BLOG TOUR - TREMBLE (Denazen Book #3) by JUS ACCARDO

Welcome to our stop of the blog tour for

TREMBLE by Jus Accardo

TREMBLE is the third installment in the Denazen series.

Below you'll find not just my review of TREMBLE but also a sneak peak into a new series being released soon from Jus Accardo...

TREMBLE
by
Jus Accardo
Publisher: Entangled Publishing

MARISSA'S RATING :
 

Dez Cross has problems. She’s almost eighteen and on the verge of losing her mind thanks to the drug Denazen used to enhance her abilities. People close to her have turned their back on the underground and are now fighting for the wrong side. And then there’s Kale... Things couldn’t get any worse.

Until of course, they do. Denazen is about to start a new trial—this one called Domination—and it works. But that means out with the old and in with the new. The order has been given to terminate all remnants of the second trial—including Dez. The good news is that there’s a survivor from the original trial. A woman who’s blood may hold the cure for the second generation of Supremacy kid’s defect. But the underground Sixes aren’t the only ones who know about her….

Cross is willing to throw everything he has to keep Dez from getting the cure—including the one thing that might tear her apart from the inside out.

MARISSA'S REVIEW:

Those eye's......it's me - I know it - he's looking at me!! LOL.  I love the Denazen series covers :)

So book 3, TREMBLE, continues after Kale has been taken back to Denazen......but how could this be? He's forgotten who Dez is and worst of all - he HATES her :(  What has Marshall Cross done to him now?

TREMBLE gives us Dez - still as fiery,brash, opinionated and at times unpredictable as ever.  Dez needs to locate Kale and save him from the evil clutches of her father and Denazen.  And the evil claws of her sister Kiernan - whom my hatred for clings to like lunch wrap!  

Whilst trying to save Kale, Dez and Alex are on the hunt to also save as many Sixes subject to the Supremacy trials as possible - Denazen's orders to terminate have been given and Kale will follow through if required.  Problem is....Dez is on that Supremacy list and the closer she gets to her 18th birthday, the decline in her health and other faculties becomes another issue she must deal with.  She just needs to stay around long enough for the Domination trial to be used on her to guarantee her survival.

With action, emotions, twists and turns, Jus Accardo delivers another installment in the Denazen series that kept me enthralled and definitely wanting book 4.  Thank goodness it's a 5 book series - I'm just not reading to say goodbye to some fantastic characters!   Jus has continual growth in each character and the introduction of interesting characters throughout the story helps to keep the entertaining level high.

Be sure to also check out FACELESS (Denazen #2.5) which gives us the story of Brandt Cross - Dez's cousin.

ENJOY!

MARISSA    

 Find Tremble

Goodreads: 
 http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15811134-tremble

JUS ACCARDO

Jus Accardo spent her childhood reading and learning to cook. Determined to follow in her grandfather’s footsteps as a chef, she applied and was accepted to the Culinary Institute of America. At the last minute, she realized her path lay with fiction, not food, and passed on the spot to pursue writing.

Jus is the bestselling author of YA paranormal romance and urban fantasy fiction.

A native New Yorker, she lives in the middle of nowhere with her husband, three dogs, and sometimes guard bear, Oswald. Her first book, Touch was released in November 2011 from Entangled Publishing. She is currently working on the next book in the Denazen series.

COMING SOON FROM JUS ACCARDO!

The first book in a brand new series!

DARKER DAYS by Jus Accardo.

Jessie Darker goes to high school during the day, but at night she helps with the family investigation business. Cheating husbands and stolen inheritances? They’re your girls—but their specialty is a bit darker. Zombie in your garage? Pesky Poltergeist living in your pool? They’ll have the problem solved in a magical minute. For a nominal fee, of course...

When gorgeous new client, Lukas Scott, saunters into the office requesting their help to find a stolen box, it sounds like a simple case—until the truth comes out. The box is full of Sin.

Seven deadly ones, in fact.

They’ve got five days to recapture the Sins before they're recalled by the box, taking seven hijacked human bodies with them. Easy peasy—except for one thing...

There’s a spell that will allow the Sins to remain free, causing chaos forever. When the key ingredient threatens the life of someone she knows, Jessie must make the ultimate choice between love and family—or lose everything.

Find Jus Accardo

Website:  
http://www.jusaccardo.com

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http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4996736.Jus_Accardo

Twitter:  
http://www.twitter.com/JusAccardo

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COVER REVEAL & EXCERPT - TREMBLE (Denazen #3) by @JUSACCARDO

YAY! This is one book I've been keen for its release - the third book in the Denazen series from Jus Accardo. Some more action from Dez & Kale is coming our way .......

Tremble is due for release in May 2013

Synopsis

Dez Cross has problems. She’s almost eighteen and on the verge of losing her mind thanks to the drug the Denazen corporation used to enhance her abilities. People close to her have turned their backs on the underground and are now fighting for the wrong side. And then there’s Kale... Things couldn’t get any worse.

