07/10/2020

Release Blitz | Wraith | Franca Storm | Give Me Books Promotions



Title: Wraith 
Series: Iron Kings MC #1 
Author: Franca Storm 
Genre: MC Romance 
Release Date: October 7, 2020

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Cold. 
Dark. 
Dangerous. 
I’m a ghost, living off the grid, never getting involved. 
Until the President of the Iron Kings MC comes calling. 
My oldest friend. My brother-in-arms. 
I’m pulled back in to protect his daughter. 
But the mission quickly turns personal. 
She tempts me, drawing me too close. 
I need to stay away. 
I’m a dangerous monster. 
I’ll ruin her. 

But I’m drawn further into the world of the Iron Kings MC. 
The promise of brotherhood and a fresh start seems too good to pass up. 
She can’t stay away and neither can I. 
Her light cuts through my dark. 
She’s everything I didn’t know I’d been looking for. 
But, can a damaged bastard like me really find peace?

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I’d wanted to devour every inch of her, lay her down, spread her open to me and fuck her with my tongue until she was coming apart around me. 
Just the thought of sinking inside her, her walls squeezing my cock so fucking tight while those sweet moans she’d made last night sounded in my ears, almost had me coming down the shower drain. But I couldn’t. I wouldn’t. 
I’d told her she was safe here. My home was her sanctuary. 
It was even more than just her father’s orders to protect her. 
She had an uncanny ability of awakening some sort of white knight complex in me. 
Knight? 
I was more like the villain who would sully everything good in her if I allowed her to get any closer to me, either physically or emotionally. 
The most confounding thing about all of it was that she wasn’t even my usual type. 
She was so innocent. So soft. Her kindness and her determination to help me and try to ease my pain was something I wasn’t used to. No one showed concern for me. Not that I wanted anyone to. I couldn’t afford to be that openly intimate with anyone. It was just that I had no idea how to handle it. People didn’t give a fuck about me. Hell, most didn’t really consider me human. More like a stone-cold robot, or the devil, himself, above it all. 
I could only hope that last night had put her off pushing it any further. The last thing she needed was to get mixed up with the likes of me. 
I was a dangerous man. 
A twisted man. 
It was who I’d always be. 
That much had been made clear to me after what I’d dealt out yesterday to those enforcers. 
Some things couldn’t be taken back. 
Especially the things I’d done, the atrocities I’d committed. 
Once that depth of darkness crept into your soul, no amount of redeeming light could get it out. 
I was a lost cause. 
Fuck.


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Succumb to a Bad Boy.
Franca writes stories about bad-boy alpha males and the tough women who turn their worlds upside down.
She is best known for her motorcycle romance series, BLACK THORNS.
When she's not writing, Franca enjoys watching action movies and binging on great TV series. Spending time with her lovable lab, hiking, and listening to hard rock, are her passions.

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05/10/2020

Release Blitz | Review | She's Mine | Jenika Snow | Give Me Books Promotions


Title: She's Mine 
Series: Black Mountain Academy 
Author: Jenika Snow 
Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance 
Release Date: October 5, 2020

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Black Mountain Academy’s bad boy. That’s who Reese Trenton was, or at least how people perceived him. He came from the “wrong side of the tracks” with a perpetual scowl on his face, a body like a god, and the arrogance to match. 
He was a rough around the edges, tattooed, and pierced kind of delinquent, but smart enough he’d gotten a full ride to BMA. And he piqued Keira’s interest in the worst—or maybe best—kind of way. He had her wanting to throw that good girl persona she carried right out the window. 
He had her wanting to be just as rebellious as he was. 
He knew too much about life, got drunk, and started far too many fights. And Keira wanted him like she’d never wanted anyone before. 
They say opposites attract, and it seemed that was the pulling force that brought Reese and Keira together. 
Heated touches. 
Passionate kisses. 
Filthy, secret intimacy. 
They shared it all together and grew addicted for more. 
He thought he was broken, too battered for a girl like her. Keira wanted to show Reese that despite the cracks he wore, the scars he sported, they were meant to be together. 
But not everyone thought Reese and Keira should be together, and as the drama and chaos erupted, as people tried to rip them apart, they realized their loyalty and love for each other had never been put to the test more than it had now. 

Reader note: This story was previously published as Giving it to the Bad Boy. It has been completely rewritten, re-edited, and new content added throughout the entire story. Basically… it’s a brand new book set in the elite world of the BMA series.



