Week’s Reads: Predestined and Ceaseless by Abbi Glines

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UPDATES: Cover reveal this Friday for Book 2 of the Blue Eyes trilogy

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Book two is coming along nicely, and we are two a half weeks from the release date of June 6th. This Friday there will be a cover reveal for the second book through multiple blogs. I commissioned the cover from the same artist for all three books. I am so excited to show everyone Ravven‘s great work. She makes such great covers! So many people have told me that they liked the first cover, I can’t wait to show the next one. I think it is just as great. Any blogger that wants to participate- make sure to sign up with Xpresso book tours.

 

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Week’s Reads: The Dark Gifts Inheritance by Willow Cross and Souled Out by Blakely Chorpenning

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Review: The Dark Gifts Inheritance by Willow Cross

inheritenceI read this book without reading the first book. I just want to let everyone know- this is part of a series but completely able to stand alone. You don’t need to read he first one to find this a great read. This is a great book because of that and I applaud Cross for such good writing. So the basic plot is that Sarah and her brother find they don’t exactly know their past every well. In fact they were actually hidden by their past and do not know about their family history of werewolves and have to deduce that her brother is one from what is going on.

This was a book was paced well and fun to read. The story clicks along well and you just have to keep reading. By then end characters enter that are from the first book, but that does not matter if you know who they are or not, the story is still able to follow along. Those werewolf fans won’t be disappointed with this book.

Review: Souled Out by Blakely Chorpenning

While this book has vampires in it, it was not a typical vampire book. They were more like the setting not the theme. The souled outbook was more about Ell’s journey and battle to keep her soul.  Ell is the cypher for the vampires, but she forgot to tell the people that made her into the cypher one thing when taking the job, she wasn’t the one they chose. Now she has to face the fact that they know and the one person that she thought would not tell them about it did.

This is a mystery type book where you are left wondering if Ell will survive not only the vampires but her sister. She has several friends to help her on the way and a love triangle starting to form, but the attraction was not the center of the story. This was more a tale centered on if Ell could survive and change to finally live her life. I personally found Ell refreshing being a defiant person- YA lit has too many passive female characters and very few mad ones. Ell was mad/rude and rightfully so. This was a fun read and those looking for a new book should check it out.

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Week’s Reads: Daynight by Megan Thomason and Redemption Rewrite by JH Walker

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Review: Daynight by Megan Thomason

daynightKira has entered the second chance foundation as a one year after high school job to get away from her reality where everyone she knows at school is now gone due to an accident. Unfortunately for her, the people running this might have different plans for her. I liked getting a completed story- Too often I find authors leaving the story incomplete and to me that is more of a turn off than grammatical errors. I don’t want to spend hours reading a book that has no resolution. This book was nicely done in that there was resolution and there is more left of the story to tell if the author wants to go further with the tale. Good Job Thomason. I also laughed at the term cleaving??- That did get a chuckle out of me being that I am a scientist that was the term used.  When reading I found that the flashbacks took me some time to get into. This was a different style than I am used to. Good dystopia novel, I would recommend it to fans of dystopia.

Review: Redemption Rewrite by JH Walker

What I liked the most was the completeness to the tale- the story had tons of little details that all fit together at the end. It is a time travel novel and there wasrewrite redemption much that could be woven together and it was nicely done. I enjoyed how this all worked out. I also want to applaud the author for giving the reader a complete book. Thank you for going against the trend of dangling plotline. While there will probably be more to come on the tale, you can read this book and not feel like there is a missing chapter. I found the beginning slow, but once you get into the story it gets better. Lots of backstory dropped on you at first to set everything up. Once the action got going, it quickens the story and keeps you wanting to read more. I felt bad for the author as soon as I saw the cover because there is one out there for another book with almost the exact same cover (same pic with only minor little differences) This is my fear when making a cover- that someone will see the same pic and think the same thing. Make sure to check the title to get the right book.

 

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UPDATES: Bloggers wanted for cover reveal & A Novel Idea Live

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First. I have signed up with Xpresso Book Tours to do a cover reveal for my next book in the Blue Eyes Trilogy “Becoming a Legend”. If any bloggers are interested in participating in the cover reveal, check out this link.

This cover, in fact, all three covers in the Blue Eyes Trilogy, was designed by Ravven and it is so pretty. I love her work and can’t wait to show everyone.

Second. I will be on A Novel Idea Live this Sunday (Mother’s Day) at 3PM eastern time. I talk with the host Krista about writing, publishing, my current books and bit about life in general. The show will be available on youtube later next week and I’ll post a link in case you are busy on mother’s day.

