The Truth About Letting Go Book Blitz and Giveaway

The Truth About Letting Go by Leigh Talbert Moore
Publication date: February 21st 2013
Genre: YA Contemporary

Ashley wants to smash everything in her once-perfect life.

Charlotte wants to walk in Ashley’s seemingly charmed shoes.

Colt wants to turn Smalltown USA on its ear—with Ashley at his side.

Jordan wants to follow his heart…

But Ashley’s the one sacrifice he never expected to make.

Up until now, Ashley Lockett’s followed the rules. She’s always done the right thing, played it safe, gone to church. Then her ideal life is torn apart when her dad dies suddenly.

Now she’s miserable and furious, and she makes a vow not to believe in anything. She’s on a mission to do everything opposite of how she lived before—rejecting safety, the rules, faith… 

And then she meets Jordan. 

Jordan has big dreams, he’s a great kisser, and he wants to help her through her grief. He also believes in everything Ashley now claims to  hate. 

Then she meets Colt. He is not safe. And he’s ready to help Ashley fulfill her mission.

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AUTHOR BIO

Leigh Talbert Moore is a wife and mom by day, a writer by day, a reader by day, a freelance editor when time permits, a chocoholic, a caffeine addict, a lover of any great love story, a beach bum, and occasionally she sleeps.

Leigh’s debut novel The Truth About Faking is available now on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, iTunes, and Kobo.

Her second book, Rouge, is a mature YA/new adult romantic suspense novel set in New Orleans. It’s available on Amazon.

Author Links:

Website: http://leightmoore.blogspot.ca/

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/6452152.Leigh_Talbert_Moore

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LeighTalbertMoore

Twitter: https://twitter.com/leightmoore

At What Cost Blog Tour, Review & Giveaway

At What Cost

By J. Andersen

Release Date: June 13, 2012

Currently E-book only

225 pages

Book Description from Goodreads:

During her junior year, sixteen-year-old Maggie Reynolds expected to shop for prom dresses not maternity clothes. Now, instead of studying for the SATs, she’s reading, What to Expect When You’re Expecting. Maggie’s ‘Mother Dearest’ lives in fear that Maggie will somehow taint the family name, so Maggie can’t turn to her for help. Meanwhile, her father is oblivious to anything but his 9-9 job. And her boyfriend, Justin? She’s pretty sure he’ll stay by her side.

While Maggie wrestles with her options, Justin offers a solution: abortion. It would solve all her problems quickly, easily, and effectively. And her parents would never know, which means they won’t throw her out and cut her off like they’d always threatened if she got herself knocked up. Now Maggie must decide which choice she can live with: abortion or teenage motherhood. Either way, it’ll be a tough road to travel.

My Review:

I have to say I was really impressed with Andersen's writing style. Usually I enjoy books that are more dialogue driven and At What Cost doesn't read that way. This book is written in the third person and deals with how Maggie is feeling as she has countless internal struggles trying to decide what she wants to do about her pregnancy. Throughout most of At What Cost Maggie feels very isolated and alone. She avoids everyone for the most part and wishes that her "problem" would just go away. 

What I liked:

*Andersen's writing 

*The different topics that At What Cost addresses very realistically: family, friends, choices, (a little vague here I know but I'm trying to avoid spoilers)

*Aunt Rachel and Evan, Loved them!!!

*Surprisingly, Maggie's family

*The ending. I loved how Andersen ended At What Cost.

What I didn't like:

*I didn't like how Maggie treated Evan. 

*I didn't like how the author skipped over Maggie and Evan becoming as close as they did. I would have loved another 20 pages that went into that relationship a bit more. 

*the preachy tone that occasionally crept into the story

*Justin, though I don't think I was suppose to like him.

Overall:

At What Cost is an enjoyable, quick read that deals pretty honestly with a tough subject. I know there are other YA novels that deal with teen pregnancy but I haven't read any others yet, so for me at least, the plot was pretty original. 

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About this author

Jessie Andersen lives in a small town in Western New York with her husband and three kids. A former English teacher, she now spends her time writing while the kids are at school and the baby is sleeping. She volunteers at the local library and sings in the church band. You can find information about her books at jandersenbooks.com, and you can follow her blogs atTherabidwriter.blogspot (Personal blog) and Readbetweenthelinesbookclub.blogspot.com (Book blog). You can also follow her on Twitteratwww.twitter.com/jvdlandersen and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/jandersenbooks.

