Review: Twisted (Deathwind Trilogy #1) by Holly Hook @hollyannehook @XpressoTours @XpressoReads #Giveaway

Twisted by Holly Hook 

(Deathwind Trilogy #1) 

Publication date: December 15th 2013

Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult

SYNOPSIS:

Sixteen-year-old Allie’s going on the vacation of her life: tornado chasing. What can possibly go wrong with that?

But a terrifying, magical experience leaves Allie shocked and confused, and she learns that she now bears an awful curse.

Every time there’s a storm, she turns into a tornado. Literally.

Allie has no choice but to flee her hometown–if she stays, her new powers could harm or even kill everyone she loves.

She must return to the plains and find those who made her this way. But this journey is only the beginning of her adventure.

Twisted is the first book of the Deathwind Trilogy, a new young adult and teen paranormal romance series. The second book, Torn, is also available. Book Three of the Deathwind Trilogy, Unleashed, will be released in Summer of 2015.

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MY REVIEW:

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

Allie has had a dream for most of her life and that dream is to chase tornadoes. So at the age of sixteen her uncle takes her on the best vacation of her life during the summer break from school. Allie knows when she gets home that her parents is going to be very upset with her for not telling them the truth about her vacation.

She is having the time of her life chasing tornadoes until something very bad goes wrong. The tornado that they are chasing turns and comes right toward them. After it is all over and she finds out that her and her uncle is fine that they both made it out of the tornado alive with no scratches anywhere on them. Allie is pretty shaking up after seeing the tornado and after everything that she went through she is not as intrigued by tornadoes as she was before. After seeing the tornado Allie’s life is forever changed and her life will never be the same again.

Without her meaning for it to happen her best friend Tommy witnesses the change that seeing the tornado did to her. She didn’t have any control over what was happening to her because she didn’t know or understand it.  She hated what she had become and would give anything to change it. But Tommy sticks right beside her and helps her with the change when it happens in any form possible.

Allie is one tough girl to go through what she did and stay sane. I don’t know if many people could if it happened to them. But there was a lot of people who got to find out before it was over. Tommy was a very good friend to Allie and cared for her very much to stick by her like he did. There are not many young men in this world who would have done what he did or could be the friend he was.

Twisted will take you on a mind blowing ride of your life that will knock you on your rear end and leave you wanting more of the same. I have never in my life read a book quiet like Twisted before. I loved the new concept of the story line. It was out of this world and it will take you from one end to the other and you will be flipping the pages so fast that they will be blown right out of your hands. Twisted is another one of those books that there is no way you can pass it up. I think you need to go out right now and pick up your own copy. Cause trust me you will not regret it at all. You will fall in love with not just the characters but the story itself. It is one amazing books that will stick with you long after you have turned that last page. This is one trilogy that I am looking forward to the next book. 

AUTHOR BIO:

Holly Hook is the author of the Destroyers Series, which consists of five young adult books about teens who are walking disasters...literally. She is also the author of the Rita Morse series, a young adult fantasy series still in progress, and After These Messages, a short ya comedy. Currently she is writing Twisted, a spin-off of the Destroyers Series due out in December. When not writing, she enjoys reading books for teens, especially ya fantasy and paranormal series with a unique twist.

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Sales Blitz: Divine Merit by V. Cantrell @HotTreePromos #Giveaway

From what was never meant to be, can they become whom they must, in order to survive?

Title: Divine Merit 

Author: V. Cantrell 

Genre: Paranormal Romance 

Release Date: June 9th 2014

Series: Divine Series Book 1 

Cover Designer: AM DesignStudios

Editor: Hot Tree Editing

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From what was never meant to be, can they become whom they must, in order to survive?

Amira has been trained from birth to become the ruler of the Nephilim and their island sanctuary. She is the perfect princess, until her birthright and even her fundamental beliefs are ripped away. She'll learn perfection and training count for nothing when faced with a ruthless enemy determined to possess her and all she holds dear. Does she have the fortitude and inner strength needed to regain her kingdom and save her people?

