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Tuesday, March 3, 2015

Right Kind of Wrong by Chelsea Fine (Print) Release Day Launch


Hey readers! I have got awesome news for you! Guess what?! TODAY, Right Kind of Wrong, the final novel in my all time favorite romance NA Romance series is available in PRINT! You know what that means? Get to purchasing people! Woohoo! Here's some info about the book and my favorite person ever, Chelsea Fine:

Sometimes wrong can feel oh so right . . .

Jenna Lacombe needs complete control, whether it’s in the streets . . . or between the sheets. So when she sets out on a solo road trip to visit her family in New Orleans, she’s beyond annoyed that the infuriatingly sexy Jack Oliver wants to hitch a ride with her. Ever since they shared a wild night together last year, he’s been trying to strip away her defenses one by one. He claims he’s just coming along to keep her safe-but what’s not safe for her is prolonged exposure to the tattooed hottie.

Jack can’t get Jenna out from under his skin. She makes him feel alive again after his old life nearly destroyed him-and losing her is not an option. Now Jack’s troubles are catching up to him, and he’s forced to return to his hometown in Louisiana. But when his secrets put them both in harm’s way, Jenna will have to figure out how far she’s willing to let love in . . . and how much she already has.


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Chelsea Fine

Chelsea lives in Phoenix, Arizona where she spends most of her time writing stories, painting murals, and avoiding housework at all costs. She’s ridiculously bad at doing dishes and claims to be allergic to laundry. Her obsessions include: superheroes, coffee, sleeping-in, and crazy socks. She lives with her husband and two children, who graciously tolerate her inability to resist teenage drama on TV and her complete lack of skill in the kitchen.






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Excerpt

Opening my car door, I slide into the driver’s seat, turn to put the key in the ignition and—

“Ahh!” Jumping back, I thwack my open palm against the gigantic body of pure muscle seated in the passenger seat. “Dammit, Jack! You scared me!”

“Good morning.” He grins.

“What are you doing in my car?” I snap, throwing him some serious stink eye.

“I’m going with you to Louisiana.” He nods to a large duffle bag in the backseat.

I blink. “Uh, no you’re not.”

“Uh, yes I am.”

“Like hell.”

He crinkles his brow. “I’ve never understood that phrase. But okay. I’ll go with you ‘like hell,’ whatever that means.”

“Get out of my car.” I point to the door.

“Oh, Jenna.” He clucks his tongue. “This will be good for both of us. Listen.” He casually leans against the passenger window and pierces me with his gray eyes. “For reasons beyond my control, I need to go back home. And for reasons beyond your control, so do you. And since our ‘homes’ are right next door to one another, I figured we’d carpool to Louisiana and you can just drop me off at Little Vail on your way to New Orleans.”

He gives me that little-boy smile of his and it’s all I can do not to lean forward and soak it in. I hate me.

“I don’t see how that’s good for me,” I say. “At all.”

He shrugs. “You get some company on the road.”

I nod with a clenched jaw. “And you get a free ride.”

His smile grows and I instantly realize that was the wrong thing to say.

“Precisely,” he says.

I can’t afford to spend any excessive time with Jack. Not just because we fight, but because of what happened last year. It was one crazy night when we were both drunk, and we never spoke of it after the fact, but our “friendship” has been tense ever since.

“Well, I don’t need any company,” I say, shaking my head.

“Sure you do,” he says easily. “Everyone needs company.”

“Not me. So get out.”

He grins. “No.”

God I hate him. But not really.

God I hate that I don’t hate him.

I jut my chin and stare him over. “Fine. If you won’t remove yourself…” Exiting the car, I stomp around the hood to his door, yank it open, and wrap my hands around his bicep. Then I start pulling.

He doesn’t budge. Like, he literally doesn’t move an inch as I tug at his oversized arm and grunt like I’m trying to move a massive piece of hardwood furniture and not a human being.

His eyes dance as he watches my struggle. “What’s your plan here, Jenna? Haul me out of the car and leave me in the street?”

“Sounds good to me.”

“Well, that doesn’t sound friendly at all,” he says, flicking the lever to recline to seat a bit so he looks even more relaxed than before.

