Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Wednesday Chatter: Why I Failed At Blogoween


Wednesday Chatter is a weekly feature at Ruby's Books where we'll be talking about anything and everything related to books and reading. Click here if you want to see what we talked about in the previous weeks

WARNING: Some bad words might be used in the following post. Don't say I didn't warn you!



Hello my fellow book lovers! Today's post is going to be a little bit more serious than my latest Wednesday Chatter posts. Today I wanted to talk to you about Blogoween, why I failed it, and why sometimes taking a break isn't the best thing for me.

Book Blitz: Recklessly Ever After by Heather Van Fleet

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This is my stop during the bookstagram blitz for Recklessly Ever After by Heather Van Fleet. This bookstagram blitz is organized by Lola's Blog Tours. This bookstagram blitz runs from 29 October till 4 November. See the tour schedule here.

Recklessly Ever AfterRecklessly Ever After (Reckless Hearts #3)
By Heather Van Fleet
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Age category: Adult
Release Date: 30 October, 2018

Blurb:
Gavin St. James

After the hell I've been through in the Marines--in life--there's nothing I crave more than routine, stability, peace. Until McKenna Brewer walks into my life.

She's impulsive, fiery, tempting as hell, and everything I don't need. But when she offers me a night of no-strings-attached passion, I can't resist.

When our night together has unexpected consequences, I can't help but think this might be the perfect opportunity to show McKenna just how much I want her.

The only problem? She doesn't do forevers. But forever is exactly what I need with her.


You can find Recklessly Ever After on Goodreads

You can buy Recklessly Ever After here:
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Heather Van FleetAbout the Author:
Heather Van Fleet is stay-at-home-mom turned book boyfriend connoisseur. She’s a wife to her high school sweetheart, a mom to three little girls, and in her spare time you can find her with her head buried in her Kindle, guzzling down copious amounts of coffee.

Heather graduated from Black Hawk College in 2003 with an associate degree and has been working in the publishing industry for over six years. She is represented by Stacey Donaghy of Donaghy Literary.

You can find and contact Heather here:
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Thursday, October 25, 2018

Sale Blitz: Let's Get Textual by Teagan Hunter

FREEBIE! Till midnight tonight (Oct. 25) you can get LET'S GET TEXTUAL by Teagan Hunter for FREE on Amazon! Grab it while you can!

This book is a standalone, contemporary romance title that is partof her Texting series.

Teagan's newest release in the series, Can't Text This, just went live and it is available to read for FREE in KindleUnlimited.

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Let's Get Textual by Teagan Hunter

Get LET'S GET TEXTUAL for FREE till midnight (October25th)!

Book Blurb:

A SEXY, WITTY STANDALONE ROMCOM!
A wrong number is supposed to be just that—a wrong number.
Delete. Done.
Do not continue to text. Do not flirt.
A wrong number shouldn’t be the first person on your mind in the morning, or the last at night…and you’re definitely not supposed to talk them into buying a baby goat.
Because that would be weird.
When Zach Hastings and I get into a wrong-number mix-up, we don’t follow the rules. We keep texting and flirting, because he’s wicked funny and perfectly nerdy and a wonderful distraction.
I’m not looking for love, and Zach definitely had the wrong number.
But maybe…
Maybe he’s the right guy.  

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TEAGAN HUNTER is a Missouri-raised gal, but currently lives in North Carolina with her US Marine husband, where she spends her days begging him for a cat. She survives off coffee, pizza, and sarcasm. When she’s notwriting, you can find her binge-watching various TV shows, especially Supernatural and One Tree Hill. She enjoys cold weather, buys more paperbacks than she’ll ever read, and never says no to brownies. For more information, please visit www.teaganhunterwrites.com.

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Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Wednesday Chatter: Strange Things I Think About While Reading


Wednesday Chatter is a weekly feature at Ruby's Books where we'll be talking about anything and everything related to books and reading. Click here if you want to see what we talked about in the previous weeks

WARNING: Some bad words might be used in the following post. Don't say I didn't warn you!



Hello my fellow book lovers! I wanted to get a little bit more personal today, so I'm going to talk about the weird stuff that goes through my head while reading. Now, I'm not going to talk about the super famous things most people think about. These are weird stuff that I've rarely seen people mention, maybe because they're smarter than me or because they don't have the same issues I do. I'm also including a trigger warning, because I feel like for this post, I really should.

