Review: Death of the Mad Hatter by Sarah J Pepper

Synopsis:

The Jack prophesied: If the king loses his head, then the Queen with a Bleeding Heart would rule the Red Court until Time ceased to move forward. When a second carried on for infinity, every creature in Wonderland would tip their Hat to the misfit girl with a Boy’s name (or was it a boy with a Girl’s name?) who’d end the Reign of Terror. However, it all hinged on the One-Eyed Hare being able to convince an uninspirable Heir that the impossible was indeed possible—like stopping time—and that Love was worth a Beheading.

Heads would Roll…
Hearts would Break…
In the end, would it matter who Reigned?

Review:

I've never been much of an Alice in Wonderland fan surprisingly. Never seen the cartoon but I do know the gist. I also think I know enough to point out that Death of the Mad Hatter is a story all in its own. It's quirky and fun and very imaginative. 

The story shifts between both Ryley and Alice Mae. Ryley is a somewhat popular boy who is trying to win the affections of "the hottest redhead in the school". 

But Alice Mae somehow weaves her way into the picture and of course Ryley can't help but be infatuated. Even though he doesn't want to be. 

Alice has a plan though. The Queen of Hearts wants Ryley in Wonderland, and Alice is just the one to do it. Here's the thing though, she has to make him fall in love with her!

A story that is as magical as it is romantic, I fell in love with the world along with the characters. I might even go and read the original, hah!

I recommend to all readers who enjoy fairy tale retellings and funny characters that make you laugh out loud. 

Oh and that cover is so beautiful and unique!! I loveeeee it. 

4.5 stars

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Just Ella Blog Tour&Giveaway!

Synopsis:

A Proper Romance

Ariella was only looking for a distraction, something to break up the monotony of palace life. What she found was a young man willing to overlook her title and show her a new and vibrant way of life. But when her growing feelings for Gavin spiral out of control and clash with the expectations of her station, she will discover that the consequences of her curiosity are far more severe than she’d imagined.

I watched in helpless horror as two guards hauled Gavin to his feet and dragged him from the room. My voice was frozen, unable to protest as another guard took hold of my arm, leading me upstairs. From the confines of my room, I stared into the darkness beyond my window, hoping to catch one more glimpse of Gavin. He was gone, and I wondered if he would have been better off if he had never met me.

I write clean romance. Why? Because that’s what I love to read, but over the years I’ve discovered it’s quite a challenge to find good clean romance. I believe it’s a genre that many people are looking for and too few authors are writing. My first novel, Just Ella, took me many years to write because I wanted it to be more than just a cutesy love story. I wanted it to have depth, to feel genuine. Hopefully I succeeded, but you’ll have to be the judge.

Excerpt:

Now, wait just a minute. You can’t just plunge into a pool of water.”

“Why not?” I should have said something cleverer, but I felt a bit scatterbrained, all thoughts having fled when Gavin’s arm went around me.

He made a noise of exasperation. “Why not, she asks. Because, Princess, what’s going to happen when you show up for your lessons completely drenched? Or, what happens when we both show up on the palace grounds completely drenched? I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to have to explain that to anybody.”

Unfortunately, he had a point. “Don’t call me Princess.” He had been so relaxed today, so willing to be himself and let me be myself. I hated that he felt the need to remind me of my rank. I was tempted to be angry and walk away but I also wanted to see how long he would keep his arms around me. Simply out of curiosity, of course.

Review:

I am so in love! Just Ella reminds me of a clean cut fairy tale romance. Sighhhh. 

Ella, our heroine, wants more than what her life as a princess has to offer. She wants to be free. Free to do the things she loves and to fall in love with someone of her own choosing. When she meets Gavin, her whole world turns upside down. Being with him has taught her that there really is more to life than castle politics. But more importantly he has taught her how to truly be herself. 

"Never would have I ever imagined that loving someone could be so utterly painful."

I kept hearing the song Love Story by Taylor Swift. It's the perfect song for Ella and Gavin. Our beautiful couple. 

I'm so happy I signed up for this blog tour because the book is so different than what I'm used to reading. It's the type of romance that's enchanting and magical. I adored it!

"I'm sorry, Princess, but protecting you is ingrained in me. I cannot not protect you."

Ella is a strong female lead. She's brave and loyal and so very kind to her kingdom. Everything a great princess should be, at least in my opinion. Even through her darkest moments, she remained strong. I admire that and look up to a character that's independent and not obsessing over the boy she loves. 

Gavin is a beautiful, wonderful, honest, and well rounded man. He teaches our dear Ella so much about herself and trust me, you'll be swooning and loving him just as much as me. 

Gavin," I whispered. 

