Tabatha has been writing since she could pick up a pencil.
Her first publication was a little poem in her elementary school paper, from
that point on she was hooked. When she was a teenager, she traded in her girly
magazines for personalized writing notebooks.
At nineteen, she met her own personal prince charming and
writing took a back burner for a while. She is now married to that prince and
the mother of a beautiful Six year old princess/rock star. Once her daughter
was born, writing came back into her life, and she finished her very first
novel in May of 2009.
She is pursuing a Bachelors in English and hopes to one day
teach while continuing to write.
As a stay-at-home mom and full-time student, Tabatha enjoys
the freedom of spending a good bit of her days doing what she loves the most…writing.
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What if you lived in fear of yourself?
For Mage McPherson being afraid of herself is just the norm.
Thanks to that fear, being a loner in a small town never bothered the
mysterious Mage. Once she received her secret abilities, she figured being
alone was the safest way to be. That all changes during her sophomore year at Summerville
High when Adam, her equally mysterious secret crush, starts to notice her.
Afraid that she might harm Adam, Mage must learn to either
control or deny herself. With Adam by her side she's more powerful than she’s
ever been, but is she powerful enough to defeat her worst nightmare? She learns
a hard lesson about love and magic when her destiny comes to collect.
Excerpt:
When I’m doing homework, reading
journals, or relaxing in the gardens, I wonder to myself if Adam misses me as
much as I miss him.
My answer arrives a few days later. It’s
Saturday and, of course, I’m in the library with Thaddeus. I hear a loud knock
at the door. There’s a little man at the door with a bouquet of pink camellias
and red carnations. It’s a strange looking bouquet.
I sign a delivery confirmation and then I
take the flowers. The delivery man also hands me a gift. It’s wrapped in purple
and silver wrapping paper. I can tell by looking at it that it’s a book of some
sort. I can also tell by the wrapping paper that it’s from Adam. He’s the only
person who cared enough at one point to know my favorite color. Anything he’s
sent from that point on was either purple or wrapped in purple.
I thank the delivery man and sit on the
closest couch in the front living room. I lift the flowers and breathe them in.
I feel my heart constrict with the thought that Adam might actually be thinking
about me.
I sit the flowers down on the couch
beside me and begin to rip at the wrapping paper on the gift. It’s a book, a
strange looking old book. The book’s called The
Language of Flowers. I flip through a few pages and realize right away the
subject content of the book. It’s a listing of different flowers and what they
mean. Adam’s trying to communicate with me the only way he knows how without
having to worry about breaking his deal with Eris.
I quickly flip through the book to the
page with camellias and carnations on it. When I read what’s on the page I
clasp the book to my chest and breathe deeply. It feels so good to know what
Adam’s really thinking. I look at the page of the book once more.
Camellia (Pink) =
Longing for you…
Carnation (Red) =
My heart aches for you…
His heart aches for me! He misses me too!
My thoughts are going crazy. Should I go to him or should I just take this for
what it is and leave it be?
I
wanted nothing more than to run to his house and throw my arms around him. I
miss him so much and to know that he misses me too is enough to make me float.
I pick up my flowers and hold them to my nose to smell them once more.
My Review:
I was drawn into this book by the cover but what is inside
is even better and had me staying up late into the night to finish.
Mage is different and is the loner/freak of her school. They
all fear her and Mage fears herself due to special abilities. But all that
changes when a new girl moves to town and tries to become friends with Mage and
the boy Adam she has always crushed on is now paying attention to her. Bernie and
Adam immediately become very important to Mage and she thinks things are
looking up but then Mage starts having nightmares or what she thinks are
nightmares. Mage’s power become stronger and she has to work through the
riddles of her nightmares and her past. But she doesn’t know if she can handle
it all.
I loved Mage so much and connected to her right away. She
has been though so much and she is getting ready to turn only 16 years old. I
loved watching her growth through the whole book. She is so much stronger then
she gives herself credit. Adam I don’t even know where to begin with him. He is
just swoon worthy and just plain amazing. I loved watching his and Mage’s
relationship. His loyalty to Mage is breath taking. He always seen the real
Mage and loved her for herself.
Tabatha writes this story so well that you feel like you’re
in the book with these characters feeling everything they feel. There are not
many books I have read that have done this to me. I found myself laughing,
crying, blushing, and just loving every minute of this amazing book. Tabatha is
defiantly an author to add to you must buy list. I am anxiously waiting for
book two to see what happens next. 5/5 Bloody Fangs
Thank you to Tabatha for letting me review your amazing book and for letting me participate in this blog tour.
~Sabrina
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