Book Tour & Giveaway: Chattin’ it up about the star-crossed love between The Eternity Cure’s Allie & Zeke
Who luuurves Julie Kagawa’s Blood of Eden series?
These gals! And that’s why we are super psyched to be on The Eternity Cure book tour! This tour features 100% blogger-written content, and who doesn’t love chatting about young love? Especially when it’s of the star-crossed-lovers variety and one of them is a vampire. Grab a glass of wine, put on your jammies, and let’s talk girl talk! So what are you having? Here are my vices:
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- Wine-o-the-night: Orange Muscat from La Nebbia Winery (yum!)
- Jammies: Comfy cotton blend with sparkly panda print
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Don’t be shy! Tell us your girl time vice-o-the-day and what you think of Allie and Zeke’s forbidden romance in the comments! And don’t forget to enter the giveaway – there’s a wicked cool tour-wide prize!
First things first… how much did you ADORE Zeke in The Immortal Rules? If you’re thinking “it’s on my TBR”, then bump that baby right up to the top, because if you’re a fan of vamps and urban fantasy, you’re gonna love this series! Check out our review of The Immortal Rules here to see what All-Star Reviewer Rachel had to say about it!
Right, so Zeke. Disciplined, controlled, authoritative, a natural leader, loyal, and has a killer smile and sense of humor. Then there’s Allie. Turned only to avoid death at the hands of rabids, she’s determined to make the most out of her new life and still hold on to her human morals. Oh yeah, and she’s badass with a katana. A heroine like that needs a solid male counterpart, and Allie and Zeke are just about perfect together!
Except they can’t be together, not really. Allie constantly wars with her inner beast and Zeke has to fight the urge to kill her for what she is. That one giant roadblock is what makes their relationship so addicting and keeps you reading to find out what will happen next. It’s dangerous for them to even consider being together. He hunts vampires and shepherds lost humans to safety. She feeds on humans (granted, not the same type of “good people” he protects, if she can help it) and is ever-trekking through dangerous territory inhabited by vicious packs of rabid, mindless vampires trying to find her sire. They even differ in their life philosophy and moral compass. Zeke was rigidly raised to respect the rules and take no shortcuts and Allie, having barely survived as a human on the fringes of a vampire city all of her life, takes chances when she gets them and has no compunctions about cheating the rules as long as it won’t hurt anyone.
Those differences, though, are also what make them so good for each other. Allie brings out the best in Zeke when she pushes him to wake up and face the real world… a world that doesn’t always play by a set of rules or do what’s expected. She helps him see value in the soul of a person, whether that person is human or vampire. And Zeke, he keeps Allie grounded in all the reasons why structure and camaraderie are a good thing, shows her what she can have if she’s brave enough to tame the beast inside and accept that she can do some great things with all that supernatural speed and strength.
The biggest kicker though, is that Allie will always hunger for his blood and she will never stop killing. That’s just what she is. And Zeke will always be the leader Jebediah Cross raised him to be, stalwart and strong, with the stanch belief that the world is more black and white than it has shades of grey. The biggest danger each of them faces is not from their own personal demons or being predator and prey. The one thing that seems so insurmountable in The Eternity Cure and makes their love feel so much like Romeo & Juliet is that loving means dropping your shields, letting that person in… and opening yourself to the greatest pain, because all it takes is one misstep and someone dies. Allie and Zeke would rather deny their feelings than take even the smallest risk of harming the other.
Aaah! It kills me! What do you guys think? Are they destined to be together or apart?
How do you face the end of eternity?
In Allison Sekemoto’s world, there is one rule left: Blood calls to blood.
She has done the unthinkable: died so that she might continue to live. Cast out of Eden and separated from the boy she dared to love, Allie will follow the call of blood to save her creator, Kanin, from the psychotic vampire Sarren. But when the trail leads to Allie’s birthplace in New Covington, what Allie finds there will change the world forever-and possibly end human and vampire existence.
The Eternity Cure is available on April 30th at Amazon | B&N | BAM! | Indie Bound | Google Play | iBookStore | !ndigo | Kobo | Walmart | Kmart | GoodReads
To survive in a ruined world, she must embrace the darkness…
Allison Sekemoto survives in the Fringe, the outermost circle of a walled-in city. By day, she and her crew scavenge for food. By night, any one of them could be eaten. Some days, all that drives Allie is her hatred of them—the vampires who keep humans as blood cattle. Until the night Allie herself dies and becomes one of the monsters.
Forced to flee her city, Allie must pass for human as she joins a ragged group of pilgrims seeking a legend—a place that might have a cure for the disease that killed off most of civilization and created the rabids, the bloodthirsty creatures who threaten human and vampire alike. And soon Allie will have to decide what–and who–is worth dying for…again.
Enter Julie Kagawa’s dark and twisted world as an unforgettable journey begins.
The Immortal Rules was chosen as one of GraveTells April 2012 Books of the Month!
Find The Immortal Rules on Amazon | B&N | GoodReads
About the author
To pay the rent, Julie worked in different bookstores over the years, but discovered the managers frowned upon her reading the books she was supposed to be shelving. So she turned to her other passion: training animals. She worked as a professional dog trainer for several years, dodging Chihuahua bites and overly enthusiastic Labradors, until her first book sold and she stopped training to write full-time.
