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TOTALLY WASTED Book Review & Blog Tour

February 4, 2016

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OMG- it’s time once again for me to share my undying love for this series with you, and I’m pretty much flailing all over the place like the hopeless fangirl I am. The Wasted Series is pretty much one of my favorite ever, and I’m so dang excited to be celebrating the release of the final book in the series, TOTALLY WASTED. All my favorite girls are back and there’s drama and intrigue and oh so much more. Read on for all of the details, plus my own review of TOTALLY WASTED! Plus- there’s a giveaway, so be sure to enter!

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About TOTALLY WASTED:

Welcome to family therapy, Fairholm style.

When Osiris headquarters fell, Frankie ran away with Spark Dawson, hoping the open ocean would wash the chaos of her life away. The Nameless, and her own primal urges, soon intrude and before Frankie knows it, she and Spark are traveling to Hong Kong to face what’s left of the company.

There she finds her entire family under the protection of the Sha Lù. Kat and Addi are pissed, Nero has given up, Judah won’t let anyone leave, and her mother and aunts are getting along for once in their lives. Things are weird.

Because Frankie’s life is never complicated enough, Spark becomes dead set on uncovering the deadly secrets Judah hid from him–and gets more than anyone bargained for in the answers he discovers.

Tensions are high and morality is low as Frankie starts unraveling the threads that bind them all together. As old ghosts haunt her thoughts and new enemies dance just outside her reach, she has choices to make that determine the future of everyone she knows. Now all she has to do is convince everyone she knows what she’s doing.

After all, if Osiris doesn’t fight the Nameless, they’ll all have to hide behind the Sha Lù for the rest of their lives…and the wine supply is running out.

Purchase TOTALLY WASTED on Amazon

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Miss Riki’s Review:

Where do I even start with my love for this book. Not just this book- this entire series- but today we are talking about TOTALLY WASTED. Or as I like to call it, THE BEST ENDING TO A SERIES IN THE UNIVERSE. Or maybe ALTHOUGH I LOVE THIS BOOK TO DEATH I WISH IT WEREN’T THE LAST. I could go on, but I think you get the point.

Let’s start with pour favorite main character. Frankie Fairholm is a dynamo. She’s badass in all the ways a female assassin should be, but she’s also flawed and might possibly be coming apart at the seams, which makes her oh-so-relateable and super easy to identify with. I mean, who else can make you feel like you want to be besties with someone who kills for a living except Cara Vescio. Nobody- that’s who. Frankie is back in this book with a vengeance, and I loved her to pieces. I wanted her to kill. I wanted her to survive. I wanted her to love. And thankfully, in TOTALLY WASTED, she does all three with panache.

Moving on…nobody writes fucked up family dynamics like Cara Vescio, and in TOTALLY WASTED we are thrust right back into the Fairholm family where everyone is screwy and possibly just a little scared. But not. You be the judge. Kat and Addi are back, and they steal the show in every scene they’re in. I absolutely love this family, and in TOTALLY WASTED we get the conclusion to their stories.

If you love excite locales and non-stop action, you’re going to be in reading heaven with TOTALLY WASTED. It’s a hefty book (thank God) but the best thing about it is that not a paragraph is wasted. Every page is fraught with action and tension that left me turning pages long into the night. I love a book that leaves me feeling just a little bit on edge, and there is so much danger in this book. It’s seriously fast-paced and compulsively readable.

Although I’m super sad that this book signals the end to the WASTED series, it was everything I could have hoped for in a series ending. I fell in love with these characters three books ago and loved this conclusion.

Start with ELEGANTLY WASTED and work your way here. You won’t be disappointed.

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GIVEAWAY:

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Catch up with the beginning of this series!

Elegantly Wasted 

Kindle | Paperback | Nook

Uncontrollably Wasted

Kindle | Paperback | Nook

Wasteland

Kindle | Paperback

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author_headshotAbout the Author:

Elizabeth Vescio is the author of the Wasted Series and Adventures of the Dress. She published her first book, Elegantly Wasted in 2012. Cara is also a photographer, gamer, cosplayer and animal enthusiast. She lives in Las Vegas with her husband and four mutts. She’s passionate about Shakespeare, Paul Simon and Loki as portrayed by Tom Hiddleson.

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TOTALLY WASTED Book Blitz

December 7, 2015

Totally Wasted by C. Elizabeth Vescio

I’m excited to be sharing in the release celebration for C. Elizabeth Vescio‘s TOTALLY WASTED (Wasted Series #3)! Check out this amazing series, the excerpt below, and be sure to enter the giveaway!

