Friday, April 12, 2019

{Blog Tour: Review + Giveaway} The Wings of War Series (Embers) - By Karen Ann Hopkins

 
 
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EMBERS - By Karen Ann Hopkins
(The Wings of War #1)
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Genre: YA, Paranormal
 
 

There are descendants of angels walking among us. Ember is one of them.

 
Embers is an epic paranormal adventure/romance about a seventeen year old girl who discovers that she's immune to fire and any other injury when she’s in a horrific car crash that kills her parents. Following a violent episode with her aunt's boyfriend, Ember flees Ohio to live with an old relative in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee. Ember's exuberance at escaping a bad home life soon turns to trepidation when she learns that she's a Watcher, a descendant of angels.

 
While Ember is instructed about her heritage and the powers that go along with it, she strikes up friendships with two teenagers who live in a frightening walled compound in the forest. Inexplicitly drawn to one of the young men in particular, an impossible romance develops. But it's cut short when Ember discovers that her new friends are fighting on the opposite side of a war that's been raging between two factions of Watchers for thousands of years. When the compound’s inhabitants threaten the townspeople, Ember takes action, sealing her fate in the ancient battle of good versus evil, and the grayness in between. Ember is up to the challenge, until she realizes that she isn’t only fighting for the lives of the locals and the souls of her new friends. She may be one of the few champions willing to make a stand for all of mankind as the rapture approaches and the end of days begin.
 

Embers is the first novel in the dark and gritty YA paranormal romance series, The Wings of War.
 
 
 
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Review
 
There are angels.....everywhere...but not all of them are good.
 
Thank god the I had the other books in hand when I finished Ember, because I don't know how anyone can finish book one and not immediately dive into book 2, 3 & 4!
 
Seriously, there are so many things that I love about Ember. Dealing with the death of her parents, the stare and questions as to why she was still alive, the weight, burden and guilt she carries are so raw in her that I wanted to just give her a hug and let her know if was all right, but there I knew she needed to continue her journey. As her story unfolds it's great to see her move, grow and accept, because at first I thought the storyline was moving a little too fast for me, but it evened out and turned into something phenomenal!
 
Without giving too much away, there are a couple a plot twists that were great surprises, but there was one side plot that I honest wished didn't happen, and am hoping will redeem itself in the future. Now as I dive into the next books in this amazing series just know that if you're walking in the woods and see a LARGE fence that goes on for miles....you never know what might be behind it!
 
5/5
 
 
 
 
 
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About the Author
 
 
Karen Ann Hopkins resides in northern Kentucky with her family on a farm that boasts a menagerie of horses, goats, peacocks, chickens, ducks, rabbits, dogs, and cats. Karen’s main job is home schooling the kids, but she finds time to give riding lessons, coach a youth equestrian drill team, and of course, write.  She was inspired to create her first book, Temptation, by the Amish community she lived in. The experiential knowledge she gained through her interactions with her neighbors drove the story of the star-crossed lovers, Rose and Noah. Their story continues in Belonging, where their families and cultures threaten to tear them apart, and with Forever and Deception, where we find out once and for all if love is enough for them.
 
​Lamb to the Slaughter, the first book in Serenity’s Plain Secrets, is Karen’s newest Amish endeavor, opening up the darker, grittier and more secretive lives of Amish society. It’s a story about the intertwining lives of three unlikely people in an Indiana Amish Community and the devastating results when a rebellious teenage girl is found shot to death in a corn field during the harvest. Serenity Adams is the newly elected young sheriff in the rural town of Blood Rock, and besides dealing with the threatening behavior of her predecessor, she now has a dead Amish girl on her plate.  At first glance, the case seems obvious. The poor girl was probably accidently shot during hunting season, but when the elders of the Amish community, and even the girl’s parents, react with uncaring subdued behavior, Serenity becomes suspicious. As she delves deeper into the secretive community that she grew up beside, she discovers a gruesome crime from the past that may very well be related to the Amish girl’s shooting. Serenity enlists the help of the handsome bad-boy building contractor, Daniel Bachman. He left the Amish when he was nineteen and has his own dark reasons to help the spunky sheriff solve the crime that the family and friends who shunned him are trying desperately to cover up.  Serenity’s persistence leads her to a stunning discovery that not only threatens to destroy her blossoming romance with Daniel, but may even take her life in the end.
 
​Karen’s YA paranormal/urban fantasy series, the Wings of War, is an epic story about Ember, whose normal life ends abruptly when her parents are killed and she discovers she’s a descendent of angels. Still coping with her strange powers, Ember finds herself — and her heart — in the middle of a centuries-old war in this “compulsively readable” novel (Kirkus Reviews).

 
​Karen grew up about a mile from Lake Ontario in Upstate New York.  She was bitten by the horse bug at the age of five, and after diligently taking riding lessons for several years, was rewarded with her first horse at the age of eleven.  The feisty horse’s name was Lady, a Quarter Horse-Thoroughbred cross, who became Karen’s steadfast companion.  Through the years, the constant force in her life was horses.  Eventually, she found her place as a riding instructor herself.  Before accepting her fate in the barnyard, she worked a short stint as a paralegal, traveled abroad, and guided tourists on horseback riding tours in the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee.

 
Karen is currently working on her bestselling Amish mystery series, Serenity's Plain Secrets, along with the YA paranormal/fantasy series, the Wings of War. Karen is also excited to announce there will be more books in the Temptation series.
 
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Tour Schedule
 

Week One:
4/1/2019- A Dream Within A DreamExcerpt
4/2/2019- Introvert BookloverExcerpt
4/3/2019- Lisa Loves LiteratureSpotlight
4/4/2019- BookHoundsInterview
4/5/2019- Lone Tree ReviewsExcerpt
 
Week Two:
4/8/2019- Novel NoviceExcerpt
4/9/2019- Books Coffee and RepeatGuest Post
4/10/2019- Reese's ReviewsReview
4/11/2019- Savings in SecondsReview
4/12/2019- Taking It One Book at a timeReview
 
Week Three:
4/15/2019- Bookroom ReviewsGuest Post
4/16/2019- Book-KeepingReview
4/17/2019- Viviana MacKade- Excerpt
4/18/2019- Kelly P's BlogExcerpt
4/19/2019- Tyto ForestExcerpt
 
Week Four:
4/23/2019- Smada's Book SmackReview
4/24/2019- D. Books and ReviewsReview
4/25/2019- Treestand Book ReviewsReview
4/26/2019- Novel Nerd FactionReview
 
Week Five:
4/29/2019- 100 Pages A DayReview
4/30/2019- Lady Amber's ReviewsReview

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Giveaway
1 winner will receive one set of signed print copies of the entire 4 book series, open to US, Canada, Australia and Great Britain.
 
 

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