My Picks of the Week! (13th August 2013)

 Happy Monday, Muses!

 Lots of releases this week, so I will leave you to it. However, the ones I am personally looking forward to checking out are: in Adult books, Bikers and Pearls by Vicki Wilkerson , Blood of Tyrants (book #8 in the Temeraire series) by Naomi Novik, and From the Ashes by Daisy Harris. In Young Adult, I've been anxiously awaiting Matthew Quick's Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock.

There's a little bit of everything in Movies this week. If you are looking for action, check out Olympus Has Fallen starring Gerard Butler. If you want to laugh, add The Big Wedding to your list. The flick I can't wait to watch is What Maisie Knew starring Julianne Moore and the hunky Alexander Skarsgard. In TV, Once Upon a Time: Season 2 finally arrives.

Enjoy!

BOOKS (13th August)

ADULT

Abel (5th Street, #4)
by: Elizabeth Reyes

Coming off the worst divorce in the history of marriages, Nellie Gamboa’s looking to let loose and make up for years of neglect. When months of building sexual tension between her and the young hot boxing stud, Abel Ayala, finally peak, she makes him an offer no man would refuse.

No promises. No demands. Just pure unrestrained passion.

Abel’s training for the biggest fight of his career. He has no time for a social life, much less a relationship. So this arrangement couldn't be more perfect. A beautiful woman asking him to help her alleviate her neglected desires—no strings attached. What more can he ask for?

As the lines between lust and something much deeper, begin to blur, Abel finds himself in an even bigger fight.

The fight to regain control of his now demanding heart.

Release Date: 13th August 2013

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Adorned, The

by: John Tristan

My name is Etan, and I am Adorned.

A living piece of art, I exist to please the divine rulers of Kered. With nowhere to turn after my father died, I tried my luck in the capital city. Little did I know how quickly I would be robbed, beaten and forced to sell myself into servitude. But I was lucky enough to gain the attention of Roberd Tallisk, an irascible but intriguing tattoo artist who offered to mark me with enchanted ink for the enjoyment of the nobles. I was given a chance to better my station in life, and I could not refuse.

But the divine rulers want not only the art but the body that bears it. In their company I can rise above the dregs of society and experience a life most only dream of, at the cost of suffering their every desire as a pawn in games of lavish intrigue. Their attention is flattering, but I find I'd rather have Tallisk's.

Caught between factions, I learn that a revolution is brewing, one that could ruin Kered—and Roberd and myself along with it…

Release Date: 12th August 2013

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Artifact
by: Shane Lindemoen

When an operational mining detachment uncovers an ancient artifact three miles below the Martian surface, Lance Kattar, one of the most respected particle physicists in his field, accepts a request to examine the find. The moment his hand touches the object though, Lance sets off a series of cataclysmic events that threaten the very fabric of human existence. With help from a diverse group of survivors an orphaned young girl, an anthropologist from SETI, a low-voltage electrician and a baseball-bat wielding biology teacher, Lance embarks on an odyssey of revelation and self-discovery, as he finds himself racing to unravel the mystery of the ancient artifact from Mars, before it collapses into a singularity of world-ending possibilities.

Release Date: 13th August 2013

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