Book Blitz+Review+Giveaway: Descent (Kissed by Death #3) by Tara A. Fuller

Welcome to the blog tour for "Descent" (Inbetween #3) by Tara Fuller! It's organised by YA Bound Books and today I am hosting the review of the book as also a giveaway!

About the book:

Descent (Kissed by Death #3) by Tara A. Fuller

Release Date: 06/02/15

Entangled Teen

320 pages

Summary from Goodreads: 

He’ll destroy everything and everyone to save her…including himself.

Easton doesn’t believe in love. He believes in death. Darkness. Sin. As a reaper for Hell, it’s all he’s known for more than four hundred years. So when he gets slapped with the job of training the boss’s daughter, an angel that knows nothing but joy, he knows he’s in for a world of trouble.

Though he’s made it clear he wants nothing to do with her outside of work, Gwen will do whatever it takes to get close to the dark and wounded reaper—even taint her angelic image and become a reaper herself. But in all her planning, she forgot to factor in one thing—how far the demons Easton doomed to Hell will go for revenge.

When the dangers of the Hell threaten Gwen, Easton will destroy everything and everyone to save her. But as the darkness closes in, will he be able to save himself?

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Descent Blog Tour Post: Playlist 

Descent (Kissed by Death, #3) Playlist 

1.Sympathy for the Devil by The Rolling Stones  

2.I’m On Fire by AWOLNATION

3.Burns by Alice Boman

4.Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley

5.Wicked Game by James Vincent McMorrow

6.Hells Bells by AC/DC

7.No Rest for the Wicked by Cage the Elephant

8.Animals by Maroon 5

9.Awake my Soul by Mumford & Sons

10. Bad Man Coming by Crooked Fingers

11. Radioactive by Imagine Dragons

12. Safe and Sound by Taylor Swift

13. Waiting on an Angel by Ben Harper

 REVIEW

ARC provided in exchange for an honest review

I was surprised to read a book like this one! I knew the "Inbetween" series from the same author was quite popular and I struggled to find the first books. But alas I decided to read the third book instead.

What I liked: the differences between the points of view;Easton and Gwen look life differently and they struggle to understan their feelings fr each other. Sure a trip on Hell is dangerous but through this they learn more about each other, fall i love and find redemption. I did see some of the characters from the previous books and I didn't feel like I had lost the focus on the story.

So this book can also be read as a stand-alone. A good story, quick and adventurous.


 
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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Cover reveal: "The Power" (Titan #2) by Jennifer Armentrout

 

 We are over the moon about this Cover Reveal for Jennifer L. Armentrout's THE POWER!! THE POWER is a New Adult Paranormal being published by Spencer Hill Press, and is a part of Jennifer L. Armentrout’s The Titan Series. It is being released on February 23^rd, 2016!!

 

“You don’t know what I’m capable of.”

Official Description To Come…

   

Don't miss THE RETURN, the first book in the Titan Series....

 

 

THE RETURN Synopsis: The Fates are cackling their bony asses off... It's been a year since Seth made the deal with the gods that pledged his life to them. And so far, the jobs they've given him have been violent and bloody--which is kind of all right with him. But now Apollo has something else in mind for Seth. He's got to play protector while keeping his hands and fingers off, and for someone who really has a problem with restraint, this new assignment might be the most challenging yet. Josie has no idea what this crazy hot guy's deal might be, but it's a good bet that his arrival means the new life she started after leaving home is about to be thrown into an Olympian-sized blender turned up to puree. Either Josie is going insane or a nightmare straight out of ancient myth is gunning for her. But it might be the unlikely attraction simmering between her and the golden-eyed, secret-keeping Seth that may prove to be the most dangerous thing of all. Because history has once again been flipped to repeat.

 

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  Jennifer L. Armentrout/J.Lynn Bio: # 1 NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY Bestselling author Jennifer 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. Her book Obsidian has been optioned for a major motion picture and her Covenant Series has been optioned for TV. She also writes adult and New Adult romance under the name J. Lynn. She is published by Entangled Brazen and HarperCollins.

