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4 STARS ✮ GINGER SCOTT ✮ THE PERFECT COUPLE

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Tuesday, October 31, 2017

THE PERFECT COUPLE

by

Ginger Scott


✮✮✮ 4 STARS ✮✮✮









The perfect couple. 

Nicole Laramie and Chase Pennington would forever be called that in their home town of Rider Springs. Chase’s grandmother, Evelyn, thought her neighbors’ only daughter and her grandson were made for each other ever since the two of them were kids. 

When Chase climbed a tree, Nicole climbed it higher. 
When Nicole fell from her ten-speed and skinned her knee, Chase carried her home. 
And when Chase took the field for Little League, Nicole cheered the loudest. 

Inseparable. 

Until they were strangers. 

While Chase climbed the social ladder in high school, Nicole climbed the academic one. Two best friends became enemies. And when the senior class voted them MOST PERFECT COUPLE in the yearbook, it was meant as a joke. 

Only Evelyn, she never thought it was funny. She thought it was fate. And she was willing to wait 10 years just to prove she was right.








Everyone who knows me, knows that I love Ginger Scott. She has this way of sucking you into a story and you don't want to stop until you're done. What we have here is a novella with a little less than 60 pages. It's a super quick fix if you're in need of a comfort read.

Ginger is amazing at characterization. Within a couple of pages you know exactly who the characters are. Nicole and Chase are wonderfully and surprisingly deep characters. Surprisingly because with that page count you can't really get into much detail.

This story probably worked so well because the main characters were childhood friends who were out of each other's lives when the reality of growing up and being an adult happened. Both of them are big enough to admit that they were both at fault.

I loved this little story. It was exactly what I needed after a heavy read.











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RELEASE BLITZ ✮ KERI LAKE ✮ JUNIPER UNRAVELING

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Juniper Unraveling


Author: Keri Lake


Genre: Dark Dystopian Romance




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Papa says everyone has a story that deserves to be told.
Most begin years ago, after the second bomb hit, unearthing a deadly contagion that divided the population into the pure, the infected, and the Ragers.
Many recount the moment we rose up from the ashes and started anew.
Others tell of the day we built a wall to keep them out. For some, they’re nothing more than the vestiges left behind—a simple name carved into the knotty bark of a Juniper tree.
My story begins with a boy. A mute, from the other side of the wall, known only as Six, who touched my heart in ways that words never could, and gave me the courage to face my darkest truth. 



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Keri Lake is a dark romance writer who specializes in demon wrangling, vengeance dealing and wicked twists. Her stories are gritty, with antiheroes that walk the line of good and bad, and feisty heroines who bring them to their knees. When not penning books, she enjoys spending time with her husband, daughters, and their rebellious Labrador (who doesn’t retrieve a damn thing). She runs on strong coffee and alternative music, loves a good red wine, and has a slight addiction to dark chocolate.


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JUNIPER UNRAVELING


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Keri Lake




 ✮✮✮ 4.5 STARS  ✮✮✮










Papa says everyone has a story that deserves to be told. 


Most begin years ago, after the second bomb hit, unearthing a deadly contagion that divided the population into the pure, the infected, and the Ragers. 

Many recount the moment we rose up from the ashes and started anew.

Others tell of the day we built a wall to keep them out.

For some, they’re nothing more than the vestiges left behind—a simple name carved into the knotty bark of a Juniper tree.

My story begins with a boy. A mute, from the other side of the wall, known only as Six, who touched my heart in ways that words never could, and gave me the courage to face my darkest truth.









...there isn’t a vaccine in creation that can cure hatred and indifference to human suffering. They are the most virulent diseases in existence.


Keri Lake ventures with Juniper Unraveling into uncharted territory. I am convinced that she can write anything she sets her mind on but I was a little nervous on her behalf. She is one of the authors who takes feedback and criticism with grace and humility but I have an idea of how much this story means to her so for her I wanted to love it. So let's see how she fared!





But there is no monster more terrifying than the human being who lacks compassion.

The world we enter in this story is reminiscent of one of the darkest of mankind - Nazi concentration camps, barbarous, inhuman treatment of innocent people, but also the glimmers of hope and kindness, it's all reflected in Juniper Unraveling, set into a post-apocalyptic world. That heavy, devastating and hopeless feel hits you right from the start. But where there is shadow there is also light and that comes with the characters.

