Blog Tour: Freak of Nature

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SYNOPSIS:

Donate Body to Science. Check.

When seventeen-year-old Kaitlyn checked the box, she never suspected she’d have her life–and her body–stolen from her. She awakens one day in a secret laboratory to discover that her body is now half-robot and is forced to hide her own secret: that she still has human emotions and a human mind. If the scientists who made her find out, they’ll erase what remains of who she was.

Kaitlyn finds an unlikely ally in Lucas, a handsome, brilliant scientist who can’t get over the guilt he feels knowing she was once a vibrant, beautiful young woman. He never expected a science project to affect him the way she does. As he tries to help her rediscover her past, he finds himself falling for the brave girl struggling to find her place and acceptance between the human and computer worlds.

MEET THE AUTHOR:

Julia Crane is the author of the Coexist: Keegan's Chronicles. She has a bachelor's degree in criminal justice. Julia has believed in magical creatures since the day her grandmother first told her an Irish tale. Growing up her mother greatly encouraged reading and using your imagination. Although she's spent most of her life on the US east coast, she currently lives in Dubai with her husband and three children. 

1) WHAT IS ONE OF THE MOST SURPRISING THINGS YOU LEARNED IN CREATING ANY OF YOUR BOOKS?

How the story seems to magically appear before your eyes. I never really know where the story is going to go, and then I'll be washing dishes or taking and walk and think that's it! And start writing.  

2) WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON NOW?

I'm really excited, because I just started Rourk. A continuation of Keegan's Chronicles. Rourk will be deeper and darker

3) IF YOU COULD TAKE ONE OF YOUR BOOK BOYFRIENDS OUT ON A DATE IN THE REAL WORLD, WHO WOULD IT BE & WHERE WOULD YOU GO?

I would say Rourk, but he's far too young for me, so Keegan's father Richard. A lot of his characteristics resemble my husbands. Ideal date would be a long weekend somewhere I've never been and a lot of time outdoors. No kids!

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a Rafflecopter giveaway

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Wishlist Wenesday (#1)

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Wishlist Wednesday is a book blog hop hosted by Dani at Pen to Paper. You will post about one book a week that is on your wishlist. It can be on you just added or one that's been on your list for awhile.

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This week the book on my wishlist is...

In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue--Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is--she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.

During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles to determine who her friends really are--and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes infuriating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers a growing conflict that threatens to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.

Debut author Veronica Roth bursts onto the literary scene with the first book in the Divergent series--dystopian thrillers filled with electrifying decisions, heartbreaking betrayals, stunning consequences, and unexpected romance.

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I've been wanting to read this book for a while but I just haven't gotten around to it yet. Then once I heard it's in the process of becoming a movie, I'm now on a mission to get this book and have it read before it comes out! They currently have the release date at March 21st, 2014. So I still have a good year to get this book crossed off my TBR list!

Have you read Divergent? What are your thoughts?

 Are you excited to see it coming to the big screen?

 

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Cover Reveal: The Beast Within

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Coming March 2013... 
 

SYNOPSIS:

If only it were as simple as love triangles, werewolves and vampires...

Once eighteen-year-old Connor Moore stumbles across an almost human species, he is faced with history’s darkest secret, a daunting future, and a love life he can’t even begin to explain.

Concealed throughout the pages of time, there has been a powerful race of human-like creatures manipulating mankind. This Elite race is made up of five ruling families, who have obeyed The Law and remained content to keep their identities a mystery. Now after centuries of secrecy, an ancient foe is forcing them out of hiding.

When a dark-haired mystery woman named Laren crosses Connor’s path his life is turned upside down. Soon Connor is taken on a heart-pounding journey that leads to a startling discovery of who he really is and a daunting future of what he is to become.

MY THOUGHTS:

I really love the cover of this book! I like both of the characters eyes and the different colors. They really draw me in because now I want to know why the guy's eyes are red and the girl's eyes are yellow. I also really like the font of the title.

What are your thoughts?!

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Review: Fallen Too Far

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Title: Fallen Too Far
Series: Fallen Too Far #1

By: Abbi Glines

Format: Ebook & Paperback

Published: December 14th, 2012 

To want what you’re not supposed to have…

She is only nineteen.

She is his new stepfather’s daughter.

She is still naïve and innocent due to spending the last three years taking care of her sick mother.

