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We are so excited to join the ladies at Rockstar Book Tours and all the other awesome bloggers in the tour for upcoming release My Best Everything by Sarah Tomp. Today we have a really fun interview and a giveaway for you guys! </div>
Thanks so much to Sarah for taking the time to answer our questions.<br />
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<b>Title:</b> My Best Everything<br />
<b>Author:</b> Sarah Tomp<br />
<b>Genre:</b> Contemporary Young Adult<br />
<b>Release Date:</b> March 3, 2015 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers <br />
<b>Hosted By: </b><a href="http://www.rockstarbooktours.com/">Rockstar Book Tours</a><br />
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<b>You say it was all meant to be. You and me. The way we met. Our secrets in the woods. Even the way it all exploded. It was simply a matter of fate.</b><br />
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<b>Maybe if you were here to tell me again, to explain it one more time, then maybe I wouldn’t feel so uncertain. But I’m going back to the beginning on my own. To see what happened and why.</b><br />
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<b>Luisa “Lulu” Mendez has just finished her final year of high school in a small Virginia town, determined to move on and leave her job at the local junkyard behind. So when her father loses her college tuition money, Lulu needs a new ticket out.</b><br />
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<b>Desperate for funds, she cooks up the (definitely illegal) plan to make and sell moonshine with her friends, Roni and Bucky. Quickly realizing they’re out of their depth, Lulu turns to Mason: a local boy who’s always seemed like a dead end. As Mason guides Lulu through the secret world of moonshine, it looks like her plan might actually work. But can she leave town before she loses everything – including her heart?</b><br />
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<b>The summer walks the line between toxic and intoxicating. My Best Everything is Lulu’s letter to Mason – though is it an apology, a good-bye, or a love letter?</b></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR</b></span></blockquote>
<b>Q: What was your inspiration for this story (the setting, the moonshine, etc)?</b><br />
<i>A: The setting of My Best Everything looks a little bit like the town in Virginia where I lived during my teen years. It’s a beautiful place and I did plenty of exploring when I lived there. I rode inner tubes down the river, hiked and camped in the woods, and spent hours driving on all the many back roads.</i><br />
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<i>As for the actual story, several ideas came together. It was always going to be a love story, and it was always going to be about drinking. The junkyard scenes were thanks to my son’s obsession with cars and taking things apart. I already had plenty of references to moonshine within the text, but it wasn’t until my kids watched Moonshiners on Discovery Channel and asked me if that’s what it was really like in Virginia that I started to wonder if my teen characters could pull that off.</i><br />
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<i>I’ve decided that writing a novel is little bit like making moonshine. A bunch of ingredients are thrown into the pot and start fermenting. It gets kind of messy for a while, and things are thrown out, but eventually all of it works together to create the final product.</i><br />
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<b>Q: Is there a particular message that you'd like your readers to walk away with or do you simply want them to sit back and enjoy a story?</b><br />
<i>A: When it comes to life, I have no answers, only questions! I think one of the most magical things about reading is that it’s a cooperative endeavor. The reader and the writer meet halfway, with each of them bringing something different to the experience. My greatest hope is that my readers finish my story and feel as though that was time well spent.</i><br />
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<i>But… I also hope they ask more questions—about destiny, true love, crossing lines and breaking rules.</i><br />
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<b>Q: Did you learn anything from writing this book?</b><br />
<i>A: I didn't know a lot about moonshine before writing My Best Everything. Pretty much everything beyond the tasting of it was all new to me. But the thing that truly surprised me was the importance and power of yeast to the process. I am now a bit of a yeast-geek!</i><br />
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<i>Yeast is one of the deciding factors in a liquor’s taste and alcohol strength. Although these tiny microorganisms live all over the world, even on Antarctica, each strain has its own DNA and is regularly changing and evolving. Professional distillers have patents on their individual yeast strains and work hard to keep them from mutating significantly enough to change the taste.</i><br />
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<i>Before moonshiners understood the science of the process, they sometimes had a fermenting stick that they used for each batch. They didn’t know why it worked, but they knew that stick made all the difference. The secret ingredient was the yeast that lived on it. The yeast would lie dormant all winter, and then come back to life when it was time to start making moonshine again in the spring.</i><br />
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<b>Q: Besides writing, do you have any hobbies? What do you like to do in your free time?</b><br />
<i>A: I love free time! Unfortunately, I never seem to have enough of it! I love being outdoors, which in San Diego is a year-round possibility. I love camping and taking long walks. I watch my kids play sports. I’m a big fan of the beach where I am very good at lying on a towel and daydreaming. I also love to play with messy art supplies.</i><br />
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<b>Q: Which author(s) would you consider a mentor or role model?</b><br />
<i>A: In some ways, every author I’ve ever read a book by is my mentor. Reading is such a fundamental key to writing! However, more specifically, I was taught by some amazing and generous authors through Vermont College of Fine Arts where I earned my MFA. I worked closely with Ellen Howard, Kathi Appelt, Tim Wynne-Jones and Rita Williams-Garcia. After graduation, I was also lucky enough to work directly with Margaret Bechard during an amazing and intimate retreat. Her brilliant guidance and insights were crucial to shaping Lulu’s story.</i><br />
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<b>Q: Any fun and exciting news you'd like to share with your readers?</b><br />
<i>A: I’m just so delighted to have been a guest on your blog! Thank you for having me!</i><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">MORE ABOUT THE AUTHOR</span></b></blockquote>
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Sarah Tomp has a MFA in writing for children and young adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts.</div>
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<b><i>My Best Everything</i></b>, a novel for young adults, will be published March 2015 by Little, Brown Books. </div>
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She is also the author of a picture book; Red, White, and Blue Good-bye (Walker Books for Young Readers).</div>
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Sarah teaches creative writing for University of California San Diego Extension. She reviews books for Bookbrowse.com and co-authors the blog, Writing on the Sidewalk.</div>
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<a href="http://sarahtomp.com/">Website </a>| <a href="https://twitter.com/swtomp">Twitter </a>| <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7124826.Sarah_Tomp">Goodreads</a></div>
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Book Soulmateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05497671301035519626noreply@blogger.com60tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585398032472579429.post-49504079495146317322015-01-21T08:00:00.000-05:002015-01-21T08:00:04.046-05:00Review: Winners Curse (The Winner's Trilogy #1) by Marie Rutkoski<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibINxOhO3_IBubUP7Vj8V5_uQvNWliJWCXRZGpYN_YWSBCd66p-ZXWp5UtONazqtnV42eSzcWHMBjfBknwuaC9jimLTnPqyPlhRmA17clB0wKuDm7UpfcNBYT8EpJJoZ-kElKbGIw_nLE/s1600-h/WinnersCurse5.jpg"><img align="left" alt="WinnersCurse" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOSdrFWtTmz4kEVeDS8l63K4x_Tax_wnS1aqfIya6BaP6CC3DTl6RP44zXmhqa84E-zVw2VG__fLnVeA_lk3oZNDaMGDrh6bHCyAm01wN1OIunWMkcLGAzx7som5XFGor_e9T_9isnPXc/?imgmax=800" height="361" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="WinnersCurse" width="237" /></a><br />
<strong>Title:</strong> Winners Curse (The Winner’s Trilogy #1) <br />
<strong>Author:</strong> Marie Rutkoski <br />
<strong>Publication:</strong> March 4, 2014 by Farrar Straus Giroux <br />
<strong>Reviewed by:</strong> Vanessa <br />
<strong>Rating:</strong> 5 stars <br />
<strong>Reason for reviewing:</strong> Pleasure<br />
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As a general’s daughter in a vast empire that revels in war and enslaves those it conquers, seventeen-year-old Kestrel has two choices: she can join the military or get married. But Kestrel has other intentions. <br />
One day, she is startled to find a kindred spirit in a young slave up for auction. Arin’s eyes seem to defy everything and everyone. Following her instinct, Kestrel buys him—with unexpected consequences. It’s not long before she has to hide her growing love for Arin. <br />
But he, too, has a secret, and Kestrel quickly learns that the price she paid for a fellow human is much higher than she ever could have imagined. <br />
Set in a richly imagined new world, <em>The Winner’s Curse</em> by Marie Rutkoski is a story of deadly games where everything is at stake, and the gamble is whether you will keep your head or lose your heart.</blockquote>
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<strong>Short and Quick:</strong> Kestrel is an intelligent strong-willed girl who doesn’t like her options in life and is determined to try to find a way to lead the kind of life she’s dreamt of. Little did she know she’d fall in love with a slave with secrets and a mission of his own.<br />
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<strong>Favorite Quote:</strong> “He lifted her up onto the table so that her face was level with his, and as they kissed it seemed that words were hiding in the air around them, that they were invisible creatures that feathered against her and Arin, then nudged, and buzzed, and tugged. <br />
Speak, they said. <br />
Speak, the kiss answered.”<br />
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<strong>My Thoughts:</strong> I love Kestrel’s character. She comes from wealth and is the daughter of a popular General, but she doesn’t let that change who she is deep down. She is pensive and strong-willed. She is unhappy with her life because she is realizing that her position has boundaries and certain expectations that she does not want to give in to. I love her courageous spirit as well. Especially when she is in a tough predicament towards the end of the book. Her spirit and tenacity makes her a wonderful heroine to read. <br />
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Arin……oh Arin. Why oh why must you be so intriguing?! Arin is a quiet guy who does what he’s told by his masters but who secretly has a plan of his own. What could it be? I was definitely intrigued by this character because although he’s quiet and defiant at first you just know he’s going to change people’s lives (in more ways than one). <br />
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The supporting characters were great too. I absolutely loved Jess (Kestrel’s best friend) and Ronan, Jess’ brother. Jess is so sweet natured and brings humor and happiness to Kestrel’s life. She is the sister Kestrel never had. Ronan is a flirt with a great heart who, if Arin hadn’t been in the picture, I would have wanted for Kestrel. <br />
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Although I’m used to fast-paced books (a la Lunar Chronicles) this book has a slower pace which goes perfect with the mood and serious theme of the book. The world building is wonderful and thankfully not overwhelming. Although it’s a slower pace, it’s definitely not boring! There are twists you really don’t see coming and there are serious scenes that I would not have expected from this book. <br />
<strong>A few more of my favorite quotes: </strong>• “She saw, yet again, that her friend's compliments were just bits of art and artifice. They were paper swans, cunningly folded so that they could float on the air for a few moments. Nothing more.”<br />
• “Survival isn't wrong. You can sell your honor in small ways, so long as you guard yourself. You can pour a glass of wine like it's meant to be poured, and watch a man drink, and plot your revenge.”<br />
• “My soul is yours,” he said. “You know that it is.”<br />
