tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91574783749963589302023-11-16T15:32:08.785+08:00Worlds of WondermentJo-Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11279747172031268163noreply@blogger.comBlogger149125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9157478374996358930.post-10656728720076836842015-09-01T20:51:00.000+08:002015-09-01T20:51:22.222+08:00Cover Reveal - The Immortal Gene Trilogy - Soulless by Jacinta Maree<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Title:
Soulless: The Immortal Gene, Book 1<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Author:
Jacinta Maree<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Genre:
Dystopian / Supernatural New Adult<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span lang="EN-US">Hosted
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We are the generation that laughs at death.</div>
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Reincarnation; what was once considered a gift of immortality has become an
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Nadia Richards lives in a world plagued by reincarnation, a system of recycling
souls where all past memories, personalities and traumatic events are relived
daily in disjointed sequences. Trapped within their own warped realities, not
even the richest and most powerful are saved from their own minds unraveling.
Madness is the new human nature, and civilizations are crumpling beneath
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Within a society that ignores death, Nadia appears to be the one exception to
the reincarnation trap. Born without any reincarnated memories and with
printless eyes, the hot tempered 19 year old quickly becomes the ultimate prize
to all those wishing to end the vicious cycle, or for some, to ensure they
could evade death forever<b>.</b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial",sans-serif;">Born
in Melbourne Australia, Jacinta Maree considers herself a chocoholic with an
obsession with dragons, video gaming and Japan. She writes a variety of genres
including YA paranormal, steampunk, horror, new adult, dystopian and fantasy.
Winner of 2014 Horror of the year and bestselling author, Jacinta writes to bring
enjoyment to others while fulfilling her own need to explore the weird and the
impossible.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The world
had turned to waste; immortality was never meant for man and it drove humanity
to the edge of destruction. There had been plenty of stories about how the
human race would end. Unlike the movies from Hollywood, there was no big bang
like a sun exploding; there was no catastrophic moment where our world was
flipped upside down like in a nuclear war or zombie virus outbreak. It was
gradual, like a seeping virus that withered everything within its path until it
ground us down into brittle, hollowed cores. It wasn’t out to destroy our
bodies; it destroyed everything we once treasured. Hope, love, compassion, joy…
even our mortality. It was all gone. And now it mocked us with a peace we could
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Jo-Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11279747172031268163noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9157478374996358930.post-39189782554322633992015-03-26T23:00:00.000+08:002015-03-26T23:00:07.854+08:00Deep Pre-Release Blitz<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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have you been?” My sister rushed forward, catching me up in a tight hug. “I’ve
been trying to call you all day. We checked everywhere and couldn’t find you.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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just needed some alone time.” I squeezed her back, unable to stop from smiling.
The thought of Anne turning her back on me had scared me more than I liked to
admit.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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get you might want that.” She stepped back. “But you could have told someone.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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can’t just disappear like that.” And Ben kept right on frowning. “Shit, Liz,
you’re pregnant.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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upset her,” snapped Anne.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #222222; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-highlight: white;">Ben
ignored her. “I don’t know what the hell’s going on in your head. But you need
to let me know where you are.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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eyebrows went up and my mouth opened, ready to rip him a new one.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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doesn’t answer to you. She’ll let you know if and when she decides to let you
know,” said Mal, laying down the law to his bandmate before turning my way.
“You will text your sister next time you decide to go wandering for a day,
understood?”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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it still hung open.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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man.” Over and over, Ben’s hands rolled into tight fists before releasing
again. “Can you cut the shit and get off my back for a fucking minute?”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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swear at him.” My usually sensible and staid sister poked a finger dead center
in Ben’s broad chest. “You’re the one that caused this mess, thank you very
much. She might still be a little young and naive, but you’re definitely old
enough to know better.”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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about as tall as a skyscraper, despite only coming up to Ben’s nose, Mal stared
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everything in Lizzy Rollins' ordinary life is about to change forever. And all
because of one big mistake in Vegas with Ben Nicholson, the irresistibly sexy
bass player for Stage Dive. So what if Ben's the only man she's ever met who
can make her feel completely safe, cherished, and out of control with desire at
the same time? Lizzy knows the gorgeous rock star isn't looking for anything
more permanent than a good time, no matter how much she wishes differently.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Jo-Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11279747172031268163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9157478374996358930.post-37641909274117431832015-02-02T08:00:00.000+08:002015-02-02T08:00:03.874+08:00Review: Hunters and Creators by Jacinta Maree<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;">It’s been five years since the phenomenon that shook the world’s belief in the supernatural. It has become a worldwide obsession as crowds flock together in hopes of catching a glimpse of the spirits. That is most… except Rachael Hastings. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;">Rachael, now at University, lives with a giant blank page in her memory from when she was fifteen years old. Plagued by nightmares of a green-eyed monster, Rachael tries to stay as far away from the paranormal as humanly possible. Despite her efforts, he stalks her through the shadows and appears in her dreams for reasons she can’t understand. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;">Along with friends from school, Rachael returns to Whitehaven. During her stay she is caught up in the ongoing war between heaven and hell she had unknowingly escaped from years ago. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;">Forced into the care of Gargoyle the Hunter, Rachael attempts to piece together her shattered memory. As emotions grow between them, a familiar green-eyed demon returns to her side, claiming that Rachael is his one true love. With the world falling apart around them, can Rachael remember who she loves and which side is right before it’s too late?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;">Hunters & Creators is the third and final book in Jacinta Maree's My Demonic Ghost series. Set five years after Banished Spirits, we are again introduced to Rachael, now a young woman studying at university. She has no recollection of what transpired five years ago, but she is plagued by nigthmares of a green eyed demon. Unfortunately she is once again drawn the world of banished spirits, reapers and hunters & creators. I loved being immersed in the brilliant world Maree has created. It is rich and full of life; her characters are so well rounded they leap off the pages. It is one of those books that feel like home. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;">Rachael tries to stay away from everything paranormal, but the more she tries to stay out of it, the more she is pulled into their struggle. Rachael is far from a damsel in distress, and even though she is thrown into some incredible and intense situations she always manages to keep her head. I loved learning more about the Hunters and how they interact with the banished spirits and reapers. They're not as unaffected and aloof as they portray themselves to be. Rachael and the Hunter Gargoyle are thrown together and she tries to gather the pieces of memory. Rachael begins to realise she wants to help Gargoyle, and the more time she spends with him she can feel something grow between them. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px; text-align: left;">With the reappearance of Lock (Evan), things really start to get complicated for Rachael. She has to figure out who he is and what happened between them so long ago. Gargoyle and Lock aren't exactly best of friends and they each have their own agenda with Rachael. She is caught up between two sides and doesn't know who to trust. Lock has to be one of my most favourite characters ever, and to read about him again made my heart sing. As Rachael pieces her memory back together she begins to find out more and more about Lock's tragic story and how it intertwines with her own. As the conclusion draws near, everything starts to spin out of control and they're all thrown together in a battle for their survival. </span></span></div>
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Jo-Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11279747172031268163noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9157478374996358930.post-62450674437637998492015-02-01T08:30:00.000+08:002015-02-01T08:30:55.205+08:00Review: Dance of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">In </span><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Dance of the Red Death</em><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">, Araby’s world is in shambles—betrayal, death, disease, and evil forces surround her. She has no one to trust. But she finds herself and discovers that she will fight for the people she loves, and for her city.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Dance of the Red Death is the conclusion to Bethany Griffins Masque of the Red Death duology. I really loved the first book, but reading book 2, I felt the atmosphere of this book was lacking and it was missing the spark that had made me love Masque. The first half of the book seemed to drag by, with not a lot happening. There is a new plague that is sweeping through the city called The Red Death. It kills quickly and has left much of the city and water supply contaminated. Everything points to Araby's father being the one to create it and Araby can't comprehend the father she loves could be the murderer everyone is branding him. The pace doesn't really pick up until the last 50 or so pages and is where it gets interesting. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Araby has carried around a very haunted and depressed persona through book one and mostly through book 2. For the most part she is quite useless, but in the latter half of the book she does become more engaging and feels more alive. It takes her a while, but she does realise that she doesn't need anyone to save her and actually goes about doing things that need to be done. It was a nice change to see her taking action and thinking for herself; even though it wasn't always the smartest option.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">I'm not a huge fan of love triangles, and really didn't enjoy the was the Elliot, Araby, Will triangle played out. I understand why, but Araby and Elliot together annoyed me. It felt like she was using him to wash away Will's betrayal, and even though Elliot had genuine feelings for her, they were taken over by the fact that he could use her to help his cause. He was more interested in her as the scientists daughter. It was almost like a tug-of-war between them. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Elliot is the leader of the rebellion. He is trying to overthrow his uncle Prince Prospero, the tyrant who rules them. Elliot is a very charismatic character, but there is a dark side to him thanks to growing up under his Uncle's tutelage. He was the most driven out of all the characters, full of passion and ambition. He is incredibly smart and knows exaclty what he needs to do to save the city from his uncle. Even though I didn't like him and Araby together, I loved him as a character. He has the will to get things done.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">For the most part, Will is just along for the ride and is trying to atone for his betrayal of Araby. He does what needs to be done and is willing to sacrifice himself if it will help. He's kind of pushed to the back during most of the book and I really missed his character. In book one he was cheeky and flirtatious, but he becomes quite withdrawn in book two. Most of what he does seems to be behind the scenes. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3;">Dance of the Red Death is full of drama, adventure, romance and death. Bethany Griffin has created a beautiful and haunting world. It's hard not to become immersed in the death and destruction she has created. If you're looking for a flawed heroine, Araby's story is definitely for you. I think it was a fitting end to their story.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;"><span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Confident in her own abilities, Lynn has no use for the world beyond the nearby fields and forest. Having a life means dedicating it to survival, and the constant work of gathering wood and water. Having a pond requires the fortitude to protect it, something Mother taught her well during their quiet hours on the rooftop, rifles in hand.</span></span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">But wisps of smoke on the horizon mean one thing: strangers. The mysterious footprints by the pond, nighttime threats, and gunshots make it all too clear Lynn has exactly what they want, and they won’t stop until they get it….</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in a world where water was scarce? Mindy McGinnis has deftly explored a dystopic future in which the world is quickly running out of water. It's a bleak tale of survival and if you have water, then you must protect it at all costs. Our protagonist Lynn is guarding a pond against any who would try to take it from her and her mother. They shoot first and ask questions later. Theirs is a daily struggle, whether it's the laborious task of purifying the water or hunting a deer and trying to smoke the meat. The constant threat of coyotes, groups of looters and the harsh weather that can make or break their survival. Both women have learnt to endure the world around them and it has made them strong.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Lynn is one of those characters you can't help but love. She's tough and a little rough around the edges; having had to kill since she was a child. Her mother taught her her that compassion was a weakness, they had to stay strong and do whatever they could to protect their small water source. After a tragic accident, Lynn is left to guard the pond by herself. Things start to to get dangerous for Lynn; there is a group of men that want her pond and will do anything to take it. She also has to contend with strangers that need her help. This is where we begin to see more to Lynn's character. Her conscience makes her question a lot of what her mother taught her, and she struggles to find a balance between the skills her mother taught her and her fierce new protective instinct. She realises that having friends is not always a bad thing, they give her a sense of hope. I think this is when she really comes alive as a character. Her small group is a target and she'll do whatever it takes to keep them safe. </span></div>
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Title- My Demonic
Ghost: Banished Spirits
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Series-My Demonic Ghost
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By- Jacinta Maree
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Rachael has traveled to
Whitehaven to visit her father, a trek she can not help but dread
given his recent descent into madness. Upon her arrival she realizes
his deterioration has not only been mental, it’s been physical as
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Lock is a banished
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passage into the Third Realm, a loophole in creation that would allow
him to escape hell and have peace at long last. Through their
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Title- My Demonic
Ghost: The Reapers</div>
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Series- My Demonic
Ghost # 2</div>
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By- Jacinta Maree
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Genre- YA
Paranormal/Ghosts</div>
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Published By- Staccato
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18513846-the-reapers">Goodreads-</a> </div>
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Reapers-My-Demonic-Ghost-ebook/dp/B00F8LQ1JK/ref=pd_sim_kstore_1">Kindle-</a> </div>
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<a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-reapers-jacinta-maree/1116987955?ean=2940045288880&itm=1&usri=jacinta+maree">Nook-</a> </div>
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<a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/358160">Smashwords-</a> </div>
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<b>Blurb-</b></div>
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The day you die is
meant to be the end, but for 18 year old Jordon Hastings, his death
was only the beginning.
