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Thursday, November 28, 2013

Book Tour: Forget Me Not by Sarah Daltry




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Forget Me Not Flowering Series Book 1



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This isn't a sweet and innocent coming of age story. If dirty talk, bedroom toys, and threesomes offend you… this is not your book. There are also no billionaires, strippers, or virgins. This is just the story of typical college kids trying to connect to each other.

"No one tells you when you start school just how homesick you will be, or how hard it will be to start life over with no direction and no friends or family. No one says that becoming your own person is terrifying."

Lily had a crush on her brother's best friend, Derek, for years - which led to their steamy night ten months ago in her bedroom. Now, she's off to college and she and Derek are still going strong. However, when school starts, Lily realizes it's hard to maintain a relationship, while also trying to live her own life. She and Derek find themselves falling apart and she has no idea where to turn.

Enter Jack. Everything about him is wrong for Lily and she knows it, but she can't stop herself from being attracted to him. When things implode with Derek, it's Jack who's there to pick up the pieces - and to show Lily an entirely new set of experiences she didn't know she was missing.

Of course, Jack has his own problems and once Lily gets to know him better, she starts to wonder if she can handle all of Jack. When Derek reappears on the scene, Lily is forced to decide between two guys and herself. Can she find herself without losing the people who matter in the process? .

This is a work intended for readers 18+ as it features explicit sex between people in college. See where it began in the short story, " Her Brother's Best Friend."



Excerpt:

He moves closer and already my body is responding. He smells like cigarettes and leather, two smells I never thought were sexy until now. I want to fall into his body, to be wrapped in his arms, and I fight it. It's wrong and it makes no sense. I have everything I could ever want. Jack is just a distraction.

"I'm not that kind of girl," I tell him.

He steps closer still and kisses my neck. His lips are soft, which is unexpected, and it sends a shiver through me. Jack brings me in to his chest. I can feel his heart beating; it's quickening and it matches mine. I feel his tongue sliding down along my collarbone. There is nothing like this, but I need him to stop. And yet, I never want him to stop. "I'd love to know exactly what kind of girl you are."

Almost as if they are not my own, my hands slip between his jacket and his shirt. The heat of his skin burns me even through the fabric of his clothes. His lips continue to travel downward, but as they reach the curve of my breasts, something in me wakes up. I tear myself away from him and back up a few inches.

"I have a boyfriend," I repeat. "I can't do this."

"Where is he?" Jack asks. His eyes are burning.

"What?"

"Where is your boyfriend? You've mentioned him before, but you run into me a lot for someone who's so in love."

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Lily of the Valley Flowering Series Book 1.5



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This isn't a sweet and innocent coming of age story. If dirty talk, bedroom toys, and threesomes offend you... this is not your book. There are also no billionaires, strippers, or virgins. This is just the story of typical college kids trying to connect to each other.

"No one tells you about pain. They tell you that it hurts, that sometimes it's consuming. What they don't tell you is that it's not the pain that can kill you. It's the uncomfortable numbness that follows, the weakness in your body when you realize your lungs may stop taking in air and you just can't exert enough energy to care. It's the way taste and color and smell fade from the world and all you're left with is a sepia print of misery. That's when the shift starts - the movement from passive to active. I fall asleep, hoping that the morning will bring back the pain. At least the pain is a thing."

Plagued by a dark past, Jack sees college as a way out. Desperate to escape the area where he grew up, the people who know his secrets, and his own family, he deals with his problems through alcohol and meaningless sex.

When he first sees Lily, she's the epitome of everything he hates. Yet something about her makes Jack rethink everything he knows and assumes about other people. Now, with the help of his best friend and lover, Jack has to decide if he wants to pursue something that he knows will only end badly.

Can Lily be one of the few people who can see Jack for who he really is - or will his darkness be too much for her to handle?

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About The Author:

Sarah Daltry writes erotica and romance that ranges from sweet to steamy. She moves around a lot and has trouble committing to things. Forget Me Not is her second full length novel, although she also has several story collections and two novellas available. Her other novel, Bitter Fruits, was available shortly, but is now in the contract phase with a major publisher. When Sarah isn't writing, she tends to waste a lot of time checking Facebook for pictures of cats, shooting virtual zombies, and simply staring out the window.

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Review Tour: Gravely Inanimated By Esther Wheelmaker




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Title: Gravely Inanimated
Series: Zombiepunk Series # 1
By Esther Wheelmaker
Genre: YA Horror/ Paranormal
Published By: Third Broom on the Left Press
Publication Date: March 29, 2013

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Blurb:

Extra, extra, read all about it: Zombies Invade London!

It has been thirty years since the Voodoo Queen plagued England with the zombie disease that has since swept the world. Humans have had to learn to function around them while the dead kill innocent people. The government continues its efforts to try to contain and find a cure for the problem.

However, by the cover of night, a man who hunts zombie, known only as Aeron, roams the streets in search of protecting the upright citizens from the flesh eating creatures. One foggy evening Lucille Knight becomes one of these people and Aeron's interest is instantly peeked. A stubborn, feisty "lady" in this day in age? How challenging.

