Saturday, June 14, 2014

Stacking the Shelves #50 May Book Haul



Stacking The Shelves is a meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews in which we share the books we are adding to our shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

 
Hey peeps, it’s Stacking the Shelves time again. This haul is for the whole month of May. I loved this month! We both got great books and we found some awesome books at our library bookstore. :D And don't forget to show us some love by leaving us a comment and leaving a link to your STS. Read on peeps, read on!!!!!




Tiffany’s Stack

Won: Swag/Books


Twilight Hunter by Kait Ballenger










Flight or Flight by Jamie Canosa




Echoes of Fire by Laurel McKinley





Reborn by C.C. Hunter 
Foreseen by Terri-Lynne Smiles





Hoodoo Money by Sharon Cupp Pennington
Mangroves and Monsters by Sharon Cupp Pennington






Patriotic Duty by C.J. Pinard




Pulled by Danielle Bannister



The Heart of Self-Love by Heather Hans





For Review:


Siren's Song by Heather McCollum


Bought:

Shifting Fate by Melissa Wright 


Colter's Lady by Maya Banks


After by Amy Efaw
Meridian by Amber Kizer 
Poltergeeks by Sean Cummings 
A SEAL Wolf for Christmas by Terry Spear


Ryan’s Stack

Bought:

Time Weaver by Shana Abe 
Sea Glass by Maria V. Snyder 
Pantomime by Laura Lam


Lucky Penny by Catherine Anderson 
Lover Enshrined by J.R. Ward


For Review:

Suddenly Last Summer by Sarah Morgan 


Traded:


So Close to You by Rachel Carter




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Tuesday, June 10, 2014

Release Day! Storm of Ekkos by Heather Allen

Available from 10 June - Storm of Ekkos is the latest release from Heather Allen!!



Title: Storm of Ekkos
Author: Heather Allen
Genre: Paranormal Young Adult
Publication Date: June 10, 2014
Publisher: Heather Allen



What if Earth isn’t the only planet out there with life as we know it? What if one choice in the history of humans could change the entire course of the world?

Hadley Morrow, a sixteen year old inhabitant of Ekkos makes a choice. She must redeem herself and prove she is really meant for more. Her life has meaning beyond the choices of her parents. But the boy on the mountain changes everything. He is in the wrong place at the wrong time and her actions set into motion a journey to find herself and discover more about her future and the planet she calls home.

Elijah Weston, a sixteen year old member of Earth leaves his house to escape the small existence that he calls his life. He finds that everything is closing in on him and he needs a way out. The girl on the mountain changes everything. He is in the right place at the right time and because of her his life takes on meaning beyond what he can comprehend.

When Elijah meets Hadley everything he believed about his life and the world is turned upside down. Will they be able to overcome the future already set before them and change both worlds or will their choices be for nothing? Has everything already been written?





Heather Allen is the author of The Just Breathe Trilogy, Feeling This, The Sound of Shooting Stars and her recently released New Adult novel, Let Go about an MMA fighter. And now the first book, Storm of Ekkos in her new Paranormal Young Adult Saga. Heather finally realized her dream of becoming an author just over a year ago with her mermaid trilogy. She savors every moment on this journey and the wonderful friends she has met along the way. She has many more books planned. Ideas pop up faster than she has time to write.

Heather currently resides in the sunny state of Florida with her husband and three children. She holds degrees in education from The University of Central Florida and Nova Southeastern University. She is a hopeless romantic who loves to read just about anything. While writing she indulges in coffee and Jelly Belly jellybeans. When she isn’t teaching, writing or reading, Heather can be found at the beach or out on the water boating.





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Sunday, June 8, 2014

{Review} Repossessed (Warlock Repo Man Chronicles #1) by Shawntelle Madison





Release Date: January 20, 2014

Supernatural matchmaker Tessa Dandridge knows a little mist here and a little magic there will help reckless werewolves and precocious pixies find love. That is, until her magical Smythe scroll is lost in her repo’ed car and she can’t contact her V.I.P. clients. To connect with an important client cavorting in the fifth dimension, Tessa must depend on handsome Rob Shin, a warlock repo man, to enter Limbo and find her Smythe scroll.

Rob has money problems of his own, thanks to the bank determined to foreclose on his elderly aunt and uncle’s home. Repossessing magic wands and cursed pianos from disgruntled warlocks isn’t the best pay, but the Navy SEAL works well as a repo man to pay off his family’s debts. Rob’s repossession jobs catch up with him when a powerful warlock seeks to end his life for his constant meddling, drawing Tessa in the middle.

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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18817064-repossessed






My Review



Shawntelle Madison has done it again!!!!! She never seems to disappoint and if I see her name on anything I’m going to read it without even reading about it. Repossessed is set in the same world as the coveted series Mrs. Madison brings us Tessa who is a witch matchmaker and Rob a Navy Seal on medical leave who is doing repo work to get his family out of debt. 

In the first pages of the book Mrs. Madison said that she actually wrote this story before the coveted series. I’m just glad she is writing lol Like her other books this one delivers. It has a sexy Asian who is honorable and a water witch that seems to think that she isn’t attracted to Rob. This book holds a lot of magic and mayhem! Beware to those that are faint at heart because there are a lot of breathless moments between Tessa and Rob. This book just like the others is full of dire circumstances and lots of close calls. I don’t think I was bored during the whole thing. It’s set in the same world as the coveted series, but we get to see a whole new scenes and powers, and new creatures!

