Book Spotlight: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Wow! It's been so long since I last posted! Because my classes have taken up all my time and focus, blogging has definitely been put on the back burner. But the spring semester is coming to a close this week so I figured I'd spotlight one of the books I read for my English class that I surprisingly enjoyed quite a bit.

If not for this class, I really wouldn't have picked it up or even given it a second look but I'm glad that it was a required text because I discovered a new author and book that was out of the norm for me . . . and it's always good to mix up the genres every now and then!

For today's spotlight, I'll be sharing a few of my favorite quotes from Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel.

Cover Reveal: The Score (Off-Campus, #3) by Elle Kennedy

Title: The Score (Off-Campus, #3)
Author: Elle Kennedy
Publisher: Self
Expected publication: January 11, 2016
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance

Cover Reveal + Giveaway: The Game Plan (Game On, #3) by Kristen Callihan

Books Over Boys has been pretty silent for the past few months—heck, for half the year—but I couldn't not be a part of today's reveal because oh my sweet baby J! I am so stupidly in love with this series that it's insane! I've got it so immensely bad for Kristen Callihan right now, you don't even know. She's my current fan girl obsession!

Yesterday evening, when I first saw the cover I was shocked! It's definitely different from The Hook Up and The Friend Zone but it's a good different and it has Dex written all over it!

Check it out below, read the awesome excerpt, let me know what you think of it all, and don't forget to enter the giveaway!

Chapter Reveal + Giveaway: Fervent (Condemned, #3) by Gemma James

Title: Fervent (Condemned, #3)
Author: Gemma James
Publisher: Self
Expected publication: April 30, 2015
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Dark Contemporary/Erotic Romance

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I never imagined things could get worse, but they do. The men who took us show no mercy. They won’t stop until they’ve destroyed Rafe for something he has no memory of, and I’m their weapon of choice.

Tortured and defiled, they make me wish I was back in that cabin where death was favorable to drawing another breath, but our captors can’t break what’s already broken.

What scares me is the madness I see festering inside Rafe. I’ve taken his freedom, his career, his reputation, yet despite all I’ve done, he’s determined to fight for me, kill for me, give everything he is for me.

He’ll even die for me.

NOTE TO READERS: Fervent is a new adult dark romance with disturbing themes and explicit content, including sexual scenes and violence that may offend some. Intended for mature audiences. Part three of the Condemned series. This is not a stand-alone read! There will be four parts to this series.

Giveaway: Fervent (Condemned, #3) by Gemma James

Title: Fervent (Condemned, #3)
Author: Gemma James
Publisher: Self
Expected publication: April 30, 2015
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Dark Contemporary/Erotic Romance

Cover Reveal: Vagrant (Condemned, #4) by Gemma James

I am so very excited to share today's cover reveal with you because I am mad about this series! The third book in the series, Fervent, is just about to release (on the 30th) and man oh man, I can't wait for everyone to devour it because I sure as heck did.

Vagrant is the last book in the Condemned series and it will conclude Rafe and Alex's story. Those last five words bum me out so bad because I've been adamantly following this series like nobody's business and to see it all come to an end . . . I can't even explain the sense of loss I feel. But on the upside, I'm so ready for Rafe and Alex's relationship to finally smooth and even out. I'm stoked and I can't wait!

Check out the cover and let me know what you think! Don't forget to add the book to your Goodreads "want to read" shelf! And if you haven't started this series yet, I've got excellent news for you! The first book in the series, Torrent, is free on all retailer sites! If you're thinking about this series, if you're intrigued, definitely 1-click Torrent today and burrow into the series this weekend! And without further ado . . .

Release Day Blitz: Dark Instincts (The Phoenix Pack, #4) by Suzanne Wright

Happy release day to Dark Instincts and enormous congrats to Suzanne Wright! I absolutely love this series so hardcore! It's one of my most favorite paranormal shifter series. Thinking back, I can't really remember how I came across it. I think I was just browsing and I stumbled upon book one, back in its indie stage, with the old cover and instantly fell in love.

I can't wait to dive into Roni and Marcus's story! Check out the awesome excerpt I've got for you below so you'll know what I'm talking about. (Crazy amazing!) But first . . .

Cover Reveal: Days Like This by Danielle Ellison

Title: Days Like This
Author: Danielle Ellison
Publisher: Bookish Group Press
Expected publication: June 2, 2015
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance

Turtle Bay Blog Tour: Author Interview

Welcome to my stop on the Turtle Bay blog tour. For today's stop, I've got an awesome interview with Tiffany King that I can't wait to share with all of you so stick around and don't miss a second of it!

Title: Turtle Bay
Author: Tiffany King
Publisher: Self
Release date: March 17, 2015
Age group: Young Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance

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If you're a teenager in a small, rural area, how do you exist when your eccentric, free-spirited parents are the town freaks everyone laughs at?

For sixteen-year-old Rainbow Honeywell—or Rain, as she insists on being called—the answer was to become the queen of all pranks. She never wanted to be a troublemaker, but the label quickly stuck when everyone in Huntsville, Kansas, became a target. All she wanted was to deflect the negative attention off her parents, but Rain's plan backfired to the max, landing her in a heap of trouble with the local authorities and expelled from high school.

