That Wedding Giveaway

We teased you earlier and now here it is: the first ever I Love YA Fiction giveaway! Yes, squee to your hearts’ content! We are so happy that this inaugural giveaway happens to feature one of our favorite authors, Jillian Dodd, and her fabulous sequel to one of our favorite books, That Boy. 

Without further ado, we are giving away a free e-copy of That Wedding to one lucky winner.  There are tons of ways to enter and the more times you throw your name into the hat, obviously the more chances you have to win.

To enter, do any of the things below and be sure to tell us about it in the comments (if you don’t mention it, we won’t know that you’re counting it toward your entries and you may miss out):

1. Leave a comment to this post telling us which cornfed beefcake, Philip or Danny, you would choose to be your boy

2. Like us on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/I-Love-YA-Fiction/223407614411654 (current fans, you can also use this one! Be sure to tell us in the comments that you’re a fan)

3. Tweet us (@iloveyafiction) to say if you’re Team Danny or Team Philip

4. Become a follower of iloveyafiction.wordpress.com

5. Become a friend on Goodreads: I Love YA Fiction

6. Put a link to the site on your site

7. Send us an email at iloveyafiction at gmail dot com with a book recommendation!

The contest will end on March 2nd, 2012 at midnight when one lucky winner will be picked at random from among all entrants.  It will coincide with our posting of our kick-ass review of That Wedding.  So enter away and good luck!!!

xoxo

Judith and Ellen

That Wedding is here and to celebrate we’re bringing you an exclusive Jillian Dodd interview and a fabulous giveaway!

As many of our readers know or may have guessed being that we talk about Philip in 99% of our reviews, Ellen and I are obsessed with a little book called, That Boy by Jillian Dodd. It’s about one wholesome Nebraska girl, her two beefcake bestfriends, and all of the crazy choices she makes growing up. It’s fantastic and yes, I do realize what a starry-eyed fan girl I sound like as I say that.  I don’t care! It’s that good.  If you haven’t read Ellen’s review, you need to do it asap! Here’s the link.

Now Jillian Dodd just released the sequel to That Boy, That Wedding, a week or so ago and obviously, we squeed ourselves silly and then went straight out and got the book.  Before we post our review however, we’re going to be bringing you some fun stuff, namely an interview with the lovely Ms. Dodd and an awesome giveaway. Stay tuned as we’ll have the giveaway details posted later today!

Between the Lines by Tammara Webber

Between the Lines by Tammara Webber

Sold by: Amazon Digital Services

Format: Kindle Edition

I’ve got a big secret for you: as much as I try to act otherwise, I’m nothing more than a celebrity whore. I can’t help it. Our culture of celebrity obsession has me firmly entrenched. Besides reading and reviewing YA fiction, Ellen and I do little more than gossip: who is dating whom, who is wearing what, who is getting married, who is getting divorced, and which celebrity relationship is the most over the top. And then there’s the celebrity babies! Squee!! Honestly, we can’t stop.  So let me tell you, an entire book about celebrity teens dating and acting scandalously is perhaps the best thing to ever happen to YA fiction.  We get all of our fixes in one place and even though I’ve overdosed, I’m not ashamed to say that I liked it. A lot. (Okay, more than a lot. I’m pathetic. Sigh.)

Plot:

