After Death

Book Review

Title: After Death

Author: Jacqueline Smith

Rating: ★★★★★

Date Published: October 6th, 2015

Publisher: Wind Trail Publishing

Genre: Paranormal Fantasy

Page Count: 250

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Synopsis:

Welcome to the Circus of the Dead.

When Michael Sinclair receives an invitation to the grand opening of Cirque Somniatis, he figures it will be a good opportunity to get away from ghosts, potential in-laws, and the seemingly endless stream of rejected job applications... And a chance to spend a romantic weekend at the circus with Kate. 

But nothing is as it seems as Michael, Kate, and ghost-hunter extraordinaire Luke Rainer venture onto the haunted fairgrounds in the small town of Hugo, Oklahoma. New rivals, theatrical psychics, and a Ringmaster with a dark secret of his own all wait for them under the Big Top. 

Come one, come all. Do not forego. 
Step inside, enjoy the show...

My Thoughts:

I was sent a copy by the author in exchange for an honest review.

I had missed these characters so much, it was so much fun revisiting them! this is the fourth book I've read by Jacqueline and she never lets me down; she had me laughing, crying and at the edge of my seat before the book was over. 

I was so happy to read that she had brought the whole gang together. I have always loved the main character Michael; his humor is so much like mine and I just connect with his character so much. Kate is so bubbly, that is something I have always loved about her, she is always the one to lighten the mood in a tense situation; well her or Luke, Luke is the one to have me rolling on the floor laughing with the crazy things he says. Finally, is Brink, he must be my favorite character of the whole series and my love for him grew so much more after reading this novel.

This new adventure was set in a circus which is said to be haunted, when the crew gets to the carnival strange unexplainable things begin to happen to them.  I really loved the Circus setting, they are already creepy so sending someone who sees spirits just amped up the creepiness. I liked the new characters that were introduced, they really brought the creepy vibe and made me suspect of everyone. Jacqueline is a master when it comes to writing these paranormal stories, this one was no exception; she even managed to break my heart, and make me cry. I absolutely love this series and cannot wait for the next book in the series. If you have not picked this series up, please do! It is the perfect Fall/October read.

SandraTheBookWorm

 

September 2015 Book Haul

September Book Haul

PART ONE

Hello my lovely bookworms, I know it has been a while since I have put up a book haul, but I finally got some time so here we go. In this book Haul I will include the books that were sent to me by authors for review. I will have a second part to my haul were I will post the books I have bought. I will Include a link to Goodreads and a link to the authors Instagram. I want to thank every single author that sent me their book for review.

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The Dreamer

Book Review

Title: The Dreamer (Dreamland #1)

Author: E.J. Mellow

Rating: ★★★★★

Date Published: May 15, 2015

Publisher: Four Eyed Owl

Page Count: 340

Genre: Fantasy

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Synopsis:

It’s night. Always night. Dreams guard against the evil forged by nightmares. Infinite shooting stars illuminate a moonless sky. A city stands alone, surrounded by a darkened field. On its fringes, a man watches one star separate from the masses and fall. What survives the crash will unveil a secret centuries long hidden.

Molly hasn’t slept well since the night of her twenty-fourth birthday. Being struck by lightning might have something to do with it, but then again, her chicken did look a little undercooked at dinner. Whatever the culprit, her life quickly catapults from mundane to insane as, night after night, Molly is transported through her once dreamless sleep to a mysterious land illuminated by shooting stars.

There she meets the captivating but frustrating Dev, and together they discover Molly possesses a power coveted by his people—the ability to conjure almost anything she desires into existence. Seduced by the possibilities of this gift, Molly shifts her attention from waking life toward the man, the magic, and the world found in her dreams.

But Molly must ask herself—does something truly exist if you only see it when you close your eyes?

Faced with the threat of losing everything—her job, best friend, boyfriend, and most importantly, that little thing called her sanity—Molly will learn just how far she’ll go to uncover what is real and what is merely a figment of her imagination.

My Thoughts:

The author was kind enough to provide me with a copy in exchange for an honest review.

Gosh! Where do I even start this book had me on an emotional roller-coaster that I refused to get off of. It was such a good book and unlike anything I have ever read before. Molly is your normal 24 year old until the day she gets struck by lightning and she starts to have the same very vivid dream every night; the dream feels so real to Molly that it’s like she is living a second life. This book was so frigging AH-MA-ZING I need the second one now. E.J's world building was superb, the way she would describe the world Molly would wake up in when she went to sleep was so beautifully done it has me hoping I can go to it when I fall asleep. The Character building Molly goes through is so great she goes through some crazy moments, but as the book progresses she starts to cope with everything so well. Now to the love triangle oh, the love triangle is going to kill me! It is so well written I find myself flip flopping between Dev (The Dream Boy) and Jared (Real World) they are both so great, but when it comes down to it, I think I'm rooting a little harder for Dev he has just made his way into my heart and build a home there. All the characters E.J. Mellow introduced me to where so well written and I immediately fell in love with each one of them.

This book overall is just so greatly written!  As I was reading the book just sucked me in! The story was just amazing and I can't get enough of all the characters and the beautiful world that E.J. has created. I recommend this book to everyone! I absolutely loved it and with the ending I just can’t wait to get my hands on the second one.

-SandraTheBookWorm

Uncovering Desire

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Title: Uncovering Desire

Author: Kacey Shea

Expected Release Date: October 27, 2015

Cover Model: Chase Ketron

Photographer: Golden Czermak, Furious Fotog

Cover Design: Sommer Stein, Perfect Pear Creative Covers

Preorder Links: Amazon 

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Synopsis:

Jonathan Beltran is adjusting to life as a civilian after an eight year military career. With a booming private investigation business and good friends to count on, life is headed in a positive direction. Coupled with his fierce will and strength, Jon will learn if his training has prepared him for this next journey.

Life is never boring for the ever-positive, smart-mouthed, fearless Kate Bryant. When unexpected events leave her temporarily homeless, she accepts an offer of a free place to stay with Jonathan. The challenges of working with rock stars, living with Jon, and finally confronting ghosts of her past may prove to be too much.

Uncovering Desire, book two in the Uncovering Love series, is a full length, contemporary romance, and can be read as a standalone.

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Author Bio:

Kacey Shea is a mom of three, wife, and part-time bookkeeper who resides in sunny Arizona. She enjoys reading and writing romance novels as much as her son loves unicorns, which is a lot.

When she's not writing you will find her playing taxi cab to her children while belting out her favorite tunes, meeting friends or family for food and to share some laughs, or sweating it out in the gym. Kacey finds that picking up heavy weights repeatedly is good for her mental health as much as it is for the physical.

She has an unhealthy obsession with firefighters. It could be the pants. It could be the fire. It's just hot. On occasion she has been known to include them, without their knowledge, in her selfies outside the grocery store.

Kacey one day aspires be a woman hand model in a sexy photo shoot. You know, the woman's hand raking across the muscular back or six pack stomach of the male fitness model. Yep, that hand.

Until that day comes she will continue writing sexy, flirty romance novels in hopes to bring others joy!

Kacey enjoys interacting with her fans so please feel free to stalk her on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter.

-SandraTheBookWorm

Slumber

Book Review

Title: Slumber (The Slumber Duology #1)

Author: Christy Sloat 

Rating: ★★★★.5

Date Published: March 16, 2015

Publisher: Anchor Group Publishing

Page Count: 234

Genre: YA Fantasy

Meet The Author: Christy Sloat

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Synopsis:

Not all princesses get their happily ever after...
They tell me I killed my boyfriend Phillip in cold blood. I stabbed him twenty one times. I’m only seventeen years old, and I am serving life in Spindle Ridge Asylum for the Criminally Insane.
I don’t remember killing him, so it’s really hard to believe I’m capable of murder. In fact I don’t remember anything before I came to Spindle Ridge, not even my boyfriend.
I can only grasp onto my realistic dreams while the madness of the asylum threatens to pull me under. I dream I’m a beautiful princess and there is an evil faerie named Maleficent who is bent on my destruction. The dreams are the closest thing I have to memories of my life, except they aren’t real.
I’m crazy. I’m not a princess.
They’re the mad illusions of an irrational teenage girl, right?
They’ve assigned me a new doctor, and she says I can trust her, and that she’ll help me see the truth of who I really am.
When she arrived she brought a new patient, Sawyer, who is everything Spindle Ridge isn’t: exciting, mysterious and beautiful. He promises he’s here to rescue me. Trusting either of them frightens me.
Could it be possible that my dreams are more than just the imaginings of a delusional girl? Could they be truth? 

My Thoughts:

 The author was kind enough to provide me with a copy in exchange for an honest review.

This is not your typical Sleeping Beauty retelling, but it's just as great. Rory has been sent to Spindle Ridge Asylum where she has been told she killed her boyfriend Phillip, the thing is Rory can't recall killing Phillip or even having a boyfriend all she can remember is walking into the asylum; the only thing keeping her from going mad are the very realistic dreams she’s been having, where she is a princess and has been cursed by an evil fairy.  That is until the day a new patient by the name of Sawyer checks into the Asylum, his presence starts to bring back some very powerful memories.

I've read a couple of Sleeping Beauty retellings, but this is by far my favorite! It's so different and I love it! Christy really made this story her own and gave the classic a wonderful twist; this book is so beautifully written and just kept me turning the pages. I loved the character development Rory goes throughout the book, she is a very strong and smart character and now let’s take a moment to appreciate the perfection that is Sawyer, his personality and the things he does for Rory would make any girl fall for him instantly. The ending killed me I was not ready for it, I felt my heart stop, I had to put the book down and take a couple of breaths; I need the second book immediately! I need to know what happens next!

If you have not picked this book up yet, I highly recommend you do and especially with October around the corner this is the perfect creepy read and one of the best Sleeping Beauty retelling's I've read this year.  

-SandraTheBookWorm

Red August

Book Review

Title: Red August

Author: H.L. Brooks

Rating:  ★★★★

Date Published: August 19, 2015

Publisher: Smashwords Edition

Genre: New Adult Fantasy

Meet The Author: H.L. Brooks

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Synopsis:

What if you found out that you were descended from a long line of clandestine fighters, and that your family was still at war? Or that the love of your life was something other than human?


August Archer thinks she's a normal teenage girl—even though she has been having disturbing and erotic dreams about werewolves lately. Still grieving over the loss of her bookish, charming father, and wondering over his final gift of a red hooded cloak, August is uprooted from her New York City apartment to a tiny town in Maryland, and the rambling Victorian house where he grew up.


There she meets a wise woman with a gift for herbal medicine, the gentle old man who keeps the house in repair and the grounds thriving, and her new neighbor: an enigmatic, irresistibly fascinating man who refuses to talk to her, yet who seems to know her better than she knows herself, and fuels her most intense romantic fantasies.


But it's when August begins to coax her feisty Scottish grandmother out of her self-imposed catatonia that a strange tale of werewolves and hunters emerges--one in which the man of her dreams may be her family's oldest enemy—in this modern-day telling of the Red Riding Hood story.

My Thoughts:

The author was kind enough to provide me with a copy of her book in exchange for an honest review. 

Wow, this Red Riding Hood retelling is very different and I loved it! I can' wait for the next book in the series especially with that ending. August is going through a hard time her dad just passed away and she's moving away to a new town where she knows no one. It is there where she meets her mysterious next door neighbor Faolan, who seems to know more about her and her family than she does.

I absolutely loved this book and the characters! I immediately fell in love with August she is such a smart young lady, takes crap from no one and is a very relatable character; Oh, and Faolan, gosh that man is complete perfection such a gentleman and he loves to read, he is very swoon worthy. The side characters also have a place in my heart; the way H.L. Brooks wrote them just makes them so lovable. I really loved the story and how it all plays out; the author hit me with some twist I wasn't expecting and had me at the edge of my seat. The reason I dint give this book five stars was because it kind of seemed to drag on a little towards the middle, it began very quick paced and towards the middle it slowed a bit and picked up again towards the end, but that doesn’t take away from the story as a whole; It’s a very enjoyable read and I'm glad I picked it up.  I just can’t tell you how much I loved August and Faolan's Relationship I just want to know more about both of them and their families and also see where their relationship goes.

