To save the Faery world and her mother’s life, Lorelei sacrificed everything, and the dangerous bargain she made in Nevermore had lasting repercussions. Now safely back in her own world, Lorelei seems the same to her highschool friends and her supernatural boyfriend. Yet love across dimensions is complicated, especially when an invisible Veil between the two worlds—the only bridge that links the pair, is sealing, threatening to separate Lorelei and Adrius forever.Determined to find a solution, Lorelei resorts to using her new found powers. But when her friends succumb to the same mysterious illness that nearly took her mother’s life, Lorelei can’t help but wonder if her own dark magic is responsible. Still, the nightmares from Nevermore continue their icy hold. Someone from Adrius’s past arrives, determined to destroy Lorelei’s world starting with those closest to her, and Lorelei is forced to choose between her family and friends and a love that was ill-fated from the start.
A dreamer at heart, Michele Barrow-Belisle has always lived with one foot in this reality and one foot in another, one of her own imagining. So it follows that she would grow up to write about and sculpt the characters from those enchanting worlds she knows and loves so well. As a fan of everything romantic, her young adult novels are populated with witches and vampires and faeries. Michele resides in southern Canada with her hubby and son who indulge her passions for writing, reading, lattes, and most of all chocolate.
Books for Nothing is where I’ll be updating you guys on free Kindle reads.
I downloadtons of Freebies weekly and sometimes I’m too lazy to let you guys know about the tons of books I get on I am a Book Hoarder, so I decided to create this! That way you guys can enjoy the awesomeness too as who doesn’t love the word free!
*Note: If some aren't free they became non-free after I scheduled this post
Demon Street Blues (Wicked Good Witches #1) by Starla Silver
Please note- Wicked Good Witches follows the same story as the Witches of The Demon Isle Series, but is revised with added content for readers over 18. The original series was written for a teen audience. Please keep this in mind, and enjoy!
Melinda Howard is the Demon Isle's weird girl... the one that's been holed up in the Howard Mansion for the last four years. Why? No one knows the truth except her family... a long line of witches charged with protecting the Demon Isle, along with their mentor, the four-hundred year old Vampire, William Wakefield.
Another reason Melinda doesn't mind her self-inflicted imprisonment. She gets to spend her days with the charming vampire, who also happens to be her best friend. Only now, she's spending her night's with him too. He just doesn't know it...
Any other girl would enjoy the nightly thrill of a sexy vampire invading her dreams. But not Melinda as her dreams have a tendency to come true. Although typically, they don't include the handsome vampire she's crushing on, but rather horrifying visions of people about to die.
But she cannot stay under self-inflicted house arrest forever. And if her brothers or William get their choice in the matter, Melinda will be out of the house partying with her friends, giving her affections to a human, not a vampire, and digging into her role as a witch.
A role her eldest brother Charlie lives for and a role her second brother Michael would rather live without. Nevertheless, when duty calls, usually from the local sheriff needing help with some tourist who's gotten themselves into trouble, life screeches to a stop, and duty takes over.
Such is the case when the sheriff needs help with a four-year-old murder investigation; one she fears has a supernatural cause. To assist her in the case, she calls upon the skills of The Howard Witches.
However, what they learn might be more than any of them can deal with, or accept. Worse yet, they fear what this discovery will do to Melinda, as it returns them all to the core of her self-imprisonment.
BeSwitched (BeSwitched #1) by Molly Snow Publication Date: September 13th, 2011 Genre: Young Adult Paranormal Romance Goodreads
~Summary~
Surla and Cathy have a HUGE secret!
After spending hundreds of years as a familiar to an abusive witch, Surla runs away to find freedom. But there's one catch! The Black Cats' Curse states she will have to switch bodies with the first lonesome soul to cross her path.
Painfully shy Cathy Phillips can't muster the courage to ask hot water polo player, Craig Nelson, on a date. Neither can she stand up to the three biggest snobs at Washington High. What's a girl to do? Could switching lives with a sassy, magical cat be the answer to her wishes?
The "curse" of being "BeSwitched" may just be the most purr-fect secret these new best friends could ever have!
Penemuel (Pen) fell from grace over a millennium ago, yet there are still times she questions her decision to follow her twin brother, Azael, to Hell. Now that the archangel Michael has returned, threatening Lucifer’s vie for the throne, she begins questioning everything she has always believed.
As Hell prepares for war - spreading a demonic virus and pilfering innocent souls to build an army - the lines separating the worlds blur. Fates erase and the future is left unwritten. Azael is determined that he and his sister will continue to serve as demons together, but for the first time in her life, Pen is not ruled by destiny. She has the freedom of choice.
