Monday, December 31, 2012

Blog Tour: His Black Wings By Astrid Yrigollen (Review + Guest Post)




I would like to welcome Astrid Yrigollen to The Avid Reader today. Thanks for stopping by Astrid. Please be sure and check out Astrid's novel His Black Wings. Check out my review of His Black Wings. Astrid is going to be talking with us today on the topic: How Do You Keep Your Writing Different.




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Book Title: His Black Wings

Author: Astrid Yrigollen

Date Published: 10/5/2012













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SYNOPSIS
His Black Wings




Claren Maidstone has been forced to flee her childhood home after the death of her parents and a vicious assault from a sadistic young man who intends to marry her. Claren changes her identity and finds employment as an assistant to the handsome Fredrick Lowood, a generous yet mysterious benefactor. However, she soon finds out his generosity comes at a price. Fredrick wishes for Claren to befriend his disfigured son who resides in seclusion at their estate, Westwind.

Fredrick Lowood knows what the history books do not teach, that the Grand Council built this new world of peace and beauty on hidden blood and greed. He has plotted for years to bring down the family that enslaved his own people. Suddenly, he has the last living heir in his grasp.

Etrigan Lowood rejects the world that forces him to hide. He is powerful, plagued with a terrible dark beauty: WINGS. It is these wings that carry him out only at night to watch the unwanted intruder in his home. A creature of refined instinct yet little social grace, he is strangely captivated by Claren but knows nothing of how her family's dark past is intertwined with his own. Through their blossoming friendship, Etrigan realizes he still retains his human heart and yearns for Claren's love.

Kurten Wandsworth is the only son of the Mayor of St.Marhen. Kurten lives his life fueled by cruelty and lust. Whatever he wants he takes and he wants Claren to be his wife even it if kills her. Scarred by Claren he hunts her down mercilessly until he can set a trap which she will never be able to escape from.







EXCERPT
His Black Wings




Fredrick's thoughts were interrupted by a loud crashing sound as he saw the double doors to his library burst open with tremendous force. They slammed against the inside walls to his library and bounced back.

"Etrigan. How good to see you so soon after my arrival." Fredrick said to his son, genuinely pleased.

Perhaps this would work after all. Especially now that I have put my original design on hiatus.

A tall form clad in black strode into the room sending books and paper flying everywhere. Etrigan was a younger version of his handsome father. Jet black hair that desperately needed a haircut, it curled around the nape of his neck and ears. While his eyes were blue, they were the darkest blue, darker than his father's. Eyes that displayed anger and inner torment one moment, and great passion the next. His strong Greek nose fit perfectly with the rest of his features, not underwhelming and not overpowering. Lips red and pouty were always set in either a frown or a scowl but never in a smile. When he stood without slouching he was taller than most men at six foot five. His form was muscular, yet lithe, graceful, and strong. In a word, Etrigan was beautiful in a masculine way. He would have been the envy of every man in the outside world and the desire of every woman who set eyes upon him, save for one thing.

His black wings.

They were massive, soft, and leather like, similar to the patagium of a bat, but thicker. They started off narrow, then projected outwards from between his shoulder blades. He had slim bones that ran through them in true bat like fashion. At each wing tip he had a menacing glossy black spike. A natural bone that was part of his wingtips, he could use these tips to rip flesh or gently move things in his way, so great was his control. At their full expansion his wing span was easily twelve feet.

Fredrick looked up at his son who now stood menacingly over him and recalled when he was a small child, he had broken one of the bones in his wings. It took him a month to heal. He had been trying to carry off a boar that was larger than himself. Always the little savage, he insisted on eating the boar before his wing was set with a splint.

Now his son's wings were being held in but wanting to span out in anger.

"Why have you brought her here!?" He demanded harshly of his father. Fredrick sighed.







GUEST POST

How Do You Keep Your Writing Different




We have all heard the phrase" Write what you know" and "Write what you like to read". I find these two phrases when coupled, can give birth to some very interesting stories. One of the things I find disappointing when reading new fiction is to be half way through a story and think to myself, "This is a lot like ...."Then upon finishing the story, I find that it was so similar to another well known book, I am surprised there was not a plagiarism lawsuit filed.

There is nothing wrong with borrowing a classic idea and putting your own spin on it. In fact those are some of my favorite types of stories to read. However a person wants to make sure that they are not writing a cookie cutter version of a story that has already been written. People are smart and when they read your book they will be able to tell.

When I get an idea for story I will go over it and even do research to see if there are similar story lines....and sometimes I won't. Like the honey badger, I just won't care. Since writing is a creative outlet, you have to write stories that make you happy. If you want to make money though, you may want to approach it from an entirely different angle. Hopefully a profitable and marketable one. Insert tongue in cheek here.







MY REVIEW

His black wings




The following review is my opinion and not a paid review. I was given a free copy of His black wings from the author for an honest review.

Claren Maidstone lost both of her parents on the same day at the same time in an accident. After the funeral a man Kurten Wandsworth who has been coming to her home every Sunday for months shows up at her home. Kurten wants Claren as his wife but Claren wants no part of him. She thinks that with her parents no longer around she won't have to put up with Kurten.

On the day that she buries her parents and he shows up at her house wanting to comfort her he attacks Claren and she fights back. She injures him severely she knows that when the police find out what she has done they will lock her up or so she believes. Claren leaves her only home and assumes a new identity. With her new identity she finds employment with Ferdrick Lowood as his assistant. Fredrick takes her to his home, Westwind. He ask her to befriend his deformed son Etrigan.

Etrigan hides from the world and only goes out at night when everyone is a sleep and can not see him. At first Etrigan does not like the fact that his father has brought this woman to live in their home. He tries to make Claren's life at Westwind so miserable that she will leave. But after finding out that she has just lost both of her parents and is hurting like he is his feelings for her change. He becomes a sweet and gentle person and wants only to protect and keep her safe.