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Review: "I'll Meet You There" by Heather Demetrios

I'll Meet You There by Heather Demetrios
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Summary from GoodReads

If seventeen-year-old Skylar Evans were a typical Creek View girl, her future would involve a double-wide trailer, a baby on her hip, and the graveyard shift at Taco Bell. But after graduation, the only thing standing between straightedge Skylar and art school are three minimum-wage months of summer. Skylar can taste the freedom—that is, until her mother loses her job and everything starts coming apart. Torn between her dreams and the people she loves, Skylar realizes everything she’s ever worked for is on the line.Nineteen-year-old Josh Mitchell had a different ticket out of Creek View: the Marines. But after his leg is blown off in Afghanistan, he returns home, a shell of the cocksure boy he used to be. What brings Skylar and Josh together is working at the Paradise—a quirky motel off California’s dusty Highway 99. Despite their differences, their shared isolation turns into an unexpected friendship and soon, something deeper.


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REVIEW

Thanks to Tikka's recommendation I was able to read "I'll meet you There" for the first time. I've never read any other books by Heather, even when I knew that she had also published Exquisite Captive not long ago. This book kept me focused on the plot with its funny, emotional monents and the flashbacks from Josh's side. I like how Heather caught the struggle every young person has when his or her future is concerned. Although Josh was very sad as a character, I believe that his actions all over the book were justified, knowing that he lost his leg on the war.

The ending was sweet with the hope for a better future for Sky and Josh who decide to step out of the boundaries of their town into a journey of self-discovery. Great plot and flawed, lovable characters!


About the author:

When she’s not traipsing around the world or spending time in imaginary places, Heather Demetrios lives with her husband in New York City. Originally from Los Angeles, she now calls the East Coast home. Heather has an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from Vermont College of Fine Arts and is a recipient of the PEN New England Susan P. Bloom Discovery Award for her debut novel, Something Real. Her other novels include Exquisite Captive, the first in the Dark Caravan Cycle fantasy series, and I’ll Meet You There. 

She is the founder of Live Your What, an organization dedicated to fostering passion in people of all ages and creating writing opportunities for underserved youth. Find out more about Heather and her books at www.heatherdemetrios.com and www.darkcaravancycle.com, or come hang out with her on Twitter (@HDemetrios) and any number of social media sites.

Reviewing Claudia Gray: A Thousand Pieces of You (Firebird, #1)+Fateful

A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Summary from GoodReads

Every Day meets Cloud Atlas in this heart-racing, space- and time-bending, epic new trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray.

Marguerite Caine’s physicist parents are known for their radical scientific achievements. Their most astonishing invention: the Firebird, which allows users to jump into parallel universes, some vastly altered from our own. But when Marguerite’s father is murdered, the killer—her parent’s handsome and enigmatic assistant Paul—escapes into another dimension before the law can touch him.

Marguerite can’t let the man who destroyed her family go free, and she races after Paul through different universes, where their lives entangle in increasingly familiar ways. With each encounter she begins to question Paul’s guilt—and her own heart. Soon she discovers the truth behind her father’s death is more sinister than she ever could have imagined.

A Thousand Pieces of You explores a reality where we witness the countless other lives we might lead in an amazingly intricate multiverse, and ask whether, amid infinite possibilities, one love can endure.


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REVIEW

One of the best books of 2014 and I was able to read it! I saw many reviews which praised this book and I have to tell you, if you like the mutli-dimensional plots like me then this is for you!

Marguerite is the daughter of two scientist who have made a breakthrough on dimension travel. But when Paul, one of her family's assistant's is changed with the murder of her father, as also stealing one of the Firebirds, Mar and Theo will do anything in order to stop him.

Even travel into parallel dimensions.

First of all, I'd never read any of Claudia's works. I knew of "Evernight" series but this one caught my attention back on December 2014. And the book didn't disappoint me. From futuristic London to Russia of the tsars and straight into an underwater world, Claudia delivers an amazing plot where destiny, soul mates and technology merge together.

Marguerite despite her artistic and soft nature is a strong girl who is driven by her grief, at first. Without being spoilery, I'll tell you that the ending is not what you expect on the first book, since everything changes.

The author also spend a great deal on describing the worlds through Mar's eyes as also giving the backstory through flashbacks. For me this story was fullfilling and with a great chance on becoming epic for its genre.

Fateful by Claudia Gray

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

 Summary from GoodReads

Eighteen-year-old maid Tess Davies is determined to escape the wealthy, troubled family she serves. It’s 1912, and Tess has been trapped in the employ of the Lisles for years, amid painful memories and twisted secrets. But now the Lisle family is headed to America, with Tess in tow. Once the ship they’re sailing on—the RMS Titanic—reaches its destination, Tess plans to strike out and create a new lifefor herself.

