Early Review: Bea Reviews Omens by Kelley Armstrong

Publisher: Dutton
Series: Cainsville #1
Format Read: print ARC
Source: Goldberg McDuffie Communications in exchange for an honest review
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Buying Links: Amazon* | Book Depository* | Barnes& Noble
* affiliate links; clicking & purchasing results in a small commission for the blog.

Blurb from goodreads:

#1 New York Times bestselling author Kelley Armstrong begins her new series with Omens, featuring a compelling new heroine thrust into a decades-old murder case and the dark mysteries surrounding her strange new home.

Twenty-four-year-old Olivia Taylor Jones has the perfect life. The only daughter of a wealthy, prominent Chicago family, she has an Ivy League education, pursues volunteerism and philanthropy, and is engaged to a handsome young tech firm CEO with political ambitions.

But Olivia’s world is shattered when she learns that she’s adopted. Her real parents? Todd and Pamela Larsen, notorious serial killers serving a life sentence. When the news brings a maelstrom of unwanted publicity to her adopted family and fiancé, Olivia decides to find out the truth about the Larsens.

Olivia ends up in the small town of Cainsville, Illinois, an old and cloistered community that takes a particular interest in both Olivia and her efforts to uncover her birth parents’ past.

Aided by her mother’s former lawyer, Gabriel Walsh, Olivia focuses on the Larsens’ last crime, the one her birth mother swears will prove their innocence. But as she and Gabriel start investigating the case, Olivia finds herself drawing on abilities that have remained hidden since her childhood, gifts that make her both a valuable addition to Cainsville and deeply vulnerable to unknown enemies. Because there are darker secrets behind her new home and powers lurking in the shadows that have their own plans for her.

Quote-Tastic #14 I want to kill you.

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I saw this book on a couple of blogs and thought it sounded interesting so I got it from my library. I'll have a review of it up at BookTrib tomorrow morning. Clementine has several related businesses she's trying to get up and running and her boyfriend Zach, asuccessful businessman tried to help, to her dismay. After not talking for several days, they've gotten back together.

"I want to kill you and I owe you," I said when he opened the door, Charlie the beagle at his knee. "If you hadn't been selling me up and down the street, I never would have gotten pissed enough at you to send out my press announcement."

He took the bakery box, set it behind him on the console table, then pulled me into a hug.

I wrapped my arms around his neck. "Why do I think this is how it's always going to be?"

"Maybe we'll mellow out as we get to know each other better. But I have a feeling neither of us will make this easy on the other. Ever. I can take it. I think you're worth it."

He made that smile spread inside me again. "I think you're worth it, too. And by the way, I do like favors-and appreciate them. Just don't buy me favors."

How about you? Do you appreciate favors or do you prefer to stand on your own two feet?

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Sunday Book Share #48

 

 

 

I'm participating in The Sunday Post, hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer; Showcase Sunday hosted by Books, Biscuits and Tea; and Stacking the Shelves, hosted by Tynga's Reviews. These  memes allow book bloggers the chance to share print and digital books they've received, and different posts and events at their blogs.

Two more weeks of school left and then a week off before we start the new school year. WHERE has the past year gone? It's been a very good year, I'm sad to see it end. I had a good week at home too, and my medical test results from all of the testing I had last week were good, we just need to make a few minor adjustments to my meds. Even the weather last week was good! LOL

June and July Challenges Wrap Up Post

I'll put up a wrap up post every month or early the next month for all of my 2013 reading challenges. I was so late posting this in June I decided to wait and do both June and July in one post. Some books, I posted reviews on the blog, some are on goodreads, there may be one or two without reviews, especially books I edit or that are put out by my publisher.

At the beginning of July I took part in the Summer Lovin' Read-A-Thon; it was a week long event and I made quite a bit of progress in my TBR pile. You can read about it here.

Q & A with Romance Author Susan Mallery & TWO Giveaways!!

Today I have a short interview with author Susan Mallery. She's on tour to celebrate the release of her newest Fool's Gold book, "Three Little Words".

