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OK so y’all are going to think we’re evil hehe. We have a
small teaser from Onyx to share today as a part of the 30 Days of Daemon tour.
Trust us this book is fantastic and if you want check out Jaime’s review here!
Make sure to come back though for the teaser! Here’s the synopsis for Onyx!
Being connected to Daemon Black sucks…
Daemon’s determined to prove what he feels for me is more than a product of our bizarre connection. I’ve sworn him off even though he’s running more hot than cold these days. But against all common sense, I’m falling for him. Hard.
Our relationship issues aren’t out biggest problem…
The Department of Defense is here. If they ever find out what Daemon can do and that we’re linked, I’m a goner. So is he. And when a new boy shows up a school with a secret of his own, things get complicated fast. I need to choose between my own instincts and Daemon’s.
But then everything changes…
I’ve seen someone who shouldn’t be alive. Daemon’s never going to stop searching until gets the truth. What happened to his brother? Who betrayed him? And what does the DOD want from them—from me?
No one is who they seem. And not everyone will survive the lies.
And now here’s our teaser!!!!!!!!!!
“I
don’t think we got the chance to introduce ourselves the other night at the
diner. My name is Blake Saunders.” He offered his free hand. Daemon glanced at Blake’s hand before returning
his gaze to me. “I know who you are.” Oh, geez. I twisted toward Blake. “This is Daemon
Black.” His smile faltered. “Yeah, I know who he is, too.” Laughing under his breath, Daemon straightened. At
his full height, he was a good head taller than Blake. “It’s always nice to
meet another fan.” Yeah, Blake had no idea what to say to that.
OMG Right! Ok and if you want another teaser make sure to
check Jaime’s review (link up above) there’s another there lol! And check out Book
Kitty Blog for today’s other tour stop!
And for information on all the other tour stops in the 30
Days of Daemon blog tour check out Entangled
Publishing’s Blog!!!!
Ok peeps so we don't normally talk about TV shows but I (Jaime) just saw the trailer for NBC's Revolution and it's Dystopian!!!!!! OMG Squeals it looks like it's going to be awesome. And it's got Billy Burke (Bella's dad from Twilight) and an amazing looking cast and premise. And It's by Jon Favreau (Iron Man, Iron Man 2, and the amazing actor in Swingers and PCU lol) also J.J. Abrams (Star Trek, Lost, Alias, and Armageddon) and Eric Kripke (Supernatural).So what do you all think? Are you going to tune in? I know I am!!!!!!
Ok everyone! We
have another gorgeous cover to show you from the talented author KA Tucker! You
all may know we don’t review indie books anymore (there’s a few we still love
from our humble beginnings) but, KA’s books are awesome and she’ll always be a
favorite of ours! If you haven’t read the first two books in her series
Anathema and Asylum we highly recommend them and will be posting links to
purchase them below.
So here’s the
cover for Allegiance!!!!!
And here’s the Allegiance
Synopsis!!! ********Warning!!!! If you haven’t read the first two books don’t
read this there will be spoilery*************
Evangeline finally got what she longed for—the cursed pendant off her neck and Caden in her arms—only it came at a steep price. An unknown poison now courses through her body, slowly morphing her into something no one but the Fates can foresee. She has her suspicions, though...and if she is right, it will spell certain ruin for her and Caden. But she won’t last long enough to realize that, if Viggo and Mortimer uncover the treasonous secrets she keeps from them– that Veronique, no longer entombed, is now in the torturous clutches of the witches and the People’s Sentinel, or that she is protecting a Sentinel within their very midst.
Always the naive human caught in the vampires’ web of deceit, Evangeline is now weaving her own dangerous web so she can keep her friend alive, rescue Veronique, and stop a seemingly inevitable war from erupting. But can her honor handle the depths of duplicity to which she must descend, in order to be in league with the vampires?
Dark and gripping, riddled with angst, Allegiance will have readers anxiously turning pages to find out if Evangeline can survive, or if she’ll spiral into disaster.
