This is a fantastic guest post by author of the Foundations Series. I have read the first book and love it. It is a sci-fi/fantasy book that rivals most of what I have read in the past. The book is engaging, the characters interesting, and it would be a great book to use in a classroom to teach social structure, equality issues and many more topics. I am happy to review books, and love that I have this opportunity. Thank you to author Holly Barbo for writing such a wonderful book, and posting such a sweet post for all of us book bloggers. We love reviewing great books, and this is truly a great book!
Guest Post
To understand why I love you guys so much I need to give you some backstory.
Seven years ago in the shadow time before the latest economic slump and the arrival of the e-reader, the publishing world was a much different place. The big six publishing houses in New York were the only beacons of hope for a book. The lighthouse gate keepers were the literary agents. They screened what was offered by authors and the chosen manuscripts were edited and groomed then peddled to the publishers. Those books picked up by the big six had contracts and book tours.
The financial world started to change in 2007 and by the fall of 2008 banking had altered. Credit lines had always been necessary for businesses to operate and bridge the gap between the time when cash went out for printing or book distribution and when profits came in from book sales. That safety net was cut or greatly reduced and with the cash deprivation publishing houses turned to their crystal balls, polishing them up and squinting hard, not looking at what was fresh and new but at known sellers. The air around those fortune telling globes became rank with the old stale incense of past glories. No fresh air was let in to clear the stagnating miasma.
Outside the closed halls of the publishing institutions the winds of change began to build in a force fueled by the fluttering of millions of pages of new manuscripts and the cries of consumers for original stories to consume. In the whirlwind came innovation. 2009 and 2010 brought us e-book readers, self-publishing espresso machines and indie presses which changed those unknown stories into books...and here is where you lovely people play such an important part in this new world.
There are no city-to-city book tours or ads on TV for these dewy fresh books. You are the voices carried by the wind that are heard by others. Each reader, blogger and book tour gives honest expression and interest of how you feel about our stories. It is your viral exclamation that spreads the word. We don’t have the old paradigm. We have you and nothing can stop your voice. I think you are marvelous!
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Overview of Dark Isle
When evil begets evil, a choice is forced on Quinn, the one person who can see
the danger. Does she save the ones she loves, or does she save the world from
Chaos?
As the realms of Fae and human collide, Quinn's future has never
looked so grim, or so damn impossible.
Genre- Urban Fantasy
Overview of Enemy in Blue
The streets aren't safe when your enemy wears a blue uniform and a gold
badge.
What if the good guys weren't good?
What if a cop went
rogue and killed an innocent man?
What if it was all caught on video and the cop would do anything to
cover it up?
Chase this lawless cop through the streets and to a
scintillating series of showdowns with Cruz Marquez, a young attorney trying to
nail down his enemy in blue.
Will justice be served? Genre- Thriller
Overview of Land of the Noonday Sun
When two strangers have nothing left but their dreams,
they must forge a relationship in Nantahala, North Carolina, a small town known
as Land of the Noonday Sun.
A man with a
traumatic past is able to turn his life around and is happy with his chosen
career as a whitewater guide. Everything changes though when fate hurls a woman
into his path. His carefree life is in turmoil, and his former weaknesses
threaten to overtake him. Will he be strong enough when tragedy strikes and is
once again in danger of losing everything he loves?
Genre- Contemporary Romance
Overview of This Time Forever
Delaney Brannigan and Blake Morrisson
met at the Cedar Cove annual costume dance, known only to each other as the
leopard and the cowboy--but, as Delaney soon discovers, the cowboy she'd
thought had ridden off into the sunset never to tempt her again, is none other
than the man she came from New York to find and discredit. Against her will,
Delaney is drawn deeper and deeper into an overwhelming attraction to Blake--an
attraction she can't give in to if she wants to keep the one thing she values
more than anything else.
Genre- Contemporary Romance
Overview of Cassidy Jones and the Secret Formula
Fourteen-year-old Cassidy Jones wakes up the morning after a minor
accident in the laboratory of a world-renowned geneticist to discover that her
body has undergone some bizarre physical changes. Her senses, strength, and speed
have been radically enhanced.
