Freebie Friday #3

Freebie Friday is a weekly feature at Krystal's Enchanting Reads, where I will post new book freebies that I have found and came across in my travels over the internet. These freebies will come from all different kinds of places and will consist of the types of things that I would want to read and feel you would want to read too.

Raven

by Suzy Turner

Series: The Raven Saga

Pages: 273

Publisher: Suzanne Turner Publishing

Release date: May 8, 2011

Buy eBook: Amazon

Goodreads synopsis: Her whole life had been based on a lie. Lilly had grown up in a loveless home with a father who she had barely ever seen and a mother who was... well, not very motherly.

After they mysteriously disappear without a trace, Lilly is sent to Canada where she finds a whole new way of life. A life filled with love and people who care for her. But that's not all she discovers, Lilly also finds out that she isn't who, or what, she thinks she is.

Beautiful Demons

by Sarra Cannon

Series: Peachville High Demons 

Pages: 136

Publisher: Dead River Books

Release date: October 29, 2010

Buy eBook: Amazon

Goodreads synopsis: Harper Madison isn't like other girls. She has extraordinary powers, but her inability to control them has gotten her kicked from so many foster homes she's lost count. Shadowford Home is her last chance, and she hopes Peachville High will be the fresh start she needs. But when evidence ties her to the gruesome murder of a Demons cheerleader, Harper discovers this small town has a big secret.

Pyxis: The Discovery

by K.C. Neal

Series: Pyxis

Pages: 218

Publisher: StoneHouse Ink

Release date: November 4, 2011

Buy eBook: Amazon

Goodreads synopsis: Corinne lives an average teenage life working at her dad’s cafe, hanging out with her best friend, and trying to forget a falling-out with her almost-boyfriend Mason. Things take a strange turn when she uses her late grandmother’s food dyes for a bake sale, and her customers suddenly find her irresistibly alluring. Then she discovers she and Mason are haunted by the same dreams of a dark force that consumes everything in its path. 

Pursued by shadowy figures and a crazy woman with secrets from the past, Corinne must find out who her grandmother really was. In her quest to unravel her family’s history, she learns she is destined to protect this world--and the dark world of her dreams. She races to find the answers she seeks before her nightmares break free.

Warning: This novel contains sexually explicit content.

Handsome Bastard

by Kate Hill

Series: Ancient Blood

Pages: 73

Publisher: Ellora's Cave

Release date: April 9, 2008

Buy eBook: Amazon

Goodreads synopsis: Cyprian Augustus, a blood-drinker of irresistible charm and deadly cunning, has eluded hunters from the purist group We Who Serve Humanity for centuries. Now he's pitted against their most dangerous warrior. Beautiful and heartless, Leotine has destroyed every blood-drinker she has been sent to kill. Cyprian and Leotine begin a perilous game of seduction and lies. In their attempt to outsmart each other, they might just lose themselves to the all-consuming passion burning between them.

Timeless Cover Reveal and Giveaway!

Check out this amazingly beautiful cover for the new book Timeless by Michelle Madow.

Timeless is the final part of the Transcend Time Saga, and will be released on November 20, 2012. 

If you haven’t started the Transcend Time Saga yet, the e-version of Remembrance is only $2.99 and can be purchased at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iBooks, and Kobo.

Now for the best part!!

To celebrate the Timeless cover reveal, Michelle Madow is giving away to one person:

A signed copy of Remembrance, a signed copy of Vengeance, a signed copy of Timeless (to be sent after Timeless releases), three signed Remembrance bookmarks, a mask that looks like the one on the cover of Remembrance, and a mention in the acknowledgments section of Timeless.

The giveaway is INTERNATIONAL! So, head on over to Michelle Madow's Blog and enter for your chance to win this amazing giveaway.

Pen to Paper Blogoversary: Day 2

Day two of this great blogoversary giveaway is starting out with another book giveaway. Today Pen to Paper is giving away a *Signed* copy of A Witch in Love by Ruth Warburton.

