Review & Excerpt Tour: Built (Saints of Denver #1) by Jay Crownover

We are absolutely thrilled to bring you the Review/Excerpt Tour for BUILT by Jay Crownover! BUILT is a Contemporary Romance novel being published by HarperCollins, and it is the 1^st full-length novel in The Saints of Denver Series, a spinoff of her New York Times bestselling Marked Men Series. This amazing book releases on January 5^th!  

Summary: 
From the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Marked Men books comes an electrifying new spin-off series,Saints of Denver, featuring all the characters fans have been dying to read about. 

Sayer Cole and Zeb Fuller couldn’t be more different. She’s country club and fine-dining, he’s cell-block and sawdust. Sayer spends her days in litigation, while Zeb spends his working with his hands. She’s French silk, he’s all denim and flannel. 

Zeb’s wanted the stunning blonde since the moment he laid eyes on her. It doesn't matter how many smooth moves he makes, the reserved lawyer seems determinedly oblivious to his interest—either that or she doesn't return it. Sayer is certain the rough, hard, hot-as-hell Zeb could never want someone as closed off and restrained as she is, which is a shame because something tells her he might be the guy to finally melt her icy exterior.

 But just as things start to heat up, Zeb is blindsided by a life altering moment from his past. He needs Sayer’s professional help to right a wrong and to save more than himself. He can’t risk what’s at stake just because his attraction to Sayer feels all consuming. But as these opposites dig in for the fight of their lives, battling together to save a family, the steam created when fire and ice collide can no longer be ignored.  

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 I met her at a bar.

                She had a beer bottle in her hand even though she looked like she should be sipping champagne out of an expensive flute, and that inexplicably turned me on. She was pretty and looked completely out of place in the no-name bar sitting across from one of my longtime friends who also happened to be her long-lost brother. He was the reason she was here. In that split second that I laid my eyes on her I wanted to be the reason she stayed.

                I knew it was rude and that the two of them needed some time together, some time to figure out what they were to each other now that she had blasted into his life unannounced. If I was a better friend I would have left them alone. As it was, I made my way over to the tiny table and sat down. I was covered in sawdust and had drywall mud caked in the hair on my head and on my face, but she didn’t flinch or bat an eyelash when I purposely broke up their party of two and placed myself as close to her as I could without actually touching her.

                My buddy Rowdy St. James lifted his eyebrows at me as I stared at her while he introduced us. Sayer Cole. Even her name was elegant and sophisticated sounding. She was an enigma, this pretty woman that seemed like she should be in any place but this bar with the two of us. She’d showed up out of the blue a couple of months ago claiming to be Rowdy’s half-sister, claiming that they shared a father, claiming that all she wanted was to be in his life and have some kind of family of her own. She looked too delicate to be that brave. Came across as way too proper to have said “fuck it all” and picked up her life to move it someplace unknown without being sure of her welcome. She looked like silk, but if my guess was right about her, it was silk wrapped around steel. 

I discovered Jay Crownover's Marked Men series earlier this year while reading Jennifer L. Armentrout's Wicked and I instantly fell in love. The characters of the Marked Men series managed to firmly secure a spot in my heart by the end of the series and are there to stay. I have never wanted a spin-off series so badly before I encountered the Marked Men. The characters are unforgettable and hard to let go. 

I could not get enough of Zeb and Sayer's story, I could have read Built in one sitting had I not started the book on a week day. I have been struggling to read lately with the craziness of school, but Built taught me that I need to make time for reading and that if I am not completely in love with a story, it prevents me from reading when I do have the time. I spent quite a few late nights trying to fit in as many chapters of Built as I possibly could, but a couple chapters was never enough. Built pulls the reader into the story from the first sentence to the very last one. I would stop reading Built at the end of a chapter in order to sleep, but all I could do was lay in bed thinking about what would happen next. 

