Book Signing Tour: Christine Brae, Tarryn Frisher, and Colleen Hoover in PH!

‪#‎NBSevents‬ ‪#‎CTCinPH‬ Join bestselling romance and new adult authors Christine Brae, Tarryn Frisher, and Colleen Hoover for book signing events on September 12, 2015 at 2 p.m. in The Gallery, Ayala Center Cebu, on September 13, 2015 at 2 p.m. in the Lower Ground Event Center, Mega A of SM Megamall, and on September 19, 2015 at 5 p.m. in the National Book Store booth at the Manila International Book Fair, SMX Convention Center. Registration starts at 10 a.m. for all events. Only books purchased from National Book Store, National Book Store Express or Powerbooks will be accommodated. 

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What: Christine Brae, Tarryn Fisher, and Colleen Hoover Book Signing Tour

When: September 12, 2015, 2 p.m.

Where: The Gallery, Ayala Center Cebu

When: September 13, 2015, 2 p.m.

Where: L/G Event Center, Mega A of SM Megamall

When: September 19, 2015, 5 p.m.

Where: National Book Store booth, Manila International Book Fair, SMX Convention Center

Limited to 200 slots only

Registration starts at 10 a.m. for all events. 

ABOUT CHRISTINE BRAE

Christine Brae is the author of ‘Light in the World’, ‘His Wounded Light’, ‘Insipid’, and ‘In this Life.’

ABOUT ‘LIGHT IN THE WORLD’

Affected by her parents’ highly publicized divorce, Isabel grows up isolated and alone, with a resolve to never fall in love and repeat their mistakes. 

When Jesse Cain enters her life, she falls hopelessly in love with him, and every sadness she’s ever felt is washed away by his intensity and passion. But people change as they grow up. Things can never stay the same forever.

Jesse and Isabel fight to stay together, determined to hold on to what they once had. Isabel wonders if a second love can ever be enough to make her forget her first.

‪#‎NBSnews‬ Pre-order Christine Brae’s (@ChristineBrae) THE LIGHT IN THE WOUND only at http://www.nationalbookstore.com.ph/the-light-in-the-wound

ABOUT TARRYN FISHER

Tarryn Fisher is the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Author of five novels, and is currently working on two more (Marrow and the second installment of Never Never). She is the co-founder of Clothed Caption, a fashion blog she runs with her friend, Madison Seidler. Tarryn resides in the Seattle area with her family. She loves rainy days, Coke, and thinks Instagram is the new Facebook. 

ABOUT ‘THE OPPORTUNIST’

Dear Caleb,

You forgot me? How do you FORGET someone who grated your heart up like a block of cheese?

I’ll tell you what I’m GOING TO DO; I’m going to pretend that we’ve never met. Then, I’m going to make you fall in love with me again. We both know I’ll do anything to get what I want. I’ve never claimed to be a good person. If there is truth in me, it is you. Please don’t remember me…..please.

Love,

Olivia

Olivia Kaspen is a sharp tongued manipulator used to always getting what she wants. With just one exception-Caleb Drake, the one she foolishly let slip away. After a chance encounter brings Caleb back into her life, Olivia finds herself wanting a second chance with her first love, and asking herself how far she is willing to go to get him back. Her only problem is a red head named Leah, Caleb’s new love. Olivia must fight for what was once hers, and in the process discover that sometimes love falls short of redemption.

#‎NBSfinds‬ THE OPPORTUNIST: A NOVEL by Tarryn Fisher (@Tarryn__Fisher). Available for P449 (Trade Paperback) in National Book Store. Shop online: http://www.nationalbookstore.com.ph/the-opportunist-3782362….

ABOUT COLLEEN HOOVER

Colleen Hoover is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of contemporary novels such as ‘Slammed’, ‘Point of Retreat’, ‘This Girl’, ‘Hopeless’, ‘Losing Hope’, ‘Finding Cinderella’, ‘Maybe Someday’, and ‘Ugly Love.’ ‘Ugly Love’ is now being turned into a film that is being tagged as the next ‘Fifty Shades of Grey.’ Colleen Hoover is also the co-author of ‘Never Never’ along with Tarryn Fisher.

ABOUT ‘CONFESS’

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover, a new novel about risking everything for love—and finding your heart somewhere between the truth and lies.

At age twenty-one, Auburn Reed has already lost everything important to her. In her fight to rebuild her shattered life, she has her goals in sight and there is no room for mistakes. But when she walks into a Dallas art studio in search of a job, she doesn’t expect to find a deep attraction to the enigmatic artist who works there, Owen Gentry. 

For once, Auburn takes a chance and puts her heart in control, only to discover that Owen is keeping a major secret from coming out. The magnitude of his past threatens to destroy everything important to Auburn, and the only way to get her life back on track is to cut Owen out of it.

To save their relationship, all Owen needs to do is confess. But in this case, the confession could be much more destructive than the actual sin.

‪#‎NBSfinds‬ SLAMMED by Colleen Hoover (@colleenhoover). Available for P599 (Trade Paperback) in National Book Store. Shop online:http://www.nationalbookstore.com.ph/slammed-a-novel.html.

We hope you guys are excited as we are! See you there!!