So Tessa is a supernatural matchmaker and like probably most of us has money problems. The thing is she has a scroll that helps her contact very important clients. Unfortunately she is behind on her car payments and the scroll just happens to be inside her car. Why is this bad? Well is gets reposed by Rob and he puts it in some kind of limbo that can only be opened with something is being reposed. The good news, Tessa manages to work along side him and try to get her scroll back, but there is always a catch. The less important items, the less the hole stays open and the bigger the item the longer Tessa has to look for her car. She thinks that it’s going to be east and danger free, she thought wrong. Someone is not happen with Rob and the item he took from him and he wants revenge. How do you stop someone you can’t even find? Well he comes to you of course. Tessa gets into more than she can handle, but will it be worth it in the end? Will Tessa find the scroll in time for the match dinner? Will Tessa finally meet her match? You will fond out all that and more in this new urban fantasy by Shawntelle Madison.

Overall: New characters, new powers, and new creatures. Shawntelle Madison knows how to tell an awesome story and I can’t wait for more Tessa and Rob.

4 STARS










About this author

Shawntelle Madison is a web developer who loves to weave words as well as code. She’d never admit it, but if asked she’d say she covets and collects source code. After losing her first summer job detassling corn, Shawntelle performed various jobs—from fast-food clerk to grunt programmer to university webmaster. Writing eccentric characters is her most favorite job of them all. On any particular day when she’s not surgically attached to her computer, she can be found watching cheesy horror movies or the latest action-packed anime. She lives in Missouri with her husband and children.





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Friday, June 6, 2014

[Review] Fury + Giveaway

FURY




Fury: Book 1 of The Cure by Charlotte McConaghy
348 pages, Published March 25th, 2014 by Momentum Books, Pan Macmillan
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In the tradition of Divergent comes a novel about a world where negative emotions are stolen ... and only those with fury can stand up and fight.

Eighteen-year-old Josephine Luquet wakes naked and covered in blood that is not hers on the same day every year—when the blood moon is full. Josi has not responded to the "Cure"—an immunization against anger mandated by the government—and believes herself to be a threat to others.

Then she meets Luke. Luke has had the Cure but seems different to the other "drones"—and he's dead set on helping Josi discover the truth about herself before the next blood moon.

But time is running out. Is Luke willing to risk his life to be near her? Does he truly understand what violence she is capable of?

Raw and full of passion, Fury is a story of love in a dystopian world, and how much we are willing to forgive in the struggle to remember our humanity.




Review
I sort of read this book in three sections, since I read the first part of it for free on Amazon. That first section totally sucked me in and was 5 stars for me. The latter parts weren't as intriguing, but the story did keep me engrossed and guessing throughout. I had a hard time putting the book down and am curious as to what the author will do with the next part of the novel. 

The story follows the lives of three characters: Josephine, Anthony, and Luke. Josephine is a troubled young woman who struggles with the knowledge that she is the only person who had not been robbed of her ability to feel anger. She also struggles with a deeper and darker secret that controls her entire life. Luke is an intriguing and mysterious young man who develops an interest in Josephine and sort of takes it upon himself to protect her- despite the fact that she is uncured. Anthony is a therapist in the asylum that Josephine admitted herself to. He is cured and has trouble understanding Josephine's emotions, but it is amusing watching him try. 

The story is told in alternating first person points of view between the characters- which I really thought added a nice depth to the story. Anthony was an intriguing character in his own right and I enjoyed his struggle through what he felt he was missing when he interacted with Josephine- him being unable to feel what she frequently puts on display for the whole world. Their interactions made the story pretty unique. I like it. 

I loved watching Luke and Josephine interact and grow as a couple. I am so thrilled that the events in the book actually tool place over a long period of time and insta- love was nowhere to be found. THANK GOD. It was fun watching them develop their interesting- if strange- friendship. 

The actual plot behind the story was interesting and very creative. Like I previously stated, I am interested to know where the author is taking the story- line. 

Now, there are some bones I would like to pick. The story shifts between the past and present frequently. Eventually, I got bored with trying to read the dates at the beginning of each chapter and ignored them completely. I figured if the chapter had Anthony in it, it was the present. If it had Luke, it was the past (well. up until a certain point anyway.) The frequent shifts felt a little bit unnecessary. At first, i liked them and appreciated them because they added another interesting element to the story, but after a while, I was just staring at the dates shaking my head. No. 

Other than that, I enjoyed the story! I would recommend it to lovers of dystopian (or utopian) societies with aggressive and badass lead characters- but only as long as you can overlook the frequent time traveling. ;)


3.6/5






About the Author


Charlotte started writing her children’s fantasy series ‘The Strangers of Paragor’ as a teenager and has since gone on to publish five novels. After a Masters degree in Screenwriting she wrote ‘Avery’, the first in her adult fantasy series ‘The Chronicles of Kaya’, published by Random House. She now lives in Sydney, Australia, and has just released a new dystopian sci-fi novel called ‘Fury – Book One of The Cure’, published by Momentum.


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