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In a dark and twisted
world, lost spirits known as Reapers remain behind after death to
help collect the spirits from the realm of the living. A new Reaper,
Jordon struggles to accept his fate and lingers in the shadows of his
mortal life. But when a demon wolf starts to live through his shadow,
hunting his family and friends Jordon has no choice but to leave. As
soon as he accepts his new role the truth behind the relationship
between Reapers and Angelic Hunters is revealed. His loyalty is
tested, making him choose between a corrupted God and a single
Banished Spirit.</div>
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<b><span style="color: #351c75; font-size: x-large;">INTERVIEW</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #660066;"><b>Welcome back to Worlds of Wonderment
Jacinta!</b></span></div>
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<i>Thank you, always so
happy to be here. </i>
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<span style="color: #660066;"><b>How
would you describe your My Demonic Ghost series to potential new
readers?</b></span></div>
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I like to think that My
Demonic Ghost is a unique telling of a classic demon vs angel story,
it is open age so anyone can enjoy it and it’s an exciting mix
between adventure, fear and romance. My Demonic Ghost follows the
stories of three different spirits and one very unfortunate host,
Rachael who is currently 15 years old in book one. Each book is
written following the perspective of a different class, first we have
Banished, then the Reapers and lastly we have the Hunters. It was
really fun to write because each story has a completely different
belief and different understanding of the other classes and the world
around them, allowing the reader a fresh outlook with each book.
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<span style="color: #660066;"><b>Does
Hunters differ from the previous MDG books at all?</b></span></div>
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Book three: Hunters &
Creators swings back to Rachael’s POV where she's entering her
University life in a completely different setting from Whitehaven.
Unlike Book one and two where we watch from the Demon’s side, this
time Rachael chooses to help the angels and therefore opens up a
completely different set of problems. Friends become enemies and
enemies become friends, it completely turns the series on its own
head. All of the characters are more mature and seeing as this is the
last book, all of the unresolved problems and broken relationships
have to come to a conclusion.
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<b><span style="color: #660066;">Banished,
Reapers and Hunters & Creators are very a unique concept, how did
you come up with the initial idea? </span> </b>
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Well, the initial idea
for the entire series came to me when I was in high school studying
in my Philosophy class. My teacher was teaching us about Descartes
and his theory of consciousness, which got my mind spinning up all
these different possibilities about the unknown. The way I’ve
broken up by the series in three books came to me as I wrote.
Originally, Banished Spirits was on its own for a very long time
before The Reapers had even started. Which made it increasingly
difficult to interweave Reapers through Banished later on.
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<span style="color: #660066;"><b>Did
you find one book harder to write than another?</b></span></div>
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The Reapers was
definitely the hardest book I had to write out of three. Mainly
because I was speaking from a POV I never really practise, which is
Jordon an 18 year old male turned Reaper. Secondly, I had to write
Reapers in a way that it made sense as a stand-alone, but also worked
as part of a series. Thirdly, Reapers’ timeline works before,
during and after the first book, so timing scenes and character
reappearances were incredibly difficult.
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Banished Spirits was my
initial inspiration outbreak and I didn’t have any plans for
publication, so time limitations and other publication related
stresses weren’t a concern. Hunters & Creators was stressful as
I had to tie a very complicated story with complicated relationships
together within a certain time frame and in a believable manner.
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<span style="color: #660066;"><b>Evan
(Lock) and Jordon didn't have the best home life, do you think it
helped shape their characters as Banished and Reaper?</b></span></div>
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I think it is very
important to see Evan’s/Lock’s life growing up, as it gives his
reactions, his issues with trust and yearning to be accepted an even
greater depth and understanding. We were lucky to not only be able to
watch his childhood but to also see how that affects how he treats
others and how he views himself. Along with the bad, there’s also
the good with Locks’ and Rachael’s budding romance that
transforms him away from his arrogance and selfish personality and
into a loving and strong character. It’s also great to watch a
character that was originally so small, weak and invisible have such
an amazing impact on others in a positive way. Same with Jordon, his
undying devotion to protect his brother spreads out to such an
impressive scale that all creatures and spirits alike flock to his
cause. Jordon’s love towards his brother becomes a beacon for
others.
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<span style="color: #660066;"><b>Hunters
is your third book published, what have you learned about writing
over the last few years?</b></span></div>
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I’ve learnt that
there is a lot of work to do beyond publishing, like marketing and
tours and give aways. Writing and publishing is just the beginning, I
didn’t realise the amount of constant work that followed the
publication. Not that I’m complaining, I love it. As I’m with
Staccato Publishing, I am very fortunate as to have other authors
around willing to help me. I’m still experimenting with finding my
voice, so with every book I write my writing style changes a little
bit.
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<span style="color: #660066;"><b>Did
you receive any advice in the beginning that has helped you write
your books?</b></span></div>
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My first book was
written purely for my own entertainment, and no one had read it until
I decided to get it professionally edited. When it came to writing, I
always wrote my own way and in my own style. Sure, my teachers taught
me the basics of the English structure, but no one taught me how to
write a story. I found my own way.
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<span style="color: #660066;"><b>Is
there anything you are currently working on that you can share with
us?</b></span></div>
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I would love to, at
this very moment I am writing a fantasy short story with a group of
other amazing authors. I’ve also just finished my manuscript for a
dystopian supernatural I’ve called Soulless, which revolves around
a future where reincarnation exists. I’ve got a steampunk
supernatural as well, called Time Weaver, which revolves around the
idea of exchanging wishes for time. I’ve been quite busy.
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<span style="color: #660066;"><b>Are
there any other genres you'd like to write? If so, why?</b></span></div>
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I’m a big
supernatural fan, but I also love dystopian and fantasy. I think the
only genre I am yet to write properly would be horror. My long nights
of horror movie marathons has definitely been great research, and I
really think I would be able to write something incredibly scary.
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<span style="color: #660066;"><b>Was
there a reason you chose to write YA or was it just the way the story
progressed?</b></span></div>
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Originally I wrote YA
because of the character’s ages. Both were young and Lock was based
off the character Casper the Friendly Ghost and Peter Pan, which are
very playful, innocent and has a small hint of naivete. At the
beginning of the novel I was tempted to change the characters and age
them into young adulthood, but I feel that if I did that I would’ve
lost a lot. I love the contrast between them and the world they live
in. They are young and innocent but the world is dark and corrupted.
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<span style="color: #660066;"><b>If
any of your novels were picked up, what type of platform would you
like them to be expanded on? E.g. movies, anime, games.</b></span></div>
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Umm… definitely a
gaming platform. I’m a massive gamer so if any of my books were to
be turned into games, I think I would pass out from my constant, high
speech squealing. Alternatively, I’m a lover of animations, so even
if it was turned into an animation movie like Monsters Inc, I would
be very, very happy.
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<span style="color: #660066;"><b>Favourite
movie?</b></span></div>
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My favourite movie so
far has been How to Train your Dragon. It’s a toss-up between movie
1 and 2.
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<span style="color: #660066;"><b>Favourite
book?</b></span></div>
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I loved the assassin
series by Brent Weeks, so incredible.
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<span style="color: #660066;"><b>Favourite
holiday destination?</b></span></div>
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Hands down, Japan. I
don’t know what it is but I love everything about their culture and
life style.
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<span style="color: #660066;"><b>Ice
cream or chocolate?</b></span></div>
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Chocolate, of course.
