tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10156088640839024892024-03-13T15:31:12.466-07:00Realm of the Sapphired DragonSapphired Dragonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234090958885722985noreply@blogger.comBlogger603125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015608864083902489.post-25943215606365348922019-03-25T04:46:00.001-07:002019-03-25T04:47:26.051-07:00Blog Tour Post & Giveaway: Immerse (Mer Chronicles #3) by Tobie Easton<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Welcome today's stop on the <a href="http://www.chapter-by-chapter.com/tour-schedule-immerse-by-tobie-easton/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Immerse (Mer Chronicles #3) by Tobie Easton Blog Tour</a> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: center;">presented by </span><span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: center;">Month9Books</span><span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"> and hosted by </span><span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: center;">Chapter by Chapter. Today's stop is a review as well as a chance to enter the great giveaway that is being run throughout this tour.</span></span></div>
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I loved books 1 and 2 of this series so I jumped at the chance to read and review the conclusion to this series. It was most definitely a good decision. Not only was it a great continuation and satisfying conclusion to a very enjoyable series but it was also a enjoyable and engaging story in its own right.<br />
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Book 3, Immerse, starts a day before Lia's parent's are due to be crowned King and Queen of Mer, Lia and Clay are seeing each other in secret and Caspian has been visiting Melusine in the not quite jail cell the community has placed her in.<br />
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I loved that this story is told from both Lia and Melusine's alternating points of view. It really added such depth to the story as the two characters have such different perspectives and I really like that we got to know more about Melusine in this book and got to explore both her feelings on her previous action in the pas two books as well as her perspective of the story unfolding in front of her. The storyline felt believable and I was glued till the end waiting to see how it all turned out. I liked the way the story built and the ending was everything I had hope for<br />
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I also felt that Lia grew a lot in this book both in her decision making and actions and I liked her even more in this book than I had previously.<br />
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Over all this book has all the elements of a great story; Characters that you could feel genuine connections to, a story line pulled you in and kept you there through all the twists and turns, and a nice balance of action, adventure and romance and leaves with a feeling of satisfaction in the ending.</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: grey; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Immerse (Mer Chronicles #3) by Tobie Easton</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">Immerse is the spellbinding and breathless final installment of the Mer Chronicles series where descendants of the Little Mermaid must face deadly magic, shifting alliances, and the dangers of forbidden love.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">Lia can’t wait for her parents’ coronation. Now living in the sparkling palace beneath the waves, she sneaks off to Malibu whenever possible to see Clay. Tucked away in an abandoned seaside mansion, Lia and Clay devise a plan to ensure they can stay together forever.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">But when an old enemy resurfaces and Lia is restricted to the palace for the safety of all Merkind, she and Clay are ripped apart once more.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">She fears not only for Clay, but for her best friend Caspian, who seems to be swimming down a dangerous path. He has invited the conniving Melusine to the coronation ball, convinced she’s capable of change. And no matter how hard Lia fights it, showing up on Caspian’s arm is just the start of Melusine’s insidious return to her life.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">With threats Below growing more ominous by the day and a powerful ancient ritual looming, soon the two girls can’t escape each other. As their fates grow increasingly intertwined, Melusine might be the only one who can help Lia find the answers she desperately needs to save everyone she loves and to achieve her happily ever after. But can Lia trust her?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Lia Nautilus may be a Mermaid but she’s never lived in the ocean. War has ravaged the seven seas ever since the infamous Little Mermaid unleashed a curse that stripped Mer of their immortality. Lia has grown up in a secret community of land-dwelling Mer hidden among Malibu’s seaside mansions. Her biggest problems are surviving P.E. and keeping her feelings for Clay Ericson in check. Sure, he’s gorgeous in that cocky, leather jacket sort of way and makes her feel like there’s a school of fish swimming in her stomach, but getting involved with a human could put Lia's entire community at risk. So it’s for the best that he’s dating that new girl, right? That is, until Lia finds out she isn't the only one at school keeping a potentially deadly secret. And this new girl? Her eyes are dead set on Clay, who doesn't realize the danger he's in. If Lia hopes to save him, she’ll have to get closer to Clay. Lia’s parents would totally flip if they found out she was falling for a human boy, but the more time she spends with him, the harder it is for her to deny her feelings. After making a horrible mistake, Lia will risk everything to stop Clay from falling in love with the wrong girl. </span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #660000;">You'd think a girl with the most romantic name in the world would have her pick of boyfriends. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">But Valentine's Day sucks when you're single. Just ask Juliet Valentine, whose last name happens to also be the name of the most dreaded made-up holiday ever. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">A romantic at heart, this year is especially hard on Juliet. Her sister, Layla, is in a new relationship, her mom's match-making business is doing great, and her school's new fundraiser is "Love-Grams."</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Quarterback Jared Black is the most popular guy in school. A star athlete, Jared tops the most-eligible bachelor list year after year. But to Juliet Valentine, he's all but invisible. She isn't impressed. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Jared's never had to work hard to get the attention of a girl before. Valentine's Day is fast approaching, and he's determined to ask Juliet out. After all, if Tyler can win over Layla, Jared ought to have a shot with Layla's sister.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Unlike Tyler and Layla, charm, flattery and good looks won't work on Juliet. So with the V-Day dance coming up, Jared uses the school’s Love-Grams to let Juliet know how he feels. Should be simple enough, right?</span></div>
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In a war of gods and tyrants, the will of the dragonrider must never falter.<br />
Captured and tortured by the brutal tyrant, Argonox, Reigh’s worst fears have now been realized. Argonox has successfully twisted his mysterious dark power for a truly evil purpose—reanimating the long-deceased legendary dragonrider, Beckah Derrick, and her monstrous king drake. But Argonox’s cruelty won’t end there, and Reigh fears the worst is yet to come. Rescue is unlikely as the Tibrans prepare to make their final strike, poised to break Maldobar’s ranks of proud dragonriders once and for all.<br />
With many of its cities already captured by the Tibran Empire, all hope now rests with Jaevid, Princess Jenna, Phillip, and their mismatched band of dragonrider allies to lead the last stand and save their kingdom. Even in such frightful times, Jaevid may find he still has a few old friends ready to take up their weapons and stand at his side again. But facing down Beckah is perhaps the one thing that might break Jaevid’s resolve. Can he really strike down the woman he used to love in order to save the kingdom?<br />
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This book was a fun, cute and enjoyable read.<br />
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Its starts when Alicea takes over her friend's Boyfriend Whisperer business. A computer programmer, Alicea has designed the perfect dating match program destined to help her high school colleagues find their dating match with 99% accuracy. However after being dumped by the boy of her dreams, Alicea has to trust her own dating program even when the match it spits out for her makes absolutely no sense.<br />
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At first I wasn't mad about Alicea. She seemed really young for her age, maturity level wise, which i thought might affect the story however as we got her know her better through the story, she grew on me and I liked that she grew in the story also. I liked Darius from the get go, much more than Ty Walker and I liked the Chemistry between Alicia and Darius and the way it grew with their interractions, through out the book.<br />
