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A Symphony of Savage Hearts Cover Reveal

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By @lana_p_author

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Release date Feb 14, 2022!

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Look at them fangs! 🤤😍

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Okay I got that out of my system ( I didn't)...I love this cover. If I have to tell you why then you must be new here. I am so excited for this book. I have been loving this series ( Both seasons). One day I'll have more than just her books on my Kindle. MARK MY WORDS. THEY SHALL GRACE MY SHELVES.

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Head over to Lana's page and find out about the giveaway!

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#ASymphonyOfSavageHearts #LanaPercherczyk #ShadeAndSilver #SeasonOfTheVampire

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tired of living my life, i want a 4 year break

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Ace Of Spades Book Review- 4 stars . Sometimes a book screams at me to read it and so I hype it up so much in my own head. You can imagine that can end very badly if I end up not liking the book because the crash back down to earth hurts. Such was not the case here. NOT EVEN A LITTLE BIT. . One private school. Two Black teenagers from the opposite sides of society's tracks. Devon's mom has sacrificed much so the musical protege can lead them to a better life. Chiamaka wants for nothing. One anonymous texter exposing their darkest secrets. . This book is very difficult to review because it is, amongst other things, a thriller. And I'm don't want to give anything away as that really would ruin the book for you. I will say it is twisty and dark. I went in kind of blind and don't regret that at all. It was a Bookish First win and once I saw the cover I knew I had to have it. BOOKWORM INTUITION IS REAL. . #AceOfSpades #BookishFirst @faridahlikestea @bookishfirst https://www.instagram.com/p/CQelcFGroIt/?utm_medium=tumblr

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The Vice Book Review- 4 stars . I knew this book would wreck me. Luckily for me I live for books that rip me up from the inside out. Harper is so many of us. Trauma, bad coping mechanisms, that dreaded voice in your head, keeping the wrong people around you, self destructive behavior, depression. I can absolutely relate to her in so many ways it was kind of scary to be honest. I found myself wanted to shake some sense into her but yelling "BEEN THERE, DONE THAT, SIS!" at my e-book. I love that Harper sought help but the author didn't make it seem like 2-3 sessions were a magical cure. They absolutely were not. Harper relapses over and over. . I feel like this book would hit home for a lot of people. However, If you don't like reading about broken characters or can't deal with them making bad choices over and over then this book is not for you. Trigger warnings- miscarriage, alcohol abuse, depression, suicidal thoughts. . #BookReview #TheVice #VersionsOfMe #BookOne @jjensenbooks https://www.instagram.com/p/CQL8JcELcCv/?utm_medium=tumblr

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The Vice Release Blitz! By @jjensenbooks . This book sounds like it will absolutely wreck my life. So I need it immediately. 🤣🤣. It is the first book in the Versions of Me series. 4 books which will be rapidly released over the course of next year and we LOVE this. Available now! . Visit www.JenniferJensenBooks.com for purchasing info. . Synopsis: Harper’s unhealthy coping mechanisms of meaningless sex and excessive drinking is starting to catch up to her—as is her avoidance of the past. . At 28, she has found herself stuck in a cycle of perpetual anger, unrelenting loneliness, and constant self-loathing—something she isn’t positive she can come back from. . Her mirror reflects a girl that she no longer recognizes, and she has done everything she can to push away the ones she loves. But a sudden chain of events leads her to face the traumas she has been trying to keep buried with the vice that has kept her numb. . And although the nagging voice in her head continues to poke at her insecurities and drag her down, Harper sees that there might be a light at the end of the tunnel—an end to the chaos in her life that she is desperate to reach. . Content Warnings: Abuse (physical, emotional, sexual), Drinking/Drug use, PTSD, Rape, Suicide/Suicidal thoughts, Miscarriage/Infertility, Depression/Anxiety/Mental Illness, Trauma, Panic Attacks . #TheVice #VersionsOfMe #JenniferRJensen #NBBTours . Huge thank you to @nbbtours for letting me be a part of this blitz! https://www.instagram.com/p/COyA_xxLUwk/?igshid=1jhx7yf2scekf

