RELEASE BLITZ: {TEN BELOW ZERO} By WHITNEY BARBETTI + GIVEAWAY
Title: Ten Below Zero
Author: Whitney Barbetti
Release Date: August 28, 2014
Genre: New Adult Romance
Amazon US: http://amzn.com/B00N272BRS
Amazon UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00N272BRS
Amazon CA: http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B00N272BRS
Amazon AU: http://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B00N272BRS
Synopsis
“In here,” he said, pushing on the skin above my heart, “you're ten below zero. And you’re closer to death than I am.”
My name is Parker. My body is marked with scars from an attack I don’t remember. I don’t want to remember. I choose to live my life by observation, not through experience. While people are laughing and kissing and connecting, I’m in the corner. Watching them live. I’m indifferent to everything, everyone. The only emotion I feel with any kind of depth is annoyance, and I feel it often.
A text message sent to the wrong number proves to be my undoing.
His name is Everett, but I call him rude. He’s pushy, he’s arrogant, he crowds my personal space, and worst of all: he makes me feel.
He chooses to wear all black, all the time, as if he’s waiting to attend a funeral. Probably because he is.
Everett is dying. And he’s spending his final days living, truly living. In doing so, he’s forcing me to feel, to heal. To come face to face with the demons I suppressed in my memory.
He hurts me, he fulfills me, he completes me. And still, he's dying.
[My Review]
It took me quite some time to even calm down enough to put words together. Ten Below Zero was phenomenal. Barbetti sucked me in and I was consumed. Consumed by several different emotions, consumed by the story being told, and consumed with feeling. God, was I feeling. Barbetti certainly has a way with words, and I applaud her for doing something not many Authors can do...make you fully consumed by what your reading.
I laughed A LOT. I cried, and not the cry where a few tears run down your cheeks. NO I full on ugly cried!!!!! I'm not a fan of ugly crying, for all the apparent reasons. I will say this though, there is just something about how connected you feel that it just happens. When it happens you just don't give a shit. You just sit back and enjoy the emotional roller coaster. Wondering when the tears would stop.
Parker & Everett are perfect due to their imperfections.
Parker is a foster child that's never had an emotional connection with anyone. She was attacked by a very horrible man, and survived. However she might as well be dead because she isn't living. She lives in her apartment shut up in her room. She gets out to go to work and to pick up two of the worst roommates known to man from whatever party they were at. That is until one night she got a text. A text that she never would of guessed would change her life forever. Boy did I enjoy watching her open up and feel.
Everett. Man, where do I even begin with him? He's an asshole, but the kind of asshole you can't help but love. He's amazing. I fell in love with him. He's honest, straight forward, wears his scars for everyone to see, and so much more. He's dying. Given up on fighting. So when he texted someone he thought was Sarah...he never in his wildest dreams thought he'd meet Parker. She challenged him in ways nobody ever did.
The banter between Parker and Everett had my stomach hurting from laughing so hard. Gahhh I just can't say enough how much I loved them. I loved this story. Every word, every sentence, every paragraph. True perfection. <3 <3 <3 <3
Now. There are 3 things in Ten Below Zero that stood out and meant something to me. They are:
" This world has only one sweet moment set aside for us."
" PurgatoirE"
" Love, the emotion that should elicit healing, was in fact the most painful emotion of them all. It crept in when you didn't want it. Made itself at home, terrorizing your hormones with confusion. It made you more susceptible to pain, it weakened your resolve while simultaneously making you frantic with need. And it hurt. Not just mentally, but physically. My heart was aching, it was breaking, and I was so very angry with Everett, with love."
There are so many more quotes I'd love to share, but I'll just save those for you to read for yourself. This is a definite must read! It will open your eyes, and most definitely make you feel. Which is exactly what Barbetti is going for. Bravo Barbetti, Bravo!
I rate Ten Below Zero 5+ stars. If I could rate it higher I certainly would.
Thanks for such a powerful and emotional read. xoxo
[My Review]
It took me quite some time to even calm down enough to put words together. Ten Below Zero was phenomenal. Barbetti sucked me in and I was consumed. Consumed by several different emotions, consumed by the story being told, and consumed with feeling. God, was I feeling. Barbetti certainly has a way with words, and I applaud her for doing something not many Authors can do...make you fully consumed by what your reading.
