I'm a huge fan of Lara Adrian's Midnight Breed series, so when I learned of For 100 Days and then I got the opportunity to listen to it on audiobook, I jumped at it.  Read my review and find out why For 100 Days earned a 4 bookmark rating! But before you do, watch the interview I did with Lara last fall. She gives me the scoop on this title! 

Publisher: Lara Adrian, LLC | Tantor Audio
Release Date: May 24, 2016 | August 16, 2016
Format: Audio MP3
Pages: Hardcover: 375 ebook | Audio Length: 9 hours and 34 mins 
Narrator: Summer Morton
Source: Publisher
Genre: Romance, Contemporary,  Erotica
​Rating: 4 bookmarks

Synopsis:  Pleasure has a price . . .

Just when everything in my life is falling apart, I find a chance to turn it around--to step into someone else's glittering world, if only for a little while. I become someone new, no longer the woman defined by an ugly past, but a woman freer and bolder than myself. A woman who isn't afraid to explore every passion, even at its darkest, with a mysterious and seductive man who believes my mask is real.

Handsome and commanding, enigmatic and irresistible, billionaire Dominic Baine is an obsession I cannot afford and should not risk. He ushers me into consuming new pleasures and addicting new desires, until the line between my real life and the fantasy one I've stolen with him begins to blur.

I know I cannot keep my truth from him. I know my past will not stay buried forever. But before I can make it right, everything comes crashing down. I have deceived this powerful, dangerous man . . . and now there is a price to be paid.

*This audiobook was provided by the publisher in exchange for a honest review.

Publisher: Berkley Books | Penguin Audio
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Format: Audio MP3
Pages: Hardcover: 368 pages | Audio Length: 9 hours 51 mins
Narrator: Emily Rankin ​
Source: Publisher
Genre: Women’s Fiction, Chick Lit​
​Rating: 3 bookmarks

​​Synopsis: Lilian Girvan has been a single mother for three years—ever since her husband died in a car accident. One mental breakdown and some random suicidal thoughts later, she’s just starting to get the hang of this widow thing. She can now get her two girls to school, show up to work, and watch TV like a pro. The only problem is she’s becoming overwhelmed with being underwhelmed. 
 
At least her textbook illustrating job has some perks—like actually being called upon to draw whale genitalia. Oh, and there’s that vegetable-gardening class her boss signed her up for. Apparently, being the chosen illustrator for a series of boutique vegetable guides means getting your hands dirty, literally. Wallowing around in compost on a Saturday morning can’t be much worse than wallowing around in pajamas and self-pity. 
 
After recruiting her kids and insanely supportive sister to join her, Lilian shows up at the Los Angeles botanical garden feeling out of her element. But what she’ll soon discover—with the help of a patient instructor and a quirky group of gardeners—is that into every life a little sun must shine, whether you want it to or not…

*This audiobook was provided by the publisher in exchange for a honest review.

Lilian lost her husband in a tragic car accident that she practically witnessed right outside her front door. She suffered a nervous breakdown after this incident and was hospitalized. Her supportive younger sister, Reichel, steps in to take care of her nieces, Annabel, age seven and Clare, age five.

The book opens with Lilian getting back to work as a textbook illustrator for Poplar Press and being a mom with her predictable routine of picking of the girls from school and typical mom stuff. But her routine is disrupted abruptly when her boss assigns her to a job to illustrate a book for the Bloem Company on vegetables and flowers, but there is a catch… she must attend a six-week gardening class. The class is instructed by the handsome Professor Edward Bloem who is also part owner of the Bloem Company. Lillian attends the classes with her daughters and her sister Reichel. However during the course, Lilian’s attraction to Edward “blooms”, but she struggles with it because she can’t seem to move past her love for her dead ​husband Dan. However, she soon finds out that love and gardening have a lot in common.

