Cover Reveal: Jenny Plague-Bringer

We all know that I have a little obsession with J.L Bryan's Songs of Magic series.  I haven't gotten around to reading his adult Paranormals series but they are high up on my "dying to read" list.  I'm so excited to be taking part in the cover reveal for the fourth novel in that series Jenny Plague-Bringer! The first book in this series, Jenny Pox, is free at most ebook retailers, here are some links:

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Jenny Plague-Bringer (The Paranormals #4)
by J.L. Bryan
to be published October 23, 2012

Jenny has enjoyed a year of quiet seclusion, but her peace is about to be shattered by two new paranormals who are searching for her. Their intentions are unknown. The timing couldn’t be worse, because Jenny can’t use her pox without risking the life of the baby growing inside her…

This sounds pretty intense! I haven't read the series but I notice that this one seems a bit brighter than the others in the series so it definitely POPS! What do YOU think?

The Paranormals Series so far...

J.L.'s Website / Twitter / Facebook

J.L. Bryan studied English literature at the University of Georgia and at Oxford, with a focus on English Renaissance and Romantic literature. He also studied screenwriting at UCLA. He lives in Atlanta with his wife Christina, dogs Violet and Tiger Lily, and cats Shadow and Sue.

Stacking the Shelves (23)

Books mentioned (Click title for Goodreads):
The Perks of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
Death and the Girl Next Door (Darklight #1) by Darynda Jones
Two and Twenty Dark Tales by Lots of people
Vengeance Bound by Justina Ireland

A big thank you to St. Martins Press as well as Simon & Schuster this week!

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Stealing Parker Review

TITLE Stealing Parker
AUTHOR Miranda Kenneally
PUBLICATION October 1st 2012 by Sourcebooks Fire
READ September 18, 2012
SOURCE Gifted from a friend

Red-hot author Miranda Kenneally hits one out of the park in this return to Catching Jordan's Hundred Oaks High.

After a scandal rocks their conservative small town, 17-year-old Parker Shelton goes overboard trying to prove that she won't turn out like her mother: a lesbian. The all-star third-baseman quits the softball team, drops 20 pounds and starts making out with guys--a lot. But hitting on the hot new assistant baseball coach might be taking it a step too far...especially when he starts flirting back.

Miranda Kenneally. Where have you been all my life? Your novels bring me so much joy and you get me so tangled up in your story that I feel as if I am Parker.. or Jordan. I read Catching Jordan a few months back and I can remember sitting down and cracking the first page and being so engrossed in the story that before I knew it I was reading the final page in the very same sitting. The exact same thing happened with Stealing Parker. I curled up in bed at about 8 PM and turned the last page before I went to sleep at midnight. This is such a fun contemporary story with a really good plot and even better characters.

Just like in Catching Jordan we meet a slew of easily likeable characters who are all part of a tight knit group of friends. Through their constant teasing and hilarious inside jokes (I am so going to be using "snorggle" in my vocabulary from now on) you find yourself lost in their friendship and connecting with them on an emotional level. I was quick to like Parker because she was by no means a Mary-Sue. She was a tomboy who could give all the boys a taste of their own medicine when the time called for it. One complaint I did have about her though, is that she could have used a little modesty. Numerous times throughout the story she mentioned how beautiful she was and how she knew all the guys wanted her. I mean it's one thing to know that you're pretty, but c'mon! Her friends were the stars of the show for me Corndog and Drew were hilarious together stuffing their faces and joking around. What was really exciting was that Sam Henry (from Catching Jordan) is on the baseball team (and just as funny as ever I must add) and we even get to see Jordan at a few instances throughout the novel.

Parker made a lot of choices that I didn't agree with, but it made for a really good story. I didn't know that this story dealt with a student/teacher romantic relationship so that took me by surprise (see it's fun to not read blurbs!) Brian was such a selfish guy, and even though it took a while, once Parker realized that, I was really happy with the way that she dealt with it and was happy that she stood her ground. She also deals with a lot of issues at home and church. This books touches on drug abuse, bullying, questioning ones sexuality and all those issues are handled very well.

Now that I have read two of Miranda's novels and had a fantastic experience with both I can safely say that she is one of my favourite authors and I will be reading everything that she puts out!

