Buried in New Orleans (#3) by Chris Myers ~ Blog Tour: #Review & #Giveaway

Title: Buried in New Orleans

Series: RIPSTERS #3

Author: Chris Myers

Release Date: January 13th 2015

Publisher: Books on the Edge

Genre: Young Adult Paranormal Romance

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Synopsis

Jolie's best friend Drew has always been special, despite the fact he's dead. But what she uncovers in New Orleans may mean the end of him.

Almost a year ago, Drew made a suicide pact with his girlfriend April Savoie. Jolie and Brit drag him back to New Orleans where it all happened to find out why he cannot crossover. While they make their way to the French Quarter, April's younger sister Addy steals a death speaker stone from the voodoo queen of New Orleans. 

Even though her heart belongs to drew, Jolie must face his ex-girlfriend. She will also have to find her old babysitter, the voodoo queen, before she exacts her revenge on Addy, and most of all, Jolie must return Drew to his rightful place before it's too late.  

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I've done my best to keep spoilers out of this review in case you haven't read the first two books, but there may be a tiny detail or two I've forgotten. :P

Buried in New Orleans starts off with Jolie, Brit, and Drew heading to New Orleans so he can cross over. They search for April, Drew's girlfriend from when he was alive, to get answers as to why he hasn't been able to. They run into Jolie's old ghost hunting group NOSH (New Orleans Spirit Hunters), and she's less than thrilled to see them because Drew has been hanging around her for so long. Jolie's kind of been putting off helping him move on, and it's a huge no-no to allow a spirit to hang around. 

I love these characters and this series! It's an amazing story line which gets better with each book. Each character has his or her strengths and weakness, but they all bring something to the table which makes them such a great team. 

I truly believe Jolie was born to help spirits. She gets part of her talent through her mother and grandmother, but she also puts her heart into everything she does. Her downfall? Drew, but I can't blame her! 

Brit is so spunky it gets her into trouble sometimes, but I like her spunk. She's completely fearless and a great partner in crime. Her downfall? The color pink. And money. ;)   

Drew has been there for Jolie - helping her get ghost hunting jobs, supporting her on the move to Massachusetts and starting a new school. He's been her only friend until Brit. He's comforted her, and it's totally understandable why she wouldn't want to let all that go. 

So when the mystery of why he can't cross over is revealed, it's a complete shocker. Never saw it coming! It makes it even more difficult for Jolie to help him because helping him means letting him go. I really empathized with her - I wouldn't want to lose my best friend either. 

Buried in New Orleans is a fantastic addition to the RIPSTERS series! I love the modernized Nancy Drew-like paranormal mystery aspect this series has. Reading Buried in New Orleans was like visiting with old friends. I love the dynamics in Jolie and Brit's friendship. I highly recommend this series if you love young adult books with paranormal mystery, and romance.   

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Other Books in the Series

Date with the Dead #1

  

Click here for my 4 star review!

Sixteen-year-old Jolie Livingston's closest and only friend Drew is this really hot dead guy, and it bites that the self-absorbed princesses at school cannot even see him. That's right she can communicate with the dead. It's the living she has trouble with. She and her mom inherited this awesome crib in Plymouth, MA. It's quite a step-up from the homeless shelter in New Orleans, but there's a catch. They can't afford the past due mortgage, so Jolie's working on that. 

She starts a ghost hunting business called Ripsters. Somehow she's managed to recruit Brittany, a glamour SAP smothered in pink, and a techie allergic to ghosts. Brit actually thinks he resembles the R&B singer Chris Brown. All that pink has clouded her vision. They both have special talents Jolie's hoping will be useful in their venture. Right now, they're working for a family in need of major therapy due to a dead guy with a hole in his head.

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Dead and Missing #2

My Rating: 5 Stars!

Sixteen-year-old Brittany Howland only knows one other girl, Jolie Livingston, who can communicate with the dead like herself. When Brittany takes Jolie's haunt fishing to get him out of Jolie's hair, he mysteriously disappears. Brittany isn't sure how she'll tell Jolie she lost her stupid ghost. Jolie thinks her dead best friend Drew has finally crossed over, but Brittany knows better. Just before Drew went missing, he revealed why he hasn't hitchhiked to the afterlife, a secret Brittany swore she'd take to the grave. 

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About the Author

Chris Myers spends most of her free time writing and dreaming up new characters who fight each other for page time. She is an award-winning author of five published novels: LENNON'S JINX and LENNON'S RAIN, first two in a New Adult romance trilogy, and DATE WITH THE DEAD and DEAD AND MISSING, first two in a YA paranormal mystery series, and a dark thriller.

Chris's work has appeared in the NewsMag and has earned several awards including first place Paul Gillette, Colorado Gold finalist, and semi-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. She has taught writing workshops for PPW and Delve Writing and was an adjunct professor at CSU.

