Blog Tour: Crash Into You by Katie McGarry | ARC Review + Giveaway!

Hello my lovelies! 

I am super excited to be apart of the CRASH INTO YOU by KATIE MCGARRY blog tour hosted by YABoundBookTours. I am a HUGE fan of this series and well pretty much anything Katie will ever write. ;) 

Today I will be sharing with everyone my review for Crash Into Me. There will also be a tour-wide giveaway found at the end of this post. Be sure to check out the other blogs on the tour by clicking HERE.

Title: Crash Into You (Pushing The Limits #3)
Author: Katie McGarry
Published: November 26th 2013 by Harlequin Teen
Hardcover/ebook, 474 pages
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Source: Publisher / Netgalley
Reading Level: YA

From acclaimed author Katie McGarry comes an explosive new tale of a good girl with a reckless streak, a street-smart guy with nothing to lose, and a romance forged in the fast lane 

The girl with straight As, designer clothes and the perfect life-that's who people expect Rachel Young to be. So the private-school junior keeps secrets from her wealthy parents and overbearing brothers...and she's just added two more to the list. One involves racing strangers down dark country roads in her Mustang GT. The other? Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Walker-a guy she has no business even talking to. But when the foster kid with the tattoos and intense gray eyes comes to her rescue, she can't get him out of her mind. 

Isaiah has secrets, too. About where he lives, and how he really feels about Rachel. The last thing he needs is to get tangled up with a rich girl who wants to slum it on the south side for kicks-no matter how angelic she might look. 

But when their shared love of street racing puts both their lives in jeopardy, they have six weeks to come up with a way out. Six weeks to discover just how far they'll go to save each other.

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I simply adored Pushing The Limits... Dare You To rocked my world...

I fell head over heals irrevocably and madly IN LOVE with Crash Into You!

Author Katie McGarry can do no wrong. She has and always will be one of my auto-buy authors. Every book Katie has written and ever will write I will buy and read. She could write a book all about the uses of toilet paper and I would still find it fascinating. For those of you who have not read this series or many only the first book I would highly suggest you do, now not later. Make no mistake I love both Pushing The Limits and Dare You To but, my God Crash Into You is now my new favorite and quite possibly one of my favorite books of all time. 

Here's why:

Let's begin with the oh so yummy bad boy, Isaiah. If you've read Dare You To then you know he is deeply hurting from being rejected by "the one he loves" (or so he thinks), Beth. She never really loved Isaiah, not more than a friend. Isaiah, Beth and Noah come from broken homes or rather they all live with Foster parents, pretty much property of the state until the age 18. 

Isaiah feels unloved, forgotten and angry, like really angry. Typical Bad Boy M.O. He really has no place to call home. His passion is cars, repairing them, building them but most of all driving. The need for speed is his one release. 


In comes Rachel...

Rachel comes from a good and wealthy home. She has both Mom and Dad, and many protective brothers. Too protective if you ask Rachel. All looks good on the outside but really Rachel is a mess. Day in day out she puts on a happy face, tries to please her family, especially her Mom. Before Rachel was born she had a sister, one who died of cancer well before her time. Their Mother has never been able to let her first daughter go, and move on. She campaigns and raises money for the cure. Problem is Rachel's Mom guilts her into doing public speaking on behave of a sister she has never even meet. Now if that wasn't enough, Rachel hides a deadly secret only her bothers know, and could quite possibly be killing her from the inside out. 

Like Isaiah, Rachel loves cars, and driving hers in the one way to feel free and alive. 

So when a chance meeting having to do with...you guessed it, cars, brings both Rachel and Isaiah together in a turn of events that in one night will come to change everything for them both. 

What to know what happens? HA, I bet you do! Read the book...like go now and read it....I'll wait...

SEE??? Wasn't that EPIC?!

HAHA, no really all I'm saying is that if you haven't read this series or Crash Into You, you must. Without a doubt Crash Into You is in my Top 5 Books read in 2013, or ever for that matter. There has never been a book so dear to me, so real and raw, so heartbreakingly beautiful and so (I'm at a loss for words), ah, EPIC! The story of Rachel and Isaiah is one I will never forget. A romance like no other and one that will leave you breathless for more.

