BOOK BLITZ~Torn by Laney McMann

The Laney McMann Promo Event for the second book in her Fire Born Series has ended. Continue below for the author's playlist and a awesome giveaway!

Series: Fire Born #2
Release date: September 2014
Publisher: J. Taylor Publishing
Purchase: Amazon

Synopsis via Goodreads:

Find Max.

That’s all Layla cares about. Not healing from the Fomore attack. Not finding answers to how she survived a fall that nearly killed her. Nothing will stop her. She will find him. She’ll even pair up with an overbearing Fallen Angel who’s hell bent on making everything harder than it needs to be if she has to.

Protect Layla.

For Max, nothing else matters. Not the bruises covering his body. Not the pain radiating from his broken bones. Not even his hands tied behind his back. He will find a way to save Layla, and the Fomore will pay if they’ve hurt her.

Every. Single. One of them.

In the second installment of The Fire Born trilogy, a new breed of villain looms—one Layla and Max will never suspect, and this killer has nothing to lose. Better yet, with Max and Layla’s deaths, victory is in the grip of the enemy.

Will Max and Layla find each other in time, or is it already too late for them both?

About the Author

With a passion for the supernatural and all things magical, Laney developed a voracious appetite for reading fantasy at a young age. A vivid imagination helped set the stage for creating her own worlds and placed her onto the writing path. 

By the time she reached her teens, she'd accumulated notebooks full of poems, which led to short stories and finally novels. Young adult dark fantasy, paranormal romance, and mythology are among her favorite genres. 

A former classical dancer and chef, she grew up in sultry Florida where she still resides with her family.

WEBSITE | TWITTER | FACEBOOK

TORN PLAYLIST

=======================

Hide & Seek ~ Imogen Heap

Ivy ~ Active Child 

Wizard Motor ~ Mogwai 

No Air ~ Jordan Sparks

All I Want Is You ~ U2

The End ~ Kings of Leon

After The Storm ~ Mumford and Sons

Running Up That Hill ~ Placebo

All That We Had Is Lost ~ Postiljonen

The Devil's Tears ~ Angus & Julia Stone

EXCERPT

=================

Layla

Sunlight seared my face, and my fingers dug into hot sand before a cool shade fell over me.

“Teine?” A soft voice called my name. Someone pulled on my arm.

My head lolled to the side, but my neck caught on a crick and refused to move further than a couple of inches.

“Teine? Can you hear me?” Soft wisps tickled my face, even as my head pounded above my left ear.

My eyelids opened and closed, scratching against the corneas like sandpaper—my mouth dry, like paste. Though blurry, a figure loomed over me.

“We have to go. Hold on to me.” A gentle squeeze of my hand made my fingers flex.

“Max …” My voice cracked, word slurred; my tongue seemed too large for my mouth. I raised my arm, but it thumped to the ground at my side with the weight of a lead pipe.

“Shh. Do not let go.”

My heavy arms swung up on their own. I attempted to clasp my hands, to entwine my fingers, but they slipped back down to my sides with a dead thud. Vision refusing to cooperate, my eyes slipped in and out of focus. “What … happened?”

“You will be all right.”

“Max?”

“Shh. Save your strength.”

Oh, god.

Max.

I fell … We fell. It was so hot. Too hot, and …

September 8th -
Rockin' Book Reviews
YA,YA and More YA
Crawling Over The Pages
Word to Dreams
Suzy Turner, YA Author
The Cover Contessa
Book Lovers Life
Girl of 1000 Wonders
In Between The Lines
Mom With A Kindle
Book Club Sisters
Books Direct
OriginiquEquanimity
Donnie Darko Girl
Illuminite Caliginosus

September 9th -
Lekeisha The Booknerd
Write Away Bliss
CBY Book Club
Amiabooklover
Mythical Books
Blue Books and Butterflies
Book Lovers Life
iequalsAlissa
Bitches n Prose
Bibliophile Mystery
Jump Into Books
Book Enthralled

September 10th -
Once Upon a YA Book
Ashley's Paranormal Book Blog
Dalene's Book Reviews
deal sharing aunt
The Phantom Paragrapher
A Dream Within A Dream
The Story Goes...
Julie Antonovich Reece
Musings of the Book-a-holic Fairies, inc.
Wicca Witch 4 Book Blog
The Paisley Reader
Girl With Pen
Books and Starlight

a Rafflecopter giveaway

Review: Torn by K.A. Robinson

Series: Torn #1
Release date: May 7th 2013
Publisher: Atria Publishing
Purchase: Amazon

Synopsis via Goodreads:

Chloe hasn't had the best life. With a mother who is gone more often than not, she has had to raise herself. After graduating high school, she leaves to start a new life away at West Virginia University with her best friends Amber and Logan, determined to leave her demons in the past. 