“I wasn’t trying to be friendly,” I grit out.

“Clearly.”

I try pulling him out again, to no avail. He’s giant and solid, and honestly, just touching him is turning me on.

I drop my hands and glower at him. “You can’t just tell me that you’re coming along on my road trip.”

He cocks his head. “Would you feel better if I asked?”

“Not especially.”

“Jenna.” He leans forward and his gaze bores through me, down into the deepest parts of my being. “Will you please let me join you on your trip to Louisiana?”

For a moment, I’m lost in his eyes, debating with myself. I don’t trust myself around Jack. Not at all. But I did spend half the night tossing in my sleep with nightmares about traveling alone so maybe having Jack tag along might not be so bad after all. Maybe.

Pulling back, I straighten my shoulders and relent, like usual when it comes to Jack.

“Fine,” I huff out as I stomp back to my side of the car in climb in. “But no talking,” I say, hoping I haven’t just made a huge mistake.

He grins and I turn away.

Surely I can manage to keep my panties on around Jack for a few days…right?

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Alright readers, that's all I have for you today on the topic of Right Kind of Wrong by Chelsea Fine. You guys all know how much I adore this woman and her works. Anyway. Go check out my review and enter the giveaway above! Also, BUY A COPY!! Oh and Chels? I love your guts! :P Until next time, Happy Reading!

-Ethan

Tuesday, January 13, 2015

Best Kind of Broken by Chelsea Fine (Print) Release Day Launch


Hey readers! I have got awesome news for you! Guess what?! TODAY, Best Kind of Broken, my all time favorite romance novel is available in PRINT! You know what that means? Get to purchasing people! Woohoo! Here's some info about the book and my favorite person ever, Chelsea Fine:

SOMETIMES MOVING ON MEANS MOVING IN

Pixie Marshall wishes every day she could turn back time and fix the past. But she can't. And the damage is done. She's hoping that a summer of free room and board working with her aunt at the Willow Inn will help her forget. Except there's a problem: the resident handyman is none other than Levi Andrews. The handsome quarterback was once her friend-and maybe more-until everything changed in a life-shattering instant. She was hoping to avoid him, possibly forever. Now he's right down the hall and stirring up feelings Pixie thought she'd long buried . . .

Levi can't believe he's living with the one person who holds all his painful memories. More than anything he wants to make things right, but a simple "sorry" won't suffice-not when the tragedy that scarred them was his fault. Levi knows Pixie's better off without him, but every part of him screams to touch her, protect her, wrap her in his arms, and kiss away the pain. Yet even though she's so close, Pixie's heart seems more unreachable than ever. Seeing those stunning green eyes again has made one thing perfectly clear-he can't live without her.


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Chelsea lives in Phoenix, Arizona where she spends most of her time writing stories, painting murals, and avoiding housework at all costs. She’s ridiculously bad at doing dishes and claims to be allergic to laundry. Her obsessions include: superheroes, coffee, sleeping-in, and crazy socks. She lives with her husband and two children, who graciously tolerate her inability to resist teenage drama on TV and her complete lack of skill in the kitchen.


Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4984399.Chelsea_Fine





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Excerpt

It’s late, and most of the inn guests are already asleep.
I wait until I hear the TV click on in Levi’s room before I start plugging everything I own into the wall.
We argued today. We avoided each other. And aside from the weird look we exchanged in the hallway this morning and our little spat in front of Zack, everything is back to normal.
Which means I owe Levi for the cold shower I had to take.
I turn everything on and the lights go out. I hear the TV die in the next room and crawl onto my bed with a smile.
“Pixie!” Levi’s irritated voice rings through the walls and I’m feeling happier than a mature person should.
I hear stomping, and then he opens my bedroom door. Just opens it. Like he has the right to just waltz into my room. I could be naked in here; he doesn’t know.
“You’re going out to the fuse box this time.” He steps inside, and now he’s standing just a few feet away, pointing his finger at me.
I’m on the bed, trying to look casual, like lying in the dark playing games on my phone is perfectly normal. The only light in the room is coming from the glow of my phone and the half-moon outside, so we both look blue and soft. And in the blue softness, I see he’s shirtless.
I see Levi without a shirt on almost every morning, but I’ve never seen him half-naked in the dark, and something about it makes my body feel electric.
“Not going to happen,” I say.
He steps closer. “Well, I sure as hell am not marching outside to turn the power back on.”
I shrug. “Fine with me. I don’t need electricity tonight. I can watch TV on my fully charged phone.” I wiggle said phone at him.
He sighs. “You don’t understand. I was looking up the contact information for an alarm company I found so I can call and schedule the installation tomorrow. I need the Internet, Pix.”
“Then use your phone.”
“My phone is dead.”
The boy never charges anything. He almost makes the whole fuse-blowing thing too easy.
“Well, that’s too bad. I guess you’re going to have to turn the electricity back on after all.” I pretend to be very interested in my game.
“Let me use your phone. Just for a minute.”
“No.”
“Come on. It’s for Ellen.” He implores me with a pouty face I’ve seen him use on his mom a dozen times.
I scoff. “Please.”
“Dammit, Pixie.” The pout is gone.
“Maybe tomorrow you’ll remember to charge your own phone. Or hey, better yet, maybe you’ll let me have a hot shower.” I make a big production of pressing random buttons on my phone.
He slumps his shoulders like he’s accepting defeat, then whips out his arm and tries to swipe the phone from my hands. Sneaky bastard.
I pull my phone back and kick at him with my foot, but he grabs my ankle—because I’m not exactly a ninja with my kicking skills—and then we both freeze.
Because now I’m leaning back on the bed with my legs spread apart, and he’s got one hand on my ankle and the other on the bed next to my hip where he was reaching for my phone, and his body is in between my legs, which are completely bare except for the tiny gym shorts I have on, and my right arm is raised over my head with my cell phone still out of his reach, but my back is arched and my shirt has come up so my stomach is completely exposed and I’m hot all over.
Hot. Heat. Everywhere.
I mean, really. We look like we’re in the middle of having sex, but with clothes on. My body knows this. His body knows this. And our bodies are really, really happy about this.
He’s looking at me with nothing in his eyes except want. And I like it. No, I love it.
This must show on my face because his hand—still wrapped around my ankle—moves up my leg an inch, and he watches my reaction.
I try not to react because, hell, he can’t win. He can’t just be asshole Levi all day long and then climb into my bed at night and touch me wherever he pleases.
Ugh. Yes he can.
I part my lips and he slowly, slowly slides his warm hand up my calf and, holy hell, I could orgasm right here. I might, actually.
My calf.
My calf.
He’s touching my calf and I’m more turned on than I’ve ever been in my life.
His hand shifts again, and the only thought in my head is, Go higher, go higher.

Please, dear God, go higher.

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Alright readers, that's all I have for you today on the topic of Best Kind of Broken by Chelsea Fine. You guys all know how much I adore this woman and her works. BKOB is seriously one of my favorite NA novels of all time. It will forever hold a special place in my bookish heart. Pixie and Levi are so real. I can't even describe it. Anyway. Go check out my review and enter the giveaway above! Also, BUY A COPY!! Oh and Chels? I love your guts! :P Until next time, Happy Reading!

-Ethan

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Right Kind of Wrong by Chelsea Fine Blog Tour; Review + GIVEAWAY


Hey Readers! Happy Tuesday and welcome to my Blog Tour stop for Right Kind of Wrong by Chelsea Fine! Any of my readers can tell you that I am absolutely obsessed with Chelsea Fine, don't believe me? Click here to see all my Chelsea Fine related posts! That being said, I am a huge fan of Chelsea's Finding Fate series. I'm not a huge romance fan, but I am obsessed with Chelsea's ability to craft an amazing story. I have had the great fortune to read Right Kind of Wrong in preparation of this tour and will be giving my thoughts via review below! Here today I have all kinds of great info about Right Kind of Wrong to get you PUMPED to read this amazing book. Before we get the the rest of the fun, check out a little about the novel and Chelsea!



Sometimes wrong can feel oh so right . . .

