Last day for Teen ebook deals!

The following 10 ebooks are on sale for $2.99 each, but the sale ends on July 31! I’ve linked to Amazon for your convenience, but the books are also available at B&N. Click the book cover to go to the Kindle page at Amazon.

On the night of Skye’s seventeenth birthday, she meets two enigmatic strangers. Complete opposites—like fire and ice—Asher is dark and wild, while Devin is fair and aloof. Their sudden appearance sends Skye’s life into a tailspin. She has no idea what they want, or why they seem to follow her every move—only that their presence coincides with a flurry of strange events. Soon she begins to doubt not just the identity of the two boys, but also the truth about her own past.

In the dead of a bitingly cold Colorado winter, Skye finds herself coming to terms with the impossible secret that threatens to shatter her world. Torn between Asher, who she can’t help falling for, and Devin, who she can’t stay away from, the consequences of Skye’s choice will reach further than the three of them could ever imagine.

A Beautiful Dark is the first book in a captivating trilogy by debut author Jocelyn Davies.

First there are nightmares.

Every night Ellie is haunted by terrifying dreams of monstrous creatures that are hunting her, killing her.

Then come the memories.

When Ellie meets Will, she feels on the verge of remembering something just beyond her grasp. His attention is intense and romantic, and Ellie feels like her soul has known him for centuries. On her seventeenth birthday, on a dark street at midnight, Will awakens Ellie’s power, and she knows that she can fight the creatures that stalk her in the grim darkness. Only Will holds the key to Ellie’s memories, whole lifetimes of them, and when she looks at him, she can no longer pretend anything was just a dream.

Now she must hunt.

Ellie has power that no one can match, and her role is to hunt and kill the reapers that prey on human souls. But in order to survive the dangerous and ancient battle of the angels and the Fallen, she must also hunt for the secrets of her past lives and truths that may be too frightening to remember.

I am a beast.

A beast. Not quite wolf or bear, gorilla or dog but a horrible new creature who walks upright—a creature with fangs and claws and hair springing from every pore. I am a monster.

You think I’m talking fairy tales? No way. The place is New York City. The time is now. It’s no deformity, no disease. And I’ll stay this way forever—ruined—unless I can break the spell.

Yes, the spell, the one the witch in my English class cast on me. Why did she turn me into a beast who hides by day and prowls by night? I’ll tell you. I’ll tell you how I used to be Kyle Kingsbury, the guy you wished you were, with money, perfect looks, and the perfect life. And then, I’ll tell you how I became perfectly . . . beastly.

The year is 1929. New York is ruled by the Bright Young Things: flappers and socialites seeking thrills and chasing dreams in the anything-goes era of the Roaring Twenties.

Letty Larkspur and Cordelia Grey escaped their small Midwestern town for New York’s glittering metropolis. All Letty wants is to see her name in lights, but she quickly discovers Manhattan is filled with pretty girls who will do anything to be a star. . . .

Cordelia is searching for the father she’s never known, a man as infamous for his wild parties as he is for his shadowy schemes. Overnight, she enters a world more thrilling and glamorous than she ever could have imagined—and more dangerous. It’s a life anyone would kill for . . . and someone will.

The only person Cordelia can trust is ­Astrid Donal, a flapper who seems to have it all: money, looks, and the love of Cordelia’s brother, Charlie. But Astrid’s perfect veneer hides a score of family secrets.

Across the vast lawns of Long Island, in the ­illicit speakeasies of Manhattan, and on the blindingly lit stages of Broadway, the three girls’ fortunes will rise and fall—together and apart. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Luxe comes an epic new series set in the dizzying last summer of the Jazz Age.

A journey may take hundreds of miles, or it may cover the distance between duty and desire.

Sixteen of today’s hottest writers of paranormal tales weave stories on a common theme of journeying. Authors such as Kelley Armstrong, Rachel Caine, and Melissa Marr return to the beloved worlds of their bestselling series, while others, like Claudia Gray, Kami Garcia, and Margaret Stohl, create new land-scapes and characters. But whether they’re writing about vampires, faeries, angels, or other magical beings, each author explores the strength and resilience of the human heart.

