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Welcome to my tour stop for  Storms of Lazarus by Karen Kincy. This is the second book in the Shadows of Asphodel series . This is a new adult dieselpunk romance and is now available!  The tour runs August 11-22 with reviews, interviews & a few guest posts. Check out the tour page for the schedule and more information. Storms of Lazarus (Shadows of Asphodel #2) Sometimes escape is impossible. Sometimes love isn't enough. 1913. Christmas Eve. Ardis hardly expects a quiet holiday with Wendel, between fleeing Constantinople and hiding from an ancient society of assassins. And they owe a debt to a certain archmage. In Königsberg, Prussia, they work with Konstantin on the next evolution of Project Lazarus. Wendel once called Königsberg home, the city now besieged by the Russians and their clockwork engines of war. This may be Wendel’s last chance to save his family and find redemption, but he's tormented by nightmares and tempted by laudanum. Ardis fears her love isn’t eno...

Oliver and the Seawigs by Philip Reeve, Illustrated by Sarah McIntyre Available September 5th Oxford University Press To Buy- Amazon / Kindle / BN / Book Depository Hardback 195 pages Middle Grade Fiction Goodreads:   Oliver grew up in a family of explorers - but his biggest adventure is about to begin! Along with his new friends, a grumpy old albatross, a short-sighted mermaid and a friendly island called Cliff, Oliver goes off in search of his missing parents. But before he can put his rescue plan into action there's the evil Stacey de Lacey and an army of greasy, green sea monkeys to contend with . . . REVIEW Oliver's parents love to explore, but finally they have come home and Oliver is very happy about that. As he gets reacquainted with a home he barely remembers, his parents take a short exploration of some islands that have appeared in the cove behind the house since they've been gone. Night comes and when Oliver discovers their dinghy without them, he goes off to f...

Title : Gone Author : Anna Bloom Genre : Mature YA (intended for readers ages 16 plus) Publication : July 28th, 2014 To Buy Links: Amazon Kindle  / BN Rebecca Walters harbours a dark secret, and as the fifty-three bangles she wears on her wrists as a self-imposed sentence of guilt remind her, she can’t even begin to consider moving on. Not after what happened on that night six months ago… a night which she can’t remember and yet managed to change her life forever. When Rebecca comes across Joshua Adams, man equally haunted by past tragedies, on a moonlit beach, both of their lives are destined to change forever, and when the girl made out of the sun meets the boy made out of the moon and sea, anything can happen… but will the knowledge of their murky pasts bring them together or drive them apart? Will Rebecca finally be able to claim her freedom? Will she stay and fight to be the girl she found on the sandy beaches of Cornwall or is she destined to keep running and hiding from a pa...

Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles #1)  by Mary E. Pearson Publisher: Henry Holt BYR Hardcover 489 pages YA Fantasy Reviewed e-ARC provided by publisher Amazon /  Kindle /  BN / Book Depository / Indiebound / Kobo Goodreads:    In this timeless new trilogy about love and sacrifice, a princess must find her place in a reborn world. In a society steeped in tradition, Princess Lia’s life follows a preordained course. As First Daughter, she is expected to have the revered gift of sight—but she doesn’t—and she knows her parents are perpetrating a sham when they arrange her marriage to secure an alliance with a neighboring kingdom—to a prince she has never met. On the morning of her wedding, Lia flees to a distant village. She settles into a new life, hopeful when two mysterious and handsome strangers arrive—and unaware that one is the jilted prince and the other an assassin sent to kill her. Deception abounds, and Lia finds herself on the brink of unlocking pe...

Forgiven (A Trouble Novella) by Rachel Morgan Available Now New Adult (without the explicit sex or major drama) Amazon Digital Services  E-book 76 pages FREE on Kindle FREE on Nook FREE on Kobo Goodreads:   Three hundred and six days ago, Julia ran away from home. Abandoning her family, friends, boyfriend, and university plans, she fled with no explanation. She can’t hide forever, though, and now it’s time to face the mess she left behind. REVIEW I know the first thing you're going to think, "I don't like novellas!" (some of you might not feel so strongly as the exclamation point, but you have let me know, not interested). But before you rush to judge, let me tell you why you should give this one a try. First it's a prequel to a new series by Rachel Morgan. I don't know if you remember me singing the praises of her Creepy Hollow series ( The Faerie Guardian , The Faerie Prince ,   The Faerie War ) which started as monthly novellas and then turned into full len...

So I haven't been hiding under the bedcovers or anything, in fact, I have actually gotten out of the house with other book lovers, .....once.  Just the other night. Here we are in Birkdale, an outdoor shopping center with great restaurants, neat little boutique stores and of course, a bookstore, not indie, but a book store. From left to right is Lisa of Diznee's World of Books , Heather Anne of Turning Pages , me, and Joli of Actin' Up With Books!   Thanks to Joli, I met Lisa and Heather Anne earlier in the year and was able to meet up with them again when Joli came to town. We had a fabulous dinner at Brixx Pizza and then went on to Barnes and Noble. We had fun there too. Evidence is below! Book Binge!!!  Show OFF!! My Book Friends!! Okay, so this is really more like the book stacks. My books are somewhere else. Lisa and I both bought The Sound by Sarah Alderson. According to Heather Anne it's really great.   As we talked about books and were impressed by the YA se...

Dream Boy by Mary Crockett and Madelyn Rosenberg Available July 1st Pre-order Amazon / Kindle / BN / Book Depository /  Indiebound / Kobo Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire  Paperback 336 pages Reviewed E-ARC provided by publisher for review YA Magical Realism Series??? I believe it's a stand alone Goodreads - Annabelle Manning feels like she’s doing time at her high school in Chilton, Virginia. She has her friends at her lunchtime table of nobodies. What she doesn’t have are possibilities. Or a date for Homecoming. Things get more interesting at night, when she spends time with the boy of her dreams. But the blue-eyed boy with the fairytale smile is just that—a dream. Until the Friday afternoon he walks into her chemistry class.   One of friends suspects he’s an alien. Another is pretty sure it’s all one big case of deja vu. While Annabelle doesn’t know what to think, she’s willing to believe that the charming Martin Zirkle may just be her dream come true. But as Annabelle disc...