Event Post: Strange Chemistry Imprint Launch

On the evening of 23rd August Strange Chemistry invited me to the British Library to be part of the welcome party for their new YA Imprint.

I was in a rush and all hot and bothered once I arrived (and had to get directed to the correct door which was a bit embarrassing for me) I was welcomed by the Strange Chemistry folk and I grabbed some water before I passed out with dehydration.  Many other   lovely bloggers were already in the lobby and we all ushered into the conference room where we took seats and received a Strange Chemistry goodie bag before Amanda Rutter (looking lovely in her dress for the evening) introduced us to the Strange Chemistry thesis and background.  They want to try new things and ideas about reaching the YA audience with all means from digital books, author interaction and stories they are completely behind and believe in.

Amanda presenting the evening

I've been lucky enough to read a couple of their launch titles and they certainly are stories that stay with you and I love some of the ideas they are launching such as giving away digital copies with the purchase of the physical books and the idea of buying a subscription to their titles to get a cheaper rate.  It's more about investing in a publisher and their authors not just buying one off books.  Everyone benefits!

We had some readings from some of the Strange Chemistry authors and then it was a nice catch up over popping candy in test tubes, some freebie books and fancy snacks (way to fancy for me but I tried one and have no clue what it was)


Be sure to go to the Strange Chemistry website HERE to read up on each of their titles and authors.  Personally I'm so thrilled for Poltergeeks by Sean Cummings (whose agent I met at the launch event and was very lovely as well) and after hearing a reading at the launch I'm really keyed up for Kayta's World by Jonathan L. Horward.

To go along with my smiley face for the Strange Chemistry folk I'm giving away a special Strange Chemistry tote bag, some promo cards for forthcoming titles and a ARC copy of Poltergeeks by Sean Cummings (my review is here and to sum up; I loved it)

It's a UK only giveaway and last a week. 

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Event Post: UKYA meet up in London

On Monday 20th August there was a very special meet up arranged by the folks over at UKYA to gather together bloggers and authors that are part of the UKYA network and basically have a laugh, a drink and a gossip but also to announce officially the final list of the Top 100 UKYA books voted for by the people on their website.  Plus there was much laughter with lovely people that I was much in need of.

Apart from the jokes shared, the tales told (most of which I can never repeat on here because I was sworn to secrecy by certain people), and drinks drunk (I was on the cola so no embarrassing moments from me) the other main event was to hear the Top 100 UKYA list and more news on that.  You can now not only see the Top 100 books as voted by people like your lovely self but you can help out by voting for the Top 10!

Click here and pick 10 or less from the list.  That's it!  No mess; No fuss!  I've already voted for my Top 10 and i won't sway you with my choices but even if you only vote for one book on the list it's worth a vote!!!

Also Keris Stainton bought me a Kermit the Frog pen.  He's AWESOME as is Keris!

Stolen Night Blog Tour: Meeting Your Vamp Boyfriend

As part of the Stolen Night Blog Tour I was asked to write about Vampire Boyfriends but not just what I'd like in a vampire boyfriend because that would be oh to easy.  No I was asked what era or place would I like to meet my dream vampire boyfriend and why.

Seeing as I have all time and location up for grabs I thought I'd pick a place I'd been so I had some idea of where things were and where I could grab books and a nice cup of coffee but an era that I'd always wanted to visit and see more of.  I'm a tad addicted to the TV series Mad Men that is set in 1960s America in New York against the backdrop of changing politics, women's rights, social changes and some glorious wardrobe choices.

Basically imagine a vampire version of Don Draper

He'd be a smooth talker that would talk to me over drinks in a dark New York bar and I'd be dressed in some high fashion outfit that would say 'i'm cool but I'm not some dumb chick you can walk all over'.  I may have thought about this a bit too much but oh well

My outfit would be much like these.  I'd have many dresses. 