Claren meets two guys Dekker and Hector who are best friends and compete against each other to see who will win claren's heart. Claren is such a nice person that she doesn't allow them to compete against one another only I'm not sure that they knew exactly what she was doing. I thought that when Dekker and Hector found out about Etrigan that they would go and tell everyone about him. But they could see right from the beginning that Claren and Etrigan had feelings for one another and never caused any trouble. Dekker and Hector became Etrigan's friend as well as Claren's. The only friends that Etrigan had ever had.

Claren thinks she has left her old life behind with all the old ghost haunting her but she finds out that she is wrong when she runs into Kurten in town. She never thought that he would find her. Kurten has not changed at all he is just as mean as he ever was. Now he is like if he can't have Claren then no one else will either.

It took me a while to read His Black Wings not because I didn't like the book but because I was sick and didn't feel like sitting up or doing anything. I liked how Fredrick came to realize that Claren was not responsible for what her grandfather did to his family. He got to know Claren and knew that she was not the same kind of person that he was. You never knew what kind of mood Fredrick was going to be in. Claren didn't know from one minute to the next if he was going be very rude to her or not. There were times when I didn't know which one Claren loved or was going to be with Fredrick or Etrigan.

If you like books with a lot of mystery and romance then you will love His Black Wings. His Black Wings kept me on the edge of my seat wondering what was going on to the point where I couldn't put it down at times and when I felt like sitting up that is. What do you think about four guys instead of three? What I am trying to say is that at times Fredrick acted as if he was jealous of Claren. The way he would get all mad and storm out of the room leaving Dekker and Hector alone with Claren.







    About the Author



Author His Black Wings

Astrid Yrigollen is a native of the Bay area of California and currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Astrid started writing stories for her friends in sixth grade. After working part time at a funeral home during high school, she channeled her love of story writing in to creating video games for PC's which were featured in Shareware magazines.

In the early 1990's she secured a position with International Video game giant, Sega of America but never lost her love for writing in traditional format. After leaving the video game industry, she worked briefly as a vet assistant, aiding in surgery until she found out she passes out at the site of blood! Maintaining a great love of animals, but preferring work where there was no blood involved, Astrid became a boutique fashion designer for people 'who like to dress like their dolls', successfully placing her designs in boutiques in Europe, the U.S, and Australia.

She founded and now co-chairs with her husband for the California Coast Ball Jointed Doll Convention, an annual event for Japanese Super Dollfie Collectors. Astrid enjoys collecting dolls, Anime, video games, baking and sewing and is currently studying college level Japanese, her third language.







    WORKS

She now enjoys writing Young Adult and Children's books and has succeeded in putting out The Doughnut Tree, The Zombie Playground, A creature compilation , and The Mosswoods to name a few.







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Blog Tour: Blood Promise By Ashlynne Laynne (Cover Reveal)




I would like to welcome Ashlynne Laynne to The Avid Reader today. Thanks for stopping by Ashlynne. Ashlynne is here today to reveal the cover of her new novel Blood Promise the 3rd book in The Progeny Series to be released January 2013.




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Book Title: Blood Promise

Author: Ashlynne Laynne

Series: The Progeny Series #3

Genre: Erotic Paranormal Romance

Publisher: Novel Concept Publishing

Format: Ebook and Paperback

Pages: 320

Release Date: January 2013







BOOK DESCRIPTION

Blood Promise




"Their love is fated by an ancient prophecy. Now the promise is fulfilled."

Ascher Rousseau is a half-human, half vampire whose life has been a series of prophecies and predictions. After finding incredible love and passion with Shauna-a Wiccan with powers beyond anything he's ever known-he seals to her and hopes for happiness. But his enemies seek to destroy all that he loves, and he finds that happiness never lasts for long.

Darkness is descending and a vampiric revolution is nearing. A new brood of hatchlings is born to join their darkling brothers, in preparation for war. A preordained chain of events is set into motion that could lead to the rise of the demonic "cloaked one" and his half-human fallen children, while ending humanity-as we know it.

Can a supernatural love and the loyal bond of a family save the Rousseaus and the world from certain extinction?







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Sunday, December 30, 2012

Review: Indomitable By J. Meyers




Indomitable (an Intangible novella)

Book Title: Indomitable

Author: J. Meyers

Series: Intangible 0.75

Published: December 22nd 2012

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Perhaps the most dangerous person to gain unimaginable power is the one who feels oppressed.

And full of wrath. For very good reason.




MY REVIEW

Indomitable




I received a free copy of the book from the author for my honest opinion.

Indomitable is a novella about a character Jonas out of J. Meyers novel Intangible. Jonas was one of my favorite characters from Intangible. I hope that Sera and Jonas get together in the next book Imaginable. I have read both Intangible and Intuition and loved them both. If you have not read them yet then I think you need too. Why? You may ask well because they are very great, fantastic reads.

Jonas is a vampire who in Intangible was sent to kill Sera and her twin brother Luke. Indomitable tells us who Jonas is and how he became a vampire. Jonas has been a vampire for 200 years. Indomitable tells of Jonas' life before he became a vampire and who his maker Lilith was. Jonas' was a slave with a very mean, cruel, evil "overseer" a sorry excuse of a man. I don't see how he could even be called a man much less a human.

Jonas is a man or I guess I should say vampire with a very big heart. He is just an all around great guy, Just don't cross his ass or mess with anyone that he cares about because he just may come around for a visit and bite your ass.

I can't wait to read Imaginable to find out more about Sera, Luke, Fye, Jonas and all the other characters from Intangible. Will Sera and Jonas become a couple? I certainly hope so. Will Luke and Fye get together? Hopefully, yes. Can Jonas save Sera and Luke with Fye's help? I am anxiously a waiting the arrival of Imaginable.







