Cover Reveal! Fire in the Darkness by Stacey Marie Brown

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Fire in the Darkness
by Stacey Marie Brown
Darkness #2
Genre: New Adult Paranormal Romance

It's been four weeks since Ember Brycin witnessed what her powers are capable of. The Electrical Current Storm (ECS) has turned Seattle, Washington into a natural disaster zone. The death toll is in the thousands with countless others homeless and hungry.

And Ember is the one who caused it. Something she will have to live with every day.

Those people who were unable to escape either turned quickly into gangs or live in shelters. Ember, on the other hand, can’t do either. With a price on her head and a Dark Dweller on her ass, she is constantly on the move. Both Light and Dark are hunting her for their own purpose to use her as a weapon or a pawn in the war between the Unseelie King of the Dark and the Seelie Queen of the Light.

Em needs help but doesn’t know who to trust: Lars, the mystery man Torin told her to find? Torin, the Seelie Queen’s personal knight, who has sworn to keep Em safe? Or Eli, who wants to turn her over to the Unseelie King, but whom she has an undeniable, intense connection with?

No matter what she chooses she will probably lose—her life or everything and everyone she loves.

Expected Publication: Fall 2013

Feature & Follow Friday: The Power of DNF

Feature & Follow Friday is a weekly meme hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. Find new blogs, make new friends, learn something new about your fellow blog manics, and follow follow follow. It's about spreading the love ... and the followers.

The question this week is:

How do you handle a book you don’t like? Do you DNF or do you power through?

I have a hard time not finishing books. For one, I feel horrible if I received the book in exchange for a review or as a complimentary copy from the publisher or author and I don't give a valiant effort to finish it. Two, my mind usually questions "What if?" What if the story picks up the pace and gets better? What if the aspect I'm not quite fond of is explained thoroughly and I begin to get it? Even today, I DNF'd a book that I hated the characters and premise—it was not what I was expecting at all—yet I'm questioning if I should try again. I can't not know what happens. The feeling niggles at me for days.

That being said, I will DNF if the writing is deplorable, there's something that makes me extremely uncomfortable or angry (and not in a good way), or I've been stuck on it for a week and find myself without the inkling to pick it back up. I'll power through "meh" books, but I know scoffing and rolling my eyes more than five times in an hour at the ridiculousness of it means I'm done, no matter how far I am through the book.

What about you? Do you DNF easily or push through?
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Blog Tour {Teaser & Giveaway}—Made to Forget by Samantha LaFantasie

Stopping by The LUV'NV today is the Made to Forget blog tour, organized by Good Choice Reading Promotions.
We have a tiny teaser to share with you, and you can enter to win a copy of the book, signed bookmarks, or a $25 Visa gift card!

Made to Forget

by Samantha LaFantasie

Nepherium Novella series — Part One

Publication: July 27th, 2013 by Samantha LaFantasie
Genre: New Adult Urban Fantasy

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There’s something that lies within my memory. Hidden in the dark. Something that can kill me and those that I love. But I was in an accident, covered in mystery and deception. And my memory…was lost. There are those who want me to remember. I don’t trust them. And those I do trust … are fighting for me to forget.

Elsabetha Ellery wants to get her memory back, even if it kills her.

After waking up in a hospital with no memory, Elsabetha quickly learns those who claim to be her friend are anything but. And those who are her true friends keep themselves unseen.

Stuck with piecing together her broken memories alone, Elsa struggles with having faith in those she trusts and heeding the warnings of the dangers in recovering her memory. Ignoring them, she faces heavy consequences. Ones she doesn’t see until it’s too late, and a life is lost.

Vouched Book! Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers

Grave Mercy
Robin LaFevers
Book #1 of His Fair Assassin series
Publication: March 5th 2013 by HMH Books
Genre: Fantasy, Young Adult, Historical Fiction, Romance

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Seventeen-year-old Ismae escapes from the brutality of an arranged marriage into the sanctuary of the convent of St. Mortain, where the sisters still serve the gods of old. Here she learns that the god of Death Himself has blessed her with dangerous gifts—and a violent destiny. If she chooses to stay at the convent, she will be trained as an assassin and serve as a handmaiden to Death. To claim her new life, she must destroy the lives of others.
Ismae’s most important assignment takes her straight into the high court of Brittany—where she finds herself woefully under prepared—not only for the deadly games of intrigue and treason, but for the impossible choices she must make. For how can she deliver Death’s vengeance upon a target who, against her will, has stolen her heart?

Cover Reveal! Torch by Cambria Herbert

Welcome to the cover reveal for:

Torch
by Cambria Herbert
Take It Off #1
Genre: New Adult Contemporary

If you can’t take the heat… stay away from the flame.

Katie Parks has been on her own since the age of fifteen. All she’s ever wanted is a place to call her own—a life that is wholly hers that no one can take away. She thought she finally had it, but with the strike of a single match, everything she worked so hard for is reduced to a pile of smoking ash. And she almost is too.

Now she’s being stalked by someone who’s decided it’s her time to die. The only thing standing in the path of her blazing death is sexy firefighter Holt Arkain.

Katie’s body might be safe with Holt… but her heart is another story.

As the danger heats up, sparks fly and the only thing Katie knows for sure is that her whole life is about to go up in flames.

*** This is a New Adult Contemporary novel and contains sexual content and graphic language. It is not intended for young adult readers. ***

Expected Publication: August 23, 2013 by Cambria Herbert