BLOG TOUR, REVIEW, and GIVEAWAY ~ Bully by Penelope Douglas

  Bully (Fall Away #1) By Penelope Douglas

BULLY SYNOPSIS:

My name is Tate. He doesn't call me that, though. He would never refer to me so informally, if he referred to me at all. No, he'll barely even speak to me.

But he still won't leave me alone.

We were best friends once. Then he turned on me and made it his mission to ruin my life. I've been humiliated, shut out, and gossiped about all through high school. His pranks and rumors got more sadistic as time wore on, and I made myself sick trying to stay out of his way. I even went to France for a year, just to avoid him.

But I'm done hiding from him now, and there's no way in hell I'll allow him to ruin my senior year. He might not have changed, but I have. It's time to fight back.

*This novel contains adult/mature young adult situations. It is only suitable for ages 18+ due to language, violence, and sexual situations.

**This book is the first in a series but can be read as a STAND ALONE. The next books will focus on side characters from this story.

Treat them mean, keep them keen!!

Well Jared definitely treated Tate to a whole new world of bullying. Growing up they were best friends/neighbours. Then one day everything changed, Jared started to bully Tate at school. He would spread rumours, make her love life non-existent, and torment her with pleasure.   Tate had no idea what she had done to have Jared turn on her. She goes away for a year, comes back as a new empowered lady ready to take on Jared and his friends.

Let the fun begin…I was engaged in the storyline and couldn’t put it down. While reading Bully I was sitting on the edge of my chair, turning page by page to see where the story was going!!

Hell at one stage I didn’t think he would stop bullying Tate, He was bad, arrogant and sexy as hell. When they finally do get it together, you see a sweet loving Jared with an Edge.

I went through so many emotions reading Bully…..OMGosh it totally rocked. I can't  wait for "Until You"...Jared's POV to come out in november, in the meantime we have a sneak peak of the shower scene. Hot Damn that boy is smokin HOT!!  

Loved it

Recommend it

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5 FMR Rating

Rose

Until You Excerpt

Shower Scene

 

She sat on the shower floor, so I crawled in behind her and pulled her back up to my chest.

“You know,” I spoke in her ear. “I stayed in your room for a month while you were away.”

“What?” She twisted her head around, surprised and curious.

My lips brushed her ear. “When I got in trouble, and my mom left to get sober, you’re dad took me in. Set me straight again. Well, straighter, anyway.” I squeezed her tighter. “I slept on your floor.”

When she didn’t say anything, I continued. “I hated that you were gone. I picked fights with everyone. Skipped classes. I didn’t want anything without the promise of seeing you every day. Even the love I had for my brother couldn’t pull me out of it. When I controlled you, I had one fucking thing in my life that made sense. That made my blood flow. I looked forward to tomorrow when you were around. If I could zone in on you, then I wasn’t thinking about everything else that hurt. I could still prove that I was strong. It was that easy. I thought that you never loved me. That you never wanted me.” I let out a hard sigh. “And then that fucking monologue tore all that shit apart. I was wrong. You did care. You missed who I was. I was something to you. Something special.” I kissed her temple. “I really fucked everything up.”

She turned around to straddle me, and I sucked in a quiet breath at the friction of her body.  

“Why wouldn’t you sleep in my bed?”
I cupped her cheek with my hand, speaking softly. “Because you wouldn’t have wanted me there.”

I wanted to be in Tate’s bed, around her smell, but it had felt wrong. It was a place I ran to when I was a kid and needed to feel safe and whole. Being there without her didn’t feel like that, though.

She leaned her body into me, slow and graceful, and kissed me. “Jared,” she whispered, hot against my lips, “take me to bed.” 

AUTHOR BIO:

                                                    

Penelope Douglas is a writer and teacher in Las Vegas. Born in Dubuque, Iowa, she is the oldest of five children. Penelope attended the University of Northern Iowa, earning a Bachelor's degree in Public Administration, because her father told her to "just get the degree!" She then earned a Masters of Science in Education at Loyola University in New Orleans, because she hated Public Administration. One night, she got tipsy and told the bouncer at the bar where she worked that his son was hot, and three years later they were married. To the son, not the bouncer. They have spawn, but just one. A daughter named Aydan. Penelope loves sweets, the show Sons of Anarchy, and she shops at Target almost daily.

