Cover Reveal: The Life and Death Parade by Eliza Wass

Today I’m helping Eliza Wass and Rockstar Book Tours are revealing the cover for THE LIFE AND DEATH PARADE, which releases June 26, 2018! Check out the gorgeous cover and enter to win an ARC!

On to the reveal! 

Title: THE LIFE AND DEATH PARADE

Author: Eliza Wass

Pub. Date: June 26, 2018

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Formats: Hardcover, eBook

Pages: 256

Find it: Amazon, B&N, TBD, Goodreads

One year ago, Kitty's boyfriend Nikki Bramley visited a psychic who told him he had no future. Now, he's dead.

With the Bramley family grieving in separate corners of their home, Kitty sets out to find the psychic who read Nikki his fate. Instead she finds Roan, an enigmatic boy posing as a medium who belongs to the Life and Death Parade--a group of supposed charlatans that explore, and exploit, the thin veil between this world and the next. A group whose members include the psychic... and Kitty's late mother.

Desperate to learn more about the group and their connection to Nikki, Kitty convinces Roan to return to the Bramley house with her and secures a position for him within the household. Roan quickly ingratiates himself with the Bramleys, and soon enough it seems like everyone is ready to move on. Kitty, however, increasingly suspects Roan knows more about Nikki than he's letting on. And when they finally locate the Life and Death Parade, and the psychic who made that fateful prophecy to Nikki, Kitty uncovers a secret about Roan that changes everything.

From rising star Eliza Wass comes a sophisticated, mesmerizing meditation on the depths of grief and the magic of faith. After all, it only works if you believe it.

About Eliza:

Eliza Wass is an author, journalist and the wife of the late musician Alan Wass. Her debut novel, The Cresswell Plot, was published in 2016 to critical acclaim by Disney-Hyperion. She has contributed articles to The Guardian, Grazia, NME, Shortlist and THE FALL.

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Her second book with Disney-Hyperion, The Life and Death Parade, will be published in June 2018.

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Giveaway Details:

2 winners will receive a finished copy of THE LIFE AND DEATH PARADE (when they become available), US Only.

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Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Supernatural Characters

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and The Bookish.

Top Ten Tuesday - Halloween Freebie!

This week's TTT was a freebie prompt for whatever we wanted to do for Halloween and I picked Supernatural Characters. That's right, I'm counting down my top ten favorite non-human characters!

Rhysand

Elena Michaels

Myrnin

(My favorite mad scientist vampire who wears vampire bunny slippers)

The Darkling

The Goblin King

 Lorcan Salvaterre

Daemon Black

Gallowglass de Clermont

Amy Goodnight

(while not technically supernatural, Amy does come from a family of witches and knows how to handle ghosts)

Manon Blackbeak

To be honest, there are so many different supernatural character I could have picked - from vampires and werewolves to high fae and aliens and more, this just scratches the surface of some of my favorite characters - what are some of yours? 

Drop me a link to yours!

As always, happy reading bookdragons and have a bewitching Halloween!

- 💀Taylor

Man Crush Monday: Book Boyfriend Edition #1

This week I'm doing something a little different, once a week on Mondays unless I have another post planned, I'll be sharing with you my book boyfriend of the week. This book boyfriends will most likely come from whatever book I've been reading in the previous week.

Man Crush Monday: Book Boyfriend Edition #1:

NIKOLAI LANTSOV

Books Nikolai Appears in:

- Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo

- Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

- King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo (Coming in 2019)

Why I'm Crushing:

Nikolai is charming, confident, and humorous, yet he makes a great leader. True, Alina never quite gives into his charm and claims she doesn't feel anything for him when he kisses her in Ruin and Rising, but I think he would make a great love interest for some character and I really hope he gets partnered up with someone in King of Scars. I'm eager to see how what the Darkling did to him has affected his personality and the way he sees himself in his own book. Will the affable character become a little more brooding and self-reflective? I could definitely see that. 

Book Review: Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

Ruin and Rising (Grisha Trilogy #3) by Leigh Bardugo

Blurb:

The capital has fallen.