www.Jandersenbooks.com
www.Therabidwriter.blogspot.com
www.readbetweenthelinesbookclub.blogspot.com
www.facebook.com/jandersenbooks
www.twitter.com/jvdlandersen

http://www.goodreads.com/jvdlandersen

http://www.leisurereads.com – September 24 - Review

http://edandemreviews.blogspot.com/ - September 24 – Promo

http://iheartyabooks.blogspot.com/ - September 25 - Review

http://www.readergirlsblog.com – September 25 – Interview & Excerpt

http://clairelouisereads.blogspot.com.au/ - September 25 – Review

http://scarletsilhouettes.blogspot.com/ - September 25 - Author Interview

http://www.blookgirl.com – September 26 – Review

http://www.fortheloveoffilmandnovels.com/ - September 26 – Review

http://pinkpolkadotbookblog.blogspot.com/ September 26 - Review

http://melissaseclecticbookshelf.blogspot.com – September 26 – Promo Post

A Soul Unsung - http://soulunsung.blogspot.com – September 26 - Review

www.sweetsouthernhome.net – September 27 – Promo Post

http://adiaryofabookaddict.blogspot.com/ - September 27 - Review

http://everyfreechancebookreviews.blogspot.com/ - September 27 – Promo Post

http://paigebradish1996.blogspot.com/ - September 27 – Promo Post

http://book-spark.blogspot.com/ - September 28 – Promo Post

http://taralenwalker.blogspot.com/ - September 28 – Promo Post

http://myneuroticbookaffair.blogspot.com – September 28 - Review

A Reader's Devotion - http://areadersdevotion.blogspot.co.uk – September 28 - Review

http://andisyoungadult.blogspot.com – September 29 - Review

http://themodpodgebookshelf.blogspot.com – September 29 – Promo Post

Read and Reviewed  - http://ahandfulofconfetti.wordpress.com – September 29 - Review

The Reading Hideaway - http://thereadinghideaway.blogspot.com – September 29 - Review

Spotlight: Reflection by Jessica Roberts Giveaway and Blog Tour Stop

Reflection

By Jessica Roberts

Release Date: 02/17/12

e-book

289 pages

Book Description from Goodreads:

Bright, spunky Heather Robbins has escaped her small hometown and is anxiously beginning her freshman year of college. Rising above her rocky childhood, she’s found a place where good things are finally starting to happen: her own private apartment, refreshing college classes, and an intense attachment to a mysterious and rugged classmate, Nick Richards.

But when her dreamy college life turns out to be nothing more than a wonderful dream while resting in a coma, questions threaten.

Now, Heather must press forward to unlock the real past, and find the answers buried deep in her mind. What she unlocks instead is a roller coaster ride through flashbacks, embellished memories, and a whirlwind romance.

And when it’s all over and she comes face to face with the truth, will she lose everything she’s fallen in love with?

Reflection Excerpt:

“Okay,” he replied.  “You win.”

“I always win,” she heckled.

“That’s very true.”  He kicked a large dirt rock off her side of the path, exhaled in a sort of surrendering way, and then began in a lighter tone, “So after we stop by the library, what’s the plan for the morning?”

“Well,” she said, smiling playfully, “I thought we would go to the grocery store, buy out the candy aisle, find a park with a swing set, and eat gummy bears ’til we puke.”

The giveaway is for (1) $25 Amazon gift card plus an e-copy of Reflections plus (9) additional Reflection e-books.  Open Internationally.

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About the Author

JESSICA ROBERTS grew up in the San Francisco, California Bay Area where she spent most of her time playing sports alongside her six siblings. She was crowned Miss Teen California her senior year of high school, and went on to Brigham Young University where she graduated in Human Development. Her love of family, church, writing, athletics, and singing and dancing keeps her life busy and fulfilled. She currently resides in Utah with her husband and three children.

Website:

http://www.jessicarobertsauthor.blogspot.com/

Twitter username:

@JRobertsAuthor

Goodreads Page:

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/688989.Jessica_Roberts

Facebook Page:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Jessica-Roberts/174139906035619

Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Reflection-Series-ebook/dp/B007APJ0D6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1346370258&sr=8-1&keywords=jessica+roberts

Barnes and Noble:

http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/reflection-jessica-roberts/1108923817?ean=2940013954878

Reflection Blog Tour Schedule:

http://somelikeitparanormall.blogspot.com  - September 3 – Review

http://myneuroticbookaffair.blogspot.com – September 3 – Promo Post

http://hardcoverlife.blogspot.com  - September  3- Review 

http://www.whatsbeyondforks.com  - September 3 – Review 

http://adiaryofabookaddict.blogspot.com/  - September 3 - Review

http://www.bengalreads.com - September 3 - Review

http://www.thefairytalenerd.com/ - September 3  - Promo Post

http://kissedbyink.com – September 3 - Review

http://adkwriter15.wordpress.com - September 4 – Review

http://kksbookshelf.blogspot.com/ - September 4 – Review

http://twimom101bookblog.blogspot.com/ - September 4 - Promo Post

www.christysloveofbooks.com – September 4 – Promo Post

http://onemilysbookshelf.com – September 4 - Review

http://www.leisurereads.com – September 4 – Review

http://paigebradish1996.blogspot.com/ - September 4 – Promo Post

http://captivatedreading.com – September 4 – Promo Post

http://jacitamati.blogspot.com/ - September 4 – Review

http://www.booksbesidemybed.com/ - September 4 – Review

http://ramblingsofabookjunkie.blogspot.com/ - September 5 - Review

http://everyfreechancebookreviews.blogspot.com/ - September 5 - Review

http://www.blookgirl.com – September 5 - Review

http://bibliophilesthoughtsonbooks.blogspot.com/ - September 5 - Review

http://melissaseclecticbookshelf.blogspot.com/ - September 5 – Promo Post

http://gobsandgobsofbooks.blogspot.com/ - September 5 - Review

http://iheartyabooks.blogspot.com/ - September 5 - Review

http://adreamwithindream.blogspot.com – September 5 – Review

www.MostlyYABookObsessed.com – September 6 – Review

Readbetweenthelinesbookclub.blogspot.com – September 5 – Promo Post

http://bookmarksbookshelves.blogspot.co.uk/ - September 5 - Review

http://www.fortheloveoffilmandnovels.com/ - September 6 – Review

http://edandemreviews.blogspot.com/ - September 6 – Review

http://www.lettersinsideout.net – September 6 – Review

http://www.angelafristoe.blogspot.com – September 6 - Review

http://book-spark.blogspot.com/ - September 6 – Review

http://the-book-rogue.de – September 6 – Review

http://andisyoungadult.blogspot.com – September 6 – Review

http://doctorsnotes-shy.blogspot.com/ - September 6 – Review

http://bound2astound.blogspot.com – September 6 – Review

http://chocolatecoatedreviews.blogspot.com –September 7 – Review

http://www.awrittenrhapsody.com – September 7 –Review

http://wakeupatseven.blogspot.com – September 7 – Review

http://incandescentenchantments.blogspot.com – September 7 – Review

http://readingtostayalive.blogspot.com – September 7 – Review

www.sweetsouthernhome.net – September 7 – Promo Post

http://www.chapter-by-chapter.com – September 7 – Review

http://thebookhookup.com/ - September 7 – Review

http://behindamillionandonepages.blogspot.com – September 8 – Promo Post

http://www.readergirlsblog.com – September 8 - Review

http://jessysbookends.blogspot.com – September 8 - Review

http://www.bookswithbite.net – September 8 – Review

http://thebookloversreport.blogspot.com – September 8 – Review

http://scarletsilhouettes.blogspot.com/ - September 8 – Review

Teaser Tuesday (6/19/2012) The Future of Us

I don't know what Harry Potter or The Help are, but Josh gave me Tuck Everlasting for my eleventh birthday. I still remember reading the scene where Tuck rows Winnie across the lake. 


Teaser from page 23
(I have been wanting to read this book forever!) 


Summary from Goodreads:
It's 1996, and Josh and Emma have been neighbors their whole lives. They've been best friends almost as long - at least, up until last November, when Josh did something that changed everything. Things have been weird between them ever since, but when Josh's family gets a free AOL CD in the mail,his mom makes him bring it over so that Emma can install it on her new computer. When they sign on, they're automatically logged onto their Facebook pages. But Facebook hasn't been invented yet. And they're looking at themselves fifteen years in the future.

By refreshing their pages, they learn that making different decisions now will affect the outcome of their lives later. And as they grapple with the ups and downs of what their futures hold, they're forced to confront what they're doing right - and wrong - in the present.


The Future of Us was released in November of 2011.

Miz B hosts Teaser Tuesday every week, check her out for the official rules.  I never seem to be able to stick to the rule about only 2 sentences.

I love reading teasers so let me know where I can view yours in the comments. Have a great day!

Teaser Tuesday (5/8/2012) Fallout by Ellen Hopkins

             Kristina 
                                    wrote
that chapter of her 
history before we
were even whispers
in her womb. 


The monster shaped 
                                     our
lives, without our ever
touching it. Read on
if you dare. This  
                                    memoir
isn't pretty.

Teaser page 2 of the Advanced Reader's Copy

Summary from Goodreads: 
Hunter, Autumn, and Summer—three of Kristina Snow’s five children—live in different homes, with different guardians and different last names. They share only a predisposition for addiction and a host of troubled feelings toward the mother who barely knows them, a mother who has been riding with the monster, crank, for twenty years.

