Waiting On Wednesday #5

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine! Each week, bloggers spotlight what upcoming release they’re eager for. Here’s mine:

So today WOW is going to be a little different... I am going to put in a excerpt because that was what drew me into the book. The synopsis is a bit boring. And at the bottom of this post there will be a GIVEAWAY  

Publishing date:  May 7th 2013

Publisher: Self Published 

Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance (Academic/ College)

Synopsis:

Jillian had a plan: celebrate the end of her first year of college with an amazing summer full of beaches, barbecues  and bonfires. When her mom insists she needs a summer job, and her boyfriend spends more time with his band than with her, Jillian’s plans go down the drain. 

Grant had a plan: finish his Masters, get a great job at Google, and get the hell out of Georgia. He might be giving up some of the fun of his youth, but he knows his all work and no play method would be worth it when his dreams came true.

But things never go according to plan. 

When temptation brings them together and tragedy tears them apart, Jillian and Grant will be forced to choose: fight for their dreams, or fight for each other.

Here’s the excerpt: 

The laughter, clinking of glasses, and music from the juke box faded away. I could only hear the whooshing of my own heartbeat. I swallowed hard. Grant’s eyes lowered to watch the movement of my neck, and I imagined what it would be like for him to kiss me there like in my dream. To trace the line from my jaw with his finger or tongue down to my clavicle, dipping into that tiny hollow.

I forgot to breathe.

My leg grazed his, with just the tiniest amount of friction. I didn’t take my eyes off him, and I could see his own widen almost imperceptibly. His hand slipped under the table next to mine, hovering. He never touched me. I could feel the heat from his hand like a furnace. He was waiting for permission, a sign that I wanted and accepted his touch. My hands stayed glued to the seat beside me, but I lifted up onto the balls of my feet, causing my knee to bump into his awaiting hand.

It took but seconds for his large, strong hand to clasp the top of my leg, the pad of his thumb brushing along the soft skin inside my thigh. I looked around the table, but everyone was deep in their own conversations, and no one was paying us any attention.

Neither his hand nor my leg moved for a long time. Just the tiny swipes of his thumb, causing my breath to hitch. We didn’t look at each other as to not draw attention. He chatted casually with people at the table, while I was drawn tighter than a bow.

Finally, after an excruciatingly long time, he began to move his fingers. He ran his thumb in tiny circles on the inside of my thigh as his fingers brushed behind my knee, making a painstakingly slow ascent upward. One millimeter at a time.

Time stood still and the room around me blurred. He was still an inch or two below the hem of my shorts, but I felt like he was touching me at my core. Goosebumps rose along my skin, and I shivered. 

Grant must have taken that as a good sign, because he began to very slowly—agonizingly slowly—inch his fingers further up my thigh. My muscles tightened in anticipation, knowing this was wrong but wanting nothing but his touch.  He made his way to the hem of my tiny shorts, sliding his fingers back and forth against it. Inside my thigh. Outside my thigh. Inside. Outside. In. Out.

My vision blurred, and my eyes slid shut with pleasure. I bit my bottom lip to contain the groan that threatened to escape my lips.

And be sure to check out the giveaway to get one of the very first print copies of the book!! 

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Aleatha Romig Day! Giveaways, Reviews, and More!

**GIVEAWAY at bottom of post**

We have declared today, Aleatha Romig Day on Books Vs Boys Blog. Aleatha Romig has given a whole new meaning to the phase “all actions will have consequences” and who has all but invented the term MIND FUCK.

Aleatha Romig’s Consequences series will contain 3 books: 

Consequences

Purchase --> Kindle I Paperback 

Truth

Purchase --> Kindle I Paperback 

Convicted – Expected release date late 2013 or early 2014

You can see Debbie’s exciting and emotional review of Consequences HERE

Now for our Never Before Seen Review of Truth:

My Rating: RAPE ME NOW!! (5++ Stars)

Steam Level: HOT 

After the jaw-dropping, wall punching ending of Consequences I had absolutely no idea what to expect going into Truth. Any premonitions or ideas I had hiding in the back of my head were pretty much tossed out the window and grinded into the pavement by Tony’s foot within the first few chapters.