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There were so many cute moments in this book, I found my self drawn into the story really quickly and way too soon i was turning the last pages. I loved that the way the author fleshed out the characters so we got to see many different facets of the characters such as Alicea and her dancing , Darius with his sister. Their made the characters and the story so much more real and mincreased my connection to the story as a whole.<br />
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Overall this was a really enjoyable and cute read that left me with a smile on my face and a soft spot in my heart for Alicea and Darius<br />
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Brooke Parker never expected to find herself in the tiny town of Juniper Falls, Minnesota. Of course, she also never expected to lose her dad. Or for her mom to lose herself. Brooke feels like she’s losing it…until she finds Juniper Falls hockey. Juniper Falls girls’ hockey, that is.<br />
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Julie Cross is a NYT and USA Today bestselling author of New Adult and Young Adult fiction, including the Tempest series, a young adult science fiction trilogy which includes Tempest, Vortex, Timestorm (St. Martin's Press). She's also the author of Letters to Nowhere series, Whatever Life Throws at You, Third Degree, Halfway Perfect, Chasing Truth, Off the Ice and many more to come! Julie Cross was a longtime resident of central Illinois but has recently moved her entire family across the country to continue her academic studies at Stanford University.</div>
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Adaline Frost’s life officially sucks. Now that her BFF has found her true love, Addy is constantly stuck being the third wheel. On top of that, she hasn’t started her junior project yet, so her advisor pairs her up with what could only be described as the “Reject Breakfast Club.” Instead of the weirdo and the troublemaker, Addy is forced to work with two stoners, a popular girl, and her crush, Austin Reed, the jock who broke her heart.</div>
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Assassin of Truths was a satisfying conclusion to the Library Jumpers Trilogy. Full of action of action and excitement right from the word go, book 3 picks up a month or after the end of book 2. Gia and her friends are still reeling in the aftermath of the events of book 2, the grief at those they lost and for Gia especially the part she played in it all. However there are chiavi to find, a tetras to release and conquer and two worlds to save so Gia and her friends are determined to get on with the task at hand.
The pace of the story did not let up the whole way through, each page seemed to reveal a new secret or betrayal or surprise and raise the stakes just that little bit higher. This was done cleverly in a way that both progressed the story and kept me hooked into the book, holding my breath, from beginning to end.
I also found it easy to get back into the flow of the series. It’s been a year since I read Guardian of Secrets but I found it relatively easy to slip back into the story.
I really liked the growth we saw in many of the characters, in particular Gia, from the beginning of the series to this last book. She really seemed to learn and grow after each thing that happened and this made me like her all the more. I also liked seeing how her relationships with others, with Arik and Bastien especially, grew and changed as the characters did. It felt like virtually all Gia’s relationships with other characters changed through out the series, many strengthening and others changing into something completely different, which is how it is in life especially when there are epic world ending events in play.
What I loved most about the novel was the world building. Ms Drake creates a world that while dealing with all sports of strife, is one I would love to visit. Right from the beginning, the idea of being able to jump from place place via library and through a page in a library book, grabbed my imagination and the worlds and havens that Ms Drake created within this idea made not want to leave at the end.
All in all I really enjoyed this book and this series as a whole and I am sad that this appears to be the last book in this world. I do know that regardless of whether its set in this world or in some other, I will be interested in reading what Ms Drake writes next.
I have no qualms giving this book 4 stars for excitement, action, a great story and a world you will wish you could stay in.
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The gateways linking the great libraries of the world don’t require a library card, but they do harbor incredible dangers.
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I am a sucker for fairy tale retellings especially the darker ones and this one is darker than most which is part of the fun. I really liked the different take on the Cinderella tale that this story took. It kept the essential elements of the Cinderella story but cleverly wove the necromancy idea around this tale. <br />
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I liked the fact that there was no fairy godmother, that Ella after finding the grimoire in her father's office, used it to get herself to the ball. I also was intrigued about the fact that the grimoire was based on a real grimoire from the 15th century. Ella herself was strong and loyal to her family and I think this shone through the tale well.<br />
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I also liked the author's take on the other characters in the tale and the way it fitted with what we know of the characters from the original tale.<br />
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Whilst there seemed quite a bit to set up at the beginning , the tale itself flowed well and kept me reading till the last page. If you like your tales more brothers grimm than Disney, then this is the book for you.<br />
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I enjoyed this read and happily give it 3 3/4 stars</span></span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #660000;">Ellison lost her mother at an early age. Now, sixteen, her father has found love again. He’s happy and doesn’t quite notice that Ellison does not get along with his new wife or her vicious daughters.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #660000;">Until then, she must master her dark new power, even as her stepmother makes her a servant in her own home. And when her younger brother falls incurably ill, Ellison will do anything to ease his pain, including falling prey to her stepmother’s and stepsisters’ every whim and fancy.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #660000;">Stumbling into a chance meeting with Prince William during a secret visit to her mother’s grave feels like a trick of fate when her stepmother refuses to allow Ellison to attend a palace festival where she might see him once more.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #660000;">But what if Ellison could see the kind and handsome prince again? What if she could attend the festival? What if she could have everything she’s ever wanted and deserved by conjuring spirits to take revenge on her cruel stepmother? And what if she actually liked watching her stepmother suffer?</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #660000;">As Ellison’s power grows, she loses control over the evil spirits meant to do her bidding. And as they begin to exert their own power over Ellison, it becomes harder to tell whether it is she or her stepmother who is the true monster.</span><br />
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</span> <span style="color: #660000;">CINDERELLA NECROMANCER is CINDER meets ANNA DRESSED IN BLOOD and was inspired by a real medieval grimoire of necromancy from 15th-century Germany</span><br />
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I really enjoyed book 1 in this series, Emerge. So I was really looking forward to reading book 2 and even after a year since i read the first one, I was able to sink right back into the story. The story takes place a few months after the end of book 1, the Little mermaid's curse is broken, Lia and Clay have spent much of their summer together, whilst Lia's parents have been below securing support for their bid for the crown now that the wars are over. It's time for the trial of Melusine and her father. I liked that even though the curse was broken and the mermaids had their immortality back, everything was not automatically perfect and we got to see the characters re-adjusting to the changes. Lia was still dealing with repercussions of her choices in book 1 and full or worry that her sirening would come out and condemn her to jail and ruin her parents chances for the crown.<br />
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Where a lot of book one was set in the human world, most of book two takes place in the mermaid world so we got to find out a lot more about the mermaids life both above and below the water and this helped make the story come more alive. The story flowed well and moved at a good pace and i found myself engaged from beginning to end, finishing the book in a just a couple of hours. <br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">The verdict will shake Lia’s whole world, calling into question her future with Clay, her feelings for Caspian, and the fate of all Merkind. As she wonders who to trust, Lia sets out on a treacherous path that will lead her away from her sheltered Malibu home to a remote and mysterious school for Mermaids—Mermaids who may hold the secret to ancient magic Lia can use to either get back all she’s lost or to embark on a thrilling and dangerous journey.</span></div>