TW: menstruation, phobia

Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Release Day Launch: Shadow and Ice by Gena Showalter

 

The Queen of Paranormal Romance, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Gena Showalter, stuns with SHADOW AND ICE, the first title in her scorching new paranormal romance Gods of War Series. Grab your copy of SHADOW AND ICE today!

 

Gena Showalter, the New York Times bestselling author who brought you the Lords of the Underworld, introduces a scorching new paranormal romance series… Gods of War.

Knox of Iviland has spent his life competing in the All Wars, where vicious warriors with supernatural powers fight to the death to claim new realms. One winner takes everything—and all losers die. Enslaved as a child for his ability to control shadows, the most ruthless champion in history will stop at nothing to kill his king. But first he must win the battle for Earth. When a fearsome weapon imprisons every combatant in ice, centuries pass without progress…until she walks in.

Vale London craves a fun arctic getaway with her foster sister before settling down to open a bakery. Street-tough but vulnerable, she is unprepared to find ancient gods escaping a frozen cave—merciless beings who target her when she inadvertently enters their war.

Though Vale is now his enemy, Knox is consumed with lust and a fierce need to protect her. But only one combatant can prove victorious, and he will have to choose: live for freedom, or die for love.

 

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“I love this world…this is Gena Showalter at her best!”—J.R. Ward, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“The Gods of War series is my new obsession.”—Christine Feehan, #1 New York Times bestselling author

   
EXCERPT:

She’d put her life on hold for years, working var­ious jobs while going to school full-time. Just when she’d completed a business degree from the University of Oklahoma—Go Sooners!—with zero student debt, she was going to kick the bucket? No! Completely un­acceptable.
And die knowing she’d caused her sister’s suffer­ing? Never.
“I’m sorry,” she said, guilt getting the better of her. Despite a top of the line face mask, her nose and lungs burned when she inhaled. When she exhaled, her gog­gles fogged.
“Don’t you dare take the blame. It’s mine, and I never share. You know that.” Nola’s breath no longer misted the air. A bad sign. Very bad. “I was feeling so good, I kept bugging you to add more stops to our itinerary.”
Her sister suffered from fibromyalgia. On any given day, Nola’s overactive nerves could cause extreme fa­tigue, total body aches, and swell each of her joints. A cocktail of medication helped alleviate the symptoms, but couldn’t cure the disease.
“Sorry, sis, but the hike was my idea.” Apparently, relaxing wasn’t her thing. Any time she’d had a quiet moment, she’d considered the avalanche of responsi­bility headed her way, and panicked. Which made zero sense. She’d dreamed of opening the donut shop for years. And yes, okay, her dreams revolved around No­la’s happiness rather than her own, but come on! Mak­ing Nola happy should make Vale happy. Still, in an effort to hide her panic, she’d made sure she had no quiet moments. “The blame is mine, and that’s final.”
“Fine. I’ll go halvsies with you.” Nola pretended to fluff her hair. “If we die, we die, but at least we look cute.”
“Dude. We do look cute.” They both wore a sleek coat, a downy jacket, thermals, fleece tights, a pair of goggles, a face mask, a hat and gloves. On their feet were multiple pairs of wool socks and hiking boots with ice cleats. “We could charm the flannel off a snow-biker gang.”
“Or a yeti with a Southern girl fetish. I bet we could win his heart no problem.”
“If he doesn’t want to eat our hearts first…battered and deep-fried, with melted butter on the side.” Her mouth watered. “I wonder what sautéed yeti tastes like.”
“If you start licking your chompers when you look at me… I won’t feel so guilty for debating whether your liver would pair better with a nice red or a six-pack of cheap beer.”
“You’ve seen my hangovers. Avoid my liver and go for the rump roast.” She gave her butt a little slap.
Nola chuckled, only to lapse into silence when a bit­ter wind nearly knocked them both off their feet. “D-distract me f-from the cold, and I’ll l-l-love you forever.” Her lips were tinted blue, her teeth chattering with more and more force.
“You already love me forever.” Just as Vale loved Nola, the greatest person in the world, living or dead, real or fake. Would move heaven and earth for her. “But I’m awesome, probably the awesomest, so I’ll take on this herculean task. Tell me your favorite part of the trip.”
“Only e-everything.” Nola shifted atop her bag, un­able to stifle a whimper of pain. Then she continued as if nothing had happened. “Well, except f-for the aban­donment, starvation and h-hypothermia, of course.”
“Such trifling matters.” Helplessness pelted her in­sides with bullets. Rub some dirt on it and keep going. “We did everything on our BA lists.” BA—before adult­ing. Extending her index finger, she said, “We marveled over the northern lights.”
The chattering slowed, and Nola said, “We went on an overnight dog sled expedition that made me want to adopt a rescue pet as soon as I get home.”
“We ice sculpted. FYI, my blob was better than your blob.”
“It’s true. Oh! We also hot tubbed while drinking champagne.”
“Lastly, we hiked through the Arctic Circle.”
“Only one item remains unchecked.”
“Fall for a handsome local,” they said in unison.
Nola grinned and added, “I thought I had a connec­tion with our guide…until he left us to die and all. But even then, he was better than my most recent online dates. Would someone please explain why modern guys send strangers unsolicited pictures of their genitals?”
“Because of course we women are catapulted into a foaming-at-the-mouth sexual frenzy the instant we catch sight of some rando’s man-junk. Duh.”
“They are so proud of their peens, aren’t they? Mean­while I’m over here like, congrats on your average-size erection, dude, it’s maybe not quite as hideous as ev­eryone else’s.”
They snickered.
“But,” Nola added.
“Oh, no. No buts.” Her sis was a hopeless romantic. A hopeless optimistic as well. Nola believed everyone deserved a second, third and fourth chance—which was why she wrote such an excellent How To column. How to intrigue your crush blah, blah. Vale, however, was a realist.
 

