OUT OF TUNE Book Blast & Giveaway

Twenty-year-old Maggie Roads’ parents are legendary in the country music world. She wants nothing more than to follow their example, but the limelight is not reserved for singers who cannot carry a tune, let alone keep a rhythm.

When her parents tell her they are getting divorced, Maggie decides it’s time to leave home and take her future into her own hands. Moving in with Cole, her best friend and sometimes boyfriend might not be the best of ideas, but she has to start somewhere.

Their off-and-on romance gets even more complicated when Maggie crushes on her new voice teacher, Nathan, who unlocks her stunning potential. A sensational music career of her own is finally within reach, but Maggie might need more than perfect pitch to find what she is really looking for.

Cole’s steady beat on the drum relaxed her. She could feel his eyes on her as she played, but she did not turn around. He would never know what this meant to her. She had wanted and dreaded this moment forever. She could only imagine what tomorrow would be like, with an audience full of strangers.

She closed her eyes as the music flowed into her. Iza came in on her fiddle, her notes weaving in and out like bright threads in a tapestry. Justin started singing the first lines and she tapped her foot, counting like Nathan had taught her. “Every beat is a physical thing,” he had said. “See the music, feel it, just like you’ve done your whole life. Pearls on a string—let each one slide through your fingers. Measured.”

Mandolin line. Then the bass started. Maggie’s turn.

When she came in, her voice was louder and stronger than it had ever been. Justin’s voice filled her up like honey. She swam through it, adding her own to his. Maybe he was a womanizer and constantly looking at her like, he wanted to get her in bed, but he was an amazing singer. They smiled at each other as they melted into the song.

She had never been inside music like this before. The stage lights sparkled in her eyes and she understood for the first time in her life why musicians put up with all that travelling and recording, and the stressful nights like when her mom was puking her guts out with the flu—the real flu—but had to go on stage in five minutes. Maggie remembered her smiling as she wiped her mouth and shrugged. “It’s part of the singin’ life, hon. We don’t always get breaks when we need them.” She had patted Maggie on her twelve-year-old head and squared her shoulders as her makeup artist dusted some powder over her pale cheeks. Then she had left for the stage in a flutter of sequins and curls.

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Michelle lives and writes in Utah, surrounded by the Rocky Mountains. She adores cheese, chocolate, sushi, and lots of ethnic food, and loves to read and write books in the time she grabs between her sword-wielding husband and energetic daughter.

She believes a simple life is the best life.

Michelle writes contemporary Young Adult and New Adult fiction (and other genres when she feels like it).

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WW28: DYING BITES

WW28 book offering: Dying Bites by DD Barant

Okay, Scary New World - here I come.

That is our sassy heroine...

About Dying Bites:

Her job description is the “tracking and apprehension of mentally-fractured killers.” What this really means in FBI profiler Jace Valchek’s brave new world — one in which only one percent of the population is human — is that a woman’s work is never done. And real is getting stranger every day…

Jace has been ripped from her reality by David Cassius, the vampire head of the NSA. He knows that she’s the best there in the business, and David needs her help in solving a series of gruesome murders of vampires and werewolves. David’s world — one that also includes lycanthropes and golems — is one with little knowledge of mental illness. An insane serial killer is a threat the NSA has no experience with. But Jace does. Stranded in a reality where Bela Lugosi is a bigger box office draw than Bruce Willis and every full moon is Mardi Gras, Jace must now hunt down a fellow human before he brings the entire planet to the brink of madness. Or she may never see her own world again…

Source: Info in the About Dying Bites was taken from GoodReads at http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6295913-dying-bites on 07/01/2013.

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In The Mail: TEMPT THE STARS

Lookie! Lookie! What Mr. Mailman brought me!

Thank you to Latoya of The Library Muse for hosting a contest which made it possible for me to win Tempt The Stars by Karen Chance!

Tempt The Stars by Karen Chance
Book 6 of the Cassandra Palmer series
Genre: urban fantasy

About Tempt The Stars:

Being a goddess is a lot less fun than you might think. Especially when you’re only a half goddess, and you only found out about it recently, and you still don’t know what you’re doing half the time. And when you’ve just used your not-so-reliable powers to burglarize the booby-trapped office of a vampire mob boss.

Yeah, that part sucks.

But that’s just the tip of the iceberg for Cassandra Palmer, aka the Pythia, the freshly minted chief seer of the supernatural world. After all, Cassie still has to save a friend from a fate worse than death, deal with an increasingly possessive master vampire, and prevent a party of her own acolytes from unleashing a storm of fury upon the world. Totally just your average day at the office, right?

