**Cover Reveal ~ Like ~ JA Huss**

I'm bouncing with excitement *bounces in chair* over getting to share the cover of the second installment in JA Huss' Social Media series. Y'all thought the cover for Follow was HOT?!? 

Check out the cover for Like! ;)

So, which is your favorite?

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Like (Social Media #2)

By @JA Huss

Publication Date: September 10, 2014

Novella (120-ish pages)

Adult Contemporary Romance

Description 
#WhatADick

Vaughn Asher. I’ve stalked him relentlessly. I shaped and formed my lust into the perfect dirty hashtag...day after day... weekend after weekend. He was my prince. My fairy tale. My fantasy.

I gave him the best years of my online life and what did he do for me? 

Ruined my social media experience one tweet at a time. That’s what.

#Fantastic #BackToNatureFucking

#MissingSomething #You

And now #TheDickWhoIsVaughnAsher thinks he can weasel his way back into this filthy blue bird’s Twitter account? He’s wrong.

His public fantasy is about to collide... ah, fuck it. He’s hot as hell, bitches. I need more than a free sample. This time I want it all and I’ll do whatever it takes to get it.

JA Huss is the USA Today best-selling author of the Rook and Ronin series, the epic science fiction I Am Just Junco series, and hundreds of kid-friendly science books in subjects such as biology, physics, anatomy and physiology, astronomy, and forensics. She has an undergraduate degree in equine science and a master's degree in forensic toxicology. She has never taken a creative writing class and she hopes she never will.

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**#COYER Early Review ~ Follow ~ JA Huss**

I was lucky enough (read: extremely *lucky*) to score an advanced copy of this one. *squee*  FYI, this book is not suitable for young audiences, due to mature content. I felt I needed to say that because of the synopsis, which is quite naughty. However, while the book does contain naughty fun, it is sooo much more than naughty tweets. ;)

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Follow
Social Media Part One
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Genre: Adult, Contemporary Romance
Source: I pre-ordered my own copy but also received a complimentary copy in exchange for an honest review
Rating: 5 #JAHussIsAGenius Bookworms

Synopsis
#Women.

I fuck them. I use them. I pay them off. I find another. My demands are never denied. My contracts are always signed. They submit to me. Willingly. Completely. Temporarily. This is how it's always been.

Until I saw that filthy tweet.

@VaughnAsher My bare pussy. Your tongue. #ThingsIThinkAboutToGetOff

"FilthyBlueBird" thinks she can tease me with hashtags and then hide behind a Twitter handle? She thinks I wouldn't be more than happy to #RockHerFilthyWorld? She's wrong.

Her online fantasy is about to collide with her public reality, and it's about to happen..now.

This is a serial novella.
That means all endings are cliffhangers
This novella is about 150 pages long
This is part one of six
Books are released every two week

What would you do if you met the object of your fantasy? The one with a very public persona - the one you've stalked online and in the media? The one you feel you know so well he stars is every single fantasy you have - every fairy tale dream. And what if reality didn't quite live up to the fantasy you'd conjured?

Follow is the first in Huss' Social Media series and it revolves around such a unique concept. Your average, shy girl, who happens to tweet blush-inducing things to a movie star, meets said movie star, and sparks fly. Grace Kinsella is on vacation with her best friend when she meets Vaughn Asher - the object of her fantasies and all her naughty tweets. ;) Vaughn is immediately taken with Grace and he attempts to ensnare her. Only problem is Vaughn has particular requirements when it comes to relationships. And while Grace is actually intrigued by - excited by - those tastes, she can't seem to get over the fact that Vaughn delivers his requests (read: commands) in such an asshole-ish way.

Huss did an incredible job of setting up this story. I adore well written, character-driven stories and she delivers in spades. Grace and Vaughn are very complex characters. We're privy to a fair amount of their backgrounds. There are hints to some secrets - a little darkness. And we haven't even scratched the surface, I'm sure. The banter and repartee between Grace and Vaughn was perfectly entertaining - especially during those conversations when Vaughn was supposed to be in charge. 