This review is definitely going to be more about feelings and emotions than plot because I don’t want to give anything away to anyone who hasn’t read either Consequences or Truth. And there is SOO much to potentially spoil. So with that said, If you haven’t read Book 1 – Consequences (what the hell are you waiting for?) I would recommend not reading any further in this review (just skip down to the fun stuff), you have been warned!

Truth contains even more backstory about Tony and his father and I loved it. It lets us delve even deeper into Tony’s mind and what make him tick, what has made him who he is. And pay close attention because there are actually clues that foreshadow some of the HUGE revelations that come later on. And I mean HUGE jaw-dropping, wall punching revelations and events just like what we saw with the ending in Consequences.

I HATED Tony after Consequences, like hated in that I thought he deserved to rot in a jail cell for the rest of his life and never see the light of day again, and if rats slowly gnawed away at him until he bled out or died from a disease, well that would be okay..… But then I read Truth. In Truth we see a Claire that is able to stand up for herself (to an extent). In Truth we see a Tony that has had growth, a Tony that is willing to bend (even if it’s just a tiny bit), we see a Tony that actually has a heart (although it is yet to be seen how whole his heart actually is). My emotions concerning Tony we toyed with, my world was flipped upside down, then righted only to be flipped upside down again. My feelings for Tony by the end of Truth are best summed up in these two lines form the book:

“Love and hate are very close emotions. Both intense and consuming.”

“Could it be possible to hate and love someone too?”

As I mentioned earlier, Claire does develop a smidge of a backbone, but as with everything else that involves Anthony Rawlings it has it limits. I like Claire but I will never truly understand her thoughts or actions and that’s probably because I‘ve never been anywhere close to the situation that she has endured. My feelings for her actions occasionally resembled the same ones I have for Tony: Love Vs Hate. Especially where Harry was concerned, did I want it to happen? Do I like Harry? Is he a better choice? Ah! Even after knowing how all of Truth plays out I still don’t know the answers to those questions.

And yes, we are left with questions at the end, but we also receive a lot of answers. Occasionally those answers just lead to more questions, but that is what I love most about this series. It’s completely off the grid of predictability, it’s plot is an earthquake of actions and consequences, it is layer upon layer upon layer of pure genius.

The ending of Truth! Ah! It is JUST as shocking as the ending of Truth, but I wouldn’t call it a cliffhanger. It leaves all of the characters in a place that I can live with until the final installment of this trilogy, Convicted, is released.

If I had to describe Truth in 3 words they would be: Brilliant, Evocative, and of course Mind-Fuck

Now go pick up this book! My review does not do this series justice, It is a ride and journey that can only be discovered by reading it for yourself.

About the Author:

Aleatha Romig has lived most of her life in Indiana. She is a graduate of Indiana University and has been married for twenty-five years. Together with her husband, she has raised three children. She works as a dental hygienist but has always enjoyed writing. She also likes to spend time with her family, friends, and patients. Her pastimes include exercising, reading, and writing. Consequences is her first novel.
Find Aleatha Roming:  Facebook I Twitter I Goodreads I Website 

Consequences Goodread’s Group : Join this fun group on goodread's for moral support, therapy, and hugs for anyone who has read or wants to read the Consequences trilogy. Not only does this group offer support, but Aleatha ocassionally posts exclusive POVs and interviews here! You don't want to miss it!

Now for the GIVEAWAY! Aleatha Roming is one of the most amazing and giving authors that I have ever spoken with!.She is giving away a kindle set of Consequences and Truth.

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Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at The Broke and the Bookis Bookish  to highlight a top ten list related to book blogging, and to get to know fellow book bloggers.

This weeks theme is Top Ten Favourite Books I Read Before I Was A Blogger.

Usually on this blog I always do Teaser Tuesday but to day i thought a change was by far over due so from now on I will alternate between Teaser Tuesday and this meme. 

I started this blog on  January the 21st 2013 

1. The Opportunist( Love with lies #1) by Tarryn Fisher :

This was actually the first ever New Adult Book i had ever read and I am so thankful that I read it because without this book this blog will never be. 