With choice comes sacrifice, and Pen must decide which side she’s willing to risk everything fighting for: the light, or the dark
~About The Author~
Erica Crouch is a young adult and new adult author from Baltimore, Maryland. She has a strange blended aesthetic of cute and spooky, and her books reflect her ever changing mood. (You may find romance, you may find gore—sometimes both in the same book, but probably not at the same time. Probably.)
Erica is the cofounder of Patchwork Press, an author-powered publisher of middle grade, young adult, and new adult titles. She is the head of editorial services and design, with nearly fifty projects to her name.
Last night, right before I fell asleep, I was scrolling through my Facebook timeline (as I always do when I’m procrastinating actually going to sleep). I’m a member of a few different “writing groups” on Facebook — like Maryland NaNoWriMo, or my school’s writing degree program group. Anyway, I was scrolling and came across an article, brazenly titled something like: FIVE SECRETS TO WRITING A BEST SELLER. And then a little farther down I saw SEVEN SECRETS TO BEATING WRITER’S BLOCK. Article after article, revealing all these great secrets about writing. Man, people are really using the word “secret” loosely.
I read all of them, more out of curiosity than anything else. And they bugged me. Big time. They were paltry offerings of help — bland suggestions like “think outside the box.” What? What box are you even referring to in this suggestion? Another tip was not to start writing before you were ready. ??????
The reason why these articles tick me off so much is that they are useless fodder. Their titles are clickbait oriented and the content of the articles are flat and useless. And the gall to say that these are the secrets that will help you be THE period BEST period WRITER period EVER exclamation point.
You want to know the real secret to writing? There’s no damn secret. Not really. There’s no easy shortcut you can take from beginning to write to having a best seller on your hands.
The secret to writing is that it’s a lot of hard work. What’s hard about writing is different for everyone. Some people (me) loathe first drafts; others relish the beginning. Others strain over revisions. Or maybe it’s just the formatting or marketing that’s getting you down. But whatever it is, you trudge through it the long way. A short cut reads like a short cut, and you won’t be fooling anyone.
No, the real secret to writing is that you’re going to love and hate it, depending on the day. And there is nothing you can do to stave of writer’s block but to just write. You push through it because — theoretically, if you want to be an author — it’s your job. People have rough days at work; this will just be one for you. It’s all par for the course.
There’s no guarantee at a best seller, unless your name is Stephen King or J.K. Rowling. You write your damn best, edit your damn best, and publish. That’s it. You write more, and more, and more and don’t let your writing muscles atrophy.
So, there’s no secret to beating writer’s block or writing a best seller. Not seven, not five, not one.
But here’s a tip if you want to become a better writer: keep writing. Not much of a secret, is it?
I hope she doesn't mind me taking this blog post and putting this as a guest post because this is 100% truth and it hit the nail on the head. Then finding out she's my age, you never ask a girl her age, but we're both 22 and this is absolutely inspirational for me! This also makes me even more excited to read and review her book!
Nithya, a vivacious, intelligent and driven college senior has always known what she's wanted: a successful career in medicine and the love of her family. She's even come to terms with the idea of an arranged marriage, a tradition her conservative Indian family has held up for thousands of years.
When a night of partying puts her on a collision course with danger, Nithya's entire life changes. Enter James St. Clair, the smart, challenging and heartbreakingly handsome American. As Nithya and James fall in love, she questions the future she and her parents have always planned. To make matters worse, Nishanth, the son of newly reunited family friends is the perfect match for her in the eyes of her loved ones.
Now, Nithya has a choice to make: become a doctor and a good Indian bride, or step away from her family and centuries of culture to forge her own path. The decision she comes to takes her on a journey that transforms how she sees her future, her relationships with loved ones, and how she learns to put herself back together when even her best-laid plans fall apart.
Annika Sharma was born in India and moved to the United States (Pennsylvania!) when she was a baby. Annika was a daydreamer from day one, always coming up with stories and games of pretend that seemed real. She was a serious journal-writer from fifth grade to college and wrote dramatic scenes for stories often, inspired by soap operas she watched in summers off from school.
Eventually, when the time for college came around, Annika’s parents encouraged her to pursue journalism. Convinced she couldn’t make a living from writing, Annika disagreed. After five years, two degrees, two minors, working with children, being a dancer teacher, and creating a two-and-a-half page resume in college that had interests so all-over-the-place that even she couldn’t make sense of it, Annika finally decided her parents were right. Writing was where her heart was, all along.
