Review/ Pinnacle by Lynn Veevers

About The Book:
Title: PINNACLE (The Core Series Book #1)
Author: Lynn Veevers
Pub. Date: February 6, 2018
Publisher: Clean Reads
Pages: 298
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, B&N

Identifying her parents was the hardest thing ever, until Kaya learned she was the killer’s next target. Moving had thrown the ancient predator off her trail temporarily but with magical abilities manifesting, Kaya’s scent grows stronger and the attempts on her life become constant. Narrowly surviving each encounter, Kaya is desperate to stop her potential assassin, but it’s hard to kill a creature that changes its appearance and disappears without a trace. Kaya finds the support she needs to succeed in her small group of friends and her boyfriend Kenneth. Like so many things, they’re more than what they seem and with the killer having unsettling similarities to Kenneth and his family…Kaya can’t help but wonder if there’s a connection.

Before beginning my review I quickly have to thank Rock Star Book Tours for allowing me to be a part of the tour and for allowing me to read and review the book for my stop.

Pinnacle is the first book in a series called The Core Series and it was released this week and its a debut novel. The second book is expected next year.

I love going into a book not knowing anything about it and I am so happy I didn’t know anything because I was taken on a roller coaster ride with this book because there was so many twists and turns in the book that you literally had no idea what was going to happen next. I literally had a hard time to put the book down. For me these are the best kinds of books to read when you want something new and different and this book offers just that.

The main character is Kaya who is a 17 year old girl who on the outside looks like your normal every day girl but behind close doors she has magical powers. I had no idea where this was going because it was beginning to feel like a paranormal book and I have to say that I really enjoy reading those. So needless to say this is not your typical book.

For some reason Kenneth seemed to rub me a little wrong. Not exactly sure what it was but I just couldn’t gel with him. There is definitely more to him that we know both of him and his family. This was something that Kaya picked up on but never really questioned it.

We all know that there is more to a person then they portray and let on and this was the case. What will Kaya do? Can she get the answers before its too late?

One thing I loved was how Lynn explained everything without taking away from the story. Reading each chapter was like peeling on onion and I think thats what made the book work. As I am reading this I realized that I can’t wait for the second book to come out and I hope its really soon. I need to see where this goes.

This is a fantastic debut novel and I would definitely continue reading the series when it comes out.

 

 

Book Spotlight/ Pinnacle by Lynn Veevers


 

About The Book:
Title: PINNACLE (The Core Series Book #1)
Author: Lynn Veevers
Pub. Date: February 6, 2018
Publisher: Clean Reads
Pages: 298
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, B&N

Identifying her parents was the hardest thing ever, until Kaya learned she was the killer’s next target. Moving had thrown the ancient predator off her trail temporarily but with magical abilities manifesting, Kaya’s scent grows stronger and the attempts on her life become constant. Narrowly surviving each encounter, Kaya is desperate to stop her potential assassin, but it’s hard to kill a creature that changes its appearance and disappears without a trace. Kaya finds the support she needs to succeed in her small group of friends and her boyfriend Kenneth. Like so many things, they’re more than what they seem and with the killer having unsettling similarities to Kenneth and his family…Kaya can’t help but wonder if there’s a connection.

About Lynn:
Lynn Veevers is originally from Washington State. With her mother being from Christchurch, New Zealand and her father being a well-traveled retired Navy Chief, Lynn has always had a fascination with different cultures around the world. An avid reader, she prefers books that take her to a place she’s never been and teach her something new at the same time. The Young Adult Genre is her absolute favorite to read, so it comes as no surprise that it is also her favorite to write. Lynn, on average, pens two to three novels a year with the sequel to Pinnacle in the publishing process now!

Today Lynn lives with her husband and kids in Southeast Oklahoma. Her young adult and adolescent children are supportive and avid beta readers of her work and give her a straightforward and honest point of view about how authentic her characters voices and personalities are for their age group. What better reference than someone close to the same age as the main character. Her kids always have and always will be her greatest inspiration.

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Giveaway Details: International
1 winner will receive a $25 Gift Card to the book retailer of their choice, International.

Ends on February 13th at Midnight EST!

