Timeless by Michelle Madow Review

Timeless by Michelle Madow

★★★☆☆

IT'S A RACE AGAINST TIME.

In Remembrance, Lizzie and Drew changed the course of fate so they could be together.

In Vengeance, Chelsea set fate back on its original, deadly path.

Now, strange things keep happening to Lizzie. Things that are omens of darkness to come. A curse has doomed her to die an early death, just as she did in her past life. To make things worse, even if she can figure out who cast the curse, it's irreversible. There's only one option left for her to save herself. It's crazier than anything she's heard yet, and to do it, she'll need Drew and Chelsea's help.

Because to make things right, they must go back to when it all began … (Goodreads)

Lizzie and Drew were finally together, fate had been changed, and they had a second chance at love. They were ready for their happily ever after, but no such luck.  An evil curse was following Lizzie, which would change her newfound fate back to what happened in her past life… her dead. Lizzie knew that she was meant to be with Drew, but the universe didn’t seem to want that... or her ex-best-friend Chelsea. Lizzie, Drew, and Chelsea would have to team up in a race against time to fix the curse and stop Lizzie’s eminent death.

I was highly anticipating this book after reading Remembrance and Vengeance, and this was a nice conclusion to the series.  I didn’t find this one as enchanting as the first book, but I still enjoyed it and am glad we got to see what happened with Lizzie, Drew, and Chelsea. The book picked up more for me around the halfway mark.

This was an enchanting series, and I really enjoyed the interaction between the characters. It was a lovely young adult romance, and you can see the inspiration from Taylor Swift in it.

The author did a nice job tying up loose ends in the series, and I think readers can be content with how it ends. The author’s writing style reads smoothly, and I look forward to seeing what she writes next.

I would recommend this series to young adult readers that enjoy a fun, clean romance. It is also a great read for Taylor Swift fans.

I received Timeless from the author for review.

TGIF (10)

TGIF at GReads- This Feature is for Fridays to re-cap the week's post & to answer a question from GReads.


Question: Promote An Author: Is there a particular author you wish got more recognition? Pick one author & tell us why we should read their work.

Michelle Madow should get more recognition. She is a fantastic new author whose Debut novel was Remembrance which was followed up by the short story, Vengeance. The final book in the series, Timeless is expected to come out at the end of this year.

I read Remembrance  this past year and instantly fell in love with it. I love Taylor Swift and the music video Love Story which is what inspired Remembrance. I was able to see where her story was inspired by Taylor Swift and Love Story while she was also able to make it her own. The author created a beautiful story that I wanted more of well after I finished the book. I devoured this wonderful story in one sitting and couldn't wait to get my hands on the next installment.

The author is also super nice, I have talked to her through twitter and was lucky enough to participate in her title scavenger hunt for the title of the final book, Timeless by hosting a post with one of the letters on my blog. It was a lot of fun. I think Michelle is pretty great and I hope more people will  become aware of her books and read it.

You can win an e-book copy of her book from  my blog by clicking here.

You can also buy a copy from Barnes and Noble or Amazon. The e-book is on sale for $0.99 until April.

What you may have missed on my blog this week:

Features:

• In My Mailbox (14)
• Top Ten Tuesday (14)
• Tell Me Something Tuesday (7)
• Waiting on Wednesday (14)

Giveaways:

• The Reeducation of Cherry Truong by Aimee Phan
• Remembrance by Michelle Madow

Transcended Time Title Hunt

Welcome to the Transcend Time Saga Title Hunt! The title hunt is the reveal of the title for the final novel in the Transcend Time Saga. Each of the bloggers participating in the hunt have been given a letter. Hop around to the blogs participating to hunt for the letters. (And remember that two of the letters are used twice, so the title is eight letters long.) 

Once you've unscrambled the title, go to Michelle Madow's blog and use the title name to enter the giveaway for a voucher for an advanced e-copy of the final Transcend Time novel! (She is giving away a voucher because the novel is planned to be released at the end of the year, and she hasn't finished writing it yet! This voucher will ensure that you will receive an advance e-copy once they are available). 

Letter: M

I’m supposed to write about what I hope will happen in the final book of the Transcended Time Saga. I’m honestly not too sure. I know I want more of Lizzie and Drew! I love them and I want them to work out and be together. Yes I know I’m a hopeless romantic. I would also like Lizzie and Chelsea to end up working things out. They had been best friends forever and it sucks that Drew and Lizzie’s relationship probably severed it forever. I also have a feeling they may not work it out and Chelsea is going to go all revenge crazy. I haven’t gone into detail of exactly what I want to happen I just want more time with the characters. I love the story and I can’t wait to see what Michelle Madow has in store next. Will true love have a second chance at happiness? It didn’t in the past but I’m hoping it will this time.

