Cover Reveal: Shadow Embraced by Cheree Smith

Posted on April 15, 2013 by Emma

Check out the gorgeous cover for Cheree Smith’s upcoming release. Shadow Embraced is the first in the Haven series. Silvia from Dark World Books designed it, and I love it. The red just pops. Scar’s fashion style is very cool, and I want that necklace!

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No escape.

Those words haunt Scar’s dreams. She thinks the creature that terrorises her while asleep isn’t real, but when she’s abducted and taken to a reform school meant to contain creatures too dangerous to function in society, she starts to wonder whether she isn’t some monster.

She turns to an underground fight club full of vampires, werewolves and witches established by the students to control her urges, and who is she kidding, she loves to fight.

When fighters begin to disappear, turning Scar into the prime suspect, she must race to prove her innocence before her true nature is exposed.

The only problem is that she’s not entirely sure she’s innocent.

Add Shadow Embraced to your Goodreads list!

Meet Cheree Smith Cheree-Smith-225x300

Cheree Smith lives in a country town in Australia as a high school English teacher where she writes paranormal, horror and dark stories for young adults. She enjoys listening to and learning about legends and myths, watching scary movies and dreaming up new worlds where monsters can come alive. When she is not in her writing cave she can be found listening to music, even dabbling in the occasional writing of music or reading.

Connect with Cheree:

Website –  Blog – Twitter – Facebook – Goodreads

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What do you think? Are you running over to Goodreads to put this on your Want to Read list??

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Book Review: The Edge of Never by J.A. Redmerski (A Beautiful Read)

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Emma

No supernatural shenanigans in this one, but a book that deserves a blog post all its own.

the edgeA lot of my blogger friends recommended this. The idea of two people meeting on a Greyhound bus and falling in love had instant appeal to me (I’ve been on a Greyhound bus and they can be scary, as can bus stations). I was excited to read this. The first couple of scenes didn’t pique my interest, but I stuck with it, and sure enough, I got hooked.

Camryn boards a Greyhound bus with no idea where she wants to go in life. Sure, her ticket says Idaho, but this is a story about the journey, not the destination. Her life has been pretty shitty: her first love died in a car crash, second boyfriend cheated on her, her best friend chose her druggie boyfriend over Camryn, her run-of-the-mill job is boring and her parents aren’t around much. It’s time to get her act together, and hitting the road seems to be the answer, at least for now.

On the bus, she meets Andrew, another free spirit. They click. The banter between them is entertaining, the conversations at times made me laugh out loud, and they start to fall for each other.

This book is told from both Camryn’s and Andrew’s perspectives, something I loved, though I did wish we heard a little more from Andrew’s side. I was waiting for Andrew to reveal his dominant side for a while. Luckily, this didn’t go all Fifty Shades.

The sex scenes were hot, their time on the open road always entertaining, and I was delighted when they hit New Orleans. I did get really angry with Andrew at one point (SPOILERS SPOILERS SPOILERS)…..

When he was going to walk away from Camryn and just leave her a pathetic note instead of telling her face to face. That screamed coward to me. Camryn forgave him too quickly for that, and was also very quick to forgive him for keeping something of major importance from her. Also the ending of this book wasn’t the best; it was too clichéd for me (“You’re 20 years old, Camryn” is what I thought, shaking my head. “Congratulations for trapping yourself in the very normal sort of lifestyle you didn’t want to have”), and I felt the ending was too rushed.

But overall, I loved The Edge of Never and am so happy the author is releasing a follow up. This one grabbed me and took me on an emotional rollercoaster – look at that. It seems I’m guilty of clichés myself. ****

Check it out on Goodreads and Amazon

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Who’s read this one? Did you love or just like it?
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