Seventeen year old Emma Pierce has wanted to be an actress for as long as she can remember and for the last several years she has steadily worked in her chosen field doing commercials and Lifetime movies, hoping for her big break.  She finally gets it after a steamy audition with teen super star Reid Alexander and is cast as the lead in a high school adaptation of Pride and Prejudice.  Filming begins shortly afterward in Austin, Texas and Emma is thrown together with a group of teen celebrities, each hoping to become as big a star as Hollywood’s golden boy Reid.  After several days of partying and filming, Emma forms an unlikely attachment to dark and thoughtful indie actor Graham Douglas. While Graham seems interested, sharing a brief but memorable kiss with her, it’s ultimately Reid who stakes a claim on Emma.  Graham steps back, taking on the roll of friend while Emma is pursued heavily by the hard-partying wild child Reid.  Emma finally allows Reid past her defenses but can’t get rid of the nagging feeling that he isn’t right for her.  As filming slowly draws to a close, Emma is forced to make a lot of life changing choices: whether to attend college or see what the future holds for her in acting; whether to move to New York or stay in California; and whether to let Reid Alexander claim her completely when she has more than a passing interest in the sweet yet reserved Graham.  In the end, she chooses college over the immediacy of fame and chooses the boy who is perfect for her even with all of his flaws.

Reviews:

Uhh, have I mentioned that I like celebrities? It’s funny that after living in NYC for the last 12 years and seeing my fair share of them that they can still strike me speechless.  I’m like a star struck teen who doesn’t understand the concept of television vs reality and when I catch one buying a vente latte at the Starbucks on Astor Place, well, I just swoon. (And clutch at my husband madly trying to pry his fingers off his cell phone which has a remarkably better camera than mine). Seriously, these people can’t be real! And I guess this sense of wonder, of awe is what makes Between the Lines so gosh darn entertaining.  We all have more than a fleeting obsession with these people and even Emma our heroine does too.  It’s refreshing to see stars in awe of other stars.  It’s realism at its finest.

Between the Lines is an extremely well written portrayal of celebrity life and culture.  We have Emma, the struggling actress who gets a big break and is thrust amongst Oscar nominated actors and teen super stars.  Her foil is Reid, the Hollywood It Boy whose hard partying ways (think drugs, alcohol, women, lack of empathy, and a tendency toward the megalomaniacal) are ignored by everyone and even embraced by women everywhere.  And in the middle of these two comes the Indie actor (a bit heavy-handed, yes) Graham who’s a combination of both these worlds.  Now what I liked best about this book was the fact that you did not have any clue who Emma would end up with until the very end.  I mean, we get alternating viewpoints throughout the story and Reid being one of them was extremely misleading.  I kept reading his thoughts and was all, why on earth is he the hero? What a douche! But I kept hoping he would redeem himself because if we are privy to his internal dialogue than he has to be the hero right? Well that’s wrong, fool! You were duped, like I was, but in a supremely good way.  Too often lately, I’ve read books where it is so evident what is going to happen that I can actually stop reading about 50 pages in and summarize the rest without reading it to Ellen who finished ages ago. And 9 times out of 10 I’m right.  Tammara Webber does us all a great service by including a healthy dose of originality into a book that could easily be banal and trite.  It’s not however which forced me to read it in 2 days. I work, people, and deal with some family stuff that takes up a great deal of time and yet managed to cram this into every available moment I had.  It’s that good.

Based on the following criteria:

How much did I like the heroine: 9.  Emma was pure gold.  She stuck true to her beliefs and her morals even though the hottest guy on the planet kept pushing her to tear them down.  She wouldn’t relent in the onslaught of blond haired gorgeousness and stuck to her guns enough to realize that lust and love are two wholly different things.  Plus she managed to catch the interest of a mainstream Hollywood actor and a buzzed about Indie celebrity.  She must be exuding some sort of musk that we need to bottle asap since I think I spotted Ryan Gosling yet again at my starbucks. Swoon.

How much did I like the love interest: Wait, hold up: who’s the love interest here? Reid who is given an internal monologue throughout the book or Graham who seems a bit too reserved to be the one Emma ends up with? That’s the point, people! We don’t know! We don’t have any clue and that makes this book amazing.  I loved being kept in suspense about the love interest.  It happens so infrequently these days. So Reid as mentioned above is the ultimate douche though drop dead gorgeous and Graham is a strong, sensitive slightly older man with a penchant for taking three steps back for every one forward.  Hmmm…tough call. Let’s mash these two together to form the ultimate celebrity male whom we’ll call Reham (get it? Reid + Graham morphs into Reham…or is Graid better? Frankly both are bad and it sounds like we’re comparing industrial solvents or something) Combined, I’m happy so I’ll give them…about 50 bagillion for being hot, hard-partying, sensitive, and rich.