 

  About Gena Showalter: Gena Showalter is the New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author of the spellbinding Lords of the Underworld and Angels of the Dark series, two young adult series--Everlife and the White Rabbit Chronicles--and the highly addictive Original Heartbreakers series.  In addition to being a National Reader's Choice and two time RITA nominee, her romance novels have appeared in Cosmopolitan (Red Hot Read) and Seventeen magazine, she's appeared on Nightline and been mentioned in Orange is the New Black--if you ask her about it, she'll talk for hours…hours!  Her books have been translated in multiple languages. She’s hard at work on her next novel, a tale featuring an alpha male with a dark side and the strong woman who brings him to his knees. You can learn more about Gena, her menagerie of rescue dogs, and all her upcoming books at genashowalter.com or Facebook.com/genashowalterfans  

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Monday, October 22, 2018

Blogoween Day 12: My Favorite Vampires

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Hello my dear book lovers! Day 12 is all about my favorite supernatural creatures, vampires. Any occasion to talk about my favorite vampires is welcome, so I'm going to take advantage and gush about them.

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Blogoween Day 11: Spell List

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Hello my dear book lovers! Wow, I am so behind on my Blogoween prompts. I am so sorry. Day 11 is about creating spell lists. I'm not entirely good at creating good spine poetry, but I am very proud of this one that I did back in February, so I'm going to share it here as well:



"The Becoming Labyrinth,
No Rest For The Wicked.
Devil May Cry My Not So Perfect Life
Darkness Calls The Harlequin."

My spell could be used to call this shadowy figure called Harlequin and this person would help me out occasionally. Like a guide, a guardian angel. Though with a name like Harlequin, I imagine the help would be more on the evil side. 

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If you could create a spell, what would it do?

Monday, October 15, 2018

Blogoween Day 10: 5 Local Supernaturals That Demand A Book

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Hello my dear book lovers! The prompt for Day 10 is super awesome, and I'm so fascinated by everyone's responses. We all have urban legends, some we know about, some we don't and we research them for this post, but all of them are worthy to have their stories told. I've had the fortune of living in two countries, so I'm going to try to include my favorite legends from both Romania and Italy. So without further ado, here are

5 Local Supernaturals That Demand A Book

Sunday, October 14, 2018

Blogoween Day 9: Bookish Monster Bender

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Hello my dear book lovers! The prompt for Day 9 of Blogoween is suuuuuuper interesting and I can't wait to see what everyone wrote. Basically the idea is to recreate a book or a character in their horror version. I have always imagined the "what if" scenarios while reading certain books, and this prompt sounds just like my idea of fun. Let's start!

Blog Tour Book Review: Can't Text This by Teagan Hunter

Today we are celebrating the release of a standalone, contemporary romance title from Teagan Hunter. Can't Text This just went live, and it is available to read for FREE in KindleUnlimited. Check out some teasers for the book below.

