Thursday 31 March 2016

RELEASE BLITZ - Savage Lover by Kathleen Kelly




Title: Savage Lover
Series: Savage Angels MC #4
Author: Kathleen Kelly
Genre: MC/Contemporary/Erotic Romance
 Release Date: March 31, 2016



Blurb

Kade Cantrill is a soldier, a nomad without a Chapter to call home. The Savage Angels MC have welcomed him to Tourmaline though he has never felt compelled to stay in one place for long. But that was before he met her. If there’s one person who can convince Kade to stay, it’s Destiny Bennett.

Minions of Death have a new leader, Adriel. Their numbers have increased and he’s going to take back all the business the Savage Angels stole from his club. Adriel intends to start a war and he doesn’t care who or what gets in his way. Least of all, Destiny.

Destiny Bennett has always attracted the bad boys and when she finds herself at the center of an MC war, Kade must act quickly to save her from the wrath of Adriel.

Will this Savage Lover expel his own demons to be the one Destiny needs to heal her brokenness? Or will Kade continue to allow his past to haunt him and extinguish any hope of a happily ever after?



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Author Bio


Kathleen Kelly was born in Penrith, NSW, Australia. When she was four her family moved to Brisbane, QLD, Australia. Although born in NSW she considers herself a QUEENSLANDER!!

She married her childhood sweetheart and they live in Brisbane with their two furry kids. A British Short Hair called Grace and a Burmese called Jack.

Kathleen enjoys writing contemporary, romance novels with a little bit of erotica. She draws her inspiration from family, friends and the people around her. She can often be found in cafes writing and observing the locals.

If you have any questions about her novels or would like to ask Kathleen a question she can be contacted via e-mail: kathleenkellyauthor@gmail.com or she can be found on Facebook.



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Friday 25 March 2016

COVER REVEAL - Dear Daisy by Michelle Horst




Title: Dear Daisy
Author: Michelle Horst
Genre: YA Romance
Cover Design: Michelle Horst 
 Release Date: June 3, 2016



Blurb

Despite giving advice to teenagers on her blog, Dear Daisy, fourteen-year-old Grace McCoy soon realizes that things are easier said than done, and that she might be in over her head.

When the popular guy at school, heartthrob Jeremiah Lakes, starts asking advice from Dear Daisy, Grace is tempted to 'guide' him in her direction.

Does she really want all her firsts to be with her best friend Cooper? After all, they made a promise to each other … breaking that promise might mean losing their friendship of four years.






Excerpt

“I love you unbrokenly,” I whisper with my heart firmly stuck in my throat.

He tilts his head and smiles that turn-my-knees-to-jello smile. “Why unbrokenly?”

A slow smile plucks at my lips. “Cause before you my life was broken, shattered to smithereens, but now it’s unbroken.”

His eyes soften and he presses his forehead to mine. “I love you …” and then he adds, “unbrokenly.”

My heart melts to a puddle of goo. “For reals?”


He nods, his eyes shimmering with emotions. I’m doing a little happy dance inside my heart because those emotions are all for me. And then he whispers, “For reals.”





Author Bio

Michelle Horst is from a small town in South Africa.

She's been in love with reading from an early age. She has a passion for books, quotes and animals.

She first tried her hand at writing in early 2009 and as the first words started to form into a book, she knew she was hooked. 

Dreams spilled onto pages, and that was the beginning of a wonderful journey. A journey filled with joy, passion and heart stopping moments. Most of all, it's filled with such pride and peace as a story comes to life, and characters fill your life, living in the very walls of your mind, living in the minds of your readers.

Thank you to each and every reader and for choosing to escape in one of my books.

Michelle ;)



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Thursday 24 March 2016

REVIEW - Whiteout by Ann Grech - REVIEWED BY LOUISE


Choosing to read this book for me was a major step out of my comfort zone.  I don't read MM books, I never have done.  It's never appealed to me before but the blurb on this book made me want to read it.

The storyline of the avalanche is fantastic, well written and makes you want to carry on reading to find out what happens next!!!

I'm very glad I read this.  I love the chemistry between them.  The fact they believe they are straight until they meet reveals to me that they are meant to be together.

I love the fact that they are destined to be together despite the fact they are both male.

I most definitely will read book 2, I want to know what happens next in their relationship.

Reading this has made me realise, you can't generalise genres of books.  If you do you may miss out on a hidden gem.  That's how I feel about this book.

Monday 21 March 2016

RELEASE BLITZ - Drifter by Bella Jewel




Title: Drifter
Series: MC Sinners Next Generation #2
Author: Bella Jewel
Genre: Contemporary Romance 
 Release Date: March 21, 2016



Blurb

They say opposites attract.
In my world that isn’t a good thing.
I did everything I could to escape the motorcycle club I grew up in when I turned twenty-one.
It wasn’t about fear, or betrayal, or even lack of love.
I just needed my own life.
I had to know how it felt to stand on my own two feet without their protection.
Then I met Diesel.
Mysterious, dark, with eyes that screamed to be understood.
From the second I met him, I knew I needed to be in his life.
There’s just one problem – he’s a member of a different motorcycle club.
Two things that should never be combined.
Yet I can’t stay away. No matter how hard he pushes. I can see beyond his mask.
I need to know who he is and I’ll overcome any obstacle to be in his life.
A friendship is born, followed by an epic love.
Our relationship is forbidden.
But I’ll do anything to be in his life.
Anything.