How believable is the plot: 10. This is exactly how I imagine the filming of Twilight went down only with the addition of a mega-hot superstar (Remember ladies: RPatz didn’t become a star until after the movie).  Her rendering of young hollywood feels spot on and the no holds barred depiction of the rampant drug use, alcohol abuse, and one night stands is perfect without being raunchy.

How much did I like the writing style/editing/etc: 10. Hats off to you, Tammara Webber, for creating a well-written, evenly paced book about celebrities that doesn’t shy away from the bad yet still manages to embrace the good and show that teen celebrities are still just kids, granted with a heapload more money than I’ll ever see.  Her dialogue is superb, the scenes are well laid out and are descriptive, and there are no editing mistakes except for maybe one but I’ve already forgotten what it is so it can’t be too bad.

How much did I want to keep reading: 10. Dude. This book is the first of a trilogy. I had no idea.  Let’s just say I bought #2 about 5 minutes ago and will be cramming even more of these characters’ lives into my busy schedule.  So happy.

Final Score: Let’s just call it a 10/10 and leave it at that. No need for math tonight. Read this if only for the fact that it deals with teen stars and their love lives and won’t make you feel as cheap as UsWeekly or InStyle.

Perigee Moon by Tara Fuller

Perigee Moon by Tara Fuller

Publisher: Crescent Moon Press (January 12, 2012)

Format: Kindle Edition

If you’re like me, you’re going to pick this book up and go WTF?! The title isn’t Pedigree Moon? It’s Perigee Moon? What does that even mean? And after doing a bit of google research you will have some vague recollection of 9th grade astronomy class and the definitions of both perigee and apogee.  You’d think being a classics major (and by classics I mean Greek and Latin, not literature), I would know this but I don’t. I’ve disappointed even myself tonight: the perigee of the moon refers to when the moon is closest to the Earth and conversely, the apogee is when it’s farthest away.  Don’t think this is important or anything because honestly, it’s not.  The perigee of the moon has nothing to do with the book Perigee Moon beyond one minor plot point way at the end so we’re all in the clear.

Plot:

Rowan Bliss was born with a gift: she can feel the emotions of those around her and even track down people via their emotions. But this gift turns into a curse shortly after her mother dies in a house fire and Rowan, overwhelmed by the emotions of everyone around her, unsuccessfully attempts suicide in her best friend’s bathtub.  When this does nothing but alienate her from her grieving father and brother, she decides a move to her mother’s hometown of Ipswich, Massachusetts is the only way she can truly come to terms with her mother’s death.  When she moves in with her grandma and grandpa and starts at her new school, her life seems to be back on track. However she’s doomed after meeting the mysterious Alex and becomes instantly obsessed.  She’s never seen him before but something about him draws her to him.  Eventually a fragile romance blooms between them and Rowan feels the wounds of her mother’s death begin to close.  But Alex has a deep, dark secret of his own.  He’s actually a witch from 1692 who has been dreaming of Rowan since he was 8 years old.  He’s powerful enough to travel through time to find her but dark forces are at work in his time.  His own mother was hanged for witchcraft and though he tries to play the part of a good Puritan, all of 17th century Ipswich is suspicious of him because of his mother.  Through her relationship with Alex, Rowan learns that her own gift is due to the fact that she comes from a line of witches.  As Rowan begins to practice and grow in power, both she and Alex  search frantically for a way for their ill-timed love to continue despite the differences between them, Alex’s power hungry family, and the very forces of magic hoping to keep them apart.

