Monday, December 15, 2014

Cora Carmack's INSPIRE Release!!!

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YAY! I am incredibly excited to be able to bring you the Release Day Launch for Cora Carmack's INSPIRE! INSPIRE is a New Adult Paranormal Romance novel and the first book in her new Muse Series!! 

Holy canoli, y'all. Go out and get this today!



Inspire

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About INSPIRE:

Kalliope lives with one purpose.

To inspire.

As an immortal muse, she doesn’t have any other choice. It’s part of how she was made. Musicians, artists, actors—they use her to advance their art, and she uses them to survive. She moves from one artist to the next, never staying long enough to get attached. But all she wants is a different life— a normal one. She’s spent thousands of years living lie after lie, and now she’s ready for something real.

Sweet, sexy, and steady, Wilder Bell feels more real than anything else in her long existence. And most importantly… he’s not an artist. He doesn’t want her for her ability. But she can’t turn off the way she influences people, not even to save a man she might love. Because in small doses, she can help make something beautiful, but her ability has just as much capacity to destroy as it does to create. The longer she stays, the more obsessed Wilder will become. It’s happened before, and it never turns out well for the mortal.

Her presence may inspire genius.

But it breeds madness, too.



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Excerpt:

I can feel Wilder’s breath against my lips. More than that, I can see it. The sun has set and the temperature has dropped, and air fogs between us. There’s something about actually seeing it, like our lips are touching, we are touching, despite the distance between. And as we sway from side to side, my heart gradually begins to pick up speed.

The strains of guitar music flowing out from the restaurant are nearly indecipherable over the heavy heartbeat in my ears. But Wilder must hear it. His hands are strong on my body, guiding my movements, and I’m practically clay in his palms.

We dance, eyes on eyes, lips nearly on lips, and there is lightning beneath my skin each time his body brushes against mine in a new way. His touch is firm, but gentle, never pushing or pressuring, though I can tell from the dark look in his eyes that he’s just as affected as I am. The music shifts, building to a crescendo, and he spins us. My chest pushes tight against his, and I bite back a gasp. I don’t know if it’s the cold or him or some combination of both, but the tips of my breasts are painfully tight. Just the pressure of my bra is enough to rub them raw.

I remember the night at his apartment, the way he’d taken his time learning my body. I think of the heat of his mouth on my skin, and the memory alone is enough to make me shiver and clench.

He’s back to being business, grown-up Wilder tonight in his button down and glasses. Only now that I know him, it doesn’t seem like such a stark difference. He is neither the straight-laced man nor the tattooed bad boy. Or perhaps he’s both. Regardless of what he’s wearing, Wilder is caring and loyal and strong and so sexy that I’m having trouble remembering why I shouldn’t push him into the backseat of his SUV and crawl on top of him.

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HeadshotAbout Cora Carmack:

Cora Carmack is a twenty-something writer who likes to write about twenty-something characters. She's done a multitude of things in her life-- boring jobs (like working retail), Fun jobs (like working in a theatre), stressful jobs (like teaching), and dream jobs (like writing). She enjoys placing her characters in the most awkward situations possible, and then trying to help them get a boyfriend out of it. Awkward people need love, too. Her first book, LOSING IT, was a New York Times and USA Today bestseller.








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Wednesday, December 10, 2014

NEW BOOK by New York Times Bestselling Author KATY EVANS


RIPPED (REAL #5)

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18697821-ripped

New Adult Contemporary


Publisher: Simon & Schuster


Release: December 9, 2014

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Every woman wants me--except the one I sing for.
Seattle shakes with anticipation: they call it the concert of the year. They say girls are getting pregnant just thinking about my band being in town.
But when you love a girl, you don't leave her with nothing but a ring and a promise. Any man with half a brain should know.
So what did I expect my girl would do when she saw me again?
Well, for starters, she loathes our music. Particularly the song I wrote about her.
When I sing it, the stadium is in an uproar. Thousands of fans scream my name like I'm a god--but yeah, not her. Crystal clear: the girl's not happy to see me.
Black hair, black boots, a bad attitude, that's her -- Pandora Stone is a freaking man-eater and she's out for my blood.
That's alright.
Let her come at me. Because I'm out for her heart and, this time, there's no way she can stop me.

