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Well, I did it. I actually moved over to Wordpress. I've been considering this move for a while, but I was too nervous to actually do it because it just seemed so overwhelming and I didn't want to have to deal with a new design - plus I was afraid of losing followers! Well, thanks to Ashley over at <a href="https://creativewhim.com/">Creative Whim</a> and her Tweak Me theme, I was able to pretty much keep my design with just a few changes. Plus, her Ultimate Blogger Plug-in has made the move to Wordpress worth it already!</span></span><div>
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<b style="text-align: justify;">Title: </b><b style="text-align: justify;"><b> </b><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20982523-tested?from_search=true">Tested</a></i></span></b></div>
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<b style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Author:</b><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="color: #181818; font-size: small; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Janelle Stalder</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">Faced with the scariest decision of her life, Missy is going behind enemy lines to save the rebel that seems to haunt her every dream. Finding courage is one of the hardest things she’s ever done, especially when she comes face-to-face with a terrifying reality. The green eyes that have fascinated her, no longer gleam with recognition. Now Missy must find a way to not only get them out alive, but to save the mind of the man who is quickly capturing her heart. And she must do it all without getting caught. Put to the test, will Missy be able to rise above her fears and find love, or watch it all blow up in smoke?</span></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><b>Missy and Tyler. </b>Despite the fact that Missy and Tyler started out with a bit of instalove (but that was started in the last book, so I didn't have to dwell on it here) and the fact that Tyler was not really himself for part of the book, I found myself really rooting for them as a couple. Stalder had a tricky job here because she had to show us Tyler's angry, almost monster-like side and still allow us to fall for him. Even when Tyler was living on pure testosterone and instinct, his instinct was to protect Missy. On the other hand, Missy started out as a very timid character, but managed to find her strength throughout the book. And her timidity was based on the fact that she was recovering from an incredibly traumatic past. I thought that the tension between what Missy wanted with Tyler and her fears of men in general were portrayed really well.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><b>Trent and Phoenix.</b> In the second book in this series, we got a glimpse of the animosity between Trent and Phoenix - these two were always at each other (and you kind of had to wonder if it would develop into something not so antagonistic). Well, in this book, we got to see LOTS more of these two and there were even more hints at something in their future. I won't spoil what happens, but they get thrown together - and their story leads us into the next book. I love that Stalder finally started one of the couples out with something other than an instant connection (which has been my main complaint about the romances so far).</li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><b>Unbelievable circumstances. </b>Okay, there were parts of this book where I was scratching my head a bit. As the synopsis says, Missy infiltrates the enemy in order to try to save Tyler. Except there were times where she just didn't seem to be hiding all that well. At a few points, Missy is asked to put herself in potentially dangerous situations - where she should have felt frightened of BOTH Tyler and the people asking her. She agrees with very little persuading needed. It just didn't make sense to me - surely this should have been a major red flag for the people she was supposedly trying to fool. I don't know why they would even ask her to put herself in the situation in the first place - without a reason (the desire to save Tyler), why would anyone ever say yes? People occasionally seemed <i>slightly </i>suspicious when she agreed over and over again to put herself in harm's way, but not nearly enough. I really had to suspend disbelief in some of these parts.</li>
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<span style="color: #181818;"><b>Janelle Stalder was born and raised in Brampton, Ontario. At an early age she developed a love for literature. Her debut novel, Eden, was the first book in a series of four, released in September of 2011. Since then she has released an Adult Dystopian Romance series, the New World Series, hitting the best sellers list on Amazon. She has also released a Mature YA/NA novel, Brush Strokes, that stayed on the best sellers list for contemporary romance for sixteen straight weeks. She is a strong supporter of other independent authors, and loves to interact with her readers. When she's not writing, Janelle is at home with her husband, two children, Aiden and Elora, her little bun in the oven that is on the way, and her two furry children, Alice and Lily. She now resides in a small town in Ontario in her old, possibly haunted, century home.</b></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: Cambria, serif; line-height: 18.399999618530273px;">The betrayal that tore a family apart. Two brothers bent on destroying the other. A whole world on the brink of war.<br /><br />Aiden has been through his second battle in the magical world of Eden. The victory is short lived and Aiden is sent racing toward his friends in the Capital. After being back in Eden with the Riders, he is eager to reunite with Wolf, Elisa and Logan, although he doesn’t realize just what he’s returning to. Surprises await him when he arrives in the Capital; his close-knit group of friends is slowly falling apart. On top of it all, another battle is just around the corner, one that will change everything.<br /><br />Rain has made her choice, and now she is in some unknown fortress with the feared sorcerer, Aziz. She wants nothing more but to please him, but being his Queen isn’t as easy as she thought. While trying to learn sorcery, and dealing with Aziz’s advances, Rain is finding her new life a bit overwhelming. Just when she thought it couldn’t get worse, she discovers a secret of Aziz’s, and it is nothing she could have expected.<br /><br />Rose has supported Callum throughout their journey, but now that the final battle is just around the corner she is faced with a hard reality. Everything she has gained with him could be taken away. Is she willing to live the rest of her life without him? Can she just stand by while he destroys everything, including himself? Will he ever be able to find peace? Will she?<br /><br />In the third installment of the Eden Series fates will be decided, and the battle between brothers that has been a decade in the making will finally come to an end. Only one of them can be High King.<br /><br />The battle starts now.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">Synonyms: insignificant, unimportant, nonessential, irrelevant</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">In the world of genetic mutation, Gypsy’s talent of knowing a person’s age of death is considered a failure. Her peers, the other Cavies, have powers that range from curdling a blood still in the vein to being able to overhear a conversation taking place three miles away, but when they’re taken from the sanctuary where they grew up and forced into the real world, Gypsy, with her all-but-invisible gift, is the one with the advantage.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">The only one who’s safe, if the world finds out what they can do.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">When the Cavies are attacked and inoculated with an unidentified virus, that illusion is shattered. Whatever was attached to the virus causes their abilities to change. Grow. In some cases, to escape their control.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">Gypsy dreamed of normal high school, normal friends, a normal life, for years. Instead, the Cavies are sucked under a sea of government intrigue, weaponized genetic mutation, and crushing secrets that will reframe everything they’ve ever been told about how their "talents" came to be in the first place.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">When they find out one of their own has been appropriated by the government, mistreated and forced to run dangerous missions, their desire for information becomes a pressing need. With only a series of guesses about their origins, the path to the truth becomes quickly littered with friends, enemies, and in the end, the Cavies ability to trust anyone at all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: 'century gothic', arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><i><br /></i></span></span><span style="color: #181818;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Gypsy was taken in as a baby by a secret group that shelters (and experiments on) children with abilities, who they've dubbed the Cavies. But while Gypsy's friends have impressive abilities like invisibility, super speed, and the ability to set things on fire, Gypsy can only see the age at which someone will die when she touches them. This ability is not only not particularly useful, but it makes Gypsy constantly feel like she's walking among the almost-dead. She would love nothing more than to live a normal life. But when the Cavies are "rescued" from their captors and forced out into the real world where they have to pretend to have no abilities at all, Gypsy suddenly isn't so sure how well she can adapt to the outside world after all.</span></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><b>Superpowers! </b>I loved the idea behind this story. Gypsy and her friends have been raised by some secret group that is constantly pushing them to the limit of their abilities. Of course, you have to wonder who these people are and what they're training the Cavies for. And the idea of teens with superpowers has always been a favorite of mine - what teen doesn't wish that they had them!