Author Interview and Giveaway - The Wanderers by Jessica Miller

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What do you do when you learn your family is the one who's holding all the secrets. Secrets that could get you killed...

Ella is looking forward to starting college in the fall with her best friend Josie. She’s looking for a place where she can get away from her overbearing parents and two older annoying brothers. Unfortunately Ella realizes that sometimes the past comes back to haunt you.
Ella soon learns that the man who terrorizes her dreams is in fact real and coming after her.
When one of her classmates is murdered, Ella slowly recognizes this is not some strange coincidence. Ella fears that the boy she’s falling in love with is the one who stalks her dreams and no longer knows who she can trust.
When she finally learns the truth of her families deepest secret, Ella has to face her demons by taking out one of the people she thought she could trust…before they kill her.

Author Interview -

Jessica Miller

 Hi Jessica! Welcome to the blog!

1. When did you start writing?

I started writing probably around the spring of 2010 after I jokingly said to someone, 'I know so much gossip I should probably write a book.' They said, 'why don't you?' I never put much thought into it and then one night I sat down, started writing, and never stopped. 

2. Can you tell us a bit about 'The Wanderers' and your inspiration for it?

The Wanderers is a paranormal romance that follows a young girl, Ella, on her journey of starting college and trying to leave the past in the past, but of course we all know the past always come back to haunt you. Just when Ella thinks she has everything under control that's when it all starts to unravel. Nothing is ever what it seems and she is constantly finding herself looking over her shoulder because she just can't shake the feeling that someone is watching her. Paranoia sinks in and Ella realizes she can no longer trust anyone. Not even her own family.

The inspiration for The Wanderers came from me wanting to do something different. I've read so many books and noticed how most of them kind of blended together and they were becoming too predictable. So I tried to think outside the box. I started with an outline, characters, and how I wanted the story to go (but of course that changed several times while writing). I sat down and just started writing. Writing for me just seems to come naturally. I  can sit for hours and hours and just write and write. I always had fantasies when I was younger so I guess this my way of having them come to life.

3. What three words would you use to best describe 'The Wanderers'?

Different, intriguing, and awesome!

4. Is 'The Wanderers' a stand alone novel or will this be part of a series?

The Wanderers is a series. I'm not sure how many will be in the series but I can tell you the second installment, 'Reborn' should hopefully be out this summer. Currently working on rewriting and revising the third and the fourth one is partially started. 

5. Can you tell us about your other books?

My first novel, 'The Hairdresser Diaries', is not what I would call your typical romance book. When I think of romance books I think of those books you find in the grocery store with Fabio on the cover which is why I hate to categorize my book with them. For my first book I chose to start with what I knew. Yes I am a hairdresser and yes the main character in the book is one as well, but that's because it was easy for me to write about a job I knew how to do. The main character Tatum is not your typical girl who gets easily wooed. She doesn't believe in the fairy tale ending and is constantly finding herself in self-destructing relationships. Having the almost perfect life - great friends, family, job - Tatum still feels something is missing, but what is missing is the one thing her heart wants most and the one thing she denies herself out of fear. 

 I have several other books in mind and my fingers are just itching to start them. My next one (I'm hoping) will be a Trilogy called 'The Dark Queen'. It's going to be a dark twist on Snow White. I already started the first half and can't wait to get going with the rest, but I told myself I would finish book three in 'The Wanderers' series before I dove into anything new. 
 

6. Can you tell us what you are working on at the moment?

Currently I am working on book three in 'The Wanderers' series and when I'm finished with that one I am going to take a minor break from that series to start a new one that I'm a little excited about. 

7. Other than your own, what are your favorite books?

I LOVE 'The Vampire Academy' series and I am so excited for the movie to come out! Of course love Bloodlines as well. A few of my other Favorites would be - Hush Hush series by Becca Fitzpatrick, Sweet Evil trilogy by Wendy Higgens, The Immortals by Alyson Noel, Fallen series by Lauren Kate, Shadow falls series by C.C. Hunter, The Twilight saga,  The Covenant by Melissa Darnell (I think that's right?), and The House of Night series by P.C. and Kristin Cast - just to name a few. 

