Saturday, February 28, 2015

Miss Taken by Cleo Scornavacca

 


I was offered an ARC of this book by the author in exchange for an honest review. I read the synopsis and was hooked, it is such a different story than those that I've read before. This is the debut novel for Cleo Scornavacca. It presents to us Rain Medici, a young photographer and Dominick Kane, a lawyer with so much emotion. I will warn you all now though, this book ends in a cliffhanger, so probably not a book that dislikes those types of books, unless you're like me and had book 2 in your kindle already.

Rain has lead a very sheltered and protected life. Having grown up with an overprotective mother due to her health condition, she has slowly been trying to free herself from everything and be her own person. She works and lives with her best friend Tommy, staying out of her family business of a law firm in which her father and twin sister work in.

On her way to Capri, she ends up in the hands of Dominick Kane, son of Rain's fathers former partner. Mr. Kane has a plan, he wants what he believes is his: part of Mr. Medici's law firm, the part that belonged to his father. He establishes this plan to use Rain to get what he wants. Dominick is so dominating, controlling. Soon this plan begins to alter as Rain and Dominick begin to get to know one another. The story begins to evolve into something much more than revenge, and one of getting free from this captivity.

I fell in love with the book from the first chapter, it is so different than those that I've read and intricate. It's an easy read, one that captures you and pulls you into the plot, you are not sure what will happen next. I was surprise to find out this was the author's debut novel. There were some places in the plot that are a bit hard to believe, but then again, this story is fiction and anything can happen. These things did not pull away from the story. I found myself reading the story every spare moment that I could. I groaned when I finished it and read the cliffhanger, but then I reminded myself that I had the next book in the series in my kindle and quickly jumped into that one. 
They will be parts of the story where you will be mad at Rain, at least I was, and get frustrated with the characters. But I feel that makes the book better, it means you really are connecting with them! Definitely a great debut book, and I cannot wait to see how the story of Dominick and Rain plays out!

RELEASE DAY BLITZ: Vampiracy: Force of Vengeance and Blackening Dawn (Hell's Guardian Chronicles Book 2) by Isabella Tredway






Eighteen year old Zyra Falls-DeRaps is back and this time she has more on the line than she ever has.
Going against Queen Velika and her evil Varacolaci army.
Zyra must agree to become a Varacolaci in order to prevent the Stregoni Benefici Hunters and the innocent Lugat from going to war with the Varacolaci army.
Will she accept the queen’s order or will she challenge Velika’s authority, by leading the Hunters to war against Velika, as Hell’s Guardian?

Before Lyric Lockheart became a vampire, she was a human who lived in Sythe City. The Red System Corp. injected Lyric with the anti-virus, known as The Blue Piron or CO2 Experiment. Lyric is sent into hiding as an undercover agent, working at the L.P.V.O., the Lilith Prodigy Vampire Organization. Will the Red System find her and take her back or will Lyric do the unthinkable and become a vampire to protect herself from them?

Isabella Tredway is the author of urban fantasy novels for both teens and adults. Born and raised in Colorado, she works on her two series full-time. A Gemini who became inspired to become a writer after reading novels by: Holly Black: Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale, S.D. Perry: Resident Evil Series, and Richelle Mead: Vampire Academy and Bloodlines Series.

A life-long reader, Isabella has always had a fascination with the supernatural and the paranormal, as well as folklore. She enjoys watching scary ghost shows and is an Anime fanatic.









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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Loyalty and Lies by L.A. Cotton Blog Tour

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Book Review:
L.A. Cotton is a new author to me, and I was curious and excited to read her book. Loyalty and Lies was one of those books that sucked me into the story and kept me intrigued all the way to the very end. There are so many twists and turns to this book, making you guess what will happen next in the story. I fell in love with Savanah and Jackson, you couldn't help it!! I have found another author to add to my list of favorite authors!! I am anxiously waiting for the next book to come out and will definitely be checking this author's other works out!! I highly recommend this series, and this author! Her work is captivating and emotional, you never know what will happen!!  