Chocolate would be my answer to really any food question.
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<b>About the Author- </b>
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Self confessed
chocaholic, Jacinta was born and raised in Melbourne Australia with
her loving family of five. Even as a child Jacinta had an itch to
write. Writing was the one constant hobby she clung to, also trying
her hand at piano, flute, tennis, horseback riding and drama.</div>
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Jacinta works full time
in the family business and spends her afternoons either playing
basketball, reading, writing or hanging out with friends. She is
always happy to try something new; getting her real estate license,
practicing ninjitshu, Zumba and parkour to name a few.
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For her future, Jacinta
sees herself writing. It is a large part of her identity and
something she hopes to continue. Aside from her love of stories she
loves Japan and its unique and beautiful culture and history. From
their delicious sushi dishes right down to their wooden sandals and
kimonos. She is also a huge cat person and loves to snuggle up in
front of the fire for a good movie or book. Her favorite genres are
paranormal and fantasy but she also loves anything written by
thriller writer, Stephen King.
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Publisher-
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Goodreads-
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6448929.Jacinta_Maree"><u>https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6448929.Jacinta_Maree</u></a>
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Website-
<a href="http://jacintamaree.wix.com/mydemonicghost"><u>http://jacintamaree.wix.com/mydemonicghost</u></a>
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Blog-
<a href="http://jacintamareeauthor.blogspot.com.au/"><u>http://jacintamareeauthor.blogspot.com.au/</u></a></div>
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Twitter-
<a href="https://twitter.com/JacintaMaree6"><u>https://twitter.com/JacintaMaree6</u></a>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Giveaway Info-</span></b></div>
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1 hard copy My Demonic
Ghost book 1</div>
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1 hard copy My demonic
ghost book 2.</div>
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$5 amazon gift card.</div>
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A Key chain and magnet.</div>
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<script src="//widget.rafflecopter.com/load.js"></script>Jo-Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11279747172031268163noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9157478374996358930.post-38760174400513829052014-09-29T10:05:00.002+08:002015-01-26T07:55:01.999+08:00Series Review: My Demonic Ghost by Jacinta Maree<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Rachael has traveled to Whitehaven to visit her father, a trek she can not help but dread given his recent descent into madness. Upon her arrival she realizes his deterioration has not only been mental, it’s been physical as well. His death comes as no surprise, but what she discovers soon after, is shocking when his burden becomes hers. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Lock is a banished spirit who must attach himself to a human host in order to hide from those who would drag him back to hell to be destroyed. When he meets Rachael he finds more than a host, he finds an ally. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">Together they must defeat each of the seven sins in order to guarantee Lock's safe passage into the Third Realm, a loophole in creation that would allow him to escape hell and have peace at long last. Through their unlikely friendship, other banished spirits flock to them in hopes of a peace they hadn't dreamt possible.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Jacinta Maree has created an engrossing and inventive series with My Demonic Ghost. It's a refreshing YA series and such a unique take on the afterlife.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Book one, Banished Spirits centers around Rachael and Lock. An unlikely pair who are thrown together with the death of Rachael's father. After a rocky start they slowly begin to trust each other. Rachael is young, brave and selfless. After hearing Lock's story and the world he, and now she, lives in, she decides to help him. I'm not sure I'd be so forgiving and understanding in her position. She probably agrees a little too quickly, but after seeing her father deteriorate I think she wants to be free of Lock as soon as possible. Lock is very disgruntled and petulant, and he doesn't treat Rachael very well. I didn't like how he always told Rachael how unimportant she was. Although, as the story progresses I began to understand that he just wanted to be accepted and free. He's been beaten down, but I loved watching him strive to be a better person. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">Banished Spirits is creepy and imaginative, each of the seven deadly sins are described in detail and they are definitely horrifying. The world Maree has created is dark and unforgiving. You might want to leave the lights on for this one.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">The day you die is meant to be the end, but for 18 year old Jordon Hastings, his death was only the beginning. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">In a dark and twisted world, lost spirits known as Reapers remain behind after death to help collect the spirits from the realm of the living. A new Reaper, Jordon struggles to accept his fate and lingers in the shadows of his mortal life. But when a demon wolf starts to live through his shadow, hunting his family and friends Jordon has no choice but to leave. As soon as he accepts his new role the truth behind the relationship between Reapers and Angelic Hunters is revealed. His loyalty is tested, making him choose between a corrupted God and a single Banished Spirit.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">The second installment in Jacinta Maree's My Demonic Ghost series, The Reapers is just as captivating as book one. The Reapers is set before and during Banished Spirits, and in this book, we follow Jordon and his journey as a Reaper. In this book we get a bigger view of the incredible world Maree has created. I was quite sad when I found out who Jordon was and how he related to Lock. Jordon finds it difficult to assimilate to his new life and drifts through his previous life. His demon wolf, Raix, doesn't help matters. They are bonded and are supposed to carry souls to what is classed as hell. Raix isn't fond of his new master and defies Jordon every chance he gets. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #7f6000; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.3199996948242px;">The Reapers immerses you in suspense and being able to see a wider view of the different realms Maree has created keeps you glued to the pages. Some characters from Banished Spirits make and appearance, and you get to see how their stories and worlds intersect. Lock started something big and now Jordon has created his own rebellion. There are a lot of twists and turns, and everything flows together very well. I loved reading how Jordon finally realises he can help so many other souls, banished and reaper alike. It gets very interesting when he accepts who he now is. Maree has an amazing ability to draw you into her world and make you feel for her characters. I am looking forward to the final installment in the My Demonic Ghost series, Hunters. </span></span></div>
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Jo-Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11279747172031268163noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9157478374996358930.post-31916860337294468672014-09-02T12:00:00.000+08:002014-09-02T12:00:03.365+08:00Cover Reveal- A Little Faith by Emma James<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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had no idea a carefree island vacation would tear my life apart.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">But
now it’s time to put my walls up, make them impenetrable.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">It’s
the only way to survive.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">~Faith</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: small;"><i>Six
Years Later…</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Harley,
the protector. Retro, the straight shooter. </span>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Keanu,
the funny bone. Levi, the model. And Text, who can’t seem to find
himself.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">All
their lives were permanently altered by one event.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">With
a pact made, these five best friends need something from Faith.</span></div>
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she ready now to give them what they have been waiting for?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Join
Faith as she goes on an emotional and heartwarming discovery where
all may not be what it seems.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">But
with every ending, comes a new beginning, a second chance.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">You
just gotta have A Little Faith...</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">Welcome
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">“<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>You
never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice
you have</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">~
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><i>Bob
Marley</i></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Emma
James lives in Queensland, Australia with her smexi husband ,three
children and a big black labrador. Life is busy and most entertaining
in the James household. She often bounces ideas off her</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">family
and gets very creative responses. She loves to read as much as write.
Daytime for writing, night time for reading.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: medium;">She hopes
to surprise you with her debut book, A Little Faith.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: medium;">Goodreads:
https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8415027.Emma_James</span></div>
Jo-Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11279747172031268163noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9157478374996358930.post-78761030526237788022014-08-10T09:18:00.000+08:002014-08-10T09:18:56.020+08:00Interview with Rebecca Laffar-Smith<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<b>Welcome to Worlds of Wonderment, Rebecca. </b><b>For
those who have yet to hear about your novel, could you tell us about
it?</b></div>
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<span lang="en-AU"><span style="color: #274e13;">Sure!
<a href="http://www.flightoftorque.com/">The Flight of Torque</a> is a
paranormal fantasy about a young reporter, Tori, and her guardian
angel, Lucas. Tori is captured by the Nagaran, a sinister cult of
snake worshippers. Lucas, also captive and now seriously injured, is
unable to prevent the cult taking Tori for a ceremony of ritual
sacrifice. Thankfully, rather than dying from the ritual like those
before her, Tori becomes Serpenthropy, a human able to transform into
a giant serpent. Unable to control her serpent form, Tori is taken
over by the creature. It acts from basic, animal instinct and is
prone to violent anger and lust.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">The
Flight of Torque explores Tori and Lucas’s experiences and internal
struggles as Tori tries to reclaim her body and find a cure for what
she has become, and Lucas fights a growing sense of helplessness and
failure as a guardian angel unable to protect his charges. The
forbidden bond forming between them complicates matters and raises
the stakes as both realise that they’d sacrifice themselves to save
the other. At every turn Tori and Lucas discover new secrets about
the Nagaran and it’s connection to Tori’s family and the Angel
Hierarchy.</span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="en-AU"><b>Is
The Flight of Torque part of a series? If so, what do you foresee for
the series?</b></span></div>
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<span lang="en-AU"><span style="color: #274e13;">Yes.
