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Author: Steven Dos Santos Title: The Sowing Series: The Torch Keeper #2 Genre: Science Fiction, Dystopian, Survival Fiction Publisher: Flux Books Expected Publication Date: March 8,2014   This time, there are no choices. Lucian “Lucky” Spark leads a double life. By day, he trains to become one of the Establishment elite. At night, he sabotages his oppressors from within, seeking to avenge the murder of his love, Digory Tycho, and rescue his imprisoned brother. But when he embarks on a risky plot to assassinate members of the Establishment hierarchy, Lucky is thrust into the war between the Establishment and the rebellion, where the lines between friend and foe are blurred beyond recognition. His only chance for survival lies in facing the secrets of the Sowing, a mystery rooted in the ashes of the apocalyptic past that threatens to destroy Lucky’s last hope for the future. Review   "Freedom and dignity are not scraps to be doled out by cruel masters. T...

  Trailer Tuesday is a Weekly Blog Post hosted by me at Blood Sweat and Books. Each week I choose two Book Trailers to showcase. One Trailer will be for an upcoming book and the other will be one that has already been released. This week I focus my spotlight on Alpha Girl by Kate Bloomfield &  The Theory Of Everything by Kari Luna.       Available Now: Alpha Girl by Kate Bloomfield Seventeen year old Rose Goldman is highly unpopular in the little town of Halfway. Ever since the 'attack' when she was a little girl, people and animals have been afraid of her. She gets bullied in school, and called 'wet dog' because of the way she smells, despite being extremely hygienic. However, life takes a turn when a new teacher starts at Halfway High. Mr. Stone, the quirky and charismatic English teacher is twice Rose's age, but she feels an unexplainable pull towards him from day one. Despite her better judgement, Rose pursues a friendship with Mr. Ston...

Author: Scott Nicholson Series: After #2 Genre: Post Apocalyptic, Horror Publisher: Haunted Computer Books Format: E-Book Expected Publication: March 23, 2013 Copy Provided By: Purchased Fuzzy Coffee Books Book Information   It's six weeks after the shock. The smoke on the horizon has diminished, and Rachel Wheeler and her two traveling companions head toward the mountains where Rachel's grandfather Franklin has built a survivalist compound. However, the strange mutated people known as Zapheads seem to be changing from bloodthirsty killers into a force far more menacing. A secret military installation may hold the key to rebuilding civilization, but Franklin doesn't trust their intentions. And the Zapheads are adapting to the new world faster than the human survivors, who must fight for their place in a future that may have no room for them.   Review After: The Echo picks up six weeks after the solar flare has wiped out the majority of the populatio...

Rating: ★★★★★ Title: The Night mare Affa ir Series: The Arkwell Academy # 1 Ge nre: Young Adult, Fantasy Paranormal Format: E-Book Publisher: Tor Teen P ublication Date: March 5, 20 1 3 Copy Provided By: Netgalley      Sixteen-year-old Dusty Everhart breaks into houses late at night, but not because she’s a criminal. No, she’s a Nightmare. Literally. Being the only Nightmare at Arkwell Academy, a boarding school for magickind, and living in the shadow of her mother’s infamy, is hard enough. But when Dusty sneaks into Eli Booker’s house, things get a whole lot more complicated. He’s hot, which means sitting on his chest and invading his dreams couldn’t get much more embarrassing. But it does. Eli is dreaming of a murder. Then Eli’s dream comes true. Now Dusty has to follow the clues—both within Eli’s dreams and out of them—to stop the killer before more people turn up dead. And before the killer learns what she’s up to and marks her as the ne...

Rating:  Author: Shane Scollins Title: The Game Genre: Science Fiction,Paranormal,Mystery Format: E-Book Publisher: Limitless Publishing Copy Provided By: Author Publication Date: March 13,2013   Buy It Now:     No matter where you are, they’ll find you, and put you in “The GAME”. Candice Laguna’s life is being systematically dismantled, by an unknown force, for a reason she can’t imagine. But she is about to become the unwilling star of a reality game competition the likes of which has never been broadcast to the world. Just when things get darkest, a mysterious man snatches her from the grips of doom. He is a man who is not what he appears, and not who he says. He has no name and his motivation to help Candice is not what it seems to be. Click The Banner Above To Follow The Tour!! Review: Sometimes a book comes along that grabs you, holds on tight and just when you think you can't take anymore (though secretly you do) the book de...

