Showing posts with label Remington "Riptide" Tate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Remington "Riptide" Tate. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

New Adult Blog Tour ''Remy" by Katy Evans


Title: Remy
Author: Katy Evans
Date of Release: November 26, 2013
Publisher: Gallery Books
Blog Tour Hosted by: The SUBClub Books

Buy Links
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Synopsis
Underground fighter Remington Tate is a mystery, even to himself. His mind is dark and light, complex and enlightening. At times his actions and moods are carefully measured, and at others, they spin out of control.

Through it all, there's been one constant: wanting, needing, loving, and protecting Brooke Dumas. This is his story; from the first moment he laid eyes on her and knew, without a doubt, she would be the realest thing he's ever had to fight for.
MY REVIEW
I believe that this is the final book in this series, but I am not 100% positive that this is the case.  I enjoyed this one quite a bit more than the 2nd one and I will tell you why.  This book is told completely from Remy's perspective and I love him!  This book starts out a couple months after Mine leaves off but only bits, tiny bits of the book are in the present.  This reminds me a lot of This Girl by Colleen Hoover in that it's the 3rd book, it's told from the mans perspective and it's his re-telling of the first 2 books interspersed with small scenes from the present.  For Will and Layken it was him telling her his story in moments of their honeymoon.  In this book its's Remy remembering all the main scenes of the prior 2 books while on his way to his church wedding to Brooke.

There really isn't a whole lot to review here since there isn't a whole lot of new stuff happening so I will just give you my thoughts overall.  I love Remy, I can't say it enough.  I loved that we get all the good stuff from book one from his perspective.  We do get the high points of book 2, but there seemed to be less of book 2 represented here in this one, which was fine by me because book 1 was definitely better.

I don't normally think that it's necessary to re-write a book from the other MC's POV, but I liked this one because there is so much about Remy that was still a mystery.  I would almost say that I could have read this one and skipped the other 2, but I can't really.  I think that the addition of this book made for a more well rounded character.  Remy is so blatantly male and you see that so much more in this book.  He's very primal and almost animal like so Brooke comparing him to a lion made so much more sense after reading this book.  Remy is HOT, there is no denying that...not that I ever tried!

I quite enjoyed this book and if you loved the first one then you will love this one just as much if not more.  I will say that his excessive and I do mean excessive use of the "f" word is a little off-putting to the point that I wanted to start counting them just to see how many times he said it!

This is a New Adult book, so there are some very descriptive love scenes as well as quite a bit of profanity. Definitely for the 18 and over crowd! 

About Katy Evans

Hey! I’m Katy Evans and I love family, books, life, and love. I’m married with two children and three dogs and spend my time baking, walking, writing, reading, and taking care of my family. Thank you for spending your time with me and picking up my story. I hope you had an amazing time with it, like I did. If you’d like to know more about books in progress, look me up on the Internet, I’d love to hear from you!



Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Blog Tour New Adult Romance "Mine" by Katy Evans

Title: Mine
Author: Katy Evans
Date for Re-Release of Paperback: November 5, 2013
Publisher: Gallery Books
Blog Tour Hosted by: The SUBClub Books

Buy Links
AMAZON  |  B&N  |  KOBO
Synopsis
“I will do anything to make her MINE.” —Remington Tate 

In the international bestseller REAL, the unstoppable bad boy of the Underground fighting circuit finally met his match. Hired to keep him in prime condition, Brooke Dumas unleashed a primal desire in Remington “Remy” Tate as vital as the air he breathes . . . and now he can’t live without her. 

Brooke never imagined she would end up with the man who is every woman’s dream, but not all dreams end happily ever after, and just when they need each other the most, Brooke is torn away from the ringside. Now with distance and darkness between them, the only thing left is to fight for the love of the man she calls MINE.

MY REVIEW
This is the second book of this series.  I loved the first one, I liked this one, but not quite as much as the first one.  I think there is just something about meeting the characters for the first time that makes the first book in a series better than the rest.  This happens a lot for me with these series where all the book are centered around the same characters.

