Evolution: By Kelly Carrero Review

Author: Kelly Carrero

Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi

Age Group: Teen+

Title: Evolution

Blurb: Jade Sommers should be dead, really there is no doubt about it, the impact of the car accident she was in alone should have killed her and if that didn't then the fire that followed would have definitely done the job. However someone needed to tell her body that, because as she watched it in the mirror it healed right before her eyes.
Jade's mind is riddled with thoughts of the impossible things that are suddenly happening to her. There is something wrong with her and she needs to hide it from her friends and family lest they find out she is a freak. Little does she know that she is no freak, no not at all. She is part of a higher race of humanity she has Evolved.

I will be perfectly honest with you, I requested this book from the author because the cover, and the title caught my attention. and wonder of wonders  I truly enjoyed it the story too. It is unique and the concept is fresh and enjoyable. They are a lot of good points and exciting scenes. The romance is good and the characters were fantastic.

The Grammar is spot on, and so is the syntax it is clear to see that the author and the editor(s) put in a great deal of work. A lot of people have had this concept or something similar, however  Kelly's story is unique.I love the way the story is told as well as the depth of feeling I get from our heroine Jade. I thought her reaction to everything was a realistic one unlike some of the books I've read, she deals with learning the things she dose in a way that maybe I would deal with them.

My recommendation: Don't miss out on a really good story. I know personally that the author has put all she can into this book and it is certainly worth reading!

My Rating: 5/5 Roses

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The Fire Of Dawn Tour Stop: Review & Giveaway

 Paranormal Romance

Title: The Fire of Dawn

Author: V.V. Aku

Date Published: 2012

Blurb: It’s the last day of the summer holiday in The Hague when Leah Koopmans’s carefree life as a teen is brutally flipped upside down. Her pale skin turns a dazzling gold, her senses heighten, and her muscles possess an uncanny strength. But with these exhilarating new powers comes a thirst that can only be quenched by one thing: human blood.

While her body craves for fresh victims and her heart drowns in guilt, she meets inhumanly handsome Max Machiavelli, who claims that Leah is immortal like him. Infatuation ignites into blistering passion when she joins his coven in Amsterdam. But as the mysteries shrouding her sudden change to immortality unravel, Leah quickly learns that her aversion to taking life isn’t the only thing that sets her apart from this group of herculean strangers.

From the picturesque canals of Amsterdam to Corsica’s limestone cliffs and the untamed Siberian wilderness; from first loves to fierce battles, The Fire of Dawn is an extraordinary tale packed with romance, betrayal, and bloodsucking suspense that will keep you on the edge of your seat till the very last page.

Review: This was an amazing read. There I said it! Now I will tell you why, there are dozens of books about immortals, however this one is unique. Leah's character was everything I wanted in a heroine she was both emotional and brave and! She didn't annoy me a definite plus!
The pacing, the content, the syntax is spot on and the elements that make up the story make it one of a kind and is defiantly worth the time I took to read it, what more can I say!

Recommendation: Read this! it's a really good book I promise!

Rosa's Rating: 5/5

Excerpt: Something’s wrong!’ Max gasped, sitting up in bed so quickly that the unexpected movement sent me over the bed’s edge. I caught my balance before I smashed onto the walnut parquet. We had dozed off about an hour ago. Outside, the sun had risen.

Max was panting, his face filled with fear. ‘We’ve got to get out of here!’

‘What’s going on?’ I yawned, rubbing the sleep from my eyes.

‘They’re near! Pietro can hear them.’

He had said ‘they’ with such abhorrence that it could only have meant one thing. He got to his feet, scrambling for his clothes that were scattered over the floor together with mine. I had never seen him this alarmed. The bedroom door flung open and Pietro and Sam barged into the room, both in the same frantic state as Max was.

‘How did they find us?’ Max shrieked.

‘I don’t know, but we must leave immediately!’ Pietro yelled.

We left the house and darted toward the city center. The streets were deserted. Livorno was still asleep. In the morning sunlight, our legs were heavy, moving tediously slow while Pietro broadcast the thoughts of the advancing Brotherhood as they tracked where we ran－his voice without emotion. ‘There are four: two males, two females… They have entered the boulevard. Stand by for confirmation... They have turned right on Via Grande.’

Then Pietro’s face twisted in horror. ‘Stop,’ he whispered, his voice shaking. ‘They’re here.’

‘Something’s wrong!’ Max gasped, sitting up in bed so quickly that the unexpected movement sent me over the bed’s edge. I caught my balance before I smashed onto the walnut parquet. We had dozed off about an hour ago. Outside, the sun had risen.

Max was panting, his face filled with fear. ‘We’ve got to get out of here!’

‘What’s going on?’ I yawned, rubbing the sleep from my eyes.

‘They’re near! Pietro can hear them.’

