My Favorite Things: Entangled Embrace Blog Tour: Full Measures by Rebecca Yarros and In Bloom by Katie Delahanty

Sunday, March 2, 2014

Entangled Embrace Blog Tour: Full Measures by Rebecca Yarros and In Bloom by Katie Delahanty

About the Books:

Title: Full Measures

Author: Rebecca Yarros

Published: February 10, 2014

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She knew. That’s why Mom hadn’t opened the door. She knew he was dead.

Twenty years as an army brat and Ember Howard knew, too. The soldiers at the door meant her dad was never coming home. What she didn’t know was how she would find the strength to singlehandedly care for her crumbling family when her mom falls apart.

Then Josh Walker enters her life. Hockey star, her new next-door neighbor, and not to mention the most delicious hands that insist on saving her over and over again. He has a way of erasing the pain with a single look, a single touch. As much as she wants to turn off her feelings and endure the heartache on her own, she can’t deny their intense attraction.

Until Josh’s secret shatters their world. And Ember must decide if he’s worth the risk that comes with loving a man who could strip her bare.

My Review:

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Full Measures by Rebecca Yarros is a stand-alone romance that will require at least 1 box of tissues and a hearty glass of your favorite wine. Be prepared to be sad, happy, sad, happy and completely overwhelmed.

Ember's father just died. He was in the Army, in Afghanistan and now he's never coming home. Her family is falling apart around her and she wants to fall apart too, but then Josh walks into her life and he is her life preserver. The feelings that ignite between these two help erase most of the debilitating pain Ember feels from her dad's passing. He makes life livable again.

So what happens when she discovers Josh's secret is the one thing that can send her spiraling right back down into a pit of despair with no hope in sight?

READ THIS BOOK and find out!!!! It's awesome! Well-paced and very well-written.

About Rebecca:

Rebecca Yarros is a hopeless romantic and lover of all things chocolate, coffee, and Paleo. In addition to being a mom, military wife, and blogger, she can never choose between Young Adult and New Adult fiction, so she writes both. She's a graduate of Troy University, where she studied European history and English, but still holds out hope for an acceptance letter to Hogwarts. Her blog, The Only Girl Among Boys, has been voted the Top Military Mom Blog the last two years, and celebrates the complex issues surrounding the military life she adores.

When she's not writing, she's tying on hockey skates for her kids, or sneaking in some guitar time. She is madly in love with her army-aviator husband of eleven years, and they're currently stationed in Upstate NY with their gaggle of rambunctious kiddos and snoring English Bulldog, but she would always rather be home in Colorado.

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Title: In Bloom

Series: The Brightside #1

Author: Katie Delahanty

Published: February 10, 2014

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My name is Olivia Bloom and I. Am. Free.

I left for LA with everything I owned piled into my old Volkswagen and dreams of becoming a costume designer. Little did I know I’d wind up designing for a lingerie company—yeah, not sure how I landed this gig—and taken under the wing of two young Hollywood insiders. The fashion shows and parties were great, but life really got exciting when the seriously hottest lead singer of my favorite band started to fall for me.　

How does someone like me, an ordinary girl from Pittsburgh, wind up in the arms of the world’s sexiest rock star—surrounded by celebrities, fashion, and music—and not be eaten alive? Berkeley is everything I've ever dreamed of in a boyfriend, but the paparazzi, the tabloids, the rumors, it's all getting a bit too crazy. My life has become every girl’s dream come true, if only I don’t blink and lose it all…　

About Katie:

Katie Delahanty is a fashion designer turned novelist. She holds a BA in Communication Studies from UCLA and a Professional Designation in Fashion Design from FIDM. It never occurred to her that she was a writer until an economic-crisis-induced career shift from lingerie designer to e-commerce webmistress led her to start the company blog. Not being an expert in lingerie, she decided to write the blog as a fictional serial starring a girl named Olivia Bloom who worked for the lingerie line. And that’s when Katie fell in love with storytelling. She hasn’t looked back since. Katie lives in Los Angeles with her husband.

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