Sunday Post & Stacking the Shelves #10

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted by Kimba the Caffeinated Book Reviewer~ It's a chance to share news~ A post to recap the past week on your blog, and share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead.

Hello everyone! Hope everyone had a great week and for all my fellow Americans, I hope you had a great 4 of July!

So here's this week's recap:

Blood Flows Deep in the Empire Blog Tour-There's a review & excerpt!!

Waiting on Wednesday #8-It was a split second decision to make Split Second my WoW.

Rush by Eve Silver- Check out my 5 out of 5 star review!!

New Releases (Week of 7/7/2013)-What new releases are you excited about?

Forever Mine FREE on Amazon-Get the deal before it's gone!!

Upcoming:

Blog Tour of Stripped

Blog Tour of Branded

Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks! Visit Tynga's Reviews to learn more about this weekly meme.

Purchased:

        

• Black City by Elizabeth Richards
• Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer Volume 1 by Joss Whedon

Won:

              

• Unbreakable Love  by Angela Carling
• The Temptation by Alisa Valdes
• Open Minds by Susan Kaye Quinn

Thanks to Tiffany @ Tiffany Loves Books! I have more books that I won from her but I still have yet to venture through the box that far.

From the Library:

    

• Dare You To by Katie McGarry
• One Night That Changes Everything by Lauren Barnholdt

I've read both these books so look for reviews sometime this week!!

Well that's it for this week! What new books have you guys required. Any good recommendations???

Forever Mine by Elizabeth Reyes FREE on Amazon!

Hello everyone! I just wanted to let you know that Forever Mine by Elizabeth Reyes is FREE on Amazon & Smashwords at the moment. This book is amazing and is one of my favorites.

This book is 5 star amazing and I know that many people love her books. 

Here's the synopsis:

"Seventeen-year old Sarah’s life is turned upside down when her single mom is sent to jail. She’s forced to move, leaving behind everything she’s ever known, including her best friend Sydney. Lost and bitter in a new school, her one goal is to save money and move back home. Then she meets Angel Moreno.

Enigmatic but gorgeous, Angel is almost too good to be true. Except for one thing, his archaic belief that guys and girls can never be “just friends”. The problem? Sarah’s best friend Sydney is not a girl.

With their unexpected romance intensifying to places neither ever experienced, how long can Sarah keep Angel in the dark about the guy waiting for her back home?"

Here's the links:

Amazon  l  Smashwords

Here's an excerpt just to make sure I have you guys convinced!
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Excerpt
"He walked around behind her, and moved in closer. She smelled heavenly, a soft delicate fragrance. Not overpowering, like some of the girls he'd hugged earlier.


He wanted to put his arm around her waist, and pull her up against him. Instead, he leaned over and talked in her ear. “Hey, you made it.”

She spun around, nearly losing her drink. Her expression went immediately from startled to pleased. “Yeah, they cancelled.” 

Angel couldn’t get over how amazing she looked. If he gazed at her all night, it wouldn’t be long enough. “I almost didn’t recognize you with your hair down,” His eyes took it all in.

She nodded. “Yeah, it’s too long, especially when I’m running. It gets all over my face.” 

Angel wanted it all over his face. “It’s beautiful though, you should wear it like that at school.” 

She hesitated for a second. “Thank you.” He noticed she avoided his eyes again.

He didn’t want to, but he decided it would be better to change the subject before she got uncomfortable and made an exit. He had no intentions of letting her run away again. Not this time. He glanced at her cup. “What are you drinking?"

She smiled timidly. “Wine.” 

“Wine?” 

She laughed. “Why does everybody say it like that?” 

Her smile somehow had a calming effect on him. “Out of a cup though? You can’t drink it straight out of the bottle?” 

“It’s not a cooler.” Her expression challenged him. “It’s the good stuff.”

She turned to her friend, and then glanced into her cup. It was almost empty. “As a matter of fact,” she said, “I need more.”

She bent over to a medium sized ice chest and pulled out a small jug of wine. 

