Out Today...

CAPTIVATE by Carrie Jones!

If you didn't win my Pesky Pisky Pixie giveaway then today is the day to run out and get CAPTIVATE, and if you haven't read NEED yet either, pick them both up! I seriously love this paranormal romance series and cannot wait for the next one.

The Great Pesky Pisky Pixie Giveaway!

Say that blog post title 10 times fast and don't get messed, up! I dare you!

Okay, that was fun but it's not how you win this giveaway. So wipe the spittle off of your computer screens and here we go!

I am giving away a great combo pack as my last giveaway of the year! Win my ARC of GREEN by Laura Peyton Roberts and my ARC of CAPTIVATE by Carrie Jones! I'll even throw in a pack of pixie stix if I reach 55 followers before the end of the contest!





GREEN features a fey called Piskies (They grant wishes if you capture them, but watch out, they are VERY tricky and literal with their wish giving), and CAPTIVATE is of course about Pixies (the bad nasty type not the Tinkerbell ones).

So here's how you enter!

1) Leave a comment here in under 100 words tell me about an encounter you had with pesky piskies or pixies.

2) As always Followers get 2 extra entries (be sure to tell me in the comments that you follow publicly on the sidebar...and yes I do double check)

3) Tweet, blog, or Facebook about this and let me know that too, for another extra entry!

Good luck with those Piskies and Pixies, they can be pesky!

The contest is open until 11:59 PM EST December 31, 2009! (So REALLY the last giveaway of the year from me!)

Author Interview: Carrie Jones!

I am thrilled to share with you this short and to the point interview I did with Carrie Jones! I have SO many more questions I could ask her about CAPTIVATE, but they would all be spoilery! So I went for some fun ones! Enjoy!

MPB: NEED was a wonderful book! What new aspects of your paranormal world are brought in in CAPTIVATE?

Carrie Jones: That is so nice of you to say! Thank you so much. Sigh. I get soooo nervous about my books.

I think the paranormal world is expanded in CAPTIVATE as Zara learns more about how pixie hierarchy works and the depth of the paranormal influence in the world.

MPB: If you could eat anything you wanted right this very minute, what would it be?

CJ: Fried potatoes with guacamole or maybe strudel or maybe brownies or maybe just white grape juice. Can you tell I'm hungry?

MPB: If you had a whole day to do whatever you wanted what would it be?

CJ: I am no allowed to say because my mom reads this blog and she still thinks I am a nice girl.
*MPB Note: Your mom reads the blog! Cool! Hi Carrie's mom! ;)

MPB: Can you tell us anything about the next book in the series?

CJ: Well, I am writing it RIGHT NOW! And it is totally kicking my butt. It's very much a continuation of what happened in CAPTIVATE. It's crazy but I think I like it. I don't know how to tell any more without spoiling everything in CAPTIVATE.

MPB: If you met a hot young Pixie King, would you trust him?

CJ: As my best friend who is a police sgt would say, "Yes." I trust everyone. It is a really big problem for me. Like if you are standing in front of me with a knife and frothing at the mouth? I'd totally be all, "Hey honey, are you okay? Do you need some food? Want to talk?"
And after you lunged at me? I'd still probably invite you over for strudel.

Thanks so much Carrie! Now everyone save some of that Christmas money, or giftcards you get this year and go buy CAPTIVATE!

Review CAPTIVATE by Carrie Jones

CAPTIVATE
by Carrie Jones
To Be Published January 5th 2010 by Bloomsbury USA
Hardcover, 257 pages
http://www.needpixies.com/

Placement in the Pile: Top Picks

Summary:
*If you have not yet read NEED, you may want to skip the Summary, I will try to keep my review as unspoilery as possible...

Zara and her friends knew they hadn't solved the pixie problem for good. Far from it. The king's needs grow deeper every day he's stuck in captivity, while his control over his people gets weaker. It's made him vulnerable. And now there's a new king in town.

A turf war is imminent, since the new pixie king, Astley, is moving in quickly. Nick nearly killed him in the woods on day one, but Zara came to his rescue. Astley swears that he and Zara are destined to be together, that he's one of the good guys. Nick isn't buying it, though Zara isn't as sure -- despite herself, she wants to trust the new king. But it's a lot more than her relationship with Nick that is at stake. It's her life -- and his.

Review:
Wow! This book is a whirlwind. It takes you deeper into Zara's paranormal world and into the issues of dealing with her father and the other Pixies in her home town.

CAPTIVATE will do just that, captivate the reader with it's exciting new characters, shocking unexpected twists, and may make you start to re-think what you thought you knew about Pixies and their world!

True to form, it is a middle series book and leaves you completely longing for more, but at the same time it also leaves you totally satisfied with plot shockers that you weren't so sure about when they happened. (Vague enough for you?)

This is certainly a book you want to read! A fascinating sequel to one of the best paranormal books of 2009. Oh and the cover is equally as gorgeous as Need's!

Come back tomorrow for my fun short interview with Carrie!

I was sent this ARC by the publisher.