Huss has a way of making me sympathetic to butthead guys - and Vaughn may be the biggest butthead so far. Seriously, he's a total dick. This guy, who's famous and wealthy, who has everything he could want, treats his 'conquests', for lack of a better term, so poorly. But he can also be charming. We get to see glimpses of the softer, more compassionate side of him. He's not quite sure what to do when he finds a woman he wants like he's never wanted anyone and she won't bend to his will. And I already fell for him - I want to know more - I'm so anxious to see what makes him tick and why. 

And Grace - I connected with her quickly. She's survived so much - we don't even know everything yet - but she's resilient. She's shy, yet she's a pistol! I loved that about her. I could totally identify with hiding behind a computer or phone to let your true self out. And the things she comes up with to tweet - such a dirty mind! ;) Grace is a natural submissive but she has an extreme difficulty with trust. And she's absolutely leery to give it to Vaughn.

"...Trust? You're telling me to trust you when you've never earned it..." -Grace, Loc 1005

There's some irony in this story, in my opinion. As Grace watches her fantasies go down in flames, I felt as though Vaughn was seeing in Grace everything he's been looking for - and didn't know he was looking for it. 

I have to admit that I was a little nervous to read Follow. When your favorite author goes in a different direction, you have to wonder if it's going to work. I needn't have feared anything. Huss is an amazingly gifted storyteller and she didn't let me down. Follow introduced what promises to be a compelling story with a unique concept and it's brilliantly executed. I'm glowing in satisfaction. :)And after reading the "End of Book Shit", as Huss refers to it, I couldn't help but draw parallels between Vaughn's actions and how Huss wants to make her readers happy...and she knows how to accomplish that...we just have to trust her. I was left thinking "Yes, Master." ;)

JA Huss is the USA Today best-selling author of the Rook and Ronin series, the epic science fiction I Am Just Junco series, and hundreds of kid-friendly science books in subjects such as biology, physics, anatomy and physiology, astronomy, and forensics. She has an undergraduate degree in equine science and a master's degree in forensic toxicology. She has never taken a creative writing class and she hopes she never will.

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**Teaser Tuesday ~ #34**

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

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Follow by JA Huss
Social Media Part One
Release Date: August 27, 2014

Synopsis
#Women.

I fuck them. I use them. I pay them off. I find another. My demands are never denied. My contracts are always signed. They submit to me. Willingly. Completely. Temporarily. This is how it's always been.

Until I saw that filthy tweet.

@VaughnAsher My bare pussy. Your tongue. #ThingsIThinkAboutToGetOff

"FilthyBlueBird" thinks she can tease me with hashtags and then hide behind a Twitter handle? She thinks I wouldn't be more than happy to #RockHerFilthyWorld? She's wrong.

Her online fantasy is about to collide with her public reality, and it's about to happen..now.

This is a serial novella.
That means all endings are cliffhangers
This novella is about 150 pages long
This is part one of six
Books are released every two week

***Teaser***

*Teaser by my fellow Hussie, Michelle New!

**Release Day Blitz ~ Beast Part Two ~ Ella James**

This is an erotic fairy tale inspired by Beauty and the Beast.

Yes or no? What will she do? Can Annabelle redeem Beast with her heart intact, or will her time at La Rosa Prison ruin her? Find out who Beast really is in the dark, erotic retelling of Beauty & The Beast.

Purchase on Amazon

Excerpt 

“You look nervous,” he says. His hand, still in my hair, turns to my cheek. It’s warm.
Smells good. “Come and sit down.” 

He takes my hand and leads me to a window seat. A built-in bench, pressed up against a wall of glass. He wraps his hands around my waist and lifts me up. Sits me down up there. My eyes scan the patchy, dirt-strewn yard outside. The way the rain smashes off the ground and into something else. The sky is white. Stark white. 

“Just a minute,” he says. 

My mind screams as he steps away. He reaches onto some shelves along the wall and grabs an armful of navy blue blankets. Painters’ blankets, I realize as he holds them out for me. He sits them on the bench beside me. Smooths one out. Lifts me up and sits me on it. Then he tucks another one behind me. 

“Thank you,” I murmur. Despite the blankets’ tattered appearance, they seem soft enough. There’s no paint on them, and they don’t smell like it. Another one unfolded by his big hands, tucked around me. 

“You got wet. Warm up a moment.” 

I sit there because my brain is broken and my heart feels puffed up like a balloon. 

He climbs up behind me and gently nudges me forward. He leans his torso up against mine, spreads his legs around my butt and thighs. Strong hands begin to knead my shoulders. 

“Don’t be nervous here, Angel. I’ll take care of you. Always.”

About Ella James

Ella James is a Colorado author who writes teen and adult romance. She is happily married to a man who knows how to wield a red pen, and together they are raising a feisty two-year-old who will probably grow up believing everyone’s parents go to war over the placement of a comma.

Ella’s books have been listed on numerous Amazon bestseller lists, including the Movers & Shakers list and the Amazon Top 100; two were listed among Amazon’s Top 100 Young Adult Ebooks of 2012.

To find out more about Ella’s projects and get dates on upcoming releases, find her on Facebook at facebook.com/ellajamesauthorpage and follow her blog,
www.ellajamesbooks.com. Questions or comments? Tweet her at author_ellaj or email her at ella_f_james@ymail.com.

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**Beyond the Books ~ #2 ~ Back to School Blues**

Welcome to my second Beyond the Books post. This post was inspired by Lexxie @Unconventional Bookviews' Up Close and (Un)conventional, who was inspired by Cuddlebuggery. It's meant to be a way for y'all to get to know me better on a personal level - Beyond the Books. ;)

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They Grow Up Too Fast

As y'all probably know by now, I'm a mom. :) I have THREE beautiful, talented, incredible children. (I might be a little biased ;) The last 2 weeks have been a little hard for me. First of all, my oldest started driving. Well, she's been driving for over a year, but she started driving without me in the car. The first morning she took off for band camp, with her younger sister in the front seat...well, I'm not gonna lie. I cried. It made me all the more aware that my kids are growing up. And they won't be with me for much longer. As if that wasn't enough to make me blue...Jax and I have made it a tradition to go on daily hikes while his sisters are in band camp the week before school starts. On our first hike of the week, I had the startling realization that this was our last summer to do our hikes. Next year, he'll be joining his sisters at band camp. And then this week, they started school, and I was left thinking "Where did the summer go?!?" I wasn't ready for them to go back to school. We didn't get to do all the fun things I'd planned. 

The lesson here? Enjoy every single minute! They grow up so quickly and they'll be gone in the blink of an eye.

**Bought, Borrowed, & Bagged ~ #32**

Bought, Borrowed, & Bagged is a weekly meme, hosted by TalkSupe, where I share with you the books I have bought, borrowed, or bagged (gifted or won) plus a recap of the previous week's reviews, upcoming reviews, and any other bookishness I want to share. :)

Here's what was added to my ereader and/or my physical library this week:

BOUGHT

Beast and Follow were available for pre-order at only 99 cents. Seeing as I loved Ella's Red & Wolfe so much, I had to see what she'd do with Beauty and the Beast. Follow...well, it's JA Huss so it was a no-brainer for me. And dang it, I have no one to blame this week but myself. ;)

BAGGED

I received Follow (*squee*), The Executioner at the Institute for Contaminated Children and Girl Nevermore for review. Thanks to JA Huss, Margaret E. Alexander and Dark World Books Tours, and R.A. Desilets!

Last Week's Reviews

Forever Sheltered by Deanna Roy
Rock Chick Reckoning by Kristen Ashley
Burn by C.D. Reiss
Rachel, Resist by C.D. Reiss
The Arrangement #1 by HM Ward

Upcoming Reviews

Follow by JA Huss
Sing, and Monica  by C.D. Reiss
Red & Wolfe: Part 4 by Ella James
The Ashes of Heaven's Pillar by Kim Rendfeld
Mister Black by P.T. Michelle
White Collared: Mercy and Greed by Shelly Bell


I'm still working on getting Berk & Jax to write these reviews:
Berk reviews Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan (although, I think she may end up reviewing Cinder)
Jax reviews Paperboy by Vince Vawter

**#COYER Summer Vacation Update ~ #3**

*grins* So, I haven't been doing so well with updating, have I?!? Nope. I could give y'all some excuses but really, I just totally forgot to do them. Yeah, that's the way I roll sometimes. ;)

So far I've read:

What I'd like to get read this upcoming week: