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My Ex From Hell (The Blooming Goddess Trilogy #1)

by Tellulah Darling

272 pages

Publisher: Te Da Media

Release Date: April 1st 2013

Rate: Loved it

I hadn't had the chance to read this book until now, and I must say that I am really glad I joined this tour. This book is full of comedy mixed up with Greek mythology where you meet some incredible characters, and a romantic and impossible love story between the two main characters that would blow your mind and would remind you to the well-known and tragic italian lovers created by Shakespeare.

Sophie Bloom, the main character, is snarky, funny and easy to join in a story like this. She is easy to understand and really charming. I mean, she's struggling with all the consequences of being 16 and she keeps it cool and you cannot help it, but laugh with her. All the time.

And Kai, ladies, hot, sexy, caveman and lovable son of Hades. Yes, he's in our Fictional Boys List, for sure. At first, he's not so gentle with Sophie and kind of a jackass, I mean, he's supposed to be a bad boy! But then you get to know him a little bit more, and that's when you start doing your "Team Kai" flag.

Their relationship is an epic one and I think that their dramatic and mysterious attraction is what makes this book an incredible one. However, you get to love it because of the humorous part. While you are reading you keep an static smile in your face without knowing it.

Tellulah Darling is a great writer that creates simply and magically some incredible stories worth reading it. Not only because it's easy to read her books, or because you love her character's attitude. But because of her writing style you enter an unforgettable world full of humor, romance, mythology, friendship and drama.

I'd definitely recommend this book to everyone and that's why we are giving this amazing book five gorjuss dolls and the promise to re-read it whenever we can!

My Date From Hell (The Blooming Goddess Trilogy #2)

by Tellulah Darling

288 pages

Publisher: Te Da Media

Release Date: October 31st 2013

Rate: Loved it

What made this series so enjoyable was, not only that we haven't had to wait to read the second book, but to get the chance to keep reading about Sophie and Kai and their incredible relationship.

The main characters are pretty much the same, with a slight chance. They face different situations and struggle with some new and old problems.

The thing we loved about Sophie? Her attitude? Is intact. She keeps her snarky attitude in line and shows us how strong and great she is. And we love her because of that. Although she's still trying to figure out the whole Persephone situation, she's incredible and makes the story keep flowing.

~~Our~~ Kai is still as charming as ever. Although you get to see a different Kai this time, kind of, because this time he has a lot on his plate, we keep reading about the guy we met in the first book. And we love him.

We will stop right there 'cause we don't want to make any spoiler, but, Book Addicts, you need to read this one. Tellulah Darling did, once again, a wonderful and excellent job, and we get to see some amazing new characters in My Date From Hell and, obviously, the old ones, too. These books are definitely one of my favorites and I am definitely re-reading them when I can!

That's the reason we are strongly recommending you this book and tell you that you are gonna love it. For sure! And how many gorjuss dolls we gave this book? Five, of course!

Thank you so much to AToMR Tours for letting us be part of this incredible blog tour and giving us the chance to read Tellulah's amazing books. And to Tellulah for writing such incredible, unforgettable and wonderful stories.

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We are in the blog tour of Tellulah Darling's book, so we thought it would be wonderful to participate in the book blitz, too. Hope you enjoy it!

My Date From Hell (The Blooming Goddess Trilogy #2)

Tellulah Darling

Publication date: October 31st 2013

Genres: Comedy, Mythology, Young Adult

Synopsis:

Sophie Bloom’s junior year has been a bit of a train wreck. After the world’s greatest kiss re-awakened Sophie’s true identity as Persephone (Goddess of Spring and Savior of Humanity), she fought her dragon-lady guidance counselor to the death, navigated mean girl Bethany’s bitchy troublemaking, and dealt with the betrayal of her backstabbing ex, Kai (sexy Prince of Darkness). You’d think a girl could catch a break.

Yeah, right.

With Zeus stepping things up, it’s vital that Sophie retrieve Persephone’s memories and discover the location of the ritual to stop Zeus and Hades. So when Aphrodite strikes a deal that can unlock Sophie’s pre-mortal past, what choice does the teen goddess have but to accept?

The mission: stop media mogul Hermes from turning Bethany into a global mega-celebrity. The catch? Aphrodite partners Sophie and Kai to work together … and treat this suicide mission as a date. Which could work out for Sophie’s plan to force Kai to admit his feelings for her–if she doesn’t kill him first.

Add to that the fact that BFF Theo’s love life and other BFF Hannah’s actual life are in Sophie’s hands, and suddenly being a teenager—even a godlike one—seems a bit like … well, hell. Whatever happened to dinner and a movie?

The YA romantic comedy/Greek mythology fireworks continue to fly in My Date From Hell. Love meets comedy with a whole lot of sass in book two of this teen fantasy romance series. Breaking up is easy; dating is deadly.

Aphrodite pointed her gun at me again, kind of casually. “Your problem is you’re too hung up on the past. You gotta move forward with yer life.”

I heard Hannah give a smothered laugh.

“You got this cutie pie in love with ya, and instead of enjoying his company, all you do is whine.” With a quick flick, Aphrodite opened the cylinder to reload.