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Saturday, December 29, 2012

Blog Tour: Feedback By D.L. Richardson (Review + Giveaway)




I would like to welcome D L Richardson to The Avid Reader today. Thanks for stopping by D L. Please be sure and check out D L's novel Feedback. Check out my review of Feedback. Oh and be sure to enter the giveaway before you leave for 1 SWAG pack. The giveaway is international and ends on Jan. 3rd.




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Book Title: Feedback

Author: D L Richardson

Genre: YA Paranormal

Publisher: Etopia Press

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Ethan James, Florida Bowman, and Jake Inala need organ transplants. When they receive the organs of a dead CIA agent, Dylan Black, they take on more than the task of completing the mission of deactivating bombs that threaten millions of lives. Kidnapped, their lives under threat, the memories stored in the CIA agent's mind begin to awaken within each of them, except the one piece of information they are abducted for - the location of the bombs.







EXCERPT
Feedback
Chapter One




Wednesday, November 9th, Ethan James

AC/DC's "Thunderstruck" blared through the speakers. Apt music considering the weather conditions. Rain pounded the windshield of the Lamborghini. Crushed beneath the noisy rain, the music took a beating, too. I flipped the volume control to the max, drowning out the steady slap of water on the roof.

The dark shroud of night cloaked the striped lines to my left and right. Street signs blasted yellow warnings to drivers to slow down on wet roads. I ignored them. Instead, I pushed the car to 120 miles per hour. Coming around a curve in the road, I flew up on a van and sharply jerked the wheel to avoid ramming the Lamborghini up its rear end. I owed my life to my quick reflexes.

Pity.

I drove for another half mile at suicidal speeds, drumming my fingers on the steering wheel to the rhythm of the guitar riff. Another half mile. Then another. Just when the buzz of the ride plunged to a level of indifference, the car hit a pothole, veered me across three lanes, and like a punch from nowhere, it was game on.

A tsunami-sized wave of water fell from the sky. Momentarily blinded by the useless wipers, I sucked in my breath when two rows of lights cut through the haze. Two white lights on the bottom and six or more yellow ones on top-the bright circles headed straight at me. Semitrailer. Not good.

Gritting my teeth, I tightened my grip on the steering wheel. The truck swerved at the last second, missing killing me by about half that length of time. The driver blasted four long bleats of the horn.

I laughed out loud as I spun around.

I accelerated till the car caught up to its former 120 miles per hour. The chorus kicked in, and I helped with the backing vocals. "Thunder. Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na. Thunder."

Whether driving under a dome of blue, or a sky darkened by storms like tonight, I liked to push cars to their limit. It didn't matter what sort of car, but slow cars tended to break apart sooner under extreme pressure. Fast cars handled the punishment of driving at stupid speeds much better.

Speeding made the rush last longer. It filled a void and carried me to a place where I let go of the angst over a waste of a life spent waiting to die of kidney failure. The rush reminded me that seventeen-year-old kids should wish for a professional ice hockey career instead of wishing to still be alive by Christmas.

The song ended, and in that second of silence, my thrill took a dismal nosedive. Images of the hospital I attended every week flickered across my vision. So, I increased the speed. Bad enough the bleak place filled my head and haunted my dreams, but to interrupt my fun-not going to happen.

The next song on the CD kicked in, and it did the trick of hauling me back to the driver's seat, where I replaced the hospital corridor for a rain-slicked freeway. I figured if I had to die young, I'd do it on my terms. No doubt the doctors would have something to say about this philosophy. If I crashed the car and ended up in the hospital, I'd tell them I reached out to touch life. Better than dwelling on my postpubescent life spent hooked up to a dialysis machine.

I'd probably get pulled over by the cops first, and I couldn't have that. Aside from speeding, I'd stolen the Lamborghini from a mall parking lot half an hour earlier, and I didn't have a license.

A crack in my concentration appeared like the lightning bolts streaking the sky. The car drifted into the next lane, and I let it go. A set of lights rushed toward me, and I expertly got the car under control, but at this speed, and despite the car's sporting capability, the Lamborghini was all over the shot.

Buzzed from pushing the car, I kept going.

At 120 miles per hour, streetlights floated like satiny, white ribbons. The rain-slicked road made it impossible to judge the lines marking the lanes. Curves were hard to anticipate.

Sometimes I oversteered; sometimes I didn't steer enough and had to yank the wheel to the left or right at the last second. Other drivers blasted their horns. I didn't care about the rules of the road. Rules were for pussies.

For each minute I survived this suicidal cruise, I'd get two points. So far, I'd accumulated over two hundred. Fifty were up for grabs, if I made it home alive. I had a lot to lose if I crashed the car. I had nothing to lose if I killed myself.

I jumped in surprise when a car came up on my left and honked its horn, whizzing by in a blur of chrome. "I don't think so, buddy."

I accelerated. If the cops wanted to stop me, they'd have to use air support. Getting myself on TV only added to the thrill of the chase.

Concern over my reckless driving should have registered, but it didn't. The speedometer now read 140 miles per hour. AC/DC screeched about "Hells Bells," and the rain didn't lessen. If I lost control now, I'd smash into the concrete barriers lining the highway. It'd be game over. No way I'd survive the impact. What a shame this last train of thought wasn't on whether I'd survive or not, but on whether I'd care.

Lightning bolts exploded across the sky and lit up the windshield. In that brief flicker of visibility, I spotted the plane on fire, blocking the highway-and the spaceship blowing up a bridge with luminous green laser beams. I let go of the wheel, idly watching the Lamborghini plow into the concrete barrier. Metal fragments and orange flames danced in front of me. The sound of something exploding boomed through the speakers. The words GAME OVER flashed across the television screen.

The plane had been okay, but the spaceship insulted me. For sure, the makers of the game reckoned it'd be a hoot to throw unrealistic obstacles in my path.

I tossed the Xbox controller aside and scratched my numb backside. My life couldn't get any worse…might as well go to school.