Review:

I’m going to start with something inane but 100% necessary: this book needs a new editor stat. I truly believe that just because a book is YA fiction does not give it license to look bad on paper or  ebook as the case may be. With Perigee Moon, I’m not sure if the issues that plague it (and I mean PLAGUE it in the most all encompassing sense of the word) are a result of formatting issues or what, but I should never, ever, ever be subjected to the glaring mistakes that are found in this book. Doubly so if I purchased it. God’s is not the plural of God; barley does not mean barely; and donning a coat means putting on a coat not wearing it.  This is just a sampling of the many, many grammatical, spelling, and punctuation mistakes present.  I don’t know about any of you, but when errors like this crop up all of the time it just ruins a book for me. It’s all I can focus on because like I’ve said before, writers should know how to use words and when they don’t, they shouldn’t be writers.  But I’m going to give Tara Fuller the benefit of the doubt here and say that this must be an ebook formatting problem and leave it at that. Because I can’t fathom any publishing house allowing so many to exist in a book it published. But I digress.

Now, the story itself isn’t bad per se.  The plot just feels overused. It’s one we’ve read a bagillion times recently and I’m going to pull out my checklist just to be sure.  Mysterious Boy? Check. Girl who is misunderstood and must leave her home to start over? Check. Paranormal beings trying to keep Mysterious Boy and Girl far, far apart? Check. Girl turns out to be paranormal herself? Check. I could keep going.  It read like Twilight only with witches and time travel replacing the vampires and wolves.  The story is basically that of star crossed lovers only Rowan and Alex are hindered by 400 years separating them and the fact that Alex is hanged in the past for witchcraft.  Their romance comes off as forced since you never really see them interacting beyond the professions of love and Alex’s miraculous appearances when Rowan needs saving.  They meet and then bam! Seem to be instantly deep in the throes of love.  I tried but just couldn’t buy it.  Sadly there are lot of plot points like this peppered throughout. Even the big shocker that Rowan is a witch just fell flat.  You could see it a mile away.  The story is really stilted with not a lot of flow between scenes and the dialogue, a big selling point for me, didn’t really go anywhere.  There are a lot of unanswered questions here: why was Alex dreaming about Rowan when he was 8 years old? Wouldn’t she not exist yet? Rowan’s mom was a witch with an abnormal daughter who needed reassurance about her weirdness.  Why did she let her fragile daughter believe she was some abnormal emotion feeling freak if she could just have easily explained it? Why does Rowan decide to leave her home in Colorado for Massachusetts when she has a great circle of friends and family there are all rooting for her to get better after her suicide attempt? What father would allow a suicidal daughter to move across the country from him after also losing his wife? Again, I could go on and on.  In the end, this story isn’t bad, it’s just not original.  The premise made me hope for something but it never went anywhere, it just floundered.

So based on the following criteria:

How much did I like the heroine: 5.  Witchcraft aside, Rowan was not at all a strong character.  She needed to be saved a lot throughout the book and that just didn’t sit right with me.  Plus she falls madly in love with Alex so quickly that she comes across as overly needy.   And it gets to the point where she actually says something along the lines of, something inside me knew you–yes, my soul recognized you.  Gag! No really, GAG! But she does earn points for trying to come to terms with her mother’s death and she does handle the fact that Alex is a time-traveling witch remarkably well.

How much did I like the love interest: 5.  Alex sounds like he could be dreamy–dark hair, blue eyes, muscled build, British accent–but he’s from the past, people! He can’t exist in our time.  Plus he’s a witch who does bad things to people (albeit those people are potential rapists but still!) and is still under the thumb of his aunt even though he’s over 18.  Plus he seems a bit stalkerish.

How believable is the plot: 5. Paranormal stuff is all the rage now. I get it.  So the plot being that a time traveling witch finds the girl of his literal dreams who also happens to be a witch didn’t seem like a huge stretch for me.  What did was how quick their love developed and how co-dependent they both were.  I’m not so comfortable with teenage girls thinking that witches are gonna save them from all their problems.

