{Book Tour: Review + Giveaway} of Unrequited by Emily Shaffer

Seeing Night Reviews is the next stop in the Unrequited book tour for Emily Shaffer. I have to say I absolutely love the book cover! It doesn't scream vampire book but it makes you really think!

Unrequited by Emily Shaffer
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

GENRE: YA/NA
THEME: Romance/Vampires
RECEIVED: Tour
Unrequited
BLURB:

In the town of Belle Ridge there are doctors, lawyers and teachers... but there is only one vampire. Will Leighton has become an expert in making a life for himself amongst the unsuspecting small-town inhabitants, as the high school history teacher. He has spent hundreds of years crafting an identity and routine that make him feel almost human, but he is always missing that important final element, love.

Ashton Wallace is beautiful, smart, and angry. She was forced into an eternal existence, and now her family has moved her away from everything and everyone she knows. In Belle Ridge she is supposed to finish high school and start her life again, but how do you make plans for the next several centuries?

Will has never met another of his kind, and is immediately intrigued by Ashton. He longs to show her that the perceived vampire lifestyle, so popular in storybooks, is far from reality...but will she let him be a friend and guide in this new existence? Can Ashton accept Will into her life, or will she be led astray by a dark stranger with whom she shares an unknown connection?

REVIEW:

Even though I love my shifter books I always have a soft spot for vampires, especially when there is romance and some unique storytelling. Lets just say Shaffer is pretty awesome not taking the typical vampire story, but kicking it up a notch having vampires be pretty much human. Vampires in this book don’t sparkle or hiss at the sight of a cross, nope these guys are pretty much like ninjas; they are hiding among the humans pretending to be normal.

So here is the real twist, Will our lead male vampire believed he’s the only one of his kind that exist. But then he meets Ashton, thus an interested teacher student relationship begins. Will is very, very old and thought he’d spend the rest of his life alone, but with Ashton appearing, the two get to know each other. Even with all the tension (thus Will being the one falling for Ashton more), their chemistry is undeniable,. I liked these two together, even though Will is the easier one to connect too. I think Ashton will start to grow on me but I had a few issues with how she treated Will. All in all Ashton has to go through a lot, her life changes in a terrible way to begin with and reading from her point of view I could just imagine how hard it is to have your life suddenly change.

Overall there is a lot that happens in this first book, I almost wish this was a bit longer and we got more details and background to each of the characters. Especially with the introduction to Griffin, I can’t wait to know more about him. Now don’t get me wrong I adore Will, but I always love the bad boys, especially the ones I can tell the readers are suppose to hate. But nonetheless Griffin has come into the picture and created the dreaded love triangle, but I’m hoping Ashton comes to terms with what her heart really wants. Or at least let Will find a love that will cherish him a bit more than she has shown. The best tidbits about this was reading from Will’s point of view, as you do get Ashton, I loved how Shaffer created the voice for Will and it was interesting to see from his perspective.

In the end this was a quick read with a nice twist to the vampire genre, the ending was a bit of a killer and not sure how I felt about it. But it does get me curious to see what’s going to happen next.

RECOMMENDATION:

This is a young adult/new adult paranormal novel. Fans of the Vampire Academy series and the Morganville Vampire series will enjoy this interesting romantic take on vampire with Unrequited by Emily Shaffer.

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About the Author

Whether writing stories to entertain her younger siblings, or typing up an essay for a class, Emily Shaffer has been a writer for as long as she can remember.  Her stories may have changed from talking cartoon frogs to angsty young adults, but her goal to write a compelling story remains the same.  When not writing, she lives in Nashville and enjoys all the music, food, and excitement that city has to offer.  Her first novel, the well-received chick-lit title That Time of the Month was self-published on Amazon in 2012.  Her latest novel, as the others before, are fueled by diet soda and pie.

