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I just read Frigid a few weeks ago and I absolutely loved it!! Kyler was so swoon-worthy and Syd was his perfect match!
Today I have Kyler here for a question as part of the blog tour.

12. Ever have those superhero fantasies? What superhero do you wish you could be, even for only one day? Why that hero and those powers?
I think I would be Thor. Not only is he a god who wields a hammer and can kick everyone’s ass with his bare hands, he also gets to hook up with Natalie Portman in the movie. I think I’d be okay with that.

You can check out a video of ALL of Kyler's questions he was asked by visiting StuckInBooks tomorrow, 7/26
http://stuckinbooks.com

Frigid by Janenifer. L. Armentrout Published: July 15th, 2013 (Spencer Hill Press) Reading Level: New Adult For twenty-one-year-old Sydney, being in love with Kyler isn't anything new. They'd been best friends ever since he pushed her down on the playground and she made him eat a mud pie. Somewhere over the years, she fell for him and fell hard. The big problem with that? Kyler puts the 'man' in man-whore. He's never stayed with a girl longer than a few nights, and with it being their last year in college, Syd doesn't want to risk their friendship by declaring her love.

Kyler has always put Syd on a pedestal that was too high for him to reach. To him, she's perfect and she's everything. But the feelings he has for her, he's always hidden away or focused on any other female. After all, Kyler will always be the poor boy from the wrong side of tracks, and Syd will always be the one girl he can never have.

But when they're stranded together at a posh ski resort due to a massive Nor'easter, there's nothing stopping their red-hot feelings for each other from coming to the surface. Can their friendship survive the attraction? Better yet, can they survive at all? Because as the snow falls, someone is stalking them, and this ski trip may be a life-changer in more ways than one.

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Author bio:

# 1 New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author Janenifer L. Armentrout (aka J. Lynn) Lives in West Virginia.

All the rumors you heard about her state aren’t true.

Well, mostly. When she's not hard at work writing, she spends her time, reading, working out, watching zombie movies, and pretending to write.

She is the author of the Covenant Series (Spencer Hill Press), the Lux Series (Entangled Teen), Don't Look Back (Disney/Hyperion) and a yet untitled novel (Disney/Hyperion), and new YA paranormal series with Harlequin Teen.

Jennifer also writes New Adult and Adult romance under the pen name J. Lynn. The Gamble Brothers Series (Tempting the Best Man/Tempting the Player) and Wait for You. Under her pen name, she is published with Entangled Brazen and HarperCollins.

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/JLArmentrout

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Website: http://www.jenniferarmentrout.com/

Blog: http://www.jenniferarmentrout.com/blog/

Buy Links:

Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Frigid-J-Lynn/dp/1939392756

B&N: http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/frigid-j-lynn/1114986686?ean=9781939392756

The Book Depository: http://www.bookdepository.com/Frigid-Lynn/9781939392756

The New Year Book Buying ban is officially over.
On Wednesday I heard that my favorite used book, cd, game, and dvd store, The Last Stop CD Shop, was having a 1/2 off sale on Saturday. On Friday, Button and I went in to town and scouted out what books we were going "fight" for. And finally on Saturday we arrived 45 minutes early and to our complete surprise there was a line about 100 people deep!

But, all hope was not lost; we figured the majority of the people in line were there for dvds, games, cds, etc and we were right... for the most part.

After waiting in the frigid cold we were let in. I ran downstairs to the games quick to get Sonic Colors for Wii ($20), which I can't believe I scored, before heading upstairs to the YA section. When I got to the YA books my friend Button trying to get around two women (a mother and daughter). These two "hard core" shoppers were, I'll say it, completely rude. They stood right in front of the shelves and so close to the shelves that no one could even grab another book. So Button and I worked around them to the best of our ability.

But these two came with their big boy pants on. Not only did they have a list, but they had a no mercy attitude as well: "Do you have this, did you grab that, what about those, do we need this?" They absolutely went to town on those shelves. I'm not upset because they did indeed arrive before we did and that's how shopping works (first come first served); I'm upset because of their attitude and behavior. It completely ruined the "fun" of this bargain day. Now if there were twelve or thirty other shoppers looking at the YA section, then by all means you need to do what you need to do. But really? It was just us four? Can't we just relax a bit?

At one point Button kept saying "excuse me, excuse me" to try to grab a book that they were directly in front of. They didn't budge a bit so Button unnecessarily "squeezed" her way in. I took a different approach and tried the "kill them with kindness" bit: the mother said to the daughter, "Did you grab Nightshade?" and I noticed that I was standing directly in front of it so I took it out and said, "Oh, here it is." The woman looked at me peculiarly before taking the book from me and said, "Oh, thanks."

That's all it takes — just a bit of courtesy. I was surprised to see this kind of cutthroat behavior in South Dakota — the "mine" and "me first" — it's an attitude I expect to see in NYC at BEA (and I won't lie, I put my big boy pants on then too). That cutthroat attitude, I won't say ruined, but definitely added stress to the day and is the same attitude that sometimes appears in the blogging atmosphere. The need to be first, the need to out do everyone, the need to read the most ARCs, or the newest releases so fast that you can get a review out before everyone else.