A Witch in Love (Winter Trilogy #2)

by Ruth Warburton

Pages: 416

Publisher: Hodder Children's Books

Release: July 05, 2012

Anna still finds it hard to believe that Seth loves her and has vowed to suppress her powers, no matter what.

But magic – like love – is uncontrollable. It spills out with terrible consequences, and soon, Anna is being hunted.

To enter for your chance to win this book all you have to do is make sure you're a follower of Pen to Paper via GFC, once you are then enter the Rafflecopter at the bottom of each post you want to enter. Easy Peasy.

Good Luck! :)

Pen to Paper 1st Blogoversary Giveaway: Day 1

I want to wish Pen to Paper a very happy 1st Blogoversary!

Pen to Paper was the first blog I came across when I first starting blogging only a few short months ago. I am still just a newbie in this blog world but Pen to Paper has been my template, if you will, on how a great blog should be written. Pen to Paper has amazing reviews, author reviews and so much more. The creater behind Pen to Paper, Dani, gives a whole new fresh approach to reviews and interviews where she makes it seem so simple. I only hope that one day I can grow and become something as wonderful as her blog has grown to be.

So Dani, here's to you. *raises glass* We wish you many more great years to come and many more awesome reviews that I, for one, can not wait to read.

Cheers!

Now for the really fun stuff. In honor of Pen to Paper's 1st Blogoversary she is hosting a very awesome giveaway. Being givenaway is a **Signed** paperback copy of the book Entice by Jessica Shirvington. I know I am excited for this giveaway.

Entice (The Violet Eden Chapters #2)
by Jessica Shirvington

I looked up at Phoenix. I think he loved me once. 'You don't have to do this,' I whispered.

Since Violet Eden discovered she was Grigori - part angel, part human - her world has been shaken to its core. No longer sure who to trust, Violet soon realises that everyone is hiding something. Even her soulmate, Lincoln. Only one thing is certain: dark angel Phoenix has a hold over her more dangerous than ever...

In the race to win the battle against the darkness, Violet's own powers will be pushed to the extreme. And the ultimate betrayal will be revealed...

To enter in to win this great prize head on over to Pen to Paper, read the rules that she has set and then start entering with the Rafflecopter at the bottom of her post.

Are you excited yet!! I know I am so head on over through any of the links posted here in this post and enter for your chance to win.

Wishlist Wednesday #3

Wishlist Wednesday is a book blog hop hosted by Pen and Paper, where we will post about one book per week that has been on our wishlist for some time, or just added (it's entirely up to you), that we can't wait to get off the wishlist and onto our wonderful shelves.

Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days #1)

by Susan Ee

It’s been six weeks since angels of the apocalypse descended to demolish the modern world. Street gangs rule the day while fear and superstition rule the night. When warrior angels fly away with a helpless little girl, her seventeen-year-old sister Penryn will do anything to get her back.

Anything, including making a deal with an enemy angel.

Raffe is a warrior who lies broken and wingless on the street. After eons of fighting his own battles, he finds himself being rescued from a desperate situation by a half-starved teenage girl.

Traveling through a dark and twisted Northern California, they have only each other to rely on for survival. Together, they journey toward the angels’ stronghold in San Francisco where she’ll risk everything to rescue her sister and he’ll put himself at the mercy of his greatest enemies for the chance to be made whole again.

Click here to buy your copy now.

My thoughts:
I have never read anything by this author but I have to say the first thing that caught my eye about this book is the cover. I love it! and then reading what the book was about it goes together so perfectly. This book sounds gritty and just down right awesome! I can't wait until I can take this off my wishlist and actually read it.


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Poetry Tuesday #2

Poetry Tuesday is a weekly feature at Krystal's Enchanting Reads, where I will post new poetry that either I have written or that I have come across in my travels over the internet and wish to share with the world.


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Holy Matrimony
by Krystal S. Willingham

Death will walk beside me

As I walk down the aisle.

Looking into your eyes

Watching as my life

Now fads away

With every step I take.

Every second that slips away.

Not ever knowing

What it would be like

To have one happy moment,

The one happy moment

That was to be spent with you.

