Blog Tour- LADY RENEGADES by Rachel Hawkins An Interview & Giveaway!

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on blog tour for LADY RENEGADES by Rachel Hawkins! I adore Rachel and her books! I have a "would you rather" interview with Rachel to share with you today! And make sure to enter the awesome giveaway for a complete set of the Rebel Belle series, US Only! 

Haven't heard of LADY RENEGADES? Check it out!

Title: LADY RENEGADES (Rebel Belles Book #3)

Author: Rachel Hawkins

Pub. Date: April 5, 2016

Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers

Format: Paperback, eBook, audiobook

Find it: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iBooks | Goodreads

From the  New York Times bestselling author of Hex Hall comes the sparkling finale in the beloved Rebel Belle series.

Just as Harper Price starts coming to terms with her role as David Stark's battle-ready Paladin, protector, and girlfriend—her world goes crazy all over again.  

Overwhelmed by his Oracle powers, David flees Pine Grove and starts turning teenaged girls into Paladins—and these young ladies seem to think that Harper is the enemy David needs protecting from.  Ordinarily, Harper would be able to fight off any Paladin who comes her way, but her powers have been dwindling since David left town, which means her life is on the line yet again. 

Now, it’s a desperate race for Harper to find and rescue David before she backslides from superhero to your garden-variety type-A belle. 

New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins brings the fun once again in the finale of this pitch-perfect romantic paranormal comedy series.

Now on to the questions and Rachel shared gifs!

1.       Would you rather wear a prom dress for the rest of your life or sweats?

Prom dress

2.       Would you rather have the ability to fly or teleport?

Teleport

3.       Would you rather have the ability to read minds or to heal?

Heal

4.       Would you rather change the past or be able to see into the future?

See the future

5.       Would you rather be able to visit 100 years in the past or 100 years in the future?

The future again!

6.       Would you rather be super strong or super-fast?

Super strong

7.       Would you rather read one awesome book for the rest of your life or a hundred mediocre books?

A hundred mediocre

8.       Would you rather eat sweet or salty foods?

Salty!

9.       Would you rather have a dragon or be a dragon?

Have a dragon

10.   Would you rather get up early or stay up late?

Get up early

11.   Would you rather speak every language in the world or play every instrument?

Speak every language

12.   Would you rather always have the same song stuck in your head or always have the same dream at night?

Same dream

13.   Would you rather live in space or under the sea?

Under the sea! (Aaaand now that song is stuck in my head.)

14.   Would you rather take a vacation on an exotic island or in a romantic city?

Live in a romantic city

15.   Would you rather live without a telephone or a television?

Live without TV

16.   Would you rather live in the city or the country?

City

17.   Would you rather live by the ocean or by the mountains?

Ocean

18.   Would you rather be stuck in a house with someone you hate or be stuck in a house alone?

Stuck with someone I hate!

About Rachel:

Rachel Hawkins is the author of the bestselling Hex Hall series. She lives in Alabama.

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Giveaway Details:

1 winner will receive a complete set of the Rebel Belle series, US Only.

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Tour Schedule:

Week 1:

MUNDIE MOMS–Interview - 04/11/16

YA BIBLIOPHILE–Listicle–04/12/16

FICTION FARE–Interview - 04/13/16

THE O.W.L.–Guest post–04/14/16

THE YOUNG FOLKS–Guest post–04/15/16

Week 2:

THE MIDNIGHT GARDEN–Guest post–04/18/16

TWO CHICKS ON BOOKS–Would You Rather? & Giveaway - 04/19/16

BOOKISH ANTICS–Listicle- 04/20/16

Here's to Happy Endings–Review and Giveaway–04/21/16

ONCE UPON A TWILIGHT–Series Giveaway–04/22/16

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Top Ten Tuesday (24)- Top Ten Characters I'd Like To Check In With

Hi thanks for stopping by!!! And welcome to my Top 10 Tuesday post! 

Thanks to the lovely ladies at The Broke And The Bookish for creating this weekly meme!

Here's this week's topic.

April 7: Top Ten Characters I'd Like To Check In With

Ah there's so many but here's a few

1. Juliette and Warner from Tahereh Mafi's Shatter Me series.
2. June and Day from Marie Lu's Legend series.
3. Aria, Perry, and Roar from Veronica Rossi's Under the Never Sky series.
4. Avry and Kerrick from Maria V. Snyder's Healer Series
5. Shane and Ciara and the rest of the WVMP DJ's from Jeri Smith Ready's WVMP Series
6. Elisa and Hector from Rae Carson's Fire and Thorns series.
7. Aura and Zach from Jeri Smith Ready's Shade series.
8. Janelle, Barclay, and Ben from Elizabeth Norris's Unraveling series.
9. Sophie and Archer from Rachel Hawkins Hex Hall series.
10. Kaylee and Tod from Rachel Vincent's Soul Screamers series.