Hunter is nineteen, angry, getting by in college with a job at a radio station, a girlfriend he loves in the only way he knows how, and the occasional party. He's struggling to understand why his mother left him, when he unexpectedly meets his rapist father, and things get even more complicated. Autumn lives with her single aunt and alcoholic grandfather. When her aunt gets married, and the only family she’s ever known crumbles, Autumn’s compulsive habits lead her to drink. And the consequences of her decisions suggest that there’s more of Kristina in her than she’d like to believe. Summer doesn’t know about Hunter, Autumn, or their two youngest brothers, Donald and David. To her, family is only abuse at the hands of her father’s girlfriends and a slew of foster parents. Doubt and loneliness overwhelm her, and she, too, teeters on the edge of her mother’s notorious legacy. As each searches for real love and true family, they find themselves pulled toward the one person who links them together—Kristina, Bree, mother, addict. But it is in each other, and in themselves, that they find the trust, the courage, the hope to break the cycle.

Told in three voices and punctuated by news articles chronicling the family’s story, FALLOUT is the stunning conclusion to the trilogy begun by CRANK and GLASS, and a testament to the harsh reality that addiction is never just one person’s problem.

Published September 10, 2012 by Margaret K. McElderry Books

Miz B hosts Teaser Tuesday every week, check her out for the official rules.  I never seem to be able to stick to the rule about only 2 sentences.

I love reading teasers so let me know where I can view yours in the comments. Have a great day!

Neurotic Thoughts - Notes to Self

Notes to Self
Author: Avery Sawyer
Release Date: November 2011
Genre: YA Contemporary
Published by: Avery Sawyer
Source: Received from the author for an honest review
Summary from Barnes & Noble:
Two climbed up. Two fell down.

One woke up.


Robin Saunders is a high school sophomore with an awesome best friend, a hard-working single mom, and a complicated relationship with a sweet guy named Reno. She's coasting along, trying to get through yet another tedious year of high school, when Em suggests something daring. They live in Florida-- tourist central--and Emily wants to sneak into a theme park after midnight and see what they're made of.

When things get out of control, Robin wakes up in a hospital bed and Emily doesn't wake up at all. Just getting dressed becomes an ordeal as Robin tries to heal and piece together the details of that terrible night. Racing to remember everything in the hopes of saving Emily, Robin writes a series of notes to herself to discover the truth.

A fabulous read! Robin wants so badly to remember what happened to her and Emily the night they fell from the amusement park ride that they so stupidly climbed. Sadly the fall has affected her memory and there is a lot more than what happened that night that she can't remember. Robin has to face all of the students back at school without Emily, and finds that many of her classmates blame her for Emily's accident. Between the traumatic head injury and what boarders on bullying at school Robin is having a decidedly hard time getting back to life without Emily. Luckily her friend Reno starts coming around again when he hears of Emily accident. I loved Reno he is such a gentle soul, and you can tell even when at first he is awkward around Robin that he really does care about her. Notes to Self definitely gets a recommendation from me. 


Plot: Like nothing else I've read, In a good way!

Characters: Fantastically flawed

Writing: Engaging, I didn't want to put it down

Ending: In one way wonderful but in another it left me hanging

Kid Friendly: Some smoking, drinking, drugs, are mentioned

Overall: A touching book about friendship and family. 

Should You Read It? YES!

Neurotic Thoughts - Sign Language

Sign Language
Author: Amy Ackley
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Genre: YA Contemporary 
Published by: Viking Juvenile
Source: received by the author for an honest review
Summary from Goodreads:


Twelve-year-old Abby North's first hint that something is really wrong with her dad is how long it's taking him to recover from what she thought was routine surgery. Soon, the thing she calls "It" has a real name: cancer. Before, her biggest concerns were her annoying brother, the crush unaware of her existence, and her changing feelings for her best friend, Spence, the boy across the street. Now, her mother cries in the shower, her father is exhausted, and nothing is normal anymore. Amy Ackley's impressive debut is wrenching, heartbreaking, and utterly true.

A beautifully heartbreaking story about loving, losing, and growing up during both. This story was so touching and made me realize once again how blessed I have been. I cried and cried while reading this book because even if this isn't a true story, it really is. This happens so often that it was really easy to relate to. 

Ackley did such a wonderful job of making the characters real that they felt like people you have known your whole life. Even though I occasionally wanted to yell at Amy to get her head out of the sand and pay attention to what was going on I also was able to understand why she wanted to refuse what was happening.

This story will have you crying and laughing and will make you want to go tell everyone you love how much they mean to you. 

Plot: Lovely and Heartbreaking

Characters: Excellent, you'll forget that your reading about people you don't know

Writing: Easy to read and very engaging

Ending: Perfect

Kid Friendly: As long as you can handle death you will be safe reading this book.

Overall: Beautiful and Sad

Should You Read It? Definitely