MY REVIEW

Feedback




The following review is my opinion and not a paid review. I was given a free copy of Feedback from the author for an honest review.

Ethan James, Florida Bowman, and Jake Inala are all teenagers and all three are on a waiting list to receive an organ. Ethan and Florida both need a new kidney and Jake needs a new liver. They are waiting for that one call where the person on the other end of the line says "we have a kidney or liver for you".

I was sucked in to the story from the very first chapter. Did you read the excerpt of the first chapter up above? If you didn't you might want to check it out now. Go on I know you want to. I will wait til you get back. D.L. writes in a very mysterious way where you believe what you are reading is real. Ethan has stolen a car from the mall and now he is driving at 120 and 140 mph down a very wet road. He is flying around curves like there is no tomorrow. He doesn't care if he crashes and dies I mean he believes that he is going to die anyway. If he kills himself while driving to fast or if he dies from kidney failure makes no difference to him. I was so taken with Ethan feeling so very sad for him with him not caring if he killed himself or not. I kept thinking what has driven a teenage to think in this way. Has he been abused? Was he in love with a girl who didn't love him back? Did he just lose one of his parents? Did one of them die? What would make anyone feel like this? And then at the end of the chapter I read "Game Over flashed over the tv screen".

I felt somewhat better after reading "Game over" but it still kept me thinking about what someone in his shoes maybe be going through. I know there is no way that I could ever know what someone else is going through or how they feel because I have never or can never go through what they go through. You know that old saying "You can't know what someone else is going through unless you have walked a mile in their shoes"? I don't really believe that you can walk a mile in someone else's shoes even if you have experienced the same things.

Well Ethan, Florida and Jake all get that one call that they have been waiting on for so long. They get their new organs and get a second chance to live their lives. Their organs were donated by a guy that works for the CIA, Dylan Black. Dylan is killed in a car crash while trying to hide three bombs that are set to explode. If the bombs explode they will spread diseases and death over the whole plant. He is being chased by the second in command of the man who made the bombs.

Jake, Ethan and Florida are kidnapped by the man who made the bombs. He knows that their new organs came from the dead CIA agent that had infiltrated his company. He believes in memory of organs. He thinks that they can give him information that only the CIA agent, Dylan Black would know. He will do what ever is necessary to retain this information.

It is all in the hands of Florida, Jake and Ethan to find these bombs to disarm them and save millions of lives. But how are they going to do this while being held prisoner? How are they going to get away so that they can save all these people? Where will they get the info to disarm the bombs? How will they find the bombs?

Feedback was a phenomenal read! I really loved it. I believe that most or all of it could actually happen. Well I believe that the memory of organs could happen. I believe that diseases could be spread in the way that D.L. wrote in Feedback. I know that Polycystic kidney disease (PKD) is a genetic disease so I am not sure if it could be spread in this way. But I have not went to any extreme of researching it either. I enjoy reading books like Feedback well because I am a conspiracy theorist. The CDC is out there so anything is very possible in my opinion.







    About the Author



Feedback author

Music first captured the creative interest of D L Richardson. She got her first acoustic guitar at age ten, and in high school she sang with the school band. When she left school she helped form her own rock band where she sang lead vocals, played bass guitar, and wrote all the lyrics. At age 26 she realized she wanted to write novels for the rest of her life, or die trying, so she sold her equipment, quit pursuing a music career and began writing instead. She currently lives in Australia on the NSW South Coast with her husband and dog. When she's not writing or reading she can be found practicing her piano, playing the guitar or walking the dog.







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Friday, December 28, 2012

Blog Tour: Lightning By Taryn Kincaid (Review + Giveaway)




I would like to welcome Taryn Kincaid to The Avid Reader today. Thanks for stopping by Taryn. Please be sure and check out Taryn's book Lightning from the 1Night Stand series. Check out my review of Lightning. Oh and be sure to enter the giveaway before you leave for a Ebook copy of Lightning by Taryn Kincaid or an eBook from her backlist and ends Jan.4th.




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Book Title: Lightning

Series: 1Night Stand

Author: Taryn Kincaid

Genre: Erotic Paranormal Romance,

Publisher: Decadent Publishing

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In mystic Sleepy Hollow, succubus Lily Night put her prom date, Campbell Jones, into a coma after a night of wild, unbridled sex. She has steered clear of mortals ever since, afraid of damaging them or worse, not to mention the inconvenience of knocking out the power every time they have sex.

Successful architect Campbell Jones has lived with strange powers and a sexy secret since that prom night. He's buried himself in work to forget the woman who'd dumped him at the ER then vanished from his life without a trace.

Neither Lily nor Campbell have forgotten that night or the love they'd shared. Will a 1Night Stand help them bury their past?







EXCERPT

Lightning




"A little higher and more to the left."

Lily Night narrowed her eyes as the building maintenance man shifted her framed diploma on the freshly-painted wall opposite her desk. She tried not to ogle the firm ass encased in a pair of tight jeans or the way the man's shoulder muscles rippled beneath his T-shirt.

Maybe if I pop an Altoid, I'll have an excuse to wipe away the drool.

She refrained from jumping the handsome worker dude's bones. The last time she'd dallied with a human, the encounter had not gone well. Vivid images of that long ago prom night bombarded her. Campbell Jones had been a young, strapping, hunk-and-a-half football player and they'd started their date full of hope and expectation and lust. When he'd adjusted the fragrant gardenia corsage on her wrist, she'd inhaled his crisp, citrus scent and thought she might swoon at the sight of him in his tux. The black material stretched across broad shoulders that mirrored the promise of the bruising man he'd be in his prime. But she'd all but sucked him dry as flashes of lightning crackled over their heads. By the time dawn painted the sky, she'd turned him into a mere shadow of his former self. Literally.

And briefly knocked out cell phone service in the lower Hudson Valley, as well.