</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><b>The characters.</b> Leigh did a great job of creating characters who I was invested in. Each of the Cavies had their own, distinct, strong personalities and they all dealt with the transition to the "real world" in their own ways. My favorite of the Cavies was Mole, Gypsy's best friend (and possible love interest?). I loved the bond between these two characters. Once Gypsy gets out into the real world, she meets Jude, another one of my favorite characters. While there isn't a huge romance in the book, there is definitely a little bit of a love triangle with Mole and Jude (with small hints of a quadrangle with another character as well - I wasn't so crazy about him - I'll talk more about him later).</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><b>Discoveries. </b> Throughout the book, Gypsy and the other Cavies make quite a few discoveries about themselves - their families, their backgrounds, the people who raised them. There are tons of mysteries that unfold throughout the book and I really enjoyed discovering the many pieces of the puzzle that came together. The Cavies never quite knew who to trust, and I was never sure either!</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><b>Family relationships.</b> This book explored family relationships and what makes people bond as a family. The Cavies have been the only family that Gypsy has ever known and when the group is torn apart, needless to say, they go through a difficult transition. On top of that, some of them have newfound family members and they suddenly have to navigate those new relationships - it can get pretty complicated and overwhelming!</li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><b>Dane. </b>Dane is the one character that I wasn't crazy about. Gypsy immediately became friends with him when she started at her new school and it just seemed way too obvious that something was going on with him. I didn't get why Gypsy wanted to trust him so much and his motivations never made a lot of sense to me. Plus there were hints that Gypsy might have felt an attraction to him as well, and I didn't really see it or want the triangle to turn into a quadrangle. Parts of the storyline that involved Dane seemed a bit unbelievable or forced to me, but it didn't ruin the book as a whole.</li>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><b>Trisha Leigh is a product of the Midwest, which means it’s pop, not soda, garage sales, not tag sales, and you guys as opposed to y’all. Most of the time. She’s been writing seriously for five years now, and has published 4 young adult novels and 4 new adult novels (under her pen name Lyla Payne). Her favorite things, in no particular order, include: reading, Game of Thrones, Hershey’s kisses, reading, her dogs (Yoda and Jilly), summer, movies, reading, Jude Law, coffee, and rewatching WB series from the 90’s-00’s.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><b>Her family is made up of farmers and/or almost rock stars from Iowa, people who numerous, loud, full of love, and the kind of people that make the world better. Trisha tries her best to honor them, and the lessons they’ve taught, through characters and stories—made up, of course, but true enough in their way.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><b>Trisha is the author of The Last Year series and the Whitman University books. She’s represented by Kathleen Rushall at Marsal Lyon Literary Agency.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 15.454545021057129px;">Can't believe that the school year is almost here! Since I homeschool, that means I've got to get myself in gear. Hopefully you won't see much of a slow down here at FYFA, but there might be a slight decrease in posts at the beginning of the school year. Here's what you may have missed last week:</span><br />
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://feedyourfictionaddiction.blogspot.com/2014/08/5-star-review-way-of-kings-by-brandon.html" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: #660000;"><i>The Way of Kings</i></span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> by Brandon Sanderson (review)</span></li>
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<li style="border: none; font-family: 'century gothic', arial, sans-serif; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><i>Athena's Ashes</i> by Jamie Grey (excerpt & giveaway)</span></span></li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><b>The family relationships. </b>Despite the way it sounds, this book wasn't <i>just </i>about the romance. In fact, in my opinion, the best thing about the book was the complexity of Lara Jean's family relationships, especially with her older sister. Lara's older sister has spent much of her pre-teen and teen years filling in for their mother, who died. This has created a really interesting dynamic between the two girls - both bringing them closer, but also causing Lara's sister to bottle her emotions in many ways. Lara's little sister is also a wonderful character and I loved the sweet way that both Josh and Peter bonded with her!</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><b>Diversity! </b>Yay for a multi-ethnic main character! Lara and her sisters are half-Korean. I loved that the family worked to hold on to that ethnic connection not just because it made up part of who they were but also because it gave them a link to their mother. (Again, deepening those family relationships!)</li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><b>The love triangle. </b>This was my real problem with the book. The romance. Don't get me wrong - there were points where I was enamored with both Josh and Peter and I saw how they could be good for Lara. But with both guys there was something major that just made a relationship with Lara feel ... wrong. With Josh, his relationship with Lara's sister was an obvious barrier. Something that just wasn't able to be overcome. For Peter, I had more hope, but his attachment to his ex-girlfriend just made me squirm and I could never quite get behind him and Lara together. I wanted to root for one of these guys, but I just never completely got there.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><b>The ending. </b>The ending of this book left me a bit cold. It just didn't feel like anything was really resolved. We're told that Lara has a feeling that everything is going to be okay - and then it ends. Um, okay? I wasn't convinced. BUT, I will say that I was surprised to see that there is another book - so maybe this book was left this way as kind of a cliffhanger? I will read the next book to find out what happens next and to see if Han develops the romantic relationships more.</li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><b>The worldbuilding. </b>Sanderson is a master - he has created a complex society with its own unique rules, norms and peoples. I especially loved how Sanderson attacked gender roles and turned them upside down in some ways while keeping them familiar in others. His society also had its own set of racial prejudices that were explored (and often debunked), which I loved. Then there was the rich history and mythology of this world, which was all woven into the story so expertly - I never felt overwhelmed or overly confused (even though there were definitely some mysteries that unfolded throughout the book).</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><b>The magical elements. </b> This goes along with the worldbuilding, but I thought it deserved it's own category. Like any good fantasy, there was lots of magic in the world that Sanderson created. Little sprite like creatures called spren that gathered whenever there was an abundance of a specific emotion or element (one of whom becomes an important character in the book), suits of armor that give the wearer incredible strength and speed, swords that slice through any substance as though it were butter (except flesh - which it doesn't cut, but "deadens" instead), soulcasters that can transform objects into almost anything, magical storms that kill but can also be used for power ... I could go on and on. There were so many fascinating details that I couldn't begin to name them all!</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><b>The characters.</b> I fell in love with nearly all of the characters in this book. I was drawn in by the fact that they were all flawed in some way, but they each struggled to make their way in a world that strove to destroy them. There were quite a few characters that we got to know well. Shallan, who struggled between rescuing her family from destitution and holding on to her own dreams and to her sense of right and wrong. Dalinar, who strove to bring honor and unity to his kingdom, but struggled constantly with the fear that he was losing his mind. Kaladin was definitely my favorite character - I loved how he slowly regained his faith in humanity after it had been nearly obliterated. His journey and growth was probably greatest, and I loved every minute of it!</li>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;">"This book shows a whole other side of angels the good, the bad, and the ugly. Each character has their own story or "core" . This is only the beginning. Where can I find the second book?" ~Maya Twitty </span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'century gothic', arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"><i>Lux Beginnings</i> by Jennifer L. Armentrout - Signed paperback!! (This is the first two books in the Lux series - you can read my reviews <a href="http://feedyourfictionaddiction.blogspot.com/2013/06/review-obsidian-by-jennifer-l-armentrout.html">HERE</a> and <a href="http://feedyourfictionaddiction.blogspot.com/2013/07/review-onyx-lux-2-by-jennifer-l.html">HERE</a>).</span></li>
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<span style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><b>Series: </b>The Fitz and the Fool #1 (but really a sequel to The Farseer Trilogy and The Tawny Man Trilogy)</span><br />