It's not necessary.

Just relax: enjoy the book, and enjoy the community.

Oh, but you're curious as to the books I brought home? You'll have to wait a week for my IMM next Saturday.:) I will say this: the only book that I had scouted that I didn't score was Lisa McMann's "Fade" — the book I wanted most! Oh the irony!

Happy Sunday everyone!

Whisper of Light Excerpt
by
Jennifer DeLucy

Nothing makes you look over your shoulder more than talk of a hag in your house. The laundry room, the piano room, any space that would normally be dark at night would stay fully lit this evening. It would be hard to fall asleep with all the lights on, but honestly, it wasn’t not like we’d be all that relaxed anyway.
Adalia was no slouch. She suspected more was happening than we’d let on. She only had to look at the facts. We’d known something had followed her here from the very first night she’d arrived, yet now we were sounding the alarms?

“How come we can’t turn the lights off?” Adalia observed, staring at the floor lamp in the corner.
“We’re just playing it safe, honey. Just in case,” I said.
“In case what?” I sighed. This kid was persistent. “In case our visitor is feeling mischievous.”
“Like how? Are we talking blanket stealing mischievous? Cuz I’ve had that happen already.”
“Well, let’s not worry about it too much. Just try and get some sleep, okay?”
“Okay.” She rolled over on the couch, pulling the blanket closer around her.
I looked at Gil, and he shared my worried expression. We’d already spent two nights with a hag in the house and she hadn’t done anything yet, but she’d decided to show herself to Adalia tonight, so she’d probably been biding time, maybe to feel out the competition.
We took turns nodding off, me two hours, Gil two hours, and after Gil woke me from my first round of sleep, I dragged myself up from the air mattress and blinked blearily. The DVD player read 2:46 a.m.
“I need to use the bathroom,” I said. “Spot me two minutes?”
“No prob.”
Shuffling across the kitchen and into the laundry room, I rounded the corner to the half-bath and shut the door behind me. There was a poorly insulated window to the right of the toilet, and the room’s position in the house always made it so damned cold compared to the rest of the downstairs—especially the toilet seat. Pleasant.
After I’d completed the task, I glared at the mirror on the wall. Any time you watched a movie with ghosts in it, they always appeared in a mirror, and that wasn’t so far from the truth. Ghosts did love mirrors, but not because of the added dramatic effect. Actually, Laura said that spirits were attracted to reflective surfaces, mainly because they couldn’t see themselves in it, and the phenomenon fascinated them. Humans could sometimes spot a spirit in glass or water, but the spirit itself could not, because the very definition of a lingering astral meant that they never fully acknowledged what they were.
So I approached the mirror with some trepidation, half-scolding myself for being a sissy.
Standing bravely in front of it, I was met with the most horrific vision mankind could ever behold—myself. My hair was insane, my eyes were droopy, my skin washed out. Good grief, I needed to start using facial cream, pronto. But other than that and the window behind me, the coast was clear.
I snorted, turning around to leave, and was immediately nailed to the floor in frigid shock at the sight of a face—the menacing, nearly lunatic expression of a haggard old woman smiling at me from outside the window. My words caught in my throat as I tried to call for Gil. The look of her was grotesque, with absolutely corpse-like skin, deep gray, sunken flesh beneath her eyes, filthy teeth. The worst were those eyes. They glowed a putrid green, with tendrils of red that spidered along their whites. As I stood there she laughed, low and sinister, and though she was outside of the window, I knew she could be beside me, before me, behind me, at any moment she wished.
Finally, I said the first thing that came to me. “Get the hell away from us, you bitch!”
Redirecting one’s feelings into anger wasn’t always a healthy way to deal with fear, but it worked just dandy this time, thank you very much. I had no idea if the tactic had made the tiniest difference to the hag, but it had given me the clarity to run the hell out of the bathroom and call for Gil. I was grateful that I’d been breathless with fear when I did, since the sound wasn’t likely to wake the others while still getting Gil’s attention.
Flying into the kitchen, he caught me as my knees gave way. “Hey, Nicky. What the hell?”
“She was outside the bathroom,” I said, still unable to control the full body trembling. “She was outside the window. The bathroom… ”
“Jesus.” He pulled a chair out from the table and led me to it, then darted off to the bathroom to have a look. I steadied my breaths, still fast in tandem with the beating of my heart. I was more terrified than I’d been in years. I’d never seen anything so creepy before, and I was praying to every deity known to man that I’d never see it again.

Circle of Light by Janenifer DeLucy
Publisher: Omnific Publishing (October 9th, 2012)
Reading Level: Young Adult
Paperback
Series: Light, #3
Empath and Pathcrosser to the dead, Lillian Hunt has finally come into her own as a Sentient being. All seems well in her brave new world… that is, until a tragic turn sends her tight knit Sentient group on a rescue mission through lore-infested Europe. Their goal is to save the love of Lily's life—vampire Sentient, William Maddox — from both the prejudice of their own society and the dark intentions of ancient vampires. But how will they keep hope alive, even as time runs out?

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• You must be at least 13 to enter.
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• Contest is US Only and ends November 17th.
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