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This Week’s Question: Spring Break. Where would be your favorite destination spot if you could join the Spring Break festivities?
Where my husband and I went for our honeymoon many years ago…Vegas baby. 🙂
Happy Friday!
~Pam
Title: The Queen of Swords
Author: Nina Mason
Publisher: Vamptasy Publishing
Genre: Paranormal Romance
Where to buy: Amazon
Blurb:
When Graham Logan, a Scottish earl turned vampire by a dark wizard’s curse, draws the Queen of Swords, he knows he’s about to meet the love of his life. For the third time. But surrendering his heart will mean risking her life…or making her what he is. Neither of which his morals will permit him to do. Graham, who believes he lost his soul to the curse, rages at God: Why give her back only to take her again?
Cat Fingal, the third incarnation of Graham’s twin flame, won’t let him escape so easily. As soon as they meet, she feels she knows him and begins having past-life flashbacks. A white witch, she casts a spell to summon him, wanting answers and to fill the void she’s felt all her life.
Graham has other problems, too. Like the seductress who wants him for herself and the dark wizard who cursed him and killed his beloved the first two times.
Will he find a way to save her this time around? Or will she save him?
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Excerpt:
Biting his lip, Graham turned the card of the here and now quickly. Seeing what he’d most feared tightened his chest. The central figure sat in profile upon a throne carved with angels and butterflies. She wore a white gown and a cloak decorated with clouds. More clouds gathered in the background, suggesting a storm was coming. The woman’s left hand reached out toward someone or something unseen in the distance. Her other hand gripped the up-thrust symbol of her suit.
The Queen of Swords.
He’d drawn the card only once before: the morning he’d met Catharine La Croix at a sidewalk cafe overlooking the Seine. To say her resemblance to Caitriona discomposed him was an understatement. He’d been floored by the likeness. He’d also been drawn to it like a sailor to a siren’s song. Unfortunately, he’d had no ship’s mast to rope himself to until the danger passed. Within a few weeks, they were deeply in love. He never suspected she might meet the same fate as her previous incarnation. Not until it was too late, anyway.
He’d done his best to protect her. After seeing Gerard Fitzgerald, the dark wizard who’d cursed him, on the street outside her apartment on Rue de Cherche Midi, he’d kept a watchful eye on her. Being as stubborn as before, she didn’t care for his vigil. One morning, she slipped out after he’d fallen asleep. He’d searched for her everywhere, out of his mind with worry. He’d had her blood, should have felt her, but he didn’t. That evening, he learned why.
Fitzgerald had done it. Of that, he was certain. He just didn’t know why. Now, it looked as if history was about to repeat. And what could he do about it except tear out his hair, beat his fists on the walls, and cry to heaven, “Why? Why give her back to me only to take her again?”
Grief closed around his throat like a strangler’s hands. Coughing to ease its grip, he overturned the card of his future. Surprise stung his heart when he saw The Fool. Squinting, he studied the image of a gaily-dressed youth whose open arms seemed to embrace the world. His right hand held a knapsack, his left, a single white rose. Nipping at his heels was a wee white dog. The Fool, fearing nothing, looked skyward with a dreamy expression as he strode toward the edge of a cliff.
Bewildered, he shook his head. What could it mean? The Fool stood on the threshold. He was the protagonist of the tarot, the archetypal hero embarking on his quest, the soul starting its journey toward atonement. The Fool, in other words, was the polar opposite of the hopeless, faithless tightrope walker Fitzgerald’s dark curse had turned him into over the past one hundred years.
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About the Author: Nina Mason
Nina Mason is a hopeful romantic with strong affinities for history, mythology, and the 
metaphysical. She strives to write the same kind of books she loves to read: those that entertain, edify, educate, and enlighten. Three of her books will be published in 2014: The Queen of Swords, an urban fantasy/paranormal romance; The Knight of Wands, book one in the Knights of Avalon Series; and The Tin Man, a political thriller about the dangers posed by media monopolies. She is currently at work on Book Two of the Knights of Avalon series and is itching to get back to a book she started a while back about a merman who falls for an oil company spokeswoman after a phantom tanker capsizes on the coast of the Hebrides islands. When not writing, Nina works as a communications consultant, doll maker, and home stager. Born and raised in Southern California, she now lives in Woodstock, Georgia, with her husband, teenage daughter, two rescue cats, and a Westie named Robert.
Social-media links:
Website: http://ninamasonauthor.com
Blog: http://ninamasonromance.blogspot.com
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ninamasonromance
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ninamasonauthor (@ninamasonauthor)
Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/ninamasonauthor
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/ninamasonauthor
Google+:https://plus.google.com/105622637668245901733/posts
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This Week’s Question: Tell us about a book that you didn’t like and why we shouldn’t read it…nicely.
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This is partly my fault. I should have read the description better, and I even mentioned that in my review. I thought it was going to be real letters to Obama, sort of like the book called Dear Mr. President: Letters to the Oval Office from the Files of the National Archives. But it was a fiction, or satire if you will. Reading make believe letters and answers to and from the president just doesn’t do it for me.
Hope you all have a great weekend!
~Pam
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Title: Dying for a Living
Author: Kory Shrum
Published: 2014 by Timberlane Press
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Purchase Dying for a Living from Amazon
“This is Ms. Jesse Sullivan. She will be your agent today.”
He turned his narrowing eyes from her to me. “She’s the zombie?”
Was it my job to remind him “zombie” is a derogatory term? Yes.
“Necronite,” I corrected. I threw the muffin wrapper in the bedside trashcan. “I’m the Necronite here to die so you can keep on a-livin.” (location 56 on Kindle.)
Jesse is a death replacement agent. Only Necronites can take this position as it requires the agent to die in order to save the client. Necronites come back to life after a day or a few days, depending on their injuries. One day on the job, a client tried to cut off Jesse’s head, which would prevent her from coming back to life ever again. This stirs up a bunch of events that lead to Jesse getting in trouble and investigated by the government. And to top it off Jesse begins to hallucinate and starts to see an angel named Gabriel. Or perhaps Gabriel isn’t a hallucination after all…..
I love Jesse; she is a girl of my own heart. She’s not afraid to assert her opinion, and it’s usually in a sarcastic manner. She made me smile and laugh out loud. She likes to dress comfortably, and you can usually find her in mismatched sneakers (she usually loses one when she dies).
There are two possible love interests in Jesse’s life, Ally, her personal assistant, and Lane, who Jesse has a ‘no strings attached’ friends with benefits relationship with. They both care about Jesse a lot, but she tries to avoid relationships with both of them for her own reasons.
I love learning random facts while reading for fun. Do you know that feeling when you go to sleep and then it feels like your falling and you jerk awake? That’s called a myoclonic jerk. Your brain sends a signal causing the jerk, because it’s mistaking your slow breathing for dying. The ‘jerk’ makes your muscles and heart contract for the purpose of waking you up. I bet you’re a little creeped out now after reading this; I know I was! (This was brought up by Jesse when explaining to others how a Necronite’s body and brain reacts differently than the average human.)
I only have praise for this book. The editing was good, the characters were awesome. It was fast moving and interesting. But also, it was unique. It wasn’t another vampire or werewolf book that’s already been done. Dying for a Living is a one of a kind novel, and a really good one at that. So if you’re into urban fantasy go read it, just don’t call Jesse a zombie; she takes offense.
My Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
~Pam
*****I received this book free from the author in exchange for an honest review.*****
Title: Napoleon (Layers of Veronica #1) 
Author: Emilia Rutigliano
Published: 2013 by Emilia Rutigliano
Genre: Women’s Fiction
Veronica is a great mother, friend, and lawyer. Her ex-husband is having a baby with his new wife, which is fine with Veronica as long as the new wife treats her kids well, and she does. Veronica has a lot of self confidence in the courtroom and in the bedroom. She sleeps around with no strings attached and that’s the way she likes it to be. But Veronica starts to meet certain men and develops stronger feelings for them. Will she meet that special someone who she can’t live without, or will she continue to live her life the way she does because after all she is happy, isn’t she?
It’s hard to like a book when you don’t like the morals that you’re presented with. I really did like Veronica. She’s a great mom, and an awesome friend. She’s there for everyone when needed. As a lawyer, she also excels. She’s been a lawyer for years so it comes naturally at this point in her life. And the fact that she sleeps around, I couldn’t care less. The only thing that bothers me is that she prefers married men so there are no strings attached. Her husband cheated on her and got another woman pregnant. Veronica doesn’t act hurt by it, but I’m sure she was/is. Doesn’t she realize that she is doing the same thing to someone else’s wife? It’s obviously the men’s fault as well; they’re not getting off the hook here. It’s just that she doesn’t seem to feel bad for the men’s wives in the least. That’s what bothers me.
Anyways, the book itself was well written and fast moving. I did get a little confused when she met Jeremy, a successful and married man, and he tries to explain to her about different levels and layers of her life. I just didn’t understand what was going on. He was trying to give her an education on how to get more out of life and more money I believe. I don’t know, I just didn’t get it.
There was a rape, not really scene cause it wasn’t, we, the readers, just know that it happened. Anyways, it was horrible but during the after effects of the rape there were some significant spelling errors. Semen was spelled ‘seamen’ a few times. Now honestly, I was glad for the error because it made me laugh and I needed that laugh during that scene to take me back to reality.
The ending didn’t give me closure at all. In fact, I made a note in my kindle saying, “what??????” I know that this is the first book in a series but I just feel that some sort of closure would have been nice.
Looking at what I wrote it sounds like I’m ripping apart this book, but I’m really not trying to. Again, it was for the most part a fast moving enjoyable read. All and all, definitely a good book.
My Rating: 3 1/2 out of 5 stars
~Pam
*****I received this book free from Pump Up Your Book in exchange for an honest review.*****
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