2. Dirty Red (Love With Lies #2) By Tarryn Fisher :

I loved this book better than the first aah i loved the main character of this book cant wait for the this in the series. I don't know why i never reviewed this book because to be honest i made my blog a week after i finished this book 

3. The condience of Callie and Kayden :

Love , Love this book . when i read it I though yaaaah the second book is only 3 months away then 2 days before the release date the date changes to February 2014 !!!!!!! FML

4. The Edge Of Never by Redmerski J.A:

Read this book in one sitting it was soo good. The author actually re-tweeted one our blog tweets about a give way of 10 books that we have going on on the blog which contained one of her books. I almost had a heart attack ( join the giveaway here)

5. The sea of tranquilty by Katja Millay:

This book was such a pleasant read I will recommend it to anyone 

6. Flower in the attic

From a young age i think i loved contriversal books which i was not even suppose to be reading the dark forbidden story line of this book lead me to love this book. i was 14 when i read this book i remeber having to read it at nigh and covering it with the back of another book so my mom wouldnt see that i was reading it.

7.  Captive in the dark 

I was 16 when i first read this book ... and need i say this book was dark and fucking hot.  Another book I probably should have not been reading at that age but again I was a bad girl lol 

8.  Thirteen Reasons why 

this book was so good I loved the story line of the book it was a breath of frsh air from all the other repetivtive story lines i had been reading ya. Of the popular guy finally noticing the geeky girl(im all for geeky girls but i was getting tired of reading it in every book )

9. Reason to breath  

This book was soo sad. I really wish I had people to share the feelings of saddness i was feeling when i read this book 

10. Boy toy 

This book was another taboo subject but in reverse we always here about the male teacher taking advantage of the girl. But this one the female teacher takes advantages of the 12 year old boy (sick i know ..... but very captivating)

Review: If I Were You by Lisa Renee Jones

My Rating: Rape! (5 stars)

Genre: New Adult Romantic Suspense/Erotica

Steam Level: Boiling point!

If I were you I would head over and grab a copy of this book right now! It is exquisitely written. It is highly erotic. It is eerily intriguing. It is a MUST READ, a phenomenal beginning to what is sure to be an epic trilogy!

This book has been compared to 50 shades and crossfire and I just want to share my thoughts on that. While If I Were You gives off the same emotional intensity and eroticism that those two series do, it is its OWN story. It has a well done and solid plot that is completely original and will suck you in from page 1. The mystery factor to the story had my heart thumping throughout almost the entire book, it gives off that feeling that not everything is as it seems. I did not eat or sleep while I was reading this and my poor kids were ignored, it is that good! So consider yourself warned, THIS BOOK IS ADDICTIVE.

Through a turn of events Sara ends up the owner of an abandoned storage unit and upon further investigation she discovers that the locker belongs to a girl named Rebecca. After reading Rebecca’s highly evocative journals Sara becomes worried for the girl’s safety and begins a quest to find out what really happened to her. Sara’s quest leads her to Allure, a prestigious art gallery, that contains her dream job and just maybe her dream man as well….

I really liked Sara; she is sweet, but independent with an inner wildcat to her. She has a complicated past that is slowly revealed, though there is still much more of her story to learn. She is constantly struggling with her fear for Rebecca’s whereabouts and her own wants, needs, and desires.

“ I feel like I’m swimming between two shorelines—one the bland simple life, the other dark and erotic—and I can’t quite reach either.” ~Sara

“I follow his lead, searching beyond the glass to the activity on the street, thinking about how black and white I’ve let life become when I want to live in color.” ~Sara

Chris is so freaking hot. Easy going and sweet, Controlling and passionate, and confident in his own bad ass skin. He uses control to put a barrier between himself and Sara. It was captivating to watch Sara try to chip away at his wall, sometimes she succeed but most of the time causes Chris to do his best to reinforce it. It is obvious that Chris wants Sara in every way, but he is constantly warning her away. He has his own complex past and secrets and while the big reveal at the end is jaw-dropping, it was also a little predictable. BUT I have a feeling that there are many more layers of Chris to uncover as this series progresses and I can’t wait to discover every hard inch of him ;)

“Be warned, Sara. I’m no saint. If I take you upstairs, I’m going to strip you naked and fuck you the way I’ve wanted ot since the moment we first met.” ~Chris

“Do you know what happens when you push a dragon? They burn you alive, baby. You’re playing with fire.” ~Chris

There are some extremely intriguing secondary characters as well. Mainly Sara’s new boss, Mark Compton; he is sexy and alluring and there are a few times I was wondering if more of a love triangle will begin to develop. There is also the matter of Rebecca’s journals and who her ‘mysterious’ love might be. A few suspects are presented, including Mark, and I can't wait to read more of Rebecca's story in the relating novellas. 