No doubt the romance wouldn't last long as he'd run out of smokes and I'd run out of feminine charm and get bored of sitting around in tight dresses all night and not getting any decent grub (and being talked down to like i'm "just a woman") so alas he'd go off on his vampire romancing for another decade. *sigh*

Keep a look out for the next stop on the tour on Booksforcompany.com on the 30th!

Letterbox Love [15]

Letterbox Love is a weekly feature hosted by Lynsey on Narratively Speaking inspired by Alea at Pop Culture Junkie

It came out of a group discussion on twitter for the desire and need for a UK feature to share our weekly grabs, buys and haul of a bookish nature as well as any other goodies we care to share.

Received

Unfed by Kirsty McKay

The Wolf Princess by Cathryn Constable

Thanks so much to Chicken House for these and as ever their AMAZING packing as they arrived!

Crewel by Gennifer Albin

Thanks to Faber and Faber

Poltergeeks by Sean Cummings

Katya's World by Jonathan L. Howard

Thanks so much to Strange Chemisty for these from their launch this week and more details on that in my event post soon

Review: The Long Weekend by Savita Kalhan

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Sam knows that he and his friend Lloyd made a colossal mistake when they accepted the ride home. They have ended up in a dark mansion in the middle of nowhere with man who means to harm them. But Sam doesn't know how to get them out. They were trapped, then separated. Now they are alone. Will either of them get out alive? This gripping and hypnotic thriller will have you reading late into the night

Review

Seeing this cover you may assume it's a creepy horror story that is about some sort of ghostly goings on in a mansion or such.  Wrong.  In fact I found it far more terrifying because the horror within was something far worse than any old monster of legends but the horror that is within real people.  Sam and Lloyd are two newly formed friends and are expecting to spend their weekend together filled with fun and junk food.  They're picked up from school on Friday and assume it's someone who works for Lloyd's dad (a high flyer in the music industry) but it becomes very apparent that they are in serious danger.  

For me The Long Weekend works in the same way that many thrillers and the best kind of scary movies do because the real fear comes from something that could be so normal and ordinary but put in the right situation it  becomes something amazingly awful.  One man turns from their saving grace from the rain and a long wait outside school into a terror beyond imagining and every parents nightmare.

I found The Long Weekend to be the kind of creepy book that made me a bit scared to even  remember moments when I was younger and could have fallen victim to an evil twisted person out to kidnap a child.  Plus it's the kind of thing in the news every other day that it makes you realise just how it could happen and it only makes Savita Kalhan's story telling all the more believably scary.  It was the moments left unwritten that was all the more terrifying as it's usually the things left unsaid and unwritten that leaves the imagination run wild.

Frightening book that quite frankly could be expanded into a longer nightmare but I'm not sure I'd be able to read it all in the dark had it been any longer.
Rating: 7/10

Published by Anderson Press and is available here and in bookshops now

Calvin and Hobbes: Love at First Pounce

I was a terror as a child.  I would like to be naughty and silly and jump around and would enjoy seeing what adventures and mishaps I could get into.  I questioned the world around me and wanted answers my parents often hated having to deal with (especially why is the sky blue?)

I was asked earlier this year quite off handedly 'oh well I assume you're a Calvin and Hobbes fan?' to which I could only reply 'errrr who?'

SHOCK AND FEAR is the only way to describe the response I got as I was promptly told to go buy Calvin and Hobbes and I was guaranteed to love it.  Not like it; LOVE it.  Don't waste your time on the small editions; just buy a big essential book or the like.  It's money well spent!  TRUST ME!

Well I did buy a couple small books on ebay just to test the water but then bought one of the Essential Guide and was given The Calvin and Hobbes Lazy Sunday Book for my birthday this year.  

How to explain Calvin and Hobbes is more than just a kid who has a cuddly toy tiger called Hobbes he believes is real and their adventures.  It's a peak into the eye of a child and his view of the world and the best and worst of it all.  It's sense of humour reminds me of Pixar movies in the way that there is something to appeal to both kids and adults.  It has the silly appeal that kids love and that cheeky school boy hijinks but the morals and sometimes tender moments and thoughts that the grown ups can get a kick out of.

