World Mental Health Day 2015

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Today is World Mental Health and this year the theme is dignity in mental health. Every one has the right to dignity, whatever your gender, age, religion, ethnicity, and sexual ordination. Dignity is something lacking in today's society, even more so when surrounding mental health issues. Every human has the human right to dignity.

Having a mental health problem is like any illness, the person didn't ask for it, they just have it. Any body else with an illness not related to mental illness is given the dignity  and respect they deserve, no they have the right to this dignity. A person with a mental illness is the same. They are a human being who deserves the same respect and dignity. To see what you can do to raise awareness of the stigma head over to the link below where the WHO has a great pamphlet on what you can do in your community and what they are doing to help change this issue.

Information Dignity in Mental Health found here  (World Health organization)

This year YA is trying to break the stigma of mental health with many books dealing with mental health issues, you can check out a post I did a few months back on the topic here

Remember Mental Health illnesses are real, they can't be brushed under the carpet. Do something to fix the stigma!

Here They Lie by D.K.Burrow Blog Tour #Excerpt & #Giveaway

Here They Lie by D’Ann Burrow 

(The Bloodstone Legacy #1) 

Publication date: October 5th 2015

Genres: New Adult, Southern Gothic

Synopsis:

Reese Everett’s aunt picked a bad time to die.  Just weeks after a car accident left Reese’s mother unable to travel, her aunt’s house needs to be emptied and sold, leaving Reese as the only member of the family who can do the job.  She typically wouldn’t balk at the opportunity to sift through her aunt’s collection of antiques, but when  she arrives in Devil’s Vale, Georgia, she discovers the family house in a state of disrepair she won’t be able to handle alone.

Colton Waters is back in Devil’s Vale – whether he likes it or not.  After he loses his acceptance to medical school with no explanation, he’s left with a single job offer…one that will return him to the hometown he’d hoped to escape.
When an errand to help his sister ends in a meeting with Reese neither will easily forget, Colton takes a job as her temporary handyman.

The longer Reese stays in town, the more she realizes the condition of her aunt’s house isn’t the only thing she hadn’t expected when she made the trip to Devil’s Vale.  Reese isn’t the only gifted member of the family – her aunt Kate has been practicing the family business…the business Reese has been sworn never to discuss.
After a ghostly visitor arrives one night, Reese and Colton learn Kate wasn’t the only one practicing the darker arts.  They begin to uncover secrets that refuse to stay buried.

Here They Lie won the Young Adult Romance Writer’s 2014 award for New Adult fiction.

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Excerpt

“Are you trying to get hit?” A male voice yelled as a car door slammed. The owner of the voice was almost right on top of me before I saw him.

I wished I hadn’t.

Tall. Dark. More than a hint muscular. 

The kind of guy who looked like he spent hours in the garage bonding with his car. Between the glare on his face and the sleeveless, stained hoodie, he was also the kind of guy who reminded me to lock my doors in downtown New Orleans. He was the definition of what my father would call a very bad idea.

Unfortunately, he was also the closest thing I had to any salvation.

“Why the hell didn’t you pull off the road?” He paused, his face hovering just inches from my own. 

“My truck kind of decided for me. One minute I’m driving, and the next it’s doing an impression of a really large rock.” 

“What’s wrong with it?”

“If I knew that, I wouldn’t be sitting here.”

That should have been his cue to take a peek under the hood. Instead, his eyes simply swept the ground, and he stomped his feet like a nervous horse. 

“You can’t stay out here.” More stomping. His jerky movements made it look like he was attempting to kick the fog away. “You’ll have to get someone to look at it in the morning. It’s too dark right now.”

“I have a flashlight.”

“Like that’s going to help. And it’s a phone.” He spoke with a knife-sharp edge. “We’d better just go.”

Devil’s Vale was a nice, safe, sleepy Georgia town. Small southern towns were supposed to be filled with helpful, neighborly people, weren’t they? But I managed to get the one dude who had an attitude like a guy who got kicked out a fraternity for bad behavior. I’d known a fair number of frat boys. That took talent. “But you didn’t even look. Can you try jumping it?”

“I’m not going to be able to do anything.” He was already backing toward his a-little-too-well-restored sports car. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up. He was from around here. He looked like he probably played football, boxed, or lifted weights for fun. 

This guy was scared of the dark?

“I can give you a ride into town.”

Please don’t let him be a serial killer. He didn’t look nice enough to be a serial killer. They always looked like the guys who went door-to-door hoping to give you a Bible. This guy didn’t have the nice-guy vibe written on any part of him.

I paused, just as my feet touched the ground. “Can I bring my cat?”

“You have a cat?”

“Well, yeah.” I couldn’t leave Franklin. “He’s in a carrier.”

“Okay.” Dude didn’t look convinced. “I guess you can’t just leave him here.” 