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Book Playlist: Love Me With Lies by Tarryn Fisher

           

Love Me With Lies Series

I finished reading Thief last night and I'm still experiencing the post-Tarryn-Fisher sickness––meaning it still courses through my thoughts and I can't seem to move on. I love this series no matter how much it hurt me to the point of making me cry then force me to love it again because of the beauty and reality of it all. It was like that, a cycle...a never ending cycle of love and hate, of trust and lies that render me speechless. The characters are flawed but those are what makes them real and the emotions raw. Man, I hate to say goodbye to the characters I grew to love and hate most especially to Caleb and Olivia so I've decided to create a playlist for their unconventional love story . I'm trying to embed a playlist, however, I don't know what's wrong because it doesn't work so I've listed them instead and highlight the lyrics which I think describe this series the most. 

1. I Won't Lie – Go Radio

 If I could take it all back

I could make it all right

You could be the best part of my life

I can tell you all night that I wanna be

The man I'm supposed to be

That...

I won't lie

I've waited a million hours just to say that

I will die if you leave me

You are the way my heart beats

And you are the words my tongue speaks

And I will die if you leave me

2. Time-Bomb – All Time Low

Got my heart in your hands
Like a time bomb ticking

It goes off, we start again

If it breaks, we fix it

Got your heart in my hands

Like a time bomb ticking

We should know better

But we won't let go

It was like a time bomb
Set it in motion

We knew that we were

Destined to explode

(Destined to explode)

And if I have to pull you

Out of the wreckage

You know I'm never gonna let you go

3. Wait for You –– Elliott Yamin

What will it take to make you come back?

Girl, I told you what it is and it just ain't like that

No, why can't you look at me? You're still in love with me

Don't leave me crying

Baby, why can't we just, just start over again?

Get it back to the way it was

If you give me a chance I can love you right

But you're telling me it won't be enough

So baby, I will wait for you

'Cause I don't know what else I can do

Don't tell me I ran out of time

If it takes the rest of my life

4. I Must Be Dreaming –– The Maine

Tell me that you love me.

And it'll be alright.

Are you thinking of me?

Just come with me tonight.

You know I need you.

Just like you need me.

Can't stop, Won't stop.

I must be dreaming.

5. When 3's A Crowd –– A Day To Remember

So here we are again, in the same situation

I'm screaming at the top of my lungs and you're not saying a word

Did you just say what you mean?

Why can't you just mean what you said

When you said "No one can love you like me?"

These past four walls won't be the only thing that's keeping me from you

This distance could never hold this back (I need you)

So let's just take this time and we'll use this for reflection

And I'll see you in three days

And you'll think of me when you're next to him

Well that's a wrap up for my first book playlist! ;)

Here are snippets of my favourite quotes from the three books:

"Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. Love is mean, but it's good. It keeps us alive."

–Thief

“Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you're just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love.”

–Dirty Red

"I think that after the first time you give your heart away, you never get it back. The rest of your life is just you pretending that you still have a heart."

–The Opportunist

Review: Dirty Red (Love Me With Lies, #2) by Tarryn Fisher

Dirty Red (Love Me With Lies, #2) by Tarryn Fisher

Genre: NA Contemporary
Kindle Edition: 265 pages

Release Date: December 21st 2012

Purchase: Amazon

Dear Opportunist,

You thought you could take him from me, but you lost. Now, that he's mine I'll do anything to keep him. Do you doubt me? I have everything that was supposed to be yours. In case you were wondering; he doesn't ever think about you anymore. I won't let him go....ever.

Dirty Red

Leah Smith finally has everything she has ever wanted. Except she doesn't. Her marriage feels more like a loan than a lifelong commitment, and the image she has worked so hard to build is fraying before her eyes. With a new role and a past full of secrets, Leah must decide how far she is willing to go to keep what she has stolen.

Review

“Wow. Wow. HELL WOW!”

These were the words I utter after reading Dirty Red which was quite an intense, infuriating and brilliant read.  I almost hurl my phone on the wall every time Leah flips on her inner B-ness. It's good (and crazy) to finally be able to look on the point of view of the person who tries everything in her power to keep two people who love each other apart and mind you she was aggravating beyond imagination. I tried to give Leah her chance she---slightly---deserves because her actions might be just fruits of the difficulties she have suffered through her childhood but almost at every moment that I've made up my mind there'll be twists and exasperating things she'll do that would brought me back to keep her on the bad side. I've finally realized she deserved it after all (you'll know why when the bomb was dropped). She's a dirty fighter and she doesn't know how to set her boundaries between love and obsession plus she's full of insecurities. Well, if you're wondering she's not so bad most of the time...She seemed to have care, love and be thoughtful of another being especially when she have come to realize Estella's importance to her, as her mother. We were given glimpses of the good side of Leah and it's nice to know that underneath the personality she imposes her heart isn't all tainted black after all. Looking through her perspective of the past and the present may give us that impression.

I'm not a fan of Leah---I know most of us are---and there’s a LOT of things she had done which are really unforgivable but I hope in all of these things there is still something that could be saved. However, we’d all be certain that she isn't done yet with Caleb and Olivia.

Dirty Red is the sequel to the bestselling book by Tarryn Fisher, The Opportunist, which I highly recommend to you all if you haven't read yet because if you haven't then you are missing a lot! I never thought that this series could get more compelling and awesome.

Dirty Red is amazingly extraordinary and it completely blown me away.

Can I have the third book now, please? J

Favorite quote:

“Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. 

Then you're just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love."

  

Author Bio

I would like to write a novel that every, single person loves, but not even J.K. Rowling could do that. Instead, I try to write stories that pull on people's emotions. I believe that sadness is the most powerful emotion, and swirled with regret the two become a dominating force. I love villains. Three of my favorites are Mother Gothel, Gaston and the Evil Queen who all suffered from a pretty wicked case of vanity (like me). I like to make these personality types the center of my stories.

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