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 Can't Text This by Teagan HunterAuthor: Teagan Hunter
Series: N/A
Audience: +18
Genre: Contemporary Romance, Erotic Romance
Publisher: Self Published
Release Date: October 9th 2018
My Rating: 4.5 cups
Source: InkSlinger PR
Blurb (from Goodreads):
“Hi Monty. Wanna see my python?”

That’s how I ended up in the bathroom of some dive bar with a stranger.

Me, Monty Andrews, the quintessential virgin girl next door.

I was so out of my element, but there was no denying our explosive attraction, even via text.

Commence Operation Bang Each Other Out of Our Systems, because that was all it was—unfinished business.

I had no intention of falling back into the sheets with the tattooed, muscly, dirty-in-the-best-kind-of-way single dad over and over again…but I did.

Everything was going great—until we discovered I was his son’s teacher.

*Disclaimer: I received an eARC of this book from InkSlinger PR in exchange for an honest review. This does not influence my rating or the content of my review in any way.

**Disclaimer: This book contains mature content. As a result, my review may contain references to content intended for mature audiences only.


Thursday, October 11, 2018

Release Day Blitz: Can't Text This by Tegan Hunter



Today we are celebrating the release of a standalone, contemporary romance title from Teagan Hunter. Can't Text This just went live, and it is available to read for FREE in KindleUnlimited. Check out some teasers for the book below.

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Can't Text This by Teagan Hunter

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Book Blurb:
“Hi Monty. Wanna see my python?”
That’s how I ended up in the bathroom of some dive bar with a stranger.
Me, Monty Andrews, the quintessential virgin girl next door.
I was so out of my element, but there was no denying our explosive attraction, even via text.
Commence Operation Bang Each Other Out of Our Systems, because that was all it was—unfinished business.
I had no intention of falling back into the sheets with the tattooed, muscly, dirty-in-the-best-kind-of-way single dad over and over again…but I did.
Everything was going great—until we discovered I was his son’s teacher.

 

Other standalones in this series

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AUTHOR INFORMATION:


TEAGAN HUNTER is a Missouri-raised gal, but currently lives in North Carolina with her US Marine husband, where she spends her days begging him for a cat. She survives off coffee, pizza, and sarcasm. When she’s not writing, you can find her binge-watching various TV shows, especially Supernatural and One Tree Hill. She enjoys cold weather, buys more paperbacks than she’ll ever read, and never says no to brownies. For more information, please visit www.teaganhunterwrites.com.

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Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Blogoween Day 8: Gory Magical Sweet

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Hello my dear book lovers! Starting from Day 8, our new host for Blogoween is going to be Camilla from The Reader in the Attic. The first prompt is very interesting. Here's the explanation for this prompt:
Create one or more snacks (sweet or savoury) and a drink (if you want), all must be Halloween themed. Should be created with a mix of common food elements and parts of our beloved mythical and magical creatures. Just to be clear: things like rainbow unicorn sparkles aren’t gory. Get morbid.
Sounds interesting, isn't it? Let's get started!

Tuesday, October 9, 2018

Book Review: Found In Bliss by Lexi Blake



Author: Lexi Blake
Series: Nights in Bliss, Colorado #5
Audience: +18
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Publisher: DLZ Entertainment, LLC
Release Date: October 9th 2018
My Rating: 4.5 Cups
Source: InkSlinger PR
Blurb (from Goodreads):
Re-released in a second edition with new content.

Holly Lang has a hard time trusting men. Eight years ago, her husband tossed her aside and took her son away from her. Finding the little town of Bliss has given her a second chance at life, new friends, and sense of belonging. Unfortunately, Bliss also seems to have filled her days and nights with dreams of two beautiful men. She can’t stop thinking about the gentle but haunted Dr. Caleb Burke, and the exotic and dangerous Alexei Markov.

Caleb Burke isn’t your ordinary town doctor, but he’s always dedicated himself to trying to be a good man. His journey to this quirky little town was not an easy one. Some of the stops along the way left him scarred in more ways than one. But when he first sees Holly, it’s like someone threw open the blinds and let the sunlight into his life for the first time in years.

Alexei Markov is nothing like Caleb Burke. Working as a hit man for the Russian mafia, he was forced to do unspeakable things. He suffered through all the moral compromises to fulfill one simple goal, killing the man who murdered his brother. When a mission led him to Bliss, he found something more precious than vengeance. A woman named Holly Lang. Throughout months of living in witness protection, testifying against his former employers, all he could think about was finding his way back to her.

