Monthly Archives: June 2012

Review: Shield

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Shield
Shield by J.C. Andrijeski
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The world is insane in a way. All of us are insane.

Coming to terms with being the Bridge isn’t easy, especially when your husband won’t tell you all the rules – and keeps getting separated from you. As Allie tries to come to terms with both her new role as the Bridge and her feelings for Revik, she also must stop a war – if she can. Amidst all of this tension, the boy appears, claiming Allie belongs to him.

Continuing where Rook left off, the tension between Allie and Revik is hyped up in this book, a factor of how the Seer marriage works. And just as they get together to figure their feelings out, they are ripped apart once again. Allie does manage to learn more about being a Seer and a Bridge – both the “easy” way and the “hard” way. Along the way, Allie discovers the boy, and her world is shaken with her understanding of who he is.

Fast-paced, action-filled, and full of emotional rides, Shield is a worthy sequel to the Allie’s War series. Once again Andrijeski pulls you into the Seer’s world, twists your emotions on edge, and holds you there until the very end, leaving you with a shock strong enough to have you picking up the next book.

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New Release: Knight (Allie’s War #5)

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Yeah! It’s here! Release day for the next book in JC Andrijeski’s Allie’s War series! Here’s the scoop:

Blurb:

“I thought the two of you were scary individually. Together, you’re worse. You know that…right? A lot worse, man…”

With several groups of hostile seers hot on their trail, Allie and Revik set up camp in New York, dragging the remnants of their seer alliance with them. Not long after they arrive, Allie coaxes Revik into helping her rob a bank to acquire a mysterious list of names…even as a human-killing virus strikes in San Francisco, and a lot of the people Allie cares about start to disappear. Fielding off attacks by the Lao Hu and the mysterious Shadow out of Argentina, Allie and Revik have to make impossible choices as they learn how to work together again. Before they can decide what to do, tragedy strikes their group, and they are forced to admit they might be outmatched.

Meanwhile, Allie’s brother, Jon, seems to be going through some pretty strange changes of his own, including being stuck in an odd partnering with Wreg, the ex-captain of the rebels, as he tries to find the humans on the list who are believed to be important in the coming Displacement. When Allie finds out she’s being stalked by the lead infiltrator of the Lao Hu, she has to decide whether to risk everything to save the people she loves in San Francisco, or go to war with  the enigmatic Shadow, who seems to want to bring the end of the world on his own terms, and doesn’t care how many humans he has to kill to do it…

Links:

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Knight-Allies-Book-Five-ebook/dp/B008FKV59M/
Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/176844
Omnilit: http://www.omnilit.com/product-knightallie039swarbookfive-851709-140.html
Drivethru Fiction:
http://www.drivethrufiction.com/product/103479/Knight%3A-Allie%27s-War%2C-Book-Five

If you haven’t started this series yet, check out my review of Rook (Book 1). I’ll have the other books read and reviewed soon so I can find out what happens to Allie and Revik in this book!

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Guest Post: JC Andrijeski

FMB Blog Tour: Back to You

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Virtual Book Trailer Tour and Excerpt

 

Book Title: Back To You

 Author: Natalie-Nicole Bates

 Genre: Contemporary, Romance

 Publisher: Bradley Publishing

 Publication Date: January 30th, 2012

 Ebook

 Words: 26,000

Book Description:

“On the surface, Lynsey Reznor seems to have it all. She is beautiful, brilliant, and a successful true-crime writer who has been living the past decade in Miami. But what Lynsey lacks is what she needs the most—a family.

After the death of her mother, and yet another failed relationship, Lynsey makes an impulsive decision to return to her hometown of Unity. But Unity will present its own bittersweet memories, most notably, her first love, Nick Lincoln.

Twenty years ago, Nick broke teenager Lynsey’s heart when he decided to marry another. He had his own private reasons—reasons he never explained to Lynsey. Now she is back, along with a chance to reclaim her love. But Lynsey wants answers from him that he may never be able to give out of duty and guilt.” Continue reading FMB Blog Tour: Back to You →

Review: Orlind

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Orlind
Orlind by Charlotte E. English
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

‘You can change them,’ he said in reply. ‘But you can also change yourself.’

War has come to the Seven Realms, yet almost as suddenly as the draykon force appears, it vanishes. Convinced this is somehow the work of Krays, Eva sets off to infiltrate Krays’s library, leaving Llandry (and the other draykon on their side) to defend her home.

Picking up where Lokant left off, with the war still raging and secrets still being discovered. Llandry and her draykon friends must find a way to battle the draykoni force. Meanwhile, Eva and Tren find what seems to be the root of the war between the libraries – Orlind.

The characters, wonderfully developed throughout the entire trilogy, continue to grow and change as they learn more about themselves, their past, and their abilities. The scenery is once again well described, and the romance in this book has increased as both Tren and Pensould pursue their respective ladies, and though subtle most of the time, it is quite entertaining at points.

A wonderful conclusion to the Draykon series, Orlind ties up loose ends while leaving the world of the Seven Realms open for exploration, which hopefully will spawn more books in this world.

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Blog Tour: Serenya’s Song

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An Evening with the Cast of Serenya’s Song #4: Lillyanne

Setting: The Wasted Witch

That’s my seat, stranger. Never mind. Ye’ve got the old red-eye already. The name’s Lillyanne Sawyer. My friends call me Lilly. What, ye’ve never seen a halfling before? Better go easy on Barnaby’s Ale. It’s smooth as a royal consort the first mug or two, but it’ll yank the ground from under yer feet if ye drink a drop too much.

Who am I kiddin’? I’ve been preachin’ at that wood-elf over there, Jayden, or Jay as I call ‘im, for ten years, and I might as well be talkin’ to this bar stool. We work together, or did, back in Leogard.

