BOOK PROMOTION
Title: Savor
Author: Kate Evangelista
Series: Vicious
ISBN: 978-1939173652
ASIN: B00H2VSQ0Q
Publisher: Crescent Moon Press
Pages/File Size: 324pages/649KB
Formats Available: Paperback, E-Book
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**Mature and explicit content. Not recommended for readers below 18-years-old. Yup, you've got to be that old to read my story. Consider yourself warned.**
I’m Dakota Collins, a tough talking, eye patch wearing, workaholic photography student. Why am I important? Well, maybe because I get to spend an entire month with Vicious, only the sickest indie rock band out there.
You see, I needed a subject for my Spring Showcase introspective in order to graduate. During a chance encounter at a club I’d been sent to cover for the Daily Gossip, our ironically named college paper, the features writer I usually teamed up with introduced me to the band—by accident, I might add. It involved a run in with a scary, bald bodyguard. Anyway, long story short, I signed a contract to take pictures of Vicious.
I should have known their handsome yet way too serious for his own good bassist, Luka Visraya, wouldn't be able to keep his hands to himself. He’s gorgeous and all, but the way he smiles spelled trouble with a capital L. I’m in for a long month with him around.
Crazy shit happens and then some. So, if you want the skinny on Vicious and the events revolving around my stay at Lunar Manor, read my story.
Again, refer to the warning above.
I’m Dakota Collins, a tough talking, eye patch wearing, workaholic photography student. Why am I important? Well, maybe because I get to spend an entire month with Vicious, only the sickest indie rock band out there.
You see, I needed a subject for my Spring Showcase introspective in order to graduate. During a chance encounter at a club I’d been sent to cover for the Daily Gossip, our ironically named college paper, the features writer I usually teamed up with introduced me to the band—by accident, I might add. It involved a run in with a scary, bald bodyguard. Anyway, long story short, I signed a contract to take pictures of Vicious.
I should have known their handsome yet way too serious for his own good bassist, Luka Visraya, wouldn't be able to keep his hands to himself. He’s gorgeous and all, but the way he smiles spelled trouble with a capital L. I’m in for a long month with him around.
Crazy shit happens and then some. So, if you want the skinny on Vicious and the events revolving around my stay at Lunar Manor, read my story.
Again, refer to the warning above.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
When Kate Evangelista was told she had a knack for writing stories, she did the next best thing: entered medical school. After realizing she wasn't going to be the next Doogie Howser, M.D., Kate wandered into the Literature department of her university and never looked back. Today, she is in possession of a piece of paper that says to the world she owns a Literature degree. To make matters worse, she took Master's courses in creative writing. In the end, she realized to be a writer, none of what she had mattered. What really mattered? Writing. Plain and simple, honest to God, sitting in front of her computer, writing. Today she lives in the Philippines and writes full time.
EXCERPT
Savor
Exclusive Excerpt
“Dakota Collins!”
I
lowered my camera. The use of my full name never came with good consequences. I
blinked my vision back at her even if I wanted to spend the rest of the night
taking his picture. Sweat rose over
my upper lip. I may just have found my subject for the Spring Showcase.
The
only problem?
I
had to find a way to convince him to be in my project. Something told me this
wouldn’t be easy. By the way my heart beat in my ears, drowning out the music
and Silvia having a fit in front of me, I wanted it too much. I wanted him too much.
“This
the guy you were saying?” I showed Silvia the picture I’d taken. This seemed to
pacify her because she sidled closer, mesmerized like a moth to a flame.
“Luka Visraya,” she said with a moan like she’d just tasted the
most luscious chocolate before taking a long gulp of her cocktail. The name
didn’t register. Silvia must have noticed my blank expression because she
continued. “He’s the bassist for Vicious.”
Still
no pings of recognition in my head.
She
slapped her thigh. “Where have you been? It’s weird that you haven’t heard of
them. Their songs are on the radio like every second.”
Of
course I hadn’t heard of them. I liked listening to country and I hardly kept
up with current events.
“Name
one?” Okay, I had a name. Luka. Exotic. A bassist. Part of a band I should know
about. So he’s famous. I slowly felt my chances of asking him to be my subject
slip from my grasp. If he was someone famous, fat chance he’d say yes to a
graduating photography student like me. I just about deflated when Silvia
mentioned one of their songs. “Oh, I know that one!” By accident. It played in
the radio of the cab I rode in to Sacrifice. I stared at the picture of him
then lifted my gaze to where he sat. “He’s gone.”
“What?”
Silvia whipped around in time to come face to face with a wall of man. “Whoa!”
She pushed at him. “Watch it, buddy!”
“Give
me the camera,” he said in a threatening tone.
Big.
Beefy. Bald. The three Bs that made up the quintessential bodyguard.
