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Book Blitz: The Secret Diamond Sisters | Michelle Madow | Character Highlight | Giveaway



The Secret Diamond Sisters
The Secret Diamond Sisters #1
Author: Michelle Madow
Reading Level: Young Adult
Genre: Contemporary
Released: February 25th 2014

  

Savannah. Courtney. Peyton.

The three sisters grew up not knowing their father and not quite catching a break. But it looks like their luck is about to change when they find out the secret identity of their long-lost dad—a billionaire Las Vegas hotel owner who wants them to come live in a gorgeous penthouse hotel suite. Suddenly the Strip's most exclusive clubs are all-access, and with an unlimited credit card each, it should be easier than ever to fit right in. But in a town full of secrets and illusion, fitting in is nothing compared to finding out the truth about their past.


Peyton


At seventeen years old, Peyton is the oldest Diamond sister. She’s been hurt in the past, but because of it, has developed a thick skin. She will do anything for her sisters, going as far as protecting them from their mom’s outbursts and getting home first from school to make sure everything in the house (including their mom) is ready for them. She’s tough, doesn’t trust easily, and while she has many people she hangs out with, the only people who she feels truly know her are her sisters. She doesn’t like school (she gets restless sitting in classrooms!) and can’t wait until graduation so she’ll be done forever.

Peyton’s a natural night owl, and waking up in the morning is a constant struggle. (Her sisters usually resort to throwing things at her to wake her up, and often yell at her to hurry up showering so they can have time for their morning routines, too.) She needs at least three cups of coffee to get going. She loves rock music, and can usually be found with an earbud attached to her ear, even during her classes. She loves partying and dancing and getting lost in the music. She also enjoys an occasional chill night of movies and television shows, as long as it’s not a rom-com chick flick.

She wears mostly black clothing—why bother with colors when black always looks hot on her? Her nails are usually painted black as well. She’s not afraid to speak up for what she believes in and she will always stand up for her sisters. She tries to not let anyone in to avoid getting hurt—but really she just wants to find that one person who cares enough to break down her walls. 




Michelle Madow was inspired to write The Secret Diamond Sisters series while walking through her favorite hotel in Las Vegas. The next book in the series, Diamonds in the Rough, launches in October. Prior to The Secret Diamond Sisters, she successfully self-published The Transcend Time Saga. A tireless promoter of her work, Michelle is active on social media networks and has toured across America to promote her books and encourage high school students to embrace reading and writing. A graduate of Rollins College, Michelle lives in Florida ... but she loves going to Vegas.







Make It Count by Megan Erickson Brings You Character Cards


Today we are excited to bring you two character cards from Megan Erickson's upcoming release MAKE IT COUNT. 



Make It Count
Bowler University #1
Author: Megan Erickson
Expected Release Date: June 3rd 2014
Publisher: William Morrow Impulse


Kat Caruso wishes her brain had a return policy, or at least a complaint hot-line. The defective organ is constantly distracted, terrible at statistics, and absolutely flooded with inappropriate thoughts about her boyfriend's gorgeous best friend, Alec...who just so happens to be her brand new college math tutor. Who knew nerd was so hot?

Kat usually goes through tutors like she does boyfriends--both always seem to bail when they realize how hopeless she is. It's safer for her heart to keep everyone at arm's reach. But Alec is always stepping just a little too close.

Alec Stone should not be fantasizing about Kat. She's adorable, unbelievably witty, and completely off limits. He'd never stab his best friend in the back...

But when secrets are revealed, the lines of loyalty are blurred. To make it count, Alec must learn messy human emotions can't be solved like a trigonometry function. And Kat has to trust Alec may be the first guy to want her for who she is, and not in spite of it.



Camilo “Cam” Ruiz

The Player

“We’re in college. We have hot girls in tight jeans and cleavage-baring shirts at our fingertips. Don’t tie yourself down.”




Danica Owens
The Chameleon
“Monica says my idea of romance is ‘Take off your shirt.’”



ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Megan Erickson grew up in a family that averages 5’3” on a good day and started writing to create characters who could reach the top kitchen shelf.

She’s got a couple of tattoos, has a thing for gladiators, and has been called a crazy cat lady. After working as a journalist for years, she decided she liked creating her own endings better and switched back to fiction.

She lives in Pennsylvania with her husband, two kids and two cats. And no, she still can’t reach the stupid top shelf.

WHERE TO FIND MEGAN ONLINE:

Blog Tour: Altered by Jennifer Rush - Excerpt + Character Sam



Today we are the stop in the special blog tour for Author Jennifer Rush. This special tour is to celebrate the release of her book Altered. In this tour the selected blogs have been assigned a characters from Altered. The characters being featured are Nick, Cas, Trev, Anna and Sam. Jennifer has picked an excerpt from Altered to represent each characters and she shared her thoughts on them. 


