Weekly Feature

Fire & Flood (Fire & Flood #1)

byVictoria Scott

 

 

A modern day thrill ride, where a teen girl and her animal companion must participate in a breathtaking race to save her brother's life—and her own.

Tella Holloway is losing it. Her brother is sick, and when a dozen doctors can't determine what's wrong, her parents decide to move to Montana for the fresh air. She's lost her friends, her parents are driving her crazy, her brother is dying—and she's helpless to change anything.

Until she receives mysterious instructions on how to become a Contender in the Brimstone Bleed. It's an epic race across jungle, desert, ocean, and mountain that could win her the prize she desperately desires: the Cure for her brother's illness. But all the Contenders are after the Cure for people they love, and there's no guarantee that Tella (or any of them) will survive the race.

The jungle is terrifying, the clock is ticking, and Tella knows she can't trust the allies she makes. And one big question emerges: Why have so many fallen sick in the first place?

 

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- Donners of the Dead by Karina Halle
- White Hot Kiss (The Dark Elements #1) by Jennifer L. Armentrout

 

- Destroyed by Pepper Winters
- Masked Innocence (Innocence #2) by Alessandra Torre
- Unforgotten (Unremembered #2) by Jessica Brody

 

- The Secret Diamond Sisters (The Secret Diamond Sisters #1) by Michelle Madow
- Grim Anthology

- Night Owls (Night Owls #1) by Lauren M. Roy

- Tin Star (Tin Star #1) by Cecil Castellucci

- Threatened by Eliot Schrefer
- Season of Wonder (The Remnants #1) by Lisa Tawn Bergren

- Tsarina by J. Nelle Patrick
- The Cellar by Natasha Preston

- The Well’s End by Seth Fishman

 

- Boy on the Edge by Fridrik Erlings

- Soul Betrayed (The Life After #3) by Katlyn Duncan
- The Blood List by Sarah Naughton

 

- Lych Way (The Undertaken #3) by Ari Berk

- Grandmaster by David Klass

- The Shadow Throne (The Ascendance Trilogy #3) by Jennifer A. Nielsen

 

- Faking Normal by by Courtney C. Stevens

- Tremor (Pulse #2) by Patrick Carman
- Killer Frost (Mythos Academy #6) by Jennifer Estep

Character Interview

Joey Destefano, from Kimberly Ann Miller's YA novel, Triangles, stopped by Cover Girls today. We're happy to meet him!

Jax: What, about Autumn, makes you weak in the knees? 

Joey: Where do I start? I have to admit, at first, when I saw her picture, I just thought, WOW! But after she started working at the shop, I could see she was in pain and wanted to help her. I knew we would be great together and would understand each other. The main problem was getting her to get over herself and see what I had to offer!

Jax: Since you're a mechanic, I have two car questions for you... 

What's your favorite type of car to work on? 

Joey: Trucks – the bigger, the better. I love big vehicles, so when someone comes roaring in with a monster truck, I have to fight back the drool.

Jax: And what is your dream car? 

Joey: A monster truck I need a ladder to get into! Chevys are my favorite body style, and I love flames, too!

Jax: Name three must-haves for a road trip? 

Joey: Great music, beautiful weather, and Autumn.

Jax: Describe the ideal setting for a date with Autumn. 

Joey: Anywhere Autumn is works for me! But more specifically, I would love to pamper her in a romantic setting, like on the beach at dusk with a small bonfire. I’d pack a picnic basket with snacks and drinks, spread out a warm blanket, and listen to the waves hitting the shore as we talked about our future. How does that sound? 

Jax: That sounds amazing!

You can read more about Joey and Autumn in Kimberly Miller's novel, Triangles.

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Weekly Features

All Is Silence

By Robert L. Slater

 

In a future that could be ours, Lizzie, a suicidal teen-age girl, barely navigates her own life. Then everything falls apart. In an apocalyptic land nearly deserted by disease, she lacks reasons to live until a shocking turn of events reveals a phone number. Her call pulls her dangerously cross-country to meet a stranger she thought was dead.

In a world where there is plenty of food, plenty of gas, plenty of space… fear, anger and a lust for power still control the patterns of human life.

