(ARC) Book Review (336): Nantucket Red (Nantucket #2) - Leila Howland

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Nantucket Red (Nantucket #2)

by Leila Howland

Publication: 13th May 2014

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Pages: 288

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Age Appropriate: Young Adult

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Cricket Thompson's lifetime of overachieving has paid off: she's headed to Brown University in the fall, with a spot on the lacrosse team and a scholarship that covers almost everything. Who knew living in the dorm cost money? An Ivy League education seems to mean living at home for the next four years.

When Cricket is offered the chance to earn enough cash to afford a real college experience, she heads back to Nantucket for the summer. But the faraway island challenges Cricket in ways she hadn't anticipated. It's hard to focus on earning money for next year, when she finds her world opening up in entirely new ways-to art, to travel, and, most unexpectedly, to a future completely different from the one she has been working toward her whole life. A friendship blossoms with Ben, the gorgeous surfer and bartender who encourages Cricket to be free, even as she smarts at the pain of seeing Zack, her first love, falling for her worst enemy.

But one night, when Cricket finally lets herself break all her own rules, she realizes she may have ruined her carefully constructed future with one impulsive decision. Cricket must dig deep to fight for her future, discovering that success isn't just about reaching goals, but also about listening to what she's been trying to ignore-her own heart.

My Thoughts.

Nantucket Red is the second book in the Nanucket series by Leila Howland, a fun, fresh and addictive contemporary romance read.

We catch up with Cricket, home from her previous Summer at Nantucket and ready to tackle life at Brown University, after a misunderstanding where she asks Zack if they could put a pause on their relationship she soon discovers that Zack  the brother of her best-friend Jules is dating Parker, a mean girl who has known both Jules and Zack from their many years spent together on Nantucket during Summer.

Heartbroken at the loss, she makes her way back to Nantucket to raise the money she'll need to stay in the dorms at University, she soon makes the acquaintance of Ben, a bartender at Breezes where she has scored herself a job as a waitress, they find they are kindred souls as they have both recently ended relationships, but Cricket finds herself struggling to let go of her first love and it doesn't get any easier when she realises that Zack is on the island with Parker and she tries her best to avoid them as much as possible.

With her friend Lisa suffering from relationship woes as well and falling into a state of depression, Cricket finds herself running the inn as well as waitressing, exhausted with no days off she makes the mistake of letting her hair down and getting drunk, and making a mistake that will jeopardise her place at Brown University, Cricket comes to realise that what she thought she wanted may not be what she actually wants after all.

I really enjoyed this sequel, it was just as good as the first book Nantucket Blue, I enjoyed catching up with all of these characters and this book wrapped the series up perfectly, I'll definitely be on the lookout for future releases from Leila, I thoroughly enjoyed her writing and I look forward to more books from her.

I give this 4/5 stars.

LEILA HOWLAND loves to read, explore L.A., and engage in funny and meaningful conversations with her friends and family, especially her brother who calls from Washington D.C. whenever he’s waiting for the bus. A lot gets discussed in those phone calls, but they tend to end abruptly when the bus shows up. She can really cut the rug, but wishes she could sing without people covering their ears. A graduate of Georgetown University, Leila spent five years acting in New York where she was a company member of the award-winning Flea Theater in Tribeca. It was a lot of fun and she often talks about “getting back into it.” The closest she has come was a stint as an extra on The Young and the Restless in 2010. Leila now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two dogs. NANTUCKET BLUE is her first novel.

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(ARC) Book Review (335): Rebel (Reboot #2) - Amy Tintera

Rebel (Reboot #2)

by Amy Tintera 

Publication: 13th May 2014

Publisher: HarperTeen

Pages: 352

Genre: Dystopian

Age Appropriate: Young Adult

Buy It:  IndieBound , Barnes and Noble, or Amazon

The sequel to the action-packed Reboot is a can't-miss thrill ride, perfect for fans of James Patterson, Veronica Roth, and Marie Lu.

After coming back from death as Reboots and being trained by HARC as soldiers, Wren and Callum have finally escaped north, where they hope to find a life of freedom. But when they arrive at the Reboot Reservation, it isn't what they expected. Under the rule of a bloodthirsty leader, Micah, the Reboots are about to wage an all-out war on the humans. Although Wren's instincts are telling her to set off into the wilderness on their own and leave the battle far behind, Callum is unwilling to let his human family be murdered. When Micah commits the ultimate betrayal, the choice is made for them. But Micah has also made a fatal mistake . . . he's underestimated Wren and Callum.