Ashen Winter Tour Stop

Today I am so excited to be hosting a stop on the Ashen Winter Blog tour brought to you by Books With Bite.  This series has quickly become a favourite of mine and I highly recommend it to EVERYONE! My stop will feature my glowing review of Ashen Winter.  To see all of the other stops on this tour Click Here.

TITLE Ashen Winter (Ashfall #2)
AUTHOR Mike Mullin
PUBLICATION October 16th 2012 by Tanglewood Press
READ September 20 - 22, 2012
SOURCE Tanglewood Press

It’s been over six months since the eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano. Alex and Darla have been staying with Alex’s relatives, trying to cope with the new reality of the primitive world so vividly portrayed in Ashfall, the first book in this series. It’s also been six months of waiting for Alex’s parents to return from Iowa. Alex and Darla decide they can wait no longer and must retrace their journey into Iowa to find and bring back Alex’s parents to the tenuous safety of Illinois. But the landscape they cross is even more perilous than before, with life-and-death battles for food and power between the remaining communities. When the unthinkable happens, Alex must find new reserves of strength and determination to survive.

The timing for me to read this book really was not optimal at all. I was trying to sneak in some ME books in between the review books and ended up getting myself a little behind in my schedule. I was so scared that feeling a bit rushed would affect my take on Ashen Winter, it being almost 600 pages and all. But I needn't worry, that was the breeziest 570 pages I have ever read. Now people, I have the attention span of a fruit fly, I get bored of really long stories and tend to zone out over excessive details. That was never the case with this story. Mike Mullin sucked me into Alex and Darla's journey once again and I was along for the rollercoaster of a ride every single, grueling, freezing step of the way.

What really gets me in this series is that it is all just so plausible. Mike Mullin said in the author's note that there is a lot of speculation as to "the severity of the winter that would follow a supervolcano eruption" and that "as a novelist (he's), chosen to depict the most severe- and dramatic- possibility." Every single aspect of this journey makes you feel as if you are there trudging through the snow and volcanic ash that is coating the state. Everything, down to the smallest detail just feels REAL. The food these people are forced to eat, the solutions that they concoct to get themselves out of jams is all perfectly believable. Even the action sequences (which have definitely stepped up a notch in this one) are written with such suspense that I found myself holding my breath every time Alex found himself in a new trying situation.

But what really keeps me in the end is the characters. I can now say that this series has one of my most favorite female kick-ass characters ever. Darla is my hero. I love her snarkiness and her resourcefulness, her and Alex have developed this awesome healthy relationship despite everything working against them and it has totally got me rooting for them. There was a few funny instances in this one where they talk about how they are shocked that the other hadn't watched certain stuff on TV before the eruption. While Alex is shocked Darla hadn't watched Woody Woodpecker, Darla is dumbfounded that Alex hadn't watched any snow mobile races. Little instances like that are perfectly placed in the novel and create some of the most wonderful characters I have ever had the pleasure of reading.

Of course, this story is not just about Alex and Darla, there is a whole host of side characters that come and go throughout the novel that I am coming to love too. Rita Mae, the librarian in Worthington, is someone I am always excited to encounter. Also Alex's uncle and sister and of course Dr. McCarthy in Warren. I don't even know how to express how much I love this series. You get lost in every single page and come to love the characters dearly. Mike Mullin has solidified himself as an author that I will constantly be on the lookout for because his writing is perfectly entrancing.

The Ashfall Series so far...

Click Here to read my review of Ashfall.

Mikes Website / Twitter / Facebook

Mike Mullin’s first job was scraping the gum off the undersides of desks at his high school. From there, things went steadily downhill. He almost got fired by the owner of a bookstore due to his poor taste in earrings. He worked at a place that showed slides of poopy diapers during lunch (it did cut down on the cafeteria budget). The hazing process at the next company included eating live termites raised by the resident entomologist (they taste like a cross between walnuts and carrots), so that didn’t last long either. For a while Mike juggled bottles at a wine shop, sometimes to disastrous effect. Oh, and then there was the job where swarms of wasps occasionally tried to chase him off ladders. So he’s really hoping this writing thing works out.

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature that highlights books that I am anxiously awaiting. WoW is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.

If He Had Been With Me
by Laura Nowlin
to be published April 2013 by Sourcebooks Fire

If He Had Been With Me tells the romantic history of a teen girl and her childhood best friend leading up to his tragic car accident in which the passenger seat was occupied by another girl.