The Flight of Torque is the first in what I currently see as four
books. Book two is actually a prequel that goes back a generation to
follow the experiences of the Sacred Mother, a being worshipped by
the Nagaran as the first Serpenthropy and mother of the Nagaran
Royals, men who go on to father the Children of the Nagaran. While in
book-world-time it comes before The Flight of Torque, it’s intended
to be read after, as some of the secrets revealed in the first book
will be the story and action of the second.</span></span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="en-AU"><span style="color: #274e13;">Following
that I’ll be returning to where The Flight of Torque ends (or
shortly after) as Tori and Lucas continue to unravel issues within
the Nagaran and the Angel Hierarchy. I don’t want to spoil the
ending for those who haven’t read The Flight of Torque yet so I’ll
say no more, but I’ve already started to outline that book and I’m
very excited about discovering the story as it unfolds on the page.</span></span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="en-AU"><span style="color: #274e13;">Finally,
there will be a fourth book where Zara and Crey are the main
characters. I’m not too sure what will happen there yet, only that
they’re demanding a book of their own.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-AU"><span style="color: #274e13;">It’s
possible more books in the world will evolve as I write the sequels
so I won’t say four is it, but it’s definitely more than enough
to be going on with right now. Especially since I also have other
book projects in the works and I coordinate <a href="http://www.writealongthehighway.org/">Write
Along The Highway</a> and the <a href="http://www.oznowrimo.org/">OzNoWriMo
Young Writers Program</a> for West Australian writers. There are
never enough hours in the day to write everything I want to write.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-AU"><b>Can
you describe your main characters in five words?</b></span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="en-AU"><span style="color: #274e13;">Wow,
this one is difficult (mostly because I write long, so boxing them up
into only five words is very challenging).</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-AU"><span style="color: #274e13;">Tori:
Independent. Passionate. Determined. Courageous. Stubborn.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-AU"><span style="color: #274e13;">Lucas:
Compassionate. Loyal. Honourable. Timeless. Wounded.</span></span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="en-AU"><b>How
does the fantasy world you've created differ from ours?</b></span></div>
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<span lang="en-AU"><span style="color: #274e13;">Maybe
it doesn’t… At least, I like to think of it that way. Everything
within the world is just like our real world today. There are mobile
phones, suburban houses, sprawling cities, towering skyscrapers,
bustling police stations and news offices, stylish sedans and compact
hatchbacks (including an Easter-egg-style nod to the first car I ever
owned, a little blue Kia). As I was writing it I used a lot of the
real world around me here in Perth, Western Australia, but I also
wanted to make it unidentifiable so that most readers could feel like
it could be an urban environment near their own home.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span lang="en-AU">The
fantasy comes from the presence of angels and serpenthropy. And I
like to think, maybe such things are possible in our real world, like
an undiscovered world of supernatural beings existing under the
surface of what is collectively accepted as normal. Who knows? Maybe
there </span><span lang="en-AU"><i>is</i></span><span lang="en-AU"> a
cult of snake worshippers living in a segregated community underneath
an old, abandoned church somewhere.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-AU"><b>Have
there been any authors that have influenced your writing?</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">The
author who had the most influence on me as a writer is fellow
Australian author, Traci Harding. I read</span></div>
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her <a href="http://www.craftingfiction.com/ancient-future-traci-harding">Ancient
Future Trilogy</a> when I was a teenager and was struck by the way
she introduced metaphysical and spiritual concepts through fiction.
She made things that were often considered rather airy-fairy at the
time something that could be embraced.</div>
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<span lang="en-AU"><span style="color: #274e13;">I
remember reading her book and realising that fiction is a great
medium for introducing spiritual and esoteric beliefs in a way that
won’t cause readers to close their minds to possibility. I decided
that’s what I wanted to do as a writer. I wanted to use my fiction
to explore the wonder and ‘magic’ that exists in the world and
use fiction as a gateway to explore my own beliefs and share those
beliefs with others.</span></span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="en-AU"><span style="color: #274e13;">Having
said that, The Flight of Torque is not in any way preachy. The only
truly “spiritual” or religious aspect of the book is the presence
of angels, guardians who watch over and protect mortals. Beyond that
the themes that came out were to do with inner strength, self-love,
and acceptance. I found Tori’s experience with the serpent within
her was almost metaphoric for my experiences with Bipolar and so,
rather than looking at more new-age concepts, I explored the journey
she’d take facing the darkness within.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-AU"><b>Where
did the inspiration for the Flight of Torque come from?</b></span></div>
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<span lang="en-AU"><span style="color: #274e13;">Actually,
I owe this book to a cherished friend of mine who I’ve never met in
person. Forge (to whom the book is dedicated) is a fellow Australian
author living across the other side of the country in Victoria. He
and I ‘met’ on <a href="http://www.craftingfiction.com/writing_com">Writing.Com</a>
and in December 2006 we decided to co-write a story. The story
evolved through brainstorming sessions via Yahoo messenger and
emails. We wrote alternating scenes and together a basic outline and
few thousand words evolved.</span></span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="en-AU"><span style="color: #274e13;">The
alternating scenes technique we used as co-writers was actually what
lead to the alternating point-of-view (POV) in The Flight of Torque.
When we co-wrote, I wrote POV Tori and Forge wrote POV Lucas. The way
the story unfolded from two points of view, with the opportunity to
experience both Lucas and Tori’s inner thoughts and feelings, was
something I was very strongly drawn to and I continued that when I
wrote The Flight of Torque. As you read you’ll find some scenes are
written in Tori’s POV. The reader experiences some of Tori’s
thoughts, internal dialogue (when she’s arguing with the serpent
form), and her feelings. In other scenes readers experience what
Lucas thinks and feels. It gives us a greater sense of connection
with the main characters and allowed me to do things within the story
that I could not have otherwise done.</span></span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="en-AU"><span style="color: #274e13;">In
early 2007, Forge found he couldn’t continue with the project it
idled for a long time, but I found myself constantly drawn back to
it. The characters wanted their story told. Many months (possibly
years?) later I contacted Forge to find out if he would mind if I
continued to develop the story as a solo author. I had no idea how
far the story would diverge from its beginnings.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="en-AU"><span style="color: #274e13;">The
original story Forge and I outlined together had dragons, and stolen
eggs, and sonic weapons, and an epic adventure up a mountain, and
lots of cool stuff that never made it into the final book. In fact,
almost nothing remains of that original outline, but it was the seed
that would, over the eight years that followed, evolve into the Blood
of the Nagaran series.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="en-AU"><span style="color: #274e13;">Having
said, “almost nothing remains”, there are two sequential chapters
in the book that remain from the very first pages written way back in
2006. I rewrote the Lucas scenes so it had my writer’s voice rather
than Forge’s, but the actual story elements are very similar to the
original draft. Early readers have mentioned that they absolutely
loved these chapters and found them the most effortless and enjoyable
to read. I wonder if any readers can guess which chapters they are?
<a href="mailto:rebecca@rebeccalaffarsmith.com">Drop me an email</a>
or catch me on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/craftingfiction">Facebook</a>
or <a href="http://www.twitter.com/laffarsmith">Twitter</a> to let me
know which chapters you think they are.</span></span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="en-AU"><b>If
you could choose anyone to portray your characters, who would they
be?</b></span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="en-AU"><span style="color: #274e13;">I
always pictured Tori as Jessica Alba, particularly from her role as
Max Guevera in the T.V. series, <a href="http://www.craftingfiction.com/dark-angel">Dark
Angel</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="en-AU"><span style="color: #274e13;">While
I was writing the book, Lucas was played by Paul Walker. After Paul
Walker’s death in November 2013 I had a short bout of writer’s
block as I struggled to recast him in my mind. Then I was watching
Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant on <a href="http://fictionunboxed.com/">Fiction
Unboxed</a> as they talked about casting their characters. They cast
based on roles rather than the real life actor. So, they might cast
Sean Connery, but a young Connery like in his James Bond days rather
than the older actor he is today. This idea of casting to the role
they once played rather than who they are today helped me get past
that block and keep writing. Still, when a big production company
buys the rights we’ll need to find someone for the role and I still
haven’t recast him, so I’d love reader’s suggestions for who
they’d cast as Lucas in The Flight of Torque movie.</span></span></div>
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="en-AU"><span style="color: #274e13;">Crey
de Luca Vento is Orlando Bloom as Will Turner (<a href="http://www.craftingfiction.com/pirates-caribbean-boxset">Pirates
of the Caribbean</a>); Zara is Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen
(<a href="http://www.craftingfiction.com/hunger-games">Hunger Games</a>);
Tempany is Kate Hudson (the glamorous, elegant Kate we see at award
ceremonies rather than the rather aggressive and very modern female
heroine she often plays in romantic comedies); Michael is Hugh
Jackman as Leopold in <a href="http://www.craftingfiction.com/kate-and-leopold">Kate
& Leopold</a> (but more sullen and aloof); and Marlena is
Michelle Trachtenberg as Georgina Sparks in <a href="http://www.craftingfiction.com/gossip-girl">Gossip
Girl</a> (but older and with a wash of crimson hair dye).</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><br />
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<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
<span lang="en-AU"><span style="color: #274e13;">I
actually have photographs in my Scrivener file (I use <a href="http://www.craftingfiction.com/scrivener">Scrivener
for Mac</a> but you can get <a href="http://www.craftingfiction.com/scrivener-win">Scrivener
for Windows</a> too). I like to pick out pictures that have the look,
hairstyle, makeup, etc. that I feel most closely represents the
characters in my mind. It helped to have that tangible reference to
come back to because sometimes I’d take long breaks from the book
and it became fuzzy/blurry in my mind; the photographs helped ground
me back with the characters. One of the first things I did in July,
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Thanks so much for
giving me an opportunity to talk about The Flight of Torque. I’ve
enjoyed sharing my experience and loved running with the questions
you’ve asked, Jo-Anne. I hope we’ll have a chance to do this
again some time. In the meantime, I’d love to hear from readers.
I’ll hang out in the comments but also invite conversation on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/craftingfiction">The
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Laffar-Smith is a science fiction and fantasy novelist. Her debut
novel, The Flight of Torque, is available now as eBook and Paperback.
You can try before you buy with a <a href="http://www.flightoftorque.com/sample">Free
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<span style="color: #351c75;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">As the story progresses we learn more and more about Jimmy and why he is the way he is. It's easy to see why Lena falls in love with him. Of course, he also gives you plenty of reason to want to smack him upside the head. I think Jimmy has to be my favourite of the Stage Dive boys. He's got a hard shell, but once you get past it you find he's sweet and sensitive. The fact that he's basically sex on legs doesn't hurt either. He certainly knows how to use his hands and mouth. </span></span></div>
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his arm as he pulls the fish off the end and walks to the shore to wash them
off. My eyes trace the lines of his shoulder muscles. I flashback to last
night… and this morning. We couldn’t get beyond PG-13 before the cameras
arrived, circling the rocks in the water again like sharks. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #073763;">I wasn’t exactly applying logic to my actions last night, though.
