In My Mailbox {17}

So my blonde self this week realized that Rage is the second book in the Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse Series by Jackie Kessler, and I decided to run to Walmart to get the first one, and a few more books. So here's what I got this week In My Mailbox

For Review

Solid - Shelley Workinger

Bought

Hunger - Jackie Morse Kessler

The Iron Daughter - Julie Kagawa

The Iron Queen - Julie Kagawa

The Magnolia League - Katie Crouch

That's all I got this week in my Mailbox, what did you get?

In My Mailbox is an idea created by the amazing Kristi of The Story Siren 

Follow Friday {13}

Q. How many books do you read in a week? And in what format do you read them, or listen to them?

Right now I've been lucky to fit one book in a week. But that's because I've just been so busy with everything and especially school. But now that school is out I hopefully, cross my fingers, can read at least two a week. Right now most of my books have been in  paper format, but I do have some Kindle books and some new ebooks for review to read so those will definitely be the ones I will be heading towards soon.

What's your Follow Friday?

Hosted by Parajunkee, just so you can get to know me a little more

"Waiting on" Wednesday {13}

I was flipping through my new Seventeen magazine when I saw an add for this book and went hmmm look at this. Then I read what it was about and decided to look it up on goodreads and it just sounds really good even though I haven't heard of it yet. So here is this week's WoW post. 

Forgotten - Cat Patrick

Publication Date: June 7th 2011

Each night when 16 year-old London Lane goes to sleep, her whole world disappears. In the morning, all that's left is a note telling her about a day she can't remember. The whole scenario doesn't exactly make high school or dating that hot guy whose name she can't seem to recall any easier. But when London starts experiencing disturbing visions she can't make sense of, she realizes it's time to learn a little more about the past she keeps forgetting-before it destroys her future. 
Part psychological drama, part romance, and part mystery, this thought-provoking novel will inspire readers to consider the what-if's in their own lives and recognize the power they have to control their destinies

"Waiting On" Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine!  

Teaser Tuesday {9}

Born at Midnight - C. C. Hunter

pg. 274

"Kylie held her hand up in front of her forehead. "Don't do it. And don't say it. I know I don't read like a human. But frankly I'm tired of everyone checking out my head. It's as bad as guys staring at my boobs.""

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
Grab your current read

• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Review: The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting

The Body Finder - Kimberly Derting
Release Date - March 16th 2010
Publisher - Harper Teen
Age Group - Young Adult
Pages - 336
Overall - 4.5/5

Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodies—or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes that the dead leave behind in the world... and the imprints that attach to their killers. Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find the dead birds her cat had tired of playing with. But now that a serial killer has begun terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he's claimed haunt her daily, she realizes she might be the only person who can stop him. Despite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Violet on her quest to find the murderer—and Violet is unnerved to find herself hoping that Jay's intentions are much more than friendly. But even as she's falling intensely in love, Violet is getting closer and closer to discovering a killer... and becoming his prey herself

I think I'm on a roll with picking good books to read. There were so many good things about this book, and hardly any bad things. I'm just going to start with the one thing I didn't entirely like, because I want to get it out of the way. That would be that the story progressed slow, and then once it got to the good action parts there wasn't very much of it. But to be completely honest, the fact that this book was able to keep me in the dark for once, made it absolutely amazing. I didn't see what was going to happen until it did which made me sit pretty much on the edge of my seat the entire time.

I also loved the relationships in this book. Violet and Jay made me so happy I can't even begin to tell you. I think I liked it so much because it was real. Having a guy best friend and falling for him is something that happens to girls on a daily basis. So being able to see that in a story and for it to go the way it did was really good. I appreciate having someone write a story where they don't just do what they think girls want to read, but they do what really happens to girls.

I really fell in love with Violet as a character in this story. She's the kind of girl that most normal teenagers are, except for the fact of seeing dead bodies auras, but other than that. She's pretty confident in most things that she does, she has a group of close friends that do their own thing, and has a loving family that is there for her through thick and thin. I think what makes her so special, other than her ability, is that she doesn't really give up. She's a strong girl, and when faced with adversity and hard times she sticks it through, and that is someone that most young girls should look up to.

This would be a book that I would recommend to pretty much anyone. I honestly don't think that because it has to do with murders that it is violent in any way, which is a very tasteful way of doing this book. I was extremely happy the entire time I was reading it and am super excited to go and buy the second one, because after reading the synopsis I am so anxious to see what happens. So that should be something to look for in my next In My Mailbox cause I'm not sure how long I'll be able to wait.

In My Mailbox {16}

I got a good surprise this morning on my way to work. An email from Holly at Good Golly Miss Holly letting me know the next address for the book tour I'm in. So of course I had to stop at the post office to check my P.O. box and there it is. My one book I got this week, but hey I'm pretty excited for it, so here it is, my IMM

For Review

Born at Midnight by C. C. Hunter

That's all I got this week in my Mailbox, what did you get?

In My Mailbox is an idea created by the amazing Kristi of The Story Siren 

Blog Tour: The Demon Kiss

Hey everyone and welcome to my blog. To all my follower's Hello as well. I hope you are all as excited as I am for this post today.  I hope you are all ready for this, because I'm bringing you a special Book Excerpt from The Demon Kiss by Lacey Weatherford. I know I'm pretty excited. Be expecting to see the book review coming soon!