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Sapphired Dragonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234090958885722985noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015608864083902489.post-19262217641900478132017-08-20T14:30:00.000-07:002017-08-20T14:30:05.832-07:00Review: Breakaway (Corrigan Fall Raiders #4) by Cate Cameron<div class="tr_bq">
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<b>Published: </b>14 August 2017<br />
<b>Publisher: </b>Entangled Publishing, LLC<br />
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I love this series! I always devour each book in one sitting and i am so glad that Dawn finally got her own book. We had met Dawn before in the previous books, first as Toby's girl friend and then as his ex and it only seemed right that we got to read her story too. Dawn has vowed to never again date a hockey player. After being the other half of a rising hockey star in a town where hockey is everything, Dawn has always wanted to shine for her herself rather than who she was dating and she thinks she has found that with summer newcomer to Corrigan Falls, Logan. However Logan is actually an ex NHL player who had a career ending injury in his first NHL game and is still coming to grips with his new reality without hockey.<br />
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I really liked Dawn and her determination to make something of herself under her own steam rather than of the back of who she is dating and she made for an incredibly likeable and strong character who was immensely readable and intriguing to learn more about. Logan was charming and complex and sweet and also compelling to read about as he dealt with his new reality of his life and was finally starting to put the pieces of his life back together. As a couple I felt the chemistry from the start and liked the way their romance unfolded. As always the peripheral characters were all well developed and vibrant and it was nice to check in previous characters of earlier books as well as meet some brand new characters as well.<br />
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One of the things I love about this series is the emotional journey they take me on. Ms cameron's writing really connects you to her characters and makes you care what happens with them and follow their steps for better or for worse. This story was no different and left me satisfied at the way the story turned out.<br />
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Overall this was another great instalment of an incredibly enjoyable series and author i look forward to reading more of.<br />
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Eighteen-year-old NHL player Logan Balanchuk came to Corrigan Falls to distract himself from his career-ending injury. He doesn’t want to even hear the word “hockey,” so when he meets Dawn, a beautiful, free-spirited girl who goes skinny-dipping instead of watching the draft, he’s intrigued. Neither of them is looking for anything serious, anyway.<br />
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<b>Publisher: </b>Entangled Publishing, LLC<br />
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I really enjoyed this story. It was sweet and engaging from the very first chapter. 17 year old Mari is from a family with long glorious tradition of jewel thievery and that has been the life she has led so far. After finding out a dangerous rival is out to get them, Mari and her mother head to New York to hide out and Mari has to pretend to be a normal teenager for the first time in her life.<br />
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Firstly, I liked this spin on the extraordinary teen hiding out as a regular teenager premise and Mari was a likeable main character. I thought the idea played out well in the story giving a plausible fun and intriguing story line. We got see both the jewel thief side of her in action as well as the regular teen and Ms Somers showed the contrasts well which really helped make mar are more rounded and believeable character.<br />
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The pace and flow of this story really hit the mark. I was in the story from the first page and quickly flew through this only putting it down briefly once. Mari's voice was relatable and I cared what happened to her and to Will. I liked the twists and surprises the author threw in and while i picked some of it, I still felt compelled to keep moving threw to the story to see how it all turned out.<br />
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Overall the story is great blend of sweet romance, action and adventure with feels a plenty and a satisfying conclusion to leave you smiling.<br />
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I really enjoyed this and gave it 3 3/4 stars :-)<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Enigma is the second book of the Schrodinger Consortium series and takes up shortly after the end of Anomaly (book 1). Reid and Josie are currently on the run from The Consortium and Josie is having trouble dealing with the fact she killed Santos. This is one of the first things I really liked about this book. Unlike many action stories, it didn't make the killing of enemies, even with kick ass powers, glamorous. Instead showing very real consequences and reactions to having , albeit accidentally, killing someone.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">I liked Josie. How strong she was, how she used her intelligence hand in hand with her compassion and protective spirit to protect her family and help those around her even as she dealt with her new abilities and the unimaginable power that came along with them. I loved Reid, his strength and protectiveness of Josie along with his swooniness. He was everything a good book boyfriend should be.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Overall though, what I most enjoyed was that the premise behind the story was quite different from things I had read before. The idea of being able to push and retract and the science behind it was a really intriguing idea which i thought quite well though out and believable. This created a world that I really wanted to know more about.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-small;">When hottily-hot badass Reid Wentworth shows up on a motorcycle, everything changes. Like, everything. Who I am. My family. What really happened to my brother. Existence. I am Oculi, and I have the ability to change reality with my thoughts. Now Reid, in all his hotness, is charged with guiding and protecting me as I begin learning how to bend reality. And he’s the only thing standing between me and the secret organization that wants me dead…</span></div>
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Sapphired Dragonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234090958885722985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015608864083902489.post-21248184723010824202017-03-27T14:59:00.000-07:002017-03-27T14:59:56.375-07:00Spotlight Post : Summoner Rising by Melanie McFarlane<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><a style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" title="Month 9 Books" href="http://month9books.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"> <img title="Summoner rising link to month 9 books" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7TBt_AC9Bl855oxDfk7DxKTiaHH-UDUhRU7MAB86P6ijoCJAvphv_vI3FLVAbNh7oxFL_FUKlZjyILFDvxH-0F9l7UjM04rXpKxbCwRS4H4Rrjij5x9ZgvVEBqVOVONWs7MY0WhlMl2ya/" alt="" width="500" height="195" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Welcome to the <a title="tour schedule" href="http://month9books.tumblr.com/post/158748910764/tour-schedule-summoner-rising-by-melanie">Summoner Rising by Melanie McFarlane Blog Tour</a> hosted by <a href="http://month9books.tumblr.com/post/158748910764/tour-schedule-summoner-rising-by-melanie">Month9Books</a>. Today's stop is all about Spotlighting the Story as well as a really cool giveaway at the end. Keep reading to find out more details. </div> <div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Summoner Rising by Melanie McFairlane</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf60YGmX0Y9haUj2mU1kC0YgQ6mWYIjFXb4jTwaM4TvSlzO8A9YP-sq5tON6dfigCLk-bL5yPeqYUhMSLa_SIkXY_fmt-ppuQ5KrHaXyKLb-ivh46kSikkndEC4bqnC-aI1PabFKAlFClm/"><img class=" alignleft" title="Summoner Rising" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf60YGmX0Y9haUj2mU1kC0YgQ6mWYIjFXb4jTwaM4TvSlzO8A9YP-sq5tON6dfigCLk-bL5yPeqYUhMSLa_SIkXY_fmt-ppuQ5KrHaXyKLb-ivh46kSikkndEC4bqnC-aI1PabFKAlFClm/" alt="" width="500" height="750" data-json="" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"> </div><div class="s5" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'arialmt';"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Title:</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> </span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">S</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">UMMONER RISING</span></span></div><div class="s5" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </div><div class="s5" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'arialmt';"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Author:</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> </span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Melanie McFarlane</span></span></div><div class="s5" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </div><div