Ok so you know you
want to read these! And the awesome part Anathema book 1 is free right now so
go grab it!!!!!
From Goodreads.
Mia Price is a lightning addict. She's survived countless strikes, but her craving to connect to the energy in storms endangers her life and the lives of those around her.
Los Angeles, where lightning rarely strikes, is one of the few places Mia feels safe from her addiction. But when an earthquake devastates the city, her haven is transformed into a minefield of chaos and danger. The beaches become massive tent cities. Downtown is a crumbling wasteland, where a traveling party moves to a different empty building each night, the revelers drawn to the destruction by a force they cannot deny. Two warring cults rise to power, and both see Mia as the key to their opposing doomsday prophecies. They believe she has a connection to the freak electrical storm that caused the quake, and to the far more devastating storm that is yet to come.
Mia wants to trust the enigmatic and alluring Jeremy when he promises to protect her, but she fears he isn't who he claims to be. In the end, the passion and power that brought them together could be their downfall. When the final disaster strikes, Mia must risk unleashing the full horror of her strength to save the people she loves, or lose everything.
Ok here’s the thing there’s lots of religion in this book and being a
not religious person I thought it would bug me; I have actually seen a few
reviews where they complained that it was too much. That being said it did
bother me a little in the beginning; I found
myself squirming at the mention of God and Prophet but, once I got into the
story and stopped thinking about all of that I really enjoyed this book!
Basically this all boils down to a good versus evil situation with the
lines blurred with who is really the good guy and, poor Mia is stuck in the
middle. There’s also a boy who is a huge beautiful mystery and two different
leaders of groups that are very appealing and enigmatic in their own rights. I
loved Mia’s character she’s extremely flawed (being a lightening addict and
all) but through her flaws we see a strength, a willingness to fight and
survive that I found very believable and she had me rooting for her to make the
right choices. The mysterious boy Jeremy I fell for almost instantly with his
dark hair, Clark Kent glasses and, the pain and sadness behind his eyes; he was
a puzzle one I figured out quite early but, I still loved putting the pieces
together. There were other characters that I really liked too Katrina even
though she was kind of a bitch and Mr. Kale who I developed a huge crush on.
And ugh I hated Prophet he was seriously creepy with those milky eyes and
slivery hair he seriously gave me the willies!
So that being said I just spoke with Jenn and she said that this book
is a standalone and while I like that… I’m having a problem letting go of this
world and I really would like to see more of Mia and Jeremy not to mention Mr.
Kale ;) So please Macmillan, pretty please ask Jenn to write more books!!!!!
I chose a passage between Jeremy and Mia because it made me giggle
just a bit and there’s a motorcycle in it.
Past Jeremy’s
shoulder, I could see his bike parked at the end of the alley. I stepped past
him and crossed the dozen yards to it.
I stood there
surveying the machine, and even though I knew nothing about motorcycles, I
couldn’t help but be impressed. And terrified. The bike was black and shiny and
compact. It looked barely big enough for one person to ride on, let alone the
two of us. But Jeremy lifted the seat and removed an extra helmet from the
compartment beneath. He handed it to me. I took it, but only stared at it
dumbly.
“Are you okay
with this?”
“I guess I have
to be, don’t I?” I raised my eyes to his, chewing my lip. “What if---“ I
hesitated, uncertain how to proceed with the question. “What if the thing that
happens, you know, when we’re touching… what if it happens while we’re on the
bike? I could fall off the back.”
“You won’t,”
Jeremy said.
“How can you be
so sure?”
“I have to touch
you with my hands for it to happen.” He raised his hands, palms up, as though
in surrender. “As long as these stay on the handlebars, you’re safe.”
“So I can touch
you, but you can’t touch me?”
He nodded,
frowning. “For now,” he said, and the implication made my hot blood boil all
over again.
I also wanted to post the trailer for struck in case y’all haven’t
seen it because it’s pretty darned fantastic!
Add Struck to your Goodreads shelves
and purchase your copy today!
