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.
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Aug 1, 2014
Book Spotlight + Giveaway: Game Changer by Collette West
Today, I'm spotlighting Collette West's latest release, Game Changer! It's a New Adult Contemporary Romance centered around baseball. All I could think about when I realized that it was about baseball was...
Lol, no joke. Hellllo, players! ;p Anyway, check out the excerpt and giveaway I have for you below!
Jun 17, 2014
Book Spotlight + Giveaway: Full Moon by Jordan Deen
A couple days ago, Full Moon went live on all retailer sites and... I can't even explain to all of you how stoked I am for this release. I discovered this series back in March of 2011, shortly after I started blogging. I read book one and two during my birthday weekend and ever since then, I've been impatiently awaiting book three's release and finally, finally, it is here! I am so ecstatic!
Majority of the readers in my fambam have read it... doh! I need to text 'em and let them know that it's now available to read! Three freakin' years, Jordan! ;p Gah, I'm so excited!
Check out the excerpt and giveaway I have for you below and happy release and congrats to Jordan Deen!
Jun 4, 2014
Book Spotlight: Easy by Tammara Webber
New York Times bestseller, Easy by Tammara Webber is on sale for a discounted price of $2.99 from June 4-10! If you already have Easy in your library, gift it to a friend at this great price!
About the book:
Author: Tammara Webber
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Release date: October 9, 2012
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance
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Rescued by a stranger.
Haunted by a secret
Sometimes, love isn’t easy...
He watched her, but never knew her. Until thanks to a chance encounter, he became her savior...
The attraction between them was undeniable. Yet the past he’d worked so hard to overcome, and the future she’d put so much faith in, threatened to tear them apart.
Only together could they fight the pain and guilt, face the truth—and find the unexpected power of love.
May 8, 2014
Book Spotlight: Better When He's Bad by Jay Crownover
So you’ve met Rule, Jet, Rome, and Nash! But there’s a new boy in town, along with a new series, by Jay Crownover. Better When He’s Bad (Welcome to the Point, #1) is a new adult novel scheduled for publication on June 17, 2014, by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishing.
About the book:
Author: Jay Crownover
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Expected publication: June 17, 2014
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance
The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of Rome returns with a combustible new series that is sexier, darker, more dangerous—and better than ever!
There’s a difference between a bad boy and a boy who’s bad... meet Shane Baxter.
Sexy, dark, and dangerous, Bax isn’t just from the wrong side of the tracks, he is the wrong side of the tracks. A criminal, a thug, and a brawler, he’s the master of bad choices, until one such choice landed him in prison for five years. Now Bax is out and looking for answers, and he doesn’t care what he has to do or who he has to hurt to get them. But there’s a new player in the game, and she’s much too innocent, much too soft…and standing directly in his way.
Dovie Pryce knows all about living a hard life and the tough choices that come with it. She’s always tried to be good, tried to help others, and tried not to let the darkness pull her down. But the streets are fighting back, things have gone from bad to worse, and the only person who can help her is the scariest, sexiest, most complicated ex-con The Point has ever produced.
Bax terrifies her, awakening feelings she never thought she’d have for a guy like him. But it doesn’t take Dovie long to realize... some boys are just better when they’re bad.
May 5, 2014
Ilsa Madden-Mills Surprise Announcement + Giveaway
Because Ilsa Madden-Mills fell in love with her beautifully flawed characters in Very Wicked Things, she penned Very Wicked Beginnings as a prequel novella to the book, featuring the story of football star Cuba Hudson and ballerina Dovey Beckham.
Since May is Mental Health Awareness Month, all May proceeds from the sale of the novella will be donated to the Keith Milano Memorial Fund which benefits the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP).
May 4, 2014
Above Blog Tour: Book Spotlight + Giveaway
Welcome to my stop on the Above Blog Tour hosted by Literati Author Services, Inc. For today's stop, I'll be spotlighting Above and sharing the tour wide giveaway with all of you, so stick around and don't miss a second of any of it!
About the book:
Author: Isla Morley
Publisher: Gallery Books
Release date: March 4, 2014
Age group: Adult
Genre: Women's Fiction
I am a secret no one is able to tell.
