EEEEK!! It’s almost here and I cannot believe this much time has passed!

The week of July 4th Breathless Ink will officially be 1 year old!

A whole lot has happened and changed over the course of our first year and our little blog has grown into quite a thing to behold.

While we lost a few of our reviewers and bloggers, we have gained a few newbies as well. You guys all know Jen and her lovely self and hopefully I will be introducing our new blog members soon! (If you are interested in being a reviewer for us and getting FREE books just email me and let me know!)

No matter what has changed, Breathless Ink is still focused on bringing you book reviews & giveaways, talking with authors & characters, keeping you up to date on what is new in the world of book romance and sooooo much more!

Some of you may remember our first week as a blog. We started out with a BANG by doing a huge blast with a ton of authors…

Welp, as I thought about our 1 year Blog-Birthday and what we could do to celebrate…I decided that there was no better way to celebrate than to do another BASH!

The Birthday Bash will begin on June 29th and run through July 3rd <3 

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I am so very excited to announce the winners of our very first #MFEOTourney!! I still cannot believe the response that this tournament received and the love that you guys have shown to not only us but the authors who were nominated.

I cannot say THANK YOU enough for all that you guys have done!

So now…on to why you are really here…our winners!!

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In Steamy YA…we had a TIE!!

And there you have it!

The first annual #MFEOTourney is over!

It’s time for the FINAL ROUND of the #MFEOTourney15!!

We are down to our top 2 in each category and I STILL cannot get over the amazing turn out for this tournament! You guys are amazing!!

**You can only vote once per round in each category!**

**Voting will run from Feb. 11th to 14th at 5pm EST**

The winners from each category will be announced and awards will be passed out (on FB of course lol) just after the polls close!!

Who is ready to meet our top 2 in each category???

  

It’s time for ROUND 2 of the #MFEOTourney15!!

We are down to our top four in each category and I am super excited to see what happens next!

**You can only vote once per round in each category!**

**Voting will run from Feb. 5th to 10th at 5pm**

The top 2 from each category will move on to the FINAL ROUND!

So…let’s meet our top 4!

      

ROUND 1 HAS ENDED!

Place your vote for your favorite book couple in each category! The 4 couples with the most votes will move on to Round 2!

**You can only vote ONCE per round in each category. So share it with your friends and ask them to vote as well!**

**Voting for this round of the #MFEOTourney15 will end on February 5th at 5pm EST!**

CLICK HERE to check out all of the awesome nominees!

Woohoo! I am so very excited to announce our MFEO Book Tournament Nominees!

The winner from each category will receive a FREE month of ad space on our blog and Facebook/Twitter pages!

VOTING BEGINS ON FEBRUARY 1ST!

**I will update this post as new nominations are made! These are listed in the order that they were nominated! Click on the cover to visit the author’s FB page.**

Don’t see your favorite book couple listed? Nominate them for 2015 MFEO here!

Title: Inside Out

Author: Lia Riley

Series: Off the Map

Published by: Forever Publishing

Date published: Dec. 2, 2014

Genres: NA Contemporary

Book Length: 244 pages

Steam Rating: Steamy

Main Characters: Bran & Talia

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“I fell in love with Lia’s voice  – her writing style and poetic humor adds so much that her way of turning stories into art is an amazing journey.”

When Talia first moved from California to Australia to study abroad, she never dreamed she’d find the love of her life. Bran understands her like no one ever has before. And despite the numerous challenges they’ve faced, they’ve always managed to figure out how to stay together. But this time they’ll face their toughest hurdle yet. Is their love strong enough to keep them together?

Holy Aussie, did I love the Off the Map series! Inside Out by Lia Riley was the final novel in the series and left me with the perfect HEA ending to this realistically beautiful love story.

 

I fell in love with Lia’s voice in Upside Down – her writing style and poetic humor adds so much that her way of turning stories into art is an amazing journey for the reader. Now, I find myself speechless writing this review because there is little I can say about Bran and Talia’s journey that I’ve not already said.

 

Inside Out began with Bran and Talia in different parts of the world, reeling from their choices in Sideswiped. What I loved most about this novel was seeing their relationship develop from young and in love in Upside Down and Sideswiped to learning from experience and making the hard choices (even with the best of intentions) in their quest to find themselves.