<b style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Author:</b><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="color: #181818; font-size: small; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Robin Hobb</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">Over the years, Hobb’s imagination has soared throughout the mythic lands of the Six Duchies in such bestselling series as the Liveship Traders Trilogy and the Rain Wilds Chronicles. But no matter how far she roamed, her heart always remained with Fitz. And now, at last, she has come home, with an astonishing new novel that opens a dark and gripping chapter in the Farseer saga.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><i>FitzChivalry—royal bastard and former king’s assassin—has left his life of intrigue behind. As far as the rest of the world knows, FitzChivalry Farseer is dead and buried. Masquerading as Tom Badgerlock, Fitz is now married to his childhood sweetheart, Molly, and leading the quiet life of a country squire.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><i>Though Fitz is haunted by the disappearance of the Fool, who did so much to shape Fitz into the man he has become, such private hurts are put aside in the business of daily life, at least until the appearance of menacing, pale-skinned strangers casts a sinister shadow over Fitz’s past . . . and his future.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><i>Now, to protect his new life, the former assassin must once again take up his old one. . . .</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Let me start by saying that you really need to read both the Farseer Trilogy and the Tawny Man Trilogy before you tackle this book. Even though it's technically the start to a new series, it's definitely a continuation of those other two. In fact, I needed to go back and found recaps of the first six books to refresh my memory because it's been so many years since I read them. I actually think that I should go back and re-read both series, but I obviously haven't done it yet.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><i>Fool's Assassin</i> starts up about 10 years after Fitz and the Fool parted ways. Fitz is now living a peaceful life with Molly, having escaped all of the danger of his old existence as an assassin. The one thing missing from his life is the Fool - he hasn't heard from him at all since the Fool left him. Most of the book actually takes place in during this peaceful period in Fitz's life (part of what is described in the synopsis happens right away, but it really isn't picked up again till toward the end of the book). Still, fans of Hobb's previous series will love this new chapter in Fitz and the Fool's story!!</span></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><b>Fitz! </b>Fitz has always been one of my favorite characters ever. Even though he is often infuriatingly imperfect, there will always be a spot in my heart for this character. In the first six books, I ached with him over his loss of Molly, so I loved seeing him with her at last. But I also loved that his "perfect" life is still bittersweet because of the loss of the Fool - he has in no way forgotten him, and we see that his love for the Fool truly runs as deep as his love for Molly. Fitz's relationship with a new character (see my next point!) only makes my love for him stronger!</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><b>A new POV. </b> A new character is introduced in this book, and we get to see Hobb's world through her eyes. I don't even want to say who the new character is because I feel like it would be spoiling things, but she is a pivotal character with ties to both Fitz and the Fool. The Fool himself doesn't make an appearance until late in this book, but I felt like this new character bridged that gap in a lot of ways (even if Fitz didn't seem to acknowledge that for some reason!). Again, I want to say more, but I feel like it would be spoiling things - so I'll just say that I was incredibly emotionally invested in this new character and where her story was headed.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><b>The ending.</b> The last ten or fifteen percent of this book <i>really </i>picked up (see my one negative below) and I couldn't believe some of the things that were happening!! I was riveted and in tears, wondering if at least one of my beloved characters wasn't going to make it through alive. Plus, I still can't stop thinking about the <i>very </i>ending and what it all means. I have so many questions spinning through my head and I NEED to know what will happen next!</li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><b>Not a lot of action. </b>This book felt very much like a bridge book between the old trilogies and this new series. A good portion of the book dwells on Fitz' feelings about the Fool, Molly, Chade and a new character that I don't want to spoil. It explores his new settled life now that he's no longer FitzChivalry the assassin. Despite what the synopsis says, not much actually <i>happens </i>until the end of the book. Because I was already so invested in these characters, I didn't get bored at all (but some people might) - it was actually perfect for me because I needed the reminders about what had happened in those first six books and I was happy to settle in with Fitz (who I've always loved) and the new character (who I loved based on her associations with Fitz and the Fool). But don't expect this book to be as action-packed as some of Hobbs' other books.</li>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><b>Robin Hobb is a fantasy novelist currently living and working in Tacoma, Washington. Best known for The Farseer Trilogy (Assassin’s Apprentice, Royal Assassin and Assassin’s Quest), she has been actively writing and published since she was eighteen years old. Born in California, she moved to Fairbanks, Alaska at the age of ten with her family in the early 1960’s. She found she loved the wilderness and the deep dark and cold of the winters there. Many of her experiences there flavor her writing. In 1970 at the age of 18, she married Fred Ogden and moved to Kodiak Island where he quickly infected her with his love of all things maritime. Over the course of the next forty years, as they followed the needs of his career, she lived in places ranging from Idaho to Hawaii and Alaska again. They now reside in Washington State. Their four children are now grown with children of their own. Her writing career began under the name Megan Lindholm. She wrote for local newspapers as well as children’s magazines such as Highlights for Children and Jack and Jill, as well as creating short fiction for children to be used in the SRA programmed reading material. In the 1980’s, she began to write short fantasy. In 1981 she won an award from the Alaska State Council for the Arts for her short story “The Poaching. In 1983, she published her first novel, Harpy’s Flight. Other works under the Lindholm name include The Reindeer People, Wizard of the Pigeons and Cloven Hooves. Her short fiction works have been finalists for both the Nebula and the Hugo awards and the winner of the Asimov’s eaders Award.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><b>In 1995, Assassin’s Apprentice, her first work under the name Robin Hobb, was published by Bantam Books. In the years since, she has written The Liveship Traders Trilogy, The Tawny Man Trilogy, The Soldier Son Trilogy and the four volume tale, The Rain Wilds Chronicles. Her current work in progress, tentatively titled The Fitz and the Fool Trilogy, returns to the world of the Farseers and the realm of the Elderlings. Her works have been translated into over twenty languages, and have won awards such as The Elf Fantasy Award in the Netherlands and the Imaginales Award for a Translated Work in France. Closer to home, she has won the Endeavor Award for works published in the Pacific Northwest. Her hobbies include gardening, mushroom hunting and bothering her cat. She also continues to write short fiction as Megan Lindholm.</b></span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'century gothic', arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3636.The_Giver?from_search=true"><i>The Giver</i></a><i> </i>by Lois Lowry - I could practically copy word for word what I just wrote about <i>The Book Thief</i> here (even the part about just getting it from <a href="http://www.paperbackswap.com/index.php?r_by=nicole@nicoleandscott.com">PaperbackSwap</a>!). I honestly don't know how I've gone so long without reading these books. It's just worked out that way somehow.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'century gothic', arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18619998-pride-and-prejudice"><i>Pride and Prejudice</i></a> by Jane Austen - I think this is the classic that I see mentioned most often on people's blogs and I have yet to read it. At least I think so. I feel like I <i>should </i>have read this one in high school, but if I did, I don't remember it so ... Anyway, I just recently signed up for a blog tour for <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18716731-finding-mr-darcy"><i>Finding Mr. Darcy: High School Edition</i></a> mostly so that I would be motivated to read <i>Pride and Prejudice </i>first. So this one will be read soon!</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'century gothic', arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10194157-shadow-and-bone"><i>Shadow and Bone</i></a> by Leigh Bardugo - I've seen this book everywhere and it looks like the type of book I'd love. But somehow I just haven't picked it up yet. Someday ...</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'century gothic', arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11925514-code-name-verity"><i>Code Name Verity</i></a> by Elizabeth Wein - This is another one that I see mentioned ALL THE TIME. For some reason, it just hasn't really ever appealed to me, but I think I'm being slowly won over. Eventually, I'm sure I'll read this one.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'century gothic', arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7896527-throne-of-glass"><i>Throne of Glass</i></a> by Sarah J. Maas - Everyone raves about this series. The line at BEA for Maas' latest book must have been two miles long and I think I was the only one who wasn't in it. I know I'll love this series, but I just haven't gotten to it yet. But I will!</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'century gothic', arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/62018-the-lunar-chronicles">The rest of the Lunar Chronicles</a> by Marissa Meyer - I finally got around to reading <i><a href="http://feedyourfictionaddiction.blogspot.com/2014/05/review-cinder-by-marissa-meyer.html">Cinder</a></i>, but I haven't read the rest of the books in this series yet. I loved <i>Cinder</i>, though, so I'm definitely planning on catching up!</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'century gothic', arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/44457-the-mortal-instruments">The rest of the Mortal Instruments series</a> by Cassandra Clare - Again, I finally started this series a couple of months ago, but I haven't gotten past <i><a href="http://feedyourfictionaddiction.blogspot.com/2014/02/review-city-of-bones-by-cassandra-clare.html">City of Bones</a></i>. I really enjoyed it, but there are just so many books to read!!</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'century gothic', arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4208569.Rainbow_Rowell">Anything by Rainbow Rowell</a> - I recently read my first Rainbow Rowell book - <i><a href="http://feedyourfictionaddiction.blogspot.nl/2014/07/5-star-arc-review-landline-by-rainbow.html">Landline </a></i>- and loved it! But there are so many other books that I still haven't read, and they all seem to be almost universally loved. I can't decide which one to read next. Suggestions?</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'century gothic', arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1330292.Maggie_Stiefvater">Anything by Maggie Stiefvater</a> - I have no idea why I haven't read anything by Stiefvater yet. Her books are right up my alley and people seem to absolutely love them. Soon. Very soon.</span></li>
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Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addictionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637114079800138680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2251112651612137737.post-88261290124315640902014-08-13T06:30:00.000-05:002014-08-21T08:02:44.841-05:00Review & Giveaway - Storm Siren by Mary Weber<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><b>Series: </b>Storm Siren #1</span><br />
<b style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Author:</b><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="color: #181818; font-size: small; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Mary Weber</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">In a world at war, a slave girl’s lethal curse could become one kingdom’s weapon of salvation. If the curse—and the girl—can be controlled.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">As a slave in the war-weary kingdom of Faelen, seventeen-year-old Nym isn’t merely devoid of rights, her Elemental kind are only born male and always killed at birth — meaning, she shouldn’t even exist.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">Standing on the auction block beneath smoke-drenched mountains, Nym faces her fifteenth sell. But when her hood is removed and her storm-summoning killing curse revealed, Nym is snatched up by a court advisor and given a choice: be trained as the weapon Faelen needs to win the war, or be killed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">Choosing the former, Nym is unleashed into a world of politics, bizarre parties, and rumors of an evil more sinister than she’s being prepared to fight . . . not to mention the handsome trainer whose dark secrets lie behind a mysterious ability to calm every lightning strike she summons.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">But what if she doesn’t want to be the weapon they’ve all been waiting for?</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><b>Set in a beautifully eclectic world of suspicion, super abilities, and monsters, Storm Siren is a story of power. And whoever controls that power will win.</b></span></span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><b>The worldbuilding. </b>Weber created a richly imagined world filled with magic, dangerous creatures and even more dangerous people. The political upheaval in Nym's world has spawned a century long war and Nym learns that there are dark forces at work. Weber successfully created a world with depth and complexity without making it confusing (or boring!) - that can be a tricky balance. </li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><b>Nym. </b> Nym was an amazingly multifaceted character. She struggled because of guilt over the things that she had done while under the throes of her curse, but she still managed to face those around her with a measure of strength and even pride. At times she wavered between feeling that she was too good to be anyone's slave and feeling that she was dangerous and not worth saving. Those conflicting emotions often drove her decisions in interesting ways. Nym hated who she was and what she had done, but in order to help her kingdom, she needed to embrace it. This was incredibly difficult for her.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><b>The romance.</b> Ah, yes. The "handsome trainer" mentioned in the synopsis. Let me just say that he was all kinds of wonderful. I loved that the romance in this book was slow burning and didn't overtake the rest of the plot - but it was still central to the book and definitely swoony!</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><b>The ending.</b> The action at the end of the book was incredible and there are some truly jaw-dropping moments. I can't believe that I have to wait until who knows when to find out what happens next!! It just might kill me!</li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><b>Nym's lack of faith. </b>I can't say much without giving things away, but there was a part of the book where I was a bit surprised Nym didn't give a certain character more benefit of the doubt. To give her some credit, she HAD just found out something pretty devastating, though. Still, I kept thinking, "Come on, Nym, have a little faith!"</li>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><i>But the training is even more grueling than Annie could have imagined. Despite her coaching, she’s at war with her body, her mind—and her heart. With every mile that athletic Jeremiah cheers her on, she grows more conflicted. She wants to run into his arms…and sprint in the opposite direction. For Annie, opening up to love again may be even more of a challenge than crossing the finish line.</i></span></span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><b>Annie's story. </b> I was completely drawn into Annie's story. We find out about Kyle's death early in the book, but the history between Annie and Kyle and the story of what actually happened to him is revealed slowly throughout the book. Annie's heartbreak over Kyle was palpable - and it made this book really resonate with me. She was trying so hard to honor him by running the marathon, even though the training was torture for her. Then, the added confusion over her feelings for Jeremiah just compounded her pain. Annie's story was messy - certainly not always pretty - which is just the way it should be!</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><b>The marathon. </b>Last year, my husband ran his first marathon and I can attest to the fact that the training is grueling! Kenneally did a fantastic job of portraying Annie's pain throughout the marathon training process. While Annie's physical issues were different than my husband's were, I know firsthand (well, okay, secondhand) that this type of training is ridiculously intense and incredibly hard on your body. Since I, like Annie, am NOT a runner, I could totally imagine what it was like for her - how torturous the process would be and how she would totally WANT to quit, even while wanting desperately to complete the race for Kyle.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><b>The relationships. </b>This book explored not just the romance between Jeremiah and Annie (which I loved), but also her relationships with her friends and family. How did Annie's relationship with Kyle affect her friendships? How did his death affect her relationship with her family - and his family? These questions and more were explored in a realistic way. This book wasn't only about the romance between the two main characters!</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><b>Old friends.</b> This book wove in A LOT of characters from the previous books, so we got to see how their lives are progressing. Matt, Jake, Savannah, Vanessa, Rory, Jordan, Sam - they're all here! And, of course, Jeremiah is Matt's brother, who we got a glimpse of in <i>Stealing Parker</i>. I love seeing these old characters tied into each new story!</li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><b>Jeremiah's issues. </b>I don't want to go into what Jeremiah's issues actually were, but this was the one area where I was a bit unsure. First I thought maybe everybody was making a big deal out of nothing, but then as the book went on, I could kind of see where they were coming from a bit more. I still thought everyone was being a bit overprotective of him (but that was redeemed somewhat in the end). My main problem is that there was this little niggling worry at the back of my mind that Jeremiah's issues might not really be permanently solved and they might cause Annie pain at some point in the future. But that's realism, not fiction - I just needed to let it go!</li>