Publisher: Spiegel & Grau | Random House Audio​​
Release Date: March 7, 2017
Format: Audio MP3
Pages: Hardcover:  272  pages | Audio Length: 7 hours 51 mins
Narrator: Marisol Ramirez , Ramón de Ocampo
Source: Publisher
Genre: Literary Fiction, Historical
​Rating: 4 bookmarks

Synopsis: While her parents are away for a holiday weekend in the mountains around Cali, a teenager finds herself home alone for the first time, with the household help mysteriously gone, no phone connection, and news of an insurgency on the radio—and then she hears a knock at the door. The girl’s teacher recites Shakespeare in the jungle to a class of sticks, leaves, and stones, while his captors watch his every move. Another classmate, having escaped Colombia for the clubs of New York, is unable to forget the life she left behind without the help of the little bags of powder she carries with her. Taking place over two decades, The Lucky Ones presents us with a world in which perpetrators are indistinguishable from saviors, the truth is elusive, and people you love can disappear without a trace.

A prismatic tale of a group of characters who emerge and recede throughout the novel and touch one another’s lives in ways even they cannot comprehend, The Lucky Ones captures the intensity of life in Colombia as paramilitaries, guerillas, and drug traffickers tear the country apart. Combining vivid details of life under siege with a hallucinatory feel that befits its violent world, The Lucky Ones introduces a truly original and exciting new voice in fiction.

*This audiobook was provided by the publisher in exchange for a honest review.

I’m going to just come right out and say it-nobody is lucky in The Lucky Ones.  If you’re looking for a happy-go-lucky book, this isn’t it.  But the language-it’s breathtaking.  I couldn’t wait to figure out what was going to happen next.
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The story is told from alternating viewpoints, with each chapter coming from a different character.  The one similarity between them all, though, is drugs.  With that being said, I felt that the main ‘character’ in the story wasn’t any one individual, but the drugs itself.  All of the characters seemed to be there for one main purpose, and that was to tell the story of narcotics.

Publisher: Penguin Books
Release Date:  March 14, 2017 (first published 2013)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Source: Publisher
Genre: Thriller, Mystery
Rating: 4 bookmarks

Synopsis:​ A six-year-old girl is found in the Norwegian countryside, hanging lifeless from a tree with a jump rope around her neck. She is dressed in strange doll's clothes. Around her neck is an airline tag that says "I'm traveling alone." 

A special homicide unit in Oslo re-opens with veteran police investigator Holger Munch at the helm. Holger's first step is to persuade the brilliant but haunted investigator Mia Krüger to come back to the squad--she's been living on an isolated island, overcome by memories of her past. When Mia views a photograph of the crime scene and spots the number "1" carved into the dead girl's fingernail, she knows this is only the beginning. She'll soon discover that six years earlier, an infant girl was abducted from a nearby maternity ward. The baby was never found. Could this new killer have something to do with the missing child, or with the reclusive Christian sect hidden in the nearby woods?

Mia returns to duty to track down a revenge-driven and ruthlessly intelligent killer. But when Munch's own six-year-old granddaughter goes missing, Mia realizes that the killer's sinister game is personal, and I'm Traveling Alone races to an explosive--and shocking--conclusion.

*This book was provided by the publisher in exchange for a honest review.

​To me, Holger seems like a father figure for Mia and throughout the book, the two look out for each other above everyone else. It really shows the bond that is formed when individuals work a stressful and challenging job. Their relationship is highlighted in multiple chapters and each have a way of helping the other as they work together to solve the crime.

Throughout the book, Mia struggles with personal conflicts and addiction and I think Samuel Bjork highlights it enough but doesn’t make it the main focus of the story, which is appreciated.

The villain of the story is surprising, which I believe makes this book all the better. The story is written in such a way that you believe you know who the murderer is and are patiently waiting for Holger and Mia to figure it out with you and then the twist occurs.

We're back again with another installment of The Bourbon Kings.  Read on to find out why The Angels' Share earned a three bookmark rating. ​Read my review of The Bourbon Kings (book one).

Publisher: NAL | Penguin Audio​
Release Date: July 26, 2016
Format: Audio MP3
Pages: ebook: 426 pages | Audio Length: 12 hours 35 mins
Narrator: Alexander Cendese
Source: Audible
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Review Date: April 26, 2017
​Rating: 3 bookmarks

Synopsis: In Charlemont, Kentucky, the Bradford family is the crème de la crème of high society—just like their exclusive brand of bourbon. And their complicated lives and vast estate are run by a discrete staff who inevitably become embroiled in their affairs. This is especially true now, when the apparent suicide of the family patriarch is starting to look more and more like murder…

No one is above suspicion—especially the eldest Bradford son, Edward. The bad blood between him and his father is known far and wide, and he is aware that he could be named a suspect. As the investigation into the death intensifies, he keeps himself busy at the bottom of a bottle—as well as with his former horse trainer’s daughter. Meanwhile, the family’s financial future lies in the perfectly manicured hands of a business rival, a woman who wants Edward all to herself.