The explosive finale to the Reboot duology is full of riveting action and steamy love scenes as Wren and Callum become rebels against their own kind.

My Thoughts.

**Warning Contains Spoilers From The First Book**

Rebel is the second book in Amy Tintera's amazing Reboot series.

Told through the dual perspectives of Wren (one-seventy-eight) and Callum (twenty-two), we pick up right where we left off at the end of Reboot, Wren and Callum have escaped their HARC facility whilst also breaking out all the Reboots from the Austin facility as well.

Making it to the Reservation, a place that was believed to be more myth than reality, they all find themselves overjoyed to finally be free from HARC and in a place where it's just Reboots, with no humans to be seen.

Run by a Reboot named Micah (one-sixty-three) who was experimented on by HARC for many years, anti HARC and humans, he believes himself superior because of his number, but he soon starts to show his true colors, when one of Wren's friends finds herself being punished by him for not seeing things his way Wren and Callum realise how cruel he actually is.

Micah doesn't take to kindly to Wren stopping the punishment, added to the fact that she and the rest of the Reboots she arrived with are against his plans of eliminating all humans and it isn't long before he gets his revenge.

In the absence of Wren, Callum really steps it up in this book, with everybody looking to him for guidance and leadership, he finally feels like he's more than just Wren's boyfriend, although he'd much rather leave the fighting to her.

With quite a few new characters to love or loathe, Rebel is as exciting as Reboot was, and while I'm unsure as to whether or not this series is a duology or a trilogy I'm pretty happy with the way this book ended, whether it's the end or not I look forward to reading whatever Amy writes and releases in the future, she has definitely become an auto-buy author for me.

A wonderful series with excellent world building and a plot that will keep you intrigued and thirsty for more, there's nothing that I can fault, brilliant all round.

I give this 5/5 stars.

Hi! I’m Amy Tintera, and I write novels for young adults. I grew up in Austin, Texas and graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in journalism. After receiving a masters in film at Emerson College I moved to Los Angeles, where I promptly discovered I didn’t enjoy working in the film industry, and went back to my first love, writing.

REBOOT and REBEL are published by HarperCollins/HarperTeen. Film rights have been optioned by Fox, and the books have sold in ten countries.

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(ARC) Book Review (334): After The End (After The End #1) - Amy Plum

After the End (After the End #1)

by Amy Plum

Publication: 6th May 2014

Publisher: HarperTeen

Pages: 336

Genre: Paranormal

Age Appropriate: Young Adult

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She’s searching for answers to her past. They’re hunting her to save their future.

World War III has left the world ravaged by nuclear radiation. A lucky few escaped to the Alaskan wilderness. They've survived for the last thirty years by living off the land, being one with nature, and hiding from whoever else might still be out there.

At least, this is what Juneau has been told her entire life.

When Juneau returns from a hunting trip to discover that everyone in her clan has vanished, she sets off to find them. Leaving the boundaries of their land for the very first time, she learns something horrifying: There never was a war. Cities were never destroyed. The world is intact. Everything was a lie.

Now Juneau is adrift in a modern-day world she never knew existed. But while she's trying to find a way to rescue her friends and family, someone else is looking for her. Someone who knows the extraordinary truth about the secrets of her past.

My Thoughts.

I loved this book, it was filled with action, magic, betrayal and romance.

After The End is hard to put into any one genre, I know from the cover and the title that most people think that it's a dystopian (and I did too before reading it myself) but that can't be further from the truth.
It certainly has it's paranormal aspects but it's also a contemporary as well.

Following Juneau (I have no idea how to pronounce this name so in my head it's Juno) who lives with her Father and a clan of people in Alaska close to Mount Denali, safe from the rest of the world after World War 3 and it's destruction, they live a quiet life led by their clan leader Whit, the children are taught from an early age about connecting to the Yara (a magic dependent on nature and connection to the Earth) to be able to conjure and read things, Juneau is training to one day be the Sage (clan leader) and so is depended on for all sorts of tasks, which is how she finds herself off hunting one day and on her return discovers that the whole clan has been kidnapped, so she sets off to find and rescue them.