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Lennon's Rain (Lennon's Girls #2) by Chris Myers ~ #Review

Title: Lennon's Rain 

Series: Lennon's Girls #2

Author: Chris Myers

Publication date: September 30th 2013

Age Group: New Adult (Sexual content)

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Source: Copy provided for an honest review by AToMR Tours

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Sometimes in love, you choose wrong...

Eight years ago, Lennon lost his heart to Rain, and suddenly she's back, all grown up and sexy as hell. At a sorority party, he convinces himself that outbidding every other guy for a body shot from Rain is for charity. But he knows better. He doesn't want any guy, except him, tarnishing the memory of the little girl he proposed to in fifth grade.

Jinx loves Lennon and is past ready for him to make his move. With his sexual prowess, she worries why he hasn't made any advances. She fears she is losing him, and the only way to keep him is to overcome her past and give him what he desires. 

Rain knows Lennon is trouble. If she couldn't say no to the gangly boy asking her to skateboard off some roof, how will she refuse Lennon's seductive powers now that he is a man? Rain has many reasons to resist his charm. He has a girlfriend, he's moving to LA with her, and Rain has no intention to march in the long parade of Lennon Tyler conquests.

Now, Lennon must choose. Someone has to lose, and that person could be him. 

***WARNING: This book is New Adult Contemporary Romance and contains sexual content.*** 

~ WARNING: Possible Spoilers Ahead ~

Everything I loved about Lennon's Jinx was ripped away from me in this book, Lennon's Rain. What the fuck happened to the characters? All of the character development, the time spent getting to know them, and the progress in the storyline *poof* gone. Just like that. I feel like my time has been wasted. I felt as though I was reading about complete strangers - strangers I hated. Sadly, I had to force myself to finish the book.

I'd like to say upfront that my intense dislike of this book has nothing to do with the writing. Myers is a talented and awesome author. This is the fourth book I've read by her, and I'll keep reading her books. Lennon's Rain just didn't work for me, and much of the reason is due to my personal thoughts and beliefs.

"With her past history, she needs to make the first move. With the way she dresses, it's driving me insane. She could at least throw me a bone to gnaw on, but she hasn't. I haven't even gotten to second base, which until now, I'd stopped counting in middle school." 

~ Lennon (talking about Jinx)

Awww, I'm SO sorry this girl was raped by someone whom her mother trusted to take care of her. Someone her mother believed in over her own daughter. I'm SO sorry her fear and trust issues interfere with your sexual needs, because it's all about you and your dick, right? Apparently you think because she won't put out that gives you the right to take a body shot between the double D's (while you still have a girlfriend) of some chick you "proposed" to back in fifth grade.

Of course Jinx is gonna have issues with sex - she's never experienced it in a healthy way. Instead, she's only felt disgust and fear because she was RAPED!!! The thing is, Lennon knew all of this when he began dating her, and instead of working through this with her, he decides to throw it all away for a girl named Rain. Who has Playboy sized "perfect breasts." Woo hoo, good for her.

"Jinx should be here to keep me out of trouble." ~ Lennon 

Nope, not her job. YOU shouldn't go to a topless sorority event without your girlfriend even if it is for charity! EVEN IF JINX DECIDES TO HANG WITH HER FRIENDS THAT NIGHT. It's one night, dude. It's totally okay for her to want to hang with her besties once in a while.

"Susan digs her nails into my arm. 'Lennon. No.'

Clive pulls her back. 'Don't interfere. That's Rain. He's waited a long time for this.'"

Um, what?? Don't hold Lennon back even though this is going to devastate Jinx? Clive pissed me off in this book. Even Currie did.

Rain and her "Devil Girl"? I wanted them both to disappear. For good. I never connected to Rain and could care less about her story. I'm supposed to believe that because Lennon "proposed" to her when they were in fifth grade, she's supposed to be and has always been the love of his life? No. Just...no. She was mentioned in passing in the last book! He would've been pining away for her instead of starting up a relationship with Jinx.

And why does Currie start hating Jinx all of a sudden? That made no sense to me. She was concerned for her and helped her along with Lennon the night Jinx's stepfather attacked her. Okay, they don't have to always get along, but Currie was like, ditch this girl. Jinx stayed by Lennon's side the entire time Currie was in the hospital. Doesn't Currie know that?

Denage wasn't herself, either. She reneged on her agreement with Lennon concerning Currie's safety. I want it to be as though this book never happened. The characters were completely rewritten, and I don't understand why. 

I felt terrible for Jinx - I was all for Jinx and Lennon to be together, but after everything he has done, I'm as anti-Lennon as I can be. I can't stand the way cheating was handled in this book. My blood was boiling. I've never wanted to thrown my Kindle across the room, but I did this time. (Felt like it, not actually went through with it).