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Bella Jewel is a self published, USA Today bestselling author. She’s been publishing since 2013. Her first release was a contemporary romance, Hell’s Knights which topped the charts upon release. Since that time, she has published over five novels, gaining a bestseller status on numerous platforms. She lives in North Queensland and is currently studying editing and proofreading to further expand her career. Bella has been writing since she was just shy of fifteen years old. In Summer 2013 she was offered an ebook deal through Montlake Romance for her bestselling modern day pirate series, Enslaved By The Ocean. She plans to expand her writing career, planning many new releases for the future.



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Friday 18 March 2016

RELEASE BLITZ - Decipher by Michelle Irwin


Decipher (Declan Reede: The Untold Story #3)
by Michelle Irwin
Release: March 17th




Brake hard, jostle for position, and watch for the blind corner.

In a swirl of controversy, Declan Reede lost everything important to him. Now old temptations resurface, old battles reignite, and he has nothing left in reserve.

When a glimmer of hope is offered, Declan has to stand and fight for what he wants or he might just lose it all forever.

How can he decipher the clues and get revenge on those who want to see him burn? 



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Michelle Irwin has been many things: a hobbit taking a precious item to a fiery mountain; a young child stepping through the back of a wardrobe into another land; the last human stranded not-quite-alone in space three million years in the future; and a time-travelling madman in a box. All of these feats and many more were achieved through her voracious reading. Eventually, the cast inside her mind took over and spilled onto the page. 

Michelle lives in sunny Queensland in the land down under. A lover of love and overcoming the odds, she primarily writes paranormal and fantasy romance.
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Tuesday 15 March 2016

RELEASE BLITZ - Whiteout by Ann Grech

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Whiteout by Ann Grech
Unexpected Book 1
Genre: M/M Erotic Romance, LGBT
Release Date: MARCH 16th

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Blurb

The moment you get all you ever wanted.
Pro-snowboarder, Reef Reid, has it all, except the one thing he desperately wants: the girl, the white picket fence and the happily ever after. At the peak of his career, he turns his back on the upcoming season and flies to a tropical island paradise to defrost.
At least that’s where he was supposed to go.
A ticketing mishap has him ending up in Queenstown, New Zealand, famous for its idyllic ski resorts.
Stratford ‘Ford’ Wallace understands attraction to the opposite sex. He’s a true playboy at heart after all; a genuine love ‘em and leave ‘em type. But all that is flipped on its head when the enigmatic Reef Reid literally drops out of the sky.
When a whiteout trapped them together on a mountaintop neither expected the explosive attraction that would spark between them. They’re unable to resist each other, but will they give into temptation? Or will the avalanche that tears through the mountain end them?
 
Get ready for an avalanche of emotions to hit you, HARD!! ~ Booklover

Excerpt

Reef pulled his goggles down over his helmet and picked up his snowboard, trudging further up the slope as they both tried to get through to base on their helmet-mounted radios again. “Nada. Still.” They’d been trying for two hours, hiking steadily up the slope away from the cabin. Dread curled in Reef’s gut. It didn’t feel right. Surely they should have been able to get through by now. The sky had cleared in the couple of hours they’d been outside, the clouds starting to break apart and the glorious blue sky peeping through. These were the best conditions to snowboard in. A massive dump of fresh powder, relatively warm weather compared to the last couple of days’ freezing temperatures, and no people to get in his way. The problem was, they’d be stuck out here until either the chopper or mountain rescue could get to them. If they didn’t get through soon, they’d have to turn, and head back to the cabin to wait out the night, and with the firewood getting low, they were going to be cold.
“I’m gonna head up a little higher. I’m getting something on the radio, but it’s not clear enough.”
“Alright man, I need to take off my boot and fix up my sock.”
They bumped fists and Reef watched Ford maneuver his skis, and trudge up the slope toward an outcropping of rocks. Time slowed to a crawl as the crack, crack, crack of the slope giving way underneath Ford’s feet smashed through the silence of the mountain around them. Reef shouted, and ran the fifty, or so, feet toward him; his movements slowed in the thigh deep powder. It was like he was anchored in quicksand. Reef reached out willing his arm to stretch to an impossible length, as he desperately tried to grab a finger hold of his friend’s ski pole. Ford had pivoted, skiing back toward Reef like a mad man.
He was too far away.
Ford pushed forward with powerful movements; but his attempt to pick up speed and get out of the way of the slipping slope was futile. Reef read the fear on Ford’s mostly covered face as the vital seconds ticked by.
“Ford, hurry up. Please,” Reef begged, shouting over the roaring of the snow careening down the mountain. The noise, as loud as a jet engine, drowned out his pleas as Ford moved closer to him. They were barely an arm’s length apart, as Reef’s worst nightmare unfolded before his eyes. Ford stumbled, the snow shifting beneath his feet quicker now, as the tsunami of white picked him up and tossed him like a ragdoll, hurtling him down the steep gradient. Reef reacted on instinct, running after the man that had, in four days, come to mean more to him than any friend he’d ever had. His eyes locked on the churning mass of snow, Reef frantically looking for any sign of Ford.
Calling his name over and over again, Reef searched, scanning every inch of the still snow before him. He had no idea how long he’d been looking. Minutes could have turned into hours, but Reef couldn’t give up hope. He wouldn’t. Was Ford alive? He didn’t pray to a god, but right then he would have done anything, including hand his soul over to the Devil himself, if it meant he could save Ford. “Please,” he whispered, his voice hoarse from shouting.
The emotion hit me hard though, and I loved that ~ Blissfully Bookerized