How much did I like the writing style/editing/etc: 5. Again, I’m giving Tara Fuller the benefit of the doubt here.  Maybe all the mistakes were due to the formatting of the e-version of this book and in that case, I feel for her.  The writing itself was a bit flat and didn’t flow as well as I’d have liked.  Everything came off a little stilted and forced but still, it was decent and got points for that.

How much did I want to keep reading: Hhmmm, tough call. Just want to stress that this book wasn’t bad.  It just included a lot of points that have been overused lately. I don’t know if there’s a sequel because the ending was a bit vague on that point.  But if there were, I probably wouldn’t go out of my way to get it.  At one point, I wanted the story to hurry up and be over because it felt like there were too many trite plot devices being used and I needed a break from them.

Final Score: 5/10. So there you go. A decent effort that with a bit better editing and a plot that had been kicked up a notch would have been inching toward an 8 or 9.

Feb 13th: What is Ellen reading?

Well no one asks me what I’m reading but I want to feel like an equal member in this endeavor so I’m copying Judith. (Except for the photo. Since I’m usually some sort of redhead I had to be original.)

1. To be honest nothing until Thursday because I have to write a paper on some linguistics topic. I was thinking of doing some NCIS-inspired paper about forensic linguistics but that’s not working out. So now I’m thinking of how mobile phones are being used to advance foreign language learning. I know you all care which is why I’m telling you.

2. That Wedding – I might squee myself to death based on what people are posting on Jillian Dodd’s twitter. Can’t wait.

3. Crimson Soul by Tim Cody

4. Wanderlove – Which I’ve now read twice (when Judith finally started reading it I had to re-read to remember what she was complaining about). And since she’s put this in her DNF pile it’s all mine. But if it causes some Roma woman to come after me a la “Drag Me To Hell” I’m sending the evil eye her way. Although I do have to admit I’m happy because I don’t think Judith knows as much about the Rom as I do since she doesn’t even have cable and can’t watch “My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding”. The heck?

5. I bought several free YA books on Amazon this weekend but I was drunk and don’t remember what they are. So it’ll be a surprise for all of us!!

 

Edited to add:

6-8. I can’t believe I forgot to mention the Final Friends series by Christopher Pike! It’s part of our old-school (books we read as teens, which are actually made of paper) category. Bring on the gore!

Feb. 13th: What’s Judith Reading?

A lot of people have been asking me how many books I read at one time, what does the current I Love YA Fiction queue look like, how far along am I towards the next review, and what can they expect to be reviewed next.  So we’re going to let you know what we’re reading in real time:

What’s Judith reading? Inquiring minds want to know.

1. Untraceable (The Nature of Grace Book 1) by S. R. Johanes

2. Wanderlove by Belle Mallory

3. Perigee Moon by Tara Fuller

4. That Wedding by Jillian Dodd

Not sure when these four will be reviewed but have no doubt, they will be. Ellen’s already called dibs on That Wedding.

What’s that? It’s Monday already! Roundup time!

Helloooo! Do you know what today is? Do you? Are we thinking the same thoughts? Have you finally linked telepathically to I Love YA Fiction? If so, then yes! It is the day before Valentine’s Day and yes, it is time for our weekly roundup.  It’s going to be slim pickins’ here, folks, and for that I’m sorry but not really because I was on vacation and it was fantastic. A girl needs her R&R.  And Ellen, you ask? Well, she claims she was sick but personally, I think she used this supposed illness as a front for reading trashy romance novels in bed on the weekend.  Or maybe she was just sick.

First things first: tell me what you want for Valentine’s Day! Here’s what’s at the top of the I Love YA Fiction wishlist (http://www.swarovski.com/Web_US/en/1123123/product/Nirvana_Petite_Provence_Lavender_Ring.html?CatalogCategoryName=0112).  And yes, husband of mine, if you are reading this, there is a Swarovski store 1 block from your work.  Stop being so lazy and go look!

Now on to more pressing matters.

Incarceron by Catherine Fisher: Finn and Claudia tell simultaneous stories of being trapped–he on the inside of the mazelike prison of Incarceron and she within the confines of a rigid society that forces the norms of 200 hundred years ago on absolutely everything, including the weather.  Together they search for a way in and out of Incarceron in the hopes of changing the lives of all mankind for the better. 10/10 It doesn’t get any better than this!

Sophie and Carter by Chelsea Fine: High school seniors Sophie and Carter are neighbors who share an unbreakable bond based on years spent aiding one another through abuse and degradation.  In the end, their bond blossoms into love and their future together becomes limitless. 2.4/10 Ouch. That seems a bit extreme, even for me.  Read it and judge for yourself.

Run (The Hunted) by Patti Larsen: Utterly disoriented, Reid wakes up in a nightmarish terrain where he is hunted by mutant creatures bent on utter destruction.  He must band together with others like him in order to outwit his captors.  Ellen gives it 5/10 while I would say 1/2.

That’s it for reviews this week.  So sad…but we have some cool author/book news:

Onyx, the sure to be sizzling sequel to Obsidian by Jennifer L Armentrout, is set for release on May 15th, 2012! Get all the deets here.

Writer Tara Fuller is giving away copies of her book, Perigee Moon.  Read here to enter to win.

Incarceron author, Catherine Fisher, has a new novella set to be released  on March 31st.  It will feature the legendary Welsh character, Henwen the oracular pig.  Read on for more details.

All in all, not such a bad week. You got your 3 book reviews and your 3 random author news.  It can’t get any better than this (except of course if we were to have done four more reviews like we had originally planned but who’s counting? Me. Okay, I am).

Run (The Hunted) by Patti Larsen

Run (The Hunted) by Patti Larsen                                

Publisher: Self Published

Format: Kindle Edition

I literally just finished this book and really don’t have much to say about it so this might be a short review. I didn’t like it, I didn’t hate it, but I definitely won’t be paying money for the next book in the series

Plot: Reid wakes up in the back of a van, tied up and blindfolded with no memory of how he got there. He’s quickly untied and tossed out in the middle of a forest with his only clue about what he’s about to face coming from one of his captors who says “he’ll be needing the fight in him”. I have to admit as soon as I read that I knew EXACTLY what this book was about (I didn’t read the synopsis before “buying” since it was free), and so will you if you’ve ever read that short story “The Most Dangerous Game”. Reid has been dropped in a huge fenced-in enclosure (seriously – miles and miles worth of land) where he and other children are being hunted by what turns out to be three Wolverine-like creatures (who I’ve decided to call “Jefferson Starships” because in the words of Dean Winchester “they’re horrible and hard to kill”). For the first half of the book Reid is alone – which of course means ½ of the book is 99% internal monologue – but as the book progresses he meets up with more kids and eventually becomes the reluctant leader of what sounds like at least a dozen boys and girls.

Review: As I said I really have no strong feelings toward this book one way or the other. There’s very little character development, Reid’s internal monologue is incredibly repetitive and boring, the same can be said for the action scenes, all the stuff with the other “tribe” of kids was just too Lord of the Flies for me, and there was zero romance. Granted it’s not like I expected romance when you’re on the run for your life but honestly by the time he started to have feelings for Leila I was becoming convinced she’s bad news bears. As has already been proven by the many other successful “man hunting man” books/movies/tv shows this is a plot that can work but you also need to have engaging characters and enough action that I’m drawn in. I was just bored, and to be honest all I wanted to do was quit and re-read The Hunger Games.

One thing this book did reinforce was my serious dislike of how many current YA novels are being made into trilogies. QUIT WITH THE TRILOGIES!!! I’m sure it’s awesome to have 3 books you can sell instead of just one but when that comes at the detriment of your plot is it really worth it? This book, like so many first books, just drew out the “action” in such a repetitive fashion and only started moving things along toward the end, I’m assuming in the hopes of sucking in the reader and making them want to buy the next book. Save it Patty Hearst, I’m not buying any Stockholm Syndrome today!

