Endless Blog Tour with Jessica Shirvington – Interview

ENDLESS – Jessica Shirvington Blog Tour – Interview

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Endless (Book #4)
The Violet Eden Chapters
by Jessica Shirvington
Release Date:October 1, 2013

Review of Endless is below this post.

Endless Octo 2013Links to order Endless: Amazon / Barnes & Noble / Kobo

Description:
LOVE WILL KILL US ALL

Violet Eden thought she was getting things under control. Then all hell breaks loose—literally. In the war between angels and exiles, she’s about to face the biggest baddie of all time. Except she’s not nearly ready.
The dark exile Phoenix is still messing with her head—not to mention her heart. And her undeniable attraction to Lincoln has gotten downright dangerous. When Hell unleashes its worst, Violet must embrace every facet of her angel self to save the people she cares about and the world as she knows it. But death is not the worst thing she will face…
 

 

About the AuthorJessica

Jessica Shirvington is the author of THE VIOLET EDEN CHAPTERS also known as THE EMBRACE SERIES, and stand alone novel, BETWEEN THE LIVES. An entrepreneur, author, and mother living in Sydney, Australia, Jessica is also a 2011 finalist for Cosmopolitan’s annual Fun, Fearless Female Award. She’s also one of the lucky few who met the love of her life at age seventeen: Matt Shirvington, a former Olympian and current sports broadcaster for FOXTEL and Sky News. Married for twleve years with two beautiful daughters, Sienna and Winter, Jessica knows her early age romance and its longevity has definitely contributed to how she tackles relationships in her YA novels.

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Interview-Gold

Hi Jessica and welcome to The Reading Café.  We would like to start with some background information.

TRC: Please tell us something about yourself?  Have you always been interested in writing?

Jessica:  No, I haven’t. To be honest with you, I was the kid in school who watched the movie instead of reading the book. To me, it was pretty simple at the time, I wasn’t the fastest reader and so I figured why give it so much time when I could just watch the 2 hour movie version which most likely had some hunky guys in it.

Crazy, right?

Well, I only figured out how much I was missing out on late in life. It wasn’t until I was in my twenties that I really discovered my love of books. I have always been expressive, and have found it easy to put emotions into words, but storytelling came later.

TRC: How did you come up with the idea of your Embrace series?

Jessica:  I think the idea found me in many ways. I was reading a lot at the time. I had no plans to write a book of any kind. I don’t even know what possessed me that day to start writing, but one morning I finished a book and instead of opening a new one, I opened my laptop and wrote the names Lincoln and Violet and that was the beginning of the Embrace Series. It is strange sometimes, because I remember vividly sitting down at my breakfast bar with my laptop. But I had no idea that it would be a day, and a snap decision that would change the course of my life.

TRCWhen Embrace, the first book in this series, was published, what was your reaction to seeing your first book on the book shelves?

Jessica:  Ridiculous amounts of childlike excitement and an overwhelming sense of pride and accomplishment. I never saw a career as a writer coming, but once I realized it was what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, I was all in. Seeing my book on the shelves for the first time was a special moment.

TRC For our members who may not have read this series, can you give us a brief description of the Embraced series?

Jessica:  It is the story about Violet, a seventeen year old girl who works hard to keep her life in order. She likes having control and she also very much likes her trainer, Lincoln, who happens to be a touch older than her and lovely in so many ways. Embrace begins with her birthday and the discovery that she has a destiny much greater than she ever could’ve imagined. Violet was once given the essence of a very powerful angel and she much now choose her path – become Grigori, a human-angel hybrid warrior, or turn her back on her destiny. The series that follows is all the events that take place as a consequence of the choices that Violet and those closest to her make. All the while, despite the sacrifices and the heartbreak, despite the pain and suffering, relationships, allies and everlasting friendships are formed as Violet grows and becomes everything ‘they’ had hoped, and so much more.

Endless Octo 2013TRC: Can you please tell us the premise of your new novel, Endless, which is the 4th book in your Violet Eden Chapters series?   Also, how many books do you anticipate for this series?

Jessica:  Endless is the 4th book, and there will be 5 books in the series in total. EMPOWER will be out in April/May 2014. Here is a short synopsis:

Angels are real. They aren’t always kind. Violet Eden is certain of all this because she is Grigori – part angel, part human. She has felt the influence of both light and dark.