Until, of course, they do. Denazen is about to start a new trial—this one called Domination—and it works. But that means out with the old and in with the new. The order has been given to terminate all remnants of the second trial—including Dez. The good news is that there’s a survivor from the original trial. A woman whose blood may hold the cure for the second generation of Supremacy kids' defects. But the underground Sixes aren’t the only ones who know about her.

Dez's father is willing to throw away everything he has to keep Dez from getting the cure—including the one thing that might tear her apart from the inside out.

Exclusive Excerpt

“I told them you wouldn’t come alone. Yet here you are,” Kale’s dark voice said from the doorway. “You’re an odd one.”

“You don’t realize it, but coming from you, that’s kinda funny,” I said, swallowing hard and turning to face him. The light from the hall lit the entire right side of his face, leaving the left cloaked in darkness. Two sides of the same dangerous coin. I wanted to back away but resisted, meeting his gaze straight on. My Kale was in there somewhere—and he could sense weakness. “Did you kill her?”


               “She’s dead.”

               
“I figured as much,” I said, jaw tense. Another step closer. “But I’m asking if you did it.” 


               He cocked his head to the left and I could see his expression. Confusion. “You asked the same thing about the other girl. Why does it matter?”

               “Because it does. It matters to you, too. You just don’t remember.”

               He took another step. Inches. He was inches from me now, the warmth from his body radiating like the sun. Every one of my muscles plunged into an all-out war with my heart. Common sense screamed for me to match his steps forward with ones away. Keep your distance—he’s dangerous!

My heart wanted to move closer. I wanted this to all be nothing more than a bad dream.

               “I feel like...when I look at you—” He shook his head and placed a hand on either side of me, up against the mattress, and brought his face close to mine. For the longest moment all he did was stare. When he did speak, there was so much rage in his voice. “You stabbed me. When that didn’t do the trick, you pushed me from the bridge. I’m asking you why?”

               “I never did that, Kale. No one’s ever pushed you from a bridge as far as I know. I promise. As for the scar, yeah. You were stabbed. Alex did it.”

               “You’re lying, Kiernan.”

               “I’m not. And my name is Dez,” I said, voice cracking under the weight of his words. “Deznee.” I wasn’t ready to give up, so I went with what had always worked for me. Something insane.

               Pushing forward, I crushed my lips to his, wrapping both arms around his neck to lock him in place. He didn’t resist and, to my surprise, didn’t shove me away. Instead, after a moment, he responded, his lips moving fervently with mine.

               The kiss only lasted a few moments. I was the one who broke it, pulling away as the clouds passed, allowing the moonlight to shine through the bedroom window once again. For a second, neither of us said a word. His cheeks glistened with my tears, making it look like he’d been crying, too, as he stared—eyes wide and mouth agape—like he’d never seen me before.

               For a crazy, insane moment, time froze. I thought maybe the kiss had done the trick. That this time the princess had woken the prince. He looked at me with a mix of shock and awe, the tiniest hint of my Kale gleamed through. My heart pounded so loudly I could barely hear anything else. It was there. I could see the spark in his eyes. “Kale?”

               But it didn’t last. Or maybe it hadn’t been there at all. Maybe I wanted to see it so badly that I imagined the whole thing.

               His lips parted and the corners tilted upward just a hair. “Roz is right. You are crazy.”

Find Tremble

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15811134-tremble

Jus Accardo spent her childhood reading and learning to cook. Determined to follow in her grandfather’s footsteps as a chef, she applied and was accepted to the Culinary Institute of America. At the last minute, she realized her path lay with fiction, not food, and passed on the spot to pursue writing.

Jus is the bestselling author of YA paranormal romance and urban fantasy fiction.

A native New Yorker, she lives in the middle of nowhere with her husband, three dogs, and sometimes guard bear, Oswald. Her first book, Touch was released in November 2011 from Entangled Publishing. She is currently working on the next book in the Denazen series.

ENJOY!
MARISSA

Blog Tour #20 - JUS ACCARDO GUEST POST - UNTOUCHED BLOG TOUR & GIVEAWAY

Today I'd like to welcome to the blog, JUS ACCARDO - author of TOUCH (A Denazen Novel #1) and the new novella UNTOUCHED (A Denazen Novella #1.5).  

Jus has written a great guest post for us and her awesome publisher, Entangle Publishing, has provided us with an ebook for a giveaway (see end of post).

GUEST POST written by JUS ACCARDO

SINGLE TO SEQUEL

When I sat down to write TOUCH, I had nothing. No plans. No plot. No expectations.

Zero.

Zip.

Zilch.

It was just a really cool idea I was going to run with. 

