Cover Reveal: Titans by Victoria Scott + Giveaway

We love Victoria Scott and we are super thrilled about her upcoming title, Titan. Today we are sharing her cover reveal and sharing her giveaway! Enter below!

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Titans

Author: Victoria Scott

Release Date: February 23rd 2016

Publisher: Scholastic Press

From Victoria Scott, author of FIRE & FLOOD, comes a thrilling story of impossible odds.

Ever since the Titans first appeared in her Detroit neighborhood, Astrid Sullivan’s world has revolved around the mechanical horses. She and her best friend have spent countless hours watching them and their jockeys practice on the track. It’s not just the thrill of the race. It’s the engineering of the horses and the way they’re programmed to seem so lifelike. The Titans are everything that fascinates Astrid, and nothing she’ll ever touch.

She hates them a little, too. Her dad lost everything betting on the Titans. And the races are a reminder of the gap between the rich jockeys who can afford the expensive machines to ride, and the working class friends and neighbors of Astrid’s who wager on them.

But when Astrid’s offered a chance to enter an early model Titan in this year’s derby, well, she decides to risk it all. Because for a girl from the wrong side of the tracks, it’s more than a chance at fame or money. Betting on herself is the only way she can see to hang on to everyone in the world she cares about.

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Book Review: Salt & Stone by Victoria Scott

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Salt & Stone
Fire & Flood #2
Author: Victoria Scott
Reading Level: Young Adult
Genre: Science Fiction
Released: February 24th 2015
Review Source: Scholastic Press

In Fire & Flood, Tella Holloway faced a dangerous trek through the jungle and across the desert, all to remain a Contender in the Brimstone Bleed for a chance at obtaining the Cure for her brother. She can't quit--she has to win the race, save Cody, and then fight to make sure the race stops before it can claim any more lives. In the next legs of the race, across the ocean and over mountains, Tella will face frostbite, sharks, avalanche, and twisted new rules in the race.

But what if the danger is deeper than that? How do you know who to trust when everyone's keeping secrets? What do you do when the person you'd relied on most suddenly isn't there for support? How do you weigh one life against another?

The race is coming to an end, and Tella is running out of time, resources, and strength. At the start of the race there were one hundred twenty-two Contenders. As Tella and her remaining friends start the final part of the race, just forty-one are left--and only one can win.

Guess who loves this series? Shannon loves this series. Now that we’ve established the obvious, let’s get down to business. So we’re back at the Brimstone Bleed, a race for survival, a race to save a life. The contenders are to race through the four ecosystems, jungle, desert, ocean, and mountain and be the first person at the end to get the one and only cure of their loved one. In Fire & Flood our contenders have survived through the jungle and desert, with just two more to go anything could happen, anyone could win, and not everyone will cross the finish line.

You know what I love best about this series? Tella Holloway. The way Scott writes her makes her so believable as a teenager, I found her annoying at times, and even stronger in others. She loves fiercely and her heart is unbelievably huge. She is not only fighting for a cure for her brother, Cody, but she’s fighting for her friends in the Brimstone Bleed, and the Pandoras.

Speaking of the Pandoras, they are probably my second favorite thing about this series, Guy Chambers is in a close running, but the Pandoras win. For genetically altered/made they have such a strong personality and a true presence in the story. If they weren’t around our contenders wouldn’t have a shot at even finishing the race, let along actually winning.

This is a series that should definitely be checked out by any fan of young adult survival stories, dystopian, or The Hunger Games. The characters are fun, strong, and real. They’re not perfect, they make mistakes, and dwell on things that shouldn’t be, but overall they’re true.

Check out my review for Fire & Flood, book 1.

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In case you missed it during the holidays, This is Teen & Victoria Scott shared a video where she reads the 1st chapter from Salt & Stone! Enjoy!!!

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Book Review: Fire & Flood by Victoria Scott

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Fire & Flood
Fire & Flood #1
Author: Victoria Scott
Reading Level: Young Adult
Genre: Fantasy
Released: February 25th 2014
Review Source: Scholastic Press

A modern day thrill ride, where a teen girl and her animal companion must participate in a breathtaking race to save her brother's life—and her own.

Tella Holloway is losing it. Her brother is sick, and when a dozen doctors can't determine what's wrong, her parents decide to move to Montana for the fresh air. She's lost her friends, her parents are driving her crazy, her brother is dying—and she's helpless to change anything.

Until she receives mysterious instructions on how to become a Contender in the Brimstone Bleed. It's an epic race across jungle, desert, ocean, and mountain that could win her the prize she desperately desires: the Cure for her brother's illness. But all the Contenders are after the Cure for people they love, and there's no guarantee that Tella (or any of them) will survive the race.

The jungle is terrifying, the clock is ticking, and Tella knows she can't trust the allies she makes. And one big question emerges: Why have so many fallen sick in the first place?