Book Title: Loyalty and Lies (Chastity Falls #1) Author: LA Cotton Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance Release Date: January 2015 Hosted by: Book Enthusiast Promotions
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Eighteen-year-old Savanah Parry just moved three thousand miles across state to escape. The memories…the whispers…the pain.
Chastity Falls Academy is supposed to be her fresh start; her salvation. And when Ana meets mysterious Jackson, she begins to think it is. She hasn’t smiled in almost sixteen months; not since the night her life changed forever, and despite her guilt…her loyalty, Ana can’t deny that Jackson is breathing life back into her. With Jackson by her side, Ana wants to believe she can heal and move on. But she isn’t the only one living a lie, and the small private Academy has secrets of its own. All is not what it seems, and Ana is about to find herself in a tangled web of lies; fighting for survival, again.
Loyalties will be tested, lies will be told. Welcome to Chastity Falls.
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Gardner's class was nothing compared to the torture of sitting so close to Jackson in Shakespeare. After his warning to stay away from him, I thought he might pick an alternative seat, but that didn't happen. Instead, he brushed straight passed me, dropped into his usual chair and acted as if nothing had happened. I had to fight back the urge to ask him why he had told me to stay away from me. I mean, it wasn't like we hung out. There had been coffee at the shifty sea front hut…once, and then the embarrassing sprained-ankle-in-the-storm incident. “Today, class, I want us to look at the character Iago…” Professor Shacks’ voice echoed around the small room. “Iago is the voice whispering in Othello’s ear, playing to Othello’s own paranoia and insecurities around his relationship with Desdemona. Of course, Othello trusts Iago implicitly, why wouldn’t he trust his long serving friend and lieutenant? A fact that Iago uses to his own advantage…” Jackson shuffled next to me, and then quickly dropped a white note onto my desk. What now? I sighed, feeling frustrated at his mixed signals. How’s the ankle? Okay thanks I balled up the note and tossed it onto his desk, watching him through the corner of my eye. A slight smirk played on his lips, and it was obvious he was aware I was pissed at him. He started scribbling a reply, which landed in front of me seconds later. I’ve heard coffee (or a banana shake) can work wonders for a sprained ankle… healing properties or something. I scowled at his slightly scruffy handwriting wondering what game he was trying to play with me. Thanks. I’ll make sure I have a banana shake before bed Feeling pleased with myself, I held out the note for him and he plucked it out of my hand, silently laughing when his eyes scanned the words. How about a shake before bed… with me? My eyes blinked. And blinked again, feeling the heat of embarrassment wash over my face. Was he flirting with me? I felt thirteen all over again. Mikey Crand used to send me love notes in Biology and me and my friend Lacey would giggle over them. Feeling brave, I handed him my reply. Are you inviting me for a shake? Or to bed? Jackson’s eyes widened and he shuffled slightly in his seat. Take that mister confusing, I thought, pleased with myself. Are you saying yes? I inwardly groaned. Jackson: one, Ana: zero. I couldn’t keep this up without drifting into territory that terrified me. Jackson was the first guy—the only guy—that made me smile… made my stomach flutter… made me feel anything since Danny. It wasn’t the plan, not what I ran to CFA to find, but somehow I had found it. Found something—someone—that made me feel again. Was that enough to try and get to the bottom of whatever was going on with Jackson? Of why he had warned me to stay away? To the shake… maybe Meet me round back five minutes after class I was heading for a one-way trip into purgatory, because as I discreetly watched Jackson out the corner of my eye I knew. Knew there would be no way I could walk away. Right or wrong, sensible or stupid, he had awoken a part of me that I thought I would never find again…and I couldn’t just give that up. Not for all the warnings in the world.
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Ninety-minutes later, I was sitting in Black’s suffering some kind of post-Jackson whiplash. “I’m surprised you asked me for coffee again.” I slurped up the thick banana shake. Jackson watched me, his eyes were more the color of the bluey-green ocean today, than their usual shade. “Actually, I invited you for a shake.” He quipped back. I tried broaching the subject during the ride to Black’s, but he just shrugged me off, talking about the weather. The freaking weather. I was done with his evasion techniques. “After you warned me to stay away from you the other night?” He placed his mug back on its plate and sighed. I watched, captivated, as he ran his hand through his messy dark hair, the longer strands falling back into place, a five ‘o’clock shadow cloaking his jaw. “About that… I may have been a little hasty.” “Hasty?” “See the thing is…” His eyes held mine, smoldering at me, pleading with me. “I’m not sure I can stay away from you.” My lips moved to say something but nothing came out. Jackson watched me intently and I gulped. It felt like he was willing me to agree, to accept that there was a reason we should stay away from each other, but to ignore it. And I got the feeling it was a no questions asked kind of arrangement. “It’d be better for you… for us, if you stay away from me, Ana. But I don’t want you to. I’m too selfish to walk away.” “But-” Jackson cut me off. “No questions. That’s the deal. We spend time together, get to know each other, but you can’t ask any of the questions I know you have swimming round in that pretty little head of yours.” “Okay, but-” His hand found mine across the booth, and his fingers grazed my knuckles. “No questions. That’s just the way it has to be for now.” I nodded. Unsure what I was agreeing to. “You won’t regret it Ana Parry, I promise.”
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Author of NA Contemporary Romance, L. A. Cotton loves writing about those first looks, first kisses, and happily ever afters. A wearer-of-many-hats, L.A juggles being a full-time mum to two little people with two part-time jobs and college. In her spare time (and when she’s not camped out in front of the laptop) you’ll most likely find her immersed in a book, escaping the chaos that is life. LA has two books currently self-published: Fate's Love and Love's Spark. Loyalty and Lies, is book one in her NA college series: Chastity Falls. You can connect with her at: www.lacotton.com www.facebook.com/authorlacotton www.twitter.com/authorlacotton www.amazon.com/author/lacotton
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