Tuesday, February 05, 2013

Bad Blood Promo Tour Giveaway

Bad Blood

By Ginny Lurcock

Urban Fantasy/Mature YA

Release Date: February 5, 2013

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Book Synopsis

High school senior Victoria “Tori” Reeve has it pretty good. She’s rich, she’s smart, and she’s popular. What more could a girl ask for? Sure, she’s a little lonely, what with being single and her best friend going off to college and all, but she’s got her work at the Spaulding Crisis Center to keep her busy. When she gets a new boss in the very easy on the eyes form of Isaac Larsen, suddenly her volunteer work feels a lot less like work. Even if he does seem to cause Tori to break out into spontaneous fits of foot in mouth disease. Somehow in spite of her blunderitis, Isaac still seems to be interested in her in a more-than-employer or even more-than-friends kind of way.

So really she should have known that things would go sideways.

Trouble comes to Spaulding, and that trouble seems to be centered on Tori and the Crisis Center. Is she really the focus? Or does this all have to do with the new mysterious man in her life? In her efforts to find out, Tori stumbles across some secrets. Skeletons that might have been better off left in the closet. As it turns out, Spaulding is a hot spot for bad blood…

About the Author (taken from the back of Bad Blood)

I am so bad at these, that it causes me physical pain. No wait, that was a splinter… Never mind.

Ginny Lurcock lives in New Hampshire with her husband whom she adores, her daughter, whom she also adores, and their cat. Who she likes alright.

Oh, and her father, his two cats, her sister and her sister’s boyfriend.

When not writing she enjoys playing games (of the board and video variety) or reading to the point of obsession (she’s not an addict, she can quit whenever she wants), watching intelligent television, mindless television, sports, movies and listening to music.

Basically, she likes all the things.

ALL.THE.THINGS

And somehow she still manages to find the time to be bored.

She also breaks the seal.

Guest Post

Vampires (In Films In The 80’s)

As much as I like to say that werewolves are my new monster of choice, or that avian shifters are my new werewolves (it’s a spoof of a Barney Stinson joke… it’s only funny if you watch How I Met Your Mother… and even then it’s probably only funny in my head) vampires will always hold a special place in my heart.

(On a totally unrelated topic, I RULE at run on sentences.)

It all started back in eighth grade when I read Dracula… (there was supposed to be a water transition to a flash back, but our special effects budget was cut… And I looked absurd back in eighth grade…) For the life of me, I can’t remember what it was that sucker punched me about this story. I don’t know if it was the monster, the prose, the heroes, the heartache, or just the fact that I was reading a classic while my classmates were reading some trivial bullshit and I felt superior.

It was probably the feeling superior thing…

Listen, I never said I was a good person. Even as a teenager. Especially as a teenager.

Whatever it was though, I was hooked. Or bitten, if you will. (There are about to be more puns that are better or worse… depending on how much you enjoy puns. You’ve been warned.) Vampires sank their fangs in and never let go, holding my imagination in thrall while they… yeah okay. Crappy allusions over now.

Vampires are all the rage now, and everyone knows who Blade is, Buffy’s undead paramours, and that the Cullens sparkle in the sunlight. What I’d like to do today is highlight some lesser known vampires from back in the day that meant a lot to me, but seem to have been forgotten in the vampiric shuffle.

Meaning it’s a list of vampires movies from the 80s.

The Lost Boys: There was a heated debate on two titles on this list. In my own head. With myself. I mean obviously… I don’t debate in my head with someone like Churchil. That would be crazy. Anyways… I debated if I should include The Lost Boys. I mean, The Lost Boys is pretty huge, and most of my friends not only know, but love the film. That being said, most of my friends are around my age and love vampires. In the end, I decided to include it because A) I love the Frog Brothers B) Corey and Corey C) it was, most probably, Kiefer Sutherland’s best role (that’s right, fuck you Jack Bauer) and D) BILL S. PRESETON ESQUIRE IS A FUCKING VAMPIRE.

Fright Night… but the original: This was my other hotly contested inclusion, due to the fact that it was so recently remade. It’s getting a node though because Prince Humberdinck as a vampire is something that everyone should bear witness too. Plus it tickles me to have the two formerly married Sarandons on the same list.

The Hunger: Featuring Susan Sarandon (score) and a rapidly aging David Bowie (who I also started liking because I thought it made me better than my peers) and some other people in a movie about vampires and lesbian sex. Meaning it was delicious and taboo and I watched it frequently. It would’ve held the record for the most outrageous vampire movie from the 80s that I watched in the 90s if it wasn’t for…

Vamp: Grace Jones really just throws any absurd curve totally out of whack. In fact, she threw it off so much that I couldn’t remember what this movie was about, just that it was epic. There’s an Asian loner with a car, an albino gang, the search for a stripper and of course, Grace Jones as a vampire. I’d look it up on Wikipedia, but why bother? Albino gang, strippers, Grace Jones, vampires. You should already be watching this.

Near Dark: I’m actually throwing this one in for my husband, because I first watched it when I was a little too young and it bothered me for some reason that I can’t remember. Especially since after rewatching it with hubs early in our relationship it has become… well not a favorite, but it’s got Lance Henriksen as a vampire.

My Best Friend is a Vampire: This is actually the movie I was most excited about talking about. Because it is a comedy! A vampire comedy. A vampire comedy featuring the kid from Swing Kids and Dead Poets Society and I think he was on House… (Robert Sean Leonard, for those of you who know his name and not his roles) I dance in my chair when I think about this movie, much less watch it. Guys, guys, guys. Mr. Sean Leonard is turned into a vampire, and then gets instructions on how to be a pro-Vampire from René Auberjonois, aka that guy who played Odo on Deep Space Nine. Oh, but that’s just the surface. It’s so oddly dorky quirky EPIC that it is a must see vampire movie funfest. Seriously. I’m going to watch it tonight.

And of course, what list of movies made in the 80s that I watched in the 90s featuring vampires that had a huge impact on my love for all things that go bump in the night would be complete without the two anime features:

Vampire Princess Miyu and Vampire Hunter D: I might be a recovering anime addict. I might have been one of those people obsessed with all things Japanese to the point where I wore the label “Otaku” with pride. I might have even tried to learn Japanese. Might have. But totally didn’t… *shifty* If I had… well the combination of vampires and anime might have sent me into some kind of kawaii coma where I dreamed of rainbows and kittens and clouds that smiled.

Thankfully, I wasn’t that girl at all…

You should still watch them though.

You know, just for uh… kicks or something…

Or research. Research is a good excuse… err… reason.

I really should’ve ended this posts eons ago… Well no use crying over spilled anime obsessions now… Instead, I’ll just thank you all for reading (and hopefully enjoying) the list of movies that helped form me into the mostly fully functioning, vampire obsessed adult that I am today.

If nothing else it serves as a list of movies to never ever let your kids watch.

And you thought you were going to have an issue with that Twilight franchise.

Review

This was a Solid 4 Star Read for me unlike anything that I have ever read in the YA Genre. This story was full of surprises from the beginning until I turned the last page. I connected with the characters that were created in this story and the direction that she took with the story I never seen it coming. This was a fantastic read for me and I couldn't put the book down.

It's very rare to pick up a book and you throughly enjoy and Ginny was able to accomplish this. I am excited to see what else she does with this series because it has endless possibilities that I am sure will be just as good as it predecessor.

I was able to put myself in the characters shoes because as we go through life we find ourselves faced with situations that we feel are beyond our control but also feel like we could have done something to make it work out in a different way.

I will be giving away 1 copy to the lucky person that posts a comment on this post.