Extra! Extra!: RCE's coverage of the #TMIMallTour in Miami!

Hey everyone! With the fast approaching release of The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones coming August 21st. The promotions have started and are in full effect. OUaT's sister site Literary Beginnings & Red Caret Endings sent 2 of staff members out to cover the mall tour stop in Miami, Fl at Dolphin Mall. Leydy and Andy were able to capture tons of pictures and even streamed live the Q & A. In case you missed any of it, you can check out a couple pictures below and then click on the link that will guide you RCE's page to view all the videos and pictures. Plus we will have a mega giveaway you will not want to miss. 

Coverage of The #TMIMallTour Stop in Miami via RedCarpetEndings.com

Trailer Thursday: Night Film by Marisha Pessl

Night Film

Author: Marisha Pessl

Release Date: August 20th 2013

Publisher: Random House

Hardcover - 624 Pages

 

Entertain Weekly has the exclusive book trailer on their website. The link is not available yet to be embedded. The video is crazy good, it feels like I watched a trailer for upcoming movie. Be warned its creepy but so so good.

EW.com Exclusive for 'Night Film' by Marisha Pessl Chilling Trailer.

This video below is Marisha Pessl reading from 'Night Film':

Brilliant, haunting, breathtakingly suspenseful, Night Film is a superb literary thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of the blockbuster debut Special Topics in Calamity Physics.

On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley’s life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face with the legacy of her father: the legendary, reclusive cult-horror-film director Stanislas Cordova—a man who hasn’t been seen in public for more than thirty years.

For McGrath, another death connected to this seemingly cursed family dynasty seems more than just a coincidence. Though much has been written about Cordova’s dark and unsettling films, very little is known about the man himself.

Driven by revenge, curiosity, and a need for the truth, McGrath, with the aid of two strangers, is drawn deeper and deeper into Cordova’s eerie, hypnotic world.

The last time he got close to exposing the director, McGrath lost his marriage and his career. This time he might lose even more.

Night Film, the gorgeously written, spellbinding new novel by the dazzlingly inventive Marisha Pessl, will hold you in suspense until you turn the final page.

Book Review: Pretty Little Lies by Jennifer Miller

Pretty Little Lies
Pretty Little Lies #1
Author: Jennifer Miller
Reading Level: New Adult/Adult
Genre: Contemporary Romance/Comedy Romance
Review Source: Author
Available: Amazon

Summary: (from goodreads) A little lie can change the course of everything. . .

Like every other eighteen-year-old in love, Olivia has dreams of spending forever with the love of her life. Luke is all she’s ever wanted – until she overhears something she was never meant to. In a matter of seconds, Olivia’s heart is shattered. Olivia handles it the only way she knows how - she runs- leaving behind her family, friends and the boy she loves.

Seeking comfort and an escape, Olivia finds it in resident bad boy Deacon. He’s everything Luke isn’t – and that’s fine with Olivia.

Now, seven years later, Olivia is older, wiser and headed back to Chicago looking forward to a fresh start and reconnecting with her best friend Pyper. What she doesn’t expect, is to come face to face with the boy she left behind and discover that even though she may have left, her feelings for him didn’t.

Can Olivia put aside the pain in her heart and trust Luke? Will the ties to her past ever let her go, or will she continue to let her life be affected by pretty little lies?

Pretty Little Lies is one you can add to your TBR pile this summer. It's has all the right ingredients for a perfect beach read such as super sweet love story, great fashion tips, characters that will capture your interest and just enough drama to balance the story out plus having you laughing out loud.

Cover: 

The cover is very sweet to look at. Its shows that even though on the outside everything looks sweet the inside can be deceiving. 

Romance: 

Let me tell you how awesome the romance was in Pretty Little Lies, it showed the pretty and uglier side of love. But once the pretty side make its encore, it was full of intense passion and a swoon worth man you couldn't get enough off. Olivia got burned when younger and ends up making a real bad life choice because of that and pays for it well, but luck or fate will guide her back and truths or lies will be uncovered. Luke will stop at nothing to make sure that happens. 

Humor:

Speeding Dating - It will leave you in stitches. Its one of many situations that Pyper, Olivia's best friend convinces them to try out. 

