Author: Ambrosia

Book Blast: Warriors Moon by Jaclyn Hawkes

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Warriors MoonWarrior’s Moon

Medieval Historical Romance by Jaclyn M. Hawkes

 

Never in all the kingdom has there been a more brave and protective champion. Nor such a loyal and capable maiden. And they loved each other desperately.

But is their love strong enough to withstand all their dark age holds—danger, feudalism, disease, and unfair oppression?

Yes, they truly loved each other desperately.

They loved their kingdom more.

 

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Praise for Warrior’s Moon

“This book has adventure, memorable characters, and tons of action. There is even romance! I absolutely loved it!!!” ~Laura (Goodreads)

“I loved this book! Great characters, I love a strong female lead. I really enjoy all of Jaclyn Hawkes books, but I must say this in one of my favorites!” ~ KMon (Amazon)

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jaclynAuthor Jaclyn M. Hawkes

Jaclyn M. Hawkes grew up in Utah with 6 sisters, 4 brothers and any number of pets. (It was never boring!) She got a bachelor’s degree, had a career and traveled extensively before settling down to her life’s work of being the mother of four magnificent and sometimes challenging children. She loves shellfish, the out of doors, the youth and hearing her children laugh. She and her fine husband, their family, and their sometimes very large pets, now live in a mountain valley in northern Utah, where it smells like heaven and kids still move sprinkler pipe.

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Ends 2/10/14

Open only to those who can legally enter, receive and use an Amazon.com Gift Code or Paypal Cash. Winning Entry will be verified prior to prize being awarded. No purchase necessary. You must be 18 or older to enter or have your parent enter for you. The winner will be chosen by rafflecopter and announced here as well as emailed and will have 48 hours to respond or a new winner will be chosen. This giveaway is in no way associated with Facebook, Twitter, Rafflecopter or any other entity unless otherwise specified. The number of eligible entries received determines the odds of winning. Giveaway was organized by Kathy from I Am A Reader, Not A Writer and sponsored by the author. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED BY LAW.

 

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The Sunday Salon 1/12/13

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Another Sunday and another stupidly busy week for me. I have not gotten nearly enough reading done and it is not the book I am readings fault. I am hoping to finish it today, but who knows what will happen.

Sadly we had some events happen that while not deathly or anything have been a pain in the ass. The biggest one was a pipe in the garage burst and when I walked out there was at least 2 inches of water along most of the floor. Thankfully it was a line that went to the outside and the only damage was the mess and a few of my envelope supplies. Then when trying to go to the DMV here to get some stuff taken care of what I was told we needed was not enough, always fun.

My husband who I love dearly was being a beast and in walmart ran our cart into some people in the isle. Yes they were blocking the isle but come on two wrongs do not make a right. I said I am sorry to the people as we went past, then he went and smarted off…which set off the older lady. She got loud and obnoxious and called him a rude Bastard and such. I managed to get the situation calmed down but come on I shouldn’t have had too. Also ended up not getting the veggies I was after a minor thing but really.

So sadly not much reading done, but today I am going to be trying my level best to finish my book or at least make some good progress on it.

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Quotable Sunday 1/12/14

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This weeks quotes sourced here
“Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.”

Wide Awake by David Levithan

“You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it’s a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.”

The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson

“A million dollars sounds like a lot, I know. Especially when you’re young. But you can’t let money erode your principles or you’ll wind up with nothing.”

Sammy Keyes And The Dead Giveaway by Wendelin Van Draanen

“There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That is what liberty is. No human being is born more or less important than any other. How can we allow ourselves to forget that? What simpler truth is there?”

Wide Awake by David Levithan

“It’s always easier to say good-bye when you know it’s just a prelude to hello.”

The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson

“We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we’d learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn’t fall apart, you’d stop suffering when they did.”

Looking For Alaska by John Green

“One time, when I was very little, I climbed a tree and ate these green, sour apples. My stomach swelled and became hard like a drum, it hurt a lot. Mother said that if I’d just waited for the apples to ripen, I wouldn’t have become sick. So now, whenever I really want something, I try to remember what she said about the apples.”

