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Title:   Colour Wielders Series:   Heirs of the Magykal Realm Series #1 Author:    Dawna Raver Genre:   New Adult, Paranormal, UF, Romance Publisher:   Curiosity Quills Press Cover Artist:   Ricky Gunawan Release Date:   April 19, 2013 Book Description:   Behind the Mysts, hidden from Mortal eyes, is a land where Gods and creatures of myth and legend dwell. And in the Mortal Realm, their Princess lives. Quinn Sinclair is clueless to who she is. She thinks she's an ordinary young woman—well, mostly ordinary—living an ordinary life with her less than loving mother in Conifer, Colorado. On the night of her birthday, Quinn finds herself betrayed by a man who sends her life spinning out-of-control. As she struggles to pick up the pieces, a vision of a man with haunting tourmaline-blue eyes begs her for help, and she finds herself transported into a Magykal battle forever changing her life. Arik Morgaine—demi-god bad boy and outcast of t...

I am excited to have author Carole Remy on our blog today!  See below for details on her books, Twelve Nights and Who is Candid? plus my reviews.       ___________________ Thank you to all the moderators of the Shut Up and Read Group for inviting me here today. I love reading your posts, and am honored to be included. Novels and the Law of Attraction by Carole Remy     What do writing and reading novels have to do with the Law of Attraction? Plenty! To use the Law of Attraction to maximum advantage, first you need to understand it. Everything is energy, even things. Easy for physicists, a little odd to grasp for the rest of us. Boiled down to basics, Like attracts like, but only for energy = emotions . The Universe doesn’t know a Bugatti from a bug, but if you feel happy, you automatically draw in more happiness. As novelists, we can apply this understanding as we write. The more involved and enamored we are with our story, the mo...

The lovely Kimba over at Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer  has made this wonderful challenge for the month of March - I think just for me!  This challenge is just what I need to get myself reading some of those dusty books I really, really want to read but just haven't made time for yet. Introducing the Take Control of Your TBR Pile Challenge!  You can find the complete list of rules HERE , but to recap, beginning March 1st, 2013 and ending March 31, 2013 at midnight read books from your TBR pile.  ALL books must have been published before March 2013.   I will also be joining the Take Control of Your TBR Pile Read-A-Thon running from March 15 - 18.  Find out more HERE .   ------------------- Here are the books I read for this challenge: 1. Divergent by Veronica Roth 2. Beyond the Highland Mist by Karen Marie Moning 3. To Tame a Highland Warrior by Karen Marie Moning 4. Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver 5. Harry Potter and the S...

Shattered Edge by A.M. Hargrove My rating: 5 of 5 stars Shattered Edge is the story of Terri and Justin. We met the two of them first in Edge of Disaster, though you do not have to read that book first in order to get this one (but I would suggest it, just because it's awesome and you'd be missing out). The two are stand-alone novels with repeating characters. Terri is recovering from a car accident that left her seriously injured and scarred. She is an incredibly strong character who pushes on, though she cannot seem to let her infatuation with Justin go. Justin is pretty much your typical playboy. Women like him, and he knows it. Except now he cannot seem to get Terri out of his head, or the guilt that has been plaguing him since the car accident. The two had gone on a couple of dates before the accident, but things had dulled down with them afterwards. When the two of them decide to give a try at a relationship, things get seriously hot! The chemistry betwee...

Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia My rating: 4 of 5 stars I had put off reading this book for a while, I think just because it seemed like your typical young adult romance story. Turns out, it was so much more and so much better. The story is told through the eyes of Ethan, your typical small town teenage boy. He plays sports, has a group of friends he hangs out with, and tries to figure out teenage girls. He is pretty much an all-American boy. Except he dreams of this girl. All the time. And then she shows up at school. And she's been dreaming of him, too. Through each page in the story we get a little more insight into Ethan's character, and really, he's just a great guy. He's smart, most definitely lovable, loyal, and determined. Lena is quite intriguing. She is dark and mysterious and tries to keep Ethan out of her life for reasons Ethan cannot understand. It turns out, though, that Lena is not the only one with secrets. In fact, everyone in the s...

Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia My rating: 4 of 5 stars Beautiful Darkness picked up right where Beautiful Creatures left off. Ethan finds Lena pulling away from him and he cannot figure out why. Ethan definitely has a stubborn streak, though, because he does not give up until he finds out what is going on with her. I really love Ethan and Lena, though we do not really get too much of Lena in this book. We do, however, get a whole lot more of Link, who I absolutely adore. Everyone needs a friend like Link. He's just awesome. We also get to know many of the characters we were briefly introduced to in Beautiful Creatures and also have a couple of new people in this book. Once again, I loved the writing style and descriptiveness the author uses. It was detail oriented and beautifully written. I listened to the audio of this one. The narration was done very well. I really liked the voice of Kevin Collins for Ethan. I also really enjoyed that we got music with the...

I'm excited to introduce to you Dissolution:  Volume One     KICKSTARTER PROJECT LIVE LINK: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1027835983/dissolution-volume-one     Information from the Dissolution: Volume One project page: Summary:  Exploring the questions of life after death, the realm of the supernatural, and how characters' lives unexpectedly interweave. What is Dissolution?  What if there is another world, just beyond our own? It's there, it's footfalls are in sync with ours, but just slight enough that we fail to notice - and if we do, it's a barely-perceptible scratching noise that makes our hair stand on end. A shadowy movement out of the corner of our eye. The smell of roses where there is no reason for them to exist. A heartbeat whose source cannot be traced by our human ears. A world we fail to notice - but most definitely notices us. Now, imagine the veil being lifted and that world revealed at last - wo...