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Tour Schedule:

1/29/2018- Books at Dawn– Deleted Scene
1/29/2018- Confessions of a YA Reader– Spotlight
1/30/2018- BookHounds YA– Interview
1/30/2018- Am Kinda Busy Reading– Review
1/31/2018- Lattes & Paperbacks– Review
1/31/2018- Book Sniffers Anonymous– Deleted Scene
2/1/2018- Infinite Lives, Infinite Stories– Review
2/1/2018- Wishful Endings– Excerpt
2/2/2018- Twinning for Books– Review
2/2/2018- Wonder Struck– Review

Week Two:

2/5/2018- Captivated Reading– Excerpt
2/5/2018- Flyleaf Chronicles– Review
2/6/2018- The Book Recluse Review– Excerpt
2/6/2018- Arkham Reviews– Review
2/7/2018- The Desert Bibliophie– Review
2/7/2018- The Cover Contessa– Deleted Scene
2/8/2018- Jrsbookreviews– Review
2/8/2018- Daily Waffle– Excerpt
2/9/2018- CINDY’S LOVE OF BOOKS– Review
2/9/2018- A Gingerly Review– Review

Blog Tour/ Pretty Dead Girls by Monica Murphy

Pretty Dead Girls by Monica Murphy
Publication Date:  January 2, 2018
Publisher:  Entangled Teen

Beautiful. Perfect. Dead.

In the peaceful seaside town of Cape Bonita, wicked secrets and lies are hidden just beneath the surface. But all it takes is one tragedy for them to be exposed.

The most popular girls in school are turning up dead, and Penelope Malone is terrified she’s next. All the victims so far have been linked to Penelope—and to a boy from her physics class. The one she’s never really noticed before, with the rumored dark past and a brooding stare that cuts right through her.

There’s something he isn’t telling her. But there’s something she’s not telling him, either.

Everyone has secrets, and theirs might get them killed.

 

 

 

Link to Goodreads:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/32972117-pretty-dead-girls

Purchase Links:

Amazon | Amazon Australia | Amazon UK | Amazon Canada | B&N | iBooks | Kobo

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Monica Murphy is the New York Times, USA Today and #1 international bestselling author of the One Week Girlfriend series, the Billionaire Bachelors and The Rules series. Her books have been translated in almost a dozen languages and has sold over one million copies worldwide. She is a traditionally published author with Bantam/Random House and Harper Collins/Avon, as well as an independently published author. She writes new adult, young adult and contemporary romance. She is also USA Today bestselling romance author Karen Erickson. She is a wife and a mother of three who lives with her family in central California on fourteen acres in the middle of nowhere, along with their one dog and too many cats. A self-confessed workaholic, when she’s not writing, she’s reading or hanging out with her husband and kids. She’s a firm believer in happy endings, though she will admit to putting her characters through many angst-filled moments before they finally get that hard won HEA.

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Tour Schedule:

http://www.chapter-by-chapter.com/tour-schedule-pretty-dead-girls-by-monica-murphy/

 

Release Day Blitz/ Dear Dwayne, With Love

I am so excited that DEAR DWAYNE, WITH LOVE by Eliza Gordon is available now and that I get to share the news!
 
If you haven’t yet heard about this wonderful book by Author Eliza Gordon, be sure to check out all the details below.
 
This blitz also includes a giveaway for an awesome DEAR DWAYNE, WITH LOVE Prize Pack courtesy
of Eliza and Rockstar Book Tours. So if you’d like a chance to win, enter in the Rafflecopter at the bottom of this post.
About The Book:
Title: DEAR DWAYNE, WITH LOVE
Author: Eliza Gordon
Pub. Date: January 23, 2018
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 380
Formats: Paperback, eBook, audiobook
Find it: AmazonAudibleB&NTBDGoodreads
 
Wannabe actress Dani Steele’s résumé resembles a cautionary tale on how not to be famous. She’s pushing thirty and stuck in a dead-end insurance job, and her relationship status is holding at uncommitted. With unbearably perfect sisters and a mother who won’t let her forget it, Dani has two go-tos for consolation: maple scones and a blog in which she pours her heart out to her
celebrity idol. He’s the man her father never was, no boyfriend will ever be—and not so impossible a dream as one might think. When Dani learns that he’s planning a fund-raising event where the winning amateur athlete gets a walk-on in his new film, she decides to trade pastries and self-doubt for running shoes
and a sexy British trainer with adorable knees.

But when Dani’s plot takes an unexpected twist, she realizes that her happy
ending might have to be improvised—and that proving herself to her idol isn’t
half as important as proving something to herself.
 