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author SUSAN MALLERY is known for emotionally complex stories told with charm and wit. With a keen eye for human nature, she breathes life into characters on the page and was recently honored with a prestigious National Readers’ Choice Award. Susan has lived all over the United States, including a childhood in the suburbs of Los Angeles, graduate school in the hills of Pennsylvania and several years in Texas. These days, she makes her home in Seattle, Washington. She’s there for the coffee, not the weather. She’s also very active on Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads, and has been known to invite her fans to help her name characters and brainstorm aspects of her books.

Find Susan online:

website -  www.SusanMallery.com
facebook - https://www.facebook.com/SusanMallery
twitter - https://twitter.com/susanmallery
goodreads - http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8716.Susan_Mallery

Excerpt from Cast the Cards by Shyla Colt

Cast The Cards - Release Day Blitz

By Shyla Colt

Blurb from the author ~ 

Savannah escaped a kidnapping but her best friend Clark—the man she secretly loved—didn’t. Guilt-ridden and changed after the event, she gives up her dream of teaching and earns a position in the F.B.I as a profiler. When she’s targeted by the very same kidnappers wishing to finish the job, she is armed with her skills, backed by her first love’s twin brother, and forced to revisit her demons when Clark’s ghost appears.

After his twin’s murder, Officer Carey Carr loses more than his brother. Savannah avoids him for a decade. Her return—and her steaming-hot body—stir brand new feelings in Carey. But Clark’s reappearance has Carey battling to control his primal desires around the woman his twin loved.

As Savannah and Carey, with Clark’s help, embark on a cruel game of cat and mouse with the kidnappers, the twins come to an understanding that involves Savannah and more pleasure than the three of them have ever dreamed.

Genre: Romantic Suspense
Format: ebook
Release Date: 8/2/2013
Buy Links: Amazon | Kobo | Barnes and Noble

Review of Hotshot by Julie Garwood

Publisher: Dutton
Series: Buchanan-Renard #11
Format Read: eGalley
Source: The publisher in exchange for an honest review.
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Buying Links: Amazon* | Barnes & Noble | Book Depository*
* affiliate links; clicking & purchasing results in a small commission for the blog.

Blurb from goodreads:

#1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood returns with a novel of family drama, suspense, and—of course—romance. 

 Peyton Lockhart and her sisters have inherited Bishop’s Cove, a small, luxurious oceanfront resort, but it comes with a condition: The girls must run the resort for one year and show a profit—only then will they own it.

A graduate of a prestigious French culinary school, Peyton has just lost her job as a food critic. Out of work and in a bad place personally, a year doing something completely different sounds wonderful.

There are countless challenges and too many people who want to stop the sisters from succeeding. Among them are Peyton’s contentious cousins, who are outraged that they didn’t inherit the resort, as well as a powerful group of land developers who have been eyeing the coveted beachfront property.

It’s soon apparent to Peyton that their efforts are being sabotaged, but she refuses to let the threats scare her—until she’s nearly killed. She calls on her childhood friend and protector, Finn MacBain, now with the FBI, and asks for his help. He saved her life once; he can do it again.

Julie’s previous two titles, The Ideal Man and Sweet Talk, both debuted at #2 on the New York Times bestseller list. 

Cat Thursday - Goof vs Books

Welcome to the weekly meme hosted by The True Book Addict that celebrates cats; their foibles and humorousness and the joy they bring. You can join in by posting a favorite LOL cat pic you made or came across, cat art or share with us pics of your own felines, then post your link up at The True Book Addict. 

 

Goof likes to be on the couch with me, usually curled up next to me. If I have something on the couch - my cell phone, the remote, or books - he just curls up on top. If he can't, he gives me a disgusted look. 

 

 

"Mom, if you moved these, I could stretch out, maybe stick my butt on your keyboard."

Heavy sigh. "Fine, I'll use them as a pillow but they're really not comfy."

I was trying to get a pic of all the books for facebook and my Sunday post. It took me several tries and I had to wait for Goof to jump down before I got my desired picture.

Do your cats try to help you when you're reading or working?