I
clutched my DSLR closer to my chest and looked up at him with my good eye. “And
why would I do that?” The patch didn’t seem to intimidate him because he just
reached out. So much for my Bond villain aspirations. I moved away from his
grubby hand. No one touched my camera but me.
Despite
her size, Silvia came between me and the mountain. “We’re here to cover
Sacrifice for our college paper. You don’t have the right to take away my
colleague’s camera.”
Yeah! You give it to him, Silvy.
Not
that I couldn’t take care of myself. But if Silvia wanted to play hero, I
wouldn’t stand in her way.
“What
seems to be the problem here?” a soft, authoritative voice chimed in.
The
bodyguard moved aside to reveal the Gothic Lolita. She stood at just about the
same height as Silvia, but she possessed an older aura even if she seemed to be
our age.
“She’s
been taking pictures,” Baldy said.
Lolita’s
kohl eyes landed on me then shifted to my camera.
“As
I was saying to the big guy,” Silvia explained. “My colleague and I are
covering the opening of Sacrifice.”
“For
what paper?” Lolita asked without taking her eyes off me. I clutched my camera
like an extra appendage. In some ways it was. After losing half my sight, I
relied on my camera like an extra eye, seeing the world through its lens. I
would rather die than lose it.
“The
Daily Gossip,” I said before Silvia could answer just to relieve some of the
awkward tension building in me under her gaze. “We study at Wexler U.”
She
tilted her head, crossing her arms.
“Okay,”
I quickly stammered out. “I get that the name of our paper sounds like a
tabloid, but the Daily Gossip is a cool campus paper.” The last part maybe only
I believed since Silvia raised her eyebrow at me, but Lolita and the mountain
didn’t have to know that.
No
one spoke after that. Even in a noisy club, the silence in our group rang in my
ears. Not waiting for the situation to get any more awkward, I plowed forward
with my own selfish intensions.
“You
know Luka.” I said it more as a statement, but it came out like a question.
Lolita
nodded.
“I’m
Dakota Collins and I’m graduating this spring. I was wondering if Luka would be
interested in—”
“What
would I be interested in?” a smooth voice joined our group.
The
walls of my throat closed, chocking the rest of what I had to say. All eyes
turned to Luka. Silvia dropped her empty glass. It bounced off the bodyguard’s
shoe and landed in a clatter but didn’t break. Even with my height, I still had
to look up at him.
“What
are you doing here?” Lolita admonished. “You should be backstage.”
One
side of his lips came up. God. Without the scowl, his face lit up. I had to
stop the urge to lift my camera and start snapping away. And his eyes were
piercing blue. The kind that stretched over my mother’s farm in the summer.
Damn.
Seeing him up close, I knew I’d give any
one of my kidneys for a chance to take his picture in a formal shoot.
“We
have five minutes. Chill, Yana.” He tugged at one of her pigtails.
“Luka,”
Silvia managed. “I’m a big fan. Will you sign my chest?”
Bypassing
my petite colleague, Luka’s intensely blue gaze studied me. He reached out and
I flinched back. His fingers almost grazed my patch. What the hell was the
matter with him? Trying to touch my eye patch was tantamount to poking a
bandage over a wound and asking the person if it hurts.
Gothic
Lolita—Yana—yanked Luka’s arm down. “I’m so sorry!” Her whole aura changed. She
went from all business to panicky. “My brother sometimes forgets his manners.
He didn’t mean anything about touching your…” She bit her lower lip, maybe
trying to keep herself from saying the wrong thing.
That
little faux pas cleared my head of the Luka haze and spurred me into action.
“Luka, will you let me take your picture for my final project?” I didn’t know
where my courage came from, but I knew if I didn’t take this chance, I’d regret
it. I had to have him as my subject.
Still
not removing his gaze from my face, like my patch transfixed him, he tilted his
head to one side very much like his sister did earlier.
“Luka,
don’t!” Yana said, but from the consideration on Luka’s face, she was too late.
“You’re
a photographer?”
“Yes.”
I nodded, in case the word wasn’t enough.
“And
you’d like me to be the subject of your project?”
God
yes! This time, I could only nod. I didn’t want him to see how eager I was. And
I couldn’t live with myself if I embarrassed myself further.
I
waited with baited breath.
It
seemed everyone in our group waited with baited breath for what the golden god
had to say about my brazen request. I soon realized when Luka spoke, everyone
listened. The way he pronounced every word precisely yet still spoke so
smoothly, like butter on warm toast, captured everyone’s attention. To say he
captivated us was an understatement. Something in me certainly wanted to hear
him keep speaking. He could read from an accounting textbook in that voice and
no one would get bored.
“I
need to know that you’re good,” he finally said.
Something
about his words seemed to hold a different meaning. I must have missed the
alcohol in the soda Silvia had given me. Maybe I was drunk and this was all a
blackout dream.