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The Secrets in Shadow And Blood Review- 5 stars . Vampire. Yay! That's it. That's my review. Okay fine it's not...but also I love vampires. And I was ready to see what @lana_p_author would give me with Indigo and I am not disappointed. I need to figure out how to become a genius, build a bomb that takes out the world but I wake up 1000 years in the future and become a Well-blessed mate to a vampire Guardian ( or a wolf shifter. Honestly I'm not picky.). . Violet was one of the first to wake in this new future. A future she realized she helped shape. She built the weapon that destroyed the planet 1,000 years before. She carries the guilt of what she's done for the past six years as she makes her way through Elphyne hiding amongst the fae. Never truly sleeping, trusting, making any connections. Just killing vampires. Vampires like the ones who attacked her when she first woke....and she's good at it. But Clarke isn't the only Seer and others are looking for her and want what she has in her head. . Indigo. An outcast amongst his own people because his parents were the first to mate and be faithful. Then one in his own family once he decided to join the Guardians to help with his own guilt over his own past. Things he doesn't want Violet to know because he can't ever lose her. But if he can't let go of his own guilt , how can he convince her to let go of hers? . This is book 4 in the Fae Guardians series and book one in the Season of the Vampire trilogy. Which means....YAY MORE VAMPIRES. #FaeGuardians #SeasonOfTheVampire #BookReview #LanaPecherczyk *Spoiler alert...that snake tat isn't just for show. 👀👀👀 https://www.instagram.com/p/COMFAfZrC93/?igshid=ffy907z8lp98

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The Dreams of Broken Kings Review- 5 stars . I knew that after certain events from the previous book that Jasper would make my heart cry and bleed and so yea...I already loved him before I knew him. . The common thing between the Fae Guardians and their Well-blessed mates is that they all have their own trauma. They are all broken somehow and none think they deserve love. But they do. And Ada is no different. Abandoned as a child by a mother who gave zero shits about her she practically saved herself until a hermit taught her how to hunt for survival but not for cruelty. For all the pain she's gone through she's a healer through and through. . Jasper is broken. Very broken. Tortured and held captive for ten years, by the time he is saved he can't even remember his name. And maybe he doesn't want to. Whether he wants to or not won't stop what's coming for him because it wants him dead and it wanted him dead when he was a child. . Call me the most basic of bitches, I care the fuck not, but I'm a sucker for a broken soul especially if he's a shifter with pointy ears. Clearly I'm loving this series and all the characters in it. It's safe to say @lana_p_author will be an auto buy author for me from here on in. . #TheDreamsOfBrokenKings #TDOBK #FaeGuardians #LanaPecherczyk https://www.instagram.com/p/COEF-wNrBXb/?igshid=xm41orparpuo

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Of Kisses and Wishes Review- 5 stars . I told you I was going down a @lana_p_author rabbit hole. This is a novella ( book 2.5 to be exact.) Since it was a novella it was a quick read but worth it. . Anise is a wolf shifter who can not shift and has never been able to. She has been treated like lesser fae her whole life and thinks of herself that way too. 😭😭. Caraway is a musk ox shifter who became a Guardian after his people were attacked. Problem is they are nonviolent all the way and he was shunned by his whole family.  . After being kidnapped Anise never wants to feel helpless again. And maybe along the way she'll learn she was never less than and Caraway will learn the difference between following rules and doing what's right. . Side characters matter and I love when they get a little story on the side for their own happy ending. Especially for Anise and Caraway who are very likeable and they deserved their Happily Ever After. . #FaeGaurdians #Novella https://www.instagram.com/p/CN-Ub6wrj6D/?igshid=16b88dy7aw7vb

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The Solace of Sharp Claws Review- 5 stars . We are back in Elphyne. Not with Rush and Clarke...but with Rush's son Thorne and Laurel. . It's been about two years since Clarke woke in this new world and she knows her best friend is next. Good for Laurel to have someone there for to help her understand what she's waking up to. Laurel was the head of a fitness empire in her time. A queen in her own right. She lived and worked hard to make up for her twin that didn't make it to see adulthood. She lived for them both. Even if that meant that constantly pushing forward and not learning to take a minute to appreciate life in the now. . Thorne was born during a time where his birth was illegal and both his parents paid the price. His mother with her life and his father a cursed ghost. His aunt was sent away, he was forced to become a Guardian and his mentor has been mysteriously gone for a decade. He's angry. Very. And nobody is going to stop him from finding Jasper. BUT WAIT! THERE'S MORE...and you need to read the book to find out rest. BWAHAHAHAHAHA. (I can not give you all the deets. That's not how this works!) . This story is continuing the war that is brewing in Elphyne and as much as I miss Rush ( insert all the sad faces here), this book was just as good. And I'm ready for more delicious shifting Fae men falling for bad ass human women. ISSA MOOD. . #TheSolaceOfSharpClaws #FaeGuardians #LanaPecherczyk @lana_p_author https://www.instagram.com/p/CN7wVC1LT-g/?igshid=1k40z8d8aeila

