Bad Boys Rehab Blog Hop (INT)

Who doesn't want a bad boy with potential to be rehabilitated? Well, sure I do! The Bad Boys Rehab Blog Hop features those guys. The ones that makes us want to kiss them and punch him at the same time, they infuriated us and frustrated us but we still love them. 

This giveaway is hosted by  I Am A Reader, Not A Writer and The Book Hookup and runs since January 10th until January 17th, so make sure to enter while you still have time. 

What's up for grabs?

This time I'll be giving a way to one lucky winner, 4 e-books from one of my favorites YA authors, Tammara Webber, who knows a thing or two about bad boys since she's the great mind behind Lucas and Reid Alexander. The books I'm talking about are:

Between the Lines (Between the Lines #1)

When Hollywood It Boy, Reid Alexander, arrives on location to shoot his next movie, his goals are the same as always—film another blockbuster hit and enjoy his celebrity status to the fullest while doing so. His costar is a virtual unknown with whom he had blazing hot chemistry during her auditions. The universe is lining up nicely to grant whatever he wants, as usual, until he’s confronted with unexpected obstacles on location like a bitter ex-girlfriend and a rival for the first girl to spark his genuine interest in years.

Emma Pierce just got her big break after more than a decade of filming commercials for grape juice, department stores and tampons, and more recently, bit parts in made-for-TV movies. Nailing the lead role in a wide-release film sent her agent, father and stepmother into raptures, and should have done the same for her. The Problem? Emma is experiencing a building desire to be normal, and starring in a silly, modernized adaptation of one of her favorite novels—opposite the very hot Reid Alexander—isn’t going to advance that aspiration.

Graham Douglas doesn’t fear playing the part of a nerdy dimwit; when it comes to choosing film roles, if it pays, he’ll do it. Besides, his friend Brooke Cameron snatched up the role of the bitchy hot girl and could use his help as a buffer, because her ex is the star. Graham has no problem keeping a handle on the situation, until he finds himself attracted to Reid’s costar, Emma, the girl Reid is pursuing full-throttle with his standard arsenal of charm, good looks and arrogance.

Where you Are (Between the Lines #2)

Graham Douglas doesn’t do romantic relationships, but he was knocked for a loop when he met Emma Pierce on the set of his last film. As they grew closer, he did everything in his power to keep from falling for a girl being pursued by superstar Reid Alexander. Now home in New York, his life is once again under control, until Emma appears and shows him how not over her he is.

Emma Pierce is forsaking an up-and-coming Hollywood career to embark on a life she’s only dreamed of—the life of a regular girl. After spending months burying her feelings for the two night-and-day guys who vied for her heart while filming her last movie, a twist of fate puts her in a coffee shop in the middle of Manhattan with the one she still misses.

Brooke Cameron was a fresh-faced Texas girl when she arrived in LA. Now she’s a beach sitcom star turned conceited heiress on the big screen. Having just survived three months on location with her ex—Hollywood’s reigning golden boy—she’s older and wiser and has set her sights on her close friend Graham. The only thing standing in her way is the girl he can’t forget.

Reid Alexander can sum up his life in one word: boring. Between film projects, there’s little going on outside of interviews, photo shoots, and the premiere of the film he finished last fall. The next-to-last thing he expects is to get a second chance with Emma, the girl who rejected him. The last thing he expects is for his still-bitter-ex to be the one to offer it to him on a platter.

Good for You (Between the Lines #3)

Reid Alexander's life is an open book. His Hollywood celebrity means that everything he does plays out in the public eye. Every relationship, every error in judgment is analyzed by strangers. His latest mistake totaled his car, destroyed a house and landed him in the hospital. Now his PR team is working overtime to salvage his image. One thing is clear—this is one predicament he won’t escape without paying for it.

Dori Cantrell is a genuine humanitarian—the outward opposite of everything Reid is about. When his DUI plea bargain lands him under her community service supervision, she proves unimpressed with his status and indifferent to his proximity, and he soon wants nothing more than to knock her off of her pedestal and prove she's human.

Counting the days until his month of service is over, Dori struggles to ignore his wicked magnetic pull while shocking him with her ability to see past his celebrity and challenging him to see his own wasted potential. But Dori has secrets of her own, safely locked away until one night turns her entire world upside down. Suddenly their only hope for connection and redemption hinges on one choice: whether or not to have faith in each other.

Easy

A girl who believes trust can be misplaced, promises are made to be broken, and loyalty is an illusion. A boy who believes truth is relative, lies can mask unbearable pain, and guilt is eternal. Will what they find in each other validate their conclusions, or disprove them all?

When Jacqueline follows her longtime boyfriend to the college of his choice, the last thing she expects is a breakup two months into sophomore year. After two weeks in shock, she wakes up to her new reality: she's single, attending a state university instead of a music conservatory, ignored by her former circle of friends, and failing a class for the first time in her life.