Author Bio

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By day Ann Grech lives in the corporate world and can be found sitting behind a desk typing away at reports and papers or lecturing to a room full of students. With her quirky glasses and shiny leather briefcase, she has the librarian look nailed. All laced up tight in her pencil skirts and killer heels, her students can only fantasise about what she gets up to in her spare time. If only they could see those tattoos! Oh, and those notepads of story ideas tucked away in odd places that would be sure to have them fanning themselves!
By night she's a wife and mum and a purveyor of saucy stories that are filled with lust, raunchy scenes and ultimately love. Ann's an avid reader of anything sexy and firmly believes in the motto 'leave mummy alone, she's reading or writing.' Because of that, she is pretty hopeless when it comes to getting dinner on the table on time or cleaning the house.

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Monday 14 March 2016

Never judge a book by it's genre - Random musings from Louise's brain

Never judge a book by it's genre - Random musings from Louise's brain

I wonder how many of you are guilty of doing this?  I know I am on many an occasion.

Just the other week I commented on a confession (I.A.B.B. confessions) that I rarely rated a book under 5 stars and had never rated one under 4 stars.  Until recently.  And I said the reason is because I sign up for the books I know I like in the genres I like.

So I wondered recently how many great books am I missing out on because it's "not my usual genre"...... The answer is probably absolutely loads!

So why is that?  Because I have gotten into a pattern of genres of books I read, they are my "go to" types of books.

Last week I wondered about signing up for reading a new book, the blurb sounded awesome.  The catch?  It was a M/M book and I don't read those.  Why?  Well it's not because I can say I don't like them as I've never read one before.  I guess it just never appealed to me, I never thought I would like it.  But I thought, what the heck.  And I took a chance on the fact I rather liked the blurb.

Today I read this book in one day, a matter of hours.  It was very different to what I have ever read before for obvious reasons.  But I have to say I really rather enjoyed it.  For me there's no question it was a 5* read.  Now that's not to say I will enjoy every M/M book I read.  But I certainly will sign up for book two because I need to know more about their story.  The chemistry between them did it for me, they clearly were soulmates regardless for the facts they are both male and were actually straight, or they thought they were until they met.

So while I don't think I will be adding M/M to my top fave genres to read I certainly won't be totally avoiding the genre anymore.

So my question to you is.....

Do you judge a book by its genre?
Do you assume you won't like a book because you haven't read anything like it before?  Or because you really don't think you would like it?

Try it.  Give it a go.  Expand your horizons, read something out of your box.  After all, variety is the spice of life.  And you may just find a hidden gem that you otherwise would have missed out on reading.

Wednesday 9 March 2016

RELEASE BLITZ & REVIEW - Redemptive by Jay McLean

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Title: Redemptive (Combative Trilogy 2)

Author: Jay McLean

Release Day: March 8


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It's said that your life flashes before your eyes when you die.
It must only happen to those whose lives were worthy.
Clearly, mine was not.

The only thing that happened to me was a repeat of what I thought was my death.
The blast of the gun as it went off.
The loss of my breath as two hundred pounds of dead weight dropped on top of me.
And then darkness.
This replayed over and over.

When the guy squatted down next to me and asked if I was hurt, the only thing I could see, feel,
hear, were those few seconds.
Even now, as I sat in the back of a blacked out van—it was the only thing that ran through my mind.
Gunshot, breath, darkness.

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Jay McLean is an international best-selling author and full-time reader, writer of New Adult Romance, and most of all, procrastinator. When she’s not doing any of those things, she can be found running after her two little boys, playing house and binge watching Netflix. She writes what she loves to read, which are books that can make her laugh, make her hurt and make her feel.

Jay lives in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, in a forever half-done home where music is loud and laughter is louder.

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Well after the way Combative ended I was especially interested in how this book would pan out.  I naturally assumed like most series books when there is a cliffhanger that book 2 would follow on from book 1.

This does not, Jay McLean goes against the grain and with book 2 Redemptive takes us back.  Back to the time before Combative.  Back to exactly how Nate knows Bailey.

I have to say I actually preferred this book to book 1.  This one had much more drama and strength to it and the chemistry between Bailey and Nate was amazing.  That and the secondary character of Tiny made the story something that you won't want to put down.

I've said enough. I refuse to say anymore or it will destroy the story.

4 1/2 stars from me.