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Today, nerds, we have a very nerdalicious review of Christmas Past and we also have a cover reveal and a blog hop! Stay tuned!

We have a review of Christmas Past by Susanna Fraser. Check it out here!

Christmas Past

Susanna Fraser

Entangled Ever After

Release Date: November 25, 2013

Time-traveling PhD student Sydney Dahlquist’s first mission sounded simple enough—spend two weeks in December 1810 collecting blood samples from the sick and wounded of Wellington’s army, then go home to modern-day Seattle and Christmas with her family. But when her time machine breaks, stranding her in the past, she must decide whether to sacrifice herself to protect the timeline or to build a new life—and embrace a new love—two centuries before her time.

Rifle captain Miles Griffin has been fascinated by the tall, beautiful “Mrs. Sydney” from the day he met her caring for wounded soldiers. When he stumbles upon her time travel secret on Christmas Eve, he vows to do whatever it takes to seduce her into making her home in his present—by his side.

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Excerpt:

“What is that thing?”

His voice shook a little, she thought. But not much. He was an officer and a gentleman, so he couldn’t let himself freak out over something new and strange. If he was scared, he hid it well. She admired that. As a time traveler, she tried to live by the same kind of code.

“A carriage, sir,” she said. “And a broken one, at that.”

“No, Mrs. Sydney,” Captain Griffin said in a tone that reminded her of Professor Krakowski in lecture mode. “Itappears to be a carriage, externally. Inside is something very different. I saw it. I may not understand the evidence of my eyes, but I’ve never been given to hallucinations. And,” he added with a musing, distant look that called her mentor even more strongly to mind, “if I were to suddenly take leave of my senses, I doubt very much I should hallucinate something I’d never imagined existed before.”

Disguise had failed, so she must distract and deflect. “I don’t see why not,” she said. “After all, isn’t that how strange religions start?”

He shrugged. “Perhaps. But you’re no angel, are you? Although,” he allowed, “you’re tall and golden enough for one.”

She shook her head. There had been concern among the review board that at 5’11” she was too tall a woman to go more than a hundred years into the past. Time travelers were supposed to blend in to their destinations. “No,” she said. “Anyway, I’m shorter than you.”

He smiled. It wasn’t fair how the expression made him look even hotter, with white teeth straighter than anyone born before orthodontics had a right to in a soldier’s sun-browned face. “Not by much. But stop trying to distract me. I know what I saw.”

She crossed her arms and tried to look lofty. “What if I told you it was none of your concern and refused to say more?”

Now he grinned, a wicked twinkle in his eye. “Then I should be obliged to found a strange religion based on my suppositions. How do you think I would do as a mad preacher, ma’am? On Christmas Eve, I saw the most celestial vision …”

He wouldn’t. He couldn’t. “You’re far too rational a gentleman to do anything so mad,” she said.

“True. But—hang it all, Mrs. Sydney, you must tell me something!” Now his voice shook, and she could hear the fear and amazement he’d been working to hide. “You cannot expect a man to see a light that glows bright as sunlight without a flicker of flame or a—a portrait frame that changes its contents with the touch of a fingertip, and walk away and never think of it again.”

She bit her lip and fought to control her shaking breath. Maybe she could’ve passed off the electric light as some new and improved oil lamp, but he’d seen her iPad. What could she do now? She couldn’t think of a single lie that wouldn’t make everything worse. The Protocol made no allowances for this, but he’d already seen too much to be distracted or deflected, and wasn’t it safer for such a curious man to know the truth? Who knew how badly he’d destroy the timeline with his guesses if she left him ignorant.

“It’s my time machine,” she said in her own accent, “my broken time machine. I was—I will be born in 1987. I came here from America in 2013.”

About the Author:

Susanna Fraser wrote her first novel in fourth grade. It starred a family of talking horses who ruled a magical land. In high school she started, but never finished, a succession of tales of girls who were just like her, only with long, naturally curly and often unusually colored hair, who, perhaps because of the hair, had much greater success with boys than she ever did.

