Blog Tour: The Forever Girl Treasure Hunt

The Forever Girl part 10.
IVORY CONVINCED me to join her on the dance floor. The dark music quickened my pulse and one song blended into the next: smooth, enchanting, hypnotic.
A gathering of voices, somehow clearer than the music, swelled around me, reminding me of the real reason I’d agreed to come along. If I didn’t take a break, I’d burn out before I got a chance to talk to Adrian about his books. I hollered to Ivory that I would meet her at the table.
On my way, I passed a group of women piled into one side of a booth, crowding a decent-enough man. Two other men sat across from them. The lady-killer captured my gaze, and a cool sensation, followed by warmth, tingled my brain. For the first time in weeks, my mind grew quiet. But, instead your code is a of the calm I expected, the silence was unsettling.



Welcome to the treasure hunt tour for The Forever Girl!

Here's how it's done:

Each stop on the tour will have a small excerpt with a code hidden it. Visit all the stops to gather the letters, unscramble the phrase, and email it to :

sandra.ashton-holtzman@bookandblogservices.com

The stops list can be found here

The winner will receive a goody bag including:

1 Forever Girl Ring
1 Forever Girl Keychain
1 Forever Girl Necklace
1 Forever Girl Bookmark
1 Forever Girl Candle
1 signed copy of The Forever Girl
1 signed copy of the companion novella, Her Sweetest Downfall

IMMORTALIZATION: The author will also immortalize the lucky winner by giving them a cameo appearance in the next Forever Girl book.

Bonus: If you've already reviewed The Forever Girl on Amazon, include the link to your review along with the unscrambled phrase for an additional entry!



“Sophia's family has skeletons, but they aren't in their graves.

At twenty-two, practicing Wiccan Sophia Parsons is scratching out a living waiting tables in her Rocky Mountain hometown, a pariah after a string of unsolved murders with only one thing in common: her.

Sophia can imagine lots of ways to improve her life, but she'd settle for just getting rid of the buzzing noise in her head. When the spell she casts goes wrong, the static turns into voices. Her personal demons get company, and the newcomers are dangerous.

One of them is a man named Charles, who Sophia falls for despite her better judgment. He has connections that might help her unveil the mystery surrounding her ancestor's hanging, but she gets more than she bargains for when she finally decides to trust him.

Survival in his world, she learns, means not asking questions and staying out of the immortal council's way. It's a line she crossed long ago. If Sophia wants to survive the council and save the people she loves, she must accept who she is, perform dark magic, and fight to the death for her freedom.

The Forever Girl is a full-length Paranormal Fantasy novel that will appeal to lovers of paranormal romance, urban fantasy, witches, vampires, ghosts, paranormal mystery, and paranormal horror.”



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Review: Hubris by P. A. Wilson

Hubris (A Charity Deacon Investigation) By P.A. Wilson ★★★★★


I love mysteries, thrillers, suspense; give me anything with a dead body and I'm happy.  In Hubris we get a body within the very first chapter.

Charity Deacon is a private investigator slash freelance journalist, who, after witnessing a mid-day murder disguised as a car crash and later accepting a missing persons case, finds herself plunged into the dangerous underworld of Vancouver.  Where prostitution, human trafficking, and the rule of Chinese gangsters is just a normal day.

Told from Charity's point of view Hubris is a fast paced page turner, we meet Charity, her best friend Lu, her friend-with-benefits Jake, and her client Val very quickly.  Quick actually does a good job of describing Hubris, but that could just be because I had a hard time putting it down.

After agreeing to take Val's case, Charity's life grows a lot more dangerous, and the reader moves a bit closer to the edge of their seat.

I really enjoyed the set up and development of the characters in Hubris and of course, the story itself.  Ms. Wilson uses an informal language and tone in both the narration and dialog which results in a plot and characters that are completely believable.  Charity isn't a badass or a magic user, on the contrary, she's kind of clumsy and she talks to herself, frequently.  In other words, completely normal.  It is this normalcy of the characters, and the situations they find themselves that really makes this book such a page turner.  Don't get me wrong, I love a good paranormal story, the unexplainable, in-human monster stalking the streets is deliciously terrifying, but the human monsters are always far more scary.

Nearly impossible to put down, I would recommend Hubris to anyone who enjoys the detective novels or the suspense genre.  I for one, am glad I had the opportunity to read it, and I'm definitely looking forward to the next  (mis)adventure Charity gets herself into.