Chapter 3

Vance grabbed me before I could take two steps away from him and swung me back around to face him. He pulled me into his embrace with one arm while grabbing my hair in his other hand, tilting my head back as he lowered his face and started kissing me.

“I love you,” he said, his words penetrating my mind, as his lips ravaged mine, obviously not caring one bit that I had just told him to get out of my head.

I tried staying stiff in his arms, but I was having trouble resisting him, I had missed him so badly.

“I’m sorry. I wasn’t trying to hurt you. Really,” he spoke into my head, and I felt his tongue trace lightly over my closed lips. “I just wanted to keep you from any danger.”

I stood still only for a moment before I was unable to fight him any longer. I felt my arms go up to wrap around his neck then and I really kissed him back.

We held each other tightly, our reunion becoming heated very quickly. I kissed him like I hadn’t seen him in years instead of just days. I ran my hands through his hair, over his face and down his neck, forgetting completely about Shelly and Brad standing in the doorway behind us.

His mouth moved away from mine then, and he began kissing across my cheek. I found that I instinctively leaned my head over to the side to give him better access, and his lips traveled down my neck. His tongue snaked out to lick seductively over the spot where he had bitten into me before.

I flinched involuntarily.

Suddenly he released me, pushing me away from him and taking several steps backward.

We just stood there staring at each other, our breathing ragged from our encounter, and I could feel the sparks flying between us.

“I need you to leave now, Portia,” he said, his teeth clenched as he spoke. “You aren’t safe here.”

Book Blurb:

Can someone else's past come back to bite you?
After being drained of nearly all the blood in her body, novice witch, Portia Mullins, wakes up to find that her warlock boyfriend, Vance Mangum, has fled in search of his demon father. Determined to keep him from facing the evil alone Portia follows after him, unknowingly setting herself on the path of a new adventure that will take her, Vance, and their coven over international borders, into a foreign place where they will discover that the black magic which awaits them is far worse than they ever imagined. Portia finds herself tangled up in a web of lies and deceit in another's quest for demonic power in the excitingly romantic second paranormal novel in the Of Witches and Warlocks Series, The Demon Kiss.

Book Purchase Links

The Of Witches and Warlocks series can be ordered in ebook or paperback anywhere books are sold, including Amazon and Smashwords

The Demon Kiss Tour Grand Prize:

The Grand Prize winner will receive swag, signed copies of books 1, 2, 3, & 4, AND will be written into an interactive scene with VANCE in book four too!

Want extra entries? You can get 1 more entry for every time you comment on the tour, and 5 more entries for every time you send a Tweet or Facebook the link to that day’s blog post. Make sure you keep track of those as you will be asked to submit verification links when you enter the giveaway. 

Good Luck!  May the “Vance” be with YOU!

Author Bio:

Lacey Weatherford has always had a love of books.  She wanted to become a writer after reading her first Nancy Drew novel at the age of eight.

When she is not reading, writing, blogging, or doing book tours for her current series, she can often be found out at sporting/musical events which her kids are in or texting like crazy with her best friend.

Lacey resides in the White Mountains of Arizona, where she lives with her husband, six children, one son-in-law, and the family dog Sophie.

"Waiting on" Wednesday {12}

So something about this book that draws me in from the cover is the mixed feeling I get from it. It looks like a mixture of both Matched and the Gone series books. Then of course it has the intriguing story line that has me hooked already. 

Glow - Amy Kathleen Ryan

Publication Date: September 27th

What if you were fifteen,  bound for a new world, about to pledge your life to someone you’d been promised to since birth, and one unexpected violent attack made survival – not love – the issue?Out in the murky nebula lurks an unseen enemy: the New Horizon. On its way to populate a distant planet in the wake of Earth’s collapse, the ship’s crew has been unable to conceive a generation to continue its mission. They need young girls desperately, or their zealous leader’s efforts will fail. Onboard their sister ship, the Empyrean, the unsuspecting families don’t know an attack is being mounted that could claim the most important among them… Fifteen-year-old Waverly is part of the first generation to be successfully conceived in deep space; she was born on the Empyrean, and the large farming vessel is all she knows. Her concerns are those of any teenager – until Kieran Alden proposes to her. The handsome captain-to-be has everything Waverly could ever want in a husband, and with the pressure to start having children, everyone is sure he’s the best choice. Except for Waverly, who wants more from life than marriage – and is secretly intrigued by the shy, darkly brilliant Seth. But when the Empyrean faces sudden attack by their assumed allies, they quickly find out that the enemies aren’t all from the outside.

"Waiting On" Wednesday is hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine!  

Teaser Tuesday {8}

This book you can expect a review of up on the blog sometime later this week. I thought it was so good, and I hope this teaser can show how good it is and make you want to read it as well. 

The Body Finder - Kimberly Derting

pg. 308

"She had a hard time concentrating, separating his words and his voice from the high-pitched ringing reverberations he unwittingly carried. She could barely believe that she hadn't noticed sooner, that she hadn't recognized the sound earlier when it was so close to her."

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
Grab your current read

• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!