beautiful, fiercely intelligent student-body president of their high school.

Yet somehow they did. Until Amy dumped him. Then got back together with him. Then dumped him again. Then got back together with him again. Over and over and over.

Unfolding during their senior year, Amy and Craig's exhilarating, tumultuous relationship is a kaleidoscope of joy, pain, and laughter as an uncertain future-and adult responsibility-loom on the horizon.

Craig fights for his dream of escaping Janesville and finding his place at a quirky college, while Amy's quest to uncover her true self sometimes involves being Craig's girlfriend?and sometimes doesn't.

Seven heartbreaks. Seven joys.Told nonsequentially, acclaimed playwright Don Zolidis's debut novel is a brutally funny, bittersweet taste of the utterly unique and utterly universal experience of first love.

#BookReview: The Dark Beneath the Ice by Amelinda Bérubé

About the Book:

Something is wrong with Marianne.

It's not just that her parents have split up, or that life hasn't been the same since she quit dancing. 

Or even that her mother has checked herself into the hospital.

She's losing time. Doing things she would never do. 

And objects around her seem to break whenever she comes close.

Something is after her. But a first attempt at an exorcism calls down the full force of the thing's rage. 

It demands Marianne give back what she stole. 

And Marianne must uncover the truth that lies beneath it all before the nightmare can take what it think it's owed, leaving Marianne trapped in the darkness of the other side. 

#BookBlitz: Through the Layers (Rumor Has It, #4) by @rhtuckerbooks #Giveaway @XpressoTours

Through the Layers
R.H. Tucker
(Rumor Has It, #4)
Publication date: September 17th 2018
Genres: New Adult, Romance

Second chances are for suckers.

Micah’s heard that expression before. With his first year of college in the books, catching his girlfriend cheating on him—again—he learns that lesson firsthand. The girl he thought could’ve been his high school sweetheart, turns out to be nothing more than a liar, completely destroying his trust.
No one has ever called Veronica fat. Thick? Okay. Curvy? Sure. However, they’ve never come right out and told her she’s overweight. Not unless you count the kids in third grade who called her roly-poly. Grade school or freshman year of college, it doesn’t matter. Guys usually go for the tall, thin girls. Girls like Micah’s ex.
Despite their hang-ups, and their pasts, Micah and Veronica find something in each other that quells their concerns. But when old faces return, and unsettling truths are revealed, will either of them be able to work through the layers and find one another again?
Through the Layers is a standalone YA/NA romance in the Rumor Has It series.

#BookBlitz: Twisted Lies 4 (Dirty Secrets, #4) by @SedonaVenez #Giveaway @XpressoTours

Twisted Lies 4
Sedona Venez
(Dirty Secrets, #4)
Publication date: September 19th 2018
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

From USA Today Bestselling Author Sedona Venez comes an edge-of-your-seat captivating, heart-wrenching, romantic suspense.

If you’re a fan of love/hate relationships, then read Twisted Lies 4. Or, just read it anyway.

A beautiful, captivating, angst-filled story with lessons about the fine line between love and hate—and two beautifully broken characters who will stick with you long after you finish this series. 

For Core and Sin… there’s a thin line between love and hate—and nothing is what it seems.

Core’s a billionaire bad boy—living in a dangerous world—with an empire filled with dirty secrets, twisted lies, and scorching lust. 

He’s a corporate god, one that sassy, curvy Sin hasn’t been able to avoid… or resist. But now the truth has come to light, and all secrets have been unveiled. 

Lives are destroyed, and old wounds resurface.

It changes everything.

Core and Sin are teetering on losing the love of a lifetime.

A decision must be made… but Core has one last chance to make Sin his—or ruin what they have—permanently.

Sin is the only one who can heal Core’s broken heart—but she no longer knows if she wants it.

Can Sin trust Core? 

Or will she walk away and abandon their future… forever?

Twisted Lies 4 is the last book in the suspenseful and sexy contemporary romance Dirty Secrets Series by author Sedona Venez. A steamy romp of twists and shocking turns, readers will fall in love one last time with the ending of the popular and highly anticipated Twisted Lies serial.

#WaitingOnWednesday with @alliechristo @erinsummerill @jules_writes

Welcome to this week Waiting on Wednesday post!  This week we have three amazing titles for you! Which one can't you wait to read?  Let us know below in the comments which title you can't wait to read and one title you recommend!

#BookReview: Beautifully Said: Discover a muse, spark an idea, and find your voice by @Quotabelle

About the Book:

Looking for a quote by a woman to inspire your daughter, sister, mother, or friend? This is the book for you.

Where are all the great things she has said? Less than 5% of all the quotes in the universe of quotations are from women. Quotabell is working to fix this supply problem. Beautifully Said, which brings together words from famous and accomplished women, is an inspring gift for any girl or woman. The quotations are divided into twenty sections (she-themes) including believes, builds, designs, discovers, inspires, invents and laughs. With wonderful wisdom from diverse and distinct female voices, this is the perfect book of modern women's empowerment.


Featuring over 100 quotations from women including Emma Watson, Nobel Peace Prixe winner Malala Yousafzai, Facebook executive and author Sheryl Sandberg, mountaineer Alison Levine, ballet dancer Misty Copeland and Isabel Allende. 

#BookReview: The Mix-And-Match Lunchbox: Over 27,000 Wholesome Combos to Make Lunch Go Yum! by Cherie Schetselaar, Britney Rule

About the Book:

Turn your child's school sack lunch into something both healthy and creative. With an easy-to-read setup, The Mix-and-Match Lunchbox adds variety to your homemade lunches.



The spiral binding and split pages allow for thousands of possible combinations! Just pick one recipe from each category (protein, grains, and fruits/vegetables), and you can be sure that every lunch contains a healthy balance of taste and nutrients.