Tour & Review : Captivate Me & Fight for Me

Captivate Me by S.J. Pierce

Publication date: April 1st 2014

Genres: Paranormal Romance, Young Adult

Captivate Me is Book One of The Captivated Series, a Young Adult Paranormal Romance

“My mom had always told me – when you meet “the one,” you’ll know; they’ll captivate your heart the moment you lay eyes on them. I had always wondered, though,if my mom’s words of wisdom were finite – if they applied to everyone. Maybe those who had found their one great love were the lucky few, and maybe the rest of us would have to settle for less than earth-shattering.”

Seventeen-year-old Kat Walsh is a Gifted – a human with paranormal abilities. With her mom a former Angel and her dad a dream prophet, it’s always been in her genetic make-up to be extraordinary. Unfortunately for her, the world can’t handle the strange orunusual. So when she slips up and uses her powers at her high school in Ireland, the entire student body treats her like a freak – even the ones she thought were her closest friends.

Broken, but hopeful for a fresh start, she allows her parents to enroll her in a boarding school buried deep within the forests of a small Colorado town. At Midland Pines, School for the Gifted, she feels as though she can finally be herself; she makes new friends and even has the attention of the most popular guy in school – Levi. Everything feels normal again… or does it?

Not long after her arrival, weird dreams of an alluring boy whom she’s never met surface during the night, and the eerie, shadowy trees encircling their school seem to call to her. As these disturbing, yet enticing developments intensify, other bizarre occurrences happen – students and staff turn up missing, and mystery visitors leave gifts while she sleeps. With all of these other things vying for her attention, a desperate Levi has to fight even harder to keep her interest. But with the dreams of the attractive boy slowly captivating her heart, Kat has to make a choice – will she settle for ‘great’ Levi, or will she search for her elusive dream visitor, possibly stumbling across ‘amazing?’

From the author of the Alyx Rayer Chronicles, comes a refreshingly different Young Adult series with plenty of love, suspense, and a new take on the Paranormal.

Recommended for readers 16 and up due to mature content.

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Kat is just transferred in school for the gifted. In other words the students have some type of unique powers and everyone can settle in harmony strengthening their power. Everything is all good until she starts to get some interesting dreams about a guy who isn't her boyfriend and some students go missing.

I haven't read a paranormal book in a while and decided to take on this book. It sounded interesting enough. Unfortunately this book did seem to drag at some points for me and I kept finding myself gravitate towards other books. Once I finally took a moment to just sit down and really read the book and I enjoyed it. I've been in a reading slump lately and so I've been trying to get out of it with a good book.

That goes to say I did like this book, it wasn't amazing in my opinion. It was interesting enough that I did follow through with starting to read the next book. I just wished there was more development to the characters and backgrounds to everything. Like I would've like to know more about her parents, maybe know more about the character herself. Maybe in the next book there will be some type of improvement. See here's the problem with writing reviews, I can mention some of the bad things without spilling the book but when it comes to the good things that I loved, it would be hard to say without ruining it. I did like that near the ending part with that dream and wondering what it could mean and seeing how it turned out. (Is that a spoiler? I hope not, not much details in that I suppose.) Also that ending in the epilogue, it definitely intrigued me enough that I started to pick up the next book straight after.

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Fight For Me by S.J. Pierce

Publication date: February 14th 2014

Genres: Paranormal Romance, Young Adult

A fresh start – something Kat and Gabriel thought they would find when they left their pasts behind at Midland Pines High and moved to a compound for hybrids. Or at least safety from a witch seeking revenge. But now… that’sall changed. Now, thanks to a flirty hybrid hell-bent on winning Gabriel’s attention, the terrifying visions of another prophetic Gifted, and the strange and worrisome behavior ofone of their closest friends, Kat finds herself fighting for things that had once come so easily, including her relationship with her soulmate. And now she’s afraid.

Recommended for readers 16 and up due to mature content.

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One thing that I can say about this book is that I loved Kat's dreams and wondering how they would turn out - if they'd turn out - and how it would actually turn out when it did. I was hoping for more when it came to the villain. As nice as it was to read I thought the concept of where they are now was interesting and how it impacted the real world vs the dimension that they are at. There was a bit of drama that kept things interesting and I liked how it turned out when it all came out in the end. I wished that there was more appearances when it came to that villain though.

Susan James Pierce has a degree in Marketing Management, works for a Fortune 500 company in Atlanta, Georgia, and devotes her precious, spare time to writing Fantasy, Paranormal and Sci-fi novels.

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Hell in Heels by Alicia Dawn & Hope Daniels

Publication date: December 12th 2015

Genres: Adult, Paranormal Romance

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Fate was a fickle bitch. Or at least that’s how Zoey Morgan saw it. As a witch old enough to know better, yet too sexy for any man to resist, she was tired of running. From her past. From the pain. But especially from her worst nightmare. Not being able to save her family from the clutches of a great evil.

