Character Madness and Musings

Skin Hunter  Tania Hutley  Publication date: June 18th 2019 Genres: Dystopian, Science Fiction, Young Adult She didn’t want to do it… But she was desperate. Trying to escape the dangerous streets of Old Triton, the buried city, Milla takes the ultimate risk Could a dead girl’s identity be her way out? A ticket to a richer, brighter world high above the muck and gloom of her old life? Now she’s part of a high tech contest, with a prize beyond money, fame and everything she has ever known. A chance to become something… new. But if anyone finds out who Milla really is, she’s dead. The other competitors come from privilege, their faces and bodies tweaked to perfection. Rich and handsome Cale could be the most dangerous of all. Why is he so interested in a scarred, ugly “sinker” like Milla? To survive, she needs to be brave. To win, she needs to evolve. Just try and stop her. Skin Hunter is an upper YA science fiction novel – a futuristic, dystopian thrill-ri...

Crush  by Carrie Banks  (Sea Crest Series, #1)  Publication date: June 18th 2019 Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult Ry… My world was black. I was living bottle to bottle. Only waking up for a new one. I was burning through girls. Loving them and leaving them. I swore that I’d never love again. The pain of losing it was too much. I was shutting that shit down. But then one summer night, I saw her standing there on the beach. The last rays of the sun glinted off her hair. Her shy smile captured me. She stole the heart I thought was dead. And there wasn’t a damn thing I could do, but let her take it and run. Tess... Sea Crest is a popular tourist town, but to me it’s just home. I’m an average girl who rarely strays from the middle of the road. But then… we collided. Me the local good girl and him… the damaged, mysterious new bad boy in town. My friends told me to stay away. My gut told me to run. But my heart’s a traitor that bur...

YA Fantasy Orphaned as a child and raised by a brooding grandfather who can’t stand the sight of him, Xavier feels like a freak. Gifted, or cursed, with the visions and powers of his Jardi mother, and isolated on his grandfather’s estate, he thinks he’ll go mad. On his sixteenth birthday, when he finally escapes the dreary prison of his grandfather’s to attend university, he’s bullied because he’s Jardi. While he struggles to fit in, a master alchemist takes him on as apprentice and helps him develop his gift. But just when things are looking up for Xavier, a mysterious seer appears to deliver a dark prophesy. A sorcerer wants to kill him because of his gift. Gifted with the Jardi sight to see inside things and transform them, Xavier must accept his roots if he hopes to survive. His only allies against the sorcerer are a magical falcon, who is both guardian and mother hen, and an irritatingly smug knight who keeps a perilou...

The Brave Zombie  by E.A. Reyland Genre: Children’s Illustrator: Jassadore Publication Date: June 20th, 2019 Hosted by: Lady Amber’s Reviews & PR First grade is hard enough when you’re a new student, but for Nigel it’s even harder, being that he’s a zombie and all. Dive into first grade with Nigel as he meets his new friend, Alyssa, and they both learn to be brave together. Buy Links: Amazon | Paperback Author Bio E.A Reyland spends her days playing the role of super mom and wife. But, at night she dons her cape and put on her writing hat and dives into the world of her imagination. Nothing is off limits to this mom. From friendly zombies to timid werewolves. E.A. is making the paranormal fun for all ages and loving every moment of it. For other works please visit her at www.Emilycyr.com About the Illustrator: JessAdore is the owner & artist behind all the “creepycute” products for the brand Jess Adorables. She is a stay-at-home mom of...

The Moment We Fell By Kelli Warner Genre: YA Contemporary Romance Release Date: June 25th 2019 Wave Runner Publishing Nothing good happens when people keep secrets. Paige Bryant’s dreams of becoming a professional ballet dancer died along with her mother. Drowning in grief and plagued by guilt, Paige is blindsided by a provision in her mother’s will that sends her to live with the father she never knew. Forced to start over in a new town and at a new school where she's now the principal's daughter, Paige is convinced that her life can’t possibly get more complicated—until fate throws her into the path of the only boy her guardian tells her is off-limits. Despite two years on the straight and narrow, Cade Matthews can’t escape his time as a juvenile delinquent. With his dad behind bars, Cade’s feelings of anger and betrayal are as relentless as the rumors he’s trying to outrun. The only person not listening to the gossip is the new girl with her own set of ...

Risking It All  by S.M. Koz  Published by: Swoon Reads Publication date: June 18th 2019 Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult A high-achieving teen who’s determined to become a fighter jet pilot is matched up with an accused criminal at an elite military boarding school in SM Koz’s YA novel, Risking It All. Paige knows exactly what she wants—to graduate from Wallingford Academy and become a pilot in the US Air Force. She’s inherited her father’s no-nonsense attitude and whip-smart intelligence, all of which have made her the perfect Wallingford cadet. Wallingford Academy is the last place in the world Logan wants to be. But after his girlfriend borrows his car and commits a crime, Logan takes the fall and ends up there with hopes of striking a decent plea bargain. For him, graduation can’t come soon enough. When Paige is asked to mentor Logan, it’s the perfect opportunity to prove her leadership skills—but she doesn’t account for the feelings ...

The Thirteenth Guardian by K.M. Lewis Genre: YA Sci-Fi/Apocalyptic Fantasy  Release Date: June 11th 2019 Da Vinci’s secret pales. Michelangelo concealed an explosive truth in his famous Creation of Man fresco in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican. Everything we have been taught about Eve is wrong—she didn’t cause the fall of man. Instead, Eve carried a far more devastating secret for millennia; one that will change the world forever. As the modern-day world suffers the cataclysmic effects of the “Plagues of Egypt”, Avery Fitzgerald, a statuesque Astrophysics major at Stanford, discovers that she is mysteriously bound to five strangers by an extremely rare condition that foremost medical experts cannot explain. Thrust into extraordinary circumstances, they race against time to stay alive as they are pursued by an age-old adversary and the world around them collapses into annihilation.

 Under sacred oath, The Guardians—a far more archaic and enigmatic secret s...