It is extremely difficult to choose my favorite couple, but Zeb and Sayer are somewhere near the top. Zeb and Sayer's chemistry is undeniable and and their fight to be together was completely worth it in the end. I loved the progression of their relationship and how their romance built itself.

I am struggling to form sentences that are not completely incoherent, but that also do not contain spoilers. As much as I want to endlessly talk about the plot line, the story is much better if you go in blindly. All I will say is that I love the conflict. I rated Built a five out of five stars, but it deserves more stars than five. I loved that Built featured interactions between Quaid and Avett, the couple in the next Saints of Denver novel, Charged. The relationship between Quaid and Avett is interesting to say the least and I am looking forward to seeing their relationship unfold in Charged, which is expected to be released in late May of 2016. Built did not end on a cliff-hanger, but there will never be enough Jay Crownover books to satisfy my need.

Whether you are a long-time fan of Jay's books, or have never read any book written by her, I highly recommend picking up Built on January 5th. If you have or plan to preorder a copy of Built, you can complete this form to receive Nash and Saint's exclusive wedding scene. 

BUILT Review & Excerpt Tour:

December 28^th

Reading is Sexy – Review & Excerpt

RentasticReads – Review & Excerpt

StuckInBooks – Review & Excerpt

Little Red's Reviews – Review & Excerpt

Addicted to Happily Ever After – Review & Excerpt

kimberlyfaye reads – Review & Excerpt

December 29^th

Bookcrack – Review

Ramblings From This Chick – Review

V's Reads – Review & Excerpt

three chicks and their books – Review & Excerpt

Desert Divas Book Addiction – Review & Excerpt

Lili's Books – Review & Excerpt

December 30^th

Lustful Literature – Review & Excerpt

Zili in the Sky – Review & Excerpt

Red Hot + Blue Reads – Review & Excerpt

Biblio Belles – Review & Excerpt

Mustreadbooksordie – Review & Excerpt

Book Freak – Review & Excerpt

A Bookish Escape – Review & Excerpt

December 31^st

The Book Maven – Review & Excerpt

She Hearts Books – Review & Excerpt

Lazy Book Lovers – Review

Reese's Reviews – Review & Excerpt

Naughty and nice book blog – Review & Excerpt

January 1^st

Books to Breathe – Review & Excerpt

Random Book Muses – Review & Excerpt

Under the Covers – Review & Excerpt

Holly's Hot Reads – Review & Excerpt

Cocktails and Books – Review & Excerpt

January 2^nd

Bewitching bibliophile – Review & Excerpt

Much Loved Books – Review & Excerpt

Dark Faerie Tales – Review & Excerpt

The Book Disciple – Review & Excerpt

Live Read and Breathe – Review & Excerpt

Smokin' Hot Reads Book Blog – Review & Excerpt

January 3^rd

People Like Books – Review & Excerpt

The Flare Up – Review & Excerpt

Gemma reads too much – Review & Excerpt

Read Love Blog –Review & Excerpt

KT Book Reviews – Review & Excerpt

i love lady porn – Review & Excerpt

January 4^th

Red Cheeks Reads – Review & Excerpt

Krista's Dust Jacket – Review & Excerpt

Jenuine Cupcakes – Review

Book Angel Booktopia – Review & Excerpt

Never Judge a Book by its Cover – Review & Excerpt

Book Sojourner – Review & Excerpt

January 5^th

Echoing Books – Review & Excerpt

oh the book feels – Review & Excerpt

Reviews by Tammy & Kim – Review & Excerpt

An Asian Chick & her cat Walk into a Book Blog – Review

TLBC's Book Blog – Review & Excerpt

January 6^th

Obsessive Book Nerd – Review

The Bookworms Obsession – Review

Total Book Geek – Review & Excerpt

True Story Book Blog – Review & Excerpt

Literati Literature Lovers – Review & Excerpt

January 7^th

The Revolving Bookcase – Review

Two Book Pushers – Review & Excerpt

BFD Book Blog – Review & Excerpt

The Fairest of All Book Reviews – Review & Excerpt

Hot Guys in Books – Review & Excerpt

January 8^th

Nose Stuck in a Book – Review & Excerpt

Book Babes Unite – Review

Renee Entress's Blog – Review & Excerpt

BJ's Book Blog – Review & Excerpt

Shelf_Life – Review & Excerpt

Ticket to Anywhere – Review & Excerpt

January 9^th

