Halloween Author Invasion Author Spotlight: TA Foster

Hey readers! We're nearing the end of October (my favorite month of the year), and you know what that means!? It's almost Halloween! As most of you already know, this year Christina from Lulo Fangirl and myself are co-hosting the Halloween Author Invasion event on Facebook from October 26-30! For those of you who don't know about the event, you can find out more by clicking here.

CLICK HERE TO JOIN THE 

HALLOWEEN AUTHOR INVASION ON FACEBOOK!

Who all is participating? Here's our amazing guest list:

Now that you guys are all FOR SURE familiar with the Halloween Author invasion, I have a fun post for you guys. To get everyone pumped about our amazing guest list, Christina and I will be featuring Author Spotlight posts for our authors to get you excited to party alongside them next week! Each post will feature the authors bio, links, and a fun exclusive Halloween-ish interview they have granted us for the event! We are so honored to have all of these amazing authors participating in our event! Are you ready to learn a little more about our line up? Here we go!

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AUTHOR SPOTLIGHT 

TA Foster 

 

 

T.A. Foster is a Southern girl whose heart and spirit are connected to the beach. She grew up catching rays and chasing waves along the North Carolina Outer Banks and now resides in the state with her adventurous pilot husband, two children and two canine kiddos. T.A. has an undergraduate degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a graduate degree in Educational Psychology from Texas A&M University. When she’s not chasing her two-legged and four-legged children or trying to escape for date night, you can find her reading, writing or planning her next beach trip.  

Find T.A. Foster

Website ** Twitter ** Facebook ** Goodreads*

Any of you who follow this blog regularly know that I absolutely love anything that has to do with witchcraft. That's one of my very favorite genres. Thanks to the awesome team at InkSlinger PR, I was introduced to the amazing TA Foster a few months ago and was on the blog tour for Fire Spell, the third novel in her amazing Ivy Grace Spell series. I was so excited to have her respond to me invitation. She's a great author and I cannot wait to party alongside her next week!

Halloween Spotlight Interview

What is your favorite supernatural genre (Witches, zombies, vampires, werewolves, etc) and why? 

I love vampires. I'm a huge Buffy fan and now love watching The Vampire Diaries. I wish there were more witch stories out there!

What is your favorite horror film and/or read? 

I am a wimp--I don't watch horror movies.

What is your favorite Halloween costume (or your favorite that you have worn/have seen)? 

I loved it the year I went as Buffy. I friend of mine carved wooden stakes for me, which were confiscated on Franklin St by a police officer :-(

What is your favorite Halloween candy?

Anything Reese's cup-related!

What is your favorite part about Halloween? 

I love seeing all the costumes. The more creative, the better.

What is your favorite Halloween memory? 

One year two of my friends and I dressed up as "fancy" witches. We had a blast. I would love to go to all of those parties again.

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Well, what do you think? Excited to hang out with TA Foster during the Halloween Author Invasion? I know we sure are!

Mrs. Foster will be taking over the event on Tuesday, October 28th! 

We can't wait to see you there! Go show TA some love and tell her you can't wait to party! Thanks so much for stopping by. Until next time, Happy Reading!

-Ethan

Fire Spell by T.A. Foster Blog Tour + GIVEAWAY

Hello readers and welcome to my stop on the blog tour for T.A. Foster's Fire Spell, book 3 in her Ivy Grace Spell series! I am a big fan of Mrs. Foster's work so being chosen to participate is a great honor. I am going to be offering a review for my tour stop. Below you will find an amazing giveaway, great graphic, buy links, the synopsis, and all kinds of information about our author, T.A. Foster! Enjoy your stop!

This is the third book in the Ivy Grace Spell series.

About Fire Spell:

Ever since her trip to New Orleans, Ivy Grace’s life just hasn’t been the same. Her magic is stronger, her stories more popular than ever, but something is missing. After she opens a forgotten inheritance from her grandmother, she learns the key to who she is and who should have her heart is in Charleston. She travels to the romantic city in search of answers, only this time everything she cherishes is at stake. Can Ivy’s Time Spell answer all her questions or will it bring her and her family closer to danger? In a race against time Ivy does all she can to rid the world of the darkest evil and save the men she loves.

Fire Spell buy links:

Amazon: http://amzn.to/WA1R0Y

B&N: http://bit.ly/Ut4tMC

Smashworks: http://bit.ly/1A3PWbc

 

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My Thoughts:

After writing several reviews on the topic of paranormal books lately, you guys have surely picked up on the hint that I have a thing for magic. Any book with magic is usually my cup of tea. Fire Spell definitely fit the bill for me!

This third outing by T.A. Foster is more fast paced and enthralling than ever before. I read the first two books in this series quite awhile ago, so I was worried about how reading this third adventure would work for me. My fears were quickly abated after the first page where I was welcomed back into Ivy's life like no time had passed. Note: I will be rereading and posting a series review at some point in the near future. I am always left feeling satisfied after reading a T.A. Foster read because of how well her writing flows. It isn't often that I find an author who I can read their book, just as though it were a conversation between she and I. Fire Spell read like that for me.

The storyline was gripping, the romance was "real" and didn't seemed forced at all, and the villain was definitely villain worthy! I feel like the ending wrapped up pretty well, but I'm really hoping for a book four! Fire Spell really did a fantastic job of answering some lingering questions I had about the series and did a great job of filling in the gaps I was seeing! A note on the romance: as any of my regular readers will tell you I like to make a note about the romance element of the novels I read. Fire Spell, or the whole Ivy Grace Spell series as a whole is full of romance, however, it does not control the story. I love that about T.A. Foster, she can write a great paranormal story with an awesome plot and the romance doesn't ruin anything. That is a rarity in stories such as this. I would say that as a guy I find this whole series to be a relatively "safe read". You won't feel dirty or embarrassed after reading this! I cannot wait to read more from T.A. Foster and this series.

This was a relatively short and very fast read for me so I'm having a difficult time reviewing it without saying too much to give away anything from the plot! I will definitely go deeper into my series review so as not to give away any of the plot to readers who haven't gotten their hands of this worthy read yet! Overall I give Fire Spell a 4-star rating! It's a great third edition in the Ivy Grace Spell series that will definitely leave you satisfied and begging for more Ivy, Jack, Finn and the rest of the amazing cast!

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Check out the first two books in the Ivy Grace Spell series by clicking on their covers below!

 

Now that you know a little bit about Fire Spell how about you check out this awesome giveaway that Mrs. Foster is hosting for us! Up for grabs is a $20 Amazon gift card! Who couldn't use that? Enter now!

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And before you leave, here's a little but about our author, Mrs. T.A. Foster

 

T.A. Foster

 

T.A. Foster is a Southern girl whose heart and spirit are connected to the beach. She grew up catching rays and chasing waves along the North Carolina Outer Banks and now resides in the state with her adventurous pilot husband, two children and two canine kiddos. T.A. has an undergraduate degree in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a graduate degree in Educational Psychology from Texas A&M University. When she’s not chasing her two-legged and four-legged children or trying to escape for date night, you can find her reading, writing or planning her next beach trip.  

Find T.A. Foster

Website ** Twitter ** Facebook ** Goodreads*

Alright readers there you have it, my blog tour stop for T.A. Foster's Fire Spell! As always I'm giving a HUGE thank you shout out to the amazing KP and the team over at InkSlinger PR for allowing me to participate! It's always such an honor to work with such an awesome company! Until next time readers, Happy Reading!

-Ethan