class="s5" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'arialmt';"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Pub. Date:</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> </span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">March 28</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">, 2017</span></span></div><div class="s5" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </div><div class="s5" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'arialmt';"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Publisher:</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> Month9Books</span></span></div><div class="s5" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </div><div class="s5" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'arialmt';"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Format:</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> Paperback,</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> </span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">eBook</span></span></div><div class="s5" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </div><div class="s5" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'arialmt';"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Pages:</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> 300</span></span></div><div class="s5" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </div><div class="s5" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'arialmt';"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Find it:</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> </span><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28537447-summoner-rising?ac=1&from_search=true"><span class="s6" style="color: #0563c1; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Goodreads</span></a><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> | </span><a href="http://amzn.to/2gD50YI"><span class="s6" style="color: #0563c1; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Amazon</span></a><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> | </span><a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/summoner-rising-melanie-mcfarlane/1125059744?ean=9781944816629"><span class="s6" style="color: #0563c1; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">B&N</span></a><span class="s7" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> | </span><a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/Summoner-Rising-Melanie-McFarlane/9781944816629?ref=grid-view"><span class="s6" style="color: #0563c1; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">TBD</span></a><span class="s7" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> | </span><a href="https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/book/summoner-rising/id1212925226?mt=11"><span class="s6" style="color: #0563c1; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">iBooks</span></a><span class="s7" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> </span></span></div><div class="s5" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </div><div class="s5" style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'arialmt';"><span class="s7" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">| </span><a href="https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/summoner-rising"><span class="s6" style="color: #0563c1; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Kobo</span></a><span class="s7" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> | </span><a href="https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Melanie_McFarlane_Summoner_Rising?id=nWo8DgAAQBAJ"><span class="s6" style="color: #0563c1; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Google Play Books</span></a><span class="s7" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> | </span><a href="http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781944816629"><span class="s6" style="color: #0563c1; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Indiebound</span></a><a name="_GoBack" href="https://www.blogger.com/null"></a></span></div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="font-family: 'arialmt'; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Excerpt from, The Book of Summoning: </span></div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'arialmt';"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Law One: A </span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">summoner</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> is responsible for an ll </span></span></div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'arialmt';">creatures it lets through from the netherworld. </span></div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'arialmt';"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Dacie</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> </span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Cantar</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> wishes someone had explained the Laws of Summoning to her before she watched a shadowy creature crawl out of a painting at the local arcade. At least it explains the strange things she's witnessed since moving in with her great-aunt, after her mother’s untimely death. But who wants to be followed by shadows the rest of their life? Add that to being stalked by a strange boy at school, who just might be her </span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Tovaros</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> (aka soulmate), it’s about all </span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Dacie</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> can handle in her new life. </span></span></div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: 'arialmt';"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">As she nears her seventeenth birthday, will she be ready for her new responsibilities, or will the shadows that stalked her mother until her death, finally consume </span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Dacie</span><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">, too? And then there’s Law Two…</span></span></div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </div><h2 style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"> </h2><h2 style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: 'arialmt';"><span class="s4" style="line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">About The Author: Melanie McFarlane</span></span></strong></h2><div> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><strong></strong></strong> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a style="margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4KikGvfkPu0o2xHtnpM5QeviaVdUskq2mPpCd1yfGdmNLDHVP4RrYDVAS05Tn20Px7f-pmBsv8XWX5QGoFJDKvTOaHeVdGD0F150VlHa00y56x4QWw3FLMygzX6aq2AfUbl3PaTdguCKP/"><img title="Author" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4KikGvfkPu0o2xHtnpM5QeviaVdUskq2mPpCd1yfGdmNLDHVP4RrYDVAS05Tn20Px7f-pmBsv8XWX5QGoFJDKvTOaHeVdGD0F150VlHa00y56x4QWw3FLMygzX6aq2AfUbl3PaTdguCKP/" alt="" width="450" height="333" data-json="" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="font-family: 'calibri'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Melanie McFarlane is a passionate writer of other-</span><span class="s4" style="font-family: 'calibri'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">wordly</span><span class="s4" style="font-family: 'calibri'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> adventures, a little excitable, and a little quirky. Whether it’s uncovering the corruption of the future, or traveling to other worlds to save the universe, she jumps in with both hands on her keyboard. Though she can be found obsessing over zombies and orcs from time to time, Melanie has focused her powers on her YA debut There Once Were Stars, and her YA urban fantasy </span><span class="s4" style="font-family: 'calibri'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">Summoner</span><span class="s4" style="font-family: 'calibri'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;"> Rising.</span></div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> </div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="s4" style="font-family: 'calibri'; font-size: 12px; line-height: 14.399999618530273px;">She lives with her husband and two daughters in the Land of Living Skies.</span></div><div style="font-size: 18px; line-height: 21.600000381469727px; margin-bottom: 0px; 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I have adored this series and I am so sad that this appears to be the last book. I have enjoyed each and every book in this series and this one was no exception. We first met Willa and Finn in book 2 of the Creative Hearts series, <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28871512-how-willa-got-her-groove-back" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How Willa Got Her groove Back</a> however we have seen glimpses of them in subsequent books of the series and this book starts just a few short weeks before the wedding between Willa's Dad Matt and Finn's mum Mia.<br />
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Willa's mindset at the beginning of this book is very different to that of the first book and already we can see the growth in her character since we last saw her. I really connected with her in this book so it was great to see the growth continue. Of all the boys in this series, Finn has always seemed the most real to me ( and the most swoonworthy :-P ) so I kept wanting the two of them to get together already. However Ms McKay kept the tension between them perfect all the way through and this kept me turning the pages, eager to see where these two would end up.<br />