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I'm almost to Indigo's book and I'm EXCITED AF. I'm going down a @lana_p_author rabbit hole and I'm okay with that. . Here's the link to pre-order! https://books2read.com/TSISAB . My goal is to add these to my bookshelves and not just my e-shelves. #FaeGuardians https://www.instagram.com/p/CN5SF2OLFTu/?igshid=1shyezqoup133

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Her Dark Lies Review- 4 stars . It's been a hot minute since I've read a @thrillerchick book and this book reminded me as to why I loved her in the first place. If you're looking for a mystery/thriller you can't go wrong with her. . Claire Hunter is ready to marry the love of her life, Jack Compton. He comes from a powerful and wealthy family so she knows life won't be the same. For instance, their wedding is taking place in a beautiful family owned villa off the Italian coast. But Claire doesn't want him for his money and has zero problems signing the prenup that comes with marrying someone like Jack. And Jack loves her. . With all that love between them doesn't mean that Claire doesn't have a past or secrets in that past and the same goes for Jack. And it seems that someone or something on the island wants all the secrets out in the open and to show that not all things buried stay that way. . #BookReview #HerDarkLies #JTEllison #HarperCollins #ScaredSuspenseBookClub . And a big thank you again to @suspensethrill and @scaredstraightreads ! https://www.instagram.com/p/CN0FMgOrE5Q/?igshid=1fptmw88kitq2

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Talking Books With @debbiedoesbooks!

[What is this and how can I participate?]

Important note: I haven’t changed or edited any of the answers. I’ve only formatted the book titles so they were clearer, but nothing else. Because I’m incapable of shutting up, my comments are between brackets and in italics, so you can distinguish them clearly.

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1. What is a book you own a special edition of?

Out of 600ish books i have none are special editions. Which now sounds crazy to me lol. But I do have some that are signed. I tend to by a lot of used books. New books I usually get from my SO as gifts for from friends and family as gifts.

2. Last I-wish-I-hadn’t-read-this book you’ve read?

The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James. I was crazy hype to read it. I  felt like it was going to be a favorite read. Instead I was insanely bored by it. So disappointing.

3. Do you do read-alongs?

No. I’ve tried in the past but I can’t ever seem to join a group where anyone actually follows along and at the end does the group thing. So I stopped joining.

4. How long is your TBR right now?

I don’t make monthly TBRs. I’ve tried but since I’m a mood reader I never stick to them so i just don’t to them anymore. But according to Good Reads I’ve added over 1000 books to my Want To Read section.

5. Thoughts on DNFing books?

As a kid I could NEVER DNF. I just HAD to finish no matter how much I didn’t like the book. But then you get older and responsibilities grow as time lessens so I’ve learned that it is not worth it to continue a book that I am not enjoying. I don’t have time to myself as it is a stay at home mom and I won’t waste my precious me/book time by not at the very minimum liking what I am reading. With that being said I do try to read at least halfway before giving up. Sometimes books do get better as it goes along..but if i’m halfway and it’s still crap to me then I give up. Sometimes  a book feels like it will get better (cough cough The Sun Down Motel) so i’ll finish it and then just be mad at myself. If it’s so bad that I can’t even finish half then I absolutely won’t rate it. I will rate at halfway or more but I always make sure to state that I didn’t finish and why I didn’t.

[Whereas I CAN’T give a book up. No matter how much I hate or how much it bores me, I just can’t, my brain won’t let me hahah. I can count with one hand the books I’ve DNF, and it was all when I was way younger.]

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Thank you, Debbie! This was fun.

Next interview: Saturday, 17th of April

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What Beauty There Is Book Review-5 Stars . Man, listen...this books starts off heavy. And stays pretty heavy throughout. It's a very haunting and heartbreaking book. And with that comes trigger warnings such as suicide and that's right off the bat. Then there's absent parent, enclosed spaces, gore and murder to name some. So I want to say that right at the beginning and not the end but when I say it can be a heavy book for some I mean it's HEAVY. . Jack Morton has had to grow up and do it fast. Life has not been easy for him at all and all he has left is his little brother. Now he has to decide if he will let his brother go to foster or find the drug money his father hid. Jack doesn't know Ava Bardem. But Ava know Jack. . Ava Bardem was told her whole life by her father to love and trust no one. And she has to choose...find the money for her father (who was Jack's father partner in crime) or help the brothers get the money so they can survive. . This was all in all a very good thriller that gave me more than I was expecting to be honest. Especially for YA, which is a plus for me. . #WhatBeautyThereIs #CoryAnderson #BookishFirst #BookReview @coryanderwrites @bookishfirst https://www.instagram.com/p/CNdUiXhLA1p/?igshid=1qfinv4myopmd

