RELEASE BOOST and REVIEW: What Happens During The Holidays Anthology

Title: What Happens During the Holidays
Authors: E.M. Abel, Renee Ericson, Lucy Gage,
Jessica Ingro, Kelli Jean, Elle Jefferson,
Cheryl McIntyre, Beth Michele,
Tessa Teevan & K. Webster
Genre: Romance Anthology
Release Date: November 27, 2017

Blurb

Holidays happen.

It's inevitable.

Emotions run high and plans can get turned upside down, landing you in bed with someone so far off the radar you never saw them coming.

Is it love? Is it lust? Or is it just what happens during the holidays? 

*What Happens During the Holidays is a collection of fun and sexy holiday short stories from a group of fun and sometimes sexy authors. Or maybe they’re ninjas.*

All proceeds to benefit Direct Relief

Coming Home by E.M. Abel
Fortune by Renee Ericson
The Meeting by Lucy Gage
Love Square: The Remix by Jessica Ingro
Mahalo by Kelli Jean
Big Mistake by Elle Jefferson
A Gift from Fate by Cheryl McIntyre
Going Down by Beth Michele
The Naughty List by Tessa Teevan
Naughty St. Nick by K. Webster

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Contributing Authors

E.M. Abel

Renee Ericson

Lucy Gage

Jessica Ingro

Kelli Jean

Elle Jefferson

Cheryl McIntyre

Beth Michele

Tessa Teevan

K. Webster

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Review

[Anita]
In Patti's Imagination: 10/10
Amazon: 5/5

I loved this anthology. It was full of amazing stories that were sweet, fun and fast. Some made me want to read more and to demand of authors to write the next part but that's what reading is about, isn't it? That feeling of wanting more and when you just can't wait to get that next segment of the book.

This was a perfect holiday anthology and you all need to check it out to get into the holiday spirit. It sure worked with me because I love Christmas more than anything else.

Celebrate the holidays with awesome books like this box set. Enjoy!

REVIEW Rebecca Jaycox THE OTHER QUEEN

BOOK INFO:

Title: The Other Queen

Series: Inheritance

Author: Rebecca Jaycox

Genre: Young Adult

Publication Date: April 1, 2017

SYNOPSIS:

One world. Two girls. An evil determined to destroy them both.

Reggie has escaped the dark mage, Andrius, and finally made it to her guardian, Rhys. But if she thought things would be easier, fate has other plans.
Her father's situation is more dire than she first thought, and she learns her mother and best friend are being held hostage by Andrius. 
Her dreams are being haunted by the Black Queen, a bizarre, terrified girl begging for Reggie to save her. With her loved ones' lives hanging in the balance, Reggie and her friends race to devise a plan to defeat Andrius. And the Black Queen could provide the key to breaking the dark mage's hold on the Other.

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REVIEW:

[Flora]

Amazon/Goodreads Rating: 4/5

In Patti's Imagination Rating: 8/10

The Inheritance:

This is the story of this strong independent young girl who has been pulled through the looking glass to battle an overlord and find her family and friends.  The Other is ruled by fear and an evil ruler bent on killing Reggie and the rebels before they can save their world, the Other, and Reggie's, the Real.  Together with her badass guardian and the other rebels they set out to do just that.  Reggie while still in culture shock must learn to harness her power and work with the others to free her family and friends.  Along the way Reggie finds she no longer needs to be the parent to an alcoholic mother and deal with a school full of bullies which so feels safer to her than the Dark Mage, the mythological creatures and people in the Other.  

Will she really be strong enough to save them all ?  Will Asher, and the rebels find a way to save the day ?  Will she be able to save her family from their prisons ?  Can her human mother and her best friend last much longer without help ?  

The world though foreign holds believability and complex imaginary, many levels of love and  a group of complex characters who are well rounded and have, often tragic, complex backgrounds.  

The story does have a few minor curse words and lots of action packed violent events.  The book deals with alcoholism, kidnapping, torture and raw emotions.  I would say based on the content and the grade level of the vocabulary words that it is best suited for children 14years and up.  I, for one,  am looking forward to the next book in this well written series. 

