As the blog tour come to an end, remember you still have until tonight at midnight to enter for your chance to win a ecopy of Shelly Crane’s NYT best selling Wide Awake! Trust me you want this book its AAA-MAZING! All you have to do is like Our FB, Twitter or Blog page and you will be automatically entered for your chance to win. We will pick a winner AT RANDOM on the 21st and post it! GOOD LUCK!
I love getting book recommendations from people, so I was stoked, yes people still used that word, when I got this recommendation from a friend of mine, especially if it’s NA or close to NA.
Cam has some bad things happen to her, her first love died, her parents divorced, her brother is in jail and her her BFF just dumped her ! So Cam got fed up, and let me just say that I have been where home-girl was and have wanted to do what she did, which is to pack some stuff in a bag, not tell anyone good-bye and haul ass on a bus!
Cam is lost metaphorically and when she sets outs for a trip to Idaho she was searching for something just to make her feel. Enter Andrew, who was traveling from Texas to see his father who was on his death bed, literally. The two seemed to be drawn together instantly but Cam is set to not have her heart open to for any type of relationship, friendship or otherwise.
And Andrew is more than meets the eye, very protective of Cam from the very beginning but also very secretive., especially when it comes to his father and and his feelings about his father’s death.
They form a type of traveling friendship, they are on the road for 18+hours together, and when it comes time for them to go there different ways something happens to Cam that causes them to once again become traveling friends only this time cam realizes that maybe, she is starting to feel something a little bit more than what she set out for with cam, I mean he does look like
Personally the moment he said “You can hear that?” I would have been in his lap, but that’s just me.
Andrew brings out a side in Cam that she didn’t even know she had, that was buried deep down inside of her but feels torn because she feels guilty. Andrew is hard but lovable, I didn’t pull that picture from my mind, he is described as looking like Kellan Lutz (Thank You J.A. Redmerski) He tries his hardest to keep Cam at an arms length to no avail.
I both liked and then disliked this book only because of the ending. I loved that it was told in duel POV because I love the male POV and well, I just love Andrew. And I also loved the whole ‘on the road’ thing they had going on and how their relationship grew into something more.
The ending I was like
I can’t tell you because I don’t do spoilers but man! I wanted to throw my kindle and then yell at my friend for suggesting I read this book. I actually think I did do the last part. But this tells you one thing if nothing else about the author, she is a great author if she can get you to almost throw you’re Kindle because you are that mad at the characters in her book! All I know is that I’m deff awaiting The Edge of Always, you can pre-order it Here due out November 5th!
Check out her Goodreads page here
4 out of 5 stars
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I love the new covers!
If there’s one thing I’ve learned this past year and a half, it’s that change is inevitable. And you have to be susceptible to it, or you’ll be left behind. I don’t like to be left behind, especially at Wal-Mart. SO! We have a big change.
A couple of big changes, actually, but you only get one today and it has to do with something very near and dear to my heart. SLAMMED.
When I self-published SLAMMED, I used Amazon’s cover creator through createspace because, well…I’ll be honest. I was making $9 an hour and living in a trailer and when I weighed the price of a good cover or feeding my children dinner, I chose my children.
So anyway, the cover for SLAMMED wasn’t something I would have picked had I had the means to hire a cover designer. But that cover means a lot to me and it…
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Quick question, I recently bought a book for the first time that only had 4 four star reviews in Amazon and so far its not bad. I would love to hear from anyone else know if you let the number of reviews deter you from buying a book, or do the reviews help, even when you may not have picked the book on your own?? Leave you’re thoughts in the comments.
Everything is live!
Welp, the day has finally arrived! No, not puberty, although that day seems to be here too as I have pimples galore all of a sudden, I’m like old WTH? No the day has finally arrived for the release of Everything and let me tell you I am having slight heart palpitations but slightly flailing!
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After my initial heart attack was over (courtesy of a glass of wine) I thought about how to best pimp myself out (that sounds really dirty) and thought the best way is to let my friends do it for me! I get free publicity and free advertisement! The best kind!
So while they are so very excited for me and will continue to advertise, I will let them because why? Who does’t love things for FREE duh! Meanwhile check out my book if you want(and you soo want) here.
J.W.
As the blog tour rolls on, now is our chance to offer up our giveaway of the book, plus my long-awaited review. I first want to say that I thought this book was awesome, and while I abso-freaking-loutely love the Significance series this gave it a run for its money! So again just like our blog or Facebook page for your chance to be entered to win a copy of this amazing NY Times best seller! Contest ends April 21st, and a winner will be picked at random. Good Luck!
A girl.
A coma.
A life she can’t remember.
When Emma Walker wakes up in the hospital with no knowledge of how she got there, she learns that she’s been in a coma for six months. Strangers show up and claim to be her parents, but she can’t remember them. She can’t remember anyone. Not her friends, not even her boyfriend. Even though she can’t remember, everyone wants her to just pick up where she left off, but what she learns about the ‘old her’ makes her start to wish she’d never woken up. Her boyfriend breaks up with the new girl he’s dating to be with her, her parents want her to start planning for college, her friends want their leader back, and her physical therapist with the hazel eyes keeps his distance to save his position at the hospital.
Will she ever feel like she recognizes the girl in the mirror?
My review
Shelly Crane has always been able to make me feel exactly what the main character is feeling in all her other books and this one is no exception. In Wide Awake I felt just as confused and scared as Emma in the first chapter and felt like I had just woken up from a six month-long coma.
In Wide Awake Emma wakes up from a coma after having been hit by a car and left for dead six months ago. She has no memory of the accident, or anything else for that matter. And all she knows is that some guy with amazing eyes is telling her hold on and not to worry. Emma finds out that the guy is Mason and is her physical therapist (a hot tattooed physical therapist) that has been keeping her muscles moving while in a coma, and all at once Emma is thrust back into her ‘old’ life, including her over bearing boyfriend and mother.