Blythe Hallowell is sixteen when she is abducted by a survivalist and locked away in an abandoned missile silo in Eudora, Kansas. At first, she focuses frantically on finding a way out, until the harrowing truth of her new existence settles in—the crushing loneliness, the terrifying madness of a captor who believes he is saving her from the end of the world, and the persistent temptation to give up. But nothing prepares Blythe for the burden of raising a child in confinement. Determined to give the boy everything she has lost, she pushes aside the truth about a world he may never see for a myth that just might give meaning to their lives below ground. Years later, their lives are ambushed by an event at once promising and devastating. As Blythe’s dream of going home hangs in the balance, she faces the ultimate choice—between survival and freedom.
Above is a riveting tale of resilience in which “stunning” (Daily Beast) new literary voice Isla Morley compels us to imagine what we would do if everything we had ever known was taken away. Like the bestselling authors of Room and The Lovely Bones before her, Morley explores the unthinkable with haunting detail and tenderly depicts our boundless capacity for hope.
Apr 16, 2014
Book Spotlight + Giveaway: Happenstance by Jamie McGuire
We are thrilled to share the gorgeous cover and a teaser for Happenstance by New York Times, USA Today, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Jamie McGuire! We'd love to know what you think, so please be sure to comment below and don't forget to check out the amazing giveaway!
About the book:
Title: HappenstanceAuthor: Jamie McGuire
Publisher: Jamie McGuire LLC
Expected publication: May 9, 2014
Age group: Young Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance
#1 New York Times Bestseller Jamie McGuire returns to self-publishing with this page-turning YA account of Erin Easter, one of three Erins in the small senior class of rural Blackwell High School who not only share a first name, but also their birthday. Easter, raised by a neglectful single mom, keeps to herself and admires Weston Gates from afar. The other Erins, Erin "Alder" Alderman and Erin "Sonny" Masterson are the darlings of the community: daughters of the two wealthiest families in town, best friends, cheerleaders, and everything Easter isn't—and they never let her forget it. Alder has even claimed Weston since the 8th grade.
Weston is a well-liked star athlete, and the son of two prominent attorneys. He struggles daily with the pressures of living up to his family name and secretly empathizes with Easter's feeling that she belongs somewhere else; in a different life. Not until he begins sneaking nights out with Easter does he gain the courage to buck expectations and acknowledge his feelings... both for his future, and for her.
A shocking tragedy rocks the tiny town, and Easter's life is turned upside down in the best way possible. But when the truth is revealed and everything she thinks she wanted falls into her lap, life only becomes more complicated.
Book Spotlight + Giveaway: The Elsker Saga by S.T. Bende
I was browsing the internet when I came across this series on A Life Bound By Books's blog. The first thing that drew me in, like a moth to a flame, were the covers. I was struck, mesmerized, hypnotized. I couldn't look away and after reading the synopsis... holy! The need set in and now, I'm crazily obsessed. Because I'm so stoked about this series, I decided to feature it here on Books Over Boys because sharing is caring and who knows, this need just might be contagious enough! ;p
Check out the awesome excerpt I've got for you and don't forget to enter the giveaway below!
About the books:
Title: Tur (Elsker, #0.5)Author: S.T. Bende
Publisher: Self
Expected publication: May 29, 2014
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Inga Andersson is the envy of every girl in Asgard. On the surface she has it all -- great friends, a job as Odin’s personal fight choreographer, and a happy ever after with her realm’s hottest assassin. But when evil invades Asgard, her perfect world comes crashing down. Someone is planning to kill off the gods, and Inga’s best friend Ull is first on their list. With the Norse apocalypse a nanosecond away, Inga has to decide how she’ll spend her final moments of freedom. Because from the moment this battle begins, Inga’s happily ever after will be nothing more than a memory.
Some things are worth fighting for.
Apr 4, 2014
Book Spotlight + Giveaway: The Learning Series by R.D. Cole
We are excited to share with you the first two books in the Learning series by R.D. Cole, Learning to Live and Learning to Heal. Both books have been receiving great ratings and reviews so don’t miss out on reading them before the third book, Learning to Forgive, releases in June. Make sure to check out these books, add them to your Goodreads and enter the giveaway below for a $20 Amazon gift card, a special necklace and a signed set of paperbacks!