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<span style="color: #181818;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">The book is a dystopian that takes place after a strange virus wipes out a good portion of the population and leaves everyone else basically allergic to the sun. The rich now spend their lives in highrise buildings, using drugs to numb their pain, while the poor live in underground cities. Twist and Dodger (who are named after a book that the man who took them in once read) are Gutter Punks - they steal medical supplies from the rich and give them to the poor. But when they accidentally help steal something important, they are forced to get it back - or Dodger will die from a virus that he's been injected with. It's a race against time when the two try to get the mysterious object back before Dodger succumbs to the virus.</span></span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><b>Gia. </b>While Dodger and Twist are running from Manhattan's guards, they end up saving a girl named Gia from a rape attempt. She isn't much of a victim, though - in fact she's extremely tough - and Twist soon finds himself enamored with him. She ends up joining up with with Twist and Dodger and helps them on their journey. Gia was definitely my favorite character in the book, and her story was the most interesting to me (though I did predict one twist that involved her story). </li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><b>Twist. </b> I really liked Twist, even though he was a bit wimpy and self-deprecating at times. Still, I found him to be likable. He started out as Dodger's sidekick, but throughout the book he set out to prove that he could stand on his own two feet. At first his efforts weren't terribly successful, but his character definitely grew as the book went on and by the end I was really rooting for him.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><b>The ending.</b> I don't want to give anything away, but some things happened at the end of the book that really surprised me and opened up a whole new host of possibilities for the next book. It definitely left me eager to continue the series!</li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><b>Pacing. </b>The first half of this book moved a little bit slowly for some reason. It wasn't that there wasn't a lot happening - I guess I just wasn't <i>always</i> interested in the storyline in the first half, though Stanton did tie everything together in the end and everything that happened in the beginning was necessary. The pace really picked up for me in the second half, though - and the story got MUCH more interesting.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><b>Dodger. </b> I never really connected much to Dodger. He was a wise-cracking womanizer and he sometimes became just a little bit irritating. Since it was his life they were racing to save, I needed to connect to him a little bit more in order for the stakes to feel higher, but it just never quite happened for me.</li>
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<b style="color: #181818; font-family: 'century gothic', arial, sans-serif;">Wilbert Stanton was born and raised in New York City. From an early age, Wilbert decided he would either write books or take over the world; everything else was just a precursor to his end game.</b><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><b>Along the way, he has studied Psychology, English, and Computer Science. He’s held jobs in a wide range of fields and met people from all walks of life. Wilbert is constantly learning and growing as a person, in order to solidify his dreams.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><b>In the end world domination was a bit tedious, so he decided to focus on writing books.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Last week on FYFA:</b></span><br />
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://feedyourfictionaddiction.blogspot.com/2014/08/top-ten-recommendations.html" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: #660000;">Top Ten Recommendations</span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> - Top books I'd recommend in different genres</span></li>
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Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addictionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637114079800138680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2251112651612137737.post-35353828696281614192014-08-08T06:30:00.000-05:002014-08-09T21:40:58.641-05:00Excerpt & $50 Gift Card Giveaway - Sunset Rising by S.M. McEachern<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><b>Series: </b>Sunset Rising #1</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><i>283 years later… </i>Life as a slave in the Pit had never been easy, but for seventeen-year-old Sunny O’Donnell it was quickly careening out of control. Her mother was killed in the annual spring Cull, leaving her alone with a father who decided to give up on life. It’s not that she blamed him for grieving, but if they didn’t earn enough credits to keep their place inside the Pit, they would be kicked out into a world still teeming with radiation. That left her to earn the credits for both of them. It didn’t help that her boyfriend, Reyes Crowe, was pressuring her to get married and abandon her father. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">Sunny didn’t think life could get any worse, until she was forced upstairs to the Dome to serve and entertain the elite at a bachelor party. That's where she met Leisel Holt, the president's daughter, and her fiancé, Jack Kenner. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;">If they catch them, they'll be executed. She thought Leisel's betrayal was the end…but it turns out it was just the beginning. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><b>“</b>Sunset Rising is thrilling; there is no better word for it. Romance, intrigue and action all come together beautifully here to create an experience that will leave anyone asking for more.” – Molly Burkemper for Readers Favorite </span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;">“Sorry to all the Hunger Games fans but Sunset Rising surpasses my expectation. Sunset Rising is a rollercoaster ride with a terrifying drop at the end. A beautiful love story filled with danger and horror. The Greatest Book I've Ever Read.” – Selena Liaw, reviewer for Books and Sweet Epiphany. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;">“FABULOUS!!! I fricken loved this story! I have to agree with another reviewer who said this is 7 star book not a 5 star ~~seriously it is THAT good! How is this not on every bestseller list yet? Listen to me now, please... if you love Dystopian YA novels ~~~ READ THIS BOOK!” – Paula Fetty King, Goodreads Reviewer.</span><br />
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I had decided I didn’t want to give up on my plan to help change things. After all the hardship I had brought on my father and Summer, I owed it to them to try to make things right. I didn’t want to fail.<br />
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Jack stood up and went into his T’ai Chi stance. I followed. He began the fluid movements and I tried to keep up, but he seemed to be going a lot faster tonight.<br />
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“So you want to start stopping people in the hall and ask them if they want to join the rebellion?” Jack asked, his tone light. “Well, it sounds stupid when you say it like that.”<br />
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“Alright, we’re all warmed up now.” Jack faced me in a defensive stance. “Take your best shot.”<br />
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“I don’t feel like it anymore.”<br />
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“Come on.” He flicked a hand out at me, stopping inches from my face. “Pretend I’m Reyes. You must be mad at him.”<br />
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I threw the heel of my hand toward his face, which he blocked easily. I followed with a roundhouse kick at his stomach. He pushed me away.<br />
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“That’s weak, Sunny,” he said. “Come on. The other night you just about ripped my head off when you were mad about Summer.”<br />
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I had been really mad about Summer. Even the thought of her now in the clutches of that crazy president was making me angry. He had my father, too. My anger snuck out of the place where I thought I’d had it tucked safely away and gripped me again.<br />
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I threw a punch as hard as I could at Jack, then another. He blocked them both, but I kept coming at him. First with my right leg followed swiftly by my left. He threw a right punch at me, but I pulled my head back and he missed. I instinctively knew he was going to follow with his left fist, and I ducked. He missed again. He was smiling at me. I came at him to wipe the smile off his face, but he turned, and I missed. He grabbed me from behind.<br />
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“I see the boyfriend isn’t the key to getting you mad. Your best friend is,” he whispered in my ear.<br />
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I drove my elbow as hard as I could into his stomach. As soon as I made contact, I heard his breath forced out of him. I realized I might have hit him too hard.<br />
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“I’m sorry!” I turned around to see if he was okay. He was bent over, holding his stomach. “Jack, are you hurt?”<br />
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“I’ll be fine,” he choked out.<br />
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I felt a little helpless watching him struggle to get his breath back. He finally straightened up and gently touched a couple of his ribs.<br />
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“Nothing broken.” He limped off to sit in a chair. “Maybe I should have told you the first rule of sparring before I started teaching you. You don’t actually hurt your partner.”<br />
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“Sorry. I guess I let my frustrations get the better of me.”<br />
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“I don’t suppose there’s a hot shower in here?” he asked, even though he must have known the answer.<br />
