Review: Fast (Fast #1)

Fast (Fast #1) by Ryan Ringbloom
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: July 2014
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Book Description:

Okay, FAST. - Basically you have Robin who has a thing for Kent (the boy next door). Good News! 

Kent likes her back. Problem - Robin is a shy timid pain in the ass who needs a wake up call. Hmm, Kent needs a way to fix this. AHA - A plan!

Make Robin jealous with the popular and oh-so slutty, Ashley. How can that plan fail? Well, for starters Robin is not the only one jealous by Kent and Ashley's new-found friendship.

Enter the hot younger brother, Patrick. By the end you have one very happy couple and one not so happy couple. Yikes!




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I love Patrick!

It’s been a long time since I’ve been able to start a review off that way, but Fast by Ryan Ringbloom is by far one of the most relatable books I’ve read in a while. I haven’t loved characters this much in way too long. First, I adore Ringbloom’s writing style. The book is split into two parts. In the first part we get the story from Robin and Ashley’s point of view and the second part is told from Kent and Patrick’s point of view.

I really liked that we got to see what the girls were thinking and how they were feeling. It was nice to see that even while they feign certain things to other people in the book, the reader always knows what’s going through their head. Plus it was awesome to see how they changed and grew over the course of the book. It was perfection.

Book Blitz: Tainted Energy

Tainted Energy by Lynn Vroman
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre: Science Fiction
Release Date: November 4, 2014
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Book Description:

For seventeen-year-old Lena, living in the trailer park with the rest of town’s throwaways isn’t exactly paradise. Dealing with a drunken father who can't keep his fists to himself doesn’t help matters either. The only good thing in her life, other than track, is the mysterious man who visits her dreams, promising to find her.

When a chair burns her arms, Lena chalks it up to stress-induced crazy. Yet as bizarre incidents escalate, even being crazy can’t explain it all away… until one day dream guy does find her. Tarek lost Lena seventeen years ago after she was accused of treason and marked Tainted. He finally discovers her reborn on Earth into a life of suffering as punishment for her crime.

However, someone else has already found her… and wants her dead. Willing to sacrifice everything, he fights to keep her safe so she can live the only life she’s ever known—even if that life doesn’t include him.

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Excerpt:
Dad's alcohol coma hadn't worn off, his feet still propped on the half-empty case of beer. He slouched in the same beat-up wicker chair as last night while loud snores escaped his mouth. A can of Genesee dangled in his right hand, its contents leaking from the opening.

The hate in my chest suffocated me. He spent most of his time in this room, admiring the Native American pictures he had collected from garage sales and flea markets, drinking himself into a sloppy mess. He swore they'd be worth money someday, even the velvet ones. Useless.

Dangerous.

Worse, he'd never let Mom go without a fight.

Book Blitz: Breaking the Rules (Pushing the Limits #1.5)

Breaking the Rules (Pushing the Limits #1.5) by Katie McGarry
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: December 8, 2014
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Book Description:

A summer road trip changes everything in this unforgettable new tale from acclaimed author Katie McGarry.

For new high school graduate Echo Emerson, a summer road trip out west with her boyfriend means getting away and forgetting what makes her so... different. It means seeing cool sights while selling her art at galleries along the way. And most of all, it means almost three months alone with Noah Hutchins, the hot, smart, soul-battered guy who’s never judged her. Echo and Noah share everything — except the one thing Echo’s just not ready for.

But when the source of Echo’s constant nightmares comes back into her life, she has to make some tough decisions about what she really wants — even as foster kid Noah’s search for his last remaining relatives forces them both to confront some serious truths about life, love, and themselves.

Now, with one week left before college orientation, jobs and real life, Echo must decide if Noah's more than the bad-boy fling everyone warned her he'd be. And the last leg of an amazing road trip will turn... seriously epic.

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Excerpt:

“Is that it?” Mrs. Collins asks. I told her everything: how my sales plummeted, my mother calling, the conversation with the Wicked Witch gallery owner, and me and Noah fighting. To cover that I’m lying, I hide my face in my hands when I answer, “Yes.”

Promotional Event: Waiting on Justin

Waiting on Justin by Lucy H. Delaney
Age Group: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Release Date: October 31, 2014
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Book Description:

Can everlasting love grow amidst never-ending despair? Best friends Justin and Haylee learn early on that the answer is yes. Their parents would rather spend time drinking and partying than raising children, so the two rely on each other for the care and emotional support they need. Over time, Justin and Haylee become lovers despite the age difference between them.