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Starting out as an avid reader, Jenika took up penning her first story and published it in 2009. Since then, she’s written books in just about every trope and sub-genre in romance. 

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This is a no brainer review. Really!
In a simple way and without dramas, Jenika manages to bring us a Young Adult story, full of situations that we can still see in our schools today. Students with money who think they are better than those who were not so lucky when they were born. Abusive parents who do not know the harm they do to their children when they destroy their own lives. Children who have to deal with rot in their own home and fight against it and what it shows the outside world.

Reese, our male character, is one of those kids who were unlucky in the family where they were born. Being extremely smart, he gets a scholarship at the best school in the area. However, this means that you have to deal with everything that is addressed to you by the rich kids that go to that school. Reese is strong enough to be able to overcome all the mean phrases addressed to him. However, he still feels inadequate and "dirty" for anyone or anything. This is where sweet and simple Keira comes in.
A rich girl who doesn't care about the rich kids and everything that wealth brings. He falls in love with Reese as soon as he sees him, but he knows, or thinks, that he is too much for her and that she is too simple and flat for him.
Gradually Reese managed to overcome his fears and inferiority complexes that he won because of his father who does nothing but drink and berber even more. Keira is declared and it is this love that he feels for her and she for him that will save him and make him hope for the future. It is certain that they will have to overcome many obstacles, especially social ones, but it will not be this that will make Keira stop believing in him and in everything he is, even though he is a poor kid and comes from a somewhat rough family. Keira will be the one who will make you focus on your goals to be a better person and completely inserted in a society that, unfortunately, is still prejudiced and malicious.


I loved it! A novel that fills our hearts and makes us read and read until it's over!

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04/10/2020

Opinião | A Harpa dos Reis | Juliet Marillier | Planeta Editora


Uma jovem é ao mesmo tempo bardo e guerreira nesta emocionante fantasia histórica, o primeiro livro da nova série - Bardos Guerreiros - de Juliet Marillier.

Liobhan, de dezoitos anos, é uma cantora possante e toca muito bem flauta. O irmão possui uma voz que derrete o coração mais duro e é um talento raro na harpa.

Liobhan e o irmão Broc, filhos de Grim, estão a ser treinados numa ilha de guerreiros, quando lhes é confiada a missão de recuperar a Harpa dos Reis, um símbolo antigo da realeza, que desapareceu, a tempo da coroação do novo rei.

Mas, quando a ambição entra em conflito com a consciência, Liobhan tem de tomar uma decisão ousada e as consequências poderão partir-lhe o coração.

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Se não me engano, este é o terceiro livro que leio de Juliet Marillier e, tal como os anteriores, gostei imenso do mundo de fantasia que nos é colocado de bandeja.

Como sempre Marillier não nos desilude ou desaponta com as suas histórias cheias de magia e fantasia. Ultimamente, tenho saíd0 um pouco do género fantástico, mas este é um livro que não poderia deixar de ler, até porque nem me perdoaria se assim não o fizesse. Sempre que leio um livro de Juliet Marillier, consigo abstrair-me da realidade e sou transportada para aqueles mundos fantásticos que ela consegue criar sempre com tanta mestria. Admito que não sou muito fã de magia, mas com esta autora é simplesmente impossível não se gostar e não nos sentirmos puxados para o meio de tudo o que acontece. Conseguimos sentir que somos parte de tudo o que está a acontecer.

Este livro traz-nos, entre outras personagens que nos ficam imediatamente na retina, Liobhan e o seu irmão Broc. Ela, uma jovem com uma voz mágica e poderosa que consegue colocar todos que a ouvem em transe, e ele um tocador de harpa exímio e um cantador com uma voz doce e terna que derrete os corações de todos os que o ouvem.
No entanto, sendo ela uma mulher, não o é como as demais da altura dela. É poderosa e cheia de garra e a única coisa que pretende é ser uma guerreira destemida e temida por todos e por isso mesmo, tanto ela como Broc estão numa ilha de guerreiros, em treinamento. Afastados de tudo e de todos. Concentrados apenas em serem os melhores. Ela com mais acerto e vontade do que ele, tenho de dizer. Ao longo de todo o livro não deixei de ficar com a ideia de que Broc apenas ali estava para proteger e ajudar a irmã que tanto ama.