Nuggets from a Book Nerd – Review & Excerpt

Krissy's Book Nook – Review & Excerpt

Tar Heel Bibliobabe – Review

pbc – Excerpt

From the TBR Pile – Review & Excerpt

Romance Addict Book Blog – Review & Excerpt

       

And don’t miss the previous novella in The Saints of Denver Series!

LEVELED

 

Jay Crownover is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Marked Men and The Point series. Like her characters, she is a big fan of tattoos. She loves music and wishes she could be a rock star, but since she has no aptitude for singing or instrument playing, she'll settle for writing stories with interesting characters that make the reader feel something. She lives in Colorado with her three dogs.            

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Cover Reveal: Cora Carmack's Muse Series

We are absolutely thrilled to bring you the dual cover reveal for Cora Carmack’s Muse Series! INSPIRE and INFLICT are New Adult Paranormal Romance novels and are book 1 and 2 in the Muse Series. INFLICT is due to be released in January 2016! These beautiful covers were designed by Regina Wamba of Mae I Design. Be sure to grab your copy of INSPIRE today!

Inspire (Muse #1): Kalliope lives with one purpose.

To inspire.

As an immortal muse, she doesn’t have any other choice. It’s part of how she was made. Musicians, artists, actors—they use her to advance their art, and she uses them to survive. She moves from one artist to the next, never staying long enough to get attached. But all she wants is a different life— a normal one. She’s spent thousands of years living lie after lie, and now she’s ready for something real.

Sweet, sexy, and steady, Wilder Bell feels more real than anything else in her long existence. And most importantly… he’s not an artist. He doesn’t want her for her ability. But she can’t turn off the way she influences people, not even to save a man she might love. Because in small doses, she can help make something beautiful, but her ability has just as much capacity to destroy as it does to create. The longer she stays, the more obsessed Wilder will become. It’s happened before, and it never turns out well for the mortal.

Her presence may inspire genius.

But it breeds madness, too.

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About INFLICT (Book 2): Wilder Bell made a dangerous bargain... For a chance at love, he gave up his life. History knew Kalliope as an ancient Greek muse, but to Wilder, she was simply the woman he wanted to fall asleep with every night and wake up next to every morning. He made a deal with Hades, but the only thing the Lord of the Underworld deals in is death. Now Wilder is wasting away in a cold and wretched afterlife, waiting for Kalli to come for him. She will come. He has to believe that. Because the alternative is worse than death. Kalliope lived her entire existence knowing that she was both a blessing and a curse to anyone she encountered. Wilder was no different. She loved him, and she got him killed. Now to get him back, she’ll have to face a scheming god, a perilous task, and death itself. But before it’s done, the Underworld will take more from her than she ever thought possible. To be made whole, all must first be lost. 




   

About Cora Carmack: Cora Carmack is a twenty-something writer who likes to write about twenty-something characters. She’s done a multitude of things in her life– boring jobs (like working retail), fun jobs (like working in a theatre), stressful jobs (like teaching), and dream jobs (like writing). Raised in a small Texas town, she now lives in New York City and spends her time writing, traveling, and marathoning various television shows on Netflix. In her books, you can expect to find humor, heart, and a whole lot of awkward. Because let’s face it . . . awkward people need love, too. Her first book, LOSING IT, was a New York Times and USA Today bestseller.

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Cover Reveal: Elementals (Prophecy of Shadows #1) by Michelle Madow

Summary: Elementals: The Prophecy of Shadows is the first in a new series that fans of Percy Jackson and The Secret Circle will love!

