Posts Tagged: young adult

Release Day for Melissa Pearl: The Trilogy is Complete!

Release Day for Melissa Pearl The Trilogy is Complete! Check Out Books 1&2: Book One: UNKNOWN Darkness is covering the land. As the city of Mezrah grows with power and greed, the rest of the world can only stand by and wait for their inevitable destruction. The only hope against this growing power is an ancient prophecy that people have stopped believing in. Then a star begins to fall. Princess Kyla of Taramon stopped believing in the power of light the day her father died. Trapped in a city she does not care for, under the watchful glare of her mother, the queen, she struggles to accept her fate. Then a star begins to fall. Jethro has loved Kyla for as long as he can remember. Learning that she was to marry his cousin drove a wedge between him and the feisty princess. Watching her from a distance… Read more »

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RELEASE DAY REVIEW: Hover by Melissa West

HOVER (The Taking #2) by Melissa West Release Date: August 13, 2013 From Entangled Teen DESCRIPTION On Earth, seventeen-year-old Ari Alexander was taught to never peek, but if she hopes to survive life on her new planet, Loge, her eyes must never shut. Because Zeus will do anything to save the Ancients from their dying planet, and he has a plan. Thousands of humans crossed over to Loge after a poisonous neurotoxin released into Earth’s atmosphere, nearly killing them. They sought refuge in hopes of finding a new life, but what they became were slaves, built to wage war against their home planet. That is, unless Ari and Jackson can stop them. But on Loge, nothing is as it seems…and no one can be trusted. REVIEW The Taking Series intrigued me from the beginning, mostly because of the so very, very beautiful cover, but also because I’m a total… Read more »

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REVIEW and GIVEAWAY: The Liberator by Victoria Scott

The Liberator (Dante Walker #2) by Victoria Scott Release Date: August 27, 2013 From Entangled Teen Welcome to my stop on The Liberator blog tour hosted by YA Bound Book Tours. Click HERE to see the full blog tour schedule! DESCRIPTION Bad boy, meet bad girl. Dante has a shiny new cuff wrapped around his ankle, and he doesn’t like that mess one bit. His new accessory comes straight from Big Guy himself and marks the former demon as a liberator. Despite his gritty past and bad boy ways, Dante Walker has been granted a second chance. When Dante is given his first mission as a liberator to save the soul of seventeen-year-old Aspen, he knows he’s got this. But Aspen reminds him of the rebellious life he used to live and is making it difficult to resist sinful temptations. Though Dante is committed to living clean for his girlfriend Charlie,… Read more »

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FRIDAY NIGHT FREEBIE: BETWIXT by Melissa Pearl

Tonight’s Friday Night Freebie is: TWO e-copies of BETWIXT by Melissa Pearl YAY! Just fill out the Rafflecopter and I’ll choose a winner on MONDAY! BETWIXT by Melissa Pearl DESCRIPTION Beautiful, wild-child Nicole Tepper is hit by a car and left for dead. But when she wakes the next morning, Nicole finds herself in bed without a scratch. Perhaps she was more intoxicated than usual, as her mother is giving her the silent treatment and her friends are ignoring her as well. Things take a turn for the weird when Nicole soon discovers she is actually hovering between life and death. Her body is lying in the forest while her spirit is searching for anyone who can hear her. Unfortunately the only person who can is Dale Finnigan, the guy she publicly humiliated with a sharp-tongued insult that has left him branded. Desperate, Nicole has no choice but to haunt… Read more »

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LOSING FRANCESCA TOUR KICK-OFF and WINNERS

LOSING FRANCESCA by J.A. HUSS YA/NA Contemporary RomanceWINNERSTragic Tour Giveaway Winner: Amy Pollard Woolard Friday Night Freebie Winner: Tess Halim DESCRIPTION WARNING: This book contains no smut. It’s not smexy or hot. It’s sweet and filled with a longing so deep, your heart will ache and maybe even break. This book is about bare feet on the beach, the sound of crashing waves, first kisses, losing your faith and then, against all odds, finding it again. This book is about bad things that change people’s lives, a father’s love for his daughter, a brother’s love for his sister, a bad boy who finally figures out why he’s so broken, and a girl who grows up. Francesca Sabatini came to America to take in the sights, celebrate her high school graduation, and have fun wasting time before college starts in the fall. That’s not what happens. Fresh off the plane and… Read more »

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RELEASE DAY GIVEAWAY: Losing Francesca By JA Huss

Losing Francesca By J. A. Huss Expected Publication: July 1, 2013Genre: Mature Young Adult Contemporary Romance Francesca Sabatini came to America to take in the sights, celebrate her high school graduation, and have fun wasting time before college starts in the fall. That’s not what happens. Fresh off the plane and barely on American soil more than a handful of minutes, Francesca’s face is recognized by TSA scanners to be a match for a child who was kidnapped twelve years ago. Brody Mason remembers the day Fiona Sullivan went missing during a family vacation in Italy and it’s haunted him his whole life. So when Francesca shows up at the Sullivan farm down the road, he’s compelled to figure out if this girl really is his long lost friend. But Francesca knows she’s not Fiona Sullivan. She knows exactly who she is. At least she thinks she knows – until… Read more »

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GIVEAWAY and EXCERPT: Vigilante Nights by Erin Richards

Vigilante Nights by Erin Richards Publication date: July 18th 2013Genre: YA contemporary w/light supernatural element DESCRIPTION A “good boy” will do anything for vengeance when a gang rite kills his twin sister. Will Lucas win, or follow his sister Silver into the darkness? After a hideous car wreck, Lucas wakes from a coma to find that his world is gutted. Not only is his beloved twin sister, Silver, gone forever, but Lucas is broken in body and spirit. He will never be a college athlete, and is robbed of what he now realizes was the most important bond of his life. Although they weren’t identical twins, Lucas and Silver shared a bond so fierce it defied reason, and was nearly supernatural. After her death, that bond seems to endure when Lucas sees Silver everywhere he turns. Either he’s crazy, or Silver is trying to tell him something about the California gang initiation they stumbled into that cost Silver her life. Lucas is bent on… Read more »

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REVIEW: Black City by Elizabeth Richards

BLACK CITYBy Elizabeth Richards Young Adult SF DystopianPublished November 2012 ABOUT THE BOOK A dark and tender post-apocalyptic love story set in the aftermath of a bloody war. In a city where humans and Darklings are now separated by a high wall and tensions between the two races still simmer after a terrible war, sixteen-year-olds Ash Fisher, a half-blood Darkling, and Natalie Buchanan, a human and the daughter of the Emissary, meet and do the unthinkable—they fall in love. Bonded by a mysterious connection that causes Ash’s long-dormant heart to beat, Ash and Natalie first deny and then struggle to fight their forbidden feelings for each other, knowing if they’re caught, they’ll be executed—but their feelings are too strong. When Ash and Natalie then find themselves at the center of a deadly conspiracy that threatens to pull the humans and Darklings back into war, they must make hard choices that… Read more »

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COVER REVEAL: Necessary Sacrifices by Zoe Cannon

Necessary Sacrifices by Zoe CannonSeries: The Torturer’s Daughter, #2 Publication date: July 15th 2013Genre: YA Dystopia DESCRIPTIONA year and a half ago, Becca Dalcourt joined the resistance. Three months ago, she started working undercover inside Internal Defense. A year from now, she’ll probably be dead. She knows the odds. She’s seen how the life of a double agent ends. All she wants is a chance to do something with what little time she has left. Something big. Something meaningful. But the resistance doesn’t trust her, and her job transcribing torture sessions hasn’t given her anything but the names of dissidents whose lives, according to her resistance contact, aren’t worth saving. So when she discovers a secret government program designed to brainwash dissidents into loyal citizens, she resolves to shut it down, no matter the cost. Even if her plan puts everyone she loves in danger. Even if the most experienced resistance fighters say it can’t be done. Even if it means betraying the only person who sees… Read more »