Source: Info in the About Tempt The Stars was taken from GoodReads at https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12528745-tempt-the-stars on 15/11/2013.

ETERNAL ECHOES Book Blast & Tour-Wide Giveaway

Eternal Echoes by Angela Corbett
Book 2 of the series
Genre: urban fantasy

About Eternal Echoes:

She thought she stopped the evil.

She thought she was safe.

Everything she thought was wrong.

Almost four months have passed since Evie Starling learned she was a Tracker and helped defeat a Daevos Clan that was taking others like her—but that wasn’t the end of the abductions. As an unknown evil emerges, Evie vows to help solve the mystery of the missing Trackers, regardless of the risk.

With new powers she doesn’t understand and can’t control, she turns to Alex and Emil, her two soul mates, for help. But her feelings for them both are tearing her apart. She knows she has to decide between them; however, her memories are only making that choice more difficult.

As the world around her is thrown into chaos, Evie is confronted with what could be a destiny-altering truth. Will she accept her history, her memories, and her role in this life, or choose to ignore the echoes of her past?

Source: Info in the About Eternal Echoes was from press kit from the publicity team.

Meet The Author:

Angela Corbett graduated from Westminster College with a double major in communication and sociology. She started working as a reporter for her local newspaper when she was sixteen and won awards for feature, news, and editorial writing. She has also done freelance writing. In addition to writing, she works as a director of communications and marketing. She loves classic cars, traveling, and listening to U2. She lives in Utah with her extremely supportive husband and their five-pound Pomeranian, Pippin, whose following of fangirls could rival Justin Bieber’s. Angela writes under two names. Young Adult and New Adult titles are written as Angela Corbett. Adult titles are written as Destiny Ford.

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In The Mail: Kodak EasyShare Camera

Lookie! Lookie! What Mr. Mailman brought me!

Thank you to El of A Thrifty Mrs and her sponsor, British Gas and their social agency Outside Line, for hosting a contest which made it possible for me to win a Kodak EasyShare Camera!

Review: THE BURNING SOUL

The Burning Soul by John Connolly
Read by George Guidall and Tony Ward
Book 10 of Charlie Parker series
Genre: paranormal crime fiction
Format: hardback, unabridged audiobook

About The Burning Soul:

Randall Haight has a secret: when he was a teenager, he and his friend killed a 14-year-old girl.

Randall did his time and built a new life in the small Maine town of Pastor's Bay, but somebody has discovered the truth about Randall. He is being tormented by anonymous messages, haunting reminders of his past crime, and he wants private detective Charlie Parker to make it stop.

But another 14-year-old girl has gone missing, this time from Pastor's Bay, and the missing girl's family has its own secrets to protect. Now Parker must unravel a web of deceit involving the police, the FBI, a doomed mobster named Tommy Morris, and Randall Haight himself.

Because Randall Haight is telling lies . . .

Source: Info in the About The Burning Soul was taken from GoodReads at http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9721102-the-burning-soul on 02/11/2012.

Review:

This book started out rather slow for me which was a bit of a disappointment after having just came off the excitement of The Whisperers (Book 9). So I stopped-and-started and it made it seem like this book was a whole lot longer than the 13 hours it was suppose to be.

I've listened to audiobooks with two narrators once before and I was happy with Jenna Lamia and David Ledoux in Shiver. But for some reason, in this case it took a lot of getting used to. A lot. And sometimes the two narrators confused me because they seem to sound almost alike except for the "ish" sound that one of them makes when he gets tired. Or it gets more obvious as he reads along. This distinctly diminished my enjoyment of the book. I practically end up reading the paperback with only intermittent bouts of listening to the audiobook. This obviously brought the rating of the book down a bit.

I like the complex plot though. Unlike The Reapers where the plot is straight forward, this book is not. It's twisty and threw me a surprise or two. Layers of plot over plot. Multiple deception and motives. Evil forces coming from every direction. Lots and lots of kudos for a complex story!

This book might have started slow and even have a bit of a slag time in the middle, but by the end of it, I was looking forward to reading further and diving into The Wrath Of Angels!

Empirical Evaluation:
Story telling quality = 5
Character development = 5
Story itself = 4.5
Ending = 4
World building = 4.5
Cover art = 4
Pace = (12 hrs and 58 mins listening time)
Plot = 5
Narrators = 2.5

Overall Rating: 4.5 out of 5 cherries

November New Release Hop International Giveaway

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