“What
are you saying?” Yana faced Luka all the way now, her petite form all rigid.
He
unleashed a full on megawatt smile my way. I almost had to cover my eye from
it. At my side, Silvia gasped. Her long nails dug into my arm. Like staring at
the sun, I couldn’t take my gaze away from him no matter how bad it was for me.
“We’re
about to perform. I want you to take several pictures then send them to Yana.
If she approves, we’ll see about your request.”
Then,
like smoke, he disappeared into the crowd.
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MY REVIEW
Title: Savor
Author: Kate Evangelista
Series: Vicious
ISBN: 978-1939173652
ASIN: B00H2VSQ0Q
Publisher: Crescent Moon Press
Pages/File Size: 324pages/649KB
Formats Available: Paperback, E-Book
BLURB from Goodreads
**Mature and explicit content. Not recommended for readers below 18-years-old. Yup, you've got to be that old to read my story. Consider yourself warned.**
I’m Dakota Collins, a tough talking, eye patch wearing, workaholic photography student. Why am I important? Well, maybe because I get to spend an entire month with Vicious, only the sickest indie rock band out there.
You see, I needed a subject for my Spring Showcase introspective in order to graduate. During a chance encounter at a club I’d been sent to cover for the Daily Gossip, our ironically named college paper, the features writer I usually teamed up with introduced me to the band—by accident, I might add. It involved a run in with a scary, bald bodyguard. Anyway, long story short, I signed a contract to take pictures of Vicious.
I should have known their handsome yet way too serious for his own good bassist, Luka Visraya, wouldn't be able to keep his hands to himself. He’s gorgeous and all, but the way he smiles spelled trouble with a capital L. I’m in for a long month with him around.
Crazy shit happens and then some. So, if you want the skinny on Vicious and the events revolving around my stay at Lunar Manor, read my story.
Again, refer to the warning above.
INITIAL THOUGHTS
I had looked at titles by Kate Evangelista before but never actually gone ahead and read any. Then I was invited to do this log Tour by both the Author and Paranormal Cravings, so I decided to squeeze the book into my reading schedule.
Upon beginning to read the book, the very start reminded me a little of Mutilate My Heart by Emily Godwin and I had loved that one so was eager to read on.
REVIEW
As mentioned above I received an ecopy of this book to read from the author via Paranormal Cravings in exchange for my honest review.
The cover, I think is amazing, I really love it. The female on the cover is Dakota Collin a photography student. The image is in fact a scene in the book of a photograph that is taken for a music video.
So would the cover make me pick it up in a bookstore? Definitely the cover is very striking!
So as I said in "Initial Thoughts" the very beginning of this book reminded me a little of Mutilate My Heart by Emily Godwin.
Dakota Collins is a photography student who is still looking for that elusive last subject for her to base her last assignment on. Dakota also works for a small student mag, and it's whilst she is on an assignment for them that she first see's the gorgeous Luka Visraya. Luka is part of the band of the moment that everyone loves called Vicious.
When Dakota mentions her assignment Luka issues her with a challenge to take photographs of each band member during the gig she is covering that will impress his sister and band manager Yana. Luka makes it as difficult as possible for Dakota to take a fantastic picture of him by staying in the shadows but Dakota is determined and does get the elusive pic.
Before she is allowed to go to Lunar Manor where the band lives and records Dakota has to sign a contract that discusses privacy issues, copyrights over the photographs and the length of the assignment. Dakota settles on staying a month with the band, a decision she both rejoices and regrets at different times throughout the book.
Of course the whole band are gorgeous and consists of Dray, Demitri, Luka, Phoenix and Yana the manager. They have their own quirky style of dressing. There are of course love interests, Phoenix & Demitri are in love and it doesn't take long for Dakota to fall helplessly in love with Luka. All the guys in the band are totally hot! Dray is super quirky as he is full of interesting facts and loves nothing more than to educate those around him. He is a "science geek" with his own lab at Lunar Manor.
Dakota travels to Lunar Manor which is on it's own island. Lunar Manor is described in Dakota's words of being more like a large castle. Lunar Manor has it's servants which is something Dakota finds hard to come to terms with and actually becomes quite friendly with Luka's bodyguard Eli and one of the maid's who looks after her at the Manor, called Deidra.
I think the Christmas gifts Dakota wraps and gifts the band and servants are really wonderful and from her heart. They show what a down to earth caring person Dakota is.
This book has it's emotional ups and downs of the complex realistic characters. It is heart warming yet heart breaking at the same time.
There's definitely more to the band than what they show the public and I do feel there is much more about the band we have yet to learn from Kate Evangelista which is hinted at the end of the book. And boy does this book end on a cliffhanger! I both hated how the book ended yet loved it too as it tells you there is much more to follow. I could seriously go on and on about this book and go into much more detail but I think you need to discover what happens in the book yourself which is why I have only highlighted certain parts of the plot and not gone into the great detail.
