Blog Tour: Fractured Soul by Rachel McClellan / Author This or That Interview + Giveaway!

Hello and welcome to the Fractured Soul by Rachel McClellan blog tour. 

Today is my stop on the tour and I will be sharing with my readers a Author Interview + Giveaway to win a ecopy the book. Open Internationally, of course. :) 

So sit back, relax and enjoy learning more about this amazing new book/series.

Fractured Soul (Fractured Light #2)

by Rachel McClellan

Hardcover, 336 pages

Published February 12th 2013 by Cedar Fort

Young Adult > Fantasy > Paranormal

Llona will do whatever it takes to protect her new found friends and home, but the dark plot threatening Lucent Academy, a school that’s supposed to be a safe place for Auras, may be too powerful for even Llona to defeat. This fast-paced tale of love, loyalty, and overcoming the darkness will keep you on the edge of your seat until the last page!

                   — Amazon | B&N

What others are saying:
“I love these books! A kick-butt heroine and a hottie love interest, with a refreshingly original concept. Be prepared—once you start, these are hard to put down.”
     —Paula Cotton, book reviewer at ReadingLark.blogspot.com

“Fractured Soul is a brilliant sequel, exceeding even the remarkable first book in the series. It will haunt your every waking moment between the times you’re reading it, and it will stay with you long after you’ve finished. It’s an amazingly well written and engrossing story that I highly recommend—after you’ve read the first one, of course.”
     —Cindy Bennett, bestselling author of Geek Girl & Rapunzel Untangled

Fractured Soul Book Trailer 

About Fractured Light (Book #1)

                                           — Amazon | B&N

Llona Reese is used to living on the run. After the Vykens killed her parents, she knew they would eventually come for her too. She can’t take any chances. But when she starts to make friends for the first time in her life, she gets careless and lets her guard down. Big mistake.

As an Aura, Llona can manipulate light and harness its energy. But if she wants to survive, Llona will have to defy the Auran Council and learn to use her power as a weapon against the Vyken whose sole desire is to take her light. Now she’s caught in something even bigger than she can understand, with a power she can’t wield, and no one she can trust, except, just maybe, a mysterious stranger.

1. Laptop or IPad?  Laptop. It’s much easier to type on.

2. High School or Middle School?  I guess I’d have to choose….vlurp. Sorry, I just threw up in mouth thinking about both of these choices. Honestly I’m glad those days are behind me. Not that I didn’t have fun, but I was so ready to move onto college and beyond. This is where life really happens.

3. Book mark or dog-eared?  Dog-eared.

4. Reading Indoors or Reading Outside?  I really enjoy both and try to do whatever fits the mood of the book I’m reading.

5. Winnie The Pooh or Piglet?  Pooh rules. He loves honey as do I. Besides, Piglet’s afraid of the dark so we could never be friends.

6. Young Adult or New Adult?  Probably new adult, but I loved Harry Potter among others.

7. Coffee or Hot Chocolate?  Hot chocolate with cinnamon.

8. Kindle or Nook?  Nook

9. Gmail or Yahoo?  Gmail

10. Small Chapters or Long Chapters?  Small

11. Summer or Winter?  Can I say fall? If not, then winter.

12. Male or Female protagonist?  Female protagonist, and she must be strong one. Young adults need more of these to look up to.

About The Author: Rachel McClellan

Find Rachel @ 

Website / Blog / Twitter / Facebook / Goodreads

Rachel McClellan was born and raised in Idaho, a place secretly known for its supernatural creatures. When she’s not in her writing lair, she’s partying with her husband and four crazy, yet lovable, children. Rachel’s love for storytelling began as a child when the moon first possessed the night. For when the lights went out, her imagination painted a whole new world. And what a scary world it was… 

Thank you for stopping by and I hope everyone enjoyed this post. :) 

The giveaway below is for my readers only. Here's your chance to win a free ecopy of Fractured Soul . All you have to do is use the rafflecopter form below to enter. Open Internationally! So everyone has a chance to win.

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Be sure to check out the official Dark World Books Fractured Soul Tour page for a tour wide giveaway to win some epic prizes.