Random questions

1. What's your favorite treat?

That's hard because I'm not really big on sweets, but I do usually tend to swing toward Ice cream. Moose tracks Ice cream with magic shell, delicious. Oh and cake, but mostly yellow cake. Don't like chocolate cake. I know, I've already been told I'm weird for not liking chocolate cake or any chocolate baked goods - minus brownies. 

2. Favorite place to read or write?

I'm a night time reader so I would have to say my bed, but if it were my choice I would say the beach. I don't really have a favorite place to write because I pretty much write where ever and when ever I can, but I do prefer to have a TV nearby. I can't sit in quiet, it drives me nuts. The noise of a TV or music in the background helps. 

3. If you won the lottery what would you most look forward to spending the money on?

Vacation, vacation, and more vacation! I would just travel for a while. It's always been  a dream of mine to travel to different countries and exotic places. And of course tons of shopping for new clothes and new shoes to take with on vacation. 

4. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?

California. I know it sounds silly to have my choice of anywhere and I pick California, but I lived on the East coast all my life and I hate the cold! I want to live somewhere warm. Most people would say a private island, but 

I would get bored after a while. I need social interaction every once in a while so I prefer to live somewhere where I know there are other people close by. 

Facebook fanpage : www.facebook.com/authorJLMiller

Blog : http://www.jesslmiller.blogspot.com/

Goodreads : http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5989926.Jessica_Miller

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Book Release Event and Giveaway - Love in Darkness (Shattered Castles, #2) by E.M. Tippetts

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Title: Love in Darkness (Shattered Castles, #2)

Author: E.M. Tippetts

Release date: May 21, 2013

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Age Group: New Adult

Event organized by: AToMR Tours

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17202459-love-in-darkness

Book Description:

Alex had everything when he was with Madison. But the darkness within him wouldn't go away. After two years apart, he returns to Pelican Bluffs and to the girl he never wanted to leave. 

Madison wants to give their love another chance, but Alex can't fight fate. He is what he is. Ruined. Crazy like his mother. And Madison deserves so much more. When his secrets spill out into their small town, Alex has a choice to make. Hide away in the darkness forever, or let love in.

About the Author

Emily Mah Tippetts writes romance under the name E.M. Tippetts and science fiction and fantasy under the name Emily Mah. Originally from New Mexico, she now lives in London with her family. Before she was a published author, she was an attorney who specialized in real estate, contracts, and estate planning, especially literary estate planning.

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Excerpt Four:

Madison falls silent and continues to look me over.

I take a deep breath and will her not to stop. See me, I think, see that I’m not worth all these tears and all this effort. See that I’m just some overgrown loser with no future and no plan for my life.

Only, her expression doesn’t turn to disgust or enlightenment. She reaches up to stroke my cheek and I shut my eyes, unsure of what to say or do.

I hear the rustle of her clothing as she leans in closer and feel her breath on my lips. I brace myself as she touches her mouth to mine, so gently that there’s barely any contact. I sit still as stone, my hand gripping her shirt tighter and tighter. She holds the kiss until I feel her tremble, then she leans in and I taste her, the salt of movie theater popcorn and the barest hint of cherry lip gloss.

She’s in my arms now. I kiss and kiss and kiss her, running my fingers down her spine and hearing her familiar gasp.

“She’s clearly desperate,” rings out one of the voices.

“Pathetic.”

“She’ll kiss anyone, you know?”

“He doesn’t even know what he’s doing.”

I try to push them away, but this time, I have no control. They just laugh at my attempts.

“Alex.” Madison touches my cheek. We’ve stopped kissing, though I don’t know when.