She'd sworn off humans ever since. Instead, she pulled all-nighter after all-nighter to evade the dreams in which men called to her-and to avoid the university dating scene that inevitably led to frequent and addicting sex.

Mortals. Bleh.





MY REVIEW

Lightning




The following review is my opinion and not a paid review. I was given a free copy of Lightning from the author for an honest review.

Ten years ago on prom night Lily Night a succubus put her date Campbell Jones in a coma after a night of hot and steamy sex. Ever since that night Lily has stayed a way from humans. She is afraid that she will hurt them or worse not to mention the fact that every time she has sex with a human the power goes out. In ten years Lily has not had hardly any kind of sex with anyone even Succubi.

Lily's sisters are not like her they will and are always looking for someone to have fun with. Her sisters tease her a lot about not always wanting to have sex like they do. They are very worried about her so they set her up with Madame Eve's online dating service, 1Night Stand. They promise to stop teasing her if she will give the online dating service a chance. Lily agrees and checks out the website. Madame Eve sets her up with a date that she believes is more than compatible.

Campbell the dude she put in a coma ten years ago is the guy Madame Eve sets her up with. Neither Lily nor Campbell know this at the time. Campbell and Lily have cared a torch for one another since that night long ago. They meet in a bar but end up under the stars for another night of wild and crazy sex like the night ten years ago at the prom. The only thing different about that night is that Campbell is stronger and can handle Lily now.

Lightning is the first book in the 1Night Stand series that I have read. I am glad that I gave it a chance it was a very hot read. When I first agreed to reading it I wasn't sure how I would feel about it. I have not read a lot of books in the erotic romance genre. But I love reading about supernatural or mythical creatures. I am looking forward to reading more of the 1Night Stand series and of Taryn Kincaid's novels as well. I am being to think that everybody should throw in a little erotic into their reading world once in a while.









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TARYN KINCAID is a multi-published author of sensual romance. Her 1Night Stand series stories, LIGHTNING and THUNDER are available from Decadent Publishing and wherever eBooks are sold. Her Regency romance, HEALING HEARTS, for Carina Press; her erotic paranormal, SLEEPY HOLLOW DREAMS, for The Wild Rose Press, are also available wherever eBooks are sold.







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Thursday, December 27, 2012

Blog Tour: Transformation Series By Ann Gimpel (Guest Blog + Promo)




I would like to welcome Ann Gimpel to The Avid Reader today. Thanks for stopping by Ann. Please be sure and check out all three of Ann's novel's in the Transformation Series: Psyche's Prophecy book #1, Psyche's Search book #2 and Psyche's Promise book #3. Also today Ann will be talking with us about The Paranormal and Psychology.




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Psyche's Prophecy




What if your psychotherapist could really see into your soul? Picture all those secrets lying hidden, perhaps squirming a bit, just out of view. Would you invite your analyst to take a peek behind that gossamer curtain? Read your aura? Scry your future…?

Classically trained at the Jung Institute in Zurich, Doctor Lara McInnis has a special gift that helps her with her patients. Born with "the sight" she can read auras, while flirting with a somewhat elusive ability to foretell the future. Lara becomes alarmed when several of her patients-and a student or two-tell her about the same cataclysmic dream.

Reaching out to the Institute for answers, Lara's paranormal ability sounds a sharp warning and she runs up hard against a dead end. Her search for assistance leads her to a Sidhe and ancient Celtic rituals blaze their way into her life. Complicating the picture is a deranged patient who's been hell bent on destroying Lara ever since she tried to help his abused wife, a boyfriend with a long-buried secret and a society that's crumbling to dust as shortages of everything from electricity to food escalate.







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Book Title: Psyche's Search

Series: Book Two of the Transformation Series

Author: Ann Gimpel
















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Psyche's Search




Born with the sight, Laura McInnis is ambivalent about her paranormal ability. Oh it's useful enough some of the time with her psychotherapy patients. But mostly it's an embarrassment and an inconvenience-especially when her visions drag her to other worlds. Or into Goblin dens. In spite of escalating violence, incipient food shortages and frequent power blackouts, Lara is still far too attached to the comfortable life she shares with her boyfriend, Trevor, a flight attendant who lost his job when aviation fuel got so expensive-and so scarce-his airline went out of business. Forced to seek assistance to hone her unusual abilities in Psyche's Prophecy, Book I of this series, Lara is still quite the neophyte in terms of either summoning or bending her magic to do much of anything.

Reluctantly roped into channeling her unpredictable psychic talents to help a detective who saved her from a psychopathic killer, Lara soon finds herself stranded in the murky underbelly of a world inhabited by demons. The Sidhe offer hope, but they are so high-handed Lara stubbornly resists their suggestions. Riots, death on all sides, a mysterious accident and one particular demon targeting her, push Lara to make some hard decisions. When all seems lost, the Dreaming, nestled in the heart of Celtic magic, calls out to her.







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The Transformation Series is about finding out who we truly are when the chips are down. About what is real and what is illusory. About what matters and what doesn't. It's easy to show our best side when everything is going well. How about when the world is disintegrating around us? What happens then?

In this final book of the Transformation Series, Lara and Trevor's relationship undergoes stresses that threaten to annihilate them. Constantly hungry, besieged by dark forces, they need every resource they've developed as a couple to keep from ripping each other apart. With Lillian and Raven- two ancient Celtic Sidhe- off fighting their own war against Goblin hordes, Lara has only herself and her half-baked magic standing between survival and certain death for herself, her love and their child.

The remote location that was supposed to solve all Lara and Trevor's problems has done anything but. Though she works diligently, Lara's crash course in magic proves woefully inadequate. When Trevor is captured by demons, Lara curses her decision to leave Seattle. "If only I'd known," she cries, convinced she can't go back. Or can she?