I loved Remembrance and Vengeance! If you haven’t read them I highly recommend them both! While Michelle Madow is on tour you can get the e-book copy for just $0.99! How awesome is that? I personally had to have the physical book because it is beautiful and such an awesome book. 

Click the links below to buy your copy from Barnes and Noble or Amazon!

Michelle Madow is asking for your help on Tour!

Michelle Madow is asking for our help! 25 Lucky US Cities get to welcome Michelle Madow and her amazing book Remembrance. Unfortunately I'm not one of them this time but maybe in the next tour! I would still like everyone to know about it and help Michelle Madow in any way that you can. You can visit her post and pitch about helping her on her tour here. Traveling is expensive and she needs support to do so and is asking to spread the word and for donations. With donations you receive some awesome stuff in return, so if helping this awesome author isn't enough justification, you get some awesome stuff so that should help for insinuative. Do you like autographed books? I know I do! With a $15 donation you will receive: Blog Recognition, a signed book mark and Remembrance Signed. How awesome is that!? I think a 15$ donation is so worth it! I loved Remembrance it was such a great book! you can read my review here. You can also get different package with different price point donations.

My way of helping this fantastic author is to spread the word to you awesome reader and bloggers. Unfortunately I don't have money right now to support financially but that isn't stopping me from helping her in the ways that I can. Follow this link and help out Michelle any way you can. The post explains the Tour and the donations a lot more.

Interested in getting your hands on a copy of Remembrance?

You can win a e-book copy from me for my Project Tell Taylor Giveaway. Project tell taylor is another way you can help and support Michelle by helping her reach Taylor Swift to show her how much she inspired her. You can also see Michelle Madow's awesome giveaway package for this giveaway hop here.

Project Tell Taylor Giveaway

Michelle Madow, the fantastic author of Remembrance is hosting a giveaway called project tell Taylor. Michelle Madow wants to reach Tayor Swift and show her how much her music video Love story inspired her. (click the Love story link to see the music video that started it all) She talked all about it in a blog entry a few months ago, discussing how Remembrance was inspired by Taylor Swift's "Love Story" music video. The song Teardrops on my guitar also inspired the name for one of the main characters.  I hope this reaches Taylor Swift! I loved the book and I also love Taylor Swift. She is amazing and has also inspired me in life and in my own writing. taylor Swifts song Better than Revenge inspired me to write a poem called Fate based off of my own experiences. You can see this poem on my writing blog my clicking the link.


What Inspires me!:


Those of you that have read enough of my posts may also already know that I have been greatly inspired by my favorite author Lurlene McDaniel. It all started in 7th grade when I picked up the book Six Months to Live and read it well into the night until I finished. That was huge for me at that time. She is the reason why I began writing my own stories and became interested in medical stuff. I would research about leukemia because that was what Six Months to live was about. I was very interested and as I read more of her books I wanted to get involved. I finally was able to grow my hair long enough to donate about a year ago. When I was younger I was saving all of my change to donate to Cancer research, unfortunately life events got in the way that the money ended up having to be used for something else. Now I'm majoring in Nursing so I can personally help people and I specifically want to work with Children with cancer. If not cancer then Children with chronic illnesses. Since that first book it has stuck with me and I hope that I can help children someday and hopefully make their lives better for being there. 


Lurlene McDaniel has had a major impact on my life and I wish I could meet her and tell her what she means to me. I'm very happy to help Michelle Madow and hope that she achieves her goal for this event. She was able to get her story out there and I hope that now she can reach Taylor Swift and show her how much she means to her. I'll probably never get to do that myself but I think Michelle has a really good shot at reaching taylor with our help!


I ask that everyone helps Michelle Madow out and tweet, blog, facebook about this event. I think Taylor Swift will be honored when she find out about Remembrance. She even has a copy waiting for her in her fan mail along with a personal letter from Michelle Madow!


It's been a few months now, and she has yet to hear back from Taylor that she received the letter and book. She really wants to tell Taylor about how inspiring she and her music have been to her, but since Taylor Swift is an international superstar, she’s a little hard to reach. This is where YOUR help comes into play! Michelle is giving away the biggest prize pack she's offered yet, and the ways to enter to win are by telling Taylor Swift about Remembrance.


The Goal: Get Taylor Swift to Tweet about Remembrance!

For more information and to enter  Michelle Madow’s HUGE Remembrance Prize pack go to her Blog post: Project Tell Taylor you can Also enter Michelle Madow's Giveaway with the rafflecopter form before my giveaway at the end of this post.

Michelle Madow's Project tell Taylor Prize Pack:

Giveaway

In Honor of Loving this book so much I’m going to join the giveaway hop and you can enter to win an e-book copy of remembrance from me! Just use the rafflecopter form on the bottom of the post. To win you must be a follower of my blog. Please try to spread the word as much as you can, not only to win the book. Make your own post, tweet about it and make sure to tag Taylor Swift. Michelle Madow has a great tweet to use on her giveaway. This author deserves our help!