Totally Wasted (Wasted Series #3)Totally Wasted by C. Elizabeth Vescio
by C. Elizabeth Vescio
Publication Date: December 8, 2015
Publisher: Luna Station Press

 

Welcome to family therapy, Fairholm style.

When Osiris headquarters fell, Frankie ran away with Spark Dawson, hoping the open ocean would wash the chaos of her life away. The Nameless, and her own primal urges, soon intrude and before Frankie knows it, she and Spark are traveling to Hong Kong to face what’s left of the company.

There she finds her entire family under the protection of the Sha Lù. Kat and Addi are pissed, Nero has given up, Judah won’t let anyone leave, and her mother and aunts are getting along for once in their lives. Things are weird.

Because Frankie’s life is never complicated enough, Spark becomes dead set on uncovering the deadly secrets Judah hid from him–and gets more than anyone bargained for in the answers he discovers.

Tensions are high and morality is low as Frankie starts unraveling the threads that bind them all together. As old ghosts haunt her thoughts and new enemies dance just outside her reach, she has choices to make that determine the future of everyone she knows. Now all she has to do is convince everyone she knows what she’s doing.

After all, if Osiris doesn’t fight the Nameless, they’ll all have to hide behind the Sha Lù for the rest of their lives…and the wine supply is running out.

Goodreads | Wasted Series Website | BOOK ONE (Elegantly Wasted) | BOOK TWO (Uncontrollably Wasted)

 


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Excerpt from TOTALLY WASTED

“I don’t like you,” I frowned.

“Because I’m a cop?”

“It’s probably more about your personality,” I sat back and motioned for the waitress.

“We probably both get that a lot,” he smiled.

Stop smiling at me, you fucking prick.

His smile made his greyish-green eyes brighten. That made him more likable. I didn’t want to like him.

“What can I getcha darlin’?” the waitress asked.

“I’ll take your breakfast plate, eggs scrambled,” I pointed to the menu. “An order of beignets and a Diet Coke.”

I looked over at Hess. He was studying me. His left eyebrow arched. He might have been judging my order.

“And for you, sir?”

“Uh,” he shook his head. “Coffee… and a piece of apple pie.”

“Scoop of vanilla on top?” she asked.

“No thanks,” he replied.

The waitress took our menus, and I leaned back in the booth.

“You’re a breakfast for lunch kind of girl,” he commented.

I wasn’t going to allow this guy to make cute comments at me.

“What kind of loser gets apple pie without ice cream?” I snorted.

Hess’ smile faded, as he looked down at his hands.

My kind of humor is totally wasted on cops.

“What happened to my brother, Ms. Fairholm?”

I frowned at him again. He was going to get right down to business.

“Is that why you followed me here? You think I’m here on fucking vacation and have more time to talk to you?”

“Ms. Fairholm-”

“You can call me Frankie, Detective Hess,” I said. “I mean you’re stalking me, so we might as well be on a first-name basis.”

“I’m not stalking you,” he replied. “And you can call me Blake.”

The waitress came back over to pour his coffee and set down my drink. We both fell silent and waited for her to leave. Once she was out of earshot, I threw Blake a look.

“Following me like a thousand miles after I told you to back off is pretty much stalking. So you can take your oxford shirt and shove it.”

His chest moved as he chuckled softly. “I guess you’re right. You left me with more questions than answers.”

“It’s not my fault you’re slow,” I rolled my eyes.

His expression softened. “All I want to know is the truth. I guess I followed you, because I hoped you’d understand that.”

I inhaled sharply. I did understand that. There was no doubt that I didn’t want to face this right now, but I felt a pang of sympathy for Blake.

“You were close to your brother?” I asked.

“Yeah,” he said, his voice getting low. “I mean, kind of. We both went into the police force together.”

“I didn’t know Brooklyn was a cop,” I said.

Blake thought for a moment.

“He went into dispatch,” he said. “He was always more fond of technical stuff.”

I nodded.

“He just always needed guidance,” Blake went on. “You wouldn’t know it, looking at him. He was funny and charming, but when he was alone, things could get messy. I tried to watch out for him.”

I did know the funny and slightly charming Brooklyn — the Brooklyn who often had some sort of nerd debate going on with Edge while they cased a mark for me. He did drink a lot, but it didn’t matter in our world of high-functioning alcoholics. He fit in.

