Showing posts with label Contemporary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Contemporary. Show all posts
Monday, September 28, 2015

Blog Tour Review & Giveaway ~ Faceless by Alyssa Sheinmel

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Welcome to my tour stop for Faceless by Alyssa Sheinmel! In her most recent novel, Sheimel has written an emotionally gripping tale of how we choose to define ourselves. This tour runs from September 21st thru October 2nd and consists of reviews, interviews, excerpts and guest posts for your enjoyment! You can check out and follow the tour page for all of the details and be sure to enter the giveaway at the end of this post for your chance to win a copy of Faceless!  
Sunday, September 27, 2015

Blog Tour Review ~ Taking on Water by David Rawding

Welcome to my tour stop for Taking on Water by David Rawding! In his first novel, author David Rawding has written a tight psychological thriller surrounding two families and the dark secrets they hide. This tour runs from September 16th - 30th and consists of reviews, interviews and guest posts for your enjoyment! Check out the tour page for all the details and to follow the tour!


Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Blog Tour Review & Giveaway ~ What Makes it Worthy by David Paul Kuhn

Welcome to my tour stop for What Makes it Worthy by David Paul Kuhn! As a Political Analyst, Kuhn has written "perhaps the most accurate depiction yet written about how the relationship between the media and the modern presidential campaign shapes American politics". This tour runs from September 17th thru October 15th and consists of reviews, spotlights, and some incredible interviews! Check out the tour page for more information and be sure to enter the giveaway at the end of this post for your chance to win a $20 Amazon Gift Card from the author!
Monday, September 21, 2015

Blog Tour Review ~ Diverging Cadence (Book 2) by Katie Hamstead

Rating: 5/5 Stars
Author: Katie Hamstead 
Available Formats: eBook & Paperback
Publishers: REUT-S Publications
Publication Date: 08-25-15               Pages: 282
When Cadence Anderson woke to find her husband and infant daughter had been killed, she thought her life was over. Instead, she was offered a second chance and sent back in time to do it all again.

She’s made the most of this opportunity, repairing her relationship with the best friend she lost the first time, avoiding the romantic mistakes she made originally, and even bringing her family closer together. But she’s also done something she wasn’t planning on—she’s fallen in love with someone other than her future husband.

Stepping onto a plane and flying across country to attend university is the hardest decision she’s had to make. But unless she follows through with it, her future with Austin might never happen. And what becomes of her beautiful baby if she stays with James, the man she was never supposed to love?

The only thing she knows for certain is that she has to see Austin again, and she’s intent on reliving that part of her previous life exactly like she did the first time. Even if that means she has to lie to James to do it. Because, deep down, she can’t quite bring herself to let him go.

Now, past and future are about to collide, and Cadence has to make her final choice—follow the uncertain path of a life with James, or the one she came back to save . . . with Austin.

In this emotional conclusion to the story that began in Deceptive Cadence, relationships will be tested, identities revealed, and the past will overshadow the future, putting the finishing touches on an unforgettable tale of courage, sacrifice, and, above all, love.


Thursday, September 3, 2015

Review ~ Follow You Home by Mark Edwards

Rating: 4/5 Stars
Author: Mark Edwards
Available Formats: eBook, Paperback, Audio
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer 
Publication Date: 06-30-15            Pages: 402 
It was supposed to be the trip of a lifetime, a final adventure before settling down.

After a perfect start, Daniel and Laura’s travels end abruptly when they are thrown off a night train in the middle of nowhere. To find their way back to civilisation, they must hike along the tracks through a forest…a haunting journey that ends in unimaginable terror.

Back in London, Daniel and Laura vow never to talk about what they saw that night. But as they try to fit back into their old lives, it becomes clear that their nightmare is just beginning…

Follow You Home is a chilling tale of secrets, lies and deadly consequences from the author of #1 bestsellers The Magpies and Because She Loves Me.