 
 
 

- Forget Me Not (Collective #1) by Stacey Nash

- Moth and Spark by Anne Leonard
- Insanity by Susan Vaught

 

- Me Since You by Laura Wiess

- Third Strike (The Slayer Chronicles #3) by Heather Brewer

- A Burnable Book (John Gower #1) by Bruce Holsinger

- Maybe One Day by Melissa Kantor
- Perfect Lies (Mind Games #2) by Kiersten White

 

Character Interview

Xanthus Ehrensvard (Xan) is one of my favorite characters, and I'm so happy he stopped by our blog. He's in Christine Rains' novella The Dragonslayer - #3 in her 13th Floor Series. 

Hi, Xan! Describe yourself in five words.

Efficient, rational, ethical, ordered, focused.

Now, describe Lois in five words.

Audacious, spirited, crafty, candid, beautiful.

Do you have a celebrity crush?

A celebrity crush? No, I don't keep up on the Hollywood scene. Any celebrity that I've taken particular notice of has turned out to be a dragon.

What’s your job title?

Like my father and my grandfather and all my honored ancestors, I am a dragonslayer.

What’s your weapon of choice?

While I have a number of Barretts in my collection that I use most often, I do prefer the XM2010 Remington Enhanced Sniper Rifle. 

Do you have a perfect vacation spot, you know, to recuperate from all that dragon hunting.

Vacation? I've never been, but Lois wants to take a cruise. I don't understand the draw of lazing around on a boat with a thousand other people. There's a chance of too many things going wrong. And the mess. No, thank you.

It’s the end of the world, and you’re only allowed three items from your home—two necessities and one sentimental. What are you grabbing?

The end of the world? What do you mean? You need to be more specific here. Are we expected to fight? Then I'd take weapons. If the world is going to explode, then material things are useless. There are too many-- All right. Lois is telling me to answer the question like a normal person. I would take her and my ancestors' lance as necessities, and-- No, I'm not taking the ferret. What use-- Okay. Huff the ferret as the sentimental thing.

*Word association time! What’s the first thought that comes to mind when I say the following:

Ice cream - vanilla
Excalibur - a sword of legend
Camera - annoying device

Thanks for stopping by Xan, and thank you, Christine, for writing such an awesome character!

1303 - THE DRAGONSLAYER

On the rooftop of neighboring building, dragonslayer Xanthus Ehrensvard fires at his target, Governor Whittaker. How he missed the shot, he doesn't know, but fleeing the scene, he picks up an unwanted passenger. Gorgeous reporter Lois King saw Xan's face, and she believes it's the story to make her career. Except he can't let her walk away knowing what he looks like. Xan has to show her the Governor is a bigger threat to the world than he is.

Xan knows dragons never went extinct. They evolved with human society, taking on mortal forms, and slithered their way into positions of great influence and power, just like the Governor. But it's no easy chore proving to someone that dragons still exist, and even more so, they're disguised as famous people. Xan must convince Lois or find another way to silence her. An option, as he gets to know her, he likes less and less.

After all, dragonslayers are no longer celebrated heroes but outlaws. Just as the dragons wish it. But this outlaw must make a plan to slay the dragon or risk its retribution.

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Weekly Features

The Worlds We Make (Fallen World #3)

by Megan Crewe

The virus has taken away Kaelyn’s friends, her family, her home.

And now a deadly enemy threatens to take the one hope she has left: THE CURE.

When Kaelyn and her friends reached Toronto with a vaccine for the virus that has ravaged the population, they thought their journey was over. But now they're being tracked by the Wardens, a band of survivors as lethal as the virus who are intent on stealing the vaccine no matter what the cost.

Forced onto the road again, Kaelyn and her companions discover the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta is their best hope for finding scientists who can reproduce the vaccine. But with the virus already spreading among them, the Wardens hot on their trail, and hundreds of miles to cross, Kaelyn finds herself compromising her morals to keep her group alive. Her conscience seems a small price to pay if protects them and their precious cargo. Unless even that is not enough...

In the final installment in Megan Crewe’s captivating the Fallen World trilogy, Kaelyn is on the run from her biggest adversaries yet. While she continues to face horrific loss, her resolve is still strong. But to survive this shattered world, will she have to sacrifice all that's left of the girl she was?



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Have a wonderful Tuesday!

~ Dani