Her single-minded focus shatters when she meets Alec, a handsome first-class passenger who captivates her instantly. But Alec has secrets of his own. He’s in a hurry to leave Europe, and whispers aboard the ship say it’s because of the tragic end of his last affair with the French actress who died so gruesomely and so mysteriously. . . .

Soon Tess will learn just how dark Alec’s past truly is. The danger they face is no ordinary enemy: werewolves exist and are stalking him—and now her, too. Her growing love for Alec will put Tess in mortal peril, and fate will do the same before their journey on the Titanic is over.

In Fateful, New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray delivers paranormal adventure, dark suspense, and alluring romance set against the opulent backdrop of the Titanic’s first—and last—voyage.



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REVIEW

This book was a surprise! I read it along with "A Thousand Pieces of You" and was bery, very pleased with the ending. Two words caught my attention: werewolves and Titanic. Fearing that this one would be heart-wreching to the point of throwing my tablet to the wall.

 I took the risk on reading one of the most frightening accidents in History.

The historical element was well portayed in the book despite the fact that the weight of the plot fell to the romance. Tess and Alec wasa great pair, one quite strong for her social background, the other very pained and torn because of his life.

The ending? Well, it was worth reading this early work of Claudia Gray, placing her on my aisle of the top authors I love!

About the author:

Claudia Gray is not my real name. I didn't choose a pseudonym because my real name is unpleasant (it isn't), because I'd always dreamed of calling myself this (I haven't) or even because I'm hiding from the remnants of that international diamond-smuggling cartel I smashed in 2003 (Interpol has taken care of them). In short, I took a pseudonym for no real reason whatsoever. Sometimes this is actually the best reason to do things.

I live in New Orleans. So far, in life, I've been a disc jockey, a lawyer, a journalist and an extremely bad waitress, just to name a few. I especially like to spend time traveling, hiking, reading and listening to music. More than anything else, I enjoy writing.

Feature and Follow #256

Welcome to the Feature & Follow

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Gain new followers and make new friends with the Book Blogger Feature & Follow! If this is your first time here, welcome! You are about to make some new friends and gain new followers -- but you have to know -- the point of this hop is to follow other bloggers also. I follow you, you follow me.

The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee's View and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it'll allow me and them to show off more new blogs!

How does this work? First you leave your name here on this post, (using the linky tools -- keep scrolling!) then you create a post on your own blog that links back to this post (easiest way is to just grab the code at the host blogs and put it in your post) and then you visit as many blogs as you can and tell them "hi" in their comments (on the post that has the #FF image). You follow them, they follow you. Win. Win. Just make sure to follow back if someone follows you!

                              Question of the Week: 

How would you pitch to the biz to make your favorite book into a movie? - Suggested by Girl of 1000 Wonders.

                                    My answer:

There are many books I would love to see on the big screen. But there is the problem of how much of the book would ACTUALLY be in the movie. Or if the characters are portayed nicely into the plot. As a movie-cholic, I have this need to feel one with the movie, especially if it's coming from a book.

The best option would be for the book to become a TV series, like "The Mortal Instruments" from Cassandra Clare. I am all into for this, since the author also particpates, and it's vital to have the author's opinion. In geberal I would prefer for a book to become a TV show rather than a movie.

If there was a book I would love to see on a TV show that would be...

 

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Cover reveal: "Undeath & Taxes" by Drew Hayes

 Welcome to the cover reaveal of "Undeath & Taxes" by Drew Hayes! This is the sequel of the first book "The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant".
If you love vampires, snarky moments and lots of mystery then this book is for you!




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Blurb: 

After discovering just how filled with magic, intrigue, and adventure the parahuman world of being an Undead American can be, Fredrick Frankford Fletcher did exactly what was expected--he became a certified parahuman accountant. Myths and legends, as it turns out, are not so great at taking appropriate deductions and keeping their receipts, and Fred is more than happy to return to a life others view as woefully dull, expanding his accounting business to cater to various monsters and their respective financial needs. Said monsters are, unfortunately, still spectacular at pulling Fred into trouble, though. And despite merely wanting to stick with simple paperwork, Fred once again finds he is going to have to deal with enchanted weaponry, government agents, possessed houses, and one enigmatic dragon’s interest. In the parahuman world, any business can turn deadly, even one as mundane as accounting.