Something I loved:

Every chapter starts off with the cutest and funniest fashion tips. That was an extra detail that really captured my attention. 

Would I recommend it:

100% yes. If you are of age to read something a little more mature than YA and can understand passion, then you will gobble this book up quickly. 

Favorite Character: 

Luke hands down, he is just so determine to win Olivia back that you just can't help but fall for him and hard. If only guys like him really did exist in this world, lol. 

Saucy Parts:

Ha! If you have read what I have said so far, then you know there is some sizzling saucy parts in these pages. It will have your grandmother blushing. Luke and Olivia will heat it up and then some. 

Waiting on Wednesday: Forgiving Lies by Molly McAdams

"Waiting On Wednesday" is a weekly event, hosted by Breaking The Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

Forgiving Lies

Forgiving Lies #1
Author: Molly McAdams
Release Date: October 29th 2013
Publisher: William Morrow & Company

Available: Amazon

Summary: (from goodreads) A matter of secrets... 

Undercover cop Logan "Kash" Ryan can't afford a distraction like his new neighbor Rachel Masters, even if she's the most beautiful woman he's ever seen. To catch a serial killer, he needs to stay focused, yet all he can think about is the feisty, long-legged coed whose guarded nature intrigues him 

A matter of lies... 

Deceived and hurt before, Rachel would rather be a single, crazy cat lady than trust another guy, especially a gorgeous, tattooed bad boy with a Harley, like Kash. But when his liquid-steel eyes meet hers, it takes all of Rachel's will-power to stop herself from exploring his hot body with her own. 

A matter of love... 

As much as they try to keep it platonic, the friction between them sparks an irresistible heat that soon consumes them. Can Kash keep Rachel's heart and her life safe even as he risks his own? Will she be able to forgive his lies ... or will she run when she discovers the dangerous truth?

I will read anything written by Molly. So this new series will definitely be on my TBR come October.  

Book Blast: Made To Forget by Samantha LaFantasie

There’s something that lies within my memory. Hidden in the dark. Something that can kill me and those that I love. But I was in an accident, covered in mystery and deception. And my memory…was lost. There are those who want me to remember. I don’t trust them.  And those I do trust…are fighting for me to forget.

Elsabetha Ellery wants to get her memory back, even if it kills her.

After waking up in a hospital with no memory, Elsabetha quickly learns those who claim to be her friend are anything but. And those who are her true friends keep themselves unseen.

Stuck with piecing together her broken memories alone, Elsa struggles with having faith in those she trusts and heeding the warnings of the dangers in recovering her memory. Ignoring them, she faces heavy consequences. Ones she doesn’t see until it’s too late, and a life is lost.

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A Kansas native, Samantha LaFantasie spends her free time with her husband and three kids. Writing has always been a passion of hers, forgoing all other desires to devote to this one obsession, even though she often finds herself arguing with her characters through much of the process. She’s primarily a fantasy writer but often feels pulled to genres such as sci-fi, romance, and others.

Among her writing credentials, she’s a board member of the Kansas Writer’s Association and has founded her own critique group, lovingly named, The Fighting Hamsters.

Samantha loves to take time to enjoy other activities such as photography and playing her favorite game of all time, Guild Wars 2.

  

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Book Review: The Truth About You & Me by Amanda Grace

The Truth About You & Me
Author: Amanda Grace
Reading Level: YA
Genre: Contemporary/Coming of Age
Release Date: September 8th 2013
Review Source: NetGalley/Flux
Available: Amazon

Summary: Smart girls aren't supposed to do stupid things.

Madelyn Hawkins is super smart. At sixteen, she's so gifted that she can attend college through a special program at her high school. On her first day, she meets Bennet. He's cute, funny, and kind. He understands Madelyn and what she's endured - and missed out on - in order to excel academically and please her parents. Now, for the first time in her life, she's falling in love.

There's only one problem. Bennet is Madelyn's college professor, and he thinks she's eighteen - because she hasn't told him the truth.

The story of their forbidden romance is told in letters that Madelyn writes to Bennet - both a heart-searing ode to their ill-fated love and an apology.