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Say whaaaaat?!</p> <p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNXVaY5ALsy2D4Ukw1H5rxVDJ_Tw8Dx6sNrZQ-kHlr18VyqQCnzqYQrgwhCh1vo1itWgu1h4yFdokw9v0LbM-PXsN6k7Je0QjK5I0ptSzyrw1gnPvzwFEdLEC__KIOxLOhD6_vvAvSjM8/s1600-h/TrustingLiam3%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="TrustingLiam3" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px" border="0" alt="TrustingLiam3" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj57TIUz9kPNtKmP4lHle4cp2CE0j2M0ZWlBu-yTogI9ki48Ynv-y_bQOaFwypNqjgvT4G8lsk-8aEF-NzPtqX9q0HayyJIDKcz53QNHc5YZGfCv7kwkbjJxbziS_j7fy33F-kRt3rRI-g/?imgmax=800" width="178" align="left" height="273" /></a></p> <blockquote> <p><font size="2"><b><i>TRUSTING LIAM </i></b><b>by Molly McAdams</b><u></u><u></u></font></p> <p><b><font size="2">On-sale 6/4/2015</font></b></p> <p><i>When Kennedy Ryan moves to California, she never expects to come face-to-face with Liam Taylor-the intriguing man she hasn’t been able to forget. Somehow Liam managed to get Kennedy to let down her guard for a single night of passion that ended up meaning more than it was ever supposed to. Accustomed to disastrous experiences with men, Kennedy shields herself before he can break down more of the carefully built control she’s clung to for the last four years. But every time she sees Liam, she feels her resolve weakening.<u></u><u></u></i></p> <p><i><u></u><u></u></i></p> <p><i>Liam Taylor has been asked to befriend his boss’s nieces. But what starts out as a reluctant favor ends up leading Liam to the only girl who ever slipped away before morning-a girl he thought he’d never find again. And now that she’s within reach, Liam’s determined to never let her go.<u></u><u></u></i></p> <p><i><u></u><u></u></i></p> <p><i>When a secret from her past tests their relationship, will they be able to cling to the trust Liam has worked so hard to build?</i></p> </blockquote> <p><em></em></p> <p><em></em></p> <p><em></em></p> <p><em></em></p> <p><em><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6JOSXuxybTBE0y9t3bTGscG6kg-Ip2tRAtZCebcU1revN7MmItPjjRB76Po4JLF3DyQQgwm3YN94iTzb-o49joNdsK_keZ5elu0GFR1ITy4wwIjvT6l8G9jziD9uY1VHDCbj95FJq4es/s1600-h/ChangingEverything%25255B5%25255D.jpg"><img title="ChangingEverything" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="ChangingEverything" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMJqbm70DcvTVQMiUP2ZWCt6w-zKZD91-P5WOtByYBXvTX_l7KbZ1htBuy7A9Cm7kk4jkbpDKJL6Cdcz5Z54aVX7IN6AY_fgVFtAoVUrTfPHyvwsekmCupG2NzanlInSmFVPgIss32a_A/?imgmax=800" width="190" align="left" height="311" /></a></em></p> <blockquote> <p><font size="2"><b><i>CHANGING EVERYTHING </i></b><b>by Molly McAdams</b><u></u><u></u></font></p> <p><b><font size="2">On-sale 3/3/2015</font></b></p> <p><u></u><u></u></p> <p><i>Paisley Morro has been in love with Eli since they were thirteen-years-old. But after twelve years of only being his best friend and wingman, the heartache that comes from watching him with countless other women becomes too much, and Paisley decides its time to lay all her feelings on the table.<u></u><u></u></i></p> <p><i><u></u><u></u></i></p> <p><i>Eli Jenkins has a life most guys would kill for: Dream job, countless women, and his best friend, Paisley, to be the girl he can always count on for everything else. But one conversation not only changes everything between them, it threatens to make him lose the only girl who has ever meant anything to him.<u></u><u></u></i></p> <p><i><u></u><u></u></i></p> <p><i>When tragedy strikes his family and Eli is forced to reevaluate his life, he realizes a life without Paisley isn’t a life at all. Only now, he may be too late.</i></p> </blockquote> <p><em></em></p> <p><em></em></p> <p><em></em></p> <img id="Image-Maps-Com-image-maps-2015-01-13-171939" style="float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="" src="http://i748.photobucket.com/albums/xx122/harperone_videos/mollymdoublecoverrevealjan2015_zpsc6302509.png" width="411" height="333" usemap="#image-maps-2015-01-13-171939" orgwidth="1002" orgheight="803" /> <map id="ImageMapsCom-image-maps-2015-01-13-171939" name="image-maps-2015-01-13-171939"><area title="" style="outline-style: none" href="http://www.harpercollins.com/9780062391407/changing-everything" shape="rect" alt="" target="_blank" coords="56,32,474,707" /><area title="" style="outline-style: none" href="http://www.harpercollins.com/9780062358448/trusting-liam" shape="rect" alt="" target="_blank" coords="524,33,946,708" /><area title="Image Map" style="outline-style: none" href="http://www.image-maps.com/index.php?aff=mapped_users_0" shape="rect" alt="Image Map" coords="1000,801,1002,803" /></map> <p align="center">So what do you guys think?! Don’t they sound amazing?!!! Yup. 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<strong>Title:</strong> Cress (Lunar Chronicles #3) by Marissa Meyer <br />
<strong>Author:</strong> Marissa Meyer <br />
<strong>Publication:</strong> February 4, 2014 by Feiwel and Friends <br />
<strong>Reviewed by:</strong> Vanessa <br />
<strong>Rating:</strong> 5 stars <br />
<strong>Reason for reviewing:</strong> Pleasure<br />
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In this third book in the Lunar Chronicles, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, now with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they’re plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army. <br />
Their best hope lies with Cress, a girl imprisoned on a satellite since childhood who's only ever had her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker. Unfortunately, she’s just received orders from Levana to track down Cinder and her handsome accomplice. <br />
When a daring rescue of Cress goes awry, the group is separated. Cress finally has her freedom, but it comes at a high price. Meanwhile, Queen Levana will let nothing prevent her marriage to Emperor Kai. Cress, Scarlet, and Cinder may not have signed up to save the world, but they may be the only hope the world has.</blockquote>
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<strong>Short and Quick:</strong> Holy shit balls. Yup. HOLY. SHIT. BALLS. This book has battles in space, in the dessert, on Earth…. everywhere! There’s romance, there’s humor, there’s adventure, and yes…. there’s heartbreak. This book does not disappoint!<br />
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<strong>Favorite Quote:</strong> <em>“He froze, becoming stone still. As the hover climbed the hill to the palace, his shoulders sank, and he returned his gaze to the window. "She's my alpha," he murmured, with a haunting sadness in his voice. <br />Alpha. <br />Cress leaned forward, propping her elbows on her knees, "Like the star?" <br />"What star?" <br />She stiffened, instantly embarrassed, and scooted back from him again. "Oh. Um. In a constellation, the brightest star is called the alpha. I thought maybe you meant that she's...like...your brightest star." Looking away, she knotted her hands in her lap, aware that she was blushing furiously now and this beast of a man was about to realize what an over-romantic sap she was. <br />But instead of sneering or laughing, Wolf sighed, "Yes," he said, his gaze climbing up to the full moon that had emerged in the blue evening sky. "Exactly like that.”</em><br />
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<strong>My Thoughts:</strong> Where do I even begin?! Oh the feels!!! I thought I loved Cinder (the book) but man oh man did this book blow it out of the water! I feel like I can’t put my review into words…. so much happened… so much was brought to light…. so many obstacles were put in the characters paths yet they prevailed! (or have they…)<br />
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We begin the book with Cress, a shy and lonely Lunar who was the one that helped Cinder in the first book (she’s the one who reached out to Cinder and told her about Queen Levana’s evil plan). She is incredibly smart but emotionally immature and naïve because of her seclusion (those traits aren’t annoying on her though!). Ahhhh, I don’t want to give too much away but let’s just say she has a budding romance with a certain someone that I just hope realizes her worth before it’s too late!<br />
Cinder’s storyline gets even more intense. She has an inner conflict regarding her Lunar powers and struggles with not wanting to use them but being put in situations where she has no choice <em>but</em> to use them. Her main goal in the story is trying to stop Queen Levana from marrying Emperor Kai but boy is it hard to do with all those darn obstacles getting in the way!<br />
Scarlet and Wolf are just adorbs. Again, there’s heartbreak with them but I hope it gets resolved in the next book! It simply must! *stomps foot*<br />
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Captain Thorne…. oh Captain Thorne ♥. I LOVE his humor! His character really evolves in this book. You get to see his strength (both mentally and physically). I love how matter of fact he is and how he doesn’t let life get him down. Even when something seriously bad happens to him (sorry can’t say what….don’t want to spoil it!).<br />
Kai on the other hand…. has annoyed me quite a bit throughout all these books. There are parts of him that I like… but… I want to shake him and tell him to grow some balls! I know he has a tough job but damn…<br />
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Overall I’d have to say this is my favorite book of the series! They just keep getting better and better. I can’t wait for the next installment, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13206900-winter" target="_blank">Winter</a>, coming later this year. There’s also an ‘in between’ book/novella called <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22489107-fairest" target="_blank">Fairest (Lunar Chronicles #3.5)</a> that is coming out this month and guess who it’s about…. Queen Levana! Woot woot!<br />
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<strong>Some more of my favorite quotes:</strong> <br />
• “Captain?" <br />
"Yeah?" <br />
"Do you think it was destiny that brought us together?" <br />
He squinted and, after a thoughtful moment, shook his head. "No. I'm pretty sure it was Cinder.”<br />
• “I promise, I will not let you die without being kissed.”<br />
• “Maybe there isn’t such a thing as fate. Maybe it’s just the opportunities we’re given, and what we do with them. I’m beginning to think that maybe great, epic romances don’t just happen. We have to make them ourselves.”<br />
• “But you are crazy.” <br />
“I know.” She lifted a small box from the basket. “Do you know how I know?” <br />
Scarlet didn't answer. <br />
“Because the palace walls have been bleeding for years, and no one else sees it.” She shrugged, as if this were a perfectly normal thing to say. “No one believes me, but in some corridors, the blood has gotten so thick there's nowhere safe to step. When I have to pass through those places, I leave a trail of bloody footprints for the rest of the day, and then I worry that the queen's soldiers will follow the scent and eat me up while I'm sleeping. Some nights I don't sleep very well.” Her voice dropped to a haunted whisper, her eyes taking on a brittle luminescence. “But if the blood was real, the servants would clean it up. Don't you think?”<br />
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<strong>Beginning:</strong> <br />
(Because I couldn’t wait for this book! And then I started it and so much happened! And then so many feels!) <br />
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There’s a particular scene in the book that gets me giddy and yelling ‘Ohhhh damn!’ for the next book. The last quote above is part of that scene ;) <br />
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<strong>Losing It: A Collection of VCards</strong></div>
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22 Bestselling YA authors reveal what went on behind the curtain in your favorite YA novels! From paranormal to contemporary, this collection features over <b>200 pages of ALL NEW CONTENT</b> full of deleted scenes, extended endings, and more from the young adult series’ you love. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In this YA/NA crossover collection all of your favorite heroines are cashing in their VCards! <b>YA just got steamy, sexy, and not afraid to go all the way!</b><o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Due to the graphic nature of some content, this collection is recommended strictly for mature readers.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Stories include excerpts and extended material--ALL NEW CONTENT featuring the following YA novels & authors:<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Grimoire Saga by SM Boyce<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Death Series by Tamara Rose Blodgett<o:p></o:p></div>
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Penny Black Trilogy by Stacey Wallace Benefiel<o:p></o:p></div>
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Dirty Blood series by Heather Hildenbrand<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Mythology Series by Helen Boswell<o:p></o:p></div>
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Stories About Melissa Series by Bethany Lopez<o:p></o:p></div>
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Keegan’s Chronicles by Julia Crane<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Tate Chronicles by K.A. Last<o:p></o:p></div>
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Fragile Creatures by Kristina Circelli<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Spellbound Trilogy by Nikki Jefford<o:p></o:p></div>
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Judgement of the Six Series by Melissa Haag<o:p></o:p></div>
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A Dark Faerie Tale Series by Alexia Purdy<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Double Threat Series by Julie Prestsater<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Elsker Saga by S.T. Bende<o:p></o:p></div>
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Ovialell Series by Tish Thawer<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Runes Series by Ednah Walters<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Cornerstone Series by Misty Provencher<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Waiting Series by Ginger Scott<o:p></o:p></div>
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Forged Series by A.O. Peart<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Arotas Series by Amy Miles<o:p></o:p></div>
