Cover Reveal Miss Me Not by Tiffany King

Miss Me Not by Tiffany King

They had a pact.

Leave the world behind much as they had lived it.

No one would miss them. No harm, no foul.

Their personal demons would be left behind once and for all. 

It was the only thing they could count on. 

It was all she had.

Madison Hanson has spent the last four years being a "shadow." Her parents ignore her. The students at her school stopped talking to her years ago, and the majority of her teachers forget she's even there. In her desperate yearning to leave her invisible life behind, Madison makes a pact with her only friend, James Garrison, to end their lives as inconspicuously as they live them. No fuss, no muss. No one would miss her and she would miss no one. Their plan is set, and it's all she can count on. That is, until fellow student, Mitch Peterson, beats them to the punch. Everything Madison believed in is shaken to the core when she watches the aftermath of Mitch's death unfold. By taking his own life, Mitch unwittingly saves hers. What a selfish prick. 

She is now left with the daunting task of living. Trying to bury her demons once and for all, and finally trusting someone with her fragile existence. 

Living is hell.

Death would have been so much easier.  

About the Author

Tiffany King is the author of The Saving Angels Series, Wishing For Someday Soon, Forever Changed, and Unlikely Allies. Writer by day and book fanatic the rest of the time, she is now pursuing her life-long dream of weaving tales for others to enjoy. She has a loving husband and two wonderful kids. (Five, if you count her three spoiled cats). Her addictions include: Her iphone and ipad, chocolate, Diet Coke, chocolate, Harry Potter, chocolate, and her favortie TV shows.

Want to know what they are? Just ask. She can always be found on

Twitter - Facebook  - Blog - Email 

"Books provide the ultimate getaway for me. A good story is a vehicle that takes you to another place, another time, or another world. I love reading the words and letting my imagination do the rest. I appreciate and respect every author who has the courage to put your work out there for the world to see."

Waiting On Wednesday - The Almost Truth by Eileen Cook

 

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

 

 

The Almost Truth by Eileen Cook

 

 

From the author of Unraveling Isobel and The Education of Hailey Kendrick, a smart, romantic novel about a teenage con artist who might be in over her head. 

 

 

Sadie can’t wait to get away from her backwards small town, her delusional mom, her jailbird dad, and the tiny trailer where she was raised…even though leaving those things behind also means leaving Brendan. Sadie wants a better life, and she has been working steadily toward it, one con at a time.

But when Sadie’s mother wipes out Sadie’s savings, her escape plan is suddenly gone. She needs to come up with a lot of cash—and fast—or she’ll be stuck in this town forever.

With Brendan’s help, she devises a plan—the ultimate con—to get the money. But the more lies Sadie spins, the more she starts falling for her own hoax…and perhaps for the wrong boy. Sadie wanted to change her life, but she wasn't prepared to have it flipped upside down by her own deception. With her future at stake and her heart on the line, suddenly it seems like she has a lot more than just money to lose....

Buy at B&N | IndieBound | Amazon | Chapters Indigo | Powells


You can find the author  on the following pages : Twitter  /  Webpage 

Review: Blackbrooke by Emma Silver

 

Review: Blackbrooke by Emma Silver

I live in Blackbrooke and you would have had to be living under a rock to never have heard of it before now. This town is different to most others…Humans aren’t the only residents…”

The residents of Blackbrooke share their town with the Creatures, or Crits as they are known. Grotesque, roaming the streets at night looking for food, their presence means humans have to live by the Rules, keeping them indoors and forbidding them of basic desires.

The most important Rule?

Don’t be a ‘walk out’!

Straight-A student, Liberty Connor, hates the Crits and the endless Rules she and her tight knit group of friends have to live by.

Planning her new life on the Outside with her boyfriend, Gabriel, Liberty whiles away her days waiting to turn 18, so they can leave and be free. That is, until the world she thinks she knows begins to unravel…

Her friends start to walk out. So she’s told. However, something’s not right. Things don’t add up.

Liberty faces a race against time to discover what’s going on with the Creatures of Blackbrooke.

Is it them she has to fear, or something much closer to home?

Blackbrooke is a Young Adult horror novel that has you on the edge of your seat.

My Summary

 

This book simply blew my mind away and scared me crapless.  It gets so tense at times you have no idea how many times I had to stop and walk away.  That is how good this book really is. 

