February 18, 2013

Excerpt & Giveaway: Recalled by Cambria Hebert


Recalled by Cambria Hebert
(Death Escorts, #1)
Publication date: February 15th, 2013
Genre: New Adult Romance with paranormal, thriller and mystery elements

Blurb:
Love or Death? A simple question really. The choice seems obvious. But. What if you never knew love, what if your life was spent just trying to survive? What if you knew your fate before you were fully grown?

And then you died.

And you were given another chance. A better chance.

This new life depended upon one thing: your job. And so you agreed. You thought it would be simple. You thought it would be cut and dry.

It never is.

And now you are left holding the fate of someone else in the palm of your hand and you have to make the ultimate choice.

Love or Death?

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Excerpt from Recalled:
All excerpts are copyrighted by the author.

Scene between Piper and Frankie:

I unchained the lock, turned the deadbolt, and pulled open the door. Frankie barely paused to
look at me as she bustled by with her armload, yet she saw everything. “If I looked like you I
wouldn’t want to open the door either.”

“It’s barely six a.m., Frank. What’re you doing here?”

“Did you think I wouldn’t come when you called to tell me about your brush with death!?”

“I thought maybe you’d wait and come at a decent hour,” I grumbled, locking the door and
following her into the tiny kitchen.

“The donut makers are up,” she said, flipping the lid open on a box of a dozen donuts.
“Therefore, the hour is decent!”

Fried dough, sugar, and icing wasn’t a healthy way to start the day.

“Where’s my coffee?” I said, cracking a smile because she motioned to the donuts like Vanna
White.

She handed me a very large cup. “Here, it’s the boring kind. Cream, no sugar.”

I took a sip of my boring coffee as she untied her red trench coat and slipped it off her five-foot-
four curvy frame. Frankie liked her curves and her sugar habit helped maintain them.

“So you almost got creamed by a bus, huh?” she said as she rummaged through my cabinets for
napkins and a couple plates.

My stomach clenched at the mention of the bus. I set my coffee on the table and pulled out a
chair. “Yes, I almost got hit by a bus, but didn’t because someone else pushed me out of the
way.” I felt my eyes tear up again and I blinked them away, reaching for my coffee.

“It was real bad, huh?” Frankie said, sitting down and patting my hand.

“He died. He pushed me out of the way and the bus crushed him…” My voice fell away. “It was
awful.”

“He died?”

“Almost instantly.”

We both sat there for long, silent moments. The kitchen filled with the comforting scents of
donuts and coffee, but I felt awful that someone would still be breathing and alive if not for what
he did for me.

“The thing is,” I said, my voice low, “I don’t know why he did it.”

“Well, I’m glad he did. I’m glad you’re still here.”

“Thanks, Frankie,” I said, but in the back of my head I wondered if I was the one who should’ve
died.

Frankie reached into the donut box and pulled out a glazed, then looked at me. “So if I eat this
am I going to get fat?”

I rolled my eyes. “Depends on how many you eat.”

“I plan on eating at least three. So go on, check.” She held out her hand, the one still holding the
donut.

“You’re ridiculous.”

“What’s the use of having a BFF that can see the future if you can’t exploit it?”


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Cambria Hebert
Author. Blogger. Latte Sipper.

Cambria Hebert is an author who wrote her first book at the age of fifteen. It was terrible. But the passion for writing never went away so years later when she opened her laptop and started typing she worked until she wrote a book that she hopes everyone will be as excited about as she is.

Cambria is obsessed with werewolves and is terrified of chickens (they are creepy!)She is an animal lover that would choose coffee over food and her favorite TV show is the Vampire Diaries (Hell-O Damon!)

Author Links:
-Website: http://cambriahebert.com/
-Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5298677.Cambria_Hebert
-Twitter: @cambriahebert
-Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Cambria-Hebert/128278117253138

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February 17, 2013

Stacking the Shelves (16)

"Stacking the Shelves" is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews where bloggers can share the latest books they've received and discover new titles while visiting other blogs.


