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Title: WILDWOOD (The Hightower Trilogy
Book #1)
Author: Jadie Jones
Pub. Date: September 26, 2017
Publisher: The Parliament House
Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook
Pages: 294
Summary: Tanzy Hightower is not crazy. At
least, that’s what she tells herself. Crazy looks more like her mother, who
studies each sunrise with the same fascination other women give tabloid
magazines in the grocery store checkout line. Crazy sounds like the woman on
the radio claiming there’s a whole separate world existing parallel to our own.
Still, Tanzy can’t deny the tingle of recognition she feels each time she sees
her mother standing at the kitchen window, or hears the panic in the woman’s
voice coming through the speakers of her father’s truck.
Tanzy intends to follow her father’s footsteps into the professional horse world. But the moment she watches him die on the back of a horse in an accident she feels responsible for, everything changes.
On the first anniversary of his death, a fight with her mother drives her back to her father’s farm in the middle of a stormy night. Neither Tanzy nor life as she knows it escapes unchanged when she is struck by lightning and introduced to a world... unseen, and receives proof her father’s death was no accident.
Two strangers seem too willing to help her navigate her new reality: Vanessa Andrews, a psychiatrist who believes lightning chooses who it strikes, and Lucas, a quiet, scarred stable hand with timing that borders on either perfect or suspect. But Tanzy has secrets of her own. Desperate for answers and revenge, Tanzy must put her faith in their hands as her past comes calling, and her father’s killer closes in.
Review: First off, the summary gives a lot away. There are a lot of spoilers in the synopsis. I give this book a solid 5 out of 5 stars!!
Tanzy has always known that her mother was a little off and her father never asked any questions. Her mother is not a reliable character and she becomes despondent after the death of her husband. She is obsessed with routine and tradition and doesn't want it broken for fear of everything coming out in the open that she is hiding to protect Tanzy.
This is a great paranormal novel that had me flying through the pages. It was disturbing, shocking, fluffy, betraying and heartbreaking. There were a few times I caught myself crying when ever Tanzy would remember her dad and his little ticks or what he liked or what he would say. It reminded me of an episode that I watched of Flash with the girl and guy kept being reincarnated and had to kill whoever was killing them because everytime this guy killed the couple, he would get stronger. There were similarities but I found this reincarnation story SO much better.
Title: WINDSWEPT (The Hightower
Trilogy Book #2)
Author: Jadie Jones
Pub. Date: November 13, 2018
Publisher: The Parliament House
Formats: Paperback, eBook
Pages: 276
Summary: Tanzy's journey continues in
Windswept, the second installment of the Hightower Trilogy... An Unseen World
believes Tanzy Hightower is the key in an ancient prophecy meant to deliver the
only new birth in all of time. They have waited a thousand years for her soul to
return to life in human form. Some of them will stop at nothing to fulfill the
prophecy, and others have sworn an oath to end Tanzy's existence, permanently.
Tanzy's body is compromised. Her veins are now home to the blood of a savage,
wild horse, and its instincts are becoming impossible to control. Her world is
also divided. She is determined to rescue Lucas, an Unseen creature who has
loved her since her first life, and to find her treasured Harbor and the other
stolen horses, which are bound for a catastrophic end in a world she can't
access on her own. Yet the only allies she has left insist she seeks refuge in
a remote safe house on the Outer Banks. While her fellow candidates beg her to
stay in hiding, new enemies work to draw her out, making it clear Lucas and the
horses are hers for the taking. But Tanzy knows all to well that when your
loved ones are used as bait, finding them is only the beginning.
Review: Will contain spoilers. This second installment of the Hightower trilogy was more action packed, and full of plot twists. We pick up from where left off with Tanzy escaping and running into the new girl, who admits right away that she is there to help protect Tanzy and that she has been in touch with Hope, Tanzy's mom. This book takes place on the beach and surrounds the wild horses on the OuterBanks in North Carolina.
Tanzy is hell bent on saving Lucas and she eventually tracks him down. The new characters in this book were integrated so well because their past lives were introduce in the first book and their re-incarnated souls were perfectly matched, just a bit more modernized.
I hope that something beautiful will happen for Tanzy and Lucas. I hope Vanessa, Reese and Asher go straight to hell.
Tanzy is hell bent on saving Lucas and she eventually tracks him down. The new characters in this book were integrated so well because their past lives were introduce in the first book and their re-incarnated souls were perfectly matched, just a bit more modernized.
I hope that something beautiful will happen for Tanzy and Lucas. I hope Vanessa, Reese and Asher go straight to hell.
Jadie Jones
Young-adult author. Equine professional. Southern gal. Pacific Northwest
Transplant. Especially fond of family, sunlight, and cookie dough.
I wrote my first book in seventh grade, filling one hundred and four
pages of a black and white Mead notebook. Back then I lived for two things:
horses and R.L. Stine books. Fast forward nearly twenty years, and I still work
with horses, and hoard books like most women my age collect shoes. It's amazing
how much changes... and how much stays the same.
The dream of publishing a novel has hitch-hiked with me down every other
path I've taken (and there have been many.) Waitress, farm manager, road
manager, bank teller, speech writer, retail, and more. But that need to bring
pen to paper refused to quiet. Finally, in 2009, I sat down, pulled out a brand
new notebook, and once again let the pictures in my head become words on paper.
As a child, my grandfather would sit me in his lap and weave tales about
the Cherokee nation, and a girl who belonged with horses. His words painted a
whole new world, and my mind would take flight. My hope - my dream - is that
Tanzy's journey does the same for you.
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Tour Schedule:
Week One:
11/12/2018- Here
is what I read blog- Excerpt
11/13/2018- Mythical
Books- Excerpt
11/14/2018- lori's little house
of reviews- Review
11/15/2018- Lifestyle Of Me- Review
11/16/2018- Rhythmicbooktrovert- Review
Week Two:
11/19/2018- Adventures
Thru Wonderland- Review
11/20/2018- Whatever You Can Still Betray- Excerpt
11/21/2018- BookHounds YA- Interview
11/22/2018- Graced
with Books- Excerpt
11/23/2018- Texan
Holly Reads- Excerpt
Week Three:
11/26/2018- PopTheButterfly
Reads- Review
11/27/2018- Daily
Waffle- Spotlight
11/28/2018- Novel
Novice- Excerpt
11/29/2018- The
Book Bratz- Interview
11/30/2018- Character Madness and Musing- Excerpt
Week Four:
12/3/2018- Dorky
Girl and Skeletor- Spotlight
12/4/2018- Viviana
MacKade- Excerpt
12/5/2018- Smada's Book Smack- Review
12/6/2018- Parajunkee- Excerpt
12/7/2018- Sincerely
Karen Jo Blog- Excerpt
Week Five:
12/10/2018- Good
Choice Reading- Excerpt
12/11/2018- Oh Hey!
Books.- Interview
12/12/2018- Two
Chicks on Books- Excerpt
12/13/2018- Two
points of interest- Excerpt
12/14/2018- D
Books and Reviews- Review
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed the first two books. The final book and a prequel will release this spring, and I'd love to have you review the eARCs when they are available!! The last line you wrote about Windswept made me laugh so hard. The journey is far, far from over ;) <3
ReplyDeleteThank you for the kind words and for taking part in the tour! <3
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