ARC Review: Belonging by Karen Ann Hopkins

Title: Belonging

Author: Karen Ann Hopkins

Series: Temptation #2

Number of Pages: 408

Expected publication: April 30th 2013 by Harlequin TEEN
Source: Author - ARC paperback

Genre: Romance > Contemporary

Reading Level: YA

I left everything I knew behind.

But it was worth it. He was worth it.

No one thought an ordinary girl like me would last two minutes living with the Amish, not even me. There are a lot more rules and a lot less freedom, and I miss my family and the life I once had. Worst of all, Noah and I aren't even allowed to see each other. Not until I've proven myself.

If I can find a way to make it work, we'll be NOAH & ROSE together forever.

But not everybody believes this is where I belong.

Purchase @ Amazon | B&N | Indiebound | The Book Depository

The story of Belonging picks up almost directly after the first book, Temptation ended. If you have not read Temptation yet this review may have a few subtle spoilers so please be aware of that before you continue on. 

Rose and Noah are hopeless in love. From the moment they meet they somehow knew they were made for each other. Two half's of a perfect whole. There is just one problem that seems to always test their love..... He's Amish and she's not. Rose makes the difficult decision to leave her family and start a new life with Noah living...happily ever after. Eeh, not so much. Although Rose is desperate to see her way in living this new Amish lifestyle, there are so many different thing standing in her way. Her Father does not approve of his only daughter leaving the family to run off and live in this world he just does not understand or that fact that she is only 16 years old minor. The main challenge Rose faces is being accepted my Noah's family and the Amish community alike. She must gain the approval of the elders but most importantly the Bishop himself. 

Throughout all of these hardships, Rose still tries her very best to fit in as a Amish and live in this primitive life. But will her love for Noah and his love for her be enough to change the minds of everyone who counts? Will their LOVE stand the true test of time....?  I guess you'll have to read Belonging to find out. 

After reading Temptation last year and really falling in love with the book, I could not wait to find out what happens next. Throughout Belonging I keep trying to put myself in Rose's place, seeing through eyes why she choose to change her entire life for the boy she so desperately loves. I so admired Rose for all the hard work she did, and how accepting she was to Noah, his family and the Amish community. There were times I would ask myself.... "If I was Rose would I give up everything for someone I so deeply loved?" I think the readers of this book will end up questioning that very idea as well. The author, Karen Ann Hopkins knows first hand about Amish community living so close to one herself.  I really feel this gives her book such a realism that other Contemporary novels sometimes lack. Also, her writing style is very breezy and easy to read. Now although in the first book I had some minor problems with Noah (found here), and Temptation was a little to insta-love for me. Belonging seems dives deeper into Noah and Rose's relationship and how much they truly do love each other and the lengths they go to be together.

Belonging was as good as I expected it to be, maybe even better and even though I did have a couple things "problems" with the book (slow area's, and how Rose pretty much abandon her family), I feel the readers will fall in love with Noah and Rose all over again. 

 Totally Awesome! I loved it, would read again.

About The Author: Karen Ann Hopkins

Find Karen @

Blog | Facebook | Goodreads

A native of New York State, Karen Ann Hopkins now lives with her family on a farm in northern Kentucky, where her neighbors in all directions are members of a strict Amish community. Her unique perspective became the inspiration for the story of star-crossed lovers Rose and Noah. When she’s not homeschooling her kids, giving riding lessons or tending to a menagerie of horses, goats, peacocks, chickens, ducks, rabbits, dogs and cats, she is dreaming up her next romantic novel.

I hope everyone one enjoyed my review. :) Please leave a comment with your thoughts on Belonging?

Cover Reveal: Unhinged by A.G. Howard

Happy Sunday everyone! I wanted to take the time today to share with my readers the cover reveal for the book, Unhinged by A.G. Howard. The first book is this series is Splintered. Maybe you remember it?

A fairytale re-telling of Alice in Wonderland. I just adored this book. It is one of my favorite reads of 2013 so far. Check out my review here. 

So here is the official new cover of the second book is the series. A.G. Howard posted the new cover yesterday all over the web and to say the least I just about fainted. XD!

Wait for it....

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HERE IT COMES!

TADA!!!

OMG!!! Amazing!!! I am totally in LOVE!!! 

What are your thoughts on the new cover? Are you guys as excited as I am?