Book Blast {Giveaway + Excerpt} Saving Casey

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First, the Author Lady. (:

LIZA O'CONNOR!

I live in Denville, NJ with my dog, Jess. We hike in fabulous woods every day, rain or shine, sleet or snow. Having an adventurous nature, I learned to fly small cessnas in NJ, hang-glide in New Zealand, kayak in Pennsylvania, ski in New York, scuba dive with great white sharks in Australia, dig up dinosaur bones in Montana, sky dive in Indiana, and raft a class four river in Tasmania. I’m an avid gardener, amateur photographer, and dabbler in watercolors and graphic arts. Yet through my entire life, my first love has and always will be writing novels. I love to create interesting characters, set them loose, and scribe what happens.

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Next, The Book!

Saving Casey

Author: Liza O'Connor
Genre: YA, Suspense, Coming of Age, Sweet Romance, 
Publisher: Decadent Publishing
Format: Ebook
Length: 63,700 words
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Having been diagnosed with cancer, Cass Goldman decides to opt out of any futile medical care and end her life. While she has some thoughts on afterlife, she never expects to reincarnate into the body of a seventeen-year-old girl named Casey Davidson. 

When she awakens in a hospital, Cass discovers two disturbing facts: One, she is now inside the body of a troubled teenager, and two, the former owner of this body committed suicide, but only Cass knows that. Everyone else believes Casey has survived, but suffered a complete memory loss. Cass has two choices: to take on Casey’s life and turn it around, or to confess the truth about her reincarnation and end up in a mental asylum. Given this second chance to life, Cass decides to take on the future life of Casey—the frightening ghoul-faced teen with short, black, spiky hair. 

Every person around Cass has an ulterior motive and discovering the truth of Old Casey’s life is more complicated than the “new math” she is forced to learn in school. In addition, Cass has to contend with raging teenage hormones and the prior crimes of Old Casey, which she might not remember, but everyone else certainly does. However, her biggest frustration concerns her feelings for her father’s rugged security specialist who sees her only as a teenager and doesn’t want to explore the mutual attraction between them.

Will her second chance at life prove to be worth the struggles she has to overcome?

Now, an Excerpt! :D

Upon settling down on the toilet, Cass noticed the floor to ceiling mirror facing her and screamed at the sight of the creature within it. Short black hair spouted about its head, black circles surrounded both eyes and fell like triangular knives down the cheeks. Black lips, stretched in horror as if in a nightmare. Pulling up her pants, she moved closer to the mirror.

She was a ghoul, an honest to God ghoul! 

The door crashed open and her father stared at her, fear and panic clear in his eyes.

She touched her face. “Please tell me these aren’t permanent.”

His panic remained a second longer as her words filtered into his brain and then he pulled her into his arms. “Don’t worry, we will get them removed—if you want to…”

“If? Oh, I definitely want them removed,” she said. 

How can I turn around my life if I look like the walking dead from a low-grade monster movie?

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{Cover Reveal} Bitter Angel by Megan Hand

We have another great cover reveal for you guys today. This reveal is hosted by AToMR :D 

Title: Bitter Angel

Author: Megan Hand

Expected release date: April 1, 2013

Genre:  Thriller

Age Group: New Adult

Cover Designer: B Design;

Cover reveal organized by: AToMR Tours

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Book Description:
Torn between two realities.
A choice that will mean life or death.
She won’t know anything… until she wakes up.

College sophomore, Lila Spencer lived Friday night twice. She doesn’t know how or why, just that she did. As if she split in half and went in two different directions.

Out clubbing with her friends, Heather and Nilah, the girls rock it out and party hard. What begins as an innocent night will lead to a deadly fight for their lives, and Lila might be their only chance for survival.

In bed with her boyfriend, Jay, Lila is safe and warm as she drifts to sleep in the arms of the man she loves. Until she is sucked into a horrifying nightmare of her friends’ deaths.

As the sunlight warms her face on Saturday morning, the two scenarios collide. But there can be only one outcome. Will she wake up in her warm bed with Jay by her side, devastated and grieving for her friends? Or was she there to save them?

The answer is just the beginning.

At twelve, Megan decided to write a novel. A month later, she quit. A reading junkie by nature, she started writing again in her twenties as a way to get the voices out, because who wouldn't want to create a Real Living Person out of thin air? Megan also plays the piano and sings. She teaches little kids and takes pictures of pretty butterflies. She eats way too much chocolate, is sort of a mad scientist with her blender, and spends an unhealthy amount of time LOLing on Facebook and Twitter. She lives in Ohio with her husband and very smiley son. Bitter Angel is her first published novel.

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{Review} Chasing the Skip by Janci Patterson

Ricki’s dad has never been there for her. He’s a bounty hunter who spends his time chasing parole evaders—also known as “skips”—all over the country. But now since Ricki’s mom ran off, Ricki finds herself an unwilling passenger in a front-row seat to her father’s dangerous lifestyle.

            Ricki’s feelings get even more confused when her dad starts chasing seventeen-year-old Ian Burnham. She finds herself unavoidably attracted to the dark-eyed felon who seems eager to get acquainted. But Ricki thinks she’s ever in control—the perfect manipulator. Little does she know that Ian isn’t playing their game by her rules.

MY REVIEW

Ricki’s dad is a bounty hunter who chases fugitives that he calls “Skips”. Which is becomes ironic when Ricki’s mom skips out on her. Does her dad try to find her mom? No. He makes her go on his hunts with him, which is fine by her b/c she always dreamed of going with him. But the thing is, she doesn’t want to be a burden to him and wants to leave. When he dad’s next skip is a 17 year old boy, Ricki decides she doesn’t want to leave anymore. She wants to get his story. The more she talks to him the more she likes him. And as she gets closer to Ian, the more things go wrong. Is Ricki in control or falling for Ian’s game?

This book threw me for a loop. By the description on the back I thought I had it all figured out. This book was crazy good. Not in the top 10, but it’s high on the list. It makes you think about your life, about the future and that sometimes you can’t do things on your own. Maybe, just maybe you need a shoulder to lean on. I watched Ricki and it reminded me of well me. :D Not with the bounty hunter dad, but with her mom. No. my mom never left, but she chooses a guy over me. This book touched a deep part of me and I will always remember it. Ricki was a strong girl, not in most parts, but where it counted. This book goes to show you that you can’t always see the good in people….kinda like I do. Ricki and I were kinds the same in that that aspect. I know this is a stand alone, but I wouldn’t mind finding out what happens next with Ricki.

Ricki- Ricki is like any other 15 year old girl except her dad was never there for her and her mom ran out on her. She wants to be a journalist, which I think she will excel in. She had to grow up fast living with her mother. Under the circumstances I think she handled everything well. And I already stated that she reminded me of me when I was 15.

Ian- Let me just say he wasn’t what I expected and leave it at that.

Max AKA. Dad- Is a bounty hunter with a soft side. You never really know what’s going on with him until the end of the book. He is a hard man, but a good man. He needs the money so he takes what jobs he can get. He is a man that realizes the mistakes that he has made and wants to make up for it.

The Cover: I like the cover. No, it’s not the best cover I’ve ever seen, but I like it. The cover speaks volumes of what happens in the book. Ian with is hands cuffed and Ricki reaching out too help him.

 4 Handcuffs

Cover Characteristic – Back(s)

This is a new meme hosted by Sugar & Snark. Each week they will post a characteristic and we'll choose 5 of our favorite cover’s with that characteristic. 

This week's theme is back on the cover. I love all the covers with the backs on the cover myself. I tend to read more of those. :D Here is my top 5 Picks 
(Tiffany)

5. Untamed by P.C. Cast 

Ireally love the tattoo on her shoulder and the way she is holding her hair up.

4. Sealed with a Curse by Cecy Robson

I love the tear in her shirt and her hair is beautiful. :D Oh and this book was AWESOME and you should check it out.

3. Tempest Rising by Tracy Deebs 

Ok again with the tattoo. It draws the eye to it. :D

2. Stray by Rachel Vincent

This is one of my all time favorite books and I love the cover. The scratch on her back and her figure is amazing.

AND MY FAVORITE BACK ON THE COVER IS.....

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No Peace for the Damned by Megan Powell

This cover is just amazing and the story is also!!!!!! Gosh I LOVE this cover. I love the different colors of blues. :D 

Well that's my top 5 and don't forget to go to Sugar & Snarks blog to look at the other Cover Characteristics.



Snyder's Top 5

1. The Watcher

This cover is completely gorgeous. I am actually going to be reading an ARC of this book soon and I cannot wait! If you want to learn more about this book, click on the page labeled, The Watcher. ;)

2) Love In The Time of Dragons
*sigh* So very badass and pretty at the same time

3) Visions Of Magic
This is even more badass than number 2! <3

4) The Peculiars
Simply gorgeous

5) Devoured
Sexy!! woo! The tint in the hair.. the tattoos? *sigh*