Larissa's 5 Loveys Review: I'm Dreaming of an Undead Christmas {Half Moon Hollow #2.7} by Molly Harper

Experience the vampire world for the holidays through the eyes of Gigi Scanlon in this e-novella prequel to The Dangers of Dating a Rebound Vampire from beloved paranormal romance author Molly Harper!
College co-ed Gigi is headed home to Half-Moon Hollow for her first Christmas since her sister, Iris, was turned into a vampire by her beloved undead husband, Cal. Iris is working overtime to make this holiday as normal and special as possible. After all, it’s taken her months of working with Jane Jameson and the Hollow’s vampires to convince herself that she won’t bite her baby sister on sight.
Gigi has her own worries. She’s falling out of love with her high school sweetheart, Ben, and has no idea how to tell him. She’s got a secret job interview with terrifying teen Council official, Ophelia Lambert. And there’s a handsome but cagey vampire following her around town and then disappearing before Gigi can confirm that he’s not, in fact, a figment of her fertile imagination. Holidays with family are complicated. Christmas with an undead family can be downright dangerous. 

• Publisher: Pocket Star
• Release Date: November 17th, 2014 (first published in audio December 5th 2013)
• Series: Half Moon Hollow Series
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Molly Harper can do NO wrong!!! EVER! Always hilarious and heart warming, that's what we can expect from the writing wizard that she is.

I absolutely LOVE the world she created in the Nice Girls series and I was so happy she expanded on it with the Half Moon Hollow series.

I'm Dreaming of an Undead Christmas is a snippet into the world of characters I love and a sneak peak into the mind of the next heroine in the series.

If you love hilarious paranormal romance this is the series for you! However, this novella is more for you guys that are already fans of the series =)

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It Might Be An Honor Just To Be Nominated, But...

Winning is a hell lot better hehe =) Thanks to my sweet friend Brooke from "That's QUEEN Bitch To You!" I have now received The Honest Scrap Award!

To be honest (already? hehe!) I have been seeing this award around for a while and I thought it was pretty cool. However, nobody ever tagged me for it, so I never got to share some of my secrets. Now, I advise you all to be afraid, very afraid Mwahahaha! (That was my evil laugh. No good? Damn! =/)

Well, the Honest Scrap works like this. I will list 10 true things about myself and then tag 10 more blogs to go through the process. So, let's get started.

1 - I started college back in Brazil when I was 17 years old. Studied English Language for 4 years, never graduated though, because of one class. Started teaching at 17 and taught English as a Second Language for 7 years.

2 - I drank my first beer at 14 and got really drunk and sick for the first time at 17. Worse scenario with alcohol was with Tequila. Drank 21 shots in 40min (lost count after that) and ended up at the hospital taking glucose. I can only remember the next morning, waking up with my mom saying: "Do you have a hangover?" me: "No" mom: "That's a shame" LOL

3 - I am the queen of falling down. I have fallen in a movie theater, at school, at the school I taught 7 times, at least 11 times on nights out, 3 at restaurants (including last week), at a supermarket, on the street a few times and probably more that I can't recall hehe.

4 - I love drawing. I draw women's clothes and some abstract. I have been drawing for a long time, thought I haven't drawn in a while.

5 - I had my biggest Smex Fantasy realized on my second time. Being tied up and blindfolded. There were clothespins, whipped cream, ice and candle wax involved as well. Best night EVER!

6 - I lost the big V at 23. No regrets. Perfect timing and it was with the right person. I was not in love and it didn't last. However, it was absolutely worth it. Refer to "truth" #5 =)))

7 - My first Paranormal Book was "Narcisisus in Chains" by Laurel K. Hamilton. I got it as a gift. I bought 2 more after thatm but then couldn't find anymore back in Brazil. Years later (around Oct. last year) I heard of the Vampire Diaries series. I read them all, then all the other LJ Smith books. Followed that with The Twilight Series (read it 5 times) and the rest is history. 335 Books Later you can find me Reviewing Books here =)

8 - I Have Poli-Arthritis Rheumatoid Juvenile since I was 11. It is an inflammation of the articulations. In my case in all of them. I am in constant pain because of it, but I have been through a lot of treatments and it has been stationary for a while now. I am thankful for this disease though. It has made me grow is way I never thought I would. I was supposed to be in a wheel chair by now. I was supposed to not be able to work or drive. I have never let this disease take the best of me and I have always tried to keep a positive attitude about it.

9 - I love playing pool and Drinking beer. I am pretty good at both. I've been better in beer drinking, but I haven't drank much lately =)

10 - I love to dance. Never did it seriously, but love it. I can samba pretty well, since I have been doing it since I was 6 years - old. Oh and I learned how to read at 5 years old, mostly by myself. Always reading Billboards and everything around. It was a pain for my school to place me. Too young for 1st grade and I knew too much for needing to be alphabetized.

Oh well, that's it. I think I might have been too honest. Though there is nothing there I am ashamed of. I live with no regrets. Every experience I have been through has its own value and I wouldn't change it for anything in the world.

Time to tag some bloggers... Hmmmmm lets see:

Sagi @ Sagi's Randomness

Rex @ Rex Robot Reviews

Tigris @ Blood Moon

Pat @ Peace Love and Pat

Marissa @ Marissa's Book Lair

Heather @ Book Obsessed Girl

I seriously can't think of anyone else right now. I think most that I can think, have already done it... so... I am sorry if I forgot anyone, it's almost 11am here and I have not slept yet, since yesterday...

Thanks for tuning in to this extraordinary showing of Larissa's Life.