Durante o treinamento, Liobhan e Broc são enviados numa missão especial e muito importante. Encontrar a mágica Harpa dos Reis que desapareceu do seu lugar sem que ninguém o prevesse. Para isso, Liobhan e Broc terão de ser quem não são e isso será um esforço hercúleo, principalmente da parte dela que terá de interpretar um papel de jovem calma e submissa, adjectivos que não se adequam a ela, de todo. Esta Harpa dos Reis é a que consegue manter a paz no reino e por isso é tão importante ser encontrada. Ninguém melhor que uma guerreira focada na sua missão e o jovem irmão tocador e conhecedor de harpas para conseguir encontrar um artefacto tão importante para a vida de todos nos reino dos Cisnes.

No entanto, sendo essa uma missão tão importante e eles sendo ainda tão novatos como guerreiros, conseguirão eles levar a cabo o trabalho que lhes foi proposto? 
Entre músicas que nos enchem o coração, momentos mágicos de ternura e outros de pura acção e  nervoso miudinho, temos uma história que promete horas de magia e pura abstracção da realidade.

Recomendo e aguardo com ansiedade o próximo capítulo!

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Opinião | Esperarei Por Ti Toda a Vida | Megan Maxwell | Planeta Portugal


O que aconteceria se uma mulher do século XXI viajasse no tempo para o século XVI?
Uma história de amor passada da Escócia medieval.
Montse e as amigas Julia e Juana são três espanholas que vivem em Londres e, para descansarem da vida stressante do dia-a-dia e ajudar Montse a superar a ruptura com o namorado traidor, decidem fazer uma viagem de raparigas a Edimburgo.
As terras mágicas escocesas surpreendem-nas muito mais do que esperavam e decidem alterar os planos definidos por outro muito mais tentador...
Mas aonde vão parar não têm creme de mãos nem cobertura de telemóvel, mas encontrarão um castelo, highlanders apaixonados e um amor eterno que nunca se apaga.

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*Recebi este exemplar em troca de uma opinião sincera e honesta*

Apesar de ter um início um pouco lento, este livro foi delicioso de se ler. 
Personagens divertidas embora cheias de personalidade e de força interior. Megan Maxwell, a meu ver, saiu um pouco da sua zona de escrita. Todas sabemos que esta é uma autora mais conhecida pelos seus romances apimentados e cheios de cenas escaldantes. No entanto, ainda que este também tenha algumas cenas "calientes" este é mesmo um romance na sua forma mais suave e terna. 
Montse, Julia e Juana são três amigas espanholas a viver em Londres. Montse não é das mulheres com mais sorte ao amor e, depois de sair de uma relação um pouco tóxica, vê-se numa situação algo caricata. Sem saber bem como, volta ao passado aquando de uma viagem à bela Escócia com as amigas. Uma forma de desanuviar um pouco e conhecer, quem sabe, o amor da sua vida. 
Depois de algumas situações um pouco caricatas que, aos poucos, lhe vai mostrando relances de uma vida passada, Montse vê-se e às amigas, precisamente no passado, onde conhece finalmente o homem que lhe invade os sonhos desde que ela se lembra.
Com o seu temperamento único e adoravelmente insubordinada, Montse vai infiltrar-se no coração e na vida do amor que ela sempre esperou, apesar de ser um homem tão ou mais teimoso que ela.
Por entre situações mirabolantes e divertidas como só estas três amigas conseguem proporcionar, cada uma delas terá como que uma espécie de revelação e será por isso mesmo que cada uma delas, se conseguirem regressar ao presente que elas conhecem, analisar e perceber o que querem. Se querem continuar a viver uma existência solitária embora com todas as tecnologias à disposição ou se querem arranjar uma forma de regressar ao passado e ao que as fez sentirem-se completas e felizes, ainda que sem telemóveis ou forma de enviar um simples email.

Devo admitir que dei valentes gargalhadas com estas três personagens e as suas linguas afiadas, mas, por outro lado, continua a fazer-me alguma espécie algumas expressões recorrentes que a autora utiliza. Não sei se será norma espanhola, uma vez que se trata da nacionalidade de Maxwell ou se outra coisa qualquer, mas o que é certo é que são tantas as vezes que nos deparamos com essas expressões que chega a fazer alguma comichão. Não é por isso que a leitura deixou de ser muito divertida e muito prazerosa.

Gostei bastante e espero que a autora continue a escrever histórias como estas.