 

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Product Review: Excelerol Maximum Strength

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Product information:

Excelerol is a new cutting edge nutraceutical dietary supplement. Excelerol supports memory, focus, concentration and alertness. The ingredients in excelerol are backed by extensive clinical and scientific research. Several of the ingredients in excelerol like citicoline and phosphatidylserine may be important chemical nutrients for the brain. 90 capsule supply.

Indications
Supports memory, focus, concentration and alertness.

Ingredients
Vitamin B 12,Niacin (as Niacinamide),Guarana Extract,Kola Nut Extract,DMAE,Acetyl L-Carnitine Bacoppa Monnieri Extract,Peppermint Oil,Tulsi (Holy Basil) Extract,Green Tea Extract,Gingko Biloba Extract,Rhodiola Extract,Phosphatidylserine,L-Tyrosine,White Tea Extract,Black Tea Extract,Alpha Glycerylphosphorylcholine,Citicoline,Huperzine Extract, and Vinpocetine .

Directions
Take 1-3 capsules a day or as recommended by a health professional.

My Review:

I am always working my brain to the end of my wits, seriously. Between writing for 12 or more hours a day most days and then reading and just regular life stuff and plain old not getting enough sleep my brain hits high levels of “SERIOUSLY?” with me. So when I got the chance to try this product out in trade for my honest feedback, I jumped at it anything to help.

So when I got my product I read the instructions and started out with just one capsule to see how it would go. I felt a little more focused that first day and no bad side effects so the next few days I took two pills and now I am up to three.

Now I am not a medical professional so I can only go on what I feel overall when I take it. First since the first day I have noticed no side effects, no jitters, no headache later, nothing that I have felt when I take some other medications. Second I really do feel more focused and clear when I take the product and I am able to get a lot more done without feeling brain fatigued.

I often have times of what I call “squirrel” brain where I jump around from project to project and I am not able to stay focused on any one of them. When I take the Excelerol though I do feel focused and am able to stay with one project until the end. It is really helpful in getting my writing work done.

If you want to try a brain supplement I would recommend this one as a good one to try and stick with. You can check out more information yourself at the website here. You can also view and buy on Amazon here and here.

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Book Review: How to Run Naked with a Werewolf by Molly Harper

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Down, Boy
Anna Moder has just witnessed a shooting, seen her car pulverized, and rescued a wounded stranger only to discover he’s really a werewolf. And by her recent standards, things are actually looking up. Lycanthropes don’t faze Anna. Doctoring a wolf pack outside Grundy, Alaska, is the closest thing to home life she’s known in years. But hitching a ride to Anchorage with long-absent pack member Caleb Graham that’s a risk. Part of her itches to whack his nose with a newspaper. The rest is trying unsuccessfully to keep her own paws off every delicious inch of him.
The problem is, Caleb employs his lupine tracking abilities as a notquite-legal bounty hunter, and Anna is suspicious of both him and his profession. On the run from her past, with old problems closing in, she’d like to stay far, far away from anybody with connections to the law. Caleb, however, seems determined to keep her close. Are his intentions noble, or is he working a more predatory angle?
Anna’s been dreaming of returning to a semi-normal life, but now she’s experiencing a strange new urge . . . to join Caleb in running with the wolves.

My Gemstone Rating:

The third installment in the Naked Werewolf Series by Molly Harper was another home run. Her characters are always breath taking and falling into the life of Dr. Anna Moder was an eye opener. The only human doctor who made her life the last four years among the Werewolf pack in the Crescent Valley, who in the earlier two books you discover and come to love through the Graham children’s eyes only becomes brighter, and tighter to your heart.

Anna is on the run. But from what or who you have to read to find out. Wolves take the people they love to heart and Anna is no exception as she finds herself in Cousin Caleb’s company traversing all over the Alaskan wilderness, chasing down the lawless illegally and legally. But its Caleb’s warm charm that will draw you through the book with his love and patience Anna will be saved.

There is an extra twist at the end of the book as Molly always seems to toss at you and if you’ve read her Nice Girl’s Series you will be squirming to collect all the dots that she’s mixed into this book as well. Always on a new outlook for the next Harper book I can’t wait to finish shooting this off to you and get on to reading the next book in yet another series of hers.