But for twenty-four year old Rush Finlay, she is the only thing that has ever been off limits. His famous father’s guilt money, his mother’s desperation to win his love, and his charm are the three reasons he has never been told no.

Blaire Wynn left her small farmhouse in Alabama, after her mother passed away, to move in with her father and his new wife in their sprawling beach house along the Florida gulf coast. She isn’t prepared for the lifestyle change and she knows she’ll never fit into this world. Then there is her sexy stepbrother who her father leaves her with for the summer while he runs off to Paris with his wife. Rush is as spoiled as he is gorgeous. He is also getting under her skin. She knows he is anything but good for her and that he’ll never be faithful to anyone. He is jaded and has secrets Blaire knows she may never uncover but even knowing all of that…

Blaire just may have fallen too far. 

 

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REVIEW:

This is the second book I've read by Abbi Glines. The first one was The Vincent Boys which I loved so I don't know why I never picked up The Vincent Brothers! I know! I know! Don't hate me! I'll be getting it very soon! I promise!

The story revolves around Blaire. A country girl who basically gets thrown to the sharks and enters the world of the rich and famous. I love how she is independent and doesn't want to take anything from anyone. She's also young, sweet and innocent. The only thing she wants is some time to get herself back on her feet then to be on her way again. 

Rush is Blaire's sexy stepbrother. Rush is the guy that every girl wants to be able to tame. The only problem is Rush is hot and he knows it. He's got money and he's gorgeous so when you have a hundred girls throwing themselves at your feet you're not about to settle down with one. Or are you? 

When Blaire comes into Rush's life she turns he's world upside down. He does all he can to keep her from wanting to be near him because he knows that if she's around him enough he could destroy her and her innocents.

I read this book in two days! I seriously stayed up until I couldn't hold my eyes open anymore. I am hooked on Blaire and Rush's story and I can't wait for the second book in this series! (You can see the synopsis for "Never Too Far" on my most recent Waiting on Wednesday post.) Hurry Abbi Glines!! I NEED to read Never Too Far!!

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Waiting on Wednesday (#1)

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Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine, that highlights upcoming releases that we’re eagerly anticipating.

This weeks pick...

Release Date: February 26th, 2013

He had held a secret that destroyed her world.

Everything she had known was no longer true.

Blaire couldn’t stop loving him but she knew she could never forgive him.
Now, she was back home and learning to live again. Moving on with life… until something happened to send her world spinning once again.
What do you do when the one person you can never trust again is the one that you need to trust so desperately?

You lie, hide, avoid, and pray that your sins never find you out.

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I finished reading the first book to this series last week! OMG! I loved it! I finished it in two days! I am now hooked on Rush and Blaire's story and I have to know what happens next!

PURCHASE FALLEN TOO FAR HERE:

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Cover Reveal: Blurred

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SYNOPSIS:

Cash is haunted by things. Hungry, hollow things. They only leave him alone when Anaya, Heaven’s beautiful reaper, is around. Cash has always been good with girls, but Anaya isn’t like the others. She’s dead. And with his deteriorating health, Cash might soon be as well.

Anaya never breaks the rules, but the night of the fire she recognized part of Cash’s soul—and doomed him to something worse than death. Cash’s soul now resides in an expired body, making him a shadow walker—a rare, coveted being that can walk between worlds. A being creatures of the underworld would do anything to get their hands on.

The lines between life and death are blurring, and Anaya and Cash find themselves falling helplessly over the edge. Trapped in a world where the living don’t belong, can Cash make it out alive?

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Tara Fuller writes novels. Some about grim reapers​. Some about witches. All of course are delightfully full of teen angst and kissing. Tara grew up in a one stop light town in Oklahoma where once upon a time she stayed up with a flash light reading RL Stine novels and only dreamed of becoming a writer. She has a slight obsession with music and a shameless addiction for zombie fiction, Mystery Science Theater, and black and white mochas. Tara no longer lives in a one stop light town. Now she lives with her family in a slightly larger town in North  Carolina where they have at least three stoplights.

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PURCHASE INBETWEEN HERE:

Thank you Tara Fuller for allowing me to be part of this cover reveal! :)

 

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Review: Chance Encounters

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Title: Chance Encounters

By: J. Sterling 
Formats: Ebook & Paperback  
Published: April 16. 2012 

Caroline Weber was a normal girl who thought she had her life figured out. After graduating college in New York, she moved to San Francisco with her boyfriend, Clay. Everything in her life felt perfect. There wasn't anything she would change... 

