{Blog Tour Review} Savor by Kate Evangelista

Mature and explicit content. Not recommended for readers below 18-years-old. Yup, you've got to be that old to read my story. Consider yourself warned.

Publication date: December 1rst, 2013

Publisher: Crescent Moon Press

ISBN-13: 9781939173652

Synopsis

Photography may be one of the most “popular” hobbies out there, but for me it’s a way of life. To be honest with out my camera I sometimes feel like a part of me is missing.

All that passion bottled inside me while getting trying to get the perfect picture drove me into waiting for my muse to call, to tell me who my subject would be for the last work I have to present before I graduate college.

So when her muse strikes it doesn’t matter that it’s in the form of a rock star can she deal with everything that is coming her way?

Review

I was afraid when I started reading this book, it sounded like some fanfict (In case I haven’t mentioned it this is my first Kate Evangelista book so save your torches and angry mob spirits until the end), I’m glad to report that the feeling does fade away, Kate Evangelista gives Dakota a voice that makes you see past the over the top world of the rockstars Dakota has to live in to sink you into a world where Dakota might discover more about herself then she bargain for.

I really liked Dakota even when she was sent into a world above her own she didn’t get comfortable with the commodities it offered, nor did she lose the sensation of wonder when she tried something new. She as a way of pulling you into the story and making you enjoy things through her perspective.

There was a scene in this book with which I had issues with (and it’s in part why there is a warning on the Synopsis), but the characters try to talk about what happened and ended up leaving me with a feeling that it is something that will have a further discussion on book two.

At the beginning of the book there was a point where I thought it would just be a shallow book, you know one of those where the cover is gorgeous but the stuff in it just doesn’t match, fortunately Savor started showing it’s layers where little by little you got more interested in the world Kate Evangelista was giving you, trying to decipher why Dakota did the things she did and why everyone followed Lukas lead.

Honestly I don’t know if I will patiently wait for the second book to come out or if I should just start reading Taste and go all crazy conspiracy theorist on it (aluminum foil hat included).

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{Review} Twice Bitten by Chloe Neill

Series: Chicagoland Vampires #3

Publication Date: April 19, 2012

Publisher: Story Machine Studio

ISBN-13: 2940014205108

Synopsis

After all the mess Celina left and all the bridges she started to burn it is time to rebuild and hopefully create new alliances for the Vampires of Chicago. With an opportunity to make amends at least to one group Cadogan House jumps to the opportunity to help keep the alpha Gabriel Keene safe while the Shifters Meeting takes place in Chicago.

This time Merit our favorite almost three month old Sentinel must tag team with Ethan Sullivan the master of the Cadogan House and infuriatingly handsome vampire to keep Gabriel Keene safe.

It seemed like a simple job until someone decides to attack Gabriel and Merit finds herself in the line of fire. Keeping Gabriel safe will soon be the lightest of her problems for tensions between Shifters and Vampires start to flare once again, and soon name calling can turn into a war between them, specially now that Shifters are in Chicago to decide if they stay and fight or retreat to a safe place.

Review

Here's the deal I love the Chicagoland Vampires series and so I hold it up to high standards, if it was any other book it would be getting 5 broken TV's meaning get your butt of the couch turn of the TV and start reading this awesome book. Which this book deserves, but I am giving it 4 stars because of the series it's part of. 

As part of the series this book moves more slowly then the others, which is not a bad thing, I feel this book is one of this transitions, a collection of things you need to know so that when the bomb of epicness is released we can look back and it will all make sense.

This book is more about the relationships around Merit and the feud that shifters and vampires have had. We learn about the prejudice they both hold against each other. We get to see Merit mend relationships, take risks and grow as a vampire/person? 

As I said this book alone deserves 5 starts, but as part of the series it's from it gets 4 stars. I wouldn't change a thing because Chloe Neill knows how to deliver and I wouldn't dare to change anything for it might spoil some great stuff she will have installed for us.

Silver eyes, fights, shifters and an expansion of the of the Chicago supernatural is some of the things you can expect from this thrilling third installment of the Chicagoland vampire series.

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{Blog Tour Review} Uses for Boys by Erica Lorraine Scheidt

Publication Date: January 15, 2012

Publisher: ST Martin Press

ISBN-13: 9781250007117

Synopsis

I had no mother

I had no father

I was all alone and all I wanted was a little girl

More then anything in the world
I wanted a little girl

You

You are my little girl.

That is what she used to tell me in our "tell me again" times, the time where I was all she needed, not a house, a face lift, stepbrothers or a man. Before I learned about boys, sex and how crewel life can be.

Review
Lets start with saying that if you want the type of realistic with a Disney ending and that doesn't touch strong subjects then step away from this book, slowly, slowly there you go.
This book starts with a hard issue, a mother leaving her daughter alone because she wants to feel up the emptiness in her life, how this starts to affect her daughters life and the daughter starts this cycle again.
We see little Ana learn about sex, use it as an escape and be a victim of it.
When you read this book you have to be conscious that this a dark type of realistic fiction. That this characters are humans and will make mistakes that will probably make you dislike them (sometimes really dislike them), but you will still want to cheer them on.
This isn't a story that tells you how you meet a guy and suddenly all your life is better, this story is more about the changes a person must go, the experience one goes throw and that a person is given times to break the cycle that binds you into committing the same mistakes over and over, even those passed from one generation to another.
This is really an interesting read, I wasn't really ready for it but I am glad to have read it. It may not resonate with my personal experiences but it shifted my view of life which is one of the things I love about novels, the feed you a little secret about people, about being human.
Also this story could have used a lot less pot use from the characters.

Playlist
This are some of the song that one way or another I feel they go with the story.

This songs may not tell the full story but as I said they remind me in one way or another to the story it might be a phrase, the feeling of the song or just a small moment in the music.

A Touch of Greek by Tina Folsom

Series: Out of Olympus #1

Publication Date: September 30th, 2010

Publisher: Tina Folsom

ISBN-13: 9780983612940

Synopsis

When Sophia lost her aunt she felt the void of loosing the woman that took her in and raised her when her parents died, when she starts to build a life of her own in the house she inherited she finds more problems then a cheating contractor and a cousin that is trying to cheat his way into her inheritance, after a freak accident Sophia losses her leaves her blind, now she must deal with opening her B&B  before the bank loans eat her up and she must keep the fears of becoming insane like her mother at bay.
After many chances the son of Triton has finally crossed the line and now he must fufill a quest before he is able to have his powers back and be able to return to Olympus, but things aren't as easy as he first believes, specially after meeting a girl how not only rejected him but also called him a male bimbo. Now he has set his sight on her, so that he can prove her wrong, but is it really why he is doing it?