Stepping over the boundary of their land which they've been forbidden to do in case of nuclear fallout from the war, Juneau soon discovers that what she and all the rest of the clan were told and were led to believe was one big lie, there was never any war and the rest of the world has been going along as per normal all that time, ever since Whit moved them all to their home in Alaska in 1984, realising that her whole life has been a lie, she commandeers Miles a boy whose name she got from an Oracle to transport her to where she needs to go, not knowing that he is the son of the head of a large pharmaceutical company and he's planning on delivering her to his Dad who is one of a group of two people who are after her for the knowledge she has about some drug that her clan used and they will stop at nothing to get it.

After a while Miles starts to have second thoughts about taking her to his Dad, although at first he believes she's crazy he soon starts to believe her story, and it's not long before they develop feelings for one another.

But with two different groups after her, and the betrayal of a clan member will she ever be able to get to the rest of her clan to rescue them, or will Juneau find herself captured before then, unable to save anyone?

The concept that Amy has created is so well done, it will keep you on your toes and after the ending you'll find yourself desperate to get your hands on a copy of the second book.

A fantastic story with well written characters and even better world building, a great start to this new series.

I give this 4/5 stars.

Amy Plum is the author of DIE FOR ME, a YA series set in Paris. The first three books—DIE FOR ME, UNTIL I DIE, and IF I SHOULD DIE—are international bestsellers, and have been translated into eleven different languages. The fourth book is an eNovella, entitled DIE FOR HER. The first book of Amy’s new series, AFTER THE END, releases in May 2014.

After being raised in Birmingham, Alabama, in a rather restrictive environment, AMY PLUM escaped to Chicago to an even more restrictive environment at a university that expelled people for dancing. (And where she was called to the dean’s office for “wearing too much black”.) After all of that restrictiveness, she was forced to run far far away, specifically to Paris, France, where she only wore black and danced all she wanted.

After five years in Paris, she ventured to London, where she got an M.A. in Medieval Art History, specializing in Early Sienese Painting (1260-1348) mainly because it promised almost no hope of finding a paying job afterward.

Amy managed to find work in the world of art and antiques in New York. But after almost a decade of high-pressure lifestyle in the Big Apple, she swapped her American city for a French village of 1300 inhabitants.

After signing with HarperCollins for the DIE FOR ME series, Amy left her job as an English professor at Tours University to write full-time. She now lives in Paris with her two children.

She is a huge fan of Edward Gorey and Maira Kalman (and collects both of their books and art), as well as David Sedaris, Amadeo Modigliani, and Ira Glass.

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(ARC) Book Review (333): Her Perfect Mate (X-Ops #1) - Paige Tyler

Her Perfect Mate (X-Ops #1)

by Paige Tyler 

Publication: 6th May 2014

Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca

Pages: 316

Genre: Paranormal Romance

Age Appropriate: Adult

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When Special Forces Captain Landon Donovan is picked for an assignment with the Department of Covert Affairs, he’s stunned to find his new partner is a beautiful woman who looks like she couldn’t hurt a fly, much less take down a terrorist.

Ivy Halliwell isn’t your average covert op. Her feline DNA means she can literally bring out the claws when things get dicey. She isn’t thrilled to be paired with yet another military grunt, but Landon is different. He doesn’t think she’s a freak and he’s smokin’ hot.

Soon they find themselves facing a threat even greater than anyone imagines...and an animal magnetism impossible to ignore.

My Thoughts.

Her Perfect Mate is a blend of action/adventure, romance with a paranormal aspect featuring shifters working for a secret government department named EVA, all rolled together to bring to life this fresh, exciting, edge of your seat story.

Ivy is a feline shifter who has not had much luck with work partners, after her previous two partners scorned her for what she was, she had no high hopes for her new partner Landon of special forces pulled from a mission to work with Ivy, but the sparks soon fly and the chemistry is hot between these two, if only there wasn't a rule forbidding them to be together.

