Last Chance Academy Blog Tour: Review + Giveaway

I am thrilled to be hosting a spot on the LAST CHANCE ACADEMY by Alex Lidell Blog Tour hosted by Rockstar Book Tours. Check out my post and make sure to enter the giveaway!

LAST CHANCE ACADEMY: Shifter Fae Vampire Reform School Romance (Immortals of Talonswood #1)

Author: Alex Lidell

Release Date: May 1, 2020

Publisher: Danger Bearing Press 

Formats: Paperback, eBook

Pages: 400

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon, Kindle

Description:

Foster girl. Trash. That’s all I am to the world. And that’s fine. After surviving New Jersey’s foster system, I can survive anything. Even taking a dangerous job from a tall, gorgeous stranger so I can keep my little sister safe—a job that goes very, very wrong.

Suddenly I’m facing a brutal choice: a decade in jail or four years as a ward of Talonswood Reform Academy—a place with an all too perfect correction record. A place that makes bootcamp look like a spa.

But Talonswood and its cruel cadets are far more than they seem, and so are the four men who rule it. Ellis. Asher. Reese. Cassis. Powerful, impossibly beautiful men who ignite a wildfire inside me—and who will stop at nothing to make my life a living hell.

But it turns out I’m more than I seem, too. And I’m not going down without a fight.

LAST CHANCE ACADEMY is a full length dark reverse harem paranormal romance. This is the first of four books in Immortals of Talonswood, a new series from Amazon’s top-100 author Alex Lidell. With hot shifter-fae, delicious vampires, one lone witch, Talonswood isn't your normal reform school. 

Last Chance Academy is the first book in a New Adult reverse harem paranormal series that fans of the genre are going to want to check out. I've read a few of the author's other books and really enjoyed them, so I thought this would be the same. Unfortunately, it wasn't. I guess I wasn't expecting so much "romance" if you want to call it that and the reverse harem trope didn't work for me. I guess I was hoping for more paranormal/fantasy with witches, shifters, and vampires set at a reform/boarding school setting. That's not what this was, which is my fault completely for misunderstanding. 

Although it wasn't my cup of tea, it was well written with a great female main character, multiple love interests that were decently rounded, and a fun story line that the author put her own spin on. I don't read this genre, so I don't know how it compares to other books out there. The plot wasn't very original, in my opinion, and it felt like everything was skimped on just to get to the whole "romance" aspect of it. Please remember that this is my own personal opinion and doesn't reflect on the book or the writing itself. I'm sure that fans of this genre and type will enjoy it and should give it a shot - especially if they've read and enjoyed the author's other works.

Alex Lidell is the Amazon Breakout Novel Awards finalist author of THE CADET OF TILDOR (Penguin, 2013) and Amazon top 100 author and KDP-all star winner for POWER OF FIVE and LERA OF LUNOS (Danger Bearing Press, 2018). She is an avid horseback rider, a (bad) hockey player, and an ice-cream addict. Born in Russia, Alex learned English in elementary school, where a thoughtful librarian placed a copy of Tamora Pierce’s ALANNA in Alex’s hands. In addition to becoming the first English book Alex read for fun, ALANNA started Alex’s life long love for fantasy books with strong heroines. Alex lives in Washington, DC.

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Tour Schedule:

Week One:

4/27/2020	Triquetra Reviews	Excerpt
4/27/2020	Writer of Wrongs	Excerpt
4/28/2020	Mythical Books	Review
4/28/2020	BookHounds	Excerpt
4/29/2020	Book Briefs	Review
4/29/2020	Book Sniffers Anonymous	Excerpt
4/30/2020	Reading Under the Covers	Review
4/30/2020	Midwest Romantic	Excerpt
5/1/2020	Love in a time of Feminism	Review
5/1/2020	momfluenster	Excerpt

Week Two:

5/4/2020	Reese's Reviews	Review
5/4/2020	Books a Plenty Book Reviews	Review
5/5/2020	Journey in Bookland	Review
5/5/2020	Daily Waffle	Excerpt
5/6/2020	Eating Between The Lines	Review
5/6/2020	Two Chicks on Books	Excerpt
5/7/2020	Jaime's World	Excerpt
5/7/2020	A Dream Within A Dream	Review
5/8/2020	A Gingerly Review	Excerpt
5/8/2020	Books A-Brewin'	Review

Trial of Three Blog Tour: Excerpt + Giveaway

Trial of Three (Power of Five #3)
Author: Alex Lidell
Release Date: September 26, 2018
Publisher: Danger Bearing Press
Format: Paperback; ebook
Pages: 192

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon

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Description:

Four cords of power. Three trials. Two soul-crushing secrets.  

For Lera, training has never been so hard. With the males’ power roaring in her veins and River’s cold demand that she master the magic before the third trial, something has to give. Worse still, River is keeping something from her. Something about his past and Lunos’s future. 

For River and Coal, the past must stay buried. Though one male’s nightmare sits on a throne and the other’s hides in his soul, they are equally unprepared for Lera’s startling determination to undress the truth.  

But when Mors’s Emperor Jawrar makes a play for Lunos, neither Lera’s fledgling magic nor the males’ old wounds can remain untouched—not if their world is to survive. 