The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne.

Now the nation's fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army.

Deep in an ancient network of tunnels and caverns, a weakened Alina must submit to the dubious protection of the Apparat and the zealots who worship her as a Saint. Yet her plans lie elsewhere, with the hunt for the elusive firebird and the hope that an outlaw prince still survives.

Alina will have to forge new alliances and put aside old rivalries as she and Mal race to find the last of Morozova's amplifiers. But as she begins to unravel the Darkling's secrets, she reveals a past that will forever alter her understanding of the bond they share and the power she wields. The firebird is the one thing that stands between Ravka and destruction—and claiming it could cost Alina the very future she’s fighting for.

My Review:

Alina wakes up powerless after her last failed attempt at ending the Darkling, in a set of underground tunnels called The White Chapel. There she and her band of survivors are under the rule of the Apparat who preaches to Alina's followers that she's a living saint who will one day be queen. But that's hard to believe when Alina can't summon anything but shadows after dipping into merzost. 

Mal and her friends devise a plan to get her sun summoner power back and escape from the White Chapel and soon they are back above ground to search for Morozova's 3rd amplifier and their ally Nikolai. But the Darkling isn't going to make it easy for Alina and her allies. 

As Alina, Mal and the others hunt for the firebird more of their friends will die at the hands of the Darkling, others will be changed forever, and Alina will wonder if its' even possible to win against the Darkling. And when a startling discovery about the third amplifier's true identity comes to light it might be too much for Alina to bear.

Can Alina kill the Darkling and destroy the fold without sacrificing the thing she loves most in the world? Or will ending the Darkling steal Alina's life as well?

I liked this book, even though I couldn't read Siege and Storm in between Shadow and Bone and Ruin and Rising. (in my defense, the library's only copy was checked out.) There were things I obviously missed out on in book two, like when Mal and Alina meet Nikolai, which I would definitely like to go back and read as well as Alina's second attempt to kill the Darkling, but I felt that bits and pieces were rehashed at the beginning of the book, enough so that I could get some idea of what had happened. 

My favorite character in this book was Nikolai, his personality was a breath of fresh air among the grim happenings of the rest of the book. I can't wait for him to get his own book! I still don't understand why Alina chose Mal, but they didn't bother me as a couple so much by the end. 

I actually love the way the ending of the trilogy was plotted. If everything had been easy and Mal had no trouble finding the firebird and Alina could claim it so easily as the third amplifier it would have been a dull book. This gave the characters struggles to deal with along the way, sacrifices to potentially make, and tragedies to overcome. After all, this is war and not everyone could make it out alive.

I both liked and disliked the ending. I liked the resolution and how things were wrapped up, even if I disagree with how Alina chose to make herself disappear at the end, but I really liked the "After." It fit well with the story even if it wasn't the choice I would have made. After all, the ending was all Alina had wanted from the beginning. 

Overall, I think this is definitely a book worth reading and a good end to Alina's story. I can't wait to read Nikolai's story in 2019 and see if any of the other characters in this book pop up and how, if they do.

My Rating:

★★★★1/2

4.5 of 5 Stars!

#BookTag Saturday: The Star Wars Book Tag

For this week's #BookTag Saturday I'm tackling a tag a friend of mine tagged me with on Instagram...

💫Luke (A book that awakened your love of reading):

 Probably The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot - even though I was in the 3rd grade the first time I read it and didn't understand some of it.

💫Leia (A book that split your heart in two):

Sharing Sam by Katherine Applegate - the first time I read this book I had just lost a family member to cancer and it destroyed me. It still makes me sob when I try to read it.

💫Han Solo (A book you didn’t want to read at first but fell in love with it):

 The Selection by Kiera Cass - that the only one in the series I actually liked.

💫Padme (A book where the character fell in love with the wrong person):

The Grisha Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo! WHY MAL?!?!

