RUN TO YOU PART ONE: FIRST
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(available February 1, 2014)
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Book Tour: Christmas in Dogtown by Suzanne Johnson
Christmas
in Dogtown
Suzanne Johnson
Genre: Sweet Paranormal
Romance
Publisher: Story Vault
Date of Publication:
December 2012
ASIN: B009RBKTSG
Number of pages: 30
Word Count: approx. 11,000
Book Description:
A
woman who spent years escaping her rural past learns that Dogtown,
Louisiana, hides more family secrets than just the recipe for boudin
blanc…..
Resa
Madere’s on the verge of losing it all. The boyfriend’s gone. The
job’s history. Her beloved house is on the brink of foreclosure.
She’ll do anything to save it—even spend a long Christmas holiday
working in St. James Parish, Louisiana, helping her uncle run the
family meat business. But the community of Dogtown, which has been
home for seven generations of the Madere and Caillou families, has
deep roots and deeper secrets. For Resa, going home is one thing.
Getting
out might not be so easy.
My Review:
★★★★☆
This was a fun, quick read. The main character, Resa, is determined not to run back home, even though she is facing financial and personal troubles in her life. She does agree to go home, temporarily, to help out an ill uncle at a family business. Little does she know, the whole town has a secret that she is soon to find out. This trip back home could change her whole life.
Add into the mix a childhood friend that everyone is certain she will end up with, some wonderful characters, the surprise twist, and you have a very entertaining story that is perfect for any time of year! I really enjoyed this novella. It is quick to read, entertaining, and imaginative. I really liked the surprise shift into a more paranormal tale towards the end.
I recommend this to anyone that enjoys reading a quick, well written story that has family, love, tradition, and a supernatural element. There are no explicit, in your face scenes, so this is great for younger YA readers as well as adult romance lovers!
Short Excerpt:
“You are stupid,” Resa
told her reflection in the tiny, scratched mirror of the White
Castle’s rose-pink bathroom. “Stupid, ridiculous, and absurd.”
She’d been wrestling
with her curly black hair for a half hour, and the brown eyes that
stared back at her from beneath freshly plucked brows and carefully
applied eyeliner looked more jittery than sexy. “And idiotic.”
First, it had been almost
a week since Chan had asked her to the Saturday night community
dance, popping the question almost shyly as they hacked at the bodies
of gigantic dead fish. They’d both been covered in blood and
smelled like they’d been rolling in bait, which should have tipped
her off that anything in Dogtown reeking of romance, well, reeked.
Second, her potential
date had left immediately after asking her out so he could catch an
alligator that had eaten somebody’s poodle in one of those
backwater houses near the swamp. He burned rubber out of the Madere’s
driveway after making sure he had enough duct tape to wrap around the
gator’s jaws. Adequate duct tape was not an attribute she’d ever
sought in a man.
About
the Author:
Suzanne
Johnson writes urban fantasy and paranormal romance (under the name
Susannah Sandlin) from Auburn, Alabama, on top of a career in
educational publishing that has thus far spanned five states and six
universities—including both Alabama and Auburn, which makes her
bilingual. She grew up in Winfield, Alabama, halfway between the Bear
Bryant Museum and Elvis' birthplace, but was also a longtime resident
of New Orleans, so she has a highly refined sense of the absurd and
an ingrained love of SEC football, cheap Mardi Gras trinkets, and
fried gator on a stick. She’s the author of the Sentinels of New
Orleans urban fantasy series and, as Susannah Sandlin, the Penton
Legacy paranormal romance series.
Website:
www.suzanne-johnson.com
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Book Tour: Home Again by Kathleen Shoop
THREE Lucky Winners will each receive a $15 Amazon Giftcard,
courtesy of author of Home Again, Kathleen Shoop
Ending on Friday 20th December at 11.59pm EST
Open Worldwide
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