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Thursday, December 10, 2020

✯Release Review✯ Far from Lost (Far Series #3) by Kate L. Mary

 

Title: Far from Lost
Author: Kate L Mary
Genre: Post-Apocalyptic
Publisher: Twisted Press
Publication Date: December 7th, 2020
Hosted by: Lady Amber’s PR

Blurb:

How far would you go to save what you thought you’d lost during the apocalypse?

 

After learning her father is alive, going with Heath had seemed like a no-brainer to Rowan. Her dad was all she had left, after all. The only remaining piece of the life she’d loved so much. But their reunion doesn’t go quite the way she expected it to, and Rowan finds herself alone and uncertain, making her wish she’d taken the time to think things through before making a decision that might cost her so much.

 

Kiaya has always been logical and resourceful, and she’s confident if she and Devon work together, they’ll be able to figure out a way to get Rowan back. But there’s trouble brewing in the group, making Kiaya question who she can trust. Even worse, she can’t help wondering if staying at the school is the right decision at all.

 

Between the zombies walking the earth, the wildfire that shows no signs of stopping, and dangerous survivors lurking both in town and in their very own halls, it feels like the whole world is out to get them. Still, Kiaya is determined to not only save Rowan, but to also figure out a way to keep everyone she cares about safe.


✯✯5 Rowan & Kiaya Filled Stars!✯✯


Wow finally!!! 
Far from Safe ended with a cliffhanger that had me cursing at the author. That’s not new bc she likes to end things with you on the edge of your seat and looking for the next book to release. 


We legit pick up in the same place that we left off but..... I love the author gives you the last book two recap from Kiaya’s POV!!! I’d been wanting inside her and Devon’s mind since the very beginning.  


Rowan has been taken by Heath and his goons and they’re headed back to the hospital when Rowan’s dad is. Kiaya, Devon and Gabe are headed back to the school. Both Rowan and Kiaya are wondering wtf is next. 


Rowan is known for acting on her emotions and not thinking ahead and getting her and her friends into situations that end with them fighting for their lives and this is no different. But, this time Rowan realizes she needs to stop doing that and she needs to start thinking things thru more carefully and logically like Kiaya. 


Getting to the hospital Rowan sees their setup is amazing but Heath is running it like it’s his way or the highway. Instead of being allowed to see her father she’s getting a shock collar put on her neck and put into a room for probation. 


Rowan won’t tell Heath where Gabe and her friends are staying. She sees death and revenge in his eyes and she won’t be a part of it. Regardless of the world they’re living in. 


Kiaya and Devon must think of a way to get Rowan back. Kiaya knows it won’t be easy since Gabe doesn’t listen very well to what she has to say. 


When Lane gets hurt Kiaya knows she’s gotta take her to the hospital. Gabe doesn’t think it’s a good idea since Lane’s ex is Heath and he wants both Lane and Gabe dead. 


But, if they could get Lane help and get closer to getting Rowan back with them that’s a chance everyone is willing to take.  


This book was mind blowing!! Kiaya, Rowan, Devon and the rest of their group didn’t have to fight as many zombies as the first two books but don’t be mistaken. In this new world where they’re surrounded by zombies and there’s no cops people are acting out and there’s nobody to stop them. 


These friends will do everything to get back together but what happens when they realize they’ve been traveling with a monster this entire time. Plus they know they’ve made enemies that aren’t going to just disappear. ESP in this new world. 


This is one storyline and characters I’m loving and that I not only want more but I need more of so Kate L Mary I need you to hurry up asks write the next part of their story. 



Kate L. Mary is an award-winning author of New Adult and Young Adult fiction, ranging from Post-apocalyptic tales of the undead, to Speculative Fiction and Contemporary Romance. Her YA book, When We Were Human, was the 2015 Children's Moonbeam Book Awards Silver Medal Winner for Young Adult Fantasy/Sci-Fi Fiction, and the 2016 Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Winner for Young Adult Science Fiction, and her dystopian novel, Outliers, was a Top 10 Finalist in the 2018 Author Academy Awards for Sci-Fi/Fantasy, and the Winner in the 2018 Kindle Book Awards for Sci-Fi/Fantasy.