Along the way she read her hometown library’s entire collection of Regency romance, fell in love with the works of Jane Austen, and discovered in Patrick O’Brian’s and Bernard Cornwell’s novels another side of the opening decades of the 19th century. When she started to write again as an adult, she knew exactly where she wanted to set her books. Her writing has come a long way from her youthful efforts, but she still gives her heroines great hair.

Susanna grew up in rural Alabama. After high school she left home for the University of Pennsylvania and has been a city girl ever since. She worked in England for a year after college, using her days off to explore history from ancient stone circles to Jane Austen’s Bath.

Susanna lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and daughter. When not writing or reading, she goes to baseball games, sings alto in a local choir and watches cooking competition shows.

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Cover Reveal!!!

All I Ever Wanted
Authors: Lexi Ryan, Rhonda Helms, Marilyn Brant, and Caisey Quinn
Publication date: January 13th, 2013
Genres: Contemporary, New Adult

Synopsis:

Winterfest is heating up in Abbott Springs…

As the town’s yearly festival kicks off, cold days turn into steamy nights, new flames will be ignited, and old romances will be rekindled.

All About Us by Marilyn Brant—All Sami Abbott ever wanted was permission to be herself. At home, she aims to be the perfect daughter but never measures up. At college, she’s the bold girl who had a one-night stand with sexy musician, Alex Hamilton. When he arrives unexpectedly in Abbott Springs, her worlds collide and she must reconcile the girl she tries to be with the person she really is.

All I Need by Caisey Quinn–All pink-haired rocker chick Everly Abbott thought she wanted was acceptance in her straight-laced hometown. But her best friend and bandmate Justin Cohen is about to show her that what she thinks she wants isn’t necessarily what she needs.

All for Love by Rhonda Helms–All Maya Monterey ever wanted was to belong. Happiest with the Abbott family, Maya’s been secretly in love with sexy pastry chef Oliver Abbott for years. With a flirty new look, she’ll pull out all the stops to get him to notice her. And if her plan fails, she’ll walk away from the only home she’s ever known–and Oliver–for good.

All or Nothing by Lexi Ryan—After years of placing the wrong bets, all Aubree Baxter wanted was someone to take a chance on her. Golden boy Kennedy Hale plays it safe in life and love, but to keep Bree in Abbott Springs, he’ll have to go all in.

Blog Hop!

We read and reviewed Switch by Cassie Mae! You must read this!

Today we are doing a blog hop!

Here is our review!

Switched by Cassie Mae

This is the story of a four friends (Kayla, Reagan, Talon and Wesley) who unintentionally get involved in a very strange ‘love square’. This book is told from Kayla’s point of view.

Kayla and Reagan are childhood best friends who follow Reagan’s quarterback boyfriend, Talon and his best friend Wesley, to college in California. They become a very tightknit group that hangs out with each other on an everyday basis. To half of group everything is great, four best friends who are as close as siblings. The other half of the group is absolutely miserable, because Wesley is desperately in love with Reagan and Kayla is crazy about Talon, hence the love square.

‘Talon likes Reagan, Reagan likes Talon, I like Talon, Wesley likes Reagan. Notice how many Reagans and Talons are in the grammatically correct sentence?’

Kayla and Wesley decide that they cannot handle another moment of seeing their best friends in a relationship with the people who they believe are their own soul mates. Together they concoct a plan to break up Reagan and Talon, and at the same time show them how much better they, Wesley and Kayla, would be for them.

Their plan is to help the other with information and help create situations were Kayla has alone time with Talon and Wesley has time with Reagan. Everything goes along smoothly and their plan seems to be working until things become very strange, almost unreal. You have to read this to see what happens, and you won’t be disappointed.

This is a very cute story that has some emotional and very real situations that make this story whole. It is filled with love and regret and it really makes for a very interesting read.

‘I fell in love in the dark. There was someone in the dark with me. I fell in love piece by piece, not knowing it was love I was feeling, and I’m not sure he knew what it was either.’

This is well done story by Cassie Mae and a very good read. There is no need to worry, everyone gets their own HEA. I give this book a certified Nerd Alert A!

A blog giveaway!

Anyone who comments on this review post through midnight (PST) on Sunday, December 8 is eligible to win a NetGalley review copy of SWITCHED! Winner chosen at random.

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