Devour by Jill Cooper Blitz ~ Excerpt & Giveaway!

I wanted to post this though I'm a day late to help spread the word about this totally cool-sounding novel by the awesome Jill Cooper. I loved her novel, 15 Minutes, the first in the Rewind series. Click here if you'd like to read my review. :)  

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Devour

Jill Cooper

Release date: May 26th 2014

Self-published

Purchase: Amazon | B&N | iTunes | Smashwords

Synopsis via Goodreads 

Life in Gloucester Massachusetts will never be the same. 

Raging storms, fierce winds, shadows shifting in the breeze. Storms are nothing new for the fishing hamlet.

But darkness has come to claim the hearts and minds of those that stand in it too long. When that happens, love will be ripped from man leaving only violence, despair, and gnashing teeth. 

Except for two. 

Roberta is a single mom, a waitress struggling to get through life after a rocky start tainted by murder and loss. Her heart years for Gabriel; a deputy living in the shadow of the chief. He's a battle weary soldier ready to settle down.

When the storm comes, when the murders start, it will be up to them to stop it before darkness isn't just an empty void.

~ Excerpt ~   

The door chimed and I glanced over, fluffing my red curls slightly. He was right on time.

With brooding wide shoulders, Deputy Gabriel Manning could fill out a uniform in all the right places. His hair was sandy brown, and soft like an ocean's wave. My heart skipped a beat in the way it had when I knew Gabriel growing up, but what girl hadn't had a crush on him?

"Deputy," I said with a smile as I poured a cup of coffee into a Styrofoam cup and attached a lid. "Danish?"

"Not today. I have to watch the calories." Gabriel smiled and patted his perfectly flat stomach. Perfectly perfect was more like it. On more than one occasion I had imagined him without his shirt. Always made me feel guilty, I wasn't ready to move on, and he just wasn't my friend. 

He was Rick's friend too.

That just made it a whole host of complicated and while I knew Gabriel should have been off-limits, nobody told my heart that. 

He took the coffee and his fingers swept across mine gently, but I knew he did it on purpose. It made me blush, but my heart sprouted wings. He had been working up to something for a while, but I never said anything. Always pretended I didn't notice. My heart shouted at me through a bullhorn to say or do anything, but the guilt stopped me. 

Guilt like I was betraying my dead soon-to-be-husband with his closest friend. Meanwhile Rick was somewhere at the bottom of Gloucester Harbor, still never found.

About the Author

Author of the YA Dream Slayer series, Jill loves to blend horror, comedy, the supernatural, and love, through her novels. A fan of genre blending, her work strives to cross boundaries, but most of all strives to entertain. 

She loves soft cuddly cats, warm blankets, and paranormal romances.

Jill resides in Massachusetts, is constantly renovating her home that she shares with her husband, young daughter, and two skittish cats.

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Cover Reveal ~ Dawn Apocalypse by Jill Cooper

 

Title: Dawn Apocalypse (Dream Slayer #3) 

Author: Jill Cooper

Expected release date: October 29th 2013

Cover reveal organized by: Itching for Books

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~ Synopsis ~

Protection, murder, deception...

No one can know Natalie works for a supernatural protection agency and is charged with protecting Meadow's Creek from vampires. But as their numbers swell, their presence doesn't go unnoticed throwing her town under the microscope from the local government and the FBI. 

Natalie's job is pushed even further into the shadows where she must dodge the police, concerned citizens nd even her own parents. 

Meanwhile a deadly plague grips the town and Natalie suspects it's more than just a hacking cough. While the stress of working overtime erodes her relationships she will race against time, illness, to face a familiar enemy, save an old friend, and stop an undead seize that wants nothing more than to suck Meadow's Creek dry.

~ Meet the Author: Jill Cooper! ~

By now you should know Jill Cooper's name. She's the writer behind the best selling time traveling phenomenon 15 Minutes, as well as Glistening Haven and Dream Slayer. Jill loves to blend horror, comedy, the supernatural, and love, through her novels. A fan of genre blending, her work strives to cross boundries, but most of all strives to entertain. She loves soft cuddly cats, warm blankets, and paranormal romances. 

Jill resides in Massachusetts, is constantly renovating her home that she shares with her husband, young daughter, and two skittish cats. 

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Blog Tour: Review & Giveaway ~ 15 Minutes by Jill Cooper

Hey and welcome to my stop on the 15 Minutes blog tour hosted by AToMR Tours. Click here to follow along with the tour! :D

Title: 15 Minutes

Author: Jill Cooper

Release date: June 15th 2013

Age group: Young Adult

Genre: Thriller, Scifi 

Source: Copy for review 

Blog tour organized by: AToMR Blog Tours 

My Rating: 5 /5 

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~ Synopsis ~

I have 15 minutes to save my mother's life...

15 minutes is all the Rewind Agency gives you in the past, but for Lara Crane it's enough time to race through the city, find her mother, and stop her from being killed in a mugging that happened over ten years ago.

But that's not how it happened. The story she's been told all her life is a lie and when Lara takes a bullet meant for her mother, her future changes forever. 

The love of her life acts like a stranger. Her simple life is replaced with a giant house, glamorous clothes and a new boyfriend. 

Except someone knows her secret. And he will try to stop her at every turn as she races against the clock to unravel a dangerous conspiracy. 

15 Minutes is an edgy high octane YA thriller that can be described as Back to the Future meets Inception where the people Lara trusts change in an instant. She is in a timeline she doesn't understand, and is about to make one fatal mistake as she faces an enemy so familiar, he's family.

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~ My Thoughts ~ 

This book is edgy, full of action, and I absolutely loved it!! There are all kinds of possibilities in 15 Minutes. I think Jill Cooper did an amazing job with telling a story of time travel.    

I'd give anything to be able to travel back in time and experience good memories all over again. If I could use time travel to prevent my mom from dying, I'd do it in a heartbeat no matter the consequences, just like Lara did. So even though she went into this seemingly without much thought, I never blamed her for doing it at all. If we had this ability, there would be a ton of people time traveling just for that reason, I know it. 

Lara was so focused on preventing her mother's death that she didn't think her life was going to change as drastically as it did, but it came to a point where nothing felt "right" to her. She couldn't shake the feeling that she was living a stranger's life. The author describes everything so well for Lara, that I understood her completely. There was a moment when Lara first sees her mother, and she's supposed to go up to her room but doesn't want to leave her mother's sight. She just wants to stand there and drink in the sight of her - my heart unraveled. 

There are consequences to altering the past, and it's actually against the law. You're only allowed fifteen minutes in the past and aren't supposed to touch anything or change anything. Can you imagine if other people were changing things? One little thing could make an entirely different world. What if someone made a change that prevented time travel from becoming a possibility in the future? It's hard to wrap my mind around that! 

This is a book I want to read again already. The minute it ended, I wanted to start over and relive everything. It kept me up at night because I didn't want to go to sleep when I could instead be reading this amazing story. I will read anything Jill Cooper writes! 

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~ About the Author: Jill Cooper ~

I could write this in the third person. I could tell you what I like, where I was born, and what my favorite things are. 

But instead, I'll say I don't want to write like everyone else. I don't want to craft stories you've read a thousand times before. I want my novels to be a cinematic experience, blending themes, genres, and situations unlike any you've ever read. 

I want to break the rules. I want you to break out in a cold sweat as you read my books out of fear, love, and excitement. I want my books to be an experience. When you finish, I want you to feel something. Good or bad. 

If you do, then I'll have succeeded. If not, I'll keep trying.

~ Author Links ~

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