Teaser Tuesday (109) Third Grave Dead Ahead by Darynda Jones + Dragon Mystics by Jaymin Eve

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read(s)
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) -- or less or more -- “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!) 

“At first, I could lie about my lack of sleep and she'd fall for it, but she started suspecting insomnia when I began seeing purple elephants in the air vents at the office. I knew I shouldn't have asked her about them. I thought maybe she'd redecorated.”

Third Grave Dead Ahead by Darynda Jones

“We couldn't survive without Braxton. There was no Jessa without him.”

location 1329, Dragon Mystics by Jaymin Eve

{Blog Tour + Review + Giveaway} Songbird (A Sinclair Story #1) by Jaymin Eve @JayminEve1

Songbird (A Sinclair Story #1)

by Jaymin Eve

Release Date: July 2014

New Adult

Summary from Goodreads:

I live my life by two rules. Never trust anyone and you don’t need a weapon when you are one.
Melodee Lee aka Songbird

Melodee Lee is not your average twenty-three year old. Her parents were government trained assassins and the base definition of evil. The best thing they ever did was leave her an orphan at thirteen.

Life’s circumstances have honed her into a strong, independent outsider. She’s made it a point to never settle down, and trust is the last thing she gives. Utilizing her only skill, she makes money in the underground cage fighting scene and anyone who doesn’t like it … well, Melodee can kick their ass as well.

Nathan Sinclair is a man with the world at his fingertips. His family is rich, politically connected and owns half of Syracuse, NY. A rising basketball star, set to be signed by the NBA, the last thing he needs is a woman with attitude crashing into his life.

Tragic circumstances bring these two people together when their worlds should never have collided. Will Nathan be the man to show Melodee that trust and a real home are not as unattainable as she believes? Or will his own demons and Sinclair family drama destroy the life they could have before it has begun?

Note from author - This is a full length, standalone HEA romance. It is recommended for 18+ due to language and sexual situations.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/22462891-songbird?ac=1

Buy Links:

Amazon * Barnes & Noble * Book Depository

About the Author
Jaymin Eve is a 29 year old with a passion for reading, writing and arithmetic ... okay maybe not the last one but definitely the first two.

Living on the beautiful Gold Coast, in Australia, the family loves spending lots of time on the beach. And travelling as frequently as possible.

When Jaymin isn't trying to wrangle two daughters, a puppy and her husband, you will find her hiding in a corner trying desperately to write her stories (without little fingers pressing random keys). She asks forgiveness if you notice the occasional sskkkkssjs appearing in her book, her children are proud of their contribution.

Author Links:

http://jaymineve.blogspot.com.au/

https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7184104.Jaymin_Eve

https://twitter.com/JayminEve1

https://www.facebook.com/JayminEve.Author

{Details} ebook, 306 pages, Published July 2014 by CreateSpace. Ebook provided in exchange for an honest review. Many thanks to Jaymin Eve and YA Bound Book Tours

{Rating} 4/5 - I really liked it!

{Review}

The smell in the room is always the same, an intermingling of sweat, blood and death that tingled her senses and left an imprint of every moment before." (page 1, line 1)

Hot and steamy, full of drama, sweetness, excitement and love. I'm a fan of Jaymin Eve. I've been enjoying her First World series, check out my review of the first book in the series here, but in the Songbird Eve tackles new adult contemporary romance. 

I enjoyed the storyline, the characters, the dual povs, and Melodee and Nathan's relationship but more on that later. Songbird takes some popular tropes, exes and fighters, and turns them on their head but I won't spoil just how - go read and find out for yourself.

Melodee has survived a horrific childhood, a childhood that taught her to be independent, strong, cautious and so terribly alone alone. 

"Rich people problems were not the same as assassin parent problems. But she had long ago realized that there weren't many people who'd lived the life she had. It was not like there was a Facebook page she could join." (eARC location 1617)

She avoids relationships, connections, love. But then Nathan and a tiny baby start to worm their way into her life, making her want all the things she's convinced she doesn't deserve, but also showing herself how fierce, loyal and devoted she can be. 

Nathan. He's a really good guy despite being rich and an athlete and having been a player in his not so distant past. He's also generous, loving, patient and kind. He's the kind of guy who, after meeting a woman that he feels a connection with, who turns everything on its head, is determined to win her.

Like I said, I loved Nate and Melodee's relationship. Though neither were looking for love or forever they are so good for each other and develop a relationship based on honesty and respect.