Sometimes you have to stop fighting in order to win.

As captain of the Royal Guard, Caeden's priority is to protect the Royal Family. Sometimes that means protecting the naive princess from her own desires, even if he is tempted to give in. When a betrayer strikes from within, their sanctuary and very existence are threatened. Caeden must overcome the burning pain of helplessness to defeat this enemy and restore Amira to her rightful place. He will not fail his princess again.

     Amira looked pointedly at where his hand connected with her arm. "Please release me. I've had enough unwanted hands grabbing me today."

     He dropped his hand as if she'd burned him, and Amira felt an immediate chill at the loss of contact. What was wrong with her? Why did only this one male affect her so strongly?

     As what she said penetrated his mind, a look of fury crossed his face. 

     "Did he hurt you?" Caeden asked in a deadly calm tone that didn't match the look in his now frigid blue eyes.

     Amira's heart began to race. "I have taken care of the problem," she tried to reassure him.

     His show of protectiveness caused excited butterflies to flutter uncontrollably in her stomach. He's doing his job, she reminded herself in an attempt to kill them. 

     "Princess..." he began.

     "Caeden," she said on a sigh, "I've had a terrible day, and wish for nothing more than to go up to my rooms, climb into bed, and pretend this day never happened." She should have left it at that, but she couldn't seem to stop herself from adding, "I'm sure you'll have no problem, with me out of the way, finding another female to naively follow you around and look at you like you are a gift straight from the angels. As for me, I just don't have it in me right now."

     "Oh hell," Caeden muttered to himself as he watched her race up the stairs and into her chambers.

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Virginia's greatest passion has always been fiction, particularly romance. The innocent in her loves the idea of a happily-ever-after, but she has a massive soft spot for the bad boys. If you ask her, she'll tell you that she's living her dream- getting paid to read and helping indie authors to create beauty by working as an editor for Hot Tree Editing. She's inspired by the many amazing indie authors she has met and has (finally) found the courage to follow her other dream by becoming a published author.

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Book Blast: Madman Across the Water By Caroline Angel @ucat42 @GHBTours

Madman Across the Water

By- Caroline Angel

Genre- Horror

For generations one family has been haunted by something... something that stalks. It sees and listens, it watches and follows. In the shadows and mist it waits, to take you, to hurt you, perhaps to kill you. And if it doesn't kill you, you'll wish it did. 

A creepy, suspenseful saga of family, horror, and mystery, this is one story sure to leave you frightened of the woods at night, fog, and all things tall and slender.

  

About the Author-

Caroline wants to live in a world where it's always acceptable to bring your dog with you, wherever you go.

As an author she's had the most read stories on several sites, won competitions and challenges with her short stories and web based novels.

When she's not selling cable TV, you can find her riding one of her horses, walking her dogs, or sitting in the local café drinking copious amounts of hot beverages and writing up a storm.

Her first book, a creepy horror novel titled "Madman Across The Water" hits shelves May 2015.

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Release Blitz: My Wounded Soldier by Diane Munier @dianemunier @StarAnge13 #Giveaway

My Wounded Soldier - Book 2 : Fight for Love
by Diane Munier
Publication Date: August 8, 2015
Genre: Historical Western Romance
Cover Designer: Bookstylings

Synopsis

Tom Tanner has taken on a family. He lived through the war, but becoming a lover and pa to two small children may be the role that breaks him. This is the story of a man's slow rise from black sheep to patriarch. 1866 is a time of learning to carry on in the aftermath of civil war. Tom is ready to heal, ready to take over Addie's farm and make it a grand place. He has money from reupping in the war and reward money for bringing a few notorious outlaws. Can Addie's love help him settle and become an outstanding man like his pa? It's the only fight worth making-- a fight for love

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Excerpt

She told me of her mother then.  Greta.  She took in washing. And brought men home. And my wife, a slight girl scrubbing on the board.  That's what I felt in her hands.  So sweetly shaped, so brined to the work.  A lady almost, but not in her marrow.  There, the laundry girl, the dirty laundry girl.  And the men.  Her learning to stand, given a knife by the neighbor woman. "Protect yourself," the woman said. "No one else will." And so she did, too young, too scared, too soon.  