The Truth About You And Me is a story, written in letter form, told by Madelyn, a sixteen year old girl who falls in love with her college professor, twenty six year old Bennet. Madelyn is in a special program at her high school that allows her to take college classes. She is the smart, safe girl her parents push her to be. And then she meets Bennet her first day at college. She falls in love with him, and although he respects that he is her professor he thinks she's eighteen. And so begins the impossible relationship between them. The story is told by Madelyn, as a letter she is writing to Bennet about what happened, and why.

Although we know the outcome from the beginning this still was a very interesting read. I was very absorbed by the story. I wanted to see what happened between Madelyn and Bennet. I both liked and disliked the main character, Madelyn. I think knowing she was sixteen really put my mind into stereotype mode and I thought "she's really young, and immature." She did seem mature at times, but the way she handled things were in a way a teenager would handle it. I also felt bad for her, I can't imagine having parents push and push and push me to do better and strive for better. I wasn't too happy with the ending, yet I wasn't too disappointed with it. I felt like they should have had more complicated consequences.

This book kept me interested the entire time. It is a taboo subject and I was engrossed. I am not sure if I've ever read a book in letter form, and I have to say that I really loved it. Amanda Grace's writing was great! If you're looking for an interesting, fast read that will keep you glued from start to finish then read The Truth About You And Me.

Top Ten Tuesday: Best or Worse Beginnings/Endings in Books!

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. This meme was created because we are particularly fond of lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. We'd love to share our lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists!

Each week we will post a new Top Ten list complete with one of our bloggers’ answers. Everyone is welcome to join. All we ask is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post AND post a comment on our post with a link to your Top Ten Tuesday post to share with us and all those who are participating. If you don't have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

Top Ten Best or Worse Beginnings or Endings in Books!

• Best Ending: Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer - Who didn't love the ending when Edward was finally able to go inside Bella's head and see everything. Plus the last word written in the book is perfect - perfect piece of Forever.
• Best Ending: If I Stay by Gayle Forman - The plea from Adam at the end just grabs your heart and doesn't let it go - I'll let you go. If you stay.
• Best Ending: Opal by Jennifer L. Armentrout - The ending crushes you but it was epic and to see Daemon promise that he will come back for Katy, UGH, just Epic!
• Best Ending but also Worst Ending: Stealing Harper by Molly McAdams - Yes I know, what is up with choosing best and worst for this one. Well the ending was expected since this book was the story told in Chase's POV following Taking Chances in Harper's POV. So we knew what was coming but doesn't mean I could handle it again but even knowing that Molly executed the ending that she was the first author and book to make me cry ugly tears ever. LOVE THIS STORY even though what happens sucks royally!
• Best Ending: Lover at Last by J. R. Ward - it was a long time coming but Qhuinn and Blay finally get their happy ever after and what en ending with a proposal and a dance to “Don’t Stop Believing” in front of everyone. KUDOS!!!
• Best Ending: Divergent by Veronica Roth - You can feel the loss when you read the ending and what Tris feels. It hits your inner-core. "I am no longer Tris, the selfless, or Tris, the brave. I suppose that now, I must become more than either." - Cant wait to see Divergent on the big screen, I love this serious HARD!!!

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• Best Beginning: Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi - I listen to the audio of Shatter Me and to listen to Julia say detail by detail how long she has been isolated was awesome. 
• Best Beginning: Darkness Becomes Her by Kelly Keaton - When a book starts off with RUN, that's exactly what you end up doing with the pages, you end up devouring the pages of this book. So intense and something that had not been written before.

• Worst Ending: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins - The ending was so anti-climatic after being such a powerful story. It felt rushed and boring. Plus she didn't end up with who I wanted, lol. I wonder how they will act this ending out in the movie version. 
• Worst Ending: Requiem by Lauren Oliver - Once again a case of the rushed ending and leaving a million things unresolved and it was upsetting after reading such an exciting dystopian story. I thought my book was broken and missing pages.  
• Best Ending but also Worst Ending: Stealing Harper by Molly McAdams - Yes I know, what is up with choosing best and worst for this one. Well the ending was expected since this book was the story told in Chase's POV following Taking Chances in Harper's POV. So we knew what was coming but doesn't mean I could handle it again but even knowing that Molly executed the ending that she was the first author and book to make me cry ugly tears ever. LOVE THIS STORY even though what happens sucks royally!