Follow Jennifer Rush via: Web • Goodreads • Facebook • Twitter • Instagram


OUaT's assigned character is: SAM

Altered Excerpt:

I could hear my heartbeat in my head now and wondered if Sam could hear it, too, if he could sense what I felt. His eyes moved again to my mouth. With his finger gone, there was nothing between us. I licked my lips. My nerves hummed like a live wire, my breath fluttering helplessly behind my teeth.

“Can I help you with something?” The attendant’s voice carried through the fitting room.

A deep voice answered back, one I didn’t recognize. “I’m looking for a young man and woman. They look like this.”

Sam leaned into me, bringing with him the scent of new canvas. His breath touched the sensitive skin between my neck and shoulder. Heat rushed down my spine. (Altered page 150)

Jennifer's Thoughts:

Sam likes to think he is impervious to normal human emotions and teenage boy hormones. But unfortunately for him (and fortunately for us and Anna!), he’s not.

In this scene, plain and simple, Sam’s hormones are getting the best of him. The poor boy has spent the last several years locked in a secret lab. His only contact with a person of the opposite sex has been with Anna. She’s made his life easier and they’ve spent a lot of time together. And under this kind of duress --- constantly in danger, chased by the Branch --- Sam can’t help but lose some of his control around her.

As this point in the story, we’re unsure of Sam’s feelings for Anna, but he gives a tiny hint with the quick drop of his eyes as he looks at Anna’s mouth --- and wonders what it would be like to kiss her.

So does he? You’ll have to read to find out!


Here are the blogs, so you can visit all the stops:

Monday, January 7th – YA Bibliophile
Tuesday, January 8th – YA Sisterhood
Wednesday, January 9th – Confessions of a Bookaholic
Thursday, January 10th – Once Upon A Twilight
Friday, January 11th – Icey Books


Altered
Altered #1
Author: Jennifer Rush
Released: January 1st 2013
Publisher: Little, Brown & Co.
Available: Amazon • Barnes & Noble • Book Depository
OUaT's 5 Tree Review for Altered

Summary: (from goodreads) When you can’t trust yourself, who can you believe?

Everything about Anna’s life is a secret. Her father works for the Branch at the helm of its latest project: monitoring and administering treatments to the four genetically altered boys in the lab below their farmhouse. There’s Nick, Cas, Trev . . . and Sam, who’s stolen Anna’s heart. When the Branch decides it’s time to take the boys, Sam stages an escape, killing the agents sent to retrieve them.

Anna is torn between following Sam or staying behind in the safety of her everyday life. But her father pushes her to flee, making Sam promise to keep her away from the Branch, at all costs. There’s just one problem. Sam and the boys don’t remember anything before living in the lab—not even their true identities.

Now on the run, Anna soon discovers that she and Sam are connected in more ways than either of them expected. And if they’re both going to survive, they must piece together the clues of their past before the Branch catches up to them and steals it all away.

#BIR2012: Hidden by Sophie Jordan - Interview + Giveaway



Guess what?!?!?!?!  Today Kicks-Off Best I've Read 2012 . We are back for our 3rd year. #BIR2012 is an annual blog event that celebrates those books that left their marks throughout the year. #BIR2012 once again will be hosted at the Best I've Read site and 10 blogs will also feature more books, features and giveaways. So without futhur hold on, its time to share 1 of 7 books Once Upon a Twilight will feature everyday until 12/15. Make sure to check each individually blog and the #BIR2012 site too. 

Here are important details to know during #BIR2012:

Make sure to follow and keep up with the main site: Best I've Read
then check out the #BIR2012 Blog Roll:


Today's feature is:

Hidden by Sophie Jordan
Firelight Series book #3

Why was Hidden chosen at a #BIR2012 book: Hidden rocked my world when I read it. Out of all 3 books, I absolutely loved Hidden the most. Sophie Jordan outdid herself with the conclusion to this trilogy. Sophie left me in a very happy place even though I was sad to see the story end. So pretty much that is why HIDDEN made #BIR2012 list!!! To read my full review of Hidden, just click HERE. 


Stopping by to celebrate Hidden being featured are Cassian and Will from the Firelight series. They finished off a couple sentences for you to enjoy reading.

NOBODY KNOWS I AM:
Cassian: Head over for Jacinda. Ok. Everyone knows that.
Will: Nobody really knows what I am ... including me. I have draki blood and draki abiliities, but I'm not a draki.