An unexpected inheritance offers Rain an opportunity for a new beginning when she and her family move across the country to the quaint beach community of Turtle Bay, Florida.

Determined to make the best of her second chance, Rain vows to walk the straight and narrow, hoping her parents will fly under the radar while she soaks up some fun in the sun, sandy beaches, and hot, tanned guys. Unfortunately, she picks the wrong new friends, and a late night party lands her back in the kind of trouble she had been hoping to avoid. As the newbie in town with a record, Rain takes the brunt of the punishment when an unforgiving judge chooses to make an example out of her and slaps her with enough community service hours to keep her busy until she is old and gray.

Facing the harsh reality of paying for the actions of others while atoning for her own past sins, Rain is paired up with Josh Shaw, a judgmental local lifeguard whose love for the beach and the environment is eclipsed only by his distaste for those who trash it. As far as Josh is concerned, Rain is guilty and got what she deserved, regardless of her side of the story. To make matters worse, a tropical storm sits in the Atlantic, threatening to wreak havoc on the small beach community.

Things slowly change as Rain begins to appreciate her surroundings through Josh's eyes, proving she is not the person he thinks she is. Their feelings for one another blossom as the tropical storm grows into a hurricane and bears down on Turtle Bay. With impending danger looming, the small beach community must come together in order to ride out the storm.

Getting Dirty (Jail Bait, #1) Blog Tour: Excerpt + Giveaway

Welcome to my stop on the Getting Dirty Blog Tour hosted by InkSlinger PR. For today's stop, I've got a wicked excerpt to share with all of you, so don't miss out because exciting stuff is gonna go down!

About the book:

Title: Getting Dirty (Jail Bait, #1)
Author: Mia Storm
Publisher: Self
Release date: March 19, 2015
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance

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Dirty
A poem by Blaire Leon

If sex is dirty, why would I do it with someone I love?
If sex is dirty, then didn’t we all come from the dirt?
What if I like the dirt?
What if I want to get dirty?
What if I want to roll in the mud until I’m so fucking filthy that I’ll never be clean again?

When twenty-five-year-old graduate assistant Caiden Brenner asked Blaire Leon how old she was, she said she was a senior. He chose to believe she meant in college. They connect over Lord Byron’s Don Juan and, as their conversations become increasingly thicker with sexual innuendo, Caiden finds himself obsessing over a totally off-limits undergrad who’s bold, beautiful, brilliant, and one of the most passionate poets he’s ever met.

But it turns out Blaire hasn't been totally honest. She's the seventeen-year-old valedictorian of her high school class, taking courses at Sierra State while awaiting her acceptance to Stanford.

Will Caiden get too deeply into Blaire to back away before he finds out the truth? Or will their connection be enough to seduce him into risking his entire future on Jail Bait?

Series Cover Reveal + Excerpt: The Rules by Monica Murphy

I am so excited to be one of the blogs helping out in today's cover reveal for Monica Murphy's upcoming New Adult series, The Rules. I am a huge fan girl of Monica Murphy so . . . to say I'm thrilled as heck for this new series would be an understatement. I cannot wait! Check out the covers, add them to your "want-to-read" piles on Goodreads, and join me in the wait!

Oh! I've also got a super smokin' excerpt to share with you from book one in the series, Fair Game! Check that out as well and don't forget to let me know what you think . . . about the covers, the excerpt, etcetera, etcetera!

Title: Fair Game (The Rules, #1)
Author: Monica Murphy
Publisher: Self
Expected publication: May 12, 2015
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Cover designer: Sarah Hansen of Okay Creations

Cover Reveal + Author Interview: Grey (The Romany Outcasts Series, #1) by Christi J. Whitney

Title: Grey (The Romany Outcasts Series, #1)
Author: Christi J. Whitney
Publisher: Harper Voyager UK
Expected publication: April 30, 2015
Age group: Young Adult
Genre: Urban Fantasy

Author Interview + Giveaway: Katy Evans

Title: Manwhore (Manwhore, #1)
Author: Katy Evans
Publisher: Gallery Books
Expected publication: March 24, 2015
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance

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Is it possible to expose Chicago’s hottest player—without getting played?

This is the story I’ve been waiting for all my life, and its name is Malcolm Kyle Preston Logan Saint. Don’t be fooled by that last name though. There’s nothing holy about the man except the hell his parties raise. The hottest entrepreneur Chicago has ever known, he’s a man’s man with too much money to spend and too many women vying for his attention.

Mysterious. Privileged. Legendary. His entire life he’s been surrounded by the press as they dig for tidbits to see if his fairytale life is for real or all mirrors and social media lies. Since he hit the scene, his secrets have been his and his alone to keep. And that’s where I come in.

Assigned to investigate Saint and reveal his elusive personality, I’m determined to make him the story that will change my career.

But I never imagined he would change my life. Bit by bit, I start to wonder if I’m the one discovering him . . . or if he’s uncovering me.

What happens when the man they call Saint makes you want to sin?

