FRIDAY NIGHT FREEBIE: Dante Walker Series by Victoria Scott

August 30, 2013 Friday Night Freebie, Giveaways 28

Victoria Scott

Series: Dante Walker

Genres: Paranormal, Romance, Young Adult

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Welcome to the Friday Night Freebie at New Adult Addiction!  Up for grabs this week are BOTH books in the Dante Walker series in PAPERBACK!

This is open INTERNATIONAL, however, you will get eBooks, sorry. It’s like fifty bucks to send books over seas. But if you’re in the US, you get two day shipping via Amazon so you’ll have the books in your hot little hands by Wednesday.

Victoria Scott’s newest book in the Dante Walker series, THE LIBERATOR, released this week. 
I. LOVED. THIS. BOOK.
And that’s why I’m giving it away on the Friday Night  Freebie! I have both of my reviews for these books below, so if you want to see what I thought of them in detail, go ahead and give that a read. 
These are YA books, but they are close to NA. The sex is tame in book two (there’s no sex in book one) but the language and the activities are both on the mature end.
And I just love Dante, so I don’t give a crap that they’re technically YA.  He’s FUN.
So, if you haven’t read this series, ENTER this contest!  But it ends tomorrow night at midnight Mountain Time, so do it fast!  I’ll pick a winner on Sunday and your prize will be in the mail on Monday!

The Liberator
(Dante Walker #2)
by Victoria Scott

Release Date: August 27, 2013
From Entangled Teen

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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, this dude’s been a playboy for far too long…and old demons die hard.
With Charlie becoming the girl she was never able to be pre-makeover and Aspen showing him how delicious it feels to embrace his inner beast, Dante will have to go somewhere he never thought he’d return to in order to accomplish the impossible: save the girl he’s been assigned to, and keep the girl he loves.

 

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REVIEW

Dante makes me want to write poetry—of the dirty limerick persuasion. Hey, he’s just a fun guy, he deserves a fun poem. Unfortunately, I’m trying to keep it all PG-13 here for this so I don’t corrupt Dante’s younger fans. So I’m gonna have to nix the limerick.

But I do have a map, because can you believe that freaking Dante was in freaking Denver and he did not even freaking look me up!
However, I will forgive him, because he sorta had his hands full with Aspen and Charlie, and Annabelle, and yeah…

I was having a lot of review guilt over giving The Collector four stars because honestly, Dante Walker is one of my favorite characters, like ever. Like. Ever.

I love him. He’s my kinda guy.

But all my guilt went out the window when I finished The Liberator because this book. This book is five freaking stars. And if I had given The Collector five stars it would diminish how much better I think this book is.

This book has everything. It’s got the mythology/history, it’s got demons, it’s got a KICK-ASS Charlie—whom I did not care for in the first book—it’s got mouthy Annabelle, it’s got another Dude I can’t say because it’s a spoiler, it’s got wings, it’s got a hard-core new girl who kicks even more ass than Dante, it’s got Dante, of course—who is even more awesome than I thought he could possibly be—it’s got sex…fade to black, but still, Dante and Miss Charlie get busy a few times…and it’s got HELL.

That’s right, people. HELL.

We get to take a trip to hell. I loved it. Freaking loved it.

All the characters come to life in this one and I am so excited for Annabelle! I’m like squeeing right now—yes!

I’m seriously in awe.
And let me tell you this, as a writer who has written two Book Twos in a series, it’s not easy to do that and make it better than the first. Readers might not understand this, but characters in a series must have an arc—they gotta change in a series, so Book Two characters need to make progress, but there’s a catch. You see the arc can’t complete until Book Three, so writing a kick-ass Book Two is not easy. Sometimes it’s boring, sometimes readers get frustrated with the lack of satisfaction… all kinds of shit can happen to make the Book Two suck.

But Victoria Scott nailed it.

Her Book Two ROCKS. This book has so much action it’s practically exhausting. Charlie is so much better in this one than she was in the first book. I sorta hated her goody-two-shoes crap in the first book, but in this book, Miss Charlie gets a little dirty. (In a couple ways!) She is so great.

Annabelle was fabulous and she gets a love interest in this book and not only that. This dude is like HOT. Man, lucky, lucky Annabelle.

Max and Valery – hmmm… they are the only ones I really didn’t care too much for, but I think they’ll get a deeper role in the next book.

And the new girl? Aspen? She really didn’t play too much of a role until the end, but when she gets busy, she gets busy. I loved her. She is kick-ass with a capital KA.