Here is my Review of Remembrance by Michelle Madow, which was originally posted here.

Remembrance by Michelle Madow

★★★★★

Summary from Goodreads:
Lizzie Davenport has been reincarnated from Regency Era, England ... but she doesn't know it yet. 

Then Drew Carmichael transfers into Lizzie's high school at the beginning of the year, and she feels a connection to him, almost like she knows him. She can't stop thinking about him, but whenever she tries talking with him about the mysteries behind her feelings, he makes it clear that he wants nothing to do with her. Reaching him is even more difficult because she has a boyfriend, Jeremy, who has started to become full of himself after being elected co-captain of the varsity soccer team, and her flirtatious best friend Chelsea starts dating Drew soon after his arrival. So why can't she get him out of her mind? 

Even though Lizzie knows she should let go of her fascination with Drew, fighting fate isn't going to be easy.

My Summary:

Lizzie’s life changed as she knew it the moment she saw the new student Drew on the first day of school. She felt a connection with him like she knew him from somewhere but she couldn’t have. Lizzie’s best friend Chelsea took an interest in him and Lizzie was bothered by this. She couldn’t express her feelings because she didn’t understand them herself, not to mention she had a longtime boyfriend, Jeremy. Lizzie and Drew couldn’t fight fate for long before Lizzie had begun seeing flashes from their past lives. She realized they were connected deeper than she could have ever imagined; reincarnation.

Review

This book had me completely entranced. I couldn’t stop turning the pages. Michelle Madow’s words flowed beautifully making it so I couldn’t put it down. It kept my interest from the very beginning and I love it when author’s can do that. There are some great books I have read but it takes at least one hundred pages before the book gets interesting and in that time I can get distracted. When the author completely has me from the very 

beginning I absolutely love that!

I also thought it was really cool that the book was inspired by Taylor Swift’s music video,Love Story. The author saw this video and created the story behind it. That is just awesome. I think if Taylor Swift was to read this book she would be honored. Taylor Swift created a magical music video and Michelle Madow expanded that magic into a whole story.

Vengeance by Michelle Madow Review

Vengeance by Michelle Madow

★★★★★

Vengeance is a short story that is the next installment in the Transcended Time Saga.

Chelsea had her heart broken by Drew, the guy she loved and her best friend, Lizzie. She desperately wanted Drew back but at the same time desired revenge. Since she had nothing to lose she made a new friendship with Shannon since Lizzie was her only close friend. Shannon’s aunt had told her that someone at her school would experience what Chelsea just did.  The aunt told her to bring that person to her. She told Chelsea that she had a past life. Chelsea thought she was crazy until she saw some of the images from the past in her head.  She wasn’t sure what to believe especially because of how crazy it sounded. Chelsea had to decide whether to believe what the aunt had told her and accept the help she had offered or seek revenge on her own.

I devoured this short story in one sitting. When I turned the last page, I couldn’t believe it was over. It left me wanting more. It was a great story but I hate that it was so short. That could be why I don’t read short stories very much because they are over too fast.

Michelle Madow had me enchanted again with her stunning story. Her words flowed beautifully on the pages, painting a vivid image of every scene. It gave me a feeling of being right there in the story.

I liked that she wrote this one in Chelsea’s point of view so you could see what she was feeling and how Drew being with Lizzie affected her. I enjoy seeing other perspectives and getting to know other important characters on a deeper level. I get to know the characters better that way, which also makes them seem more real.

I loved this short story and will be highly anticipating the next book in the series.

Remembrance by Michelle Madow Review

Remembrance by Michelle Madow

★★★★★

Lizzie’s life changed as she knew it the moment she saw the new student Drew on the first day of school. She felt a connection with him like she knew him from somewhere but she couldn’t have. Lizzie’s best friend Chelsea took an interest in him and Lizzie was bothered by this. She couldn’t express her feelings because she didn’t understand them herself, not to mention she had a longtime boyfriend, Jeremy. Lizzie and Drew couldn’t fight fate for long before Lizzie had begun seeing flashes from their past lives. She realized they were connected deeper than she could have ever imagined; reincarnation.

This book had me completely entranced. I couldn’t stop turning the pages. Michelle Madow’s words flowed beautifully making it so I couldn’t put it down. It kept my interest from the very beginning and I love it when author’s can do that. There are some great books I have read but it takes at least one hundred pages before the book gets interesting and in that time I can get distracted. When the author completely has me from the very 

beginning I absolutely love that!

I also thought it was really cool that the book was inspired by Taylor Swift’s music video, Love Story. The author saw this video and created the story behind it. That is just awesome. I think if Taylor Swift was to read this book she would be honored. Taylor Swift created a magical music video and Michelle Madow expanded that magic into a whole story.