“He’s not in love,” I said.

She peered at Kai. “Whattya talkin’ about? Sure he is. Everyone knows Kyrillos loves Persephone.”

“I’m Sophie,” I ground out.

She waved the gun around. “Ya ya. That too.”

That too? I took a deep breath, folded my fingers over my palms and looked

slightly to the left of her in case I accidentally started blasting. Didn’t want to go down in history as the girl who killed the Goddess of Love.

“Nope. It’s just desire,” I said with faked calm. “Kai is so resistant to the idea of being in love with me that your arrows don’t work. Besides which, when he actually does fall so hard for me that he doesn’t know which way is up, I want him to know he chose that of his own free will. That he chose me.” I threw him a sweet smile.

“Chose you?” Kai got this look of “have we had this conversation before?” on his face. My smile got tight.

Aphrodite scooped up a saclike pink purse laying on the ground. She rooted

around in it. “Desire is part of romantic love, silly,” she said to me.

She pulled out a handful of bullets and dumped them in Festos’ hurriedly outstretched hands before turning back to Kai. She gestured with the still-open chambered revolver toward him. “Your body knows what’s what. Stop fighting

it.”

Kai glowered at her.

She laughed it off, reloading. “And you,” Aphrodite said to me, as she

plucked more bullets from Festos’ hand to load into the chamber. “Yer just as bad with your own issues.”

She couldn’t know about my insecurities around Persephone could she? Aphrodite narrowed her eyes at me.

I gulped.

Aphrodite shot me a look of disgust and popped the final bullets into the

chambers. She gestured at each of us in turn with one pink, sparkly manicured finger. “I’m gonna start gettin’ real mad about how youse is all dealin’ with love.”

“There’s a whole bunch of drags around here where love is concerned,” Festos agreed.

“Thanks so much for inviting him along,” Theo said to me.

I grimaced an apology at Theo, then shot back at Festos, “Seems there’s a whole bunch of dogs here, too.” I looked between him and Kai.

“Oh don’t forget Pierce,” Festos replied cheerfully. “He’s a total mimbo.” “He is not,” Hannah defended. “He’s pure love.”

Aphrodite threw her a fond smile. “I like you, girlie.”

“Love in name, hormones in game,” Theo countered.

“Look at us all in agreement,” Festos replied.

“No, because you’re talking about lust,” I protested.

“Lust is pretty good too,” Aphrodite said, “but it ain’t nothin’ like the real

thing.” She clicked the cylinder into place and looked at me. “We got a deal? You’ll get Jack to kill the campaign?”

“You’ll undo the love thing?” I asked.

“Nope. You could do with a little love in your life. Kyrillos is obviously brimming with love for ya now,” she ignored Kai’s snort, “so you’re gonna enjoy it.”

“Meaning what?” I asked.

“A date,” Kai piped up. “I’d say I’m ready now.” He arched an eyebrow as if to say “ball’s in your court.”

“I think it’s a great idea,” I slid my arm around his waist and pressed myself

up against his side.

A look of surprise flashed across his face. “Perfect.”

I could outdate him any place, any time. I brightened. This was going to be

fun. The touching part wasn’t a downside either.

“The fate of the world does dee-pend on you loving each other,” Aphrodite

said. “So, good. We’ll start with a date.”

“Still say it’s a euphemism,” Festos burst out. “And Kai doesn’t date.”

Kai snaked his arm around my waist before pressing his fingertips into my

hip. “Never wanted to before. Sophie’s the exception.”

“The euphemistic exception?” Festos asked.

“Shut up,” Kai and I fired at him in tandem.

Festos took it in stride, waggling his eyebrows cheerfully at Theo who

pretended to look disapproving but totally wasn’t. Even Hannah didn’t bother to hide her smile.

“Only thing is,” I told Aphrodite, “I have to be back at school by Sunday morning. I have a meeting I can’t miss. So I’ll have to get this thing with Jack done quickly to have time for the date.”

“Going together to find Hermes is the date.” Aphrodite looked at me like I was an idiot. “You two need as much together time as possible.”

No way. I needed all my wits about me to handle Kai. Something that couldn’t happen if I had to track down Hermes at the same time. I tried a new tactic. “A date involves dinner and a movie. Something romantic. Finding Hermes hardly counts.”

She pinned me in her gaze. “Had so miny of them, Miz Expert? All a date is, is two people spendin’ time to deepen their attraction.”

“Or kill it,” Hannah piped up.

Aphrodite scrunched up her nose. “Huh?”

“There are far more first dates than second,” Hannah explained. “Which

means that after spending time, those people realized they were not a match.” “What she said,” I seconded.

Aphrodite narrowed her eyes at Hannah. “I don’t get ya. You talk like that

but you’re so brim up with love.”

“I’m a confounding enigma,” Hannah replied cheerfully.

Aphrodite threw her hands up. “Enough’a this nonsense. You’ll go together

to find Hermes. And you’ll be date-like doin’ it.”

That sounded like a threat.

“Almost like you planned it that way,” I said to Kai.