Blog Barrage and Giveaway: Text Appeal by Lexi Ryan

Text Appeal

by Lexi Ryan

Blurb:

Charlie 'The Devil' Singleton is the face of professional poker. Notorious for playing cards and women, Charlie's ready to change his ways, and the surprisingly sexy texts he's getting from Riley are making him bet everything...on her.

Riley Carter is nothing like the hotel heiresses who make the news. A girl who's determined to run her father's hotel empire can't share many traits with women who fill the gossip rags. But 'The Devil' has a way of tempting even the best behaved girls.

When Riley discovers the naughty messages on her cell have been coming from Charlie, not her would-be fiancé, she falls into a hot affair with the last man she expected. But consorting with the notorious bad boy puts her hard-won reputation on the line. Is Charlie worth more to her than a little TEXT APPEAL?

Reviews:

“Text Appeal is smart, sexy, filled with great writing and memorable dialogue, and features characters you won't easily forget.”--Barnes & Noble’s LOVE ROCKS Indie Review column

“Readers will find themselves cheering for Riley and Charlie both. Lexi Ryan writes her dialogue with wit, humor, a bit of sarcasm, and throws in some wonderful chemistry!” --InD’Tale Magazine

“Ms. Ryan's story is fun and flirty. Text Appeal won't disappoint!”--Storm Goddess Book Reviews

About the Author:

Author of both contemporary and paranormal romance, Lexi Ryan writes smart, spunky stories that sizzle. She enjoys reading, sunshine, a good glass of wine, and rare trips to the beach with her husband and children.
Lexi lives in Indiana where she divides her time between her family, her writing, and her job as an English professor. You can find her at her website: lexiryan.com

Visit Lexi online at:

Website – http://lexiryan.com
Blog – http://lexiryan.blogspot.com
Facebook – http://facebook.com/lexiryan
Twitter – @writerlexiryan
E-mail – writerlexiryan@gmail.com
Newsletter – http://eepurl.com/qymaH 

Excerpt:

“I’m not jealous of Paris Hilton. I’m jealous of girls who don’t have a potential multi-million dollar inheritance. Because they can be whoever they want to be without having cameras trained on them.”

“I’m pretty sure you can indulge in a little luxury without making a sex tape.”

Jaws licked Riley’s face and she grinned. “I already have a sex tape.”

Lacey punched Riley’s arm. “Get out!”

Riley winced, rubbing her triceps. “Sure, just last Christmas I caught Jaws on tape humping Santa’s leg at the company Christmas party.”

Lacey gave a dramatic eye roll. “Right. Well, girl, if that’s the most scandalous thing you have going on in your life, I suggest to kick it up a notch.”

“Wouldn’t that be nice,” Riley said with a sigh.

Furrowing her brow, Lacey grabbed the remote and clicked off the TV. She turned on the couch so she was facing Riley. “But you can still be a little scandalous in private. People aren’t watching you all the time.”

No, thanks to years of good behavior, it was rare to find paparazzo following her these days. Sure, there was the occasional story about how simply she lived or how hard she worked, facts that had her dubbed early on as “Vegas’ Good Daughter,” but those stories only sold papers if they were accompanied by fall from grace stories. As long as she was boring, they’d leave her alone.

She stood, pulling out her hair tie. She only had thirty minutes before Charlie would be here. “I’m going to jump in the shower,” she told her roommate as she stood.

Lacey raised a brow, watching Riley over the back of the couch. “Another date with Chaz?”

A smile curved Riley’s lips at the mention of her boyfriend’s name. Lacey might not be Team Chaz now, but if Riley told her about the text messages he’d started sending her, maybe she’d see the light. “Not tonight,” she answered. The talk about the latest developments in her relationship with Chaz would have to wait for another time. “Your brother’s taking me out tonight.” That also made her smile. Dear God, she was a mess. Thoughts of spending an evening with Charlie shouldn’t make her giddy.

Lacey pushed herself to her knees and propped her elbows on the back of the couch. “My brother? Maybe you are being a little scandalous in private, and you’re just not telling me about it.”

Riley bit her lip as she remembered why she’d agreed to dinner with Charlie. She couldn’t tell Lacey he wanted to talk about her birthday—Charlie might be planning a surprise. Instead she just shrugged. “He promised to keep it platonic.”

Lacey snorted. “Have you met my brother?”

My Thoughts:

I was supposed to provide a review of this book to go along with this post, but as I couldn't get beyond the pages and pages of descriptions of the character's lingerie fetish, I feel I cannot provide an adequate review. Instead, I would rather have the excerpts, etc., stand on their own.