Lives are put at risk when they find themselves embroiled in a dangerous,
action-packed adventure. Soon they are forced to confront a maniacal villain
willing to do anything - including murder - to reach his own ambitious goals.
Genre- YA/MG Superhero
Overview of Gray Justice
Gray Justice is the fast-paced debut
thriller from Alan McDermott. When a killer walks free from court, the victim's
father sees just two options: accept the judge's decision; or take on the
entire British justice system. Tom Gray chooses the latter and his crusade
attracts instant worldwide media coverage. It was just what Tom was hoping for,
but it brought him a lot more than he bargained for.
Gray Justice is much more than a simple tale of revenge: it's a rollercoaster
ride with an ending you'll never forget!
Genre- Thriller
Overview of Gone at Zero Hundred 00:00
"Their lives are in the hands of two 18-year-olds..."
A Prominent P.I. is
gunned down - killed by a sniper - and it’s broadcasted on live TV.
Now,
her daughter, along with her childhood pal, are thrust into a complex and
riveting thriller forced to take on a secret club whose members call themselves
The Privileged Ones.
Murder. Teen abductions and illegal underground
parties.
They’re chased by men in ski-masks, nearly gunned down by
members of a cartel, and the only way to bring down this criminal enterprise; is
to crash a Mardi Gras bash and stop their private cruise ship from sailing off
into the sunset.
Overview of Allegiance
Who do YOU pledge allegiance to?
After exposing one of the most notorious rings of police corruption in history,
lawyer Cruz Marquez planned on starting a new life south of the border. That
plan unraveled when an extremist group of Minutemen captured and tortured him
and his wife.
Will Cruz pledge allegiance to do right, or will he do anything
to serve up revenge?
Genre- Thriller
Overview of Curbchek Reload
Curbchek-Reload is a dark account of the streets as they were worked by
Zach Fortier, a dangerously deranged cop. Welcome back to the inner city and
the twisted mentality of Zach Fortier. Patrolling the streets, broken and
mentally damaged from years of urban violence, Zach fights a losing battle to
maintain a hold on reality. Join him in the passenger seat of a police cruiser
for more of the darker and meaner side of life: The inner city. In
Curbchek-Reload you get a front row seat to an attempted murder of a cop,
suicide attempts, rapes, and DARK cop humor. Curbchek-Reload - Fasten your
bullet proof vest and buckle your seatbelt, it is gonna be a wild ride!
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I
must admit, ghost stories and stories of the underworld are not my usual picks in books. So I was intrigued when given a copy of Thorne Manor and Other Bizarre Tales to review - a story of ghosts, spirits, and more!
I wasn't sure what to expect, but was pleasantly surprised by the first story - Thorne Manor. Heather, the main character of this story, thinks she has found the perfect home for herself, and her dream business! Having just left an abusive relationship, she is feeling stronger than ever, and wants to follow her hearts desire of opening her own business, and owning a home.
But stories around town are that the beautiful gothic-style mansion is haunted, full of a horrible history of torture and murders.
But Heather does not let this deter her! getting right down to business she immediately starts to renovate. But upon closer inspection she realizes that the stories may not just be stories!
Sightings from the help she hired may prove them to be true! But is that really such a bad thing?
You'll have to read to find out! :)
The other tales in this book are shorter, but still good reads.
Who doesn't love a good ghost story?
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Book Description: Lemon Curd is a love story between the righteous and opinionated Anna
Lisa Gibson and her arrogant British office-mate, Neil Scott Whittaker.
He can have any woman he desires but Anna Lisa's honesty and down to
earth personality makes him fall in love with her. Except that he
doesn't want to give up his fiancee and she doesn't want to have an
affair with a soon to be married man. Yet romance is only part of this
story. From the streets of Los Angeles to the streets of London, Lemon
Curd depicts the millennium lifestyle - Women's position in the business
world, the workaholic and multitasking attitude of our society and the
difficulty of balancing family and work life while trying to make a
difference in the lives of the people around us.