Kissing him took me to another planet entirely. What if the entire U.S just saw
me crushing this sand couch and now they’re watching me standing here, acting
like I have no clue what happened? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #073763;">Journey glowers at me. Joshua doesn’t turn around. Owning up would
be the right thing to do in any regular situation, yes, but everyone knows the
second a couple hook up on<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>Deserted</i>,
the others turn against you. You’re viewed as a threat. I need to think. I
need to talk to him, but he’s turned around now and he’s still not looking at
anyone. Maybe we shouldn’t have stayed out so late, but the more we talk the
more we have to say. We’d only been asleep a couple of hours before he was
waking me up and taking me spearfishing.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #073763;">Between dives this morning, Joshua told me about a guy he worked
with once, out in Arizona, who lived in the desert because he was afraid of
some watery abyss:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #073763;">‘You know, eighty percent of all life on this planet is under the
ocean,’ he said, his flecked eyes boring into me under the sun. ‘The world’s
biggest waterfall, the biggest mountain range...’<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #073763;">‘Yup. And there’s more historical stuff down there - more planes
and boats and secrets than in all the museums in all the world,’ I said,
remembering my facts from school. ‘We know more about space than the sea,’ and
he grinned. I could tell he was struggling not to kiss me and I’d be lying if I
said it wasn’t kind of thrilling, being desired yet unattainable at the same
time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #073763;">‘True. But this guy was terrified, seriously terrified that some
alien force is going to come out of the ocean someday. I helped him build a
bunker, so he’d be safe.’<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #073763;">‘I kind of want to meet this guy,’ I told him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #073763;">‘No you don’t, he’s crazy.’<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #073763;">‘Why were you there?’ I asked him.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #073763;">‘I had nowhere else to be,’ he said.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #073763;">I feel my pulse race again. Shan’s right, Joshua’s a dark horse
for sure. For all he says to me now when we’re alone, there’s so much he’s not
saying in front of them and it’s pissing people off. But there’s something
that’s hurting him; I can’t get it out of my head. Joshua told us how Mike was
defensive ‘cause of his fears, but I’m guessing at times he’s exactly the same.
Whatever made him speak up against Stephanie’s beliefs stems from something
he’s struggling with, alone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><span style="color: #073763;">I look on as he strokes the excess sand off the fish with his
fingers carefully, stares out to the horizon. Maybe I’ll never know what’s
haunting Joshua. What if he does get voted out next? The thought sends a bolt
of dread through my core but I force my head back on straight, tear my eyes
away from his body. I have to stay sharp. I’m not here for a guy. I’m here for
a million dollars.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">What</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">s in all the boxes?</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">’ </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">I ask, choosing to ignore the comment.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">Finn finishes chewing his mouthful of chicken. ‘You ask a lot of questions,</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">’ </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">he remarks.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">‘You don</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">t answer many.</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">‘It</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">s stuff for Martha Stewart,</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">’ </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">he says, tilting his chin in the direction of the boxes stacked by the door.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">‘I</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">m sorry?</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">‘A lot of companies ask her to endorse their products.</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">I wait for him to finish his explanation but it appears he</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">s done explaining.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">‘And?</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">’ </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">I push. ‘What are you to Martha Stewart? Is she some kind of relation?</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">He laughs. ‘</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">No. I just -’ </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">he clears his throat and tosses another chunk of chicken to Goz. ‘I thought I would do her a favour. You know, help her upcycle.</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">‘What are you talking about?</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">’ </span><span lang="DA" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">I ask, staring blankly at him.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">‘She gets sent an obscene about of stuff. Pasta makers and cupcake trays and Magimixes from the future. All from companies who want her to promote and endorse their stuff. So I figured, rather than have it all go to waste, because there</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">s no way she</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">s going to ever use it all, I would have it diverted to me instead. And what I don</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">t want I give to the Goodwill.</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;"><u></u><u></u></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">I set my knife and fork down. ‘You</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">’</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">re not joking are you?</span><span lang="FR" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">’ </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 26.66666603088379px;">I ask.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Crimson Text'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Title: </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Assembly of Shapes</span><br /><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Author: </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Danielle Weiler</span><br /><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Age Group: </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Young</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> Adult</span><br /><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Release Date: </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">1st March 2014</span><br /><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Publishers: </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Ranga Books</span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><b>Rating: </b>4 stars</span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Crimson Text'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Crimson Text'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><b>Available from: </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com.au/Assembly-Shapes-Danielle-Weiler-ebook/dp/B00IOKTZOU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1399375924&sr=8-1&keywords=assembly+of+shapes" style="text-decoration: none;">Amazon</a></span><span style="line-height: 22px;"><br /><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Source: </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Author</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">"I need a place, just for me, a place to escape, a place to just be. If I could create an assembly of shapes on endless pages…I do believe my life would be complete." </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">Chas lives in a town where kids just want to get wasted, where one party melts into the next and they don't think about life beyond school. Unless you’re one of the lucky rich kids, of course. </span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">Chas’s I-don't-give-a-rats persona doesn’t match his secret: he loves drawing. He sketches the girls he sleeps with; all but Kira, though not from lack of trying. Worse, the guys abide by a code, and Chas wants to break the most important rule.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">He’s desperate for a way out. A future that doesn't involve juvi or abusive stepfathers or friends who blame him. All he has to do is figure out how.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">Having read Danielle's two previous books, I jumped at the chance to read Assembly of Shapes. I loved the idea of reading a male protagonist, written by a female. It's always interesting to see how well the author can convey the character. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">Chas is a teenager who has no direction in life and feels like the world is against him. Without the encouragement of adults or any decent role models, you can't help but feel for Chas and his situation. He starts out as an angry young man and I loved seeing how his character evolved throughout the novel. Of course he makes mistakes and at one moment I'd want to curse him and the next cry for him. He doesn't have a great relationship with his mother and the only constant male role model is his uncle. He feels alone and isolated and as the story progresses you begin to realise how much Chas is willing to change. With the encouragement of his principal he finally begins to see that it can be different, but that you do have to work for it. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">Weiler does a spectacular job, immersing you in Chas's world and his mind.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">Assembly of Shapes is a novel about a boy who is slowly becoming a man and that time in your life where you're no longer a child and not quite and adult. It's about understanding the consequences of your actions, and realising that some relationships will end but new ones will begin. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #134f5c; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.31999969482422px;">Weiler has an innate ability to delve into the minds of teenagers to produce a gripping, emotional read, about life, love and growing up. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Crimson Text'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Title: </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Lost Hope (Hope series #3)</span><br /><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Author: </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Frankie Rose</span><br /><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Age Group: </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Young</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> Adult</span><br /><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Release Date: </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">20th March 2014</span><br /><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Publishers: </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Self-published</span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Crimson Text'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Crimson Text'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><b>Rating: </b>5 stars</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">“How Many Miles To Babylon?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">“Threescore and Ten.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">“Can I Get There by Candlelight?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">“Yes, and back again. If your heels be nimble and light, you
may get there by candlelight.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>London 1891</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Two boys meet in a foggy, darkened alleyway in London.
Poised to fight, they recognise a quality in each other that stays their hands:
they’re different. Not human. Well, not entirely, anyway. The universe, God,
Kismet…something brought them together, forged a bond between them as strong as
brothers’, and even they know it has to be for a reason.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><b>London Present Day</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Daniel and Kayden are cut from the same cloth. Their lives,
their histories are so intertwined and tangled together that the last fifty
years they’ve been at each other’s throats have seemed like an eternity. For
Kayden, it’s been a punishment. For Daniel, a painful burden.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Now that circumstances have drawn them back to London once
more, repairing the bridges they’d once burned to the ground is taking time.
Time they don’t have.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Farley Hope is used to things going wrong. Epically wrong. A
dead mother; a half-brother who recently went on a killing spree and refuses to
come out of his room; a friend whose body has been hijacked by a malevolent,
powerful being…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">All of that would be bad enough, but considering her
brooding boyfriend hasn’t brought up the fact that she agreed to marry him in
weeks…her run of bad luck is really starting to take its toll. Things had
better start looking up, otherwise her new-found powers are going to be put to
use, and there’s no guaranteeing what will be getting blown up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">This is where it all began.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Where chance meetings set an unstoppable<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">chain of events in motion.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">How a prophecy came to be realised.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">How Lost Hope was found.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #009999;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">I was lucky
enough to read a very early copy of Lost Hope, and I absolutely adored it.
Reading Lost Hope was like coming home to old friends. It picks up where
Eternal Hope left off, with the group now in London. Whilst there, Farley
begins to understand more about those she cares about, especially Daniel and
Kayden. I loved how Rose has created a dual </span></span><span style="color: #009999;"><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">story line</span></span><span style="color: #009999;"><span style="line-height: 107%;"> with the past and present
intertwining. I never once felt out of place, and it slowly reveals more about
Daniel and Kayden, and how their characters have grown and been dragged apart throughout
the years. They share a tragic past and it really pulled at my heartstrings. I love
Daniels character but as I read each book, Kayden continues to worm his
charming, flirty, damaged self into my heart. Farley’s character continues to
develop, and I always admire her strength and her belief that she can save all
her friends, no matter what. The action in Lost Hope intensifies and there’s
plenty of twists and turns to keep you glued to your seat, and a rather epic
ending will have you hugging your copy to your chest. I know this review is
short, but if I say too much more it will give away too much, but I have to say
you won’t be disappointed in the third book of the Hope series. Frankie! I need
the next book now!</span></span></span></div>
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name. As Avery Patterson, she is no longer the daughter of a serial killer. No
longer the girl who was bullied and abused through high school. A fresh name
and a fresh start at Columbia University means Avery can leave all that behind.
