Sunday, July 15, 2018

#BookBlitz: Blood & Magic (Volume 1) by @Danielle_annett #Giveaway @XpressoTours


Blood & Magic Volume 1
Danielle Annett
(Blood & Magic #1 & 2)
Publication date: June 28th 2018
Genres: New Adult, Urban Fantasy



A pyrokinetic, a dangerous new enemy, an imminent war.
Mercenary Aria Naveed is going to have her hands full.
Throw in a shifter or two and sh** is about to get serious!
Grab Blood and Magic Volume One. Books one and two in the exciting new urban fantasy series by USA Today Bestselling author Danielle Annett
















#CoverReveal: Love, Cutter by @michelle_jester @XpressoTours


Love, Cutter
Michelle Jester
Publication date: August 28th 2018
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult
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After an attempted suicide Carter finds himself in a coma. He is able to hear the world around him, yet he can’t move. What he hears propels Carter to begin to see life in a new way, especially when one of his nurses, Kinley, shares parts of her tragic past with him. Soon, Carter realizes he is falling in love with her.
Months after being transferred from the hospital, to a rehabilitation facility, he suddenly wakes up with a passion to live that he never had before and a determination to find the one person he feels may be able to help him put the pieces of his life together again. However, when he returns to the hospital, Kinley is gone and Carter must try to find her based solely on the things she shared with him while he was in a coma.
Only, nothing is as it seems and Carter learns the biggest lesson of them all… the differences between expectation, perception, and reality.





Saturday, July 14, 2018

#BookReview of The Gift of the Quoxxel by Richard Titus



The Gift of the Quoxxel
Reviewed By: Rachael
Publisher: Voyage Imaginaires
Recommended Age: Young Adult
Genre:
About the Book: King Norr was not content. He longed to know the world beyond his tiny, island 
kingdom of Nibb. The Nibbians, however, were not a seafaring people and had no desire to travel elsewhere. Why bother, they said. What could be as perfect as Nibb? 

Even so, Norr watched foreign ships come and go. They approached, hesitated, then sailed away without ever coming ashore. Why was that? 

And that wasn't the only mystery. 

Who was the prankster who had set the palace afloat? 

Was there a sea monster skulking the waters along shore? 

Who was the little girl who sang but would not speak? 

Had the Minister of Science been eaten by migrating drumbkins? 

This was not the average Nibbian day. King Norr was unprepared and only hoped to get through it with as few "haddocks" as possible. 

Set sail on this armchair adventure of wit and riddle. It's an imaginative voyage to 
the Isle of Nibb whose only flaw is being a little too perfect -- or, at least, it was 
until today.





#BookReview: The Point by John Dixon

Reviewed By: Jessica P. 
Publisher: Del Rey Books
Recommended Age: New Adult 
Genre: Science Fiction (Thriller) 
About the Book:

What if you had a power you had to hide from everyone--until now? In this bold sci-fi action thriller, a secret training program at West Point is turning misfits into a new generation of heroes. 

Welcome to The Point, future leaders of the Posthuman Age.

New Cadets, society is not ready for you. The oldest, fiercest fear is ignorance. The general population would burn you at the metaphorical stake.
Here, you will train alongside other posthumans. You will learn to control and maximize your powers and to use them for the greater good. You will discover camaraderie and purpose.
You will become a part of something bigger than yourselves: the Long Gray Line. 

Scarlett Winter has always been an outsider, and not only because she's a hardcore daredevil and born troublemaker--she has been hiding superhuman powers she doesn't yet understand. Now she's been recruited by a secret West Point unit for cadets with extraordinary abilities. Scarlett and her fellow students are learning to hone their skills, from telekinetic combat to running recon missions through strangers' dreamscapes. At The Point, Scarlett discovers that she may be the most powerful cadet of all. With the power to control pure energy, she's a human nuclear bomb--and she's not sure she can control her powers much longer.

Even in this army of outsiders, Scarlett feels like a misfit all over again, but when a threat that endangers her fellow students arises from the school's dark past, duty calls and Scarlett must make a choice between being herself and becoming something even greater: a hero.
 

This title will be released on August 7, 2018.


#BookReview: Furyborn (The Empirium Trilogy, #1) by @clairelegrand @SourcebooksFire

Reviewed By: Jessica P. 
Publisher: SourceBooks Fire
Recommended Age: Young Adult 
Genre: High Fantasy 
About the Book:

Follows two fiercely independent young women, centuries apart, who hold the power to save their world...or doom it.

