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Blog Tour: Frost Fire

Frost Fire
Olivia Rivers
Series: Tortured Elements, #1
Publication date: November 20th, 2012



Book Description: 
“Magic is just like love, Allai. It won’t wait for permission before it destroys you.”

Like sand in an hourglass, Allai’s future is dwindling away. She’s spent her entire life fighting the Mages who threaten humanity, and dreams of someday eradicating magic. But all it takes is an anonymous phone call for the truth to spill out: Allai is the one thing she despises most. 



She’s a Mage. 



Though ancient law mandates Allai’s death, she still has one last chance of survival. His name is Drake Rhaize, and he swears he can lead Allai to a sanctuary for Mages. Allai hasn’t seen Drake in years, but she remembers him as the Demon boy who used to hold her close and softly whisper that he’d keep her safe. But Drake has changed since then: He’s now suspected of murder, and has been out-casted for betraying his own kind. 



While Allai doesn’t trust Drake, she has no choice but to put her life in his hands and hope he can get her to safety. Because Allai’s father has hired a pack of Demons to bring her back to him, dead or alive–and Demons never stop the hunt. 

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16067459-frost-fire

PURCHASE LINKS

-Amazon

-Barnes & Noble

AUTHOR BIO

Olivia Rivers

Olivia Rivers is a high school student, a literary agent intern, and an obsessive-compulsive reader. She has a slight obsession with Kootenai County in Idaho, and she’s pretty sure life will always be awesome as long as Irish accents exist. She lives with dysautonomia, a chronic medical condition affecting her nervous system. Portions of proceeds from her “Tortured Elements” series go toward supporting youth with dysautonomia.

Author Links:

Website: http://oliviarivers.blogspot.ca/

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6548741.Olivia_Rivers

Twitter: https://twitter.com/RiversOlivia

My Thoughts: 
The cover of this book is what drew me in. I love it! It's so so very pretty! I thought this was certainly a good book. It's a fun treat for the brain. I enjoyed the world building. The characters were well developed and the story was fun. There were certain things that kind of didn't click with me, but they were smallish and didn't distract from what is pretty much a well written book.

Book Promo: Never Too Far

Young Adult Dystopian / Suspense

Title: Never Too Far

Author: Thomas Christopher

Date Published: 5/10/12

A harrowing story of love and survival. In a future of scarce resources, where the possession of gas and diesel is punishable by death, a teenage boy and a pregnant girl must find a way to save their impoverished family. They risk their lives on a terrifying journey to sell stolen fuel on the black market.

Author Bio

Thomas Christopher grew up in Iowa. He received his MFA from Western Michigan University. His short stories have appeared in The Louisville Review and The MacGuffin. He was awarded an Irving S. Gilmore Emerging Artist Grant and was a finalist for the Matthew Clark Prize in Fiction. He lives in Wisconsin with his wife and son. 

Website

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Book Excerpt:

Mary surprised Joe by knocking his arms away. She was stronger than she looked. Then she swept her legs off the bed and sprang to her feet. She took two steps and turned to face him as if to prove there was nothing wrong with her. But there was definitely something wrong. She wavered a moment. Her already white face turned ghostly. Her eyelids trembled. She seemed to realize she was becoming faint, and what that meant. 

“I’m fine,” she said. “You don’t have to go.”

Joe got ready to catch her in case she fell, but somehow she held herself steady. 

“It’s okay,” Joe said. “Just sit down. I will go find some food.”

Joe inched toward her. He was afraid to grab her again because she might try to wrench free once more and really fall. When she coughed, her little shoulders jerked and her round stomach jumped. Her head was drooped low and her hair hung down so he couldn’t see her face at all. 

“Come on, lay down,” Joe said.

She didn’t move. Joe stepped toward her, but before he could put his arms around her, she tilted forward and rested the crown of her head against his chest. He slid his arms along the sides of her hard belly and around her waist. Then he shifted her toward the bed again. She moved like a bundle of empty sacks in his arms. He set her gently on the bed before he bent down to lift her feet onto the sheets. 

After he sat in the chair, Mary asked him, “What if you don’t come back?”

“That’s not going to happen,” Joe said.

“How do you know?”

“I just know. You have to trust me.”

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Review: Spirit of Lost Angels

Book Blurb:
Her mother executed for witchcraft, her father dead at the hand of a noble, Victoire Charpentier vows to rise above her poor peasant roots.

Forced to leave her village of Lucie-sur-Vionne for domestic work in Paris, Victoire suffers gruesome abuse under the ancien régime. Can she muster the bravery and skill to join the revolutionary force gripping France, and overthrow the corrupt, diabolical aristocracy?

Spirit of Lost Angels traces the journey of a bone angel talisman passed down through generations. The women of L’Auberge des Anges face tragedy and betrayal in a world where their gift can be their curse.

Amidst the tumult of revolutionary France, this is a story of courage, hope and love.

My Thoughts:
Wow! It's rare that a book with a beautiful cover holds a story that is just as beautiful itself! This book holds a story that is so packed full of emotions and a great character it's almost too good to be true. Victoire's story is bound to grab you from the get-go and hold you til the last page is turned! I swear I flipped that final page with a sad face that would give "grumpy cat" a run for his money! I didn't want it to end! 

This book was awesome and well written! I loved it! 

 

Free Book! Reinventing Claire by Darian Wilk

Reinventing Claire by Darian Wilk is FREE this week (2/25 to 3/1) on Amazon. Get your copy and find out how to enter to win a $20 Amazon Gift Card below.

Reinventing Claire by Darian Wilk

August 20, 2012 

People get divorced,

but that's what happens to other people. That's what Claire thought

anyway, until her husband, Charlie, tells her he wants a divorce.