I laughed A LOT. I cried, and not the cry where a few tears run down your cheeks. NO I full on ugly cried!!!!! I'm not a fan of ugly crying, for all the apparent reasons. I will say this though, there is just something about how connected you feel that it just happens. When it happens you just don't give a shit. You just sit back and enjoy the emotional roller coaster. Wondering when the tears would stop.
Parker & Everett are perfect due to their imperfections.
Parker is a foster child that's never had an emotional connection with anyone. She was attacked by a very horrible man, and survived. However she might as well be dead because she isn't living. She lives in her apartment shut up in her room. She gets out to go to work and to pick up two of the worst roommates known to man from whatever party they were at. That is until one night she got a text. A text that she never would of guessed would change her life forever. Boy did I enjoy watching her open up and feel.
Everett. Man, where do I even begin with him? He's an asshole, but the kind of asshole you can't help but love. He's amazing. I fell in love with him. He's honest, straight forward, wears his scars for everyone to see, and so much more. He's dying. Given up on fighting. So when he texted someone he thought was Sarah...he never in his wildest dreams thought he'd meet Parker. She challenged him in ways nobody ever did.
The banter between Parker and Everett had my stomach hurting from laughing so hard. Gahhh I just can't say enough how much I loved them. I loved this story. Every word, every sentence, every paragraph. True perfection. <3 <3 <3 <3
Now. There are 3 things in Ten Below Zero that stood out and meant something to me. They are:
" This world has only one sweet moment set aside for us."
" PurgatoirE"
" Love, the emotion that should elicit healing, was in fact the most painful emotion of them all. It crept in when you didn't want it. Made itself at home, terrorizing your hormones with confusion. It made you more susceptible to pain, it weakened your resolve while simultaneously making you frantic with need. And it hurt. Not just mentally, but physically. My heart was aching, it was breaking, and I was so very angry with Everett, with love."
There are so many more quotes I'd love to share, but I'll just save those for you to read for yourself. This is a definite must read! It will open your eyes, and most definitely make you feel. Which is exactly what Barbetti is going for. Bravo Barbetti, Bravo!
I rate Ten Below Zero 5+ stars. If I could rate it higher I certainly would.
Thanks for such a powerful and emotional read. xoxo
Excerpt
“Your roommates are nosey,” Everett commented, sitting back on the bed. He reached into the suitcase again.
“You would know,” I said, snatching a bra from his hands.
Everett shrugged. “It’s underwear. More specifically, it’s your underwear. I’m intrigued.”
“Yeah, well don’t get any ideas.”
Everett leaned back into the pillows, resting his hands behind his head again. “Oh, but I have a lot of ideas.” He winked at me.
I stalked away towards my dresser and began pulling things from drawers. When I turned back around, Everett was holding another bra.
“You don’t wear padding,” he commented, his fingers feeling along the lined cup.
“No.”
“I like that.”
My hands stilled. And then I moved them again. “Why?” I didn’t care. Really, I didn’t.
“Lies.”
I turned around. “Lies?”
“I like the truth. In every way.” He seemed lost in thought so I turned back around and packed my things.
“Am I really doing this?” I asked myself.
“Yes, you are.”
I turned around again. “Why?”
It wasn’t a question he should know the answer to. But he did. “Because you hate and you love the way I make you feel.”
I was naked under his gaze. Skin was just that: skin. But to see your soul stripped, laid bare for the eyes of someone you barely knew – that was terrifying. I’d walk down the street naked a hundred times before I would let someone see what lay underneath.
I’d spent my life alone. Bounced from foster home to foster home. When my tastes outgrew my age as a teenager, I traded boys for men and found myself still alone. I reveled in the loneliness. No one could hurt me but me, and did I really care if I hurt me? Did I care? If I found pleasure in anything, it was my lack of feeling.
And that’s how I knew, when Everett told me not to fall in love with him, that I wouldn’t. I didn’t love myself. And wasn’t loving someone also loving yourself, the parts that saw the beauty in other people? I didn’t have that part. And I didn’t want it.
“I don’t love anything,” I said.
“I know.” His eyes were unsmiling.
About the Author
I am the author of new adult romance novels. He Found Me (May 2014) is the first in a two-part series. Ten Below Zero (August 2014) is a standalone.
I am married with two boys. When I’m not changing diapers or cutting food into tiny bites, I escape to Starbucks for hours. I could drink my weight in their black iced tea.
I love music and have a playlist for everything.
I have about 20 bacon things in my fridge.
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Giveaway!
Signed copy of TEN BELOW ZERO and a $10 amazon gift card.
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