Katie McGarry, again I must say YOU ARE A GOD, a reader's delight. 

A mesmerising, and titillating romance that will keep it's readers flipping pages faster than the speed of light. A MUST read for anyone who wants to know what falling in love REALLY means. 

Thank you, Katie McGarry (for being EPIC!), Harlequin Teen and Netgalley for my eARC. 

Totally EPIC! One of the best books I have read. A MUST read!!

Pushing the Limits Series:

 

My Review: Pushing The Limits - 5 Stars

About The Author: Katie McGarry

Find Katie  @ 

Website | Twitter | Facebook | Goodreads

KATIE MCGARRY was a teenager during the age of grunge and boy bands and remembers those years as the best and worst of her life. She is a lover of music, happy endings, and reality television, and is a secret University of Kentucky basketball fan.

Katie would love to hear from her readers. Contact her via her website, katielmcgarry.com, follow her on Twitter @KatieMcGarry, or become a fan on Facebook and Goodreads.

This is a tour wide giveaway. 

10 finished copies of Crash Into You (US and Canada only)

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Thank you for stopping by! I would love to hear your thoughts on my review. :)

Release Blitz & Cover Reveal: The Saving of Benjamin Chambers (A Uni Files Short) by Anna Bloom + Excerpt + Giveaway!

We're excited to announce the release of The Saving of Benjamin Chambers, a Uni Files novella by Anna Bloom.  This tells the story of Ben and when he meets Lilah. You can read it before or after reading The Art of Letting Go.

The Uni-Files novels are NA/Adult British romantic comedies that will make you swoon, laugh and sigh. The first book, The Art of Letting Go is now available.  The Saving of Benjamin Chambers releases December 4th.

The Art of Letting Go is FREE. 

Delilah, Lilah or whatever she is called is, standing over on the far side of the room, her back against the wall wearing a figure-hugging red, floor-length dress. Her dark hair and eyes stand out in contrast. She looks like a Forties movie star, all curves and perfect poise, watching everyone with a critical eye. She hates this place and she hates the people that are here, that is clear to me straight away.

I want to jump off the stage to get to her. I can’t tear my eyes away, even though Dave has picked up my guitar and shoved it back into my hands, hissing, “play, you idiot.”

I am walking to the front of the stage still staring when I notice that I am being watched but not by her.

Some guy who looks like a pretentious arsehole is watching me watch her and then he starts to move across the floor to get to her before I can leave the stage. I am stuck like a rabbit in headlights, rooted to the spot as I watch him clearly move towards her like he is proving he has ownership.

When he gets to her he pulls her in close and winds his hands around her waist. I have to physically restrain myself from leaping off the stage and punching him. That’s what I want to do, a deep urge burning inside me. Jump from the stage, bop him on the nose, hopefully causing significant blood loss, and then throw her over my shoulder and march her off with her someplace. Someplace where I can kiss her and talk to her, in no particular order. Then I may well ask her to marry me because I am pretty sure that I want to.

I don’t though, I don’t move from my spot on the edge of the stage. I start to play my guitar instead but not the song the rest of the band are expecting. Luckily it has a long intro so they are able to catch up.

As I start to sing ‘Wonderwall’ I watch as the banker wanker twirls her onto the dance floor.

It’s not a song for twirling, what is he doing the bloody arse?

She has her hands on his shoulders and her back to me but I can clearly see an enormous diamond ring sitting on her left hand from my spot quite a distance away on stage.

Damn it to hell.

I nearly stop singing, but I hold it together and as I head into the second verse my choice of song becomes even more appropriate.

The banker wanker pulls her in even tighter and I get a nasty taste in the back of my mouth. I am just in the middle of the chorus when they take a turn and I catch a glimpse of her face.

That’s what does it. That very moment gives me something completely different to live for.

Her.

