If you read Twilight fan fiction, you probably have read some of Suzanne’s work. She writes under the name, windchymes. I have actually recd her story, The Keepsake, here. So I posed the question about her thoughts on writing both.
Category Archives: Young Adult
Giveaway winners: The Athena Effect and Mackenzie Legacy
I am pleased to announce the winners of the e-books and bracelet giveaway from Derrolyn Anderson, author of The Athena Effect and Mackenzie Legacy.
Katiebird reviews: Wicked Sense (The Singularity series, #1) by Fabio Bueno
Wicked Sense (The Singularity Series, #1) by Fabio Bueno
Book Synopsis:
Witches inhabit our world, organized in covens and hiding behind a shroud of secrecy—the Veil.
Skye’s London coven sends her to Seattle’s Greenwood High to find the Singularity, an unusually gifted witch who may break the Veil and trigger a dangerous new era of witch-hunting. Things get complicated when Skye meets a charming new classmate, Drake. Skye’s job becomes even trickier when she clashes with Jane, an intimidating rival witch.
Drake falls for the mysterious Skye, but odd accidents, potion mix-ups, and the occasional brush with death kind of get in the way of romance. Once he discovers Skye is a witch, he goes to war for her, even though his only weapons are a nice set of abs and a sharp sense of humor.
Fighting off wicked Jane and the other dark forces hell-bent on seizing the Singularity’s immense power, Skye and Drake will risk everything to save the covens.
Going on a date has never been harder.
Katiebird reviews: The Athena Effect by Derrolyn Anderson
The Athena Effect by Derrolyn Anderson
**I was given a copy of this book by the author for an honest review.**
The synopsis:
Country girl Cali has been kept a secret her entire life, raised in isolation by two very troubled people. Despite her parent’s disturbing fits, Cal is perfectly content, living as one with the nature that surrounds her, and finding adventure inside the pages of her beloved books. When an awful tragedy tears her away from her remote cabin in the woods, nothing she’s ever read has prepared her for a world that she knows very little about.
Girls and motorcycles are what bad-boy Cal’s life is all about. Brought up in a raucous party house by his biker brother, he’s free to do as he pleases, going through the motions on his final days of high school. Aimless, Cal stopped thinking about his future a long time ago.
Attacked by a gang of thugs while running an errand for his brother, Cal is in serious trouble until a fierce girl appears out of nowhere to intervene. She chases off three grown men, sparing Cal a brutal beating before disappearing into the night like a spirit. He can’t stop thinking about his mysterious rescuer, and when she turns out to be the weird new girl at school who goes out of her way to avoid him, he can’t contain his curiosity.
He’s never met anyone like her before, and the more he learns about the unusual girl who shares his nickname, the more he wants to know. Cal can’t help falling for Cal, but can he keep her from falling victim to a dangerous enemy from her parent’s tragic past?
Shout Out: Sweet Evil by Wendy Higgins
This week’s Shout Out goes to Sweet Evil by Wendy Higgins…
Giveaway: Phoenix: The Rising by Bette Maybee
Today we have a giveaway for you to enter…
Interview with Julie Mason and Eli Sullivan from Phoenix: The Rising by Bette Maybee
Wow! I am so totally honored that Tamie and the crew asked me to stop by Bookish Temptations today and give you the scoop on Julie Mason and Eli Sullivan! Not too long ago I had the opportunity to sit down with each of them (I think it was the Sunday after they met) and ask them some personal, and not so personal questions. Julie, or Jules as she’s called by her friends, agreed only if we would meet privately. She did NOT want to be answering questions in front of Eli! (Personally, I figured she has a major crush on him, and it was more than evident that he was crazy about her, but neither of them were willing to admit it at the time.) Since I asked them some of the same questions, I thought it would be cool to keep their corresponding answers together to see what kind of chemistry they had! I’ve had to sit on this interview until now and I’m so pumped that I finally get to share it with you!
Review: Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer
To be irrevocably in love with a vampire is both a fantasy and a nightmare woven into a dangerously heightened reality for Bella Swan. Pulled in one direction by her intense passion for Edward Cullen, and in another by her profound connection to werewolf Jacob Black, she has endured a tumultuous year of temptation, loss and strife to reach the ultimate turning point. Her imminent choice, to either join the dark but seductive world of immortals or pursue a fully human life, has become the thread from which the fate of two tribes hangs.
Now that Bella has made her decision, a startling chain of unprecedented events is about to unfold with potentially devastating and unfathomable consequences. Just when the frayed strands of Bella’s life – first discovered in Twilight, then scattered and torn in New Moon and Eclipse – seem ready to heal and knit together, could they be destroyed… forever?
Sue reviews: Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor
Sue’s back with another great review to share. Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor.
The synopsis: Around the world, black hand prints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.
In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grows dangerously low.
And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war.
Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she’s prone to disappearing on mysterious “errands”; she speaks many languages—not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she’s about to find out.
When one of the strangers—beautiful, haunted Akiva—fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?
Neda Reviews: Fragile by Michelle Leighton
The synopsis:
Her heart, as delicate as glass. His love, as strong as steel. Can either survive life and death?
Hardy Bradford is an eighteen year old football phenomenon who has the girl, the school, the town and the future in the palm of his hand. His life is all mapped out for him, right down to who he’ll marry and how he’ll become a professional football player. It doesn’t seem to matter that Hardy would’ve chosen a much different life if it was up to him. But it’s not. At least not until his Miracle comes along.
The first time Hardy laid eyes on Miracle St. James, he didn’t know who she was, but he knew she was something different and that he’d never get her out of his head. And he didn’t. Now, months later, Hardy’s world is turned upside down when Miracle shows up in his class, stealing his heart and forever changing the course of his life.
Miracle’s sick. Very sick. And Hardy might be losing the only thing in his life that has ever mattered. How much is too much to sacrifice for the one you love? For just a little more time? For just one more chance? Can Hardy be the hero Miracle needs? Or is it Hardy that needs saving?