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tattoos and insane musical talent. Despite his guitar skills, his calling in
life has always been to serve and protect. A NYPD cop by day, singer in rock
band D.M.F by night, from the outside Luke seems like he’s got it made. But
falling hard for a girl whose father was accused of deeply sinister acts—a man
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<span style="line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Winter is one of those books that grabs you from the first page and doesn't let you go until the very last word. Even then I was still caught up in Avery and Luke's story. The ending is a cliffhanger, but not an unresolved one. In this book we get a conclusion to the story arc, but as there are going to be three more books, Rae has left the ending open.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">Avery's character drew me in with her strength and vulnerability. She constantly battled with memories of her father and the fact that that he was accused of murdering three people. After five years, she is trying to move on with her life, but it seems that her past won't stay behind her. Especially Luke, hot cop by day, rock god at night. He's spent the last five years keeping an eye on Avery. They share a bond that has tied them together, much to Avery's consternation. She doesn't understand why he wants to go over such a dark period of her life and I wasn't too sure of </span><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Luke's</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> intentions at first. He seems a bit mysterious and has a morbid interest in her father. As their story unfolds, you begin to learn there is a lot more to Luke than meets the eye. You begin to realise he may be just an broken as her. They</span></span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 107%;"> have an undeniable chemistry, but their relationship is pretty complicated. Watching them work through their issues is one of the best things about this book.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="line-height: 107%;">When new accusations against Avery's father come to light, the pace really picks up. I had so many unanswered questions I couldn't help but keep reading. I HAD to know. Are </span><span style="line-height: 17.1200008392334px;">Avery's</span><span style="line-height: 107%;"> friends who they say they are? What isn't Luke telling her? Is her uncle the bad guy? The suspense had me on the edge of my seat. When I finally found out 'who done it', I was very surprised. These days it can be easy to pick the bad guy but Rae kept me guessing to the end. </span></span><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 107%;">Winter is an intense, thrilling and sexy read, that will keep you up long after your bedtime. Go forth and get yourself a copy now!</span><br />
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Jo-Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11279747172031268163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9157478374996358930.post-10902987899234166732014-02-06T13:51:00.002+08:002014-02-06T13:51:47.893+08:00Cover Reveal - Play by Kylie Scott<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #990000;">I can't wait for PLAY! I think Lick was one of my favourite reads of 2013, and if all the excerpts Kylie has been posting are anything to go by, then Play is going to be just as fantastic.</span></div>
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Ericson, drummer for the world famous rock band Stage Dive, needs to clean up
his image fast—at least for a little while. Having a good girl on his arm
should do the job just fine. Mal doesn’t plan on this temporary fix becoming
permanent, but he didn’t count on finding the one right girl. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Rollins never thought she’d ever meet the rock god who plastered her teenage
bedroom walls—especially not under these circumstances. Anne has money
problems. Big ones. But being paid to play the pretend girlfriend to a wild
life-of-the-party drummer couldn’t end well. No matter how hot he is. Or could
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Jo-Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11279747172031268163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9157478374996358930.post-44994485768685568452013-11-06T16:00:00.000+08:002013-11-06T16:00:17.031+08:00Cover Reveal - Stolen by Keren Hughes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif";">Coming November 2013…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Roshanna
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is missing and her parents are dead…<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">With no clues of any kind as to
what happened to her parents, and no other close family, Roshanna must move to
Texas, Austin, to live with her last living relative, Uncle Joe after the
funeral. But this means leaving her best friend, Marissa Mason behind.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Roshanna in a way no one else has…<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Bodhi is her rock after the death
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">But before moving away, Roshanna
was confronted with a shocking secret that Marissa had kept from her, a secret
that changes how she sees life and the people in it—Marissa is a pure soul and
her foster parents are soul drainers who need her pure energy to survive. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">When Roshanna and Bodhi try and
track down Marissa’s father, Leith Mason, in order to retrieve her parents’
souls back, they find themselves held hostage at gunpoint. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Will she ever find her parents souls? Or will their souls be the next ones to
be taken?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18386363-stolen">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18386363-stolen</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Keren
lives in the UK and is an avid bookworm; she has been since she read things
like Black Beauty, What Katy Did and The Hobbit as a child. Her first real
memories of reading are the summers she used to lie on her bed and re-read What
Katy Did and What Katy Did Next.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Over the years she has come to realise that she is a bit OCD about books. They
have to be in perfect condition without the slightest bit of damage.<br />
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She is a book reviewer and has been for the past 18 months or so.<br />
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The idea for Stolen came to her one day but she never thought she’d actually
write it let alone publish it. If it wasn’t for her author friend Kira Saito,
the idea would still be stuck in her head not on paper. But constant love and
support from Kira is why you are now able to read Stolen.<br />
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Stolen is her first novel but now that she’s written one, she knows she needs
to write more. There will be one sequel, called Freed which will be from
Bodhi’s POV. This will be set a couple of years on.<br />
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Then, the plan is for her to write either NA or Adult Contemporary Romances.
She has a big crush on Lady Antebellum’s music at the moment and their songs
have inspired a few book ideas.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #333333; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jo-Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11279747172031268163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9157478374996358930.post-73112697867685936002013-10-31T21:14:00.000+08:002013-10-31T21:14:56.576+08:00Blog tour - The Descending Darkness by Michael Chulsky<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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Descending Darkness. I hope you all enjoy! =)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Shadow: Paranoid – Alana Grace<br />
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB6suuAXUPY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB6suuAXUPY</a><br />
</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I’m not crazy, I
know what I see<br />
I hear them staring at me.<br />
</span></i><span lang="EN-US"><br />
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I chose this song for Shadow because it fits his
mood in the first novel. He doesn’t just have himself to worry about – he has
to worry about the lives of ten others. He’s constantly afraid that something
will happen, some dangerous creature will appear and hurt someone. He’s very
paranoid.<br />
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Ellie: Girl On Fire – Alicia Keys<br />
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J91ti_MpdHA">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J91ti_MpdHA</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
<i><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Everybody
stares, as she goes by</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Cause they can see the flame that's in her eyes</span><br />
<span style="background: white;">Watch her when she's lighting up the night.</span><br />
<span style="background: white;"><br />
</span></i><span style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">Ironically, this
song fits Ellie the best. Ironic because her powers are ice-based. :P<br />
Her determination is powerful and she never backs down from anything that
stands in her way. She’s a fighter and there’s constantly a flame burning deep
down inside her.<br />
<br />
<br />
</span>Kay: Off With Her Head – Icon For Hire<br />
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w4JGHB2o6I">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w4JGHB2o6I</a><br />
</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="background-color: white; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I’m lucky if I ever see the light of day again.<br />
My skin is choking me, my feeble walls are closing in.</span></i><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
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</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Kay is very nervous about her new “hero”
role. What seventeen-year-old wouldn’t be? She has the world on her shoulders
and it’s overwhelming. This song fits because she feels like being a hero gives
her a death sentence. And she doesn’t want that.<br />
<br />
<br />
Isaac: Just Like a Pill – Pink!<br />
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDKGWaCglRM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDKGWaCglRM</a><br />
</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Run just as fast
as I can, to the middle of nowhere,<br />
to the middle of my frustrated fears.<br />
And I swear, you’re just like a pill. Instead of making me better, you keep
making me ill.<br />
<br />
</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Isaac is young and impressionable. He
isn’t outgoing or sociable. He only has one friend and it’s a wonder if that
friend is healthy for him or not.<br />
<br />
<br />
Faith: Imaginary – Evanescence<br />
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQgfrjMXy_w">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQgfrjMXy_w</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
<i>I linger in the doorway, of alarm clock
screaming monsters calling my name.<br />
Let me stay, where the wind will whisper to me.<br />
Where the raindrops, as they’re falling, tell a story.<br />
<br />
</i>Faith has visions of the future. As a result, she’s constantly haunted by
things that may or may not happen. She has to figure out what is real and what
is just imaginary.<br />
<br />
<br />
Tristan: Me Against the World – Simple Plan<br />
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-pQBDE5Gbg">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-pQBDE5Gbg</a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><br />
<i>I’m a nightmare, a disaster, that’s what
they always said.<br />
I’m a lost cause, not a hero, but I’ll make it on my own.<br />
<br />
</i>Tristan has the tendency to open his mouth without thinking. And that quirk
gets him into trouble. As a result, he has to work harder in order to prove
himself. He refuses to let himself be taken lightly.<br />
<br />
<br />
Ethan: Your Guardian Angel – Red Jumpsuit Apparatus<br />
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJbrc8nnQCo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJbrc8nnQCo</a><br />
</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I will never let
you fall, I’ll stand up with you forever.<br />
I’ll be there for you through it all, even if saving you sends me to heaven.<br />
<br />
</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ethan is not human, at least, not in the
traditional sense. He’s an angel reborn as a human in order to act as protector
to Crystal. He’s her guardian angel. He takes his job very seriously and views
her as a younger sister.<br />
<br />
Crystal: Material Girl – Madonna<br />
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k3GTW3ecvo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k3GTW3ecvo</a><br />
</span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Living in a
material world,<br />
And I am a material girl.<o:p></o:p></span></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">Crystal
is spoiled. Thanks to a huge inheritance from her father, she is used to the
finer things in life. Any talk about wholesale clothing is likely to make her
faint. She has a lot of learning to do about the way the world works and Shadow
intends to be her teacher.<br />
<br />
<br />
Ryan: Riot – Cher Lloyd<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxJyYNy2wT0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxJyYNy2wT0</a><br />
<i>If you think we’ve all gone crazy, how’d
ya guess?<br />
Gonna tear the world apart until there’s, nothing left.<br />
<br />
</i>Ryan is the jokester of the group and he lives his life chaotically. In his
mind, if you aren’t going crazy, you aren’t having fun. He laughs in the face
of danger. Ha, ha, ha…ha.<br />
<br />
<br />
Tereya: Brave – Sara Bareilles<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyAfjUHlFSM">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyAfjUHlFSM</a><br />
<i>If you say what you want to say and let
the words fall out,<br />
Honestly, I wanna see you be brave.<br />
<br />
</i>Tereya is very shy and introverted. He doesn’t say much at first because he
thinks that anything he has to say is unimportant. Over time he learns that he’s
a valuable member of the team and that his opinion matters as much as anybody
else’s.<br />
<br />
<br />
Niki: Just The Way I Am – Skye Sweetnam<br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_2Atac2wfk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_2Atac2wfk</a><br />
<i>Might as well get over it, don’t try to
understand,<br />
I’m strange and I like it, just the way I am.<br />
<br />
</i>Niki is very unique. She’s a breath of fresh air and will always speak her
mind. She doesn’t believe in sugar-coating things. To her, the truth is always
the most important thing. She goes about things differently than most people
and doesn’t care if people think she’s weird.<br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">Cameryn: Like A Prayer – Madonna</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fzeNUqQbQ" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79fzeNUqQbQ</span></a></div>
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<i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Life is a mystery, everyone must stand
alone.</i></div>
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<i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I hear you call my name, and it feels like home.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span></div>
</i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Cameryn was abused by people who were supposed to care for him and is left
broken, but not irreparable. He is rescued and slowly learns to trust again.