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Funeral Crashing Mysteries by Milda Harris<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Wolf Trilogy by M.R. Polish</div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir6HBSylUZ9lgDjL69aBjh5wr8Z2LH3dk02LkaLXQQ4l06R_a2EczHJeXzHVCPYfijP0TXxHAzgmWxRxjtNSEt53pknzYUvOelekosjfLG5JrLoIy2nKsb3ivgCWRR1d3hdC8kLNC8mxw/s1600-h/image%25255B4%25255D.png"><img alt="image" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdMrBoj1-w6EJiee_aje481v10HvmXJmm2NdFQoJxbWYZtv6xk2d5lhQD5KND3pTNrPx0005zDXo6jpnuN9pub6x3CFXb4lOEzUp17FGQOWg4wxlX_pSrswcFZv0G4EC8cd4S20oVsigk/?imgmax=800" height="155" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="455" /></a>Vanessa Book ♥ Soulmateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02406130215944981579noreply@blogger.com59tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585398032472579429.post-32482953056109500332015-01-13T08:00:00.000-05:002015-01-13T08:00:02.348-05:00Book Blitz Book Tour: The Game by Shawnte Borris<div> </div> <div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both"><a style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_6A6PVbe5HmfhwvNKKmjmKqZfzqaNqivLThFqZxPJJAnwEYyjnFqQLBMzlg_jtt3aBRlBLDnTz-PwB3RVoqVdvHpXltXQ4XhsSd8hsE6IMlxGNFzVJ3wLJReyFBvd2TuDdN_gYMPSKhM/s1600/banner+made+by+Shawnte.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_6A6PVbe5HmfhwvNKKmjmKqZfzqaNqivLThFqZxPJJAnwEYyjnFqQLBMzlg_jtt3aBRlBLDnTz-PwB3RVoqVdvHpXltXQ4XhsSd8hsE6IMlxGNFzVJ3wLJReyFBvd2TuDdN_gYMPSKhM/s1600/banner+made+by+Shawnte.jpg" width="473" height="201" /></a></div> <div> </div> <div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both"><a style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7BVdl7Ap7d9tUR29aTGFdvmSyJh37k6j3L2ZBq4cVc7z0cbhs8rgpjCzr5W6fKH_B3AcnsRWAbkPKm8KEXzTpTnrgeK58UOLzVRRHuC0E-gjVpJWt1PMOmM7W-h01gmk3S0HrFicEjrU/s1600/The+Game+-+Front+Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7BVdl7Ap7d9tUR29aTGFdvmSyJh37k6j3L2ZBq4cVc7z0cbhs8rgpjCzr5W6fKH_B3AcnsRWAbkPKm8KEXzTpTnrgeK58UOLzVRRHuC0E-gjVpJWt1PMOmM7W-h01gmk3S0HrFicEjrU/s1600/The+Game+-+Front+Cover.jpg" width="410" height="640" /></a></div> <blockquote> <div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both"> <br /><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"> <br /></span><font size="2"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"><b>SYNOPSIS:</b></span> <br /></font><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"> <br /></span><font size="2"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif">Kirsten Backhard is a highly respected senior negotiating executive based in Toronto. She plays with some of the most powerful men in her field. Kirsten is confident, sexy, and hell on heels. She fights with a straight face, doesn’t back down easily, and believes in using her ASSets to get the deal done her way. Kirsten loves toying with the game in a man’s world.</span> <br /></font><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"> <br /></span><font size="2"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif">But is every angle of her life this easy to play? One night can easily change everything. What she thinks is all love and fairy tales quickly becomes highly overrated. Will Kirsten be able to overcome? Or will she remain the cool poker player?</span> <br /></font><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"> <br /></span><font size="2"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif">Contains crude language, sexual intercourse, and really bad jokes.</span> <br /></font></div> </blockquote> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both"><a style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm19oPwKETD2G7wcZ9hqQlLRTs683Y6mBzn_KTddqP5PHIUqA9_8qgAsY36tZpSyHVH5gxJiGklBdciQ8S9IQQww80pFxLcCr7AQo9MQXaHnhyphenhypheny8gXquj0po_9sGOycdD9EVG8jtnmkXI/s1600/thegame3.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm19oPwKETD2G7wcZ9hqQlLRTs683Y6mBzn_KTddqP5PHIUqA9_8qgAsY36tZpSyHVH5gxJiGklBdciQ8S9IQQww80pFxLcCr7AQo9MQXaHnhyphenhypheny8gXquj0po_9sGOycdD9EVG8jtnmkXI/s1600/thegame3.jpg" width="475" height="640" /></a></div> <div> </div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><span style="font-size: large"><i> <br /></i></span></span></b></div> <blockquote> <div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center" align="center"><b><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif">Introductions</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="text-align: center" align="center"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%">Hey, what’s up? Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Kirsten Backhard. Before you ask, yes, during high school, the boys use to call me “back-her-up-hard.” I think that was why I was popular. It had nothing to do with the fact that I had beautiful breasts or what the football team might have accidentally seen while I was in cheerleading practice.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"> </div> </span> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%">I am from a small community, but let’s face it, I’m way more of a city girl. I was the girl that introduced tampons back in junior high in the girls’ change room. Remember that room? It smelled like socks and had six nonprivate shower stalls with mirrors all over. When you think about it, those rooms were kinda like your first introduction to really bad porn. Anyways, there was always a girl after gym classed who yelled, “Fuck, who has a pad?”<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%">Before we get into the really good stuff, I should probably talk about where I came from. No, this will not be an education class on the birds and the bees or sex 101 for those that have a dirty mind. Shame on you. </span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: wingdings; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: wingdings">J</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: wingdings; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-symbol-font-family: wingdings"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"> </div> </span> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%">I came from a middle class family where my father worked in construction and my mother was a bank teller. I have two siblings: my older sister, Marie, who has like four kids or something, and my brother, Derek, who happens to be my older twin and who is hot. Yes, I don’t mind telling you that. You know what comes from a hot brother? That’s right— super hot friends that I might have taught how to french kiss. What? Don’t judge me.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"> </div> </span> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%">We lived in a good community with a crap-load of kids. You could tell that most people that lived on our street were Catholic, and they didn’t get the memo on why or how they ended up with so many kids. As for myself, as soon as that first period came, there was no way in hell I was going to have that, so off to the medi centre it was!<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%">In my last year of junior high, we had new neighbors move in. There was a cute girl named Liz. She had blonde hair and brown eyes. I know, it’s a weird combination. Anyways, she was a runner like me, which meant she also had a killer body. Liz and I instantly became best friends. She is totally my better half, and if I ever decided to go muff-diving, I’m totally calling that bitch up. Liz has a brother named Steve, who ended up being gay no matter how hard I tried to convert him.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"> </div> </span> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%">Today I am…<i>swallowing hard here</i>…thirty-three years old. Yes, I am thirty-three, but my ass and tits show that I’m much younger. Thank God! I hold a senior  executive position at a downtown financial firm. I travel all over the U.S., placing bids on stupid-ass shit for men that are trying to compensate for their small penis. But who am I kidding? I love my job. I love to travel and experience new things. I have no one waiting for me back home, especially not a cat, and I’ll definitely know if I’ll receive a Happy Mother’s Day card in the mail any time soon. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"> </div> </span> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%">My mother recently told me that I should start thinking about settling down and start acting my age. Like seriously? What the fuck? If I had a penis, I guarantee you that this conversation would never happen in a million years. She lives her life by double standards. I, however, do not. I like living my life by my penis, figuratively speaking of course. It has never poked me the wrong direction before, so why start doubting it now? Is it really my fault that it’s always on the prowl?<o:p></o:p></span></div> <span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"> </div> </span> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%">Don’t get me wrong. We have had our fair share of amazing, head-shaking experiences. I think it’s only fair to share some of these adventures with you, so you know how much my mother is off her rocker. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"> </div> </span> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center" align="center"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; line-height: 115%">P.S. I love you, Mom. <3<o:p></o:p></span></div> </blockquote> <div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"> <div style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"><b>PURCHASING LINKS:</b></span></div> <div style="text-align: center"><i><span style="font-size: large; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"><b> <br /></b></span></i></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"><b><a href="http://amzn.to/14DMDg0"><font size="3">Amazon US</font></a><font size="3"> | <span style="text-decoration: none; color: windowtext"><a href="http://www.amazon.ca/The-Game-Kirsten-Backhard-Shawnte-Borris-ebook/dp/B00FHN5988/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top">Amazon Canada</a> | </span><span style="text-decoration: none; color: windowtext"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Game-Kirsten-Backhard-Shawnte-Borris-ebook/dp/B00FHN5988/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top">Amazon UK</a> | </span></font><a href="http://www.amazon.com.au/Game-Kirsten-Backhard-Shawnte-Borris-ebook/dp/B00FHN5988/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1420839499&sr=8-4&keywords=Shawnte+Borris"><font size="3">Amazon AU</font></a><font size="3"> | <span style="text-decoration: none; color: windowtext"><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-game-kirsten-backhard-shawnte-borris/1117075783?ean=2940045310895">B&N</a> | </span></font></b></span><span style="font-size: large; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"><b><span style="text-decoration: none; color: windowtext"><a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/361652"><font size="3">Smashwords</font></a><font size="3"> | </font></span></b></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fitunes.apple.com%2Fca%2Fbook%2Fthe-game-kirsten-backhard%2Fid721710137%3Fmt%3D11&h=1AQGZ79nZ"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"><b><font size="3">Itunes</font></b></span></a></div> <div> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"> </div> </div> <div> </div> <div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both"><a style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUJnrJdhxk_7Pnv9k6LhTpLsugNaGfUBlGnTAwtLaixFgdE6guj-DlccmpwRzIoAf_cql-yz_rnd0t9iLzgWD7a0UD0XRfOi3dFJ46JH5wz4Qs8e1igXJOoBuQYMrVeMu3nmNtNh_-yS0/s1600/TheGameteaser.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUJnrJdhxk_7Pnv9k6LhTpLsugNaGfUBlGnTAwtLaixFgdE6guj-DlccmpwRzIoAf_cql-yz_rnd0t9iLzgWD7a0UD0XRfOi3dFJ46JH5wz4Qs8e1igXJOoBuQYMrVeMu3nmNtNh_-yS0/s1600/TheGameteaser.jpg" width="436" height="640" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both"> </div> <div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both"> </div> <blockquote> <p align="center"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: large; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"><b>EXCERPT:</b></span> <br /></font> <br /></p> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"><font size="2">“First of all, Mother, it is called a sperm bank, not a sperm bar.” <i>I cannot believe I am having this conversation right now.</i> “And where did you get this information from?” <o:p></o:p></font></span></span></div> <span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font size="2"> <br /></font></div> </span></span> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"><font size="2">Max looked over at me, smirking.<o:p></o:p></font></span></span></div> <span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font size="2"> <br /></font></div> </span></span> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"><font size="2">“Why does it matter where I heard it from? What will people think?” cried my mother.<o:p></o:p></font></span></span></div> <span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font size="2"> <br /></font></div> </span></span> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"><font size="2">“F**k! Mom, no one is gonna care where or how I get a baby.” <i>I want to crawl into a hole and die. </i>“Mom, you wouldn’t by any chance be talking to Marie, would you? Is that where all this came from? Did she tell you I’m planning to go to a sperm bank? Or did she tell you I should think about going to a sperm bank?”<o:p></o:p></font></span></span></div> <span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center"><font size="2"> <br /></font></div> </span></span> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"><font size="2">“That’s not the point, Kirsten. The point is that it’s time for you to settle down and think about having a family. You need to be more like Marie,” my mom lectured. <o:p></o:p></font></span></span></div> <span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center"></div> </span><font size="2"></font></span> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"><font size="2">“Like Marie? My sister, Marie? The one who wears yoga pants and ponytails everywhere.”<o:p></o:p></font></span></span></div> </blockquote> <div> </div> <div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both"> </div> <div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both"><a style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwdltJbUmXK8a4xzoGqZeyNz2zztA_wtqG409SBL4_cBb1i1milLFlTvDV4yJwJuaK4a-gIVtp0t8MQxQ59u1gvSSnHkR3manSg3Tyqcm7B_0HTN3rTrDe8lRqPeGtrfG5b81qewhpPG8/s1600/thegame5.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwdltJbUmXK8a4xzoGqZeyNz2zztA_wtqG409SBL4_cBb1i1milLFlTvDV4yJwJuaK4a-gIVtp0t8MQxQ59u1gvSSnHkR3manSg3Tyqcm7B_0HTN3rTrDe8lRqPeGtrfG5b81qewhpPG8/s1600/thegame5.jpg" width="454" height="640" /></a> <b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif"> </span></b> <br /><b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif"> <br /></span></b> <br /><b><span style="font-size: large; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"><i> <br /></i></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: large; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"><i> <br /></i></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a style="margin-bottom: 1em; float: right; margin-left: 1em; clear: right" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHNdN1EOYwoqoZKwnVZj4WS59hwh2Hk9i2ib8UBh6D0SAK9li8MVLpYc0hkJ9rNJDUDhY1fGaDpgB4UMk9VvwKodAOyG4JhLLY2S1Rodop19FrsFuiIUQGVTD_l3QO0unqzzo29xMxaEw/s1600/Shawnte+Pic.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHNdN1EOYwoqoZKwnVZj4WS59hwh2Hk9i2ib8UBh6D0SAK9li8MVLpYc0hkJ9rNJDUDhY1fGaDpgB4UMk9VvwKodAOyG4JhLLY2S1Rodop19FrsFuiIUQGVTD_l3QO0unqzzo29xMxaEw/s1600/Shawnte+Pic.jpg" width="200" height="200" /></a><b><span style="font-size: large; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"><i>Author Bio:</i></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"><i> <br /></i></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; background: white; color: #141823; line-height: 107%">Shawnté lives in central Alberta, with her husband Ricky of 10 amazing years and together they have tw<span class="textexposedshow">o beautiful children. Somehow her husband has managed to trick her into running a cow/calf operation. As much as she fusses about it, she loves it.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; background: white; color: #141823; line-height: 107%"> <br /><span class="textexposedshow">When Shawnté is not sitting at her kitchen table hammering away on her laptop while watching the moose chase her cows across the yard, yes this really happens. Then she is busy attend school activities, community events and chauffeuring children here and there. She is big on playing softball and watching hockey.</span> <br /><span class="textexposedshow"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; background: white; color: #141823; line-height: 107%">When the time comes to relax, you will find her snuggled underneath her down comforter reading on her Ipad. Wait…who are we kidding, if the dishes, vacuuming, laundry or the bathrooms needs a hose down, you’ll always hear her say, “Just after this chapter.” She doesn’t have a favorite author or best story because everyday she falls in love with someone new.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; background: white; color: #141823; line-height: 107%"> </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; background: white; color: #141823; line-height: 107%"> <br /><span class="textexposedshow"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; background: white; color: #141823; line-height: 107%">Shawnté is technology challenged so with the help of Lacy you can find her anywhere. Please go like her page and leave a review/star rating on the books she’s wrote.</span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; background: white; color: #141823; line-height: 107%"> </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; background: white; color: #141823; line-height: 107%"> <br /></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; background: white; color: #141823; line-height: 107%"> <br /></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="textexposedshow"><b><span style="background: white; color: #141823; line-height: 107%"><span style="font-size: large"><span>Ways to stay connected with Shawnte Borris:<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></b></span></div> <span class="textexposedshow"><b><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; background: white; color: #141823; line-height: 107%"> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center"> <br /></div> </span></b></span> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; background: white; color: #141823; line-height: 107%"><a href="http://www.facebook.com/shawnteborrisauthor" target="_blank">Facebook</a> | </span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; background: white; color: #141823; line-height: 107%"><span class="textexposedshow"><a href="www.authorshawnteborris.com" target="_blank">Website</a></span> | <span class="textexposedshow"><a href="mailto:author.shawnteborris@gmail.com" target="_blank">Email</a></span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; background: white; color: #141823; line-height: 107%"> | <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6870599.Shawnte_Borris?from_search=true" target="_blank">Goodreads</a> | </span></span><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif; background: white; color: #141823; line-height: 107%"><a href="https://twitter.com/shawnte_author" target="_blank">Twitter</a></span></span> <br /> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center"><b><i><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif">BOOK BLITZ HOSTED BY:</span></i></b></div> <div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both"><a style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA4pTLj7KGZw-_Z_yUOhkJQLaecKJkRSi9ILTPY7SFt-4G561gXMZ_Ov10PD4tup4bmA1upwN8Lcff0m_AnWqP0G9iuRim7Bakp6Tyv9VbcCsoj_E79fDoXL4VwUkftI1l1FzHjMOxQt0/s1600/BLOG+COVER+PHOTO.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA4pTLj7KGZw-_Z_yUOhkJQLaecKJkRSi9ILTPY7SFt-4G561gXMZ_Ov10PD4tup4bmA1upwN8Lcff0m_AnWqP0G9iuRim7Bakp6Tyv9VbcCsoj_E79fDoXL4VwUkftI1l1FzHjMOxQt0/s1600/BLOG+COVER+PHOTO.jpg" width="320" height="118" /></a></div> <div style="text-align: center"> </div> <div style="text-align: center"><a id="rcwidget_kvz63a9p" class="rcptr" href="http://www.rafflecopter.com/rafl/display/3bb62e03233/" rel="nofollow" data-theme="classic" data-template="data-template" data-raflid="3bb62e03233">a Rafflecopter giveaway</a> <script src="//widget-prime.rafflecopter.com/launch.js"></script></div> Vanessa Book ♥ Soulmateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02406130215944981579noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585398032472579429.post-29577947870378544792015-01-10T17:29:00.000-05:002015-01-10T17:43:28.837-05:00#WhatsInMyBookBag Instagram Hop: 1.10.15<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPljFmyBq1rrlTUtxaJE9_IzCPR-sS7nwgvQsP43ocyqMgmDrigQ0Nh9JFx8_pnh9u7XMWhMX6xuhrB86BJ9v6VIPm_YMtCherzbjmGesjcjEbYIOfZWXUbtRINm-_syRe5AKmIppx45I/s1600-h/Instagram%252520Hop%25255B4%25255D.png"><img title="Instagram Hop" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="Instagram Hop" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5zkmlYXrP7rd5MOi_J0Eitjqv8BWnCj8ATNeRHUaFMUmagj8pGXZZo0xK9opkot4tNTKF7Cv1H4mr9WVGI1virT8eyKHQHKMZdtwYf8hlr6QNoViralVT9iLnGK2GJ4iv_CzzPkOsNLg/?imgmax=800" width="403" height="131" /></a></p> <p> </p> <p align="center">Hi guys!!I It’s Saturday again (yay!) so that means it’s time for another round of #WhatsInMyBookBag link ups! We are super happy with everyone’s pics last week and we absolutely loved seeing all the books and notebooks you guys carry around. We’re definitely looking forward to seeing what you guys will be posting this week. :)</p> <p align="center">Check out a few highlights below :)</p> <p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiInTtwMC2CvWDdiOESVeAFczJBycyvnPRtKvrMHN1RbpICoWK7p50zaarh7M1DJDFHDDm0in6d_BuL5WKA2K6YJ-J0EA-5h4MNAQuA5dKlkhmJp40oM67YVNr0aQNYHnc95afKyRcpt7E/s1600-h/010201517825%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="010201517825" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="010201517825" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPN1I1a4DshNdkvAcRz1Vo5KV0veWa1cvOqrlB-axobZqGXfktJxUSOttXnmmCqEzLrchyphenhyphenHsC5ebfXBTgu8f5mO-yp8STW8I0xhqnr-4UshjEDdmsMIpwPT0UfHBXIoYlvAsU9bZ3Jij0/?imgmax=800" width="397" height="404" /></a></p> <p align="center">1. <a href="http://instagram.com/p/xZ15cNGFvq/" target="_blank">NovelsandNailPolish</a> (top left) <br />2. <a href="http://instagram.com/p/xe7_ksk5vH" target="_blank">Kyliekaemke</a> (Top right) <br />3. <a href="http://instagram.com/p/xb3xfNkVxx" target="_blank">Bookcrastinators</a> (Lower left) <br />4. <a href="http://instagram.com/p/xe9T_qCQwF/" target="_blank">AppraisingPages</a> (Lower right)</p> <p align="center"><strong>My pic this week:</strong></p> <p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAe3dqxcHHzzAh43RvDawzbShOCS201hnieu55rNp4HciGL4Fl9aO-OoMsj5vyKEMvabM4MuJieeua95yRfCJDHInXtfrqw2jd07UjPir7yBDBV1f2Qf5kQ10bOrGW839Q6FRIbxNHRe4/s1600-h/ABM_1420925982%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="ABM_1420925982" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="ABM_1420925982" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlLtReVvsFkmP6B4kyI6ryfdFG9kAJbzX06lmk4-8lEd1a7uGHF4IBJ89bLdIFy25mESLU_yKUqYNUYVdWyvHtAvqF2boP9qj_1O2pBK5rzg3g4Uxuvwo2mWE63iWM43dApQESOdM3iY4/?imgmax=800" width="346" height="352" /></a>Today I’m just carrying around my ‘I read YA’ tote along with the book I’m currently reading (and crushing on!), my Filofax, Le Pens, and my project life cards that I use to write down my favorite book quotes as well as decorations in my Filofax.</p> <p align="center">Want to participate too? Check out the easy peasy rules below!</p> <blockquote> <p align="center"><font size="2"><strong>RULES <br /></strong>• Follow us, your hosts, on Instagram: @BookSoulmates <br />•Link up your Instagram picture for #WhatsInMyBookBag <br /><strong>Tip:</strong> To find the image URL through your phone, go to your Instagram account, click on the image you want to share, then click on the three dots located on the lower right hand side, and click on ‘Copy Share URL’. <br />• Please visit other participants and like and/or comment on their pictures. Let’s show each other some IG love!</font></p> </blockquote> <p align="center">We hope you guys have a lot of fun taking pictures and making new IG friends!</p> <p align="center">Xoxo! <br />Vanessa & Isalys</p> <p align="center">Now let’s get this party started! Post your links below :)</p> <!-- start InLinkz script --> <div id="484612" class="InLinkzContainer"><a title="click to view in an external page." href="http://new.inlinkz.com/luwpview.php?id=484612" rel="nofollow">An InLinkz Link-up</a></div> <script type="text/javascript" src="//static.inlinkz.com/cs2.js?v=116"></script><!-- end InLinkz script --> Vanessa Book ♥ Soulmateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02406130215944981579noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585398032472579429.post-78536189508829219982015-01-10T16:00:00.000-05:002015-01-10T17:59:36.381-05:00#FridayReads and Weekly Goals 1.9.15<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM1cqjbDITCI1r3eB7baR8hHteljgimh1XYUe_l1Wudl2kRl3od1wgSA5IjXxI8V25ZdPkwryuOHxMvyoeC-EhLZcIhz0mHuHQfdUbWeXbiWhzjXYXo9EzNMrov4w-XhljXTE3erGgJ8c/s1600-h/FridayReads_WeeklyGoals%25255B5%25255D.png"><img title="FridayReads_WeeklyGoals" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="FridayReads_WeeklyGoals" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSz83_Yor5jKB79-eDo5V5qfz_cQSzWBvjFZ3FXsrALPgWYaa8ZGSdCphrV-j7uaerBwbJ-JJ7Qb_pYbLCDRxhFFE1Gjhx7RhYSy6tBESZu3bqSWQlWqu2pP5FuSidb79tr9N21ywvycI/?imgmax=800" width="432" height="191" /></a> <br /> <div align="center">Yup! Totally posting this on Saturday lol. <br />Hi guys! This is a new feature that we started last week where we share what books we’ll be reading each week starting Friday (I mean really… who doesn’t binge read on the weekends right?!)</div> <div align="center"> </div> <blockquote> <div align="center"><span style="font-size: small">What I was really able to read last week:</span></div> </blockquote> <div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT2RDr08gd7BKM2DwuaibjUdXe59mmVIE_17VSCJDqlq4ShNNBo9tmkpTt1ct5TArKm97bkoEi2EwsVznYMymPQYupQji8EK-W26Snp2oXCjiyOCDRY7PM0bQj4s-WPTu3ozD8G_nGFmI/s1600-h/throne%252520of%252520glass%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="throne of glass" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: 0px" border="0" alt="throne of glass" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ0jlzhObIOPIt9ShXypAi_IUg99NYTtHCHWlJwfdYVf3Uwfu4EkdRrnmS-cLurXANZoDe5oXZvbHvht-2tvLKeOruj1ndaiCd7YBDKDZWS-mM2nl1hLkFlJ-4rBYyPN73ZgnBFoQsW2c/?imgmax=800" width="160" height="240" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqJT7Y2qHkeg9L85-1-uqVf5b-7wuHHehR4qtJmXOnBOy-A_jG2Fazn0ujZ4U7_z7dCmteETXepGjYtqMgl4b-B92NwamiGuIxyA13i_2Ia1UTpOKArQhB40_HQV6uQKAIkAf7kkGgBVA/s1600-h/Crown%252520of%252520midnight%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="Crown of midnight" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Crown of midnight" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDl9g8rFmNTCuLowyDNxpw6KK5KuQsxlZX-wi7xwrw_LqTzJH9SM5l915twSWp04N6M2d86dxk8_oiOf4yix2od1CcAgeBPRVpQx9md-GVIovrVCwUsm5CTLJBXJcJEwBhF2sbenEz5SA/?imgmax=800" width="159" height="240" /></a></div> <div align="left"> </div> <blockquote> <div align="center"><span style="font-size: small">What I hope to read this coming week:</span></div> </blockquote> <p align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigBuKyBn3SR8ZdHla3mDeOXH40jIgTUU2xQwOFQJPluF0kHjRr3wJMCCOOz93XWyPvLgIgE1th6VBbCTpgOhKf9yOxZpI6QhuI4YxvLMlgGVBWJiIrjz4mrUHozca-eE0ThDhNg0gxbos/s1600-h/Heir%252520of%252520fire%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img title="Heir of fire" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="Heir of fire" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEip63E_VureUXr_e1QbuKgxFnIkjvFsXvuzrEEV-tgLtCdiJoeEgmbC0ruV5wonMiP3rT31bBeHP83J7uo2tRF-gOAteRXZ_k1S10dQciiWfuuU9_S3IB-REIz6RvX-9fVqPRqsR3ixuNs/?imgmax=800" width="158" height="240" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTRLy6_mmEjG0m8flOsEtwWo-ZFpcEBO_Tb-KqghVp1WaeAt0WKjL6eq2KXSrz0baUdSHlxc0qSkpbJeQjNXI6Vy2tXVHBy0f5zbPy-RtgquDyXssnqOvzVxiqzPR7kcPasYcIQBAhzI4/s1600-h/These%252520broken%252520stars%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="These broken stars" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0px 15px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="These broken stars" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzwg5kcfkGfJoLFpToJe4e_ADgOd_8B1ExRBMEcNcpyCXmUzKp4ueeZEHLBI5xJPjT0O0gqMCF58QBmtTsVif8KXXKWKpnu9209VccjgLu61cHx_hTAbphZjbHvYnAGwb8KH_e1Gld04o/?imgmax=800" width="158" height="240" /></a></p> <p align="center">How about you guys? What are you planning on reading this weekend and coming week?