Cover Reveal: Apodyopsis (Savage at Heart, #1) by Lexi Cubbins

Title: Apodyopsis (Savage at Heart, #1)
Author: Lexi Cubbins
Publisher: Self
Expected publication: Summer 2015
Age group: Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance

Cover Reveal: Sustained (The Legal Briefs, #2) by Emma Chase

Title: Sustained (The Legal Briefs, #2)
Author: Emma Chase
Publisher: Gallery Books
Expected publication: August 25, 2015
Age group: Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance

Sex on the Beach Blog Tour: Guest Post by Jennifer Probst + Giveaway

Welcome to my stop on the Sex on the Beach Blog Tour hosted by InkSlinger PR. For today's stop, I've got an awesome guest post by Jennifer Probst and the tour wide giveaway to share with all of you, so don't miss out because exciting stuff is gonna go down!

About the books:

Title: Finding You (Sex on the Beach)
Author: Jenna Bennett
Publisher: Magpie Ink
Release date: March 3, 2015
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance

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Sex on the Beach, the do-over.

Cassie Wilder had a simple plan for what to do in Key West the second time around.

Testify at the trial of the rapist she helped catch last year.

Make sure he gets locked away for the rest of his natural life, so he can never, ever hurt another girl.

Wait for her BFFs to get to town, so they can celebrate.

And stay far away from Ty Connor, because three months after breaking up with him, she still doesn’t know whether being with him is worse than being without him.

Spring Break, take two.

All of the above? Out the window.

Turns out testifying is a lot harder than she thought it would be.

Not only is the rapist she helped catch last year not locked away for the rest of his life, he’s on the loose and looking for her.

Oh yeah, and it’s definitely harder being without Ty than being with him, especially when she has to watch him with someone else.

Welcome to Cassie’s world.

All Played Out by Cora Carmack Street Team: Big/Little—“Get to Know”

Last week or so, Cora Carmack introduced the new street team for her upcoming release in the Rusk University series, All Played Out. This time around, all the new members were assigned a mentor, or in my case, a little. As soon as I found out who my little was I got to knowing more about her. Check out my interview/questionnaire with her below!

Cora posted the announcement here if any of you would like to check out the new team! I am so excited and pumped to start spreading the word about Nell and Torres! Leggggo! Let's do this!

About the book:

Title: All Played Out (Rusk University, #3)
Author: Cora Carmack
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Expected publication: May 12, 2015
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance

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In the third book in New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Cora Carmack’s Rusk University series, a good girl is about to find out what happens when she creates the ultimate college bucket list and she sets her sights on a jock.

First person in her family to go to college? CHECK.
Straight A’s? CHECK.
On track to graduate early? CHECK.
Social life? . . . Yeah, about that . . .

With just a few weeks until she graduates, Antonella DeLuca’s beginning to worry that maybe she hasn’t had the full college experience. (Okay . . . Scratch that. She knows she hasn't had the full college experience.)

So Nell does what a smart, dedicated girl like herself does best. She makes a "to do" list of normal college activities.

Item #1? Hook up with a jock.

Rusk University wide receiver Mateo Torres practically wrote the playbook for normal college living. When he’s not on the field, he excels at partying, girls, and more partying. As long as he keeps things light and easy, it's impossible to get hurt . . . again. But something about the quiet, shy, sexy-as-hell Nell gets under his skin, and when he learns about her list, he makes it his mission to help her complete it.

Torres is the definition of confident (And sexy. And wild), and he opens up a side of Nell that she's never known. But as they begin to check off each crazy, exciting, normal item, Nell finds that her frivolous list leads to something more serious than she bargained for. And while Torres is used to taking risks on the field, he has to decide if he's willing to take the chance when it's more than just a game.

Together they will have to decide if what they have is just part of the experiment or a chance at something real.

Exclusive Excerpt Reveal: Unraveled (Mastered, #3) by Lorelei James

Title: Unraveled (Mastered, #3)
Author: Lorelei James
Publisher: NAL Trade
Release date: March 3, 2015
Age group: Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance

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In this sizzling continuation of the Mastered series by New York Times bestselling author Lorelei James, a man will find the domination he’s always craved . . .

Shiori Hirano and Knox Lofgren are left to run the martial arts program at Black Arts while Ronin Black travels. On the surface, the two highest ranked belts appear to cooperate—but in private, they butt heads constantly, despite the undeniable attraction between them. Soon their power exchanges start to make for a sweltering dynamic in the bedroom . . .

At first Knox is shocked to be living out his submissive desires, but Shiori sets out to prove that embracing his true sexual nature doesn’t make him a weak man. But even while their sexual relationship grants him a power and fulfillment he finds surprising, there’s no training regimen for the fight that comes with loving a strong woman . . .

Cover Reveal: Need Me (Broke and Beautiful, #2) by Tessa Bailey

Title: Need Me (Broke and Beautiful, #2)
Author: Tessa Bailey
Publisher: Avon Impulse
Expected publication: April 21, 2015
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance

Cover Reveal + Excerpt: Getting Dirty (Jail Bait, #1) by Mia Storm

Title: Getting Dirty (Jail Bait, #1)
Author: Mia Storm
Publisher: Self
Expected publication: March 19, 2015
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance