Cover Reveal: Forevermore and Everlast by Alex Grayson

 

Alex Grayson has revealed the covers

for Forevermore and Everlast!

 

Forevermore is the prequel novella to Everlast and releases January 21st, 2021.

Everlast releases February 23, 2021.

 

Everything has a reason for being, and you are mine.

Without you, there is no me.

 

FOREVERMORE

I met him when I was eight, and he saved me from the bullies on the school playground.

The next day, he called me his girl.

When we were thirteen, we began to look at each other differently.

At fourteen, we shared our first kiss.

We were sixteen the first time we made love and promised to always cherish each other.

The night before we graduated high school, he asked me to marry him, and the day before we left to attend college, I did.

Our first child came when we were twenty-three.

Lincoln was my once in a lifetime, my destiny. I was his happily ever after, his kismet. Our future was forevermore written in the stars. The indescribable kind of love everyone searches for, but rarely ever find. A love so strong, one lifetime wouldn’t be enough. His soul was my mate, and mine was his.

Our life was perfect.

Until it wasn’t.

Fate brought us together.

Now it will tear us apart.

EVERLAST

Lincoln was my once in a lifetime, my destiny.

I was his happily ever after, his kismet.

I met him when I was eight, and he saved me from the bullies on the school playground.

The next day, he called me his girl.

When we were thirteen, we began to look at each other differently.

At fourteen, we shared our first kiss.

We were sixteen the first time we made love and promised we’d always be together.

The night before we graduated high-school, he asked me to marry him, and the day before we left for college, I became his wife.

Our first child came when we were just twenty-three. And our second, five years later.

Our future was forevermore written in the stars. We had that indescribable kind of love everyone searches for, but rarely ever find. A love so strong, one lifetime wouldn’t be enough.

His soul was my mate, and mine was his.

Our life was perfect. Until it wasn’t.

 

 

Cover Designer: Moonstruck Cover Design & Photography

 

Preorder Forevermore today!

Nook: http://bit.ly/ForBarnN

Also available on Amazon, Apple Books, and Kobo on January 26.

Preorder Everlast today!

Amazon US: https://amzn.to/317ZPJT

Amazon WW: http://mybook.to/everlast

Apple Books: https://apple.co/3j8ZCvX

Nook:https://bit.ly/3hsJZiB

Kobo: https://bit.ly/everag

 

Goodreads:

Forevermore - http://bit.ly/ForGoodreads

Everlast - http://bit.ly/ELGoodR

 

 

Meet Alex

Alex Grayson is a USA Today bestselling author of heart pounding, emotionally gripping contemporary romances including the Jaded Series, the Consumed Series, the Hell Night Series, and multiple standalone novels. Her passion for books was reignited by a gift from her sister-in-law. After spending several years as a devoted reader and blogger, Alex decided to write and independently publish her first novel in 2014 (an endeavor that took a little longer than expected). The rest, as they say, is history.

Originally a southern girl, Alex now lives in Ohio with her husband, daughter, three cats and one dog. She loves the color blue, homemade lasagna, casually browsing real estate, and interacting with her readers. Visit her website, www.alexgraysonbooks.com, or find her on social media!

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Review: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

From Goodreads:

Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical.  But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight.  Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn't play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone's business.  Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he's been emailing, will be compromised.

With some messy dynamics emerging in his once tight-knit group of friends, and his email correspondence with Blue growing more flirtatious every day, Simon's junior year has suddenly gotten all kinds of complicated.  Now, change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he's pushed out- without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he's never met.

My thoughts and review:

So, WOW!!!!! This book is amazing. Talk about feeling real.  I felt like these characters perfectly embodied your typical high school students dealing with normal teenage issues.

"It is definitely annoying that straight (and white, for that matter) is the default, and that the only people who have to think about their identity are the ones who don't fit that mold."

I loved the way the relationship between Simon and "Blue" developed.  I have to admit, my thoughts of Blue's true identity changed multiple times through out the book.  At one point I was certain I had figured it out, and was thinking to myself how does Simon not realize this guy is Blue, just to realize there was no possible way that person was Blue.

I loved all of the dynamics of the characters.  The spats between friends.  The bullying.  The over the top parents, and the super amazing teacher.  This book is just great.  It is one that I will definitely encourage my children to read when they get to high school.

May at the Peacock Ranch by Michele Machado

This is a great book about May, who just lost her mother to cancer and is trying to figure out how to save her family. May has always lived in Las Vegas with her mother, younger brother, and younger sister.  She has decided she will do whatever she has to do to ensure CPS doesn't take her brother and sister away from her.  This will be no easy task as all of their utilities are late, there are mounds of medical bills, and they are about to loose their home.  Her friends give her ideas of how to come up with the money, some serious, others more like jokes.  No one would be prepared for the option May chooses.

May is a strong, determined young adult.  Even before the loss of her mom their lives were far from easy.  May's mother did a great job of raising her children to take care of themselves and each other.   Most people wouldn't approve of what she does to save her family, but she does what she feels is the only option.  Nothing is more important to May than her family and she will do anything to keep them together. Such a great story about self sacrifice, love, and friendship.  I know I've done some things in my life that I'm not entirely proud of for my family.  Family is the most important thing there, and this book does a great job of showing that.  While May is 19 in this book, I would recommend it for adults only.

Making Faces by Amy Harmon

Making Faces is an emotional book that pulls you in and makes you feel.  I'm not talking the occasional tear or chuckle.  I mean really Feel.  It's raw, and gut wrenching, tears of happiness, and jubilant smiles.  I think I felt every emotion possible while reading this book.  By the time I finished I was happily emotionally exhausted.

Fern is "the preacher's daughter".  All through school she was a bit of an ugly duckling, practically invisible to most.  She spends most of her time with her cousin, Bailey, who suffers from Duchenne muscular dystrophy.  Ambrose is quite possibly the most popular kid in school, or at least the guy every boy wants to be and every girl is crushing on.  He's a champion wrestler and a good student.

This book covers different time periods through their lives.  Going back to the past when it helps define a moment in the present.  This is something I usually find a little confusing in books (unless I know I'm reading a time travel book).  However, in Making Faces it works wonderfully.  Although I will admit I didn't necessarily pay attention to the Month and year listed when it would flash back.  Which made one big event hit me almost harder that it did when it happened.  Fern, Bailey, and Ambrose were all seniors in high school in the Fall of 2001.  Their lives and the town is forever altered by the events that day and events it lead too.  Fern grows out of her ugly duckling stage, but doesn't realize it.  Ambrose realizes the hardest possible way, that looks and athletic prowess aren't everything in life.  Bailey continues to look at the world from a different point of view and try to be a hero in his own way.

Amy Harmon eloquently put together this story filled with tragedy, loss, life, love, and happiness.  It is a book that any on can find at least one character and say hey, they are a lot like me.  I feel this book has a lot to teach and give.  It would be great for high schoolers.  It might even give them a better perspective into how other kids in school feel.  This is a book you will not regret reading.