</p> <p align="center">Xo! <br /></p> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOlhHHy1bIvoyUl3xC0nOkmaL7oWGIwE_m8eztuOQlbHyR0IhFrIpt9UV2IxNQ-E11tlKMyBxYuu0RB2B7AzGMr3NYtraBWg-cypkoEe92KRPevEpqn0sqxnBcBJdWc4r7HZvfWPTMfrU/s1600-h/Vanessa%252520Signature%25255B3%25255D.png"><img title="Vanessa Signature" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="Vanessa Signature" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibJ95jlJAiKdpjYthxi97I7J2KYCU8Gnh9MNRIpq8-j3VUu8f0N_ehJfh3hvMiF2Q1F9dUw5LUDtvOdO0G8qkdlh7pGJ5_N78zQb8FRvZInxsV1_calxwo0C8-Fb08hTfWeJtprrOxMig/?imgmax=800" width="240" height="93" /></a> Vanessa Book ♥ Soulmateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02406130215944981579noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585398032472579429.post-83435872500605342442015-01-08T10:00:00.000-05:002015-01-08T10:00:00.410-05:00Book Blits Book Tour: With Love by Shawnte Borris<div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoLYoJMtSMPxRh46GZM-rOLerXYkag__Q41EdoZ0uqcAb68p_jwI8HeYPnhhcW12jJso8oeCVH9sEmlhV7xJPZ-hXvRtZ4wVhQgMkVz81dy3BvAZHBvo15ZI_C0fIVDiMO_1Y9puScGuE/s1600-h/bookblitz1%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img title="bookblitz1" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="bookblitz1" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkt4_joH6SfQE7-gmynNw-qKFkdKWDtvv_yWcWCkrH118TAJk7aUfob6gkJnMuZPJucVsgceqKlFy1lpB15KMiWyukMLTmYpi7jZ7z2Yk1Zdz6xoxA0gKDZjBv6pAYDqkdPCp5kpeu7ho/?imgmax=800" width="506" height="196" /></a></div> <div> </div> <div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both"><a style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7iYcZD3jgaoVNlUWenSIfTx2dclUgM8qsX5Yf-xemCWXQvFdtbP6W3JDHGG8mU7A_hpWDyPVcDuP1vkBVCnB8Y0Ou0jqLYo8q8mH5G350S4wx-warj_fcCwZOk24kYsHVVJZHe3iv84k/s1600/With+Love+-+Front+Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img style="float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7iYcZD3jgaoVNlUWenSIfTx2dclUgM8qsX5Yf-xemCWXQvFdtbP6W3JDHGG8mU7A_hpWDyPVcDuP1vkBVCnB8Y0Ou0jqLYo8q8mH5G350S4wx-warj_fcCwZOk24kYsHVVJZHe3iv84k/s1600/With+Love+-+Front+Cover.jpg" width="424" height="640" /></a></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"> <br /></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"> <br /></span></b></div> <blockquote> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"><span style="font-size: large">SYNOPSIS:</span></span></b></div> <span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center"> </div> </span> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif">Her life was all set…she had everything she had ever dreamed of. Promises of forever…. But promises can be broken. Alyson Almon, or Ally as she is called, finds this out in a tragic way. The emotional scars on her heart are ones only she can feel. With a change of location and a makeover she tries to start her life anew. She is drawn to a beautiful wedding and snaps some photos, capturing the love between the bride and her father. Luke McDerment, brother of the bride, is a man who is dealing with his own loss. Their paths cross when he spies her gorgeous photos and the instant attraction is something neither of them can deny. <o:p></o:p></span></div> <span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center"> </div> </span> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif">Luke, with the help of his family who also find themselves drawn to this haunted young woman, involve her in a project that throws her right in the middle of this loving, warm family. They have a Gala coming up and Ally is the perfect photographer to capture the moments. Ally is embraced by the family and finds that she needs the love and warmth this family gives so effortlessly. She also finds the attraction to Luke is something she can’t deny. </span></div> <span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center"> </div> </span> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif">Can they fight the electricity between them and just walk away or will they let fate hand them the happy ending they both desperately need.<o:p></o:p></span></div> </blockquote> <span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"> <div class="MsoNormal"> </div> </span> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17186879-with-love" target="_blank"><img title="AddToGR_button" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px" border="0" alt="AddToGR_button" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeU47YaaU1a5WVgxe4E-KqkT78TGyhz1kfT6IR8WPM18xOcn4Z3zwV9f6nPQWkQeoo9SRLEP9uKHbuNtDdfW413jdJgBbKHAzsE-3G-uvAexZpP80EtnwSJHh6F2t6mkZ-bSEof7lP3qY/?imgmax=800" width="130" height="41" /></a></div> <div class="Standard"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"> <br /></span></o:p></div> <div class="Standard" style="text-align: center"><b><span style="font-size: large; font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif">Where to purchase:</span></b></div> <div class="Standard" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: large"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Love-Shawnt%C3%A9-Borris-ebook/dp/B00AX9YEYG/ref=la_B00FM7NVAM_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1420242329&sr=1-2">AMAZON US</a> | </span><a style="font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif" href="http://www.amazon.ca/Love-Shawnt%C3%A9-Borris-ebook/dp/B00AX9YEYG/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1420242401&sr=1-5&keywords=Shawnte+Borris">AMAZON CA</a> | <a style="font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif" href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Shawnt%C3%A9-Borris-ebook/dp/B00AX9YEYG/ref=sr_1_4?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1420242489&sr=1-4&keywords=shawnte+borris">AMAZON UK</a> | <span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"><a href="http://www.amazon.com.au/Love-Shawnt%C3%A9-Borris-ebook/dp/B00AX9YEYG/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1420243408&sr=8-6&keywords=Shawnte+Borris">AMAZON UA</a> | </span><a style="font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif" href="https://www.smashwords.com/profile/view/ShawnteBorris">SMASHWORDS</a> | <a style="font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif" href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/with-love-shawnte-borris/1114202764?ean=9781481996105">B&N</a></span></div> <div class="Standard" style="text-align: center"> <div> </div> <div style="text-align: left"> </div> <blockquote> <div style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: large"><b>EXCERPT:</b></span></div> <div class="Standard" style="text-align: center"> </div> <div class="Standard" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 13pt">The next morning sunlight peeked through the opened window. I slightly tossed back my hair away from my face, staring toward the early sunrise. I lay there for a while, closing my eyes and listening to the sound of the ocean waves crashing into the shore.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="Standard" style="text-align: center"> </div> <div class="Standard" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 13pt">I decided to start the day with a hot shower. While waiting for the water to heat up, I turned on the radio, hoping that it would fill the sound of the empty room in the background, I could hear Brad Paisley singing “Wrapped Around”<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="Standard" style="text-align: center"> </div> <div class="Standard" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 13pt">It felt so good to have hot water flowing over my body. I stood in the shower in a daze. In no time at all, I remembered the first time Sam ever saw me naked.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="Standard" style="text-align: center"> </div> <div class="Standard" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 13pt">We had been dating for two years, and it was cool, crisp night. We sat in the back oh his truck, watching the northern lights and listening to the radio. That was the first time in my life I felt safe.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="Standard" style="text-align: center"> </div> <div class="Standard" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 13pt">I had never had anybody look at me like the way Sam did, his warm fingers softly touched the side of my face, staring into my eyes as if trying to gather my every thought.  His lips were silky soft with a slight smell of peppermint gum. His kisses were always light.  His fingers ran down my neck, slightly pulling my hair toward the center of my back.  With his trembling hands, he undid the clasp of my bra ever so lightly. Feeling cool air on my back gave me a slight shiver. Sam looked at me with his steady eyes, “Beautiful.” he whispered.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="Standard" style="text-align: center"> </div> <div class="Standard" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 13pt">It was so powerful having our naked bodies touch with his fingers trailing over my naked breast.  I gasped to catch my breath, realizing that I was back in the shower. I grabbed the shower curtain for dear life. I NEEDED OUT!!!<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="Standard" style="text-align: center"> </div> <div style="text-align: center"></div> <div class="Standard" style="text-align: center"><span style="font-size: 13pt">Ally<o:p></o:p></span></div> </blockquote> <span style="font-size: 13pt"> <div class="Standard" style="text-align: left"> </div> </span></div> <div class="Standard"> </div> <div class="separator" style="text-align: center; clear: both"><a style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxxnCaUg7PaOLNjsgCYE4XNs9et5fJPEjd4d8w7wfMD9fcLSNkQkpYr7P1UmAaSIC1kG-f8D8TkMLBd2IK6IewAmN1f90uj4WHqT32J22lQCVxy8k2IGHtshVV_ga2H1nQ-OtoJqHIjk4/s1600/teaser+3.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img style="float: none; margin-left: auto; display: block; margin-right: auto" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxxnCaUg7PaOLNjsgCYE4XNs9et5fJPEjd4d8w7wfMD9fcLSNkQkpYr7P1UmAaSIC1kG-f8D8TkMLBd2IK6IewAmN1f90uj4WHqT32J22lQCVxy8k2IGHtshVV_ga2H1nQ-OtoJqHIjk4/s1600/teaser+3.jpg" width="503" height="503" /></a></div> <div class="Standard"><o:p><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"> <br /></span></o:p></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"> <br /></span></b></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><a style="margin-bottom: 1em; float: right; margin-left: 1em; clear: right" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVTanxZ-nDTNzsjcWfEquAzoF6S5QG6BQHp8o19aYZfkGuy_6KJwH865wflJSapw5Q5LmtJZ1p7zP-_xS3OqyJu_M0oaJJ9u7ijbwCcMOMQ0_YxpSg1JvUVDIbRuEDwX4PSHWYlAwYU9o/s1600/Shawnte+Pic.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVTanxZ-nDTNzsjcWfEquAzoF6S5QG6BQHp8o19aYZfkGuy_6KJwH865wflJSapw5Q5LmtJZ1p7zP-_xS3OqyJu_M0oaJJ9u7ijbwCcMOMQ0_YxpSg1JvUVDIbRuEDwX4PSHWYlAwYU9o/s1600/Shawnte+Pic.jpg" width="200" height="200" /></a><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"><span style="font-size: large"><em><strong>Author Bio:</strong></em></span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #141823; line-height: 107%"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"> <br /></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #141823; line-height: 107%"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif">Shawnté lives in central Alberta, with her husband Ricky of 10 amazing years and together they have tw<span class="textexposedshow">o beautiful children. Somehow her husband has managed to trick her into running a cow/calf operation. As much as she fusses about it, she loves it.</span><span class="apple-converted-space"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: #141823; line-height: 107%"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"> <br /><span class="textexposedshow">When Shawnté is not sitting at her kitchen table hammering away on her laptop while watching the moose chase her cows across the yard, yes this really happens. Then she is busy attend school activities, communi</span></span></span><span style="font-family: georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; color: #141823; line-height: 107%; background-color: white">ty events and chauffeuring children here and there. She is big on playing softball and watching hockey.</span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"> </div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; color: #141823; line-height: 107%">When the time comes to relax, you will find her snuggled underneath her down comforter reading on her Ipad. Wait…who are we kidding, if the dishes, vacuuming, laundry or the bathrooms needs a hose down, you’ll always hear her say, “Just after this chapter.” She doesn’t have a favorite author or best story because everyday she falls in love with someone new.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="background: white; color: #141823; line-height: 107%"> </span></span><span style="background: white; color: #141823; line-height: 107%"> <br /><span class="textexposedshow"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; color: #141823; line-height: 107%">Shawnté is technology challenged so with the help of Lacy you can find her anywhere. Please go like her page and leave a review/star rating on the books she’s wrote.</span></span><span style="background: white; color: #141823; line-height: 107%"> <br /></span></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span class="textexposedshow"><b><span style="background: white; color: #141823; line-height: 107%"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"><span style="font-size: large"> <br /></span></span></span></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span class="textexposedshow"><b><span style="background: white; color: #141823; line-height: 107%"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"><span style="font-size: large">Ways to stay connected with Shawnte Borris:</span></span></span></b></span><span class="textexposedshow"><b><span style="background: white; color: #141823; line-height: 107%"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"> <br /></span></span></b></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" align="center"><span style="font-family: georgia, times new roman, serif"><span class="textexposedshow"><span style="background: white; 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We just LOVE that color combo!