Yes, there are a lot of questions left at the end of this book and holy crap that cliffhanger ending! It’s one of those that you love to hate! This is the first full length book of a trilogy as well as a slew of novellas (you can find the reading order below). It does an impeccable job of developing characters and relationships, setting up an intriguing plot, and leaves you holding your breath for more. My feelings when finishing this book are reprsented in the photo below: Hot, Needy, and felling like I'm not seeing the whole picture. 

*Breaking News* The Inside Out Trilogy has been optioned by Starz Network for a TV series. I have NO doubt that this will be a hit as it contains all the elements of a blockbuster: Mystery, Intrigue, Suspense, Love Triangles, Money, Power, Eroticism, Danger, and Domination.

Inside Out Trilogy Reading Order:

If I Were You --> Kindle Edition I Paperback

Being Me --> Pre-Order Links: Kindle Edition I Paperback

Revealing Us -> Pre-Order Links: Kindle Edition I Paperback

Rebecca’s Journal’s Novella Collection:

The Seduction: Volume 1 --> Kindle Edition

The Contract: Volume 2 --> Kindle Edition

His Submissive: Volume 3 --> Pre-Order

My Master: Volume 4 --> Pre-Order

The Master Undone: Volume 5 --> Pre-Order

I am addicted to this gripping series and all of its erotic layers!. I highly recommend you give it a try! 

~ERIN 

Cover Reveal: Lost and Found by Nicole Williams

Title: LOST AND FOUND

Author: Nicole Williams

Expected release date: May 7, 2013

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Age Group: Mature Young Adult, New Adult/Adult crossover

Cover Designer: Okay Creations

Cover reveal organized by: AToMR Tours

 

 There’s complicated. And there’s Rowen Sterling. After numbing pain for the past five years with boys, alcohol, and all-around apathy, she finds herself on a Greyhound bus to nowhere Montana the summer after she graduates high school. Her mom agreed to front the bill to Rowen’s dream art school only if Rowen proves she can work hard and stay out of trouble at Willow Springs Ranch. Cooking breakfast at the crack of dawn for a couple dozen ranch hands and mucking out horse stalls are the last things in the world Rowen wants to spend her summer doing. Until Jesse Walker saunters into her life wearing a pair of painted-on jeans, a cowboy hat, and a grin that makes something in her chest she’d thought was frozen go boom-boom. Jesse’s like no one else, and certainly nothing like her. He’s the bright and shiny to her dark and jaded. Rowen knows there’s no happily-ever-after for the golden boy and the rebel girl—happily-right- now is a stretch—so she tries to forget and ignore the boy who makes her feel things she’s not sure she’s ready to feel. But the more she pushes him away, the closer he seems to get. The more she convinces herself she doesn’t care, the harder she falls. When her dark secrets refuse to stay locked behind the walls she’s kept up for years, Rowen realizes it’s not just everyone else she needs to be honest with. It’s herself.  

  About the Author I'm a wife, a mom, a writer. I started writing because I loved it and I'm still writing because I love it. I write young adult because I still believe in true love, kindred spirits, and happy endings. Here's to staying young at heart *raises champagne glass* . . . care to join me?  

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Review: A Bad Boy is Good to Find by Jennifer Lewis

My Rating: Kiss

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Steam Level: warm – hot      

        

The beginning of this book is definitely intriguing and grabs your attention, but at the same time leaves you feeling a little distanced from the characters. I won’t go into detail with the plot, there is a lot of back story and twists and turns. But think the movie Sweet Home Alabama meets a reality TV show with some mystery and intrigue thrown in.

I couldn’t stand the heroine, Lizzie. She is treated horribly in the beginning of the book, but by the ending she has dished out 10 times what she received. She is shallow, shellfish, and overall high maintenance. By the ending she does redeem herself some, but in my eyes it wasn’t nearly enough to make up for what she put Conroy through.