Blackbrooke is about a 17 year old Liberty, she is a well behaved girl that always follows the Rules. She understands these rules are meant to keep her alive and has her life plan set to move out of this town as soon as she turns 18.   In Blackbrooke no one goes out at night because at this time there are creatures called Crits that threaten their lives. 

Unfortunately the curiosity drives our main character to team up with her best friends an adventure off into the unknown to question and find out what’s really behind all the creepy stories in Blackbrooke.  Are they crazy don’t they watch scary movies!

Well it is then in this adventure they take that things get hmm a little complicated.  

 

My thoughts

 

Emma Silver has created a world unlike any other out there.  I absolutely loved reading her story and the character development.  I can assure you once you start you won’t want to stop reading because you need to know what will happen next. 

I truly believe we need more writers like Emma to create something different than our typical stories out there.  Not that I don’t love my vampires I do but this was a refreshing new read that completely blew me away.  This was so out of my comfort zone and I am surprised how much I liked it.

            5 out of 5 hearts

About the Author

Emma was born and raised in Manchester, England.

Blackbrooke is her debut young adult horror novel after spending many years honing her skills drafting short stories and devouring horror through the ages from R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps collection through to Stephen King.

Blackbrooke is the Part I of the Blackbrooke Trilogy.

Emma is also the author of a semi-biographical account of her dad’s years in a rock band in the 1970s, Driving Exile.

She gets most of her ideas and is inspired by music and also the fighting spirit of young people who aren’t afraid to challenge the norm and stand up for what they believe in. This fleeting ‘moment’ in life is what she tries to capture in her writing.

Goodreads / Blog /  Twitter

Teaser Tuesday The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

1. Grab your current read
2. Open to a random page
3. Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page, being careful not to INCLUDE SPOILERS!
4. Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My teaser this week is:

“There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark’s Eve,” Neeve said. “Either you’re his true love . . . or you killed him.”

It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive.

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them—not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her.

His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble.

But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can’t entirely explain. He has it all—family money, good looks, devoted friends—but he’s looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little.

For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she’s not so sure anymore.

From Maggie Stiefvater, the bestselling and acclaimed author of the Shiver trilogy and The Scorpio Races, comes a spellbinding new series where the inevitability of death and the nature of love lead us to a place we’ve never been before.

Teaser:
 

When he looked back to her, he still wore a wary expression, and Blue saw that this expression — a wrinkle pinched between his eyebrows, mouth tense — was his normal one. It fit his features perfectly, matched up with every line around his mouth and eyes.

***

 
He was so real. When it finally happened, when she finally saw him, it didn’t feel like magic at all. It felt like looking into the grave and seeing it look back at her.
“Is that all?” she whispered.  Gansey closed his eyes. “That’s all there is.”

The Raven Boys
by Maggie Stiefvater

Freebie Sunday - Free Ebooks for your Kindle

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.

 

 

 

 

The Annihilation of Foreverland by Toni Bertauski

 

 

Why would anyone want to leave?


When kids awake on an island, they’re told there was an accident. Before they can go home, they will visit Foreverland, an alternate reality that will heal
their minds.


Reed dreams of a girl that tells him to resist Foreverland. He doesn’t remember her name, but knows he once loved her. He’ll have to endure great suffering
and trust his dream. And trust he’s not insane.


Danny Boy, the new arrival, meets Reed’s dream girl inside Foreverland. She’s stuck in the fantasy land that no kid can resist. Where every heart’s desire
is satisfied. Why should anyone care how Foreverland works?

 

 

If you are interested in this book please click here: http://www.amazon.com/The-Annihilation-of-Foreverland-ebook/dp/B006S63JLM/?tag=bookbubemaila-20

 

 

 

 

 What You Can Live With by Merci Walker

For the offer of a life time, could live with who you had to become.

Rosalee's mother drops in on her at the club where she's stripping, to make her an offer she can't refuse. She's won the Powerball and is offering Rosalee a deal, with a contract--move home, become respectable, and you get ten million dollars.

But Rosalee hasn't been home in seven years. She left behind more than just her family and her boyfriend, she left behind her baby girl. Now she must struggle with everything she left behind, living up to te deal she has made, and finding love in the oddest man she has ever met.

And add in a little magical realism to boot.

 

 

If you are interested in this book please click here:  http://www.amazon.com/What-You-Live-With-ebook/dp/B007T3NGE8/ref=sr_1_17?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1349639818&sr=1-17

 

Stacking the Shelves Weekend Edition

What will I be reading this week?