Hey
welcome to our stop on the Pretty Amy blog tour! We asked Lisa if there were
any people in her life that inspired the characters in Pretty Amy and here’s
what she had to say!
I think even as a fiction writer it is impossible
to not include people from your life in your writing. We write what we know and
sometimes that does include the people that we know. Here is how I got the
inspiration for Aaron and Joe, Amy's love interests in PRETTY AMY.
I dated a lot of crappy guys in high school. There
were a few reasons for this: my self-esteem was terrible, I was the leftover
girl in my group of friends and therefore got the leftover guys, and well, I
pretty much dated anyone who wanted to date me that was cool. The guy I based
Aaron off of was cool. Very.
He was tall, had a ponytail and could care less
about me. Of course, as a stupid teenage girl I fought to make him care. He was
a guy friend of one of my friends boyfriend's, and while they were madly in
love, him and I just sat next to them and made out sometimes. I'm not even
really sure I liked him, but the fact that he felt so indifferent towards me,
kind of made me like him.
Did he ask me to do what Aaron asked Amy to do? No,
but he was in trouble with the law and probably would have if given the
opportunity. Did he make me feel the way Aaron made Amy feel? Yes, absolutely.
Kissing him was like my proof that I was cool. Wow, I was dumb. I think about
this boy sometimes. I wonder if he thinks about me, my guess is probably not.
Now that he has become Aaron maybe I can finally let him go.
Joe is based a boy I dated early on in high school who for some very strange
reason liked me. (He claimed after I broke up with him viciously because my
friends thought he was a dork, that it was because he thought I would
"put-out". But, I didn't believe that, because he was genuinely upset
when I broke up with him, but that's another story). He was popular, Disney
Channel cute and totally out of my league. To give you an idea of the level of
his sweetness he would always walk me home from his house, 7 blocks away and
actually laughed at my jokes. He did play volleyball. He did have hazel eyes.
His hands did not shake. His parents were not divorced. He did not live across
the street from me(but did live in my neighborhood). We were not friends as
children.
But when I think of Joe, he is who I see. Maybe
that was why I gave him to Amy, because I do wonder how my high school life
would have turned out if I would have stuck with my "Joe", instead of
picking my "Aaron" and my "bad-girl" friends.
The man I ended up with was nothing like either of
these boys. He is wonderful, smart, funny and genuinely loves me. Will I write
about him in a book? Probably not, for me my characters are people I feel the
need to figure out. They are usually based off of people I have unfinished
business with. Luckily for me however, I have a lot of unrequited love still
left from high school.
Check out all the places you can find Lisa Burstein!
Hey
Everyone! We have a super cool Q& A with Aimee Carter thanks to Media Masters Publicityand the peeps at
Harlequin Teen! We also have a copy of Goddess Interrupted up for grabs so make
sure to fill out the Rafflecopter form after the interview!
How familiar were you with
Greek myths and folklore before writing the Goddess Test series? Was a lot of research required?
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I first fell in love with Greek mythology when I was a kid learning how to
read, and my infatuation only grew from there. I’ve studied various kinds of
mythology for years, sometimes for class and always for fun, but even then I
put a great deal of research into the Goddess Test series. Mostly as a
refresher to make sure I was getting my facts right, but I also researched the
various myths looking for ways to tie the plots and characters together in
unexpected ways.
Was Goddess Interrupted any easier or harder to write than the first
book in the series, The Goddess Test?
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It was both easier and harder, in a strange way. I rewrote The Goddess Test
multiple times, and I’ve never edited a book more heavily in my life. Goddess
Interrupted did require some editing, of course, but it was much easier.
However,
the pressure to deliver a sequel worthy of the series made the writing process
for Goddess Interrupted more difficult than I’d anticipated. There’s something
called the “sophomore slump”, where sequels or second books generally don’t
quite match up to the second, and I wanted to avoid that at all cost. So that
added a lot of stress, but in the end, I was very happy with the results.