"Yes," he asked, his voice husky. 

"Let me go," I pleaded in a whisper. 

And I saw in his eyes that he understood. 

His face crumbled slightly and he groaned, "I can't." 

With all epic romances there has to be some downs. I'll be real with you, along with this beautiful story, there's tons of heartbreak. It made the story so much better in a way. The end result is what really matters. 

I highly recommend this to those who love fairy tale like stories with strong females leads who face hardships but remain poised and classy throughout it all. And it's a romance with loveable characters, so what's not to love? 

5 stars

Author Annette K. Larsen I was born in Utah, but grew up in Flagstaff Arizona and St. Louis Missouri, the fifth of seven children. I attended college at Southern Virginia University and Brigham Young University where I studied English and Theater. I now live in Idaho with my husband and four children. I have Charlotte Bronte to thank for the courage to write novels. After being bombarded with assigned reading about women who justified abandoning either their families or their principles in the name of love, I had the great fortune of reading Jane Eyre. And that was it: finally a heroine who understood that being moral and making the right choice was hard, and sometimes it hurt, but it was still worth it. After rereading it several years later, I realized that if I wanted more books to exist with the kinds of heroines I admired, then I might as well write a few myself. My books are about women who face hard choices, who face pain and rejection and often have to sacrifice what they want for what is right. The consequences are often difficult or unpleasant, but it the end, doing what’s right will always be worth it. I believe there is no substitute for good writing or good chocolate. Fortunately, one often leads to the other.  

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Review: Crash Into You By Katie McGarry

Synopsis:

From acclaimed author Katie McGarry comes an explosive new tale of a good girl with a reckless streak, a street-smart guy with nothing to lose, and a romance forged in the fast lane 

The girl with straight As, designer clothes and the perfect life-that's who people expect Rachel Young to be. So the private-school junior keeps secrets from her wealthy parents and overbearing brothers...and she's just added two more to the list. One involves racing strangers down dark country roads in her Mustang GT. The other? Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Walker-a guy she has no business even talking to. But when the foster kid with the tattoos and intense gray eyes comes to her rescue, she can't get him out of her mind.

Isaiah has secrets, too. About where he lives, and how he really feels about Rachel. The last thing he needs is to get tangled up with a rich girl who wants to slum it on the south side for kicks-no matter how angelic she might look.

But when their shared love of street racing puts both their lives in jeopardy, they have six weeks to come up with a way out. Six weeks to discover just how far they'll go to save each other.

Review:

She's done it again. I honestly don't know how with every single book, the stories get better, but they do! Oh boy do they get better.

Crash Into You has got to be one of my favorite reads this year. It was emotionally raw and like all of Katie's books, deals with real live issues. 

This is Isaiah's story. If you remember him from the first two books, you already know that he is Noah and Beth's best friend. Oh and he just so happened to have his heart broken by Beth as well. 

 We also get to meet Rachel, a beautiful and wealthy girl who suffers from extreme panic attacks. Rachel struggles with being herself and trying to make everyone in her family happy, even it it means her own happiness is on the line. She has a love for cars and its through her curiosity with street racing, that she meets Isaiah. 

Isaiah and Rachel get themselves in a big pickle when the aftermath of the street racing turns sour. 

Will they be able to go through the necessary means to save themselves? Or will they succumb to being owned by a sadistic street thug?

Crash Into You will leave you begging for more. Such a beautiful story that I know won't leave me anytime soon. 

Thank you to NetGalley and Harlequin Teen for providing me with a review copy for an honest review!   

Blog Tour Giveaway:Rivulet by Jamie Magee

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Rivulet by Jamie Magee
Expected publication: October 7, 2013

Unfathomable forces have always contested Genevieve Indiana Falcon, known as Indie. The curse of her cold touch entraps her just as the grief ignited in her past torments her. Yet, her mysterious ability to dream while awake saturates her in the belief that she was not always anguished. There is hope that one day a true peace in her soul can be found. 

Foolishly, Indie assumes she has contained her life in an odd balance, and she cherishes the visions she sees of the enigmatic boy that held her in a lost time, but can never reach. She grieves for a life she fears she'll never possess, and that grief is a weapon she uses against her aunt who stands between her and her inheritance. 

Weeks away from her twenty-first birthday, the date where she would assume control over her family legacy, a night terror robs Indie of the balance she was clinging to. Like the dream she had before she lost her family, it predicts a fatal catastrophe on the horizon. The fight between life and death, good and evil, began the moment her thundering heart awoke her. 

Everything changed after that dream. The one thing that keeps her curse at bay is stolen, and then the enigmatic boy arrives in the flesh. Face to face with her fiery born-again lover Indie realizes that the only way she can prevent the tragedy before her is to surrender everything she was, is, and could be. 