Jenna Lacombe needs complete control, whether it’s in the streets . . . or between the sheets. So when she sets out on a solo road trip to visit her family in New Orleans, she’s beyond annoyed that the infuriatingly sexy Jack Oliver wants to hitch a ride with her. Ever since they shared a wild night together last year, he’s been trying to strip away her defenses one by one. He claims he’s just coming along to keep her safe-but what’s not safe for her is prolonged exposure to the tattooed hottie.

Jack can’t get Jenna out from under his skin. She makes him feel alive again after his old life nearly destroyed him-and losing her is not an option. Now Jack’s troubles are catching up to him, and he’s forced to return to his hometown in Louisiana. But when his secrets put them both in harm’s way, Jenna will have to figure out how far she’s willing to let love in . . . and how much she already has.


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Chelsea Fine

In case you have been living under a rock and are new to OneGuysGuideToGoodReads and don't know of Chelsea Fine or my love for her, here is some information about the amazing Chelsea:


Chelsea lives in Phoenix, Arizona where she spends most of her time writing stories, painting murals, and avoiding housework at all costs. She’s ridiculously bad at doing dishes and claims to be allergic to laundry. Her obsessions include: superheroes, coffee, sleeping-in, and crazy socks. She lives with her husband and two children, who graciously tolerate her inability to resist teenage drama on TV and her complete lack of skill in the kitchen.

You can connect with Chelsea at any of the links below!




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Chelsea Fine, Chelsea Fine… Here we are again. My seventh journey into the literary legacy that is your writing. Chelsea, have I mentioned you are a national treasure lately? Because you are. One of these day they are going to come out with a second round of US State quarters and YOUR face is going to graze the Arizona state quarter. Forreal. Do this tell you guys anything about how highly I view Chelsea Fine? Let me sum up my feelings on RKoW in one word: Wow. Chelsea, my hat goes off to you, you’ve done it AGAIN.


My regular readers will tell you that Ethan here isn’t the biggest fan of the romance genre. I know you couldn’t tell it by looking through this blog’s archives, but NA Romance is just one of those genres I love to hate. On one hand I love reading books about MY age group dealing with MY kind of problems! On the other hand…. “gross… romance…”. Well. I have to say Chelsea Fine has made me a believer in the romance genre. Prior to reading this series I had a very different view on romance novels. I thought they were all smutty and trashy with no real message. Thankfully Mrs. Fine, along with some other amazing authors, have really changed my views on the romance genre and for that I am thankful. Let me flash back for a minute to Best Kind of Broken, book 1 in this series. BKoB was, and to this day remains, my favorite romance novel of all time. I knew it was a series and I knew Chelsea would have some big shoes to fill in order to beat that one for me. Perfect Kind of Trouble came and it was really good, but it still didn’t even compare to the amazingness of BKOB for me. Needless to say I was a little nervous about how I would like RKoW. Well, I should have never been nervous because, of course, Chelsea blew it out of the park. While I will say this one didn’t have the same effect on me as BKoB, I still LOVED IT.

One of my favorite things about Chelsea’s writing style is the inspirational quotes she fits into her novels. Some of my all time favorite book quotes come from the works of Chelsea Fine. RKoW was no exception. My ARC is FULL of notes and highlights for some amazing quotes. Chelsea makes her characters so real. Jack and Jenna were probably some of the most real characters I have read and I loved that. The characters in this novel are so real and you can really feel their internal struggles. Take this amazing quote from Jack (my favorite from the novel): “Strength isn’t about what you can and cannot achieve. It’s about what you will and will not do IN ORDER to achieve.” I think that is such a true statement and one that Jack and Jenna both learn by the end of the events in RKoW.

Not only was RKoW full of a great plot line and great character development, it also had something that I think was important to note. This particular novel had more than enough romance to keep the ladies interested, BUT it also boasted quite a bit of action and suspense that I believe would keep the male fans interested. I know I’m not the only guy reader out there so COME ON GUYS. So it’s all these things, and then what? It’s also pretty hilarious at points. One of the funniest parts of this entire series comes into play during RKoW and can be summed up in one quote from Jack, “I never joke about blind people driving.” Seriously, I laughed so hard. Read it people, read it. 