You give the gods and
goddesses in the series “ordinary names” – Zeus is named Walter, Aphrodite goes
by Ava, Hermes is named James. Why did
you do that and do the more contemporary names have any significance?
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This was something I went back and forth on multiple times. Initially the
characters Kate encounters weren’t council members at all – I changed that
very, very quickly though. By the second draft, I had a place for each of the
Olympians, and I did some heavy rewriting to replace my first draft characters
with the gods. I wanted to find a way to keep their names the same, but since
they’re supposed to live among us in secret in the modern world, it didn’t
really make sense. How many men named Zeus do you know, or women called
Aphrodite? On top of that, keeping the council’s identities secret was
incredibly important to the plot. So eventually I decided they would have
changed their names when Western civilization stopped worshipping them as gods,
allowing them to live freely among us.
I
did choose each name for what it means, some more than others – Walter, for
instance, means “army leader”, while James means “supplanter”. The exception is
Calliope, which in the story was chosen by her counterpart for its Greek roots.
The reason the gods changed their names – and why Artemis didn’t wind up with
the name Diana – is explained throughout the series, but you get to actually
see this happen in The Goddess Legacy (July 31).
Goddess Interrupted begins
with the main character Kate Winters adjusting to her new life as an
immortal. Given Kate’s innate strength
and stubbornness, was it difficult to switch gears to portray her as a bit more
vulnerable and unsure of herself in her new role as goddess AND wife?
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Not so much, to be honest – her progression felt natural to me. While Kate is
very tough in certain ways, she’s extremely vulnerable as well. She’s
emotionally dependent on the people around her (her mother in the first book,
Henry in the second), and that in and of itself carves the path she takes in
the sequel. She’s spent six months with Henry, falling in love with him and
forming a relationship she thinks is going to last for eternity. But Henry is
battling his own demons and isn’t ready to be the person she needs him to be,
and because Kate is so stubborn, she has a hard time coming to terms with that.
In the sequel, Kate really is her own worst enemy emotionally – her entire
world has changed, after all, and that’s a lot for anyone to take – but it’s
all part of her development into a goddess and queen.
Kate finds herself trying
to work through her rather complicated relationship with James, as well as her
relationship with her new husband, Henry (Hades). Neither seems to be black and white, but
rather varying shades of gray. Were any
of Kate’s feelings or situations based on any relationship struggles you’ve
been through?
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Not personally, no, but I did try to make Kate’s relationships with the people
in her life as realistic as possible. She isn’t perfect, and neither are they,
and that’s something they all have to work through at varying points in the
series. None of the relationships in the books are based off of specific
experiences I’ve been through though.
What is your favorite part
of the writing process? Least favorite?
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Outlining is by far my favorite part of the process. I love the idea stage,
where anything’s possible, and it’s such a shiny place. All of that comes
crashing down when I write the first draft though, which is the hardest part
for me. I tend to get mentally exhausted about two thirds to three quarters of
the way into the manuscript, and it’s always a struggle for me to push through
it, especially if I’m on a deadline. And inevitably there are a ton of problems
I didn’t notice in the outline stage that have to be fixed for the story to work.
I’m a perfectionist, so in order for me to continue writing the story, everything
I’ve already written has to make sense.
Do you have a favorite
quote or line from a poem or book?
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I love so many quotes that I couldn’t possibly pick a favorite.
How did you get your first
publishing deal and how did that feel?
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My agent, Rosemary Stimola, sent the manuscript out to various publishers, and after
a long submission process, Harlequin TEEN offered to publish it! I was stunned
at first, but that quickly gave way to giddiness. It was an incredible feeling
to know I’d be published, and to this day, I still can’t quite believe it.
When is the next book in
the series due out? Any hints on what will happen in book 3?
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Goddess Interrupted, the sequel to The Goddess Test, came out in late March.
The next book in the series, The Goddess Legacy, will be out July 31. It’s a
collection of five novellas told in the perspectives of Calliope, Ava,
Persephone, James, and Henry, and together they form one story.
