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Tuesday, October 21, 2014

Follow Me Through Darkness Playlist + Giveaway!

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The Follow Me Through Darkness tour is stopping by the blog today with the book’s playlist along with a giveaway! I haven’t read this one yet, but it sounds like a really interesting dystopian book that sounds right up my alley! Here’s some info on the book if it’s new to you:

Follow Me Through Darkness Playlist + Giveaway!Follow Me Through Darkness by Danielle Ellison
Series: The Boundless Trilogy #1
Published by Spencer Hill Press on October 21st 2014
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The truth won't always set you free.

Less than a year ago, Neely Ambrose’s biggest worry was having the freedom to follow a path that wasn't chosen for her.

Less than a year ago, she believed she could trust the Elders who said they had everyone’s best interest at heart and who said they were keeping them safe from the outside.

Sixty days ago, she discovered what they had planned for everyone she loved—and that all of it centered around her.
Now she’s on the run through a dangerous wasteland full of killing machines, secret organizations, and people who want to sell her back to the Elders for their own safety. The whole world outside the Compound is living proof that everything in Neely’s life was a lie manufactured by the Elders, which may even include the boy she loves.

All Neely wants is the truth, but each new piece of it drives her further from what she thought she knew. With only forty days until everyone she loves falls under the Elders’ mind control, Neely must decipher who to trust, what questions to ask, and how to get one step ahead of the Elders, who will do anything to keep their secrets buried.



Follow Me Through Darkness Playlist by Danielle Ellison


I spent four years between first draft and the release of Follow Me Through Darkness. Music was instrumental in setting the mood, in keeping me in the zone, and in creating the tension that I wanted to build in the novel. This is a longer playlist, because it’s four years of music! I found that I kept adding to the songs I already had, and none of this includes the Pandora playlist I created! (I’ve even added some notes that I made where I used particular songs during specific scenes.)

Back to December – Taylor Swift
A Book Like This – Angus & Julia Stone
There’s a Place for Us – Carrie Underwood
Haunted (Acoustic)  – Taylor Swift
Light You Up – Shawn Mullins
Aha!  – Imogen Heap (during fight scenes)
Over and Over – Three Days Grace  (fight scenes)
Ocean And Atlantic – Mayday Parade (fight scenes)
Land Of Pale Saints – Early Day Miners  (fight scenes)
Return Of The Native – Early Day Miners  (fight scenes)
If I’m Broken – Lanaé Hale
Cut – Plum
Innocent  – Taylor Swift
No Envy No Fear  – Joshua Radin (During a scene in the mountains)
Deserter  – Early Day Miners (during an argument between Thorne and Neely)
Quiet Place – Lanaé Hale
*Opened Once (Instrumental) – Jeff Buckley
Into the Ocean – Blue October
Back And Forth  – Lanaé Hale
Obsessions – Marina And The Diamonds
For You I Will – P`Nu`Bird and Teddy Geiger
Love The Way You Lie (Part II) – Rihanna ft. Eminem
Hymn Beneath The Palisades  – Early Day Miners
Take it All – Adele
Ocean Size Love – Leigh Nash (before she leaves…on the beach with Thorne)
Last Kiss   –  Taylor Swift (before she leaves…on the beach with Thorne )
Fireflies –  Owl City
Sort Of – Ingrid Michaelson (bathroom scene)
The Sound of Settling –  Death Cab for Cutie
We Are Okay –  Joshua Radin
Turning Tables – Adele
World Spins Madly On – The Weepies
All The Same – Sick Puppies
Break My Fall – Lanaé Hale
Set Fire to the Rain – Adele
Sans Revival –  Early Day Miners
Silent Tents-  Early Day Miners
Only Girl (In The World) –  Boyce Avenue
Lamb –   Gorecki
What the Lonely Say – Parlour Steps
I Never Told You  – Colbie Caillat
Bella – Angus and Julia Stone
Tell the Truth as if it Were Lies –Kathryn Williams
All of Me –Angus & Julia Stone
5 Years Time – Noah and the Whale
I Feel it All –Feist
I Will Follow You Into the Dark – Amy Millan
Hollywood – Marina and the Diamonds

 

 

About the Author




Danielle Ellison spent of her childhood reading instead of learning math. It’s probably the reason she can’t divide without a calculator and has spent her life seeking the next adventure. It’s also probably the reason she’s had so many different zip codes and jobs.

When she’s not writing, Danielle is usually drinking coffee, fighting her nomadic urges, watching too much TV, or dreaming of the day when she can be British. Danielle is also the author of SALT and STORM, a series about a snarky witch without magic. She has settled in Northern Virginia, for now, but you can always find her on twitter @DanielleEWrites.



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Review: Salt by Danielle Ellison

Review: Salt by Danielle Ellison

Posted by on 12/20/2013 • 25 Comments

I love witch stories. But this was not one of them. Penelope is a witch without powers – they were stolen from her and now she’s dead set on hunting the demon who stole them. This sounds like it could be a fun, action packed novel, except all we have here is a girl who whines a lot and spends most of the book being boring and talking herself out of kissing a guy who apparently annoys her.

That is the gist of it. Exams, simulations, graduation, research, more research, coffee dates, research; some very thrilling stuff in here… There weren’t even interesting characters to make up for it. The side characters all blended together, honestly. I can’t say I even care to discuss any of them in this series….