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This series itself is interesting in that it has been a collaboration between four different writers with each writer focusing on the 2-3 of the core characters of the series, kids attending the Next Gen Arts Academy in Austin. Though each book focused mainly of two of the core group the series and stories of the whole was continued fro book 1 through to book 6 and in this book we get a conclusion of both the story of Will and Finn as well as the over series ARC. I really liked Where Willa and Finn's story finished up where as some of the other couple felt a little unfinished with things I wanted to see. In fact I really enjoyed the entire journey of this book.<br />
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Willa is happy to be the maid of honor in her dad’s upcoming wedding to uber-celeb Mia McCain. Not as happy about the best man being her soon-to-be stepbrother, the infuriating—and infuriatingly gorgeous—Finn McCain. Every time their paths cross, the attraction simmering between them grows a little harder to ignore. Willa knows all about guys like Finn—they only want what they can’t have. What’s between them isn’t real.<br />
Finn has never felt anything more real than what’s developing between him and Willa. Sure, her dad warned him to steer clear, but it’s not just about forbidden temptation. He’s determined to prove to Willa he’s not going anywhere—and that happily-ever-after will always be worth the risk. <br />
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When Willa Schofer’s father comes home from a business trip with an über-famous new fiancée, Willa’s senior year blows up in paparazzi-fueled flames. Overnight, she has a new house, a new car, and a new soon-to-be stepbrother—the unbelievably hot, unbelievably arrogant, Finn McCain. Thank god he’s constantly pushing her buttons, or she might do something irresponsible. Like fall for the jerk.<br />
Just when Willa’s decided to avoid him for, oh, ever, Finn lands in the center of her senior project team. Seriously—how hard is it to shake a guy? At least her work on the project snagged the attention of the (second) hottest guy in school. He might only be into her because of her famous stepmom, and he’s not quite as exciting as a certain annoying housemate, but at least she’s allowed to crush on the guy.<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">What I love most about this series is that the premise is so very different from other stories I have read. I love the idea of being able to jump through gateway books from library to library and I like the magic/sentinel system as well. I felt like this second book started to delve a little deeper into the world and I liked the extra world building that came with it. We started to hear more about some of the other havens as Gia and Nick search for the Chiavi.</p>
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Sure, jumping through books into the world’s most beautiful libraries to protect humans from mystical creatures is awesome. No one knows that better than Gia Kearns, but she could do without the part where people are always trying to kill her. Oh, and the fact that Pop and her had to move away from her friends and life as she knew it.
And if that isn’t enough, her boyfriend, Arik, is acting strangely. Like, maybe she should be calling him “ex,” since he’s so into another girl. But she doesn’t have time to be mad or even jealous, because someone has to save the world from the upcoming apocalypse, and it looks like that’s going to be Gia.
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Title:</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> ROSEBLOOD<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Author:</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> A.G. Howard<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Pub. Date:</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> January 10, 2016<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In this modern day spin on Leroux’s gothic tale of unrequited love turned to madness, seventeen-year-old Rune Germain has a mysterious affliction linked to her operatic talent, and a horrifying mistake she’s trying to hide. Hoping creative direction will help her, Rune’s mother sends her to a French arts conservatory for her senior year, located in an opera house rumored to have ties to The Phantom of the Opera. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A.G. Howard was inspired to write SPLINTERED while working at a school library. She always wondered what would've happened had the subtle creepiness of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland taken center stage, and she hopes her darker and funkier tribute to Carroll will inspire readers to seek out the stories that won her heart as a child.<br />
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When she's not writing, A.G.'s pastimes are reading, rollerblading, gardening, and family vacations which often include impromptu side trips to 18th century graveyards or condemned schoolhouses to appease her overactive muse.<br />
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The asteroid hurtling toward the earth will kill billions.</div>
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Shadow Fall (Shadow Fall #1)<br />
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Publication Date: November 22, 2016<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="border: currentColor;">Welcome today's stop on the <a href="http://www.chapter-by-chapter.com/tour-schedule-lost-girls-by-merrie-destefano-presented-by-entangled-teen/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lost Girls by Merrie Destefano Blog Tour</a> <span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"> hosted by </span><span style="line-height: 18px; text-align: center;">Chapter by Chapter Today's stop is a review as well as a chance to enter the great giveaway that is being run throughout this tour.</span></span></div></div><blockquote><h3><span style="color: #660000;">Review:</span></h3><div><div>What an awesome read to start the year of with! </div><div><br />
I picked up Lost Girls because the description for this book sounded incredibly intriguing - A cross between Fight club and Black Swan? Missing time and memory? Main character trying to piece together the puzzle of what had happened in the last year and why she had forgotten it all? I couldn't wait to dive in! As I started reading, the first paragraph of the first chapter drew me right in and I didn't emerge until I had devoured the story a few hours later. <br />
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This story has such a great combination of suspense, romance and action. I immediately liked Rachel, she was strong and loyal and I loved the way Ms Destefano portrayed the complexity of Rachel's personality as she struggled to marry the life she remembered with the life she had now and find out the reasons behind it all. She was such a real compelling character and it made the story that much better to read as I genuinely cared about what the character was going through and the outcome of the story. </div><br />
<div>The story is also really well paced. As Rachel gradually gets memories back, we become privy to more and more of what happened before and the timing of this worked really well to propel the reader onward through the story. I think the further I go in to the story, the quicker my page turning because as I need to get to the conclusion and see how it all turned out.</div><br />
<div>I also loved the mystery of the story and the fact I was left guessing until the end. Whilst I put together a couple of elements along the way, I had to keep reading, wanted to keep reading, to find out where the elements I had guess fitted and for the solution to the mystery as a whole.</div><br />
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<div>I also loved the characters around Rachel, in particular Dylan, Mollie, Rachel's Dad and brother. Again, the genuineness of their characters and their interactions with rachel really helped fill out the story and provide the feels that complimented the suspense and action actrion beautifully.</div><br />
Overall, this was both an extremely thrilling and compelling read. I am so glad I picked up this story to read as my first read of 2017 and thoroughly recommend it. This was the first Merrie Destefano book I have picked up to read but it certainly won't be the last. <br />
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<div>I give this book 4 1/2 stars!</div></div></div><span style="color: #660000;">Sapphired Dragon XX</span> </blockquote><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<center> <div style="color: grey; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #660000;"><span style="font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">B</span></span><span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-style: italic; line-height: 1.2; white-space: pre-wrap;">ook Title: Lost Girls</span></span> <span id="docs-internal-guid-aa70382a-e0c0-3761-15d4-cd0be7c4409a" style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"></span> <br />
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Lost Girls Chapter One:</p><br />
<p><br />
I remember last night perfectly.<br />
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I know what we ate for dinner. I know my little brother didn’t do his homework. I know Dad drove me to my ballet lessons, then waited for me in the Starbucks across the street. <br />