So this is my list. What about you? What characters would you like to check in on?

And come back next week for my  Top Ten Inspiring Quotes from Books (anything that inspires you, challenges you, makes you think, encourages you, etc.) I may not do this one still thinking on it.

Hugs,
Jaime

Blog Tour- GRIM Anthology and a Giveaway!

I am so excited to take part in the blog tour for the GRIM Anthology! I love fairy tale retellings and the 3 stories that I am covering today are all really good! I have 3 mini reviews for you and also I'm going to talk about how they comepare to the originals! Make sure to enter the giveaway below for a Harlequin Teen Prize Pack that includes GRIM and other great Harlequin Teen Books!
Haven't heard of GRIM? Check it out!

Title: GRIM

Author: Multiple

Publisher: Harlequin Teen

Pages: 480

Pub. Date: February 25, 2014

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Inspired by classic fairy tales, but with a dark and sinister twist, Grim contains short stories from some of the best voices in young adult literature today:

Kimberly Derting | Sonia Gensler | Tessa Gratton | Claudia Gray | Rachel Hawkins | Amanda Hocking | Ellen Hopkins| Shaun David Hutchinson  | Julie Kagawa | Malinda Lo | Myra McEntire |Saundra Mitchell | Jackson Pearce | Sarah Rees Brennan | Jon Skovron | Jeri Smith-Ready

Edited by Christine Johnson

Short Stories

1.       The Key by Rachel Hawkins

2.     Figment by Jeri-Smith Ready

3.     The Twelfth Girl by Malinda Lo

4.    The Raven Princess by Jon Skovron

5.     Thinner Than Water by Saundra Mitchell

6.    Before The Rose Bloomed: A Retelling of the Snow Queen by Ellen Hopkins

7.     Beast / Beast by Tessa Gratton

8.    The Brothers Piggett by Julia Kagawa

9.     UnTethered by Sonia Gensler

10. Better by Shaun David Hutchinson

11.    Light It Up by Kimberly Derting

12.  Sharper Than A Serpent's Tongue by Christine Johnson

13.  A Real Boy by Claudia Gray

14. Skin Trade by Myra McEntire

15.  Beauty and the Chad by Sarah Rees Brennan

16. The Pink: A Grimm Story by Amanda Hocking

17.  Sell it Out by Jackson Pearce

Now on to the reviews I'll talk about which retellings they are in my comparison after the reviews!

THE KEY was what I expected from Rachel Hawkins. A good story although I had a hard time pinning down the retelling I knew what it was supposed to be but it was so short it was hard to nail it down. I always like her writing. The only complaint I have is that it was way too short I wanted more. Rating: Liked!

You put something of Jeri Smith-Ready's in my hands and I will DEVOUR it! Just as I did with FIGMENT. This is another that I had a hard time figuring out the retelling but whatever I didn't really care what it was because it was AWESOME!!!! I adored Eli and "Fig" and it totally made me cry. Rating: OBSESSED!!!!!!

THE TWELFTH GIRL....Now this one I knew right away what it was and I loved the modern update Malinda did! It reminded me of the original with a really nice twist. I loved the darkness she brought into this tale and I really wanted to read more. If Malinda wrote a whole story about this I would snatch it up right away! This is the first book by Malinda I've read and she's an amazing writer I plan on picking up all of her books now! Rating: LOVED


Ok so let me tell you a little secret. I love Fairy Tales! Yeah the ones adapted for Disney are cool but I love the originals much more! I loved the darkness and the fear they instilled in children because they weren't the happily ever after tales that as a child we all wanted to be true. The originals were told to scare kids but they were rooted in real life. Children disappeared, men married women to turn around and kill them, and sometimes people just had awesome luck to only have it fail after a year or so. That's what I love about these they're not sugar coated HEA's. The authors in this antho especially Hawkins and Lo brought the darkness and embraced it. 

Hawkins story THE KEY was roughly based off of Bluebeard and it was really good! I wanted to have more of Skye though; his motives were unclear and I didn't understand how or why he was the way he was. I did want more though the ending was very open ended. 

Lo's THE TWELFTH GIRL was The Twelve Dancing Princesses with a modern update that I loved! She went way darker than the original and I loved the twist I also wanted more of this! And I loved that the "castle" was a dorm in an upscale prep school!

