Blog Tour Review & Giveaway: Inspire – Cora Carmack

Kalliope lives with one purpose.

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.

Series: The Muse #1
Release Date: December 15th 2014
Publisher: Self Published
Source: InkSlinger PR
Reviewer: Shannon
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INSPIRE was one of those books that amazed me as much from the first page to the last.  Cora Carmack has created a world and characters that mesmerize you from the very beginning.

Kalli, one of the remaining eight Greek Muses, is working within an Austin college when she develops a sense of guilt.  The guilt tears at her, making her question what she’s doing.  It’s during this time that she meets Wilder Bell.  He’s very different from the people who run into Kalli.  He sees her for who she is, not her beauty.  She tries to stay away from Wilder, but she is inexplicably drawn to him and he her, and she doesn’t know why.  Kalli has to decide if what she feels for Wilder is worth the risk or if she needs to keep her distance permanently.

I enjoyed this story.  Kalli and Wilder were two characters that were very easy to connect with.  Both of them have varying degrees of guilt pushing down on them and it’s almost like that guilt is what helps draw them to one another.  Despite their differences (even though Wilder isn’t aware of just how different they are), you can see how these two truly belong together and it makes the reader cheer Wilder on as he pursues Kalli.

I loved the Greek mythology angle and I enjoyed the idea that Greek Gods could be mascarading in the crowds at the mall or grocery store and we wouldn’t even know it.  The author keeps the readers attention with the perfectly paced storyline, which has me anxious to find out what happens next with Kalli and Wilder.

Definitely a different type of story from this author, but definitely one that I highly recommend.

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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