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I know that, later in the evening, I fell asleep when I was supposed to be studying geometry, my earbuds in while I listened to Taylor Swift’s latest album. <br />
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That was my yesterday.<br />
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The problem is, everyone, from my parents to my teachers to the police, says that stuff didn’t happen yesterday.<br />
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It happened last year.<br />
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I went to sleep with music playing, curled up on my bed, and wrapped in the afghan Grams knitted for me when she was on chemo.<br />
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I woke up in a ditch, half-buried in a pile of leaves. I was shivering and wet, a soft rain falling, icy drops hitting me in the face and running down my neck. Trees towered overhead, black branches scratching the sky, wind howling, and from somewhere nearby came the muted sounds of traffic.<br />
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I sat up, confused and scared, grogginess giving way to an intense adrenaline rush.<br />
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Then I screamed, louder than I thought I could. The sound ripped out of my lungs and wouldn’t stop; it went on and on until I thought I would collapse because I knew I couldn’t breathe and scream at the same time. And then—when I was sure I would fall forward, bent over at the waist, my lungs empty and spots dancing before my eyes—then I found some way to yell again. At first my shouts were primal and there were no words, just terror and pain and a black pit in my stomach that wouldn’t allow me to have conscious thoughts.<br />
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I began to cry the same thing, over and over.<br />
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“Help! Somebody help me!”<br />
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I tried to stand, but the gully was so slanted that I kept falling back to my knees, every stumble forcing me to become aware of another injury—the raw skin on my wrists and ankles, covered with dried blood and stinging with each drop of rain; the muscles in my legs sore and weak, like I’d been running for days; the soles of my feet aching, my tennis shoes ripped and stained with mud.<br />
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I stretched out my arms, latching onto tree roots to gain my balance, and I pulled myself up the incline, foot by foot. Fingers now coated with mud, I perched on the edge of a highway, nearly blinded by headlights whenever a car sped past. <br />
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There I stood, waving my arms and screaming again, not knowing that my hair was matted or that there was blood and dirt on my clothes or that my photo had been on the news for the past two weeks.<br />
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Lost girl. Disappeared on her way home from school. Anyone with information, please contact the Santa Madre police department.<br />
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Two cars drove past, headlights splashing me with brilliant light. I hadn’t realized until now that the sun tipped on the edge of the world, ready to disappear, or that twilight shadows were already stretching across the horizon. Great pockets of violet darkness yawned between each pair of lights that hurtled toward me, greedy fingers of darkness that wanted me to tumble back into that gully and remain hidden.<br />
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Please, somebody stop and help me.<br />
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I was screaming again and some sort of weird survival panic took over.<br />
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I walked into the middle of the two-lane southbound road and stood there.<br />
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Go ahead, run me over. I dare you.<br />
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Wait, what was I doing? <br />
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Several cars spun to a stop, skidding sideways, tires squealing, metal crashing metal and rubber burning. The old me, the girl who fell asleep listening to Taylor sing about a broken heart, never would have done this. What was wrong with me?<br />
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My heart thundered in my chest, but I refused to move, even when the wreckage screeched closer and closer, fenders crunching, bumpers twisting, windshields shattering. I stared all the passengers in the eye, glancing from one face to the next, coolly noting that none of them were hurt—nothing beyond a bump or a bruise.<br />
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You. Will. Stop. And. Help. Me.<br />
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Still the wreckage surged forward. I merely lifted one hand, palm up, signaling for them to stop. Like I was a traffic cop or something.<br />
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Everything finally slid to a stop, a few feet away from me.<br />
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Tears coursed down my cheeks and I began to shake uncontrollably. I sank to my knees, truly myself again. Frightened and alone and lost.<br />
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“Help me,” I begged, then buried my face in my hands.<br />
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Car doors opened: a strange cacophony of voices tumbled out, some yelling, some speaking in hushed tones.<br />
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“What’s going on?”<br />
<br />
“Is that the missing girl from the news?”<br />
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“9-1-1, we have an emergency here—”<br />
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“Honey, you’re gonna be okay, don’t worry—”<br />
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An elderly woman with white hair and bright, pink lipstick pulled me close and draped her coat over me. When I glanced up I saw blood on her forehead, but she didn’t seem worried about herself. She smiled down at me, her face a map of connected wrinkles.<br />
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“We’re gonna get you home to your parents,” she said. “Do you want to call them?” She handed me her cell phone, but my fingers were shaking too much to dial. I told her the number and she punched it in, waiting while it rang. When a voice answered on the other end, the white-haired woman said, “I have someone who wants to talk to you.” Then she handed me the phone.<br />
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“Hello? Who is this?” It was my mom, a frantic tone in her voice that brought fresh tears to my eyes. <br />
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My words came out shaky, with long pauses between.<br />
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“Mom?”<br />
<br />
Neither one of us could talk, not for a long time, because we were both crying. Then she finally whispered my name, like it was a magical word that could change the world.<br />
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“Rachel? Rachel, baby, where are you?”<br />
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I looked around. “I don’t know.”<br />
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“You’re on the 39, just north of Azusa,” the white-haired woman told me.<br />
<br />
Flashing lights spun in the distance and sirens blared. An ambulance and a fire truck and two police cars were headed toward us. I blinked at the brightness, shielding my eyes with one hand.<br />
<br />
“Rachel? Are you still there?” It was my father’s voice now, calling me back to the cell phone.<br />
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I pressed it against my ear. “Daddy?”<br />
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“Honey, when the ambulance gets there, you get inside and you stay there. Do you hear me? Don’t get in a car with anyone else!”<br />
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“I will—I mean, I won’t. I’ll go with the paramedics.” My teeth were chattering and I was shivering so much I could hardly hold the phone. I think I may have started talking gibberish, half-sentences with little meaning. I remember saying something about my geometry test and worrying that I wouldn’t make it to class tomorrow and I may have mentioned something about my biology class, too, because Dad interrupted me.<br />
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“Rachel, are you talking about the class you took with Miss Wallace?”<br />
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“Yeah. She always gives exams on Wednesday.”<br />
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There was a long silence. I wondered if we had gotten cut off. Meanwhile, the ambulance doors opened and someone wheeled a stretcher toward me.<br />
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“Honey, you had geometry with Miss Wallace last year. When you were a sophomore.”<br />
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I frowned. “But I’m a sophomore now.”<br />
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“Baby girl, you’re a junior. Don’t worry about it. All this will get straightened out when you get home—”<br />
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I dropped the phone. My hands were shaking too much to hold it. I glanced down at my hands, at the chipped red nail polish. But I hadn’t been wearing nail polish last night and I never use this color. I turned my hands over and discovered a tattoo on my inner wrist.<br />