But Aeron will have a little competition when Miss. Knight meets Lord Garrett Ashdown, the son of Earl Thomas or a man better known as: The Inventor. A man who builds automatons for the direct purpose of killing zombies; mysteriously understanding their blood and the way they sense humans.

Lucy is taken by the masked man known as Aeron and the equally mysterious Lord Garrett. With one concealing his true identity and the other hiding a ghastly secret, she doesn't know which one is less dangerous. What secrets do Aeron and Garrett keep from Lucy? Will Miss. Knight be able to be with the man she chooses when she learns the awful truth?

It is still unclear. And the current edition isn't spilling the beans just yet…



My Review:

I received a free copy of the book from the author for my honest opinion.

Gravely Inaminated is way different than any other book with zombies that I have ever read. It will amaze you how different it is. I really enjoyed the differences it had from other zombie books. The zombies are there and they will eat your brains or maybe just eat you but the difference is that the people are living their lives as if there are no zombies. They go to work and still have their parties. They have inventors that invent machines like robots that will walk beside you down the street and will kill the zombies for you. But I guess if the zombies have been around for thirty years after a while someone would invent something to kill zombies to make money off of it. I mean eventually people will have to go on with their lives. But people will also get greedy again and will start living for their selves and it will be everybody taking care of number one again. But I think the zombie killing machines or robot thingy is an awesome idea. I think the creators of The Walking Dead should stand up and take notice of Gravely Inaminated or at least anyone who likes watching The Walking Dead or reading the comics.

Lucy is a woman with a broken heart. She was engaged to be married to this man and then all of sudden just right out the blue he broke it off with her. Lucy never saw it coming; it just slammed her in the face and left a world of hurt in its place. Her beau left her and married another woman. A few months down the road Lucy saw them at a party and the woman he left her for was supporting a very round stomach. Lucy was still hurting some and this kind of upset her. But her bff, Emily came to the rescue and whisked her away.

Emily is trying to help Lucy get over this guy by helping her to believe that another man can care about her and not play her for a fool. While at this party they meet the Countess' son and he has taken to Lucy and wants to court her. But Lucy is afraid that he will break her heart too. Emily is trying to tell her that she is a good person and deserves to have someone that cares about her.

Lucy is on her way home one night when she runs into a little bit of trouble with some zombies. Lucy is saved from the zombies from this dude, Aeron who goes out at night killing zombies and saving people from them. Why do these people not carry weapons with them when they go out? But I assume that is has to do with the fact that the zombies have been around for about thirty years. Lucy runs into old Aeron a few more times and becomes quite fund of him and he also starts having feelings for her as well.

Lucy meets Lord Ashdown at a party one night and she kind of likes him and she thinks he is cute. But her father and Lord Ashdown's mother the Countess neither one likes the fact that neither Lord Ashdown nor Lucy is attracted to each other. Her father introduces her to this guy that works as a teller at his bank, a guy that Lucy does not like very much at all and she has just met him.

Well after her father tries to hook her up with this Mr. Simmons and that doesn't seem to work out he then proceeds to hook her up with Lord Cowley. Oh and Lucy doesn't want any part of him either. So the Countess Ashdown comes to her rescue by asking her father to allow Lucy to come to her home and be her lady in waiting. Since Lucy's mother died when she was just a small child she has not had a woman to teach her proper manners or how to be a lady. So Countess Ashdown is going to be the one to step up help Lucy out by teaching her how to be the proper lady. Lucy is all up for this she can make her father happy and at the same time she can put all these men folk that he keeps setting her with off longer and longer.

Lucy is hurting very badly still from her broken engagement a few months and can't seem to find any trust left in heart and doesn't want to be courting any men yet. But her father thinks she needs find herself a man. Lucy is not ready for another relationship yet but none of this men folk seem to realize this nor do they actually care. For someone who doesn't want anything to do with men at the moment she sure does have a lot of men on her tail chasing after her.

Lucy and Lord Garrett danced well together at the party. Emily commented on how well they looked together and how well they fit together out on the dance floor. Which kind of upset Lord Garrett's mother somewhat only because I get the feeling that she is jealous of him not that she actually thought he was too good for Lucy. Oh but to Lucy it was like floating on air she to be dancing with him. Their dancing together made her feel as if they knew each other all of their lives.

When I first started reading Gravely Inanimated I thought I am not going to like this one at all. Why? Well because I have not read any book about zombies quite like this at all. But you know it was quite refreshing from the norm of zombie books. I am so very glad that I kept on reading and reading and reading. Gravely Inanimate or may Lucy will take you on a ride for your life with all her beau's and all the trouble she gets into with the zombies. I highly recommend Gravely Inanimated to anyone who totally adores zombies.



About The Author:

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Her name is Esther Wheelmaker and she is the author of the new, Zombiepunk Series. With Gravely Inanimated (book one) coming to life, she is pounding away on her typewriter to try and get book two out. However, she is easily distracted by sparkly things.

Her background is a mystery and all anyone knows is she loves hugs, corsets, steampunk, books and Mozart….

…Let's face it…Everyone likes a girl with a little mystery.

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