In the month before graduate school, the idea Annika had in my mind for years finally poured out in the form of the novel, The Rearranged Life. Annika began editing in earnest after she finished her Master’s degree in Early Childhood Special Education, landing Stacey Donaghy of Donaghy Literary Group as an agent. Three months later, she had a book deal with Curiosity Quills.
In her spare time, Annika loves spending time with her family and friends, often indulging in the three S’s: Starbucks, shopping and superhero movies. As a chocolate lover and general all-around vegetarian foodie, Annika also adores cooking.
Confessions
of a Virgin Sex Columnist!by Kay Marie, Kaitlyn
Davis
Release
Date: 05/18/15
~Summary~
From
bestselling author Kaitlyn Davis, writing as Kay Marie, comes a new adult
romantic comedy about a girl who'll soon discover that some secrets can't be
kept forever, especially those of the heart.
My
name is Skylar Quinn, I just moved to New York with my best friend Bridget, and
I have a confession. Well, more than one. Okay, quite a few really. Fine, here
goes!
Confession #1: I'm a sex columnist. Hold on, that's not really the confession.
You see, I'm sort of a virgin...sex columnist.
Confession #2: I'm in love with Bridget's older brother, Oliver. No—I was. No—I
am. Wait, was? Am? Crap.
Confession #3: I've been avoiding Oliver for four years. Or I was until today,
because he just moved in. Yes, you read that correctly. He's my new roommate.
So that night we've both been pretending never happened, well, we might not be
able to keep it a secret any longer.
I've always been a writer. I grew up duct taping my novels together, started writing complete manuscripts in high school and studied creative writing at Johns Hopkins University. Upon graduating, I decided it was finally time to actually give my dream career a chance. So, of course, I started writing a young adult paranormal romance series -- and no, I'm not jumping on the bandwagon. I've been a true paranormal supporter for my entire life! I blame my obsession almost completely on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, my all-time favorite television show. And, before you ask: Yes, I own every season... even the post WB ones! I especially challenge anyone to watch the first three seasons and not fall in love with Angel, securing a lifelong love of vampires! Other culprits of my paranormal obsession are some of my favorite authors: JK Rowling, Raymond Feist, Meg Cabot, Richelle Mead, Lynne Ewing and Tamora Pierce.
The gentle but lonely toymaker Geppetto builds the perfect companion from the corpses of children: a son who will never die. But when his creation revolts and begins a campaign of debauchery and murder upon the town's children, he fears he may have unleashed a force of evil beyond his control—The Zombie Pinocchio.
~My Thoughts~
I originally read this back in May 2012 off my kindle app and gave a horrible vlog review (it was like my first one, so what do you expect haha). And with it I typed a couple sentences to sum up what I felt-
"A creeptastic short story that'll make your skin crawl, Kevin Richey gave this loved fairy tale a dark twist of fate, that will haunt you deep in the night."
How I feel now-
But before I get to that, I read it this time through the collection book-
So excited to read them all!
Now onto reviewing it!
Pinocchio meets Frankenstein- Kevin Richey brings an interesting take on the loved fairy tale Pinocchio. From the very first scene of Geppetto cutting the perfect hands off a dead boy had me instantly hooked! The details sucked me in, I was turning page after page, engrossed by these spine chilling words!
If you love zombies and fairy tales then this is a series for you! Though it's a short story by the end of the book I didn't feel as if it was. Mr. Richey crafted this world beautifully, leaving me satisfied and craving for more of his twisted tales!
Overall Mr. Richey unfolded the mystery of Geppetto's drive to build himself a son perfectly, keeping me on my toes throughout the read and the surprised factor high! I can't wait to dive into the next one!
Mari’s past and present are all mixed together. To start she finds herself trapped in the past while her friends from the past are now all in the future. She wants to go home, but Logan Jones has different plans—which include Mari. He might say he wants her, but soon she realizes that there’s something more behind it. To save everyone in the future, Mari strikes a deal. She must give up Seth and agree to date Logan. In return, he’ll teach her to how help her friends and family. Only, letting go of Seth and falling for Logan aren’t easy feats. If Mari can’t figure out how to do so, she might lose everyone she loves.
Originally from Wisconsin, B. Kristin currently resides in Ohio with her husband, two small children, and three cats. When not doing the mom thing of chasing kids, baking cookies, and playing outside, she is using her PhD in biology as a scientist. In her free time she is currently hard at work on multiple novels. Every day is a new writing adventure. She is a fan of all YA/NA fantasy and science fiction.