Out of everyone, he views Shadow specifically as his savior. Shadow is tough,
brave, and confident – all of the things that Cameryn wishes he could be. He
views Shadow as the answer to his prayers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Maedara – Primadonna – Marina and The Diamonds</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj5L9SYhoSE" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj5L9SYhoSE</span></a></div>
<i><span style="color: #a64d79;"><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; text-align: center;">
<i style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Primadonna girl, all I ever wanted was
the world.</i></div>
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<i style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">I can’t help that I need it all,</i></div>
<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; text-align: center;">
<i style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">The Primadonna life, the rise and fall.</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 17px;"><br /></span></div>
</span></i><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="color: #a64d79;">Maedara is the living embodiment of this song. She wants everything the
world has and more. She loves fashion, money, power, and all things sparkly.
She won’t stop until she has it all.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">After
going from demon hunter to babysitter, seventeen-year-old SHADOW has truly hit
rock bottom. One week he’s slaughtering demons, and the next he has ten
super-powered teenagers in his care. Shadow needs them, because without them he
can’t hope to defeat his new foe. But he’s never dealt with other teenagers
before. He never had a real childhood. He’s always been a loner. Hell, he’s
tried the whole having-a-pet thing. It died.<br />
<br />
Shadow’s mission: save the world and ensure his team survives the potential
apocalypse. If MAEDARA, self-proclaimed fashionista and Queen of Evil, wasn’t
trying to rule the world, it’d be cake. Now, not only does Shadow have to deal
with teens more concerned with going to the mall than fighting evil, but also a
villain who, in his opinion, makes Lady Gaga look like Mother Theresa.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS Mincho"; mso-fareast-language: JA; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span><br />
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has been writing ever since his fourth grade teacher let him create a class
newspaper to channel his creativity. He is the author of The Descending
Darkness and currently lives with his fiancé. When not writing he enjoys
browsing Tumblr, listening to music, and devouring every piece of cheesecake
that falls into his line of sight.<br />
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Buy links:<br />
<a href="http://www.rockinghorsepublishing.com/the-descending-darkness.html">http://www.rockinghorsepublishing.com/the-descending-darkness.html</a><br />
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For stalking purposes:<br />
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michael’s blog: <a href="http://michaelchulskywrites.blogspot.com/">http://michaelchulskywrites.blogspot.com</a><br />
website: <a href="http://michaelchulsky.com/">http://michaelchulsky.com</a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;">A little FAITH can get you through…</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;">One night. That’s all Finn had with the only girl he ever loved. Years</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;">later, all he has left of that night is a silver cross, a broken give a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;">damn, and the unrelenting desire to drink her memory away. As the lead</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;">singer of Blow Hole, Finn has his pick of women, but none are able to squash</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;">the need he still carries around for Faith. To hate her offers some relief,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;">but when Finn sees her again after so many years, it’s hard to despise her.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;">As the daughter of a strict Baptist preacher, Faith Warren lived sheltered</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;">from all things sinful. When she met Jimmy Finn, the epitome of all seven</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;">deadly sins, she found out exactly what she was missing. After being forced</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;">to choose between her soul and the only person in the world who made her</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;">feel alive, Faith walked away from Finn and dove head first into her</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;">father’s preferred life. But now Finn’s back and he’s getting payback by</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Faith has to decide once again if she wants to stay in her gilded cage or</span><br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;">Can't wait for Revealing Kia! I loved the first book in the series, Finding Kia. Airicka Phoenix is one amazingly talented lady. You're missing out if you've never picked up one of her books!</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">The events of Claudia’s party were
nothing more than a distant memory as far as Kia was concerned. She was ready
to resume her life as though that night had never happened. But it’s a slippery
slope keeping a secret and Kia’s about to learn just how hard when she’s faced
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Adam Chaves was no stranger to girls
wanting him. He was no stranger to breaking hearts, although never
intentionally. What he didn’t understand was how Kia could undress him, touch
him, burn him with her eyes and still keep him at arm’s length when it was
evident how much it cost her. But what Kia didn’t realize was that he had never
given up on anything in his life and he wasn’t about to start now. He would
have his girl even if it meant he had to kidnap her to do it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLjM1slah7rwxdp8cTWwYCLb8jt37EH0CSAh3zrvVSWPZy0vnTX9lnt8HTWhDs2gFxpIbpwvGsi20edBCHYDMKecQpsi9GqgGcVD7IyjNhpzlproCNr5rimhNAR1iiiHP795To392p_1Qe/s1600/Airicka+Phoenix.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLjM1slah7rwxdp8cTWwYCLb8jt37EH0CSAh3zrvVSWPZy0vnTX9lnt8HTWhDs2gFxpIbpwvGsi20edBCHYDMKecQpsi9GqgGcVD7IyjNhpzlproCNr5rimhNAR1iiiHP795To392p_1Qe/s200/Airicka+Phoenix.jpg" width="200" /></span></a><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Huddled beneath a
perpetual cloud of imagination, International Best-Selling author Airicka
Phoenix lives with her husband and four gorgeous children in the beautiful
province of British Columbia. When she's not busy playing with her imaginary
friends, creating worlds and toying with fictional lives, she can be found
reading, polishing her collection of daggers, or chilling with her kids. <br />
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Airicka is the creator of </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Airicka-Phoenix/e/B00906AGHM"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">THE TOUCH SAGA</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">, </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Airicka-Phoenix/e/B00906AGHM"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">THE SONS OF JUDGMENT SAGA</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">, </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Airicka-Phoenix/e/B00906AGHM"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">THE LOST GIRL SERIES</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">, and </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Airicka-Phoenix/e/B00906AGHM"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">GAMES OF FIRE</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">. Her standalone novel, </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17696369-betraying-innocence"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">BETRAYING INNOCENCE</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> will be published Oct
2013 and the conclusion of Finding Kia, book 2 of The Lost Girl Series, </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18461891-revealing-kia"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">REVEALING KIA</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">, will be out Nov 2013.
She also has plans to release a Sci-Fi horror/romance, </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17696414-when-night-falls"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">WHEN NIGHT FALLS</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">, Dec 2013. <br />
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Airicka also writes adult paranormal & contemporary romance under her alter
ego, </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Morgana-Phoenix/148839731972606?notif_t=page_new_likes"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">Morgana Phoenix</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">. She has a paranormal
short coming out Dec 2013 in </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18623720-snowed-in"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">SNOWED IN, An Anthology</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;"> and </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18191259-capture-me"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">CAPTURE ME</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">, Morgana's debut novel
will be released Fall 2014. <br />
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For more about Airicka, visit her website at: </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://airickaphoenix.com/Author/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;">http://airickaphoenix.com/Author/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11.0pt; line-height: 150%;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Jo-Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11279747172031268163noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9157478374996358930.post-76315522848331713002013-10-16T11:24:00.000+08:002013-10-16T11:24:07.409+08:00Review: ARC Welcome to Sugartown by Carmen Jenner<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Crimson Text'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Title: </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Welcome to Sugartown (Sugartown #1)</span><br /><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Author: </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Carmen Jenner</span><br /><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Age Group: </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">New</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> Adult</span><br /><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Release Date: </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">3rd November</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"> 2013</span><br /><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Publishers: </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Self-published</span><br /><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;"><b>Available from: Not Yet Available</b></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Crimson Text'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><br /><b style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Source: </b><span style="font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 20px;">Author</span></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Ana Belle never wanted anything more than to hang up her apron, jump on her Vespa and ride off into the sunset, leaving Sugartown in the dust.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Elijah Cade never wanted anything more than a hot meal, a side of hot arse and a soft place to lay his head at night where he could forget about his past.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><em style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">But you know what they say about wanting: you always want what you can’t have.</em><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">Nineteen year-old virgin Ana is about to discover that’s not quite true because a six foot three, hotter than hell, tattooed, Aussie sex god just rode into town. He’s had a taste of her pie and he wants more– no really, Ana bakes pies for a living, get your mind out of the gutter.</span><br style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;" /></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">She’d be willing to hand over everything tied up in a big red bow, there’s just one problem; Elijah has secrets dirtier than last week’s underwear. Secrets that won't just break Ana’s heart, but put her life at risk, too. When those secrets come to light, their relationship is pushed to breaking point.</span></span></div>
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Add to that a psychotic nympho best friend, an overbearing father, a cuter than humanly possible kid brother, a wanton womanizing cousin, the ex from hell, and more pies than you could poke a ... err ... stick ... at.</div>
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<em>And you thought small towns were boring.</em></div>
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<strong>Welcome to Sugartown.</strong></div>
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<span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 107%;">Welcome to Sugartown by Carmen Jenner
has to be one of my favourite reads of the year. It’s sexy, heartbreaking and
incredibly funny. I was on an emotional rollercoaster until the last page. </span><span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 107%;">Ana and Elijah are one of those
couples that have a fiery passion from the get go. It doesn’t always seem
healthy, yet you can’t help but to fall in love with them. Their journey is not
an easy one; it’s full of pain and heartache. You’ll be laughing out loud,
crying into your pillow and wanting to throw your ereader at the wall.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 107%;">Jenner’s characters are so vivid and