I can't tell you who is better; Calvin or Hobbes because they are two peas in a pod and one without the other would just not have the same appeal.  The books are small comic strips that may remind you of the Peanuts cartoons but they are FAR better.  

I really felt like Calvin and Hobbes deserved a post here because I can't quite believe I'd never heard of them until this year and then to be so shocked at when ever I mentioned them to find out how many other people seemed to ADORE them.  Not just read them or know of them but went nuts when they saw a tweet from me about them!  Bill Watterson is like a mini God it would appear for creating these two gems characters and their nutty world that you can't help but love.  They are the naughty silly kid and imaginary toy friend I was as a child.  Plus Bill Watterson seems to be a bit special himself as he never approved of any Calvin and Hobbes merch and so the comic holds up it's integrity and purity as a  wonderful piece of art work and story telling in each small frame.

Go treat yourself and have a Lazy Sunday everyday.

A post from Me to You.....and Myself

So I was debating about posting at all quite frankly.  This is hard to say even to myself let alone to anyone else.  Some of you may have seen online or heard if you know me personally that I've been going through a rough patch personally and finding a lot of stuff hard.  I think I've hit the turning point (at least I hope I have) and ready to make positive changes in my life.

I'm not giving up the blog before you all ask but may take a little break from doing regular posts and just posting as and when.  

I've been suffering quite badly with anxiety and panic attacks and trying to not only cope with them but work out in my head the source of them all and what triggered them in the first place.   I think i have and with help from my GP, family, loved ones and employers and i'm hoping i can start making the right move into getting back to being Laura, a new improved better one that isn't stuck in a cycle and ignoring her problems.

I want to thank those that have been a massive support so far and for everyone that is being so understanding.  Half the battle is dealing with each day and everyone else has made it that bit smoother for me.  

I hate this anxiety and what it to fuck right off so I can deal with the stuff in my head.  

The real deal is that I have to start thinking about me more and being selfish.  I have to think about what makes me happy, what I want for myself in the future and the now and don't hold back.  Holding back is all I've ever done and it's got me in this mess.

I've got plans and some won't surprise you but some may do but I think they are worth doing.  I need to start liking myself, having faith in myself and believing what other people say to me.  Give myself credit when I do good and be brave enough to stand up for myself too.  

This post is very hard to write and I've been a sobbing mess on and off for the last few days and don't think my tear ducks have ever worked so hard.

I love me.  I want me to be happy whatever way I choose to find that and I want to start as soon as possible

Sorry for the "heavy" post but I kind of needed to do this for me.

Laura

xoxo

Giveaway Winner: Jana Oliver Demon Trappers Prize!

Announcing the winner of the fab Jana Oliver contest to win ANY one of the Demon Trappers books: 

The Winner is

*drum roll*

Gillian Holmes

HURRAY! CONGRATS!

The Winner has been contacted and has 7 days to reply with details so the prize can be arranged or else a new winner will be drawn.

:)

Review: Torn by David Massey

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Afghanistan. In the heat and dust, young British army medic Elinor Nielson watches an Afghan girl walk into a hail of bullets. But when she runs to help, Ellie finds her gone. Who is she? And what's happened to her? What Ellie discovers makes her question everything she believes in, even her feelings for the American lieutenant who takes her side.

Review

War is one of those awful things in life that no one wants to have be part of or stuck in the middle of but when you've been trained and sent off to fight in a war then you have to deal with the horrors that no one should have to witness.  Elinor Nielson is a British medic that is stationed in Afghanistan after the last medic left and she is very much a girl stuck amongst the lads.  There are  other female soldiers but she's an outsider and is trying to fit into their set up without causing too much trouble for herself and the regiment.  Sent on a mission along with American soldiers Ellie finds herself bonding with one of the lieutenants and yet also drawn to find answers for the mission they've been dispatched to investigate.  It's more than her heart at stake but the lives of other soldiers and the Afghan civilians and children she bonds with as she understands why she's there.