Yes, death will be the one

To walk with me

Down the aisle

To your waiting arms

Where my life will fade away

Into this darkness called eternity

Never to be heard of again

Until the day

When I take my last breath

And death again will be with me

To take me into another world

Where we shall be together again.

Freebie Friday #2

Freebie Friday is a weekly feature at Krystal's Enchanting Reads, where I will post new book freebies that I have found and came across in my travels over the internet. These freebies will come from all different kinds of places and will consist of the types of things that I would want to read and feel you would want to read too.

Destine
by Katherine Polillo

Michelle Cross is an average, seventeen year old girl growing up in a small town in New Jersey. Up until her senior year, her life has consisted of a rather unglamorous existence. Her closet friend Cami has been by her side since kindergarten, she has a loving if somewhat absente father, and a mother who is unique to say the least. Michelle’s mother was diagnosed with schizophrenia when she was twelve years old, and ever since then she has had delusions of angels and demons battling over her only child. Michelle accepts her mother’s delusions as schizophrenic ramblings, until a handsome new boy finds her at school. Little by little Michelle’s world is turned upside down. The new boy claims to be the Archangel Gabriel cast from heaven, her best friend falls for the Antichrist, and come to find out Michelle’s mother has seen it coming all along. So instead of being consumed with prom and graduation, Michelle finds herself battling the evils of Hell in her small town. The four horsemen of the apocalypses have descended on her high school and with the help of Gabriel, her very own angel; she must stop the events leading to the apocalypse. What surprises Michelle even more than her role in saving humanity is the love that develops between Gabriel and herself. Can their love bridge the world between heaven and earth? Can Michelle stop the powers of Hell in time? Michelle and Gabriel find themselves the pawns in a very dangerous game between an ancient power with a mysterious message and Satan himself.

Click here to get your free copy.

The Childe (The Childe #1)
by C.A. Kunz

Cat Colvin is pretty much your typical run-of-the-mill teenager. Sure, she’s taller than most girls, has a mane of fiery red hair that’s impossible to tame, is left-handed, and her eyes are two different colors, but that’s where the differences end... unless you include the minor detail of her slow transformation into a Childe.

High school can definitely be challenging, and for Cat it’s no different. This is especially true when she’s faced with the daunting task of trying to hide her budding Childe traits as they begin to reveal themselves at the most inopportune times. To make matters worse, her family is oddly dead set against Ryan, the boy she grows to like. But everyone has their secrets: is Ryan really what he seems to be, and what is Cat’s family not telling her?

The Childe is the first book in this coming-of-age fantasy series which follows Cat's life through the twists and turns toward finding out whom and what she really is. Come and take the plunge with Cat into a world filled with mystery, biting humor, and the paranormal.

Click here to get your copy now.

Night Marchers (Night Marchers #1)

by Rebecca Gober

“NEVER, EVER lock eyes with a Night Marcher!” Everyone in Hawaii has heard this warning, except for seventeen-year-old Emma Townsend that is. For most Hawaiians know that looking into the eyes of Night Marcher can strike a curse that will end in death or eternal servitude.

Even though her father, who is a paranormal investigator, solely raised Emma, she has little experience in the realm of the supernatural. When she is forced to move with her father to Hawaii, only months before her graduation, Emma finds that her world as she knows it, is shaken when she starts seeing the unexplainable: fire balls in the distance, beating drums in the middle of nowhere and strangers who vanish into thin air. Then one day when she has a run in with a procession of Night Marchers, ancient Hawaiian spirits wandering from their burial grounds to their locations of battles past, Emma has no choice but to believe that the unbelievable does exist.

Now Emma must go on the run with the help of a mysterious stranger, as they seek out how to free Emma from the curse of a Night Marcher, who will stop at nothing to get her soul.

Click here to get your copy now.

The Pearl Savage by Tamara Rose Blodgett **Review**

The Pearl Savage
by Tamara Rose Blodgett

Series: Savage Series
Pages: 272
Release date: June 14th 2011
Buy eBook: Amazon

Goodreads synopsis: Seventeen-year old princess, Clara Williamson, lives an old-fashioned existence in a biosphere of the future. 