Available at*:
Amazon - http://amzn.com/B0089UCR04
B&N - http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/text-appeal-lexi-ryan/1111454979
Kobo - http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Text-Appeal/book-lGY5ZeqFO0uKL7qr-aqIRg/page1.html
ARe - https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-textappeal-861992-149.html
Smashwords - https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/169977
Also available in the iTunes store

Giveaway Info: Prize is a $25 GC for Amazon or Barnes & Noble. Contest is tour-wide and open internationally. Must be 18 years of age or older to enter. Ends Dec 15.

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Christmas Wishes Blog Hop

Hello and Welcome to the Christmas Wishes Blog Hop!! We are so excited to be joining forces with 2 other wonderful blog touring companies, which are Full Moon Bites and CBLS!! We are giving away 3 wonderful prizes on here, plus the opportunity to win on over 150+ blogs. You have the chance to win A Nook Glow, A Kindle Paperwhite, and a choice $90 giftcard from either Barnes and Noble or Amazon. We hope to make some of your Christmas wishes come true! These prizes were made possible by the generous donations of the fellow authors and bloggers that are joining us on this hop today! I would like to say thank you to:

Regan Black
Marie Iglesias-Cardinale
Jennifer Hart
Jessica Brown
Vicki Batman
Carolyn Matcowsky
Kristine Weekley
Sela Specht
Gracen Miller
Laxmi Haraharan
Jodi Redford
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Cindy Bennett
Marisette Burgess
Crysmsym Heart
Full Moon Bites
Susan Griscom
Kristine Cheney
TC Archer
Tara Scott
Kelly Gendron
Jessica Subject
Patricia Green
Laura Kaye
Ronda Tutt
Alexandra Christian
VS Morgan
Cara Marsi
Gillian Pemberton
Kris Morton
Nora Weston
Dani Harper
Gracen Miller
Laxi Mar
Massimo Marino
Jamie Marchant
Anna Patterson
Jorja Lovett
Natalie G Owens
Aria Kane
Ann Montclair
Elaine Raco Chase
Tonya Kinzer
Taryn Kincaid
Meg Mims

If I have forgotten your name, I am sorry! Please know that we appreciate each and every donation!!! And now for the books included in the book bundles that come with the tablets!!

Justice Incarnate
The Matchmaker’s Mark both by Regan Black
Love’s Captive
Heart of a Dragon both by Myra Nour
Men of the Caves by Marisette Burgess
Jingle Balls by Crysmsym Heart
Print copies of Whisper Cape and Reflections by Regan Black (Susan Griscom)
Spartan Heart Part 1 and 2
Secret Santa which are all by Kristine Cheney
Labyrinth by Tara Scott
Sin Incarnate and Trouble at the Hotel Baba Ghanoush by TC Archer
Sanguine Kiss by Alexandra Christian
The Gift by VS Morgan
Storm of Desire Cara Marsi
Guardian 2632
The 12th Paladin both by Nora Weston
Pandora’s Box by Gracen Miller
The Destiny of Shaitan by Laxi Mar
Damiones by Massimo Marino
The Goddess’ Choice by Jamie Marchant
Into the Wild by Jorja Lovett
Something to Live For (Moonlight Dating) by Natalie G Owens
A Titan for Christmas by Aria Kane
Well-Stacked Trio by Elaine Raco Chase
The Boss’s Pet: The Contract by Tonya Kinzer
Santa Paws by Meg Mims
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Losing It by Cora Carmack: A Review

There is a new wave of fiction sweeping the web called new adult fiction - usually involving early-twenty-somethings - and Losing It is leading the way in this new category. It has received an incredible amount of buzz around the web and everyone who reads it seems to be totally in love with it. So of course I had to read it to see what all the buzz was about.

First, let me say that I really enjoyed this book. It was a good read with an interesting premise, but there were some places where it just left me flat. The build-up was great: Bliss, a college senior, is determined to lose her virginity before she graduates and the guy she chooses to do the deed - but ultimately skips out on - turns out to be her new professor. This alone should provide a great deal of tension, not to mention the - sometimes taxing - friendships she maintains with some of her classmates and fellow thespians-in-training. But this is where it falls a little flat for me.

