#CharacterInterview with Gentry Cabot from WHEN YOU KNEW by Jamie Beck + #Giveaway

Character Interview: 
Meet Gentry Cabot from WHEN YOU KNEW 


Greetings Gentry! Thanks so much for being here. I hear you are pretty busy nowadays with your new baby. Can you tell us a bit about him?

Colton (Colt) fills my heart with love and no small amount of fear of failure. He’s only three months old, and still very colicky, but I can’t stop holding, smelling, kissing, and cradling him. I don’t know much about being a mom yet, but I do know that I want him to feel loved and special, no matter how cranky he can be.


How has becoming a mom changed you?

#Spotlight on Unsteady by Elizabeth York + #Giveaway

Unsteady
by Elizabeth York
Kindle Edition, 308 pages
Expected publication: June 26th 2018
ASINB07C1V1TS8

He was the only one for me.

When I close my eyes I still see the way he looked at me all those years ago. The way it felt to have someone so amazing in my life especially after my parents abandoned me. The bond that only a childhood friend could understand. He was my balance and never let me fall But I lied to him…

She was my better half.

I remember the fear she hid under her smile when I met her. There were so many adventures that we lived a hundred lifetimes in our minds. She was the reason I got up in the morning. She was my gravity and kept me grounded. But then she lied…

He kept my heart when I broke his.

I was never going to see him again. He would always hate me, even if he knew the truth. It would be better this way. If only he hadn’t kept my heart.

She threw my heart away when I wanted her to have it the most.

She ruined every memory that we made with a simple sentence. My life would be better without her. If only she hadn’t kept my heart.

At forty thousand feet the Earth shifted, and planets aligned. My world came into focus and for once I was no longer unsteady and ready to fall. As the wings of the plane drifted over the icy cold ocean my heart warmed when I saw him. Once I saw his eyes and the way he was looking at me I knew…

He was the balance I always needed

...And she was mine. 

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5 Wine Glass #Review of Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

 

Title: Children of Blood and Bone
Series: Legacy of Orïsha Series #1
Author: Tomi Adeyemi
Format: Hardcover,  525 pages
Published: March 6th 2018 by Henry Holt Books for Young Readers/Macmillan
ISBN-10: 1250170974
ISBN-13: 978-1250170972
Links: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N
Reviewer: Linda
Source: Library
Rating: 5 out of 5 Wine Glasses

They killed my mother.
They took our magic.
They tried to bury us.

Now we rise.

Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie’s Reaper mother summoned forth souls.

But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope.

Now Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy. With the help of a rogue princess, Zélie must outwit and outrun the crown prince, who is hell-bent on eradicating magic for good.

Danger lurks in Orïsha, where snow leoponaires prowl and vengeful spirits wait in the waters. Yet the greatest danger may be Zélie herself as she struggles to control her powers and her growing feelings for an enemy.

Linda's Thoughts:
“We are all children of blood and bone. All instruments of vengeance and virtue. This truth holds me close, rocking me like a child in a mother's arms. It binds me in its love as death swallows me in its grasp.” 

Read an #Excerpt from Getting Schooled by Emma Chase

Getting Schooled 
(Getting Schooled #1)
by Emma Chase
ebook, 300 pages
Expected publication: June 26th 2018 by Emma Chase LLC
ISBN139780997426274

Head of the class...

Garrett Daniels has this whole life thing figured out.

The cocky, charismatic former high school star quarterback is an idolized football coach and "cool" teacher in the hometown where he's not just a golden boy—he's platinum. He has good friends, a great house on the lake, and the best damn sidekick a man could ask for: Snoopy, the albino beagle.

Then...Callie Carpenter comes home.

And knocks him right on his tight end zone.

Back to school...

Callie has a pretty sweet life herself...on the other side of the country. But circumstances—that she'd prefer to never speak of again—have brought her back home, helping out her parents and substitute teaching at her old high school.

Now she's facing bickering, raging hormones, constant gossip, awkward weirdness, and drama galore...and that's just the teachers.

Just like old times...

When Garrett offers to show his former high school sweetheart the secrets of his winning teacher ways, Callie jumps at the chance—and then has to stop herself from jumping him.

Good friends are all they can ever be.

Or...these teachers just might end up getting schooled—hard—by love.

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4.5 Wine Glass #Audio #Review of Bright Montana Sky by Debra Holland

 

Title: Bright Montana Sky
Series: Montana Sky #8
Author: Debra Holland
Narrator: Lara Asmundson
Format: Unabridged Audiobook (7 hours and 49 minutes)
Published: March 14, 2018 (Debra Holland)
ISBN: ASIN: B07BGD4HWJ
Links: Goodreads | Amazon | Audible
Reviewer: Linda
Source: Author
Rating: 4 ½ out of 5 Wine Glasses

Jilted seamstress Constance Taylor travels to Sweetwater Springs to live with her estranged father, the livery stable owner. She plans to open a dressmaking shop and bring sophisticated clothing styles to the uncouth frontier town.

Angus Cameron is a young doctor, who’s bitter and discouraged from his work with upper class Londoners and the wretched poor in the East End slums. He arrives in Sweetwater Springs to share the medical practice of his brother, the town doctor.

Although Constance and Angus don’t want to live in Sweetwater Springs, both are determined to change the town in ways they think are important. They clash over her fashionable creations, which Angus knows are unhealthy, and Constance refuses to change. They deny their attraction to each other until Constance falls ill from the arsenic used in her favorite purple and green fabrics, and Angus must fight to save the life of the woman he’s come to love.

Your Thoughts:
Dr. Angus was dedicated to the poor served by London’s East End medical clinic. Discouraged after losing a woman giving birth slums, Dr. Angus firmed his resolve to join his brother in Sweetwater Springs:
“I need to flee to the new world, to a new life, to clean air and blue skies and to wide open spaces. Perhaps there I can make a difference.”
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#Spotlight on Built to Last by Julie Ann Walker + #Giveaway

In the epic conclusion to the BKI series, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Julie Ann Walker delivers her biggest bombshell yet!

Built to Last 
(Black Knights Inc. #12)
by Julie Ann Walker
Mass Market Paperback, 384 pages
Expected publication: July 3rd 2018 by Sourcebooks (first published June 26th 2018)
ISBN 1492608874

Masterful, mysterious, and completely ruthless, Jamin “Angel” Agassi joined the Black Knights Inc. after a mission-gone-wrong forced him to undergo extensive plastic surgery and change his name. He's going to bring down the world's worst crime syndicate, and hopefully keep Sonya Butler, a love from his past, from discovering who he really is...

When a dark-eyed stranger gets caught up in Sonya’s latest mission, she starts to question all her hard-won instincts. Something about Angel tells her he's more than he seems, and sometimes, when she least expects it, he reminds her of a man she used to know. As the bullets fly, she realizes that in love and war nothing is ever what it seems... 

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