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Friday, August 21, 2020

✯Release Review✯Far from Safe (Far Series, #2) by Kate L. Mary

Title: Far from Safe
Author: Kate L Mary
Genre: Post-Apocalyptic
Publisher: Twisted Press
Publication Date: August 7th, 2020
Hosted by: Lady Amber’s PR
Blurb:
After traveling the country in hopes of reaching the sanctuary of home, Rowan finds herself in a world turned upside down. Her parents are gone, and she’s surrounded by people she barely knows, and the only refuge she’s ever known is anything but safe. Zombies have taken over not just her hometown, but the rest of the world as well, and now she must work with fellow survivors, Devon and Kiaya, to find a way to survive this strange new world.
Too bad the extinction of civilization hasn’t erased the complications of everyday life. Between learning to survive in a world overtaken by the dead and struggling to work through her grief over losing everything, Rowan must navigate her growing attraction for Devon, as well as deal with her suspicion that something isn’t right with some of their fellow survivors.
Just when she thinks she has a hold on the emotional rollercoaster of this new world, someone from her past makes a surprise – and unwanted – reentry into her life, bringing with them a seed of hope that threatens to once again flip everything upside down.


✯✯5 Unsafe Action Filled Stars!!!✯✯


Well, Kate L. Mary you’ve done it to me again!! I’m sitting here again speechless after finishing Far From Safe. I thought I was speechless when Far From Home ended but I was even more so mind blown this time around. 


If you haven’t read Far From Home then stop and go back and read it before you open this book. This isn’t a standalone and can’t be as one!!


We pick up exactly where we left off. Rowan has finally made it home and in time to see her poor mom walking down the block with the rest of the neighbors who’ve all passed and are now zombies. With no word from her father in weeks, Rowan is positive he passed away while working at the hospital. She’s lost her parents and is devastated but she must keep going or she won’t make it. 


Rowan, Devon, Kiaya, Lisa and Buck must figure out what’s next for them. Bc, it’s not just themselves they gotta look out for. As much as Rowan wants to stay locked up in her childhood home and hide, they’re running low on supplies and not hidden away safely and there’s zombies surrounding them. 


The group comes up with a good starting plan. Check out Rowan’s neighbors houses for two things 1-survivors and 2-supplies. Grab as much as possible that they can use. Then, head to the stores and stock up on everything else. Afterwards, they gotta figure out where they can go to that’ll keep their group together and safe. Rowan has one other thing on her list of things to do: bury her mom but she’s keeping that to herself for now. 


Things definitely aren’t easy in times like this. You gotta be on guard 110% of the time.  BC, at any minute a zombie can pop up outta nowhere and attack. Then there’s the chance you bump into somebody who’s not dead but they’re far from a good person. 


While out on a supply run they come across zombies but when they do bump into humans Rowan was shocked she knew one of the living. It was her ex Doug and Rowan definitely wasn’t happy to see him. She was glad he wasn’t dead but didn’t wanna see him lol. 


When Doug and his crew invite Rowan and her friends to join them at the school they’re at none of them are totally sure it’s the right decision. They know it’s safer then where they’re at now. When they get there they’re even more unsure them before. Before they can really figure out their next choice they find themselves in real trouble and Rowan throws herself head first into the lions den with some dangerous lions. 


I felt so many emotions reading this. My heart pounded so many times. I kept hoping and praying nothing happened to Rowan, Devon, Kiaya and Lisa every time they left the house.  


Miller is still a tool. He’s a complete jerk and my gut is telling me he’s lying about who he really is. Never really had an issue with Hank before but now I’m getting creeper vibes of him. 


I liked Buck from the beginning. But, now he’s showing another side to him and I wasn’t sure how it was gunna turn into. When he told Rowan his story and what made him into what he was OMG I was laying in bed crying and feeling for him and didn’t blame him. 


Now we have Doug back in Rowan’s life. I totally 100% understood why she felt the way she did towards him. Shoot I have some ex’s who have done me wrong so I get it. I don’t know how it’s gunna be with him yet. But, he seems like a good guy. He proved himself with a few things so far that chipped a few notches in his favor. 


When I read Rowan’s moms letter I was legit bawling right along next to Rowan. I don’t know  if I would’ve survived after reading a letter like that from my mom. I’m just saying. 


I’m excited for the next book after the explosive cliffhanging ending!! I’m gunna need Devon and Doug to man up, team together and put their heads together and get Rowan outta the horrible mess she got herself into. Please guys!!

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Far from Safe: https://amzn.to/3gAD8mW

Kate L. Mary is an award-winning author of New Adult and Young Adult fiction, ranging from Post-apocalyptic tales of the undead, to Speculative Fiction and Contemporary Romance. Her YA book, When We Were Human, was the 2015 Children's Moonbeam Book Awards Silver Medal Winner for Young Adult Fantasy/Sci-Fi Fiction, and the 2016 Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Winner for Young Adult Science Fiction, and her dystopian novel, Outliers, was a Top 10 Finalist in the 2018 Author Academy Awards for Sci-Fi/Fantasy, and the Winner in the 2018 Kindle Book Awards for Sci-Fi/Fantasy.

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Friday, January 3, 2020

✯Release Review✯Far from Home (Far Series #1) by Kate L. Mary

Title: Far From Home
Author: Kate L Mary
Genre: Post-Apocalyptic Zombie
Publication Date: January 3rd, 2020
Hosted by: Lady Amber’s PR
Blurb:
How far would you go to survive the apocalypse?
As the only child in an upper-middle class family, Rowan has had it easy. Doted on by a mother who never wanted anything but a child to love, she's never wanted for anything. Kiaya’s life, however, has been anything but easy. Parents who didn’t want her, followed by being torn away from her only sibling by the foster care system, she knows what it means to have to work hard for the things she wants.
When a deadly virus sweeps the country, Rowan and Kiaya are away at college and far from everything they love. Desperate to make it home, they team up, but as the world around them dies, an unexpected detour leaves them stranded in Vega, Texas where they make a shocking discovery. The virus isn’t just killing people. It’s changing them.
When former cop, Devon, sweeps in to save the day, it looks like their luck has shifted. With hundreds of miles left to cross and the dead taking over, the trio is determined to do whatever it takes to get home. Traveling historic Route 66, Rowan, Kiaya, and Devon fight for survival as they struggle to come to terms with their changing world.


✯✯5 Zombie Filled Stars!!!✯✯

Woohoo Kate L. Mary is headed back into the zombie apocalypse world!!! I read her Oklahoma Wastelands and I’m kicking myself for not knowing about her Broken World Series until after it was finished. 

Rowan is away for college. She was adopted and her parents are very involved in her life, ESP her mom. Which is why she chose a college so far away. 

There’s a deadly virus spreading across the U.S and people are dropping like flies. Rowan just wants to go home and be with her parents even though they’ve told her to stay there bc it’s safer. Rowan decides to take matters into her own hands. 

Rowan gets cleared for traveling. Then she meets Kiaya and Kyle and together they start their travel home.  Kiaya’s very quiet and Kyle seems to be the talkative one. Until he starts getting sick and they’re forced to pullover in Vega, Texas and get a hotel room. 

Almost instantly Rowan meets Devon and she def doesn’t want anything to do with him. Rowan and Kiaya take turns looking after Kyle until he passes away. 

Rowan gets some helpful information from a stranger and it gets her thinking things are definitely going to get worse before they get better. It’s a matter of survival of the fittest. 

Before they can gather supplies and get outta there they learn the dead are coming back from the dead as zombies. Luckily for them Devon was there just in time. 

They’re three strangers trying to survive. They agree to travel together. The plan is go get Kiaya’s younger sister and go to Rowan’s house and then they’ll figure out what’s next afterwards. 

Getting to the endpoint is proving harder then they ever thought possible. Who can they trust on their travels. 

OMG!!! I’ve read a decent amount of apocalypse and zombie books. Every book it’s happened awhile ago, some their entire lives. This is entirely different then every book I’ve read!! 

You see the first zombies along with Kiaya and Rowan. See how they go from doing things by the book to “stealing” supplies. Learning just how to survive and to trust complete strangers. 

Kate L. Mary did such an amazing job writing this story. She has such an amazing way of writing that you find yourself wanting to be friends with the characters. Which is crazy bc they’re fighting zombies but Kate’s just that good of an author. 