full of life, you’d swear they were real people. Ana is a sassy, independent nineteen
year old who bakes pies for a living. She’s already had her fair share of
heartbreak, but it’s made her a stronger person. Her best friend Holly is a pocket-rocket
of epic proportions, with a slightly psychotic personality. I don’t think WtS
would be half as good without her in it. Her scenes help add an extra zing to
everything. I wish she was my best friend. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 107%;">You won’t have to look much further
for your new book boyfriend. Elijah Cade, smoking hot, tattooed, motorcycle
riding man-whore with a heart of gold. He’s not one for stable relationships,
but then he meets Ana Belle and everything changes. He’s hiding some pretty
dark secrets that put both their lives in danger and could destroy any chance
they have of happiness. You’ll love him one second and hate him the next. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0099ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 107%;">Jenner has filled the pages with
enough sugary goodness to have you in a sugar coma for days after you’ve read
WtS. I laughed, I cried and just like Ana and Elijah, Welcome to Sugartown will
tear you to pieces but put you back together again with its humour and host of
unforgettable characters. You’ll be craving more of Jenner’s pie once you’re
done. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Jo-Annehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11279747172031268163noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9157478374996358930.post-46745550361375242822013-10-12T07:19:00.000+08:002013-10-12T07:19:48.325+08:00Cover Reveal - When Night Falls by Airicka Phoenix<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Book Title: When Night Falls<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Author: Airicka Phoenix<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Publisher: Fire & Ash Publishing<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Release date: Dec 2013<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Genre: Young Adult Sci-Fi, Thriller with
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Warnings: Language and sexual content<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">The Earth as we know it no longer exists. Humanity has destroyed
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="color: #0b5394;">What had started as a six month voyage through the stars becomes
a nightmare when the passengers are stranded in space without hope. With Earth
gone, the crew and passengers of The Dawn Light are left wandering the galaxy
in search of a new planet. After years of searching, one is found, but no one
is prepared for the terror that takes claim of the Galaxy Cruiser when one by
one the people begin to turn, mutating into flesh eating monsters. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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sardine can full of piranhas. Their only hope... to get the hell out before
they’re next, but someone on the ship wants to be the only survivor to reach
the new planet and will do anything to stop them. But just how far are they
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seventeen-year-old Wake Reynolds agrees to sacrifice his soul to protect his
suicidal mother from the fiery tortures of Hell, Satan strips him of his
humanity and forces him to become a demonic collector of souls. With no memory
of his human existence, Wake spends years in loyal service—but something within
him is changing. His stolen human emotions are beginning to return.<o:p></o:p></span></a></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">As Wake struggles to keep his new sensations hidden, Satan orders
him to corrupt the soul of a pregnant girl, Annemarie. Beautiful, gentle
Annemarie. From the moment Wake sees her, she brings lightness to his blackened
heart, dampening his loneliness, fueling his passion. If he chooses to defy
Satan and spare the lives of Annemarie and her unborn child, his mother’s soul
will writhe in Hell’s deepest pit for eternity. Annemarie or his mother? It’s a
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<span lang="EN-US">Gary Caruso lives in northern <st1:state w:st="on">Virginia</st1:state> with his wife Jill, but their favorite place is
in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ohio</st1:place></st1:state> with
their three beautiful grandchildren. Although <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Gary</st1:place></st1:city> is exhilarated when he sits down to
write, teaching middle school science is his first love. He’s passionate about
empowering students to make thoughtful decisions and positive choices in life. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Gary</st1:place></st1:city> enjoys reading,
especially fiction that blurs the line between what’s real and what’s fantasy.
He never imagined becoming a writer until an ordinary car ride on a spring day
jolted an unlikely thought into his head. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Gary</st1:place></st1:city>’s
early experience writing is a reminder that no matter how intimidating the
challenge, action and determination are the foundations for fulfilling any
dream. <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Gary</st1:city></st1:place> has
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<span lang="EN-US">The crowd thins, eventually leaving Annemarie and me alone in the
hallway. She gathers her books and turns, quicker than I expect. I can’t
maneuver out of her way. Our collision is mild, but jarring enough to dislodge
the books from her hands.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“I’m so sorry,” she says as she kneels to pick up her scattered
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<span lang="EN-US">I should be helping her, but my eyes are fixed on her graceful
movements. Her long brown hair has fallen to the side, exposing the back of her
softly curved neck, and every reach for a stray book lengthens her back and
shoulders, inviting my touch. From the lowest point, just above the waist of
her jeans, the tip of my finger would snake upward, navigating the gentle ridge
of her spine until my hand laces through the richness of her flowing hair.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">She tilts her head upward and grins at me. “Are you okay?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">Her voice snaps me from my fantasy. “Me? Yeah, I’m…fine. Oh, god.
I’m so sorry. I should be picking up your books. You’re…you know.” I point
feeble-mindedly at her extended stomach.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Pregnant,” she says as she stands and straightens her blouse. “It’s
all right to say it. I already know.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">The tip of her tongue unknowingly caresses her lower lip and the
gentle arc of her full upper lip stretches, the smallest amount, as a smile
slowly radiates across her flushed cheeks. These emotions, human, raw
and…hormonal, forgotten for so long, now my only hope for clear thought is to
suppress them. This has to be one of Satan’s sadistic jokes.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I laugh from embarrassment, but it’s the first time, in too long,
that the sound of untempered, unrestrained joy bubbles from my heart. How can
she have this warming effect on me? I want to say something cute and funny, but
my mind is a hornet’s nest of scrambled thoughts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“You look familiar,” she says. “Do we have a class together?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I gaze into her hazel eyes. I must appear flustered because she
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<span lang="EN-US">“No. I mean, I don’t know. Today is my first day at this school.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Great. Welcome to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Roosevelt</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">High School</st1:placetype></st1:place>. My name is
Annemarie.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“I’m Wake.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Wake? That’s an interesting name.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“Yeah, I know. It sounds like a funeral.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“I like it. But I have to go. My little guy keeps pushing on my
bladder. Lately, I have to use the restroom between every class.” She covers
her mouth as if she gave too much information to someone she just met, but her
joyful eyes can’t hide the smile hidden behind her hand.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">“I can’t believe I just told you that.” She starts to hurry away,
but looks over her shoulder. “See you later, Wake.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">I wave like an embarrassed adolescent. What a lousy first
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<span lang="EN-US">I watch as she continues down the hall. I’ve seen other pregnant
women before. They were clumsy, out of balance from carrying extra weight in
front. But not Annemarie. Her steps are graceful and refined, like she’s
gliding on a frozen pond. The gentle curves of her hips have remained slender,
and sway hypnotically side-to-side in a rhythm that matches the drumming of my
heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">What am I thinking? Mooning about like a
lovesick teenager. I can’t let my physical attraction for Annemarie erode the
resolve I’ll need to complete this assignment. Yet, she’s the most beautiful… Does
she even know how she makes me feel…how human? I’m stuck in a moment reserved
for young love. There’s nothing merciful about denying the uninhibited
excitement coursing through every inch of my body, but my plan is already in
motion. The fate of my mother’s soul is in my hands. As much as I hate myself
for thinking it, Annemarie’s beauty has to be extinguished. I have to collect
her. I know Satan is convinced these human emotions will help, but right now, I
wish I was a stone-cold demon. It would make it a lot easier to incinerate her
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<strong><em>Unveiled Ties Book #2</em></strong></div>
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<em>Dane has been haunted by the mysterious and sexy angel from his fraternity’s Halloween party. He sees her in every store, every class, on every corner. How long will he fight his feelings?</em></div>
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<em>Korah is consumed with guilt over her vulnerability at the ball, vowing to never go to a party again. Leela and Windi desperately try to pull her out of her funk. The start of new semester should bring new beginnings…right?</em></div>
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<em>The spring semester is now underway for Korah and Dane. When the pair ends up becoming biology partners, will Dane reveal his true identity</em></div>
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<strong><em>Tentative Release Date: January 10, 2014</em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>Daring Dane Book #3</em></strong></div>
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<em>Korah and Dane have taken their attraction to the next level, causing both to guard their hearts closely. After a frightening encounter with Korah’s ex-boyfriend, she desperately seeks Dane’s comfort, but can’t find him.</em></div>
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<em>What will happen when both decide to date other people? Will their true feelings prevail? Can Dane change his playboy ways when Korah dares him to be a better man?</em></div>
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<strong><em>Tentative Release Date: February 14, 2014</em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>Pursuing Korah Book#4</em></strong></div>
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<em>Dane confesses his feelings and his intentions, but to his dismay, Korah isn’t buying it. He regrets letting her kick him out after the trauma she endures hours later. </em></div>
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<em>Korah wants Dane more than anything, but can’t trust him with her heart. After a brutal run in with her ex, she ends up finding the comfort she seeks from a very distraught Dane. </em></div>
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<em>Can the two learn to trust in order to be together? Will Dane’s angry reaction to her trauma warm or harden her heart?</em></div>
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<strong><em>Tentative Release Date: March 14, 2014</em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>Unexpected Consequences Book#5</em></strong></div>
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<em>Korah is working hard to learn to trust and let go of her past. Her feelings for Dane continue to grow, surprising everyone around her.</em></div>
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<em>Dane knows he has to change and finally finds a way to win Korah’s heart. No one is as shocked by his admittance as he is.</em></div>
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<em>What will happen when unexpected consequences arise from their feelings?</em></div>
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<strong><em>Tentative Release Date: April 11, 2014</em></strong></div>
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<strong><em>About the author:</em></strong></div>
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<em>Felicia Tatum was born and raised in Tennessee. She always loved reading, and at the age of twelve began writing. Her passion for creating stories grew and in May 2012, she finally wrote her first novel, The White Aura.</em></div>
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<em>She still lives in Tennessee with her daughter and her kitty. She loves cooking, books, and animals are some of her best friends. She watches a lot of Disney channel and often dreams up new book ideas. She's currently working on various projects, including the rest of the White Aura Series, the Scarred Hearts Series, and a novella series. Her dream is to write as many books as possible while entertaining as many people as possible.</em></div>
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