After that great build-up, it sort of evened off and then nothing spectacular really happened. The threat of being caught in a relationship and the possible repercussions - he could lose his job, she could be expelled - was down-played to the point of nonexistance and the story kind of inched along until she inevitably graduated, at which point, there could no longer be any objection to their being together. So although I think the author missed out on a chance to really ramp up the tension - and therefore the excitement - of the story with this scenario, I still enjoyed reading this book, would definitely recommend it to others, and look forward to what comes next in this author's portfolio.

Book Blast and Giveaway: After Dark by Emi Gayle

After Dark (Book One of the 19th Year)
By Emi Gayle

What eighteen year old Mac Thorne doesn’t know will probably kill her.

In exactly eight months, five days, three hours and thirteen minutes, Mac has to choose what she’ll be for the rest of her life.

She has no choice but to pick. As a Changeling, it’s her birthright. To Mac, it’s a birthchore. Like going to school with humans, interacting with humans, and pretending to be human during the pesky daylight hours.

Once darkness descends, Mac can change into any supernatural form that exists—which makes her as happy as she can be. That is, until Winn Thomas, the biggest geek in her senior class figures out there’s more to what hides in the dark than most are willing to acknowledge.

In this first of the 19th Year Trilogy, Winn might know more about Mac than even she does, and that knowledge could end their lives, unless Mac ensures the powers-that-be have no choice but to keep him around.

Links

Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Amazon Kindle

Praise


“Winn and Mac were perfect for each other in every way possible. It was like two magnets finally finding each other and connecting.”
— Good Choice Reading

“Awesome beyond awesome! For lovers of YA Paranormal, this is a MUST READ!!!”
— Romancing the Book

“Talk about can't put down...I accidentally opened this one instead of the book I was scheduled to read. Made the mistake of reading the first paragraph -- and I have not been able to put my iPad down since!”
— Parajunkee



Excerpt

Endless screams. Maniacal laughter. The scent of prey.

Chills raced up my spine.

I wanted to run. To hide. To bury my head in the grave beneath me.

Instead, I balanced on top of Samuel L. Wilson, someone’s ‘beloved father and son resting in peace,’ craving solitude and stressing like a vampire on a blood fast.

Good ole ‘Sam’ decomposed underneath the largest oak in Primrose Cemetery—a spot no human would visit at night except on Halloween. A night that should have been mine.

Mine alone.

A gust of wind pushed my sketchpad to my knees, flung hair against my cheeks and sent my colored pencils tumbling. Wind, I could deal with. Humans? I’d rather not have had to. A swipe of my hand through the air brought the drawing tools back up. I yanked my hair into a tail, twisted the strands around a Cerulean blue pencil and stabbed random colors into the knot for safe keeping.

My frustration with human-kind had reached its pinnacle hours before but ratcheted even higher as someone rattled the gates, girls giggled and dares to enter the cemetery from crackly-voiced, chicken boys reached me.

I slapped my pencil to my papers, my forehead to my palm. “All I wanted was an hour of uninterrupted—”

The sharp end of something way larger than a pencil pierced my neck.

I straightened with one intake of breath, dropping the yellow, number-two from my fingertips. My hand reached toward the uninvited object as I seethed between clenched teeth.

“Hello, Mackenzie.” His deep bass resonated with the confidence of his kind: the not-human variety.

“You’ve got to be kidding.” Whatever the tool, it pressed deeper into my flesh, and I itched to free myself from its penetrating hold.

“And once again, I have won the game before it began.”

“Only because you came up behind me.” A small orb of sunlight formed in the palm of my hand as I kept my neck as still as possible. With one toss, it zipped into the air above my head.

A pierced squeal emanated from behind me, and the point slid away.

Holy hell, that hurt! I jumped to the ground, somersaulted between Matilda Jane, Johann Rowe and the plastic flowers that lay between them. With another roll, James Peak’s extra large headstone concealed my entire form.

“Come out, come out, wherever you are.” The crunch of branches under footsteps gave his position away.

With a deep inhale, my body began its shift into a new form. My incisors elongated. Heart stopped. Eyes burned. On the exhale, strength, cunning and innate wit filled me, matching that of my attacker.

I stood with James as a shield. “Bring it on, old man.”



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Author Emi Gayle

Emi Gayle just wants to be young again. She lives vicariously through her youthful characters, while simultaneously acting as chief-Mom to her teenaged son and searching for a way to keep her two daughters from ever reaching the dreaded teen years.

Ironically, those years were some of Emi's favorite times. She met the man of her dreams at 14, was engaged to him at 19, married him at 20 and she's still in love with him to this day. She'll never forget what it was like to fall in love at such a young age — emotions she wants everyone to feel.

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