 I read it in one day bc I was hooked from page one to the ending. By the last chapter I was crying right along with Rowan. I’m invested in Kiaya, Devon, Rowan and their friends getting their HEA. I hope book two releases soon bc I’m dying to know what happens next. 
Kate L. Mary is an award-winning author of Adult, New Adult, and Young Adult fiction, ranging from Post-apocalyptic tales of the undead to Speculative Fiction and Contemporary Romance! Her YA book, When We Were Human, was a 2015 Children’s Moonbeam Book Awards Silver Medal winner for Young Adult Fantasy/Sci-Fi Fiction, and a 2016 Readers’ Favorite Gold Medal winner for Young Adult Science Fiction. Her book, Outliers, was a Top 10 Finalist in the 2018 Author Academy Awards for Sci-Fi/Fantasy Fiction, and a First Place Winner in the 2018 Kindle Book Awards for Sci-Fi/Fantasy Fiction.

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Thursday, March 28, 2019

✯Tour Review✯The Brightest Darkness: A Post-Apocalyptic Zombie Novel (Oklahoma Wastelands #2)by Kate L. Mary

Title: The Brightest Darkness
Author: Kate L Mary
Genre: Post-Apocalyptic/Zombie
Publisher: Twisted Press
Editor: Lori Whitwam
Publication Date: March 18th, 2019
Hosted by: Lady Amber’s PR
Blurb:
There was something evil living in Andrew. I’d seen it in his eyes, reflecting back at me like a spotlight. It was the brightest darkness I’d ever seen, bright enough to snuff every one of us out…
Still reeling from loss, Kellan and Regan set out to rescue Harper from Andrew and his men. Only now they aren’t just fighting to free a teenage girl, they’re fighting to keep a promise to the man who saved them, knowing if they fail, Harper won’t be the only one at risk.
Joining forces with a new group means having help and making friends, but it also brings new conflict and the risk of losing everything they’ve worked to build over the last night years. With zombies banging at their door and the threat of danger around every corner, Regan and Kellan will have to fight to keep their world secure and their secret from getting out.


✯✯5 Unpredictable Stars!!!✯✯


Oh Kate, Kate, Kate L. Mary!!! What’re you doing to me?!?! She writes such badass characters that I’m hooked instantly when I start a book of hers. Let me just start by saying I’m not a zombie lover(def don’t watch TWD) and yet I’m hooked on this series. Not many authors can do that. 

We pick up where book one left off. Andrew has gotten Harper back and planning on turning her over because she’s immune. Regan and Kellan feel horrible about it so they make a plan to get her back. 

Afterwards they run into bad weather and sinkholes. They run into a familiar stranger named Bill. Bill takes them back to the airplane hanger he calls home. Regan and Kellan can’t believe how many people live there and the stories of how they got there. Regan and Kellan invite Bill and his group to comeback and stay with them in their compound.  

Once everybody is moved into the compound emotions and tension are running high. They have to stay indoors and only certain people can go outside Incase Andrew’s watching them. Bill’s number one guy Ernie doesn’t like how their group does things and def don’t like how Kellan tends to be in charge. He’s doing whatever he can to overthrow things. 

Kellan and Regan finally give into their true feelings for each other. They both learn how long they’ve been hiding their feelings for each other. These two have been in each other’s lives wayyyyy before the apocalypse hit. They can’t live without each other. It’s like they can’t breathe when the other one isn’t around and bc of that they didn’t want to say they were feeling more than friendship bc they were afraid they’d loose the other one. 

I’m not giving anything else away bc there’s SOOOO much more that’s going on. In this world it’s not only the zombies you have to be afraid of, it’s also the people who sleep next to you at night. There’s very few people Regan and Kellan can trust with their lives, secrets and everything else in between.  


After the way this book ended  I’m dying to get the next one. One of the many many reasons why Kate L. Mary is one of my favorite authors is bc she writes stories that are original, the characters are badass and they’re so unpredictable. Whenever I try to think what’ll happen or how it’s going to end... Boom!! She’ll take the book out of your hand and smack you upside your head. She’s THAT good!! So, hurry up with the next part of Regan And Kellan’s story.