She is biting her lower lip and the beautiful eyes are staring far away in the distance, framed by a frown. She looks like she would rather be anywhere then where she is right now. She looks lost, but on top of that she looks lonely and I feel a bubble of something well up inside me, something like joy. Joy at the fact that this guy holding her, who’s obviously bought her the ring, has no idea what she is feeling. I don’t think he has looked at her face once, not to read it the way that I am. This is good. It means that if I can get to talk to her again then I can make sure my words are the right ones, the ones to make her notice me, the ones to make her want to at least talk to me. And, well, if that fails then I will just crinkle my freckles at her, pick her up and throw her over my shoulder and march off with her hoping for the best.

I know that I will do anything to save her from whatever is causing her sadness and by doing that I have a feeling she will save me.

The Saving of Benjamin Chambers (A Uni Files Short)

by Anna Bloom

Kindle Ebook, 48 page

Published December 4th 2013 by Soul Mate Publishing

NA/Adult British Romantic Comedy

Benjamin Chambers needs saving, he just does not know it yet. Bored of his life of repetitive gigs with a band going nowhere fast and one night stands with girls who are only interested in his role as a lead singer, something has got to change. It’s just what do you do when the only life you know involves messing around with guitars and attempting to run away from any female attention that comes your way.

Ben has a New Year’s resolution and one that he is determined to keep, quit the band and get a life of his own. Little does Ben realise that on his last night with his band Sound Box he is going to meet a girl who will turn everything he knows upside down.

As Ben sets himself the challenge to find ‘The Girl’ again, he may be about to learn that in an effort to rescue her, he himself will be the one to be saved.

Find The Art of Letting Go: Goodreads | Amazon US |  Amazon UK

About the Author: Anna Bloom

Find Anna @

Website/Blog | Facebook | Twitter | GoodReads

Anna Bloom is a contemporary romance writer who writes about life as it happens. 

Combining a busy schedule of looking after two small children whilst working in a local school and completing The Uni Files series she also spends a lot of time imagining kissing hot guys – all in the name of her art.

Please use the rafflecopter form below to enter. Good luck! :)

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4th Annual *Holiday #Readathon*: Goals and Updates

4th Annual

Holiday Read-a-Thon is hosted by Liza @ WhoRuBlog

Runs from December 6th-8th - Sign ups are OPEN

Hashtag: #Readathon

Hey everyone! I am super excited to be participating in this read-a-thon. I just found out about it from a friend a few days ago, and of course those who know me here know I love doing read-a-thons. It's a fun way to challenge myself to read more books, although I am 96% into my goodreads reading Goal for 2013. 144/150 books. So close! 

2013 Reading Challenge

Beckie has read 144 books toward her goal of 150 books.

144 of 150 (96%)

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The main reason I am joining in for this read-a-thon is because as a part of the event each reader will be donating/helping others who are less fortunate for the holiday season. 

Here is what I am choosing to do :

• For each page I read I will be donating 1 cent to the salvation army. 
• For each page I read I will be donating 1 minute to volunteering at my local homeless shelter feeding the hungry. 
• For each book I read I will be donating a bag of food to our local food bank. 

Time Devoted to Reading:

• I will be reading from the 6th-8th.

Goals:

• Read 1-2 Books.
• Do mini-challenges. 
• Keep up with daily updates. 
• Be more proactive with commenting on others blogs.
• READ MORE, GET DISTRACTED LESS! 
• Meets new people, make friends but most of all have fun!

Books I will be reading - 

The Iron Traitor by Julie Kagawa ❤

The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

Day One Updates: December 6th, 2013

Number of books read today: 
Total Pages Read today: 

Mini Challenges Completed Today: 
Money/Time To-Be Donated:

Day Two Updates: December 8th, 2013

Number of books read today: 

Total Pages Read today: 
Mini Challenges Completed Today: 
Money/Time To-Be Donated:

None completed yet

Holiday Read-A-Thon starts tomorrow! Will you be joining?

Be sure to come back to THIS page and check up on my progress.