And the Sinclair brothers? Three brothers just as awesome as Nate is in their own ways and with back stories that I'm dying to learn. I want the next Sinclair story please.

I did think that there was an awful lot going on and I would have liked more time with some of the plot lines and resolution of some of the things still left up in the air.

{Giveaway}

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Be sure to visit the rest of the stops on the blog tour

Blog Tour Schedule: http://yaboundbooktours.blogspot.com/2014/07/tour-sign-up-songbird-sinclair-story-1.html

Teaser Tuesday (63) Songbird

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read(s)
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) -- or less or more -- “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

"Rich people problems were not the same as assassin parent problems. But she had long ago realized that there weren't many people who'd lived the life she had. It was not like there was a Facebook page she could join."

eARC location 1617, Songbird by Jaymin Eve

Teaser Tuesday (43) Far Too Tempting + Spurn

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read(s)
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) -- or less or more -- “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)

"I beam. I am ear to ear with a grin."

location 1461, Far Too Tempting by Lauren Blakely

"I managed not to drool over him as I flipped him off. That level of bossiness should be such a turn-off, but it wasn't dampening my interest at all."

location 1132, Spurn by Jaymin Eve

{Paranomal/Urban Fantasy Review} First World (A Walker Saga #1) by Jaymin Eve

 {Paranomal/Urban Fantasy Review} First World (A Walker Saga #1) by Jaymin Eve

A paranormal romance series.
An epic journey.
If the Seventine are released, will anyone survive?

Abigail Swish might not love her life, living in gang-ridden New York in 2035 and training to fight and survive with Compound 23. But she is grateful for a few things, especially her no-filter-between-brain-and-mouth best friend Lucy and her escape each night into a dream world far different from her own.

In fact, sometimes she lives for the fleeting moments she spends at night with the man who fuels every romantic fantasy she’s ever had. But each morning reality returns. She could just cry. But she won’t of course; tears don’t change a damn thing.

Then without any warning, a month before her eighteenth birthday, everything does change. A guardian finds her. He explains, in a strangely familiar accent, that she was stashed on Earth for safekeeping and has been lost to her family ever since. And it is time to return home. To the First World; a land of unimagined beauty.

Abigail and Lucy find themselves escaping New York, ending up on another planet and traversing through an unforgiving wilderness. Yeah, because that sort of thing just happens every day. Luckily an unexpected saviour arrives; the man from her dream-world. Brace is six-and-a-half feet of gorgeous perfectness, wrapped in an arrogance like no other. Unable to trust his assistance, and unsure which of her instincts to follow - kiss him or punch him in the mouth - Abigail eventually accepts his help to find her family.

And what a family. Enter Josian, her father; larger than life and apparently not even human. He is Walker, a planet-less race revered as gods, causing mischief and mayhem through-out this star-system. Unfortunately, there is no time for a cosy reunion, since no one explained that by returning to First World her half-Walker genetics would act as a catalyst setting forth a chain of events which could spell disaster for not only her existence but that of all worlds. (Blurb via Goodreads) 

{Details}Ebook, 362 pages. Published July 10th 2013 by Createspace. Source: Amazon

{Rating} 4/5 - I really liked it!

{Review}

"I glanced over my shoulder at the approaching darkness." (page 1, line 1)

A little bit of a lot of things, a bit of dystopian, fantasy, intrigue, sci fi and romance. The concept is intriguing, the plot interesting, the characters fascinating, the idea of Walkers, very cool. And the cover - love the cover.

Abby is a great heroine. She's a strong girl and can kick ass, qualities necessary to survive in a NYC where you're either hiding or being hunted. But she's not so great with the common sense, risking her very life just to go running? Not smart. The rest of the cast of characters are just as great, fashion addict best friend Lucy, Walker Josian, mama bear Lalli, Protector Quarn, and handsome Brace.

My favorite part was the sisterhood between Abby and Lucy. I loved their snark and baiting and utter devotion to each other. Their banter made me laugh out loud more than once. There is a lot going on in the story, Walkers and Dream Spanners and the gangs and Abby's real identity, sometimes it felt that there was too much going on to really do it justice. I also had issues with the pacing, the story seemed to lag and then everything happened fast and then lagged again.

The story ends with a cliffhanger, lives in peril, many unanswered questions... the usual cliffhanger fodder, but it definitely made me want to read the yet to be released book two, Spurn. And it's book one of seven? Wow.