Wren is a brave young girl, curious and maybe a little too reckless for a time when one wrong move may kill you. But it's that courage that keeps her alive. There is a darkness inside of her she doesn't understand, something that itches under her skin. When Six comes into her life they take every chance they have to create pockets of happiness in this hostile environment.

A mute boy with the heart of a lion and a gentle sweetness you usually don't get with Keri Lake's characters and is a miracle after all that was done to him, won me over from his first appearance in this story. Six is everything that is good in a world that has gone to hell. His adoration and fervent reverence for Wren was spell-binding and gave me hope that everything would be alright.


His hands are heaven, and his eyes are home.


The story is separated in two parts and while the first part definitely was a 5-star read for me it lost me a little bit in the second part. The author follows her usual recipe for anti-heroes, good people doing bad things but it's the first part of the story that still lingered in my mind when we met the hero again. I was waiting to see a glimpse of the main characters' younger selves. While I get that the things people have done and have been done to them will change them irrevocably I still expect to see glimpses of their former selves in them to make them redeemable. I was waiting to see a bit of the sweetness I loved so much in Six. I didn't get that until the last chapter and the epilogue, which was perfection. That is not to say that I disliked the man, no, but I loved the boy so much that it was hard to reconcile them in my mind until the end. 

He is fire in a rainstorm. A sweet poison that intoxicates me. A force of nature that defies everything I know— both dangerous and extraordinary at the same time.


As mentioned the story can be separated in two parts and the twist is so cleverly executed that I didn't see it coming. I had my theories but I wasn't expecting that

When you are pulled into this dark world and your heart hurts from the atrocities it's the unexpected beauty and gentleness that keeps you from falling into despair. And this is where Keri gives testament to her immense talent and shines. One of my favorite and most beautiful quotes in the book is in the epilogue.

When the world is at its darkest, somehow love still carries the light. Love is strength and weakness. A crutch and a sword. It can leave a person hollow and heal their wounds. It’s a friend to the stars, with pain as its shadow. A dichotomy whose time is uncertain. But above all things, love is necessary.

I really want to sneak into the author's mind to see what's going on there, how somebody so sweet and gracious can come up with the most disturbing stories. 


This book is not to be enjoyed. It has some grim, dark and twisted moments that will give have your stomach in a knot but you'll read on, eyes glues to the pages. Juniper Unraveling is a reminder of the inhumanity and atrocity that happens when the wrong people come into power and have free reign to spread cruelty and horror in the world. It's a mirror of the current state of affairs. However, it's also a cenotaph of extraordinary courage, the one that makes people go above and beyond in times when heroes are needed.

Keri Lake took a chance with this story and I'm so glad she shared it with us. 








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COVER REVEAL ✮ PAMELA SPARKMAN ✮ A MONSTER LIKE ME

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Monday, October 30, 2017



A MONSTER LIKE ME


Heart of Darkness, #2


by

Pamela Sparkman



Publication date: Spring 2018
Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult




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Photographer: Anna Pototskaya 






“I love the peculiar silence of shadows. 
They exist, but leave no mark.”

Zeph had been a child, thrust into a war that wasn’t his. When he was older, he discovered he had landed on the wrong side of everything.

He’d been fighting for sweet revenge, because of lies he’d believed—and those lies proved to be his ruin. Falling into despair, Zeph decides living is too painful. So, he writes his final act with poison and chooses to end his story.

But Fate has other plans for Zeph and when he finds himself in the hands of his enemies, he has to decide: Does he want to live? Or does he want to die?

Or maybe that choice is no longer his to make.

Ruled by shadows and armed with secrets he never intended to share, Zeph will be put through his toughest battle yet: the war within himself.

“He isn’t a lost cause. He’s just—lost.”

That’s what Arwyn believes. She sees the monster he has become, but what she also sees is someone worth fighting for. Armed with secrets of her own, she’s determined to help Zeph fight his demons, because there was more on the line than Zeph’s soul. So much more.

Revenge may be sweet. But redemption is sweeter. The question is, can Zeph find the boy he used to be, or will he always believe that no one could ever love—a monster like him.

“You are everything good. And I am everything children are afraid of.”












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Pamela Sparkman grew up in Alabama. She became an avid reader at a young age. The written word has always fascinated her and she wrote her first short story while still in elementary school. Inspiration for her stories always begins with a song. She believes music is the pulse of life and books are the heart of it.

When she isn’t writing, however, she’s spending time with her family and taking one day at a time.









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