TRIAL OF THREE is a full-length reverse-harem fantasy novel, third in the Amazon bestselling, KU-All Star POWER OF FIVE series. 

Other Books in the Series:

MISTAKE OF MAGIC (Power Of Five #2) 

Author: Alex Lidell 

Release Date: June 29, 2018 

Publisher: Danger Bearing Press 

Formats: Paperback, eBook 

Pages: 193 

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon 

FREE ON KINDLE UNLIMITED!!! 

Three trials stand between Lera and exile. Unless the training kills her first. 

Quint magic has never chosen a human before, and the Elders Council is convinced Lera is a mistake.  

When the quint refuses to be cleaved apart, the enraged elders give them a choice: exile from Lunos or demotion to the lowest of trainees. Subject again to the humiliations and deadly trials they endured centuries ago, the males now face a new challenge—training Lera to survive.  

River, Shade, Coal, and Tye will do whatever it takes to keep Lera safe. But Lera will do whatever she must to keep them together—even if it means putting herself in mortal danger. 

POWER OF FIVE  (Power of Five #1)

Author: Alex Lidell 

Release Date: May 4, 2018 

Publisher: Danger Bearing Press 

Formats: Paperback, eBook 

Pages: 312 

Find it: Goodreads, Amazon 

FREE ON KINDLE UNLIMITED!!! 

Four elite fae warriors. One mortal female. A magical bond they can’t allow—or resist.  

Orphaned and sold to a harsh master, Lera’s life is about mucking stalls, avoiding her master’s advances, and steering clear of the mystical forest separating the mortal and fae worlds. Only fools venture into the immortal realms, and only dark rumors come out... Until four powerful fae warriors appear at Lera’s barn.  

River, Coal, Tye, and Shade have waited a decade for their new fifth to be chosen, the wounds from their quint brother’s loss still raw. But the magic has played a cruel trick, bonding the four immortal warriors to... a female. A mortal female.  

Distractingly beautiful and dangerously frail, Lera can only be one thing—a mistake. Yet as the males bring Lera back to the fae lands to sever the bond, they discover that she holds more power over their souls than is safe for anyone... especially for Lera herself.  

Power of Five is a full-length reverse-harem fantasy novel. 

River

“While I am offering confessions,” River says, his gray eyes flashing, focusing on mine with thunderous intensity. “There is one other lie that I feel the need to correct.” Without waiting for a response, River lowers his mouth to mine, his fresh scent drifting around my body in a caress. As one warm palm moves to cup the back of my head, his tongue opens my lips.

I gasp as River claims my mouth, pressing into me so thoroughly that I feel the pounding of his heart echo through my flesh. His tongue dances and twists against mine, marking its territory with a visceral need that leaves no room for doubt of what he wants. Of how much he wants it.

My heart jumps. I press back against River’s kiss, the pressure of his lips waking my body, pulling a moan from me before I can stop it. River growls against my mouth, the hand on the back of my head tangling in my hair until I can no more escape his kiss than I can give up breathing.

And stars, I do not want to escape it. Not with my thighs tingling, an ache starting low in my belly. When River pulls away, leaving my lips swollen and empty, my breath hitches from the loss. “What was”—I struggle to remember the start of this conversation—“what was the other lie?”

“When I asked to couple with you,” River says quietly. “I said I wanted you for prudence’s sake. That wasn’t true.” He leans down, biting my lip and groaning softly at my gasp of arousal. His hardness presses into me. “I want you because I want you. And I want to prove it.”

Alex Lidell is the Amazon Breakout Novel Awards finalist author of THE CADET OF TILDOR (Penguin, 2013). She is an avid horseback rider, a (bad) hockey player, and an ice-cream addict. Born in Russia, Alex learned English in elementary school, where a thoughtful librarian placed a copy of Tamora Pierce’s ALANNA in Alex’s hands. In addition to becoming the first English book Alex read for fun, ALANNA started Alex’s life long love for YA fantasy books. Alex is represented by Leigh Feldman of Leigh Feldman Literary. She lives in Washington, DC.

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(1) winner will win a $10 Amazon GC - Open Internationally!

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Tour Schedule: 

Week One: 

9/24/2018- Bookbriefs- Review 

9/24/2018- Writer of Wrongs- Excerpt 

  

9/25/2018- Books a Plenty Book Reviews- Review 

9/25/2018- Mythical Books- Spotlight 

  

9/26/2018- Bri's Book Nook- Review 

9/26/2018- A Dream Within A Dream- Excerpt 

  

9/27/2018- WhyChoose- Review 

9/27/2018- Smada's Book Smack- Excerpt 

  

9/28/2018- Ace Reads- Excerpt 

9/28/2018- Oh Hey! Books.- Excerpt 

  

Week Two: 

10/1/2018- Reese's Reviews- Review 

10/1/2018- Two Chicks on Books- Excerpt 

  

10/2/2018- Love in a time of Feminism- Review 

10/2/2018- Jaime's World- Excerpt 

  

10/3/2018- My Mundane Life- Excerpt 

10/3/2018- Parajunkee- Review 

  

10/4/2018- BookHounds- Excerpt 

10/4/2018- Patriotic Bookaholic- Excerpt 

  

10/5/2018- Book-Keeping- Review 

10/5/2018- Don't Judge, Read- Excerpt