 

Both Talia and Bran were pushed to the bottom of the mountain and managed to find their way back up, to uncover their happily ever after’s with each other. These two are one of my all-time favorite MFEO couples and I will miss them terribly!

 

While I’m sad to see Bran and Talia’s story end, I wholeheartedly look forward to reading what else Lia Riley has in her poetic arsenal in 2015.

Lia Riley

Lia Riley writes offbeat New Adult Romance. After studying at the University of Montana-Missoula, she scoured the world armed only with a backpack, overconfidence and a terrible sense of direction. She counts shooting vodka with a Ukranian mechanic in Antarctica, sipping yerba mate with gauchos in Chile and swilling XXXX with stationhands in Outback Australia among her accomplishments. When not torturing heroes (because c’mon, who doesn’t love a good tortured hero?), Lia herds unruly chickens, camps, beach combs, daydreams about as-of-yet unwritten books, wades through a mile-high TBR pile and schemes yet another trip. She and her family live in Northern California.

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This time we get to sit down with the none other than Scott King!!

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This time we get to sit down with the super amazing Robert Simmons.

Robert is a man of many talents. He is not only a sexy as sin cover model but also a Martial Artist, a UFC Coach, an Ex-Firefighter, and a Tattoo Artist! If you haven’t already, please head on over to his Facebook page and give him a like as well as let him know how thankful you are for him doing this interview!

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Title: Cloven

Author: Georgeann Swiger

Series: Trinity of Souls

Published by: Georgeann Swiger

Date published: Oct. 21, 2014

Genres: NA Fantasy

Book Length: 267 pg

Steam Rating: Steamy

Main Characters: Anya & Micah

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 Between Heaven and Hell, lies forbidden love…

“Swiger has a little bit of ‘dark’ in her writing, her visual interpretations are vivid, and I feel the gloom and doom underneath the sticky sweet moments that show her ability to juxtapose emotions.”

~Dylan Quinn

What would you do if the only things standing between you and the angel you love were another angel and the fiery pits of Hell?

When Anya and Micah declare their love for each other, the battle for the souls of the star-crossed angels stretches across the heavens. With Heaven forbidding their love, Micah vows to protect Anya by sentencing himself to Hell.

But Anya won’t let him go without a fight. She goes into Hell after him, only to discover an angel from Micah’s past is willing to do anything to keep Micah in Hell.

With love and lies blinding Micah, Anya fights to get him to face his demons and return to Heaven, even if it means hearts will be broken.

The battle for the angels begins where it left off. Between Heaven and Hell is forbidden love.

By Dylan Quinn

Cloven by Georgeann Swiger is the second book in the Trinity of Souls Series and a follow-up to Adorned, released earlier this year. While the series began as an upper YA novel, it’s crossed over into New Adult.

Cloven begins when Anya is dumped off in hell—yes, dumped. She’s just had her becoming, though nowhere near as glorious as everybody had promised it to be, and she is officially an angel trying to make her way into the Kingdom. Naked and completely clueless, Anya is in ‘no man’s land’ outside of the Kingdom and meets a few new characters, who immediately take advantage of her trusting nature and intentionally mislead her—an unfortunate means to an end.

Sometime later, we FINALLY meet Micah when Anya has made her way into the Kingdom. There was much alluding to Micah’s feelings for Anya in Adorned, but I never saw a lot from either. Swiger definitely remedied that problem in Cloven, though Micah and Anya’s reunion is short-lived. So much drama these two! Still reeling from consequences of actions taken during Anya’s human life, the two are separated again, leaving Anya once again on her own, trying to navigate her world, which now is focused solely on saving Micah from himself.

Cloven felt much more like a love story to me. Adorned established Anya’s role as a human while this follow-up showed her learning to be an angel along with the complexities of the forbidden love between her and Micah. I felt the angst of their separation, which propelled me to read Cloven in one afternoon sitting. I wasn’t even halfway done when Swiger brought me to tears. No exaggeration.

The remainder of the story had Anya chasing after Micah to save him from demons of his past. Micah is a beautiful character who has such a story of his own. I’ve implored Ms. Swiger to write a story from his POV, and I’m hoping she does… seriously girl, throw me a bone here.