Wednesday, September 2, 2015

ARC Review ~ The Foxglove Killings by Tara Kelly

Rating: 5/5 Stars
Author: Tara Kelly
Available Formats: eBook & Hardcover
Publishers: Entangled Teen Publishing 
Publication Date: 09-01-15              Pages: 320
Gramps always said that when the crickets were quiet, something bad was coming. And the crickets have been as silent as the dead. It started with the murdered deer in the playground with the unmistakable purple of a foxglove in its mouth. But in the dying boondock town of Emerald Cove, life goes on.

I work at Gramps's diner, and the cakes―the entitled rich kids who vacation here―make our lives hell. My best friend, Alex Pace, is the one person who gets me. Only Alex has changed. He's almost like a stranger now. I can't figure it out...or why I'm having distinctly more-than-friend feelings for him. Ones I shouldn't be having.

Then one of the cakes disappears. 

When she turns up murdered, a foxglove in her mouth, a rumor goes around that Alex was the last person seen with her—and everyone but me believes it. Well, everyone except my worst enemy, Jenika Shaw. When Alex goes missing, it's up to us to prove his innocence and uncover the true killer. But the truth will shatter everything I've ever known about myself — and Alex.


Tuesday, September 1, 2015

Release Day Blitz & Giveaway ~ Settling by Rachel Michael Arends

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Welcome to the Settling Release Day Blitz!! Today we are celebrating the release of Rachel Michael Arends’ fantastic new Women’s Fiction novel. She’s also sharing an exclusive excerpt with us, as well as a really great giveaway so please be sure to check it out and grab your copy of this amazing book today!!
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Blog Tour & Giveaway ~ Mind Over Bullies: A Mob Forms by D.K. Smith

Rating: 5/5 Stars
Author: D.K. Smith
Available Formats: eBook & Paperback
Publisher: Khamicom Publishing
Publication Date: 08-31-15             Pages: 380
People that feel bullied just need to toughen up. That’s what Margo Rios used to think. Margo is pretty, popular and unsympathetic to just how intense bullying can get. As a counterfeiting plot sweeps through the city of Oak View, life for Margo will change dramatically.

With a mystery unfolding, an unlikely group of heroes emerges. Bullied teens love them, the police hate them and bullies fear them. Together they will try to get to the bottom of the counterfeiting mystery while ingeniously teaching a few bullies a lesson or two along the way… that is, if the police don’t catch them first.

“Mind Over Bullies: A MOB Forms” follows the lives of several teens chronicling the emotional and psychological changes they experience as a result of their encounters with bullying. The lives of the characters play out while an elaborate counterfeiting mystery unfolds making for a fast paced, action-packed read.  
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Saturday, August 22, 2015

Promo Tour & Giveaway ~ Before We Were Strangers by Renee Carlino

 Welcome to the Before We Were Strangers Promo Tour! Today we are celebrating the release of Renee Carlino's New Adult/Contemporary Romance novel with an exclusive excerpt for you to enjoy. If you've been living under a rock somewhere and haven't yet heard of this amazing book then be sure to check out all the details below! This Promo includes a giveaway of 5 signed Before We Were Strangers posters so if you'd like a chance to win, be sure to enter!

Friday, August 21, 2015

Review ~ Wash Me Away by Wendy Owens

Rating: 3/5 Stars
Author: Wendy Owens
Available Formats: eBook & Paperback
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing 
Publication Date:  04-24-15               Pages:  280
Monsters have a way of following you.

Immersed in a new world at boarding school, Addy Buckley learns she’s not the only one with secrets. While trying to navigate the minefield of painful lies that seem to be rattling around her family’s past, she meets soft on the eyes and heavy on the heart, Napoleon Blake.

When faced with the darkness, Addy must decide to cling to her new life and friends or let the monster carry her away. The choice is hers, sink or swim.

