My Book Haul (9)

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From now on I will be posting My Book Haul on Saturdays.
Feel free to link up in the comments if you would like to share your mailbox post with me (and others) to check out.  
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FOR REVIEW


Fear the Darkness by Alexandra Ivey
Fire Kissed by Erin Kellison
— Thank you to Kensington —
Rift by Andrea Cremer
— Thank you to Penguin —
Outpost by by Ann Aguirre
— Thank you to Feiwel and Friends —
Howl For It by Shelly Laurenston and Cynthia Eden
— Thanks to Kensington —
The Shadow Society by Marie Rutkoski
— Thanks to Farrar Strais Giroux —
Heaven by Alexandra Adornetto
— Feiwel and Friends —
— Thanks to Henry Holt —
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GIFTED
Comic Books
Frostbite (graphic novel) by Richelle Mead
Thanks to Anna from Anna’s Book Blog.  She again surprised me with a wonderful package for me and my daughter Morgan to fight over.  I won and have been enjoying them so much! Thank you again Anna!
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So what did everyone else get this week?

Blog Tour: Heart Waves by Danielle Sibarium

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Welcome to the Blog Tour for Heart Waves by Danielle Sibarium!! Before we get started, I want to share a few links with you first!
ALSO: If you stop by the AUTHORS TOUR PAGE, you just might find a surprise contest to enter!

Heart Waves
Author Danielle Sibarium

SUMMARY:
Jenna Kingsley has a gift. She knows things. With a simple touch she can pick up personal information from jewelry or objects. While at a neighbor’s party, a voice mesmerizes her. Jenna is momentarily frozen as a ring is placed in her hand. White electricity surges through her and a dire prediction is made. “It’s like Romeo and Juliet. You’re going to break my heart.”
From the moment they meet, Jenna is enchanted and entranced with Reece Walton. She’s thrilled to learn he’s spending the summer two houses away from hers. Every moment they spend together is magical. But she can’t get the prediction out of her mind. As the summer draws to a close and secrets are revealed, can Jenna get past the fear of being left with a broken heart to live in the moment with Reece or will her fear of being hurt fulfill the prophecy?

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CHARACTER POST
with
Tyler from Heart Waves

*****

Thanks Amy for having me here today.

I bet you expected to hear from Reece or Jenna. Everyone wants them. At least someone around here has good taste. Here’s a little hint. I’m much more interesting. It’s not until I’m mentioned that things get good, or bad depending on your point of view. Let’s just say my role in all this is intriguing. I mean who knows Reece better than me? We were best friends since the second grade until . . . if he’s not telling, neither am I. But the point is I know what makes him tick, and I’ve never seen him react the way he did with Jenna. Who could blame him for shutting me out and keeping his distance when he met her? I’d stay hidden away with her if I had the chance. She is smoking hot, and there’s something about her. She doesn’t shy away from a challenge. She just looks it in the eye and takes it on head first.

As Reece’s former best friend I felt owed him. I knew something bad was going down. Isn’t it my job to try and help him? Pay him back for the favors he did for me. That’s all I did. I wanted to keep my conscious clear, but dumbhead wouldn’t listen, so I had to send someone else to get his attention. It’s not my fault Jenna got upset. It’s easy to want to blame me. Much easier than admitting the truth. It was his actions sent her off crying. Good thing I was there to comfort her. Every relationship should be tested and Jenna sure seemed to have a lot of doubts. If you want to know what happened when we met up that night, you’re just going to have to pick up the book. There are some things a guy just doesn’t talk about. Even a guy like me.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Danielle Sibarium grew up as an only child of divorced parents in Brooklyn, New York. Her imagination was developed at an early age. Surrounded by stuffed animals and imaginary friends, she transported herself into a fantasy world full of magic and wonder. Books were the gateway between her play world and reality. On any given summer afternoon she became Snow White sweeping and cooking for the dwarves, or Cinderella waiting for the prince.
Danielle always loved dialogue and in elementary school began writing plays and short stories. This is when she began to understand she could not only bring her fantastical world to life for herself, but she could enchant others as well. And so she wrote. She wrote and wrote and wrote.
Sadly the first piece she ever sent out for publication of any sort was a letter to the editor of The Home News Tribune. It was a piece thanking the first responders for their bravery and selflessness on Sept 11th. It was chosen as letter of the week.
In 2007 Danielle collaborated with Charlotte Doreen Small to write songs for her CD More. Danielle wrote the lyrics for Take My Hand, and Goodbye, while Charlotte contributed the melody.
Danielle graduated from Farleigh Dickinson University with honors, and currently lives in New Jersey with her husband and three children.