When assassins ambush her best friend, the crown prince, Rielle Dardenne risks everything to save him, exposing her ability to perform all seven kinds of elemental magic. The only people who should possess this extraordinary power are a pair of prophesied queens: a queen of light and salvation and a queen of blood and destruction. To prove she is the Sun Queen, Rielle must endure seven trials to test her magic. If she fails, she will be executed...unless the trials kill her first.

A thousand years later, the legend of Queen Rielle is a mere fairy tale to bounty hunter Eliana Ferracora. When the Undying Empire conquered her kingdom, she embraced violence to keep her family alive. Now, she believes herself untouchable--until her mother vanishes without a trace, along with countless other women in their city. To find her, Eliana joins a rebel captain on a dangerous mission and discovers that the evil at the heart of the empire is more terrible than she ever imagined.

As Rielle and Eliana fight in a cosmic war that spans millennia, their stories intersect, and the shocking connections between them ultimately determine the fate of their world--and of each other.





#BookBlitz: The Dociles by @ValeriePuri @XpressoTours #Giveaway


The Dociles
Valerie Puri
Publication date: July 12th 2018
Genres: Dystopian, Young Adult


Walls are meant to keep the monsters out…
Deep in the forest there is a wall where no wall should be. Behind it live the people of the Commune, the last remnant of human kind.
Jennie Caraway has lived behind the wall her entire life, certain that it protects her and her brother from the lemerons, ravenous undead monsters whose only desire is to kill – and feed.
Jennie’s peaceful existence is shattered when she uncovers a secret organization whose purpose threatens to destroy not only Jennie, but her entire world. The Order has a deadly mission, and they will stop at nothing to see it completed.
Jennie and those closest to her must expose the evil truth before they are killed – or worse.








#CoverReveal: Fragile Love by @authormackblack @XpressoTours


Fragile Love
Mack Black
Publication date: August 20th 2018
Genres: New Adult, Romance
James Winters had it made.
If his good job and nice apartment weren’t enough, he also had enough action figures to pay his rent for six years—not that he’d ever sell them. The only thing he lacked was the girl he’d pined after for years. Bella Fiorello.
Bella walked into his life six years ago, right after Charlotte Winters had tried to destroy his whole family. Ever since the day he’d met her, he hadn’t been able to get her out of his head. He didn’t want to love her. Most women only wanted him to use and abuse him, but there was something different about Bella. Something he just couldn’t shake.
But getting her and keeping her might just be the hardest task of his life. Especially when it had taken him six years, two months, and a session on taming the nerd to get her to agree to one single date.






Friday, July 13, 2018

#BookReview of The Gorgon Bride by Galen Surlak-Ramsey


The Gorgon Bride
Reviewed By: Rachael
Publisher: Tiny Fox Press
Recommended Age:
Genre:
About the Book: THE GODS ARE FUNNY.

Except when you piss them off.

Then they suck.

They really, really suck.

(Really).


Alexander Weiss discovers this tidbit when he inadvertently insults Athena, Goddess of Wisdom, and she casts him away on a forgotten isle filled with statues.

Being marooned is bad enough, but the fact that the island is also the home of Euryale, elder sister to Medusa, makes the situation a touch worse. The only thing keeping Alex from being petrified is the fact that Euryale has taken a liking to the blundering mortal.

For now.

What follows next is a wild, adventurous tale filled with heroes, gods, monsters, love, and war that is nothing short of legendary.





#BookReview: Brightly Burning by Alexa Donne

Reviewed By: Jessica P. 
Publisher: HMH Books for Young Readers
Recommended Age: Young Adult 
Genre: Science Fiction (Retelling) 
About the Book:

Seventeen-year-old Stella Ainsley wants just one thing: to go somewhere—anywhere—else. Her home is a floundering spaceship that offers few prospects, having been orbiting an ice-encased Earth for two hundred years. When a private ship hires her as a governess, Stella jumps at the chance. The captain of the Rochester, nineteen-year-old Hugo Fairfax, is notorious throughout the fleet for being a moody recluse and a drunk. But with Stella he’s kind.

But the Rochester harbors secrets: Stella is certain someone is trying to kill Hugo, and the more she discovers, the more questions she has about his role in a conspiracy threatening the fleet.