{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).

Rating:

 

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{Audiobook Review} Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Publication date: September 10, 2013

Narrators: Rebecca Lowman, Maxwell Caulfield

Publisher:  St. Martin's Press

ISBN-13: 9780804121293

Synopsis 

There are fans and there are fangirls, Cath falls in the second category. Simon Snow has been a great part of her life, not only has she read all the books and she is a respected figure when talking about Simon Snow fanfcition, but it used to be something that tied her and her sister together.

Now it seems that their twin senses aren’t tingling nor in sync. College is around the corner and Wren just drop a bomb on her, they are not rooming together. Now Cath is at the mercy of her new roommate and her charming and always smiling boyfriend.

To add a little to the stress of her new environment Wren’s and Cath’s father isn’t what you would call stable and Cath can’t stop worrying about it. College, family and people are all coming at Cath whether she is ready or not, can this fangirl survive in an environment so far away from her comfort zone?

Review

I loved loved loved Fangirl, I was squirming, screaming and squealing, jumping and turning. Honestly I’ve been banging my head on my desk for not reading it as soon as it came out.

Would I’ve not enjoyed this book as much if I just read it instead of listening to the audio book? Definitely! That is not to say that Rebecca Lowman didn’t do a good job giving life to the whole fangirl entourage, and not to say that Maxwell Caulfield didn’t do a great backing her up.

The characters where yummy to read, Cath’s insecurities, her motivation, the way she was hit by the bumps in the road made her a really interested and fun character to read. The best part of it was that I never felt that she was being untrue to herself.

Secondary characters wise, yes some of them where kind of predictable but others punched this really nice surprises and I would love to get lost in a short story of Ragen and Levi. This book covers the basis of a standalone, it has the sweet glory of having a full story in just one book with the sweetest agony of wanting and craving for more.

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Fairytales and Folklore Review Opportunity

Our friend Robyn from Fairytales and Folklore is in a little bit of a pickle guys!! 

She has had a lot going on right now and sadly hasn't been able to focus on her blog as she would have liked. But still the ARC's keep on rolling and we all know we don't like to leave authors and publisher hanging. 

So could it be possible that we all try to lend a hand to dear Robyn and keep the reviews on her blog going? Robyn has now permission from this authors to let another book reviewer err.. well.. you know review their ARC's and she is giving us all an opportunity to jump in and help. 

If you would like to help Robyn and "Fairytales andFolklore" then sign up on the link below, she will pick one entry per ARC, to know more about the ARC's that are up for review (with the permission of the authors) just take a pick below.

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Twisted Summer by Lucy Morgan

New adult, romance

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You have to understand that we never meant for it to happen. We knew it was stupid. We knew it was wrong. 

Eighteen-year-old Danni Warren has big plans for her last summer before college: a cool job, a concert she wouldn’t miss for the world, and spending time with her beautiful girlfriend, Esme. But after one hell of an argument, Danni’s mother packs her off to stay with her estranged step-uncle, Gabe, in his lodge on the English coast. So begins a weekend of the worst punishment imaginable: no phone signal.

With his sun kissed good looks and sarcastic manner, twenty-nine-year-old Gabe Asher isn’t anything like Danni expected. She wants to hate him—he’s her punishment for standing up to her mother—but between surfing lessons and beach hikes, Gabe and Danni grow close. Maybe too close.

Now Danni’s questioning everything: old family secrets, her future, her strained relationship with Esme. One sun stained afternoon, Gabe and Danni go too far. And then everything else falls apart…

The Goddess's Choice by Jamie Marchant

Fantasy

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Samantha's ability enables her to discern a person's character through their multi-colored aura, and Robrek's makes him the strongest healer the kingdom has seen in centuries. But their gifts also endanger their lives. Royals scheme to usurp the throne by marrying or killing Samantha, and priests plot to burn Robrek at the stake. 

Robrek escapes the priests only to be captured by Samantha's arch-enemy, Duke Argblutal; Argblutal intends to force the princess to marry him by exploiting Robrek's powers. To save their own lives and stop the realm from sinking into civil war, Robrek and Samantha must consolidate their powers and unite the people behind them.

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{Cover Wars} The Vincent Boys by Abbi Glines

This week we have Abbi Gline's series The Vincent Boys, a series I've been trying to read and what drawn me to it was the cover, which is now here because it had a cover make over. Lets take a look at the summary:

Ashton is getting tired of being good, of impressing her parents and playing ideal girlfriend to Sawyer Vincent. Sawyer is perfect, a regular Prince Charming, but when he leaves town for the summer, it’s his cousin Beau catches Ashton’s eye. Beau is the sexiest guy she’s ever seen, and even though he’s dangerous, Ashton is drawn to him.

Beau loves his cousin like a brother, so the last thing he wants to do is make a move on Sawyer’s girl. Ashton is off-limits, absolutely. That’s why he does his best to keep his distance, even though he’s been in love with her forever. When Ashton wants to rekindle their childhood friendship in Sawyer’s absence, Beau knows he should say no.

Ashton and Beau don’t want to hurt Sawyer. But the more they try to stay away from each other, the more intense their urges become. It’s getting way too hard to resist...

Now then, this week we are looking at a series, that means both the Vincent Boys and the Vincent Brothers got a book make over, so lets take a look at our contestants shall we:

First we have the colorful and lollipopish original covers:

 

Versus their sexy black and white counterparts: 

                 

Lets talk first about the sexy black and white covers, they are an interesting they depict more a young adult story or a Levis commercial if you ask me.

If there was some sort of link between one and another with the fonts it would really make it obvious to anyone exploring the shelves that this two books are related, it doesn't feel like the font in the middle from the Vincent Boys would have had a negative effect on the Vincent Boys cover, and that little line of color really helps it pop up from the otherwise monotonous black and white. 

In the Vincent Boys black and white cover we have a different font with different colors, the cover doesn't really stand out, it doesn't do this book any favors.

The colorful lollipopish version keeps a link between both books of the series, the theme and the fonts lead you to believe that both books for a part of something, that they are in one way or another related. The lollipop element in both Vincent covers seems to be the thing that stands out in it and even if others have used it on covers, it just makes me feel that they made it their own.

{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.

{Cover Wars} Sophia's Journey by Rebecca Hamilton

Hi guys, I hope you had a really nice time with your friends and family this Christmas and that the excitement and well of this dates spreed for more days and aren't limited to this holiday. That if someone tried to ruin your party they didn't succeed and you had a wonderful time.

On this weeks edition of cover wars we are taking a look into the Forever Girl "Sophia's Journey" but first lets take a look of the book blurb shall we. 

Sophia's family has skeletons, but they aren't in their graves.

At twenty-two, practicing Wiccan Sophia Parsons is scratching out a living waiting tables in her Rocky Mountain hometown, a pariah after a string of unsolved murders with only one thing in common: her.

Sophia can imagine lots of ways to improve her life, but she'd settle for just getting rid of the buzzing noise in her head. When the spell she casts goes wrong, the static turns into voices. Her personal demons get company, and the newcomers are dangerous.

One of them is a man named Charles, who Sophia falls for despite her better judgment. He has connections that might help her unveil the mystery surrounding her ancestor's hanging, but she gets more than she bargains for when she finally decides to trust him. 

Survival in his world, she learns, means not asking questions and staying out of the immortal council's way. It's a line she crossed long ago. If Sophia wants to survive the council and save the people she loves, she must accept who she is, perform dark magic, and fight to the death for her freedom.

Now that we are all in the same page and have some knowledge of the book shall we take a look at this weeks contestants:

The first face I ever knew of the Forever Girl series:

Next we have the second look this series has had, the original covers cousin:

In all honesty I like both covers, I could be wrong but it seems they used the same model for both yet I can't get around to why they change the covers. Maybe the original cover didn't translate well in print? I don't know but with these to that look so alike I don't know why not use the newest one to represent the second book in the series that will hopefully reach the ansious hands of the The Forever Girl fans one day.

{Cover Reveal} Tainted by Lynn Rush

After over four hundred years as a Guardian, Durk Langdon rebuked it all. Walked away from everything when his mate, Jessica, was brutally murdered. Yet he has no recollection of anything since that gruesome day.

Nothing alleviates his longing for Jessica or his disdain for the Guardians until a former brother-in-arms joins him and his cause. Visions of his lost love start appearing in the most unlikely places, until Durk learns she survived.

But when he sets out to find her, demonic obstacles he never could have imagined tear them apart.

If only he had trusted her…

**A portion of all proceeds donated to cancer research & treatment**

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About the author

“When I started out on this writing journey, it felt like such a far away dream. I constantly asked myself, ‘Really? Me? A writer?’ Then when I was published I still asked, ‘Really? Me? An author?’ Along the way things inspired me, obstacles shot up, and doors both opened and closed…but through my faith, family, and friends, I found motivation to continue on my dream - dreams of something bigger than all of us. Whether it’s writing, music, dancing …”
**A portion of all book proceeds to the American Cancer Society**

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Cover Wars: Ocean Kills by Jade Hart

The world of covers is a hard one, not everyone can charm the readers by just their looks, are looks all that matter in the book cover world? if it was which one would you pick?

First lets take a look into the story of today's contestants:

Around the world, murderers and rapists pick off the innocent. Killing loved ones, separating families, and ruining lives.

As an eight-year-old girl, Ocean witnessed her family’s massacre and something altered inside her. Twisting her genetic code… unlocking an ability to teleport.Ocean Breeze was never destined to be normal, especially being named after air-freshener. She’s a shadow, a ghost—a dark savior of the innocent. Armed with a switchblade in her bra, and a box-cutter in her pocket, she hunts the filth of the world.
Callan Bliss is a Sydney Police Officer whose skill set is far above a normal cop. All his fellow officers see is a hard-worker who loves to catch perpetrators and surf, but that’s because they don’t know his past. When Callan arrests a suspicious looking prostitute, coming face to face with a self-confessed vigilante, his secrets aren't that easy to keep silent anymore.
Ocean hates the police with a passion, and has no intention of being held captive by a cop, even if he is sexy as hell. Teleporting from under his nose, Ocean hunts her next target—a man responsible for the largest sex ring in South Africa—and he’s about to die. But she doesn't count on Callan giving chase, nor the body-quaking lust which consumes them. However, Ocean's dark hobbies take precedence over what her heart wants—her thirst for murdering is killing her too, and not even Callan can save her.

Now to take a look at the contestants, remember there can only be one winner.

First we have the original cover for the Ocean Breeze series:

Versus the make over edition: