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Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Best Present of 2013 - Skeletons!

My bestie got me what I really wanted...


Me and my doggie Sookie love the SKELE!

 
~Bye Bye 2013~

A Shade of Vampire - Best NEW Series of 2013!

This year, I was introduced to a new book series, A Shade of Vampire by Bella Forrest.

Book 1, A Shade of Vampire
It's Sofia's birthday and all she wants is attention from her bestie Ben, who she also has a major crush on. But he's giving some other chick all of his attention, so Sofia goes off on her own for a stroll on the beach. She meets a handsome stranger (Lucas) that turns out to be a vampire who kidnaps her as a gift to his brother Derek, ruler of The Shade. She isn't the only girl that gets kidnapped for Derek, but she is the one that is special...

Book 1 is short (150 pages), but the rest of the books are fuller.
I LOVE THESE BOOKS!
Best series of 2013

The way I found out about the series was because the Author, Bella Forrest, contacted me and asked if I would read and review the first book. I did and became instantly hooked. There are 6 books in all. Only 5 are out currently. The last book, #6 will be titled An End of Night...can't wait for that one.

Gets to reading, you'll love em'.
Bella Forrest
 
 

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Holiday Spirit!

I have seriously been slacking on posting anything lately (too busy). But, that's the great thing about having your own blog--You can write as much or as little as you like!

SOOOOOO...many of you have seen those ZIPPER FACE pics floating around, right? Found the kit at Target and that is what I did for Halloween :) Bloody scary.

At first, I was afraid I might scare kids, but they were like, "WHOA, that's what I'm talking about!"

 
Now, I'm just waiting for that WINTER BREAK!!!
 
 
 

Sunday, September 1, 2013

Review: Kiss Me, I'm Yours by Bella Street

 I LOVE ALL OF BELLA STREET'S BOOKS FOR A REASON!
They are just so freaking good...
 

Bella Street KNOWS how to write books!!! Every word captures all my attention. In Book 1: Kiss Me, I'm Irish, Emily time traveled to the future to escape being sent to a convent. In Book 2, Kiss Me, I'm Yours, Sophie time travels to the past to get away from the reality of her sucky cheating boyfriend. Both stories are the "can't put down" love, action, drama, fantasy type that every girl wants to read. So freaking GOOD! Attacked as soon as she has been transported by what she thinks to be Civil War re-enactors, then rescued and taken in, cared for by the town outcast, Sophie has to come to the realization that she is in fact in another time...1865, crazy. I was just living the story, feeling all the emotions right along with Sophie and all the pain for Gabriel. Rooting for them to be together the whole time, sad when she kept wanting to get back home, not realizing all along she belonged with him. The answer to her prayers was right in front of her. But, it has got to be tough, without the modern conveniences...like deodorant, AC, toothpaste, clothes that feel comfy. I can't wait to read Book 3: Kiss Me, I'm Home, and see what adventure is next. Let's find LIAM!!!
 
Buy HERE
 
 
 
 
Kiss Me, I'm Home (Tennessee Waltz, Book 3) - Coming on 2014
 


Friday, August 30, 2013

Kiss Me, I'm Yours by Bella Street NOW AVAILABLE!!!

is FINALLY AVAILABLE!!! 
 
When jilted Sophie Bowen stumbles into a stone circle filled with fireflies, she wakes up in a very different place—and time.
Beaten down by Lincoln's War and personal tragedy, Gabriel Merritt feels his life has become a lost cause.
In a post-war South still licking its wounds, Sophie and Gabriel struggle to understand the place they each find themselves in, while fighting a war of attraction.
And a mysterious twelve-year-old girl just might hold the key to it all.
Buy HERE
 
 Haven't read Book 1 yet? GET ON IT ASAP!!!
Time travel, Fairies, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance...
 
Emily Musgrave is heading a direction she never wanted to go in Regency England--namely a convent to turn her from her waywardness. But it's more loneliness than rebellion that motivates her to escape her certain fate. Liam Jackson is going nowhere fast in modern-day Tennessee. Playing his Dobro in seedy bars and backward dives along with his fiddling sister, Tinker, is doing nothing for his music career--and even less for the dark places in his soul. Pixie mischief can not only change time-lines, it can change hearts. Because sometimes a girl just needs a little magic in her life.
Buy HERE
 
 

TRILOGY | TRILOGY | TRILOGY | TRILOGY | TRILOGY | TRILOGY | TRILOGY
That's right, there will be ANOTHER one!
GET READING!
 
