Blog Tour: The Urban Boys: Discovery of the Five Senses {Review + #Giveaway}

Blog Tour: Unraveling Eleven (Eleven Trilogy #2) by Jerri Chisholm {Review} @ChisholmJerri @entangledteen

 

Review: The Witches of Vegas (The Witches of Vegas #1) by Mark Rosendorf

Author: Mark Rosendorf

Title: The Witches of Vegas

Series: The Witches of Vegas #1

Publication Date: August 5th 2020

Genre: Young Adult, Urban Fantasy

Summary

Where can Witches and their vampire mentor practice their powers without being discovered or persecuted?

By using their magic, the Witches of Vegas become the number one act performing on the Las Vegas Strip—a great achievement for them, but not so much for the magicians—who can't possibly keep pace.

Isis Rivera is the adopted fifteen-year old daughter of The Witches of Vegas. Zack Galloway is the teenage nephew and assistant to the last magician left in the city. Although they should be rivals, when Valeria, a four-hundred-year-old witch with a long-seeded grudge against humanity arrives in Sin-City, both teens act to bring their families together to stop the evil hag in her tracks.

But can the combined witches' powers and the ingenuity of the magicians be enough to stop Valeria from taking over the city and possibly the world?

 

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Obtained a free copy in exchange for an honest review by the author.

Isis Rivera is a witch.

After having experienced a traumatic childhood, where her foster parents wanted to burn her alive because of her powers, she's now an essential part of a family of people who accept her for who she is, a young and talented witch.

Her family consists of witches and a vampire who have accomplished to eliminate all of their competitors and now present the best and only magic show in Las Vegas. At the same time, Isis is trained to become better at controlling her powers because the family's vampire mentor warned them that something wicked this way comes... and it may be more powerful than them.

Apart from that, Isis is a teenager, so she also has to deal with more mundane issues, like the teenage emotions she experiences for the time such as frienship, trust and love.

The book is a quick read, the plot is clean and well structured and it unfolds in a way that makes the reader finish the story in a matter of hours. Mark Rosendorf introduces us to a new YA series, where real, pure magic power meets the shiny and intoxicating world of Sin City. An exciting beginning to a very promising series. In Witches of Vegas what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas... for now.

Rating: 4 stars!!!!

 

Blog Tour: Between Wild and Ruin by Jennifer G. Edelson {Review + #Giveaway} @JGEauthor

Blog Tour: Lost Girl (A Shelby Day Novel) by Holly Kammier {Review + #Giveaway} @hkammier

 

Author: Holly Kammier
Title: Lost Girl
Series: A Shelby Day Novel
Publisher: Acorn Publishing
Publication date: January 5th 2020
Genres: Romance, Suspense, Young Adult

Summary

AN APPALLING ACT OF VIOLENCE AND AN UNSOLVED DOUBLE MURDER.
SMALL-TOWN INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER, SHELBY DAY, IS DETERMINED TO HUNT A KILLER.

As her search draws closer to uncovering the twisted truth, she begins receiving ominous warnings to stay quiet and drop the story. The young journalist is in danger. Her cameraman and best friend, a person with his own secret past, says he wants to protect her. But Shelby is headstrong and dodging anything that could lead to love. She can’t allow anyone to distract her as she fights for the two women who deserve justice.
She never expects along the way she’ll have to stop and save herself.

Ticktock… If Shelby doesn’t solve the crime soon, she’ll become the killer’s next victim.

Blog Tour: Dark Reflections by Kelsey Ketch {Review + #Giveaway} @kelseyketch

Author: Kelsey Ketch

Title: Dark Reflections
Genre: NA Dark Fantasy
Release Date: April 2019

Summary

Being possessed by a vampire sucks!

Alana Jones’s world has been completely turned upside-down after being bitten by a vampire’s reflection in a cursed mirror. Now she’s forced to stay in an abandoned Victorian inn on an isolated island off the west coast of Florida, where Alana lives a double life: one as herself and one as a vicious murderer. Over the past year, she has spilt and drunk the blood of sixteen victims. The guilt of their deaths slowly eating away her sanity.

Sixteen dead . . .

Blog Tour: The Haunting of Elmwood Manor (Pekin Dewlap Mystery #1) by Pamela McCord {Review + #Giveaway}

Author: Pamela McCord  
Title: The Haunting of Elmwood Manor
Series: Pekin Dewlap Mystery #1
Published by: Acorn Publishing
Publication date: March 1st 2019
Genres: Middle-Grade, Mystery

Book Summary

Pekin Dewlap hasn’t seen a ghost since she was twelve. But she’d do anything to get them back. Starting a ghostbusting business with her two best friends, Amber and Scout, seems like the perfect way to accomplish her goal. Of course, playing with ghosts isn’t high on their wish list, so Pekin has to do some arm-twisting to get them on board.
Once committed, Pekin and her friends find themselves in deep, trying to solve the disappearance of fourteen-year-old Miranda Talbert. Miranda went missing in 1918, and her spirit has wandered the halls of Elmwood Manor for the last hundred years.