I reached into floorboard to grab Franklin’s crate while my rescuer made sounds like I was stalling while the Titanic sank beneath our feet. 

“Can you hurry up?”

AUTHOR BIO:

D’Ann Burrow once told her preschool teacher she wanted to be a witch when she grew up. That simple comment signaled the start of a life-long fondness of things that go bump in the night. As she grew older, she could most often be found with her nose buried in a book, and she was especially fond of the Nancy Drew series as well as anything by Christopher Pike or Stephen King.  Occasionally she’d take a trip to the world of the classics where The Scarlet Pimpernel and A Little Princess reigned among her favorites.  She’s lost count of the times she’s read Little Women.

Today, D’Ann enjoys the world of Supernatural, stories about guys with fangs, and she’s seldom met a disaster film she hasn’t liked.  When she grows up, she’d like to work at the Haunted Mansion. Until then, watching Ghost Hunters will have to count as research.

D’Ann writes about secrets people keep.  Even the bravest heroine or a guy with a heart of gold has a few skeletons in the closet they’d rather not share with the world. When those secrets get out, things get interesting.

A Texas native, she knows making great guacamole is an art form. As a theater mom, she’ll happily chat about Broadway musicals by the hour.  Molly and Lizzie, the family furry ones, are frequent stars of her Instagram account.

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#Review This Man Confessed (This Man #3) by Jodi Ellen Malpas

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Book: This Man Confessed

Author: Jodi Ellen Malpas

Series: This Man Trilogy (#3) 

Pages: 501

Publisher: Orion

Source: Brought Paperback

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Rating: ✪✪✪✪  

This Man Confessed is the last book in the This Man Trilogy, a erotica romance by author Jodi Ellen Malpas and I have to say it's a series I really enjoyed. I highly recommend this series to anyone who enjoyed the 50 Shades of Grey Trilogy by EL James or the Cross fire Series by Sylvia Day. I know it's a cliche to compare these series but there are so many similarities between all three series

Similarities:

• A rich, brooding, cocky, confident, sexually charged man with many secrets and a lot of underlying issues
• A somewhat naive girl who wants to "fix" the man and who falls so much in love with him, she loves him regardless of his crazy
• Hot sex, enough said.

Differences of This Man Trilogy to others like it: 

• The female protagonist in This Man is sometimes irritating to the point you want to hit her.
• The secrets in this series are 007 classified and don't stop coming even until the last few chapters,of the last book. There are SO many of them!
• I would say sometimes Jesse seems more F-upped than Christian Grey.

Even though this book trilogy blow my mind, sometimes to the point where I was like

 Especially in the last book, I still couldn't put this series down and in fact I have read the trilogy twice this year already. As I said in my previous review of the first two books, this series is like bees to honey and bones to dogs it's that addictive. 

Waiting On Wednesday #42

Waiting On Wednesday is hosted by Breaking the spine where we spotlight books we are highly anticipating.

Underwater by Marisa Reinhardt

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In the aftermath of a deadly high school shooting, 17-year-old Morgan is an agoraphobic trapped in the apartment she shares with her mother and brother; when surfer boy Evan moves in next door, she has to face the life she’s been missing.

Expected Publication: Macmillan/Farrar, Straus, & Giroux January 12, 2016

Why am excited?

This one sounds really heart breaking and not your typical YA I like a YA book to push boundaries and I think Underwater will do that.

What are you waiting on?

Celebrating The Illustrated Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone with the Harry Potter Spells Tag

Today is the day the Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone Illustrated edition is released and I am so excited to get my hands on it.

To celebrate I am going to do the Harry Potter Spells Tag created by Kimberly Faye Reads it is such an awesome tag. Kimberly has kindly let anyone who wants to do the tag use the awesome spell scrolls she made. There is 18 questions but I only picked a handful to answer. For all the questions see Kimberly's blog.Let's get on with the tag:

Q : An upcoming release you wish you could get your hands on right now

A: A lot of books but in particular Lady Midnight (Dark Artifices #1) .

Q- Favourite series starter

A- A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

Q- A book that give you all the warm fuzzies

Anna and the French Kiss Trilogy by Stephanie Perkins

Q- A book that made you ugly cry

A- All Thr Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

Q-Bookish Hero or Heroine you want around to protect you in real life

A- Rose from Vampire Academy she is so kick ass.

Q- A book you intentionally spoiled for yourself

A- The last book in the Sookie Stackhouse book. People had spoilers online of who Sookie ended up with and I looked :( my bad 

Q- A book you wish you could make every one read because you loved it so much.

The all souls trilogy by Deborah Harkness. I am sorry I never shut up about this series but guys and girls please read it, like now. Well not till you have read my the rest of my post ;) 

Q- A book or series you wish never ended

Basically every book because I get attached to characters too easy and never want to let them go. #bookproblems

Q- A book you wish you could forgot you ever read

None, I never regret a book I have read even if I didn't like it. Every book deserves a chance.