“Nooo,” Angel put his hand over his mouth in disbelief. “Oh, you’re sick. You come to a party with a jug of wine in an ice chest?”

She laughed even more now. Her friend laughed with her. Sarah caressed the jug lovingly. “How else am I supposed to keep my little Precious cold?” 

Her demeanor was refreshing, especially since she had seemed so apprehensive at school. Maybe it was the wine. Whatever it was, he loved it. He watched as she poured the wine in her cup, noticing how little she poured in before stopping. She put the jug back in the ice chest and pointed at her friend. “She brings one too.” 

Her friend opened her mouth wide, as if Sarah had just snitched on her. Angel raised his eyebrows in exaggerated disbelief. “You too? But you’re drinking beer, you don‘t need an ice chest.” 

Her friend smiled and tapped her bottle. “I can’t drink beer unless it’s ice cold.” 

“By the way, Angel, this is my cousin, Valerie,” Sarah said.

Angel nodded. “Yeah, I know Valerie.” 

He saw Valerie’s eyes widened slightly in surprise. 

“Sure,” he acknowledged her surprise. Glad that Sarah had said her name. That, he would’ve never remembered. 

“So, why don’t you just put your drinks in the same ice chest?” 

Valerie rolled her eyes at Sarah. “Sarah doesn’t like her Precious to be disturbed.” 

“She’s very fragile,” Sarah held her cup close to her.

Angel nodded, and then put his hand up. “It’s a she? Okay, well, now that makes sense.” 

Sarah smiled, as she took another quick sip of her wine. Valerie got pulled away by another girl. 

Angel took his last swig of beer and threw the empty bottle in a trash can near by. 

“Are you out?” Sarah asked. 

“Yeah, that was my last one.”

“Well, here,” Sarah bent over to Valerie’s ice chest. She giggled pretending to be sneaky, “let’s steal one of Valerie’s.” 

Angel turned to see if Valerie was watching. “No, it’s cool. I don’t wanna take her beer.” 

Sarah shook her head. “She’s not gonna finish all this. She never does, and then we’re gonna end up throwing it out later tonight.”

“Throw out beer? Are you nuts?”

“Well, we can’t take it home, my aunt would kill us.” 

“Oh, well, in that case, let me help the cause,” He held out his hand. 

Her finger brushed his hand as she passed him the bottle. That’s all it took to ignite him. His hand trembled, as he took a swig of his beer. He watched her the whole time. Her eyes were so big, her lashes so dark and heavy; everything seemed to slow down when she blinked. His insides smoldered and he gulped his beer hard. 

“So, are you here alone?” She asked.

He looked around. He had to; if he stared at her any longer he was afraid he’d freak her out. 

“Nah, my friends are here somewhere, we just got split up.” He turned back to her. “How ‘bout you? Is it just you and Valerie tonight?” 

She sipped on her wine again. “Yeah, well, I came here with just Val, but we’re supposed to meet up with friends later.”

Angel took another swig of his beer and looked around casually, “Guys?”

“No. Some of her girlfriends; they’re not here yet though. That’s why I’m here. I really don’t like these kinds of parties, but none of her friends could get here until later, so she talked me into coming with her.” 

Angel smiled, gazing in her eyes. “I’ll have to thank her later for that. So, where do you like to go?” 

She held his gaze for a moment and then smiled, making Angel’s legs weak. “I love the beach,” She sighed. “I just moved out here a few months ago, from Arizona, so the beach is new to me. I could spend every night there watching the sunset. I mean, don’t get me wrong, the sunsets in Arizona are just as beautiful. It’s just the newness of the cool salty air, and watching while listening to wave’s crash, and the birds…quack?”

Angel was puzzled. “Quack?”

She burst into laughter. “Squawk? You know what I mean!”

“God, you were doing so well,” he teased, pretending to gaze out into the sky. “I mean, I could almost hear the waves crashing and everything.” 