Suspenseful, funny, or romantic, the stories in Enthralled will leave you moved.

Once a century, one person is chosen for greatness.

Elisa is the chosen one.

But she is also the younger of two princesses. The one who has never done anything remarkable, and can’t see how she ever will.

Now, on her sixteenth birthday, she has become the secret wife of a handsome and worldly king—a king whose country is in turmoil. A king who needs her to be the chosen one, not a failure of a princess.

And he’s not the only one who seeks her. Savage enemies, seething with dark magic,are hunting her. A daring, determined revolutionary thinks she could be his people’ssavior, and he looks at her in a way that no man has ever looked at her before. Soon it is not just her life, but her very heart that is at stake.

Elisa could be everything to those who need her most. If the prophecy is fulfilled. If she finds the power deep within herself. If she doesn’t die young.

Most of the chosen do.

Fifteen-year-old Bridget Liu just wants to be left alone: by her over-protective mom, by Matt Quinn, the cute son of a local police sergeant, and by the eerie voices she can suddenly and inexplicably hear. Unfortunately for Bridget, the voices are demons—and Bridget possesses the rare ability to banish them back to whatever hell they came from. Literally.

Terrified to tell her friends or family about this new power, Bridget confides in San Francisco’s senior exorcist, Monsignor Renault. The monsignor enlists her help in increasingly dangerous cases of demonic possession, but just as she is starting to come to terms with her freakish new role, Bridget receives a startling message from one of the demons. And when one of her oldest friends is killed, Bridget realizes she’s in deeper than she ever thought possible. Now she must unlock the secret to the demons’ plan before someone else close to her winds up dead—or worse, the human vessel for a demon king.

If there’s an upside to having your heart broken, it’s this: A broken heart makes you brave.

The first day of sophomore year doesn’t go the way Lucy planned. After a summer apart from her boyfriend, she’s ready to greet him with a special surprise and instead gets a shocking one in return: He’s breaking up with her. Beyond devastated, Lucy has no idea how she’s going to make it through homeroom, let alone the rest of her life.

Enter three stunning girls with the unnatural ability to attract boys and an offer Lucy can’t refuse: They can heal her heart in an instant. And then she’ll be one of them—a member of a sisterhood that is impervious to heartbreak and has access to magic distilled from the tears of brokenhearted boys. But to gain their power, Lucy must get a guy to fall in love with her the old-fashioned way, and then break his heart in the next seven days.

While the sisterhood may need another Heartbreaker, Lucy’s only desire is to get her ex back. But how far is she willing to go, and who is she willing to cross to get what she wants?

2 girls + 3 guys + 1 house – parents = 10 things April and her friends did that they (definitely, maybe, probably) shouldn’t have.

If given the opportunity, what sixteen-year-old wouldn’t jump at the chance to move in with a friend and live parent-free? Although maybe “opportunity” isn’t the right word, since April had to tell her dad a tiny little untruth to make it happen (see #1: “Lied to Our Parents”). But she and her housemate Vi are totally responsible and able to take care of themselves. How they ended up “Skipping School” (#3), “Throwing a Crazy Party” (#8), “Buying a Hot Tub” (#4), and, um, “Harboring a Fugitive” (#7) at all is kind of a mystery to them.

In this hilarious and bittersweet tale, Sarah Mlynowski mines the heart and mind of a girl on her own for the first time. To get through the year, April will have to juggle a love triangle, learn to do her own laundry, and accept that her carefully constructed world just might be falling apart . . . one thing-she-shouldn’t-have-done at a time.

Benson Fisher thought that a scholarship to Maxfield Academy would be the ticket out of his dead-end life.

He was wrong.

Now he’s trapped in a school that’s surrounded by a razor-wire fence. A school where video cameras monitor his every move. Where there are no adults. Where the kids have split into groups in order to survive.

Where breaking the rules equals death.

But when Benson stumbles upon the school’s real secret, he realizes that playing by the rules could spell a fate worse than death, and that escape—his only real hope for survival—may be impossible.

Thoughts on the Tornado

This is a non book-related post.

