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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Review: Daughter Of Smoke & Bone

Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor

(Daughter of Smoke & Bone #1)
Genre: Paranormal, Angels, Romance, Urban Fantasy, Fiction, Magic
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Pages: 418
Purchase Links: Amazon | Kindle
Published September 27th 2011 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Synopsis:

Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky.

In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grows dangerously low.

And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war.

Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real, she’s prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands", she speaks many languages - not all of them human - and her bright blue hair actuallygrows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she’s about to find out.

When beautiful, haunted Akiva fixes fiery eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?

Review:

Karou is an art student with a not so normal life. When shes not at school or with her friend shes traveling around doing errands like getting teeth for the sorcerer who raised her. Things were normal enough for her until she slowly started to notice branding marks and was attacked by an angel. From then on thing in her life changed.

I really loved this book, I at first had a hard time getting into it. When I decided to give this book another shot through audiobook I was from then on hooked. I really enjoyed this book I finished this book fairly quickly. I also loved the backstory of what went on in Karou's past life. I really look forward to seeing more from the next book.

Ember X

"The ember dies slowly in the mound of ash. Darkness and mourning, it longs to burn fire. But  the smoke and sorrow let it die. The need for a spark asserts fiercely. But a spark won't surrender  So the ember continues to smother. Into ash, into dust, into nothing. And that's how it will stay forever."

Ember X by Jessica Sorensen
Stars: 4 of 5
Format: Kindle/Ebook
Genre: New Adult, Angels, Fantasy, Supernatural, Romance, Dark, Urban Fantasy, Gothic
Pages: 337

Summary:

Ever since Ember made that call to the cops about her father being killed shes been under the police's watchful eye. Since his body has turned up nothing could be done.

Nineteen year old Ember has always be plagued with knowing how everyone around her would die just by simply touching them. So she has spent most of her life trying not to get into close contact with anyone and the only one who knows her secret is her best friend Raven. When an accident occurs that should've left her dead, Ember realizes the person who saved her, Asher, has no death sentence. She can now finally allow a person to get close to her without the burden of knowing his death. But Asher isn't all that he seems and has secrets to reveal if shes willing to listen.

Disappearances are now occurring in her town similar to her fathers and now shes back to being under the watchful eyes of the police.

"It hurts to be around life. People don't understand how close death is, right over their shoulders, around the block, at the end of a street. It's everywhere."

My thoughts:

Even though loved the book it was way too much like the first book. Ok I get that its a remake to be a New Adult book but there could've been more differences than just the sex scenes, language and from high school to college differences. Don't get the wrong I still loved the book, I just wished there was more than that.

I liked how this was a quick read, would've taken me about a day to read if life hadn't happen. I liked the unique take of Angels, Grim Reapers and Grim Angels. I was so conflicted on the characters Asher and Cameron. I liked that there was always something going on to keep me interested.

If you are a fan of the Fallen series by Lauren Kate I think you would really like this book.

"Like a feather in a dust storm, with no direction The Raven flies through life, helpless and omitted until night declares and the wind expires. Then it flies to the land of stones and etching and becomes an ember, breaking away.