* * *

 


This is a work of fiction. While Dwayne Johnson p/k/a The Rock is a real
person, events relating to him in the book are a product of the author’s
imagination. Mr. Johnson is not affiliated with this book, and has not endorsed
it or participated in any manner in connection with this book.
About Eliza
Gordon:
Eliza Gordon
has excellent taste in books, shoes, movies, and friends, and questionable
sanity in the realm of love. Best leave that one alone.
In real
life, she’s an editor, mom, wife, and bibliophile and proud parent of one very
spoiled tuxedo cat. Eliza writes stories to help you believe in the Happily
Ever After; Jennifer Sommersby, her other self, writes YA and is repped by
Daniel Lazar at Writers House.
 
 
 
 
Giveaway Details: International
1 winner
will receive a DEAR DWAYNE, WITH LOVE Prize Pack including a finished copy of the
book and swag! International.
Ends on January
31st at Midnight EST!

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Cover Reveal/ Mercury Rises by Scarlett Kol

 

Hello Readers! Welcome to the Cover Reveal for

Mercury Rises by Scarlett Kol!

Be on the lookout for this upcoming title from

Inkspell Publishing!

 

What do you think of the cover?

 

 

 

A girl looking for a way out.

Being the daughter of New America’s leader, Mercury Masters has everything a girl could want. A glamorous life full of beautiful people, and the power to have anything she wants, except for one thing—to escape. Because Mercury’s perfect life comes with secrets to keep. Dangerous secrets that if made public would destroy her, her family, and her father’s reign. Then she meets Hawk.

A boy looking to be a hero.

Hawk, a handsome prep school dropout turned vigilante, has his own family secrets. Deadly secrets that have haunted him since he was fifteen. But instead of fighting the ghosts of his past, Hawk has assembled a group of misfit hackers and thieves to save the future from the corrupt government of New America and the mysterious virus that is killing off its citizens. But trying to do the right thing is tough when the person you really want to save is your enemy’s daughter.

A love that could kill them both.

Powerful forces keep them apart, but coming together could be the key to saving New America from destruction—even though it may cost both their lives.

A near-future YA biopunk retelling of Robin Hood.

Mercury Rises by Scarlett Kol
Publication Date: February 13, 2018
Publisher: Inkspell Publishing

Available for pre-order:
Amazon | Kobo

 

Scarlett Kol grew up in Northern Manitoba reading books and writing stories about creatures that make you want to sleep with the lights on. As an adult, she’s still a little afraid of the dark. Scarlett now lives just outside Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada with her husband and two boys, but if you need to find her she’s likely freezing at the hockey rink.

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Blog Tour/ Love Between Enemies by Molly E. Lee

Love Between Enemies (Grad Night #2)
by Molly E. Lee
Publication Date:  January 8, 2018
Publisher:  Entangled: Crus

Zoey Handler is ready to put an end to her decade-long rivalry with Gordon Meyers. They’ve traded top spot between valedictorian and salutatorian for years, but all that’s over now. Right? But after a crazy graduation speech prank gets out of hand, suddenly their rivalry turns into all-out war. Time to make peace with a little friendly payback.

Step one? Make him believe they’re now friends.

Step two? Show him the time of his life at an epic graduation party.

Step three? Don’t fall for his tricks.

Step four? Absolutely, positively, do not kiss him again.

So what if he’s cute? (Okay, hot.) So what if he’s charming? (Heaven help her, tempting.) So what if he apologizes? (That has to be fake.) She knows the real Gordon. And no matter how much her heart begs her to stop, there’s no turning back.

 

Disclaimer: This Entangled Teen Crush book contains one epic party, complete with every high-schoolers-gone-bad shenanigan, and two rivals who discover maybe they could be something much more…if only they’d stop fighting long enough to notice it.

Link to Goodreads:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36560371-love-between-enemies

Purchase Links:

Amazon | Amazon Australia | Amazon UK | Amazon Canada | B&N | iBooks | Kobo

Other Books in The Series:

Goodreads:  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35683226-love-in-the-friend-zone

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Molly E. Lee is an author best known for her debut novel EDGE OF CHAOS, and as a mentor at Pitch Wars – a program which connects promising writers to established authors in the community. Molly writes New Adult and Young Adult contemporary featuring strong female heroines who are unafraid to challenge their male counterparts, yet still vulnerable enough to have love sneak up on them. In addition to being a military spouse and mother of two + one stubborn English Bulldog, Molly loves watching storms from her back porch at her Midwest home, and digging for treasures in antique stores.

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Link to Tour Schedule:

http://www.chapter-by-chapter.com/tour-schedule-love-between-enemies-by-molly-e-lee/