Sent on various missions together which helps each other trust one another more, they battle their intense attraction to one another as well as the interference of fellow shifter Buchanan who has the hots for Ivy, unfortunately for him she doesn't reciprocate his feelings which only leads to fights between him and Landon, but when they are sent on a mission to investigate the rumors of a bioweapon being built are true, they find themselves in more trouble than they can handle, can they survive long enough to finally admit their feelings for one another or will it all be too late.

Paige has crafted a story that will have you intensely focused on nothing but this book, the characters are well written and fleshed out and the world building is so well done you don't feel like you've missed out on knowing anything, the concept was executed well and left me wanting more.
I look forward to continuing on with this series, I'm really anxious to know who's book is next.

Great book, highly recommended.

I give this book 4/5 stars.

Paige is a USA Today Bestselling Author. She graduated from The 
University of West Florida with a degree in education in 2000, but 
decided to pursue a full-time career as a writer in 2004. Since then, 
she’s written over fifty books in several genres, including paranormal, 
contemporary, western, sci-fi and erotica. She loves writing about 
strong, sexy, alpha males and the feisty, independent women who fall 
for them. From verbal foreplay to sexual heat, her stories of romance, 
adventure, suspense, passion and true love will leave you breathlessly 
panting for more.

She and her very own military hero (also known as her husband) live 
on the beautiful Florida coast with their adorable fur baby (also known 
as their dog). Paige graduated with a degree in education, but decided 
to pursue her passion and write books about hunky alpha males and 
the kickbutt heroines who fall in love with them.

When not working on her latest book, Paige enjoys reading, jogging, 
P90X, Yoga, Pilates, going to the beach, watching NFL football, 
watching movies and hanging out with her husband (not necessarily in 
that order!)

Some Fun Facts about Paige…
She loves anything and everything Disney related, and has pictures with every Disney character to prove it.

Her favorite Disney characters are Tigger, Pooh, Goofy and Tinkerbell.

She's addicted to dark chocolate, Pinterest and Sephora.

She'll tell you she's not exactly the outdoor type, but yet she loves the beach.

She studied ballet for twelve years.

She went to art school, and yes, figure drawing was her favorite class (probably because all the nude models were male!)

She collects Barbie Dolls, plush animals and Jim Shore Disney.

She's just as likely to have Rhianna, Lady Gaga, Pitbull, Ke$ha, Black Eyed Peas and LMFAO on her iPod as she is Billy Idol, 
Foreigner and Golden Earring (if you can dance to it, it's probably on there!)

Must-See TV :
Current Shows –Supernatural (she has a huge thing for Sam and Dean!)Bones (she has a thing for Booth, too!)The Walking Dead
Teen Wolf
Psych
Shows That Should Still Be On –Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel (no other vamp comes close!)Charmed
Stargate Atlantis (one word - Ronan!)Kim Possible

On Her Bookshelf:Suzanne Brockmann’s Troubleshooters SeriesTracie Puckett's Just a Little SeriesJohanna Lindsey’s Book (all of them!)
Kat Martin’s Hot Rain and Nothing But VelvetShelley Thacker’s Into the SunsetStephanie Meyer's Twilight SeriesKelley Armstrong’s Otherworld SeriesJ.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter SeriesTracie Puckett's Jast a Little SeriesLisi Harrison's Monster High Series

Favorite Movies:Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Disney's The Little Mermaid
Disney's Beauty and the Beast
Disney's Frozen
Hidalgo
Avatar
Thor
Marvel's The Avengers (Mostly because Thor was in it!)
Star Trek (the reboot rocks!)

Guys She’s Got a Thing For (Besides her hubby, of course, but that’s obvious!)Viggo Mortensen
David Boreanaz
Jensen Ackles
Jared Padelecki
Jason Momoa
Chris Hemsworth

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(ARC) Book Review (332): Frisky Business - Tawna Fenske

Frisky Business

by Tawna Fenske

Publication: 6th May 2014

Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca

Pages: 352

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Age Appropriate: Adult

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Marley Cartman is fed up with arrogant rich guys who treat her like garbage, so she vows to only date men with modest paychecks and a little dirt under their nails. 

Her new boss, William Barclay, is exactly the kind of man she's trying to avoid: an eccentric millionaire with duct shape shoes and an unexplained vendetta against her. 

But as Will and Marley butt heads over grumpy badgers and phallic artifacts, they discover that sometimes the opposite of what you want is exactly what you need.

