"To find out what a story's really about,' the Librarian said,

'you don't ask the writer. You ask the reader."


- SNOW & ROSE by Emily Winfield Martin


Tuesday, August 14, 2018

Release Day Launch (Excerpt/Trailer): THE PRINCE (Wicked Series #3.5) by Jennifer L. Armentrout (NA/A)


From #1 New York Times Bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout comes THE PRINCE, a new novella in her WICKED SERIES, brought to you by 1,001 DARK NIGHTS!!!

Be sure to grab your copy today!!!


A Wicked Novella, #3.5
by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Release date: August 14th, 2018
Published by: Evil Eye Concepts, Incorporated
Genre: New Adult/Adult - Paranormal Romance/Fantasy
Format: Paperback, eBook


SUMMARY

From #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout comes a new story in her WICKED series!

She's everything he wants...

Cold. Heartless. Deadly. 
Whispers of his name alone bring fear to fae and mortals alike. The Prince.
There is nothing in the mortal world more dangerous than him. Haunted by a past he couldn't control, all Caden desires is revenge against those who'd wronged him, trapping him in a never-ending nightmare. And there is one person he knows can help him.

She's everything he can't have...

Raised within the Order, Brighton Jussier knows just how dangerous the Prince is, reformed or not. She'd seen firsthand what atrocities he could be capable of. The last thing she wants to do is help him, but he leaves her little choice. Forced to work alongside him, she begins to see the man under the bitter ice. Yearning for him feels like the definition of insanity, but there's no denying the heat in his touch and the wicked promise is his stare.

She's everything he'll take...

But there's someone out there who wants to return the Prince to his former self. A walking, breathing nightmare that is hell-bent on destroying the world and everyone close to him. 

The last thing either of them needs is a distraction, but with the attraction growing between them each now, the one thing he wants more than anything may be the one thing that will be his undoing.

She's everything he'd die for.


BUY LINKS - The Prince (Wicked #3.5)

AMAZON US / AMAZON UK / AMAZON AU / AMAZON CANADA


 
EXCERPT - The Prince (Wicked #3.5)
Did it make you a bad friend if you were complete, a hundred percent envious of that friend? Yes? No? Kind of?
I figured it was somewhere in between.
That’s what I was mulling over as I watched Ivy Morgan brush thick, red curls over her shoulder, laughing at something her boyfriend Ren Owens had said to her.
At least I wasn’t envious of that—their love. Okay, well, that wasn’t entirely true. Pretty sure anyone who was as single as me would be envious of all that warm and fuzzy that was passed back and forth with each long look or casual brush of skin. The two could barely tear their gazes away from one another to eat the dinner we’d grabbed at the cute little diner inside the shopping center on Prytania Street.
I honest to God couldn’t be happier for them. They’d been through so much—way more than two people should ever have to go through to be together, and here they were, stronger and more in love than ever, and they deserved that happiness.
But their epic love story wasn’t the source of a current case of the green-eyed monster that was sitting on my shoulder.
Ivy was just such a… badass.
Even right now, relaxed in the chair, surrounded by twinkling Christmas lights with her hand in Ren’s and her belly full of a cheeseburger deluxe and crinkle fries and half of my tater tots, she could kick ass and take names along with addresses, telephone numbers, and social security numbers.
If the proverbial poo hit the fan, you called Ivy or Ren.
If you needed to know what streets Royal intersected with, you called… me. Or if you needed coffee or fresh beignets but were currently busy, you know, saving the world, you’d call me.
The three of us were all members of the Order, a widespread organization that was literally the only thing that stood between mankind and complete, utter enslavement and destruction by the fae. And not the super cute fae found in Disney movies or some crap like that. Humans thought they were on top of the food chain. They were wrong. The fae was.
The only thing pop culture got right about the fae was their slightly pointy ears. That was it. The fae were more than just beings from another world—the Otherworld—they were capable of glamouring their appearance to blend in with humans. But all Order members, even me, were warded at birth against the glamour. We saw through the human façade to the creature that lurked beneath.

BOOK TRAILER - The Prince (Wicked #3.5)



ABOUT THE AUTHOR - Jennifer L. Armentrout


# 1 New York Times, USA Today and international bestselling author Jennifer L. Armentrout lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia. All the rumors you’ve heard about her state aren’t true. 

When she’s not hard at work writing. she spends her time reading, working out, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write, and hanging out with her husband and her Jack Russell Loki. Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class, where she spent most of her time writing short stories… which explains her dismal grades in math. 

Jennifer writes young adult paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary romance. She is published with Spencer Hill Press, Entangled Teen and Brazen, Disney/Hyperion and Harlequin Teen. Her book Obsidian has been optioned for a major motion picture and her Covenant Series has been optioned for TV. She also writes adult and New Adult romance under the name J. Lynn. She is published by Entangled Brazen and HarperCollins.

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Wednesday, August 1, 2018

My JULY Book Haul and Wrap Up, and my AUGUST TBR 2018


Hello, friends!!! 

I really hope that you are all doing well and have been reading a lot of GOOD books!