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For those of you who don't know, RIPPED is the fifth installment in Katy's series Real and it is a doozy!

I was first introduced to Katy Evans through REAL, the first book of the series, and while I found her plot and writing style refreshing, but I found it difficult to relate to her characters. I did NOT have any such problems with RIPPED. This book is AH-MA-ZING! It had me laughing, crying, screaming and pouting all within the first 50 pages.

Evans is in spectacular writing form. What are supposed to be her prickliest characters, grab your heart from the beginning and never let go. By the end, I knew the characters so well, I was anticipating their next moves and caught myself thinking more than once, "That is so Mackenna and Pandora."

I do have to warn my fellow readers, Mackenna's single at the end of this book, had me in tears. A majority of time when I read lyrics they sound a bit awkward in my head, but this song seemed to have a melody written between the words. Beautiful! 

Two very big and wonderfully heart felt thumbs up!
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WRITING RIPPED


By Katy Evans



RIPPED – I’m so excited to be sharing with everyone RIPPED, Real series book #5! 
RIPPED began with Pandora, Brooke (Real, Mine and Remy) and Melanie’s (Rogue) goth friend. She’s such a wounded warrior and so bitter that I was completely hooked wanting to know—what happened? What made her like this? Why does she hate men so much?


And that’s how I met her man, Mackenna Jones.


He’s back in Seattle for the concert of the year, and Pandora hates him so much, she is still so stuck in the past for having loved (and lost) him when she was young, she’s determined to go pay him a visit and give him a little something to remember her by. Nothing nice, I assure you.


And that’s where RIPPED totally exploded for me. It’s one of those books where I couldn’t stop writing even for a second. It seemed like I just opened Pandora’s box of secrets and they came spilling out, one after the other. Memories, what truly happened in her eyes, in his eyes, their first kiss (sigh) and so much more. Their past is tumultuous and passionate and their present, when they reunite again, is just as passionate and rocky. They have a long way to go to their HEA but, though Pandora doesn’t feel she deserves it and has never let herself want it, Mackenna has another plan to conquer back his girl.


What I love about this couple in particular is how equal they seem—the push and the pull always kept me guessing as to who had control of the situation, sometimes Pandora had Mackenna by the pants, and plenty of others it was Mackenna who kept getting the upper hand, knowing each and every one of Pandora’s weaknesses (including that he is the main one.)


He is the boy she could never forget.


She is the girl no other girl has ever compared.


Things are about to get RIPPED during Mackenna’s concert tour when his manager thinks it brilliant to force Pandora to tag along.


  


https://www.goodreads.com/series/101524-real


About the Author

Katy Evans grew up with books and book-boyfriends until she found a real sexy boyfriend to love. They married and are now hard at work on their own happily ever after. Katy loves her family and friends, and she also loves reading, walking, baking, and being consumed by her characters until she reaches “The End.” Which is, hopefully, only the beginning…

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Tuesday, December 2, 2014

The Notorious Georgia Cates


Georgia Cates' Beauty Series

I'm not here to give you a synopsis of these books. If you want one follow the links to the Goodreads links on the covers and get your update from there. I'm here to review the series. 

Now when I say the "Notorious Georgia Cates," I mean I have been dying to read this series ever since it came out 2013 and 2014. Many of my friends recommended and praised this series and I was immediately drawn in by the covers. (Look at them, they're gorgeous!) 

The Beauty series is one of the better romances I have read. It was entertaining, funny, sad, hopeful and very very sexy. The sexual banter between Laurelyn and Jack made the relationship easy and entertaining to read. As I continued to read, it was evident that growth and development revolved around the main characters, Laurelyn and Jack. Typically, this method can make a book unbearably boring and one dimensional. However, in this series, the relationships Laurelyn and Jack have with the supporting characters develop and mature making this book a gem. 

I'm a sucker for romance, but I'm an even bigger sucker for a story about self-descovery. Every person's story is different and Laurelyn and Jack do not disappoint. I love the constant display of choosing each other instead of letting circumstances or fear win. I'm a big sap. I will always want love to win.

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