On her first day, she meets a stranger who takes her breath away at first sight. Until she met Drake, no one had ever sparked her interest. Now this tattooed and pierced bad boy is all she can think about, no matter how hard she fights it.

Falling for Drake was never part of her plans, but when it happens, things seem to do anything but fall into place.

Dealing with a tragic past, Drake has never cared about anyone else but himself and his band. But when Chloe takes the empty seat next to him in class, things start to change. Instantly drawn to her, he begins to wonder if one girl can take a cold hearted womanizer and change every part of him?

Long hidden feelings are revealed and friendships tested to the brink.

*Approved via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review

Torn really had me going at start. I was immediately caught up in the wittiness of the story, and I I fell for Drake as fast as Chloe did. I was laughing with their dialogues, swooning to their flirtations, sympathizing to their issues. The fireworks were there. Then when it got to the middle of the story, I became annoyed with Chloe and the decisions she'd make. Yes, Drake's feeling of inadequacy drove her away, but that doesn't mean stringing her friend and a guy who has a crush on her along. I feel like she never stopped to think of how that in particular would hurt him, the fact that she was making him feel that his feelings were reciprocated.  

What Chloe did was sway back and forth between two guys and caused a lot of heartache for both. I mean, clearly she didn't love Logan. So what the hell! How did she end up doing what she did with him? There's definitely something wrong with this girl (on a sexual scale) and regardless of what she'd gone through as a child, I've wanted to slap her so many times throughout the story. Chloe's character is the reason why I ended up not giving the book five stars. She pissed me off too much. I mean, like I said, I loved Drake. I also liked Amber and her humorous personality (that lessened the tension for me). I honestly didn't warm up to Logan or anyone else, but nothing compares to the bewilderment I had to endure because of Chloe. She was quite a piece of work. She was a wreck, to be exact.

But in spite of my love-hate relationship with the main character, I'm curious about her mother and would like to learn more in regards  to that aspect of the story. I'm not so intrigued by her relationship with Drake because of the issues she caused on the journey to finally coming to her senses. But I do want to see if there'll be growth for each character and discover more about Drake and his past. 

Behind The Pages #2: Newbie Stephanie Guerra

Stephanie Guerra has an M.F.A. in creative writing from the  University of Notre Dame. She teaches children’s literature and a seminar in writing instruction at Seattle University.  She also teaches creative writing at King County Jail, and researches and speaks about literacy instruction for at-risk and incarcerated young adults.  She would like to encourage her readers to donate used books to juvenile correctional facilities.  Stephanie lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband and children. 

TORN is her first novel.

www.stephanieguerra.com

Torn

by Stephanie Guerra

Hardcover, 263 pages

Expected publication: May 15th 2012 by Marshall Cavendish

Stella Chavez is your classic good girl: straight As, clean-cut boyfriends, and soccer trophies . You’d never guess that Stella’s dad was a drug addict who walked out when she was a kid. Or that inside, Stella wishes for something more.

New girl Ruby Caroline seems like Stella’s polar opposite: cursing, smoking, and teetering in sky-high heels . But with Ruby, Stella gets a taste of another world—a world in which parents act like roommates, college men are way more interesting than high school boys, and there is nothing that shouldn’t be tried once.

It’s not long before Stella finds herself torn: between the best friend she’s ever had and the friends she’s known forever, between her family and her own independence, between who she was and who she wants to be. 

But Ruby has a darker side, a side she doesn’t show anyone—not even Stella. As Stella watches her friend slowly unravel, she will have to search deep inside herself for the strength to be a true friend, even if it means committing the ultimate betrayal.