Fire & Flood totally took me by surprise, in a good way. Tella Holloway, a 16 year old girl, who has the chance to save her brother’s life. Tella’s family has moved from Boston to the middle of nowhere in Montana so that her very sick brother, Cody, can have the fresh air. Cody is dying and the doctors have no idea what is making him so ill. Until one faithful day a gift has arrived telling Tella she has a chance to save her brother and obtain the Cure. She must enter the Brimstone Bleed, a race to survive through four terrains; jungle, desert, mountain, and ocean.

I absolutely fell in love with Tella from the very beginning, her personality is so big and bright it just grabs you straight from the page. She isn’t painted as a heroine, at first, she’s just a normal 16 year old girl, but very headstrong. When she finds out there is a chance to save her brother’s life she doesn’t hesitate and heads straight to the join the Brimstone Bleed. Before the race begins each contestant gets a Pandora, an egg, which hatches when the race begins. The Pandora is their biggest source of protection throughout the race. Tella’s Pandora turns out to be just as entertaining as she is. I would love to see this movie be optioned for film just so I can see the Pandora’s in real life.

Eventually Tella finds a group of contestants that are traveling the race together and plan on splitting up at the end of the race, but can she really trust these people? Everyone is here to save someone they love and who knows if they’ll take all the necessary precautions to obtain the Cure.

So generally I would definitely recommend this, especially if you’re a fan of The Hunger Games. Tella’s personality is what drew me in, but then everything begins to unfold during the Brimstone Bleed making you want more. I know I cannot wait to find out what happens in the sequel to Fire & Flood and what they’ll uncover.

Book Review: The Collector by Victoria Scott

The Collector
Dante Walker #1
Author: Victoria Scott
Reading Level: YA
Genre: Paranormal/Demons
Released: April 2nd 2013
Review Source: Entangled Teen
Available: Amazon

Summary: (from goodreads) He makes good girls...bad.

Dante Walker is flippin’ awesome, and he knows it. His good looks, killer charm, and stellar confidence have made him one of hell’s best—a soul collector. His job is simple: weed through humanity and label those round rears with a big red good or bad stamp. Old Saint Nick gets the good guys, and he gets the fun ones. Bag-and-tag.

Sealing souls is nothing personal. Dante’s an equal-opportunity collector and doesn't want it any other way. But he’ll have to adjust, because Boss Man has given him a new assignment:

Collect Charlie Cooper’s soul within ten days.

Dante doesn't know why Boss Man wants Charlie, nor does he care. This assignment means only one thing to him, and that’s a permanent ticket out of hell. But after Dante meets the quirky Nerd Alert chick he’s come to collect, he realizes this assignment will test his abilities as a collector…and uncover emotions deeply buried.

Have you ever had that dream about that one guy that you have a huge crush on. He is a bad ass that is really good looking and that you just have to have even though you know he is a bad influence and will get you in trouble.

Well meet Dante Walker. He is a bad ass good looking man and he steals souls. How hot does that make him. Really hot. What Dante does is he sees people and if they have a certain aura or if they have any souls he will either give them a bad seal or a good seal. Even if somebody ticks him off he will give them a bad seal just to be an ass. Well his boss wants him to follow this girl Charlie around and wants him to steal her soul in ten days. Well he shows up to her house where he thinks she lives with her grandmother but finds out that is just her guardian because her mother died in a house fire. Well throughout the whole process of finding out about Charlie he thinks twice about why his boss wants him to steal Charlie's soul. Charlie is a girl that likes to volunteer to help neighbors around the area fix up their houses or landscape their lawns. She is doing it because she knows a lot of people that need help with things and don't have the money for it so she starts a program for other people to help. Well if I forgot to tell you Charlie isn't very pretty. She has a limp which she got from trying to escape the fire that was in her house. Her hair is really long and straight and looks like it hasn't been cut in a very long time. Plus her teeth are really crooked and she has acne all over her face and if you blew on her she would fall over because she is so thin. Dante keeps hearing girls that go to school with her saying to him why are you hanging out with her. Just look at her. But he doesn't listen because he has a job to finish because he wants to steal her soul in ten days. But after a while when hanging out with Charlie he notices pink little seals that replaced his seals on certain people. He keeps wondering if Charlie knows about him and she is another soul stealer. But Dante doesn't like hanging out with Charlie in the beginning and he is only doing this to get out of hell and to be able to do other things in his life. Well Dante starts to get feelings for Charlie and he doesn't know how to handle them because Charlie is the type of girl that you don't fall in love with because she isn't really pretty and no guy want her. But Dante starts to like her a lot and maybe even falls in love with her. That's how I always felt about myself when my husband came around. I didn't know why he would fall in love with me.

I really loved this book. It keeps you on your toes and it keeps you wondering if soul stealers really exist in life. Sometimes I wish I could put seals on people that did bad things in their life. Or if they treated me like crap I would seal their hiney and hope their soul is stolen. Where can I buy that kind of app for me to do. I have never read anything by this author and I would definitely read another book by her. I loved it.