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The Mirror of the Moon by Travis Simmons

With the death of one of the companions, Grace must answer for the secrets she’s kept. The path before them is ever lengthening in their quest for Amber. There are changes they all must face, and when Joya enters her trials of sorcery, danger lurks around every corner. The power within Angelica and Jovian is strengthening and with it comes confusion. What are they? It is painfully obvious nothing like them has ever existed before. Why is it at times they seem more one person than two separate people? With all the mystery surrounding their latent power, Angelica stumbles upon a passage in a book of sorcery indicating she is evil. Could she be the Mask prophecy speaks of? Is she destined to turn against her own flesh? To make matters worse, the Well of Wyrding (a giant well that controls all sorcery) has been breached and wyrd itself is spiraling into chaos.

Author Bio:

I have always been a do-it-yourselfer. I haven’t had any formal education on writing, and I haven’t been raised around writer types. For that matter, I wasn’t even encouraged to read when I was a kid, even though plenty of people in my family read. When I was a teenager, I discovered Cliff’s Notes on Mythology, and it sparked something in me. It was like a floodgate had been opened, and all of these stories started rushing in. I would get ideas at random times, and I would jot them down. I have a pretty big file system of everything I have ever written. Someday I will get to them and put them all into electronic files. There is some good material in there, but there are a lot of bad stories too.

 

 

I started writing when I was thirteen or fourteen. At an early age I was already writing books of Saracin (the world The Bonds of Blood takes place in). The first book I wrote of that place was “The Calling of the Two” (not yet released). While I was writing that, I kept thinking of these characters Jovian and Angelica. I knew they had a part to play in the storyline, but they weren’t going to be in the same series. For that matter, they weren’t even going to be in the same age. As I finished the first draft of “The Calling of the Two” I went on to write the first book of Angelica and Jovian’s story. At that time it was The Mirror of the Moon. Later an editor told me it was so massive that I should make the one volume into two, and so The Bonds of Blood was born, and The Revenant Wyrd Saga went from a planned three to six.

That story has taken many forms until now, and I am sure if I didn’t declare that it was “done” it could continue to transform.

 

 

Author Links:

 Website  : http://www.travissimmons.net/
 Twitter : https://twitter.com/TravisSimmons5
Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/authortravissimmons
GoodReads : http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4342608.Travis_Simmons

Stacey Rourke swag pack giveaway!!

 Giveaway time!!

Hi everyone! It's time for another giveaway!! This time I have some goodies from Stacey Rourke author of the Gryphon series. In honor of the upcoming release of Sacrifice. Sacrifice will be the third book in this amazing series. (see my blog post below for my review of The conduit book 1 in the series)
This giveaway will include a bottle cap pin with the cover of Sacrifice, an anchor group publishing wrist band, and a signed poster of the cover of Sacrifice!! 
Please comment below to be entered to win. I will choose a winner 3-1-13 via random.org. And PLEASE please share this with your friends. 
Thanks and good luck!!

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The Conduit by Stacey Rourke

Celeste is a normal 18 year old girl with two siblings and dreams of going to college in the fall. This summer though she and her sister and brother will be spending their summer with their grandmother. Things haven’t been the same for their family since their father died and then there were several break-ins at their home, but some time with their spunky grandmother is just what the doctor ordered.

Until weird things start happening and suddenly things get really dangerous. Celeste learns that they descended from an ancient line of warriors with special powers. They have to work together to keep fight the evil Barnabus.Working together though may prove harder than they thought.

This was a fun read. I enjoyed the spunky grandmother and Celeste was the amazingly strong glue that held her family together after her father’s tragic death. Her brother and sister offered some comic relief when things started to get too serious. I liked to watch their sibling bond deepen as they discovered their powers and helped each other learn to use them. This story line was unique to all the other supernatural books out there. It was a fun new take on mythology and I would definitely recommend it to the fans of James Patterson’s maximum ride series. Amazing read!!

Get your copy of The Conduit by Stacey Rourke in paperback or kindle edition today!

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Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

Ethan Waite has been having terrible dreams about a girl he can't seem to save. He can't understand why the dreams haunt his sleep. Then suddenly he meets her, the girl from his dreams. As he falls for this mystery girl he gets tangled up in a world of things he never imagined possible. But can his love for her be enough to save her?

I finished Beautiful Creatures last night. It's the book my book club is reading for our February meeting. I liked this book. I give it a solid 4 stars. I couldn't give it 5 because it just took me so long to get interested in it. For the first 400 or so pages I only picked it up because I "had" to read it. I just felt as if nothing interesting was really happening. Then the school dance scene was the one that really hooked me. From there I couldn't put it down. There was a sweet love story woven into this scenario that only seemed like it would end badly. The authors really did save the big climax for the end, but it was really good. I will probably go out and get the next book soon ( I just hope the others aren't so long).
I am excited to see the movie with my book club.

Beautiful Creatures is available in paperback and kindle format on Amazon.
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And the winner is....

Congratulations Tara! She is the winner of the LightWedge book light!! Thanks for entering. Keep checking back for more fun giveaways!

Giveaway!!

I'm going to to my first ever giveaway! I'll be giving away a LightWedge paperback book light. If you're like me, you love reading past your bed time. *I have one and they are awesome!*

Light the page, not the room!. This innovative patented light focuses powerful LEDs through a smaller tapered lens. Since it lays flat on the page, it's easy to use…and you’ll never disturb those around you. Perfect for readers of all ages.

Just leave a comment with the title of your favorite book. 
Mine is The Giver by Lois Lowry.
Please include your email address so I can contact you if you win!
I will choose a winner (with the help of random.org) on Friday Jan 25, 2013. Good luck!! and please tell your friends :)

Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion

"In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But then I open my mouth everything collapses."

R doesn't know what year it is. He doesn't remember what he used to do for a living. He doesn't even remember his name. It's because he's dead. Now his days are all the same. Shuffle around, grunt at his best friend M, and occasionally, search for food. And then suddenly something changes. As he lives the memories of one of his victims, something in him starts to change and impossibly, he starts to become human again.

Ok I have to admit that this is the first zombie novel I have ever read. I am a big, big fan of George Romero's  film work, but I have never read a book about zombies. Now having gotten that out of the way....This was such a fun book!! It was not what I was expecting at all. R was like a zombie Romeo. (Imagine that book....lol) At first he was reacting to the victim's memories, but then as he started to come back to life the feelings he felt became his own and very real.

This story was so much better than I could have hoped. There was a undertone of danger from the other zombies, but Marion seemed to mute that feeling so you could just feel R and hear his thoughts and shuffle in his footsteps. It was amazing to hear what was going through his mind and experience how he changed throughout the book. And yes, it was a bit of a love story too.

I give this one 5 stars and I would  definitely reccomend it. I read it in a day because I just couldn't put it down.

Get your copy in paperback or kindle format today!
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