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{Blog Tour: Review + Giveaway} Perfectly Broken by Prescott Lane

Perfectly Broken by Prescott Lane
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

GENRE: New Adult
THEME: Romance, Contemporary, and Mature
RECEIVED: Publisher

BLURB:

Even after years of trauma therapy, Peyton still believes she’s broken. She has little desire to date or show off her natural beauty, content simply to hang out with her best friends and run her pie shop in New Orleans. But her world turns upside-down when a handsome architect and self-confessed player shows up in her shop and thinks she’s perfect, much more than the usual hook-up. While Peyton does her best to resist his charms, believing she could never be enough for him, she can’t deny the obvious heat between them.

With Reed determined to have her, Peyton must decide whether to continue to hide behind her apron and baggy clothes or take a chance and share her scars with Reed, a man with a playboy reputation and scars of his own — a dark past he can’t possibly share with Peyton, not after learning the horrors she’s endured. But if they can find a way to trust each other, and themselves, they just might be able to heal, to save each other, to live perfectly broken together.

REVIEW:

The title says it all. Perfectly Broken focuses on many emotional triggers such as, fear, trust, family betrayal, and finding happiness. Lane does a great job with writing two complex and broken leads that struggle with pasts that they are judged or scarred from, the readers with root for their happiness.

Perfectly Broken follows Peyton a young woman who hides from the world; she is scarred from a terrible incident in college that changed her life. She is trying to move on with her life, she even opened up her own shop making pies in her town New Orleans. But what she doesn’t expect is the very handsome playboy Reed, friend of her best friends boyfriend who can’t seems to take her rejection. Reed finds Peyton irresistible and the first woman he could really care for. Together they discover love; trust and maybe they’ll be able to heal what’s been broken.

Peyton was a young innocent student when she was in college; he life drastically changed after someone hurt her. Since then she has been scarred and trying to hide from the pain of memories. Luckily her best friend Quinn is always by her side and hoping one day she’ll open up again. While working in her pie shop she comes face to face with Reed Langston, a man who has her weak in the knees. But with his bad rep, she isn’t sure this charmer is someone to trust. But his persistent and cute nagging has Peyton giving him a chance. I adored Reeds insistence to take Peyton on a date, it was cute and you can tell he only saw the good in her and wasn’t looking for some random girl to hook up with. She has lots of walls up and Reed is the only one besides Quinn who seems to connect with her and finally break down the shield.

Reed isn’t a perfect guy, he has been with a lot of women and isn’t proud of it. When he meets Peyton he sees a woman of beauty and sweetness, someone who surprised him and may be the one who can heal his heart. He’s consistently compared to his terrible father and hates it, he knows of the man’s disgusting past and cant stand be compared to him. I felt so bad for Reed every time his father talked to him, you can just feel the hate and that his father only cared about himself. Then there is Heather, the one girl who wants Reed because their fathers forced them together. She is such a terrible person too; that I was so happy Peyton found his way to him and took him from all the horrible people. Luckily he has his best friend Brent and his sweet as a button mother to bring some light in his life along with Peyton.

Overall this was an emotional and passionate love story, the pace was perfect and actually it was a longer read than I expected. There are bumps in the road, but no relationship or person is perfect and that is what made this story so real. My only issues was with Peyton at some point judging something that I felt was off from her persona, I would of thought better of her. But in the end I was happy with the results and that not matter how broken someone is there is always a way to heal. The romance perfect, going from sweet, to passionate to lots of heat, these two lead have great chemistry. The secondary characters are wonderful and help the leads through their tough times. I look forward to more writing from Lane and highly recommend this to romance readers.

RECOMMENDATION:

This is a young adult novel with some sexual content suited for a mature reader of 18 and over. Fans of Wait for You by J. Lynn and Easy by Tammara Webber will enjoy Fall with Me by Julie Particka.

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AUTHOR BIO

Prescott Lane is originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, and graduated from Centenary College in 1997 with a degree in sociology. She went on to Tulane University to receive her MSW in 1998, after which she worked with developmentally delayed and disabled children. She currently resides in New Orleans with her husband and two children.

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