Check out the book cover and trailer reveal for Tialla Rising's upcoming release, Where Shadows Lie , and continue below to enter the giveaway!  Release date: June 2015 Synopsis via Goodreads : His dark past haunts him. His new life taunts him. After twenty years in the gangs and a hefty prison sentence, an early release gives Shawn the opportunity to turn his life around. But that isn’t so easy when gangs are involved. Only a year into his fresh start, the gang catches on and makes Shawn’s life miserable. After all, once a gang member, always a gang member. His very blood belongs to them. Threats become promises. Whispers become actions. Words become bullets. He must fight – not only for his life, but to save his honor, prove his integrity, and protect the woman he loves. An ember of hope glows in the darkness, strengthening his resolve. Will her support and his determination be enough to dispel the shadows of his past? A story of discovery and ...

Today's book review is part of the ARC Tours on International Book Tour and today's book is one that felt like it took forever to arrive and we thought that we may never see it again. Review: XVI - Julia Karr - January 2011 Set in the future , in Nina's world - girls when they reach sixteen it should be called sex-teen as that is when they are forced to lose their innocence and purity. When the girls turn sixteen , they each receive a tattoo on their wrists "XVI". This indicates that the girl has turned sixteen and so to speak becomes ripe for the picking. The girls are then enrolled in a government programme called the FeLS - an organisation that enrols girls and virgins when they reach sixteen - the only way to ensure that you don't have to go is to buy out your contract. That is what Nina's mum Ginnie has done as she doesn't want her daughters to go through this horrible nature and time. When Nina's mum is killed , Nina believes that their...

Today's Book is Book #2 of the series Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins, Readers for a link to the review of Book #1 Hex Hall http://thephantomparagrapher.blogspot.com/2010/07/hex-hall-rachel-hawkins.html Synopsis  : Demonglass - Book #2 Hex Hall - Rachel Hawkins - March 2011 Sophie Mercer thought she was a witch. That was the whole reason she was sent to Hex Hall, a reform school for delinquent Prodigium (aka witches, shapeshifters, and fairies). But that was before she discovered the family secret, and that her hot crush, Archer Cross, is an agent for The Eye, a group bent on wiping Prodigium off the face of the earth. Turns out, Sophie’s a demon, one of only two in the world—the other being her father. What’s worse, she has powers that threaten the lives of everyone she loves. Which is precisely why Sophie decides she must go to London for the Removal, a dangerous procedure that will destroy her powers. But once Sophie arrives she makes a shocking discovery. Her new friends?...

Today's Book is part of the ARC Tour : Fallen Angel hosted by International Book Tours on www.internationalbooktours.blogspot.com . It is such an awesome way to network with others and recieve books that you might not have had a chance to read, the only requirements is that you are happy to post overseas and that you must read and review the book within seven days. If you are a reader like me, then you'd be anxious to read it upon arrival :) Today's book also falls into the category of Paranormal Romance so I can add it to my challenge list. Review: Fallen Angel - Heather Terrell - January 2011 When I received the book "Fallen Angel”, at first I was not sure what to expect really as was this just another average fallen angel story or did it have that extra little oomph to it . It turned out to be in the middle as I started reading it, it drew me in as in the first few chapters we were shown Ellie's aka Ellspeth's powers of vision with touch. This is wh...

I love these International Book Tours as they give you the chance to read and review books -ones that you may or may not have had a chance to read and review. Review : Angelfire - Courtney Allison Moulton - 2011 Angelfire is a new novel featuring the  epic battle of good and evil with angels , demons, reapers and Enshi's as well as of course Mortals. Angelfire is the first in what is going to as long as the authors keeps the same writing style or as she goes along only keeps getting better and better. Angelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton features Ellie , your average 16yr old girl .Unfortunately Ellie who has been plagued by nightmares since she was little is about to realise that she is anything but normal and once she acknowledges who she really is, all that she has lived for these past 16years will be irrelevant on her 17th Birthday. Ellie is in fact "The Preliator" and has been around for centuries , in fact she is reincarnated every 18years. Unfortunately Elli...