About the books:
Title: Learning to Live (Learning, #1)Author: R.D. Cole
Publisher: Self
Release date: January 18, 2014
Age group: New Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Being alive and living are not always the same.
Trudy Love is used to being on her own and has rarely been shown affection. Between growing up in foster care and her abusive boyfriend she has no idea what life can be. At 19 she goes through something no one should ever experience and is left alone once again. Six months later she moves to Mobile, Alabama where she meets someone whose eyes bring back memories of the one person she misses everyday. Too late she finds herself caught in a storm of emotions that are unwanted, but she's determined to fight them off.
Jaxon Coleman has a good life, and for him to attend one of the finest Med schools in the country and follow in his dad's foot steps is a dream come true. However, dreams can change in life and when he meets Trudy he knows his will never be the same. Jax knows she has secrets she is unwilling to share, but he's never given up on something he wants and he wants Tru.
Can Trudy stop resisting her feelings and welcome the chance to live a different life than she pictured or will her defiance and haunted past eventually take her out of Jax's reach?
After tragedy, living is not easy, but with the right person it can be learned.
Apr 2, 2014
All of Court’s Men: Brand Killien
Welcome to week seven of All of Court's Men! Before we really get into anything, I have a few questions for you:
- Have you read Courtney Cole's Contemporary Romance series, Beautifully Broken? If yes, read on.
- Did you read If You Leave? If yes, read on.
- Did you love Brand? Gabe's friend? If yes, read on.
- Have you been crossing your fingers for a Brand book? If yes, this post is all for you.
This week is a little bit different because... we've got a huge announcement about a certain someone. If you are a fan of Courtney Cole's Beautifully Broken series, the name in my title is probably setting off light bulbs in your head. You can probably already guess what the news is. But regardless, I'm going to tell you anyway because I'm a huge die-hard fan of Cole and this news makes me so, so, so happy!
Mar 27, 2014
Book Spotlight + Giveaway: Entangled Embrace
Do you love the Bad Boy, or are you more into the Boy Next Door? Either way, Embrace, Entangled’s New Adult imprint, has you covered. With swoon-worthy heroes, kick-butt heroines, contemporary issues, intrigue, fantasy, and so much more, there’s something for everyone.
As part of their March Madness extravaganza, Entangled is having a massive sale on all their New Adult books. Each one is only 99¢ throughout the month of March!
So go on, pick your hero, and discover New Adult fiction you won’t be able to forget.
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As part of their March Madness extravaganza, Entangled is having a massive sale on all their New Adult books. Each one is only 99¢ throughout the month of March!
So go on, pick your hero, and discover New Adult fiction you won’t be able to forget.
Mar 26, 2014
All of Court’s Men: Gabriel Vincent
Welcome to week six of All of Court's Men! This week we are spotlighting Gabriel Vincent from Cole's Contemporary Romance series, Beautifully Broken!
This is the series that I've been waiting to talk about! I am crazy, stupid about these books... I almost can't! It's, without a doubt, one of my top favorites (ever!) that sits high up there on the pedestal, no joke. It's one of those series that I get super protective of and when I hear bad things about 'em, my heart breaks a little. There are only about 4-5 series that make me all psycho like that. Only 4-5, promise. ;p
Without further ado, let's talk about our bad-ass hero, Gabriel Vincent!
Mar 19, 2014
All of Court’s Men: Alex Harris
Welcome to week five of All of Court's Men! This week we are spotlighting Alex Harris from Cole's Contemporary Romance series, The Cougar Chronicles!
About the book:
Author: Courtney Cole
Publisher: Lakehouse Press, Inc.
Release date: October 23, 2012
Thirty-five year-old Allison “Alli” Lancaster has it all—a fabulous job, a beautiful 15 year-old daughter, a hilarious BFF and a gorgeous house with a pool and Jacuzzi in an exclusive Las Vegas neighborhood. What she doesn’t have is a husband, because she kicked her lousy, cheating ex to the curb nine months ago. Since then, Alli has paid her dues with seemingly endless self-improvement and seemingly endless mourning. Now she’s ready to move on and try new things.