The Other Queen:

The first book left on a major cliffhanger.  This story picks up where the last ended. While the author does a wonderful job of filling the reader in, it is best to read book one first to get the depth of the characters and their intertwined relationships with each other.  I like that the characters react emotionally to events in their lives.  It is filled with action and romance.  The main character, Reggie, is a strong young girl, who has been taking care of her alcoholic mother. Her world is turned upside down when she learns she has some really great powers.  This causes the evil from another dimension to want to take it away from her and take other her dimension, too.  This book continues with the battle.  The plan is to get the leaders and infiltrate the place and give Andrius a one two punch.  She must save her family and friends and one who maybe a friend or a foe. Will her head strong ways get her or her friends killed?   I can’t wait to see what will happen next.

AUTHOR BIO:

Rebecca Jaycox grew up in the tiny town of Berryman, which borders the Mark Twain National Forest and the Courtois River about 70 miles south of St. Louis. The beautiful landscape fed her imagination, and she began writing stories at age 10 and never stopped. Always seeking adventure, Rebecca moved to France after she graduated college with a journalism degree to teach English at a French high school. Bitten by the travel bug, she has recently visited Italy, Greece, Austria, Spain, and finally made it to her bucket-list destination of Istanbul last summer. Rebecca now lives in New York City with her husband, Gregory. She is the curator and program director of the YA Lit Series at the 92nd Street Y—one of New York’s premier cultural centers. She enjoys reading and writing fantasy, urban fantasy, steampunk, and science fiction. The Other Inheritance is her first novel.

RELEASE DAY BLITZ and REVIEW - Kelli Jean's DOMO ARIGATO, MR. TORONTO

Title: Domo Arigato, Mr. Toronto
Author: Kelli Jean
Genre: Romantic Comedy
Release Date: February 13, 2017

SYNOPSIS

Just when environmental scientist Dr. Emery Bradford’s globe-trotting days seem to be winding down, she heads to Canada to help a sexy, bearded park warden, Julian Michael Jensen, investigate the unnatural wildlife and their deaths in the Algonquin Provincial Park.

The moment Julian and Emery meet, heated fireworks ignite, and keeping on task proves to be challenging as they battle their desire for one another. However, they have an important job to do that requires discretion and focus because what’s hidden in the forest threatens not only the wildlife, but possibly also their very survival, but new obstacles start to present themselves behind every rock and tree.

Can they hold on to their intensely growing attraction for each other while attempting to save Algonquin Provincial Park? Or will running for their lives destroy everything they are fighting for?

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REVIEW

[Patti]

Amazon/Goodreads rating: 5/5

In Patti's Imagination rating: 10/10

Once again, Kelli Jean does not disappoint. This story is a dramatic departure from her last series, Ten Thousand, which dealt with some very heavy subjects. Not that environmental pollution is lite fare, but it's a lot easier to digest on an emotional level. Along with a little lighter plot, the chemistry between Emery and Julian is fun and steamy. I don't know that I'd call this entirely 'comedy', but it's definitely amusing, at times, and easy to digest.

As always, I was thoroughly submerged in this world, swimming and hiking with Julian and Emery as they made their way through the backcountry, ready to jump in and join their cause. I'm hoping Kelli will give us more of this world in the form of Nate's story, because I really want all the details on that! I don't think I've read a Kelli Jean story yet that didn't make me want more, more, more. This new world is no different. I'm excited for whatever she brings to the table next!

AUTHOR BIO

Born and raised in Miami, Kelli Jean traded the tropical heat for the arctic. Now she deals with twenty-four-hour daylight in the summer, zero sunlight in the winter, and believes the Northern Lights make up for the mind-boggling amount of ice and snow she has to put up with for seven months out of the year. She’s surrounded by mountains and ocean and sheep, and claims her bizarre sense of humor is what keeps her sane.

The insane don’t know they’re insane.

Kelli uses her imagination to create worlds she can escape to from the mundane tasks of everyday life, such as washing the damn dishes and vacuuming up Legos off the floor—and don’t get her started on the mad amount of cat hair on the end of the couch. She gave up on that a long time ago. When the household goes to sleep at night, she writes down everything that happened in her head while doing such tedious chores. But she enjoys living in her own head, so that’s pretty cool.

