Tuesday, May 24, 2016

Release Week Blitz: Charged (Saints of Denver #2) by Jay Crownover



From New York Times bestselling author Jay Crownover comes CHARGED, the latest in her sexy The Saints of Denver Series, releasing May 24th! Known for her strong heroines and alpha males, you won’t know what hit you as you read Avett and Quaid’s story. Keep reading for more about the Leagle Eagle and Avett and order your copy today.


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From the New York Times bestselling author of the Marked Men books comes the second installment in the Saints of Denver series featuring a bad girl and a by the book attorney who could be her salvation…or her ruin.

Avett Walker and Quaid Jackson’s worlds have no reason to collide. Ever. Quaid is a high powered criminal attorney as slick as he is handsome. Avett is a pink-haired troublemaker with a bad attitude and a history of picking the wrong men.

When Avett lands in a sea of hot water because of one terrible mistake, the only person who can get her out of it is the insanely sexy lawyer. The last thing on earth she wants to do is rely on the no-nonsense attorney who thinks of her as nothing more than a nuisance. He literally has her fate in his hands. Yet there is something about him that makes her want to convince him to loosen his tie and have a little fun…with her.

Quaid never takes on clients like the impulsive young woman with a Technicolor dye job. She could stand to learn a hard lesson or two, but something about her guileless hazel eyes intrigues him. Still, he’s determined to keep their relationship strictly business. But doing so is becoming more impossible with each day he spends with her.

As they work side-by-side, they’ll have to figure out a way to get along and keep their hands off each other—because the chemistry between them is beyond charged.






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Avett

Don’t worry, Sprite, bad decisions always make for good stories…
              I could hear my dad’s gruff voice, lightened with humor, in my ear as he told me those words every single time I got caught doing something I wasn’t supposed to do when I was growing up. I was always doing something I shouldn’t then and now, so I heard those words a lot from him. Unfortunately, as an adult, my bad decisions resulted in consequences far worse than a scraped knee or a broken wrist from falling out of the tree in the backyard he warned me repeatedly wasn’t sturdy enough to limb. And sadly, my dad reassuring me in his firm and gentle way, while calling me his little Sprite as he kissed my boo-boos, wasn’t going to help my current situation at all.
              This boo-boo was big-time.
              This boo-boo was life-changing.
              This boo-boo was anything but a good story waiting to be told.
              This boo-boo very well could be the end of me, the end of the rope where my patient parents had dangled precariously for years, and it very well could be the end of any kind of future I may have had. A future I was well on my way to letting a lifetime of bad decisions and even worse choices screw up. At barely twenty-two, bad decisions had sort of become my stock in trade and were as familiar to me as my own face. I was almost legendary, at this point, for putting all my trust in the absolutely wrong kind of people. If there was a wrong path to take, I was going to skip gleefully down that road and not look back until I ended up exactly in the kind of situation I found myself in at the moment. It wasn’t like this was even a new dead end; it was the same one I ran into over and over again. No matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t get myself turned around, and the longer I was at this dead end, the darker and more wicked it became.
              I knew better. I really did, even if there was a boatload of evidence contradicting that fact.
              I wasn’t stupid, naïve, immature, or senseless. I might appear that way to anyone on the outside looking in, but I had my reasons for being a consummate failure and lifelong loser. All of those reasons had nothing to do with me not knowing better and everything to do with me knowing exactly what I deserved.
              For a long time now I had been spiraling out of control, whirling, falling deep and deeper into a pit of really awful actions and consequences, each seemingly worse and more painful than the last. I also hadn’t made any kind of effort to try and pull myself out of it, so logically I knew the only place I was going to end up was right here, right at the lowest part of rock bottom. I never imagined the landing would be so jarring.





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Monday, May 23, 2016

Author Interview: Jennifer L. Armentrout


# 1 New York Times and International Bestselling author Jennifer lives in Martinsburg, West Virginia. All the rumors you’ve heard about her state aren’t true. When she’s not hard at work writing. she spends her time reading, watching really bad zombie movies, pretending to write, and hanging out with her husband and her Jack Russell Loki.
Her dreams of becoming an author started in algebra class, where she spent most of her time writing short stories….which explains her dismal grades in math. Jennifer writes young adult paranormal, science fiction, fantasy, and contemporary romance. She is published with Spencer Hill Press, Entangled Teen and Brazen, Disney/Hyperion and Harlequin Teen. Her book Obsidian has been optioned for a major motion picture and her Covenant Series has been optioned for TV. Her young adult romantic suspense novel DON’T LOOK BACK was a 2014 nominated Best in Young Adult Fiction by YALSA.
She also writes Adult and New Adult contemporary and paranormal romance under the name J. Lynn. She is published by Entangled Brazen and HarperCollins.

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Casey Marie: If Daemon and Katy were Pures in the Covenant World, what abilities would they possess?

Jennifer L. Armentrout: Katy would have the ability to control the Earth, she is rather Earthy with all of her gardening. Daemon would be an Apollyon, he would have the control of the four elements plus akasha

CM: Who do you think would win: Seth or Daemon?