About the author: Homa Pourasgari resides in Los Angeles, California. She received a degree in Business from Loyola Marymount University, after which she left to live in Paris for one year and attended the University of Sorbonne, focusing on literature. Multilingual, she has been traveling since the age of 5 and has experienced many different cultures. Homa has worked in various industries such as marketing, retail, banking, accounting and fitness but has always returned to her true love – writing. She is currently working on a new book. Lemon Curd is her first novel.
My Take: I was happy to get the chance to read another one of Homa Pourasgari's books. I read The Dawn of Saudi: In Search for Freedom book and knew I wanted to read Lemon Curd. I was surprised at how this book was true to my life in the way the main characters interacted with each other. They were sarcastic and funny. I liked how the romance between the characters flowed and was not like any other romance book. I would say this is a good book to read on one of those rainy weekends.
i'm always looking for a good romance, and I am a fan of British writing, television etc. I will be finding this book to read on my next sick day. :) It looks fun and not too mushy. My relationship is a lot of sarcasm and humor. I've been married nine years, so far it works for us. I love reading about relationships similar to my own. Although we are happily married to each other, and not flirting while with other people.
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Lindsay Boxer is pregnant at last! But her work doesn't slow for a second. When millionaire Chaz Smith is mercilessly gunned down, she discovers that the murder weapon is linked to the deaths of four of San Francisco's most untouchable criminals. And it was taken from her own department's evidence locker. Anyone could be the killer--even her closest friends.
Or a vicious killer?
Lindsay is called next to the most bizarre crime scene she's ever seen: two bodiless heads elaborately displayed in the garden of a world-famous actor. Another head is unearthed in the garden, and Lindsay realizes that the ground could hide hundreds of victims.
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Corporate attorney Samantha Greco needs some peace and quiet to come to a decision about her career. Instead, while an icy nor’easter rages outside, she finds herself trapped in a cottage on Fenwick Island with Aiden Rourke, a man she used five years ago when she ran from the heartbreak of her fiancé’s betrayal.
Aiden Rourke has loved Sam for years. For one glorious night she was his. But then she fled, wounding his ego and his heart. Thrown together again, they soon discover time hasn’t diminished their fiery passion for each other. Only Aiden has ever been able to melt Sam with just a look or a touch. But the fear that she’s like her mother, who used men mercilessly, scares Sam to death.
Toni went from being a doctor, to the lover of a god in an instant. Remembering who she was, she's now torn between her past self and her current love. Ben is stunned when Toni leaves and at the arrival of his long lost love, Catherine, but her arrival doesn't eradicate Toni from his mind. Unlikely allies will team up to get Toni back from the Lord of the Underworld, Hades, but it's not Hades they need to worry about.
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In the small town of Willow Eve, Arkansas, feisty bartender, Delia Rhodes, lives a pretty normal life; if you consider having a ghost for a roommate, pixies as best friends and being one of the rarest hybrids to exist, normal. Her life is turned upside down when someone or something begins kidnapping pixies and she is forced to find out who is behind it and why. If that wasn’t enough for her to deal with, Delia meets a delicious vampire hybrid with a very important event coming up; his registration. Will he survive? Will Delia solve the kidnappings or get dragged into the middle of something much deeper?
Veiled from her previous existence as a gifted Angel, Tess is now a mere mortal growing up in foster care with her autistic foster brother, Dorian, and a twisted foster sister, Agatha—whose main goal in life is to torture them both.
Tess’ life has been dull and average at best; but all that changes with one look. When she inadvertently gazes into the eyes of the most popular guy in school—Alex Preston—Tess sees a glimpse of her previous existence.