Like Johnny.  He got took to the dark and it stabbed the tender in him and the dark came in.

I sat up and held her to me, stroking her hair while she told me.  I felt so many things with her, the fear, yes, the joy, yes.  The old wounds, yes.  The new wonder of it, yes.  The mother, and back more. 
 The girl, yes.  The little broken one, yes.  No man to ever rise up, and if he did, she met him with just herself and her brave eyes.  

"Lass," I said, but only once.  I did not wish to let the pump run dry, for her words gifted me an understanding I had lacked.

I would be the pa to her sometimes.  I knew that now.  She wouldn't want it much, but sometimes she would, almost like Johnny, me going back in her, me angry for her, saying what she knew and didn't get a chance to rail about.  Letting her know I was here now.  I was here.

It was a part of it for us.  There was this little one in there still holding that knife, sometimes at me, yes that's what I saw.  That knife she used and left in a man who tried to take her in an alley. That's when she met him-her husband. She went in his store after the attack. He was kind. But God…he was weak. 

But that's how he got in.  He wiped her face, but he was no hero.  She made him feel, and then he couldn't find it in himself to love her.  She was something he hadn't seen…too alive…too much of everything.

"I am not him," I told her, and oh I was not.  The dark had its hands around my throat time and time, but it did not finish me.  I was just a man, but I stood tall.  Like it or don't, I did the hard thing.

"I am Tom Tanner, your man," I said, "the good of him, the ugly, too.  But I am not Richard Varn.  I have my own sins, but I do not carry the sins of another.  Nor will I," I said, not sure what I meant by this speech, but I said it with force.

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My Wounded Soldier - Book 1 : Fight For Glory
by Diane Munier
Publication Date: July 4, 2015
Genre: Historical Western Romance

Synopsis

Wounded Soldier, Book One: Fight for Glory, is my newest offering on Amazon. This is the saga of Tom Tanner and his reluctant love for Addie Varner.

After he mustered out of the Twenty-Seventh, Tom never expected to follow the boys home to Illinois. Having failed to protect his older brother Garrett, Tom planned to take his wounds out west where a man could get lost under the endless sky. But his father prevailed on him to come home and comfort his grieving mother.

Tom had nearly filled his obligation when the neighbor boy came running and calling his name as he worked in the field. Johnny was the boy that looked like his mother, Mrs. Varn. Tom had seen the woman at meeting. She rattled him some for he'd not had a woman, just that one time and he'd been liquored up and taking a dare and were he to have one, she was not hardship to look at. But Johnny was calling for him. Tom knew the sounds of war. The country was rife with veterans, some looking for trouble instead of home. What Tom finds at the Varner's farm offers him a new kind of battle, a new kind of glory trail.

I have been writing this story for fifteen years. In its various forms it has garnered attention in literary contests and with a number of writerly folks. But stuck in 'bridesmaid,' mode it has never really walked the aisle. Until now. I hope you give it a spin and maybe fall in love. 

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Meet Diane Munier

Living comfortably in the heart of America with the people I love. I live an extroverted life, but I'm a genuine introvert. An urban kid, I spent much of my youth running in various neighborhood establishments. There I met many colorful characters and I learned to love them and be fascinated by them. My love of story comes from them. I learned to sit on a bar stool or a kitchen chair or in a pew and hear story. Hear the voices telling story. See the mouths move and the hands clutching glasses or cigarettes. See and hear the laughter. There is no greater honor than to hear someone's story. If you feel that way about the tales I tell...what more could I ask.

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