After returning to Bliss, Alexei and his strange new ally Caleb discover that they aren’t the only ones interested in Holly. Someone else is stalking her and appears to want her dead. The only way to discover the identity of the killer is for all three to face up to the secrets of their past and work together to fight for everything they have found in Bliss.
*Disclaimer: I received an eARC of this book from InkSlinger PR in exchange for an honest review. This does not influence my rating or the content of my review in any way. 

**Disclaimer: This book contains mature content. As a result, my review may contain references to content intended for mature audiences only.

Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Books I've Had On My TBR The Longest

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl

Today's Top Ten Tuesday is about the longest books we've ever read. I was trying to make this list, but I found out that according to Goodreads about 6 of those books are 1001 Dark Nights bundles (awesome stories, BTW, sooo worth the read), 2 were Harry Potter books and two were Sherrilyn Kenyon books. All awesome reads, but no one wants to see the same thing over and over again, really, and I personally don't want to write the same thing over and over, so I've decided to tweak the prompt a little bit. I've decided to write about the books I've been meaning to read for a long time now, but for some reason I've never quite found the courage to pick them up. I will say though that some of these books are not on my GR TBR shelf, for no real reason other than I've been meaning to read these since before GR existed or before I knew about it, and I just haven't added them on my TBR shelf. So without further ado, here are

Top Ten Books I've Had On My TBR The Longest


Monday, October 8, 2018

Blogoween Day 7: 5 Characters I Want With Me During A Zombie Apocalypse

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Hello my dear book lovers! Day 7 of Blogoween is all about the dream team we want to make to help us during a zombie apocalypse. This is going to be tough, because the only thing I can actually contribute with in a fight against the zombies is good food and sarcasm. Those are not things that can keep the zombies away.

Blogoween Day 6: An Evening of Mystery & Murder

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Hello my dear book lovers! Sorry I missed writing the last two days, I've been a busy bee. I'll make up for it today and tomorrow, though, I promise. Let's go on with Day 6, shall we?

Friday, October 5, 2018

Blogoween Day 5: Fictional Monsters I'd Hate To Meet

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Hello my dear book lovers! Today's Blogoween topic is all about the fictional monsters that are too creepy to be real things. I have a lot of fictional monsters I'd hate to meet in real life.

Thursday, October 4, 2018

Blogoween Day 4: Top 5 Books About Witches

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Hello my dear book lovers and welcome to our 4th day of Blogoween. In the next few days Kaleena from Reader Voracious is our host and she has some very fun prompts. Today is all about witches, or more exactly, our favorite books about witches. 

Cover Reveal: Lost And Found by Lexi Blake



  

Owen Shaw and his “brothers” lost everything, their entire existence erased. Science had robbed he and all the Lost Boys of their memories and their past, but not their future. Hunted by every intelligence agency in the world, they are focused on two goals: find a cure for what was done to them and ensure that the technology that ruined their lives doesn’t get out into the world. Rebecca Walsh might be the key to achieving both. Owen has been studying her closely, living in her building, and he cannot resolve how such a beautiful, giving woman could have helped design the evil process that destroyed his past.

Dr. Rebecca Walsh has dedicated her life to researching the secrets of the mind. Her atmospheric rise in her field was fueled by the horror of watching her mother’s agonizing journey into madness at the hands of a disease with no cure. She vowed to never rest until she finds it. But obsession takes a heavy toll, and when Owen moves into her building she realizes how much of her life she has missed out on. Owen opens her eyes to a whole new world, filled with joy, laughter, and possibly love.

Owen and Rebecca grow closer, unraveling more about each other and the mysteries surrounding her connection to Hope McDonald. As the sinister forces working against the Lost Boys descend on Toronto, secrets long buried are uncovered that could shatter the bonds holding the Lost Boys together and cost Rebecca her life.
 

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        NY Times and USA Today bestselling author Lexi Blake lives in North Texas with her husband, three kids, and the laziest rescue dog in the world. She began writing at a young age, concentrating on plays and journalism. It wasn’t until she started writing romance and urban fantasy that she found the stories of her heart. She likes to find humor in the strangest places and believes in happy endings no matter how odd the couple, threesome, or foursome may seem.


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Wednesday, October 3, 2018

Blogoween Day 3: Trick or Treat

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Today Anthony's prompt is so fantastic, I'm shaking with excitement. Today is all about Trick or Treating: who would we go with, where would we go to, what would we be dressed up as, and so on. I have ideas, guys, many, many ideas.

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