</p> <blockquote> <p align="center"><b><font size="2">FIRST CHAPTER EXCERPT:<u></u><u></u></font></b></p> <p align="center"><a name="14ac13296269da75_May_Cause_Suicidal_Thoughts"><font size="2">BLACK IRIS by Leah Raeder<u></u><u></u></font></a></p> <p align="center"><font size="2"><i>April is the cruelest month,</i> T.S. Eliot said, and that’s because it kills. It’s the month with the highest suicide rate. You’d think December, or even January—the holidays and all that forced cheer and agonized smiling pushing fragile people to the edge—but actually it’s spring, when the world wakes from frostbound sleep and something cruel and final stirs inside those of us who are broken. Like Eliot said: <i>mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain</i>. In the deepest throes of depression, when sunlight is anguish and the sky throbs like one big raw migraine and you just want to sleep until you or everything else dies, you’re less likely to commit suicide than someone coming <i>out</i> of a depressive episode. Drug companies know this. That’s why antidepressants have to be marked with the warning MAY CAUSE SUICIDAL THOUGHTS.<u></u><u></u></font></p> <p align="center"><font size="2">Because what brings you back to life also gives you the means to destroy yourself.<u></u></font><u></u></p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p align="center"><b><font size="2">BOOK DESCRIPTION:<u></u><u></u></font></b></p> <p align="center"><font size="2">It only took one moment of weakness for Laney Keating’s world to fall apart. One stupid gesture for a hopeless crush. Then the rumors began. Slut, they called her. Queer. Psycho. Mentally ill, messed up, so messed up even her own mother decided she wasn't worth sticking around for. <br />If Laney could erase that whole year, she would. College is her chance to start with a clean slate. <br />She's not looking for new friends, but they find her: charming, handsome Armin, the only guy patient enough to work through her thorny defenses—and fiery, filterless Blythe, the bad girl and partner in crime who has thorns of her own. <br />But Laney knows nothing good ever lasts. When a ghost from her past resurfaces—the bully who broke her down completely—she decides it's time to live up to her own legend. And Armin and Blythe are going to help. <br />Which was the plan all along. <br />Because the rumors are true. Every single one. And Laney is going to show them just how true. <br />She's going to show them all.</font></p> </blockquote> <p align="center"><strong>Connect with the author: <br /></strong><a href="http://www.leahraeder.com/" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/leahraederbooks" target="_blank">Facebook</a> | <a href="http://instagram.com/leahzero/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/LeahRaeder" target="_blank">Twitter</a></p> <p align="center"><strong>Pre-Order: <br /></strong><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1476786429?tag=simonsayscom" target="_blank">Amazon</a> | <a href="http://click.linksynergy.com/deeplink?mid=36889&id=PwUJvmDcu1U&murl=http://search.barnesandnoble.com/bookSearch/isbnInquiry.asp%3Fr%3D1%26ISBN%3D9781476786421&u1=sscom" target="_blank">Barnes and Noble</a>| <a href="http://www.booksamillion.com/p/9781476786421" target="_blank">Books-a-Million</a>|<a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781476786421" target="_blank">Indiebound</a></p> <p align="left"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis70GUf2aVf_bk6_dxyIwdn8BrBHd7BLelmlRKCN8Q0EHnaFjrncdojBdP6UAGAiXSotuVGrXsPqDz3Gxchmu1pExvT-AOoDVwv-rm5rLB_MtUgLjU1uqSLcWRIP3xO3_7QZJ2nC4NYts/s1600-h/BookSoulmatesSignature%25255B3%25255D.png"><img title="BookSoulmatesSignature" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="BookSoulmatesSignature" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoQZbdyEyJesS7Lz0ttV0zLN4xguPyjWHyYT2fy4wcpD6NwZrqnH18ISV3ptL9LEmugK9-mcGWppWoqLdOCgkQG_lvTRre7wsFA-93ef52V9CdL3miPfOK28GNxT3PKl6ir-eZxDErZJs/?imgmax=800" width="240" height="138" /></a></p> Vanessa Book ♥ Soulmateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02406130215944981579noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585398032472579429.post-39036827606569883752015-01-07T08:00:00.000-05:002015-01-07T08:00:05.672-05:00Review: Scarlet (Lunar Chronicles #2) by Marissa Meyer<div align="left">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiFl2YPHliW4Sdi1Lcc6h-Rfx0uHjcw88mjrFbXuNzVPLQlmq9AVQT-j8onOnxYCBiVo7lMbPIurdeEKt0X5WNJPhq7_Gwe3k77uh4VKdSJDfkol8jlgtkoDH-FYgvyAT15josaZORRHM/s1600-h/Scarlet_Marissa_Meyer5.jpg"><img align="left" alt="Scarlet_Marissa_Meyer" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLo-Hkx0IEPPXWwumQrj_v_GSStOpA9_xahe-eq2p0_cI6X4nskqfUdzesNBlo32_vM9W77garmcP53s8U_Ht9zHKajWTrxVUKlCzEymUq_8JIM7VV8HQIjrFoTsDG9-X-Rs-Yz5dRFLM/?imgmax=800" height="368" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: inline; float: left; margin: 0px 15px 0px 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="Scarlet_Marissa_Meyer" width="241" /></a><strong>Title:</strong> Scarlet (Lunar Chronicles #2) <br />
<strong>Author:</strong> Marissa Meyer <br />
<strong>Publication:</strong> February 5th, 2013 by Feiwel and friends <br />
<strong>Reviewed by:</strong> Vanessa <br />
<strong>Rating:</strong> 5 Stars <br />
<strong>Reason for reviewing:</strong> Pleasure</div>
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Cinder, the cyborg mechanic, returns in the second thrilling installment of the bestselling Lunar Chronicles. She's trying to break out of prison--even though if she succeeds, she'll be the Commonwealth's most wanted fugitive. Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit's grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn't know about her grandmother or the grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother's whereabouts, she is loath to trust this stranger, but is inexplicably drawn to him, and he to her. As Scarlet and Wolf unravel one mystery, they encounter another when they meet Cinder. Now, all of them must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana, who will do anything for the handsome Prince Kai to become her husband, her king, her prisoner.</div>
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<strong>Short and Quick:</strong> A secretive moody handsome guy named Wolf + a feisty stubborn girl named Scarlet who is searching for her grandmother who may or may not have been taken by Wolf sounds like (and is!) a definite win.<br />
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<strong>Favorite Quote:</strong> <em>“I knew they would kill me when they found out, but…” He struggled for words, releasing a sharp breath. “I think I realized that I would rather die because I betrayed them, than live because I betrayed you.”</em> --- *Sigh* <Insert dreamy eyes here> --- Want to know who said it? Nope. Can’t tell you. You’ll just have to read the book. :P<br />
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<strong>My thoughts:</strong> Scarlet is the second installment in Marissa Meyer’s Lunar Chronicle Series and while normally in a series we’d stay following the initial heroine, this book introduces a new one, Scarlet, and a new leading man, Wolf. I was reluctant to read it at first, which is why it’s taken me over a year to pick it up. I got so attached to Cinder (the heroine from the first book) that I was afraid this was going to be a big ol’ let down. I was also afraid Cinder wouldn’t play a role in this book. Boy was I wrong!! What the hell was I thinking!? I should have had more faith in Marissa Meyer. She didn’t let me down the first time with Cinder so why would she let me down now? Yeah, I’m a dork.</div>
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Anyhoo! In this book, we get to see different character’s points of view, which normally frustrates me because I hate ‘switching gears’ so many times during a book, however, I thoroughly enjoyed reading everyone’s point of view! Even from the new characters like Wolf and Captain Thorne (who is hilariously vain by the way). Captain Thorne had me smiling and rolling my eyes <em>a lot</em>!</div>
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I personally fell in love with Scarlet. She is feisty, strong willed, and has a great heart. Although she may have been a bit gullible when it came to Wolf, she really had no choice. She needed him in order to find her grandmother who was taken from her home in the beginning of the book. They both go on a hell of an adventure together and nearly die a few times, which of course, makes for great reading!</div>
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Wolf is an incredible character. He is the epitome of dark and mysterious. His constant inner struggles between his principles, his heart and certain things that haunt him (trying not to spoil it for you guys) make this character a very interesting addition to this storyline. You don’t know whether to trust him, love him, hate him, or punch him! But, Marissa Meyer wrote this character in such a way that you root for him and hope he isn’t who you think he is. I hate to say this, but I’m glad she added a strong leading male character in this book. Poor Kai is such a puss in the first two books. I hope he grows some balls in the next installment. I digress…..</div>
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As I said before, Cinder definitely plays a role in this book and we get to see all the crap she has to go through (quite literally at some point… *gag*) after being thrown in prison. We get to learn more about her past and see how she came to be a cyborg. We also learn about certain key players that helped her leave Luna and we also get to see developments in her Lunar ‘tricks’.</div>
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All in all the story was great! There are twists you definitely don’t see coming, which I loved of course. This book is definitely a page turner and was so damn good that I‘m just happy I had Cress in my possession when I finished it so I can jump right into the third book!<br />
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<strong>Other favorite quotes:</strong> <br />
• “A relieved grin filled up Thorne’s face. “We’re having another moment, aren’t we?” <br />
“If by a moment, you mean me not wanting to strangle you for the first time since we met, then I guess we are.” --- hehe! Oh Thorne! I freakin’ love this character!</div>
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• “We met less than a week ago and in that time I've done nothing but lie and cheat and betray you. I know. But if you give me a chance...all I want is to protect you. To be near you. For as long as I'm able.”</div>
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• “When she had gone, Thorne let out a low whistle. “I know, I know. She seems a little”—crossing his eyes, he swirled both fingers around his ears—“but it’s really part of her charm, once you get to know her.”</div>
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<strong>Beginning:</strong> <br />
Because I was scared it wouldn’t be as good as Cinder <br />
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Because it was damn good and I loved the characters and I didn’t want them to get hurt! And I didn’t want a certain character to turn out to be a dick. <br />
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<strong>End: </strong>Ahhh!! Can’t wait for Cress!!! <br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;">This week’s topics is: <br /><b>Top ten most anticipated debut novels for 2015</b></span></div>
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[These are all linked to Goodreads so you can add them to your tbr list] </div>
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• <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17878931-red-queen" target="_blank">Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard</a> <br />
• <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17134589-the-conspiracy-of-us" target="_blank">The Conspiracy of Us by Maggie Hall</a> <br />
• <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21793649-written-in-the-stars" target="_blank">Written in the Stars by Aisha Saeed</a> <br />
• <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17235448-the-wrong-side-of-right" target="_blank">The Wrong Side of Right by Jenn Marie Thorne</a> <br />
• <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18392459-we-all-looked-up" target="_blank">We All Looked Up by Tommy Wallach</a> <br />
• <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20345202-the-girl-at-midnight" target="_blank">The Girl at Midnight by Melissa Grey</a> <br />
• <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19542841-more-happy-than-not" target="_blank">More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera</a> <br />
• <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23845997-blood-and-salt" target="_blank">Blood and Salt by Kim Liggett</a> <br />
• <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20560137-an-ember-in-the-ashes" target="_blank">An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir</a> <br />
• <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18190208-the-witch-hunter" target="_blank">The Witch Hunter by Virginia Boecker</a></div>
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Which debut novels are you guys excited for? :)</div>
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XO! </div>