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1, 2, 3...

One book to go and my next review is coming up :) In the mean time I wanted to share with you a personal story and my thoughts on threesomes... Talk about a random topic, right? Well, something happened recently that makes this topic, nothing but random to me...

I used to have a relationship with this Mexican guy (let's call him "The Mexican") about 2 years ago. It lasted 7 months and then we stopped seeing each other. It wasn't a serious relationship and he actually wanted to end it because he was starting a serious one with some one else. No, I wasn't really upset. We don't live in the same city and we didn't see each other regularly and I was actually happy for him. However, we never spoke after that...

The beginning of this year I "ran into" him on my MSN and for no reason I decided to say hi. I had a BF at the time (we all know how THAT ended! If not, see it here) and was actually curious to know what had been going on with him. We talked and right away he was hitting on me lol. I told him I had a BF, but we actually kept in contact after that...

Since then we have talking on and off, and he has been inviting me to come over and visit him. I don't know if I'm still interested in him like that anymore, though we had great chemistry together. Well, a recent talk with him just put the nail on that coffin...

Apparently he has a GF now and says they have an "open relationship" lol. Ok, I am going to refrain from expressing my thoughts on THAT, for now. In a recent call HE made, he actually invited me for a THREESOME with her and him, and actually said he thought me and her would "get along" LOL! My response was to start laughing and immediately utter the words: "Not gonna happen" hehe. He laughed and said he didn't think I'd say yes, but that he had to try... LOL!

That reminded me that, that was not the first time I have had that sort of invitation... once in a club a couple guys invited me for a threesome as well... Though that invitation I didn't dignify with a response =/

All that, got me to thinking on what was my opinion on threesomes. I got to the conclusion that I don't think I would be totally against it if I was a part of the couple. NOT the third party invited, that would make me feel used and not be much fun at all...

I guess this post might have been a bit TMI... Though I have always said this blog is up for anything :P

What about you? Is Three a crowd in the bedroom or NOT?

Let me know what you think :)

Next post I'll review the Dante Valentine Series by Lilith Saintcrow - STAY TUNED!

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What's on my mind...

I have many things I want to talk to you guys about that I cannot divide them in different posts :P First and foremost, I am so happy for being here in this amazing country these past 2 years. They were a couple of the best years of my life. I met so many great people, I have been through so much here; good time, bad times, incredible times, nightmares and everything in between. I do not regrets and I feel I have learned so much from everything. Thank you all you people that have been part of my life, people that were just passing through and people that showed up to stay... You have made my life better, you have made me a better person, and for that I will always be grateful :) Thank you for you that always shows up here and allow yourself a few minutes to read my rants, please know that everything that I put up in this blog means the world to me :) *Wipes away a couple stray tears... Now, moving on to some laughter (hopefully) Thursday night I went out with my girl Melina and a friend of hers from Costa Rica... A few beers and some vodka later we decide we should make a telenovela (soap opera)... well, at least the opening for it anyways... hehe! So, we get to it and after my master editing and directing (ham ham! :P) this is the result: Thanks to Melina and Maurice for playing along and for providing so much fun :) I stole this meme one from a the blog of an author I really enjoy (Carrie Vaughn): Don’t take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you’ve read that will always stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes. In no specific order: - He is just not that into you (Greg Behrendt & Liz Tuccillo) - The Killing Dance (Laurell K. Hamilton) - Why didn't they ask Evans (Agatha Christie) - Curtain (Agatha Christie) - Twilight (Stephanie Meyer) - Eclipse ((Stephanie Meyer) - New Moon (Stephanie Meyer) - Breaking Dawn (Stephanie Meyer) - Shadow Kissed (Richelle Mead) - Iron Kissed (Patricia Briggs) - Lover Avenged (J.R.Ward) - HP and the Deathly Hallows (J.K.Rowling) - HP and the Prisioner of Azkaban (J.K.Rowling) - The Return of the King (Tolkien) - The DaVinci Code (Dan Brown) Ok guys, that's it from now... Thanks for stopping by... and stay tuned a lot more to come... soon and a big release from the blog during this summer... you can't miss it!!!!! :)

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There is nothing to fear...?!?!

I remember the last time I walked around the streets of Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro... It was my last visit to the Sochnut (Jewish Agency) before my alyiah... I was born in Rio and I was supposed to be used to it... but I wasn't... I felt so self conscious walking around there, so scared... it was such an awful feeling... A little while later I realized it wasn't just there... even in the small city I had been living, I felt too uncomfortable walking around the streets on my own... granted that it was not as bad as in Copacabana, but even so... Now, I am here... I'm in Tel Aviv, such an European city... but still here, in the middle east... I am not scared... I can walk alone at 4am and I am not scared... I feel safe here and I appreciate that feeling... That is one of the many reasons I love living in Israel... Don't get me wrong, I have had a couple creepy situations involving cab drivers that could have scared me a lot... once a driver simply asked for a kiss when we got to my house, another kept asking me out during the whole ride... during the most recent experience, the driver kept asking me to come over to his house to cook for him... lol... I laugh at those stories now... but while they were happening, they were quite scary... Fear is an amazing thing; it can keep us from living... I could say I’m traumatized and never get into a cab alone again... but, so what??? Life is supposed to be scary... I can get out of my house tomorrow and get hit by a car, can't I??? What's the point of living if you don't take chances??? Of course, getting back on a horse after a fall is terrifying... but being on that horse once more, and succeeding at it... Is amazing... you can never know that feeling if you don't try... Post Soundtrack: Katy Perry - I kissed a girl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoKPi8xtyjA

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