Blog Tour: Giveaway + Review of The Hands of Tarot by SM Blooding

Time for another blog tour, the second to the last one I have for the year. This one’s for young adult steampunk novel, The Hands of Tarot by SM Blooding. I don’t think I’ve read anything steampunk so I thought I should give it a go. Okay, actually I didn’t realize this book was steampunk when I first signed up for the tour. I saw the word tarot and thought I was in for a dark witchy fantasy. Oh, there’s dark stuff alright and magick, too. Plus flying ships and inventions! Yeahboy, steampunk!

The Hands of Tarot (The Hands of Tarot Series) by SM Blooding 

She killed his father. She imprisoned and beat him. And now she thinks he’s her trophy. Synn El’Asim will do almost anything to prove her wrong. But he’s only proving her right.Queen Nix awakened his Mark of power and inducted him into the House of Wands. She knew what she was doing. The son of the two most powerful Families standing against her is the ultimate prize.

What she didn’t take into consideration was that maybe he was too strong for her. Maybe.

The Families aren’t. They’ve been weakened, and it’ll take a lot more than one young man with a powerful Mark to take on the Hands of Tarot. 

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I’m so cool, I finally read The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins after a bajillion years.

I read The Hunger Games last year after almost everyone on the planet has read it. I know, I’m a bit slow when it comes to catching up with what’s ultra trendy. Anyway, I wrote a quick blog post about it. A few days ago I finally got around to book 2, Catching Fire, and then just today to book 3, Mockingjay. Of course, I’m going to ramble about them here. Shall we?

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Forbidden Life is finally here! Check out the deets plus quick reviews of Forbidden Mind and Forbidden Fire!

Paranormal teens with unimaginable powers. An evil organization with deep secrets. When Sam, a girl who reads minds, meets a boy who controls minds, she discovers her future isn’t what she thought. Together they must escape and free the others… or risk losing everything–and everyone–they love.

Forbidden Life, the last book of the Forbidden trilogy by author Kimberly Kinrade, is finally out! To celebrate its launch, I’m finally posting my quick reviews of the first two books, Forbidden Mind and Forbidden Fire. Better late than never. YAY.

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Review of We’re Done by Judy Irwin plus a $50 Amazon GC Giveaway

Hey, another review stop! This is a review of YA fiction We’re Done by Judy Irwin. I joined the blog tour because the book description seemed quite interesting and it’s about a very real and important topic. It’s about a bully who finds himself on the other side of things.

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Summer Giveaway – a Kindle Fire & signed paperback books from authors Zoe Winters & Kimberly Kinrade

Summer is heating up, and we’re making it even hotter with a sizzling summer promotion you won’t want to miss.

Win a Kindle Fire and six signed paperback books from authors Zoe Winters and Kimberly Kinrade, and get ready to enjoy some sexy hot reads while having fun in the sun.

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Review of Open Heart by Emlyn Chand

Open Heart is the second book of the Farsighted series. The first book was written in Simmi’s boyfriend Alex’s perspective and the book was about how he slowly came into his powers. Open Heart is obviously from Simmi’s perspective and dwells into deeper issues.

About the book

Simmi Shergill’s life is a mess. Her powers of psychic feeling are on the fritz, and Grandon Township’s sudden population boom has brought quite a few unsavory characters to town. She also looks like an over-blown balloon in her size 14 pants, but not even starving herself seems to be working as a diet plan. Well, at least her boyfriend, Alex, loves her so much he’d do anything for her. Last summer he even risked his life to protect her from the mysterious boy everyone was convinced wanted to kill her.

The problem is, she’s not so sure she feels the same way. Is Alex really the man of her dreams? And why can’t she stop fixating on her would-be killer, Dax? Whenever he’s around, part of her wants to run screaming in the other direction while the other part longs to run into his embrace, no matter who she’d hurt or what she’d risk.

Simmi’s loyalty is on the line. Who will she choose—the blind seer who loves her, or the charming telekinetic with “bad idea” written all over him? Emotions run high as the tension mounts in book two of the Farsighted series.

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Review of The Grimoire: Lichgates by S.M. Boyce

About the book

The Grimoire is an old magical book that answers only to one person and it has chosen Kara Magari, who accidentally stumbles across it during a hike. When she opens the book, she suddenly finds herself in Ourea, a beautiful yet terrifying world  full of creatures that all want the book and its secrets. Kara suddenly becomes a most wanted person in this hidden magical world. By chance she meets Braeden Drakonin, a man who’s hiding something and has been looking for the book all his life. He can’t believe his luck when Kara comes into his life. Braeden only has one question for the Grimoire–one question that can fix everything in his broken life–and he’s not letting Kara out of his sight until he gets an answer. For Kara, there’s no way out of Ourea and she has no choice but to trust the Grimoire. — Get The Grimoire on Amazon.

I first found out about this book when I was browsing the giveaway page on Goodreads (awesome way to find book giveaways, by the way!). I saw the book and read the blurb. It had me at book and magic! I was feeling all book-blogger-ish and was interested in a book about a book. Plus it had magic stuff. And the title itself challenged me. Gree-mo-war? Grim-war? Gree-mee? Pronunciation challenge! :D

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Sykosa: Free Kindle on Amazon (June 7 – 8)

Sykosa by Justin Ordoñez is FREE on Kindle today and tomorrow! :)

About the book

YA fiction for the 18+ crowd. Sykosa is a sixteen-year-old girl trying to reclaim her identity after an act of violence shatters her life and the lives of her friends. Set at her best friend Niko’s cottage, for what will be a weekend of unsupervised badness, Sykosa will have to finally confront the major players and issues from this event, as well as decide if she wants to lose her virginity to Tom, her first boyfriend, and the boy who saved her from danger. — Get a FREE Kindle copy on AmazonFree only for June 7 – 8. 

Read my review of Sykosa HERE.

Open Heart, Book 2 of the Farsighted series, is HERE!

Open Heart, the follow up to Farsighted is finally here! And there are so many cool things going on to celebrate this new book release.What are these cool things you ask?

  • Farsighted is FREE for Kindle for the entire weekend!
  • You have a chance to win an autographed paperback of Open Heart via the Splash Into Summer Giveaway on Emlyn Chand’s website.
  • You can listen to the Open Heart playlist
  • You can download Open Heart and Farsighted goodies from Emlyn’s website.
  • And lots more!

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