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30/09/2020

Relentless Habit | Book Tour | Karen Renee | Review and Giveaway Included


Relentless Habit
by Karen Renee
(O-Town, #1)
Publication date: September 1st 2020
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Cecilia
I moved to Orlando for a fresh start.
Nobody could know my secret.
Catching the attention of the hottest DJ in all of Orlando wasn’t in the plan.
He’s got moves, and they’re not just good. They are good.
Like the beats he spins in the booth, I fall fast for him and his crazy family.
When he finds out about my past, it won’t just break my heart but also crush my soul.

Brock
The third time I saw her at a crowded club, I had to have her.
After our first kiss, I knew she was a habit I would never want to break.
Knowing what she hid from me reinforces what I’ve known for so long. Women cannot be trusted.
Even knowing the worst, I can’t stay away from her.
But when push comes to shove, will I be able to keep her safe?



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Karen Renee is the award-winning author of the Riot MC series, the Beta series, and upcoming O-Town series. She has been writing since she was a teen, but has only recently brought her dream to life. Karen spent years working in the wonderful world of advertising, banking, and local television media research. She is a Jacksonville native, as well as a proud wife and mother. When she’s not at the soccer field or cooking, you can find her at her local library, the grocery store, in her car jamming out to some tunes, or hibernating while she writes and/or reads books.

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This book is the first in the new O-Town series and it is a series that, in my view, starts very well.
Karen Renee, the author, brings us two main characters full of trauma and suffering in their hearts and in their pasts, Cecilia and Brock.
She ran away from an ill-advised life she was leading, full of bad addictions and bad habits. In her opinion, you did what you could to survive, including some things that she is not proud of. It's a secret that she is planning on not telling anyone, until someone that knows her story mingles in the way and she has no other option than to reveal the truth.
Brock, for his turn, is a DJ full of talent and good dance moves who also has his secrets buried in his broken heart and in his past and, when he sees Cecilia, he immediately realizes that she has to be his, whatever the cost. And how it will cost! Cecilia is fully aware that she is broken for any man who is willing to forgive all the bad additions she has had in the past and struggles with daily and makes it very hard to Brock to enter in her life and in her heart. However, Brock, manages to do exactly that and more, and makes her have a glimmer of hope that she deserves to be happy with someone like him, despite her blemished past.
In my opinion, they are two people who really needed each other to heal their wounds and build a more sunny and smiling future. Of course, the past cannot be erased only with love, if it can be erased at all, but it can be forgotten and overcome. Time heals wounds and love helps a lot to find our place in the world and in someone else's heart. 
We can't go anywhere alone and Cecilia needs Brock as much as he needs her, although for slightly different reasons.
I really liked the characters in this book and I hope to see them in the next volumes of the series.

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29/09/2020

Release Blitz | Lost on The Way | Isabel Jolie | Review and Giveaway Included

Lost on the Way
by Isabel Jolie
Publication date: September 21st 2020
Genres: Adult, Contemporary, Romance
Synopsis
They were friends—just friends. Now they’re something else entirely…

Jason
Maggie was my best friend’s girl. When he died… I don’t have the words. Indescribable pain.
But we healed. Together. She got me through my illness and became my friend, my confidant, my family. She’s everything to me.
And I ruined it all last night.
One drunken night. That’s all it took. Now I’m lost.
I want her with everything I am, everything I have, but she can’t be mine. She deserves someone with better odds than the doctors gave me.
Now, if I can’t figure out how to go back to the way things were, I’ll lose the most important relationship I have. The only one that truly matters.

Maggie
Last night was the best—and worst—night of my life.
He’s made it clear, more than once, that he only wants a friendship.
Then last night happened.
And now he knows how I feel.
He’s my best friend. I love him —mind, body, and soul. We have a visceral connection others can’t understand.
The problem? He’ll always see me as his best friend’s girlfriend, no matter how many years pass.
I can’t lose him. If he wants to stay in the friend zone, I’ll need to somehow accept that and move on. I know it’s true.
But convincing my heart…well, that’s another story entirely.

One night of excess tequila changes everything for two codependent best friends. Will they lose all they had, or can they find their way to something even better?

  

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Isabel Jolie, or Izzy to her friends, is an Amazon bestselling indie author with an unquenchable thirst for a good, sexy love story. Izzy’s heart pumps faster for stories with strong heroines, down-to-earth realism, and an unexpected twist.

When she’s not writing or reading, she can often be found with a glass of wine in hand relaxing with her husband, daughters, and good friends lakeside.