So to cap things up, there are hookers, handcuffs, and boob flashing promises oh my. Pick up How to Run with a Naked Werewolf and bundle up because your hearts going to secure you to the ever rabbit like Dr. Moder. Caleb is no slouch either, over protective, ever gentle, and truly a gentleman like all the other Graham’s this book is read you won’t be able to put down from cover to cover. It opens with an explosion and goes out running!

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WWW Wednesday 1/8/14

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This is another one hosted over at Should be Reading

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What are you reading next?

 

What I am currently reading:

 

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In 1782, during the final clashes of the Revolutionary War, one of our young nation’s most valiant and beloved soldiers was, secretly, a woman.

When Deborah Samson disguised herself as a man and joined the Continental Army, she wasn’t just fighting for America’s independence—she was fighting for her own. Revolutionary, Alex Myers’s richly imagined and meticulously researched debut novel, brings the true story of Deborah’s struggle against a rigid colonial society back to life—and with it the courage, hope, fear, and heartbreak that shaped her journey through a country’s violent birth.

After years as an indentured servant in a sleepy Massachusetts town, chafing under the oppressive norms of colonial America, Deborah can’t contain her discontent any longer. When a sudden crisis forces her hand, she decides to finally make her escape. Embracing the peril and promise of the unknown, she cuts her hair, binds her chest, and, stealing clothes from a neighbor, rechristens herself Robert Shurtliff. It’s a desperate, dangerous, and complicated deception, and becomes only more so when, as Robert, she enlists in the Continental Army.

What follows is an inspiring, one-of-a-kind journey through an America torn apart by war: brutal winters and lethal battlefields, the trauma of combat and the cruelty of betrayal, the joy of true love and the tragedy of heartbreak. In his brilliant Revolutionary, Myers, who himself is a descendant of the historical Deborah, takes full advantage of this real-life heroine’s unique voice to celebrate the struggles for freedom, large and small, like never before.

 

What I just finished reading:

 

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Beginning ten years after the end of Éire’s Captive Moon, this is the story of how Agnarr Halvardson returns to Éire with the intention of settling there, marrying, and siring sons.

It is also the story of Aislinn, who was a child in Ragor when the Northmen raided eleven summers prior but is now a working physician in her own right. She spent a year in Bangor Monastery and became a Christian before Cowan and Charis returned to take the children to Cowan’s village in the kingdom of Dál Fiatach and returns there a decade later to finish learning all she can from the monks about their healing practices.

When Cowan brings her a patient, injured and temporarily unable to speak, she can’t help but find the strong, tall man attractive, even if such feelings unsettle her.

Although sparks fly immediately, Agnarr’s idea of wedding Aislinn—the physician who heals him when he is injured—is hampered by many factors, including language and cultural differences. There is also the matter that he is the man who kidnapped and enslaved Charis years before.

 

What is next..honestly I have no idea ha ha I changed up my reading time line for the month so now I am just looking at everything that was set up and going, “Meh..maybe…” so we will see where the road takes me.

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Book Blast: Dream Killers by S.M Blooding

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Dream Killers

The Dream Killers

“The Dream Killers” is geared for fans of “Once Upon a Time”. The first season (2013-2014) consists of 6 novellas called episodes. It follows River as he tries to escape the pirate Captain Bo, the guardians of the Sea of Dreams, the runners, the elders, and the master mechanics.

Captain Bo is after the dreamnet that River stole from him. He uses it to capture dreams to power devices for all those who sail the Sea of Dreams. They’re all the Nightmare Realm’s failures. They have no place and no purpose. Some are good. Some are bad. Most are just in it for themselves. Bo doesn’t care what price he has to pay in order to get the net back from River.

The guardians of the Sea of Dreams are also after that net, and all those like it. The nets are dream killers, and the guardian Teandra has sworn to destroy any who hold it.

The runners, elders, and master mechanics are searching for any rogue Dreamlander. They need strange gifts, anything of power they can use to bring down Dreamland and rebuild her in their image.