Leaving a party alone, Jacqueline is assaulted by her ex's frat brother. Rescued by a stranger who seems to be in the right place at the right time, she wants nothing more than to forget the attack and that night--but her savior, Lucas, sits on the back row of her econ class, sketching in a notebook and staring at her. Her friends nominate him to be the perfect rebound.

When her attacker turns stalker, Jacqueline has a choice: crumple in defeat or learn to fight back. Lucas remains protective, but he's hiding secrets of his own. Suddenly appearances are everything, and knowing who to trust is anything but easy.

How can you enter?

This giveaway is International. 
You must be at least 13 years old to enter.

The winner will be notified by email as soon as the contest ends and will have 48 hrs to reply, otherwise a new winner will be chosen, so please don't forget to leave your contact information in the form.

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[Review] Easy by Tammara Webber

Title: Easy

Author: Tammara Webber

Publisher: Razorbill

Published: May 24th 2012

Source: I purchased a e-copy from Amazon

Blurb from Goodreads: A girl who believes trust can be misplaced, promises are made to be broken, and loyalty is an illusion. A boy who believes truth is relative, lies can mask unbearable pain, and guilt is eternal. Will what they find in each other validate their conclusions, or disprove them all?
When Jacqueline follows her longtime boyfriend to the college of his choice, the last thing she expects is a breakup two months into sophomore year. After two weeks in shock, she wakes up to her new reality: she's single, attending a state university instead of a music conservatory, ignored by her former circle of friends, and failing a class for the first time in her life.
Leaving a party alone, Jacqueline is assaulted by her ex's frat brother. Rescued by a stranger who seems to be in the right place at the right time, she wants nothing more than to forget the attack and that night--but her savior, Lucas, sits on the back row of her econ class, sketching in a notebook and staring at her. Her friends nominate him to be the perfect rebound.
When her attacker turns stalker, Jacqueline has a choice: crumple in defeat or learn to fight back. Lucas remains protective, but he's hiding secrets of his own. Suddenly appearances are everything, and knowing who to trust is anything but easy.

Review

First thoughts: Tammara Webber has become in one of my favorite authors. Before this year, I haven't even heard of her, and then one night I decided to purchased this book and since then I'm absolutely obsessed with her work.
Easy is a New Adult novel, full with romance, drama and some mysteries waiting to be solved. I read it in just one sitting, and I dreamed about the characters for more than a week after I finished the book.
I loved every single page of it. Since the very beginning, because, WHAT A START! Omg! You definitely have to give it a try, when you read the first 10 pages, I guarantee you, you won't be able to put it down. And I mean it. Because it's really difficult for me to find a book that can keep me on the edge of my sit, laughing out loud and worrying about the characters at the same time.

Plot and characters: In one hand we have Jacqueline, a really interesting character, a girl who has just started collage and who has made every decision about her life since her graduation, thinking about how it would affect her relationship with Kennedy, her high-school sweetheart. 
Jackie is really innocent, easy to love and caring and would've done anything for Kennedy. And then, out of the blue, Kennedy, who -from my point of view- is a completely asshole, decides that he wants to explore new horizons and Jacqueline is a liability in his desire to pursue the happiness and success he thinks he deserves. So, he dumped her. Leaving her clueless and regretful since she could have taken chances to pursue her musical career instead of choosing to be Kennedy's tail. 
On top of that, Kennedy's stupid best friends has been arousing Jacqueline, making it all worst. So, since then, she's kind of lost and trying to fit in a world where she used to belong just because of his ex. 
Now, with everything as it is, she's failing a class for the first time in her entire life and needs the help of a tutor. There's where Landon comes into play. He's smart and writes the most interesting emails to Jacqueline as her tutor. She haven't met him in person, but she waits anxiously for every reply to her emails. 
Then,  alongside, there's Lucas, a mysterious guy who sits in the back of her economics class  and who spends most of the classes drawing things on his notebook when he's not staring at Jacqueline, and the one who always seems to be around when she needs him the most. 
Besides, now that Jacqueline is finally single, she's able to look at Lucas with different eyes and she starts to notice how handsome he is. This two  guys seems to be like two sides of a coin. But they have much more in common than what Jackie could ever imagine.

Themes: I loved how the stalking, raping and bullying themes are treated in this book, don't be afraid, because this isn't an erotic kind of thing. The issue is addressed from a emotional point of view and it shows along the book the struggle and the way that Jacqueline has to overcome what had happened to her by helping other people that have went through similar situations.
This story has several great messages, about not giving up, about overcoming difficulties, about learning from your mistakes, about letting yourself trust someone else, it's beautiful in every sense of the word.

About the writing: The story is narrated in first person, from Jacqueline's point of view, which is great, because you can relate perfectly with her, knowing all her feelings and insecurities and overall she's a really believable character. I loved the writing, it is simple and familiar and the e-mails alternated with the prose give a very modern touch to the book.

I would recommend it for: Everyone. This is New Adult, but I didn't think it was too explicit, so I think anyone over 13 would understand it and enjoy it.