 Rating: ★★★★ Author: Nicole Cushing Title: Children Of No One Format: E-Book Publisher: Dark Fuse Copy Provided By: Netgalley Expected Publication Date: March 26,2013   Sadism, nihilism, poverty, wealth, screams, whimpers, sanity and madness collide in Nowhere, Indiana For Thomas Krieg, Nowhere is a miles-long, pitch-black underground maze in which he's imprisoned dozens of boys for the past ten years -- all in the name of art. For two brothers, Nowhere is the only place they clearly remember living. A world unto itself, in which they must stay alert to stay alive. A world from which the only escape is death. But for an English occultist known only as Mr. No One, Nowhere is much more...and much less: the perfect place in which to perform a ritual to unleash the grandest of eldritch deities, the God of Nothingness, the Great Dark Mouth. Review: This was my reaction when I completed Children Of No One. I'm not even exaggerating here the Novella is ...

Add To Goodreads   Cover Designed By: Phat Puppy Art    Series: Pretty When She.....(Novella) Genre: Horror, Adult Author: Rhiannon Frater Publication Date: March 15,2013   An exciting new novella set in the world of Pretty When She Dies... Cassandra is a dhamphir-the offspring of a vampire and mortal woman-and a thief of occult relics. Aimee is a full-blood witch that is bound to a powerful vampire who traffics in the slavery of supernatural beings. Both are powerful, lonely, and trapped in the dangerous world of the vampires. When Cassandra steals a relic from Aimee’s vampire master, he targets her as his next acquisition. What he doesn’t realize is that a chance encounter between Cassandra and Aimee ignited a spark between them that they cannot deny. To survive, the women must find a way to band together and fight against the ruthless evil that conspires to enslave them forever.   ...

Add To Goodreads Rating: ★★ Author: Chris Crutcher Title: Period 8 Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Thriller Format: E-Book Publisher: Harper Collins Copy Provided By: Edelweiss Expected Publication: March 26,2013 In this full-length novel from Chris Crutcher, his first since the best-selling Deadline, the ultimate bully and the ultimate good guy tangle during Period 8. Paul "the Bomb" Baum tells the truth. No matter what. It was something he learned at Sunday School. But telling the truth can cause problems, and not minor ones. And as Paulie discovers, finding the truth can be even more problematic. Period 8 is supposed to be that one period in high school where the truth can shine, a safe haven. Only what Paulie and Hannah (his ex-girlfriend, unfortunately) and his other classmates don't know is that the ultimate bully, the ultimate liar, is in their midst. Terrifying, thought-provoking, and original, this novel combines all the qual...

Add To Goodreads Author: D.D. Chant Title: Fracture  Series: The Chronicles of Discord #1 Genre: Dystopian, Young Adult, Science Fiction Publication Date: March 2, 2013 Copy Provided By: The Author for review Rating: ★★★ ★ Buy It Now:  Amazon In a world torn apart by war and divided into three nations Astra struggles to achieve balance. As a child she experienced a horror that caused her life to fracture around her, changing in an instant everything she’d ever known. Sixteen years later and Astra has been pressured into a false position by her past and is forced into taking a stand that enables her to keep her loved ones safe, but the cost is high. Caught in an intolerable position Astra is loyal to only one thing: the family that loves her. But when a diplomatic mission from the Free Nation arrives for peace talks with the Tula, Astra’s precariously balanced world begins to fracture again. Review: After reading Broken City by the same auth...