Everything has consequences; everybody has secrets. And few can be trusted. Then, at the very brink of the family’s demise, someone thought lost to them forever returns to the fold. Maxwell Bradford has come home. But is he a savior...or the worst of all the sinners?

The drama continues! In the second installment of this three book saga, Lane and Lizzie again take center stage and seem to be the center-point of the story. All of the family take on larger roles in the book and Lane's siblings get a fair amount of time. Ward gives us lots of detail on each of their story lines.  Edward and Gin are mostly equally on the page, and Maxwell gets a moment of his own.  I enjoyed that we delved deeper into the history of the family and we start to uncover even more family secrets. We get closer and closer to finding out who killed William Baldwine. 

Deborah Blake visits the Shelf Addiction Podcast to talk about witches in the fantasy genre and to introduce her newest release, Veiled Menace, the second book in the Veiled Magic series!  Listen to the podcast episode and enter to win a copy of both books!

This is an INTERNATIONAL ebook giveaway, so enter today! Everyone get one free entry by following the Rafflecopter instructions. There are more options if you'd like to earn more entries. Increase your chances even more by tweeting every day!  ​Good Luck! 

​Deborah Blake is the author of the Baba Yaga Series (Wickedly Dangerous, Wickedly Wonderful, Wickedly Powerful), the Broken Rider Series, and the Veiled Magic books from Berkley, and has published nine books on modern witchcraft with Llewellyn Worldwide as well as a tarot deck. When not writing, Deborah runs The Artisans’ Guild, a cooperative shop she founded with a friend in 1999, and also works as a jewelry maker, tarot reader, and energy healer. She lives in a 130-year-old farmhouse in rural upstate New York with various cats who supervise all her activities, both magical and mundane.

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There was a new Transformers trailer that released this past week and I'm loving it! What do you think of the upcoming Transformers: The Last Knight.

Also newly releases this past week was the Thor Ragnor trailer. It looks AMAZING!  

​I LOVE Bookstock! As a book blogger and avid reader this is an awesome place to complete my book series collections and find certain editions of books!

I'm going to let you in on a secret. There are tons of brand new and one time read books here. If you're looking for specific books, bring your list and bring a friend for help searching! Not only will you find great deals, but you'll be by buying books that you'd buy anyway and contributing to an amazing cause as the same time. Come out and support literacy programs and buy a few books!

​Looking for audiobooks? They have them! Nonfiction titles? They have them. Children's books? They have those too! There is a amazingly huge selection of books and other media.

It's such a joy to be around all of these books and book lovers. Fellow shoppers will not only help you search for a book, but will sometimes recommend good reads as well. I have a great time searching for titles and chatting with others looking the same table(s).  I hope that you'll check it out this year. I'll be there early during the pre-sale on day one. If you see me, be sure to say hello! Stay tuned because I 'll be doing a video book haul on my YouTube channel following Bookstock 2017.

​Bookstock’s back, offering incredible deals on used books and media Sunday, April 23 through Sunday, April 30 at Livonia’s Laurel Park Place. 

Bargains abound at Bookstock, metro Detroit’s biggest and best used book and media sale, where proceeds benefit literacy and education projects in metropolitan Detroit. Detroit Free Press columnist Rochelle Riley and Detroit News columnist Neal Rubin are Honorary Co-Chairs of Bookstock and the Mike Morse Law Firm is Bookstock’s 2017 Presenting Sponsor.
 
Bookstock’s Pre-Sale will kick-off on Sunday, April 23 at 8:15 a.m. with a performance by Livonia’s Churchill High School Drumline. There is a $20 admission charge for the Pre-Sale only, which runs through 11 a.m. and offers savvy shoppers and collectors first crack at Bookstock’s treasure trove of bargains. Bookstock has over 200,000 donated used books, DVDs, CDs, books on tape, magazines and records for sale at bargain basement prices. The sale will continue through Sunday, April 30, running Sundays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. and Monday through Saturday 10 a.m. – 9p.m.