I think the setting for RKoW is what made it so unique. Unlike the previous two novels, this one doesn’t really take place in the Sulfur Springs, Arizona area. This one features some awesome locales including the amazing city of New Orleans, Louisiana. Chelsea really pushed her boundaries with this novel and I feel like it’s a gamble that really worked well for her. With the Louisiana setting we got a great mix of voodoo, Southern culture, and excitement of the French Quarter. It was really neat to see this story take to a whole new setting and still be just as awesome! Most of the novel centers around Jack and Jenna’s cross country road trip from AZ to LA, but it really isn’t corny like a road trip novel! Again, Chelsea really kept this one “real” and for readers like me, it was a really pleasant experience to read.

Chelsea really touches on a really popular subject in this novel: tattoos. Usually I am not a huge tattoo person and tend to kind of sigh and roll my eyes when tattoos come into the picture. But again, not everyone is Chelsea Fine. Some people write some really raunchy, trashy stuff with tattoos, but somehow this was really deep and classy. Something I really appreciated. Two of the characters in the Finding Fate series are “artists” so I really liked the allusion to the body being a canvas of expression. I particularly enjoyed this Jenna quote pertaining to tattoos: “That’s what the tattoos are: storytellers. Not always, but most of the time. Some stories we tell with our tongues, in words and kisses and sometimes even the food we make for others. Other stories are just for ourselves and are told in tattoos and scares and the shields we erect around our hearts.” Seriously people. Chelsea Fine just made that DEEP. Woah. 

Okay I am going to jump on my soapbox and talk a little about two of my favorite things from RKoW for a second. One, and most importantly: MARVIN MAKES A CAMEO!!! Anyone who has read my reviews of the other two books knows that Marvin is/was my favorite character of the series! Who is Marvin? The goat! Woohoo! I was so pumped to read that Marvin came back for a paragraph! J Second, Chelsea has added a new character to the mix in RKoW. Why is that a big deal? His name is Ethan. THAT’S why! Now I know this is total coincidence, but it really made my day. It isn’t often that “Ethans” show up in books so I was PUMPED that he was in this one! He is compared to Jenna’s siblings as being “loud, colorful, and filled with attitude”. We’re just going to act like Chelsea wrote me into this book. Okay? Okay. Cool. Go me!

So I’ve covered characters, setting, themes, etc and serious guys, I am just going wild with all the awesome things I have to say about not only this novel, but this entire series. I am so sad to see the end of this saga. Chelsea always leaves me wanting more! I have heard there is some more awesome in the works and that we all need to be on the lookout for what the amazing Chelsea has up her sleeve, but I’m telling ya, I just can’t hardly wait! Thank you Chelsea for delivering to us yet another amazing series. 

A friend, blogger, and fellow Chelsea Fine-lover and I were raving about RKoW earlier this week when I was asked what one quote I would use to describe the novel (we are both avid highlighters) and after scouring through my many, many notes I think I have found the perfect one: “We could argue until dawn, but it wouldn’t matter because Jenna still believes she can outwit her heart. And until she thinks otherwise, I’m just a bloody guy in a bathroom waiting for the girl of my dreams to realize she’s in love with me.” Everyone stop what you are doing. Stand up. And applaud Chelsea Fine. Seriously, perfect. I wouldn’t change one single thing about any of the novels in this series. While they all had their quirks, in the end I strongly believe that this one of the very best romance series I have ever read and I am so thankful to have gone on this journey with Chelsea! 

All-in-all, I am giving Right Kind of Wrong a well deserved 5-star review. Thank you so much Chelsea, not only for this amazing series, but for opening my eyes to what amazing writing can come from the genre of New Adult Romance. I look forward to the next amazing literary adventure I get the great honor of joining you on! 
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Where can you get your copy?

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Huge thanks to KP and the amazing team over at Inkslinger PR for allowing me to participate! Also huge shout out to our author, the woman who I am so glad to not only call one of my favorite authors, but also friend, Mrs. Chelsea Fine! Thank you for making sure I got a copy of this! And I apologize for my all caps texts telling you how pumped I was to be reading it!
To my readers, thank you all so much for stopping by! Until next time, Happy Reading!
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-Ethan

Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Top 5 Reads of 2014 (so far)!