GUEST BLOG

The Paranormal and Psychology




Wikipedia defines Paranormal as "a general term (coined ca. 1915-1920) that designates experiences that lie outside the range of normal experience or scientific explanation or that indicates phenomena understood to be outside of science's current ability to explain or measure." In this rather hard core definition, werewolves, vampires and other mythical creatures do not meet criteria to be considered paranormal. Paranormal refers to one's experience of unusual phenomenon, rather than the unusual phenomena themselves. I found that out firsthand when I submitted a werewolf short story to a paranormal magazine. They loved the story, but informed me the topic didn't fit the paranormal genre.

Psychology is the study of the mind. Because the mind is capable of a great deal, including madness, it's a pretty broad field. The two come together in a highly specialized field called parapsychology. Those of you who are old enough might remember a television show called The Sixth Sense. It starred Dr. Michael Rhodes, parapsychologist. A university researcher, he was always hanging about in graveyards, crypts and other spooky places doing parapsychological research and solving mysteries. The series only ran for a couple of seasons. I think Night Gallery might have bought it for reruns.

I bet if we were all together in a room and I asked how many of you have had paranormal experiences, between a third and half would raise your hands. These types of things are really fairly common. Interestingly, children have far more in the way of inexplicable experiences than adults. This is because, by the time we've grown up, most of the magic's been drummed right out of us. I'm always grateful whenever I go to a science fiction and fantasy convention and see hordes of adults dressed up like their favorite SF/F characters. It gives me hope that imagination is still alive. At Norwescon last year, I had dinner next to a Klingon family. Mom, Dad and two children all dressed to the gills, including blacked out faces and pointy ears.

Aside from Dr. Rhodes, what is the nexus where the paranormal and psychology come together? To address that, we need one more definition. The psychotherapy relationship is one place where clients can experience unconditional positive regard. No topic is off limits. Nothing is too bizarre. I've told clients for years that it's their hour. They can bring up whatever they'd like. If they want to tell me about their dead Aunt Sara and her nightly visits, that's just fine. If they almost got into an automobile wreck at exactly the same moment a dear friend died, that, too, is fair game. Part of what psychology does is help people put life experiences into some sort of perspective.

The depth psychologists, like Jung, were intensely metaphysical. He wouldn't accept anyone as a patient who hadn't had their astrological chart done. Jung would study their chart, looking for points of concordance between the potential client's planets and his own. Keep in mind, Jung was an MD. He graduated in 1900 and went to work in an insane asylum long before we had decent medications to quell the severely mentally ill. The only weapon in his arsenal was talk therapy and he had lots of extremely ill patients who got better. In his later years, as his reputation for dream analysis grew, he was able to focus exclusively on private patients and left the asylum behind.

In recent years, psychology has moved away from the paranormal. As third party payor systems (e.g. your insurance company) have proliferated, no one wants to pay for extended depth-oriented analysis. What insurance wants is a highly-structured, time-limited, cognitive-behavioral approach, which works fine for a certain type of client with a particular type of problem. Unfortunately, no one approach works for everyone. We are all individuals. Some of us are more metaphysically oriented than others. Some of us lead with our feelings. Some with our minds. What used to be an intimate relationship between therapist and client has morphed into a ménage á trois: you, me, and your insurance company. Probably time to move on before someone kicks the soapbox out from under my feet!

Circling back to the title of this blog post, psychology is the study of the mind. Paranormal refers to something unusual perceived by the mind. Looking at it that way, the two fit together nicely. I've found my psychology background incredibly useful writing science fiction and fantasy. I was the kind of kid who thought monsters lurked in the closet. Now they hang out under the bed. Nothing like the dead of night to stoke one's imagination.

Tell me your paranormal experiences. I'd love to hear about them.







    AUTHOR BIO



Transformation Series Epic Award

Ann Gimpel is a mountaineer at heart. Recently retired from a long career as a psychologist, she remembers many hours at her desk where her body may have been stuck inside four walls, but her soul was planning yet one more trip to the backcountry. Around the turn of the last century (that would be 2000, not 1900!), she managed to finagle moving to the Eastern Sierra, a mecca for those in love with the mountains. It was during long backcountry treks that Ann's writing evolved. Unlike some who see the backcountry as an excuse to drag friends and relatives along, Ann prefers her solitude. Stories always ran around in her head on those journeys, sometimes as a hedge against abject terror when challenging conditions made her fear for her life, sometimes for company. Eventually, she returned from a trip and sat down at the computer. Three months later, a five hundred page novel emerged. Oh, it wasn't very good, but it was a beginning. And she learned a lot between writing that novel and its sequel.

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Around that time, a friend of hers suggested she try her hand at short stories. It didn't take long before that first story found its way into print and they've been accepted pretty regularly since then. A trilogy, the Transformation Series released by Gypsy Shadow Publishing, features Psyche's Prophecy, Psyche's Search and Psyche's Promise. One of Ann's passions has always been ecology, so her tales often have a green twist and the Transformation Series is no exception.

In addition to writing, Ann enjoys wilderness photography. Part of her website is devoted to photos of her beloved Sierra. And she lugs pounds of camera equipment in her backpack to distant locales every year. A standing joke is that over ten percent of her pack weight is camera gear which means someone else has to carry the food! That someone else is her husband. They've shared a life together for a very long time. Children, grandchildren and three wolf hybrids round out their family.







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Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Blog Tour: The Midnight Queen By Jessica Penot (Promo + Guest Post)




I would like to welcome Jessica Penot to The Avid Reader today. Thanks for stopping by Jessica. Please be sure and check out Jessica's novel The Midnight Queen the Sequel to The Twilight Saint. Jessica will be telling us today how the Mayan Prophecies are used in The Midnight Queen.




