Blogtour: Becoming Bryn by Angela Carling [Guest Post & Giveaway]

Guest Post from Angela

I’m so excited to be here today to celebrate the launch of my third stand alone novel, BECOMING BRYN! especially want to thank Erin for letting me steal a little screen time on her blog. Here’s the blurb you’ll find on the back of the book.
For months, Jesse has been envious of her twin sister Bryn and even has a crush on Bryn’s gorgeous, popular boyfriend, Quinton. When Jesse awakens from a coma to learn that everyone thinks she is Bryn, the option of actually taking over her sister’s life is beyond tempting, but there’s a downside. She’d have to give up Ethan, her best friend and the only person she trusts. Could she actually live as Bryn for the rest of her life? And if her family and friends found out, would they ever forgive her?

When I was putting together this post, I wanted to come up with a fun way to introduce the characters of BECOMING BRYN and tell you a little about their personalities and plights. To do this I created a mock “voted most likely to” yearbook page to let you see a character from the Hunger Games (one of my favorite books) side by side with characters from Becoming Bryn. Enjoy!!

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you enjoy meeting the main characters of Becoming Bryn! I’d love to connect again. 

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Twitter @angelacarling

BYE FOR NOW :)

Giveaway

To enter to win a copy of Becoming Bryn- simply leave a comment below, along with a way to contact you if you win!

Simples!

Fever by Dee Shulman (Parallon Trilogy #1)

• Received for review
• Paperback: 416 pages
• Publisher: Penguin (5 April 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0141340266
• ISBN-13: 978-0141340265
• A fearless Roman gladiator. A reckless 21st century girl. A mysterious virus unites them . . .
  
  152 AD. Sethos Leontis, a skilled and mesmerising fighter, is unexpectedly wounded and lies dangerously close to death.
  
  2012 AD. Eva is brilliant - but troubled. Starting her new life at a school for the gifted, a single moment in the lab has terrifying results.
  
  An extraordinary link brings Sethos and Eva together, but it could force them apart - because the fever that grips them cannot be cured and falling in love could be lethal . . . Can love survive when worlds collide and threaten time itself?
• Cover:  This cover is far more effective in person.  It's really bright and vibrant, and I love it.
• The concept of this one really drew me in.  I loved the idea that a Roman Gladiator and a modern school girl, millennia apart, somehow being connected by a mysterious virus.
• I loved that we had both Seth and Eva's points of view.
• The story was unique and I was definitely intrigued to see how the two seemingly separate stories would start to entwine.
• I did have a couple of issues with this one.
• Eva's supposed perfection- beauty, brains, talent.  'Too' well rounded.  Guys falls at her feet without the least provocation.  In this respect I couldn't help but compare Eva to Bella Swan.
• Another issue I had was the 'insta-love' element between Seth and Livia (yeah Livia) he's besotted without even really talking to her, let alone knowing her.  It just screamed unbelievable.
• However I still really enjoyed reading it, and while these things were slightly irritating, they didn't mar the overall enjoyment of the book.
• It was frustrating that the mysterious virus and fever or Parallon was never explained.  I'm hoping that it will be in the next book, that I will definitely be reading.
• 3.5/5 stars.
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The Book Burger TAG

Booking Through Thursday

Booking Through Thursday is a weekly meme hosted by Booking Through Thursday and a different question is posted every week.

My best friend is moving across country, heading back to the East Coast for the first time after years of living in California, and one of the things she’s lamented was the whole packing-the-books thing. Having moved a few years ago myself (whittling down my 3000-volume library to 2000-volumes and still ending up with something like 50 boxes of books), I sympathize.

So … the question is–what kind of moving experiences have you had with your books? (Or, just in general if you’ve got good Moving Day stories–and who doesn’t?) Did having to pack and move your books cause any changes in your book-collecting habits? Make you wish you had everything on an e-reader? Feel free to discuss! (grin)

I haven't moved for a while, about 9 years now.  And while I've always been a reader, the last time I moved I didn't have anywhere near as many books as I do now.  Before I had one shelf.  I now have five.

I don't remember it being an issue, just managed to pack up like everything else.

But now it would be a nightmare!  I think I'll need a moving van JUST for the books.

As much as I love my Kindle, and it obviously helps with storage, but I just love the physical books more.

On My Kindle #20

Instead of cluttering up my Book Haul/IMM's with books for my Kindle, I've decided to do a separate post,  hosted by Totally Bookalicious.





 

Darkness Falls by Cate Tiernan

Received for review

Paperback: 416 pages

• Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks (13 Sep 2012)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1444707027
• ISBN-13: 978-1444707021
• You can run from your past, but it will always catch up.
  
  Nastasya has lived for hundreds of years, but for some reason it never seems to get any easier. She’s left behind her days of debauchery to find peace and forgiveness at River’s Edge, a safe haven for wayward immortals. There she’s uncovered her family’s epic history, reclaimed her magickal powers, and met Reyn, whom she dubs “the Viking god.” Just as she settles into her new life, Nastasya learns that her old friends might be in town....
  
  Reuniting with her gorgeous and dangerous ex-best-friend, Innocencio, Nas wonders if she’ll ever be truly free of her dark legacy. Is Incy dangerous, power-hungry, and wicked? Or is he the only one who truly understands Nas’s darkness? Either way, Nas is desperate to find out who she really is-even if the answer kills her.
• Cover: I don't hate this cover, but I prefer the style of the original cover design for this series.  I'm not a big fan of facial close ups on book covers.

After finishing book 1 and absolutely loving it, I wanted to delve into book 2 straight away.

It starts up where Immortal Beloved left off, and I loved it just as much.  There were a couple of times in the second half of the book where I wanted to reach through the pages and throttle Nastasya, thinking WHAT ON EARTH IS SHE DOING?!?!  For someone over 450 years old, she was incredibly naive.

But I was hooked, seeing her struggle with her family legacy, her choices and her feelings for Reyn.

These books are totally captivating and engrossing.  Especially as we get to see more and more of Nastasya's past, and discover more about the other Immortals at River's Edge, including River herself.

I'm looking forward to getting to book 3.  I highly recommend this series.

5/5 stars.

Summer Reading TAG