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So lately I’ve been thinking about challenges for the year as (I’m sure most of you have). I’ve really tried to keep it simple while still challenging myself to read more. With that said, I noticed that I really only gravitate towards the same books/genres… young adult, new adult, and contemporary… and sometimes SOME historical. This year I’d like to branch out more by reading different genres and trying not to judge books by their cover (yup, I’m cover lover). So I decided to challenge myself to read at least one book each month that I normally wouldn’t pick up. </div> <div align="center">If this sounds like something you’d like to do too, make a post about it using our image up there and link up below. We can keep each other accountable each month by linking up the books we’ve read. I’ll be making a post at the beginning of each month with a link up.</div> <div align="left"> </div> <blockquote> <p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium">Genres I’ll probably read for the challenge: <br /></span><span style="font-size: x-small"><font size="2">• Biographies • Mystery • Christian • Horror • Personal Development • Historical Romance •</font> </span></p> </blockquote> <blockquote> <p align="center"><span style="font-size: medium">This month I’m thinking about reading: <br /></span><font size="2">A personal development book … just not sure which one.</font> <br />Note: You DO NOT have to announce the book(s) you intend to read ahead of time. It IS an option though. :)</p> </blockquote> <div align="center">We’ll be using #BSMUncomfortZone as our hashtag for the books we read for the challenge :) <br /> <br />Good luck! <br />XO, <br /></div> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_VN6IpdnezowawyLlfTAImPxacyxuUuzESpPn9vmYvuxr-aeMVwlUz0VZQzVwpA4AvOxWNhZibT35viFWi4f3283AzanS0MTp7gEVA86Ap0wfcySFOxl4GrUXNmmHtpZonIFGe4lH5-k/s1600-h/Vanessa%252520Signature%25255B3%25255D.png"><img title="Vanessa Signature" style="border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; display: block; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; margin-right: auto" border="0" alt="Vanessa Signature" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivrg3G1Hpo7v8vvCQoD-71jAp2fCpemq_GaXXV1f2q1Ey20j-MeqG-TNoJS4R6CIJRzQJvDIfWDhS_m2yNP0UI6l34mt5008PRr6s45ejy3jF5ZYFDqJzNfEbvSoxxleER2cNtliSlE1I/?imgmax=800" width="240" height="93" /></a> <div align="center">P.S. I personally hope to read at least 10 ‘un-comfort zone’ books this year. How about you guys?</div> <a title="click to view in an external page." href="http://new.inlinkz.com/luwpview.php?id=481510" rel="nofollow">An InLinkz Link-up</a> <br /><script src="//static.inlinkz.com/cs2.js?v=116" type="text/javascript"></script><!-- end InLinkz script --> Vanessa Book ♥ Soulmateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02406130215944981579noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585398032472579429.post-53798359586383687082015-01-04T10:00:00.000-05:002015-01-07T21:36:55.217-05:00Bout of Books: 1.5.15 - 1.11.15<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja2y_-jUTwt6I6L23EFlqGj2CeHQnmgZZ9W1jdBcIaz2KAnOqKcqc_qsfPD4G6fbva_r_KeopusSHgpOs37e6snYj676IrLX19NP3T80wQhIV7KCTTUoEDbJVUiQwFy-Yg40jaVauWC1Q/s1600-h/BoB12-200x200%25255B3%25255D.jpg"><img alt="BoB12-200x200" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmwtvqHw54MS8wb7UxbNppqyGEEYWHkUUJvxk1qSQJ5lObwyUfes_ZPnnE-4l_oxFkXXpyb46I9Pczzh6RUmT1Q8pJs1dGql4ehVsbZb_RI2-9exDnYTEISZO4LiFd2kDMjD97zi2SaLA/?imgmax=800" height="200" style="background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="BoB12-200x200" width="200" /></a><br />
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Hi guys! I’ve decided to participate in the <a href="http://boutofbooks.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Bout of Books challenge</a> this week because what better way to start the new year off right than with a challenge that’s all about reading as much as you can! Winning!</div>
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Check out the official blurb below: </div>
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The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, January 5th and runs through Sunday, January 11th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. <b>For all Bout of Books 12 information and updates, be sure to visit the <a href="http://boutofbooks.blogspot.com/">Bout of Books</a> blog. </b>- From the Bout of Books team</div>
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<strong>UPDATES </strong>(<a href="http://angelasanxiouslife.blogspot.com/2015/01/bout-of-books-goals-and-updates.html" target="_blank">Idea thanks to Angela’s Anxious Life</a>)</div>
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<u> <br />Monday</u> <br />Number of books I've read today: 1/2<br />Name of book: Throne of Glass<br /> Total number of books I've read: 130<br />Number of hours read: Lord knows<br /></div>
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<u>Tuesday</u> <br />Number of books I've read today: some of one<br />Total number of books I've read: 1/2<br />Total pages: 160<br />Name of Book: Throne of Glass<br />Number of Hours I've read: ...?<br /></div>
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<u>Wednesday</u> <br />Number of books I've read today: <br />Total number of books I've read: <br />Books: <br />Number of Hours I've Read: <br />What else I did: </div>
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<u>Thursday</u> <br />Number of books I've read today: <br />Total number of books I've read: <br />Books: <br />Number of Hours I've Read: <br />What else I did:</div>
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<u>Friday</u> <br />Number of books I've read today: <br />Total number of books I've read: <br />Books: <br />Number of Hours I've Read: <br />What else I did: </div>
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<u>Saturday</u> <br />Number of books I've read today: <br />Total number of books I've read: <br />Books: <br />Number of Hours I Read: <br />What else I did: </div>
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<u>Sunday</u> <br />Number of books I've read today: <br />Total number of books I've read: <br />Books: <br />Number of hours I read: <br />What else I did:</div>
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So…. are YOU guys participating too? If so, how many books do you plan on reading? I’m hoping to read three but we’ll see. :P</div>
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XO! </div>
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Hi guys!! As most of you know, Isalys and I are pretty darn obsessed with sharing pictures on Instagram. As book lovers, we just feel the need to share beautiful book covers, bookmarks, stationery, and other bookish goodies. So, we were chatting about it the other day and thought how fun it would be to create a new feature where we can all share not only bookish pictures, but what we carry around in our purses! I mean come on, you <em>KNOW</em> we usually at least have one book (if not more) in our purses plus 10 pens and stickies and planners etc. And since we’re book lovers, we’ve decided to use the ‘What’s in my bag’ meme with a bookish twist. Enter: #WhatsInMyBookBag - get it? ‘Book bag’! Because we’re book lovers! Yeah. We’re dorks lol. <br /> <br />Each Saturday, we’re going to create a similar post to this where you can link up your #WhatsInMyBookBag Instagram pictures. You can then check out the other participants pictures by clicking on the links the others have provided. <br />Check out the easy peasy rules below :)</div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>RULES</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">• Follow us, your hosts, on Instagram: @BookSoulmates</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">•Link up your Instagram picture for #WhatsInYourBag <br /><strong>Tip:</strong> To find the image URL through your phone, go to your Instagram account, click on the image you want to share, then click on the three dots located on the lower right hand side, and click on ‘Copy Share URL’.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">• Please visit other participants and like and/or comment on their pictures. Let’s show each other some IG love!</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></div>
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That’s it! Told ya it was easy peasy! We hope you guys have a lot of fun taking pictures and making new IG friends!</div>
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Xoxo! <br />Vanessa & Isalys</div>
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Now let’s get this party started! Post your links below :)</div>
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This is a new feature (to the blog) where we’ll be sharing what we plan on reading in the coming week starting Friday; hence the #FridayReads hashtag :P. We’ll also share if we accomplished the previous weeks goals since we’re moody readers and tend to stray from planned lists. Yeah…. this should be interesting lol.</div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;">#FridayReads: What I plan on reading this week</span></div>
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This Shattered World by Aimee Kaufman</div>
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Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas <br />
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How about you guys? What are you planning on reading this weekend and coming week?</div>
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Xo! <br />
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Vanessa Book ♥ Soulmateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02406130215944981579noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585398032472579429.post-74935484387451231432015-01-02T07:00:00.000-05:002015-01-02T10:55:50.886-05:00#FF Feature and Follow: 1.2.15<a href="http://www.parajunkee.com/2015/01/01/newyears-hop/" target="_blank"><img alt="bloglovin-300x180" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi86loXl9cWn_ROuzYXx2ZVSg5oF4LETMSAhJlJdjMEhpCteWEMozsZF9l7VnZl8EvDuwpvSnLCL4AboDlZ3u3-8YrgNCA2xLLtKoCvUnuZZNHDwZ8ZG0lbO0UyaDqP0QtFk-7m10qMgoA/?imgmax=800" height="269" style="background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="bloglovin-300x180" width="437" /></a><br />
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Hi guys! This week we’re joining in on <a href="http://www.parajunkee.com/2015/01/01/newyears-hop/" target="_blank">Parajunkee and Allison Can Read’s</a> Feature and Follow blog hop. We’re super excited to meet and make new friends! If you’re here for the hop, we’d love for you to follow us via <a href="http://www.bloglovin.com/blog/2321404" target="_blank">bloglovin</a>’. Please leave a comment below so we can follow back! Xoxo!</div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><u>This week’s question is: </u></b><br />What was your favorite book of 2014?</span></div>
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Who can choose just one?! My favorite books by far were Cress by Marissa Meyer and Wicked by Jennifer Armentrout (reviews coming soon). Those books gave me all kinds of feels and have me dying to read the next ones in the series. Too bad I have to wait so long for both of them! Ahhhh! <br />
♥ Vanessa</div>
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I agree that it's impossible to pick just ONE favorite book so here are a few of my favorites!<br />
So. Many. Feels.<br />
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What were YOUR favorite books of 2014?</div>
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Aaaaaaand we’re back with a new #BSMPhotoADay! Woohoo! <br />
Let’s kick the year off with fun photo prompts AND a giveaway shall we?!</div>
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It’s super easy peasy to join our challenge! First, take the picture above and share it on Instagram to let your friends know you’ll be joining! :) </div>
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Then all you have to do is take a picture each day with the photo prompt of the day. For example, the first day of January is ‘Bookish goals’ so you’d simply take a picture of your bookish goals. It can be your tbr list for 2015, or a book you’d like to read in January…. anything! Once you take the picture, upload it to Instagram or Twitter and tag us @Booksoulmates and use hashtag #BSMPhotoADay. Remember, this month you’ll be entered to win a $15 Amazon gift card so make sure you use that hashtag and tag us! Giveaway open to international book lovers too! Good luck lovelies!</div>
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<li style="text-align: left;">This challenge is conducted on Instagram, but you're welcome to join via Twitter or Facebook. </li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Please tag all photos with <u>#BSMPhotoADay.</u> </li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Please feel free to tag us in your pics as well @Booksoulmates </li>
<li style="text-align: left;">This giveaway is open to international book lovers. </li>
<li style="text-align: left;">The gift card will be purchased on Amazon and will be emailed to the winner. </li>
<li style="text-align: left;">The winner will be announced the beginning of February on a separate post and on Instagram so remember to check back! </li>
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<b>Do not hesitate to contact us if you have questions on any of our daily prompts!</b> <br />
<b> </b>Have fun and see you on Instagram!<br />
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<strong>This week’s topic is:</strong> <br />Top Ten Goals/Resolutions For 2015 -- bookish, blogging or otherwise!</div>
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<strong>Isalys has one main goal:</strong> <br />To take a break! She wants to step back from blogging a bit and focus on her personal life. Don’t fret though! She’ll still be around. Just not as much as usual. :)</blockquote>
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What are YOUR goals for the coming year? :)</div>
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Hi guys! This year Isalys and I have decided to keep things rather simple in regards to challenges so when we came across this one hosted by Pop Sugar we thought ‘Perfect!’. When you look through the list it seems both doable and challenging which we love!</div>
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The only sure way to destroy a man is to take what he cannot live without.<br />
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Three years ago, I had everything.<br />
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A beautiful wife.<br />
A son.<br />
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Until a ruthless task force, assembled under Mayor Michael Culling, with a brutal strategy to make the streets of Detroit ‘safe’, ripped away everything I loved in a deadly hunt called The Culling.<br />