David Massey has written Torn as a wonderful salute to those in the military and the harshness of war from all points of view.  It's not just the lives of those fighting at risk but those left behind still fighting, the loved ones back home and the people caught between the cross fire much like Husna, the young boy who's been forced to use guns to defend himself against anyone, friend or foe.

I found Torn to be brutally honest in so many ways that it was hard to tear myself away from the book. I was reading while I should have been working and sneaking it into the bath room at work to read just a few more pages.  It never felt like Massey was taking sides with either the troops or the civilians but merely painting a picture of what war does to people.  It brings them together and tears them apart at the same time.  I think that is the real beauty in the book; it never felt like I was being preached to but just shown that war basically sucks and there are no winners in the end just various degrees of victims.  All the soldiers from Heidi, the senior officer with a grudge, to Chip and Gizmo that are almost like big brothers to Ellie are all individual characters you want to know more about and see what really makes them tick.  There's stories in all of them but we are just seeing into this small moment of their lives.

Plus major hats off and delighted grins from this blogger because Torn references My Chemical Romance (my favourite band ever) not once but twice in the book.  That probably won't convince you all to read it but you really should.  That was just a happy bonus for myself.

Rating: 8/10

Published by Chicken House and is available here and book shops now

50 Shades of....oh never mind.....

Unless you've been living under a rock for this year then you'll know all about 50 Shades of Grey.  You don't even have to have read the books to know what it's about.  Anyone who has read them will tell you about them.  I was on holiday not long ago and watched a woman on the plane in the seat next to met read nearly the whole book on the flight and then 2 of the air hostess have a copy to read while on their breaks.  The books are everywhere and you can't have a day go by in London without seeing someone on public transport or the office with a copy of one of the books from the trilogy.  I have not read this book.  I don't plan to either.....not that I have issues with the content but have heard from many friends and family that it isn't exactly the best written book and I'm being selfish with my reading......I don't have time to read books I've been told aren't well written.  Maybe one day but not right now.

It's even now officially the biggest selling book of all time.  For serious.  Smut sells.

However it's not a new idea and thus the reason for my blog post.  I wanna tell you about the fact that 50 Shades isn't anything that new really.  When I was about 15 my friends and I had a secret book group at school.  It was the Secret Sidney Sheldon Book Club.  I was given one to read by my mum (which is so weird considering the sex talk and description in it) and then lent it to a friend and then we were all hooked.  We'd be found all reading copies before class and passing battered copies under the desk before lessons started.  We couldn't believe people wrote stuff like that.  It was addictive thriller/mystery type adventures with female Main Characters and there was ACTUAL sex in them.  (Side note: I went to an all girls school so we had limited daily interaction with boys so these books were like gold dust)

I noticed one of my lovely blogger tweeters mentioning Sidney Sheldon last week and it was a major flashback and then something happened.  Other bloggers and authors started replying back and forth with us all with their own '50 Shades' type books.  It seems this isn't a new thing but maybe 50 Shades of Gray have just hit new heights compared to the the Jackie Collins and Sidney Sheldon books because of the kinkier nature to them.  I don't know but even though I still refuse to read 50 Shades I can completely understand the addictive nature of them and why EVERYONE seems to be reading them.  It's easy access taboo and smut and it's selling books in stores.

I don't really know where this post is going or what I'm trying to say really but it just made me smile remembering that even though everyone seems to be balled over by this new book series it's just THIS generation's lady smut (thanks to Keris for that term).  

Fingers crossed it makes more people read ALL kinda books and helps the publishing industry grow and grow too

Letterbox Love [14]

Letterbox Love is a weekly feature hosted by Lynsey on Narratively Speaking inspired by Alea at Pop Culture Junkie

It came out of a group discussion on twitter for the desire and need for a UK feature to share our weekly grabs, buys and haul of a bookish nature as well as any other goodies we care to share.