Rating:

Quotes:

“Love is not the absence of logic

but logic examined and recalculated

heated and curved to fit

inside the contours of the heart”

“Choosing to be with you, isn't a difficult decision, Jacqueline...It's easy. Incredibly easy.” 

“I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know each other, but between the emails and texts and... everything else, I felt like we did. Like we do. and I miss--I don't know how else to say it--I miss both of you.” 

“You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." 

I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl. That's part of the job description, Mr. Maxfield.” 

“If someone had asked, "How does this compare to kissing Kennedy?" I would have answered, "Who?”

“The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.” 

About the author:

I write romantic Mature Young Adult / New Adult fiction. 

EASY is my newest contemporary stand-alone novel. BETWEEN THE LINES is my contemporary series.  

Reading was one of my first and earliest loves, and writing soon followed. My first book was about a lost bear, but my lack of ability as an illustrator convinced me to abandon that effort and concentrate on passing 3rd grade. I wrote sad romantic poetry in high school and penned my first half-novel when I was 19, for which I did lots of research on Vikings (the marauders, not the football team). It was accidentally destroyed when I stuffed it into the shredder at work. 

Addictions: coffee and Cherry Garcia frozen yogurt. Also baby carrots, but not with coffee or frozen yogurt, because that would be disgusting. I love shopping for earrings, because they always fit - even if I occasionally forget to work out. I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life.

Tammara Webber Website

[Review] Between the Lines by Tammara Webber

Title: Between the Lines

Author: Tammara Webber

Publisher: Razorbill

Published: April 29th 2011

Series: Between the Lines (Book #1)

Source: I purchased a kindle copy from Amazon

Blurb from Goodreads: The first of an irresistible series about hot teen actors by Tammara Webber, author of the New York Times-bestseller Easy.

Seventeen-year-old actress Emma is starring in her first major film role, opposite Hollywood It Boy Reid. The exclusive nightclubs, snapping photographers and screaming fans are a normal part of life for Reid but it's all new to Emma. The rest of the cast befriend her but Emma can't help feeling out of her depth. She's grateful to fellow actor Graham for his friendly support and thinks maybe he's interested in something more - until she sees him sneaking out of beautiful Brooke's room one night . . . 

Reid has no holds barred in his pursuit of Emma; he loves the thrill of the chase but he's also experiencing something new. Could he be genuinely falling for his co-star?

Review

My thoughts: I think I just found my next favorite author.

This is brilliant! I loved every single page. I loved how Raid is beyond cute and famous and a womanizer but at the same time, has had a complicated life and he can feel just like anyone else, even if he's so much of a jerk to show it. 

Emma is pretty and smart... struggling to find herself in a world where everyone wants to be someone else. 

The story is narrated in first person, shifting points of view from Emma to Reid, which is great because you get to understand what they think of each other and how they see the world.

Graham is kind of mysterious, smart and handsome but there's always something about him along the entire book and you have to wait until the very end to find out what it is.

And what a twist! I surely didn't expect THAT! You have to read it to find out!

Brooke... This is a complicated character. She's the queen B and is bitchy and most of the time you want to slap her in the face, but she has had a hard time too, so you try to relate and understand where that attitude come from.

I was captivated by the story from the very beginning. I was saving it for later for a long time in my kindle shelf and now I'm glad I finally got to read it because this is definitely a MUST-READ. 

I loved the writing because is light and familiar and captivating at the same time. I couldn't resist to the idea of a book about Hollywood and movies and fame. 

This author has something that makes me giggle like a crazy person while reading her books. I was so immerse in the story that I may as well be a part of it. 

I would recommend it for: Absolutely everyone. Even if you don't like YA so much, this is captivating, I'm sure you would find something to like about it.

Rating:

Quotes:

“But even if you have what everyone else wants- if it isn't what you want, it isn't what you want” 

“What do you say when the feelings don't fit into words?”

“That's how they say it: He loves you in his own way. Well, what about my way? What if I need for him to love me in my way?”

“No offense to hot girls everywhere- but newsflash- there are hot girls everywhere.” 

“But the scars are always there, waiting for something to poke them.”

“I try to be rational and suppress the hope that this is for real, but hope has a way of closing its eyes to reason and it just keeps growing. ”

“I don't know why it's so hard for me to say those three words. Most guys throw it around like breath, like bait.”

About the author:

I write romantic Mature Young Adult / New Adult fiction. 

EASY is my newest contemporary stand-alone novel. BETWEEN THE LINES is my contemporary series.  

Reading was one of my first and earliest loves, and writing soon followed. My first book was about a lost bear, but my lack of ability as an illustrator convinced me to abandon that effort and concentrate on passing 3rd grade. I wrote sad romantic poetry in high school and penned my first half-novel when I was 19, for which I did lots of research on Vikings (the marauders, not the football team). It was accidentally destroyed when I stuffed it into the shredder at work. 

Addictions: coffee and Cherry Garcia frozen yogurt. Also baby carrots, but not with coffee or frozen yogurt, because that would be disgusting. I love shopping for earrings, because they always fit - even if I occasionally forget to work out. I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life.

Tammara Webber Website