JLA: It would be a tie since it would be like two immortals trying to kill each other. Daemon would use the Source, which is extremely powerful, but Seth has akasha, which is equivalent to the Source. It would be a draw.

CM: Out of all of your characters, who do you think had the happiest "ever after"?

JLA: It would be a three-way tie. I love the endings for Alex and Adien, Daemon and Kat, and Cam and Avery. My stories usually contain a high body count, but there is usually some form of happily ever after.

CM: If you could pick two characters, each from a different book of yours, who do you think would have the greatest chemistry?

JLA: Kat would probably go well with Seth or Roth since she now has experience with a alpha, hard-to-like bad-boy. Many think Alex would be good with either of those two, but she is the female version of them and they would never match.

CM: If you could bring one of your characters to life, who would you choose?

JLA: I would probably bring Roth to life because he has tattoos that come to life. It would be pretty cool to see something like that in real life.

CM: How did you come up with the idea of familiars (Roth's magical tattoos)? 

JLA: I do not even know. I was just thinking about tattoos and that ended up being how they carried their familiars with them. It was a random thing that popped into my head one day.

CM: If you could be roommates with one of your characters, who would you want to be roommates with?

JLA: Katy because we could talk about books together and a whole bunch of other stuff. If I chose one of my hot guys, I would probably stab one of them in the eye with a fork by the end of the day.

CM: What cities or regions of the world do you think your characters belong in?

JLA: Daemon and Katy would belong in a wilderness area. Alex and Aiden belong near beaches. Layla is used to a city so she belongs in a city area. Roth would be like someone you would see in New York and Zayne you would see in a beach somewhere in California surfing. For my New Adult characters, they are in the city that they belong in. 

CM: When you are going about your regular day, do you ever see your characters in random people or just in your own actions?

JLA: I do sometimes say or think things that I see in my characters. I do have a snarky internal thought process. Lesa and Carissa are both based on two people I know, so their behaviors are very reminiscent of who they are. It is kind of funny when you have cover models, for example, sometimes they will adapt to certain personality traits of the characters if they have read the book. Drew has read the Titan Series and he can really adapt to the character of Seth and sometimes he will do or say something that is very Seth-like. It is kind of jarring when I see that.

CM: What is it like seeing your cover models, did you ever expect to meet them?

JLA: I have been very lucky. Pepe was picked before the book came out and he was picked by the publisher. When I saw him, I was kind of shocked by how much he resembled Daemon. When we were picking out models for Seth, as soon as we saw Drew's picture, he had that cocky-grin. It was tiny details that really allow them to pull off their characters. I have been really lucky to find the people who match the characters.

CM: Do you have some say in the selection of the cover models?

JLA: Some, if it is a cover model we are picking and putting his face on the cover. I will put my foot down if that person does not resemble what I think they look like. Sometimes, I cannot if the publisher is using stock photos and they only have what they could find. For the most part I have been lucky, several of my book series had photo shoots attached to them, allowing us to pick the model beforehand. 






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Saturday, May 21, 2016

Review & Excerpt Tour: Charged (Saints of Denver #2) by Jay Crownover

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From New York Times bestselling author Jay Crownover comes CHARGED, the latest in her sexy The Saints of Denver Series, releasing May 24th! Known for her strong heroines and alpha males, you won't know what hit you as you read Avett and Quaid's story. Keep reading for more about the Leagle Eagle and Avett and order your copy today.

 

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From the New York Times bestselling author of the Marked Men books comes the second installment in the Saints of Denver series featuring a bad girl and a by the book attorney who could be her salvation...or her ruin.

Avett Walker and Quaid Jackson’s worlds have no reason to collide. Ever. Quaid is a high powered criminal attorney as slick as he is handsome. Avett is a pink-haired troublemaker with a bad attitude and a history of picking the wrong men.

When Avett lands in a sea of hot water because of one terrible mistake, the only person who can get her out of it is the insanely sexy lawyer. The last thing on earth she wants to do is rely on the no-nonsense attorney who thinks of her as nothing more than a nuisance. He literally has her fate in his hands. Yet there is something about him that makes her want to convince him to loosen his tie and have a little fun…with her.

Quaid never takes on clients like the impulsive young woman with a Technicolor dye job. She could stand to learn a hard lesson or two, but something about her guileless hazel eyes intrigues him. Still, he’s determined to keep their relationship strictly business. But doing so is becoming more impossible with each day he spends with her.

As they work side-by-side, they’ll have to figure out a way to get along and keep their hands off each other—because the chemistry between them is beyond charged.





