Monday, 2 February 2015

✤ VERUM ✤ COURTNEY COLE ✤ #NocteTrilogy2 ✤

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COURTNEY COLE - VERUM

• release date: 2 February 2015
• NOCTE Trilogy #2

• New Adult Dark Romantic Psycho-Suspense ☺ kinda ☺
• #3 LUX will be out summer 2015

★★★★★

5 big and fat Stars

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The truth shall set you free.
My name is Calla Price and I’m drowning.
My new world is a dark, dark ocean and I’m being pulled under by secrets.
Can I trust anyone?  I don’t know anymore.
The lies are spirals. They twist and turn, binding me with their thorns and serpentine tongues.  And just when I think I have it figured out, everything is pulled out from under me.
I’m entangled in the darkness.
But the truth will set me free.
It’s just ahead of me, so close I can touch it.  But even though it shines and glimmers, it has glistening fangs and I know it will shred me.
Are you scared?
 

#VERUM brings us from Astoria, Oregon, USA to Whitley, England...







Do we all remember what happened in #NOCTE???? How it ended???
I have to admit, I did a little re-read when I found #VERUM on my kindle. But while I was doing that, I realized that I didn't forget a thing about what happened in the first book. It really was an extremely memorable story!!

Calla & Finn - the twins. The first book was told from both their POVs, only as it turned out in the end... PLEASE STOP READING NOW, IF YOU HAVEN'T READ #NOCTE!!!!!!


...turns out Finn died on the same day their mother died....and Calla just couldn't deal with all that death in her life and she kind of checked out of it for a while. But now she remembers. And the most important person she finally remembered again is Dare. Her boyfriend ... he's been her boyfriend for months! Only she forgot about him. And he was so patient and stayed near her... which must've been really hard for the poor guy.



Now she can finally remember a bit more, and she can finally ask the last of her 20 questions....

The answer to that last question and so much more will send Calla & Dare to England.
To Whitley. Their family's estate.
Calla needs to go there to find the answers she so desperately needs.
And to take a break from her life - she needs to be far away from home & death for a while.

So the two of them fly to England. To the house where Calla's mom grew up.
Calla is supposed to find out what really happened and she needs to find out about the secrets Dare is still keeping....



But she only finds more questions and it seems as if she's slowly losing the rest of  her sanity, the longer she's there.
She doesn't know who to trust and what to believe and how to go about finding her answers....

What will happen to Calla & Dare?
Will she find answers in England?
Can she ever trust Dare again
Will everybody die at the end?
Will there be a horrible Cliffhanger???

Nope, I'm not telling you ☺




Ok - I can tell you that there won't be a horrible cliffhanging Cliffhanger, nobody will literally hang off or fall off a Cliff (probably☺)  - but... we still WANT/NEED/HAVE to read Book #3 ASAP! ☺
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I REALLY LOoOVED THE BOOK!

I was sooo excited when I found the book on my kindle - I was waiting to read it for what seemed like forever!!!
I loved #NOCTE so much and I needed to know what would happen to Calla & Dare!



And now I know. Well, at least I know a bit more than I did after finishing #NOCTE ☺
It's still all very confusing and mysterious and suspensy though.
And heartstoppingly shocking!
I would even say it's some kind of complete psycho-mind-efff ☺



I love Dare, more than anything, but I can't trust him.


I loved every second of it.
Even though I was totally confuzzled most of the time ☺☺

Just like in the first book, you imagine what could've happened, what will happen....
But you really have no idea, and you're just scared that you won't like whatever it is ....


And just like with #NOCTE you just can't help but LOVE every word of the story.

We just love Dare so much, and whatever it is he did or whatever his secrets are, we just want the two of them to get their happy ever after....
BUT... who knows when or if that will ever happen ☺☺☺

Because the END of #VERUM ??? d DOUBLE OY!!!!!




VERUM was a heartstoppingly amazing mind-fuck of a Psycho-Suspense-Romance! 
I couldn't put it down!


This gif might be the best description of the NOCTE TRILOGY:



I loooooved it - and I won't say more than that - everything more I could and would want to say about VERUM would be a spoiler!!!! You need to get yourselves to amazon on February 2nd and one-click the hell out of this book!!!!!!




And now please Courtney - hurry with book #3 LUX!!!!!!! I need to know how this will all end!




DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER IF YOU HAVE NOT READ NOCTE!!


 See that spinning head up there?  Yeah, that was me at the end of Nocte!

But fasten your seatbelts, secure all valuables and keep arms and legs inside the carriage, because with Verum you are going to be taken on an 

I seriously did not think that this book could have been better than Nocte, but boy was I wrong!  I was up until nearly 2am this morning reading, as I just couldn't put Verum down!

I was glad that I only read Nocte a week before Verum, and there was so much going on, and since I suffer fron book-zheimers and often forget details, it was fresh in my mind.

All I knew was that I wanted Calla and Dare to be happy, and that maybe, just maybe they could get there.
My heart broke over and over for Calla as she remembers things about the accident.  Can she get to the truth or are lies and omissions standing in her way?  I could feel her frustration, her fears coming off the pages.  She does what she is doing for answers, but every answers brings more questions.
Dare, Dare, Dare.  Oh how I love you, but at times I was annoyed with you!

You know how with Nocte, you thought you knew what was happening, but then it was like Woah!  What was that?
In Verum I feel like I spent a great deal of the book befuddled and confused.  And just when I thought I had my head around what was happening....
We are hit with another mind f&*k of epic proportions! Well played Ms Cole, well played.  I think it must be an amazing and scare place, your mind, while you are writing this series!
I can't see what you have for us in Lux - is it May yet?
If you are looking for a dark, suspenseful, mind blowing series, The Nocte Trilogy is a must.
If you have already read Nocte, make sure you have your one-click finger read for Verum on 2nd February.
 


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If you haven't read NOCTE yet
DO IT NOW!!!!




#3 LUX - coming soon


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Courtney Cole is a New York Times and USA Today bestselling novelist who would eat mythology for breakfast if she could. She has a degree in Business, but has since discovered that corporate America is not nearly as fun to live in as fictional worlds. Courtney was born and raised in rural Kansas, but has since migrated south. She now lives in Florida and writes beneath palm trees.

✤ All Of Me ✤ Lisa Renee Jones ✤ Inside Out #6 ✤ BlogTour

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LISA RENEE JONES
ALL OF ME


• release day: 2 February 2015
• Inside Out #6 (The final book in the series!)



Before you start reading this review...
please read the whole
Inside Out Series !
If you haven't yet - you're missing out on some of the best books EVER
☺ (and of course our review might spoil some things for you!!!)

★★★★★
5 Stars







Passion. Mystery.
It all collides in the breathtaking ALL OF ME.
He's rich and famous, his past dark, but so is hers.
Can they save each other?
Or will the darkness tear them apart?

From the moment I met him, I was forever changed. From the first look in his eyes, the first touch of his hand. He has become my passion, my life, the missing part of my soul. He is the reason I am all I can be, not just some shadow of the possibilities. And together, we are the sum of all the broken pieces of our lives made whole again. Nothing will destroy us. Nothing, and no one, will keep us from the ultimate promise, to spend the rest of our lives living on the edge of absolutely everything and doing it together. I won't let it.



♫  THE SOUNDTRACK TO OUR REVIEW & THE BOOK  ♫






"We are all the sum of all our broken pieces."
-LRJ


In this final book in Lisa's #InsideOutSeries we start out with Sara & Chris in Paris.



Remember? Amber has just died, and Chris wants to make sure that everything is alright with Tristan; that he has all her papers in order and that he will keep running the tattoo shop. But Tristan of course is horribly angry. Mad at Chris. He blames him for everything bad that ever happened to Amber. And poor Chris, he of course blames himself too. But he promised his fiancée that he won't need the whip anymore - well - he might need it, but he won't act on the impulse. He'll always tell her when he feels the need...

And I know he'd be seeking a whip right now if not for me. I know he'd be over that edge. But he's not, and I won't let him fall, not now or ever again.

We spend some very sexy time in Paris and in the Merit family château....



...all the while Chris still blames himself for so much...

... I taste hunger in him. I taste pain. I taste fear. The kind of fear that comes from blame.

The security people are still looking for Ava and Ella, and trying to keep the press as far away from Chris & Sara as possible. But then it's time to go back to San Francisco, because Chris and Sara will get married on Valentine's Day. And there is still lots of preparing to be done for that special day.