With the help of her family she learns that she was kinda a spoiled brat and got her way all the time, and Emma is not sure how she feels about that at first. I was not a fan of Emma’s mother; at first glance she seemed cold and more interested in getting back the ‘old’ Emma and not getting to know the new one.
Meanwhile Emma seemed to latch on to Mason like a baby duck would after opening its eyes for the first time and Mason seems to latch right back, but Emma is his patient and while the relationship halts, the felling of love doesn’t.
“I want to give you back your first kiss, the one that jerk stole from you. And I want it to be something that even a coma can’t make you forget.”
Yea, Mason is smooth.
When Emma gets back into her old life, school and boyfriend she realizes that she was not only spoiled but was the queen bee at school, think Regina George from Mean Girls.
Emma has to come to terms with trying to embrace her old life, mixing with her new life and her friends. All while dealing with Mason and his secrets and the mystery as to who hit her six months ago! Talk about overwhelming. Shelly tells this story so great it’s like she has been there done that. And it’s all wrapped up by the end, with a some what ‘wow’ ending. You will never run our of what i like to call ‘awwww’ moment’s with this book, or any of her books for that matter! I love Shelly’s books because I’m a fan of’ Love’ and so is she, and with all the things her MC’s go though, love is what shines through! Whenever I need my faith renewed on love I pick up one of her books, she will never let you down.
4 out of 5 stars
Visit Shelly Crane’s Goodreads page for her other works.
YA author from a small town in Georgia and loves everything about the south. She is wife to a fantastical husband and stay at home mom to two boisterous and mischievous boys who keep her on her toes. They currently reside in everywhere USA as they happily travel all over with her husband’s job. She loves to spend time with her family, binge on candy corn, go out to eat at new restaurants, buy paperbacks at little bookstores, site see in the new areas they travel to, listen to music everywhere and also LOVES to read.
Her own books happen by accident and she revels in the writing and imagination process. She doesn’t go anywhere without her notepad for fear of an idea creeping up and not being able to write it down immediately, even in the middle of the night, where her best ideas are born.
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We here at bookbesties sometimes read the same books and then we blog about it, or in this case VLOG about it. This is our very first vlog and please bare with us on the sound! But we had fun and we hope they get better so let the judgments be sparse! Plus you get to see the faces behind the blogs!
It’s Finally here!! The official start of the Wide Awake Blog tour, hosted by I Read Indie!In case you haven’t heard the news this week Shelly has announced that not only has Wide Awake made it to number 21 on the NY times Best Sellers list (YAY!) but she will also be doing a second book called Wide Open which tells Milo story! How awesome is that?! You can add Wide Open to Goodreads here. Head on over to the first stop on the blog tour to find out who the dream cast would be. Each site will be hosting a giveaway of some kind for the book, go a and visit for your chance to win! For this site all you have to do is like our FB page here and we will choose a winner at random on the 21st. That’s it!
If you still haven’t read Wide Awake, what are you waiting for?! Go grab a copy Now and follow the tour for our review!
April 13th
*Lila Felix (Dream Cast)
*I Read Indie (Review)
April 14th
*A Diary of a Book Addict (Review)
*Always YA at Heart (Review)
April 15th
*Book Nerds Across America (Review)
*Reality Bites! Let’s Get Lost!! (Review)
*RK Ryals (Excerpt)
April 16th
*Book Crazy (Review)
*Jenna’s Junction (Review)
*Brianna Lee Book Reviews (Review)
*If These Boobs Could Talk (Review)
April 17th
*BookBesties (Review)
*Belle of the Books (Review)
*The Alternative Kryptonite (Review/Interview)
April 18th
*From the desk of . . . R.E. Hargrave (Excerpt)
*Please Another Book (Review)
*The Book Cafe (Review)
April 19th
*To Be Thode (Review)
*A Book and a Latte (Interview)
*WhirlWindBooks (Review)
April 20th
*One Stop Indie Shop (Review)
*Buffy’s Ramblings (Review)
So after the events at Raven’s Gate Matt Realizes he is a gatekeeper, one of the Five and has some power in him he was not aware of before.
I say that as I am singing “Power” From Snap “it’s getting it’s getting kinda hectic”
Matt goes to a new school funded by the Nexus (formed to fight the old ones) so the good guys… or are they? The Nexus job is to protect Matthew and the Gatekeepers. The Nexus ask Matt to help them stop a second gate from being opened by acquiring an old diary. Matt says no he is done with it and then it hits the FAN. Matt must not realize now that he has some power people will be coming after him, and by people I mean the old ones.
Well Matt finds people around him falling under the influence of dark magic and agrees to get the diary and stop the gate from opening. Matt leaves with Richard Cole the journalist who saved his life from Raven’s gate but on this journey Matt finds another Gatekeeper. Wonder twin powers activate right.
This new comer Pedro only speaks Spanish and Matt only speaks English, but they do find a way to communicate. Now these two have to put their differences aside and join up and kick some old ones tale! They find themselves going to the Nazca desert where they finds that they need help, more than they can handle, so Pedro uses a life line and calls in his people; the Inca Indians. It is on like Donkey Kong!
In this book we find some Precognition, Psycokinesis(moving thing with your mind), Radiesthesia(cleansing your aura/ healing), and Astral Projection. What What!
OMG When they say the power of five they were not messing around(sorry for the big power words; Google them). This book had a lot of twist an turns as Mr. Horowitz always delivers.
Great character development, great villains, and great power.
This was a definite read for me 4 out of 5 stars.
Next book in the series is NightRise
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