 

Sunday, July 21, 2013

Win one of 10 signed copies of DEAD EVER AFTER by Charlaine Harris!

Dead Ever After is the FiNAL Sookie Stackhouse book!
 
 
to win one of 10 signed copies of
 

Apocalypse Baby, You Win The Z Word by Bella Street


Lisa Vazquezanzua 
and
Karen Arrowood,
who just happens to work for the
She is the one that will save us all.
 
You survived the Apocalypse and you WON something!
 
 
The Z Word by Bella Street
 
 
This is the day your eyes will become open to the
most awesome ZOMBiE series EVER...
 
 
 
Yep, that's where they went in The Walking Dead
...didn't work out for them, but hopefully Karen and her peeps can do it!
 
For the rest of you, don't you worry. You can get your copies below.
 
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Saturday, July 13, 2013

Apocalypse! Blog Hop

July 13 - July 20
8 DAYS of APOCALYPSE
 
(most awesome ZOMBiE series ever)
*Your choice of a paperback or kindle version*
 
Book One of Apocalypse Babes, The Z Word, follows Seffy Carter and her longtime friends Gareth, Addison and Lani. The four besties share a past dysfunctional and dark enough to keep them bound together under do-over identities. But rends develop in their relationships from the flesh-eating pressures of ending up in 1980, in a Montana desert, surrounded by zombies wearing dated disco duds.
 
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Sunday, June 16, 2013

Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Obsession Cover Reveal - Jennifer L. Armentrout

Obsession will release on 5/31/2013 with Entangled's Covet line!
 
 
OBSESSION official Blurb:

He’s arrogant, domineering, and… To. Die. For.

Hunter is a ruthless killer. And the Department of Defense has him firmly in their grasp, which usually doesn’t chafe too badly because he gets to kill bad guys. Most of the time he enjoys his job. That is, until he’s saddled with something he’s never had to do before: protect a human from his mortal enemy.

Serena Cross didn’t believe her best friend when she claimed to have seen the son of a powerful senator turn into something…unnatural. Who would? But then she witnesses her friend’s murder at the hands of what can only be an alien, thrusting her into a world that will kill to protect their secret.

Hunter stirs Serena’s temper and her lust despite their differences. Soon he’s doing the unthinkable—breaking the rules he’s lived by, going against the government to keep Serena safe. But are the aliens and the government the biggest threats to Serena’s life…or is it Hunter?



 
OBSESSION Link:

 
 
 
 
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
# 1 NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY Bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia. All the rumors you’ve heard about her state aren’t true. When she’s not hard at work writing. she spends her time reading, working out, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write, and hanging out with her husband and her Jack Russell, Loki.

 
Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class, where she spent most of her time writing short stories….which explains her dismal grades in math. Jennifer writes young adult paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary romance. She is published with Spencer Hill Press, Entangled Teen and Brazen, Disney/Hyperion and Harlequin Teen.

 
She also writes adult and New Adult romance under the name J. Lynn. She is published by Entangled Brazen and HarperCollins.
 
 

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Girl burns her hair off and lands on Ellen!

I'm sure by now most of you have seen this video making its way around Facebook.
Apparently, after only a few days, she got several million views.
She's very brave for posting a video of herself failing so bad.

 
Girl, why'd you hold that thing there for so LONG???
...must have been on the highest setting



The video was so SPECTACULAR that Ellen felt she HAD to invite her to the show.
Watch as Tori (13 yrs old) explains the whole situation--didn't know she was THAT young!
 
 

Tori, YOU'RE AWESOME
You said you cried after, but the fact that you can laugh at yourself now
means you have a sense of humor and you are one cool chick!
 
 
 

Tuesday, February 26, 2013

The Last Exorcism Part II



 
I loved The Last Exorcism and I'll definitely be watching Part II.
 
Nell is so freaking creepy in every way.  The big difference is Part I was done as a "found footage" type movie and Part II is not.  The movie continues where Part I left off.  Nell is found in the woods and can't remember much, other than her being the only surviving member of her family. 
 
 
I know I am 100% excited to see how this one turns out.
I wonder if Nell will end up in the FiRE again...
 
 
The Last Exorcism II releases this Friday, March 1st!
 
 

Friday, February 22, 2013

Win Latter-Day of The Dead by Kevin Krohn on Turning The Pages Books!

 You HORROR FREAKS better check this out!


Want another chance to win
Latter-Day of The Dead by Kevin Krohn?
 