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“No.” I laughed at the thought. “But I can take you to the common bath.”<br />
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He got up from the chair. “Take me.”<br />
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I found a couple of towels and a bar of soap in a cupboard. “We only have about forty-five minutes left before lights out. We need to be back by then.”<br />
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We left the apartment and headed toward the bathroom. I wouldn’t be surprised if Jack changed his mind when he saw where he had to bathe. It wasn’t anything like the private hot shower in his apartment. When we reached the common bath, I was silently relieved to see that the water had been changed recently. It wasn’t bad at all.<br />
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“It’s freezing!” Jack exclaimed when he put his hand in the water. “I’m not getting in there.”<br />
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“You don’t actually get in. Soak your towel in the water and wash off that way. You can dry with mine. You go first.” I started toward the door.<br />
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“Wait. We’re supposed to be married. Isn’t it going to look weird if we’re taking turns in here?”<br />
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“I’m not watching you have a bath. I’m only prepared to take the pretend marriage thing so far.”<br />
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He gave me a wry look. “We’ll just turn our backs on each other. It will save time, and we can get back before lights out.”<br />
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“I don’t know. It seems a little…intimate.” But there was a guard on duty within view of the bathroom, and he might wonder why we were taking turns.<br />
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“I promise I won’t peek,” Jack said, but I wasn’t convinced. “Hey, I’m taking a big risk here, too. You know how many girls would love to see the Jack Kenner naked?”<br />
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That made me smile. A week ago, that was probably true. “I can’t believe I’m going to do this. Turn around.”<br />
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We both turned our backs on each other. I stripped as fast as I could so I wouldn’t have time to change my mind. I heard his clothes drop to the floor. An image of my hands on his naked chest came back to me, and a feeling of excitement began to grow in the pit of my stomach. If I turned around right now we would both be naked and only inches apart. A warm sensation spread through me at the thought, and my chest tightened, making it difficult to breathe. I wanted to banish the thoughts from my mind. I didn’t want to think of Jack in that way.<br />
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I dunked one of the towels into the water and scrubbed my arms. The water was freezing and made me shiver, but at least now I could blame my heavy breathing on that. And I was grateful it was helping to douse the heat that seemed to be consuming me. When I was done, I rinsed the towel and stuck it out behind my back to pass it to him.<br />
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“That was quick,” he said. I heard the water splashing behind me then Jack sucked his breath in. “Oh my god, it’s cold!”<br />
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I dried off, put on my clothes and waited for him to finish and get dressed before I knelt down to wash my hair.<br />
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“Not so bad,” Jack said, but I could tell he was lying.<br />
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He dipped his head in the water, ran the bar of soap through his hair, and then rinsed. I was still working on my long hair. A lot of coal was coming out, darkening the water and I felt a little guilty considering it had just been changed.<br />
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I wrapped the towel around my head to hide my red hair until I could reapply the coal. “We better get back before lights out,” I said.<br />
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Jack opened the door for me. “Even though it was freezing, it feels good to be clean,” he said. “I like the cold. It’s refreshing.” Maybe I would have to have a bath every night if my body was going to continue to respond to Jack like that, I thought.<br />
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Back at our apartment, I busied myself hanging up the towels and brushing out my wet hair. I was feeling a little vulnerable without the coal, but knew I would have to wait until my hair dried before I could reapply it. The lights would go out any minute now. I put the brush away and turned around to find Jack flopped in a chair observing me.<br />
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“What?” I asked.<br />
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“Nothing.” He looked away. But there was something about the way he was looking at me…<br />
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“Did you peek?” I asked.<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><strong> A charity anthology of 40 short stories of love & romance</strong></span></h3>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><i><br /></i></span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><i>...forty stories of first loves, friends to lovers, and the heat of the moment. Join forty authors, including multiple New York Times and USA Today bestsellers, as they take you on a romantic ride through time and space.</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><i><br /></i></span></span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><i>From the dazzling ballrooms of Regency historical romance to contemporary love from sweet n' dreamy to kinky n' steamy, to the wide open frontier of science fiction romance and magical worlds of far away fantasy realms, sample the best that romance has to offer! Every short story is the perfect candy-sized nugget to read over a cup of coffee or before falling asleep at night.</i></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #181818;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">I haven't read every single short story yet, but I read at least a few in each category and really enjoyed all of them! One thing that I appreciated was that each story had a "Heat Rating" from 1-5, letting you know what to expect - the ratings ranged from no actual love scenes to multiple graphic sex scenes and explicit language (with the vast majority of the stories falling between the 1-3 range). Also, at the beginning of each story, there is a short synopsis with an even more detailed description on the heat rating, so there were no surprises.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #181818;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #181818;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Like I said, I enjoyed all of the stories that I read, but my favorite was "The Pirate and the Earth Witch" by Jennifer Blackstream. I wasn't too surprised by this because I love Blackstream's Blood Prince series - twisted fairy tale retellings with bite (you can find my reviews <a href="http://feedyourfictionaddiction.blogspot.com/2014/03/5-star-review-giveaway-golden-stair-by.html">HERE</a>) - so I was delighted to see that she was included in this anthology. Her story was a fun fantasy that involved magic and a swoonworthy pirate - can't go wrong there!</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #181818;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #181818;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">The only thing that I didn't love about the anthology is that there were a few stories that are part of a series or companions to a series. I guess this is to be expected, but I generally avoided those (at least for now) because I personally can't stand reading a series out of order (even if it is just a short story companion!). I'm OCD that way. I did read one story that the author is planning to continue in future installments (I'm not sure if they will be full length books or more short stories) and I'll be watching for the next one!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'century gothic', arial, sans-serif;">I've been thinking lately about soliciting a co-blogger for Feed Your Fiction Addiction, but I've kind of been waffling back and forth on it. On the one hand, it would be nice to take a little bit of the pressure off of myself, especially during times when I have an editing project or a vacation planned or something, but I'm a bit nervous about it. After all, this blog has been my baby for the past year-and-a-half and I've worked hard to make it what it is today. I'm proud of how much FYFA has grown in a relatively short amount of time, and I don't know for sure if I can give up my sense of control. I like the feeling of running "my" blog. Would that change too much if I brought someone else on?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'century gothic', arial, sans-serif;">Still, would the positives outweigh the negatives? Working with someone else would make the blog a bit less work (I'm not expecting anyone to take over 50/50 or anything). Plus, I could definitely use someone whose strengths would help make up for my weaknesses (social media, I'm looking at you).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'century gothic', arial, sans-serif;">So, some questions for you - if you are now or have ever co-blogged:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'century gothic', arial, sans-serif;">Did it work out or did problems arise? What types of problems should I expect?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'century gothic', arial, sans-serif;">Was it hard to coordinate who would do what when?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'century gothic', arial, sans-serif;">How hard was it to find a like-minded blogger who wanted to join your team?