Review: Anomaly (Schrodinger's Consortium #1) by Tonya Kuper @tonyakuper @entangledteen

Anomaly

(Schrodinger's Consortium #1)

by Tonya Kuper

Release Date: 11/25/14

Entangled Teen

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Reality is only an illusion.

Except for those who can control it…

Worst. Birthday. Ever.

My first boyfriend dumped me – happy birthday, Josie!- my dad is who knows where, I have some weird virus that makes me want to hurl, and now my ex is licking another girl’s tonsils. Oh, and I’m officially the same age as my brother was when he died. Yeah, today is about as fun-filled as the swamps of Dagobah. But then weird things start happening…

Like I make something materialize just by thinking about it.

When hot badass Reid Wentworth shows up on a motorcycle, everything changes. Like, everything. Who I am. My family. What really happened to my brother. Existence. I am Oculi, and I have the ability to change reality with my thoughts. Now Reid, in all his hotness, is charged with guiding and protecting me as I begin learning how to bend reality. And he’s the only thing standing between me and the secret organization that wants me dead…

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

Josie is having the worst day of her life. Her boyfriend breaks up with her, she thinks she has a virus or something with the enormous migraine she has. She feels as if her head is about to explode. She finds out that her parents have been lying to her since the day she was born. Oh and by the way today is her birthday. Yeah Happy Birthday Josie! She is seventeen today the same age as her brother when he died. And if that is not enough for you guess what she has no idea where her Dad is. Yeah dear old dad is missing in action on her birthday. But that is nothing new he is MIA most of the time when his job. It keeps him on the road more than at home with the family that loves and needs him more than anything.

But as they say everything has to balance out. You for every action there is a reaction or something like that. Evil v/s good, Yin and Yang kind of thing. The one good thing that does happen to Josie on her bad birthday is that a new guy shows up at her school for his first day at her school and boy is his one good looking dude. Reid and his friend Santos ride up on their motorcycles and are very bada**.

But what Josie doesn’t know is that Reid and Santos have a lot of secrets they are hiding form her. But they will all come out when the time is right of course. She finds out that she is Oculi and that Reid is there to train, protect and keep her out of the hands of the people who want her dead. Oh yeah I forgot to mention that part earlier when I was telling you about how bad her birthday was. Opps!

Reid has given up his life and who he is to keep Josie safe and alive. He will protect her right up until he takes his very last breath if that is what it takes to keep her safe and out of the hands of the people who want her dead. The Oculi are not supposed to have any kind of feelings for each other but that doesn’t stop Reid or Josie when the sparks start flying. But who can stop what they are feeling in their heart even if they do thing that the one person that they have let in has done them wrong it doesn’t stop them from loving.

I am very glad that I finally decided to pick up Anomaly and read it. I wish that I had done so a lot sooner. I wanted so bad to read it when I first got it but I kept putting it off trying to keep up with all of my duties as a blogger and reviewer. I finally got a break so I said I’m going to do it this time and I am so glad that I listened to myself. I have never read anything like Anomaly before. It was filled with so much action that I didn’t want to put it down I wanted to keep on reading. 

When I wasn’t reading it I sure was thinking about it and all of the characters wondering what they were doing and what was going to happen next. It really took me on a road that I never thought I would be going down. The ending really took me by surprise and I never saw it coming but I loved it and hated it but that is what makes a book good. I can’t wait for the next book in the series. I just know it will be amazing. I recommend Anomaly to all paranormal and fantasy fans or anyone looking for a good book to read.

 ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

 Tonya Kuper's debut, ANOMALY, the first in the Schrodinger's Consortium young adult scifi trilogy, releases November 2014 by Entangled Teen. She lives in Omaha, NE with her two rad boys and husband, is a music junkie, and a chocolate addict. Star Wars & Sherlock fan.

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He's preparing for the fight of his life.

Title: If I Seem Dangerous

Author: Rose Sawyer

Genre: MMA Romance

Release Date: October 20, 2015

Series: Standalone

Publisher: Hot Tree Publishing

Cover Designer: Claire Smith

Darkness shrouds Noah James’ past. Drugs, alcohol, abuse—they cloud the few memories he has and threaten to eat away at his future. The only brightness in his life is Caitlyn Hale. She came crashing into his world the day he met with her father, the sports agent who could possibly give him a new start. That day, he left the agent's office with a professional fighting career ahead of him and the image of a hazel-eyed beauty imprinted in his soul. 

Rarely does life offer a glimpse of happiness without snatching it away. Just like he's always feared, the monster that haunts him comes roaring back. His entire life shatters, threatening to return him to the darkness he came from. The light-heavyweight champion is about to face the fight of a lifetime. He can only hope to make it through each round without losing the few things he has left.