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The Song Book of Benny Lament Book Review- 5 Stars . I love historical romances. This isn't the type I usually lean towards to so I figured as much I would like it. Instead I loved it. Such a beautifully written love story...but beautiful doesn't ever mean easy. It's a love story about an interracial couple in the 60's in NYC. So yes there is racism involved. And it wouldn't have been as believable and gripping if there hadn't been any. If you're going to write about a certain time period then you need to give the bad right along with the good. This may be fiction but it isn't fantasy. So be real with it and I feel like Amy Harmon did her research and wrote it well. Benny Lament is Italian, from The Bronx, and he's the nephew of a mob boss and a songwriter. Okay I can't lie...upon seeing he was from The Bronx I was already liking him. I'm not Italian, the niece of a mob boss or born in the 60's...but I am from The Bronx so off the bat I was like "What's good, Benny." LOL. The man was born to write songs and wrote his first one at the age of 8. He goes on to have a great career...but wants nothing to do with familial responsibilities of any kind after what he witnessed as a child. The story is told from his POV. Esther Mine is Black, grew up with a large family and is the lead singer of the group Minefield. And all Benny had to do was hear her sing one time and before she was even done he knew he just HAD to write a song for her. Esther is nobody's fool and gives as good as she gets. The songwriting part came easy for them. Everything else was quite the opposite. Come ready to feel all the feelings. . Huge thank you to @korrieskorner for putting this book on my radar and to @readswithmj for gifting it to me! . #TheSongBookOfBennyLament #AmyHarmon #BookReview @amy.harmon2 https://www.instagram.com/p/CNXs2VgrcJQ/?igshid=13ezibdmddz44

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Demonbane Book Review- 5 stars

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Hello. My name is Debbie and I love Cazien "Demonbane" Talon. I am so happy to have gotten an E-Arc because this book kept up a great pace from start to finish.

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Minerva Remon's life was a good one as a child but not for long. Almost sold as a child bride, she proved herself a fighter and survivor by escaping but life wasn't musicals and swooning after that. She's strong and she'll find a way to pay back her debt so that she can finally leave Constinbul and start a new life where nobody knows her. Even if it means going back to where her happiness ended.

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Cazien "Demonbane" Talon. “I don’t love, darling. I fuck, I drink, I fight. But never love.” CLEARLY A FAE AFTER MY OWN HEART. Caz is looking for a certain relic that may or may not exist so that he can save his younger brother from a fae realm where he is being held captive. He needs a guide to a certain island only a tough, sassy, won't drop to his feet type of woman knows her way around.

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Fantasy. Romance. Magic. Fae. A fae whose eyes turn black when he fights. YUM. I love Caz. I love Min. I love Caz and Min together. This book is a standalone so the stories continue on with the rest of the family. Which does make me kind of sad because I'd love more of Caz and Min but I'm very ready for more Talon brothers. I'M LOOKING AT YOU, GAVRET.

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The Longing of Lone Wolves

Book review- 5 stars

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A white haired, wolf shifting Fae Guardian? I'M IN! You need more than that? FINE.

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Clarke , a human, wakes up in an unfamiliar place only to realize she is technically home. Just not a home in her own time. And perhaps with some powers she didn't have before waking in this strange new place.

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Rush (the aforementioned yummy white haired fae) is cursed and nobody has seen him in a very long time. Literally. Until Clarke when he's at the right place at the right time to save her.

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CUE THE QUEST.

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A post apocalyptic world with different shifting Fae, different races, a forbidden romance ( a human and a Fae? GASP), upcoming war, a curse that needs broken, and a library scene I may have read twice...okay fine three times. Judge me. 🤷‍♀️😂

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#TheLongingOfLoneWolves #FaeGuardiansSeries #BookOne #LanaPecherczyk

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Book Review 5 Stars! . I am and have always been Hades and Persephone trash. So to say that I wanted to read this forever ago is an understatement. But we know how it goes when you want to read all the things ever at the same time...I'M READING AS FAST AS I CAN , PEOPLE. Anyhoots.....this was retelling perfection. You read that correct. PERFECTION. Tragic, of course because what Greek mythology story doesn't have its share of tragedy. But it had its fair share of adorable and hilarious moments. The art was definitely icing on the cake. . I'm sure it won't be long now before I'm fully caught up. And when that happens I'll probably start it all over as I wait for more. . Trigger warning- Verbal and sexual abuse . #LoreOlympus #HadesAndPersephone #WebToons #WebComic #RachelSmythe @usedbandaid https://www.instagram.com/p/CKZQe8dA7Ac/?igshid=1b6rz6qwjl2l7