Unfortunately, she’d been doing it so long, she wasn’t sure how to stop.
That was until an ex-military wolf-shifter crossed her path.

But to say Ryan Taylor was a jaded breed of his own would be quite the understatement. It seemed his past, too, was riddled with enough cynicism to make trusting a gal like Zoey a difficult feat. Still, his innate drive to protect an innocent was as intrinsic as the act of breathing, which made leaving her to face her demons alone harder than any covert mission.

Their fiery mutual attraction didn’t help, and it wasn’t long before the sparks and fur began to fly, all while Zoey’s past continued to hunt her. With no choice left but to combine military with magic, the two work together to take down Zoey’s nemesis, finally, once and for all.

Review : Twisted Dreams

Twisted Dreams by Marissa Farrar

Genre: Paranormal Romance, New Adult
Pages : 199
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Published September 21st 2014 by Warwick House Press

 Born of a vampire father to a human mother, Elizabeth Bandores’ life was never going to be normal, so she can’t image why she thinks starting college will be any different.

Having grown up in the affluent Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles and desperate to escape, she decides on the small college town of Sage Springs. With dreams of being a writer, she joins the college newspaper and is introduced to blond, confident Flynn Matthews, Sage Springs’ rising swim star.

But a carnival has set up in the small town, and the boy running the Waltzer catches her eye. Dark-haired, leather-jacketed Riley is rude, with an air of danger. Elizabeth can’t help but notice him. And when an accident thrusts them together, she discovers he’s noticed her, too.

Sage Springs isn’t the quiet little town Elizabeth had hoped for. The forests bordering the town harbour a dark secret—one some of the residents have been trying to protect, and the leaders of the carnival have set in their sights...

Beth is like every other 18 year old girl who wants to go to college and gain some independence away from t he parents by living in the dorm. The only difference is the whole being half vampire and half human thing. She just wants to try to live a normal like where no one knows her background. Things start to take a turn for the strange when she gets into the college town where many mishaps that occur around her.

There is so much to love about this book. From the way there was a air of mystery of what was going on, then there was a bit of a romance, then there was the whole seeing how her life was complicated of being a type of hybrid of a vampire and human. I loved that this was fast paced and so much going around keeping the readers hooked. Overall it has a great story line, was well written and a great story. I recommend  you lovely readers to check out this book! 5 of 5 stars!

Blitz : Infinity and Unleashed

Infinity & Infinity Unleashed by Sedona Venez 

(Valkyries: Soaring Raven #1 & 2) 

Publication date: December 9th 2014

Genres: New Adult, Paranormal Romance

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Infinity is a superstar singer, who has always had everything at her fingertips—until her world unravels. Her foretelling dreams have haunted her, and a part of her believes them to be true.

Although a preternatural world filled with vampires, wolves, tiger-shifters, and Valkyries surrounds her, Infinity doesn't know that others are after her or that any of them even exist. They want her for the ultimate power that she can give them, yet she doesn’t realize the extent of the force she holds within herself.

When the truth of her dreams comes to light, Infinity risks losing not only her own life, but also the lives of those she’s always loved.

In a war between the supernatural beings, there is no telling who will survive. 

* * The story contains strong sexual themes/language and is not intended for readers under the age of 18. * *

Top 10 songs from the INFINITY Playlist
Habits (Stay High) - Tove Lo
Boom Clap - Charli XCX
Spaceship Coupe - Justin Timberlake
Pills N Potions - Nicki Minaj
99 Problems - Jay Z
Magic - Coldplay
Red Lights - Tiesto
The Worst - Jhene Aiko
Am I Wrong - Nico & Vinz
Human - Christina Perri

Infinity Unleased - Book 2

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As the war between supernatural beings is brewing, Infinity awakens in the midst of her kidnapping. Instead of facing her captor, she meets someone who takes her into the past where she learns secrets that change everything she’s always known.

After recently discovering that vampires, wolves, tiger-shifters, Valkyries, and otherworldly entities exist around her, Infinity must quickly adapt to her new reality while facing the fact that she no longer knows who she can trust. 

Each species wants her, but there’s only one person she is meant to be with…and he might be the only one she loses forever. 

* * The story contains strong sexual themes/language and is not intended for readers under the age of 18. * *

Top 10 songs from the INFINITY UNLEASHED Playlist
I See Fire - Ed Sheeran
Trumpets - Jason Derulo
Flawless - Beyonce
Waves - Mr. Probz
This Is How We Do - Katy Perry
Stay With Me - Sam Smith
Clique - Kanye West
You & I - One Direction
All About That Bass - Meghan Trainor
This Is What It Feels Like - Banks

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Sedona Venez (AKA T.L. Clarke) is a romance junkie with a dirty mind. She lives in New York City with her hot ex-military hubby and their dog. She loves writing hot, sexy, complex stories about strong characters, pushing the boundaries and risking it all. You can find out more about Sedona and her novels by visiting http://www.sedonavenez.com

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