I Have thoroughly enjoyed all of the Sourcebooks published contemporaries that I have read and I love the snapshot of a blurb we get for this one. And that cover! I am so excited!!

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Confessions Of A Murder Suspect Review

TITLE Confessions of a Murder Suspect (Teen Detective Series #1)
AUTHOR James Patterson And Maxine Paetro
PUBLICATION September 24th 2012 by Little, Brown and Company
READ September 23, 2012
SOURCE Hachette Book Group Canada

James Patterson returns to the genre that made him famous with a thrilling teen detective series about the mysterious and magnificently wealthy Angel family . . . and the dark secrets they're keeping from one another.

On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, Tandy Angel knows just three things: 1) She was the last person to see her parents alive. 2) The police have no suspects besides Tandy and her three siblings. 3) She can't trust anyone--maybe not even herself. Having grown up under Malcolm and Maud's intense perfectionist demands, no child comes away undamaged. Tandy decides that she will have to clear the family name, but digging deeper into her powerful parents' affairs is a dangerous-and revealing-game. Who knows what the Angels are truly capable of?

I had read quite a few adult James Patterson novels prior to starting my blog and had been meaning to give one of his YA novels a go. But that just hadn't happened yet, so when I got Confessions of A Murder Suspect in the mail I was quick to jump right in. What grabs you first is the stunning cover, which is beautiful on the front, the back and even inside. What really takes hold of you is when you read the very first page and realize that the novel is written as if Tandy, our (unreliable) narrator is speaking directly to us. She is telling the reader her story, it's a confession of sorts.

Tandy, short for Tandoori (how cool right?) comes from a family that definitely has their fair share of quirks. From the decor of their house to the odd Big Chop punishments dished out by Malcolm and Maud (mom & dad) I was entranced and found myself furrowing my brow at a lot of the descriptions of how the Angel family carried out their day to day life. That definitely escalated the story and had me turning the pages, not even mentioning the mystery yet. I'll admit, I had no idea what was going on, I had no one to point my finger at as Patterson slowly revealed small clues and revealed the Angel family history. I will say that the big reveal was a bit of a letdown, and I think it could have been much more twisty and interesting, but alas, I have to review what I read.

The Angel family is full of interesting, different characters. Patterson successfully created a whole family of characters that are perfectly flawed in their own way and felt completely different from one another. I liked Tandy, she had balls and she had the brains to back it up. She would run off at the mouth, but not before carefully thinking about each word that she was going to send out. Her twin, Harrison, couldn't have been more of an opposite, he was an emotional wreck and he wore his emotions on his sleeve. And Hugo, oh Hugo, the 10 year old monster who had more pent up rage than anyone I've ever known. Most of the scenes with Hugo had me chuckling so I always appreciated when he made an appearance.

While this is not a perfect novel, and probably won't blow your mind in the end, it was a fun read with just enough quirks to suck you in and hold you. I am very happy that this is the beginning of a series because I want more of Tandy and after everything was revealed I am dying to see what becomes of the Angel children. Please, Mr. Patterson, don't keep me waiting too long!

The Book Buzzers (1)

So, today I am super excited to be able to post my first video entry for the vlogging group that I joined, The Book Buzzers.  There are 7 of us, one for each day of the week, and every week we will have a new bookish topic that we will ramble to you about on our respective days.  Here is the weekly breakdown:

Monday: Jenni (Yours truly!)

Tuesday: Emily from Doodle's Book Blog

Wednesday: Evie from Evie Bookish

Thursday: Justin from Justin's Book Blog

Friday: Tiffany from Escaping One Book At A Time

Saturday: Jessirae from Words, Pages, And Books

Sunday: Amy from Book Loving Mom

This week we are talking about the 5 books on our shelf that we were super excited for, rushed out to get, and then never actually ended up reading!

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What books on your shelf were you eager to get but never got around to reading?

Also, please leave some suggestions for topics you would like to see us talk about! Always open to new ideas!