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UPDATES: Reached 100 ratings on goodreads

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Yeah!! I reached 100 ratings between my two books on goodreads (actually more if you count friends ratings, which goodreads does not) I am amazed and so thankful for everyone that has taken the time to read and rate/review my books. I know everyone suggest you shouldn’t read reviews and reading the bad reviews is hard, but I actually still am new enough at this to enjoy reading the reviews (even the bad ones). I never pictured doing anything like this or having anyone actually read my books…. not even my hubby, who has now read both of them. This is all very new and exciting. I love to hear what people think and who they like/dislike in the books. As I write away on the next book, I even think about what people have said. The trilogy if far from over, and I can’t wait to hear what people think of the next book also!

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Week’s Reads: Rua by Miranda Kavi, Spiral by Maddy Edwards, Project ELE by Rebecca Gober and Courtney Nuckels

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Rua by Miranda Kavi

 

A COMPLETE STORY LINE- ahh finally. I liked how there was so much that happened- best part was this was a completed storyline: I have been finding that a lot of books think leaving a cliffhanger will get people to buy their next book and few authors try to make a complete story. This was a complete story. The author can make more books that will continue it to some extent, but the story in itself was finished. I VERY MUCH appreciate getting a complete story that leaves you feeling like the tale is complete. This chapter in her life is complete- it doesn’t mean there can’t be more and more can happen, but it was very nicely written. Second- Can I say how much I love the cover- this has to be one of the prettiest covers I have seen in a long time.

 

Spiral by Maddy Edwards

 

Unicorns…. need I say more??!! I think every little girl goes through a unicorn phase. An urban fantasy with one was fun to read.The story flowed nicely- good throughout the book. Easy to read and follow. From beginning to end, it built to the ending moment. Nicely paced book for a good read. The author only touched on the surface of the world, and it will be nice to see what is built upon it. Be forewarned that there is no resolution to the story and no second book at this time. When will there be the next one….. waiting……

 

 Project ELE by Rebecca Gober and Courtney Nuckels

Willow has entered the shelter to keep her safe from the increased heat a radiation that is destroying the earth to rid every one of the supervirus that is killing off the humans. To survive, Willow must work (since her family was not well enough off to prepay for the shelter) and make new friends (as not everyone makes it into the shelter). When she finally gets control of her new life, it might be a bit different that she was expecting her years in the shelter to be. The ending made the whole book mean something different, which is fun to be able to look back after you read and go, hmmm. I wonder….. The story was a bit slow to begin with because there was a lot that needed to be explained- why, when, how, etc but got faster as you went along- so keep reading and get to the end twist.

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UPDATES: Book 2 of the Blue Eyes Trilogy

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I have finished reading/editing the second book in the Blue Eyes trilogy for probably the tenth time.

The question I have been getting now is, when is book 2 coming out?

I’ve been working on book 2 since book 1 was with the editor. I finished the first draft in less than a month and have been rewriting and editing since. I’d love to release it tomorrow, but it is a process and takes time. I want to give the best product I can, so it will be a little wait. I am hoping for a June release date after it goes to the editor in May. I am also hoping to get book 3 out by this fall….. once we set a date, I can’t wait to show everyone the great cover I got for the second book done again by Ravven.

As for my current books out there, reviews are coming in for both books- with goodreads having the majority of the reviews up. I sincerely appreciate every review and rating and thank everyone who has taken the time to read and review my books. Thank you! You can’t imagine how much I appreciate every person willing to give my books a chance!

If you haven’t read The Legend of the Blue Eyes, you’ve got a couple of months to catch up.

 

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‘To Stand Beside Her’ Blog Tour is Underway!

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To Stand Beside Her is on tour!

For the next few weeks I’ll be making a blog circuit with Tasty Book Tours

Here is the list of dates and locations, stop by to make comments and see what others thought of the book!

