[Book Blitz] Sweetest Taboo, by: J. Kenner

Sweetest Taboo
(SIN #3)
by: J. Kenner
Release Date: October 4th, 2016
Genres: Contemporary Romance, Adult

All eyes are on us . . . and there’s nowhere to run. 
Everyone has their own ideas about Dallas Sykes: He’s a reckless billionaire, a devilish playboy, a man who gets whatever he wants the minute he wants it. But I know the real Dallas behind the money, bravado, and power—and he’s completely, blissfully mine.
We carefully guarded our secrets, and in each other’s arms we sought refuge from our dark past. Our pain became our pleasure, our control within the chaos. But we could only hide from the truth for so long.
Now we’ve let loose our inhibitions and are ready to face the future. And no matter what people think or say, coming clean is its own sweet reward.
Sweetest Taboo is intended for mature audiences.

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AUTHOR

J. Kenner (aka Julie Kenner) is the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly,  Wall Street Journal and #1 International bestselling author of over seventy novels, novellas and short stories in a variety of genres.

Though known primarily for her award-winning and international bestselling erotic romances (including the Stark and Most Wanted series) that have reached as high as #2 on the New York Times bestseller list, JK has been writing full time for over a decade in a variety of genres including paranormal and contemporary romance, “chicklit” suspense, urban fantasy,  and paranormal mommy lit.

JK has been praised by Publishers Weekly as an author with a “flair for dialogue and eccentric characterizations” and by RT Bookclub for having “cornered the market on sinfully attractive, dominant antiheroes and the women who swoon for them.” A five time finalist for Romance Writers of America’s prestigious RITA award, JK took home the first RITA trophy awarded in the category of erotic romance in 2014 for her novel, Claim Me (book 2 of her Stark Trilogy). Her Demon Hunting Soccer Mom series (as Julie Kenner) is currently in development with AwesomenessTV/Awestruck.

Her books have sold over three million  copies and are published in over twenty languages.

In her previous career as an attorney, JK worked as a clerk on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and practiced primarily civil, entertainment and First Amendment litigation in Los Angeles and Irvine, California, as well as in Austin, Texas.  She currently lives in Central Texas, with her husband, two daughters, and two rather spastic cats.

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Top Ten Tuesday [45]

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week they will post a new Top Ten list that one of their bloggers over at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join! This week Top Ten is...

Top Ten Villains That Deserve An Award

*not in any order*

Sebastian Morgenstern or Jonathan or whatever you wanna call it.

From the Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare.

Status: Deceased

Sebastian was one of those characters that you really, really hate, but then you simply love at the end because it made such a good job as a villain. I never exactly saw redemption for him, until the end where we see what was inside of him. I was very sad to see him die, but he was definitely the bad guy and a lot of people died because he killed them.

Queen Levana

From the Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer

Status: Deceased

I couldn't be more happy than seeing this bitch die, for real. She made everyone's life miserable just because she wanted to. She was so so bad, because once upon a time her older sister did something awful to her and she wanted revenge in anyone on front of her.

Lord Voldemort or Tom Marvolo Riddle

From Harry Potter series by JK Rowling

Status: Deceased

I am not a fan of the books, not yet, but damn he was bad. You know that "mort" means death, right? That's how fucked up this guy was. He was pure evil inside, just for the fun of it (power). Thanks, Harry, for killing him.

President Snow

From the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

Status: Uncertain

Katniss didn't kill him, because Coin was certainly worst. But still a good villain! He was just so greedy to have the fear of them all.

Darkling

From the Grisha series by Leigh Bardugo

Status: Deceased

Leigh writes so good! I loved the whole series, but the Darkling was her best. He is so bad that I was even tempted to his charms (I really would have fell in his charms if I was Alina). Bad haven't been so sexy as this villain before!

Tiberias Calore VII or you know Cal

From the Red Queen series by Victoria Aveyard

Status: Alive, for now

I have not read the other books, but in the Red Queen this boy was the devil's son, for real. He had us all convinced of something and them BOOM stab in the back.

Ophiuchus

From the Zodiac series by Romina Russell

Status: Alive (kind of immortal, but I have faith that he will die at the end)

I was so so mad after the end of the book Zodiac. It made me hate him so so much. I just want him dead, no matter what. Haven't read the second book, so dunno what happened with him after.

Devil

From a lot of series

Status: HE'S FREAKING IMMORTAL

I meant, you know, our little friend Satan or Lucifer or whatever you wanna call him. His all the characters nightmares. He hates humanity, for God's sake!

Government/System

From EVERY dystopian book/series

Status: Destroyed

Why is that the government has something to do in almost every dystopian book/series? I mean, are we, humans, so fucked up to created a system to kill ourselves at the end? The answer is always yes.

Time

From A LOT of contemporary novels

Status: Getting Older (got my joke?)

Basically in contemporary novels the same characters screw their chance of happiness by themselves, but time can be two things: your biggest enemy or your best ally. For what I have seen, time is a backstabbing bitch that doesn't know how to just die. Just read Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver.

What's your villain theme?

[Cover Reveal] Riveted, by: Jay Crownover

IT'S HERE, IT'S HERE!

Jay Crownover’s RIVETED (Saints of Denver #3) is coming February 14, 2017! Check out the amazing cover and preorder your copy today! #YallNeedChurch #LoveIsStrongerThanFear

Riveted
(Saints of Dever #3)
by: Jay Crownover
Release Date: February 14, 2017
Genres: Contemporary Romance, New Adult

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Marked Men books comes the next installment in the Saints of Denver series.

Everyone else in Dixie Carmichael’s life has made falling in love look easy, and now she is ready for her own chance at some of that happily ever after. Which means she’s done pining for the moody, silent former soldier who works with her at the bar that’s become her home away from home. Nope. No more chasing the hot as heck thundercloud of a man and no more waiting for Mr. Right to find her; she’s going hunting for him...even if she knows her heart is stuck on its stupid infatuation with Dash Churchill.

Denver has always been just a pit stop for Church on his way back to rural Mississippi. It was supposed to be simple, uneventful, but nothing could have prepared him for the bubbly, bouncy redhead with doe eyes and endless curves. Now he knows it’s time to get out of Denver, fast. For a man used to living in the shadows, the idea of spending his days in the sun is nothing short of terrifying.

When Dixie and Church find themselves caught up in a homecoming overshadowed with lies and danger, Dixie realizes that while falling in love is easy, loving takes a whole lot more work…especially when Mr. Right thinks he’s all wrong for you.

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AUTHOR

Jay Crownover is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Marked Men, The Point, and the Saints of Denver series. Like her characters, she is a big fan of tattoos. She loves music and wishes she could be a rock star, but since she has no aptitude for singing or instrument playing, she'll settle for writing stories with interesting characters that make the reader feel something. She lives in Colorado with her three dogs.

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Thursday Tracks [18]

hosted by Gone with the Words

Ohhh! You know, and if you don't you'll know now, that I LOVE, love, LoVe music. Just as I live and breathe words, I live and breathe music. Those two things are just part of me as any other organ in my body. As you can see in my Music page, I hear music while reading! My Thursdays will become from now on... Thursday Tracks day! A feature created to share what song, album, playlist, artist I got stuck in my head every week. Now, this week song is...

Wish That You Were Here, by: Florence + The Machine

favorite lyrics: I never minded being on my own, then something broke in me and I wanted to go home, to be where you are. But even closer to you, you seem so very far. And now I'm reaching out with every note I sing and I hope it gets to you on some pacific wind, wraps itself around you and whispers in your ear. Tells you that I miss you and I wish that you were here.

Hear me next Thursday!