Blog Tour: I, Guinevere by C.K. Brooke {Review + @Giveaway}

Author: C.K. Brooke
Title: I, Guinevere
Genre: YA Fantasy, Arthurian Mythology, Retellings
Release Date: October 15th, 2018

Summary

If you think you know the story of King Arthur and his mythical sword, think again. Your legends have it wrong.

Here’s the truth: I was never married to Arthur, and he wasn’t a king. Because Arthur never pulled that sword out of the stone. I did.

I, Guinevere.

Blog Tour: First Full Moon by Michelle Alstead {Review + Excerpt + #Giveaway}

Title: First Full Moon
Author: Michelle Alstead
Genre: YA Fantasy
Release Date: August 28th 2018

Summary

More secrets. More lies. I'm going to die.

She wanted a car for her sixteenth birthday, not magical powers… 

Blog Tour: Queen of Chaos (The Fourth Element #3) by Kat Ross {Review + #Giveaway}

 

Author: Kat Ross
Title: Queen of Chaos
Series: The Fourth Element #3
Publication date: January 18th 2017
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult

Book Synopsis

Persepolae has fallen. 

Karnopolis has burned. 

As the dark forces of the Undead sweep across what remains of the empire, Nazafareen must obey the summons of a demon queen to save Darius’s father, Victor. Burdened with a power she doesn’t understand and can barely control, Nazafareen embarks on a perilous journey through the shadowlands to the House-Behind-the-Veil. But what awaits her there is worse than she ever imagined… 

A thousand leagues away, Tijah leads a group of children on a desperate mission to rescue the prisoners at Gorgon-e Gaz, the stronghold where the oldest daēvas are kept. To get there, they must cross the Great Salt Plain, a parched ruin occupied by the armies of the night. A chance encounter adds a ghost from the past to their number. But will they arrive in time to avert a massacre?

Blog Tour: Membrane by Michele Corriel {Review + #Giveaway} @michelecorriel

Author: Michele Corriel

Title: Membrane

Release Date: October 10th 2016Genre: YA Scifi
Publisher: Leap Books

Summary from Goodreads

In the multi-verse people may look familiar, but no one is who they seem.

In a small town in Montana, Sophie lives with her quantum physicist mother, and her equally brilliant, but dangerously obsessed, step-father.

Her father disappeared years ago under mysterious circumstances, but Sophie is still haunted by memories of him that seem so real she swears she feels his presence one night as she drifts off to sleep.

Realizing that somehow her missing father is trying to send her a message, Sophie decides to take a big risk.

Blog Tour: Name of Ra (Descendants of Isis #3) by Kelsey Ketch {Review + #Giveaway} @kelseyketch

Author: Kelsey Ketch 

Title: Name of Ra

Series: Descendants of Isis #3

Release Date: 11/02/15

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Summary from Goodreads

“Set has risen.”

After being on the run from a psychotic cult for a week, Natara “Natti” Stone has finally come to realize she and Seth are the only two people standing between the Sons of Set and the secret name of Ra. Holding a part of the key that unlocks Ra’s power, they relocate to a more isolated location in the California mountains. While laying low, Natti becomes even more determined to understand her mother’s bloodline and her blessing from the goddess, Isis. But when she starts seeing the truth behind her destiny, she begins to doubt her role in the events that are about to unfold.

Then the unthinkable happens . . .

Blog Tour: Tarnished (Perfected #2) by Kate Jarvik Birch {Review + Giveaway} @katejarvikbirch @entangledteen

Author: Kate Jarvik Birch

Title: Tarnished 
Series: Perfected #2

Release Date: 2015

Publisher: Entangled Teen

Summary from Goodreads

Freedom comes at a cost...

Ella was genetically engineered to be the perfect pet—graceful, demure...and kept. In a daring move, she escaped her captivity and took refuge in Canada. But while she can think and act as she pleases, the life of a liberated pet is just as confining as the Congressman’s gilded cage. Her escape started a revolution, but she’s trapped, unable to get back to Penn—the boy she loves—or help the girls who need her.

Back in the United States, pets are turning up dead. With help from a very unexpected source, Ella slips deep into the dangerous black market, posing as a tarnished pet available to buy or sell. If she's lucky, she'll be able to rescue Penn and expose the truth about the breeding program. If she fails, Ella will pay not only with her life, but the lives of everyone she's tried to save...

Blog Tour: Next Door to a Star (Star Series #1) by Krysten Lindsay Hager {Review + Book Trailer + #Giveaway} @KrystenLindsay

Author: Krysten Lindsay Hager

Title: Next Door to a Star
Release Date: September 1st 2015
Publisher: Limitless Publishing

Summary from Goodreads

Hadley Daniels is tired of feeling invisible.

After Hadley’s best friend moves away and she gets on the bad side of some girls at school, she goes to spend the summer with her grandparents in the Lake Michigan resort town of Grand Haven. Her next door neighbor is none other than teen TV star Simone Hendrickson, who is everything Hadley longs to be—pretty, popular, and famous—and she’s thrilled when Simone treats her like a friend.

Being popular is a lot harder than it looks.