I'm going into book three as though this one never happened.

My Rating:

~ Book One ~

Click here to read my 5 star review of book one!

~ Book Three ~

 

Lennon's Hope (#3) by Chris Myers ~ Blog Tour: Review & Giveaway

 

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Title: Lennon’s Hope 
Series: Lennon’s Girls #3
Author: Chris Myers 
Genre: New Adult, Contemporary Romance 17+ 
Publication Date: July 1st, 2014 
Publisher: BookOnTheEdge 
Event organized by: Literati Author Services, Inc.   

Source: Review copy

Purchase Links: Amazon | B&N  

Sometimes in love, you lose all control… 

At age ten, Rain fell hard for the sweet boy caring for his little sister. 

At age eighteen, she runs into Lennon, now an experienced player and no longer the innocent boy she once loved. 

At age nineteen, she has to put all her plans on hold to have his baby, and under a cloud of deception, she faces tragedy and heartbreak. 

At age ten, Lennon proposed to Rain in front of the whole school. 

At age eighteen, he thought he was over her until he sees her at a party, no longer a little girl but all grown-up and sexy as hell. 

At age nineteen, he loses everything he ever cared about. 

***WARNING: This book is New Adult Contemporary Romance and contains sexual content.

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~Book One~

Lennon’s Jinx 

(Lennon’s Girls #1)

Purchase Link: Amazon 

Source: Purchased before the blog tour

This book is amazing! I love Lennon and Jinx, and I'm so excited to read the next book, Lennon's Rain.  ~My status update posted right after I finished reading this book back in October 2013

Lennon and Jinx are two characters I loved getting to know. The story alternates between both of their points-of-view. There's much more to them than I first saw, and each layer is carefully peeled back to reveal the many layers of their personalities. Plus I loved that Lennon, this guy with a bad boy rep who takes care of his little sister, falls for the good girl Jinx. And I loved it even more when Jinx finds out Lennon's reputation doesn't touch the surface of who he really is. 

From first glance Lennon seems to be superficial and only care about himself, but then you look deeper and find out his number one concern is taking care of his younger sister, Currie, and making sure she doesn't have the kind of childhood he did. Their dad, Jonathan, is a rock star while their mom, Heather, is a former actress. Both chose a lifestyle with drugs, sex, and partying over taking care of their children. 

Lennon was eight when Currie was born, and from that point, he took on the responsibility of caring for her and sheltering her from their mother's behavior. Their parents split, and Heather is completely self-absorbed, having random guys over though she's under the mistaken assumption she and Jonathan will reconcile. 

However, Jonathan is involved with his former therapist, Denage, and shows no interest in getting back with Heather. With parents like them, it's amazing Lennon takes such good care of Currie - he never had good role models but knows more about what a child needs than both of them put together.    

Jinx, a fiery redhead honor student with a ton of musical talent, appears to have it all together on the outside but in actuality is falling apart on the inside. Her mother is gone all the time as a traveling pharmaceutical rep, her stepfather is a an abusive monster, and she can't get her mother to believe her over her stepfather. I've never understood women who believe men over their children, especially since it's so obvious to me that he goes out of his way to try to find dirt on Jinx to get her in trouble.  

Lennon's little sister, Currie, is a miniature adult at the age of ten. She makes sure Lennon takes care of himself, gives him advice about girls (much to my amusement!), and is a little firecracker bundled in cuteness. She's grown up with the little girl next door, Zoe, who has recently found out her cancer has come back in full force. The strength Currie possesses in being there for Zoe is amazing after everything she's endured with her parents lacking the ability to be parents. If it weren't for Lennon, I don't think she'd be so well adjusted.  

I was sad for Jinx and the pain she lives with. I rooted for her to find a way to live a better life, a life where she could be happy and peaceful. It was realistic and understandable that she had trust issues with Lennon. When she joined his band, they ended up making a great team together. She decided to take a chance and be there for him when he goes through one of the hardest weeks of his life, and I loved them together. Their relationship developed slowly but surely, and I'm excited to see where it will go in the next book, Lennon's Rain. 

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~ Book Two ~

Lennon’s Rain 
(Lennon’s Girls #2)

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Chris Myers spends most of her free time writing and dreaming up new characters who fight each other for page time. She is an award-winning author of five published novels: LENNON'S JINX and LENNON'S RAIN, first two in a New Adult romance trilogy, and DATE WITH THE DEAD and DEAD AND MISSING, first two in a YA paranormal mystery series, and a dark thriller. 

Chris's work has appeared in the NewsMag and has earned several awards including first place Paul Gillette, Colorado Gold finalist, and semi-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. She has taught writing workshops for PPW and Delve Writing and was an adjunct professor at CSU.

 Website | Facebook | Twitter | Blog | Goodreads

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