And our boy Dante? Dante hooked me on page one, literally, the first sentence with his talk of Man Rules. Dante is a demon in love and oh, how I loved to watch him struggle with this. He’s still bad ass, he’s still mouthy, he’s still arrogant, and he’s still one of my favorite characters of all time. Dante Walker learns some lessons, commits to his girl, makes his sacrifices, and come out the other end intact and badder than ever.

I could seriously go on and on, that’s how good this book is, but it’s two thirty in the morning and I have to post the freaking review and hit the sack. So I’ll just leave it at this—if you haven’t read The Collector, get it, read it, then get this book when it releases on August 27th. In fact, I’m gonna have a big party for Dante for the Friday Night Freebie on August 30th, so stop by and enter to win some paperbacks.

FIVE STARS FOR THE LIBERATOR.
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BOOK ONE – THE COLLECTOR

13449677He makes good girls…bad.
Dante Walker is flippin’ awesome, and he knows it. His good looks, killer charm, and stellar confidence have made him one of hell’s best—a soul collector. His job is simple: weed through humanity and label those round rears with a big red good or bad stamp. Old Saint Nick gets the good guys, and he gets the fun ones. Bag-and-tag.
Sealing souls is nothing personal. Dante’s an equal-opportunity collector and doesn’t want it any other way. But he’ll have to adjust, because Boss Man has given him a new assignment:
Collect Charlie Cooper’s soul within ten days.
Dante doesn’t know why Boss Man wants Charlie, nor does he care. This assignment means only one thing to him, and that’s a permanent ticket out of hell. But after Dante meets the quirky Nerd Alert chick he’s come to collect, he realizes this assignment will test his abilities as a collector…and uncover emotions deeply buried

 

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REVIEW

collector250Oh, Dante Walker, you smexy sonofabitch, you! You’re everything girls want in a man, and everything we despise at the same time.
This year I’m definitely into character voice as the number one thing that draws me into loving a book versus liking it. Dante had a fabulous character voice. I thoroughly enjoyed reading him, he’s bad, he’s good, he’s funny, he’s so many things.
A++++ for the character development of Dante.
Dante works for Boss Man, AKA The Devil. His job is to collect souls before people die so they never get a chance to stand for Final Judgment. It’s a clever spin on the whole soul collector theme, which has been done before. (Quite a bit actually.)
Dante loves his job and up until now, he’s had no problem with collecting all the souls he can. Problem is, this nerdy chick named Charlie sorta weasels her way into his heart.
Charlie is a total dweeb and she’s got absolutely nothing going for her except her good deeds and high moral character. And even though we’re supposed to like that about her, I found Charlie to be annoyingly sweet.
She wanted to make me puke. In fact, I sorta hated Charlie. I do understand Dante’s attraction to her, and I was OK with that, but I never felt the same way about her.
Annabelle, on the other hand, LOVED! I wish Annabelle was the main love interest because she was well-developed, quirky, and likeable.
I’m going to reserve final judgment on Charlie until after the next book. I see the moral of the story, it’s practically spelled out for readers, but I’m not quite sure it succeeded. Charlie still got what she wanted and Dante’s mission is to make sure she doesn’t have to pay the final price for that coolness.
I’m not sure that works…right? I mean, how does that work?
This story was fun though, and it kept my attention. It got a little predictable towards the end, and there a huge reveal about Dante’s past that had almost no follow-up, so I think that could’ve been handled better, but I have every intention of picking up the second book, so mission accomplished for author Victoria Scott.
Four stars.
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About Victoria Scott

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Victoria Scott is a teen fiction writer represented by Sara Crowe. She’s the author of THE COLLECTOR trilogy (Entangled Teen) and the FIRE & FLOOD series (Scholastic). Victoria lives in Dallas with her husband and hearts cotton candy something fierce.

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28 Responses to “FRIDAY NIGHT FREEBIE: Dante Walker Series by Victoria Scott”

  1. Tonya Schenck

    I like the good boys. I think the bad boys worth having are good boys so it’s a win win.

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  8. Caitlin

    I really think bad boys are attractive in stories, but I’d probably prefer a mix of both good and bad in my guy in real life :)

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  15. Kierra

    I really don’t care if their good/bad boys(though I tend to like good guys better), but I really like hate at first/friends/love at last relationships.

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  16. Erika

    I love me some bad boys:) SO excited to read this series! Thanks for the amazing giveaway!

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  21. Elijah H

    I like both! But I must admit bad boys are much more interesting. Thanks for the giveaway! :)

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  24. Bonnie Hilligoss

    I like the good boys that can be a little bit bad! Thank you for the giveaway!!

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  26. Kim

    Always a bad boy but he can have a touch of a good boy at heart. LOL
    Thank you for the giveaway.

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  28. Katiria Rodriguez

    Ohh great question I have to say good boys thanks for the awesome giveaway!

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