“Damn, being a bitch is exhausting. If I lighten up a little, don’t take it personally.” – Lizzie

While I liked Conroy, the hero, I was a little disappointed. Being what the title is, I was ready for a tattooed, motorcycle ridin’ bad boy with a dirty mouth. But that is not Conroy…at all. He is more of a country boy that is genuinely nice, clean cut, and respects Lizzie way more than she deserves. That’s not to say that I didn’t like him or that he wasn’t hot in his own way, I just went into the book expecting something entirely different. Conroy has secrets, lots of them, his past is something he left behind with no intention to ever revisit again, at least until he meets Lizzie…

“I’m not capable of love. Maybe I was once, but that part of me is dead. I’m not really capable of anything other than survival” ~Conroy

Despite the intriguing and unique plot parts of the story were a little slow. There is a lot of conversation that distracts a bit from the flow. The same conversation between Lizzie and Conroy seems to be had over and over again, and a couple of times I had to stop myself from skimming whole paragraphs (something I HATE to do).

With all that being said, this is still a good book and a decent read. I appreciate that the author stepped outside the box and tried something a little different. I just felt it could have been a little better. There was too much going on to see the characters fully develop and I never really felt the chemistry between them.  

An ARC was received from the publisher for an honest review. 

To Purchase a copy of this book -->  Kindle Edition  I  Paperback 

Feature Follow Friday #3

Feature and Follow is a weekly meme hosted every Friday by Parajunkee's View & Alison Can Read 

How it works 

1. First thing first you leave your name on the bottom of one of the host sites , (Parajunkee's View & Alison Can Read using the linky tools — i didnt post it this week) 
2. then you create a post on your own blog that links back to this post (easiest way is to just grab the code under the #FF picture and put it in your post) and 
3. then you visit as many blogs as you can and tell them “hi” in their comments (on the post that has the #FF image). You follow them, they follow you. Win. Win. Just make sure to follow back if someone follows you!

Question: 
Have you ever read a book that you thought you would hate -- ? Did you end up hating it? Did you end up loving it? Or would you never do that?

Answer

Ever one knows how much I hate books were the characters are not human (that include vampires, angels, gods although i did love sweet evil . etc ) after reading Fallen I vouched that I will never read another paranormal books again I swear it had to be one of the worst books I have read... anyways that beside the point. So because Of my hatred anything not human i was very to hesitant to read this books

Starcrossed: When i first picked up starcrossed it was the cover that drew me in. I read the blurb but i was not to crazy about but I thought hey its only $1.50 and my boyfriend has just given me my monthly amazon £50 gift voucher  why he bought this one in dollars is beyond me) Now if you read this book you will know that this books beginning is not the most interesting and is quite slow sow when i started reading it. I was like this book is boring and I got my money refunded but then my school librarian kept saying its a really good read and i should at least wait til the 75 page. And boy did i love it when i started reading it again I am as of now waiting for the next book in the series : The goddess.

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Here is a book i thought i would love but hated

  

Stolen nights: OMG when this book came out I was over joyed I had loved the first book (about a vampire that becomes human)So when i realised that it would come to England 4 months before America I was dancing for Joy. But that was not the story when I read the book ... It was like the worst story I had ever read.I hated no scratch that hate is to nice of a word. There needs to be a new word to describe how much I despised this book. IT IN NO WAY HAD ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE FIRST ONE. Omg its was so bad in the first book it had the like the first chapter of this book. Let me just say that it was not even in the second book. I think the author most have been hit on the back of the head and caught amnesia before the release date or something. Or maybe she most have had a mid life crisis before the release date of the book and just decided to right a whole book from scratch that was complete utter rubbish and nonsense  because even the blurb of the book was is not way the same as the book. How can someone be in love with someone for the WHOLE if one book. And then as soon as an old friend come back completely forgets about the guy she was saying she would die for in this first book!!!

~Debbie

Hey guys, Erin here! I thought I'd chime in on today's feature Friday. Normally I wouldn't pick up a book that I thought I wasn't going to like, but I won this e-book in a giveaway and thought what the hell, I'll give it a try. The books was:

 Flesh by Kylie Scott. I think it was the genre that made me hesitant: Post Apocalyptic Erotica. I didn't even know that there were books out there like this, but I ended up loving it! I gave it 5 scorching, zombie blasting stars! It was HOT, funny, and suspenseful. Flesh isn't only a zombie horror/adventure story. While that is the setting of Flesh and there is plenty of blood and carnage, the heart of this book is about three people trying to find love, trust, and safety in a post-apocalyptic world that is literally in shambles around them. The relationship that develops between the three is unique, but so is their situation. If you're looking for something out of the box and are an open minded reader, I highly recommend you give this one a try!

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~ERIN