So Did I enjoy the book? Oh YES I loved it! I didn't want it to end! Would I recommend the book? Definitely, recommend this one. It does have the odd steamy scene but its all well within the context of the plot lines and whole book. Would I read a Book 2? YES please, I really want to read the next book as soon as I can. Would I read other titles by this Author? I certainly intend to read more of this series and Id love to read other titles by Kate too.
I’m Dakota Collins, a tough talking, eye patch wearing, workaholic photography student. Why am I important? Well, maybe because I get to spend an entire month with Vicious, only the sickest indie rock band out there.
You see, I needed a subject for my Spring Showcase introspective in order to graduate. During a chance encounter at a club I’d been sent to cover for the Daily Gossip, our ironically named college paper, the features writer I usually teamed up with introduced me to the band—by accident, I might add. It involved a run in with a scary, bald bodyguard. Anyway, long story short, I signed a contract to take pictures of Vicious.
I should have known their handsome yet way too serious for his own good bassist, Luka Visraya, wouldn't be able to keep his hands to himself. He’s gorgeous and all, but the way he smiles spelled trouble with a capital L. I’m in for a long month with him around.
Crazy shit happens and then some. So, if you want the skinny on Vicious and the events revolving around my stay at Lunar Manor, read my story.
Again, refer to the warning above.
INITIAL THOUGHTS
I had looked at titles by Kate Evangelista before but never actually gone ahead and read any. Then I was invited to do this log Tour by both the Author and Paranormal Cravings, so I decided to squeeze the book into my reading schedule.
Upon beginning to read the book, the very start reminded me a little of Mutilate My Heart by Emily Godwin and I had loved that one so was eager to read on.
REVIEW
As mentioned above I received an ecopy of this book to read from the author via Paranormal Cravings in exchange for my honest review.
The cover, I think is amazing, I really love it. The female on the cover is Dakota Collin a photography student. The image is in fact a scene in the book of a photograph that is taken for a music video.
So would the cover make me pick it up in a bookstore? Definitely the cover is very striking!
So as I said in "Initial Thoughts" the very beginning of this book reminded me a little of Mutilate My Heart by Emily Godwin.
Dakota Collins is a photography student who is still looking for that elusive last subject for her to base her last assignment on. Dakota also works for a small student mag, and it's whilst she is on an assignment for them that she first see's the gorgeous Luka Visraya. Luka is part of the band of the moment that everyone loves called Vicious.
When Dakota mentions her assignment Luka issues her with a challenge to take photographs of each band member during the gig she is covering that will impress his sister and band manager Yana. Luka makes it as difficult as possible for Dakota to take a fantastic picture of him by staying in the shadows but Dakota is determined and does get the elusive pic.
Before she is allowed to go to Lunar Manor where the band lives and records Dakota has to sign a contract that discusses privacy issues, copyrights over the photographs and the length of the assignment. Dakota settles on staying a month with the band, a decision she both rejoices and regrets at different times throughout the book.
Of course the whole band are gorgeous and consists of Dray, Demitri, Luka, Phoenix and Yana the manager. They have their own quirky style of dressing. There are of course love interests, Phoenix & Demitri are in love and it doesn't take long for Dakota to fall helplessly in love with Luka. All the guys in the band are totally hot! Dray is super quirky as he is full of interesting facts and loves nothing more than to educate those around him. He is a "science geek" with his own lab at Lunar Manor.
Dakota travels to Lunar Manor which is on it's own island. Lunar Manor is described in Dakota's words of being more like a large castle. Lunar Manor has it's servants which is something Dakota finds hard to come to terms with and actually becomes quite friendly with Luka's bodyguard Eli and one of the maid's who looks after her at the Manor, called Deidra.
I think the Christmas gifts Dakota wraps and gifts the band and servants are really wonderful and from her heart. They show what a down to earth caring person Dakota is.
This book has it's emotional ups and downs of the complex realistic characters. It is heart warming yet heart breaking at the same time.
There's definitely more to the band than what they show the public and I do feel there is much more about the band we have yet to learn from Kate Evangelista which is hinted at the end of the book. And boy does this book end on a cliffhanger! I both hated how the book ended yet loved it too as it tells you there is much more to follow. I could seriously go on and on about this book and go into much more detail but I think you need to discover what happens in the book yourself which is why I have only highlighted certain parts of the plot and not gone into the great detail.
So Did I enjoy the book? Oh YES I loved it! I didn't want it to end! Would I recommend the book? Definitely, recommend this one. It does have the odd steamy scene but its all well within the context of the plot lines and whole book. Would I read a Book 2? YES please, I really want to read the next book as soon as I can. Would I read other titles by this Author? I certainly intend to read more of this series and Id love to read other titles by Kate too.
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