When her sadistic mother, Queen Ada, betroths her to an abusive prince of a neighboring sphere, Clara determines to escape Outside, where savages roam free.

Clara escapes tyranny only to discover the savages are not the only people who survived the cataclysmic events of one hundred forty years prior. 

Once Outside, Clara finds herself trapped, unable to return to the abusive life of the sphere while facing certain danger Outside.

Can Clara find love and freedom with the peril that threatens to consume her?

My thoughts: I was not exactly sure as to what to expect with this novel but I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised. This was a very well-written novel. I was blown away by the story and the way you were instantly connected to the characters and the trials they went through. I end up connecting with characters when I read books but never have I connected with them so soon when reading this book. Blodgett is able to write in a way that keeps the story fresh, original and even maintains the almost archaic tone throughout without straying into modernization or slang that some writers end up doing. You can tell that Blodgett put lots of love and time into this novel because of the way she has perfected the language which causes the reader to be transported to another world entirely.

This was more of a romance novel than suspense but it is still able capture the reader and create suspense in the characters actions and holding onto information until just the right moment. Usually, I really dislike romance novels but this one was able to capture my attention and keep me involved with just the right amount of passion and romance without making it mushy.

I love the fact that Blodgett does not leave the end of the novel hanging on for dear life but leaves it in such a way that it can be open for a sequel which makes you want more and want to see where the journey will go next.

I am very much looking forward to reading the sequel "The Savage Blood" and to see which man Clara chooses and what happens with the sphere and the evil Prince Fredrick.

I rate this book:

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Wishlist Wednesday #2

Wishlist Wednesday is a book blog hop hosted by Pen and Paper, where we will post about one book per week that has been on our wishlist for some time, or just added (it's entirely up to you), that we can't wait to get off the wishlist and onto our wonderful shelves.

Modern Faerie Tales (The Modern Faerie Tales #1-3)
by Holly Black

In Tithe, sixteen-year-old Kaye is a modern nomad. Fierce and independent, she drifts from place to place with her mother’s rock band until an ominous attack forces Kaye back to her childhood home. There, amid the blue-collar New Jersey backdrop, Kaye finds herself an unwilling pawn in an ancient and violent power struggle between two rival faerie kingdoms—a struggle that could very well mean her death.

In Valiant, the companion to Tithe, seventeen-year-old Valerie runs away to New York City, trying to escape a life that has utterly betrayed her. Sporting a new identity, she takes up with a gang of squatters who live in the city’s labyrinthine subway system. But there’s something eerily beguiling about Val’s new friends. When one talks Val into tracking down the lair of a mysterious creature, Val finds herself torn between her affection for an honorable monster and her fear of what her new friends are becoming.

In Ironside, the sequel to Tithe, the time has come for Roiben’s coronation. Uneasy in the midst of the malevolent Unseelie Court, pixie Kaye is sure of only one thing—her love for Roiben. But when Kaye drunkenly declares herself to Roiben, he sends her on a seemingly impossible quest to find a faerie who can tell a lie. Unable to see Roiben until she has fulfilled his quest, Kaye finds herself in the center of the battle of wits and weapons being waged over his throne.

My thoughts: The reason I want these books so much is because it deals with fairies and how it could be if you were to find out if you were half fairy, half human. I think that, from what I have read, that the stories would be great and would totally keep my attention. Oh, and did I mention that I love faires so these books are seriously right up my alley. I mean, for that reason alone is why I want these books as much as I do. It seems like a great world to get lost in for a few days. Can't wait to get my hands on these.

Click here to buy your own copy.

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Poetry Tuesday #1

Poetry Tuesday is my new weekly feature here at Krystal's Enchanting Reads, where I will post new poetry that either I have written or that I have come across in my travels over the internet and wish to share with the world.

I thought I would start off my first ever Poetry Tuesday with a little something that I wrote a while back. Hope you all enjoy it and any and all comments are most welcome.


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Questionable Uncertainty
by Krystal S. Willingham

I never thought I would love again

then suddenly I met you.