Then it started to unfold and I was like, Huh. This could actually be something. Sassy chick. Sweet, yet dangerous guy. A whole boat load of secrets and some really twisted baddies. Fun, right?

And it was. But I’d never really thought about making it a series. It wasn’t until I got to the end that I realized there was so much more to Kale and Dez’s story. So much more than one lonely little book could possibly tell. And just like that, the Denazen Series was born.

I wrote TOUCH in under a month. Fast, right? I couldn’t help it. I was a woman possessed. When I sat down to start on UNTOUCHED, the first novella in the series… Well, let’s just say it wasn’t as easy.

The first book has done so much better than anything I could have ever imagined, and I’ll be totally honest. I started to panic. What if I couldn’t do it again? The novella was planned in Kale’s POV. What would people do to me if I screwed up Kale?

(please—no one answer that! I’m not sure I want to know :D ) 

Not to mention the idea of novellas in general scare me. Yes. You heard right. I have novellaphobia. Sounds sexy, right? It’s not! Add all that to a brand new empty page one and I was terrified. Seriously. I had nightmares.

UNTOUCHED had three different opening chapters. Well, that’s not true. It had three different opening 4-6 chapters. I’m not kidding. I had people talking at me from everywhere. Need to make sure this is epic. Even though this is a novella, it’s technically this is your sophomore book—don’t blow it! Each time someone said something, I’d go back, delete everything, and start from scratch.

I went back and forth like that for two weeks. And then I took a day off and reread TOUCH. When I sat down the next day, I had a hard time remembering what the issue was. Granted I ran into a snag here and there—Dez and Kale’s voice is so different and I found myself reverting to old Dez-habits in some places—but overall, it wasn’t as hard as I was making it. And so much fun!

So what have I learned from all this? A couple really cool things, actually. First of all—self doubt is a bitch. I knew what I was doing all along, but I let outside influences bog me down. My best advice for anyone writing their second book? Tune everything out. Focus on your characters and their world and do what you love to do. Have fun with it! 

Second? Each and every book is going to be a wholly new (and exciting, and scary, and wonderful) experience. Like snowflakes, no two book journeys are the same. That dreaded empty page one is going to bring something new with each title.

And honestly, I really can’t wait to find out what…

Book Blurb

Untouched (A Denazen Novella 1.5)

Until he met Dez, Kale’s days were filled with violence and death. He was used as a weapon of destruction by the power hungry men of Denazen. He’s a Six. A person with an abnormal ability. Some people call them gifts, but not Kale. Kale’s touch means instant death.

But now there’s Dez, the girl he can touch, and they’re hunting down Sixes and warning them about Denazen. Kale is learning about the world outside captivity and trying to put his dark past behind him. But they underestimated how badly Denazen wanted him back.

When Dez sacrifices herself to save the new Six they’d rescued from falling into the corp’s hands, Kale is lost. Denazen has brought out its best to get the job done. Samsen, a nightmare from Kale’s past—the only person he’s ever truly feared—has come for them, and it soon becomes obvious he has his own twisted agenda.

Kale will need all his training to get Dez back and ensure they make it out, free—and alive. But will it be enough? 

Add Untouched to your TBR pile on Goodreads

 

Touch, the first novel in the Denazen series, is set to re-release in mass market on June 12^{th (}Complete with additional scenes from Kale’s POV!).

 

Toxic (Denazen 2) hits shelves on September 11^th 2012. As a thank you to those who pre-order, Jus is giving away a book plate and magnet of choice 

Bio

Jus Accardo is the author of YA paranormal romance and urban fantasy fiction. A native New Yorker, she lives in the middle of nowhere with her husband, three dogs, and sometimes guard bear, Oswald. Her first book, Touch, is available now from Entangled Publishing. She is represented by Kevan Lyon of Marsal Lyon Literary Agency.

Give Jus a yell on Twitter, or visit her on Facebook, and her website. 

GIVEAWAY TIME!!

*** OPEN INTERNATIONAL***

Thanks to Entangled Publishing one lucky blog follower will win an ebook from the Denazen Series. 

The winner gets to choose:

Touch (A Denazen Novel #1)

or

Untouched (A Denazen Novella #1.5) 

Competition Closes 

10th May 2012

Aussie EST Midnight

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GOOD LUCK & ENJOY!

MARISSA

BOOK COVER REVEAL - UNTOUCHED by JUS ACCARDO - DENAZEN # 1.5 - KALE'S NOVELLA

UNTOUCHED by JUS ACCARDO

KALE'S NOVELLA

RELEASE DATE 1ST FEBRUARY 2012

ENTANGLED PUBLISHING

We are very happy to help in revealing the cover for Kale's Novella and isn't he just the most lovely looking guy. I am looking forward to catching up with Kale in February . Those eyes just stare straight at you. He has rather lovely lips too.

Michelle