Purchased 

Endure by Carrie Jones 
The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Carnival of Sous by Melissa Marr

eARC's

What I Didn't Say by Keary Taylor (Netgalley)

Guardian By Heather Burch (Netgalley)

ARC's

Hidden (House of Night #10)  by PC Cast  (OMG! I've been waiting for this one like crazy)
Blood Forever by Mari Mancusi

Cover Reveal - The Beautiful and the Cursed by Page Morgan

Fans of Cassandra Clare's Mortal Instruments series and Libba Bray's Gemma Doyle trilogy will devour The Beautiful and the Cursed, a wholly original interpretation of gargoyle lore.

It was bizarre and inexplicable, but after it happened no one spoke of it and Ingrid Waverly was forced to leave her life in London behind. She had to trade a world full of fancy dresses and society events for Paris with her mother and younger sister, Gabby.

In Paris there are no grand balls or glittering parties, and, disturbingly, the house her twin brother Grayson found for them isn't a house at all. It's an abbey. A creepy, old abbey with a roof lined in stone gargoyles that one could almost mistake for living, breathing creatures.

And Grayson is missing.

Yet no one seems to be concerned about Grayson's whereabouts save for Luc, a devastatingly handsome servant who has some secrets of his own. There's one secret about the city that he can't keep hidden, though. There's a murderer on the loose. And every day Grayson is missing means that there's less of a chance he's alive.

Ingrid is sure her twin isn't dead--she can feel it deep in her soul--but she knows he's in grave danger, and that it's up to her and Gabby to find him before all hope is lost.

Only the path to him is twisted—and more deadly than she could ever imagine.



About the Author: Page Morgan has been intrigued by les grotesques ever since she came across an old, black-and-white photograph of a Notre Dame gargoyle keeping watch over the city of Paris. The gargoyle mythologies she went on to research fed her imagination, and she became inspired to piece together her own story and mythology for these complex stone figures. Page lives in New England with her husband and their three children.

Find Page online here:
Author Website | Twitter | Random House

Double Trailer Reveal! Luminosity by Stephanie Thomas & Gravity by Melissa West

 

 

Luminosity by Stepanie Thomas

My name is Beatrice. When I was born, I was blessed with the Sight. I was immediately removed from  myparents and enrolled in the Institution. At the age of twelve, I had my first true vision, earning my raven’swings. And when I turned seventeen, one of my visions came true. Things haven’t been the same since.

The Institutin depends on me to keep the City safe from our enemy, the Dreamcatchers, but I’m finding it harder to do while keeping a secret from everyone, including my best friend Gabe. It is a secret that could put us all in danger. A secret that could kill me and everyone close to me.

But the enemy has been coming to me in my dreams, and I think I’m falling in love with him. He says they’re coming. He says they’re angry. And I think I’ve already helped them win.

Paperback: 400 pages

Publisher: Entangled Teen (November 6, 2012)

ISBN: 1620611279

Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | The Book Depository

You can learn more about the author on the links below

Website | Twitter | Facebook | Goodreads

Gravity by Melissa West

In the future, only one rule will matter:

Don’t. Ever. Peek.

Seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander just broke that rule and saw the last person she expected hovering above her bed — arrogant Jackson Locke, the most popular boy in her school. She expects instant execution or some kind of freak alien punishment, but instead, Jackson issues a challenge: help him, or everyone on Earth will die.

Ari knows she should report him, but everything about Jackson makes her question what she’s been taught about his kind. And against her instincts, she’s falling for him. But Ari isn’t just any girl, and Jackson wants more than her attention. She’s a military legacy who’s been trained by her father and exposed to war strategies and societal information no one can know — especially an alien spy, like Jackson. Giving Jackson the information he needs will betray her father and her country, but keeping silent will start a war.

Goodreads | Amazon | Barnes & Noble | The Book Depository

You can learn more about the author on her Website



Book Trailer Thursday

Beautiful Redemption by Kami Garcia & Maggie Stohl

The Diviners by Libba Bray

 

ADAPTATION by Malinda Lo 

 

 

Review - Cursed by Jennifer Armentrout

Review - Cursed by Jennifer Armentrout

Dying sucks-- and high school senior Ember McWilliams knows firsthand. After a fatal car accident, her gifted little sister brought her back. Now anything Ember touches dies. And that, well, really blows.