I have to admit, my anxiety has been really bad lately and it is exhausting. I think I've been trying too hard, which then overwhelms me, and then I end up not accomplishing much of anything. I have a ton of ideas written down in a notebook, blog posts that are half-finished just sitting (over 40 of them!!!), pictures that sit on my phone and never get posted on Instagram... It's been an endless cycle. However! The motivation to get over the slump is strong and I hope to get back into the swing of things regularly... even with our school schedule starting next month! I feel it may be a good thing to have a busy schedule again!

Now, let's talk about BOOKS!!!


*My JULY Book Haul*

*REVIEW BOOKS:
- SPELL AND SPINDLE by Michelle Schusterman (MG/HB) - from the author. 
- THE SISTERS OF THE WINTER WOOD by Rena Rossner (A/ARC) - from Redhook Books/Hachette. 
- 1 GRUMPY BRUCE by Ryan T. Higgins (C/Board Book) - from Disney Hyperion.
- I LOST MY TOOTH! (Unlimited Squirrels) by Mo Willems (C/HB) - from Disney Hyperion. 
- SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW by Patty Blount (YA/eARC) - from Barclay Publicity. 
MY PLAIN JANE (The Lady Janies #2) by Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows and Brodi Ashton (YA/HB) - from Book Sparks.
- THE CIRCUS THIEF by Alane Adams (C/ARC) - from Book Sparks. 
- LOVELY, DARK, AND DEEP by Justina Chen (YA/ARC) - from Book Sparks. 
- NOBODY REAL by Steven Camden (YA/ARC) - from Harper 360/Harper Collins. 
- THE CHRISTMAS SISTERS by Sarah Morgan (A/ARC) - from HQN Books via Aro Publicity. 
- THE ADVENTURES OF PHATTY AND PAYASO: Central Park by Marie Unanue (MG) - from JKS Communications. 


*BOOKS I RECEIVED AS GIFTS or THROUGH A TRADE (Thank you!)
- SPINNING SILVER by Naomi Novik (A/ARC) 
- STAY SWEET by Siobhan Vivian (YA/signed HB) 

*BOOKS I PURCHASED
- THE INEXPLICABLE LOGIC OF MY LIFE by Benjamin Alire Saenz (YA/Audiobook) 
- EMBER IN THE ASHES by Sabaa Tahir (YA/PB and Audiobook)
HEARTLESS by Marissa Meyer (YA/HB)
- GRIMM TALES: For Young and Old by Philip Pullman (A/PB) 
- THE YELLOW FAIRY BOOK (Coloured Fairy Books #4) by Andrew Lang (Classic/HB) - Hesperus Press Edition 

My JULY BOOK OF THE MONTH picks:
- SPINNING SILVER by Naomi Novik (A/HB) 


*What I read in JULY*

- WE DON'T EAT OUR CLASSMATES by Ryan T. Higgins (C/ARC) 
- NEVER FOLLOW A DINOSAUR by Alex Latimer (C/HB) 
- DID YOU EAT THE PARAKEET? by Mark Iacolina (C/ARC) 
- GOD BLESS AMERICA: The Story of an Immigrant Named Irving Berlin by Adah Nuchi (C/HB) 
- THE UNEXPECTED EVERYTHING by Morgan Matson (YA/HB) 
- DRAWN TOGETHER by Minh Le (C/ARC) 
- SPELL & SPINDLE by Michelle Schusterman (MG/HB) 
- THE INEXPLICABLE LOGIC OF MY LIFE by Benjamin Alire Saenz (YA/Audiobook) 
- LEAVING AMARILLO (Neon Dreams #1) by Caisey Quinn (NA/eBook) 
- DON'T BLINK by Amy Krouse Rosenthal (C/ARC)
- GRACE AND FURY by Tracy Banghart (YA/ARC) 


*My AUGUST TBR*

First, I hope to finish reading
- THE GIRL WITH MORE THAN ONE HEART by Laura Geringer Bass (MG/HB)
- THE SEAS by Samantha Hunt (A/HB) 
- THE KISS QUOTIENT by Helen Hoang (A/HB) 
- SOMEONE I USED TO KNOW by Patty Blount (YA/eARC) 

And then, I hope I have enough time to read these too
- BROKEN THINGS by Lauren Oliver (YA/ARC) 
- BLANCA & ROJA by Anna-Marie McLemore (YA/ARC)
- THE BOY, THE BOAT, AND THE BEAST by Samantha M. Clark (MG/HB) 
- A BLADE SO BLACK by L.L. McKinney (YA/ARC) 
- THE STORM RUNNER by J.C. and Jennifer Cervantes (MG/ARC) 
- KEEPER OF THE BEES by Meg Kassel (YA/eARC) 
- THE SISTERS OF THE WINTER WOOD by Rena Rossner (A/ARC) 
- SPINNING SILVER by Naomi Novik (A/HB)


Please let me know in the comments what you're reading... 
and leave your blog or book haul links too - I'd love to visit and see what you all have been up to!


Happy reading!!!
 
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