I'm not sure what to say.

I'm not sure what to do.

I'm not even sure

what I want from you.

You started out as a friend

Then more we grew into.

You have to know

I am more than scared

Of what could happen

Than what we’re

Getting ourselves into.

I've been hurt so much

I can't keep count.

Even though you say

“I could never do that.”

I can't help but doubt.

I can't help but wonder.

What could be waiting?

When I let it all out.

I'm still not sure.

I'm still in doubt.

But I can be sure

That I can't lose you.

Another Free eBook

Here is another free eBook that is only available for today and tomorrow ...

Blood Awakening (Nicole Kennan #0.5)
by Wenona Hulsey (Goodreads Author)

Nicole, a small town Alabama girl, and her best friend Kat take a weekend trip to Panama City, Florida. Kat looking to have a good time and Nicole hoping to escape the pain of losing her mother for a little while. Little did Nicole know, the escape would awaken a ancient power that is hidden in her blood. A power that evil wants for its own and will do whatever it takes to have it.

This short story is a look into best friends', Nicole and Kat, life before a centuries old grudge and Nicole's emerging powers rips them apart. A power that Nicole wants no part of as it brings her to her knees and forces her to walk away from her small town life and everyone she loves.

Click here to get your free eBook now!!

Freebie Friday #1

Freebie Friday is a weekly feature at Krystal's Enchanting Reads, where I will post new book freebies that I have found and came across in my travels over the internet. These freebies will come from all different kinds of places and will consist of the types of things that I would want to read and feel you would want to read too.

This was just posted on my Facebook not 10 minutes ago and knew I had to share this news with everyone. Anyone that knows me knows that I love freebies and I love them even more when it is a free book. So tonight, I bring you ...

Mystic Embrace (Embrace #3)

by Charlotte Blackwell 

Ebony Triggs and her sister have accepted their birthright to be the magnificent ones, protectors of the innocent. They have been working on improving their magickal powers with the help of close friends the Pierce family. Ebony and Eliza have been working hard, with one common goal in mind, destroying the demon that killed their parents sixteen years ago. Will they ever find him and succeed at destroying him or will fighting evil become a daily occurrence for the sisters?

Entering her senior year of high school, Ebony already has more than most teens on her plate, but when things continue to change in her life she must rely on her immortal friends, the Pierce’s to help get her through. Ebony and her boyfriend Matt like most teens are looking at the future and what will happen after life in high school. But when plans change will they be faced with even bigger issues?

Ebony soon realizes that the Pierce’s and her close friends will need her as much as she needs them. She thought learning of her mystical powers was the greatest test of her life, but it was only just the beginning.

Because her fans mean so much to her Charlotte Blackwell is giving everyone the free eBook of Mystic Embrace this weekend only. It will available for FREE download on Amazon starting on Saturday and will run through until Sunday.

So don’t forget to head over to Amazon tomorrow for your free copy of Mystic Embrace.

Click here for your free copy.

Wishlist Wednesday #1

Wishlist Wednesday is a book blog hop hosted by Pen and Paper, where we will post about one book per week that has been on our wishlist for some time, or just added (it's entirely up to you), that we can't wait to get off the wishlist and onto our wonderful shelves.


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City of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments #5)

by Cassandra Clare

The New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments continues—and so do the thrills and danger for Jace, Clary, and Simon.Can the lost be reclaimed? What price is too high to pay for love? Who can be trusted when sin and salvation collide?
Love. Blood. Betrayal. Revenge.
Darkness threatens to claim the Shadowhunters in the harrowing fifth book of the Mortal Instruments series.

Cassandra Clare has become one of my favoriate authors over the past few years. I fell in love with the Mortal Instrument books after reading City of Bones and have been obsessed with this series since then. City of Lost Souls is the fifth installment of the Mortal Instrument series and it looks to be one of the best one so far. I find myself drawn into these books and thrown into a world of mystery and danger. I can't wait to see what happens between Clary and Jace and  the rest of the characters in this thrill ride.

Click here to buy your own copy.