Can she bend the laws of nature and fight the improbability that fire and ice could ever be one? As far as Indie is concerned, there is not a myth, spoken fate, or curse that is stronger than her stubborn desire to have it all ... including him.

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About Jamie

Jamie Magee has always believed that each of us have a defining gift that sets us apart from the rest of the world, she has always envied those who have known from their first breath what their gift was. Not knowing hers, she began a career in the fast paced world of business. Raising a young family, and competing to rise higher in that field would drive some to the point of insanity, but she always found a moment of escape in a passing daydream. Her imagination would take her to places she’d never been, introduce her to people she’s never known. Insight, her debuting novel, is a result of that powerful imagination. Today, she is grateful that not knowing what defined her, led her on a path of discovery that would always be a part of her.

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Best Kind of Broken by Chelsea Fine-*Giveaway*

The cover of Chelsea Fine's upcoming new adult novel, BEST KIND OF BROKEN, is here!

And in honor of the occasion? A giveaway!

Synopsis

Pixie Marshall's freshman year of college ended two weeks ago, as did her residence in the school dorms. Which meant she needed of a new place to live and, subsequently, a job. So she started working at Willow Inn because one of the job perks—and she'd use that term loosely—is free room and board. But what she hadn't realized was that her free room shares a hallway and a bathroom with the only person she was hoping to avoid for the rest of her life: Levi Andrews. Hot guy. Handyman. Keeper of all her painful memories.

Once upon a time, they were best friends on the brink of becoming something more, but that was before everything went to hell. All Pixie wants to do now is avoid him completely---which is easier said than done. Because despite everything that happened before, Pixie misses Levi. And it seems Levi hasn't let go of his feelings for her either. (Now available for pre-order.)

And now...

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Blog Tour Review&Giveaway: When It Rains by Lisa De Jong

Title: When it Rains

Author: Lisa De Jong

Release Date: Sep 25, 2013

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Blurb: 

One night changed my life forever.

Beau Bennett has been my best friend since I can remember. He was my first crush before everything came crashing down, and now he wants more, but it's more than I can give him. Things are different now. I wish I could tell him why, but I can't.

I haven’t told anyone.

I never knew how much I really needed him until the day he left for college, and I was completely alone.

Then one day, Asher Hunt rides into town with his dark, captivating eyes and cocky grin. He doesn't care who I used to be, he's simply breathing life into what’s left. People warn me to stay away from him, but he helps me forget the pain that has held me hostage for so long; something I thought was impossible before he walked into my life.

I’ve been hurt.

I’ve been saved.

And I’ve found hope.

I thought my story was written that night, but now I know it was only a new beginning. Until one secret turns my world upside down…

Again.

Review:

OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG. OMG.

“One night, one moment, one decision can change the whole path that our future takes.”

So now that I have your attention, let me tell you a little story about this wonderful book I read called, When it Rains. It’s everything I could want and more. We have Kate, our beautifully broken heroine, who has been hurt beyond repair. She is so broken that she’s pushed everyone away and kept her best friend, Beau, at arms length. One night changed everything and in Kate’s eyes, there is no hope and no one there to save her. Or so she thought.

“You’re strength is inspiring.”

But before I get into some of the good stuff, let me share with you how much love I have for this beautiful story filled with beautiful characters. I love, yes LOVE, When it Rains. I cried. I laughed. I swooned. I fell hard and I didn’t even see it coming. I finished the book days ago and yet, I still can’t get it out of my head. I recently told Lisa that I feel as if I have a big hole in my chest where my heart used to be. In fact, it’s a HUGE chunk missing. I don’t plan on getting that piece back because it has been left with the characters and words of this book. I’m getting all teary eyed just thinking about it.

“Are you going to miss me?” I asked. I instantly regret the words as soon as they slip out of my mouth.

“Yes, Kate, I’m going to miss you. I’m so damn in love with you, I can barely stand to spend a few hours apart from you, and now we’re going to be miles and hours apart. It sucks. It really fucking sucks,” he says.

Poor Beau. He’s going off to college five hours away from home. I felt bad for him for various reasons but the main one was how much Kate pushed him away. A person can only be patient for so long until they break. And while Beau got mad and didn’t talk to her for a few days, he always came back. To me that shows just how loyal and good hearted he is. I instantly adored him.

“My fact for the day: I wanted to come over here as soon as you drove away yesterday. I want to know you. I want to know what it is that made you cry, but more than that; I want to know what I have to do to make you happy again.”–Asher

Cocky, gorgeous, and full of life. That is what I will use to describe Asher. He came into Kate’s life like a hurricane and demanded to be let in. He didn’t take no for an answer and for some reason, Kate let him. He helps her face her fears and in the end, ends up saving her from herself.