It’s fun and flattering when Simone includes her in her circle, though Hadley is puzzled about why her new friend refuses to discuss her former Hollywood life. Caught up with Simone, Hadley finds herself ignoring her quiet, steadfast friend, Charlotte.

To make things even more complicated, along comes Nick Jenkins…

He’s sweet, good-looking, and Hadley can be herself around him without all the fake drama. However, the mean girls have other ideas and they fill Nick’s head with lies about Hadley, sending him running back to his ex-girlfriend and leaving Hadley heartbroken.

Blog Tour: A Matter of Time (Angel Sight #3) by Lisa M. Basso {Review + Giveaway}

Author: Lisa M. Basso

Title: A Matter of Time 

Series: Angel Sight #3

Publication date: eBook June 9th 2015 / Paperback August 18th 2015

Publisher: Month9Books, LLC.

Book Symmary

Rayna entered Hell to save Kade. Kade entered to protect Rayna. Both have failed.

Centuries of Kade’s demons are unearthed when he is brainwashed and used as a Fallen pawn.

In the freezing pits of Hell, Ray is beaten and tortured, pushed to her breaking point. She takes a stand, firing back at her attackers though she’s only begun to understand the true strength of her wings. A strength she will need once she uncovers the evils that await on Earth.

Together they find solace, alone they will fight.

Review Tour: Corr Syl the Terrible by Garry Rogers {Review + Excerpt + Giveaway}

Author: Garry Rogers
Title: Corr Syl the Terrible
Publication Date: May 2nd 2015

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When Corr Syl's friend and fellow warrior Rhya Bright is betrayed by the lynx descendent Able Remington, Corr tracks Rhya to the heart of the enemy Taoso nation ruled by the ruthless Minister Ya Zhōu, a Human who commands a secret network of Tsaeb spies and assassins. Reactivating an ancient warcraft known as Z99, Corr sets out to save Rhya, who has her own plans for escape. As he scours the planet and sees the destruction caused by carelessness and selfishness, Corr realizes that he wants to be more than a fighter. Corr Syl the Terrible is the story of a brave young warrior who must decide if he is more than the swords he carries.

Blog Tour:Cursed (The Guardian Chronicles #1) by Trakena Prevost {Review + Giveaway}

Author: Trakena Prevost
Title: Cursed
Series: The Guardian Chronicles #1
Publication Date: December 13th 2013
Publisher: Evernight Teen
Genre: Young Adult Urban Fantasy

Summary from Goodreads

Half-succubus Jazz Watkins spends her nights knee-deep in Chicago drug dens hunting Suecai—an evil kind of incubi and succubae who devour the souls of humans. But when a leader of the Suecai curses her, Jazz has to track him down. Either she kills him before the curse burns through her, or she’ll become a full-fledged, out of control, soul-sucking monster.

Blog Tour:Branded (Sinners #1) by Abi Ketner & Missy Kalicicki {Review + Teaser}

Author: Abi Ketner & Missy Kalicicki
Title: Branded
Series: Sinners #1
Publication Date: June 28th 2013
Genre: Young Adult, Dystopia

Synopsis

Fifty years ago the Commander came into power and murdered all who opposed him. In his warped mind, the seven deadly sins were the downfall of society. He created the Hole where sinners are branded according to their sins and might survive a few years. At best.
Now LUST wraps around my neck like blue fingers strangling me. I’ve been accused of a crime I didn’t commit and now the Hole is my new home.

Darkness. Death. Violence. Pain.

Now every day is a fight for survival. But I won’t die. I won’t let them win.

The Hole can’t keep me. The Hole can’t break me.
I am more than my brand. I’m a fighter.
My name is Lexi Hamilton, and this is my story.

Blog Tour:Ride of Your Life by Shevi Arnold {Review + Excerpt + Book Soundtrack + Playlist}

Author: Shevi Arnold
Title: Ride of Your Life
Publication Date: May 30th 2012
Genre: Young Adult, Ghost Story

Synopsis 

Seventeen-year-old Tracy Miller met the love of her life...thirty years after her own death.

Tracy was working at the House of Horrors at the Amazing Lands Theme Park when the fire broke out. Instead of running, she lost her life trying to save eleven-year-old Mack. Now thirty years have passed, and suddenly everything changes with the arrival of two new ghosts: a little girl named Ashley and a cute seventeen-year-old boy named Josh.

Josh would do anything for Tracy, but can he help her let go of the past and accept his love?

Blog Tour:Tragic Silence by E.C. Hibbs {Review + Giveaway}

Author: E.C. Hibbs 
Title: Tragic Silence
Publication date: November 19th 2013
Genres: New Adult, Paranormal, Suspense

Synopsis

When tragedy strikes Bianka Farkas one night in her native Hungary, she loses more than a friend and her mobility. Some things are harder to understand. Waking up in a hospital, Bee struggles to remember exactly what happened the night she was attacked and witnessed a brutal murder. Memories of a mysterious figure plague her as well as bizarre and terrifying changes in her over the next few years. Facing this new horrifying reality with a surprising ally, Bee finally has the chance to take her revenge but at what cost?