Claire has no choice but to take on the title of Divorced Woman, and face the

question she has no idea how to answer. Who is Claire without Charlie?

Her family believes her newly divorced woes can be cured by landing

herself a boyfriend. With her dating dunce cap in hand, Claire stumbles

her way through the foreign territory of online dating.

A teacher from hell, a softball coach, and a sap later, Claire proclaims

herself the dating idiot she thought she was, and fears she's doomed to

be a lonely, crazy cat lady. But an accidental run-in with an old

acquaintance might change everything. What starts with comparing dating

battle wounds over a cup of coffee, quickly turns into something Claire

had given up on.

As Claire discovers maybe there is love after Charlie after all, Charlie realizes his mistake. He wants her back, and he'll do anything to prove it to her. Now Claire must choose who deserves her heart, and if she's really willing to give it away again.

About the author:

Darian Wilk was born in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, the younger of

two children.  While still a toddler her family moved back to their

home state of Michigan, where she still lives today. 

After high school Darian tried her hand at college, majoring in Nursing, while

she worked as a Physical Therapy Technician.  "I loved my job, but I

still couldn't picture doing it forever," she says now.  But before she

finished her degree she became pregnant, and focused her attention on

the challenges of being a single mother to her daughter.

In 2005, Darian married her best friend, Steve, whom she met and became

close friends with several years earlier.  In their second year of

marriage, Darian became pregnant with her son.  She worked on and off

throughout her twenties as a Home Health Aid to the elderly, but

preferred to stay home and raise her babies.

In 2007, her mom was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, and Darian quit working to tend to

her mom.  It was in those three years of taking care of her that Darian

realized how precious, and short, life really is.  In her moms last

year of life, she finally had the courage to pursue what her heart

always secretly longed for; becoming a writer.  It was then that she

started her debut novel, Love Unfinished, and continues her writing journey today.

Find out more at DarianWilk.weebly.com. 

Giveaway Details

One winner will receive a $20 Amazon Gift Card.

Giveaway ends at midnight on March 1, 2013 EST.

Open internationally as long as you can use a Amazon.com gift card. 
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Book Spotlight: Ineligible Bachelor

 

by Kathryn Quick

Frederika “Freddy” McAllister has loved Logan Gabriel since…well, forever. Unfortunately, she’s  spent most of forever in the dreaded “friend zone,” harboring what has to be the longest-running crush of all time. But now Freddy has a plan to make Logan see her as more than just the girl next door: She’ll enter him in Elan Magazine’s Eligible Bachelor Contest, then swoop in to soothe his bruised ego when he loses.

There’s just one tiny problem: Logan wins! And that means he’s headed to a mansion in New Jersey where six beautiful women will vie for his affections on reality TV. Making matters worse, the producers want Freddy to tag along and help choose his ideal match. Suddenly her perfect plan becomes a perfect nightmare, as Freddy scrambles to outwit conniving contestants and convince the man of her dreams that the woman of his has been by his side all along.

Purchase links:

Amazon / B&N

Kathryn Quick Bio

Born long ago in a place not so far away, Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, Kathryn Quick has been writing since the Sisters in St. Casmir’s Grammar School gave her the ruled yellow paper and a number two pencil.  She writes contemporary and career romances, romantic comedies, historical romances

as well as urban fantasy.

She has been a member of New Jersey Romance Writers and Romance Writers of America since 1990 and considers it an honor to have been NJRW President in 1992 and 2001.  She is one of the founding members of Liberty States Fiction Writers, a multi-genre writers’ organizations dedicated to furthering the craft of writing and helping aspiring writers move onto publication.

Kathye originally wanted to be President of the United States or an Organic Chemist, but somehow life got in the way and she got married right out of high school and had a set of twins two years later.  The Presidency seemed out of reach and night school to get her Ph.D. to create new molecule that would ultimately result in the betterment of humankind seemed a little time consuming while trying to raise twins, so she decided to write instead.

In her "other" life, Kathye is married to her real-life hero Donald and has three grown sons all having adventures of their own and three “bonus” grandchildren.  She is a die-hard New Jersey Devils fan and works for Somerset County government (as close as she could get to the White House) and is plotting a novel about a new molecule that will ultimately result in the betterment of humankind.

Connect with Kathryn:

Website / Facebook / Twitter / Goodreads / Amazon Page

INELIGIBLE BACHELOR Tour Schedule

2/1 - I Heart Books - Facebook Promo

2/2 - Alexx Mom Cat's Gateway Book Blog

2/4 - Love Romance Passion

2/5 - Musings From An Addicted Reader

2/6 - Books-n-Kisses

2/10 - Romance Junkies

2/13 - United by Books

2/15 - Life of a Total Book Nerd

2/18 - Coffee & A Book Anytime

2/21 - Cocktails and Books

2/22 - Over the Edge

2/23 - Book Monster Reviews

2/24 - Must Read Faster

2/25 - Babbling About Books & More

3/6 - Redheaded Bookworm

3/7 - Book Lovin' Mamas

3/8 - Anna Reads Romance

3/9 - Riverina Romantics

3/10 - Ramblings From This Chick

3/12 - Toots Book Reviews

3/13 - Urban Girl Reader

3/15 - The Reading Cafe

Thanks so much for allowing me to share a little of myself and Ineligible Bachelor with you all.  This was a fun book to write since I am a Reality TV junkie and also have had a boy-friend who never saw me in any other light.  Oh the agony of it all.  I hope you will enjoy being a part of Kinley's struggle to show Logan that the woman of his dreams has been under his nose the whole time.  Feel free to contact me and let me know if you did.

 

Peace!

 

Kathye Q