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Even as hard as she tried to force herself to believe that he wasn’t dangerous, she heard the murmurs around her that tempted her to believe differently. Crazy, rage, monster, all of them curses being murmured by the onlookers. She choked back a sob threatened to rise in her throat as she remembered the darkness shadowing his face.

He had truly left her in that moment. He left reality. The blackness she was determined to keep him from had swallowed him whole.

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At 19, she has written seven romance novels, is currently writing two more and has another two in the process of being published. The majority of her novels can be found at Wattpad.com, where they are available to read for free.

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My Buddhist Christmas

by Jeremy Phillips 

Release Date: 9/8/15

Summary from Goodreads:

It’s not surprising that sixteen year old Chris Jones has no idea where he fits in…

After all, he’s a Buddhist kid in America—during the Christmas season. Add in the fact he plays guitar in a punk rock band called The Dharma Bhumz, and his life is one giant paradox. Caught between the principles of his religion and the influence of his hard-partying bandmates, Chris is in a constant struggle for balance.

An upcoming talent show is his chance to shine—or fail spectacularly…

It’s already hard enough preparing for the show, since his friends are more interested in getting high than practicing. And now Chris has to worry about impressing pretty Mary Simpson. To make matters even worse, Mary’s parents are fundamentalist Christians, a few steps above his family on the social ladder, and they firmly believe Chris isn’t good enough for their precious daughter.

Conflicted about his friends, lying to his family, and still mourning a devastating loss, Chris wonders if being an American Buddhist guitar wizard wanna-be is worth it.

Or does any of it even matter anymore? .

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I wonder when it is that a kid loses that crazy ecstatic energy for doing the simplest things. The Buddha would’ve said that being like Annabelle is a wonderful thing, I am sure. But was the Buddha himself so bubbly and full of excitement? I doubt it, although there’s really no way to know. At least as far as I am aware, no records of Gautama Buddha’s daily attitude towards life are on record. But if a person had true Beginner’s Mind, as the Zen people are always trying to push at you, wouldn’t they naturally meet every day in a state similar to Annabelle’s? Maybe it is all just posturing and hope.

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My Buddhist Christmas

By Jeremy Phillips

I have been a student of Eastern philosophy, and Buddhism in particular, for a long time now. It has always been fascinating to me. But years ago, when I first tried to do any reading about it, the very foreign nature of the philosophy tended to get in the way of actually understanding what I was reading. No matter what book I chose to read, no matter what school of Buddhist philosophy I was trying to understand, it was always the same:

A master teacher of some type, a person very different than myself, would be describing these very old ideas, from his very Eastern mindset. Eventually, I came to feel that what might be helpful for a Western reader would be a book that spoke about this stuff in an entirely different way…

When I sat down to write My Buddhist Christmas, I did it with the idea of writing a young adult fiction story, about an American teenager who had been raised up as a Buddhist all of his life. Such a person, unlike myself who approached Buddhist philosophy with the mindset of an adult raised in the USA, would understand Buddhism as a more intimate, more essential part of how he already viewed the world. Such a kid would truly be a Buddhist, while still being very much an American teenager. When I started taking my own kids to a Shin Buddhist temple in Spokane, Washington, I started to wonder how the conflicts of life might go for these kids, conflicts which can be even more of a challenge during the Christmas season.

But My Buddhist Christmas is more than a just a book on Buddhist philosophy. It’s also a “coming of age” story, told from the perspective of a main character who is feeling some of these conflicts very intensely, while also dealing with a devastating loss. During the course of the story, my narrator character can be seen experiencing a lot of the stresses that a teenager in America will experience.

He experiences the conflict of becoming infatuated with a pretty girl, and of falling rapidly (perhaps a little too rapidly) in love for the first time. He experiences the conflict of trying to keep a group of unreliable teenagers on task, so that they can make their Punk rock garage band work out for a talent show that he’s involved with. He experiences the difficulty of peer pressure, in a variety of ways. 

As he goes about his life, my narrator also shares with the reader a variety of Buddhist parables and philosophical observations, learned from his childhood. The end result of this, is that as the narrator gets to the end of his story and grows up some about how he is living, as he more fully understands his own Buddhist philosophy, the reader, too, will also gather a greater understanding.

Really, I wrote this book for people of all ages. Adults will read it, and perhaps remember how it was to be a teen, how it was to be growing up and starting to take responsibility for themselves more. Teens and pre-teens who read it, will be able to identify with some of the struggles represented in the story. Ultimately it is my hope that whoever reads it, will come away with a better understanding of what Buddhism has to say about life, while enjoying an entertaining story.