My Thoughts.

Frisky Business is a hilarious romp of a contemporary romance, laugh out loud funny with a cast of characters that will leave you grinning and eager to read more.

I don't very often get to read romance books that have an element of comedy scattered throughout, the combination of that and the burgeoning relationship between our leads Marley and Will is what makes this book stand out.

From the first time these two meet I knew I was in for an enjoyable reading experience, the sexual innuendo's that were thrown into nearly every conversation were gold, to be able to do this tastefully takes some talent and Tawna has definitely managed to do this here.

Marley has a new plan for dating, only date those with a modest income more blue collar than the men she's dated or prime example her ex-fiancee, so of course when she meets Will scruffily dressed wearing slippers that are held together by duct tape volunteering at an animal shelter she's instantly attracted, of course it doesn't help that he's extremely attractive either, so after a bit of flirting and Marley adopting a dog they go their separate ways, Will soon discovers she forgot some paperwork and her dog's free kibble and offers to deliver them to her house, and it's not long till these two are making out.

So it comes as a bit of a surprise that on the first day of her new job as a Development Director at the Wildlife Sanctuary/Historical Society that she's in a meeting with the board of directors and the head of the board is none other than Will, or to be more precise William Barclay The Fifth, millionaire!
And to discover that there is no fraternising allowed between board members or directors, between that rule, the fact that Will is not as blue collar as Marley was led to believe although he acts and dresses as one, then that he has severe trust issues and if that wasn't enough some artifacts that Marley was waiting to have appraised go missing and she gets blamed for it, in amongst all that can they somehow find a way to make a relationship work?

I adored this story, Tawna is a terrific author and I'll be sure to check out her other books, one of my favorites of the year.

Everybody needs to pick this one up!

I give this 5/5 stars.

When I was six, my mom caught me thumbing through The Joy of Sex while watching Saturday morning cartoons.

When I was ten, I got summoned to the principal’s office for making anatomically-correct clay models of Huck Finn and Jim during a unit on Mark Twain.

When I was 22, I celebrated my English Lit degree by filling a giant black trash bag full of romance novels and dragging it everywhere until I’d read them all.

When I was 32, my cat died, my publisher canceled the line scheduled to release my debut novel, and my employer threatened to fire me for refusing to wear pantyhose—all on my birthday—and I sat down on my back deck with a glass of wine, smiled at the sunset, and thought, “if I can find the humor in this, I can find it in damn near anything.”

In a nutshell, that’s how I became an author of quirky romantic comedy.

I traveled a career path that meandered from newspaper reporter to English teacher in Venezuela to medical marketing geek to PR manager for my city’s tourism bureau.

I have a degree in English Lit, a membership in Romance Writers of America, and a habit of spilling food on my boobs. When I’m not writing, I’m usually busy sipping wine, reading, experimenting in my kitchen (either on gourmet meals or as research for one of my risqué scenes), hiking, snowshoeing, standup paddleboarding, or contorting myself into odd positions (either for yoga or for the aforementioned research).

An avid globetrotter and social media fiend, I blog at Don’t Pet Me, I’m Writing, routinely overshare on Facebook, and can be found making tasteless jokes in 140 characters or less on Twitter.

My debut romantic comedy with Sourcebooks, Making Waves, was nominated for Best Contemporary Romance in the 2011 RT Book Reviewers’ Choice Awards, and the Chicago Tribune noted, “Fenske’s wildly inventive plot and wonderfully quirky characters provide the perfect literary antidote to any romance reader’s summer reading doldrums.”

My second romantic comedy, Believe it or Not, prompted Library Journal to write, “Fenske’s sophomore effort…is another riotous trip down funny bone lane, with a detour to slightly askew goings on and a quick u-ey to out-of-this-world romance. Readers will be enchanted by this bewitching fable from a wickedly wise author.” Naturally, that prompted me to hug the reviewer until she peed.

In addition to my romantic comedies, I write novellas and novels for Entangled Publishing, as well as a series of interactive romantic capers for Coliloquy (think choose-your-own-adventure meets romantic comedy).

I currently live in Bend, Oregon with my fiancé, his offspring, and more pets than I can admit to without frightening my neighbors.