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They tried to kill me, too. I wish they had. Now I’m cursed by the memories of that night, and the words I whispered to my dying wife.<br />
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A promise—to avenge the wrong and set it right.<br />
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I’m no longer Nick Ryder. I’m a masked vigilante. Faceless. Loveless. Fearless. A man with nothing left to lose—one who’s seen the dark and violent truth behind the city’s flawless veneer.<br />
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Michael Culling doesn’t know who I am. Or what I want. All he knows is that I’ve kidnapped his beautiful wife.<br />
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<b>THE REAL THING </b><b>Written by Cassie Mae</b><br />
<b>Published by Flirt</b><br />
<b>August 19, 2014</b><br />
<b>ISBN: 978-0-553-39253-1</b><br />
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<b>In this electrifying novel from Cassie Mae, two close friends surprise themselves by shifting from platonic love to sexual attraction.</b><br />
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Eric Matua has one friend—his best friend and childhood sweetheart, who needs a place to stay for the summer. Mia Johnson has thousands of friends—who live in her computer. Along with her email chats and Facebook notifications, Mia also devours romance novels, spending countless hours with fictional characters, dreaming of her own Romeo to sweep her off her feet. When she starts receiving supersweet messages from a stranger who thinks she’s someone else, Mia begins to believe that real love is possible outside her virtual world.<br />
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It’s been three hours since I’ve turned our sauna into an icebox. I keep waiting for Em to crawl out of her room to congratulate me on my newly formed handyman skills, or follow through on that threat she made, but it’s been pretty quiet. She closed the door and I don’t know if she’s taking a nap or what, but that little ego boost she gave me earlier has sort of faded into oblivion. Maybe she wasn’t as thrilled to spend time with me as I was with her. Or maybe she thinks I’m boring. Maybe it’s still weird, and we’re adjusting to seeing each other after so long.<br />
Or maybe I’m just being a damn pussy.<br />
I hoist myself off the couch, tossing the remote behind me. The sweat from earlier left my clothes damp, and now that it’s about twenty degrees cooler, it causes a chill to run up my spine. I check over my shoulder before lifting my arm up to sniff my pit. Shit, no wonder . . . she could probably smell my hard work the second I came back inside.<br />
Grabbing the bottom of my cold, sweat-riddled shirt, I pull it off on my way to the bathroom. Hopefully she’ll hear the shower and know I’m doing something about the stink, and that it’ll be safe to venture out as soon as I get my sweaty ass washed.<br />
Her door opens with a bang, and I bolt into the bathroom so she doesn’t see me. I know it’s stupid, but give me ten pounds more muscle and twenty pounds less fat, and maybe I’ll be okay with her catching me without a shirt on.<br />
“Hey Eric!” she calls from her room.<br />
“Uh, yeah?”<br />
“Could you come here for a second?”<br />
My hands fumble over my counter for cologne, deodorant . . . something, just let me find <i>something</i>. “Give me a minute . . .” I dive for the counter under the sink and praise the heavens when I spot the air freshener. I know I told her I’d be living like I normally do, but as I spray the air freshener out in front of me and walk through it, then do it three more times, I’m pretty sure I lied. After a few sprays on my shirt, I tug it back on, rolling it down my torso.</div>
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Cassie Mae is a full-time writer and mother from Utah. She loves being glued to the computer, thinking up new stories, and writing the day away while the kids run wild at her feet. When she finished her first novel, she started a blog that now gets more than five thousand hits a month. Her group blog is also dedicated to reaching out to aspiring authors by providing critiques and other marketing tools to help them succeed in the industry. When she’s not writing, she’s spending time with the youth in her community as a volleyball and basketball coach, or searching the house desperately for chocolate.<br />
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<b>Title:</b> <b>One Past Midnight</b><br />
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<b>Publication:</b> July 22, 2014
by Bloomsbury USA Childrens<br />
<b>Reviewed by:</b> Isalys<br />
<b>Rating:</b> 5 Stars<br />
<b>Reason for Reviewing:</b> ARC provided in exchange for an honest review.<br />
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though I try not to think about it, I know which life I prefer. And
every night when I Cinderella myself from one life to the next a very
small, but definite, piece of me dies. The hardest part is that nothing
about my situation has ever changed. There is no loophole.<br /><br />Until now, that is... </i><br /><br />For
as long as she can remember, Sabine has lived two lives. Every 24 hours
she Shifts to her ′other′ life - a life where she is exactly the same,
but absolutely everything else is different: different family, different
friends, different social expectations. In one life she has a sister,
in the other she does not. In one life she′s a straight-A student with
the perfect boyfriend, in the other she′s considered a reckless
delinquent. Nothing about her situation has ever changed, until the day
when she discovers a glitch: the arm she breaks in one life is perfectly
fine in the other.<br /><br />With this new knowledge, Sabine begins a
series of increasingly risky experiments which bring her dangerously
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Sabine is unlike anyone she's ever known. Every night, at precisely midnight, she is transported to a parallel world where she lives an entirely different life for 24 hours. Her name and physical appearance remain the same, but she has different families, different friends, different lifestyles. In her Roxbury life, she's a bit of a punk/delinquent who has a strained relationship with her family but a little sister she adores. In her Wellesley life, she's a rich socialite who despite her parent's divorce, maintains a good relationship with both of them, although her big brothers are jerks to her. She, along with her two best friends, rule the school and is of course dating the most popular boy! She's spent 18 years of her life bouncing from one life to another and she hates it.<br />
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Sabine wants nothing more than to be normal. To have one life, no
matter how imperfect it may be that she can focus all her attention on;
one life where the people in it know who she really, truly is (not this
person with the world's biggest secret). She's accepted the duality of her life if only because she can't do anything about it, until one little glitch changes everything.<br />
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One day while hanging out with a friend in her Roxbury life, she trips and breaks her arm. That night, at midnight, she "quantum leaps" into her Wellesley life fully expecting her injury to carry over as it always does except that this time, it didn't. She hatches a dangerous plan to begin testing her theory that if she can
eliminate one version of herself, she can carry on as the other.<br />
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What really got my attention when I decided to read this book was the notion of one person living parallel lives. I'd never read a book set in parallel worlds before and I'm so glad I started with this one. I really admired Sabine's ability to be so strong and composed while managing her two vastly different lives without confusing her memories or blowing her cover. It would be a lot for anyone to keep up with! I loved that <b>Jessica Shirvington</b> managed to write the same person in two entirely different lights and still make her wholly likable in both.<br />
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The plot is seemingly simple. To try to find a way to rid herself of one life so she can live the other...but how do you decide which life is the one worth living? Do you go with the obvious choice if it means losing people you love but gaining uncertainties? She thinks she knows which one she wants to live out, but in trying to determine if this is even possible for her, things begin to shift and the life that she thought she no longer wanted is now far more appealing when a guy named Ethan walks into it....and most importantly, tells her he believes her and he believes in her!<br />
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There are two guys in Sabine's lives; one in each respectively. But it's Ethan in her Roxbury life that steals the show and her heart (and mine too!). What started as a friendship not only evolved into love, but into something so meaningful and profound that it changes her entire view on the meaning of life! Toward the end of the book,<b> Jessica Shirvington </b>wrote one of the most heartbreaking and beautiful scenes I had ever read, and I relived those moments in my memory long past my bedtime.
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By the end, I think I had more questions than answers, like why did Sabine have two lives? Was she the only one or did other people also have multiple lives and just didn't know it? You know what though, I was okay with that because these are some pretty heavy questions and if our first-person narrator doesn't know the answer than I can't expect to know it either. I guess there are some mysteries that life prefers to keep a secret!<br />
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<i><b>One Past Midnight </b></i>is a wonderfully written, riveting, and unquestionably clever story filled with unexpected twists that will have YOU thinking about the depth of life and love.<br />
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Book Soulmateshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05497671301035519626noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8585398032472579429.post-6232557767896187952014-08-11T08:00:00.000-04:002014-08-11T08:00:07.865-04:00Author Friend In Need!Hi friends!<br />
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I'm going to go off script for a moment here because I'd like to let the book community know about an author friend in need.<br />
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I recently learned that romance author, Kristine Cheney has been diagnosed with an aggressive form of <a href="http://www.breastcancer.org/symptoms/types/idc">invasive ductal carcinoma</a>, a common but malignant form of breast cancer. Sadly, she does NOT have any health insurance and to qualify for any medical assistance through her hospital, she is required to quit her job. <br />
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In the town of Piedmont Pointe, where paranormal is the norm, a girl can easily get herself in over her head with a single wrong move. Unfortunately for Olivia Adams, she’s about to make several.<br />
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Starting over is never easy, but it seemed like the only option to Olivia. The decision to turn her back on the Guild of Witch Hunters, the very group she devoted her entire life to, was one of the hardest things she ever did. It meant leaving her family, her friends, and her old identity behind forever. Coming to terms with what caused her to abandon her duties in the first place was even harder.<br />
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While trying to lay low and stay off the Guild’s radar, Olivia finds herself thrust back into her old ways after unknowingly interrupting an assassination hit on a powerful witch. What follows is the last thing she ever thought she’d agree to do—protect the very thing she was groomed to hunt.<br />
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To complicate things even further, Olivia begins to develop feelings for a tattoo artist who also happens to be half warlock, and no matter how hard she tries to fight it, she can’t resist her inescapable draw to him. Olivia’s forbidden relationship isn’t her only issue though, because once the mystery behind the assassination attempt starts to unravel, she’s forced to choose sides when the loyalties still tied to her past life are tested again.<br />
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So much for the idea of a fresh start.</div>
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<b>"Witch hunters and sexy tattoo artists? This New Adult Paranormal is EVERYTHING fans of romance and action are looking for."</b><br />
<i>- #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout</i><br />
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<b>"A fun, action-packed, enjoyable read!"</b><br />
<i>- New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cora Carmack</i><br />
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<b>"The perfect blend of New Adult and Paranormal. It's absolutely fantastic!"</b>
<i>- New York Times bestselling author Nichole Chase</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://amzn.to/1n0s2bn" target="_blank">Amazon</a> • <a href="http://amzn.to/1u4gNU3" target="_blank">Amazon UK</a> • <a href="http://bit.ly/1qrbwEu" target="_blank">Amazon AUS</a> • <a href="http://bit.ly/1nJX02V" target="_blank">B&N</a> • <a href="http://bit.ly/SnouU9" target="_blank">iBooks</a> • <a href="http://bit.ly/1qSkFlq" target="_blank">Kobo</a></span></h2>
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Author T.A. Kunz has always had a fondness for reading thrilling mysteries and action-packed urban fantasies. So, it was no surprise when T.A. decided to write stories that they’d fall into one of those two genres. T.A. lives in Central Florida with two fur babies and a mechanical engineer who also happens to be quite the culinary badass, which there are no complaints about. Being a self-diagnosed caffeine addict, many joke that T.A.’s addiction to Starbucks coffee will likely be their downfall later in life.</div>
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