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Saturday, June 22, 2013

Book Birthday Blast: First Frost By Liz DeJesus




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Title: First Frost
Series: The Frost Series Book # 1
By Liz DeJesus
Publication Date: June 22, 2012
Published By: Musa Publishing

Blurb:

Fairytales aren't real…yeah…that's exactly what Bianca thought. She was wrong.

For generations, the Frost family has run the Museum of Magical and Rare Artifacts, handing down guardianship from mother to daughter, always keeping their secrets to "family only."

Gathered within museum's walls is a collection dedicated to the Grimm fairy tales and to the rare items the family has acquired: Cinderella's glass slipper, Snow White's poisoned apple, the evil queen's magic mirror, Sleeping Beauty's enchanted spinning wheel…

Seventeen-year-old Bianca Frost wants none of it, dreaming instead of a career in art or photography or…well, anything except working in the family's museum. She knows the items in the glass display cases are fakes because, of course, magic doesn't really exist.

She's about to find out how wrong she is.

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About the Author:

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Liz DeJesus was born on the tiny island of Puerto Rico. She is a novelist and a poet. She has been writing for as long as she was capable of holding a pen. She is the author of the novel Nina (Blu Phi'er Publishing, October 2007), The Jackets (Arte Publico Press, March 31st 2011) First Frost (Musa Publishing, June 22nd 2012) and Glass Frost (Musa Publishing, COMING SOON).

She is also a member of The Written Remains Writers Guild.

Liz is currently working on a new novel.

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Book Blitz: Evan Elemental By Crystal Groszek




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Title: Evan Elemental
Series: Evan Elemental Book # 1
By Crystal Groszek
Publication Date: May 3, 2013
Genre: Paranormal Fiction/Romance

Blurb:

Seventeen-year-old Evan O'Fion has it all: excellent grades, shining extracurriculars, and a loving family that wants nothing but the best for her. The problem is, something is missing. For as long as she can remember, there's been a hole inside of her that she can't quite fill, not with drugs, or drinking, or mosh pits. It's a hole too deep to fix and it's slowly consuming her.

When a terrible tragedy rips away everything she's known, Evan is sure she's going to lose it. Then a mysterious package arrives and it changes everything. After a lifetime of feeling powerless, Evan is now the keeper of a power greater than she could have ever imagined and it scares the hell out of her. It also has her questioning everything she thought she knew about her parents and her past. On top of it all she has to face a new town, new home, new school, and a sexy dangerous guy…or two.

Dealing has never been her strong suit, but Evan is up for the challenge; especially when her life and her newfound power are on the line. How she's going to handle it all and come out alive, she has no idea; but she's stronger than ever and she's not going down without a fight.

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About the Author:

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Crystal Groszek is the author Evan Elemental, the first book in a new paranormal romance series. Crystal began thinking about and plotting Evan Elemental while attending Utica College where she earned her bachelor's degree in English Literature. She currently lives in upstate New York with her fiancé, Patrick, and her lovably insane puppy, Lenni.

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Review: The Woman In Crimson By Kathryn Meyer Griffith




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The Woman In Crimson
By Kathryn Meyer Griffith
Genre: Horror, Paranormal
Number of Pages: 258
Published: September 7th 2010
Publisher: Eternal Press

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Book Description from Goodreads:

Sometimes love lasts forever...but maybe it shouldn't. Willowwind, a beautiful Civil War era bed and breakfast, is run by a loving couple, Adrian and Caroline Stone, but it's also haunted by a long-dead Civil War era vampiress, Lilith, who believes the man, Adrian, is her reincarnated soldier/lover and will do anything to have him, body-heart-and soul, for her own again, no matter how many she must kill. But Adrian's wife, Caroline, along with the help of the ghost of her dead father, will do anything to make sure that doesn't happen.



My Review:

 

The following review is my opinion and not a paid review. I was given a free copy of the book from the author for my honest opinion.

Caroline Stone has just lost her father she has been taking care of him for the last few years. Her father Edward Winters was a very kind and loving man. Caroline misses him very much and is having a hard time handling his death. After taking care of him for the last year she decided to take up her career as a professional psychotherapist. She thinks that maybe she can help their guest at the inn her and husband Adrian run together. She wants to help people with their grief. She thinks her helping others cope with their grief may just help her deal with her own grief. She can't get her father off of her mind. She wakes up her thinking about him and she goes to sleep with him on her mind. She feels angry and guilty because he died.

There have been some strange things happening at the inn. Adrian, Caroline's husband has been seeing a woman; well he is not sure what he is seeing. He doesn't know if he is seeing a ghost or if he is losing his mind. Something attacked one of their guests and now something is attacking their neighbor's animals. Wayne their neighbor is a farmer and has lived on the farm all of his life with his mother. His mother tries to keep Wayne all to herself. At Times she acts like a wife instead of a mother. Ever since her husband died she has tried to replace him with Wayne.

Adrian is a very caring and loving person; he thinks all life is precious. He has not told his wife about the woman he has been seeing. Caroline knows something is upsetting him and that he is keeping something from her. But she knows her husband and besides she knows from her experience as psychotherapist that he will tell her in his own time, when he is ready.

The woman that Adrian is seeing lived back during the civil war era. She thinks Adrian is her husband and she wants him back and she will do anything she has to in order to get him back. She will kill anyone who gets in her way including Caroline. She is very jealous of Caroline. She wants her husband and her home back no matter what the cost is.

The Woman In Crimson is definitely not like any other book about witches, vampires and ghost that I have ever read. There is a lot of twist and turns that will keep you on your toes just trying to keep up. It will keep you turning those pages so fast that you will probably have little burnt marks on your fingertips wanting to know what The Woman In Crimson is going to do next. Or in my case flipping the pages in my e-reader so fast my pc is starting to smoke. I loved the new twist about vampires and witches and I think you will too. So I think if you have not read The Woman In Crimson I say what are you waiting on?



About the Author:

Dinosaur Lake Author  

Since childhood I've always been an artist and worked as a graphic designer in the corporate world and for newspapers for twenty-three years before I quit to write full time. I began writing novels at 21, over forty years ago now, and have had sixteen (nine romantic horror, two romantic SF horror, one romantic suspense, one romantic time travel and two murder mysteries) previous novels and eight short stories published from Zebra Books, Leisure Books, Avalon Books, The Wild Rose Press, Damnation Books and Eternal Press.

 

I've been married to Russell for thirty-four years; have a son, James, and two grandchildren, Joshua and Caitlyn, and I live in a small quaint town in Illinois called Columbia, which is right across the JB Bridge from St. Louis, Mo. We have three quirky cats, ghost cat Sasha, live cats Cleo and Sasha (Too), and the five of us live happily in an old house in the heart of town. Though I've been an artist, and a folk singer in my youth with my brother Jim, writing has always been my greatest passion, my butterfly stage, and I'll probably write stories until the day I die…or until my memory goes.

 

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