Showing posts with label the trouble with spells. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the trouble with spells. Show all posts

Tuesday, 19 April 2011

Blog Tour: The Trouble With Spells by Lacey Weatherford

Guest Post: Vance Meet & Greet with the Fans!


Hey everyone, Vance here.

First off, I would like to thank you all for your overwhelming support. It’s nice to be appreciated by so many, despite all my flaws. I personally fail to see what the big draw is for all you ladies, but if you feel the need to have your little “Vance fests” over me then who am I to stop you? Carry on and enjoy yourselves. I don’t mind. (Flashes a sexy grin)

I do have to say that some of you seem pretty feisty, which is kind of fun to watch if I’m being truthful. However, that being said, there are a few things I should probably mention.

First off, to the wonderful lady who keeps contacting me, thank you so much for loving me, for promoting me, and for all the emails and tweets, but girl, as fun as I’m sure it would be, I don’t think Portia would appreciate it if I tried to help you have a baby. But thank you so much for considering me worthy to add to your gene pool. (gives a wink)

To the fun group of gals from overseas, yes I am a healer, and while I would be honored to hop on a plane and come use my powers to help you out when needed, I do not serve comfort food shirtless, or cuddle up in thick blankets with my “patients” to warm them back to health. (chuckles a bit) Nor do I do not spoon feed, or nurse in any capacity. I’ll just lay my hands on your skin and get the deed done real quickly. (shakes head) Wow! That sounded really bad! I just totally emasculated myself.

(A female voice with a Scottish accent cat calls from the audience: “Take your shirt off!” Vance surprises everyone when he happily obliges with a giant smile, cocking that sexy eyebrow at the crowd while he does a couple of flexes much to the delight of swooning women everywhere! He laughs out loud at the response and puts his shirt back on to dismayed boos from the fans! He just grins and brushes them off with a hand and continues.)

You liked that did you? Well then you can join me in this little rant to my dear author when I say “What gives, Lacey?” While I appreciate you have written me to be uber hot and sexy, what does a guy have to do to catch a break with you? Why don’t you come over here sweetheart and let me make out with you for a bit. When I finally get you all hot and bothered we’ll just suddenly change up the scene or fade to black! That’s so not right to leave me hanging like that all the time! Let a guy have a little fun once in a while! (He grins as crowd cheers again.) See! The women want it too! (He nods to them appreciatively.) You gals are great! I hope you all have some lucky guy in your life who appreciates you!

For anyone else I may have missed I truly enjoy your attention and strive to be worthy of it. It’s been a lot of fun to get to read your comments and remarks about me throughout this tour, but I’ve got to go now. My baby’s waiting for me to tuck her into bed and that’s and appointment I never miss.

Goodnight ladies. Sweet dreams.


~Vance Mangum, Of Witches and Warlocks~


Lacey Weatherford has always had a love of books. She wanted to become a writer after reading her first Nancy Drew novel at the age of eight. She resides in the White Mountains of Arizona , where she lives with her wonderful husband, six beautiful children, one son-in-law and their energetic schnauzer, Sophie. When she's not out supporting one of her kids at their sporting/music events, she spends her time writing, reading, blogging, and reviewing books.

We want to reward all the wonderful followers of this blog tour, so what better way to do that than to give away a free Kindle and Of Witches and Warlocks Swag! Being entered to win is easy! All you have to do is follow the tour each day and search for the highlighted words in the post. There may be only one word on some days or two or more on others, so be sure to read the whole post. They could be anywhere…even in this description! Keep collecting the words each day to build a certain phrase. At the end of the tour on April 22nd, bring your completed phrase to The Delusional Diaries and submit it into the form to be entered into the Kindle drawing! Did you miss a day? No worries! Just follow the linky list on The Delusional Diaries to the post for that day and search for it. After you have submitted the special phrase, add up all the times you commented on the different posts during the tour and add that number for extra entries! Lots of chances! So come join in the FUN!

Review: The Trouble With Spells by Lacey Weatherford (Blog Tour)


The Trouble With Spells by Lacey Weatherford
(Of Witches And Warlocks #1)
4 out of 5 stars

Published by Global Authors Publications
Received a review copy from the author
Blog tour hosted by The Bookish Snob Promotions

First, I would like to thank Lacey, for the wonderful tour! I hope she enjoyed it as much as I did (;

Now, as for the book. I really enjoyed reading about the magical human kind of powers again. After all those werewolves and vampires, it's nice to read about the grandma with a coven hiding in her basement. Who wouldn't want such a grandma?