Hey look, it's been another month between STS posts! =b Again, just going to focus on promoting my review books:


For Review:

From HBG Canada:
- Perfect Scoundrels by Ally Carter
- The Lives We Lost by Megan Crewe

Netgalley
- The Rules for Disappearing by Ashley Elston
- The Reece Malcolm List by Amy Spalding (Review Here)
- Nantucket Blue by Leila Howland
- Strangelets by Michelle Gagnon

eBooks From Author
- Deeper We Fall by Chelsea M. Cameron (Review Here)
- Playing Along by Rory Samantha Green (Review Here)

Edelweiss
- The Book of Broken Hearts by Sarah Ockler
- Golden by Jessi Kirby
- The Vow by Jessica Martinez

Some of these I've already read and reviewed, and others I'm very much looking forward to. Can't wait to see what titles you've all come across this past week (or month ;)).

February 15, 2013

The Reece Malcolm List by Amy Spalding

Release Date: February 5, 2013
Publisher: Entangled Teen
Pages: 352
Series: n/a
Review Source: Netgalley


Synopsis: (from Goodreads)
Things I know about Reece Malcolm:

1. She graduated from New York University.
2. She lives in or near Los Angeles.
3. Since her first novel was released, she’s been on the New York Times bestseller list every week.
4. She likes strong coffee and bourbon.
5. She’s my mother.

Devan knows very little about Reece Malcolm, until the day her father dies and she’s shipped off to live with the mother she’s never met. All she has is a list of notebook entries that doesn’t add up to much.

L.A. offers a whole new world to Devan—a performing arts school allows her to pursue her passion for show choir and musicals, a new circle of friends helps to draw her out of her shell, and an intriguing boy opens up possibilities for her first love.

But then the Reece Malcolm list gets a surprising new entry. Now that Devan is so close to having it all, can she handle the possibility of losing everything?

My Thoughts:
I feel like it’s been a while since I wholly loved a contemporary book, but I can definitely make that statement about ‘The Reece Malcolm List’. There were just so many great aspects to the book and they all came together in a perfect way. The main focus of this book is the very complicated mother-daughter relationship between the main character, Devan, and her mother, Reece. Reece is such a prickly character, but she’s also very layered. Sometimes you can't stand her and you’re so infuriated on Devan’s behalf, yet you can't help but find Reece fascinating; you grow to understand her and her flaws as the book goes on. Devan, for me, was a great main character. Personally I really identified with her over thinking everything, and I cheered as she learned to stand up for herself & speak her mind.

The book is full of great characterization right from the main characters to Devan’s friends to even the smaller bit players. It's been awhile since I was a teenager, but these felt like real teen characters to me. They had mixed up emotions and didn’t always do the right thing. This book felt like real high school to me: feeling unsure one moment and confident the next, wondering if a boy really likes you, etc -- it wasn't the overly mature and polished version of teens that some books give off, and I loved that about it.

While this book wasn’t a romance on the whole I did enjoy that aspect of it. There were definitely some cute boys present, and I especially loved Sai and his nerdy enthusiasm for everything, but especially for books. I would also be remiss not to mention the show choir & musical theatre aspect of this book, because it does take up a good part of it. When I started to read this book I hadn’t read the blurb in a while, so I wasn’t expecting Devan to go to a performing arts high school. It was an awesome surprise, and it was so well done: not over the top, but an awesome part of Devan’s life, the one aspect where she was truly confident in her abilities.

At its heart this book is an emotionally honest story about a mother & daughter, about growing together and learning from each other. This was such a great reading experience, and I would wholly recommend ‘The Reece Malcolm List’ to all YA contemp fans.

The Cover:
It's really cute, I like it.

Rating:
[5/5]

Find The Reece Malcolm List by Amy Spalding on Goodreads, Book Depository, & Amazon.

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