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TOUR WIDE GIVEAWAY:

Penelope is offering up (3) $25 Amazon gift cards (INTL) and (5) signed copies of BULLY (US/CA) up for grabs. Giveaway ends at 11:59 PM CST 09/01/2013.




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Blog Tour Stop

CRASH INTO ME

K.M. SCOTT

What would you give up for everything?

Tristan Stone was powerful, commanding, sex incarnate. And he wore it all so well. From the moment his mesmerizing gaze met mine, I had no choice but surrender to everything he was. His power. His decadence. His passion. He was all I never knew I needed.

He wanted to possess me, and I wanted to be his everything. All I had to do was accept what he offered. But everything has a price.

The world he gave me fulfilled my wildest dreams, but would that be enough when the past crashed into the present?

Genre:Contemporary romance

Email:kmscottrelease@gmail.com

Blog: http://authorkmscott.blogspot.com/

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Excerpt for Crash Into Me: 

 He slid the tie from my neck and undid all his work. "Now you show me what you learned." I attempted to take the tie from his hand, but he pulled it away and whispered, "On me. Turn around and sit toward me." Nervous fear shot through me as I stood up, and I hoped I'd be able to turn around without my legs giving out. The dress I wore only fell to the middle of my thighs, so when I straddled him, it was likely to ride up so far my panties would show. I didn't care about that so much as him knowing that I was already dripping wet just from sitting there pressed up against him. Taking a deep breath, I turned around and climbed on top of his lap. He stared into my eyes, unnerving me, but something held me firm in his gaze. His hard cock pressed against the front of his pants and my damp panties. There was no way he didn't know how excited he'd made me. I took the tie from his hand and slid it around his strong neck, even as my fingers trembled at the feel of him underneath them. Trying to hide my ignorance of my task, I wrapped the wide end of the tie around the narrow end, but it was no use. I didn't know what came next. Dropping the two ends of silk, I looked down to avoid his gaze. "I'm sorry. I don't know how to do this." "You didn't listen when I told you how to?" he asked in a voice that was as seductive as it was stern. Shaking my head, I continued to look down at the untied ends of the blue fabric laying against his shirt. "I couldn't. You were so close, and it was impossible to pay attention to what you were saying." He slid his hands down my back and cupped my ass to pull me into him, grinding my soaked panties into the thin fabric separating his cock from me. Kneading my flesh through my dress, he whispered near my mouth, "I love how honest you are, Nina. It makes me want to be honest with you." I wasn't sure how to answer, but it didn't matter. As my head swum from the sensations he'd created in me, he pressed his mouth to mine and kissed me. His lips were soft yet demanding, and I eagerly kissed him back, seeking a release of that sweet ache, but his kiss only increased the feeling, making me want more. He nudged his hips off the couch, sliding his cock over my sensitive clit, and I couldn't stop myself from moaning into his mouth. I didn't want him to think he had this effect on me so soon, but I was powerless. I wanted him so badly at that moment, I would have done anything to keep his hands on my body.

Tristan and Nina’s story begins earlier in the book.  This book had me from the moment Nina got in the car with Tristan; I honestly could not put it down till the end. With each turning page I was on the edge waiting to see what was going to happen next! Tristan is hot, demanding, possessive and oozes power…..Well Hello Mr Stone!!  Nina is sweet, honest and primitive.

They get to know each other while Nina works for Tristan on a 6month contract under his terms and conditions….This is where it gets interesting.  Nina falls in love with Tristan and is concerned what will happen at the end of the working contract. She believes she is not worthy of such a wealthy, sexy man. Tristan has many ladies falling at his feet, so why does he want Nina?  He is a mysterious man where less is said and more is shown with his actions.  I am not going to say anymore so grab your copy and start crushing on Tristan Stone.

"I love how honest you are, Nina. It makes me want to be honest with you."

I highly recommend you read Crash into Me, I am very interested to see where K.M Scott is going to take the story line in book 2 Fall into Me.

I give it a 4.5 heart rating! I really wanted a chapter in Tristan’s POV…..(hint hint K.M.Scott).

