tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86968380237009209862024-03-13T21:30:50.586-04:00The Princesses of ReadingPrincesses that like to readthe princesses that readhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409116495421129173noreply@blogger.comBlogger439125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8696838023700920986.post-54369044446811838482021-01-09T12:30:00.000-05:002021-01-09T20:12:10.504-05:00January New Releases<div class="separator"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><p></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-0c9c64ca-7fff-fe95-b3ff-461502912255"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">January 12th</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Waiting for the Night Song</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Julie Carrick Dalton</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 334px; overflow: hidden; width: 216px;"><img height="334" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/Y_ftalOVMxZM6l7Gv9S8DqzEDBuZZWNknP7GEfMQeKVm_1duN7lOuZZpYr2hplPZ4XlvlAGc7H5FZ8QcUevEBtMvXydqZW5g6W5NpaONHStJ0WoJoqGPv3BOi4u2IoVJZFeYXOv1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="216" /></span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A startling and timely debut, Julie Carrick Dalton's </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Waiting for the Night Song</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> is a moving, brilliant novel about friendships forged in childhood magic and ruptured by the high price of secrets that leave you forever changed.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Harboring a dark secret, forestry researcher, Cadie Kessler returns home following a message from an old friend. Together they must face their joint secret that ended their friendship. With this she must decide on what is worth defending, sacrificing, and holding dear. Turmoil follows her throughout the book in different forms; wildfire, drought, foreclosures, and much more. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://juliecarrickdalton.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More About the Author</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where to Buy:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/waiting-for-the-night-song-julie-carrick-dalton/1136889529?ean=9781250269188" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Barnes and Noble</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.powells.com/book/waiting-for-the-night-song-9781250269188" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Powell’s</span></a></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Last Garden In England</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Julia Kelly</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO07sFb1GJU-Tb-Y1zQio8XiWPhMmNLc2ZpRvWhN9BbM5LuWC3NGnZma4YEzNyo1PuyS3kG8mzWv7lXz2yE1tr0XgYkPkSuIxOLZSzQcd7xABjrzxZST2gKKopie9B5mu-zRPExrK6tdI/s2048/LASTGARDEN.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1357" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO07sFb1GJU-Tb-Y1zQio8XiWPhMmNLc2ZpRvWhN9BbM5LuWC3NGnZma4YEzNyo1PuyS3kG8mzWv7lXz2yE1tr0XgYkPkSuIxOLZSzQcd7xABjrzxZST2gKKopie9B5mu-zRPExrK6tdI/s320/LASTGARDEN.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Taking place through three different sets in time. The story follows five women and their journeys in preserving, protecting, and nurturing the famous gardens at the famed Highbury House Estate. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Present Day follows Emma Lovett, who nurtures and gives life to run down gardens. Her personal idol is the creator of these esteemed gardens, Venetia Smith. While doing so, she discovers the hidden secrets of the past. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1907 finds the creator Venetia Smith, a garden designer to the members of high society and industrialists. All of whom are looking to outwardly show off their wealth at their country houses. While working on the Highbury Estate, she meets people who change her life forever.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">1944 introduces Beth Pedley, a land girl who arrives at a farm outside the town that houses the Highbury Estate. While trying to find a place where she belongs and can call home. The Cook at the Estate, Stella Adderton, wants to leave to pursue her own career. While the mistress of Highbury Estate Diana Symonds, desperately trying to hold onto old world ideals, is made to face her home becoming a convalescent home for injured soldiers. The three are thrown and bound together by secrets, which can only be kept for so long.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.juliakellywrites.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More About The Author</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where to Buy:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-last-garden-in-england-julia-kelly/1137252275?ean=9781982107826" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Barnes and Noble</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.powells.com/book/the-last-garden-in-england-9781982107826" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Powell’s</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Andrea Pitzer</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghI_TMhnUxDmCc6IvP5luPEVS_bTvPBkMJ2YZ9NsKuKResbbR6NqUYNs0uxSc7HLso-b53ygWOa_0PsWz2iBVtHU2ANyIkMKrpFwUdUBvNdqjB7foboX8Hmtk9JCYzP5FPISx5GPhQ22k/s2048/icebound.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1357" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghI_TMhnUxDmCc6IvP5luPEVS_bTvPBkMJ2YZ9NsKuKResbbR6NqUYNs0uxSc7HLso-b53ygWOa_0PsWz2iBVtHU2ANyIkMKrpFwUdUBvNdqjB7foboX8Hmtk9JCYzP5FPISx5GPhQ22k/s320/icebound.jpg" /></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Andrea Pitzer tells of the explorer William Barents’ three greatest expeditions in vivid detail. While enhancing the tales with first hand knowledge from her own adventures, and giving insights into the history of this amazing navigator. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://andreapitzer.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More About the Author</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where to Buy:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/icebound-andrea-pitzer/1137252210?ean=9781982113346" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Barnes and Noble</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.powells.com/book/icebound-9781982113346" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Powell’s</span></a></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Perfect Guests</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Emma Rous</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 291px; overflow: hidden; width: 193px;"><img height="291" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/uCXAPvzCAZrpc6c-suZZ2x14qnRDYZsXvvtwPRLAL3fsWcvbqSeKgs1K1RwYGPY950qHv32e8DWjaZrqkw4LFdhBF_25VsO_lOqFqCY267-huO1ZthisIB2HmhrV0kNMKDe6neMz" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="193" /></span></span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">USA Today</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> bestselling author of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Au Pair</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> returns with another delicious, twisty novel--about a grand estate with many secrets, an orphan caught in a web of lies, and a young woman playing a sinister game.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Taking place in two different years with one central location, Ravens Hall. A rambling isolated manor in the East Anglian fens. In 1988 taken to stay at the Hall by her aunt, Beth Soames befriends the daughter of a family who lives there. Quickly becoming one of them and finding a place, everything seems perfect until they ask her help during a “harmless” game.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sadie Langton, in 2019, is an aspiring actress who lands a well-paying job. Given instructions, clothing, and role outlines that seems like a murder mystery dinner. The location is no other than Ravens Hall. Fire damage from previous years adds to the already eerie feeling Sadie has, as more guests come to the hall. Something seems off and it becomes even darker when the realization hits...the host is unseen and playing games with them. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="http://www.emmarous.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More About the Author</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where to Buy:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-perfect-guests-emma-rous/1136847725?ean=9780440000488" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Barnes and Noble</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.powells.com/book/the-perfect-guests-9780440000488" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Powell’s</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">January 26th</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">If I Disappear </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Eliza Jane Brazier</span></p><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="262" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/KOnGd0KQ11euN0Xb_ab0rMYTOt1lZ9W3RO2PlcOaw6nZgNSodaEdkxSkH41OTzJj0lJmDmHs-kDvZnLaXf9GQ1Xw2rYAzQroeX-xUq3vtOjsJdcV0fcBXFJF1i8JmtWTfTzDY4j3=w173-h262" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px;" width="173" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr></tbody></table></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br /></span></span><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 700; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">When her favorite true crime podcast host goes missing, an adrift young woman plunges headfirst into the wild backcountry of Northern California and her own dangerous obsession</span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: inherit; font-weight: 700; text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span> </span>Sera, an avid and lover of true crime podcasts, feels like they are preparing her for something bigger. When her favorite podcaster, Rachel, goes missing. Sera takes it upon herself to follow the clues and find her herself. The clues take her to an isolated ranch outside Rachel’s hometown when things begin to feel off. Rachel isn’t the first woman to go missing..</span><br /><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://elizajanebrazier.blogspot.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More About the Author</span></a></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where to Buy:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/if-i-disappear-eliza-jane-brazier/1136927838?ean=9780593198223" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Barnes and Noble</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; font-family: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.powells.com/book/if-i-disappear-9780593198223" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Powell’s</a></span></p><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div></span><br /><br /></div>Bethanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104750323024238776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8696838023700920986.post-31826655351026887572020-10-23T12:00:00.100-04:002020-10-23T12:00:03.008-04:00Olive the Lionheart by Brad Ricca<p> <span> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghuFpjrIiLFGnjpelK3fvEz-FNKc1QI7PcsK1z4c04uzuvW46LPLUZNbybK4WFXznGpB5rQL1Bns7TpKmLo0HOUw78VjUMTJb1-9tCbS8pc_PDyRhPUqHeQFuqbTRXOIT0WPLpGHGOYUY/s500/olive.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="329" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghuFpjrIiLFGnjpelK3fvEz-FNKc1QI7PcsK1z4c04uzuvW46LPLUZNbybK4WFXznGpB5rQL1Bns7TpKmLo0HOUw78VjUMTJb1-9tCbS8pc_PDyRhPUqHeQFuqbTRXOIT0WPLpGHGOYUY/w183-h278/olive.jpg" width="183" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p><span> Olive the Lionheart is singlehandedly one of the best novels I have read in the past few years. It has everything one could ask for: adventure, love- new and lost, finding ones purpose, and success for almost everyone involved in the novel. It has rich history lessons throughout where you will learn new things with every turn of the page. The letters written to Olive and those written to her help propel the story along. As well as, give a deeper understanding of her mental state through her journey into the African wilderness. It was hard to put this down, reading every moment, stealing any time I could slip in a page or two. This book both inspired me to seek adventures and gave me a new role model- a woman who does not take "no" for an answer. </span></p><p> This novel follows a young aristocratic woman who received notice that her fiancee had died while abroad on an expedition<b> </b>in Africa. With tensions rising because of the ever-growing colonization of Africa and tensions of an invisible Islamic warlord. Olive began a journey to understand and gain knowledge of what truly had befallen her betrothed. Along the way sne the uncovers the truth, about what she truly came to Africa for but also deeper understanding of herself. <br /></p><p><span> I highly recommend this book for anyone who loves adventure and travel. Please keep in mind this adventure took place in 1910. Therefore, a lot of language and situations are written as they were in the journals of both Olive and, her companions, the Talbots. Some of the views and language are not culturally correct for the current times we live in. </span></p><p><span id="docs-internal-guid-3dded162-7fff-8a7e-9271-2f9fddd60433"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.olivethelionheart.