“I want to kiss you whenever I want. I want to hold you. I want you to tell me all of your secrets and eventually tell you all of mine.” -Asher

Yes I sure did swoon at that part. I have no shame! I like how the story shows the possibility of falling in love with two people. Most everyone is lucky if they find one love in this lifetime, but two? It’s a fantastic idea and I can see where something like that could happen.

“When it rains, Kate, remember me.”

Oh god, I am crying again! This is not a light read at all. It deals with a very heavy subject matter. You want to cry? Buy this book. You want to fall in love with two boys? (And you will) Buy this book. You want to watch a broken girl grow into a strong woman? Buy this book.

A thank you and shout out goes to Angie of Angie’s Dreamy Reads for setting up this amazing tour.

And last but not least a huge thank you goes out to Lisa for giving me the opportunity to read such an enchanting book. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I love you for writing a book worth reading<3

Author Information:

Lisa De Jong is a wife, mother and full-time number cruncher who lives in the Midwest. Her writing journey involved insane amounts of coffee and many nights of very little sleep but she wouldn’t change a thing. She also enjoys reading, football and music.

For more information about Lisa and her books follow her at:
Twitter: @LisaDeJongBooks
Blog: www.lisadejongbooks.blogspot.com

Email: lisadejongwrites@gmail.com

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Goodreads Link: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17833493-when-it-rains?ac=1

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Her Accidental Boyfriend by Robin Bielman--Release Day Launch, Giveaway and Review

Her Accidental Boyfriend by Robin Bielman

About the book:

Faking it with this flirt never felt so real...

Kagan Owens has a secret. One she thought she'd escaped by leaving New York, but when her past follows her to her temporary new life, Kagan lets a teeny lie slip. And now the town's biggest playboy and flirt, Shane Sullivan, has become her pretend boyfriend--just until she's ready to return to NYC. But the handsome, fun-loving Shane makes it tough to determine where their friendly agreement begins and ends...

Shane has no intention of settling down--in fact, his job depends on it, and nothing's more important than his work. Still, he can't help but agree to Kagan's scheme, if only to find out more about the mysterious beauty. But when every touch from her sets his heart and body on fire, he realizes playing an accidental boyfriend may be more than he bargained for--and more than he can give.

Review:

Kagan has ran away from her life in New York to pursue her own dreams. Working for her father has been suffocating and it doesn't help any that her father has set up an arranged marriage with a man she doesn't love. While on her journey she meets the sexy Shane Sullivan, who she just so happens to pretend he is her boyfriend so that her current "fiancé" will leave her alone. 

Her Accidental Boyfriend is everything I look for in a romance. A swoon worthy guy, a lovely heroine to be jealous of, and lots and lots of romance. 

Shane is the type of man every girl can see her with. Hell, what kinda girl doesn't want a rich beautiful man?! Sure that does sound real conceited but can you blame me? When you read about Shane, you'll see what I am talking about. 

Kagan was a wonderful heroine. She was strong, beautiful, and real. I instantly liked her and could see why she did what she did when she ran away from New York. 

If you are looking for a sweet and heartfelt romance, this is for you. All romance lovers need to pick this up!!

About the author:

Robin Bielman lives in Southern California with her high school sweetheart husband, two sons, and crazy-cute miniLabradoodle, Harry (named after Harry Dresden from Jim Butcher's Dresden Files books). When not attached to her laptop, she can almost always be found with her nose in a book. She also likes to run, hike, and dip her toes in the ocean. Filled with wanderlust, she longs to visit many different places and fulfill her curiosity. She wouldn’t mind indulging her sweet tooth in every location either. She’s a lover of Post-it notes, cable television shows and café mochas. Writing is a dream come true, and she still pinches herself to be sure it’s real.

Her other novels include Kissing the Maid of Honor, Worth the Risk, Risky Surrender and Yours At Midnight. She loves to connect with readers. Learn more and sign up for her newsletter on her website at http://robinbielman.com. She can also be found online here:

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Find Robin’s latest release, Her Accidental Boyfriend,online at:

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Praise for Robin Bielman

Robin Bielman is a must read! ~ NYT Bestselling Author Vicki Lewis Thompson 

"Sweet, sassy, and toe-curlingly sexy, my *secret wish* is to live inside the pages of this story!" ~ Rachel Harris, author of Seven Day Fiancé

Giveaway Info:

In Her Accidental Boyfriend Kagan designs jewelry similar to this beautiful pink pearl double wrap bracelet that is up for grabs.

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