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Book Title: The Midnight Queen (Sequel to The Twilight Saint)

Author: Jessica Penot

Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy / Dystopian

Published: Nov 23, 2012







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The Midnight Queen




Aiela has spent her entire life sheltered from the world. Her only dream has been to

escape

the quiet island life she's know and find adventure in the world outside. After the death of her

mother, Aeila escapes to the University, a world filled with technological wonders and exotic

people. But her own history is dark and the secrets behind her birth may destroy everything that

hold Aiella together.







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Mayan Prophecies as used in

The Midnight Queen




When I began working on my novels, The Twilight Saint and The Midnight Queen, its sequel, I was deeply inspired by a trip I took to Chichen Itza in Mexico. I had heard that the Mayans predicted that the world would end on December 21, 2012, but I didn't know much more about the prophecy other than that it existed. My visit to Chichen Itza deepened my knowledge of these prophecies and inspired me to begin writing about a world after the apocalypse. Chichen Itza is one of the most monumental of a series of Mayan ruins in the Yucatan area. Its beauty and size are awe inspiring. Its history is fascinating. During my trip, we were lead through the sprawling ruins of the fallen city by an amazingly knowledgeable Mayan guide that explained Mayan prophecy to us. According to our guide, Mayan history came in phases and that the ruins were in layers depending on their period of origin. There were the Olmec, Toltec, and Classical Mayan phases represented in the ruins of Chichen Itza, none of which were surviving when the first Europeans set foot on the shores of the New World.

One of the most fascinating things our guide explained to us about the Mayans had to do with the 2012 apocalyptic prophecy. At the time we travelled, the 2012 prophecy was far less well known and no one expected to hear anything about it. Our guide told us that the Mayan calendar was cyclical and that the Mayan's believed that the world was born and died many times. He talked about the last apocalypse. He said that it was an apocalypse of water and that the earth was covered in a great flood. He said that when that age, the age of water, was brought to an end by the flood a new age was born, an age of fire. We are now in the age of fire. In 2012 our age of fire will end in fire and an age of ether will be born. The end of the world will also be the beginning of a new world.

In my book, The Twilight Saint, it is the end of the age of ether. In the second book in the series, The Midnight Queen, the age of ether is ending. In the last book in the series, the new age will be born. The world has ended and been reborn many times and it is going to end again. The post-apocalyptic landscape that is seen in my novels is filled with the ruins of our civilization. Scholars study us as we now study the Mayans. The cycle of life has come and gone again. It has been thousands of years since the end of our world and the new world is about to end and be born again.







ABOUT THE AUTHOR






Author The Midnight Queen

I am a therapist and writer who lives in Alabama with my three corgis, children, husband, and other strange creatures. My short stories have been published in numerous literary magazines and anthologies including CSM, Summer Gothic, Bound By Blood, and Outer Darkness. I have ghost story columns in theValley Planet and White Cat Magazine where I share my love for ghost stories that send shivers down your spine and keep you up at night. I also share my passion for all things ghostly and haunted at my blog, ghost stories and haunted places.

I am currently working on my next Haunted America Book for History Press, Haunted South Alabama. Follow me at my blog to learn about the ghost stories I am chasing and collecting for this fascinating addition to Haunted America. I'm also workng on the next book in my Circe series. The demon is awake and waiting for my new heroine in the swamps of Southern Alabama.







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Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Blog Tour: Snow By Kathryn Hewitt (Feature)




Welcome to the Black Brew Book Bash Blog Tour sponsored by Virtual Book Tour Cafe'. I would like to welcome Kathryn Hewitt to The Avid Reader today. Thanks for stopping by Kathryn. Please be sure and check out Kathryn's novel Snow. Also today I have an excerpt of Snow for you to read.




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Book Title: Snow

Author: Kathryn Hewitt

Genre: Religious Fiction/ YA (13+ or 7th grade)

Publisher: Westbow Press, Inc A Thomas Nelson Division

Release Date: May 2012







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Snow




Snow is a fiction novel, based on true events, about the struggles of a teenage girl and the consequences of a devastating mistake. Whether readers are young adults, exploring their sexuality for the first time, or an older adult, struggling to understand their teenage daughter, everyone will have a character in which to relate.

Young adults will be gripped by the reality and bluntness of it's characters. Parents will appreciate the censorship of otherwise "uncomfortable" topics. With sexuality among young adults beginning at an early age, "family values" are now being pushed back into the forefront of parental teaching. Snow influences people with Christian values, such as sexual abstinence, pro-life advocacy, and prayer, without pushing God as the subject of the book. Biblically based information is strategically scattered throughout the novel with dialect and personal thoughts.

The protagonist's quest to discover the path she needs to take unearths findings of a secret life, lead by her boyfriend. With two lives at stake, readers will eagerly anticipate the outcome only to find themselves with lessons and warnings about the consequences of making detrimental mistakes. Comfort will be found in understanding that God is bigger than any situation and He catches ever tear. Miracles so often go unnoticed, yet powerfully affect those they touch. Snow will set the stage for future novels reflective of countless miracles and divine intervention.





EXCERPT

Snow




For a moment she thought about what it would be like to have sex with Luke. This was such a perfect setting. Nothing could be more romantic than just the two of them alone on the beach under the moon. She closed her eyes and pushed aside the guilt in her heart for betraying her commitment to stay pure until marriage.

Her thoughts were interrupted with his lips pressing the top of her head. He caressed her back and arms as he kissed her forehead.

"You do love me, don't you? I love you so much; I don't know what I'd do if you ever left me. I don't know how I could survive without you. Please just love me, Ruth. That's all I ask."

"I do love you," she said as she lifted her face to his.

He pulled her down on the blanket he spread in the sand and held her like she'd never been held before. She burned inside. She burned with desire for him and burned with guilt for what she was willing to give him.

She'd never felt this way before, and it frightened her. Before she had a chance to stop him, they heard Robins shouting from the other side of the sand dunes.

Luke's mother was on the phone and furious with him and the girls for being out so late. She demanded that Amy and Ruth return to their room immediately.