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A tattoo?<br />
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Always and forever. That’s what it said. But there was no redness or swelling. I didn’t get this tattoo anytime recently.<br />
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The paramedics helped me onto the stretcher, and then the world was rushing past me, rain falling on my face, people staring down at me as the stretcher wheeled by, the air thick with the smell of oil and gasoline and burned rubber. Then another smell came suddenly and violently—a memory. <br />
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A thick, cloying scent of pine and cedar.<br />
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My stomach lurched and I couldn’t stop.<br />
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I started screaming again.</p><br />
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My current read is <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31203785-lost-girls" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lost Girls</a> by Merrie Destefano and my four lines are from location1840<br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Fight Club meets Black Swan—Rachel wakes up in a ditch to find she doesn’t remember the last year of her life, and that everything—including herself—is vastly different than she remembers.<br />
Yesterday, Rachel went to sleep listening to Taylor Swift, curled up in her grammy’s quilt, worrying about geometry. Today, she woke up in a ditch, bloodied, bruised, and missing a year of her life.<br />
She doesn’t recognize the person she’s become: she’s popular. She wears nothing but black.<br />
Black to cover the blood.<br />
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Tell no one.<br />
She’s not the only girl to go missing within the last year…but she’s the only girl to come back. She desperately wants to unravel what happened to her, to try and recover the rest of the Lost Girls.<br />
But the more she discovers, the more her memories return. And as much as her new life scares her, it calls to her. Seductively. The good girl gone bad, sex, drugs, and raves, and something darker…something she still craves—the rush of the fight, the thrill of the win—something she can’t resist, that might still get her killed…<br />
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In a few hours time, I will starting to participate in what I think is my third Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon and this time, despite the really late I signed up post ;-P, I am prepared with a capital"P".</div>
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Due to a house inspection earlier today, all the housework for the weekend has been DONE! My four year old is enjoying a sleepover at Nana's house so I will be child free. This leaves the rest of my weekend wide open to do nothing but READ! :-)</div>
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Now one of the most important parts of the readathon comes before it even begins and that is putting together your Readathon TBR pile. I started preparing mine about a week ago with a <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/5310564" target="_blank">goodreads shelf</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24331115-after-alice" title="After Alice"><img alt="After Alice" border="0" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1431385908s/24331115.jpg" /></a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20556439-midnight-marked" title="Midnight Marked (Chicagoland Vampires, #12)"><img alt="Midnight Marked" border="0" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1433339862s/20556439.jpg" /></a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22386002-midnight-crossroad" title="Midnight Crossroad (Midnight, Texas, #1)"><img alt="Midnight Crossroad" border="0" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1401612206s/22386002.jpg" /></a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13206760-scarlet" title="Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles, #2)"><img alt="Scarlet" border="0" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1470056982s/13206760.jpg" /></a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6997223-paper-towns" title="Paper Towns"><img alt="Paper Towns" border="0" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1401602787s/6997223.jpg" /></a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17475481-angel-of-storms" title="Angel of Storms (Millennium’s Rule, #2)"><img alt="Angel of Storms" border="0" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1434721733s/17475481.jpg" /></a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21413855-the-haunting-of-sunshine-girl" title="The Haunting of Sunshine Girl (The Haunting of Sunshine Girl, #1)"><img alt="The Haunting of Sunshine Girl" border="0" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1420938243s/21413855.jpg" /></a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18189606-since-you-ve-been-gone" title="Since You've Been Gone"><img alt="Since You've Been Gone" border="0" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1377702326s/18189606.jpg" /></a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25526296-every-heart-a-doorway" title="Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children #1)"><img alt="Every Heart a Doorway" border="0" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1431438555s/25526296.jpg" /></a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8176557-the-ruby-talisman" title="The Ruby Talisman"><img alt="The Ruby Talisman" border="0" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1273681102s/8176557.jpg" /></a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26891896-the-things-i-didn-t-say" title="The Things I Didn't Say"><img alt="The Things I Didn't Say" border="0" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1444807841s/26891896.jpg" /></a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13549798-the-forgotten-pearl" title="The Forgotten Pearl"><img alt="The Forgotten Pearl" border="0" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1332110903s/13549798.jpg" /></a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18528454-a-beautiful-wedding" title="A Beautiful Wedding (Beautiful, #2.5)"><img alt="A Beautiful Wedding" border="0" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1384555141s/18528454.jpg" /></a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/84145.Dance_with_the_Devil" title="Dance with the Devil (Dark-Hunter #3)"><img alt="Dance with the Devil" border="0" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388703603s/84145.jpg" /></a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17457124-red-hill" title="Red Hill (Red Hill, #1)"><img alt="Red Hill" border="0" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1374859114s/17457124.jpg" /></a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25663634-reunion-pass" title="Reunion Pass (Eternity Springs, #11)"><img alt="Reunion Pass" border="0" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1442790645s/25663634.jpg" /></a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29908433-the-courtesan" title="The Courtesan"><img alt="The Courtesan" border="0" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1460540708s/29908433.jpg" /></a> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28512486-frost-like-night" title="Frost Like Night (Snow Like Ashes, #3)"><img alt="Frost Like Night" border="0" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1455829171s/28512486.jpg" /></a><br />
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Then I started pulling the physical books out. I may have gotten a just a little enthusiastic :-P<br />
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Finally narrowed it down to starting with these below and then can pick from my above image depending on my mood.<br />
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The next thing to consider is The reading space. I love my reading space. It gets great sunlight during the day and I have a nice light in the evenings. Its comfy. I can spread out, and its right next to the book shelf for when I am ready to move on to my next book :-)<br />
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Next is reading materials. I visited the library earlier today for a last minute browse for anything worthy of adding to the TBR pile. 3 of those books made it to the very top!<br />
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Even more exciting was the new purchase I made just a couple of hours ago. My previous kindle paperwhite was stolen a few months back so I finally purchased a new one this afternoon. It's charging and i have already loaded it up in preparation :-)<br />
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The last important thing to organise is snacks. The right snacks make you read faster! It's true, I promise! :-P<br />
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These are my pre-readathon preparations, I am ready to go as soon as we hit the start. Are you reading this readathon? What books are on your TBR pile? As do you have any pre-readathon rituals or things you like to do in preparation?<br />
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Comment below and let me know.<br />