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;">Any other advice? What haven't I asked?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;">I appreciate any feedback at all. This feels like such a huge decision to me for some reason (which is why I'm hesitating). </span><br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'century gothic', arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"><a href="http://feedyourfictionaddiction.blogspot.com/2014/04/review-maybe-someday-by-colleen-hoover.html"><i>Girls Love Travis Walker</i></a> by Anne Pfeffer - This was one of my first NA reads, and I so loved it that I constantly recommend it to everyone. Something about this book just struck a nerve with me. I LOVE it!!</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'century gothic', arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"><a href="http://feedyourfictionaddiction.blogspot.com/2014/03/review-sea-of-tranquility-by-katja.html"><i>The Sea of Tranquility</i></a> by Katja Millay - This one is very different from my first selection in this category - much more serious and a bit darker. But, my, what an amazing book!</span></li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'century gothic', arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"><a href="http://feedyourfictionaddiction.blogspot.com/2013/12/arc-review-secret-elemental-4-by-brigid.html">The Elemental Series</a> by Brigid Kemmerer - I absolutely adore this entire series and think that it's YA paranormal at it's best!!</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'century gothic', arial, sans-serif; line-height: 20.799999237060547px;"><a href="http://feedyourfictionaddiction.blogspot.com/2013/02/shadow-kiss-vampire-academy-3-by.html">The Vampire Academy Series</a> by Richelle Mead - The Vampire Academy series got me hooked on YA paranormal, so I have to recommend it to other genre newbies, right?</span></li>
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<b style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Series:</b><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="color: #181818; font-size: small; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Legacy Series #1</span><br />
<b style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Author:</b><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="color: #181818; font-size: small; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Melissa Delport</span></div>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><i>“Eric Dane has segregated the wealth and resources that remain, giving a select few the highest chance of survival and leaving the rest to starve!”</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><i>World War 3 lasted twelve days and almost eradicated the human species. Growing up in post nuclear America, Rebecca Davis remained blissfully ignorant of the despotic leadership that had seized what was previously the most powerful nation in the world. When the truth is revealed and Rebecca discovers that everything she has been taught is a lie, she is determined to fight for the life that she has not been allowed to live.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><i>In order to do this, Rebecca has to cross the boundary fences and venture out of the safety of the New United States, into the barren wastelands. It is there that she finds allies she never dreamed existed. </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><i>In Rebecca, the Resistance has finally found the ultimate weapon.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><i>“You were given this life Rebecca, because you alone are strong enough to live it.”</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><i>An action-packed, adrenalin inducing thrill ride that will have you riveted until long after you have turned the last page.</i></span></span></div>
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After WWIII, the US is devastated. Only people in a few midwestern states have survived the nuclear destruction. A man named Eric Dane becomes President, setting up harsh restrictions that limit people's choices - including their ability to have children and the choice to leave.<br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><b>Worldbuilding.</b> This book had a good amount of worldbuilding, explaining how World War III came about and how the world got to the state it was currently in. I like that the book actually started out telling us about Rebecca's experience of the war when she was a little girl and gave us a little bit of a background about what it was like to grow up in those conditions rather than just jumping to the time of the Resistance.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><b>Rebecca.</b> Rebecca was a strong character who wasn't waiting for anyone to come save her - she took matters into her own hands and fought her own battles. While I didn't always agree with all of her decisions, I did think that she had the right intentions behind them - she was a morally upright person in a very corrupt world. </li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><b>The action and suspense. </b>This book was full of action and intrigue. There were lots of twists and turns, and the stakes were very high. Rebecca and the others in the Resistance put themselves in some very dangerous situations, and I was never sure if everyone was going to make it through the book alive! Plus, there were some interesting twists at the end of the book that really set us up for book #2. I can't wait to see where Delport has gone with these twists in the next book!</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><b>Shades of gray. </b>I love it when the villains in a book aren't completely villainous, and that was the case here. Eric Dane was a complicated person. Most of his rules even seemed kind of reasonable to me - and then he went overboard. There are times when Rebecca thinks he might be any okay person - and then times when he's definitely not. This is my favorite type of villain!</li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><b>Love triangle. </b>I wasn't always a fan of the love triangle in the book, and I got a bit frustrated with Rebecca and how she handled the men in her life sometimes (including Eric Dane - in one scene in particular, she dealt with Eric in a ridiculously frustrating way that was sure to do nothing but cause her trouble). Still, I will say that Delport twisted the love triangle around in interesting ways, so I was more on board by the end.</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><b>Pet peeve. </b>It seemed strange to me that the book was set in the US (in the near future), but the book featured British spellings. (The author is from South Africa, so I guess it makes sense, but it just struck me as odd).</li>
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So, overall, I really enjoyed <i>The Legacy</i> and I'm eager to see what Delport has in store for us in books #2 & 3 (book #2 is out now and book #3 is coming out next year). I give this one <b>4/5 Stars</b>.</div>
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<span style="font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;">By Melissa Delport, author of The Legacy </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;">Sadly, authors have very little say in the casting of movie adaptations of their books. In fact, they have very little say over anything to do with the movie version. I think this is a tragedy of epic proportion, given that we created the characters being brought to life on the big screen. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;">I am struggling to come to terms with this fact, because there are a few cast members in my Dream Movie cast that I really wouldn’t mind meeting. (Are you paying attention, Mr Spielberg?) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;">When I started writing The Legacy, I had images in my mind that I used to describe my characters. I actually find this the easiest way to remember all the details about them (hair colour, eye colour, etc) because otherwise halfway though I have forgotten.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;">So, without any further ado, here is my DREAM MOVIE CAST (drum roll, please!):</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;">In my opinion, every single movie ever made should feature Ian “Smoulder”-halder, or, as I like to call him: “sex on legs”. Eric Dane is a narcissistic, cruel megalomaniac. Ian Somerhalder is a compassionate philanthropist...but I hardly see the problem. Ian is an actor – ie: he can play any role. And I would so love for him to play the part of Eric. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><b>Wife and mother of 3, Melissa Delport is the author of The Legacy Trilogy and the stand-alone self-published e.books Rainfall and The Traveler. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><b>She graduated from the University of South Africa with a Bachelor’s Degree in English in 2000</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><b>At the age of twenty-four Melissa started a logistics company (Transmax) from the spare room of her flat and built it up to two fully operational depots in Durban and Johannesburg. Now, 10 years later, she has sold her business in order to write full time.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><b>Melissa lives with her husband and three children in Hillcrest, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><b><i>T</i></b></span><b style="color: #181818; font-family: 'century gothic', arial, sans-serif;"><i>he Legacy</i> (book 1 of The Legacy Trilogy) and The Legion (book 2) are available now and the final book, The Legend, will be released early 2015.</b><br />
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><b><i>“I was driving home from work when inspiration struck, and a storyline started unravelling in my head. For a few days it was all I could think about and eventually I realised that the only way to get it out of my head, was to put it all down on paper. I started writing, and that was that.”</i></b></span></div>