Alli’s idea of “trying new things” is nothing like that devil-of-a-best-friend of hers. Somehow, Sara, the devil of a best friend, talks Alli into trying out a sex toy, sleeping with a younger man and letting a stranger in a lab jacket put hot wax on a place that should never, ever, ever see wax. And that’s only the beginning.
Alli never saw her life going quite like this. She also never thought she’d meet someone else who had the very real potential to change her life forever.
But she did.
Enter the new guy. He’s gorgeous, refined and mature. He’s also marriage material. But that poses a problem for Alli, who renounced the institution of marriage when she renounced her ex. What’s a girl to do?
They say that what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas. But what the heck happens when you can’t leave Vegas? Well, you spin the wheel, of course. You play the game and let the chips fall where they may.
Alli just hopes she can find them all.
Mar 17, 2014
Book Spotlight + Giveaway: Upside Down by Lia Riley
Author: Lia Riley
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Release date: August 5, 2014
If You Never Get Lost, You’ll Never Be Found
Twenty-one-year-old Natalia Stolfi is saying goodbye to painful memories—and turning her life upside down with a trip to the land down under. For the next six months, she’ll pretend to be a carefree exchange student. Everything is going to plan until she meets a surly surfer with hypnotic green eyes, and the troubling ability to see straight through her act.
Bran Lockhart is having the worst year on record. After the girl of his dreams turned into a nightmare, he slunk back to Melbourne to piece his life together. Yet no amount of disappointment could blind him to the pretty California girl who gets past all his defenses. He’s never wanted anyone the way he wants Talia. A single semester abroad won’t cover something this serious. But when Bran gets a stark reminder of why he stopped believing in love, he and Talia must decide if what they have is once-in-a-lifetime . . . or if there’s a plane to California with her name on it.
Mar 12, 2014
All of Court’s Men: Brennan
Welcome to week four of All of Court's Men! This week we are spotlighting Brennan from Cole's Paranormal Romance series, the Moonstone Saga! This series is a spin-off of Cole's Bloodstone Saga, which we featured last week.
About the book:
Author: Courtney Cole
Publisher: Lakehouse Press, Inc.
Release date: January 3, 2012
Question: When your mother is a powerful witch and your father is a soul-sucking vampire, what does that make you?
Answer: Cursed.
With all the beauty and charm of a Siren, but cursed as a blood-sucking succubus, Empusa longs for love and a normal life. Neither of these can ever be hers, because the only thing she brings to anyone she loves is death.
Em lingers in the mortal world, hiding from her father and existing in a lonely life. Until she meets Brennan. With golden hair and a radiant smile, he captures her heart and awakens it from slumber.
But Brennan is more than he seems. And in a relationship where life itself hangs in the balance, is love ever really enough?
Mar 5, 2014
All of Court’s Men: Cadmus
Welcome to week three of All of Court's Men! This week we are spotlighting Cadmus from Cole's Paranormal Romance series, The Bloodstone Saga!
About the book:
Author: Courtney Cole
Publisher: Lakehouse Press, Inc.
Release date: April 21, 2011
Born a goddess. Controlled by the Fates. Can Macy’s love for her soul mate survive the bonds of time… and death?
17-year old Macy Lockhart is as far from normal as any one girl can be. The problem is, she doesn’t know it yet.
After a bloodstone pendant is mysteriously left on her door, Macy’s life begins to change in ways she’d never dreamed. And while she will eventually come to realize that nothing is ever what it seems, that her life is a tangled web of lies and the Fates themselves pull the strings, for now she is left with only the explanations that they offer her.
Macy is led to believe that if she doesn’t return to a previous doomed life, one in which she served as Queen Cleopatra ‘s handmaiden, the fate of the entire world will be threatened in a way that would destroy history as we know it. She learns that she has lived thousands of lives, each one ending tragically… but none as tragic as this one.
After returning to ancient Egypt, she is faced with heart-wrenching decisions. Unless she interferes with Fate’s plan, the very thing she was born to protect, her soul mate will die leading Marc Antony’s forces against Rome. Can she really stand aside and watch the love of her life die all over again?