“I’m sorry,” I say. “I can’t… we can’t, okay?” There’s enough adrenalin in my system to wake an elephant from a deep coma. I shake, and will the voices to be silent. They quiet down a little, but I don’t have the control I did moments ago.

“Are you okay?” she asks.

I force my chest to expand and draw in the chill, humid air. I hold my breath while the air warms inside me, then expel it. “You should get inside,” I say. “You’ll miss the movie.”

“You’re okay?”

“Yeah,” I lie. “Yeah, I’m good. Go on.”

“I… I’m not going to leave you here.”

I smooth my hair back, and, with a steadiness I don’t feel, get to my feet. The cold from the sidewalk has soaked into my muscles, making me clumsy. We don’t hold hands or even look at each other as we make our way back to the theater.

Icons (Icons, #1) by Margaret Stohl

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Blurb (From Goodreads):

Your heart beats only with their permission.

Everything changed on The Day. The day the windows shattered. The day the power stopped. The day Dol's family dropped dead. The day Earth lost a war it didn't know it was fighting.

Since then, Dol has lived a simple life in the countryside -- safe from the shadow of the Icon and its terrifying power. Hiding from the one truth she can't avoid.

She's different. She survived. Why?

When Dol and her best friend, Ro, are captured and taken to the Embassy, off the coast of the sprawling metropolis once known as the City of Angels, they find only more questions. While Ro and fellow hostage Tima rage against their captors, Dol finds herself drawn to Lucas, the Ambassador's privileged son. But the four teens are more alike than they might think, and the timing of their meeting isn't a coincidence. It's a conspiracy.

Within the Icon's reach, Dol, Ro, Tima, and Lucas discover that their uncontrollable emotions -- which they've always thought to be their greatest weaknesses -- may actually be their greatest strengths.

Bestselling author Margaret Stohl delivers the first book in a heart-pounding series set in a haunting new world where four teens must piece together the mysteries of their pasts -- in order to save the future.

Icons by Margaret Stohl

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

(Source: I received a digital copy of this book for free on a read-to-review basis. Thanks to HarperCollins UK, HarperFiction/Blue Door, Voyager and Netgalley.)
16 years ago, 13 strange metallic ‘Icon’s’ dropped from the sky, and situated themselves in the largely populated areas of the world, killing millions of people, and turning others into slaves.

17-year-old’s Dol and Ro live in the wilds outside of one of these epicentres, away from the Embassy and the ‘Sympas’ (sympathisers who have become traitors to humanity). Dol and Ro are special though, on Dol’s wrist is a small blue dot, and on Ro’s wrist are two red dots, which can be connected.

When Dol’s adopted family are killed and she is kidnapped, Ro follows her and tries to rescue her, only to find themselves both captured. What they are about to realise though is that they are not the only ones with these special dots.
What do the dots mean? How many people have them? How are they linked to the Icons? And can Dol and Ro really change things for the better?



This was an okay story, but I have so many questions at the end of it that it might just drive me crazy!

Dol and Ro were both okay characters, although Ro had serious anger management issues. I think that this was to do the whole ‘icon child’(dots) thing, but even so, his temper was pretty fierce. I didn’t really feel anything for Dol at all, she was a bit boring if anything.
The other two Icon children that we met were Lucas and Tima. I liked Lucas at first, then I didn’t like him, and I didn’t really like Tima at all. The group dynamics were just difficult, and someone always seemed to be irritating someone else, and Ro’s temper and Tima’s jealousy and bitterness did not help matters.

The four ‘Icon children’ had these dots on their wrists, but I didn’t really understand the point of them – they did this weird thing they called ‘bonding’ where they held their wrists together, dot-to-dot, and this was a really intimate thing to do –almost like sex!! I’m not sure why they did this, other than it being something to do with emotions – Dol did it to calm Ro, or how they figured out that they could do this. I didn’t really understand why there were ‘Icon children’ at all, and why were there only 4 icon children when there were 13 icons? Baffling.

We also got the obligatory love triangle/square. Dol mentions about loving Ro, but isn’t sure if they can go from being best friends to being something more, never mind that they do this bonding thing with their dots. But then she’s off with Lucas, and he is trying to get her to bind dots with him (Gosh that sounds ridiculous!). Then we have Tima who is obviously in love with Lucas, and so not happy that him and Dol want to bump dots, and Ro who obviously loves Dol, and wants her to only want his dots (sorry, the dots thing amuses me, I wonder if Lucas’ dots are better than Ro’s as Lucas has 3 and Ro only has 2?).

I have to say that my biggest complaint with this book was the world building. I didn’t understand why the Icon’s had arrived or who really caused their arrival, I didn’t really understand why some people died and some didn’t, I didn’t get why Dol and Ro were living out in the middle of nowhere and how this was even possible. I didn’t really understand who was in charge, and why, who the ‘Lords’ were (think they might have been the aliens)…this list goes on, and on. I’m confused to say the least.

Thankfully the book did have an end. The four Icon children did achieve something after all this, although it was very much the start of the revolution rather than the end. I suspect though that all four icon children will not survive this entire series, I just hope that we don’t take on one icon per book, because that would be a very lengthy series, and I really just want some answers!

Overall; a confusing and sometimes bizarre dystopian novel, which raises more questions than it answers.
6.5 out of 10.

True by Erin McCarthy True by Erin McCarthy

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Blurb (from Goodreads):

When Rory Macintosh’s roommates find out that their studious and shy friend has never been with a guy, they decide that, as an act of kindness they’ll help her lose her virginity by hiring confident, tattooed bad boy Tyler Mann to do the job…unbeknownst to Rory.

Tyler knows he’s not good enough for Rory. She’s smart, doctor smart, while he’s barely scraping by at his EMT program, hoping to pull his younger brothers out of the hell their druggy mother has left them in. But he can’t resist taking up her roommates on an opportunity to get to know her better. There’s something about her honesty that keeps him coming back when he knows he shouldn’t…

Torn between common sense and desire, the two find themselves caught up in a passionate relationship. But when Tyler’s broken family threatens to destroy his future, and hers, Rory will need to decide whether to cut her ties to his risky world or follow her heart, no matter what the cost…

True by Erin McCarthy

My rating: 3.75 of 5 stars

(Source: I received a digital copy of this book for free on a read-to-review basis. Thanks to PENGUIN GROUP Berkley, NAL / Signet Romance, DAW, InterMix and Netgalley.)
20-year-old Rory is a virgin. She doesn’t have sex with just anybody like her college room-mates do, and she isn’t prepared to give up her virginity on a whim.

22year-old Tyler is different though, and Rory could see herself falling for him, if only he hadn’t already slept with her house mate, and if her house mates hadn’t paid him to divest her of her virginity.

There’s more to Tyler than Rory knows though, and once she begins to see his soft and sweet side, she’s knows she’s a goner. Tyler isn’t exactly what her father expected though, and the course of true love doesn’t run smoothly.
Can Tyler and Rory really make it as a couple? Will she ever forgive her room-mates for paying him to sleep with her? And what does Tyler’s ‘TRUE’ tattoo stand for?



This was a sweet and funny contemporary romance, and it actually reminded me quite a bit of ‘Beautiful Disaster’, only Tyler wasn’t quite as messed up as Travis!

Tyler and Rory made a really sweet couple, and the passion between them was hot and sweet. I loved the way they flirted and teased each other, and I loved that Rory didn’t allow herself to be tempted or manipulated by her friend’s actions. The romance part of the story was really good, and it was nice to watch as Rory and Tyler fell in love. There was some sex in this book, but it wasn’t erotic, and it was handled maturely.

Rory was an interesting character, who wasn’t ready to be promiscuous the way her friends were, she didn’t believe in just giving herself away indiscriminately, but she wasn’t hung up on waiting ‘til she was married either. She just wanted it to mean something when she finally had sex.
Tyler had problems, but they were more to do with him trying to help his family than anything he was doing himself. It showed real compassion and support the way he wanted to help his younger brothers though, and made Tyler all the more loveable.

I liked the storyline in this book, even if some things were a bit cliché (like Rory being a virgin). The book it reminded me of the most though was ‘Beautiful Disaster’, although I have to say that I think I liked this book better, it wasn’t so long, and there weren’t so many arguments and misunderstandings!

What I liked most about this book though was how much it made me laugh! Even with all the serious stuff that was going on, some moments were just so funny I couldn’t help but laugh!

Here are some of my favourite funny moments:

(said by one of Tyler’s younger brothers) “Why else would she like you? It's not like you've got a big dick or anything!”

(said by Rory) “I'd never seen a penis in person and I was curious.”

(step-mom talking about Rory’s dad, Rory’s observation) 'I'm sure once he recovers from the muscle tone and tattoos he'll be fine.' Good thing he didn't know about the penis piercing. Or the fact that I had seen the penis piercing.

Overall; a sweet NA contemporary romance, with a touch of humour.
7.5 out of 10.

Book Blitz and Giveaway - Surface by Tiffany Daune

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Surface by Tiffany Daune
Publication: February, 2013
Genre: YA Paranormal

Synopsis:
Bound to the water bound to land, a Siren’s soul will never be safe on either side of the ocean’s surface. Hidden beneath the rolling waves lies the secret to Theia’s past and as she unveils each haunting truth, she realizes the last seventeen years of her life have been a lie. Now, drawn into a mysterious new world and with nowhere to turn, Theia must place her trust in Luc, a beautiful boy who stops her heart with each dazzling smile, but even his unearthly charm can’t hide the truth—he has secrets— dark secrets binding him to his world—an underwater world where Theia will never belong—a world determined to destroy her soul.

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17281625-surface

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AUTHOR BIO

Tiffany Daune doesn't get why people want to grow up or why anyone would ever stop eating candy. Her purse is filled with books, lip gloss and a few pieces of Lego bricks. She writes best with a dish of chocolate chips on hand and finds licorice makes a better straw than plastic.

She lives on an island and believes mermaids may be raiding her candy stash, thoughshe hasn't caught them, yet.

Surface is her first novel and pairs well with gummy sharks.

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Breaking the Rules by Jennifer Lewis

Sponsored post - I received a digital copy of this book for free on a read-to-review basis. Thanks to Mangrove and Netgalley.

Blurb (from Goodreads):

A fortune teller predicted Joe Figueroa would meet the love of his life that very night, so he took fate by the horns and chose his wife. Now his marriage and his naval career are in ruins and he’s got a bone to pick with that psychic. When he tracks her down the haunting gypsy beauty doesn’t look a day older, just more entrancing than ever.

Did Joe choose the wrong woman to marry that night?

Susana Cigan barely recognizes the man whose fate she’d once seen linked with hers. Yet Joe awakens something inside her that stirs her body and threatens her psychic gift. She’s tired of her gypsy heritage confining her in a narrow world of tradition and superstition and knows she could lead this wounded and hostile stranger on a journey to redemption. Will she dare to follow her heart and venture into unfamiliar—and sensual—territory with this man who threatens to break all her rules?
***
She craved this man. Craved everything about him. His big hard body, his handsome scarred face, his pain-filled eyes. She kept her gaze fixed on the blue ink scrawled over his torso, avoiding the obvious sign of his fierce arousal beneath it.
“You should stay a virgin.”
Even as he said it she knew he didn’t mean it. His hand skimmed along her arm, traced the curve of her armpit and slid down to glide along the underside of her bare breast. The sensation of fingertips on the sensitive skin made her suck in a breath.
“You’ve saved yourself until now. You should wait until the right man comes along.”
But what if you are the right man?
She didn’t say the question aloud, but he heard it anyway.
“I can’t offer you anything beyond a night of pleasure. I know I can offer you that.” His eyes narrowed. “Sexual pleasure is one area of life where I know I won’t disappoint. Where I won’t be disappointed. I guess that’s why it beckons me now, when there’s nothing else I can count on.”
She dropped her eyes to the hand caressing her breast, then back up to meet his steady gaze. “If you think I should wait, why are you still touching me? You’re breaking the rules.” Her voice emerged as a whisper, breathless with want. And with fear. Fear of her own aching need.
“It’s the beast inside me. The crazy, dangerous part that keeps me awake at nights when everyone else is sleeping. The beast wants you.”
“And the honorable man?”
“He wants you, too.”