I recommend this book to anyone that is in the mood for a good fantasy read or looking for a good Red Riding Hood retelling this book is definitely it! 

-SandraTheBookWorm

Breathe Out

Book Review

Title: Breathe Out

Author: Martha Sweeney

Rating: ★★★★★

Release Date: September 15, 2015 

Publisher: Kralik Consultants LLC

Genre: Adult Romance 18+

Meet The Author: Martha Sweeney

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Synopsis:

My rules were created so I’d have control and be able to remove any and all elements of emotion when it comes to men — when it comes to relationships, period. There’s no need to let them in my heart, just in my pants for the night to satisfy my itch.

Temptation reared it’s ugly head and won— I’ve broken a rule — one of my rules. No big deal, right? Then, why do I want to do it again?

It’s just sex. Yes. It's just sex, that’s all. As long as Joe knows that it’s just sex, I don’t mind bending the rules.

Will Emma continue to allow her fear of loss to control her life, or does love play by its own set of rules?

Please note: There are sexually explicit scenes F/M and F/F/M

My Thoughts:

The author was kind enough to provide me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review. 

Wow this book was just what I wanted since I finished "Breathe In" more Emma and Joe and more of Emma's past!  This book explains so much about Emma and helps the reader understand why she is so apprehensive about letting her walls down around people she doesn't trust. This book went above and beyond my expectations! I loved the character development Emma is going through; she is slowly letting her guard down around Joe and telling him more about herself and her past. The book also gives us a glimpse of Joe's and the rest of Emma's families live. I also loved how this book doesn’t only concentrate on the love story, but also shows the relationship both Emma and Joe have with their families and friends.

 I really enjoyed this book it delivered everything I was looking for. If you have read the first book then let me tell you, you will not be disappointed and if you haven't picked it up and are looking for a hot read this is definitely the series for you! I can't wait to read the next book and learn about Emma, Joe, and of course the rest of the family!

-SandraTheBookWorm

The 52nd Book Blitz

Title: The 52nd

Author: Dela

Date Published: October 27, 2014

Publisher: Wise Ink Creative Publishing

Genre: YA Paranormal

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Synopsis:

Not one of the sacrifices chosen over the long history had survived–until now.

On the tip of the Yucatan peninsula, the immortal Castillo family gathers in Tulum. Weary and haunted, they receive the names of fifty-two human sacrifices chosen once every fifty-two years for the Underworld, a tradition thought to have disappeared with the fall of the Aztec and Mayan empires.

Driving home one night, college freshman Zara Moss swerves to avoid hitting a ghastly figure in the road. Lucas Castillo witnesses the car crash, but when it comes time to supervise her abduction from the wreckage, he intervenes. Something is different about Zara: Lucas has been having dreams of her arrival for five hundred years.

As Lucas and Zara come together to put an end to the bloody sacrifices, they discover that the ancient tradition isn’t so easily broken. The gods are angry, and they have until the Winter Solstice to drag Zara to the Underworld.

AUTHOR BIO:

Dela is the debut author of THE 52ND saga, a multicultural paranormal for young adults. Before tracing the minds of Aztec gods, Dela worked as a paralegal and could be found snowboarding at Brianhead, Utah. She currently lives in Las Vegas with her husband, three kids, and two exceptionally fat Chihuahuas. 

Here is an Excerpt from the book! Enjoy!

“LOOK OUT!” she screamed, pointing to the front window.

A black figure stood in the beam of our headlights. I slammed my foot on the brakes, but they locked and the car began to skid. The smell of burning rubber filled the car as we screeched across the asphalt. The man didn’t move, and as we neared him, I cranked the wheel to the right as fast as possible to avoid him. We screamed as the car spun out of control.

As we skidded closer to the unmoving figure, I thought he was done for. I expected him to bounce up onto the windshield and shatter the window into thousands of tiny pieces. But the briefest second before impact, my door rushing directly at him, I saw—

It was not a man.

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 Suddenly, looking at Zara made my throat swell, and I started to choke. It was time to take the plunge. I focused on turning onto the hidden road, lowering my speed as the track turned to mud. I felt sick saying this.

“Zara, I didn’t come to Tahoe to save you.”

I let there be silence, but I wished I 

-SandraTheBookWorm