Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Release Blitz with Teasers: Pack Reject by Merri Bright @MerriBrightDark @GiveMeBooksPR


Pack Reject by Merri Bright
Series: The Splintered Bond #1
Publication date: June 26th, 2024

Synopsis:
I'm the pack reject. The prey.

For years, I've kept myself safe from my small pack's males, hiding in sewers and sleeping in trees to keep their teeth out of my neck. They don't really want me, just the power and prestige that comes with winning the Hunt. I only want to survive.

In three days, at the Enforcer Games, I'll have one chance to escape. But when the Games begin, and the most powerful shifters in the world arrive at my packlands and scent me, a new Hunt begins.

They're the princes of our world. And they're willing to break the rules to get me.

Pack Reject is the first book in a new reverse harem paranormal wolf shifter series from Amazon Top 50 and Vella bestselling author Merri Bright. Fated mates who are driven to reject each other, powerful enemies in unlikely places, and a fierce heroine who will change the world... if she can survive the Hunt.

This is a slow burn, medium-dark romance with a cliffhanger, fated/rejected mates, possessive MMCs, a morally gray, unhinged MMC, and a badass/traumatized FMC. Please read the content advisories in the Author's Note.


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MERRI BRIGHT writes stories filled with magic, since those are the books she loves to read. She spends her days dreaming about naughty angels, misunderstood demons, sexy shifters, growly Alpha males, and frequently refuses to limit her heroines to just one love interest. Please join Merri's Mischief Makers on Facebook where you'll discover random giveaways, sneak peeks of new novels, book recommendations, and silly/sexy/funny stuff.


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Release Blitz with Teasers: Crow's Revenge by Nikki Landis @landisnikkiauth @GiveMeBooksPR


Crow's Revenge by Nikki Landis
Series: Devil's Murder MC #5
Publication date: June 26th, 2024

Synopsis:
For six months, Crow has been consumed with vengeance.
It's become the driving force for nearly every decision in the club ever since his father, the former president Rook, was murdered.
But when the woman he loves is kidnapped, and a vicious, unpredictable enemy takes Bella, he'll have to join forces with unlikely allies.
Nothing will prevent him from rescuing her, even if he must travel into the heart of his enemy's territory and face the beast head-on.
Revenge is served in ways he could never imagine.
What happens when your enemy isn't your enemy?
What is everything Crow believed to be true was a distortion of the facts, twisted to manipulate his father in a game of lies?
The past exposes painful truths when he receives an unexpected visitor. Can he forgive the wrongs that destroyed his parents and nearly ripped his club apart?
Now all the cards are on the table, the hand has been dealt, and Crow will have to win the game before he loses Bella, his club, and his sanity.

Crow must be read before Crow's Revenge. It's also highly recommended to read Talon first. For best enjoyment, the series should be read in order.

Crow's Revenge is a full-length, dark romance with a parnormal twist, violence, biker slang, forced proximity, revenge, torture, and a possessive, protective outlaw president willing to risk everything to protect his club, his sister, and the woman he loves.


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NIKKI LANDIS is the USA Today & International Bestselling, Multi-Award-Winning Author of over 50 romance novels in the MC, reverse harem, paranormal, dystopian, and science fiction genres. Her books feature deadly reapers, dark alpha heroes, protective shifters, and seductive vampires along with the feisty, independent women they love. There's heart-throbbing action on every page as well as fated mates and soul bonds deep enough to fulfill every desire.




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Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Review: The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix

The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
Publication date: July 13th, 2021
Pages: 351
Spice: N/A

Synopsis:
In horror movies, the final girls are the ones left standing when the credits roll. They made it through the worst night of their lives... but what happens after?

Like his bestselling novel The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampries, Grady Hendrix's latest is a fast-paced, frightening, and wickedly humorous thriller. From chain saws to summer camp slayers, The Final Girl Support Group pays tribute to and slyly subverts our most popular horror films--movies like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, A Nightmare on Elm Street, and Scream.

Lynnette Tarkington is a real-life final girl who survived a massacre. For more than a decade she's been meeting with five other final girls and their therapist in a support group for those who survived the unthinkable, working to put their lives back together. Then one woman misses a meeting, and their worst fears are realized--someone knows about the group and is determined to rip their lives apart again, piece by piece.

But the thing about final girls is that no matter how bad the odds, how dark the night, how sharp the knife, they will never, ever give up.


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Review:
Lynnette is one the most pitied final girl in her support group. She is seen as a loose cannon who can't seem to move on from her past. She is constantly looking over her shoulder and worried that if the support group crumbles that they would all be made to be sitting ducks for their attackers to pick off one by one. They are strongest together. But when the first final group of their group is murdered it throws Lynnette into a frenzy. All her preparations have led to this. But it seems someone else is aware of all her precautions and is one step ahead of her at every turn. With her group thinking she had lost her mind and the evidence against her starting to grow will anyone believe her when she says that someone is out to kill all the famous final girls, one by one?

I will preface this by saying that I don't watch a lot of slasher films but I know the ones referenced in this book because of their infamy. There were points where I had to go look up what happened in the film to understand a bit of the low level references, but that is only due to my curiosity and not a requirement to enjoy the book. In this book the author gives nods to Sydney from Scream, Sally from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Alice from Friday the 13th, Laurie from Halloween, and Nancy from A Nightmare on Elm Street. Our main character is thought to be a side character in a lesser known horror flick. I think if I would have seen any of these movies aside from Halloween and Scream I would have maybe enjoyed it a bit more as I picked through the plethora of easter eggs hidden within the story.

Lynnette was an absolute mess. She was the stupidest final girl I have ever seen. She just bumbles around throwing out theories as to who the big baddies are without any idea what is happening. She only falls into figuring it out in the last final chapters after accusing over a dozen people before hand. She came across as a nut job the entire time and there wasn't a single reference to a shower so she was almost a smelly nut job with how long she was running from person to person trying to solve her mystery and clear her name. But I think if she was as strong and sure as the other final girls then it would have been a much shorter story and the big evil would have been sussed out by me a lot easier. As it were I had no idea who the killer was until close to the end. 

This book was absolutely difficult to put down and I knew I was going to enjoy it from chapter one. I started recommending it before I even finished it. I have at least two other friends who are going to read it and maybe they can shed some light on things I may have missed in the horror movie ignorance. I think it was a decisively unique premise and was horrific without being grotesque. Hendrix did a great job of keeping things balanced and putting together a really riveting read.