Technology terrifies her. She can barely turn on a computer, and was completely shocked when she’d actually written a book on one. To this day, she has no explanation for this baffling mystery. It took her three years to realize she can take screen shots of messages and pictures of bearded, tattooed men with her phone. Now that she’s mastered this task, her phone is slowly dying, and she’s nervous that she’s going to have to buy a new one and it will take her another three years to learn how to use it.

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RELEASE DAY BLITZ and REVIEW of GRAVITY by A. B. Bloom

Tile: Gravity

Author: A. B. Bloom

Genre: Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance

Expected publication: October 31st 2016

Edition Language

English

Other Editions

None 

SYNOPSIS:
They are calling it the End of Days. The world is plunging into darkness, the days growing shorter and the nights longer. Meteor showers are falling to the earth and there are some who would take advantage of the growing darkness.

For sixteen-year-old Bronte Bell, her problems are closer to home. Since her birthday she’s become weaker, her bones breaking, her hair falling out and plagued with constant migraines. No one can explain why. Until a mysterious new boy arrives and tells her that everything is not as it seems. She is not what she seems.

Drawn into a war that divides the sky, Bronte is torn between her desire to save the world and her growing connection with Nick. But she will have to let go of reality as she knows it, if she is to accept her role in destiny before the Hunter, who has been tracking her since birth, finds and destroys any chance she has of making the choice which is her birthright to make.

Her destiny will change everything . . .

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REVIEW:

Gravity

[Flora]

Amazon/Goodreads rating: 4.5/5
In Patti's Imagination rating: 8/10

As I read this book,  my mind was asking so many questions.  What was causing Bronte’s illness that started just after her sixteenth birthday?  Who was the mysterious boy in the hoody with the violet eyes?  Why was reality changing in Bronte’s world?  Was this all in her head?

I think that this was a wonderful book because it touched on the issue of bullying.  Set in a future England Bronte and her family and best friend find themselves dealing with a worldwide calamity. The light of day is becoming increasingly shorter and shorter.  Bronte’s life was filled with trying to be invisible to her bullies and stay healthy enough to avoid being home schooled by her overprotective mom.  She is teased because she is frail and tripped and covered in food, yet going to school is what makes her feel normal.  She sees the new kid and her life is turned upside down.  Nick is mysterious, dressed in black, wearing a hoodie over his face.  She is drawn to him in a very strong way that she can feel in the pit of her stomach.   It is as if she is caught in his gravitational pull and his violet eyes have bewitched her.  Is he a good or bad influence in her life?  Will she ever know his secrets?  Can she fight destiny?  

She finds out  that part of her destiny is she is part of a battle and that she alone holds the fate of the world in her hands.  A world where night is taking over the day.  It is a world where birds lay dead in the streets and looters become more and more brazen as the days become shorter and shorter. I survival story, a bullying story, a family secret story, a good versus evil story, but above all, this is a love story.  A romantic wonderful love story.  Is Nick her destiny?  Is it her fate to be with another?  Can she figure out who is really on her side before it is too late?   

When her mysterious violet eyed boy reveals he has been watching over her all her life, protecting her and that she is destined to change the outcome of the battle that is causing the very stars to fall from the sky and the Earth to become darker and darker, he becomes this romantic knight in shining armor character, but was he really right for her?   I was not able to predict the outcome of this story and, like Bronte, I wasn’t sure who to believe.  What a way to end the book.  I did not see that coming.  The story is well written. It is filled with great imagery.    I would have liked to have more about these characters revealed or maybe a book from violet eyed, Nick’s point of view.  The story would appeal to girls of a middle school to high school level.  It could be a story used to teach the use of  inference or flashbacks in a story.

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AUTHOR BIO:

Anna Bloom is a contemporary romance writer who writes about life as it happens. Combining a busy schedule of looking after two small children whilst working in a local school and completing The Uni Files series. Anna’s main aim in life is to create the perfect book which makes a reader laugh and cry at the same time, hopefully causing a convulsive (impossible to ignore) donkey noise. It’s a work in progress!  Anna also spends a lot of time imagining kissing hot guys – all in the name of her art.

Website: http://www.annabloomwrites.com/
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NEW COVER REVEAL, SALE and REVIEW of SON OF RAIN SERIES by Michelle Irwin

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Synopsis:
As a member of a secret organization intent on neutralizing the threat nonhumans pose, Clay Jacobs should have recognized Evie Meyers’s true nature earlier. He should have destroyed her before she could flee.

