Vain Blog Tour: Guest Post & Giveaway

Vain (The Seven Deadly #1)
Author: Fisher Amelie
Genre: YA/New Adult Contemporary 

Description:

If you’re looking for a story about a good, humble girl, who’s been hurt by someone she thought she could trust, only to find out she’s not as vulnerable as she thought she was and discovers an empowering side of herself that falls in love with the guy who helps her find that self, blah, blah, blah...then you’re gonna’ hate my story.

Because mine is not the story you read every time you bend back the cover of the latest trend novel. It’s not the “I can do anything, now that I’ve found you/I’m misunderstood but one day you’ll find me irresistible because of it” tale. Why? Because, if I was being honest with you, I’m a complete witch. There’s nothing redeeming about me. I’m a friend using, drug abusing, sex addict from Los Angeles. I’m every girlfriend’s worst nightmare and every boy’s fantasy.

I’m Sophie Price...And this is the story about how I went from the world’s most envied girl to the girl no one wanted around and why I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world.  

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Thank you so much for having me, Dream Within a Dream! I’m honored, truly!

Top 10 All-Time Favorite Books

The Bible
Even if you don’t imbibe in its theology, this is a good book, no pun intended. Full of mystery, adventure, morals and lessons. You just have to skip the beget, beget, beget parts.


The Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas is the father of complicated, extremely well thought out plots and this novel is the king of them. Take a pleasant, happy naïve sailor, turn him into a wrongfully accused scapegoat, throw him in the worst prison conditions possible for six years and you’ve got a recipe for the greatest story of revenge…ever.


Lord of the Rings
This feels self-explanatory really but I suppose I’ll indulge myself. Allegory to end all allegories, this little gem defines my childhood and I cannot wait for it to define my own children’s.


Little Women
A story of four little March women in their little home with little money and little forgiveness from the harshness of the world. Despite all this, they each become great in their own ways. The novel is a celebration of life as a woman and a human in general. It is one of the most compelling books I’ve ever read.


Nineteen Eighty-Four
George Orwell is my political hero and from what I can tell, a modern day prophet. I’d be imprisoned for life for the “thoughtcrimes” I’ve committed. I love it so because it truthfully exposes what totalitarianism can do to a society. You’ll be nothing but a ball of fear for a few weeks afterward but it will change you entirely for the better.


Pride & Prejudice
Darcy. Darcy, Darcy, Darcy. My main man. I would read this book solely for his speaking parts alone but Austen is a master of the art of unrequited love and I’m a sucker for drawn out angst finally fulfilled exactly the way it should be.


Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe
I love this book not only for the fantasy but also for the imagery. I can still recall every step the Pevensie children took in a Narnia that is “always winter, but never Christmas.”


Huckleberry Finn
Mark Twain is incredibly hilarious and somehow he exposes racism as the ugly thing it is through such an unlikely avenue in Huck. If you’re intelligent enough to read it as Twain intended, you cannot miss its true meaning.

Le Morte d’Arthur
I only read it the one time in junior high but it stuck with me fiercely. I don’t ever remember a more poignant story than that of when Arthur is betrayed by his most revered knight Lancelot. I remembered feeling struck as deeply as Arthur. I remember feeling his betrayal and crying for his loss. I knew that I would love as passionately as Arthur had but learned to guard myself more desperately when before I was very open with my heart. I also knew I would hurt equally as passionately should my love be stricken as Arthur’s was. I found in him a kindred spirit.

The Great Gatsby
I found this book to be so perplexing I couldn’t forget it. Never was a book written about more selfish people than in The Great Gatsby. I suppose that’s why I find it so fascinating.

Thank you so much for stopping by today and sharing your favorite books with us Fisher!

Fisher Amelie is the author of The Leaving Series, Callum &; Harper and Thomas & January. She began her writing career as a copywriter for an internet marketing company wherein one of their client's said, 'Hey! You're funny. You should write books'. Which in turn she said, 'Hey, get out of here! This is the lady's restroom.' While washing her hands and the embarrassment from her face, she thought they may have had a valid point. So, she took the thousands of hours of writing stories growing up, tucked them into her pocket and began writing and writing and writing. 

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VAIN Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16137702-vain?ac=1

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