To Stand Beside Her

April 29th- Racing to Read
April 30th- Paws and Print
May 3rd- A Passion for Romance
May 6th- Sweet Reads Reviews
May 7th- Jellybean Arson
May 8th- Rock and Drool (Melissa Brodsky Blog)
May 10th- Fab, Fun & Tantalizing Reads
May 13th- TheGirl with Red Cape
May 14th- Crazy FourBooks
May 16th- RomanceBookworm
May 17th- The Smell of Parchment
May 20th- Book Labyrinth
May 21st- Paranormal BookClub
May 22nd- BusyMoms Book Reviews
May 24th- Book Babe

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Week’s Reads: Ethereal by Addison Moore, Poison Princess by Kresley Cole, Cheyenne by Lisa Weidmeier

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Ethereal by Addison Moore

Moving to a new town normally sucks, but it is worse if you move into a house where the previous resident was taken and murdered. This book was a very easy read and kept clicking along nicely. Nothing was too hard to follow or distracting. The writing style was nice and easy read. I found myself easily drawn into the tale and wanting to continue to read. I found some of the story overdone- some things in YA seem a bit cliché by now: moving to a new town…mean clique girl cheerleaders… guys so handsome the protag drools over them…not one but two good looking guys….. this book had its fill of clichés- just realize that this book is two years old and when written this was not all overdone in YA and has been since then.

 

 

Poison Princess by Kresley Cole

“Tarot card urban fantasy end of the world book” is the best description I have for this one.  The themes and background were fresh and new in the YA urban fantasy/end of the world genre: tarot cards… I know nothing about them but find as I am reading this book I will be learning more. Different than what is the norm out there. Mix of paranormal and apocalyptic story. I liked the mixture. This was a surprisingly satisfying story, despite not resolving the main plot- I really don’t appreciate authors leaving things on a cliffhanger and not telling anything at the conclusion. While this did not resolve the ultimate plot, it did make a complete story. I would assume by her previous writing (a series with at least 9 books in it) that she is almost an expert at this, but I liked it none-the-less. I did have trouble reading the first chapter. Ugh. I am really not into horror or serial killers. The first chapter is from the point of view of one. It really creeped me out to begin with. Ugh. How can a book creep you out?!!

Cheyenne by Lisa Weidmeier

Cheyenne’s life changes quickly, and she finds there were secrets her adopted parents kept from her. They weren’t the only ones keeping secrets, and after their unexpectant deaths, Cheyenne finds out her best friend Colt has a secret of his own. Soon Cheyenne finds herself with a fate and destiny that she is not sure she wants and Colt isn’t the person she thought he was.

This was a long book and a lot of time passed- This I thought was good and bad. Bad because the action had to go at a slower pace, but good because we get a real sense for Cheyenne. She doesn’t just lose her parents and is better in a day and going on with her adventure. She deals with her life in a real manner. There was a much more realistic feel to this story than most urban fantasies. Also, I like that this was a new idea- this was a new fantasy series without vampires, werewolves, or faeries, so that was a nice change of pace. It did seemed weird to me that some of what they did not tell her and why they did not. Why did they not tell her about the lights? Even if she freaked out, she would get over it. It seemed like details were left out that could have helped with her safety and that made me question the other characters throughout. I understand keeping the meaning of the rings a secret, but why other details. That made me like the guys a bit less. They should have had more faith in Cheyenne and her ability to do the correct thing- especially Colt- he was her best friend.

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Week’s Reads: Predestined and Ceaseless by Abbi Glines

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Predestined by Abbi Glines

Depth! We finally get some more answers.  While I felt like the first book wrapped things up very well and left the reader without any major questions, (beyond the cliffhanger) this book showed that there was so much left unsaid. I didn’t even question any of it in the first book, but here you get answers. It was nice to be filled in on Pagen’s background. That is a great author that can leave you feeling happy with a book but at the same time have so many unanswered questions that you didn’t even know there were. Nice writing. By the end I was left wondering if Leif is good or bad? I mean he is possessive and all, but so is Dank, but that seems to be okay. Is it okay for a guy to try to win you over when you like them but not when you don’t. I really didn’t feel Leif was a bad guy. I mean maybe he was a bit weird and all, but not bad. I’d say his only downfall was that he was a chicken. How could the prince of voodoo death be a chicken confuses me. Leif overall confuses me. Gotta love when a whole series is out and you can keep reading so I went right to the next one.

Ceaseless by Abbi Glines

I completely liked that Dank was going to have to woo Pagen again- I liked the premise that Dank would have to win her over again since Pagen can’t remember the last year with Dank.  That was a nice idea, and I liked how Dank didn’t even know how to do it. It was a very real world idea that without all the supernatural and events that happened, would they actually have fallen for each other in the first book? It makes the first book seem more magical that they just felt that way about each other. It is so fun to watch characters fall in love all over again. By the time it ended though I wanted to shake Pagen and say “what are you doing?”  I am not going to spoil it, but it seemed to me that she did not really make a decision or even think through consequences. Don’t you wish sometimes you could go into a novel and shake the protag and get some answers!