The
third book in the series, The Goddess Inheritance, is currently scheduled to be
released in March 2013. Unfortunately I can’t say too much about it, but the
challenges that Kate will face are pretty clear by the end of the sequel!
After the huge success of
The Goddess Test, Goddess Interrupted is on many, many TBR lists for this summer. What’s on your TBR list?
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I’m so excited for a slew of books coming out – The Girl in the Clockwork
Collar, Grave Mercy, The Selection, The Serpent’s Shadow, Philippa Gregory’s YA
novel, and a ton of others. I never have as much time to read as I want, but
I’m definitely making time for all of those and more!
Yearbook Superlatives! If
you went to high school with the Greek gods and goddesses, who would you vote
for?
·Most
likely to succeed? - Hera
·Class
clown? - Hermes
·Nicest?
– Demeter or Hephaestus
·Best
dressed? - Aphrodite
·Best
dancer? - Apollo
·Most
school spirit? - Iris
·Most
likely to attend summer school? - Ares
·Teachers
pet? – Athena
Make
sure to check out the trailer for Goddess
Interrupted!
Awesome
Q&A thanks Aimee!!! Now onto the
giveaway. Just fill out the Rafflecopter form below good luck! J
Source: Finished copy from the publisher for review.
Rating: Really Liked
From Goodreads.
Happily ever after is a thing of the past.
A series of natural disasters has decimated the earth. Cut off from the rest of the world, England is a dark place. The sun rarely shines, food is scarce, and groups of criminals roam the woods, searching for prey. The people are growing restless.
When a ruthless revolutionary sets out to overthrow the crown, he makes the royal family his first target. Blood is shed in Buckingham Palace, and only sixteen-year-old Princess Eliza manages to escape.
Determined to kill the man who destroyed her family, Eliza joins the enemy forces in disguise. She has nothing left to live for but revenge, until she meets someone who helps her remember how to hope—and to love—once more. Now she must risk everything to ensure that she not become... The Last Princess.
Ok first off what a cool name to have
Galaxy Craze right and yep it’s her real name I checked lol.
This book was a quick read which was
awesome after some of the longer books I’ve read. It was quick but trust me it
didn’t lack story at all it was full of action. If I didn’t start it so late I
could have read it in one sitting. I felt so bad for Eliza she had to go through
so much in a short amount of time. Her family is the thing that matters most to
her and it is completely destroyed. She ends up on a journey filled with danger
and she is changed and scarred; it was sad and awful to see some of the things
she had to go through. There was also a little bit of love story; that’s one
part of the book which I would have liked to see more of. I really liked the
love interest Wesley I’m hoping we get a lot more of him in the second book.
The world that Galaxy created wasn’t a
new dystopian world, it was like many of the other dystopian stories out there
but, the details that she put into the story were beautifully told. You could
almost feel the heat from the fires and feel the pain inflicted on poor Eliza
and taste the disgusting food she had to eat. Oh one of my absolute favorite
parts of the book was Caligula, a war horse who I fell completely in love with
she was so tough looking but so gentle and kind to Eliza. I also like some of
the other characters in the book and hated others adamantly the bad guy
Cornelius is awful but I think I hated Portia even more! The story ended very
well but there was the teensiest bit of a cliffhanger. It’s not one that will
make you scream OMG but it’s enough that you’ll be wanting the second book
asap.
I chose a scene to share with you that
has Wesley in it because it’s one of the happier scenes in the book.
My eyes met his, and this time I didn’t look away. Instead I
let myself study him in the dim firelight. Something had shifted. The hard mask
of the soldier had vanished, revealing a sad and lonely boy. I looked at the
soft curls of his hair, shining like dark gold, his glittering eyes, his broad
shoulders.
I must look so ugly to him, with my hair cropped close to my
skull and the red welt on my cheek. I covered my face with my hands. “Just
stop,” I said. “I don’t---“
“Eliza,” he interrupted. He took my hands in his, gently
lowering them from my face, lifting my chin to gaze at me in the flickering
light. “You are beautiful.”