Two years later, the memory of her holds him captive and assaults him nightly. To bring an end to his torment, Clay must find her. When he does, will he kill the woman he can't forget or run with the woman he can't let go?

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REVIEW:

Book 1: BESIEGED BY RAIN

[Flora]

 After reading the Daughter of Fire series, I read the Son of Rain books.  While the Fire books are from the point of view of Evie and Rain books are written from Clay’s point of view.  I was a bit septical of this idea of telling the same story just through another character’s eyes.  I thought the story would be redundant, but I was so very wrong.

The woman of Clay’s dreams is haunting him,  Is it because she is so forbidden?  Is it because she is so beautiful? Is it that she has some secret superpower that has bewitched him to go against his training, his beliefs, his family's traditions?  His family are members of a secret organisation who rid the world of monsters.  He always thought anything not human was an abomination and should be killed to protect humankind. Clay is a sophisticatedly trained member of an elite force that complains about his brother using the last of the milk.

Magnolias left on a doorstep, a romantic gesture to show he was so in love with Evie, his girl, his obsession.  It was a daring move because he could be killed and his whole family would be in jeopardy as well, but he couldn't stay away after spending so much time and energy just to find her.  Evie however did not see the magnolias as romantic after the way she left abruptly after a fight with Clay.  He gets her to meet him and they spend time together as if they never left each other’s side, but Clay’s family finds him and devastates everyone’s lives.

Evie must flee again for her life and Clay is sent for “re-training.” After he is returned to his former duties at Rain, he feels conflicted by his training that all non-humans are monsters and his experience with Evie, a monster, a phoenix.  Her story in the Daughter of Fire series and this Clay’s point of view together have totally put this saga into a new and exciting tale of star crossed lovers.  As always I find Michelle Irwin’s novels to be complex, and emotional.  Her well written story is a pleasure to read.  The details matter.  The real, well rounded character are easy to identify with.  I can’t wait to read the next book in this companion series.

Amazon/GoodReads rating: 5/5

In Patti's Imagination rating: 10/10

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REVIEW:

Book 2: AMONG THE DEBRIS

[Flora]

 After losing each other again, Clay and Evie come together in Salem at a witches convention.  Rain is there to “save” the world of non-humans and kill innocent women. Clay loves Evie but when he is with his family again he questions Evie.  Did she bewitch him?  Could his family have been right all along?  

In order to find the truth of his obsession he searches around the world to prove he was being lied to from his girl or his family.  It is a journey to find Evie’s true nature but it seems getting answers is not going to be easy.  He convinces his family and the rain that he needs to time away to get his head back in the game.  He is allowed to leave the country and goes to England to find  a woman in Evie’s file that may know more about the Phoenix and the Songbird.

It is amazing how much I have learned about the mythology surrounding Evie and others from this book.  Michelle Irwin has me emotional and wanting to see Clay and Evie succeed.  It is heartbreaking to think that these two keep being torn apart.  The romeo and Juliet influences are not lost on this reader.   It is amazing how reading these books have added such dimension to the series.  I love how the books overlap but are not very redundant.  I love how Clay has such inner turmoils.  The characters are real and complex.  I fell in love with Clay in book one with the dates and now with his protective nature I am smitten even more.  While this book could be read without reading the Daughter of Fire series, it would be beneficial to the deeper knowledge the books are conveying.  

Amazon/Goodreads rating: 5/5

In Patti's Imagination rating: 10/10

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AUTHOR BIO:

Michelle Irwin has been many things in her life: a hobbit taking a precious item to a fiery mountain; a young child stepping through the back of a wardrobe into another land; the last human stranded not-quite-alone in space three million years in the future; a young girl willing to fight for the love of a vampire; and a time-travelling madman in a box. She achieved all of these feats and many more through her voracious reading habit. Eventually, so much reading had to have an effect and the cast of characters inside her mind took over and spilled out onto the page.

Michelle lives in sunny Queensland in the land down under with her surprisingly patient husband and ever-intriguing daughter, carving out precious moments of writing and reading time around her accounts-based day job. A lover of love and overcoming the odds, she primarily writes paranormal and fantasy romance.