“Then,” Blake got a far-away look in his eyes. “I started getting into some tougher work. I wasn’t around as much to monitor him. He started drinking more, and I was the responsible one who called him out on it. He didn’t want me trying to help him. We had a falling out. I turned my back on him. I walked away.”

Great, I thought. On top of everything else, I have to deal with this guy’s guilt.

“I just… our mother loved him a lot. It killed me to tell her that he died driving drunk. I didn’t want to tell her the truth, but I couldn’t lie to her either. She’s heartbroken.”

“You can’t lie to your mother?” I was perplexed.

Shit, let me teach you how.

“I guess it’s an honor thing. Maybe a cop thing,” Blake said. “But no, I can’t lie to her. I can lie all day to anyone else, but not to her.”

He took a drink of his coffee.

I nodded, trying not to let his story get to me. All I could picture was a small, meek woman who had lost her husband and son to drunk-driving accidents.

I don’t know how many times I thought about my mother before she knew the real me. Countless times I’d worry about fucking up and Osiris making up some story about how I died. No mother deserved to be lied to about the death of her child.

Why did he have to bring a mother into this?

“I realize how crazy I seem. Maybe I am nuts… but I had to try. Nothing adds up. I want to know who’s responsible. I think you want to tell me the truth.”

I glanced around the restaurant, trying to sort out my thoughts.

Spark had been my focus, then Judah, and then all of Osiris. I had foolishly pushed all of my other feelings under the rug. Now, none of those other distractions were here. I was left to think about everything else I had left behind.

Brooklyn Hess had been a person, and people missed him.

C. Elizabeth VescioAbout the Author

Twitter | Facebook | Goodreads | Wasted Series Website

Elizabeth Vescio is the author of the Wasted Series and Adventures of the Dress. She published her first book, Elegantly Wasted in 2012. Cara is also a photographer, gamer, cosplayer and animal enthusiast. She lives in Las Vegas with her husband and four mutts. She’s passionate about Shakespeare, Paul Simon and Loki as portrayed by Tom Hiddleson.

 

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Win a set of the Wasted Series art cards, plus a $25 gift card!

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Waiting on Wednesday: TOTALLY WASTED

December 2, 2015

I’ve been blogging for five years, but can you believe that in that time I’ve never created a Waiting on Wednesday post?!? Seriously- where have I been? But, if this is going to be my very first one, I needed to feature a book that I’m absolutely dying for, and one book jumps to mind!

Today’s Waiting on Wednesday post is dedicated to….

C. Elizabeth Vescio’s TOTALLY WASTED!!

I am absolutely in love with the WASTED series, and I just cannot wait for this third and final book to come out this month! Luckily I don’t have to wait long, because Release Date is December 8th!!

As if writing amazing books wasn’t enough, Cara also takes amazing photographs, and she has an amazing trio of models who bring her three main characters from the WASTED series to life. So, today I am combining my WOW post with a Woman Crush Wednesday post and featuring a couple of amazing images created for the book!

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(Models- Frankie: Alex Fitzgerald, Addi: Jasmin Keith, Kat: Maegan Anglin)

And here’s one more…

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This collage is everything I love about the WASTED series! Since I’m sure that after those teasers, you’re now dying to know more about TOTALLY WASTED, here are the details:

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About the book:

Welcome to family therapy, Fairholm style.

When Osiris headquarters fell, Frankie ran away with Spark Dawson, hoping the open ocean would wash the chaos of her life away. The Nameless, and her own primal urges, soon intrude and before Frankie knows it, she and Spark are traveling to Hong Kong to face what’s left of the company. There she finds her entire family under the protection of the Sha Lù. Kat and Addi are pissed, Nero has given up, Judah won’t let anyone leave, and her mother and aunts are getting along for once in their lives. Things are weird.

Because Frankie’s life is never complicated enough, Spark becomes dead set on uncovering the deadly secrets Judah hid from him–and gets more than anyone bargained for in the answers he discovers.

Tensions are high and morality is low as Frankie starts unraveling the threads that bind them all together. As old ghosts haunt her thoughts and new enemies dance just outside her reach, she has choices to make that determine the future of everyone she knows. Now all she has to do is convince everyone she knows what she’s doing.

After all, if Osiris doesn’t fight the Nameless, they’ll all have to hide behind the Sha Lù for the rest of their lives…and the wine supply is running out.