Eden Bradley Blog Blitz & Contest

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Fallen Angel
Author: Eden Bradley
SUMMARY
Haunted by a military mission that ended in personal tragedy, Declan Byrne still bears a soldier’s scars. As a park ranger on the secluded Mendocino coast, he guards his heart while standing ready for anything. Anything except a beautiful, ethereal woman with a mysterious past, falling from the cliffs to the rocks below.
Angel, as Declan decides to call her, has no memory of what happened. But as her body heals, disturbing dreams emerge. In Declan’s protective care, Angel feels safe to act on the undeniable passion between them, without the threats from old, unnameable demons. And, in time, she senses Declan needs her as desperately as she needs him. But when her past returns with a vengeance, Declan must decide just how much he’s willing to risk in order to keep the woman he loves safe.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Best-selling and award-winning author Eden Bradley writes dark, edgy erotic fiction. Her work has been called ‘elegant, intelligent and sensual’. Her debut novel, THE DARK GARDEN, has been praised as ‘a masterpiece’, and was a Romantic Times Top Pick, as was her erotic novel, FORBIDDEN FRUIT. Her novel THE LOVERS was called ‘…the thinking woman’s erotica…’.
Eden sold four novels and a novella to Bantam, as well as a novella to Berkley, before her first novel even hit the shelves, and Bantam contracted two more novels from her the moment her debut book was released. Several of her novels and novellas have been translated into German, Romanian, French and Japanese.
Eden has appeared regularly on Sirius Satellite’s Playboy Radio show, Night Calls, and has participated in round-table podcast and radio discussions. She is also a regular guest at the West Coast In the Flesh readings. Eden has conducted  a number of workshops and served on panels on writing craft and writing sex at several chapters of Romance Writers of America, at the RWA Nationals Conference, at the Romantic Times Convention and at library and independent writer’s groups.
Eden has published a number of articles on writing and has written both print and e-books for Bantam/Delta, Harlequin Spice, HQN, Berkley Heat, Samhain Publishing, Magic Carpet Books, Phaze Publishing, and New Age Dimensions Publishing. Eden also writes erotic romance for Berkley Heat as Eve Berlin. Her debut Heat novel, PLEASURE’S EDGE, won the 2010 Holt Medallion Award for best Erotic Romance.

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Dark Kiss by Michelle Rowen

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Dark Kiss
Author: Michelle Rowen
Source: Author Submission
Genre: Young Adult Paranormal

SUMMARY
(From GoodReads)

I don’t do dangerous.  Smart, über-careful, ordinary Samantha-that’s me. But I just couldn’t pass up a surprise kiss from my number-one unattainable crush. A kiss that did something to me…something strange. Now I feel hungry all the time, but not for food. It’s like part of me is missing-and I don’t know if I can get it back.


Then there’s Bishop. At first I thought he was just a street kid, but the secrets he’s keeping are as intense as his unearthly blue eyes. If he’s what I think he is, he may be the only one who can help me. But something terrifying is closing in, and the one chance Bishop and I have to stop it means losing everything I ever wanted and embracing the darkness inside me….

MY THOUGHTS

I waited a full day before writing this review because I was afraid that my review would be confusing.  Not because I didn’t know what to write, but because I was a little confused with the plot line at first.  Author Michelle Rowen is one of my favorite authors.  Her Demon Princess series is one of my favorite young adult themed series.  Her Adult series are just as well written with just the right amount of snark and witty dialogue to keep the reader entertained while having a great plot.  With Dark Kiss, I will admit that I was confused more and more with each page I read.

I think the main problem I had with this book is the fact that there were so many characters to keep track of.  A team of 2 demons and 2 angels, a bunch of neutral grey’s, a best friend, several cute boys from school, and then our main character all became too many characters.  While I enjoyed the characters of Bishop and Samantha, I think my favorite character by far was Kraven.  He made the bad boy so much fun that it was hard not to enjoy him.  Bishop had the hero appeal, but Kraven had the snark and oh-so-evil personality.

The one character that was a major downer in this book for me was Samantha’s best friend Carly.  This girl was annoying and not much of a best friend. When she also succumbs to the dark kiss, Carly turned into a friend that I would never want.  While she appears to be the same Carly, I felt that she was more of a user than a friend.

Another thing that was confusing for me was the fact that the questions were answered slowly.  I can handle a book waiting until the end to reveal major plot points, but the story kept adding more confusing twists with no answers to much of anything along the way.  By the time some of them are revealed, I found myself having to go back and reread some things to get it all to click in place.

Having said all of the above, I still enjoyed the story.  I thought it was creative and raised my interest in the Angel department again for my paranormal adventures in reading.  I will say that it was also darker than the normal writing that the author usually brings us.  Yes there was still witty dialogue, but the whole feel of the book has a darker tone than the others. On a side note — Am I the only reader who thinks that the guy on the cover looks like Edward from the Twilight movies?

FAVORITE QUOTES

Bishop’s brows went up.  “Okay, fine. Yes, I followed you here.  Better?”
“Yes.  Stalkery, but better.”
“I’m not stalking you.”
“Spoken like a true stalker.”
— Bishop and Samantha, page 79

Panic gripped my throat.  “That’s not what you promised me!”
His brows drew together.  “Yes, it was.”
“Uh-oh.  Trouble in paradise.” Kraven murmured.  “News at eleven.”
— Bishop, Samantha and Kraven, page 239

MY RATING

Okay book, but it left me wanting more!
I received this book free of charge in exchange for an honest review

Win A Copy of Once Burned by Jeaniene Frost

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Once Burned
Night Prince #1
Author: Jeaniene Frost
Release Date: 6/26/2012

SUMMARY

She’s a mortal with dark powers…


After a tragic accident scarred her body and destroyed her dreams, Leila never imagined that the worst was still to come: terrifying powers that let her channel electricity and learn a person’s darkest secrets through a single touch. Leila is doomed to a life of solitude…until creatures of the night kidnap her, forcing her to reach out with a telepathic distress call to the world’s most infamous vampire…


He’s the Prince of Night…


Vlad Tepesh inspired the greatest vampire legend of all—but whatever you do, don’t call him Dracula. Vlad’s ability to control fire makes him one of the most feared vampires in existence, but his enemies have found a new weapon against him—a beautiful mortal with powers to match his own. When Vlad and Leila meet, however, passion ignites between them, threatening to consume them both. It will take everything that they are to stop an enemy intent on bringing them down in flames.

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