[REVIEW] Limerence

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Series: The Cure #3
Author: Charlotte McConaghy
Genre: new adult, science fiction, dystopia, romance
Published: April 14, 2016
Publisher: Momentum Books, Pan Macmillan
Purchase: Amazon

No injection can cure love. Only life can do that.  

Deep in the darkest tunnels hide the last of the resistance fighters. Hunted by the savage Furies and the ruthless Bloods, they live in constant peril. The only means of survival is to seek strength in family and find courage in love. So what happens when love is cured, scoured away, leaving death in its place? 

In the final battle for freedom, there are no lines that won’t be crossed. And for Josi this means becoming the creature she fears most of all: the girl with a blood moon heart. 

The gripping conclusion to the dystopian trilogy The Cure, Limerence is a love story for the monsters within. 

Perfect for fans of Pierce Brown, Laini Taylor and Maggie Stiefvater.

[REVIEW] Melancholy

Series: The Cure #2
Author: Charlotte McConaghy
Genre: new adult, science fiction, dystopia, romance
Published: June 11, 2015
Publisher: Momentum Books, Pan Macmillan
Purchase: Amazon

Here in the west they know a lot about hope. They know how to ration it just as they do with food and water. 

Josephine is at last free of the blood moon. But in a desperate rush to find help for a comatose Luke, she discovers the strange and dangerous world of the resistance, and it is unlike any world Josi has known. 

In the west they believe in fury – they cultivate and encourage it. The unruly people of the resistance know that to survive means to fight. But can they fight the inevitable cure for sadness that rushes steadily closer? 

In the action-packed sequel to Fury, everything Josi believes about herself will be challenged. Haunted by atrocities and betrayals, she must find the strength to trust again, and decide how far she is willing to go to fight the inevitable. 

At times both brutal and sweet, Melancholy is the story of second chances and finding love in a ruined world.

[REVIEW] Fury

Series: The Cure #1
Author: Charlotte McConaghy
Genre: new adult, science fiction, dystopia, romance
Published: March 25, 2014
Publisher: Momentum Books, Pan Macmillan
Purchase: Amazon

When emotions are erased from the world, creating a civilization of mindless drones, only those with fury can survive. 

On the same day each year Josephine Luquet wakes naked, shivering and covered in blood that is not her own. Under the cold gaze of the blood moon she is someone else entirely, but when dawn breaks her memories vanish and she is left with only an icy horror, a burning fury. Amid a sea of 'drones', she alone hasn’t been cured.  

Then she meets Luke. He isn’t like the other drones. With secrets behind his eyes, he is the only one determined to help Josephine discover the truth before the next blood moon rises.  

But time is running out. Is Luke willing to risk his life to be near her? Does he truly understand what violence she is capable of?  

Raw and full of passion, Fury is a story of love in a dystopian world, and how much we are willing to forgive in the struggle to remember our humanity.

[RELEASE EVENT] Tripp

Series: the Life Series #2
Author: Kristen Kehoe
Genre: young adult, new adult, romance, realistic fiction, 
Published: April 17, 2015
Purchase: Amazon

Because there are two sides to every story… 

I’ve never been the guy who shied away from taking the ball. I’m an athlete; I thrive on the court, and I thrive in life because I don’t shy away from taking chances. 

Except that one time. 

Except with Rachel. 

I fell in love with my best friend when we were ten, and she almost put her fist in my face when I tried to defend her against a fifth grade bully. I didn’t tell her that day that I loved her, or any of the ones following, because she had proved she didn’t need me, and even at a young age, I knew the opposite was true for me. 

I needed Rachel with every breath I took, and it scared the ever-loving crap out of me 

Being the mature young man I am (cough), I tried to ignore it. I dated someone else; I stayed Rachel’s friend and watched her from afar because when you love someone who has the potential to break you into a million unrecoverable pieces, that’s what you do.  You watch from afar and you never reveal your true feelings because it’s safer to hide them than to admit them. 