Theirs is a forbidden romance that would destroy them both if discovered.

The older of the two, Justin is more than a little rough around the edges. He does everything he can to protect Haylee from as much abuse as possible, but when tragedy strikes there is nothing he can to do keep her from being taken into the foster system.

The system meant to save kids threatens to pull the two of them apart.

Haylee begs Justin to run away with her, but the powers-that-be force him into an inescapable corner. Blaming Justin for the distance that separates them, Haylee shuts out everything and everyone from her past - including Justin. She tries to forget him. She tries to replace him. But he is always there. So is her own addiction. When it finally gets the best of her, she finds herself utterly alone.

She soon discovers what Justin has always known: Their love was worth waiting for.


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A realistic love story, at least for me, is all about a guy loving a girl and doing anything, or almost anything, for her or to prove his love to her. I like heroes, no, I LOVE heroes. I'm not saying the woman needs to be witless and weak, I'm a strong, independent, capable female and still the thought of a man in charge, rescuing a woman, or doing crazy things for the girl he loves melts me to my core.

Call me anti-feminist, or old fashioned or whatever else you want but I love stories where the guy is head-over-heels for his woman. I kind of like the stories where the player gets played and all of a sudden he's smitten. Sometimes that works but my favorite are the good guys who get their girl in the end.

And by good I don't mean they have to be “good” they can be a bad boy, if their love for their girl is the real kind of love. It fascinates me how guys can love us ladies with all of our moods and quirks and stuff. Let's be honest, women are hard to love and a man who sticks by his woman is, to me, the best kind of guy, like Justin in my book, “Waiting on Justin,” sure he's a troublemaker but he is such a good guy for Haylee, but I'm a sucker for the good, strong, Mr. Darcy's in the world too.

Promotional Event: No Going Back (Camryn Cruise #2)

No Going Back (Camryn Cruise #2) by Brina Courtney
Age Group: Young Adult
Genre: Fantasy
Release Date: November 10, 2014
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Book Description:

Camryn Cruise is not human. But her best friend Kiley is.

They’re stuck, they can’t leave Silverlake without possibly being killed. Or Kiley could become one of the Sick. She could die. 

But Silverlake isn’t safe for her either. The Designed don’t want her there. The sickness could use her to mutate the virus again.

She could kill them all.

Camryn could be the key to saving them.


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Comics Corner: Lazarus

Lazarus (2013-ongoing)
Written by: Greg Rucka
Art by: Michael Lark
Publisher: Image Comics

Description: In a dystopian near-future government is a quaint concept, resources are coveted, and possession is 100% of the law. A handful of Families rule, jealously guarding what they have and exploiting the Waste who struggle to survive in their domains. Forever Carlyle defends her family's holdings through deception and force as their protector, their Lazarus. Shot dead defending the family home, Forever's day goes downhill from there. (from comixology.com)

My TV Corner

Hi all, I’m back and will hopefully be weekly … cause well I'm a TV addict and there is nothing I love best that sharing my TV thoughts with you all. So here it goes lets discuss my favorite shows this week!

Sunday's

Once Upon A Time - ABC 8/9c

This episode focused on Belle and her connection with Arendale.  It turns out our dear sweet Belle has been keeping secrets and these secrets directly correlate to what happened to Anna.

The Snow Queen did it, sorry I couldn’t resist, but truly who didn’t see that coming, and while it might have been somewhat predictable Belle’s guilt over it somewhat ridiculous considering who she’s married to and all the secrets Rumple’s been keeping, but alas that wasn’t the most interesting part of the episode.

The fact that Regina can’t find a cure for Marion and recommend to Robin that he stop loving her so that he can give Marion true love’s kiss well… that is.  It was a heartbreaking scene and well sorry Regina unless you are planning on making Robin forget you that isn’t going to happen.  And lastly we have Emma and Elsa who’ve learned just what The Snow Queen wants and that’s a “happy little witchy family of lovely blondes”.

Resurrection - ABC 9/8c

Once again Michelle Fairley as Margaret Langston has stolen the show with another riveting and truly terrifying performance. Margaret is the queen bee and what she knows could change everything.

But, it was this week’s reveal concerning Bellamy that was truly shocking.  I don’t think anyone watching was surprised when it was revealed early this season that Bellamy was a returned but learning that he was the baby the couple with the little girl in season one was looking for… that was bringing it all back full circle. Kudos, writers well done.

Now we’ve got the sickness to contend with and the fact that Bellamy has given some of his medicine to Maggie, anyone else think its time he told her what’s actually going on with him?