First, I want to thank each of you who read and responded to my post from Thursday regarding the tornado that hit our city. Your thoughts and prayers mean so much. Since that post, it has been confirmed as an EF-1 tornado with wind speeds of around 110 mph. Very scary. And even though there is much damage and a lot of clean-up ahead of us, I cannot imagine what it would have been like if the tornado were worse. I do not want to think about it. Something else that is completely shocking – there were no reported injuries or deaths. Thank you, Jesus.

I have some pictures of my neighborhood. All of these were taken within a few blocks in either direction of my house. I truly cannot describe the feelings that are churning inside me that our house remained virtually unfazed my the whole thing. There was some minor clean-up of tree branches in the backyard, but nothing serious at all. The neighbor to my left had a tree fall on their car and garage. A neighbor a few houses up the street had a tree fall on the front of their house (luckily no major damage). We lost power for only five hours, which is a miracle. Walking around my neighborhood leaves me utterly dumbfounded at the mess that surrounds us. And this is just one section of the city. The tornado traveled through my section of town and then down through the rest of the city, for a total of nearly 10 miles. I have not even been to other parts of the city to look at damage, but I have seen pictures on the news and the devastation all around is unbelievable. And this is a smaller-scale tornado!

I know some of you have experienced tornadoes and understand our plight. Here in NY, we are not used to this type of weather. We get heavy thunderstorms, but rarely a tornado. So, please continue to pray and send good thoughts for our city. At the writing of this post, there are still people without power. Sixteen homes are deemed uninhabitable. A long clean-up awaits us. I found a video of someone who drove around the city and recorded some footage, if you care to look at it (I actually make a blurry appearance at 6:41 as I was walking home from helping some neighbors clean up!).

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Tornado

The Book Blogger Hop will be posted later today. A tornado hit my city yesterday (still unconfirmed by the National Weather Service) and the damage is overwhelming. My family and home came out unscathed, but will you please send prayers and good thoughts to our community? We are not used to tornadoes. Thank you.

Jennifer

Crazy Talk: Frozen

Have you ever experienced that period of blogging where you could not think of one thing to write about?

It feels like I have been in that state of limbo this entire year. My blog consists of some book reviews and the Book Blogger Hop meme. That’s it. If I do think of something to write about, I will do a search and find that 25 other bloggers have already posted on the same topic. Not that my opinion couldn’t add a new perspective, but I always think “This is an awesome idea, Jen! I’m sure no one has written about this yet!

But, of course, someone has. Darnit!

It seems so difficult to come up with “new” and “fresh” ideas. There are so many bloggers out there and none of us want to be accused of pilfering another blogger’s idea (even unintentionally).

So I have become a bit frozen in my blogging. Not quite sure where to go, but wanting to move somewhere.

Have you ever felt that way? How do you work through it?

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Image from: http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/feature/37781/russian-leagues-0-1-freezing-winter-hell.html

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Crazy Talk is a resurrected feature here at Crazy-for-Books where I pull something out of the air to talk about and see what you all have to say about it. :)

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Book Blogger Hop: July 20-26


Welcome to the Book Blogger Hop!

A place to connect book bloggers and readers every week!

Book Blogger Hop

Grab the Logo!

Read the History and Rules of the Hop. This link also includes information on how to submit a question for the Hop and how to be a potential Host of the Hop!

Want to plan your posts in advance? Click this link to check out the future Hop questions!

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What to Do:
1. Post on your blog answering this question:

What’s the ONE super-hyped book you’ll NEVER read?

2. Enter the link to your post in the linky list below (enter your Blog Name, Genre you review, and direct link to your post answering this week’s question; failure to do so will result in removal of your link).

3. Visit other blogs in the list, spending quality time getting to know the people you are visiting. Don’t just visit the post with the question, but click around and read some of the blogger’s other content, too! This Hop isn’t about the number of people you can visit, but the quality of each visit. Readers – find a new blog to read by clicking through the links in the list!

My answer:
I do not really like to say that I’ll never read a particular book, because my tastes may change and someday I may pick up a paranormal romance (I can’t envision this, but who knows?!). BUT, with that said, I can say, with 100% certainty, that I will never read Fifty Shades of Grey. That is one book I am positive I will not ever read!

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