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Book Blitz & Giveaway ~ Harriet Wolf's Seventh Book of Wonders by Julianna Baggott

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Welcome to the HARRIET WOLF'S SEVENTH BOOK OF WONDERS Book Blitz! Today we are celebrating the release of Julianna Baggott's new Historical Fiction/Family Saga novel with an exclusive excerpt for you to enjoy! If you haven’t yet heard about this wonderful book then be sure to check out all the details below. This Blitz also includes a giveaway for 5 Hardcover copies of the book courtesy of Little Brown, and Rockstar Book Tours. So if you’d like a chance to win then make sure to enter the giveaway at the end of this post!

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Blog Tour & Giveaway ~ Her Sister's Shoes by Ashley Farley

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Rating: 4/5 Stars
Author: Ashley Farley
Available Formats: eBook & Paperback
Publication Date: 06-24-15                   Pages: 384
Set in the South Carolina Lowcountry and packed with Southern charm and memorable characters, Her Sister’s Shoes is the story of three sisters—Samantha, Jackie, and Faith—who struggle to balance the demands of career and family while remaining true to themselves.

Samantha Sweeney has always been the glue that holds her family together, their go-to girl for love and support. When an ATV accident leaves her teenage son in a wheelchair, she loses her carefully constructed self-control.

In the after-gloom of her dreaded fiftieth birthday and the discovery of her husband’s infidelity, Jackie realizes she must reconnect with her former self to find the happiness she needs to move forward.

Faith lacks the courage to stand up to her abusive husband. She turns to her sisters for help, placing all their lives at risk.

In the midst of their individual challenges, the Sweeney sisters must cope with their mother’s mental decline. Is Lovie in the early stages of Alzheimer’s, or is her odd behavior normal for a woman her age? No one, including Lovie, understands her obsession with a rusty key she wears around her neck.

For fans of Dot Frank and Mary Alice Monroe, Her Sister’s Shoes is a contemporary women’s novel that explores and proves the healing power of family.

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Monday, August 17, 2015

Review ~ Normal by Graeme Cameron

Rating: 5/5 Stars
Author: Graeme Cameron
Available Formats: eBook, Paperback, Hardcover, Audio
Publisher: MIRA  
Publication Date: 03-31-15                Pages: 304
"The truth is I hurt people. It's what I do. It's all I do. It's all I've ever done."

He lives in your community, in a nice house with a well-tended garden. He shops in your grocery store, bumping shoulders with you and apologizing with a smile. He drives beside you on the highway, politely waving you into the lane ahead of him.

What you don't know is that he has an elaborate cage built into a secret basement under his garage. And the food that he's carefully shopping for is to feed a young woman he's holding there against her will—one in a string of many, unaware of the fate that awaits her.

This is how it's been for a long time. It's normal... and it works. Perfectly.

Then he meets the checkout girl from the 24-hour grocery. And now the plan, the hunts, the room... the others. He doesn't need any of them anymore. He needs only her. But just as he decides to go straight, the police start to close in. He might be able to cover his tracks, except for one small problem—he still has someone trapped in his garage.

Discovering his humanity couldn't have come at a worse time.


Wednesday, July 22, 2015

ARC Review ~ The Bones of You by Debbie Howells

Rating: 5/5 Stars
Author: Debbie Howells
Available Formats: eBook, Hardback
Publisher: Kensignton Publishing 
Publication Date: 06-30-15                         Pages: 320
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A stunning, wonderfully assured psychological thriller that evokes Gillian Flynn and Alice Sebold, The Bones of You revolves around a young girl’s murder and one woman’s obsession with uncovering the secrets in an idyllic English village.

I have a gardener’s inherent belief in the natural order of things. Soft‑petalled flowers that go to seed. The resolute passage of the seasons. Swallows that fly thousands of miles to follow the eternal summer.

Children who don’t die before their parents.

When Kate receives a phone call with news that Rosie Anderson is missing, she’s stunned and disturbed. Rosie is eighteen, the same age as Kate’s daughter, and a beautiful, quiet, and kind young woman. Though the locals are optimistic—girls like Rosie don’t get into real trouble—Kate’s sense of foreboding is confirmed when Rosie is found fatally beaten and stabbed.

