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GIVEAWAY and TOUR: Worth the Fight by Vi Keeland

REVIEW Special thanks to AToMR Tours for providing a copy of the ARC, and if you want to hop along on the tour, you can find that here. Who can resist a MMA fighter? Not many. But it’s a tough life. I actually dated a MMA fighter back in college and he told me some scary shit. Like how after a fight he had to just lock himself away to recover from all the bruises and to avoid freaking people out because his whole face was purple. Mixed martial arts fighting, or cage fighting, as it’s more popularly known, is some serious, serious stuff. And Worth the Fight touches on some of the more horrifying aspects of the sport, while at the same time humanizes these men who can sometimes seem a bit brutal. Nico Hunter is a talented MMA fighter but the opponent in his last fight haunts him…… Read more »

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NEW ADULT ADDICTION BLOGAVERSARY DAY FOUR – Writing Reviews

Reading is a personal thing – no two people choose books in the same way and often, two people will read very different things even though the words on the page never change. This is a matter of taste. There is no rule as to what makes a book good or bad, it’s simply subjective. Writing reviews is sorta like reading books. Some people look for certain things that turned them off, others look for things that turned them on. As a reviewer I write about whatever the hell I want. I’m not real consistent. One book I might summarize the plot and then give a few sentences on characters and other books I hardly mention the plot at all, I only want to talk about the characters. I like all different kinds of novels and just because this book is one way, doesn’t mean I’ll like the next book… Read more »

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NEW ADULT ADDICTION BLOGAVERSARY DAY THREE – High Traffic Posts

See – this is what I mean. I’m totally late with this blog post today because I don’t actually enjoy blogging when I have to write original shit. Uggg.. I’d rather write reviews and post blitzes… and that’s pretty much what this post is about. High traffic posts. Some posts are worth the effort. Believe it or not, my Friday Night Freebie posts actually take a couple hours to put up. Add in the fact that I pay for all the prizes, make original promo graphics, and sometimes even review the book – and that one post is quite tedious and time consuming. But that time is well spent because I get a lot of hits for it. Even on a slow weekend, I get more than a thousand hits for a Friday Night Freebie post. Why? I’m not sure, really. Seriously, these giveaways are not that big sometimes. Sometimes… Read more »

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GIVEAWAY and REVIEW: Azure by Chrystalla Thoma

What a nice surprise this book was. I’ve never read any of Chrystalla’s books before this one, and for that I’m sorry. She’s a wonderful storyteller. First of all, the year of contemporary new adult might be over. I for one am just a little bit sick of contemporary romances, but yet – I still do enjoy them a lot if they are very original. Azure is something in between a contemporary and paranormal. It’s quite subtle, and for that I seriously have to give Chrystalla props. It’s something of a mermaid story – but yet… that’s not even close to what it is. First of all, the main heroine, Olivia, is not in any way paranormal. And the hero, Kai, might not be either. So where’s the paranormal aspect, you ask? Well, I’m not going to tell you. It’s a spoiler that I’m not willing to give up, because… Read more »

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GUEST REVIEW: The Mephisto Mark by Trinity Faegen

GUEST REVIEW FROM ISIS Read from September 06 to 13, 2013 First I would like to take a moment to thank Pink Publishing, LLC for granting g me the privilege of reading an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. The fact that I received the book for free in no way impacts the content of my review. This book actually rates a 3.5 for me, but closer to 4 than 3, so I rounded up. This book deals with domestic abuse, pedophilia, and rape, so please be forewarned that this is intended for a more mature audience. I will start by saying that this is the third book in the Mephisto Covenant series, but works as a stand-alone, which is how I read it. Please be aware that there are potential spoilers for the prior two books within the review, so turn back if you’ve yet… Read more »

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TOUR: Facade by Nyrae Dawn + Giveaway

a Rafflecopter giveaway In addition to a chance to win a $25 gift card and a really awesome book prize pack, I have lots of details for you about Facade by Nyrae Dawn, including an excerpt. MY REVIEW: When I was given the chance to be a part of the Facade Tour I was jumping up and down with excitement. I’ve been seeing this book EVERYWHERE and it had already made its way to my TBR list. I didn’t even realize this was a second book with some of these characters, and I don’t feel like I was missing anything, so if you haven’t read Charade no worries–jump right in with Facade. What I liked: I love the way the book opens with these almost meetings between the characters. You can see right from the start just how crappy the hand they have each been dealt is. It instantly pulled… Read more »

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GIVEAWAY and REVIEW: No One’s Angel by Kelly Walker

REVIEW I went into this book expecting it to be about gaming, but it really wasn’t. Angel and Arion are online gamers in a massively multiplayer online game similar to World of Warcraft. But aside from some chatting and the online tags they called each other (Angel’s real name is Tess and Arion’s real name is Axel), there was not any game plAy at all. I think it would’ve been cool to meet them in their game as sort of a prologue, but it certainly didn’t detract from the story. Angel is On the run from an abusive boyfriend who was also a little mixed up in some other things. She’s got no money and nowhere to go, so she takes a chance and shows up unannounced at her former online friend’s house. (That’s Arion/Axel). When Angel and Arion started playing together online they would flirt and it seemed like… Read more »

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GIVEAWAY and REVIEW: Escape from Eden by Elisa Nader

Welcome to my stop on the Escape from Eden blog tour hosted by YA Bound Book Tours. Click HERE to see the full blog tour schedule! REVIEW I’ve been reading a lot of YA lately, mostly because the best dystopians seem to be YA these days and Escape from Eden certainly qualifies as one of those. This is a brutal, well-written, and captivating look into a young girl’s view of a cult society she was forced to join as a small child by her mother. Mia is sixteen, she lives in a South American jungle under the thumb of a dictatorial charismatic religious cult leader called Reverend Elias Eden. She’s old enough now to understand this was not her choice and she’s smart enough to know that she really needs to get out of this place, like yesterday. But these vague thoughts become a crushing reality when her kitchen boss asks her to… Read more »

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GIVEAWAY and REVIEW: Life, Love, & Lemons by Magan Vernon

REVIEW Poor Bentley. Literally, poor Bentley. She used to be rich but her dad lost his job, and then the house, and then her private school education, and her friends. Now she’s living in a small two bedroom apartment on the wrong side of town and is going to a school with metal detectors and has a nice gang problem going on. Enter boy-next-door, who is sorta punk/goth, Kai. I loved Kai. In fact, I wish he had more time in this book because he was fantastic. A nice walking contradiction—is he a bad boy with his tattoos and piercings? Or is he a good boy who respects his God-fearing mother. Well, he’s both, so I liked that. He’s got his own set of rules in life, probably based on his mother’s religion, but I like young adult books about kids who can stretch the limits but always know where… Read more »