Uncomprehending, Tess, wonders what those memories are and why she now feels like she knows Alex better than anyone in this world. More importantly, why is he haunting her dreams? Dreams so vivid, that they blur the lines of reality, awakening a slew of inexplicable paranormal abilities she didn’t know she possessed. Read more and Purchase on Amazon here: Living Soul (Veiled Series)
Bawling cattle tore Shelby Flint from her bed. With lawyer fees to pay in her struggle to keep her ranch from the clutches of her greedy cousins, she couldn’t afford the loss of even one calf. When she sees a large wolf circling her cows, she aims and fires. While the wolf escapes, Shelby can’t seem to get away from her troubles when a marijuana grower sets up shop on her land, sabotaging her property and eventually coming after her. Adding to that, a handsome game warden is poking his nose into her business and working his way underneath her skin. Shelby will have to fight harder than she ever fought before to keep from losing her heart and everything she ever loved
Rio Laraquette thought the legend was nothing more than an enchanted tale about star-crossed lovers who left behind a fortune. That is, until she figures out that she—in a past life—was the culprit who stole a shipment of gold and silver and buried it somewhere in the hills of northern Nevada.
While searching for the treasure, Rio's heart begins to ache for a man who's been dead more than one hundred years. They say time heals all wounds, but what if it doesn't...?
So begins Erin Solomon’s story, on a remote island in Maine where the Payson Church and thirty-four of its members have just burned. When the smoke clears, only Erin and her father remain. The police rule the tragedy mass suicide, but Erin knows the truth: no one in the Church wanted to die. She just isn’t sure how much her father had to do with their deaths.
More than twenty years later, Erin is an investigative journalist still burdened with her father’s secrets. When she receives incontrovertible evidence that the Payson congregation was murdered, she can no longer hide from the truth. She returns to her hometown only to find an intricate conspiracy involving her parents, .... Read More and Purchase on Amazon here: All the Blue-Eyed Angels
Murder, romance, secrets and hidden pasts. Deception from every angle—who's telling the truth?
Cheyenne Wilson's life is thrown into turmoil after her adoptive parents are killed in an accident. With only her best friend Colt to comfort her, she scours through the family archives, hoping to quell her grief. Instead she begins to unravel the mystery behind her birth parents, and her secret heritage. She is a Timeless- a being that ages one year for every hundred human years when they reach their twenties- and of the royal line, destined to gain great power.
But Cheyenne has other problems. The ones who killed her parents want her too, and Colt is hiding something of his own. Surrounded by danger and with few she can trust, Cheyenne must face the dark truth of her past, and choose between a forbidden love that will forever hold her heart, or her destiny... Purchase on Amazon here: Cheyenne, A Timeless Series Novel, Book One Promises (Timeless #2)
Cheyenne is determined to seek the light of truth in a web of darkness, but at what cost?
Still reeling from the revelations of her secret birthright and fated betrothals, Cheyenne's thoughts tumble over the whirlwind of life since the death of her parents. Vowing to close herself off to spare her heart more pain, she keeps her distance and seeks her own path. But Colt, Daniel and Callon are constantly at her side, not giving her room to breathe or let her come to terms with her destiny. At the same time, her transformation into a Timeless begins; a process that could very well kill her. As if that wasn't enough, her enemies are still out for her blood, and no-where is safe. Though new allies appear to protect her from the unseen dangers, which ones are friend and which are foe?
Cursed with an intense version of empathy Alice runs from a wasted life to start a new one somewhere no one will know her; Hell, Michigan. Alice works at a hole-in-the-wall bar in the middle of nowhere mostly keeping to herself to avoid the overwhelming emotions of those around her. Alice allows her best friend to convince her into taking a few college classes without realizing it would drastically change her life forever. From her first day of class she was hooked on him; his scent, his eyes, the way he talked to her inside her head.
Throughout her struggles she learns about true love, true pain and the truth of her own heritage. Alice must quickly find out who she is because after all everyone else is out to find her. With Angels and Bounty Hunter’s in constant pursuit she finds protection within a group of Fallen Angels. These Fallen Angels vow to do anything to protect her; for it is their belief she will save their kind and all of mankind. Purchase on Amazon here: Finding Alice (Alice Clark Series)
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