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I will be updating on <a href="http://sapphiredreads.blogspot.com.au/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sapphired Reads</a> every few hours to update my progress as well as on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/sapphireddragonreads/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">instagram</a> so keep popping back to see how I go.<br />
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Happy Readathon everyone! May you have a great 24 hours of reading!<br />
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Rowan Winters is completely in love. With a shifter dragon.</div>
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Skye’s entire world turns upside down the day her scales turns black. She knows she’ll have to flee to find answers. But she wasn’t planning on Rowan coming too. She just wanted to say goodbye. He is so eager to help that she can’t leave him behind even though she knows she’ll never be able to love him in return.</div>
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Skye ( The Dragon Kings #4)<br />
by Kimberly Loth<br />
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Skye was a coward. She knew that, but she couldn’t bring herself to stay and watch Sid and Aspen commit suicide. There was no way the council would allow Aspen to become queen.<br />
Not to mention that then Skye would have to know the exact moment when she died, because anyone who pledged loyalty to Sid would die the second he did. No, running away was better. She should have enough time to get to her parents before death came. She’d able to say goodbye.<br />
This was her fault. Pearl had told her to keep Aspen safe. Instead she’d gone and made everything worse. Maybe if she’d kept Aspen at home, Sid would’ve been fine.<br />
If she’d never given Sid that damn loyalty seal, she wouldn’t be this close to death. She wasn’t sure what she was thinking at that time. Part of her thought he’d make it. Another part didn’t care whether she lived or died. It wasn’t like she’d have much of a life anymore.<br />
When Sid became King she found Everett and begged him to remove the seal that marked how much she loved him. He did and now she longer had a swirl of gold on her ankle. But Everett warned her there would be a price to pay. She gladly paid it at the time, but but she hadn’t expected to feel so empty.<br />
For a half second she thought about heading to Everett’s instead of her parents. Maybe he could remove the loyalty seal before she died. She shook her head. How cowardly of her. The price would not be worth it. That was for sure.<br />
She was only fooling herself though. She would make the same decision if given the choice. Aspen was the only way they could possibly survive. When Skye dropped Aspen off , there were three possible outcomes. One, she and Sid would die and all those with loyalty seals would as well. Two, Helios, the final dragon that Sid needed to secure all the loyalty seals got to him before the council had a chance to killed him. Or three. Aspen could be become queen. She’d have to convince the council that she should be queen and pass the queen’s tests She hoped Aspen could do it.<br />
She felt her wings tiring. This could be the beginning of her death. She hadn’t known anyone who had died because of the loyalty seal and didn’t know how it worked. She spotted a lake below her and decided to stop and get a drink. She had to make it home.<br />
Skye landed a little rougher than normal. This had to be the end. She staggered over to the water and took a deep drink. The water sparkled under the full moon. Skye stretched her wings out and swiveled her neck around to scratch her nose. She froze. Her wing was no longer silver.<br />
This must be part of her death. Or at least that was what she tried to convince herself of. Adrenaline coursed through her veins and she no longer felt tired. Dragons didn’t change color before they died. In fact dragons never changed color. Except when they became king. Then they turned black.<br />
Skye spun neck around the other direction. It was more than her wings that had changed. Her whole body was now a deep coal black.<br />
This was impossible. There was no way she could become king. Sid was king. Unless he died. Then someone else would take his place, but that someone had to be a full royal dragon and male. Of which she was neither. There had to be some huge mistake. This had to be a dream. She stuck her head in the cold water and came out again. Still black. This wasn’t possible.<br />
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That stupid prophecy.<br />
The one that said three kings would rise. The one that said they could come from other races. But she was still female. Something was definitely wrong. She was also still very much alive. She couldn’t go see her parents now, not like this. No, she had to go see the one dragon who could explain how this happened.<br />
She wracked her brain trying to think of everything she’d learned about the prophecy. She loved history and so she studied a lot, but this baffled her. Nothing in the prophecy said anything about a girl. She’d spent hours listening to Everett’s boring details about the prophecy, yet he hadn’t mentioned that females could become kings. He was so in for it.<br />
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Skye changed direction and instead of heading south for the warm waters of the gulf, she flew northwest. Her mind tried to make sense of what just happened. Her anger for Everett had turned into fear of what was to come. Everett would have the answers. But she might not like the answers he gave.<br />
She certainly didn’t like the consequences of his last answer. To never love again. That was the cost of removing the seal to Sid. She gladly gave it up. But now. Now something was missing and she ached to love again.<br />
After an hour she flew over Yellowstone and marveled at the fact that she wasn’t dead. That meant Sid and Aspen were still alive as well. Perhaps Aspen had become queen. Skye hoped so. She liked her. Plus, if the prophecy was fulfilled, Sid would be the right leader for the job.<br />
She flew over Sid’s house and faltered for a second. Rowan was asleep in there. Sweet Rowan. He’d become her best friend. Her heart tightened at the thought of never seeing him again. It was strange how the ache she often felt disappeared when she was around him. He made her feel human.<br />
She didn’t know what would happen when she found Everett. But if she was a king and the prophecy was being fulfilled, she’d be too caught up in the dragon wars to even think about her human friends. She supposed it couldn’t hurt to stop and say goodbye. She owed him that. After all, he’d been there for her when no one else had been.<br />
She dove for the house before she talked herself out of it. She wanted to feel human again, if only for a minute.<br />
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Kimberly Loth can’t decide where she wants to settle down. She’s lived in Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Utah, California, Oregon, and South Carolina. She finally decided to make the leap and leave the U.S. behind for a few years. Currently, she lives in Cairo, Egypt with her husband and two kids.</div>
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Sapphired Dragonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14234090958885722985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1015608864083902489.post-18872463371913788152016-09-21T17:39:00.000-07:002016-09-21T17:40:01.882-07:00Cover Reveal: All Laced Up by Erin Fletcher<h3 style="text-align: center;">
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Let us know what you think of the cover for <em>All Laced Up</em> (Breakaway #1) by Erin Fletcher, which releases October 10, 2016!</h3>
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<em>Everyone loves hockey superstar Pierce Miller. Everyone except Lia Bailey.</em><br>
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Erin is a young adult author from North Carolina. She is a morning person who does most of her writing before sunrise, while drinking excessive quantities of coffee. She believes flip-flops qualify as year-round footwear, and would spend every day at the beach if she could. She has a bachelor's degree in mathematics, which is almost never useful when writing books.</div>
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My current read is <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29605080-witch-s-pyre" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Witch's Pyre (Worldwalker #3)</a> by Kim Wilkins and my four lines are from location 356 of 5214<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Lily Proctor has come a long way from the weak, sickly girl she used to be. She has gained power as a witch and a leader, found her way home, chosen to face battle again, and (after losing her first love and being betrayed by her new love) she has learned more about loss and grief than she ever wanted to know.</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Thrust once again into a society different from anything they have ever seen, Lily and her coven are determined to find answers―to find a new path to victory, a way to defeat the monstrous Woven without resorting to nuclear weapons or becoming a tyrannical mass murderer like her alternate self, Lillian. But sometimes winning requires sacrifices . . . and when the only clear path to victory lies at Lillian's side, what price will Lily be willing to pay?</span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Internationally bestselling author Josephine Angelini takes us on another emotionally wrenching thrill ride in the stunning conclusion to her Worldwalker Trilogy. </span></div>
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