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Kate L. Mary is an award-winning author of New Adult and Young Adult fiction, ranging from Post-apocalyptic tales of the undead, to Speculative Fiction and Contemporary Romance. Her YA book, When We Were Human, was the 2015 Children's Moonbeam Book Awards Silver Medal Winner for Young Adult Fantasy/Sci-Fi Fiction, and the 2016 Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Winner for Young Adult Science Fiction, and her dystopian novel, Outliers, was a Top 10 Finalist in the 2018 Author Academy Awards for Sci-Fi/Fantasy, and the Winner in the 2018 Kindle Book Awards for Sci-Fi/Fantasy.
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Thursday, January 10, 2019

✯Release Review✯Tribe of Daughters by Kate L.Mary

Title: Tribe of Daughters
Author: Kate L Mary
Genre: Adult Dystopian
Publisher: Twisted Press
Editor: Lori Whitwam
Publication Date: January 3rd, 2018 Hosted by: Lady Amber’s PR
Blurb:
For the past seventy years, deep in the mountains and totally secluded from civilization, a matriarchal society has thrived. In this small village there are no brothers, no fathers, no sons. In this village men exist only to serve the women, and boys have no mothers. In this village men do as they are told and defiance is severely punished.
This is the only Life Wilderness has ever known, but when Jameson is brought in from the outside to be her husband, everything she thought she knew about strength and love is tested. As they struggle to find their place in the village, they suddenly find themselves face to face with outsiders who threaten to destroy everything they love, and it doesn’t take long to realize that they will have to work together, men and women alike, if they want to survive.


✯✯4 Wild Jameson Filled Stars!!! ✯✯

Talk about crazy!!! If you’re looking for a book with a storyline that you’ve never read before, then stop because Tribe of Daughters is that book.  

Women are on top of the food chain in this village. When the plague hit seventy years ago life as everyone knew was over. 

Wilderness’s ancestors were held against their will and were beaten, tortured and everything else you can imagine. When they were able to escape they moved into the mountains secluded and have survived since. They swore to never let a man hurt them again. 

The women and men live separate from each other in this village. Men are used for certain things. They’re not allowed in the women’s part without permission. These women will do anything to stay strong. 

In order to keep strong they don’t crossbreed. Once every five years the warriors go out and bring back a few strong, healthy men to be wed by the next set of women. 

The women of this tribes job is to give birth to the next generation of strong women. If they give birth to boys they keep them until they can be weened and then sent to live with the other men. But, they’re not called man, son or brother. If they’re born there in the village they’re known as yielding and if they’re an outsider they’re a foundling. 

Wilderness is getting her husband at this gleaning. Wilderness has a lot on her shoulders. Wilderness is the next High Elder after her mom Raven. Like Wilderness, her mom married a foundling, Zachariah. Like Raven, Wilderness will be expected to teach her husband the ways of their village. 

Jameson went from sleeping in his tent to being captured and brought to a village where the women are in charge. He can’t believe the men agree to living this way. Jameson finds solace in Zachariah who was also an outsider AKA foundling. Jameson doesn’t know how Zachariah lives with his children not knowing exactly who he is to them. The other guys that were brought in with Jameson will do anything to get away. But, Jameson isn’t so sure. 

This is still new for Jameson and Wilderness. Unlike the other women Wilderness wants to be around Jameson all the time. He starts to open her eyes to things other then what she’d grown up being taught.  Things that the other wives do Wilderness doesn’t agree with.  

Once Wilderness and Jameson were married everything the women and men in this village knew and lived by were about to change. Everything was about to either get really bad for everybody or change them for the better. 

Wilderness I really liked from the beginning. She wasn’t afraid to listen to her gut when it came to Jameson. I just wished she spoke up to her mom more often. 

Jameson I loved!!! He knew what the women were doing was wrong but he understood why they were the way they were. He spoke to Wilderness and showed her things could be so different. He knew he was in love with her and he knew when they had their own children he couldn’t standby and pretend they didn’t mean anything to him. But, for Wilderness he’d do anything she’d wanted. 


This is unlike anything I’ve ever read and I read a lot! Kate L. Mary is an author I love to read bc everything she writes is different and so entertaining I don’t want to put my kindle down. I’m looking forward to her next release!
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Kate L. Mary is an award-winning author of New Adult and Young Adult fiction, ranging from Post-apocalyptic tales of the undead, to Speculative Fiction and Contemporary Romance. Her YA book, When We Were Human, was the 2015 Children's Moonbeam Book Awards Silver Medal Winner for Young Adult Fantasy/Sci-Fi Fiction, and the 2016 Readers' Favorite Gold Medal Winner for Young Adult Science Fiction.
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