I just love Remy, I love him blue and I love him black.  I do admit that the different eye colors does throw me, but then again I don't know a whole lot about being bi-polar.  I pretty much love everything about Remy, but I don't love the scenting and licking...I don't get that...AT all.  I don't find that sexy and unless you are a shifter or a vampire it's just weird.  I know that she compares him to a lion, but licking just grosses me out!

As far as the story goes, their story does progress, but at the same time a lot of it seemed to be a repeat of the first book.  Lots of crowds screaming for Remy, Brooke getting jealous, etc....  Scorpion is back and causing trouble for Remy and Brooke.  The basic plot is the same though, they think Nora is in trouble and they end up having to save her.  It's really too hard to say much more without posting spoilers so I don't want to talk about the plot anymore than that.  Suffice it to say, Remy and Brook have their share of hard times in this book.

I don't have a whole lot to say about the book, it's not one of those books that I think needs a really deep insightful review.  I gave Real 4 stars on Goodreads and I think this one was more of a 3-3.5 star.  I want to say that if the plot had seemed like it was completely different or not so similar to the first one I would have rated it higher.  There was a lot of repeated lines, repeated themes, etc...in this one.  If you LOVED Real then you will probably love this one just as much. I think for me I love Remy more than I loved the continuation of the story and I have to say that I didn't like Brooke as much in this book and I think was a deciding factor on how I felt about the book overall.

This is a New Adult book, so there are some very descriptive love scenes as well as quite a bit of profanity. Definitely for the 18 and over crowd! 

About Katy Evans

Hey! I’m Katy Evans and I love family, books, life, and love. I’m married with two children and three dogs and spend my time baking, walking, writing, reading, and taking care of my family. Thank you for spending your time with me and picking up my story. I hope you had an amazing time with it, like I did. If you’d like to know more about books in progress, look me up on the Internet, I’d love to hear from you!


Monday, November 11, 2013

Just a quick little update post, NaNoWriMo style!


Okay peeps, I am sorry I haven't been doing my normal posting lately.  I am 10 days into NaNoWriMo and it's going well, but this means I haven't had a lot of time to read. 

I have signed up for 4 blog tours that all happened to fall this month, I have NO idea how I managed that! So, I have read one of those books thus far and I will have a review post up for that on Wednesday.  Then I have 2 next week and the last one the following week.  I am struggling to keep up with the reading and writing.  I will get those 4 books done and blog tours posted, but I won't be doing any more reading and probably no more posting until December comes.  

I have been doing a few NaNoWriMo videos and posting them on my YouTube Channel, but I am behind on those as well!  I need to just face facts that this is a crazy busy month for me anyway and then adding 50,000 words on top of that was just a little crazy town.  I am doing it though!  I have days where I am ahead and days that I am behind, but I am getting there and as each day passes the words come a little easier.

I guess since I know where my story is going I can give you a little information on it.  It's a YAish Paranormal,  the ish being that the lead female is in high school, but is just turning 18 at the beginning of her senior year and the lead male is 20 going into his 2nd year of college.  It will be YA in content though, I am not confident enough at this point to try to write a New Adult novel.  I don't, by any means, think that what I am writing is good!  I do think that with A LOT of help it could potentially be, but I am not confident enough in it at this point to even let anyone read it.  That may come eventually, but after some serious revision and all that fun stuff.  Right now I am just focusing on getting the words out.

The paranormal aspect comes in the form of young witches with powers of the elements and a curse that wreaks havoc on their town once all the witches have been endowed with their power.   This generation is determined to break the curse without one of the witches having to die, which is how they have been able to survive the curse in the past.   My main character Riley is one of the witches and her love interest Ezra will be a major player in breaking the curse.  I still have a lot of details to work out and I am not sure how it's going to end quite yet, but it's coming together nicely I think.

So, I will see you back here with on Wednesday with a blog tour post and a review of this book...



....until then, Happy Reading!

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