Friday, March 6, 2015

Review Wrap Up: Silk by Chris Karlsen


Mystery / Suspense / Thriller
Date Published: December 14, 2015

Silk on the skin—luxurious, luscious..lethal.
London-Fall, 1888
The city is in a panic as Jack the Ripper continues his murderous spree. While the Whitechapel police struggle to find him, Detective Inspector Rudyard Bloodstone and his partner are working feverishly to find their own serial killer. The British Museum's beautiful gardens have become a killing ground for young women strangled as they stroll through.
Their investigation has them brushing up against Viscount Everhard, a powerful member of the House of Lords, and a friend to Queen Victoria. When the circumstantial evidence  points to him as a suspect, Rudyard must deal with the political blowback, and knows if they are going to go after the viscount, they'd better be right and have proof.
As the body count grows and the public clamor for the detectives to do more, inter-department rivalries complicate the already difficult case. 

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 This novel has a current Amazon Rating o 4.6*'s.
Get your copy for $2.99!


REVIEWS FROM THIS TOUR
February 23 - Book Junkie Mom
February 24 - What is That Book About
 February 26 - Penny For My Thoughts
February 28 - KT Book Reviews
March 1 - Boyish Bookworm
March 3 - KimberLeigh Writes
March 5 - Cici's Theories
March 6 - SBM Book Obsession



I was born and raised in Chicago. My father was a history professor and my mother was, and is, a voracious reader. 

I grew up with a love of history and books.



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Review Wrap Up: Stone Guardian by @PaulinaShelf #giveaway


Fantasy Romance
Date Published: November 18, 2014


Element – Fire (Healer/Destroyer)

Royal House – Purple



Milcah was born to rule along side an evil mother. Milcah's father was taken against his will and forced to give up his seed to produce a child with unimaginable powers. At a young age she was taken away from the only home she knows and forced to forget, again and again.Raised by a detached stepmother, Milcah learned to depend on herself and her best friend, Mary for support. When Mary suggest a vacation, with a scenic route, to the Grand Canyon Milcah believes she is finally getting the chance to see outside her small town. Packing a few things and climbing into her old beat up car, she never imagined she would find a new side of herself.



Lost on a back road, Milcah meets her destiny in a small town named Beacon. When her mind is unlocked, she finds she has a past that will lead to the salvation or damnation of the world.



This is book one in The Witches Amulet series.





This novel has a current Amazon rating of 4.2*'s.



Tour Stops
February 24 - The Avid Reader
February 25 - Texas Book Nook
February 26 - The Indie Express
February 27 - A Life Through Books
February 28 - Luscious Literature
March 2 - Steamy Side
March 5 - Boom Baby Reviews



Paulina is a small town girl with big dreams. She is the second oldest of three talented siblings.
As early as three she was directing her family around acting out whatever current story was in her head. At four between her older brother and her, a whole universe was created which the younger siblings were introduced into as they were born.
Her natural ability to tell a story took her down many paths. She wrote plays, poems, small children books and short stories all before she entered high school.
When picking a career her councilor told her writing was a dying art and so she went to school for veterinarian science. Three years later she dropped out of university and enrolled in the local community college with a major in journalism
In 2008 she graduated with her BA in Communication/Journalism from Cal State Fullerton.

Life happened and her dreams were put on hold until 2013 when she started a review blog. This year her first book in her Witches Amulet series will be released. 












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Saturday, February 28, 2015

Review Wrap Up: Faith Seekers by @SherryRossman


Young Adult Christian Fiction
Date Published: December 2014


She raised her head when she felt the warmth. A violet cloud poured into her hands and over her head. He spoke like water falling into a deep pool. “The sapling belongs to me.”
When Hannah’s family loses their home, she drops out of college and joins them as they take their RV on a journey through fractured America. Struggling with her loss of identity, she attempts to embrace her new life as a nomad until a California campground unveils a nightmare that only she can see. She questions her sanity as her family continues on their journey, and her unearthly visions increase.

 Miguel, a young photographer traveling with his uncle, helps Hannah discover her true identity and the roles they will all play in unveiling the truth about the ever-present good and evil surrounding them. Join Hannah and Miguel as they try to piece together their broken hopes and dreams amidst looming darkness. Will Hannah find her faith, embrace the light, and trust in the God that she thought had abandoned her?


 This novel has a current Amazon Rating of 4.3*'s!
Get your copy for $2.99!



REVIEWS FROM THIS TOUR

February 23 - The Pulp Den - Review
February 24 - A Leisure Moment - Review
February 27 - Books Direct - Review
February 27 - Word Menagerie - Review





Sherry wrote children’s books before digging into genres for older audiences. She has published short stories for The Relevant Christian Magazine and Wordsmith Journal Magazine, as well as guest blogging for Life Upside Down and Christian eBooks Today. She lives in Northern Arizona with her husband and children.

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Friday, February 27, 2015

Review Wrap Up: Interference by @karenmbryson #giveaway


New Adult Sports Romance
Date Published: February 9, 2015


USA TODAY Bestselling Author Dakota Madison returns with another spicy sports romance. This story set in the world of college basketball.
Neuroscience student SEDONA MILLER is perfectly imperfect. She’s slightly nerdy and slightly eccentric, but completely brilliant.
When an unfortunate accident leaves Sedona with an injured arm and she’s fired from her part-time job shelving books at the university library she has to find a new gig fast.
The only job available mid-semester is working as a tutor for the athletic academic center. And the notorious bad boy of the university’s basketball team, JESSE WALKER, is the one and only guy on the new tutor’s roster.
But when SEDONA discovers a secret that could ruin the school’s winning basketball team doing the right thing could mean destroying the only guy she’s ever loved.