He had said ‘they’ with such abhorrence that it could only have meant one thing. He got to his feet, scrambling for his clothes that were scattered over the floor together with mine. I had never seen him this alarmed. The bedroom door flung open and Pietro and Sam barged into the room, both in the same frantic state as Max was.

‘How did they find us?’ Max shrieked.

‘I don’t know, but we must leave immediately!’ Pietro yelled.

We left the house and darted toward the city center. The streets were deserted. Livorno was still asleep. In the morning sunlight, our legs were heavy, moving tediously slow while Pietro broadcast the thoughts of the advancing Brotherhood as they tracked where we ran－his voice without emotion. ‘There are four: two males, two females… They have entered the boulevard. Stand by for confirmation... They have turned right on Via Grande.’

Then Pietro’s face twisted in horror. ‘Stop,’ he whispered, his voice shaking. ‘They’re here.’

Author Bio: V.V. Aku has always believed in beautiful stories. She found the man of her dreams and her way in complex China, and wrote a fairytale of her own: The Fire of Dawn－a scintillating tale about strength, self-discovery, and a girl who dared to follow her heart.

Born and raised in The Netherlands, V.V. Aku (Veerle Ackerstaff) soon discovered that the world was a place worth exploring. After graduating high school, she set out to travel the globe until she finally touched down in China. On the border of Tibet she met Anzi Aku, a wild Black-Yi man who lives at the foot of the Himalayas. She has joined his clan and tries to find her place among the tribe and its shamans. When she’s not researching the clan’s mythology on vampires, she shamelessly gives in to the compulsion to write about the countless characters that haunt her dreams.

V.V. Aku is the author of The Fire of Dawn and Black Dusk. She has been the creator of stories since the age of three, and has a Post-Graduate Diploma in English Language Teaching to Adults from The University of Cambridge ESOL. After nearly a decade of working as an English language teacher and TEFL trainer in China, Thailand, The Netherlands, and the UK, she now devotes all her time to writing, her family, and practicing Kung Fu. The Fire of Dawn is her debut novel.

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Revamp Tour: Review & Tour wide Giveaway!

Revamp By Beck Sherman
Genre: Horror
ISBN: 9780985732707
ASIN: B007Q4LK9I

 

Blurb:FOR THREE DAYS, IT WAS DARK.
News reporters scrambled. This was the biggest story to come along in weeks.
They called it a blackout.
The last one was in New York City in 2003, but this one was different, special, because the grids in six major cities across the country had been fried, kaput, see-you-next-Sunday. Everyone with some jurisdiction blamed each other, and when there was no one left to blame, terrorism rode in on its gallant steed.

It was the media’s fault. They were so busy stuffing fanatical Muslims with a penchant for Allah and decapitations down the American citizen’s throat, that they never saw it coming. I guess I shouldn’t be too hard on them.
They were partially right.
It was terror after all, but a whole new kind. And when the lights came back on, things had changed.
The dark had brought us visitors.

Review: I'm not a huge fan of horrors, I don't particularly like scaring the bejeezus out of myself while reading  but I did want to review this book. If I say I didn't like it trust me its not because its a bad book. Turns out even now I don't have the heart to read an excellent Horror without freaking.

My friends have informed me that I am a wuss and therefore should let my readers know that I grew some balls reading Beck Sherman's Revamp. I'm sure it was milder than most horrors but from my perspective it  was really really scary. So since it is a horror and it was suitably so I think this book deserves a good rating!

There was enough action and a great story to follow thankfully it wasn't all scary, but I think from now on I'll stick to my Romance YA reads!

Rosa's Rating: 4/5

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The Resturant @ The Mill: Tour Stop and Giveaway (Today is also my birthday!!)

 

Contemporary Romance/Women's Fiction
Title: The Restaurant
Author: Linn B. Halton
Date to be Published: 8/2/12
Publisher: Sapphire Publishing


Blurb: Age, relationships, and careers – we are all unique. Yet beneath the exterior facade we choose
to show to the world at large, what do we have in common? The things we bury deep inside; the
worries and fears we are unable to verbalise, and the hand fate takes in our lives is a common
thread. Sometimes we fail to recognise in each other that innermost struggle on the path to true
love.

Six very different stories, six couples linked by The Restaurant @ The Mill, owned by Hilary
Marks and Ben Adams. As the restaurant thrives the atmosphere is alive with conversation,
snapshots of lives unfolding; each one a personal journey.

My Review: I loved this book, it was a wonderful journey with each and every character,from start to end. The stories were both fast paced and very entertaining. I found it very refreshing to follow each character it was so very sweet. There are so many things in this book that I love in my chick Lit

I ended up reading this in one sitting and it was worth dropping all my other stuff to read!

My Recommendation: This book is just wonderful, I would recommend without hesitation if you don't believe me here is the excerpt.