There only negative thing I have to say about this book is that in my copy of Hubris there were a few mis-spellings, and some typographical errors which made for a bit of difficulty, especially in one paragraph where it seemed a few words had been left out entirely.  But as no publication is perfect, these flaws are fairly minor, and I still rate Hubris as a five star story.

If you are looking for a fun story, a realistic heroine, and you're alright with staying up til 3 in the morning to finish a book, than you owe it to yourself to give this one a spin.

DISCLOSURE: I received Hubris as a gift from Ms. Wilson after I'd expressed interest in reading it, and she had expressed interest in my reviews. This in no way effected my review, and the above is my honest opinion of the book.

Review: Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini

Starcrossed by Josephine Angelini
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I don’t often read Young Adult novels, in fact, I think that prior to Starcrossed, the last YA series I read was Harry Potter and that was easily 3 years ago. Its not that I think they are juvenile or below me, I just am rarely inclined to read about kids, and really that seems to be the only difference between the Young Adult genre and the “Adult” genre, the characters are teens, the situations may not be as explicit as they would be in a book geared towards adults and there is usually a school involved somewhere.

That’s my only excuse, I like to be able to relate to characters, and sadly it's often hard to relate to teens when you’re in your 30s.

That being said, I absolutely loved Starcrossed and cannot wait for Dreamless (the second book in the series). You may be wondering how I ended up reading it in the first place, especially considering the previous statement that I normally don’t read or relate to YA.

I’m not going to lie, it was a complete accident.

Since getting a Kindle Fire a few months ago, I’ve been reading more variety due to amazon’s free ebooks, one of these free books was what I thought to be a book of short stories, but it turned out to be a book of excerpts, great way to get someone hooked on your book, and I was hooked. I think I was left gaping when the excerpt ended, and had to immediately get the book so I could find out what happened next with Helen and Lucas.

When I first picked up the story I nearly skipped over it once I realized it was about a 16 year old who was stressing the first day of school, really, it was so beyond my normal realm of reading that I rolled my eyes and scoffed a bit, actually I think it was more of a snort than a scoff, but I digress.

I kept reading, mostly because I still thought I was reading a short story but I had also begun to grow slightly interested in what was going on. By the time the excerpt ended (six chapters in) I was hooked.

Josephine Angelini, the author of “Starcrossed” takes elements of Greek mythology, and the Trojan war and creates a vivid tale of the Scions (descendants) of the Greek gods, one that takes us from the days when the gods meddled in the affairs of man all the way to the modern day, where we meet the youngest generation of Scions.

Helen Hamilton, our heroine, has lived her whole life on the island of Nantucket, though she has always known she was different, she never thought it was due to anything more than her freakish height and strength, both of which she tries her best to either downplay or outright hide.

We meet Helen, in the days before the beginning of her junior year it should be a normal year but already the island is abuzz with the news that a wealthy family named Delos, has purchased one of the largest homes on the island, according to Helen’s best friend the kids in the family are all amazingly gorgeous, Helen however experiences a visceral reaction to the family's name and can’t shake the feeling that there is something wrong about them.

Soon after, Helen begins to have nightmares, and visions of wailing old women weeping blood, appear whenever Helen comes in contact with a member of the Delos family, visions and an intense rage toward the whole family, but it is Lucas Delos that seems to bring out the worst of Helen’s sudden and inexplicable bloodlust.

A series of strange and violent encounters culminates in a mad flight through the woods and Helen learns more about herself, her family and the Deloses then she ever could have expected.

“Starcrossed” is a fresh approach to the tale of doomed love, an urban fantasy Romeo and Juliet with a mythology twist, with elements of suspense and intrigue and well developed characters you forget you are reading a story geared towards teens and find yourself enveloped in the tale.

I literally couldn’t put it down, I never expected such an intriguing story nor did I expect characters that even if I didn’t exactly relate to them, I was very much interested in finding out what happened to them.

Published in 2010 as the first in of a trilogy, “Starcrossed” is a must read if you enjoy YA books, and even if you normally don’t enjoy them you owe it to yourself to give the first few chapters a read, click the cover to go to Amazon where you can read the first few chapters and for a limited time, you can get “Starcrossed”, an excerpt from the sequel “Dreamless”, along with an exclusive personal essay from Josephine, for the great promo price of $0.99.

“Dreamless”, the second book in the trilogy is due out the 29th of May, and I can't wait, you can pre order it from amazon and find out more about the whole series at Josephine Angelini’s website, and don’t forget to enter to win an ARC of “Dreamless” while you’re there!