 This novel has a current Amazon Rating of 4.1 Stars.
Get your copy for $0.99.



REVIEWS FROM THIS TOUR

February 16 - Books are Love
February 17 - Feed Me In Books
February 21 - Sammy's Book Obsession
February 23 - Books Direct
February 24 - Books and Pearls
February 25 - BFD Book Blog
February 27 - Making it Happen





USA TODAY Bestselling Author Karen Mueller Bryson writes romance novels under four pen names: Dakota Madison, Savannah Young, Sierra Avalon and Ren Monterrey. She lives in a small town outside of Phoenix, AZ with her husband and their bloodhounds.






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Friday, February 20, 2015

Review Wrap Up: The Wicked Awakening of Anne Merchant by @jruthwiebe


Book Two in the V Trilogy

Young Adult Fiction
Date Published: January 20, 2015


   Life and death, light and dark, spirit and flesh-on Wormwood Island, the lines are always blurred. For Anne Merchant, who has been thrust back into this eerily secretive world, crossing the line seems inevitable, inescapable, destined.

Now, as Ben finds himself battling for the Big V and Teddy reveals the celestial plan in which Anne is entwined, Anne must choose: embrace her darkly powerful connection to a woman known as Lilith and, in doing so, save the boy she loves…or follow a safer path that is sure to lead to Ben’s destruction at the hands of dark leaders. Hoping the ends will justify the means, Anne starts down the slippery slope into the underworld, intent on exploring the dark to find the light. But as the lure of Lilith proves powerfully strong, will Anne save others-only to lose herself?
This novel has a current Amazon Rating of 4.2*'s.
Get your copy for $8.99.




 REVIEWS FROM THIS TOUR
February 12 - Simpliread - Review
February 17 - A Life Through Books - Review
February 18 - My Reading Addiction - Review
February 20 - Texas Book Nook - Review








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Blog Tour: The Long Journey


Political / Non Fiction
Date Published: March 2014

Imagine a world with no electricity...no cell phones...no computers. A world still devastated by the effects of global pollution, of massive climate change, of widespread genetic
manipulation, of nuclear war. Imagine a world where WE are the ones in the history books.
What will they write about you?
Join the Seeker Khadija and her Seeker-Partner, the Gen-a-wolf Ula, as they track a thief into the dangerous Highlands that border the White River. They are to take the thief back west, to the prison of Valley City - the last city on the continent and the sole remaining vestige of civilization. Valley City was built by the head of the North American Corporation just before a series of short and brutal wars that marked final global economic and environmental collapse; what is now referred to as The End. Khadija and Ula live in a world where electricity and technology exist only in stories from the old days, and the leaders of Valley City are said to be descended from the wisest of the Before People. But they are about to discover that everything they've been taught, and everything they think they know about the world around them, is not quite as it seems.
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February 9 - Counter, Culture, Critic - Guest Post
February 10 - Jeanz Book Read n Review - Interview
February 11 - Welcome to Rainy Day Book Reviews - Excerpt
February 12 - A Life Through Books - Review
February 13 - Annette Gisby - Excerpt
February 14 - Andi's Book Reviews - Guest Post
February 16 - Texas Book Nook - Review
February 17 - Cheshire Cat's Looking Glass - Review
February 18 - IEquals Alissa - Guest Post
February 19 - Cici's Theories - Interview

Cara J. Swanson was born in Colorado somewhere around thirty-six years ago, and
immediately leapt to work on her first story. She did not venture into self-publishing until 2006, however, when she formed Nighthawk/Raven Publishing to publish her first book, Blood Cult: Book I of the Elvestran Chronicles. She has since published the sequel, Daígu, a companion
Dictionary, and is working on the third in the series (The Desert Wanderer) as well as a murder mystery (When Demons Dance) and has recently published a futuristic partially fiction book titled The Long Journey. She has two mottos; “Be careful or you’ll end up in my novel,” and “I wish I was capable of working on one project at a time. But I’m not.” All her books are published under her personal four tenants of walking the Red Road: dedication to family, dedication to community, dedication to social justice, and dedication to ecological health. She is a signatory member of the Green Press Initiative. She can be contacted by emailing raven@thewritingraven.com.



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Tour Wrap Up: The Devil's Music



Non Fiction
Date Published: August 2014

Certain musical modes, tones, and instruments have been used to represent evil for centuries. From the torturous musical instruments depicted in Hieronymus Bosch's famous "Garden of Earthly Delights" to the dark tones that announce the presence of Darth Vader in the Star Wars films, from the cantatas of Bach and the operas of Mozart to heavy metal, music has been used to represent a gallery of rogues and demons including the devil himself. But can music do more than suggest the presence of evil? Can certain music actually embody evil? Since antiquity many have thought so. And this belief combined with religious and philosophical concepts drawn from Eastern cultures has influenced the direction of Western culture, its mythology, cosmology, theology, and politics, and consequently the structure of Western society itself. This book recounts the history of demonic music and its extraordinary influence on Western culture. 

February 9 - Deal Sharing Aunt - Interview
February 10 - Welcome to Rainy Day Reviews - Excerpt
February 11 - Counter, Culture, Critic - Guest Post
February 12 - Gothic Moms - Excerpt
February 13 - Texas Book Nook - Spotlight
February 15 - Logikal Blog - Guest Post
February 16 - A Life Through Books - Spotlight
February 17 - Andi's Book Reviews - Excerpt
February 18 - Illuminate Caliginosus - Spotlight
February 19 - Steamy Side - Spotlight


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