    Hot

Loved it

Get it

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Rose
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Blog Stop - Take it All by Emma Grayson

Take It All

by Emma Grayson

THE SYNOPSIS

***Inspired by true events***
Judy Garland said it best, ‘For it was not into my ear you whispered but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed but my soul.’
If you asked her why she loved him, she would only be able to tell you it was because he was who he was and well, she was who she was.
Plain and simple.
All her life Lennox Ward felt incomplete. That her heart was always searching for that one special thing; that special someone she had yet to find.
Then Caleb Kingston came strolling back into her life unexpectedly, and little did she know her world was about to come crashing down around her; forever shattering it.
Is love enough to conquer all?
Will she be able to lead them out of hell and off their path of self destruction?
Or will Caleb take it all?
*This book contains mature subject matter and is not intended for those under 17 years of age.*

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Meet Emma Grayson

Emma Grayson is a Canadian author who resides outside of Edmonton, Alberta with her family and six year old son. She is Amazon’s Bestselling author of Unbeautifully Loved, the first book in her Breathe Again series and Take it All, the first book in her two part series, Blinded by Love. She is currently working on Unbearable Guilt, Breathe Again book two, as well as Promise it All the conclusion to her Blinded by Love series. She is also in the prewriting stages of her new trilogy series, Saving You; a spin-off from Blinded by Love. When she’s not writing she enjoys time with her son, going to movies, reading, enjoying Starbucks latte’s with her girlfriends, or watching rerun episodes of Criminal Minds and Flashpoint. She’s the lover of music of all kinds, television, coffee, all things purple, Oilers hockey, Bradley Cooper, and doesn’t leave the house without her iPhone, Kobo, flip flops and a pack of gum.

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My Review

"I love you" - Lennox 

"I love you too, baby, so damn much,"- Caleb

Emma Grayson wrote Take It All based on true life events, and let me just say that I believe it gave it an extra added depth to the book and let you connect to the characters and their story more thoroughly.

Love doesn’t begin or end the way we think it does. It’s more than butterflies fluttering in your stomach when your eyes meet for the first time. It’s more than a spark you feel when your lips touch, igniting your flesh with a flame that licks your body; the feeling forever locked in your depths of your heart and soul.
It’s a battle; a war.  It’s growing up. And sometimes it’s completely toxic.

This book shows that once you find someone you love it’s not all a happy ever after, but even though you found love a relationship takes work and there are so many other issues in the real life that can affect that.

Lennox is a girl that had a deal breaker for any relationship she entered, one thing she would not tolerate! But what happens when she falls for the one guy that goes against everything she believes in? Will she stay, or is it too much for her?

... deep down she knew it was, and that she would have stayed with him regardless of the standards she had when it came to drug use.

I loved reading this book and feeling the emotions that Caleb and Lennox went through. The book was all in Lennox’s P.O.V but the author still conveyed Caleb’s character emotionally.

The only negative I have about the book is that it ends on a semi cliffhanger and I can’t wait for the next book Promise it All to see the ending of Caleb and Lennox’s story.

Amazing work Emma!

4 out 5 stars
xx Tash

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Blog Tour ABEL By Elizabeth Reyes

ABEL

By Elizabeth Reyes

TITLE: Abel (5th Street, Book #4)

AUTHOR: Elizabeth Reyes

Genre: New Adult Contemporary Romance

RELEASE DATE: August 13, 2013

Tour Organized by: As the Pages Turn

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SYNOPSIS

Coming off the worst divorce in the history of marriages, Nellie Gamboa’s looking to let loose and make up for years of neglect. When months of building sexual tension between her and the young hot boxing stud, Abel Ayala, finally peak, she makes him an offer no man would refuse. 

No promises. No demands. Just pure unrestrained passion.

Abel’s training for the biggest fight of his career. He has no time for a social life, much less a relationship. So this arrangement couldn't be more perfect. A beautiful woman asking him to help her alleviate her neglected desires—no strings attached. What more can he ask for?

As the lines between lust and something much deeper, begin to blur, Abel finds himself in an even bigger fight. 

The fight to regain control of his now demanding heart.

Book Blurb

Coming off the worst divorce in the history of marriages, Nellie Gamboa’s looking to let loose and make up for years of neglect. When months of building sexual tension between her and the young hot boxing stud, Abel Ayala, finally peak, she makes him an offer no man would refuse.

No promises. No demands. Just pure unrestrained passion.