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Books mentioned (click the title for Goodreads):
Swell by Julie Rieman Duck
Butterfly Kisses (The Butterfly Chronicles #2) by Mia Castile
Ultraviolet (Ultraviolet #1) by R.J. Anderson
Confessions of a Murder Suspect by James Patterson
This is Not A Drill by Beck McDowell
Uglies (Uglies #1) by Scott Westerfeld
Specials (Uglies #3) by Scott Westerfeld
Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac by Gabrielle Zevin
Stay by Deb Caletti

Bloggers mentioned:
Blythe from Finding Bliss in Books

Ok, first of all check out that hot still that YouTube stuck me with! Thank you for that YouTube! A big thanks this week goes to Hachette UK, Hachette Book Group Canada, and Beck McDowell! You guys made my week ROCK and I can't wait to read all of these gorgeous new books!

So, what goodies did you get this week? Link me up!

Who I Kissed Review

TITLE Who I Kissed
AUTHOR Janet Gurtler
PUBLICATION October 1st 2012 by Sourcebooks Fire
READ September 15 - 16, 2012

She never thought a kiss could kill…
Samantha didn’t mean to hurt anyone. She was just trying to fit in...and she wanted to make Zee a little jealous after he completely ditched her for a prettier girl. So she kissed Alex. And then he died—right in her arms.
Was she really the only person in the entire school who didn’t know about his peanut allergy? Or that eating a peanut butter sandwich and then kissing him would be deadly? Overnight Sam turns into the school pariah and a media sensation explodes. Consumed with guilt, abandoned by her friends, and in jeopardy of losing her swimming scholarship, she’ll have to find a way to forgive herself before anyone else will.

After the Edmonton Book Blogger love fest that took place last week at the Smart Chicks Kick it book tour I was excited to get into a conversation with author Janet Gurtler on Twitter and find out that she is from Alberta! How cool to find so many bookish people near me. What was weird about it, was that I went to my shelf and grabbed Who I Kissed to start reading it and checked my phone and there was a tweet from her. It was quite the cowinkidink. So anywho, I read it, and I really enjoyed it. It's a quick read that I easily finished in two sittings and at no point did I ever feel bored or that the story was in any way lagging. Sam is an avid swimmer and after relocating to a new school she joins the swim team and quickly has eyes for senior swimmer Zee. She gets invited to a party at her friend Taylor's house and is overjoyed when Zee seems to be coming onto her and takes her outside. Well, things don't go quite as planned and one of Zee's old fling steps right between them and snatches his attention away. Out of the dark comes a boy who had been checking Sam out a lot lately, Alex. She decides in the moment to kiss Alex to make Zee a little jealous. She didn't think anything about the peanut butter sandwich that she had eaten as a snack prior to the party.... and Alex drops dead. Mid-kiss.

I had expected Who I Kissed to be a bit more funny than it was. Weird I know. To think that a book about a boy dying mid-kiss due to an anaphylactic peanut allergy would be funny, but I did. I hadn't expected to connect with the characters as much as I did. I felt so bad for Sam, she was the new girl at school and had no idea. Alex was pretty popular and everyone but her knew about his allergy. She goes into a depression and stops doing the one thing that she loves because she knows that Alex will never be able to fulfill his dreams so she feels as if she shouldn't be able to either. It was crushing to see how ruined she was after the incident, knowing that it was in no way her fault, and there was no way she could have known. I was pretty mad at Zee for holding it against her even though I could see what would make him do that. Sure it was her kiss that did the deed, but she had no idea about the allergy and it was an honest mistake.  I have to say that my favourite character was Sam's aunt Allie.  Her free spirited way of life and her patience and understanding for those around her was really admirable.  She was the perfect cooky aunt!

While this book definitely goes to an extreme with the issue, I have noticed the peanut issue becoming rather important. I remember being in school and you could eat what you wanted, when you wanted. Your mom could make cupcakes for you to take to school on your birthday and hand out to the other kids in celebration. But now that my daughter is in school there are strict regulations, it is a peanut free zone and we can't even bake cupcakes or cake for them to take in. It has to come pre packaged with the Peanut Free symbol on it. This story tackles that issue through the plot of course but also through the news stories that Sam watches. It's shocking how serious a nut allergy can be, and I'll admit, I hadn't realized it myself.

I was so happy to have enjoyed this book as much as I did and I will definitely be looking out for more books by Janet and supporting my fellow Albertan!

A copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Speechless Review

TITLE Speechless
AUTHOR Hannah Harrington
PUBLICATION August 28th 2012 by HarlequinTeen
READ August 27 - 28, 2012

Everyone knows that Chelsea Knot can't keep a secret

Until now. Because the last secret she shared turned her into a social outcast—and nearly got someone killed.