Received

Sorry for the naff photo!

Arabesque by Colin Mulhern

The True Adventures of The Rolling Stones By Stanley Booth

Happy Reading

xoxo

Foretold by Jana Oliver Book Snippet + INTERNATIONAL GIVEAWAY!

As an extra bonus today as part of the Foretold blog tour I have a snippet of the book just to tease you to go out and buy it asap.

After the events in South Georgia, Riley returns to Atlanta and the classroom.

FORETOLD

Jana Oliver

The old Starbucks’ parking lot was nearly full up by the time Riley pulled in and, to her relief, she was a few minutes early despite all her fretting about being late. Harper had been right – finding a Klepto-Fiend in the middle of a peach producers’ convention had been anything but a slam dunk. Three hours in she’d finally caught the little fiend as it’d slowed down long enough to collect some glittering peach pins at one of the producer’s booths. On the plus side she’d scored four jars of peach preserves. Those would be yummy on Mrs Ayers’s homemade scones.

Peter sauntered over the moment she exited her car. 

‘The wandering Riley returns,’ he said. ‘And look, no gator bites, either.’

A magnificent bruise encircled his left eye, shading from brown to green. 

‘Peter! What happened?’ she demanded.

‘Your stalkery ex said something I didn’t like and I told him to jam his head up his butt. It didn’t end well.’

‘Alan? I warned you he’d get even,’ she said. ‘Why didn’t you tell me about this?’

‘You had enough going on down south – you didn’t need to know about my problems.’

Getting in Alan’s face felt like a plan right now. He couldn’t hit her best friend and not incur her wrath. Riley’s eyes swept the various knots of students as they clustered around talking or texting before class began.

‘So where is the jerk?’ she asked.

‘He’s suspended until Thursday. I only got a warning.’

There was only one reason Peter might receive that.

‘You hit him back?’

‘Sure did,’ he said, holding up his skinned knuckles as evidence. ‘My dad gave me props once he heard what happened. He said he was proud of me, but it had to be top secret so Mom doesn’t come unstuck.’ He waggled an eyebrow. ‘Simi thinks I’m cool because of it.’

‘She’s just jealous of your hair,’ Riley replied, pleased her barista friend had finally begun to take Peter’s interest seriously.

‘Maybe, but she thinks I’m so cool we’re going to the dance together.’

That works. Simi would encourage his wilder side while he mellowed her out. Then the other part of his statement registered.

‘What dance?’ Riley asked, hefting her backpack on a sore shoulder. Her muscles still felt as if someone had stomped them into a pulp.

‘It’s the annual citywide “dress like an adult” thing. It’s this Saturday.’ Peter fell in step next to her as they walked towards the building.

‘You mean the prom?’ Of course he did.

With the school system bankrupt, the dances were sponsored by local businesses. To accommodate all the kids in the city, there were a series of proms and it appeared theirs was going to be way early this year.

A pang of envy shot through her. She would have loved to go, but . . .

‘You guys have fun.’ She would probably be trapping smelly demons in a MARTA station or in the bowels of Demon Central.

‘You can come, you know,’ Peter suggested. ‘I’m sure I could spare a dance for you.’

‘No. It’s . . . It wouldn’t feel right.’

‘So ask Beck to the dance.’

‘What?’ she sputtered. ‘No. Not happening.’

‘Ah, I got it. You’re chicken. You’ll take on a horde of demons, but when it comes to the one guy you’re really hot for—’

Riley glowered at him. ‘Don’t. Go. There. The subject is closed, Mr King.’

Peter raised his hands in surrender. ‘Whoa, you are grouchy. I was looking forward to seeing you . . . why?’

‘You don’t understand. It’s complicated with me and Beck.’