I WISH I COULD STOP:
Cassian: always feeling so responsible for the pride ... like I'm the only one who can protect it ... and everyone in it.
Will: feeling so guilty for hunting draki in the past. I wish I'd never let myself be my father's pawn .... I wish I had stopped sooner ... but then I might never have met Jacinda.

I'M A SUCKER FOR:
Cassian: a damsel in distress. Ok. Maybe just a damsel. Because Jacinda doesn't need rescuing and I'm a sucker for her.
Will: redheads. Who fly. And breathe fire.

A GOOD TIME FOR ME IS:
Cassian: Flying
Will: Pretty much anything that doesn't have to do with my family ... considering they hunt draki. Ultimately, they want to capture my girlfriend and sell her to some butchers. Just hanging out with Jacinda without our lives being threatened is a pretty good day for me.

NOBODY WOULD BELIEVE ME IF THEY SAW ME:
Cassian: watching Project Runway. But sometimes I do. Tamra got me into the show. Normally I could care less about human television, but that show hooked me in.
Will: Singing in the shower. I'm a decent baritone.

I'D REALLY RATHER:
Cassian: Travel. See the world. Meet draki from other prides.
Will: Be anywhere as long as it's with Jacinda. Oh, and I'd really rather not hunt draki anymore. But I think that's understood, right?

THE FIRST THING I DO IN THE MORNING IS:
Cassian: Excersise. Usually training exercises with other draki.
Will: Work-out.



To Purchase Hidden: Hidden: A Firelight Novel • Barnes & Noble • IndieBound
Follow Sophie Jordan: Web • Goodreads • Facebook • Twitter


Ill remind you again, make sure to check the Best I've Read blog and all the blogs participating this year. They will all have features and giveaways.

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Blog Tour: Black City - Character Highlights: Natalie


Welcome to our stop on the Black City blog tour for Elizabeth Richards. the tour is hosted by Good Choice Reading and the schedule can be followed HERE. Today we dive into which Elizabeth highlights on Natalie.


Elizabeth Richards Links: Web • Goodreads • Facebook • Twitter

BIO: (via Elizabeth's blog) Elizabeth Richards is an award-winning journalist, who spent her early career reviewing video games before making the bold (or crazy) move into travel writing, despite suffering from terrible travel sickness.

In her spare time, she ran a successful lifestyle website aimed at teenage girls, where she got to interview many of her favourite bands, go to gigs and basically blag loads of free swag all in the name of ‘research’.

Elizabeth lives in Buckinghamshire, England, with her husband. Black City is her debut novel.



Character Highlight for Natalie

Name: Natalie Buchanan

Age: 16

Favorite color: Silver

Favorite food: Lasagna

Likes:

* Kissing Ash

* Sneaking out of the house at night

* Reading Sentry Youth Monthly with Polly

* Cats (especially her kitten, Truffles)

* Science class

* White orchids

* Shopping in Chantilly Lane Market

* The smell of bonfires.

Dislikes:

* Her mom controlling her life

* Wraths

* Having a bodyguard

* Evangeline Marwick

* Art class

* People looking at her surgery scar.

Excerpt:

“Since when did you start thinking it was okay to torture innocent kids?” I say. “Seriously, what’s wrong with you, Mother?”

“Don’t you talk to me like this, young lady—”

“Or what?”

“I’ll have you punished.”

“For what? Pointing out it’s wrong to hurt people?” I say incredulously. “If that’s suddenly a crime, then go ahead, punish me.”

Who would play them in a movie: Aimee Teegarden


Black City
Black City Chronicles #1
Author: Elizabeth Richards
Reading Level: YA
Release Date: November 13th 2012
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons BYR
Available: Amazon • BN.com • IndieBound


Summary: A dark and tender post-apocalyptic love story set in the aftermath of a bloody war.

In a city where humans and Darklings are now separated by a high wall and tensions between the two races still simmer after a terrible war, sixteen-year-olds Ash Fisher, a half-blood Darkling, and Natalie Buchanan, a human and the daughter of the Emissary, meet and do the unthinkable—they fall in love. Bonded by a mysterious connection that causes Ash’s long-dormant heart to beat, Ash and Natalie first deny and then struggle to fight their forbidden feelings for each other, knowing if they’re caught, they’ll be executed—but their feelings are too strong.

When Ash and Natalie then find themselves at the center of a deadly conspiracy that threatens to pull the humans and Darklings back into war, they must make hard choices that could result in both their deaths.



To celebrate Black City, you can enter below to win either a finished copy of Black City or Pre-orders of Phoenix (book 2).


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