Excrept: When your family is affected by a tragedy, you find yourself in the midst of emotions that are so strong it’s almost impossible to keep a grasp on normal life. The tragedy happened to my sister, Mya, who was driving home one dark night in the pouring rain. The car that hit hers swerved to avoid a cyclist whose wheel had struck a pothole, and the effects of that night spread out like ripples on a pond to catch us all.

Sam was my sister’s boyfriend, and during the long months following the accident we were all distraught. My parents had each other for support, but I couldn’t add to their burden, could I? So I shared my feelings with Sam and he, in return, shared his feelings with me. I was nineteen at the time and Sam was twenty-seven. He always talked to me as if I was his equal; he made me feel that my fears and worries mattered, that I mattered.

The day I knew beyond a doubt that I had fallen in love with him was, ironically, the day he made the decision to gently disengage himself from our family. One moment he was a part of everything that was going on and within a few weeks he was no longer there when I looked for him. Mum and Dad accepted it was time for him to move on, grateful for the way he had taken care of me. I knew from that very first day when he appeared late and left early, that it was the start of the end; I also knew that I couldn’t change how I felt about him. I had no idea whether he noticed the difference in me, because either way it could never work. If he felt something for me, how could we pretend that he hadn’t once loved my sister? If he thought of me simply as Mya’s younger sister, that would break my heart.

My Rating for this book: 5 Roses

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Linn B Halton lives in the UK, in the small Gloucestershire village of Arlingham, on
the banks of the River Severn with her adorable husband and cat with attitude – Mr
Tiggs! She writes romantic fiction with a psychic or astrological theme and many of the
pranormal events that feature in her books are real life experiences.
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"I read" Thursday's #1

Greetings lads and ladies, I know what your thinking, a segment Rosa will never commit to that.

Frankly you may be right but hey what can you do right? Anywhos today I thought it would be fun to tell you about the books I read for my own pleasure and enjoyment well the romance one's anyway! I thought long and hard about this (really I did it was a long, long minuet and I have concluded that the best way to share what romances I've read this month (the ones not reviewed here of course) is to put them in a list of ten counting down to the number one and best book I've read for the month.

So without further here is my top ten lists of romances I've read this week;

#1- This month I read a book called Slammed which is a very popular book on amazon! It was fantastic! Its about a boy a girl and poetry but trust me its so much more

#2-The book I mentioned in one has a sequel! It is a called Point of Retreat and is as good as the first!

#3-I read a book called easy also selling well on amazon it was nice!

#4- I read a book called bet me its a bit older but I loved it as the heroin was like me plus sized!

#5-I read a series called the Fool's Gold series by Susan Mallory and lately I've read All Summer Long which I think was the best installment in the series.

#6-I read a book called my life next door!!!! It was a gift and I loved it it was a really great read!

#7- I read a book called Wild Cats its a part of a series called shifters unbound that was fantastic too

#8- I read a book called indigo blue a book in the comanche moon series and I Loved it and can't wait to get my hands on comanche heart

#9- I read a book called the mayfair moon its a YA werewolf book that is passable.

#10-I read a book called the marriage bargain this one is also on the amazon top paid books list. It is very nice and I recommend it!

I hope you enjoyed that! Now tell me what have you read lately?

Mishap and Retribution Tour Stop Guest Post and Kindle Touch Giveaway!!!

Author: M.M. Shelley
Genre: Fantasy Y.A
Title: Mishap and Retribution

Blurb: At the Dawn of Time a curse against Man was made and only Death will satisfy it. 
The year is 2045 and twins Grasiella and Tatiana who are Cinerian, Fae and Human must choose a side and may find themselves on different sides of an ancient war.
With Tatiana trapped in the Fae realm and learning what life has been like, she has found herself bonding with the Fae. Grasiella seeking the whereabouts of her twin has come to a crossroads of her own. 
Separated and neither knowing the fate of the other, each make their way to an uncertain future.
Death has swept across the Hawaiian Islands and the cost of peace may be too high.
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My Review: This book needs no high praise from me, as soon as you read the first page you enter into a world born from an imagination that is truly unique. The characters are fantastic to follow and there are a lot of wonderful surprises.

I had a wonderful read I cried and laughed, There isn't much more I can say this one was a definite page turner and I just know you will enjoy every moment of it and beg for more.

My rating: 5/5 roses

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Mythology in YA books

HI Everyone, I'm M.M. Shelley and I would like to thank Bajan Rosa for having me as a guest today. So please pour yourself a cup of your favorite Latte and if you're at work, hang up your "On Break" shingle as we take five.
I may love writing young adult fantasy and Sci-fi, but it doesn't mean that it's my first love. Growing up I stirred more towards mysteries written by the great Agatha Christie and the clever Edgar Allen Poe. Slowly but surely I found authors like Johanna Lindsay and Julie Garwood and those two quickly became some of my favorite authors. Sure you might wonder, what an interesting mix of authors, but really isn't a good book defined by losing yourself in the story?
I enjoy mixing a good mystery with romance and sometimes paranormal romance. That I've found myself reading books by Dianne Day and Heather Graham who also writes under the name Shannon Drake.
What I like about the young adult genre is that everything is new, exciting and the characters are always rushing, in a hurry and are willing to hold on tightly to what they want regardless of the consequences. There is an innocence that at times can be heartbreaking and enduring.
With the young adult genre there is more room for possibilities as they are ready and willing to believe in the possibilities of what we all enjoy; intrigue, magic and most importantly, love. 
With my book, Mishap & Retribution I focus on the suspense, and the intrigue, what will one do for the ones they love? Sometimes the answer is not what you may always expect and that's what I enjoy about writing young adult; is that you learn to expect the unexpected.

 So who are some of your favorite authors? I'd love to hear from you!
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M.M. Shelley is a storyteller, word smith and dreamer. She has traveled the world extensively in search of the magic which is often overlooked in every day life. M.M. Shelley is a native of southern California, and a student of mythology from which she gets much inspiration.

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Nightfall review and tourwide Giveaway

Author: PW Creighton
Genre: Psychological, Supernatural Thriller
Title: NIghtfall

Blurb: Three years after everyone important to Connor Maitland was murdered by a fanatical cult he is still attempting to put his life back together. Accompanied by his ex-girlfriend and business partner, Alison Herne, he is making a living as a jack-of-all-trades running a security company, sailing charters, and even photographing weddings out of Dolliber Cove, Massachusetts. Connor's world is finally coming back together until they find one of Alison's ghost hunter friends murdered.

When a childhood love he thought was dead, appears on his doorstep during their investigation, Connor is forced to confront memories he convinced himself were the delusions of a man deep into grief. They are being stalked by a mysterious man who appears to know far too many of their secrets. After Alison is almost killed confronting her occult past, it is impossible for Connor to deny the connection between the cases. Someone is attempting to end Connor's life and the lives of all those who surround him.

The crazed rantings of the murderous cult may be the key to his survival.

My Review: Wow what can I say from the start of this book I was at the edge of my seat. It was one of those books where you are not only the reader but you are the character.

There are emotional parts and parts where you may find yourself smiling. But don't get me wrong this book is a thriller and a very good one at that.

My Recommendation: This book is for anyone who enjoys this genre

My Rating: 5/5 roses

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Author Bio: Author of the Psychological, Supernatural Thriller Series Nightfall, Writer, adventurer, archaeologist, photographer, videographer, Tech-Geek, Investigator

Originally from California, PW moved frequently, living in many places including Vermont, Tennessee and currently New York where PW took his interest in adventure to college earning a Bachelors in Folklore Anthropology, Archaeology and Art Studio. After his work was displayed in gallery exhibits and television documentaries, he returned to college for his MSEd as a Communications Specialist in Media Production. Between rock climbing, sailing and investigations, there's barely enough time in the day but it's all a modern adventure.

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29 and A Half Reasons Tour Stop

Author: Denise Grover Swank
Title: 29 and A half Reasons
Genre: Romance, Supernatural

Blurb: When Rose reports for Fenton County jury duty she figures she's lucky to
get out of a morning working at the DMV. Instead, despite a disastrous
encounter with the new assistant district attorney, Mason Deveraux, she's
picked as a juror on a murder case. As the trial progresses, she realizes
an ominous vision she had in the men's restroom proves the defendant is
innocent. And there's not a cotton picking thing she can do about it.

Or is there?

As if things weren't bad enough, Rose's older sister Violet is going
through a mid-life crisis. Violet insists that Rose stop seeing her sexy
new boyfriend, Arkansas state detective Joe Simmons and date other men.
Rose is done letting people boss her around, but she can't commit to Joe
either. Still, Rose isn't about to let the best thing in her life slip away

My review: From the first page of this book I was intrigued. I'm not a huge fan of mystery or romantic suspense but this book is one I enjoyed. It is both of these and neither. There is enough humor packed in to keep you satisfied as well as both romance and drama.

The characters are very well developed especially the heroin Rose. The pace was relaxed and fluid and they were a few surprises thrown in for good measure.

My Recommendation: If you are looking for a good mystery with supernatural elements and romance this is definitely the book for you!

My Rating: 5/5 roses

Author Bio: Denise Grover Swank lives in Lee's Summit, Missouri. She has six children,
three dogs, and an overactive imagination. She can be found dancing in her
kitchen with her children, reading or writing her next book. You will
rarely find her cleaning.

Denise is the author of the bestselling urban fantasy series, The Chosen.
You can find out more about Denise and her other books at
www.denisegroverswank.com or email her at denise groverswank@gmail.com

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