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The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant

Some people are born boring. Some live boring. Some even die boring. Fred managed to do all three, and when he woke up as a vampire, he did so as a boring one. Timid, socially awkward, and plagued by self-esteem issues, Fred has never been the adventurous sort.

One fateful night – different from the night he died, which was more inconvenient than fateful – Fred reconnects with an old friend at his high school reunion. This rekindled relationship sets off a chain of events thrusting him right into the chaos that is the parahuman world, a world with chipper zombies, truck driver wereponies, maniacal necromancers, ancient dragons, and now one undead accountant trying his best to “survive.” Because even after it’s over, life can still be a downright bloody mess.







Author Bio: 
 

Drew Hayes is an aspiring author from Texas who has written several books and found the gumption to publish a few (so far). He graduated from Texas Tech with a B.A. in English, because evidently he’s not familiar with what the term “employable” means. Drew has been called one of the most profound, prolific, and talented authors of his generation, but a table full of drunks will say almost anything when offered a round of free shots. Drew feels kind of like a D-bag writing about himself in the third person like this. He does appreciate that you’re still reading, though.

Drew would like to sit down and have a beer with you. Or a cocktail. He’s not here to judge your preferences. Drew is terrible at being serious, and has no real idea what a snippet biography is meant to convey anyway. Drew thinks you are awesome just the way you are. That part, he meant. Drew is off to go high-five random people, because who doesn’t love a good high-five? No one, that’s who. See Drew told about himself in first person on his website and twitter.

Review: "An Ember in the Ashes" by Sabaa Tahir

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Summary from GoodReads

I WILL TELL YOU THE SAME THING I TELL EVERY SLAVE.

THE RESISTANCE HAS TRIED TO PENETRATE THIS SCHOOL COUNTLESS TIMES. I HAVE DISCOVERED IT EVERY TIME.

IF YOU ARE WORKING WITH THE RESISTANCE, IF YOU CONTACT THEM, IF YOU THINK OF CONTACTING THEM, I WILL KNOW

AND I WILL DESTROY YOU.

Laia is a slave.
Elias is a soldier.
Neither is free.

Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear.

It is in this brutal world, inspired by ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. The family ekes out an existence in the Empire’s impoverished backstreets. They do not challenge the Empire. They’ve seen what happens to those who do.

But when Laia’s brother is arrested for treason, Laia is forced to make a decision. In exchange for help from rebels who promise to rescue her brother, she will risk her life to spy for them from within the Empire’s greatest military academy.

There, Laia meets Elias, the school’s finest soldier—and secretly, its most unwilling. Elias wants only to be free of the tyranny he’s being trained to enforce. He and Laia will soon realize that their destinies are intertwined—and that their choices will change the fate of the Empire itself.


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REVIEW

 After seeing the hiatus over "An Ember in the Ashes" I decided to give the book a chance. As a history geek (especially if you follow my stories on Wattpad) i was intrigued by the roman-like historical setting and the eerie add of something Eastern "Arabian-like" style.

Laia lives in the lowest parts of what used to be "he Scholar Empire". Ruled by the Martials and terrified by the Masks, warriors deadly just like their name, she loses her family and her brother. As she tries to find him, she must endure the torture of the Commandant who rules the Martial Academy.

What no one knows? She has become a spy.

Elias hates his life and training as a Mask. Seeking to escape life and live free, he will have to deal with the Trials and even his fears.

When the two of them meet, destiny will bring them close. Although I enjoyed the bouble POV and the way everything was described in detail, from the Roman names to the myths and legends of Sabba's world, my only concern was the romance. From a point it became lost to the plot and the action and only towards the ending did I get a peek on what could happen between Laila and Elias. The world building was the strong point as also the deep fears and secrets Elias had to face.

The general plot was a good escape from the ordinary and I was very pleased to see that there would be a sequel. I only hope that we will see more of Elias and Laia as a pair into their way on their new adventure.




About the author:

Come find me on Twitter or Instagram @sabaatahir, or on my web site: www.sabaatahir.com

Sabaa Tahir grew up in California’s Mojave Desert at her family’s 18-room motel. There, she spent her time devouring fantasy novels, raiding her brother’s comic book stash and playing guitar badly. She began writing An Ember in the Ashes while working nights as a newspaper editor. She likes thunderous indie rock, garish socks and all things nerd. Sabaa currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family.