Since her 17th birthday, Violet has known she is a warrior. Though she is more powerful than she yet realizes, two men could still sway her from her path if she lets them. Violet’s uncertainty about Phoenix continually shakes her resolve and her love for Lincoln is perhaps her greatest weakness.

When Hell unleashed its worst, Violet must embrace every facet of her angel self to save the people she cares about and the world as she knows it. But death is not the worst thing Violet will face. For her, the endless question: ‘Can love conquer all?’ will finally be answered.

TRC: Can you please tell us a bit about your other novel, Between the Lives?

Jessica:  Sure! Between the Lives will be out in the US in late June 2014. It is actually going to be called ONE PAST MIDNIGHT there, so keep an eye out!

ONE PAST MIDNIGHT is about Sabine, an eighteen year old girl, who on the surface seems just like any ordinary girl. The problem is, she has two lives.

Sabine lives every day twice, though never repeats the same day. In her first life she lives in Roxbury, Boston, and have her parents and a little sister, Maddie. In her other life, she lives in Wellesley, and her parents (who are different) are divorced and she had two older brothers.

At midnight every night, Sabine shifts into her other life and relives her day in a completely new world.

She has never been anyway to stop this from happening, but then something changes. She falls down the subway steps in her Roxbury life and breaks her arm. When she shifts that night to her other life she expects her arm to be broken as well, but it is not.

This starts a series of very dangerous experiments as for the first time, Sabine is able to ask the question: If she died in one life, is there a chance she could live on in the other? For a girl who has only ever want to live fully in just one life, the real questions are, how far will she go to have that one life? And which one would she choose?

TRCWe know you have the 5th book, Empower being released in early 2014.  What are you currently working on?

Jessica:  I’ve been working on the American edit of ONE PAST MIDNIGHT, and also a new two book series that is on the way called DISRUPTION, which I am very excited about!

TRCWould you like to add anything else?

Jessica:  No, I think we covered it for now! Thanks for having me as a guest on The Reading Café!

Jessica,  thank you very much for taking the time to answer our questions.  The Reading Café wishes you good luck with Endless and Empower.

 

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Endless by Jessica Shirvington – a Review

Endless by Jessica Shirvington – a Review

endlessLinks to order Endless: Amazon / Barnes & Noble / Kobo

Description:
Angels are real. They aren’t always kind. Violet Eden is certain of all this because she is Grigori – part angel, part human. She has felt the influence of both light and dark.

When Hell unleashes its worst, Violet must embrace every facet of her angel self to save the people she cares about and the world as she knows it. But death is not the worst thing that Violet will face. For her, the endless question ‘Can love conquer all?’ will finally be answered.


Review:

Endless by Jessica Shirvington is the 4th book in her Violet Eden Chapters series.  Before I go totally into my review, I have to say that Endless is one of the best books I have read this year, and I have read so many wonderful books in 2013.  Endless is almost 500 pages, and I read this in one day.  I could not put the book down, as the story held me totally engrossed, a page burner, filled with constant action, and suspense.

Violet Eden, who is part human and part angel, is a fantastic kick ass heroine.   Over the last few books, Violet has learned more about herself, as well as dealing with her increasing powers. In the last book, Violet was betrayed by Phoenix, an exiled Angel, and the son of the evil Lilith. Her romance with Lincoln, who is a powerful Grigori, kicks up a lot in this story, and it was worth the long wait.  Violet though is one lucky young lady, having two very hot men in love with her.

Endless brings Violet’s mom back after 17 years, and we discover where she has been all that time.  Violet must try to trust her mother, Evelyn, despite her concern for her father being hurt again.  Why did her mother come back now?  It all has to do with Lilith being freed by Phoenix and coming to kill them all, especially Violet and her mother. 

Violet, Linc, her mom, dad, and their friends head to NY to face the Academy, who doubt Violet’s motives.  When at attack happens at the Academy, Violet is blamed, with her and Linc escaping.

Violet must find a way to clear her name, and come up with a plan to save her mother, whom Lilith plans to kill.  Without the support of the Grigori, Violet and Linc must trust Phoenix to help them.   Can she trust him?  Though he knows Violet and Linc have bonded as soulmates, Phoenix knows he must help to stop his mother from mass destruction of the world as we know it.  He is willing to do what is necessary, even giving up Violet, whom he loves, to Linc. Will Phoenix help them, or will he use the situation to benefit himself?

