Showing posts with label (New Adult). Show all posts
Showing posts with label (New Adult). Show all posts

Friday, April 12, 2013

What is this New Adult genre?


Everyone that knows me understands how much of a book nerd I am.  No matter where I go I either have a book at hand or my handy Ipad.  It is no surprise that one of my favorite book genres is Young Adult or YA but lately I have been completely drawn by this new genre known as New Adult.  

It has been amazing to follow how fast this new genre  has risen to popularity. What is New Adult you ask? New Adult is a story that's a tad too steamy or mature to fall under the Young Adult (YA) umbrella.  

The story usually evolves around college aged characters that are seventeen or older in many instances.  I if it’s a bit hard to relate or understand think of it as an NC-17 rating for a movie.


NC-17 – is a trademark used for a movie rating indicating that admission will not be granted to anyone under the age of 17.

I would say that the need for this genre surfaced after the many women that began reading series such as Twilight, Hunger Games, Divergent, etc.  Even though we love YA we were looking for something more realistic.  Something we could relate to and New adult definitely fits the mold.


You want to read a New Adult book… Well look no further here are my top five must read…

Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire
Thoughtless by SC Stephens
Easy by Tamnara Weber
Find You In the Dark by A. Meredith Walters
The Sea Breeze Series by Abbi Glines



Sunday, December 16, 2012

Freebie Sunday - Free ebooks to feed your Reader

On this Freebie Sunday ... I provide a few options to read this week. Just sit down relax in your favorite corner and read away.
Remember these books might not be free tomorrow, so hurry up and download your copy now.  Please read before downloading some of these books are not in the YA Genre.



Finding Kate Huntley by Theresa Ragan


During a vacation in the Caribbean, fifteen-year old Kate Huntley's father, a prominent U.S. scientist, is murdered before her eyes. For the next ten years Kate grows up alone in Haiti, one of the most dangerous and poorest countries in the Western Hemisphere. Not a day goes by that she doesn't think of her father. Kate pushes herself to become stronger, mentally and physically. Every day is a struggle for survival. And yet she lives for only one reason...revenge.

While looking for a drug lord via satellite in Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, Jack Coffey, rookie FBI agent, spots Kate Huntley. Jack is sent by the agency to find Ms. Huntley and bring her back to the States. They have many unanswered questions about her father's death. A professional and responsible man, Jack is confused by Kate's lack of cooperation. He wants to help her return to the States where he believes she'll be safe, but she treats him like the enemy and refuses to go. Everything about her is a contradiction. She looks fragile and innocent, but every time he turns around she's putting another thug in his place. In the beginning Jack wonders if Kate's distrust of his superiors is warranted or just simple paranoia. In the end, Jack realizes nothing is as it seems.


If interested in this title please click here:  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004ZLYVE6/?tag=afbmf-20








Relatively Famous by Jessica Park



Relatively Famous delivers Hollywood with heart. Meet Dani McKinley: A typical teen whose world is rocked when she finds out that her father is a famous Hollywood action star. Now meet Mark Ocean: A self-serving actor with a floundering career who sees that a daughter is just what he needs to reinvent himself as a family man and get back on track. When the two decide to spend the summer together, they must not only wrangle their own love lives, but try to figure out who they really are to themselves and to each other.

Now armed with credit cards, club memberships, and a new wardrobe, Dani learns that what Mark has in wealth, he sorely lacks in parenting skills. Trying to show Mark that parenting is about more than loading her up with Prada bags and taking her to movie premieres is challenging enough, but she's also got her hands full with her new friends. Oh, and the boys... Dani meets Jason, a gorgeous young personal trainer who is easy on the eyes and wildly flirtatious. But is this smug hottie the one for her? Or will she ignore her friends eye-rolling and go for the goofy but sweet surfer?

While juggling her own complicated love life, Dani tries to set her father up with someone less likely to appear on a VH1 reality show, and someone more... well, normal. And age-appropriate. And dressed in anything but a thong bikini. But whether Mark is able to heal old wounds and move forward with anything more than a meaningless fling remains to be seen.

Can Dani fit in with this new, fast-moving California crowd without losing herself? With the world at her fingertips and hot boys now after her, staying grounded gets tough. And can Mark drop his egocentric approach to life and learn to appreciate how truly wonderful his daughter is? As driven as he is to get that A-list acting role, he's willing to do whatever it takes to get there, even if it means using his daughter. Or is he...? Mark and Dani's relationship hits a few highs, but the question becomes whether the lows are too much.



If interested in this title please click here:  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003TXS7WS/?tag=afbmf-20




Cover Reveal - If you Stay By Cortney Cole (New Adult)

I have been watching this wave of New Adult genre books that have taken off by storm.  These authors are amazing writers and have created little worlds in their pages that feel real and we can relate to their characters.  I can honestly say I am enamored by many recent stories and have lost sleep finishing such books.

Today I have the honor of sharing this amazing book that will be coming out early 2013.  Enjoy!


24-year old Pax Tate is an asshole.
Seriously.

He’s a tattooed, rock-hard bad-boy with a bad attitude to match.

But he’s got his reasons.

His mother died when Pax was seven, leaving a hole in his heart filled with guilt although he doesn’t understand why. What he does know is that he and his dad are left alone and with more issues than they can count.

As Pax grew up, he tried to be the kid his father always wanted; the perfect golden boy, but it didn’t work. His dad couldn’t overcome his grief long enough to notice and Pax couldn’t keep up the impossible perfect façade.
So he slipped far, far from it.

Now, he uses drugs and women to cope with the ugliness, the black void that he doesn’t want to deal with. If he pretends that the emptiness isn’t there, then it isn’t, right?
Wrong.

And it’s never more apparent than when he meets Mila.
Sweet, beautiful Mila Hill is the fresh air to his hardened frown, the beauty to his ugly heart. He doesn’t know how to not hurt her, but he quickly realizes that he’s got to figure it out because he needs her to breathe.

When memories of his mother’s death resurface from where he’s repressed them for so long, Mila is there to catch him when the guilt starts making sense. Mila is the one…the one who can save him from his broken troubled heart; from his issues, from the emptiness.

But only if he can stop being an asshole long enough to allow it.

He knows that. And he’s working on it.

But is that enough to make her stay?