 
It's my Favorite of 2012 and also won Book of the Year for BEST HORROR of 2012 over on the Turning the Pages Books. You can win one of two  SIGNED paperbacks!

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Friday, February 1, 2013

Chocolate, Roses and Handcuffs Giveaway Hop - Win A Kinky Book & Something Lickable

Full Moon Bites
 
Feb. 1st - Feb. 7th
 
This Valentine is all about KINKY ROMANCE!
 
 
I'm giving away 2 things
 




One of my FAVORITES: Mona Lisa Awakening (Book 1)
Monère, Children of the Moon Series by Sunny
 
and
 

Nipple Nibblers from taboobyashley.com
(exactly what it sounds like ;)
 
Erotic Paranormal
 
From the time she was an orphan child, Mona Lisa knew she was different—but she never knew how different until a man of otherworldly beauty arrived during her night shift in the ER. Gryphon is hurting and hunted…and he attracts her as no man ever has before. He is a Monère, one of the children of the moon—and what’s more, so is she…
 
Long exiled from the moon, the men of the Monère serve—and mate—with imperious Queens, who can channel the rays of their far-off homeland. Gryphon believes that Mona Lisa is a Queen—perhaps the first of Mixed Blood ever known. But her introduction to the nighttime court of the Monère, simmering with intrigue, casual lust, and calculated cruelty, is far from smooth. The other Queens are infuriated by her potential powers, and they are all menaced by a group of rogue males who have broken away from the women’s sway. Even as she battles threats from within and without, Mona Lisa is determined to discover who she is, and to explore the limits of her growing power—and her secret desires…
 
Excerpt:  
 
“You’re injured.” With only a slight tremor, I lifted his shirt. It was an inch-long gash. One drop of red blood gleamed like scarlet against the pearl white of his skin, alluring, irresistible. At the sight of his blood, something clicked open in me that I hadn’t known existed. As if in a dream, I watched my finger dip down and scoop up that tempting crimson pearl onto my fingertip. Watched him shudder as I touched him. Watched him shudder again as I licked the blood off my fingertip and tasted him.
 
It was sweet, so sweet, though tainted by an odd metallic tang.

What was he, this creature before me? And what had injured him?

Gently, I covered his wound with my palm. The center of my hand tingled and my hand strummed.  My senses seeped deep down below his skin, revealing to me clearly the torn passage through his tissues.“You were stabbed. With a stiletto. And I sense something more. There is a…poison within you.”

“Poison.” One corner of his lush mouth lifted in bitter wryness. “An accurate labeling. A blade dipped in liquid silver. Now that the liquid poison is within me, it will spread slowly. Already it weakens me greatly.”

“Who stabbed you?”

“My Queen, Mona Sera.”

“Of course, your queen,” I said, wondering once again if he was mad. “Is she visiting from a foreign country? And why did she stab you?”

“I was leaving her,” he said simply, “and this was her parting gift. Usually a wound like this would heal within several hours, but she punished me by using a silver blade.”

“Why is silver bad?”

“Because the inherent quality of silver runs afoul with our bodies, causing us to then heal like humans. Slowly.”

Like humans.

“Sure. So you’re not human.”

He flashed me a curious look. “Of course not.”

“Then what are you?”

“Do you truly not know?”
 
 
 
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Friday, January 11, 2013

Are we DEAD yet? APOCALYPSE NEVER

 
Still alive... 
and waiting for something to happen
 
Allison Morris introduced me to the AWESOME graphic below illustrating some of the BiG APOCALYPTiC PREDiCTiONS that obviously did NOT happen, but were widely believed to be the real END.

Now, I have to admit, I am one of those people that's always slightly disappointed when absolutely nothing happens...even though if something were to happen, it would mean we'd all be dead. Love, Love, Love hearing about all the "believers" that go hiding in the caves, awaiting the END.


 OnlinePsychologyDegree.net
Badgets in Bed Infographic OnlinePsychologyDegree.net


Have you noticed how many times the End of The World is predicted to happen in our lifetime??? With Y2K, I think EVERYONE thought the world would go black, but not even a flicker of lights! I'm gonna be 76 years old when the next apocalypse hits, unless someone predicts one sooner. In the meantime, I suggest if you are dying for something apocalyptic, read the Apocalypse Babes series by Bella Street. Everyone loves a dystopian right? Throw some ZOMBiES in there and magic happens.


"It's not like it's the end of the world."

 

Book 1, The Z Word is currently FREE!


The entire series is perfection, I strongly recommend reading Apocalypse Babes: The Complete Series (6 books).




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