Now Chelsea has taken a vow of silence—to learn to keep her mouth shut, and to stop hurting anyone else. And if she thinks keeping secrets is hard, not speaking up when she's ignored, ridiculed and even attacked is worse.

But there's strength in silence, and in the new friends who are, shockingly, coming her way—people she never noticed before; a boy she might even fall for. If only her new friends can forgive what she's done. If only she can forgive herself.

Speechless catches your eye from the first moment you see it, just not for the reason most books catch your eye. The cover is beautiful in its simplicity, and it makes you wonder what is inside that white binding. What's inside is a very good, contemporary story. I really enjoyed this one, it was full of high school drama (which I love) and we have a main character who starts out as someone we don't really like, but we get to watch her change and become someone much more appealing.

Chelsea Knot was a high school gossip, everything went in one ear.. and then out her mouth to the first person she saw. It's done her good so far. She is in the popular group at her school, and is the "right-hand girl" of Kristen, the Queen Bee of Grand Lake High. But all of that comes to a bitter end when Chelsea sees something at a party and immediately spreads the word getting the involved parties thrown into a life or death situation. I'll admit I was quite surprised with the direction that this novel went, I hadn't expected the situation to have so much depth or to be so touching. But it was, I literally found my jaw dropping at some instances and I wanted to reach in and shake the ignorant characters.

Characters; the driving force of any good story. Chelsea was someone who I didn't care for in the beginning but watching her grow throughout the novel and expand her horizons was definitely a great reading experience. She went from a narrow minded snob to someone who I could actually see myself being friends with. Once she is cast out from the popular crowd she befriends a quiet girl named Asha that she meets in detention one afternoon. The crowd that Chelsea gets pulled into through Asha was full of great people, I thought they all were very well developed. From Dex and Lou the diner owners to even Andy the quiet, angry cook. The one stand out character is, of course, Sam, our love interest. I really liked him and thought that he was exactly what Chelsea needed at that time in her life. He opened her eyes by understanding her and being patient.

For a novel that I went into expecting to be a light, quick read full of fluff, Speechless actually ended up being quite a touching tale that I feel has a lot of important things to say. It touches on so many subjects from tolerance to self acceptance, and it has everything you really need to feel as if you are part of the story, being affected by all the drama. This is one that I will be highly recommending to anyone looking for an Alluring Read.

Cover Reveal: Abandon by Elana Johnson

Abandon (Possession #3)
by Elana Johnson
to be published June 2013 by Simon Pulse

Seduced by power,
broken by control,
and consumed by love...

Vi has made her choice between Jag and Zenn, and the Resistance may have suffered for it. But with the Thinkers as strong as ever, the rebels still have a job to do. Vi knows better than anyone that there's more at stake than a few broken hearts.

But there is a traitor among them...and the choices he makes could lead to the total destruction of everything Vi has fought for.

Vi, Jag, and Zenn must set their problems aside for the Resistance to have any hope of ending the Thinkers' reign. Their success means everything...and their failure means death.

All of the covers in this series are so pretty in their simplicity! This one definitely POPS. I love it! I haven't gotten to read Possession yet, but I did sign up on her tour so I will be getting to it very soon.  What do you think of the cover for Abandon?

 The Possession series so far...

Elana's Website / Twitter / Goodreads

Elana is the author of the Possession series, which includes full-length novels POSSESSION and SURRENDER, and short stories REGRET (ebook only) and INSIDER INFORMATION (free here!). Learn how to spell and say her name.

Elana wishes she could experience her first kiss again, tell the mean girl where to shove it, and have cool superpowers like reading minds and controlling fire. To fulfill her desires, she writes young adult science fiction and fantasy.

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Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly feature that highlights books that I am anxiously awaiting. WoW is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.

Nobody But Us
by Kristin Halbrook
to be published January 29th 2013 by HarperTeen

Bonnie and Clyde meets Simone Elkeles in this addictively heart-wrenching story of two desperate teenagers on the run from their pasts.

They’re young. They’re in love. They’re on the run.

Zoe wants to save Will as much as Will wants to save Zoe. When Will turns eighteen, they decide to run away together. But they never expected their escape to be so fraught with danger....