Who would kill the perfect daughter, from the perfect family? Yet the more Kate entwines herself with the Andersons—graceful mother Jo, renowned journalist father Neal, watchful younger sister Delphine—the more she is convinced that not everything is as it seems. Anonymous notes arrive, urging Kate to unravel the tangled threads of Rosie’s life and death, though she has no idea where they will lead.

Weaving flashbacks from Rosie’s perspective into a tautly plotted narrative, The Bones of You is a gripping, haunting novel of sacrifices and lies, desperation and love
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Blog Tour Review & Giveaway ~ Deceptive Cadence by Katie Hamstead

Welcome to my tour stop for Deceptive Cadence by Katie Hamstead! This is the first in a two book YA/NA Magical Realism series. This tour runs from June 30th - July 28th and includes reviews, author info, a really awesome giveaway and a special trailer! 

Friday, July 17, 2015

Blog Tour Review, Author Interview & Giveaway ~ The Secrets We Keep by Stephanie Butland


Rating: 4/5 Stars
Author: Stephanie Butland
Available Formats: eBook & Paperback
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark 
Publication Date: 07-07-15                Pages: 384
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A tragic accident, a broken heart, and a marriage drowning in secrets...

Mike always walks the dog in the evening while Elizabeth relaxes in the bathtub--but one night he doesn’t come back. Mike has drowned while saving a teenage girl named Kate, his dog standing on the bank barking frantically as the police pull his body from the water.

But despite her husband being lauded as a hero, Elizabeth can’t wrap her mind around the fact that Mike is gone--and Kate won’t reveal the details of what really happened that night. 

Elizabeth finds herself facing the unfathomable possibility that she may not have known her husband at all. Does she really want to know the truth? Or will the weight of Mike’s secrets pull her under?
Friday, June 19, 2015

ARC Review ~ Evil Games by Angela Marsons

Review: 5/5 Stars
Author: Angela Marsons
Available Formats: ebook, Paperback, Audio
Publisher: Bookouture 
Publication Date: 05-29-15              Pages: 384
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The greater the Evil, the more deadly the game… 

When a rapist is found mutilated in a brutal attack, Detective Kim Stone and her team are called in to bring a swift resolution. But, as more vengeful killings come to light, it soon becomes clear that there is someone far more sinister at work. 

With the investigation quickly gathering momentum, Kim finds herself exposed to great danger and in the sights of a lethal individual undertaking their own twisted experiment. 

Up against a sociopath who seems to know her every weakness, for Detective Stone, each move she makes could be deadly. As the body count starts to mount, Kim will have to dig deeper than ever before to stop the killing. And this time - it’s personal.

Thursday, June 18, 2015

Review ~ Silent Scream by Angela Marsons

Rating: 5/5 Stars
Author: Angela Marsons
Formats Available: eBook, Paperback, Audio
Publisher: Bookouture 
Publication Date: 02-20-15              Pages: 390
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Even the darkest secrets can’t stay buried forever…

Five figures gather round a shallow grave. They had all taken turns to dig. An adult sized hole would have taken longer. An innocent life had been taken but the pact had been made. Their secrets would be buried, bound in blood … 

Years later, a headmistress is found brutally strangled, the first in a spate of gruesome murders which shock the Black Country. 

But when human remains are discovered at a former children’s home, disturbing secrets are also unearthed. D.I. Kim Stone fast realises she’s on the hunt for a twisted individual whose killing spree spans decades. 

As the body count rises, Kim needs to stop the murderer before they strike again. But to catch the killer, can Kim confront the demons of her own past before it’s too late?

Wednesday, June 10, 2015

Blog Tour: Review & Giveaway ~ Modern Monsters by Kelley York

Welcome to my stop on the Official Blog Tour for Modern Monsters by Kelley York. Keep on reading below to find my review along with the awesome giveaway!! You can follow this tour here