I’m giving this book a 5/10 because I’m so meh about it but it wasn’t awful. I just think it would have been much better if she had made it A book, instead of part of a series.

Based on the following criteria:

How much did I like the hero: 9. I’ve really got nothing bad to say about Reid. He does his best to protect not only himself but all these other kids from the evil Jefferson Starships and find a way out. He never loses sight of his humanity (until the other group of kids) and sticks up for his friends. He seems like someone I’d like to be friends with, except for his fairly frequent bouts of self-pity. Dude, I know your situation sucks but you’re the best shot these kids have of surviving. Suck it up and do what you can.

How much did I like the love interest: Well there really isn’t one, but if you push for Leila I’m going to give her a 5. She ditches Reid but then comes back to save him, then they seem to get close, then she saves his life and kills one of the Jefferson Starships, but then at the end she seems to be plotting against Reid. She has her moments when she seems great but then just as many when I want to yell at Reid she’s not trustworthy.

How believable is the plot: Ummmm. Man hunting man? It’s not that I don’t think humans are capable of it but it’s just so far-fetched. Also: why is there all this free land in the middle of the Northeast? And are these Jefferson Starships supposed to be some sort of Army experiment into super-soldiers or something? It was a bit too much for me. 5.

How much did I like the writing style/editing/etc: I did see a few mistakes but overall the writing style wasn’t bad. But the book was seriously boring for the first half and all of the interactions with the Jefferson Starships were repetitive. 6.

How much did I want to keep reading: Not at all. Honestly the only thing that kept me going was the knowledge that when I finished I could re-read Catching Fire (my favorite of the HG books). Kids being hunted in the woods…how could my mind not go there? 2.

Glasses of wine I drank while reading: 0. Because I drank a little too much last night. But I’m going to have one now in order to try to forget I read this. Which I’m sure I will in 5 seconds because it just wasn’t memorable.

Final Score: 5/10. I do kind of want to know if Leila is going to betray Reid, what these Jefferson Starships are, and if the whole escape via the mine is going to work, but not enough to buy the second book. If anyone out there can give me a serious reason why I should change this opinion I’m all ears but it’d have to be the most compelling argument ever.

Onyx has a release date!

I am devastated! I have been working under the assumption that Jennifer L Armentrout’s latest novel in the Lux series was due to be released on August 7th (thanks for the misinformation, Amazon). Well, that is totally false! Ms Armentrout herself confirmed to me today it is in fact coming out May 15th! MAY 15th! That’s only a few months away!

You can pre-order the book now however (ignore the incorrect date listed here): http://www.amazon.com/Onyx-Jennifer-L-Armentrout/dp/1620610116/ref=sr_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1328904988&sr=1-5

Or see what Jennifer L Armentrout herself has to say about it and Shadows, the Lux novella about Daemon’s sexy twin brother: http://jenniferarmentrout.blogspot.com/2012/01/shadows-release-date-and-official-onyx.html

You can check out our awesome review of Obsidian here: https://iloveyafiction.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/obsidian-by-jennifer-l-armentrout-aka-the-only-book-ever-written-that-makes-aliens-sexy/

Contest time! Win a copy of Tara Fuller’s Perigee Moon

Mosey on over to author Tara Fuller’s site to enter for a chance to win her book, Perigee Moon: http://tarafuller.com/2012/01/26/3000-follower-perigee-moon-giveaway/

She’s giving away tons of prizes for lucky readers so if you like free books and free swag as much as we do, sign yourself up stat. Contest drawing is held Feb 26th.

Plus here’s a fun interview with Tara Fuller to give you a bit more insight into her creative process and her work: http://aaronmritchey.com/2012/01/26/interview-with-perigee-moon-author-tara-fuller/