The characters in Cloven were well developed. Anya grew tremendously since the first story. The whiny teenager from Adorned is gone and replaced by a brave girl on a mission to save her man. She surprised me tremendously, and I was truly impressed at how much she grew up. I guess being dumped in hell will do that to a girl.

And Micah. I was so happy to see him unafraid to show his feelings for Anya. He kissed her, did sweet things for her and didn’t seem to care if anybody saw, knew, or cared—which surprised me after the chaste kiss on earth threw him. Micah was clearly developing too, though again…girl. I want Micah’s story!

And then we have the supporting characters. Whew. Swiger added a few new faces and brought back a few faves from Adorned. We meet Cole, Dahlia and her entourage and of course, Lucifer. Oh, Dahlia—how I LOVE to hate this woman. She’s the classic bully. Swiger also had me guessing which team the players were on, even in the Kingdom. This alone kept a sense of urgency and ‘who done it,’ propelling me quickly through the story.

Finally—in true Georgeann Swiger fashion, she left me hanging. Okay, not literally—it’s NOT a cliffhanger ending but if you read Adorned, you’ll suspect the subtle whispers will keep us guessing once the final story to this series is released. Why is my stomach in knots?

I completely enjoyed Cloven. Swiger has a little bit of ‘dark’ in her writing, her visual interpretations are vivid, and I feel the gloom and doom underneath the sticky sweet moments that shows her ability to juxtapose emotions. And advice when you read Swiger… look for her dropping hints about her story—characters, clues here and there. She weaves all these in, which is a true mark of an expert storyteller. Bravo.

I predicted from Adorned that once Swiger got her feet wet with writing, she would take off and I believe she has. Cloven was an impressive follow up to her debut and once again, Swiger has left me on the edge, waiting to see how tortured she will leave poor Anya and Micah when they finally get their Happily Ever After.

And for Georgeann, I beg of you… Micah. That is all.

Georgeann Swiger

Georgeann Swiger earned her degree in journalism from West Virginia University, and then spent five years as an anchor/reporter at WBOY-TV in Clarksburg, WV. After having children, she left television news to be a stay at home mom. During that time, she discovered creative writing was more fun than writing about real life tragedy. Imagining interesting character and having them come to life on the page is now her passion. When she’s not writing, she works as a substitute teacher. She lives in Reedsville, West Virginia with her husband, two kids, a beagle dog and a temperamental cat who tries to rule the house

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“What are you two doing?” The deep voice coming from the hallway sends a happy

tremor through my body. I jump to my feet to run to Micah, but I’m stopped by the

piercing pain of glass going through my foot. I look down to see blood trickling on the

floor. When I sit on the couch to pull out the shard, Kieran and Emory hover around me.

“Why are you in my room?” Micah asks, angrily.

Kieran and Emory move to the side to give Micah a direct line to me. I look up and his gaze grabs mine. We stare at one another, caught in a wordless hello. Small expressions run over his face, telling me he’s relieved, happy, confused.

“Leave us,” he says quietly without looking away from me.

Kieran and Emory hurry out of the room, shutting the door behind them. Micah closes his eyes. He takes a deep breath, bows his head and mutters something under his breath. When he looks up, he stares at me in disbelief. He doesn’t seem to notice the glass crunching under his feet as he steps toward me. His lips quiver, trying to form words that won’t come.

The fire crackles and pops behind him. Micah’s eyes glisten while he studies my shaking hand, reaching for him. My hand finds his, linking our fingers together. The strong beat of his pulse thumps in his trembling fingers. I step cautiously to the floor, avoiding the glass. When I’m eye level with him, his pupils flicker. As soon as I open my mouth to tell him how much I missed him, he pulls me to his body and covers my mouth with his. Every pent up emotion is released the second he kisses me. I don’t know where this Micah came from. His mouth claims mine without reservation or fear of repercussions. I fall into his embrace, enjoying every bit of the intensity of the kiss that tells me he missed me as much as I missed him. The tension in his body falls away as his hands travel through my hair and down my back, over my hips and up my sides like he’s making sure I’m real. I’m real, Micah, I want to say but I don’t want to stop kissing him. The taste of his lips brings to life the forbidden feelings I’m done hiding. I can’t get enough of him.

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