Izzy fills her Instagram feed with funnies, inspirational “brain candy”, and anything that meshes with her mood of the day. #mood.

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I have to be very sincere and admit that this story, in the beginning, did not seem to bring anything new. However, as I read and understood the main characters, Jason and Maggie, I was also captivated by the story that they told us.
The story between two best friends, united for more than twelve years by a common loss, Adam.
Adam was Maggie's boyfriend and one of Jason's best friends. They met in a somewhat awkward way since they both had cancer and both fled off the same meeting to support those who suffered from the disease. Even earlier, Jason had met Maggie, although he didn't know when he would see her again. When he found out that she was the girlfriend of his most recent friend, it seems to me that he was a little disappointed and upset about his own luck.
When Adam dies, Jason feels guilty. He felt what we now call "survivor's guilt". It seemed to him that, Adam, having parents who loved him and a girlfriend like Maggie, deserved more to have survived than he, who had nothing and nobody, not even his parents.
It turns out that, over the years, Jason and Maggie become inseparable and everyone around them where just waiting for the time when both he and she would admit that they are together, because that's all that's missing.
Honestly, for those who had such a sincere and strong friendship like them, it should be paramount to put their feelings for each other, without fear. If Maggie is absolutely sure that he is the love of her life, Jason, in turn, hides behind the fact that she was Adam's girlfriend and that his cancer can come back and he will not be able to give her the life that she wants.
It will take a lot of willpower and a lot of resilience (and patience) on Maggie's part to overcome Jason's resistance and make him realize that in life not everything is destined, nor that everything is programmed, even if it is not the health problem that he had and that he will always have to deal with, if it has to be.
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Novidade Saída de Emergência | Positivo | Camryn Garret

No passado dia 25 de Setembro, Positivo de Camryn Garret foi publicado em Portugal pela mão da Saída de Emergência.

A história inspiradora de uma adolescente seropositiva que tem de enfrentar medos e a aceitação radical de si mesma quando experiencia a paixão e o desejo pela primeira vez. Um livro que aborda os temas da sexualidade, da SIDA, da discriminação e das principais dúvidas da fase da adolescência.

Simone está a começar do zero numa nova escola e desta vez as coisas serão diferentes. Está a fazer bons amigos e a escrever uma peça para Miles, o rapaz que a faz derreter sempre que o vê. A coisa que menos deseja é que se saiba que ela é seropositiva, porque da última vez... Bem, da última vez as coisas ficaram feias.

Manter a sua carga viral sob controlo é fácil, mas preservar o segredo do seu diagnóstico não é tão simples. À medida que Simone e Miles começam a avançar na sua relação – com beijos tímidos a evoluir para algo mais –, ela sente uma inquietação que é mais do que borboletas na barriga. Ela sabe que tem de lhe contar que é seropositiva, mas está apavorada com a forma como ele poderá reagir. Até que encontra um bilhete anónimo no seu cacifo: Sei que tens VIH. Tens até ao Dia de Ação de Graças para deixar o Miles. Ou toda a gente vai ficar a saber.

O primeiro instinto de Simone é proteger o seu segredo a todo o custo, mas quando vai descobrindo os medos e preconceitos na sua comunidade, começa a perguntar-se se a única forma de os superar não será enfrentando os inimigos de cabeça erguida...

Camryn Garrett começou a escrever para a revista Time com 13 anos, e escreve desde então também para o Huffington Post e para a Rookie Magazine.

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28/09/2020

Novidade Saída de Emergência | Rosa Branca | Glen Cook

A Rosa Branca de Glen Cook. O lado mais realista, obscuro e violento da fantasia foi publicado, pela mão da Saída de Emergência no passado dia 25 de Setembro.

 
A Companhia Negra esteve à beira da ruína depois de fugir de Zimbro e da Senhora, a terrível feiticeira que espalhou a sua maldade pelo mundo. Agora, a partir de uma base secreta na Planície do Medo, onde até a Senhora hesita em ir, o grupo de mercenários procura tornar vitoriosa a Rosa Branca.
Porém, uma grande ameaça paira sobre os dois lados do conflito: o Dominador, o marido da Senhora, pode estar a planear uma tentativa de se libertar do seu túmulo, e, se o conseguir, todas as grandes batalhas que já foram travadas parecerão meras escaramuças. Diante de um inimigo em comum, é necessário tomar decisões inesperadas que testarão as lealdades e decidirão o destino do conflito.
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