What will happen to Sarah & Chris?
Will there finally be a HEA?
Will something/someone stop the wedding?
What about Mark & Crystal?
What about the Ava & Ella business?
Will everybody die at the end? o.O
Or will there be a horrible Cliffhanger?
 

I'm not telling you that of course ☺

I don't want to spoil too much ☺


well, of course there's no Cliffhanger, since it's the last book in the series...BUT ☺ The story about Ella is not over! Ella will get her own trilogy soon!
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AMAZING NOVELLA!!!
 

YAY ☺ I missed Sara & Chris & Mark soo much *happydance*



And now they're back for one final good-bye. I LOVED this book! It was just way too short :( I would've loved a 600 page story. Or a never-ending story ☺ But it was really perfect.
Sara & Chris's story, a story that so amazingly started with IF I WERE YOU, has been beautifully wrapped up...with the tiny possiblity that we might see them again in Ella's books, or that once the TV show airs,  it will be such a success (obviously) that we'll get 15 seasons and they have to be filled with so much more about Sara & Chris & Mark & Crystal ☺☺☺

ALL OF ME had EVERYTHING a great story needs:
LOTS OF VERY SEXY & EROTIC SCENES MOVING SCENES ADORABLE SCENES

I love how Sara is finally so sure about her love for Chris, and how she knows deep down, that whatever happens, whatever life will throw at them, they will fight through it together.

"I won't let you go." "Good. Because I'm not letting you go, either."

I loved all those really moving moments that made me and Dawson cry ☺



When one of you can't breathe, 
the other does it for you.


We also have a few tiny diary-excerpts from Rebecca thrown in here and there. It was a really nice & moving way for us to say our good-byes to her.

I don't want to be alone anymore, but I don't want to settle for Mr. Big. I guess I'm a romantic. I want real love... And that's why I walked away from my Master. He's my Mr. Big, and I want all of him. Only then will he get all of me.
-Rebecca Mason

If you loved every book of the Inside Out series - just like I did - you will LOVE this one too ----->>> GO GET IT ☺ You have no other choice... you cannot NOT read THE END! ☺ 
Now I can't wait for Ella's books!!!!!!!



And as I said numerous times before, can I please have the Inside Out TV Show on my TV tomorrow??? And can it please be a daily thing? Because I want/need to stare at (naked) Chris & Mark all day long!



ARC received for an honest review
 
It was a bittersweet feeling, reading All of Me. 
I have loved this series from the day I first picked up If I Were You, and each and every book in the series, has gotten better, drawing us deeper into the world of Chris and Sara and Mark.
We finally get closure on Rebecca's story.  I loved the use of excerpts of Rebecca's journals to bring her story full circle.  I felt that it was the perfect way for us to say goodbye to someone who has been such a big part of all our main characters lives throughout the whole series. 
Sara is finally very secure in her relationship with Chris.  Chris has so many things to deal with in this installment of their story, your heart can't help but ache for him.
I loved that we also got more of Mark and Crystal.  I really, really like Crystal.
There were plenty of sweet moments, sad moments, and sexy, sexy moments - but there always are with our lovers!
The one thing that we don't get closure to is the Ella situation - but there is light at the end of the tunnel, as we find out that there will be a 3 book series about Ella.  Is she alive?  Has something happened to her?  Gah, I can't wait to find out!  And I hope that we get more of Chris and Sara, Mark and Crystal in her story.
 



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New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones is the author of the highly acclaimed INSIDE OUT TRILOGY which has sold to more than ten countries for translation with negotiations in process for more, and has now been optioned by STARZ Network for a cable television show, to be produced by Suzanne Todd (Alice in Wonderland). Since beginning her publishing career in 2007, Lisa has published more than 30 books with publishers such as Simon and Schuster, Avon, Kensington, Harlequin, NAL, Berkley and Elloras Cave, as well as crafting a successful indie career. Booklist says that Jones suspense truly sizzles with an energy similar to FBI tales with a paranormal twist by Julie Garwood or Suzanne Brockmann. Prior to publishing, Lisa owned multi-state staffing agency that was recognized many times by The Austin Business Journal and also praised by Dallas Women Magazine. In 1998 LRJ was listed as the #7 growing women owned business in Entrepreneur Magazine. Lisa loves to hear from her readers. You can reach her at www.lisareneejones.com and she is active on twitter and facebook daily.