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Sounds like a thrilling conclusion, right? There’s time to get the series started before it comes out, so here are some buy links for the first two books in the series, ELEGANTLY WASTED, and UNCONTROLLABLY WASTED. There’s also a book of short stories set in the WASTED world that delve further into the lives of Cara’s intriguing characters. That book is called WASTELAND, and I’ll include links for it too!

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Kindle | Paperback | Nook

 

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Kindle | Paperback | Nook

 

wasteland

Kindle | Paperback

 

cara About the Author:

C. Elizabeth Vescio likes to play in the dark world of cynics and death. Her first novel, Elegantly Wasted touched on the demented and humorous side of a delightfully dysfunctional family. She’s a fan of writing and reading science fiction, urban fantasy, and contemporary fiction.

C. Elizabeth is a photographer, gamer, cosplayer, and animal enthusiast. She lives in Las Vegas with her husband and four mutts. She’s passionate about Shakespeare, theology, Paul Simon, and Loki as portrayed by Tom Hiddleson.

Website | Facebook | Twitter | WASTED Series Website

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TOTALLY WASTED Cover Reveal

August 10, 2015

I am so excited to share with you today the amazing Cover Reveal for C. Elizabeth Vescio’s latest novel, TOTALLY WASTED! C. Elizabeth has had some truly stunning covers in the past, featuring some amazing art, and this cover is no different. It is everything you’ve come to love from her and more! Without further ado….scroll down for the big reveal!

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It’s gorgeous, right?!?

Now that you’ve gotten a glimpse of the beautiful cover, it’s time to find out more about the novel! Here are all the details!

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About TOTALLY WASTED

Welcome to family therapy, Fairholm style.

When Osiris headquarters fell, Frankie ran away with Spark Dawson, hoping the open ocean would wash the chaos of her life away. The Nameless, and her own primal urges, soon intrude and before Frankie knows it, she and Spark are traveling to Hong Kong to face what’s left of the company.

There she finds her entire family under the protection of the Sha Lù. Kat and Addi are pissed, Nero has given up, Judah won’t let anyone leave, and her mother and aunts are getting along for once in their lives. Things are weird.

Because Frankie’s life is never complicated enough, Spark becomes dead set on uncovering the deadly secrets Judah hid from him–and gets more than anyone bargained for in the answers he discovers.

Tensions are high and morality is low as Frankie starts unraveling the threads that bind them all together. As old ghosts haunt her thoughts and new enemies dance just outside her reach, she has choices to make that determine the future of everyone she knows. Now all she has to do is convince everyone she knows what she’s doing.

After all, if Osiris doesn’t fight the Nameless, they’ll all have to hide behind the Sha Lù for the rest of their lives…and the wine supply is running out.

TOTALLY WASTED: Website | Goodreads

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Vescio_Author_Photo About C. Elizabeth Vescio:

Elizabeth Vescio likes to play in the dark world of cynics and death. Her first novel, Elegantly Wasted touched on the demented and humorous side of a delightfully dysfunctional family. She’s a fan of writing and reading science fiction, urban fantasy, and contemporary fiction.

C. Elizabeth is a photographer, gamer, cosplayer and animal enthusiast. She lives in Las Vegas with her husband and four mutts. She’s passionate about Shakespeare, Theology, Paul Simon, and Loki as portrayed by Tom Hiddleson.

 

Author Links: Website | Facebook | Twitter

 

 

 

 

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Teaser Tuesday: TOTALLY WASTED

June 30, 2015

I am so excited to share with you all a very special Teaser Tuesday! Have you ever loved a series so, so much and just feel like there’s no possible way that you can wait for the next book to come out? Well I have, and the series in question is Cara Vescio’s Wasted series, featuring my favorite kickass female assassin, Frankie Fairholm. 

The first two books in the series are out already, and Cara even answered my prayers for more of this awesome series with a book of short stories, but I have been anxiously awaiting the third and final book. Guess what?!? It’s coming! SOON! And Cara has put out a teaser image to get us all excited for…TOTALLY WASTED!

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I mean, seriously- that image! That wine glass- with the bullet hole! If that doesn’t get you excited for what’s to come, I don’t know what will! 

If you haven’t read this awesome series, now is a great time to get started, and I’ll give you some purchase links here to make it super easy. The books are only $0.99, too, so it’s a bargain for some truly amazing books!

Read ELEGANTLY WASTED.

Read UNCONTROLLABLY WASTED.

Read WASTELAND.

That should hold you over until book three comes out, but until then, be sure to follow Cara on the web to get all of the important updates! (Plus- she’s just generally amazing, so follow her anyway…)

FOLLOW CARA:

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