Ember operates on a no-touch policy with all living things--including boys. When Hayden Cromwell shows up, quoting Oscar Wilde and claiming her curse is a gift, she thinks he's a crazed cutie. But when he tells her he can help control it, she's more than interested. There's just one catch: Ember has to trust Hayden's adopted father, a man she's sure has sinister reasons for collecting children whose abilities even weird her out.

However, she's willing to do anything to hold her sister's hand again. And hell, she'd also like to be able to kiss Hayden. Who wouldn't? But when Ember learns the accident that turned her into a freak may not have been an accident at all, she's not sure who to trust. Someone wanted her dead, and the closer she gets to the truth, the closer she is to losing not only her heart, but her life. For real this time

My Summary

Ember has been hiding from the world for the past two years.  She wears gloves and cannot touch any living thing, not even a plant.  Anything that comes in contact with her will die instantly and this is her curse - the touch of death. 

Her little sister Olivia is different as well but instead she has the gift of life.  Any dead person or animal will come back to life once it comes in contact with her. 

Ember didn’t have this curse before she died; this “thing” was awakened after her little sister brought her back from her death. But everything she ever knew I about to change.  Hayden – a boy that reaches out to her - appears in her life and will introduce her to many others like her.  Will they accept her?  Will she be able to love and kiss a boy before she dies?

 

My Opinion

This story is simply amazing.   It’s about family, commitment and self discovery.  Ember adores her sister and Mother.  Even though her mother is not herself she overcomes adversity and her own fears in order to provide for her family.  This girl has pretty much bypassed being a teenager in order to take care of her baby sister.

At the beginning of the story we meet a girl that pretty much has dropped everything in her life in order to step up to the plate.  Her personal life is non existent asides from her best friend Adam.  She used to be popular, she usded to have more friends but everyone has turned their back on her the minute the cursed changed her eyes and body. 

She wears scars from the accident there fore covers it with long sleeves. 

As the story progresses we see Ember blossom into an amazing young woman who learns that life has given her a gift and she has to learn to cope with it just as many others have. 

She is not evil or soulless as she thinks she is simply different. 

There are many stories out there with a girl like Ember but Jennifer Armentrout simply knows how to make everything her own and keeps us turning pages until the very end.  I cannot wait for book two.

About the author

USA TODAY Bestselling author, Jennifer L. Armentrout, lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia. All the rumors you’ve heard about her state aren’t true. When she’s not hard at work writing, she spends her time reading, working out, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write, and hanging out with her husband and her Jack Russell, Loki. Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class where she spent most of her time writing short stories….which explains her dismal grades in math. Jennifer writes young adult paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary romance. She also writes adult romance under the name J. Lynn.

Find Jennifer on: Twitter | Facebook | Goodreads | Website | Blog

Daemon Invasion 2.0

I am a huge Jennifer Armentrout fan and of course the Lux Series.  This year Entangled has a contest for you to nominate your city for the Opal release Book Tour.  Say What?  Yes you can nominate your city in order to be considered to be one of the stops for Jennifer's Opal Blog Tour.

What do you need to do?  Follow this link to Entangled publishing and join  http://www.entangledinromance.com/2012/10/02/daemon-invasion/

Nominate Your City for the OPAL Release Party!

The hottest alien returns to America. But where? YOU DECIDE! Create a video, take a picture, write a blog post, or whatever you can come up with to grab our attention and let us know why you feel your city should host the Daemon Invasion OPAL Release Party. On November 3rd, we’ll choose the top 5 cities and put it to a vote for all the fans to decide the final city in which we’ll host the OPAL Release Party with Jennifer L. Armentrout and… Daemon! That’s right, the model who portrays Daemon on the covers of The Lux Series, Pepe Toth, will be joining us for an exciting launch party at hopefully a bookstore near you!

The hottest alien returns to America. But where? YOU DECIDE!

Flutter by Melissa Andrea

Hello Guys,

I just wanted to share the love for this upcoming YA Novel.  Flutter is Melissa Andrea debut paranormal fantasy novel and this novel has been making a lot of noise around social media.  Today the author released the awaited book trailer and look at all the hits on this one.  I cannot wait to read this story.