Hello and Happy Tuesday readers! Welcome one and all to a very special edition of OneGuysGuideToGoodReads. Instead of a review today I am going to celebrate with a super awesome post with a twist today!

Today is the first day of July meaning that the year of 2014 is halfway over! We are six months gone guys! Where has it disappeared to!? Wow! Well, to celebrate passing the halfway point I am going to count down my Top 5 Reads of 2014! You read right, my top 5 favorite reads of 2014 thus far! This list has been chosen from books I have read that were released in 2014. While I have read many, many amazing books in 2014, unfortunately many of them were older reads so this has been rather difficult to come up with 5 (sorry JLA). This list also covers all genres I enjoy. I plan on doing a top 10 list in December with my list for the entire year so be on the watch for that. Not only will I be sharing my top 5 of 2014 so far list, I have gather a handful of other bloggers, authors, and readers who may be familiar to you guys to share with me their Top 5 of 2014 (so far) list as well! Without farther adieu, here we go!

Ethan's Top 5 Reads of 2014 (so far):

Check out each book below by clicking on the title to be taken to my review of the novel!

Click the link below each cover/synopsis to be taken to the official Goodreads page for each novel!





 
A new series returns to the world of Beautiful Creatures. Some loves are cursed...others are dangerous.

Ridley Duchannes will be the first to tell you that she's a bad girl. She's Dark. She's a Siren. You can never trust her, or even yourself when she's around. Lucky for her, Wesley "Link" Lincoln can never seem to remember that; quarter Incubus or not, his heart is Mortal when it comes to Ridley. When Link heads to New York City to start a music career, Ridley goes along for the ride-and she has her own reasons. As if leaving small-town Gatlin for the big city, trying to form a band, and surviving life with a partially reformed Siren isn't hard enough already, Link soon learns he has a price on his head that no Caster or Mortal can ever pay.

Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl, the #1 New York Times bestselling coauthors of Beautiful Creatures, are back and casting another magical spell. Their signature mixture of mystery, suspense, and romance, along with a dash of fun and danger, will pull fans in and leave them begging for more.







In Texas, two things are cherished above all else—football and gossip. My life has always been ruled by both.

Dallas Cole loathes football. That's what happens when you spend your whole childhood coming in second to a sport. College is her time to step out of the bleachers, and put the playing field (and the players) in her past.

But life doesn't always go as planned. As if going to the same college as her football star ex wasn’t bad enough, her father, a Texas high school coaching phenom, has decided to make the jump to college ball… as the new head coach at Rusk University. Dallas finds herself in the shadows of her father and football all over again.

Carson McClain is determined to go from second-string quarterback to the starting line-up. He needs the scholarship and the future that football provides. But when a beautiful redhead literally falls into his life, his focus is more than tested. It's obliterated.

Dallas doesn't know Carson is on the team. Carson doesn't know that Dallas is his new coach's daughter.

And neither of them know how to walk away from the attraction they feel.








Pixie and Levi haven't spoken in nearly a year when they find themselves working―and living―at the same inn in the middle of nowhere. Once upon a time, they were childhood friends. But that was before everything went to hell. And now things are... awkward.

All they want to do is avoid each other, and their past, for as long as possible. But now that they're forced to share a bathroom, and therefore a shower, keeping their distance from one another becomes less difficult than keeping their hands off each other. Welcome to the hallway of awkward tension and sexual frustration, folks. Get comfy. It’s going to be a long summer.










Seventeen year old Ollie Miller is ready to leave all of her hurt feelings behind, but moving on seems impossible while living next door to her ex-best friend, Mateo. When curious earthquakes begin to shake and rip open the foundation of her small town, the ground becomes as unsteady as her feelings for him. When they fall, they fall hard…
 
Ollie’s disastrous attempt to save Mateo’s brother from falling into a curious chasm results in their descent into a cavernous wonderland. Ollie, Mateo, Jesse, and Alexis search for a way back home, and encounter a mysterious tribe of natives. Gabriel, the next in line to lead his people, is granted permission to guide them to the surface. On their treacherous journey, an overzealous elder threatens all of their lives, because he can’t risk them exposing his people, or the power he wields. The group discovers ancient secrets, unexpected truths, and uncharted feelings. Ollie must find a way out or risk being stuck in the caves forever—or worse, dead.

