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Chatting with Joshua Cohen!
This upside down (and rather attractive if I do say so myself) author is none other than Joshua C. Cohen. Today I’m pleased to have him stopping by my blog for an author interview! However, I couldn’t make it easy on him. Oh no, this takes work. So Josh had to answer all my questions using only lines from his book. You know what though? He showed me! His answers are fantastic! Take a look. ***** 1. Leverage is being made into a movie. What’s the tagline for your movie poster? “Sometimes, sir, there’s just a meanness in this world.”…
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Book Review: Chasing Alliecat
Each comment on this review raises $1 for charity, courtesy of Rebecca Fjelland Davis. For further information, and to enter the giveaway, see this post. Sadie Lester has been dumped with relatives for the summer. Boredom seems inevitable in her small Minnesota town until she meets Allie—a spiky-haired off-road biker with incredible grace and speed. Training for the upcoming bike race, Allie leads Sadie and cute fellow cyclist Joe up and down Mount Kato—an exhilarating rush that pushes their limits. The fun ends abruptly when they stray off the trail and find a priest, badly beaten and near death. After…
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Book Review: When Colors Bleed
WHEN COLORS BLEED is a collection of short stories by the author of ARSON. This collection features three unique stories with universal themes of love, loss, and regret. Watch the colors bleed. –See more at Goodreads Intended Reading Group: Upper YA/Adult Content Screening: Adult themes like death, love and loss. However there is no inappropriate language or anything that is outrightly graphic. *** Cover Inspection: Totally dark and brooding. I thought it matched the title perfectly. First Thoughts: I didn’t glance long enough to see this wasn’t YA so when the character in the first story was 23 I did…
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Book Review: Kat, Incorrigible
Twelve-year-old Kat Stephenson may be the despair of her social-climbing Step-Mama, but she was born to be a magical Guardian and protector of Society–if she can ever find true acceptance in the secret Order that expelled her own mother. She’s ready to turn the hidebound Order of the Guardians inside-out, whether the older members like it or not. And in a society where magic is the greatest scandal of all, Kat is determined to use all her powers to help her three older siblings–saintly Elissa, practicing-witch Angeline, and hopelessly foolish Charles–find their own true loves, even if she has to…
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Guest Post & Giveaway: Karen Metcalf
Sharing my blog today is Karen Metcalf, author of In the Storm. Let’s give her a warm welcome shall we? If you some how managed to miss my fanatical review yesterday, you can find it here. This book is unique in the most wonderful kind of way! To say I recommend it is pretty much putting it lightly. Karen has stopped by today with a guest post about YA romance, and was also sweet enough to bring along a giveaway! So without further ado, I’ll let her have the floor. Many YA novels include an element of romance, including mine.…
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Back in the saddle again!
So despite my pretty consistent posting lately, would you believe that I actually haven’t BEEN here? Gasp, I know! I’ve been getting by with scheduled posts and such. That’s what happens when you get busy but you still want to make sure your lovely blog followers have something to read! (Like my horse? Safest kind there is.) Anyway I’m back! Caught up and feeling fine. I’ll be commenting on blogs more, writing random things in here again as I feel like it and probably harassing you all with tons of book reviews. I have TIME to read again. What a…
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Book Review: Nickel Plated
Nickel is a survivor. He has to be. For as long as he can remember, his life has hinged on the flip of a coin. Or, rather, the scribble of a social worker’s pen. He’s been through the system, even had a good dad for a few years, until he was gone, too. But Nickel remembers everything he taught him, and since the day he escaped from foster-care hell, he’s put that knowledge to good use. Just twelve years old, he makes a steady living by selling marijuana to high schoolers, blackmailing pedophiles he ferrets out online, and working as…
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Book Review: In the Storm
Abandoned by the world around her, Carly believes she is fated to a life of torment at the hands of her stepfather and is desperate for an escape. When she can bear the abuse no longer and gives in to a thunderous rage, she suddenly finds herself in an unfamiliar, yet beautiful, storm world. This limbo between dimensions appears to be her private sanctuary, but it may just be her purgatory. No one escapes fate without sacrifice, but is the price more than Carly is willing to pay? –From Goodreads Cover Inspection: This cover actually drew me in right away…
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Mini Challenge: Ladies and their Tramps!
To those of you who don’t know (and where have you been if you don’t) it’s time again for Princess Bookie’s massive CONTEST CRAZE! There are giveaways galore, and fun mini challenges to take part in. This one I HAD to enter. It’s hosted by my awesome friend Kari at A Good Addiction and it’s all about mish-mashing or pairing two different characters from two different books. FUN RIGHT? Here’s my pair. I think Calla from Nightshade and Jag from Possession would make a fascinating pair. See, Calla is an alpha wolf and can definitely be a little abrasive sometimes. Used…
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Talking Inspiration with Gillian Phillip
Well my friends, today you are in for quite the treat! Gillian Phillips, a.k.a Gabriella Poole, is stopping by to share some inspiration with us. If you haven’t yet put her newest book, The Opposite of Amber, on your reading list you need to go now. It’s truly amazing and I was happy to give it a glowing recommendation. You can see my review if you’d like! I’ll stop rambling now though. Gillian has the floor. Favourite Places for Inspiration This is a topic close to my heart. For me, landscape has a huge effect on my writing, but that’s…