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My first novel will be available on September 8th, 2015. It's a Young Adult fiction story called: My Buddhist Christmas.

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A Montana Born Christmas Boxed Set 

Publication date: October 20th 2015

Genres: Adult, Romance

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Ready to two-step under the mistletoe with a hot cowboy? How about a gorgeous tycoon? Spend a white Christmas in Montana with eight heartwarming, contemporary romances. This limited edition collection features sweet and sexy holiday stories from bestselling and award-winning authors. You’ll find eight romantic heroes to fall in love with in A Montana Born Christmas boxed set. And all for less than a dollar!

Christmas at Copper Mountain by Jane Porter

Life has been tough at Copper Mountain Ranch and widower Brock Sheenan’s kids have never had a proper Christmas. His new housekeeper, Harley Diekerhoff, is determined to change that–but she doesn’t count on falling in love with her taciturn boss.

Come Home for Christmas, Cowboy by Megan Crane

Christina Grey Cooper has finally given up on her marriage and returned home to Marietta to lick her wounds. But Dare can’t let the love of his life go, even if what’s standing in the way of a true holiday miracle is himself… Can the magic of a White Christmas in Montana help him save what he’s nearly lost forever?

A Cowgirl’s Christmas by CJ Carmichael

Betrayed by her father, Callan Carrigan has to decide what matters most to her. Fighting Court McAllister to get back the family ranch, or giving Court what he really wants—her heart.

A Cowboy for Christmas by Katherine Garbera

Back in Marietta, disgraced, the last person Annie Pruhomme wants to see is hunky Carson Scott. Does he hold a grudge, and why does he still look so hot?

Mistletoe Wedding by Melissa McClone

An instant family isn’t on ranch foreman Tyler Murphy’s Christmas list, but event planner Meg Redstone’s kisses are. Getting her under the mistletoe, however, is going to take a miracle…or help from Santa.

A Sweet Montana Christmas by Roxanne Snopek

A marriage in jeopardy, a decrepit honey farm and an unexpected birth on a dark, snowy night. All they need to rediscover their love is a Christmas miracle.

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Excerpt for Mistletoe Wedding by Melissa McClone

A bag of coal settled at the bottom of his stomach.

Talk about an over-the-top, Christmas-gone-wrong nightmare. Whoever did this had missed the memo about less was more when decorating. Ty scuffed the ball of his boot across the dirt floor. This was not how he wanted to start the day. At least he knew the first thing to write on his chore list today—redecorating.

“What do you think?” a female voice asked, her tone hopeful.

A-ha. He knew who was to blame for making a Las-Vegas-strip-worthy spectacle of his barn. Meg Redstone, the newest addition to the Bar V5 staff, in charge of guest services and event planning, a Montana native who’d spent the past five years working at hotels and inns in the Midwest. Nate must have added holiday decorator to her job description. This looked like something a city girl might do.

Ty would be careful with what he said. The last thing he wanted to do was upset a new employee. He faced the full-size elf, not surprised she wore a reindeer antler headband over her fleece hat.

Her gaze met his. The hope he’d heard in Meg’s voice matched the expression in her milk chocolate eyes.

His heart lurched. Not the reaction he expected or wanted, but she looked . . . good.

She wore a forest green parka with a Bar V5 emblem on the upper left side, insulated pants, gloves and boots. Dark blond strands of hair stuck out from her hat. Only the skin on her face was exposed. The cold temperature tinged her cheeks and nose pink. Pretty, if you liked soulful brown eyes and a generous mouth. He did.

She smiled tentatively, as if on display and awaiting approval. Not her, the decorations. 

“Good morning.”

“Hey.” He would be interested in getting to know her outside of work, except for one thing. A six-year-old girl named Brooklyn who was Meg’s daughter. A nice kid, but moms were to be avoided at all costs. Hell, women who wanted kids, too. Non-negotiable. “Up early.”

She nodded. “So . . . Christmassy enough for you?”

He looked around, not seeing anything specific except for a blur of colored lights. “You’ve been, uh, busy.”

She bounced from foot to foot, moving her hands. Excited or too much caffeine? He’d go with the first.

“I started as soon as Thanksgiving dinner finished.” Meg patted her stomach. “A good thing, because after your sister’s amazing meal, I needed to work off calories. And I wanted to surprise you.” She raised her gloved hands. “Surprise!”

So eager to please. A hard worker. And . . .

Shut up.

So what if Meg was attractive? Or she fit in with the staff as if she’d worked at the Bar V5 for years, not weeks? Three to be exact. She had a kid. A cute one, but a child in need of a father.

