Blood,Sweat and Books

Title: Keeper of Crows Author: Casey Bond Genre: Paranormal Romance, Horror Cover Designer: Regina Wamba at Mae I Design & Photography Editor: Stacy Sanford, The Girl with the Red Pen Book Trailer by: Rebecca Ethington Expected Release Date: March 2017 Hosted by: Lady Amber’s PR Blurb: Carmen Kennedy is a spoiled brat from Beverly Hills with a chip on her shoulder and a cocaine addiction to match. Using drugs to suppress reality, her life is more than she can stomach most days. All she wants is to disappear, and on one fateful night, her wish is granted. There is a world that exists just beyond the fabric of our own. When Carmen is dragged there against her will, her hopelessness seems to disappear, replaced by a determination to survive. The Keeper of Crows is charged with guarding Carmen, but is safety a possibility in a world so desolate? Can love blossom when danger lies in wait? Together, they fight like hell, seeming to lose more ground than t...

Hey ya'll, I'm back this week with a Movie Review for the Japanese film, Zedd.  I came across this film because it stars the group Cross Gene #크로스진 and frankly my curiosity was piqued even further when I saw they had created and starred in a Zombie film. Genre: Thriller, Horror, Zombies Director: Teppei Nakamura Country: Japan Run Time: 54 Minutes 6 youngsters have to survive in the world populated with zombies. They attempt to fill their time with music, play and dancing... But, one day, one of them is contaminated so they have no choice  but to find an antidote. *Small Spoilers Below As some of you may know I am a huge Kpop fan. Recently I've been branching out from the big 3 groups (those coming from SM,YG and JYP) and trying to find smaller but still amazingly talented groups to follow as well. Enter: Cross Gene #크로스진. I found them by chance through my subscriptions on Youtube as they had just premiered a video called...

Title: The Haunting of Tinley Hall Author: Tania Hagan Genre: Paranormal Romance Publisher: CHBB Publishing Cover Designer: Aurelia Fray, Pretty AF Designs Editor: CLS Editing Services Hosted by:  Lady Amber's PR Blurb: Seventeen-year-old Tinley Hall takes a fall down the steep staircase in her family's restored Victorian home. When she becomes aware of her surroundings, she realizes she might be dead and she's not alone as her spirit haunts the old mansion that once was her home. After meeting a handsome stranger, Tinley is forced to question if he's really a ghost and if she's really dead, but she knows something more complicated must be happening. Will Tinley be able to pull herself through death's door, back into the land of the living? Or, will she even want to? As feelings for her companion grow into an otherworldly love affair, Tinley must decide if she's actually found her soulmate or if she just imagined the whole th...

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly blog post hosted by Breaking The Spine where readers share which books they are highly anticipating. This week I want to share Ararat by Christopher Golden Why I'm Waiting :  First off, I love the premise of this story, it sounds really unique. Actually this story reminds me of the Mummy meets say Dracula 2000. I'm not saying the creature inside is a Vampire but it is at least plausible since it was found in a coffin. Either way I think the premise has loads of potential and I know Christopher Golden is an Author who can do Horror well so I'm optimistic.  Expected Publication:  April 18th 2017 from St. Martin's Press New York Times bestselling author Christopher Golden’s supernatural thriller about a mountain adventure that quickly turns into a horrific nightmare of biblical proportions. Fans of Dan Simmons’ The Terror will love Ararat, the thrilling tale of an adventure that goes awry. When a newly engaged couple climb...

  What will you do when the world ends? That's a question that needs answering quickly when the gates to Hell open up all over Earth. Taking place across the globe is an apocalypse like no other, and humanity will find itself at war against a smart and merciless foe. Follow the struggles to survive with several characters as things go from bad to worse. Humanity is dwindling. Guy Granger is a Coast Guard captain in search of his kids. Mina Magar is a photojournalist taking pictures of horror she could never have imagined. Rick Bastion is a fading pop star with his head in a bottle and no hope for his future. Tony Cross is a soldier stuck on the Iraq-Syria border, but fighting insurgents is no longer a priority as a new threat emerges. Follow them all as they fight to stay alive. When the gates open, all Hell will break loose! *Small Spoilers Below Review Iain Rob Wright is an Author whom I've followed for quite a few years now. The Gates is...

2017 is nearly  upon us and that means that it's time to reveal my Top Ten Favorite Books read this year. 2016 was a rough year for books (in this readers opinion). While I met/ slightly exceeded my reading goal I feel a bit bad about not reading all the stories I originally set out to at the end of last year.  Although if I'm being entirely honest, I feel many Authors were in a rut as well. I can't tell you how many stories just felt like regurgitated plots of books past. I DNR'd more than a dozen because I just wasn't being engaged by the characters or plot and that's pretty terrible considering the amount of books I actually picked up this year. Thankfully 2017 looks to be a return of originality and I for one cannot wait to see what it brings. Anywho back to the post at hand. As I mentioned earlier, I did meet and slightly exceed my reading goal this year and the stories I read were for the most part incredibly good. Unlike past Wrap Up years, 2016  had...

Every year I feel like I say the same thing, so many books, so little time. 2016 by far was better reading wise for me than 2015. I completed my Goodreads goal, I read a bunch of wicked new Graphic Novels and I even stepped out of my comfort zone and read some books not in my usual preference of genres. So why do I feel like a failure still?  Despite my best efforts to read more I still left many books on the shelf unread. The dutiful reader within is screaming with discontent but my heart knows that I tried and sometimes that has to be good enough. The great thing about literature is it is not fleeting. The books will be their waiting for me with open pages when I find time to get around to them.    With that being said and in no particular order (sans my top pick), here are my Top Ten Books I Regret Not Reading In 2016: 10.) My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand The comical, fantastical, romantical, (not) entirely true story of Lady Jane Grey. In My Lady Jane, coau...