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<li style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0.25em 0px; text-align: left;"><a href="http://feedyourfictionaddiction.blogspot.com/2014/07/random-reads-review-15-minutes-by-jill.html" style="color: #333333; font-size: 16px; line-height: 22px;"><span style="color: #660000;"><i>15 Minutes</i></span></a><span style="color: black; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> by Jill Cooper (Random Reads review)</span></li>
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<b style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Series:</b><span style="color: #181818; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"> </span><span style="color: #181818; font-size: small; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Hundred Oaks #2</span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><i>Parker Shelton pretty much has the perfect life. She’s on her way to becoming valedictorian at Hundred Oaks High, she’s made the all-star softball team, and she has plenty of friends. Then her mother’s scandal rocks their small town and suddenly no one will talk to her.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><i>Now Parker wants a new life.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><i>So she quits softball. Drops twenty pounds. And she figures why kiss one guy when she can kiss three? Or four. Why limit herself to high school boys when the majorly cute new baseball coach seems especially flirty?</i></span></span><br />
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I'm pretty much reading this series all in a row (with an occasional book in between) so that I can get to <i>Breathe, Annie, Breathe</i>. These books are all quick and easy reads and I'm really enjoying getting to know the kids of Hundred Oaks!<br />
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Parker doesn't have a lot of girlfriends - she's pretty much shut people out because most of her friends shunned her after her mom announced that she was gay and left their family for a woman. She now pretty much sticks to her best (guy) friend Drew. She's even given up on softball because it's something she shared with her mom and she just can't face her teammates anymore. Parker feels like she has to prove that she's not like her mom, so she makes out with as many guys as she can, but she doesn't feel anything for any of them. Until she meets the new boys' baseball coach.<br />
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Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addictionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637114079800138680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2251112651612137737.post-9185656769148089432014-08-01T08:19:00.000-05:002014-08-01T08:49:47.253-05:00August Random Read - Scorched by Mari Mancusi<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's time for my August Random Reads selection (a fun meme hosted by <a href="http://imlovingbooks.com/" target="_blank">I'm Loving Books).</a> The idea is to pick one random book from your Goodreads To-Read list (using <a href="http://random.org/">Random.org</a>) to read within the month. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>As I mention every month, I am in love with this meme!</b> This is such a great way to make sure that I actually read some of those books that have been in my TBR list for eons.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />This month I decided to switch back to just choosing one Random Read. I limited my Random Read choices to books that I actually own since I have so many of them that I've been wanting to read. (I did this by just creating a Random Reads shelf on Goodreads).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>I only got through one of my picks from last month.</b> I got about 15% in to <i>Darkness & Light</i> when I decided that it just wasn't for me - at least for now. I might try picking it up again at some point in the future. On the other hand, I did really enjoy <b><i>15 Minutes</i> by Jill Cooper</b>. You can check out my review <a href="http://feedyourfictionaddiction.blogspot.com/2014/07/random-reads-review-15-minutes-by-jill.html">here</a>.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc7lugLZQ4oHGtxbrJMP6sei6Hz2B9gZTMFBhvTzATeaSa1lLq5QOuk04Kao1SzCfvl9SN14eHcZOks0GC2yBnvwdi7nYH1HM-GfRWX7W5_i1yHl3SkgV6E5jVaSRJsNz-tbgLErkWwcZR/s1600/16006945+(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjc7lugLZQ4oHGtxbrJMP6sei6Hz2B9gZTMFBhvTzATeaSa1lLq5QOuk04Kao1SzCfvl9SN14eHcZOks0GC2yBnvwdi7nYH1HM-GfRWX7W5_i1yHl3SkgV6E5jVaSRJsNz-tbgLErkWwcZR/s1600/16006945+(1).jpg" height="320" width="213" /></a><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Don’t leave me here... It starts with a whisper. At first Trinity thinks she’s going crazy. It wouldn’t be a big surprise—her grandpa firmly believes there’s a genuine dragon egg in their dusty little West Texas town. But this voice is real, and it’s begging for her protection. Even if no one else can hear it...</i></span><br />
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Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addictionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08637114079800138680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2251112651612137737.post-12548542719424807772014-07-31T16:30:00.000-05:002014-08-05T07:13:27.139-05:00Best of the Bunch - July 2014<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Best of the Bunch is a book blog hop hosted over at <a href="http://alwayslostinstories.blogspot.ca/2014/07/best-of-bunch-july.html">Always Lost in Stories</a> on the last day of each month, where we can look back over the books we have read over this past month and give a Best of the Bunch award to our favorite book of that month.<br />
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<li><i>Sun Poisoned </i>by Nikki Rae | <a href="http://feedyourfictionaddiction.blogspot.com/2014/07/review-giveaway-sunshine-series-by.html">Review</a> | Rating <b>5</b>/5</li>
<li><i>Sun Damage </i>by Nikki Rae | <a href="http://feedyourfictionaddiction.blogspot.com/2014/07/review-giveaway-sunshine-series-by.html">Review</a> | Rating <b>4</b>/5</li>
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<li><i>Revolutionary </i>by Krista McGee | <a href="http://feedyourfictionaddiction.blogspot.com/2014/07/review-giveaway-revolutionary-by-krista.html">Review</a> | Rating <b>4.5</b>/5</li>
<li><i>My Life From Hell </i>by Tellulah Darling | <a href="http://feedyourfictionaddiction.blogspot.com/2014/07/review-my-life-from-hell-by-tellulah.html">Review</a> | Rating: <b>5</b>/5</li>
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<li><i>Synchrony </i>by Cindy Ray Hale | <a href="http://feedyourfictionaddiction.blogspot.com/2014/07/review-synchrony-by-cindy-ray-hale.html">Review</a> | Rating <b>3.5</b>/5</li>
<li><i>Let's Get Lost </i>by Adi Alsaid | <a href="http://feedyourfictionaddiction.blogspot.com/2014/07/arc-review-guest-post-giveaway-lets-get.html">Review</a> | Rating <b>4</b>/5</li>
<li><i>The Rose Master </i>by Valentina Cano | <a href="http://feedyourfictionaddiction.blogspot.com/2014/07/review-rose-master-by-valentina-cano.html">Review</a> | Rating <b>4</b>/5</li>
<li><i>Pushing the Limits </i>by Katie McGarry | <a href="http://feedyourfictionaddiction.blogspot.com/2014/07/review-pushing-limits-by-katie-mcgarry.html">Review</a> | Rating <b>4.5</b>/5</li>
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<li><i>Catching Jordan </i>by Miranda Kenneally | <a href="http://feedyourfictionaddiction.blogspot.com/2014/07/review-catching-jordan-by-miranda.html">Review</a> | Rating <b>4</b>/5</li>
<li><i>Stim </i>by Kevin Berry | <a href="http://feedyourfictionaddiction.blogspot.com/2014/07/review-50-gift-card-giveaway-stim.html">Review</a> | Rating <b>4</b>/5</li>
<li><i>Kaleidoscope </i>by Kevin Berry | <a href="http://feedyourfictionaddiction.blogspot.com/2014/07/review-50-gift-card-giveaway-stim.html">Review</a> | Rating <b>3</b>/5</li>
<li><i>15 Minutes </i>by Jill Cooper | <a href="http://feedyourfictionaddiction.blogspot.com/2014/07/random-reads-review-15-minutes-by-jill.html">Review</a> | Rating <b>4</b>/5</li>
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><i>15 minutes is all the Rewind Agency gives you in the past, but for Lara Crane it’s enough time to race through the city, find her mother, and stop her from being killed in a mugging that happened over ten years ago.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #666666; font-family: century gothic, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19px;"><i>15 Minutes is an edgy high octane YA thriller that can be described as Back to the Future meets Inception where the people Lara trusts change in an instant. She is in a timeline she doesn't understand, and is about to make one fatal mistake as she faces an enemy so familiar, he’s family.</i></span></span></div>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><b>The action. </b>This book was action-packed right from the get-go. It takes off running and the pace never really slows down - Lara is in a constant race to fix the past and then to fix her "improved" version of the past. It doesn't take long for Lara to discover that everything is not as it should be in her new life - not just the fact that her life is different, but that this new version of her life is much more dangerous. She has to unravel the truth in order to keep herself and her family safe.</li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><b>The cliffhanger. </b>The book ends on a bit of a cliffhanger - something that I pretty much saw coming based on what had already happened in the book. I felt like the ending to this one was drawn out just a little bit and wished that I could have just gotten back to the meat of the story (but I can't say much more than that). Still, I'm definitely wondering what will happen next!</li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><b>The romance. </b>I didn't find myself being completely sold on either of the two boys that Lara is torn between, though I do think the guy she ended up with (maybe?) is the right guy. Probably. We'll see when we get to the next book.</li>
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