Not going to happen.

“You succeeded. Very . . . Christmassy.” Ty had won his fair share of poker games, but he wasn’t that good an actor. Best not to say too much. “Though glass balls and barn cats are never a good combination. I cleaned up the mess and took the others off before they broke.”

“I’ve never had a cat. Sorry.” She sounded contrite. “What about the rest of the decorations?”

“Never seen so many lights in a barn before.”

Meg’s forehead creased. “The lights were in the plastic bins sitting with the decorations.”

That explained why there were so many. “Those lights are for the entire ranch.”

Meg’s smile disappeared. “Oh.”

The one word said more than twenty could. He pressed his lips together, glimpsed the bottom of a ladder. She must have worked through the night putting up the lights and decorations herself. He might not like what she did, but he appreciated the effort.

“No worries.” He had none. Summer, their busiest season, had been a sellout. Reservations for next year looked solid. Livestock sales had been good, too. Finances and impending foreclosure were no longer concerns, unlike a few years ago when Ralph Vaughn, the late owner of the Bar V5 and Nate’s father, nearly lost the ranch. “We can buy more lights. 

Maybe some of the LED ones.”

She nodded, but the sparkle in her eyes had dimmed. She dragged her teeth over her lip.

Damn. Ty knew that look. Rachel’s initial failed cooking attempts had brought about the same expression. Granted she’d been a kid at the time, and he’d eaten the over-or-undercooked food so she would feel better. He didn’t want Meg to feel bad, even if her decorating was . . . well, not to his liking. Someone might find all the flash fun. She needed to smile.

“Look at Onyx.” He pointed to the black cat peeking through the Douglas fir’s branches. “He loves the Christmas tree. There’s another cat on the backside of the tree climbing around. 

Bet they forget about the upholstered cat tree in my office until after the holidays.”

As if on cue, a bell crashed to the ground.

“A good thing those are metal and don’t break,” he added.

She half-laughed. “You’re right, but I’m not sure what that means for the life expectancy of the tree.”

Good. Her sense of humor was intact. “That’s a barn cat for you. Decorations, unless edible or fun to play with, are lost on them.”

Meg raised her chin, a hint of challenge in her eyes. “What about wranglers?”

“I won’t speak for the others, but I love Christmas. Been looking forward to this one since last year. Having guests around will be different. This is usually a quiet, get-the-work-done kind of time.”

“You never know, having guests at the ranch could be better.”

Nate had been pushing for guests year round, and Rachel agreed. A feeling in Ty’s gut had made him the sole holdout. He’d finally relented, but he would withhold judgment on the decision for now.

He adjusted his gloves. “Hope so.”

“Well, I’m going to do my best to make this Christmas perfect for both the guests and the staff.”

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Deceit

The Stellar Series Book #1

By- Rebecca Clark

Genre-YA fantasy

Expected Publication Date- November 2nd

Alexa Jenkinson is a self-appointed class nerd with no friends. Lately her only excitement comes in the form of a tall, dark and handsome Greek like god, which visits her every night in her dreams. On top of the strange dreams she can't help but think she's leading the wrong life. She believes that her reality is the average teenager’s worst nightmare. When the popular boy at school begins to show interest in Alexa, she thinks her luck just might be changing. Until the unthinkable happens, the boy in her dream appears and everything changes. Now she must navigate through the lies and relationships she believed to be genuine in order to find the truth.

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The Phoenix Born (A Dance of Dragons #3)

by Kaitlyn Davis

Release Date: November 17th 2015

Summary from Goodreads:

From bestselling author Kaitlyn Davis comes the final book in the thrilling A Dance of Dragons series-perfect for fans of Throne of Glass, Graceling, and Game of Thrones!

For the first time in a thousand years, the fire dragon has been awakened and Rhen is its rider. But after destroying the armies that threatened the city of Rayfort, Rhen is shown a vision in flames that changes everything. The shadow's phantom armies are coming and the dragons are the only things that might stop them.

High in the castle at the top of the Gates, Jinji has learned something of her own. Janu, her long lost twin, is alive. And just as the spirit shares her body, the shadow shares his. In the blink of an eye, her quest for vengeance against the evil that killed her family has changed to one of protection. Because she knows that if Rhen learns the truth he will do what she cannot-end the shadow, and end her brother in the process.

As the shadow grows more aggressive, Jinji and Rhen fight to find the rest of the dragon riders. But with time running out, they are forced to face the impossible decision between honor and love. Alliances are formed, promises are broken, and the fate of the world hangs in the balance…

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