Sarah continued to laugh. Angel wondered if she was getting tipsy but he continued to tease her. He loved hearing her laugh. “I mean peep would’ve been closer, but quack? Really?”

Sarah’s hand was over her mouth, but there was no muffling her laughter. “I got the point across, didn’t I?”

“I’m just saying. The wind was blowing in my hair and everything, look.” He pretended to hold his hair down.

“Stop!” she squealed. 

He couldn’t help laughing with her. It was such a cute laugh and so contagious. She was refreshing. It wasn’t just that she was enjoying his jokes, but that she didn’t mind laughing at herself. So many other girls would’ve been too busy trying to be seductive. She didn’t even have to try. He could tell being seductive was the last thing on her mind. 

She wiped the corners of her eyes. She’d literally laughed that hard. “Is my mascara all messed up?” She opened her eyes wide.

He stepped forward to get a better look. Her makeup had smeared slightly on the bottom corner of her right eye. “Hold still,” he moved closer to her. 

He wiped the bottom of her eye very slowly and gently with his pinky. He was so close to her face, he could smell the wine on her breath. She held her cup right in front of her, and he felt her tense up when his body touched her hand. He examined her other eye.

“Your eyes are amazing,” he said without moving back.

She held his gaze for just a second, and then backed up slightly. “Thanks.” "

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New Releases (Week of 7/7/13)

Hello everyone! Hope everyone is having a great week. This week I have 3 new releases!

The first one is Catching Liam by Sophia Bleu!

Release Date: July 8, 2013
Publisher: Self-published
Number of Pages: Kindle edition

Synopsis:

"Twenty-one year-old Jillian Nichols only has one rule when it comes to boys: catch and release. Boy-catching isn't just a game for Jillian and her friends, it's a lifestyle. After all, boys might be good for a dance or a drink and certainly a little under-cover action of the scandalous variety, but expect much else and you're bound for heart ache.

So when her best friends and fellow boy catchers start dropping like flies junior year, Jillian is determined to keep boys in her bedroom and out of her heart. Until she meets Liam McAvoy, the kind of guy that sticks around to make waffles and who can't—or perhaps won't—take a hint. 

Study abroad student Liam doesn't want to be another notch on Jillian's bedpost. Actually he has much more interesting ideas for Jillian and her bedposts, but his student visa's set expiration date means he can't promise her forever. That doesn't mean he's going to walk away from the challenge of discovering why Jillian is hell-bent at keeping people at a distance. 

Before long, neither is sure who is catching who—or if they're playing for keeps. Jillian knows one thing though: falling in love will not only break the only rule of boy-catching, it could also break her heart."

The next one coming out is Right of Way by Lauren Barnholdt.

Release Date: July 9, 2013
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Number of Pages: 320

Synopsis:

"Can a road trip repair a romance gone wrong? Find out in this standalone companion to Lauren Barnholdt’s Two-way Street.

Here are Peyton and Jace, meeting on vacation. Click! It’s awesome, it’s easy, it’s romantic. This is the real deal.

Unless it isn’t. Because when you’re in love, you don’t just stop calling one day. And you don’t keep secrets. Or lie. And when your life starts falling apart, you’re supposed to have the other person to lean on.

Here are Peyton and Jace again, broken up but thrown together on a road trip. One of them is lying about the destination. One of them is pretending not to be leaving something behind. And neither of them is prepared for what’s coming on the road ahead…"

The last book coming out this week is one that a lot of people are waiting for. It is Shadow of the Mark by Leigh Fallon.

Release Date: July 9, 2013

Publisher: Harper Teen

Number of Pages: 352

Synopsis:

"Leigh Fallon’s Shadow of the Mark, the sequel to Carrier of the Mark, is a captivating love story set against the lush backdrop of Ireland.

 
Megan knew she was destined to be with Adam from the first moment she saw him and now they are determined to be together. But Megan and Adam are Marked Ones, and a romance between two Marked Ones is strictly forbidden…and could cause worldwide devastation."

What new releases are you excited for the week?