Breaking the Rules by Jennifer Lewis

My rating: 3.5 of 5 stars

(Source: I received a digital copy of this book for free on a read-to-review basis. Thanks to Mangrove and Netgalley.)
10 years ago, 30-year-old Joe had his fortune told by a gypsy girl in New York, who told him that he would meet the love of his life that very same day. What she didn’t tell him is that she was the girl she saw in his future, and so the girl that he then met and married cheated on him and divorced him.

Wanting to find the gypsy girl and tell her how she ruined his life, Joe goes back to the shop where she worked, and meets the same girl again – Susana.

Susana admits to him that she was the girl she saw with him in the globe, and he tells her that she owes him for not telling him the whole truth of his fortune, and demands that she have dinner with him.

Susana and Joe are instantly attracted to one another, but Susana knows that if she loses her virginity she will also lose her ‘sight’ and her ability to do her job though, and is cautious.
Can Joe and Susana really be destined to be together? Can he forgive her for his failed marriage? What will Susana’s Romany family say if they find that Joe and Susana are together? And is Susana prepared to lose her sight to be with Joe?


This was a sweet romance about an unlikely but destined love affair, and the couple’s desire to be together.

Susana was a sweet but innocent girl, and she was a little afraid of what would happen to her if she lost her sight. Raised by a strict grandmother she had all sorts of ideas that she knew weren’t very modern, and a family that wasn’t very forgiving either. It was sweet when she realised her true feelings for Joe though, and her decision to be with him wasn’t easily made.

Joe had a past and was a little angry over the hand that he had been dealt. He felt betrayed by his wife and his best friend, had issues with his job in the Navy, and blamed some of this on Susana because of her failed prediction. It was sweet to see him lose some of his anger though, and to finally realise the way that he felt about Susana. He really grew during this story, and Susana helped him to see how he really wanted his life to be.

The storyline in this book was quite a typical contemporary romance, with the added factors of Susana’s prediction, Susana’s Romany heritage, and her ‘sight’. There was the added complication of Susana’s family, but the romance followed the typical pattern of boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, boy and girl go through a rough patch/some hardship, boy and girl admit their feelings and live happily ever after.
There was sex in the story but it wasn’t too erotic, and was dealt with in quite a sweet way.
Overall; a sweet contemporary romance, about a Romany girl with the ‘sight’, and an ex-Navy man with a past.
7 out of 10.

The Madness Underneath (Shades of London, #2) by Maureen Johnson

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Blurb (from Goodreads):

When madness stalks the streets of London, no one is safe…

There's a creepy new terror haunting modern-day London.
Fresh from defeating a Jack the Ripper killer, Rory must put her new-found hunting skills to the test before all hell breaks loose…

But enemies are not always who you expect them to be and crazy times call for crazy solutions. A thrilling teen mystery.

 

The Madness Underneath by Maureen Johnson

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

(Source: I received a digital copy of this book for free on a read-to-review basis. Thanks to HarperCollins Publishers and Netgalley.)
This is book 2 in the ‘Shades of London’ series, and picks up a couple of months after the end of book 1.
**Warning – some unavoidable spoilers for book 1 ‘The Name of The Star’**
Following Rory’s encounter with the ‘Jack the Ripper’ copycat in book 1, she’s been recovering at her parents rented home in Bristol, and seeing a therapist 3 times a week, even though she can’t tell her therapist what really happened in London.