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(ARC) Book Review (331): Royally Lost - Angie Stanton

Royally Lost

by Angie Stanton 

Publication: 6th May 2014
Publisher: Harper Collins
Pages: 336
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Age Appropriate: Young Adult
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Dragged on a family trip to Europe’s ancient cities, Becca wants nothing more than to go home. Trapped with her emotionally distant father, over-eager stepmother, and a brother who only wants to hook up with European hotties, Becca is miserable. That is until she meets Nikolai, a guy as mysterious as he is handsome. And she unknowingly finds herself with a runaway prince.

Nikolai has everything a guy could ask for-he's crown prince, heir to the throne, and girls adore him. But the one thing he doesn't have...is freedom. Staging a coup, he flees his kingdom and goes undercover on his own European tour.

When Nikolai and Becca meet, it’s their differences that draw them together. Sparks fly as they share a whirlwind of adventures, all the while dodging his royal guard. But Becca's family vacation ends in a matter of days. Will Nikolai and Becca be forced to say goodbye forever, will his destiny catch up to him, or will they change history forever?

My Thoughts.

Royally Lost is a delightfully fun, lighthearted, and quick contemporary romance read that will keep you entertained the whole way through.

Following both Becca who is vacationing in Europe with her family and Prince Nikolai of Mondovia (a fictional European country) who both want to escape their families and their parents expectations, fate seems to keep bringing these two together, and so they take the hint and start to meet up everyday and they soon start falling for each other.

Nikolai is not happy with where his life is going, with numerous dinners and events to attend he just wants to do his own thing, to not have his every decision made for him, the last straw comes when his parents inform him that he will be attending military school against his wishes,so he does what any other teenager does when their parents won't listen, he runs away, and it's while on his adventure that he meets Becca.

Becca has a similar problem, after her Mothers death her Dad seems to stop paying attention to her and her brother Dylan, so when he remarries she and Dylan don't take to kindly to their new Stepmother Vicky, so when Vicky arranges this trip for some family time, they're not entirely on board with the idea, adding to Becca's unhappiness is the fact that her Dad won't let her go to the college that she wants, the one her Mom went to, instead ends up being enrolled in a college of her Dad's choosing.

So when these two meet the sparks fly, and they are able to be each other's distraction for a while although Nikolai has not told Becca who he is, and so they act like any other normal couple, taking in the sites and making the most of their short time together with the help of Dylan, but when Becca does find out that he's a Prince she realises that their time will soon be over, he has duties befitting a Prince which doesn't include a relationship with some American girl especially when he has girls all over him and can be with whomever he wants, all the while evading the ever annoying paparazzi and his Fathers security who are out looking for him.

What are they to do when they realise they mean more to each other than a holiday romance, when they have to part ways and say goodbye for good, knowing that they being on account of who Nikolai is, by all rights should never see each other again, especially living on opposite sides of the world.

This was such a fantastic contemporary, I've never read anything else by Angie before, but I hope to remedy that sooner rather than later, her characters are extremely likeable and her world building and storytelling top notch.

Highly recommended for all contemporary romance fans out there.

I give this 4/5 stars.

Angie Stanton never planned on writing books—she wanted to be a Rockette. However, growing up in rural America with her brothers’ 4-H pigs as pets, she found that dance didn’t quite work out. Instead, she became an avid daydreamer. After years of perfecting stories in her head, she began to write them down, and the rest is history. When not writing, she loves watching natural disaster movies, going to Broadway musicals, and dipping French fries in chocolate shakes.

Best selling books by Angie include Rock and a Hard Place, Snapshot, Dream Chaser,Snowed Over and Love ‘em or Leave ‘em. All are contemporary romances.

Angie’s next release is titled Royally Lost and releases on May 6, 2014. Stay tuned for more info.

Agency Representation: Jane Dystel of Dystel and Goderich Literary Management, New York.

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Feature & Follow Friday.

The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee’s View and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it’ll allow us to show off more new blogs!

What living author or authors would you like to have dinner with? (Try to think beyond JK Rowling)

So while my first answer would and always will be Stephenie Meyer, for something different I would go with J.R Ward (aka: The Warden), I love the Black Dagger Brotherhood (BDB) series and I think she'd have a lot of stories to tell, plus I could try to find out some tidbits from the next book!