Shirvington not only has a great love triangle in this story, but she has a terrific group of secondary characters, who help make this a fantastic book. Shirvington has a wonderful writing style and uses her knowledge of angels, exiled angels, seraphim to make this a wonderful complex mythology, filled with death, intense and violent action, and romance.

In a climatic exciting frenzied final last half of the book, we are on the edge of our seat the whole time.  What Violet has to endure at the end, has you gasping, and then the painful ending leaves us desperate for the next book.  Endless puts Jessica Shirvington on my list of must buys.

Reviewed by Barb

Copy provided by Publisher

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Cover Reveals-May 6, 2013

Cover Reveals-May 6, 2013

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TITLE: The Deepest Night

AUTHOR: Shana Abe

SERIES:  The Sweetest Dark

RELEASE DATE: August 2013

 

 

 

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AUTHOR: Monica McCarty

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RELEASE DATE: June 2013

 

 

 

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SERIES:  Uninvited #1

RELEASE DATE:  March 2014

 

 

 

Storm Warrior Aug 2013

 

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AUTHOR: Dani Harper

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RELEASE DATE: August 2013

 

 

 

Destiny May 2013

 

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AUTHOR: Maggie Shayne

SERIES:  The Immortal Witches

RELEASE DATE: May 2013

 

 

 

Wild Darkness Nov 2013

 

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SERIES:  Bound by Magick

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AUTHOR: Kay Hooper

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RELEASE DATE: July 2013

 

 

 

Unscripted Aug 2013

 

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RELEASE DATE: August 2013

 

 

Endless Octo 2013

 

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AUTHOR: Jessica Shirvington

SERIES: Violet Eden

RELEASE DATE: October 2013

 

 

 

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RELEASE DATE: December 2013

 

 

 

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AUTHOR: Jeaniene Frost

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COVER REVEALS and MORE

COVER REVEALS and MORE

 

 

MOVIE POSTER REVEAL

Cassandra Clare’s THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS City of Bones will be coming to the big screen in August 2013 and the first MOVIE POSTER has been revealed.  

I have no doubt there will be several variations before August revealing the cast of characters.

 

 

And for your further enjoyment, the official trailer for CITY OF BONES.

 

 

 

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RELEASE DATE:  March 2013

 

 

 

 

 

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SERIES:  The League (Maris’s story)

RELEASE DATE:  N/A

 

 

 

 

 

TITLE:  Fall of Night

AUTHOR:  Rachel Caine

SERIES:  Morganville Vampires

RELEASE DATE:  May  2013

 

 

 

 

TITLE:  Suddenly Royal

AUTHOR:  Nichole Chase

 SERIES: N/A

 RELEASE DATE:  N/A

 

 

 

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SERIES:  The Paper Gods

RELEASE DATE:  June 2013

 

 

 

 

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AUTHOR:  Deborah Gafford

SERIES:  Heart of the Highlander

RELEASE DATE:  N/A

Exclusive to The Reading Cafe from Deborah Gafford–HIGHLAND BETRAYAL Teaser:   Was the night they spent trapped together in the castle cellar really an accident as she claimed or was it merely a way to entrap him into marriage?  And did he even care?

Click HERE for a direct link to Deborah’s website.

 

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SERIES:  Lone Star Witch

RELEASE DATE:  February 2013

 

 


 

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RELEASE DATE:  May 2013

 

 

 

 

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AUTHOR:  Bec McMaster

SERIES:  London Steampunk

RELEASE DATE: May 2013

 

 


 

TITLE:  With All My Soul

AUTHOR:  Rachel Vincent

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RELEASE DATE:  March 2013

 

 

 

 

 

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AUTHOR:  Robin D Owens

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RELEASE DATE: August 2013

 

 

 


 

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RELEASE DATE: April 2013

 

 

 


 

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SERIES:  anthology

RELEASE DATE: July 2013

 

 

 

 

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SERIES: N/A

RELEASE DATE: May 2013

 

 

 

 

TITLE: Nightbound

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RELEASE DATE: June 2013

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