In this fascinating novel-length prequel to The Bloodstone Saga, Courtney Cole sets the stage for an epic journey that will have readers holding their breath until the very last page of the very last book has been turned.
What would you do if you held Fate in your hands?
Feb 26, 2014
All of Court’s Men: Dante Giliberti
Welcome to week two of All of Court's Men! This week we are spotlighting Dante Giliberti from Cole's YA Contemporary series, Paradise Diaries!
About the book:
Author: Courtney Cole
Publisher: Lakehouse Press, Inc.
Release date: June 22, 2012
I have spent every summer since I was ten years old with my father in London. Every summer, since I was ten years old, has been uneventful and boring.
Until this year.
And this year, after a freak volcanic eruption strands me far from home, I have learned these things:
1. I can make do with one outfit for three days before I buy new clothes.
2. If I hear the phrase, "You're not in Kansas anymore, Toto," even one more time, I might become a homicidal maniac.
3. I am horribly and embarrassingly allergic to jellyfish.
4. I am in love with Dante Giliberti, who just happens to be the beautiful, sophisticated son of the Prime Minister of a Mediterranean paradise.
5. See number four above. Because it brings with it a whole slew of problems and I've learned something from every one of them.
Let's start with the fact that Dante's world is five light-years away from mine. He goes to black-tie functions and knows the Prime Minister of Great Britain on a first name basis. I was born and raised on a farm in Kansas and wear cut-off jeans paired with cowboy boots. See the difference?
But hearts don't care about differences. Hearts want what they want. And mine just wants to be Dante's girl.
My heart just might be crazy.
Feb 24, 2014
Book Spotlight + Giveaway: Past Imperfect by Alison G. Bailey
About the book:
Author: Alison G. Bailey
Publisher: Self
Release date: February 15, 2014
In Present Perfect, Brad Johnson was sexy, cocky, rich and a complete Smurff**ker. He could afford anything he wanted and could charm any girl he set his eyes on. Everything was laid out in front of him, all for the taking except the one thing he craved and needed. A tragic event forces him to reevaluate his life. When he tries to change, will the people in his life let him move on from his past or will they constantly hold him to the life altering mistakes he’s made?
Mabry Darnell is intelligent, ambitious, beautiful, and sassy. Secrets from her past haunt the present causing her to question her actions in order to shield her heart and protect her life.
From the moment Brad and Mabry met, their connection was strong, intense, and electrifying. Both knew they had found the one person who could satisfy what the other ached for. When their pasts collide with their present, will it prevent them from having a future together or will love be strong enough to conquer their demons?
Feb 20, 2014
All of Court’s Men: Luca Minaldi
In light of her most current release, The Minaldi Legacy, Courtney Cole got to re-visit Luca Minaldi and all his captivating charm. Because she had so much fun, for the next eight weeks, she will be re-visiting and spotlighting all her leading males.
For this week, it only seemed right to shine all the light on the one and only, Luca Minaldi!
About the book:
Author: Courtney Cole
Publisher: Lakehouse Press, Inc.
Release date: February 5, 2014
“I’m a monster, Eva. There’s no saving a monster. But I love that you want to try.”
Luca Minaldi is rich, powerful and mesmerizing. He’s also a reclusive enigma. He lives in Malta, a fairy-tale place filled with sunshine and sea, beauty and secrets. And Luca’s darkest of secrets is the best-kept of them all.
Eva Talbot moves to Malta to finish her doctoral dissertation in Psychiatry. When she meets Luca, there is a very real and instant attraction that she has never felt before. But even still, she senses the darkness that lives within him.
Eva is hired to care for Luca’s mother, a woman who suffers from dementia. It is Luca, however, that Eva will eventually risk everything to save… as the legacy that plagues him continues.
As the darkness swirls ever more tightly around her, Eva realizes that no matter how hard she tries, she might not be able to save Luca without losing herself.
Eva and Luca are thrust into a world where their love is tested and darkness reigns. Amid chaos and treachery, love and hate, Luca and Eva learn one important thing.
Love is dangerous.
But it also might be the one thing that can save them all.
Note: The Minaldi Legacy consists of two parts, part one: Of Blood and Bone and part two: Of Darkness and Demons. It contains adult themes and content.
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