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">More About the Author</a></span></span></p><p>Where to Buy:<br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Olive-Lionheart-Imperial-Womans-Journey-ebook/dp/B0818MXP9N/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1SG6W70Z218JX&dchild=1&keywords=olive+the+lionheart&qid=1596000019&sprefix=Olive+the+lion%2Caps%2C160&sr=8-2">Amazon</a><br /><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/olive-the-lionheart-brad-ricca/1136713257?ean=9781250207012">Barnes and Noble</a><br /><a href="https://www.powells.com/book/olive-the-lionheart-lost-love-imperial-spies-one-womans-journey-to-the-heart-of-africa-9781250207012">Powell's</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>*We are not affiliated with any links in this post and do not own rights to images.* </p><p><span><span> </span><br /></span></p>Bethanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104750323024238776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8696838023700920986.post-62027501839545432972020-10-02T12:00:00.000-04:002020-10-02T12:00:04.323-04:00Doll Bones by Holly Black<p> </p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBe9MwYlzKZuMv_yjlmbAv5SEcM2DWvJbeEf_16hm0L7KwuHZjjni1V_G7paYoerr3tz2_XRXwN3IuB72yllu8DHofPI47Bu4rTWe5ZaHBRHLE-JTrNOt5ckcLfE9-Z13LGapZG43rYTc/s406/doll+bones.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="406" data-original-width="273" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBe9MwYlzKZuMv_yjlmbAv5SEcM2DWvJbeEf_16hm0L7KwuHZjjni1V_G7paYoerr3tz2_XRXwN3IuB72yllu8DHofPI47Bu4rTWe5ZaHBRHLE-JTrNOt5ckcLfE9-Z13LGapZG43rYTc/w186-h277/doll+bones.jpg" width="186" /></a></div><br /><span id="docs-internal-guid-2eee38ab-7fff-3217-8ada-2cbf1f96c284"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br />Narrated by Nick Podehl</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> This is actually the first audiobook I have ever listened to, even though it is a young adult/ middle school aged book, it was entertaining. Podehl did a fantastic job and was captivating throughout the entire book. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;">While the writing was entertaining and for the most part enjoyed it, there was a disconnect through different aspects of the book. The main plot was the adventure the trio went through, but there was also Zach dealing with his issues with his father and puberty. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span> </span>It felt just thrown in there with no real connect and a weird overlap that was kind of..just there. There was also the fact that this book is targeted at 9-13 year olds and there is breaking and entering as well as stealing. Justifying it by saying they’ll return everything when done with it, there are absolutely no repercussions for their actions. Which I’m not sure is the message that should be shown to children. Overall, it was a good first audiobook and an entertaining story which was heightened by Podehl.</span></p><div><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The book follows three children, Zach, Poppy, and Alice, who have a very vivid make-believe world. When the Queen of their land, which is a bone-porcelain doll. The dolls began haunting their dreams and revealing to the trio that she was a young girl, murdered who wants to be laid to rest. The friends quickly begin on a journey to try to grant her final ghostly wish.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blackholly.com/" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More About the Author</span></a></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where to Buy:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/doll-bones-holly-black/1112033710?ean=9781416963998" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Barnes and Noble</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.powells.com/book/doll-bones-9781416963998" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Powell’s</a></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;"><br /></p><div><br /></div><div>(Not affiliated with any links and do not own rights to photo)</div></span>Bethanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104750323024238776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8696838023700920986.post-90768280659202979182020-09-29T12:00:00.000-04:002020-09-29T12:00:02.930-04:00The Bloody Jack Series by L.A Meyer<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHk-VZOgmjFx0IaijuyCX-s6MKkSVZBXHI24DDVoPKaflPZdv9Px5gh4IHGyMA31CFo8WTRV_lkdMGjGWBdFd6R2lg88wlfgY9RxVQmRq5xBk4255pJxcT_2I0w8tomqFgR9gJrWKGRx4/s1500/Favorite+Series.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1500" data-original-width="1000" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHk-VZOgmjFx0IaijuyCX-s6MKkSVZBXHI24DDVoPKaflPZdv9Px5gh4IHGyMA31CFo8WTRV_lkdMGjGWBdFd6R2lg88wlfgY9RxVQmRq5xBk4255pJxcT_2I0w8tomqFgR9gJrWKGRx4/s320/Favorite+Series.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="font-family: arial;">This series is the one that truly got me into reading. I read the first five books, but when they discontinued having the books in stores, I was unable to continue reading them. A few years ago, my love for strong female heroines was brought back by ACOTAR and TOG series. So, I was able to purchase the remaining books in the series from Thriftbooks for a decent price. Though I am still working my way through the series, because L.A Meyer was very prolific in his writing, there is a conclusion to the Jack Faber story. </span></span><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: arial; text-align: center; text-indent: 36pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span style="font-size: 11pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">The books follow a young orphan who runs the streets of England, wreaking havoc and mischief with her motley crew of orphans. As a child, she truly only possessed one marketable trait, reading. After weighing her options of living on the streets and begging, she signs up for a position on a naval ship as a ship’s boy and disguises herself as exactly what the title expresses, a boy. Able to get away with this betrayal for several years, she is eventually found out and left to fend for herself. Having to leave the life, family, and love she has found and created for herself behind. Jacky starts her new life where adventure and grandeur follow her everywhere she goes. </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small; text-align: center; text-indent: 48px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span> </span>Every book and journey in Jacky's life gets even more incredible and fantastic. Finding herself become a pirate, a spy in the French war, and even traveling down the Mississippi River. Of course, no Jacky Faber story is complete without her searching and trying to be reconnected with her love, Jamie Fletcher. Even if her eyes and occasionally hands may wander, he is the one who truly has her heart. Her other true love is performing. Spewing amazing tales, songs, and dances from her travels in taverns and for her crew is what she was made for.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 12pt; margin-top: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span> </span>This series is a true joy in my life and I very much look forward to completing it, and passing it </span><span style="text-align: center; white-space: pre-wrap;">down to future generations. It’s a wonderful period piece full of adventure and compelling narrative which immerses you fully into its world and story. 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A spooky house, local lore, ghost stories, and six very different individuals brought to the same location. Thomas does an immaculate job throwing in plot twists exactly where they belong, keeping readers on the edge of their seats. The characters, each with their unique background and inner demons, are called upon by unseen forces .After a two day stay in a off the beaten path murder house they cannot escape. They are propelled into writing a new manuscript, elevated by the need to stay relevant and own desires, they find they can only keep the demons at bay by writing. When you think things are about to get better the characters deeply dive into madness revealing a whole new level of paranormal goodness. Returning to the house, seen as a last resort and ultimately a necessity, the characters risk everything in order to defeat the evil within the house. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-indent: 36pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span> </span>This novel is hauntingly delightful, twists at every page, and the last 100 pages are filled with anxiety and excitement. Thomas’ writing keeps you engaged until the last possible second. I could not put this book down, it was so spooky I was unable to read it at night...which led to it taking me three days to complete it. The hours seem to simply fly by while enjoying this wonderfully written horror novel. 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Being a science major, I’ve learned about the devastation a bomb of that magnitude can cause. That mixed with the tales of woe and atrocity, seen by my grandpa nearly 10 years after, has painted a vivid picture of how horrific it must have been. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">That is until I read this book, and it is worse than I could have ever imagined. This book is simply haunting. The story follows six individuals who survived the bombing of Hiroshima, and their journeys through the devastation and re-building of Hiroshima. Hersey was able to in detail describe their lives and see what they had become 40 years after the bombing. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.656; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Merriweather, serif; font-size: 10.5pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Their individual stories are all unique, while some overlap, many went through these atrocities alone. The descriptions of ailments, of the survivors and victims’ alike, were horrifying and extremely vivid. Do not read this book if you are sensitive to mutilation or war subjects. Such an important read to truly understand the magnitude of what happened, so much of what we learn in school is glossed over, and this completely changed what I had previously known. </span></p><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15328.John_Hersey" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">More About the Author</span></a></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Where to Buy:</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><a href="https://www.powells.com/book/hiroshima-9780679721031" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Powell’s</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/hiroshima_john-hersey/251957/all-editions/" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Thriftbooks</a></span></p><div><br /></div></span>Bethanyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12104750323024238776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8696838023700920986.post-82284920463578418372020-08-11T12:30:00.000-04:002020-08-11T12:30:00.537-04:00Bethany's August TBR<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“Jen Hatmaker believes backbone is the birthright of every woman. Women have been demonstrating</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">cities, and deserts, Olive and her two companions, the Talbots, come face-to-face with cobras</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and crocodiles, wise native chiefs, a murderous leopard cult, a haunted forest, and even two adorable</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">lion cubs that she adopts as her own. Making her way in a pair of ill-fitting boots, Olive awakens to</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/16320912.Krysten_Ritter">More About the Author </a>
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<a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/bonfire-krysten-ritter/1125764551?ean=9781524759858">Barnes and Noble </a>
<a href="https://www.powells.com/book/bonfire-a-novel-9781524759858">Powell's</a>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">"A novel of secrets, memory, family, and forgiveness by the bestselling author of </span></b></span><b><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When Never Comes</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span></span></span></span></b><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b></b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Lizzy Moon never wanted Moon Girl Farm. Eight years ago, she left the land that nine generations of gifted healers had tended, determined to distance herself from the whispers about her family’s strange legacy. But when her beloved grandmother Althea dies, Lizzy must return and face the tragedy still hanging over the farm’s withered lavender fields: the unsolved murders of two young girls, and the cruel accusations that followed Althea to her grave.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lizzy wants nothing more than to sell the farm and return to her life in New York, until she discovers a journal Althea left for her—a </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Book of Remembrances</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> meant to help Lizzy embrace her own special gifts. When she reconnects with Andrew Greyson, one of the few in town who believed in Althea’s innocence, she resolves to clear her grandmother’s name.</span></span></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">"In nationally bestselling author Fiona Davis's latest historical novel, a series of book thefts roils the iconic New York Public Library, leaving two generations of strong-willed women to pick up the pieces.</span></b></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Paris-Never-Leaves-You-Novel-ebook/dp/B07ZBW9CT3/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=paris+never+leaves+you&qid=1595999523&sr=8-1"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Amazon</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Olive the Lionheart: Lost Love, Imperial Spies, and One Woman's Journey into the Heart of Africa</i> by Brad Ricca</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">" <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In 1910, Olive MacLeod, a thirty-year-old, redheaded Scottish aristocrat, received word that her fiancé, the famous naturalist Boyd Alexander, was missing in Africa.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Olive the Lionheart </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is the thrilling true story of her astonishing journey. In jungles, swamps, cities, and deserts, Olive and her two companions, the Talbots, come face-to-face with cobras and crocodiles, wise native chiefs, a murderous leopard cult, a haunted forest, and even two adorable lion cubs that she adopts as her own. Making her way in a pair of ill-fitting boots, Olive awakens to the many forces around her, from shadowy colonial powers to an invisible Islamic warlord who may hold the key to Boyd's disappearance. As these secrets begin to unravel, all of Olive's assumptions prove wrong and she is forced to confront the darkest, most shocking secret of all: why she really came to Africa in the first place.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Drawing on Olive's own letters and secret diaries, </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Olive the Lionheart </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">is a love story that defies all boundaries, set </span></span></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.powells.com/book/olive-the-lionheart-lost-love-imperial-spies-one-womans-journey-to-the-heart-of-africa-9781250207012">Powell's</a><br />
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<i>Ink & Sigil</i> by Kevin Hearne</div>
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Princesses of Readingthe princesses that readhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409116495421129173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8696838023700920986.post-69627990291860122052019-05-31T09:30:00.000-04:002019-05-31T09:30:03.595-04:00June Releases Here are the books that I am looking foward to in June:<br />
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<span id="freeText9523699697715786005" style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><b>A fierce young female adventurer battles time itself to claim her destiny in a sweeping new fantasy saga from the author of the Hundredth Queen series.</b><br /><br />Everley Donovan is living on borrowed time. The lone survivor of her family’s unexplained assassination, she was saved by an ingeniously crafted clockwork heart. But the time she was given won’t last forever. Now, every tick-tock reminds her how fragile her existence is and hastens her quest to expose Killian Markham, the navy admiral who shattered her world and left her for dead. But Everley’s hunt for justice will be a long and hard-won voyage.<br /><br />Her journey takes her to a penal colony on a cursed isle, where she will be married off and charged to build the new world. It is here, and beyond, that hidden realms hide, treasures are unearthed, her family secrets are buried, and young love will test the strength of her makeshift heart. When Everley discovers Markham may not be who he seems, her pursuit for truth is bound to his redemption, her tragic history, and her astonishing destiny.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">A year has passed since the fall of Lightspire. The Inquisitor Miles Hampstedt has usurped the throne and rules Noveris with a blood-soaked iron fist. Tilla and her friends have become hardened rebels in the Unbroken, a band of guerilla fighters hiding out in the fringes of the Kingdom. Tilla is plagued with doubt and regret; Lyriana struggles with the burdens of being a fugitive Queen; Zell atones for his guilt by killing for the cause. And even as they all fight, they know their cause is doomed, that with very passing day Miles' power grows, his army of Bloodmages spreading to cover the continent.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Then a raid on an outpost produces two unexpected prisoners: Lord Elric Kent himself, now a prisoner obsessed with revenge, and Syan See, a strange girl from the Red Wastes. Tilla struggles with the emotional weight of confronting her father, but it's Syan that offers the true revelation. She demonstrates a new incredible kind of magic, and speaks of a secret civilization hidden in isolation in the mysterious Wastes. With Miles' forces closing in, Tilla and her friends (alongside a hostage Lord Kent) set out to make contact with Syan's people, to make an pact that could turn the war. The journey will test their character, forge unlikely alliances, reveal the horrifying true nature of magic, and set in motion a battle that will determine the fate of Noveris itself.</span></div>
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<img alt="The Beholder by [Bright, Anna]" height="320" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51e3tOpiV5L.jpg" width="211" /></div>
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<strong>“Sparkles with beauty, intrigue, and romance.”—Kiera Cass, #1 <em>New York Times</em>bestselling author of the Selection series</strong></div>
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Selah has waited her whole life for a happily ever after. As the only daughter of the leader of Potomac, she knows her duty is to find the perfect match.</div>
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But after an excruciatingly public rejection, Selah’s stepmother suggests an unthinkable solution: Selah must set sail across the Atlantic to visit a series of potential suitors—and if she doesn’t come home engaged, she shouldn’t come home at all.</div>
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From the gardens of England to the fjords of Norge, Selah’s quest will be the journey of a lifetime. But her stepmother’s schemes aren’t the only secrets hiding belowdecks…and the stakes of her voyage may be higher than any happy ending.</div>
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<strong>Lush landscapes, dazzling romance, and captivating intrigue await in this stunning alternate historical YA debut—perfect for fans of <em>The Selection </em>or <em>Caraval</em>.</strong></div>
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<img alt="The Rest of the Story by [Dessen, Sarah]" height="320" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41RqE87RW%2BL.jpg" width="211" /></div>
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<strong>From #1 <em>New York Times</em> bestselling author Sarah Dessen comes a big-hearted, </strong><strong>sweeping novel about a girl who reconnects with a part of her family she hasn’t seen since she was a little girl—and falls in love, all over the course of a magical summer.</strong></div>
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Emma Saylor doesn’t remember a lot about her mother, who died when Emma was twelve. But she does remember the stories her mom told her about the big lake that went on forever, with cold, clear water and mossy trees at the edges.</div>
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Now it’s just Emma and her dad, and life is good, if a little predictable…until Emma is unexpectedly sent to spend the summer with her mother’s family that she hasn’t seen since she was a little girl.</div>
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When Emma arrives at North Lake, she realizes there are actually two very different communities there. Her mother grew up in working class North Lake, while her dad spent summers in the wealthier Lake North resort. The more time Emma spends there, the more it starts to feel like she is also divided into two people. To her father, she is Emma. But to her new family, she is Saylor, the name her mother always called her.</div>
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Then there’s Roo, the boy who was her very best friend when she was little. Roo holds the key to her family’s history, and slowly, he helps her put the pieces together about her past. It’s hard not to get caught up in the magic of North Lake—and Saylor finds herself falling under Roo’s spell as well.</div>
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For Saylor, it’s like a whole new world is opening up to her. But when it’s time to go back home, which side of her—Emma or Saylor—will win out?</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>June 11</b></span><br />
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<img alt="The Echelon (Spy Girl Book 7) by [Dodd, Jillian]" height="320" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/5118HGqPVbL.jpg" width="209" /></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Can one girl save the world?</i></b><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">From </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">USA Today</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> bestselling author Jillian Dodd comes the last book in a sizzling series filled with action and adventure. Fans of </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Selection</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> and </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Hunger Games</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> will discover a heart-pounding thrill ride of espionage and suspense set in glittering high society.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Echelon's plan to change the shape of the world is succeeding. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The disease was released. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">People are dying. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Montrovia is surrounded. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Americans have declared martial law, stripping its people of their rights. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">And the world is in chaos. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Huntley has always been willing to sacrifice herself for the mission, but what she wasn't prepared for is those she loves doing the same. Can Huntley stop what started in Montrovia, or is it too late to save </span></div>
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<img alt="Malum: Part 2 (The Elite Kings Club #5)" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1556443897l/43832305.jpg" width="213" /></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Some girls don’t like pretty things.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Some girls like things that are destructive, and toxic. Things that fuel our bodies with adrenaline and bring our demons to their knees. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">They say magic isn’t real, but it’s it the closest way to describe love? It doesn’t exist physically. It merely exists around us, within us, possessing our souls and making us do stupid shit. Shit like falling in love with a boy who knows how to rip my world apart and raise hell with a simple flick of his wrist. Their secrets are now mine. I’m not just in the middle of this game, I’m helping orchestrate it. Can the cries of my aching soul be enough to drown out the burning embers of my mistakes?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">The mind strengthens the heart, roughing the edges to prepare it for war. This is a war I will not win.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">This is a war of fate.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Sisters Akeylah, Ren, and Zofi are all a step closer to their dying father's throne, a step closer to the crown that will allow one of them to rule over Kolonya. But the sisters' pasts continue to haunt them. Each hides a secret marked with blood and betrayal, and now their blackmailer is holding nothing back. When King Andros discovers the sisters' traitorous pasts, the consequences will shake the entire kingdom to its core.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">As Kolonya's greatest threat stalks closer and closer, weaving a web of fear and deceit around Ren, Zofi, and Akeylah, even the people they love are under suspicion. If the sisters are going to survive, they'll have to learn to trust each other above all else and work together, not only to save themselves, but to protect everyone and everything they hold dear.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Eighteen-year-old Trinity Marrow may be going blind, but she can see and communicate with ghosts and spirits. Her unique gift is part of a secret so dangerous that she’s been in hiding for years in an isolated compound fiercely guarded by Wardens—gargoyle shape-shifters who protect humankind from demons. If the demons discover the truth about Trinity, they’ll devour her, flesh and bone, to enhance their own powers.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">When Wardens from another clan arrive with disturbing reports that something out there is killing both demons and Wardens, Trinity’s safe world implodes. Not the least because one of the outsiders is the most annoying and fascinating person she’s ever met. Zayne has secrets of his own that will upend her world yet again—but working together becomes imperative once demons breach the compound and Trinity’s secret comes to light. To save her family and maybe the world, she’ll have to put her trust in Zayne. But all bets are off as a supernatural war is unleashed…</span></div>
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<img alt="Kickin' It (Red Card Book 2) by [Van Dyken, Rachel]" height="320" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51HcT-RrVQL.jpg" width="213" /></div>
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<b>Love breaks the offside rule in <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Rachel Van Dyken’s irresistibly sexy Red Card romance.</b></div>
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Successful, high-profile sports agent Matt Kingston thinks he can handle anything. Then soccer player Parker Speedman shows up at his door. She is young and gorgeous, has natural talent, and is looking for a team. She’s also a hothead with a punchy past who floored her last coach on live TV. Despite his misgivings, Matt agrees to be both her agent <i>and</i> her coach. Professional common sense says she’s off-limits. But what can he say about the raw attraction between them?</div>
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Parker plays soccer with her heart and soul. But after the events of the last year, she’s shaken. She’s already seen what a powerful man can do to a female athlete’s career. And her beloved dream is in the hands of a sexy, gorgeous man with the uncanny ability to slip past her defenses…and into her heart.</div>
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Now Matt and Parker are about to learn that when it comes to love, the only way to win is by breaking every rule they know. And by playing nice. Real nice.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>June 14</b></span><br />
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<img alt="Power (The Zara Chronicles Book 9) by [Haven, Scarlett]" height="320" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51aKKKZw3kL.jpg" width="213" /></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A far as missions go, I think I prefer ones where I am on a cruise ship. Bahamas here I come.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Zach has gone back to Spy School, leaving me alone with the guys.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Everything is getting scary. It seems like we’re always one step behind.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The truth is, I’m not safe anywhere.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>June 18</b></span><br />
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<img alt="The Lemon Sisters: A Novel by [Shalvis, Jill]" height="320" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51iBZBZMYaL.jpg" width="212" /></div>
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<strong>"A book to savor--and share." --Susan Wiggs<em>, New York Times </em>Bestselling Author</strong></div>
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<strong><em>The New York Times</em> bestselling author of <em>Rainy Day Friends</em> and <em>Lost and Found Sisters</em>returns to Wildstone, California...</strong></div>
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Brooke Lemon has always led the life she wanted, wild adventures—and mistakes—included, something her perfect sister, Mindy, never understood. So when Mindy shows up on Brooke’s doorstep in the throes of a break-down with her three little kids in tow, Brooke’s shocked.</div>
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Wanting to make amends, Brooke agrees to trade places, taking the kids back to Wildstone for a few days so Mindy can pick up the pieces and put herself back together. What Brooke doesn’t admit is she’s just as broken . . . Also how does one go home after seven years away? It doesn’t take long for Brooke to come face-to-face with her past, in the form of one tall, dark, sexy mistake. But Garrett’s no longer interested. Only his words don’t match his actions, leaving Brooke feeling things she’d shoved deep.</div>
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Soon the sisters begin to wonder: Are they lemons in life? In love? All they know is that neither seems to be able to run far enough to outpace her demons. And when secrets surface, they’ll have to learn that sometimes the one person who can help you the most is the one you never thought to ask.</div>
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<img alt="The Evil Queen (The Forest of Good and Evil, #1)" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1549650396l/40242200.jpg" width="212" /></div>
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<span id="freeText7693635979723547463" style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>Welcome to the Forest of Good and Evil. A dream come true, and a living nightmare.</i><br /><br /><b>Evil isn’t born, it’s made. One thought and action at a time. Take a good look at what you’ve made.</b><br /><br />Far, far away, in the realm of Enchantia, creatures of legend still exist, magic is the norm and fairy tales are real. Except, fairy tales aren’t based on myths and legends of the past—they are prophecies of the future.<br /><br />Raised in the mortal realm, Everly Morrow has no idea she’s a real life fairy tale princess—until she manifests an ability to commune with mirrors.<br /><br />Look. See… What will one peek hurt?<br /><br />Soon, a horrifying truth is revealed. She is fated to be Snow White’s greatest enemy, the Evil Queen.<br /><br />With powers beyond her imagination or control—and determined to change Fate itself—Everly returns to the land of her birth. There, she meets Roth Charmaine, the supposed Prince Charming. Their attraction is undeniable, but their relationship is doomed.<br /><br />As bits and pieces of the prophecy unfold, Everly faces one betrayal after another, and giving in to her dark side proves more tempting every day. Can she resist, or will she become the queen—and villain—she was born to be?</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span></div>
the princesses that readhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409116495421129173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8696838023700920986.post-9592905992093853912019-05-09T14:07:00.001-04:002019-05-09T14:07:39.998-04:00May Release! Sorry for the delay everyone. I have been swamped with school but I promise that I am back and will start reviewing soon. Here our are book we want to read in the month of May:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">May 2nd</span><br />
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<img alt="The Envy of Idols: A High School Bully Romance (Rich Boys of Burberry Prep Book 3) by [Stunich, C.M.]" height="320" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51nQa1kw3BL.jpg" width="210" /></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Share the new girl.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">That won’t be easy, will it?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Especially not while trying to keep our thrones in the Burberry Prep social scene.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Marnye is learning to forgive us; the least we can do is protect her.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Let’s see who can make her fall in love first.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This time, there’s no bet. This time, it’s just our hearts on the line.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">May 4th</span><br />
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<img alt="Tame: A High School Bully Romance (Savannah Heirs Book 2) by [June, CoraLee, Kennedy, Raven]" height="320" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41sDdYD22WL.jpg" width="200" /></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I’ve got a secret</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I’ve got bruises no one can see and the devil’s blood running through my veins. If I want to end my father’s reign, I’ve got to help Rocco Nomar with his daughter. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">She’s broken, jaded. A sad, pretty little thing with a big heart and eyes that make me feel like I’m drowning. She’s not swayed by the social politics of Savannah, but she has my heart doing double takes. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I didn’t even know I was capable of love. I’m not a man that can be tamed. But Rachel Nomar just might change that. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">As long as the devil in me doesn’t ruin her first. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Authors Note: </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">This book is a dark romance that explores very dark themes. It does include scenes of violence, substance use, and non-consensual sex.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">May 7th</span><br />
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<img alt="Finale (Caraval, #3)" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1540221721l/40381392.jpg" width="210" /></div>
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<span id="freeText8623431521862634609" style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;"><b>Welcome, welcome to Finale, the third and final book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Caraval series!</b><br /><br />Welcome, welcome to Caraval...all games must come to an end.<br /><br />It’s been two months since the last Caraval concluded, two months since the Fates have been freed from an enchanted deck of cards, two months since Tella has seen Legend, and two months since Legend claimed the empire’s throne as his own. Now, Legend is preparing for his official coronation and Tella is determined to stop it. She believes her own mother, who still remains in an enchanted sleep, is the rightful heir to the throne.<br /><br />Meanwhile, Scarlett has started a game of her own. She’s challenged Julian and her former fiancé, Count Nicolas d’Arcy, to a competition where the winner will receive her hand in marriage. Finally, Scarlett feels as if she is in complete control over her life and future. She is unaware that her mother’s past has put her in the greatest danger of all.<br /><br />Caraval is over, but perhaps the greatest game of all has begun―with lives, empires, and hearts all at stake. There are no spectators this time: only those who will win...and those who will lose everything. . .</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">Return once more to the deadly and dazzling world of Red Queen in Broken Throne, a beautifully designed, must-have companion to the chart-topping series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Victoria Aveyard.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">The perfect addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling Red Queen series, this gorgeously designed package features three brand-new novellas, two previously published novellas, Steel Scars and Queen Song, and never-before-seen maps, flags, bonus scenes, journal entries, and much more exclusive content.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">Fans will be delighted to catch up with beloved characters after the drama of War Storm and be excited to hear from brand-new voices as well. This stunning collection is not to be missed!</span><br />
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<img alt="Nocturna (A Forgery of Magic, #1)" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1550561697l/35561260.jpg" width="212" /></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">Set in a Latinx-inspired world, a face-changing thief and a risk-taking prince must team up to defeat a powerful evil they accidentally unleashed.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">To Finn Voy, magic is two things: a knife to hold under the chin of anyone who crosses her…and a disguise she shrugs on as easily as others pull on cloaks.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">As a talented faceshifter, it’s been years since Finn has seen her own face, and that’s exactly how she likes it. But when Finn gets caught by a powerful mobster, she’s forced into an impossible mission: steal a legendary treasure from Castallan’s royal palace or be stripped of her magic forever.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">After the murder of his older brother, Prince Alfehr is first in line for the Castallan throne. But Alfie can’t help but feel that he will never live up to his brother’s legacy. Riddled with grief, Alfie is obsessed with finding a way to bring his brother back, even if it means dabbling in forbidden magic.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">But when Finn and Alfie’s fates collide, they accidentally unlock a terrible, ancient power—which, if not contained, will devour the world. And with Castallan’s fate in their hands, Alfie and Finn must race to vanquish what they have unleashed, even if it means facing the deepest darkness in their pasts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">May 10th</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Blame (The Zara Chronicles Book 8) by [Haven, Scarlett]" height="320" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51eITr39RiL.jpg" width="213" /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Welcome to New York.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I thought it was over in Seoul, but it feels like it’s just beginning.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Things are changing.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The person who is after me has stepped up their game, but they don’t realize just how far the guys are willing to go to protect me.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">My relationship with the guys is getting stronger, and now they tell me that they don’t want me to choose. It’s unconventional, but I’ve always thought normal was boring anyway.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">May 14th</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Stepsister by [Donnelly, Jennifer]" height="320" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51%2BpX6E-79L.jpg" width="213" /></span></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Don't just fracture the fairy tale. Shatter it.</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Isabelle should be blissfully happy-she's about to win the handsome prince. Except Isabelle isn't the beautiful girl who lost the glass slipper and captured the prince's heart. She's the ugly stepsister who cut off her toes to fit into Cinderella's shoe . . . which is now filling with blood.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Isabelle tried to fit in. She cut away pieces of herself in order to become pretty. Sweet. More like Cinderella. But that only made her mean, jealous, and hollow. Now she has a chance to alter her destiny and prove what ugly stepsisters have always known: it takes more than heartache to break a girl.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Evoking the darker, original version of the Cinderella story, </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Stepsister</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> shows us that ugly is in the eye of the beholder, and uses Jennifer Donnelly's trademark wit and wisdom to send an overlooked character on a journey toward empowerment, redemption . . . and a new definition of beauty.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">May 21st</span><br />
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<img alt="Kingsbane (Empirium, #2)" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1549198915l/40523458.jpg" width="211" /></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">In this sequel to the instant <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>Furyborn</i>, two queens, separated by a thousand years, connected by secrets and lies, must continue their fight amid deadly plots and unthinkable betrayals that will test their strength—and their hearts.</b><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">Rielle Dardenne has been anointed Sun Queen, but her trials are far from over. The Gate keeping the angels at bay is falling. To repair it, Rielle must collect the seven hidden castings of the saints. Meanwhile, to help her prince and love Audric protect Celdaria, Rielle must spy on the angel Corien—but his promises of freedom and power may prove too tempting to resist.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px;">Centuries later, Eliana Ferracora grapples with her new reality: She is the Sun Queen, humanity's long-awaited savior. But fear of corruption—fear of becoming another Rielle—keeps Eliana's power dangerous and unpredictable. Hunted by all, racing against time to save her dying friend Navi, Eliana must decide how to wear a crown she never wanted—by embracing her mother's power, or rejecting it forever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">May 28th</span><br />
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<img alt="Million Dollar Devil by [Evans, Katy]" height="320" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41ibYRg1rJL.jpg" width="213" /></div>
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<b>Big-city sophistication meets carnal hunger in this devilish contemporary romance from <i>New York Times</i> and <i>USA Today</i> bestselling author Katy Evans.</b></div>
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Heir apparent to her father’s company, Lizzy Banks needs a man. The <i>perfect</i> man. But when the rich “fundbabies” she usually rubs shoulders with prove impossible to hire, she takes a chance on a raw beast of a man salvaged from the wreckage of a bar brawl.</div>
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James Rowan earns a modest income as a YouTube daredevil, but he can’t refuse Lizzy’s million dollar deal. As she polishes his rough edges, creating a sophisticated gentleman fit for the highest circles of society, not only does she bring out the perfect man—it’s like she’s making the man of her dreams. How can she resist?</div>
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Though Lizzy loves seeing James in his clothes—and out of them—he isn’t the kind of man you bring home to Daddy. Her father’s disapproval and the pressure of the campaign have her eyeing the straight and narrow, but Lizzy’s finding it awfully hard to resist the devil on her shoulder…</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>April 2nd</b></span><br />
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<img alt="Wicked Saints (Something Dark and Holy, #1)" height="320" src="https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1539378101l/36118682.jpg" width="210" /></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">A girl who can speak to gods must save her people without destroying herself.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">A prince in danger must decide who to trust.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">A boy with a monstrous secret waits in the wings. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Together, they must assassinate the king and stop the war.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">In a centuries-long war where beauty and brutality meet, their three paths entwine in a shadowy world of spilled blood and mysterious saints, where a forbidden romance threatens to tip the scales between dark and light. </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Wicked Saints</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"> is the thrilling start to Emily A. Duncan’s devastatingly Gothic Something Dark and Holy trilogy..</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>April 9th</b></span><br />
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<img alt="Meet Cute by [Hunting, Helena]" height="320" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41rELf%2Bc34L.jpg" width="210" /></div>
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<b>The <em>New York Times </em>bestselling author of <em>Pucked</em> and <i>The Good Luck Charm</i> delivers a Hollywood happily-ever-after where a famous heartthrob falls for his ultimate fangirl in this sexy standalone romantic comedy.</b></div>
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<b>Goodreads's Hottest Romances of 2019</b></div>
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<b>Heroes & Heartbreakers's Anticipated Books of 2019</b></div>
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<b>Chatelaine's Hottest Romances of 2019</b></div>
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<b>SheReads' "The Most Anticipated Romance Books of 2019"</b></div>
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<b>Goodreads' "Sweetest (and Sexiest) Romance Books of Spring"</b></div>
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Kailyn Flowers was always calm, rational, and controlled-until she ended up sprawled all over Daxton Hughes, the former actor she totally crushed on as a teenager. Then she did the unthinkable: She became a mortifying fangirl in five seconds flat, which may or may not have included professing her undying love. And oddly, he didn't run away. In fact, their meet cute led to a friendship she never saw coming. Of course, she never saw his betrayal coming, either...</div>
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Now Dax needs her help. As guardian to his thirteen-year-old sister, he's in way over his head. And though Kailyn hasn't forgiven Dax, she isn't heartless enough to make him fend for himself, either. Soon their friendly meetings turn into flirty dinner dates, and Kailyn can feel their chemistry is as explosive as ever. But how can she possibly let down her guard again to a guy who has heartbreak written all over him?</div>
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<b>"Perfect for fans of Helen Hoang's <i>The Kiss Quotient</i>. A fun and steamy love story with high stakes and plenty of emotion." --<i>Kirkus </i>Reviews</b></div>
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<b>"Best-selling Hunting's latest humorous and heartfelt love story...is another smartly plotted and perfectly executed rom-com with a spot-on sense of snarky wit and a generous helping of smoldering sexual chemistry." --<i>Booklist</i></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>April 16th</b></span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><i>New York Times</i> bestselling author Eric Jerome Dickey reveals how one chance meeting can change everything in this engrossing, sexy tale of star-crossed lust.</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">They say the love of money is the root of all evil, but for Ken Swift, it's the love of a woman.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Ken is twenty-one, hurting people for cash to try to pay his way through college, when he lays eyes on Jimi Lee, the woman who will change the course of his entire life. What's meant to be a one-night stand with the Harvard-bound beauty turns into an explosion of sexual chemistry that neither can quit. And when Jimi Lee becomes pregnant, their two very different worlds collide in ways they never could have anticipated.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Passion, infidelity, and raw emotion combine in Eric Jerome Dickey's poignant, erotic portrait of a relationship: the rise, the fall, and the scars--and desire--that never fade.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>April 23rd</b></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Five years ago, Lexie walked home from school after her older brother failed to pick her up. When she entered her house, her brother sat calmly, waiting for the police to come arrest him for the heinous crime he had just committed.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Treated like a criminal herself, Lexie now moves from school to school hiding who she is—who she's related to. She struggles with loving her brother, the PTSD she now suffers from, and wanting to just live a normal life. But how can she be normal when she can’t even figure out how to just live? </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">This is a powerful look at the assumptions we make about people. Lexie's emotional journey to separate her brother's horrific act from herself is stunning and heartbreaking. This is Lexie’s story and journey—not her brother's—and it will stay with you long after you turn the last page.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>April 30th</b></span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Indulge your vices in the City of Sin, where a sinister street war is brewing and fame is the deadliest killer of them all...</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">On the quest to find her missing mother, prim and proper Enne Salta became reluctant allies with Levi Glaisyer, the city’s most famous con man. Saving his life in the Shadow Game forced Enne to assume the identity of Seance, a mysterious underworld figure. Now, with the Chancellor of the Republic dead and bounties on both their heads, she and Levi must play a dangerous game of crime and politics…with the very fate of New Reynes at stake.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Thirsting for his freedom and the chance to build an empire, Levi enters an unlikely partnership with Vianca Augustine’s estranged son. Meanwhile, Enne remains trapped by the mafia donna’s binding oath, playing the roles of both darling lady and cunning street lord, unsure which side of herself reflects the truth.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">As Enne and Levi walk a path of unimaginable wealth and opportunity, new relationships and deadly secrets could quickly lead them into ruin. And when unforeseen players enter the game, they must each make an impossible choice: To sacrifice everything they’ve earned in order to survive...</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Or die as legends.</span></div>
the princesses that readhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409116495421129173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8696838023700920986.post-16828728011728496482019-03-04T09:00:00.000-05:002019-03-04T09:00:06.134-05:00The Phoenix (spy girl 6) by Jillian Dodd<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">From USA Today bestselling author Jillian Dodd comes the sixth book in a sizzling series filled with action and adventure. Fans of The Selection and The Hunger Games will discover a heart-pounding thrill ride of espionage and suspense set in glittering high society.</span><br />
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Well, this book kept me on my toes the entire time. At first, the book started off a little slow but it picks up towards the end. There is a twist and turns you won't see coming. I also like that in this book we get to see a different point of view. My favorite point of view was Danial's. I think that it is my favorite because of what he is talking about. This book will pull at you heat strings but also make you frustrated at the same time. The ending is what will get you angry and you will want to throw the book across the room. This book was worth the wait. It is a must read.the princesses that readhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409116495421129173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8696838023700920986.post-55486823914452048452019-02-28T09:00:00.000-05:002019-02-28T09:00:09.811-05:00March Releases!Sorry for not uploading as often. I am going to make March better. So I thought that I would start off with what I am looking forward to in the month of March. So here we go.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>March 5th</b></span><br />
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In this sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller, Camille, her sister Edel, and her guard and new love Remy must race against time to find Princess Charlotte. Sophia's Imperial forces will stop at nothing to keep the rebels from returning Charlotte to the castle and her rightful place as queen. With the help of an underground resistance movement called The Iron Ladies-a society that rejects beauty treatments entirely-and the backing of alternative newspaper The Spider's Web, Camille uses her powers, her connections and her cunning to outwit her greatest nemesis, Sophia, and restore peace to Orleans.<div style="text-align: left;">
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Every year for the past fifty-four years, the residents of Pinsbury Port receive a mysterious letter inviting all eligible-aged boys to compete for an esteemed scholarship to the all-male Stemwick University. Every year, the poorer residents look to see that their names are on the list. The wealthier look to see how likely their sons are to survive. And Rhen Tellur opens it to see if she can derive which substances the ink and parchment are created from, using her father’s microscope.<br /><br />In the province of Caldon, where women are trained in wifely duties and men are encouraged into collegiate education, sixteen-year-old Rhen Tellur wants nothing more than to become a scientist. As the poor of her seaside town fall prey to a deadly disease, she and her father work desperately to find a cure. But when her Mum succumbs to it as well? Rhen decides to take the future into her own hands—through the annual all-male scholarship competition.<br /><br />With her cousin, Seleni, by her side, the girls don disguises and enter Mr. Holm’s labyrinth, to best the boys and claim the scholarship prize. Except not everyone’s ready for a girl who doesn’t know her place. And not everyone survives the maze.<div style="text-align: left;">
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SPLINTERED ALLEGIANCE.<br /><br />Warrior Alyssa ana’Raisa would do anything to protect her home, the Fells, and her legacy, the Gray Wolf Line. But as a prisoner of Empress Celestine, Lyss is forced to turn her fearsome talents as an army commander against her beloved homeland. Refusal would swiftly lead to her death, and her death would end the Gray Wolf Line.<br /><br />ANCIENT DANGER.<br /><br />In Lyss’s absence, Fellsmarch Castle swarms with intrigue, deception, and a primordial threat. Destin Karn, a Southern spymaster with a hidden agenda of his own, might be the queendom’s only hope of defeating the forces aligned against the Seven Realms… as well as the enemies within the castle.<br /><br />THE DEADLY COST OF PEACE.<br /><br />Master storyteller Cinda Williams Chima delivers spellbinding action, bittersweet reunions, and dazzling revelations in this indispensable conclusion to the Shattered Realms series.<div style="text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>March 12th</b></span><br />
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<b>A captivating and powerful exploration of the opioid crisis—the deadliest drug epidemic in American history—through the eyes of a college-bound softball star. Edgar Award-winning author Mindy McGinnis delivers a visceral and necessary novel about addiction, family, friendship, and hope.</b><br />When a car crash sidelines Mickey just before softball season, she has to find a way to hold on to her spot as the catcher for a team expected to make a historic tournament run. Behind the plate is the only place she’s ever felt comfortable, and the painkillers she’s been prescribed can help her get there.<br /><br />The pills do more than take away pain; they make her feel good.<br /><br />With a new circle of friends—fellow injured athletes, others with just time to kill—Mickey finds peaceful acceptance, and people with whom words come easily, even if it is just the pills loosening her tongue.<br /><br />But as the pressure to be Mickey Catalan heightens, her need increases, and it becomes less about pain and more about want, something that could send her spiraling out of control.<br /><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>March 19th </b></span><br />
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A new YA standalone novel about dark faeries with surefire appeal by Sarah Porter, the critically-acclaimed author of Vassa in the Night and When I Cast Your Shadow. <br /><br />Seductive. Cruel. Bored<br />Be wary of… <br /><br />Never-Contented Things<br />A Novel of Faery<br /><br />Prince and his fairy courtiers are staggeringly beautiful, unrelentingly cruel, and exhausted by the tedium of the centuries—until they meet foster-siblings Josh and Ksenia. Drawn in by their vivid emotions, undying love for each other, and passion for life, Prince will stop at nothing to possess them.<br /><br />First seduced and then entrapped by the fairies, Josh and Ksenia learn that the fairies' otherworldly gifts come at a terrible price—and they must risk everything in order to reclaim their freedom.<div>
<br /><span style="font-size: large;"><b>March 26th</b></span><br />
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Chloe was three years old when she became Chloe Holden, but her adoption didn’t scar her, and she’s had a great life. Now, fourteen years later, her loving parents’ marriage has fallen apart and her mom has moved them to Joyful, Texas. Starting twelfth grade as the new kid at school, everything Chloe loved about her life is gone. And feelings of déjà vu from her early childhood start haunting her.<br /><br />When Chloe meets Cash Colton she feels drawn to him, as though they're kindred spirits. Until Cash tells her the real reason he sought her out: Chloe looks exactly like the daughter his foster parents lost years ago, and he’s determined to figure out the truth.<br /><br />As Chloe and Cash delve deeper into her adoption, the more things don’t add up, and the more strange things start happening. Why is Chloe’s adoption a secret that people would kill for?</div>
the princesses that readhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409116495421129173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8696838023700920986.post-62651122965230966612019-02-08T10:23:00.000-05:002019-02-08T10:23:58.603-05:00Kiss this by Anne Mercier <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-e424bbd0-7fff-2450-dbf9-80144b05cb8d"><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I’m dragged to a party by my best friends, I don’t plan on having a good time—and I’m not, until “he” finds me alone on the beach. I expect him to be a jerk with looks like him—but he’s not. He’s funny and sweet and we spend hours talking about nothing and everything. </span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then he kisses me. </span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And I give myself to him—a familiar stranger with a name as fake as mine—then we say goodbye.</span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I never planned on seeing him again. </span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When Shell Beach Hall moves all their classes to Shell Beach Academy, I’m more than a little annoyed. The Academy is full of the snobs I avoid like the plague.</span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I can’t hide my surprise when I see him again. He can’t hide his derision, accusing me of knowing who he was and using him to gain popularity. </span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I realize I was wrong about him. He’s a jerk…and I want </span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">nothing to do with him.</span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But he won’t leave me alone. </span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He taunts and teases me.</span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He’s arrogant and a jock who sleeps with any girl he wants. “They should all be so lucky”—his words, not mine.</span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m disgusted. This is who I gave my V-card to? Ugh.</span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I loathe everything he represents and I want to punch him in his pretty bullying face.</span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So why can’t I stop feeling his hands on my body or hear his sexy whispered words? </span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span><br />
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Well, this book was amazing. I hesitated to start reading it because I was scared that it would not be any good. As you all know I love Anne's books. I think that she is very talented. This is a YA book and she KILLED IT with this one. It starts off with a bang and ends on a bang. The main character is hysterical. Be prepared to have all the feels. this is a fast paced book that will keep you on your toes. The next one comes out on the 28th of February. I am telling you will fall in love with the characters.the princesses that readhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409116495421129173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8696838023700920986.post-53223451962192000962019-02-04T09:00:00.000-05:002019-02-08T10:34:47.257-05:00Cover Reveal!I am excited to show you all the cover for the sequal of KISS THIS TOO by ANNE MERCIER! if you have not read the first one check out my <a href="https://theprincessesofreading.blogspot.com/2019/02/kiss-this-by-anne-mercier.html" target="_blank">review</a>. Here it is:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>February 5th</b></span><br />
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Lacey Barnes has dreamt of being in a movie for as long as she can remember. However, while her dream did include working alongside the hottest actor in Hollywood, it didn’t involve having to finish up her senior year of high school at the same time she was getting her big break. Although that is nothing compared to Donavan, the straight-laced student her father hires to tutor her, who is a full-on nightmare.<br />
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As Lacey struggles to juggle her burgeoning career, some on-set sabotage, and an off-screen romance with the unlikeliest of leading men, she quickly learns that sometimes the best stories happen when you go off script.<br />
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<b>The sequel to the instant New York Times bestseller that was "made for fans of Victoria Aveyard and Sabaa Tahir" ( Bustle ), Lady Smoke is an epic new fantasy about a throne cruelly stolen and a girl who must fight to take it back for her people. </b><br />
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The Kaiser murdered Theodosia's mother, the Fire Queen, when Theo was only six. He took Theo's country and kept her prisoner, crowning her Ash Princess--a pet to toy with and humiliate for ten long years. That era has ended. The Kaiser thought his prisoner weak and defenseless. He didn't realize that a sharp mind is the deadliest weapon.<br />
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Theo no longer wears a crown of ashes. She has taken back her rightful title, and a hostage--Prinz Soren. But her people remain enslaved under the Kaiser's rule, and now she is thousands of miles away from them and her throne.<br />
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To get them back, she will need an army. Only, securing an army means she must trust her aunt, the dreaded pirate Dragonsbane. And according to Dragonsbane, an army can only be produced if Theo takes a husband. Something an Astrean Queen has never done.<br />
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Theo knows that freedom comes at a price, but she is determined to find a way to save her country without losing herself.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>February 7th</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><img alt="Heart and Hustle: Use your passion. Build your brand. Achieve your dreams. by [Bright, Patricia]" height="320" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41d4pQF%2BP8L.jpg" width="211" /></span></div>
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<strong>‘Patricia Bright is killing it right now’ <em>Glamour</em></strong></h2>
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<strong>‘One of Britain’s biggest YouTube stars’ <em>Huffington Post</em></strong></h2>
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‘I’m going to show you how to hustle like I do, using your head <em>and</em> heart. All it takes is three steps…’</h2>
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YOUR BRAND: how you can use who you are to smash it online</h2>
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YOUR BUSINESS: how to run your side hustle like a total boss</h2>
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YOUR BELIEFS: ditch the thinking that’s holding you back</h2>
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From the early lessons she learned growing up in South London, to the moment she gave up the 9 to 5 to do what she loved, Patricia Bright’s story will revolutionise how you think about work, life, and what it means to succeed.</div>
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Packed with her trademark attitude, style and sense of fun, Heart & Hustle is an inspirational guide to taking control of your own future.</div>
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A sensational, sweeping fantasy adventure!<br />
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In the empire of Aramtesh, scent has power.<br />
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When disaster strikes and the crown prince lies poisoned, long suppressed rivalries threaten to blow the empire apart. It's up to a poor village girl with a talent for fragrances and the prince's loyal bodyguard to find an antidote.<br />
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To succeed, the pair must uncover secrets - cryptic, ancient tales as well as buried truths from their own pasts - in an adventure that will ignite your senses.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>February 12th</b></span><br />
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The final book in the Valiant series takes Fallon and her warrior sisters on an epic journey from the corrupt Roman Republic to the wonder of the ancient world: Alexandria, Egypt.</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" />In the wake of their victorious fight to win back the Ludus Achillea, Fallon and her gladiatrix sisters have become the toast of the Republic. However, as a consequence of his actions during the Ludus uprising, Fallon's love Cai has been stripped of his Decurion rank and cast down to serve as one of Caesar's gladiators. <br /><br />Amid fighting for Cai's freedom, Fallon soon learns that Caesar's enemies are plotting against him and planning to get revenge on his fearsome gladiatrices. When Caesar is murdered by these conspirators, Fallon and the girls lose any sort of protection they once had. Fallon also realizes that the foreign queen Cleopatra is now in grave danger. <br /><br />Fallon rallies her war band and Cai's friends to get Cleopatra out of the city, and the group heads to the safety of Cleo's homeland, Alexandria, Egypt. Once there, the gladiatrices are promised a place of honor in the queen's elite guard, but is that what any of them really want?<br />
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<b>A sweet, funny contemporary teen romance for the inner geek in all of us from graphic novelist Faith Erin Hicks.</b></div>
Miriam's family should be rich. After all, her grandfather was the co-creator of smash-hit comics series The TomorrowMen. But he sold his rights to the series to his co-creator in the 1960s for practically nothing, and now that's what Miriam has: practically nothing. And practically nothing to look forward to either-how can she afford college when her family can barely keep a roof above their heads? As if she didn't have enough to worry about, Miriam's life gets much more complicated when a cute boy shows up in town . . . and turns out to be the grandson of the man who defrauded Miriam's grandfather, and heir to the TomorrowMen fortune.<br /><br />In her endearing debut novel, cartoonist Faith Erin Hicks pens a sensitive and funny Romeo and Juliet tale about modern romance, geek royalty, and what it takes to heal the long-festering scars of the past (Spoiler Alert: love).</div>
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<br /><b style="font-size: x-large;">February 18th</b><br />
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<img alt="The Risk (Briar U Book 2) by [Kennedy, Elle]" height="320" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41gfEotgbYL.jpg" width="213" /></div>
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<b style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">A sexy standalone novel from New York Times and international bestselling author Elle Kennedy.</b><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" />Everyone says I’m a bad girl. They’re only partly right—I don’t let fear rule me, and I certainly don’t care what people think. But I draw the line at sleeping with the enemy. As the daughter of Briar’s head hockey coach, I’d be vilified if I hooked up with a player from a rival team. <br /><br />And that’s who Jake Connelly is. Harvard’s star forward is arrogant, annoying, and too attractive for his own good. But fate is cruel—I require his help to secure a much-coveted internship, and the sexy jerk isn’t making it easy for me.<br /><br />I need Connelly to be my fake boyfriend. <br /><br />For every fake date…he wants a real one.<br /><br />Which means this bad girl is in big trouble. Nothing good can come from sneaking around with Jake Connelly. My father would kill me, my friends will revolt, and my post-college career is on the line. But while it’s getting harder and harder to resist Jake’s oozing sex appeal and cocky grin, I refuse to fall for him.<br /><br />That’s the one risk I’m not willing to take.<br />
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<b style="font-size: x-large;">February 19th</b></div>
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<img alt="The Phoenix (Spy Girl Book 6) by [Dodd, Jillian]" height="320" src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51bKgbePUHL.jpg" width="208" /></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">From USA Today bestselling author Jillian Dodd comes the sixth book in a sizzling series filled with action and adventure. Fans of The Selection and The Hunger Games will discover a heart-pounding thrill ride of espionage and suspense set in glittering high society.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>February 26th</b></span><br />
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A divided nation. Four Queens. A ruthless pickpocket. A noble messenger. And the murders that unite them.<br />
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Get in quick, get out quicker.<br />
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These are the words Keralie Corrington lives by as the preeminent dipper in the Concord, the central area uniting the four quadrants of Quadara. She steals under the guidance of her mentor Mackiel, who runs a black market selling their bounty to buyers desperate for what they can’t get in their own quarter. For in the nation of Quadara, each quarter is strictly divided from the other. Four queens rule together, one from each region:<br />
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Toria: the intellectual quarter that values education and ambition<br />
Ludia: the pleasure quarter that values celebration, passion, and entertainment<br />
Archia: the agricultural quarter that values simplicity and nature<br />
Eonia: the futurist quarter that values technology, stoicism and harmonious community<br />
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When Keralie intercepts a comm disk coming from the House of Concord, what seems like a standard job goes horribly wrong. Upon watching the comm disks, Keralie sees all four queens murdered in four brutal ways. Hoping that discovering the intended recipient will reveal the culprit – information that is bound to be valuable bartering material with the palace – Keralie teams up with Varin Bollt, the Eonist messenger she stole from, to complete Varin’s original job and see where it takes them.</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #e056b2; font-family: 'Architects Daughter'; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">BLURB: </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #e056b2; font-family: 'Architects Daughter'; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">When I’m dragged to a party by my best friends, I don’t plan on having a good time—and I’m not, until “he” finds me alone on the beach. I expect him to be a jerk with looks like him—but he’s not. He’s funny and sweet and we spend hours talking about nothing and everything.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #e056b2; font-family: 'Architects Daughter'; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">And I give myself to him—a familiar stranger with a name as fake as mine—then we say goodbye.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #e056b2; font-family: 'Architects Daughter'; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">When Shell Beach Hall moves all their classes to Shell Beach Academy, I’m more than a little annoyed. The Academy is full of the snobs I avoid like the plague.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #e056b2; font-family: 'Architects Daughter'; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">But he won’t leave me alone. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #e056b2; font-family: 'Architects Daughter'; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">He taunts and teases me.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #e056b2; font-family: 'Architects Daughter'; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">He’s arrogant and a jock who sleeps with any girl he wants. “They should all be so lucky”—his words, not mine.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #e056b2; font-family: 'Architects Daughter'; font-size: 13.999999999999998pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">So why can’t I stop feeling his hands on my body or hear his sexy whispered words?</span></div>
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the princesses that readhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409116495421129173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8696838023700920986.post-75995641777081596212019-01-24T09:00:00.000-05:002019-01-24T09:00:12.868-05:00Little White Lies (Debutantes #1) by Jennifer Lynn Barnes <div style="text-align: center;">
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<i style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">"I'm not saying this is Sawyer's fault," the prim and proper one said delicately. "But."</i><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Eighteen-year-old auto mechanic Sawyer Taft did not expect her estranged grandmother to show up at her apartment door and offer her a six-figure contract to participate in debutante season. And she definitely never imagined she would accept. But when she realizes that immersing herself in her grandmother's "society" might mean discovering the answer to the biggest mystery of her life-her father's identity-she signs on the dotted line and braces herself for a year of makeovers, big dresses, bigger egos, and a whole lot of bless your heart. The one thing she doesn't expect to find is friendship, but as she's drawn into a group of debutantes with scandalous, dangerous secrets of their own, Sawyer quickly discovers that her family isn't the only mainstay of high society with skeletons in their closet. There are people in her grandmother's glittering world who are not what they appear, and no one wants Sawyer poking her nose into the past. As she navigates the twisted relationships between her new friends and their powerful parents, Sawyer's search for the truth about her own origins is just the beginning.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">Set in the world of debutante balls, grand estates and rolling green hills, Little White Lies combines a charming setting, a classic fish-out-of-water story, and the sort of layered mystery only author Jennifer Lynn Barnes can pull off. </span><br />
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<b>My thoughts:</b><br />
This book was very interesting. At first, I thought that I might not like it but it was actually really funny. When you read what the book is going to be about you don't realize how much of a mystery the book is going to be. I have read mysteries before but this one is was funny, light, but did not take away from the actual mystery in the story. The characters were very well written and enjoyable to read. I can't wait to read the next one.the princesses that readhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409116495421129173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8696838023700920986.post-88232410174435450572019-01-21T09:00:00.000-05:002019-01-21T09:00:05.543-05:00Naz & Roz (Cross + Catherine #5) by Bethany-Kris <div style="text-align: center;">
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The genius and the prodigy ... <br /><br />Nazio “Naz” Donati is brilliant, sinful, and criminal. A genius from the moment he was born, and a man who's still trying to learn how to navigate and balance this thing called life. He certainly wasn't expecting love to practically fall right into his hands, never mind for love to take the form of his best friend's little sister. <br /><br />Rosalynn ”Roz” Puzza is talented, beautiful, and driven. A pianist prodigy from the second they sat her at a piano as a little girl, and a young woman who isn't sure if she's truly earned her spot on the stage. She wasn't expecting a man like him to take her focus and change her muse, never mind to distract her from the thing she thought she wanted the most. <br /><br />Sometimes, first love is intense. <br />All-consuming. <br />Crazy. <br />And you just have to ride it out. <br /><br />When brilliance and talent crash together, it can make magic. <br /><br />Naz & Roz is a contemporary romance that is meant to be read as an add-on to the Cross + Catherine series, and is not intended to be read as a standalone.<div>
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Bethany Kirs is an amazing writer. Her books give you all of the feels. I was waiting for this story. I like how she makes you feel like you are in the book while you are reading. If you have not read her books yet, I highly recommend them. Naz reminds me of his dad so much in this book. I think that this couple works the best together. They are a great balance. They show us that no matter the distance, relationships can work. They are honestly couple goals. This a must read.</div>
the princesses that readhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409116495421129173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8696838023700920986.post-23644607620761861212019-01-17T09:00:00.000-05:002019-01-17T09:00:06.313-05:00Maldives & Mistletoe (The Chicago War #5) by Bethany-Kris<div style="text-align: center;">
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When the Maldives meet the mistletoe, it's sure to be a beautiful Christmas ... <br /><br />Business in the Maldives brings the Chicago Outfit's boss away for the holidays, but why not bring everyone else along for the ride, too? Wives, kids ... the whole bunch. <br /><br />Nothing can go wrong, right? <br /><br />Join the original crew from The Chicago War one more time as they celebrate Christmas in the Maldives, tinsel and mistletoe included. Meet the babies, and catch up with everything that's happened since the last time we were with them. <br /><br />For once, no one is spilling blood. <br /><br />The war has already been won. <br /><br />Featuring all the original couples, Maldives & Mistletoe is a 20k Chicago War Christmas Novella meant for fans of the series, and is not intended to be read as a standalone novel.<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span>
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This was a cute short story. This story takes place over Christmas It was also a great way to introduce and wrap up a generation. We get to see the characters that we love from the Chicago series with families of their own. this will also introduce us to the upcoming series as well. I wish there was more but overall a great way to wrap up the series.the princesses that readhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409116495421129173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8696838023700920986.post-90017626336811026162019-01-15T12:39:00.000-05:002019-01-15T12:39:06.383-05:00Cover Reveal! Hi Everyone! Here is the new cover reveal for Anne Mercier New BOOK! I can not wait to read this one.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When I’m dragged to a party by my best friends, I don’t plan on having a good time—and I’m not, until “he” finds me alone on the beach. I expect him to be a jerk with looks like him—but he’s not. He’s funny and sweet and we spend hours talking about nothing and everything. </span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then he kisses me. </span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And I give myself to him—a familiar stranger with a name as fake as mine—then we say goodbye.</span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I never planned on seeing him again. </span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">When Shell Beach Hall moves all their classes to Shell Beach Academy, I’m more than a little annoyed. The Academy is full of the snobs I avoid like the plague.</span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I can’t hide my surprise when I see him again. He can’t hide his derision, accusing me of knowing who he was and using him to gain popularity. </span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I realize I was wrong about him. He’s a jerk…and I want </span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">nothing to do with him.</span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But he won’t leave me alone. </span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He taunts and teases me.</span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">He’s arrogant and a jock who sleeps with any girl he wants. “They should all be so lucky”—his words, not mine.</span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m disgusted. This is who I gave my V-card to? Ugh.</span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I loathe everything he represents and I want to punch him in his pretty bullying face.</span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So why can’t I stop feeling his hands on my body or hear his sexy whispered words? </span><span style="font-family: "Libre Baskerville"; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div>
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the princesses that readhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409116495421129173noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8696838023700920986.post-83901394709653787452019-01-14T09:00:00.000-05:002019-01-14T09:00:00.772-05:00In the Nyx of Time (godhunter 24) by Amy Sumida<div style="text-align: center;">
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<b>Blurb:</b><br />
At the battle for Dvārakā, Nyx and her friends were defeated, and now, she wants revenge. She's convinced a god of time to help her, and they intend to change the past. As Nyx's nefarious plan unfolds, the Godhunter is tossed through time with only her instincts and a couple of sassy Consciousnesses to guide her. Will it be enough to get her back to her proper present, or will this time belong to Nyx?<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"><br /></span>
<b>My thoughts:</b><br />
This book was interesting. I am not sure how I feel about this one. I am disappointed in regarding some of the outcomes. The premise of this book is that someone is changing time and Vivian has to find her way back to the original timeline. Do to all of the changes, Vivian is forced to live many different outcomes and with different lovers. I do not like her with certain lovers. I feel that the series is starting to drag out a bit. Overall not my favorite but it was decent.the princesses that readhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02409116495421129173noreply@blogger.com0