And now look at ‘im. Drownin’ his sorrows in ale. I told him he should’ve never married Lady Caliphany. I could tell she was a man-eater from the first day I laid eyes on ‘er. I’ll give ‘im credit for walkin’ away when he did. Least he didn’t buy into ‘er martyr routine. She was willin’ to stay with ‘im, but she’d have never loved ‘im like she did that half-elf rogue of ‘ers.

I finally talked Jay into movin’ here to Summerwind. It’s where I grew up with the rest of my people, the Haddo. Perfect town to settle in. I decided to come back for good after Jay stepped down. It was time to leave all the hobnobbin’ and favor-mongerin’ in Leogard far behind me. Continue reading Blog Tour: Serenya’s Song →

New Release: Family Fallacies

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Today’s new release is Book 3 in the Kate Huntington Mystery series. A little bit of mystery, a touch of psychotherapy, and a murder suspect rolled into this thriller!

Blurb:

Psychotherapist Kate Huntington is having a rough autumn. Someone’s been sending anonymous and vaguely threatening notes to the counseling center where she works, and now she’s being sued for malpractice, for supposedly planting false memories in a client’s head. There is one bright spot. She’s falling in love. Now if she could just get the ghost of her dead husband out of her head.

As the budding romance is heating up, the note sender ups the ante and is threatening to “destroy” Kate’s family. Can things get any worse? Yes, they can. Kate becomes a murder suspect when a party in the lawsuit ends up dead. Her good friend, lawyer Rob Franklin, still has some misgivings about her too-handsome-to-be-trusted suitor. But now the two men must work together to support the woman they both love, and help her stop a killer… before he or she comes after Kate’s baby girl. Continue reading New Release: Family Fallacies →

Cover Reveal: Determinate

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Determinant, Book 3 The Guardians of Vesturon

Series : The Guardians of Vesturon
Genre : Young Adult Paranormal Romance (with a sci-fi element)
Heat : Hot

Synopsis:

January St. Davis, on her own since the age of sixteen and struggling to stay in college, thinks she’s scored in a major way when she lands a paid summer internship at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. One evening, after working an especially long shift, a chance encouter with a group of mysterious men alters the course of her life.

Rykerian Yarrister, a Guardian of Vesturon with unearthly powers and impossibly gorgeous looks, finds himself at odds over the human female he recently saved from certain death. When it seems he is on the verge of winning her over, she is ripped from
his hands by a strange and powerful being, threatening to destroy her if his demands are not met.

Do Rykerian and the Guardians have the ability to meet this fierce barbarian’s ultimatums, or will January suffer a horrid demise? Continue reading Cover Reveal: Determinate →

Review: Lokant

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Lokant
Lokant by Charlotte E. English
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Llandry was learning that when two stubborn old men were placed into the same room together, their individual stubbornness not only doubled but increased tenfold

Draykon once again fly the skies of the Seven Realms. War is building. Llandry is being chased by a white-haired sorcerer while Eva is trying to find out how her own heritage ties into who the Lokants are and what they want. Will there be peace again in the Seven Realms, or will warring factions destroy what was once these quiet lands?

Picking up where the first book left off, Lokant dives right back into the thick of things. The characters are given no time for reprieve, forced to set off almost at once to answer questions burning in their own minds. Llandry now has to figure out not just her new form, but also Pensould – the awoken Draykon that proclaims her his mate. Eva and Tren’s relationship also comes to a test as Eva’s wedding approaches but she finds her heart not in it. All the while, war is building between rival Lokants with the Draykon picking sides – and the humans are caught in between.

The details of the world are just as vivid as the first book, masterfully woven together to create a real sense of the different places the characters travel. The magic is evolving, changing as the characters learn to interact with it in ways they hadn’t thought of before, yet it is still as integral to their beings as it was before.

Riveting and full of new (and old) characters to love, Lokant keeps the action, mysteries and even a bit of romance building until the very end.

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Blog Tour: Writings From the Heart

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Welcome to the Writings From the Heart Blog Tour! Today I have a few authors here to give just a little info on why they chose to write for this anthology, and their reasons might surprise you! This book is a great way to not only support authors but to support a great cause as well – the Cohen Children’s Medical Center of NY!

Thank you for having me on your blog today, Tricia! I am here to talk to you folks about an anthology that I published called Writings From the Heart: Stories and Poetry From Around the World.  Thirty authors from around the world contributed to this anthology. What’s unique about it, is that not only does it contain literature from many different countries, but all proceeds are going to the Cohen Children’s Medical Center of NY.  Everyone’s support has been great, and I’d like to share with you some of the contributor’s reasons as to why they participated to such a great cause! Continue reading Blog Tour: Writings From the Heart →

FMB Blog Tour: Ancient Canada

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Ancient Canada by Clinton Festa

Today’s my tour stop for Clinton Festa’s book, Ancient Canada! This book sounds like a great read for fantasy/mythology lovers! I admit it’s on my TBR shelf and am looking forward to diving into it. Here’s the stats:

Book Title: Ancient Canada

Author: Clinton Festa

Genre: Fantasy

Publisher: SynergEbooks

Book Description:

“Ancient Canada is a fantasy epic and a story of mythology for an alternate Canada.  Because of her unique ability to see life and death, Lavender is exiled from her home.  With the help of her sister Marigold, she survives in the wild using her gift.  The two encounter various characters and creatures along their journey, not all human and not all friendly.  Each chapter is narrated by one of these characters or creatures, sharing their personal story as well as their encounter of the two sisters.  Together the chapters link to bring Lavender and Marigold’s epic, the mythological story of Ancient Canada.” Continue reading FMB Blog Tour: Ancient Canada →