Q- A swoon worthy hero or Heroine

Eric from the Sookie Stackhouse books by Charlaine Harris. He isn't a hero per say but I love him.

Q- A book that caused you to stop doing all other things until you finished it

Again am repeating myself but the All Souls Trilogy by Deborah Harkness. Will you all 'read it already.

Tell me all about your love of Harry Potter below. Are you going to get the illustrated version?

#Giveaway Time Warper: Fated byPeggy Martinez Blitz

Time Warper: Fated by Peggy Martinez 

(A Sage Hannigan Novel, #1)

Published by: Clean Teen Publishing

Publication date: October 6th 2015

Genres: Paranormal Romance, Young Adult

Synopsis:

Eighteen-year-old Sage Hannigan wants to get back to her own time, preferably one that hasn’t been destroyed by an underworld plot brewing in Edwardian-era South Carolina. How hard can it be?

All she has to do is:

1. Learn to use newly acquired warping skills to bend time to her will.
2. Take out a few rogue vampires.
3. Join an ancient secret society.
4. Figure out who is putting the time stream in jeopardy.
5. Find and maim whoever invented the corset.

Excerpt

Today I woke up a hundred years younger. That’s a hard thing to accomplish since I’m only eighteen years old. I’d like to think that if I fudge up and accidently come across one of my ancestors I won’t somehow screw up the time stream and… then what? Would I ever be born? Would I wake up one day in this century and just cease to exist? Sheesh… that would probably top my worst-days-ever list.

I should probably back up and begin my story from yesterday… or would it still be considered yesterday when my yesterday takes place a hundred years from now?

See? So confusing!

So let me start over from the beginning, from the day I woke up a normal teenager and went to bed a… time warper. 

Sage never asked to be chosen by the Druid Priestess, Amerach, to become a Warper, and she never asked to have the future hanging on her shoulders or to warp a hundred years into the past. She certainly never asked to meet Dr. Aldwin Blake, who would make her question her desire to get back to her own time. But if she fails her mission, people will die, history will change, and the present she wishes to return to will be no more.

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AUTHOR BIO:

Peggy Martinez is a full time Author who has over a dozen published works, including the Time Warper Series, the State of Decay Trilogy, the Contradiction Series, the Reapers Grimm Series, her middle grade Super Zero Series, and various novellas and serials.

When not writing, Peggy can be found homeschooling her teen son and four daughters. You may also find her packaging hundreds of boxes for her monthly box subscription business she founded just for readers! (Lit-Cube) She could also be spotted reading, making soap, dabbling in aromatherapy, watching gangster movies, prepping for the zombie apocalypse, or downing insane amounts of Twizzlers and Kazoozles. Oh yeah... and day dreaming about owning a small homestead or taking a dream vacation to Greece, Scotland, & Ireland. She could totally be doing that. 

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Celebrate Twilight by Stephanie Meyer's 10th Birthday #Twilight10 #Giveaway

You read that title correctly. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer (the book) is celebrating its 10th Birthday. 10th. Guys how is this book ten! I read the book in 2008 before seeing the movie. So I jumped on the hype band wagon a few years after the book was first released. But I am so happy I jumped on the bandwagon then. I love the Twilight books and have read them many times. Jumping on the bandwagon just before the first movie release let me join and follow the making of the rest of the movies and it meant I had all the books on hand to read. No book release wait for me!

This was the first series of books and movies I first totally fangirled over to a crazy level. I fangirled so much I was always excited to see how filming was on site, all the sightings of the actors and just being a typical fan girl. I even had a Facebook page dedicated to all things Taylor Lautner. It wasn't just me. My sister and me where both obsessed. She was Team Edward and I was Team Jacob. We even made a video arguing ... I meant discussing who was best. Below is the embarrassing video for your entertainment and yes I was 22 years old a grown adult, don't judge LOL 

Team Jacob VS Team Edward 2010

I am so thankful to have went on this fun Twilight Journey with my sister and I am thankful to have had the twi-hard experience. I really can't believe Twilight is 10 years. It's a book that not everyone loves but everyone knows about it. My mum even knows so much about it because all me and my sister used to do was talk about it. Twilight will always be in my book heart. A series that made me fall in love even more with YA.

Did you have a "Twilight Journey"? Where you Team Jacob or Team Edward? Let me know all your Twilight thoughts below.

My sister has also done a post celebrating Twilight's birthday, you can check it out here

GIVEAWAY

To celebrate Twilight's 10 Birthday a New edition of Twilight is being released with bonus material. Me and my sister have partnered up to host a giveaway of one copy of the new edition open to anyone who can receive books from the Book Depository. GIVEAWAY POLICY 

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