Book To Movie [4]

THE LITTLE PRINCE

[book - movie]

Book Author: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Book Published: April 6th, 1943

Film Director: Mark Osborne

Film Release: July 29th, 2015 (France)

For those who haven't read my review on the book, here is it. The book is one that touched me very much, I heard from friends that the movie that was in Netflix was really good and that even made you cry a little. They were not wrong. The movie is the absolutely best. They couldn't have done it better, I swear. People of Earth, you did good. I approve.

I don't want to give much away of the movie, but I have to tell things, right? The movie is not REALLY the same book, because then it wouldn't last much. But the way they made it was the perfect one. There's two or three stories in the movie: the little prince (obviously), the aviator and the girl. These three, somehow, unified and made an end that leaves you in tears.

As I have said before, being a kid is not that bad and the movie show us just that. We see how wrong is to be the girl's mother and how good being the girl really is. We how society wants us to grow up without living our lives fully as kids first.

I loved the animation. I loved how the characters were portrayed. I loved how everything flew so fast (even though is an hour fifty the movie) and so smooth that at the end you are left wondering and wanting more.

My only critic is really to Netflix. I really wanted to see it in French, but they do not have it. Only in English and Spanish, which is good, but is always better to see it in the language that it was made, right?

As I did with the book, I recommend the movie 100%, but you should really read the book first and then see the film, so you get the whole experience good and right.

Waiting on Wednesday [56]

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. 

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

 The Hammer of Thor

(Magnus Chase & the Gods of Asgard #2)

by: Rick Riordan

Thor’s hammer is missing again. 

The thunder god has a disturbing habit of misplacing his weapon – the mightiest force in the Nine Worlds – but this time the hammer isn’t just lost. It has fallen into enemy hands. 

If Magnus Chase and his friends can’t retrieve the hammer quickly, the mortal worlds will be defenseless against an onslaught of giants. Ragnarok will begin. The Nine Worlds will burn. 

Unfortunately, the only person who can broker a deal for the hammer’s return is the gods’ worst enemy, Loki – and the price he wants is very high.

RELEASE DATE: October 4th, 2016 (aka my birthday)

[R] Beta Test, by: Annabeth Albert

Beta Test

(Gaymers #2)
by: Annabeth Albert

★★★★☆

Brilliant graphic designer Ravi Tandel is ahead of the game—he's just been asked to present a top secret project at a huge conference in Seattle. All systems are go…until he learns his buttoned-up office nemesis is coming along for the ride.

Tristan Jones isn't really the gamer type, but he knows the back end of the video game business inside out. Together, he and Ravi will give an awesome presentation. If they survive the cross-country trip first.

Tossed together in close quarters, Ravi's shocked to see Tristan's sexy, softer side emerge from such a conservative shell. He's less shocked to learn his handsome colleague's prominent family would never support an out-and-proud son. But Ravi didn't struggle through his own coming out to hide who he is now. To be together, Tristan will have to push past his fear and ultimately decide: Does he want a future with Ravi? Or is it game over before they've even begun?

Top Ten Tuesday [44]

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week they will post a new Top Ten list that one of their bloggers over at The Broke and the Bookish will answer. Everyone is welcome to join! This week Top Ten is...

Top Ten Books On My Fall TBR List

Dividing this list between books that I have to read ASAP and books that I can simply can read them if I have time. The ASAPness (uuuh, new invented word) comes from whether I have to read it for a class or I have been dying or trying to read it from a long time now.

READ ASAP:

  

 

READ NOT SO ASAP:

  

 

What's your Fall TBR list?

[R] The Little Prince, by: Antoine Saint-Exupéry

The Little Prince
by: Antoine Saint-Exupéry

★★★★★

Moral allegory and spiritual autobiography, The Little Prince is the most translated book in the French language. With a timeless charm it tells the story of a little boy who leaves the safety of his own tiny planet to travel the universe, learning the vagaries of adult behaviour through a series of extraordinary encounters. His personal odyssey culminates in a voyage to Earth and further adventures.