As River struggles to figure out who and what he is, he also has to protect Bo from the sea’s guardians, the kids he’s collecting from the rabid dreamplanes, and himself from a mysterious force that seeks to send him back to where he came from–wherever that might be.

Each episode takes River, his merry crew, and our set of villains through adventures where we discover nuggets of information that will help the heroes in the main novels (Dreamland Stories – Nightmare’s Dream). Each “Dreamland Story” novel can be read as a stand-alone, but there are tons of compelling nuggets that will be revealed through reading each book, and the supporting stories of “The Dream Killers”.

Dream Killers CoverGraveyard of Dreams (The Dream Killers #1)

My name’s River, and I’m a dream killer.

The Sea of Dreams spat me out without any memories of who was or where I came from. I’ve spent years traveling Dreamland in our gypsy caravan, searching for clues. All I’ve discovered is that the all-powerful elders are collecting people like me—Dreamlanders who don’t fit in.

Then I met a man who sails the Sea of Dreams, the one place all Dreamlanders fear. One touch of those ocean waves could shred the soul. Yet, he’s like me. He can hear the water’s whispers, touch her waves, and watch her dreams. My answers are out there—on his ship, on that sea.

Somewhere out there is the graveyard of dreams.

 

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SM BLoodingAuthor SM Blooding

SM “Frankie” Blooding lives in Colorado with her pet rock, Rockie, and Jack the Bird. Jack has refused to let her to take up the piano again, but is warming to the guitar. It might help that Frankie has learned more than two strings. She’s added a few more Arabic words to her vocabulary, but don’t invite her into conversation yet—unless, of course, you’re willing to have a very . . . slow . . . conversation.

She’s dated vampires, werewolves, sorcerers, weapons smugglers and US Government assassins. Yes. She has stories.

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Book Review: Éire’s Viking (Éire’s Viking, #2) by Sandi Layne

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Book two of the Éire’s Viking Trilogy.

Beginning ten years after the end of Éire’s Captive Moon, this is the story of how Agnarr Halvardson returns to Éire with the intention of settling there, marrying, and siring sons.

It is also the story of Aislinn, who was a child in Ragor when the Northmen raided eleven summers prior but is now a working physician in her own right. She spent a year in Bangor Monastery and became a Christian before Cowan and Charis returned to take the children to Cowan’s village in the kingdom of Dál Fiatach and returns there a decade later to finish learning all she can from the monks about their healing practices.

When Cowan brings her a patient, injured and temporarily unable to speak, she can’t help but find the strong, tall man attractive, even if such feelings unsettle her.

Although sparks fly immediately, Agnarr’s idea of wedding Aislinn—the physician who heals him when he is injured—is hampered by many factors, including language and cultural differences. There is also the matter that he is the man who kidnapped and enslaved Charis years before.

Everyone who knows me knows I love a good Viking story, for the historical side and because Loki is my Patron God. I loved the first book in this series  Éire’s Captive Moon by Sandi Layne so I was very excited to dig into the second book to see what Agnarr and Charis and Cowan would get up to again.

I can say I was not disappointed.

Once again we delve deep into a wonderfully written story of war, love, loss and dealing with emotions and learning forgiveness. The story is centered mostly on Aislinn and Agnarr and the story that becomes their love. Not only their love but what Agnarrs love for the land that is Ireland. Aislinn was one of the children from the tunnels in the last books, so her family was slaughtered by the raiding party and she held anger to the men from the North, which is fully understandable. However through her faith in her God she is able to slowly forgive.

As with the last book you can tell that a great deal of research went into this book and the blending of the cultures and histories is fantastic. While the one point I didn’t really like was when Agnarr converted ( I won’t give spoiler details as to what goes on.) , I know that is a personal preference. As a reader I fully understand why he did aside from it being one of the points of the stories, how Ireland came to be not taken over but settled, so it makes sense for the actual story and I appreciate that.

Personally for me this was another triumph of work from Sandi Layne and I cannot wait to sink my teeth into the third installment. I love when a book makes me feel like I am visiting old friends and that is how I felt throughout the whole of this one.

My Gemstone Rating:

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