Friday, January 29, 2016

Debt Spotlight Post

Today on my blog I will be spotlighting Debt by Rachel Dunning. I would like to thank the author for asking me to spotlight her book and I would also like to welcome her to my blog!

99c Pre-Order Sale
526 Pages
Standalone Novel
New-Adult Romance / Sports Romance

Content Warning


Not intended for readers under the age of seventeen.

Genres:
New-Adult Romance
Sports Romance
DEBT
By Rachel Dunning

Expected Release Date:
March 30, 2016

The Debt Collector

I pay my debts, and I expect others to.
I was raised in the slums of London, I knew nothing of privilege. My father was murdered when I was seventeen. Morty figured my father's passing meant I would automatically take on dad's debts. I refused.
And I paid for that refusal.
So did my sister.
So now I fight. All I know how to do is fight. The best cash is in the states, so that's where I am now. A big fish called Vito came along offering me a "favor" when I arrived.
Another debt.
I paid for that one too.
I knew Kyla Hensley would be trouble when I met her. But I wanted her. I could see through the falsehood of her wannabe-slutty clothes and her sexy legs. So I chased her.
Besides, trouble is my middle name.

Kyla Hensley

I was brought up in privilege, but I lacked everything else. My father is a business tycoon who buys and sells and doesn't care who gets rolled over in the process.
I never knew my mother, and all I have of her is a photo with a note scrawled on the back in French saying "I'm sorry." The only Female Figure I had growing up is my dad's wife who is a bleach blond with seven boob jobs. We never bonded.
I drink. I party. I meet guys.
But I wasn't always like that.
I've had a string of lovers in the last few years, the worst and most recent of which was Vince Somerset. My best friend Vera was dating a guy called Rory Cansoom who is the opposite of Vince in so many ways, and yet so the same.
She and I hit the road for the summer, getting away from the two college psychos and just trying to have some fun.
But there's a funny thing about trouble, the more you run from it, the more it finds you.
Which is when I met the Debt Collector.
It was only supposed to be sex. He made that clear. I made that clear.
That's all it was supposed to be.
I never expected to fall in love. I never expected to fall so deeply, madly, uncomfortably in love with a man who is wrong, so wrong for me.
And yet...so unbelievably right.
 

Book Excerpts:  

~Kyla~

I push my head back against the wall, not sure what’s coming, but not fighting it either.
“Who are you?” he repeats.
“I...I don’t know what you mean.”
“I see you at a bar in Texas, then I look for you all over Nashville. And suddenly you’re at my side in a hospital, following me into this warehouse. Who are you?”
“I didn’t follow you into the warehouse. You needed to pick up your truck, and you were stumbling.”
“So?”
“So I wanted to make sure you were OK.”
“And?”
And I want you to take my clothes off and I want us to live happily ever after. “That’s it.”
Logan grins, a deadly look for him with his dimples. “Don’t do that,” I say.
“What?”
“Smile.”
“Why not?”
Because you’re beautiful. “Just don’t.”
 

~Kyla~

“Tell me for real,” I say. “Tell me what I didn’t guess about you.”
Logan doesn’t answer, and already I’m regretting the question. I know something hurt him, but who am I to ask him about it so soon? I’m breaking my rule, I want to know him, I want to know everything about him.
He shifts his arm so that my head is no longer resting on it, leans forward.
I did overstep it, but I don’t care. Maybe this is the last time I’ll ever see him again, and I want to get everything I can out of it, not only the sex I’ll demand later.
He looks down at his feet, then at me.
He inhales a deep breath, and then he says something to me that will forever change the way I think about the world. He tells me a story that puts my own life in perspective, and makes me question what I’ve held dear, and what’s really important in life.
He tells me about how he lost his father. And his mother.
And why he fights.
And why he continues to fight. And what he really sees when he’s in that cage, the hate, the fury, the pain.
By the end of it all, my world is shattered, the floor is shaking, I have no stability.
By the end of it, I know one thing, and I know it to my core, my very fiber. And I don’t care if it’s too soon, I believe in intuition, I believe in it more now than ever.
The thing I know is this:
I love this man. I love him irrevocably. I love him more than I’ve ever loved anyone.
And I know I will lose him.
I know it. More intuition.
But I love his very soul.
 
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About Rachel
Rachel Dunning hit the scene in August 2013 and is the author of the highly praised Naive Mistakes Series, Truthful Lies Trilogy, Johnny Series and the paranormal romance series, Mind Games.

A prolific writer, she sticks to stories where Alpha Males aren’t pricks and where women have guts.
She’s lived on two different continents, speaks three different languages, and met the love of her life on the internet. In other words, romance is in her blood.

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Tuesday, January 26, 2016

Sage's Eyes Release Day Spotlight and Review

 SAGE’S EYES
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“This book combines psychological and paranormal twists, which will be enjoyed by new and old fans alike.”
—RT Book Reviews
 
 
 
 
 
“This is a quick and engrossing read. It seems like every character has dark secrets waiting to be revealed. The reader is left guessing throughout the majority of the book as to the truth behind Sage’s mysterious past and strange visions…This book combines psychological and paranormal twists, which will be enjoyed by new and old fans alike.”
—RT Book Reviews
 
My parents watch me obsessively for signs of evil. They don’t let me out, they keep me away from other people. And I’m beginning to think maybe they’re right to.
 
Psychologically gripping and emotionally edgy, SAGE’S EYES—the new novel from bestselling author V.C. Andrews®—has a “taboo story line and brooding atmosphere” (Book Nutter) that will keep readers enthralled from the start.
 
 
 
Book Info:
 
Sixteen-year-old Sage is a lonely child, dreaming of hemlock and mysterious ancestors she knows nothing about. Her adoptive parents keep a close eye on her, studying her for warning signs of…something. But Sage has to admit that even she can’t make sense of the strange things she sees and hears. She possesses knowledge that other teenagers don’t, that neither her parents nor teachers—no adult—possibly could.
 
So when Sage finally makes a friend who understands her alarming gifts, he becomes her confidant, a precarious link to the truth about who she really is. For Sage and the alluring new boy at school share many things in common. Perhaps, they’ll learn, far too many things.
 
Author Info:
V.C. Andrews® has been a bestselling phenomenon since the publication of her classic Flowers in the Attic. That blockbuster novel began her renowned Dollanganger family saga, which includes Petals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, and Garden of Shadows. Since then, readers have been captivated by more than seventy novels in V.C. Andrews’s bestselling series. V.C. Andrews’s novels have sold more than 106 million copies.
 
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Review:
I don't really have that much to say about this book so I just make a couple points. I have read other books by this author before but haven't been thrilled by them, this book falls under that category as well.
 
This book was an interesting concept but not well executed. In the end I found myself bored with the whole thing. So sadly I cannot recommend it.
 
Overall I think fans of her work would like the book, but I did not.

I would like to thank Melissa from Simon & Schuster for letting me read and review this book.
 
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