Abel’s training for the biggest fight of his career. He has no time for a social life, much less a relationship. So this arrangement couldn't be more perfect. A beautiful woman asking him to help her alleviate her neglected desires—no strings attached. What more can he ask for?

As the lines between lust and something much deeper, begin to blur, Abel finds himself in an even bigger fight.

The fight to regain control of his now demanding heart.

My Review

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Noah, Gio, Hector and Now Abel, Elizabeth Reyes has done it again. What an amazing story to read, you have a group of HOT SEXY BOXERS, HOT TEMPERS and lots of loving. I have to say ABEL is now my favourite book of the 5^th Street series. It is the 4^th book in the series I loved everything about the story honestly can’t fault a thing.

“I’m game if you’re game”

Abel was always the serious, dark mysterious Alpha male in the background in the 5^th Street series, I pictured him to viewing life as black and white no room for grey that is until he meets Nellie. He tried to stay away from Nellie until she offered him no strings attached-no promises, no demands, and no hearts or flowers relationship. Perfect for Nellie as she has come off the worst divorce ever! Awesome for Abel as he is in full training for his biggest fight ever!

"It's true," he smiled, "not just in love, Nell, but hopeless, there's-no-helping-this-guy kind of in love with you."

When they finally realise the “No Strings Attach” agreement has gone out the window, Both Abel and Nellie fall hard for each other and neither one of them is confessing their feelings, and there is misunderstandings and unspoken love between them. Who will be the first to admit to the other they have feelings?

When they finally move forward in the relationship they are faced with different challenges. Noah, Roni and Abel’s mum all have different concerns and don’t want the couple together. Will they survive the outside world? Nellie is faced with making a choice to who she wants to be with? Will it Abel or Sam?

Abel steps up in the boxing ring; will he fight for the love of his life?  Well get a copy of the book and get reading. This is one HOT, SEXY story not to be missed.

Loved it

Rose xx

Thank you Elizabeth…

When did you come up with the story line for Abel & Nellie? We all know there is sexual tension between them earlier in the series. 

I honestly had no idea who Abel would end up with until that moment Nellie got out of her SUV at Noah's place in Gio's story and his jaw fell open and then the wheels started turning. =) 


Abel is one of the most focused guys of the group! How would you describe him? 

Very serious, very private, and very intense.


If you could meet any of your fifth street characters, who would it be?

Gosh I'd love to meet all of them! But obviously it would be the guys. If the girls were present I don't think I'd get any attention. LOL So I'd say something like bowling with the guys. Throwing a few back and getting in their heads a little would be a blast!  

Who was you muse for Abel?
Same muse I've used for all my stories except my muse has always been notoriously unpredictable! With Abel the only thing I was sure of going into his story was based on his personality in previous books he'd be the most private and intense of the 5th Street boys. And of course as intense as he was he was going to fall hard.    

 
Do you have any connections with the boxing world? 

None. My husband and his family live very near East Los Angeles and actually own a business there so they are big fans of local fighters. It's really where the whole concept of East Los Angeles aspiring Hispanic boxers came from. 

Who are you writing about next in 5th Street?

 Felix is up next in this series but his story is still a few books away. It'll also be a bit different than anything else I've ever written. ;)  

What projects are you working on next?

I'm currently working on Breaking Brandon (Fate #2) In case you need a refresher, he is the sexy Marine who gave Eric a run for his money in Sweet Sofie.

AUTHOR BIO

USA Today Bestselling Author, Elizabeth Reyes continues to answer to her calling on a daily basis. Since releasing her debut novel Forever Mine (Moreno Brothers #1) in 2010 she has now published 9 full length novels total and fast at work on the next. The excitement her Moreno Brothers, 5th Street, and Fate series have garnered has far exceeded her wildest dreams. It is with as much excitement that she'll continue to put out books related to these series as well as introduce brand new ones very soon.

In 2014 she will take her next step in the exciting world of writing and publish her first traditionally published book with Simon & Schuster/Atria. But she will continue putting out self published books as well.

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TOUR WIDE GIVEAWAY

Elizabeth is offering up (10) winners, signed copies of their choice of book, from her backlist which includes Abel as well.  The giveaway is open internationally. Giveaway ends at 11:59 PM CST 08/25/2013.

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