‘Buzzz!’ he said. ‘It’s totally simple: You guys have to stop being idiots. You’re driving each other crazy along with the rest of us.’

FORETOLD © 2012 – Jana Oliver (Macmillan Children’s Books)

INTERNATIONAL GIVEAWAY!!!

On offer is any one of the books from the Demon Trappers series as either an Ebook or physical copy!

A-MAZING!

So if you've yet to start this fab series you can request Book One (Forsaken) or if you're dying to read the final tale ask for Book Four (Foretold)

Dark Minds Blog will also be hosting a giveaway of the WHOLE Demon Trappers book set and some ace swag so you'll wanna enter that too!

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Review: Foretold by Jana Oliver

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Stand by as Riley prepares to kick some serious demon butt for the last time in this thrilling, dramatic and sexy conclusion toThe Demon Trappers series.

Riley’s always known that Beck had a chequered history, but she’s not prepared for what it actually means to be in love with a guy with this many dark secrets. Now that he’s finally admitted to himself that he’s in love with her too, there’s no more hiding the truth about his past. And as it turns out, fending off a demon apocalypse is nothing compared to what’s to come...

Review

WARNING: This is the 4th and final book in the series so WILL have spoilers for the previous books in the series but quite frankly you just HAVE to read 'em.

So I want to be a Demon Trapper.  That's a fact plain and simple.  Since reading the first book in the series Forsaken I've just been in love with these books, the characters, the way Jana writes and the idea of demon trappers.  Jana Olive made this supernatural world dark and dirty and as weird as it may sound; believable.  So now that I have to say goodbye to all that it's with a bittersweet mixed emotion that I picked up Foretold.  Knowing I'd be not only enjoying a book by one of my favourite authors but having to let go of the world of Demons and Riley Blackthorne.

Riley and Beck have reached a point where their lives a mess and that's not just their emotional lives but the world of Trappers is having to try and rebuild after the world nearly ended and now Riley is Marked.  She sold her soul to save the world but the fine print appears to have far more loop holes and issues in it that she didn't realise.  All she wants is a bit of normal but there's no way she's going to get that any time soon as the world seems to be going to pot still.  However this book is less about Riley and her woes but about Beck as well as Riley and Beck's relationship (of sorts).  Beck has always been a man with a mysterious past that haunts him and makes his life choices far more interesting then one would expect.  Foretold reveals so much about the core of Beck, his strained relationship with his dying mother, the town he left behind and why it's so hard for him to really be with Riley the way she'd like.

They have such an amazing bond that can only be built by fighting for each other; almost like brothers in arms but with the added element of their hearts telling them to be together.  I was BEGGING for their hearts to win out!

Jana Oliver doesn't give her readers a "filler" type of story or plot just for the sake of ending the series. No. Jana has build a big ARC even from the very start and all the threads come together nicely and in a fitting way the made me feel like a very happy fangirl.  My only irk (which is probably a minor one and just personal to me) but in the book there is sex and it's not the sex itself but the fact it is referred to as 'the loving'.  I'm just not overly romantic I guess and it gave me the shivers (not good ones).

The Demon Trappers series are fantastic and Foretold gave me exactly what I wanted and what I needed in the closing of the world of Riley.  I bid them a fond and sad farewell.

Rating: 9/10

Published by Macmillan Children's Books and is available now from here and bookshops now

Foretold Blog Tour: A Quick Q+A with Riley and Beck

Today I have a mini Question and Answer session with the 2 main characters from Jana Oliver's fab books from the Demon Trappers series, Riley and Beck.  I adore these books with a scary amount of passion and the last in the series Foretold is out now! eeeeeeep!

Foretold

Stand by as Riley Blackthorne prepares to kick some serious demon butt for the last time in this thrilling, dramatic and sexy conclusion to THE DEMON TRAPPERS series. Riley's always known that Denver Beck had a chequered history, but she's not prepared for what it actually means to be in love with a guy with this many dark secrets. Now that he's finally admitted to himself that he's in love with her too, there's no more hiding the truth about his past. And as it turns out, fending off a demon apocalypse is nothing compared to what's to come. . .