When Portia turns sixteen, she learns that she has magical powers. Together with her grandma and father she is in a coven, where she discovers that Vince, the hottest guy in school, is a warlock. They fall in a love so strong they can't even stand to be separated any more. But Vince has a dark past that catches up with him...

The Trouble With Spells is a very romance heavy book. Almost suffocatingly so. They bind themselves together with magic, like a magical engagement, making it physically hurt to be apart from each other. It was the complete opposite of the usual romantic plot line of a young-adult novel. There is no angsty "does he really like me" rambling, but unconditional love. Maybe it's cynical me speaking, but I thought it to be a tiny bit scary. It's like marrying on your sixteenth. It was well written though, and their love for each other, while a bit creepy, was very believable. You can understand why they care for each other, and this is one of those things that's really hard to achieve in a book.

One of the best things about this book was the magic part. I liked the descriptions about the rituals and the spells. Even though this book has its foundation in an old concept, it doesn't feel corny at all. There were some really cool new abilities added that made me very excited.

I liked both the main characters Portia and Vance a lot. They both have their flaws, but they only get more likeable because of them. I think Vance will make a lot of women all over the world swoon and flutter! As for secondary characters, I especially loved Portia's grandmother. A spell casting granny. That's so awesome.

If you're looking for a good paranormal romance young-adult that deals with a one true love, The Trouble With Spells is definitely a book for you.

Blurb

Portia Mullins had always lived the life of a normal teenager, up until her sixteenth birthday. She is then informed by her grandma that she is actually a witch who is a descendant from a long line of witches and warlocks. After overcoming her disbelief she finds that being a member of the coven comes with one great perk in the form of the school's handsome bad boy, Vance Mangum. Vance and Portia have an immediate connection as a budding romance begins, only to be threatened by turbulent skies on the horizon as Vance's checkered past rears its ugly head to haunt them. Portia is forced to use her untried powers in defense of everything she loves in a desperate attempt to hold on to the one thing that really matters in her life.

Blog Tour

The Trouble With Spells is part of a blog tour hosted by The Bookish Snob Promotions.

Tuesday, 29 March 2011

Teaser Tuesday #21: The Trouble With Spells

teasertuesdays31Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
  • Grab your current read
  • Open to a random page
  • Share two “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
  • Make sure you do not include spoilers
  • Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
Teaser Tuesday #21: The Trouble With Spells

“Why don’t you watch where you’re going?” I said, mostly under my breath, without looking up, feeling completely irritated. “Hey now. You ran into me,” a soft, sultry, male voice returned, and I froze, slowly looking over at the feet in front of me. My gaze went up over the black laced-up boots covered by tattered Levis, and past the black belt with the silver buckle. I moved to the ever-present tightly stretched t-shirt and onto the leather jacket slung casually over the shoulder, across the pulsating veins in the neck. I paused at the soft wide-set lips, before looking straight into the piercing blue-eyed stare of Vance Mangum."

Taken from Of Witches and Warlocks: The Trouble with Spells by Lacey Weatherford. She will stop by at NBR as part of her book tour! Don't forget to visit the previous stops, you don't want to blow your chances to win a Kindle!

Share your teaser for this week below (:

Monday, 14 March 2011

Read The Trouble With Spells For Free!


I'm proud to be in the first blog tour hosted by The Bookish Snob Promotions. Lacey Weatherford will stop by at my blog on April the 19th with a guest post. She has been so kind to provide us with a coupon so everyone can enjoy her work! Just click on the coupon below and use the code. Enjoy!


About the book
Portia Mullins had always lived the life of a normal teenager, up until her sixteenth birthday. She is then informed by her grandma that she is actually a witch who is a descendant of a long line of witches and warlocks. After overcoming her disbelief she finds that being a member of the coven comes with one great perk in the form of the school’s handsome bad boy, Vance Mangum. Vance and Portia have an immediate connection as a budding romance begins, only to be threatened by turbulent skies on the horizon as Vance’s checkered past rears its ugly head to haunt them. Portia is forced to use her untried powers in defense of everything she loves in a desperate attempt to hold on to the one thing that really matters in her life.