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Jay Crownover - author pic About Jay Crownover: Jay Crownover is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Marked Men, The Point, and the Saints of Denverseries. 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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2 Girls & Their Kindles – Review & Excerpt
She Hearts Books – Review & Excerpt
Booky Ramblings of a Neurotic Mom – Review & Excerpt
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May 17th
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Literati Literature Lovers – Review & Excerpt
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May 19th
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Quaid
I tapped the edge of my thumb on the black-and-white mug shot photo and couldn’t stop the grin from tugging at my mouth.
She tried to fire me.
She was five-foot-nothing, a lifetime younger than me, had multicolored hair that had seen better days, wild eyes that couldn’t decide if they wanted to be green, gold, or brown, while dressed in convict orange and obviously scared out of her ever loving mind, yet she still tried to fire me. If it had been any of my other clients—the cop accused of sexual battery, the frat boy accused of manslaughter over a bet on a football game gone wrong, the middle school teacher accused of pedophilia and having an inappropriate relationship with several of her students, or the pro football player accused of domestic abuse—I would have tipped my proverbial hat, wished them luck while I cut my losses, and walked away without a backward glance. People always committed crimes. People always needed a good defense, so it wasn’t like I was hurting for clients, but there was something about the girl. Something about the defiant tilt of her chin and the raw desperation in her tone when she begged me not to call her father.
I don’t want your help. I don’t want anything from you.” She sounded like she meant it when she said it, but I figured she was too young and too scared to know exactly what she wanted or needed. Regardless, it was still refreshing to hear.
Everyone always wanted something from me and my help was usually the least of it.
 I tapped the picture again, wondering why I found it so easy to believe that she really hadn’t been a part of the boyfriend’s plan to rob the bar. She wasn’t anyone’s idea of a model citizen and she had the shady track record to prove it. She was too young, and frankly too adorable, to have a file this thick. From what I could see, she had a set of parents always willing to ride to the rescue when she got herself into trouble. She looked like some kind of colorful woodland fairy from a Disney movie with her odd hair and delicate features. None of it added up, but the sincerity in her tone when she said she would never have gone with the boyfriend if she knew his intent and the fear in her eyes when I mentioned her father seemed genuine.
I learned long ago to treat everyone like they were guilty of whatever it was I was paid to defend them against. I didn’t want to know the truth. I didn’t want to know the circumstances. I wanted my clients to listen to me and let me do my job as I tried to convince the rest of the world they were innocent, regardless if they were or not. But this girl with her faded, rose colored hair and turbulent eyes oozed innocence through the cracks of a very guilty façade.
Because I was intrigued and actually believed the girl might be innocent, I wasn’t going to let her fire me. I was going to call her father and hope that he would help me keep her out of the slammer while I figured out how to plea bargain her charges down or get them dismissed altogether. Again, because a cop was involved in the robbery and because the boyfriend, junkie or not, was offering up a pretty plausible explanation for Avett’s involvement in the crime, nothing was a slam dunk, yet. I was going to help her whether she wanted me to or not.

Review:

Jay Crownover never disappoints. In Charged, she weaves a beautiful romance with high tension and drama from the legal system. While the first book in the Saints of Denver series, Built, has many ties to the Marked Men series, Charged was rather distant from the original series. While Avett showed up periodically in the Marked Men series, primarily in Asa and Rome, we saw very few of our beloved characters. The distance between the series was not terrible, but it made the mentions of the various characters from the original gang even more special. 

Jay has such beautiful writing. Her stories are so quick to read with just enough detail and flare. While many authors pile of flourishing words to make their writing appear more sophisticated, I would pick Jay's raw writing any day over theirs. Her raw writing is able to pack in so much emotion that better engages the audience. She pulls you into the story and you are unable to leave without making a place for her characters in your heart. I also love how personal Jay makes her books. She always includes an introduction and acknowledgment that makes you feel as though she is really talking to you. Just like her stories, her introductions include many memorable quotes.

If you have not read any of Jay's books, I highly recommend starting as soon as you can. All of Jay's Marked Men and Saints of Denver have my personal approval. Each book in both series has enough variety in the plots for any lover of New Adult to enjoy. The topics and struggles that each character face is varied throughout both series and you are bound to find a character that you can relate to. 

While I was originally disappointed by the cover change that occurred with Charged, it has definitely grown on me. Jay has been rather lucky with the book covers she has been given. Although they typically feature a single guy, they never look cheesy. It always made sense to only have a guy on the Marked Men books because the title of each book was one of the Marked Men. In comparison, the titles of the Saints of Denver books have been a summary of the relationship between the two characters, justifying a cover change to feature both main characters. I am, however, disappointed that Built does not match its fellow Saints of Denver sequels. I am interested to see what the cover of Riveted will look like. I wonder if they will continue using the new style of covers or if they will go back to the originals. 

While Charged included Jay's typical charm and romance, it included higher tension and suspense than some of her other Marked Men and Saints of Denver books had. I am unable to rank where Charged falls in comparison to Jay's other books because they all are so different from each other. However, I can easily say that Changed does not disappoint. I cannot wait for the third installment of the Saints of Denver series, Riveted, that is expected to be released in early 2017. I am unaware how many books the Saints of Denver series will contain. I cannot wait to read the remaining book(s) in the series.









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