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Showing posts with label YA Fantasy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label YA Fantasy. Show all posts

13/07/2017

Escape: Lake Of Sins, by L.S.O´Dea. YA Fantasy &Horror. Review & Giveaway. **FREE**

YA Fantasy, horror
Date Published: December 26 2014

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Only the best are chosen to breed.

The rest are loaded onto carts and taken away from the encampment.  Never to be seen again.

Trinity has one week to escape into the forest and discover the fate of her kind.


Dive into the Lake of Sins and discover a world filled with human-animal hybrids where predators are friends and monsters aren't nearly as scary as those who create them.


The YA, dark fantasy series people are calling dark, gritty and too disturbing to put down.

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Ooh what a strange,  scary but exciting world in this book.  
Trinity is our heroine and she has been brought up as a "producer" but is actually part "house servant" . That means she has to keep her fangs and claws hidden from the other producers.  Each year a selection of teenagers are chosen to be mated and others are put on the harvest list and taken somewhere else.  Trinity is determined to find out where that is,  and what happens.  
So begins a dangerous adventure into the wild and very scary world outside the camp.  The creatures she will meet are not like anything we have heard of before.  Her personality will change the normal behavior of some.  What she learns will amaze you.  
The start of a new series that I will certainly be following.  
I loved it,  very different. 

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About the Author


L. S. O’Dea grew up the youngest of seven in a family that uses teasing and tricks as an indication of love (or at least that’s what she tells herself).  Being five years younger than her closest sibling often made her the unwilling entertainment for her brothers and sisters.

Before she started kindergarten her brothers taught her how to spell her first and middle name—Linda Sue.  She was so proud she ran into the kitchen to tell her mother.  She stood tall and recited the letters of her name:  L-E-M-O-N   H-E-A-D.

Perhaps, she has her siblings to thank for the demons that whisper through her mind and help to create these dark and demented stories.

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19/06/2017

Fallen Flame (Fallen Flame #1) by J.M.Miller. YA Fantasy Release, ARC Review & Kindle Fire Giveaway

Title: Fallen Flame
Series: Fallen Flame #1
Author: J.M. Miller
Genre: YA Fantasy
Release Date: June 19, 2017
Cover Photo and Design: Regina Wamba of Mae I Design
Cover Model: Jenessa Andrea
Nineteen years ago, on the island kingdom of Garlin, a girl was born. With charred skin as rough as rock, Vala was instantly feared. For how could one be scorched by magic when it had perished ages before?
Recognizing an asset, the royal family welcomed her on their Guard. Her detail: the prince.
To watch. To protect. She has grown with him, lives her life for him. 
When the high kingdom’s princess comes to assess the prince, assassins of rival courtiers come to claim his life. One nearly succeeds in his mission. But with shadowy movements and charred skin like her own, Vala knows he is not like the rest.
As threats to the prince continue and questions about Vala’s life begin to rise, she faces a fear worse than fire or water, worse even than losing him. 
She fears finding out who she truly is.

Reviewer - “I loved this unique magical story from beginning to end. The easy pace really made it hard for me to stop, I could have easily finished this book in a day. But the way it was written with the steady flow of information really kept me at the easy pace.”

Blog Review - “Fantastical, Mystical, Magical!! Book One in the Fallen Flame series, and it is a great start. J. M. Miller has a wonderful imagination to create the wonderful world of Garlin.”

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Vala is the head of the bodyguards to  Prince Cualden She has grown up always at his side, and would gladly give her life for him and her queen.  Vala has no idea why she is so different from everyone else,  but it does mean that she is feared by most.  A simple touch from her can burn.  
A royal princess is on her way from a nearby  land to see if a marriage could work between Prince Caulden and her.  Or is that the real reason for the visit?.  The other royal family are from a much larger and more powerful land.  
Their once peaceful island is suddenly a dangerous place.  
Our heroine has suffered because of her skin everyday of her life.  Now it seems she might not be the only one afflicted.  
Who can she trust, those she has lived with and protected or a stranger?.  
A magical YA fantasy with a brave , kickass heroine.  You might need the tissues near the end.  An intriguing and thoroughly entertaining read. 


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While the tingles in my red-orange skin slowly ascended into pain, the air biting as everything started to reform, a hard clanking noise outside the back door drew my attention. I slid into my thin underclothes, grabbed hold of my sword, then rushed toward the door. Knowing that sound was out of the ordinary, I was prepared to scour the garth and small area of trees behind the house, even search the neighbors’ land to find the cause. I hadn’t expected to open the door and find Xavyn standing a mere foot away, hood drawn and arms crossed as if I’d kept him waiting too long at the narrow back doorstep.I pointed my sword toward his chest and glanced around him, scanning the darkness. “What are you doing here?”“Following up.” The words were slow. As his hand reached up and removed the hood, his human eyes traversed my face, swallowing the details of my reforming skin in an intense, almost penetrating way.I realized then that I had no cloak, no mask. And for some reason, I wondered if I should take the time of throwing them on … before ending his life. He’d seen me in this state on Prince’s Night, but that was an instant, a moment amid darkness and chaos. Not this closely. I growled at him, digging the tip of my blade into the black leather at his chest, my regrowth pain dissolving as my anger took control.“Are you going to let me in or would you rather call attention to your treason?” he asked, his voice still holding a softness that grated me.“Quit staring at me that way and you can come in.”


J.M. Miller currently consumes her coffee in Florida.
When she isn't busy being distracted by social media sites, she writes Young Adult and New Adult romance novels that vary in genre from contemporary to paranormal.
Aside from spending time with her family, she loves to travel and will jump at the chance to go anywhere, whenever life allows.

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