[R] #Bae, by: Cambria Hebert

#Bae

(Hashtag Series #7)
by: Cambria Hebert

★★★★★

Happily-ever-after.
That’s what happens when you get married.
Right?
Turns out sparkly rings, cake and a fantastic wedding do not automatically grant you that, not even when it’s all you truly want.
I’m even starting to doubt the bottomless, unconditional love I share with the man I married will be enough.
I can’t have happily ever after, know why?
Because I can’t give Romeo what he truly wants. I’ve tried. So hard. I won’t be happy unless he is and something is missing. Someone.
Paparazzi are in my face. The flashing cameras and prying eyes are everywhere. My secret is getting harder to hide, and I know the second the scoop is dished the grip I have on the fraying rope of that happily ever after will snap right in my face.
In our face.
I can’t let that happen. No matter what.
Because with or without a happy ending, Romeo comes Before Anyone Else.

Thursday Tracks [17]

hosted by Gone with the Words

Ohhh! You know, and if you don't you'll know now, that I LOVE, love, LoVe music. Just as I live and breathe words, I live and breathe music. Those two things are just part of me as any other organ in my body. As you can see in my Music page, I hear music while reading! My Thursdays will become from now on... Thursday Tracks day! A feature created to share what song, album, playlist, artist I got stuck in my head every week. Now, this week song is...

Work Song, by: Hozier

favorite lyrics: Lay me gently in the cold dark earth. No grave, can hold my body down. I'll crawl home to her

Hear me next Thursday!

Waiting on Wednesday [55]

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. 

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

Crooked Kingdom

(Six of Crows #2)

by: Leigh Bardugo

Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives. Double-crossed and left crippled by the kidnapping of a valuable team member, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the dangerous drug known as jurda parem, old rivals and new enemies emerge to challenge Kaz's cunning and test the team's fragile loyalties. A war will be waged on the city's dark and twisting streets―a battle for revenge and redemption that will decide the fate of magic in the Grisha world.

RELEASE DATE: September 22nd, 2016 

What are you waiting on?

Thursday Tracks [16]

hosted by Gone with the Words

Ohhh! You know, and if you don't you'll know now, that I LOVE, love, LoVe music. Just as I live and breathe words, I live and breathe music. Those two things are just part of me as any other organ in my body. As you can see in my Music page, I hear music while reading! My Thursdays will become from now on... Thursday Tracks day! A feature created to share what song, album, playlist, artist I got stuck in my head every week. Now, this week song is...

You & Me, by: Marc E. Bassy ft. G-Eazy

favorite lyrics: If we bump into each other n a crowded street. It's not us no more, it's just you and me. We're just strangers in passing casually. It's not us no more, it's just you and me.

Hear me next Thursday!

Waiting on Wednesday [54]

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating. 

This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:

 Bright Smoke, Cold Fire

by: Rosamund Hodge

When the mysterious fog of the Ruining crept over the world, the living died and the dead rose. Only the walled city of Viyara was left untouched.

The heirs of the city’s most powerful—and warring—families, Mahyanai Romeo and Juliet Catresou share a love deeper than duty, honor, even life itself. But the magic laid on Juliet at birth compels her to punish the enemies of her clan—and Romeo has just killed her cousin Tybalt. Which means he must die.

Paris Catresou has always wanted to serve his family by guarding Juliet. But when his ward tries to escape her fate, magic goes terribly wrong—killing her and leaving Paris bound to Romeo. If he wants to discover the truth of what happened, Paris must delve deep into the city, ally with his worst enemy . . . and perhaps turn against his own clan.

Mahyanai Runajo just wants to protect her city—but she’s the only one who believes it’s in peril. In her desperate hunt for information, she accidentally pulls Juliet from the mouth of death—and finds herself bound to the bitter, angry girl. Runajo quickly discovers Juliet might be the one person who can help her recover the secret to saving Viyara.

Both pairs will find friendship where they least expect it. Both will find that Viyara holds more secrets and dangers than anyone ever expected. And outside the walls, death is waiting. . . .

RELEASE DATE: September 27th, 2016

What are you waiting on?