When Nicole Cassidy moves from sunny Georgia to gloomy New England, the last thing she expects is to learn that her homeroom is a cover for a secret coven of witches. Even more surprisingly … she’s apparently a witch herself. Despite doubts about her newfound abilities, Nicole is welcomed into this ancient circle of witches and is bedazzled by their powers—and, to her dismay, by Blake—the school’s notorious bad-boy.

Girls who get close to Blake wind up hurt. His girlfriend Danielle will do anything to keep them away, even if she must resort to using dark magic. But the chemistry between Blake and Nicole is undeniable, and despite wanting to protect Nicole from Danielle’s wrath, he finds it impossible to keep his distance.

When the Olympian Comet shoots through the sky for the first time in three thousand years, Nicole, Blake, Danielle, and two others in their homeroom are gifted with mysterious powers. But the comet has another effect—it opens the portal to the prison world that has contained the Titans for centuries. After an ancient monster escapes and attacks Nicole and Blake, it’s up to them and the others to follow the clues from a cryptic prophecy so that they can save their town … and possibly the world.

Releases January 26th, 2016!

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Michelle Madow grew up in Baltimore, graduated Rollins College in Orlando, and now lives in Boca Raton, Florida. She wrote her first book in her junior year of college, and has been writing novels since. Some of her favorite things are: reading, pizza, traveling, shopping, time travel, Broadway musicals, and spending time with friends and family. Michelle has toured across America to promote her books and to encourage high school students to embrace reading and writing. Someday, she hopes to travel the world for a year on a cruise ship.

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Secret Truthwitch Blog Tour

I want to give a million thank yous to the wonderful Liran at Empress of Books, for developing the brilliant idea to honor the truly amazing Susan Dennard for all of Susan's hard work and dedication to the Truthwitch Street Team.  It is an absolute honor to not only be a part of the Secret Blog Tour, but to be rounding out the tour is even better. I am fortunate enough to be a member of the Air Clan in Susan's Truthwitch Street Team and I could not be happier being with any other clan. 

My journey with Susan began back in late February of this year at ApollyCon. One of my close friends, who is obsessed with zombies, had just turned 16 and I could not think of a better present than a signed copy of Susan Dennard's Something Strange and Deadly. From the minute I stepped up to the table where Susan was signing, I knew there was something different about her. I have had nothing but great experiences with authors, but they usually sign your books with a standard tag-line, take a picture with you and off you go. However, Susan wrote a really personal message to my friend and she was genuinely sweet, to the extent that I wanted to tell her everything about me, she automatically makes you feel comfortable and as if you have known each other for years.

Susan Dennard Signing at ApollyCon

When I had the opportunity to attend Comic-Con International in San Diego this summer, I contacted a few authors for interviews and Susan was one of them. Read my interview with Susan here. I introduced myself to Susan on Thursday at one of her signings so she could see my face and to get one of her gorgeous Truthwitch posters. I instantly felt like an old friend once I began talking to her and I might have held up the line. On Saturday, I wondered aimlessly around the show floor and eventually got in-line for a chapter sampler signing of Alexandra Bracken's Passenger after noticing Susan talking to Alex. When Susan was done chatting with Alex she passed me waiting in-line and I waved and nodded a hello. I assumed she was going to do the same and continue walking, but instead she stopped and started talking to me. I do not understand why, but the fact that Susan stopped and talked to me still leaves me shocked. 

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Most people would have continued walking, but she did not. Later that day, I waited in a stressful and chaotic signing line to get one of the fifty ARC copies of Truthwitch. Then on Sunday I interviewed Susan and it was such a fantastic time. At that point, I had never read a single word Susan wrote, but I felt a strong connection to her and had an amazing time interviewing her. Following the interview I got to chill with Susan and Sarah J. Maas for a half an hour before their panel, even though I had to battle rigorously the day before to even get into their signing.