Julie now lives in Louisville, Kentucky, where the frequency of shark attacks are at an all-time low. She lives with her husband, two obnoxious cats, one Australian shepherd who is too smart for his own good and the latest addition, a hyperactive Papillon puppy.
Find Julie at her website | her blog | Twitter | Facebook | Goodreads
Giveaway
Julie is giving away two sets of prizes: one at each tour stop and one tour-wide! Check out the prizes and enter to win below!
GraveTells giveaway
One commenter on today’s post will win their choice of The Immortal Rules or The Eternity Cure.
Leave us a comment revealing your girl time vice-o-the-day and what you think of Allie and Zeke’s forbidden romance
then fill out the Rafflecopter below…
Tour-wide giveaway
The grand prize is a really snazzy Blood of Eden inspired Travel Package including: a beautiful handmade Leather Travel Journal, handmade pencils, a copy of The Immortal Rules and The Eternity Cure and a vintage Leather messenger bag “Alison Style”. Entries into the daily giveaway will also count toward the grand prize give-away! Enter by filling out the Rafflecopter below! Good luck!
Follow the tour
Monday, April 1st – Page Turners
Tuesday, April 2nd – Fiktsun
Wednesday, April 3rd – Once Upon Twilight
Thursday, April 4th –Katie’s Book Blog
Friday, April 5th – Supernatural Snark
Monday, April 8th – The Book Cellar
Tuesday, April 9th – Parajunkee
Wednesday, April 10th – Good Choice Reading
Thursday, April 11th – YA Book Central
Friday, April 12th – Refracted Light Reviews
Monday, April 15th – Reading Teen
Tuesday, April 16th – Ticket To Anywhere
Wednesday, April 17th – Mundie Mom’s
Thursday, April 18th – I Love Teen Books
Friday, April 19th – GraveTells
Read more about the Blood of Eden universe on Julie’s new site!
Team Human!
GT is totally Team Vamp! But more importantly, we are Team Allie+Zeke! <3
Team Vampire!
Team Human
Team Vampire 🙂
Thanks
flipping the coin…. team human 🙂
Team Vampire. I don’t know what my vices are. It’s too early to think.
Team Vampire.
I’m absolutely obsessed with Pacific Rim Sweet Reisling, even the bottle is fitting to this book now that I really think about it. lol I can’t wait to read this one!
Team Vamp! Thank you for this awesome giveaway!
Team Human!
I don’t drink wine, but hot cocoa with whipped cream while sitting in my pjs reading a delicious romance is my thing on a cold evening in. As to starcrossed lovers, I’m for the aphorism ‘Where there’s a will; there’s a way’.
Thanks for the giveaway opportunity.
Team Vampire ALL THE WAY! I have followed every tour and do tweets everyday too. I LOVE this series and really want to win! 🙂 Thanks for the giveaway! 🙂
Team Vampire!
Team Human
My girl time vice-o-the-day……….sneaking away from the house, turning off my phone so I can get quiet time to read.
Team Human, or wherever Zeke is
Girl vice of the day : pampering myself with frozen strawberry yogurt. Soo delicious and it’s an excellent pick me up for days that just aren’t going well.
I also think that Allie and Zeke’s forbidden romance is an excellent twist in book two. Can’t wait to read The Eternity Cure!
Also…I’m 100% Team Vampire!! Thanks for the awesome opportunity!
Team Human
Team Vampire and I love their forbidden romance!
Team Human~
I could go for some Sangria right about now! Although, we just got a ton of rain (and flooding) and then the temps dropped, so with all the wet and cold something like hot cider in my yoga pants sounds amazing!
I’m Team Vampire when it comes to this series for sure. Kanin and even the awesomely creepy Sarren are just to intriguing to go human.
Team Vampire
Peanut Butter chocolate chip cookies
I love forbidden romances.
Team Vampire!
Vice – Strawberry cheesecake
Love forbidden romance!
Team Vampire.
Team Vampire! My girl time is just putting my fave sounds on full blast when I’m alone and just singing my heart out. 😀
I think this forbidden romance between Zeke and Allie is something I bet my heart will get wrench in.
I’m team human, but I can’t deny I’m loving the vampires too. My girl time isn’t very girly I guess since it mostly involves me sitting in my chair watching murder shows on Investigation Discovery lol. And Allie and Zeke? I’m all for it, I love Zeke!
Team Human
team vampire
Team Vampire! 🙂
I am Team Human!
Team Vampire!
And as for my girl time vice of the day definitely involves overindulging in too much chocolate. 😛
My vice is Mountain Dew. I know it’s bad for me and will go straight to my gut, but it’s so good!
As for Allie and Zeke’s romance, I love it! The forbidden part just makes it better.
Team Human! Since I am one and all 🙂
Until things change will have to go with Team Human 😉 Thank you for the fun and awesome giveaway opportunity.
I am all for Team Vampire and my girl time involves a large bubble bath, a glass of wine and a book. I love the romance between the 2 characters- and what it means. Who cares who they are, as long as they make it work. sdylion(at)gmail(dot)com
Team Vampire
Team Vampire all the way!
My girl vice of the day is blackberry margaritas, a nice comfy chair, and a good book 🙂
I like Allie and Zeke’s romance. I am really curious to see how they’ll make things work. There’s nothing like a forbidden romance 🙂
Team Human! 😀
I am all the way team Human however, after reading The Eternity Cure it is very difficult to take sides…:D
This is a hard choice but I have to go with Team human
Thank you for the giveaway