Ruth felt humiliated as she entered the condo, but fortunately for Amy and her, the Davis's were in their room. The girls tip-toed their way to their bedroom. After Amy entered, Ruth paused at the door, directly across from the Davis's room, listening to the heated argument taking place behind the closed door.

"All I'm saying is that we don't need another incident. I mean, my God! He's changed schools once this year already. We don't need him changing again. He needs to at least graduate."

"Marie, calm down. We took care of that situation. He can handle himself here. He's a teenager. Let him live a little. He's going to have girlfriends, you know. No matter what has happened in the past."

"That's real easy for you to say. You didn't have to see that little blonde beast last week. You didn't have to make those phone calls or control yourself when what you really wanted to do is slap those little curls right off her head."

"It's been taken care of Marie. I don't know how many times I need to tell you that. He's not going to be around her again."

Ruth heard a glass being slammed on the dresser.

"Go to bed, you've drank enough tonight."

"No. I think I need another after tonight's escapade on the beach with his newest prize."

Ruth stepped into the bedroom and closed the door just as Mrs. Davis made her exit. Her heart pounded inside her chest. She leaned her head against the door and tried to catch her breath.

His newest prize? She thought. She can't possibly be talking about me! What in the world could that mean?

She stood there, her feet cemented to the floor. Ruth wanted to ask Mrs. Davis what she meant, but she was clearly drunk. Ruth took a deep breath and decided that must be the reason behind Mrs. Davis's behavior. She was talking in circles because she had drunk too much that night.

Still unsatisfied with the explanation she invented, Ruth climbed into bed with Amy, said goodnight, and attempted to sleep. She had a restless night with visions of waves washing her away from shore and drowning her in a sea of darkness.







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Author Snow

Kathryn Hewitt was born and raised in the small town of Camden, South Carolina. Breaking away from becoming a statistic, she was an Honors Graduate from Camden High School and went on to study British Literature and Sociology at Charleston Southern University, inspiring to teach High School English.

Kathryn has a passion for teaching teenagers and reaching out to those who seem as though the world has closed the door. Because of her own experiences, including becoming a teenage mother at fifteen, Kathryn knows the value of life and the blessings it contains. Understanding the importance of making wise decisions, Kathryn passionately seeks to instill that wisdom into the minds of every young lady she encounters. The inspiration for Kathryn's writings comes from her own experiences, and she is never afraid to speak the truth that others refuse to acknowledge.

Kathryn married in 2005 and is a stay at home mom with her four sons. She and her family currently live in the same town she grew up.







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Feature at Mom With A Kindle

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Monday, December 24, 2012

Review: She-Wolf By Elizabeth Morgan




She-Wolf

Book Title: She-Wolf

Author: Elizabeth Morgan

Series: Blood 0.5

Published: July 18th 2011

Publisher: Noble Romance Publishing, LLC

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Pages: 205








GOODREADS SYNOPSIS

She-Wolf





Dealing with the Rogue werewolves terrorizing his Pack? Simple. Trying to convince his mate he does want to be with her? Bloody impossible.

Owen MacLaren is the Alpha's son and the Pack's second, and he has never been one to let anything get to him. So when a bunch of Rogues begin purposely dumping mutilated bodies around the Pack Keep, he is more than ready to deal with the Werewolves responsible. But one trip to a local strip joint for a colleague's stag night changes things, and Owen soon discovers he isn't immune to everything . . . .

After five years away, Clare Walker finds herself back home in Scotland, working in a strip club. The tips are decent, and she gets to dance, but it isn't a place she thought she would ever be, let alone Owen, her Pack second and the Werewolf who broke her heart.

Although Owen is determined to prove he wants to be with Clare, things can't go smoothly between them, not when they have past issues to sort out and a bunch of unusual 'Rogues' to deal with.




MY REVIEW

She-Wolf




I received a free copy of the book from the author for my honest opinion.

Claire Walker has returned to her hometown of Scottland after being gone for five years. She left because of the second in command of her clan rejected her after she confessed her feelings for him. Owen would babysit Claire and her siblings when she was a teenage. Owen never explianed to Claire his reasoning for rejecting her. Maybe if he had he wouldn't have broken her heart so bad.

One night Owen's friends talk him into going to a bar for a bachelor party for one of their friends. He sees Claire up on the stage and his wolf side of him comes out. Now after five years has passed since he last saw her the shoe is on the other foot as they say. Owen realizes with the help of his wolf that Claire is his soul mate. Owen is in for a surprise when he finally gets to speak with Claire. Although Claire feels the same thing she still feels the hurt that he put her through when she was a teenager. Claire set down some ground rules with Owen as to how they were going to deal with their relationship now. Owen is going to have to gain her trust back and prove to her that he will not her hurt again. What is he going to do to her trust again? What is Claire going to put him through or what kind of chalk line is he going to have to follow? How far will he go to get her back?

On top of everything that he is going through now with Claire, Owen and their clan are having problems with someone killing humans and leaving the bodies on their property. Owen and his clan does not feed from humans they go hunting at night for animals to feed from. When they get close or think they are on the right track to finding who is killing humans and leaving them in their territory. The rogues come after Owen and Claire. Who are these rogues? Why are they dumping bodies all over their land?

She-Wolf is written in both Owen and Claire's point of view. I like reading books where they are written in different characters point of view. When you get the story from different people's view you know what each person thinks and feels. If they are written with one person's view they can't tell you what everyone else is thinking. I loved the whole process of how they shifted into werewolves. If a wolf had a mate then the change was like a romantic kind of thing for them and having a mate made the change easier for them too,

Now I would like to take this time to thank Elizabeth Morgan for giving me the opportunity to read She-Wolf. I love reading about werewolves or any paranormal creäture. After reading She-Wolf it left me wanting to know more and very anxious to read Cranberry Blood (Blood #1).







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