Add To Goodreads Authors: Susan Kim & Laurence Klavan Title: Wasteland Genre: Post Apocalyptic, Science Fiction, Young Adult Publisher: Harper Teen Expected Publication: March 26,2013 Review Copy Provided by: Edelweiss Rating: ★★★ Welcome to the Wasteland. Where all the adults are long gone, and now no one lives past the age of nineteen. Susan Kim and Laurence Klavan’s post-apocalyptic debut is the first of a trilogy in which everyone is forced to live under the looming threat of rampant disesase and brutal attacks by the Variants—hermaphroditic outcasts that live on the outskirts of Prin. Esther thinks there’s more to life than toiling at harvesting, gleaning, and excavating, day after day under the relentless sun, just hoping to make it to the next day. But then Caleb, a mysterious stranger, arrives in town, and Esther begins to question who she can trust. As shady pasts unravel into the present and new romances develop, Caleb and Esther realize that they mu...

Add To Goodreads Author: Steven Dos Santos Title: The Culling Series: The Torch Keeper #1 Genre: Science Fiction, Dystopian, Survival Fiction Publisher: Flux Books Expected Publication Date: March 8,2013 Review Copy Provided By: Netgalley  Rating:★★★★★ Pre-Order the Paperback: Amazon   Barnes & Noble Recruitment Day is here...if you fail, a loved one will die...   For Lucian “Lucky” Spark, Recruitment Day means the Establishment, a totalitarian government, will force him to become one of five Recruits competing to join the ruthless Imposer task force. Each Recruit participates in increasingly difficult and violent military training for a chance to advance to the next level. Those who fail must choose an “Incentive”—a family member—to be brutally killed. If Lucky fails, he’ll have to choose death for his only living relative: Cole, his four-year-old brother. Lucky will do everything he can to keep his brother alive, even if it means sacrifi...

Trailer Tuesday is a Weekly Blog Post hosted by me at Blood Sweat and Books. Each week I choose two Book Trailers to showcase. One Trailer will be for an upcoming book and the other will be one that has already been released. This Week I focus my spotlight on Rapture by Lauren Kate and The Demonologist by Andrew Pyper. Available Now: Rapture by Lauren Kate The sky is dark with wings . . . . Like sand in an hourglass, time is running out for Luce and Daniel. To stop Lucifer from erasing the past they must find the place where the angels fell to earth. Dark forces are after them, and Daniel doesn’t know if he can do this—live only to lose Luce again and again. Yet together they will face an epic battle that will end with lifeless bodies . . . and angel dust. Great sacrifices are made. Hearts are destroyed. And suddenly Luce knows what must happen. For she was meant to be with someone other than Daniel. The curse they’ve borne has always and only been about her—and the love she...

Gateway to Reality by Becca J. Campbell Expected Release: March 2013 Talented artists shouldn't be waiting tables, scraping by, and living mediocre lives. But that’s exactly what art school graduate Wes Teague is doing. Then he wakes from a bizarre dream, haunted by the sense that his life isn't real. A harrowing truth presents itself--the real world lies in his dreams, not when he's wide awake. The dream world he enters each night is rich and vibrant. Chicago appears the same on the surface, but chaos runs rampant as gravity, physics, and other laws of nature become fluid, changing unexpectedly. There, Wes's parents, brother, and sister are strangers. His girlfriend Emily doesn’t recognize him. Suddenly Wes longs to return, to unlearn the truth about his dual reality. Wes would sacrifice almost anything to get back to blissful ignorance in a false world. But now he has feelings for the real Emily. Author Bio & Links An avid lover of stories that tipto...

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly blog post hosted by Breaking The Spine . For this week's Waiting On Wednesday I chose *drumroll* Poison by Bridget Zinn Author: Bridget Zinn Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Goodreads Page: Click Here Expected Publication:March 12,2013 Sixteen-year-old Kyra, a highly-skilled potions master, is the only one who knows her kingdom is on the verge of destruction—which means she’s the only one who can save it. Faced with no other choice, Kyra decides to do what she does best: poison the kingdom’s future ruler, who also happens to be her former best friend. But, for the first time ever, her poisoned dart . . . misses. Now a fugitive instead of a hero, Kyra is caught in a game of hide-and-seek with the king’s army and her potioner ex-boyfriend, Hal. At least she’s not alone. She’s armed with her vital potions, a too-cute pig, and Fred, the charming adventurer she can’t stop thinking about. Kyra is determined to get herself a second chance (at murder),...