Until it’s not. Until the day you take a step forward and alter both of your worlds completely, only to discover that you’ll never, ever be over her. 

This is my story – my story of Rachel and everything I did and didn’t do, everything I said and forgot to say, and everything I felt before and after we made our biggest mistake and walked away from each other. 

She told her side – now it’s my turn. I’m including our past, holding nothing back from her ever again, so she better be ready for me. 

Mature Young Adult 

 ***This is the companion novel to LIFE INTERRUPTED (The Life series Book 1) released January 2014. It can be read as a standalone, as it is different from Rachel’s story.

[WAITING ON WEDNESDAY] A Court of Thorns and Roses

Series: A Court of Thorns and Roses #1
Author: Sarah J. Maas
Genre: young adult, new adult, fantasy, retelling, romance,
Expected Publication: May 5, 2015

A thrilling, seductive new series from New York Times bestselling author Sarah J. Maas, blending Beauty and the Beast with faerie lore. 

When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin—one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world. 

As she dwells on his estate, her feelings for Tamlin transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie and warning she's been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But an ancient, wicked shadow grows over the faerie lands, and Feyre must find a way to stop it . . . or doom Tamlin—and his world—forever. 

Perfect for fans of Kristin Cashore and George R. R. Martin, this first book in a sexy and action-packed new series is impossible to put down!

[BOOK BLITZ] Atlantis Rising

Series: N/A
Author: Gloria Craw
Genre: young adult, fantasy, paranormal, contemporary, new adult
Publisher: Entangled Teen
Published: January 6, 2015
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I am different. I have always been different, but no one can know or my life will be in danger. So I hide in plain sight, wearing drab clothes and thick glasses and trying to be invisible. I’m so good at hiding, no one has ever noticed me. Until Ian…the mysterious and oh-so-cute boy I know I need to avoid.

Now I have been seen. And more terrifying still, I am wanted—by those who would protect me and those who would destroy everything and everyone I love. But if they’re all terrified about who I am, wait until they see what I can do…

[REVIEW] Life Interrupted

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Series: N/A
Author: Kristen Kehoe
Genre: young adult, new adult, romance, realistic fiction, drama
Published: January 30, 2014
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Rachel Reynolds isn't running from her past, but she wouldn't mind if it stopped chasing her, either. A senior in high school getting ready to graduate, Rachel is trying to look ahead toward her future, while forgetting the one night two years ago that set events in motion which altered the course of her entire life. Part of the future she's looking for includes falling out of love with her best friend, an act she seems incapable of, especially when it appears he might just love her, too. As Rachel tries to find her footing in a relationship that has baggage before it starts, a nightmare from her past reappears, upsetting the tenuous balance of Rachel's life and threatening the one person she loves most.

[REVIEW] Carnelian

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Series: Chalcedony Chronicles #1
Author: B. Kristin McMichael
Genre: young adult, romance, fantasy, time travel
Published: February 1, 2014
Publisher: Lexia Press

Everyone has a past, but for most it isn’t as long ago as Seth Sangre. His past is literally thousands of years ago. Seth’s life led him to the present seeking something that might help him save his country from destruction. He has been in the present for over three years now and just found exactly what he has been looking for. 

Mari had dreams that college will be a fresh start, one where she would start over and not fall for the good looking player like high school. Unfortunately for her, that’s exactly what ends up falling into her lap on the first day she moves into the dorms. Now she has to hold to her promise to herself and not fall for the handsome Seth. But he doesn’t plan to make it easy for her. Seth has already marked her as his next conquest. As the semester progresses, Mari learns that Seth might just have a life of his own that’s actually from the past. 

Suddenly Mari finds her future along with her past put into question. She’s connected to Seth far more than she ever wanted to be and maybe the player isn’t who she thought he was. If Mari can trust her heart enough to follow him, Seth will lead Mari on an adventure of a lifetime and reveal family secrets she never knew existed.