Sisterspooky: Do you ever wish you weren't a Demon Trapper?

Riley: About a thousand times a day, I think. Well, maybe not that much but there are times when I really wish I could do something else that didn’t involve getting bruised, bitten, peed on or cursed at. 

S: What's an average demon trapping day like for you?

R: It’s never the same. One day I might be hunting a Grade Three demon with Beck or one of the other trappers, the next I’m on my own trying to catch a Klepto-Fiend. Every day is different and I think that’s good. If not, the job would be boring.

S: What do you think are key items to have for any trapper?

R: An endless supply of secondhand clothes. Really, I’m not kidding. I have trashed out so many jackets and pairs of blue jeans in the last few months. 

S: Any advice to other hopeful female demon trappers out there?

R: I think I would say, “You want to do this, why?” I know, that’s not fair since I’m a trapper and it’ll just sound like I’m trying to remain that one special snowflake or something. But really, who wants a dirty job like this? But if you do, you’d better have a good sense of humor because this job will get to you if you don’t. Oh, and if you think you can look hot trapping, you’re doing it wrong.

Sisterspooky: Is Demon Trapping a career move you'd recommend to other ex military like yourself?

Beck: Maybe. It’s a rough life, but those who’ve served know what that’s like. Ya can make a decent livin’ if ya work hard. It’s honorable work and often that’s the best ya can do.

S: What's you favourite part of the Demon trapping life you lead?

B: The feelin’ that I’m doin’ some good in this world. I like most of the trappers I work with. They’re decent folks. We can joke with each other, but when the sh*t gets serious, I know they’re watchin’ my back.

S: Can you remove your shirt for me.....for research purposes of course

B: Ya know, that’s kinda forward, but ya did ask all polite like. Most girls don’t like all the scars, though, so ya’ve been warned. ::strips off shirt and then flexes muscles:: How’s that?

S: *swoons* 

Thanks so much to Jana (and Riley and Beck of course) for answering my questions, Macmillan for sending my review copy of Foretold (up later today) and Dark Minds Blog Tours for giving me the chance to be on this tour :)  Also keep your eyes peeled on Mind Readers blog for an exclusive chat with Jana, Riley and Beck that will discuss all the in's and out's of all the Demon Trappers Books!!

Foretold is out now and is the 4th and final book in the Demon Trappers series by Jana Oliver

For more on the series and Jana check out these nifty links!

Where to purchase Foretold:

Amazon UK

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Jana Oliver

Jana Oliver loves to tell stories for both adults and teens. Her young adult Demon Trappers Series (St. Martin’s Griffin) is set in a dystopian 2018 Atlanta populated by Hellspawn, Deaders and scheming necromancers. The award-winning series is published internationally with editions in eight countries, including the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, France and Poland. Jana’s foray into time travel and alternate history resulted in the multi-award winning Time Rovers Series (Dragon Moon Press). The series won twelve awards, including the Daphne du Maurier for Excellence in Mystery and Suspense, the Prism Award for Time Travel and ForeWord Magazine’s Editor’s Choice for Fiction.

Where to find Jana:

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Book Trailer: The Forsaken by Lisa Stasse

I got an email a little while ago that was lost in my junk folder for some silly reason but I'm glad I found it because it was from a lovely author called Lisa M. Stasse to tell me about the book trailer for her new book The Forsaken

Have a gander

Looks SO good.  It's out now and you can get it from here or book sellers RIGHT NOW!

It's got that LOST meets Hunger Games vibe about it with a bit of 1984 sprinkled on top.  Sounds very good

Check out more about The Forsaken and Lisa at all these lovely links

Lisa's Twitter
Lisa's Website
Goodreads
The Forsaken Facebook page