Rory’s discovery that she seems to now be a human Terminus means that she knows she has to go back to London though, and she has to try and find Stephen, Boo and Callum and explain to them what has happened.

Finding herself sent back to ‘Wexford’ Boarding School in London, Rory finds herself concentrating less on her studies, and more on finding the spook squad, and busting some more murderous ghosts. How long can Rory continue neglecting her studies though? Can Charlotte’s strange therapist help her too? How long can the ghost busters continue without a working Terminus? And how does Rory feel about her possible future as part of their squad?


This was a great sequel to ‘The Name of The Star’, I loved Rory, I loved the atmospheric nature of the story, and the ending was so sad it made me cry!

Rory is quite damaged by her previous experiences in London, and it’s taking her a while to work through things, especially seeing as she now has no one that she can confide in. She knows that she needs to go back to London, but it’s more because she needs people she can talk to, rather than wanting to go back to school. It’s really easy to relate to Rory in this respect, because she really is doing her best to recover from her trauma, and she seems to know better than anyone what she needs, even if it’s not what everyone else thinks that she needs.

It was good to go back to Wexford and catch up with all of Rory’s old friends though, especially when she managed to get back in contact with Stephen, Boo, and Callum. It was obvious how much they all needed each other, and even though Rory wasn’t ready to jump straight back into the job, she was able to focus on important things, and help when she was really needed. She even put extra effort into trying to solve a murder which wasn’t necessarily unsolved, and kept an eye out for things resembling what happened during her own attack.

There was a small hint of romance in this book, but it was very, very slight. The main storyline was concerned with Rory’s recovery, and the new ghostly murders happening in London, and it flowed really well. I liked how it wasn’t the same storyline rehashed, and I liked how all the characters had been changed by what had happened in book 1.
The ending to this book was a big shock though! Something totally unexpected and sad and shocking happened which I really wasn’t expecting, and it even made me cry! It’s obvious that there will be another book after this one, but how Rory will recover from this newest tragedy remains to be seem, I can only assume that she will be even more damaged in the next book than she was in this one which is really sad. I really want to read the next book now though!
Overall; a great ghostly/paranormal YA murder mystery.
8 out of 10.

Book Blitz and Giveaway - Inspire by Heather Buchine

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Book & Author Details:

Inspire  by Heather Buchine
Publication date: March 31st 2013
Genre: NA Contemporary Romance

Synopsis:
18-year old Paige Rice, an exquisite beauty from East Hampton, NY, has just celebrated her high school graduation and is expecting to spend her summer living it up with all her socialite friends. But her parents have a different idea – she is being hauled away-literally- to the mountains of Vermont for the entire summer- in an RV!

Assuming she will be an outcast amongst the other teens at the campground still does not prepare her for the treatment she receives, which is far worse than she imagined. She also isn’t prepared for Travis, the campground owner’s son and the “Sexiest” guy she has ever laid eyes on. Travis is the only one who shows any interest in getting to know Paige. The only problem is that they have to explore what lies between them in secret. But once all the secrets are stripped away, the truth may be crushing.

***Intended for mature audiences due to language and sexual content***

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17725218-inspire?ac=1

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AUTHOR BIO

By no surprise my favorite hobbies are reading and writing. But beyond escaping into the written fantasy world, I love experiencing new things. Surfing, motorcycle riding, snow blading, glass blowing, parasailing, SUP boarding are just a few that I have checked off my bucket list, but there is still so much more to explore. Right now, being a mom is my biggest adventure and the best by far!! In the quiet calm hours of the night though, I can usually be found typing away creating a world of romance where drama still exists but love (hopefully!!) always prevails.

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