  
*I'd also like to point out that this was the debut novel by Mrs. Kallie Ross and it was absolutely amazing. PLEASE check out the review, you will NOT regret this read!*
 
Finally, the moment of truth. My TOP read of 2014 thus far; the book I had to read over and over again and STILL couldn't get enough, AND the debut novel from one of the most promising and upcoming authors I've read:





I didn't ask for any of this. I didn't ask to be some kind of hero.

But when your whole life gets swept up by a tornado—taking you with it—you have no choice but to go along, you know?

Sure, I've read the books. I've seen the movies. I know the song about the rainbow and the happy little blue birds. But I never expected Oz to look like this. To be a place where Good Witches can't be trusted, Wicked Witches may just be the good guys, and winged monkeys can be executed for acts of rebellion. There's still the yellow brick road, though—but even that's crumbling.

What happened? Dorothy.

They say she found a way to come back to Oz. They say she seized power and the power went to her head. And now no one is safe.

My name is Amy Gumm—and I'm the other girl from Kansas.

I've been recruited by the Revolutionary Order of the Wicked.

I've been trained to fight.

And I have a mission.



So there's my list! Here's a graphic I made to recap it for you guys!



After I made my own list, I really wanted to hear the input of my fellow bloggers, readers, and authors! I invited everyone to tweet me some their favorites using the hashtag #TopReads2014 and here are some of the amazing responses I got! Some even submitted graphics for me! Here we go!



Liz Long, author of Gifted and Burned (The Donovan Circus Series) and Witch Hearts, and one of my current favorite people joined in with her favorites:



The absolutely amazing Chelsea Fine, author of The Archers of Avalon and Finding Fate series wanted to give a shoutout to her newest favorite series of 2014 with this graphic she sent in:

Chelsea speaks VERY highly of this series so I WILL be adding it to my TBR! Can't wait to check it out! Learn more about Chelsea Fine and her many amazing works at http://www.chelseafinebooks.com/


Another one of my top 5 authors also participated with us! Here are a couple of tweets from Mrs. Kallie Ross about her favorites of 2014 so far:



Here's some graphics from some of the other awesome bloggers who wanted to put in THIER top 5 reads of 2014 so far! Click each graphic to be taken to that blogger's page!

Amber, Christina, Ursula, and Carmen from GrownupFangirl had this to say:

http://www.grownupfangirl.com/

Kaitlan from Between Order and Randomness picked these for her top 5:

http://www.kaitlanolivia.blogspot.com/

Yesi from Literati Book Reviews chimed in with her top 5 and a message:

http://literatibookreviews.com/

Betsy from Book Drunk Blog gave me these for her top 5:

http://www.bookdrunkblog.com/

One of my favorite people ever, the awesome Christine from i*Heart*BigBooks (and i cannot lie...) sent in her amazing graphic with her top 6 reads (she couldn't pick just 5!):

http://www.iheartbigbooks.com/
 
And last, but certainly not least, the absolutely amazing Stephanie from Smart & Savvy with Stephanie sent in her top 5 graphic:

http://smartsavvysteph.blogspot.com/ 


**Anyone wanting to add their Top 5 graphic, please contact me ASAP and I will happily put it on, this will be a work in progress. Don't hesitate to holler if you want to be added!**

Alright readers, this has been one of THE most fun posts I have ever done and I have loved sharing all these Top 5 Reads of 2014 (so far) with you. Here are 14 different bloggers, authors, and readers opinions. I would love to hear what some of yours are! Feel free to create a graphic or a list and hit me up either via twitter with the hashtag #TopReads2014 and I'll grab them and add them to the list or via email at oneguysguidetogoodreads@gmail.com! I would absolutely love to hear YOUR top 5 reads for 2014 (so far)! The year is only half over and we still have TONS of exciting upcoming releases! I plan on checking back with everyone here come December and we will see how the year rounded out for everyone. I am anxiously awaiting all the fun comments and suggestions from you guys! Feel free to share this post, tag the authors mentioned and add them all to your TBR! Until next time, Happy Reading!

-Ethan