About INSPIRE:
To inspire.
As an immortal muse, she doesn’t have any other choice. It’s part of how she was made. Musicians, artists, actors—they use her to advance their art, and she uses them to survive. She moves from one artist to the next, never staying long enough to get attached. But all she wants is a different life— a normal one. She’s spent thousands of years living lie after lie, and now she’s ready for something real.
Sweet, sexy, and steady, Wilder Bell feels more real than anything else in her long existence. And most importantly… he’s not an artist. He doesn’t want her for her ability. But she can’t turn off the way she influences people, not even to save a man she might love. Because in small doses, she can help make something beautiful, but her ability has just as much capacity to destroy as it does to create. The longer she stays, the more obsessed Wilder will become. It’s happened before, and it never turns out well for the mortal.
Her presence may inspire genius.
But it breeds madness, too.
What I thought about Inspire
Wilder has come home to help out his mom and sister after a family tragedy. He's sacrificed a lot of his past life for the mundane life of an accounting job and babysitting for his younger sister. When he meets Kalli, there's an immediate attraction.
Something sparks between the two of them. At first, Kalli runs from him, not wanting to hurt him, but she really can't resist him especially when he turns up to help her one night when she's in deep trouble. After a few chance meetings like that, Kalli decides to take a chance on having a "real life" with Wilder. He's not an artist. He won't have any need for what she can offer to him. That makes him safe(r) in Kalli's estimation, and then there's that attraction between them and the feeling that she belongs with him.
The reader gets a close up view of what Kalli and Wilder are thinking as fate draws these two together. There's a lot of internal narration in the first 2/3 of this and less action, and I had mixed feelings about that. While it definitely helped to build my understanding and sympathy for Kalli and her loneliness, it did drag the pace of the story a bit which was really my only complaint with this title.
Things start really moving toward the last 1/3 of Inspire, and there was lots of action and angst, as Kalli realizes that Wilder is not exactly who she thought he was. I loved the reveal of Wilder's true calling to Kalli, and it sets off a chain of events that convinces Kalli she has to take some drastic measures if she wants to be able to stay with Wilder.
There's great chemistry between Kalli and Wilder, and he's quite the smooth talker in and out of the bedroom, so in terms of appeal, yeah, Wilder will probably make your book boyfriend list! While there were some elements of Inspire that I'd seen in other paranormal titles, I found myself really connecting with Kalli and wanting her to be happy. Inspire ends on a major cliffhanger that is sure to have you anxious for the next book in this series.
Overall, a great start to this paranormal series. Can't wait for book 2!
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Cora Carmack’s INSPIRE Blog Tour Schedule:
December
15th
Smart
& Savvy with Stephanie
– Review & Character Interview
Desert
Divas Book Addiction – Review
Book
Angel Booktopia – Review
Tales of the ravenous reader - Review
In Between The Pages – Review
The Book Cellar – Guest Post
December
16th
Between
Order and Randomness – Excerpt
Lost in Lit – Review & Character Interview-Kallie and Wilder
The
BookWhisperer - Review
NC 2 DC
– Review
The Cover Contessa – Review
Movies,
Shows & Books – Review
December
17th
Typical
Distractions – Review
K-Books
– Review
Book
Boyfriend Reviews – Review
Britt's Book and Life Blog – Review
The Boyfriend Bookmark – Review
Romance
Addict Book Blog – Dreamcast
December
18th
Author Groupies – Review
Booklovers
For Life – Review
Bloggers[Heart]Books – Excerpt
Snuggling on the Sofa – Review
Mary Had a Little Book Blog - Review
Ficwishes – Review
December
19th
Red
Hot + Blue Reads – Review
Worn
Down Glories – Excerpt
Jen in Bookland – Review
Vi3tbabe
– Review
Ticket to Anywhere – Guest Post
December
20th
Four
Chicks Flipping Pages Review & Playlist
A
Life Bound By Books – Review
Watcha
Reading – Character Interview-Lennox
Keep
it Fictional - Review
December
21st
Literati Literature Lovers – Review
The
Shadow Realm – Review
Nose Stuck in a Book – Author Interview
StuckInBooks – Review
December
22nd
Anna's Book Blog – Excerpt
Lovin'
Los Libros – Review
Spare
Time Book blog – Review
shelf life – Review
Novel Grounds da - Review
Mean
Girls Luv Books – Review
December
23rd
Stuck
In YA Books – Review & Guest
Post
LuLo Fangirl – Review
Give
Me Books – Review
The
Irish Banana Review – Review
Step Into Fiction – Review
Krista's
Dust Jacket – Review
December
24th
Grown
Up Book Reviews / Mundie Moms – Review & Author Interview
Up
All Night Book Addict – Review
Wendi
Galbreath – Review
Behind
Closed Covers – Review
Cocktails and Books – Review
About Cora Carmack:
Cora Carmack
is a twenty-something writer who likes to write about twenty-something
characters. She's done a multitude of things in her life-- boring jobs (like
working retail), Fun jobs (like working in a theatre), stressful jobs (like
teaching), and dream jobs (like writing). She enjoys placing her characters in
the most awkward situations possible, and then trying to help them get a
boyfriend out of it. Awkward people need love, too. Her first book, LOSING IT,
was a New York Times and USA Today bestseller.
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