💫Kylo Ren (A dramatic character that you love, even though you probably shouldn’t): 

Hmmm... Nan from the Rosemary Beach Series by Abbi Glines maybe? I loved her in Up in Flames.

💫Rey (A strong female character):

Elena Michaels

💫Obi-Wan  (A character who always sees the best in another):

 Jane Bennet? 

💫Finn (A favorite side character that deserves a full story):

Hm... idk. Nikolai is getting his own book, which I can't wait to read but other than that I'm drawing a blank.

💫Yoda (A book with a jumbled timeline for the plot)

Boy Heaven by Laura Kasischke - it jumps back and forth through time a lot.

💫Jar Jar Binks (A book you found boring or DNF): 

Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake - and I still bought the sequel.

#BookMail 36

This week I got an amazing surprise package from Entangled Teen! Let's open my mailbox and see this week's book mail...

Haven by Mary Lindsey Surprise Box from Entangled Teen!

Inside the box:

(note)

(list of contents)

(letter)

(Book Nerd Poster)

(Two Pieces of Godiva Chocolate)

(A USB adapter car charger)

(A Hardcover Finished Copy of Haven by Mary Lindsey)

(A Coffee Mug!)

(A Reusable Cloth Grocery/Tote Bag)

(A Sachet of Lavender, 2 Stickers, and a Handmade Metal Bookmark)

(All together now!)

Haven Synopsis:

"We all hold a beast inside. The only difference is what form it takes when freed."

Rain Ryland has never belonged anywhere. He's used to people judging him for his rough background, his intimidating size, and now, his orphan status. He's always been on the outside, looking in, and he's fine with that. Until he moves to New Wurzburg and meets Friederike Burkhart. 

Freddie isn't like normal teen girls, though. And someone wants her dead for it. Freddie warns he'd better stay far away if he wants to stay alive, but Rain's never been good at running from trouble. For the first time, Rain has something worth fighting for, worth living for. Worth dying for.

End of October - November Anticipated Book Mail:

- Black Flame Candle from The Melting Library

- The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Come and Get It Cookbook by Ree Drummond (B&N Exclusive Edition)

- Bookish Candle & Tea Order from A Court of Candles

- Signed Copy of:

Renegades by Marissa Meyer

- The Grishaverse November Box from Wick and Fable

Cover Reveal: BLOOD TYPE series by K.A. Linde

The week is almost over and to celebrate I have an amazing cover reveal to share with you. Keep reading to see the sexy cover of K.A. Linde's upcoming paranormal romance series!

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This new series from USA Today bestseller K.A. Linde is coming next year, starting with BLOOD TYPE!

   

A startling new vision of paranormal romance: When a human ventures into the world of vampires—a decadent milieu of blood-bonds and betrayal—she discovers that not all is what it seems. 

For Reyna Carpenter, giving up her body isn’t a choice. It’s survival. 

In a civilization laid waste by poverty and desperation, Reyna accepts a high-paying position with the wealthy and hungry vampire elite. Her new job is as the live-in blood escort for the intimidating, demanding, and devilishly handsome Beckham Anderson. He’s everything she expected from a vampire, except for one thing—he won’t feed off her. 

Reyna soon discovers that behind Beckham’s brooding, wicked façade lies a unique and complex man. And that, in a dark and divided world, she is more valuable than she ever would have believed. 

For with each passing night, Reyna can’t shake the sensation that it’s Beckham who’s afraid of her. 

Note: Reyna and Beckham’s story continues in Blood Match.

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Reyna Carpenter and Beckham Anderson return in the exhilarating follow-up to the provocative paranormal romance Blood Type. 

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR     

  K.A. Linde is the USA Today bestselling author of more than fifteen novels including the Avoiding series and the Record series. She has a Masters degree in political science from the University of Georgia, was the head campaign worker for the 2012 presidential campaign at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and served as the head coach of the Duke University dance team. She loves reading fantasy novels, geeking out over Star Wars, binge-watching Supernatural, and dancing in her spare time. 

She currently lives in Lubbock, Texas, with her husband and two super adorable puppies.

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