Flutter by Melissa Andrea

Sara's life is forever changed -

Waking up, buried & hidden deeply in the last place anyone would want to be, will do that. She is determined to find out how she ended up there & why, but when the only person who can help her, continuously lies to her, she finds herself forced to suffer alone. She can't ignore the strange things that begin to happen to her nor can she hide from the nightmares that haunt her sleep. And when her world collides with Adan - the mysterious boy whom she can't seem to stay away from, literally - she is consumed by the familiar flutter that sparks whenever he is around and she is desperate to discover the reason why.
But the biggest discovery will come from the secret of what she is…

Adan
Adan’s mission to find Sara has finally approached -
It seemed simple: bring her back to the enchanted world that lives, breathes and survives because of her, but he quickly finds himself faced with an entirely new challenge. Immediately, Adan realizes that staying unknown to Sara is a task he will fail before even attempting. The pull to her is far too strong to refuse, and being with her will defy the very reason he existed. He was the key to her survival and loving her was not part of the plan that he had been born to follow. Can he find it in himself too resist the urge to be with her and follow through with their destiny or will he destroy everything that had been left to Sara to protect and defend -
And the kingdom she is unaware she rules…

Flutter
As Sara and Adan struggle to overcome their own separate battles -
There is a far more determined evil that is stalking the shadows and waiting to annihilate them both.
Sara will figure out that not everything is what it seems and knowing what she can and can not trust will be the key to finding out the truth to what happened to her, the reason why she had been buried alive and who she really is…

Sara and Adan will discover the hidden meaning to why she was the reason he existed and why he would be the reason she survived & together they will fight to change the rules and rewrite their fate.
Here it is...

About the Author

Melissa started reading in high school when she found her mom's romance book collection and has been hooked on books every since. She became a complete book-a-holic, starting her own collection and improving her reading skills. Most of the time she could finish a book walking around the store, while her mom shopped.

She wrote her first short story in high school for a competition in her writing class. It was a child's book called 'Arnold' - it was about an ant who believed he could do anything. Oh by the way, she won!

She has written many stories since then, but this will be her first YA paranormal/fantasy and the first book she will have published.

She lived in Mesa, Arizona with her husband of six years, and her 3 beautiful daughters.

Teaser Tuesday - Cursed by Jennifer Armentrout

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should  Be Reading. Anyone can play along, so I thought  I  would play for fun! Just do the following:          

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on  that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away!   You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title and author, too, so that other TT participants can  add the book to their TBR  Lists  if they  like your teaser. 

 
 

 Cursed by Jennifer Armentrout

 

Dying sucks-- and high school senior Ember McWilliams knows firsthand. After a fatal car accident, her gifted little sister brought her back. Now anything Ember touches dies. And that, well, really blows.

Ember operates on a no-touch policy with all living things--including boys. When Hayden Cromwell shows up, quoting Oscar Wilde and claiming her curse is a gift, she thinks he's a crazed cutie. But when he tells her he can help control it, she's more than interested. There's just one catch: Ember has to trust Hayden's adopted father, a man she's sure has sinister reasons for collecting children whose abilities even weird her out.

However, she's willing to do anything to hold her sister's hand again. And hell, she'd also like to be able to kiss Hayden. Who wouldn't? But when Ember learns the accident that turned her into a freak may not have been an accident at all, she's not sure who to trust. Someone wanted her dead, and the closer she gets to the truth, the closer she is to losing not only her heart, but her life. For real this time


TEASER:  

"Hayden placed his hand on the small of my back.  That touch wiped away the logical part of my brain.  "What are you thinking about?

He was close, way to close.  The scent of soap and spice filled my sense.  I let my eyes drift shut.  Kissing you," I admitted in a low voice.

"I wish you hadn't said that," I took a deep breath and opened my eyes.



And that is all folks.... 

This book is simply amazing and just like any other novel from J. Armentrout has simply become one of my favorites.  



A little more about the author:

http://jenniferarmentrout.blogspot.com/p/october-1-2012.html

 

USA TODAY Bestselling author, Jennifer L. Armentrout, lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia. All the rumors you’ve heard about her state aren’t true. When she’s not hard at work writing, she spends her time reading, working out, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write, and hanging out with her husband and her Jack Russell, Loki. Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class where she spent most of her time writing short stories….which explains her dismal grades in math. Jennifer writes young adult paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary romance. She also writes adult romance under the name J. Lynn.

Find Jennifer on: Twitter | Facebook | Goodreads | Website | Blog