Jeri Smith-Ready's was the hardest to nail down but I mean it had a cat wearing boots so maybe a take on Puss in Boots? But he/it was also someone who inspired people so I came to think of him/it as a muse. So maybe Puss in Boots with a bit of the 9 sisters mixed in. Regardless I freaking loved it!!

Giveaway Details:

Contest Info:  

Each tour stop is offering up a copy of GRIM, and one winner will receive a fantastic Grand Prize Package including the following Harlequin Teen titles: 2 copies of GRIM, a copy of WHITE HOT KISS by Jennifer Armentrout, THE SECRET DIAMOND SISTERS by Michelle Madow, THE QUEEN’S CHOICE by Cayla Kluver and an ARC of  LET’S GET LOST by Adi Alsaid.

Please enter via the Rafflecopter form. Giveaway is open to US/Canada and ends March 7th.

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Tour Schedule

Week One:

Monday, February 17th - Harlequin Paranormal Blog

Tuesday, February 18th - Stories 1, 2 and 3 - Two Chicks on Books

Wednesday, February 19th - Stories 4, 5 and 6 - Book and A Latte

Friday, February 21st - Stories 7, 8 and 9 - Fiction Freak

Week Two:

Monday, February 24th - Stories 10, 11 and 12 - Mundie Moms

Wednesday, February 26th -  Stories 13, 14 and 15 - Bumbles and Fairytales

Friday, February 28th -  Stories 16 and 17 - Fiktshun

For more info about the guest posts you can direct your readers to the Tour Page

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Jaime's Review of Spellbound by Rachel Hawkins

Spellbound

Rachel Hawkins

Hardcover: 336 pages

Release Date: March 13, 2012

Publisher: Hyperion Book CH

ISBN: 1423121325

Source: Bought

Rating: Loved

From Goodreads.
Hailed as “impossible to put down,” the Hex Hall series has both critics and teens cheering. With a winning combination of romance, action, magic and humor, this third volume will leave readers enchanted.

Just as Sophie Mercer has come to accept her extraordinary magical powers as a demon, the Prodigium Council strips them away. Now Sophie is defenseless, alone, and at the mercy of her sworn enemies—the Brannicks, a family of warrior women who hunt down the Prodigium. Or at least that’s what Sophie thinks, until she makes a surprising discovery. The Brannicks know an epic war is coming, and they believe Sophie is the only one powerful enough to stop the world from ending. But without her magic, Sophie isn’t as confident.

Sophie’s bound for one hell of a ride—can she get her powers back before it’s too late?

This is another series that came to an end that I wish it hadn’t. I love Rachel Hawkins writing and I could have lived in Sophie’s world indefinitely! After the cliffhanger that ended Demonglass, with all of our mouths hanging wide open and us saying “WTH?” I couldn’t wait to get my hands on Spellbound no, I mean seriously I kinda stalked my mail box that day waiting for it to magically appear. Then when it did I sat down and started reading. I forgot about eating, I forgot about housework, I just had to read to see what happened to Sophie and Archer and all of her friends and family. Boy was it an amazing book!

I love that Rachel has written a series about witches, demons, vampires, and their hunters but has done it so that there is humor involved and trust me Spellbound like its predecessors Hex Hall and Demonglass has tons of laughs. It also has tons of swoon worthy moments between Sophie and Archer and some really sweet ones between her and Cal. Basically this story has everything romance, danger, mystery, friendship, and humor. It’s the perfect kind of story. The perfect ending!!!! I don’t want to say anything that spoils it so I’m not going to go into story details I just wanted you all to know how beautiful this was and to go get it now if you don’t have it already.

I did want to share a passage between Sophie and Archer.

“Stop it,” I said, jerking our joined hands. “Cal’s my friend. That’s it. You’re the guy I ----“

Love, I wanted to say. Buy the word froze on my tongue, and I ended up saying, “Want. Choose. Whatever.”

He held my gaze, and his dark eyes were as serious as I’d ever seen them. “Maybe I shouldn’t be.”

Shocked, I leaned away from him. “What does that mean?”

“It’s just… If you were with him, you’d be happier. Better off.”

Okay, now I was getting angry. “That’s really not for you to decide. And if you feel that way, maybe you should just go ahead and give me the ‘It’s Not You, It’s Me’ speech right now”

To my surprise, Archer smiled. “That’s the thing, though.” He said. “I can’t. I could stand it if you left me, but I don’t think there’s any way I could leave you.”

I blinked at him. “You are so screwed up.”

“That’s what I’ve been trying to tell you.”

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