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Susan Dennard is one of my absolute favorite authors to meet, she a genuinely sweet person and automatically makes you feel welcome. It has been an absolute honor to be a part of her Street Team and hype her upcoming book Truthwitch. I am hoping we will manage to get Truthwitch and Susan on the New York Times Bestsellers List.

Other Tour Stops:

November 1st

Liran at Empress of Books

Alexandra at Literary Legionnaire

November 2nd

Kit at Let The Pages Reign

November 3rd

Hedvig at Sunroadreads

November 4th

Em at Piplup's Shadowy Bookshelf

Angel at Avid Reader

November 5th

Stacey at Write All About It

November 6th

Jaimie at Jaimiesam

November 7th

Casey Marie at Little Red's Reviews

Release Day Launch: Leveled (Saints of Denver # #0.5) by Jay Crownover

We are so excited to bring you the Release Day Launch for LEVELED by Jay Crownover! LEVELED is a Contemporary Romance novella in The Saints of Denver Series being published by HarperCollins. This amazing novella releases TODAY, so be sure to grab your copy now!

 

About LEVELED: We all need a hero...let the Saints of Denver begin. Orlando Frederick knows what it is to be leveled by pain. Instead of focusing on his own, he’s made it his mission to help others: sports stars, wounded war vets, survivors of all kinds. But when Dom, a rugged, damaged, sinfully attractive cop makes his way into Lando’s physical therapy practice, he might be the biggest challenge yet. Lando loved one stubborn man before and barely survived the fallout. He’s not sure if he can do it again. Dominic 

Voss is a protector. The police badge he wears is not only his job, it’s his identity, so when he’s sidelined because of an injury, the only thing he cares about is getting back on the force. He expects Lando to mend his body, he just doesn’t realize the trainer will also have him working towards a hell of a lot more. As attraction simmers and flares, Dom sees that Lando needs repair of his own...if only the man will let him close enough to mend what's broken.  

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           He reached out and shut the medical file in front of him and leaned back in his chair. His eyebrows arched up, and he laced his fingers together and put his index fingers under his chin.

“What exactly are you after, Mr. Voss?” His voice was smooth and modulated. I was a disaster, a bundle of nerves and anxiety, and this dude was acting like we were talking about the weather, not my entire life and everything I had ever worked my ass off for.

Defiantly I spread my legs apart and slumped back in the chair across from him, making it a point to affect a posture that was as casual as his was professional. I had on a faded DPD T-shirt and a pair of jeans with a hole in the knee, and both were a little baggy since I’d lost some of my bulk being laid up in the hospital after the accident. If the guy across from me was a cherry-red Ferrari, then I was a rusted-out and battered John Deere tractor in comparison.

“I want my life back, Mr. Frederick. I want to be able to move the way I used to. I want to pass the department physical so I can go back on patrol. I want to be able to walk without needing a crutch or a cane. I want to be the way I was before I got hurt.” I was asking for the impossible and I knew it. “And please call me Dom.”

He dipped his chin down a little, and the edge of his mouth tilted up in a slight grin. Damn the man was good-looking. I blew out a breath and lifted up my hands to run them over the top of my shorn hair. I was hanging on to my sanity by a thread and my unexpected reaction to the guy that I was hanging every hope I had left on wasn’t helping matters.

“All right, Dom. You can call me Lando. That’s what my friends call me.”

I felt one of my eyebrows shoot up. “Are we going to be friends?”  

Don’t miss a Sneak Peek of BUILT, the first full-length novel in the Saints of Denver Series, in the back of LEVELED!

     
Jay Crownover is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Marked Men and The Point series. Like her characters, she is a big fan of tattoos. She loves music and wishes she could be a rock star, but since she has no aptitude for singing or instrument playing, she'll settle for writing stories with interesting characters that make the reader feel something. She lives in Colorado with her three dogs.

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