...until she met Jackson Parks. 

Is it possible that a chance meeting with a stranger can make you question EVERYTHING you thought you wanted? Caroline tries to carry on with her life as if nothing has changed...but the truth is, nothing can ever be the same.

Chance Encounters is an emotional love story about trusting and following your heart, even when it's leading you down a difficult path.

Sometimes other hearts have to break in order to keep yours intact.

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REVIEW:

I decided to pick up this book by J. Sterling after reading her first book "In Dreams", which I loved by the way! Anyways, I finally got around to reading this one over the holiday season while I was traveling and I loved it just as much as her last book! Especially since I'm a firm believer of love at first sight and soul mates this story really drew me in!

I adored Caroline! She's very likable and easy to connect with. She thinks she has her life all figured out, she's got a steady job and the "perfect" boyfriend. Then life as she knows it changes when she gets on a plane and meets Jackson. We get to see her emotions at their highest and I can't help but feel her pain when she's trying to make a decision between Clay and Jackson.

Clay is Caroline's boyfriend and he is amazing! He's the guy we all dream of having. He's very driven to be successful at his job and wants to give Caroline the life she always wanted. Then there is Jackson Parks! Of course I love Jackson! The connection she has with him is like nothing she's ever felt before. What do you do when you have any amazing guy at home but he doesn't give you the same deep, emotional connection as this stranger you just met. Caroline is going to have to make a choice and she knows either way someone is going to get hurt in the end.

Overall this book is a great easy read and I recommend it! Unless you are sensitive to story lines about cheating, in that case you may want to steer clear of this one. Even though there is no physical cheating there is still some emotion feelings going on. It's not something that bothers me much because of the way Caroline handles it in the story. It's an emotional roller coaster so if you decide to pick it up, enjoy the ride!

 

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OTHER BOOKS BY J. STERLING:

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Cover Reveal: The Game Changer

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The highly anticipated follow up to the USA Today Best Selling book, 

The Perfect Game by J. Sterling

  
Coming 2013 

(Release Date To Be Announced Soon!)

TEASER #1:

And just like that she was gone. But not before saying the two fucking words that plague my nightmares. This girl is always asking me to "prove it." I deserve it after everything I’ve put her through. She doesn’t trust me anymore.

I wouldn’t trust me either.

It’s ironic though right? That I’m the one left standing all alone in a parking lot this time. I swear if my heart could leap out of my chest and into my hands, it would. I imagined that for a moment…the blood trickling through my fingertips, splashing onto the concrete below as I watched it slowly pound out its last beats before stopping altogether. 
 

Fuck.

My life does not make sense without this girl. And now she’s gone.

Again.

How is it that I’m always losing her? 

TEASER #2:

I closed my eyes, drinking in his vow. Part of me cringed, acknowledging the vulnerability that coursed within me. I needed to be stronger than this. But as much as I wanted to believe that Jack's mistake with Chrystle was a one time major screw up, I’d be lying to myself if I said I wasn’t fearful.

I was.

And I wasn’t sure how not to be.

“Do you believe me?” he asked, his expression filled with worry.

I fought back the tears that formed in my eyes, “I want to.” I longed to bottle my anxiety up and put it on a shelf where it only came out for special occasions, but I didn’t know how. Right now it lived on the outside of my skin, like an extra layer of warmth I couldn’t shed no matter how hot I became. My emotions had taken full control over every other part of me. I’d become victim to my own insecurities.

“I’ll show you,” his forehead pressed against mine as he continued. “I’ll never lose you again.”

“What if I want to be lost?” I teased with a serious tone and watched as he pulled his head from mine.

“I won’t let you.”

“You won’t let me?” I mocked, secretly loving the way he wanted me.

Jesus Cassie, you’re a fucking nutcase right now. Pick an emotion. Pretend like you’re in charge here.

“No. I won’t let you. End of discussion,” his mouth remained stoic.

“That wasn’t really what one would consider a discussion.”

“Because there’s nothing to discuss. I’m not leaving you ever again. And you’re not leaving me. No matter how pissed off I make you, or how frustrated. I fucking love you and I’m not going anywhere.”

I attempted to fight back the smile that formed. “And I love you. But really, if you ever cheat on me again I’ll cut your nuts off and hang them from the Empire State Building.”

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