When the whole world is after you, sometimes it seems like you can’t run fast enough.

Nobody But Us, told in alternating perspectives from Will and Zoe, is an unflinching novel, in turns heartbreaking and hopeful, about survival, choices, and love...and how having love doesn’t always mean that you get a happy ending. Described as “beautiful, heartbreaking, and exhilarating” by Kody Keplinger, author of The DUFF, Nobody But Us will prove irresistible to fans of Nina Lacour, Jenny Han, and Sara Zarr.

Now I know who Bonnie and Clyde are and I am super intrigued to see if this gets as serious and out of hand as their story was.  I'm so into contemporaries right now and this sounds like it has just enough edge for me.

 So what are you waiting on this week? Link me up! 

Nerve Tour Stop (Review/Giveaway)

Today I have the Nerve by Jeanne Ryan blog tour stopping by.  This post features my review of Nerve as well as a giveaway to win a signed copy for yourself.  This tour is brought to you by AToMR Book Tours, to see all the stops on the tour click here.

TITLE Nerve
AUTHOR Jeanne Ryan
PUBLICATION September 13th 2012 by Dial Books (Penguin)
READ September 12 - 13, 2012

A high-stakes online game of dares turns deadly

When Vee is picked to be a player in NERVE, an anonymous game of dares broadcast live online, she discovers that the game knows her. They tempt her with prizes taken from her ThisIsMe page and team her up with the perfect boy, sizzling-hot Ian. At first it's exhilarating--Vee and Ian's fans cheer them on to riskier dares with higher stakes. But the game takes a twisted turn when they're directed to a secret location with five other players for the Grand Prize round. Suddenly they're playing all or nothing, with their lives on the line. Just how far will Vee go before she loses NERVE?

Debut author Jeanne Ryan delivers an un-putdownable suspense thriller.

Nerve is a fast paced thrill ride that grabs hold of you on the very first page and doesn't let go until the very last shocking line. I thoroughly enjoyed everything about this book, from the in your face cover to the clever storyline I was hooked, line and sinker! Vee is a behind the scenes kind of girl, instead of being center stage she works in costume design on her high school play. The actors who take center stage every night are her best friend, Sydney and her long time crush, Matthew. As Vee realizes that Matthew is going for her loud, rambunctious friend over her she decides to step out of her comfort zone in hopes of being noticed. She signs up for an online game called NERVE in which everyday people are given dares by a super secret company that they must fulfill in real-time, streamed live over the internet.

The premise for this one sucked me in as soon as I read the blurb. People going out of their comfort zone and doing increasingly difficult dares to win bigger and better prizes each time. How awesome! I'm not going to lie, at first (before things got out of hand) I was wishing this was real! I would have totally rocked the preliminary dares and had a blast doing so, but that's how they suck you in right? It can't be easy the whole way. So the dares get exponentially difficult and even painfully personal as the novel wears on. It does definitely go to some extremes, and I do have questions about how such things could have been pulled off, and how NERVE would ever get away with something like this, but alas, this is a fiction novel! And it is a damn fun one!

The characters were great, I really felt Vee's desperation and her need to escape the mold that she was placed into. Sydney was the typical high school snotbag and Matthew angered me quite a bit. And we also have a bit of a romance here folks, there are two possible choices for Vee and I was really worried we would be faced with a love triangle, but it didn't turn out that way at all! While I knew that there was something amiss and a big twist would be coming I couldn't pinpoint exactly what it would be at any point in the novel. I had so many ideas of where the story could go, and while the outcome was one of my possible scenarios, it was still fulfilling and felt like a big 180 in the story.

If you're looking for a fast paced story that is perfectly out of the ordinary, Jeanne Ryan has weaved the perfect tale for you. The ending had me dying for more and now I am left to wonder, will there be more? PLEASE LET THERE BE MORE!

A copy was provided by the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

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Jeanne's Website / Twitter / Facebook

I’ve lived all over the world, raised in a family with eleven brothers and sisters. I spent my early childhood in Hawaii and the rest of my growing-up years trying to figure out a way to get back there, with stops in South Korea, Michigan and Germany along the way. Before writing fiction, I tried my hand at many things, including war game simulation and youth development research. But I decided it was much more fun to work on stories than statistics.

These days, I still love Hawaii, but have found my home under the moody skies of the Pacific Northwest.