bloggingforbooks.com:City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett (Ebook)
You’ve got to be careful when you’re chasing a murderer through Bulikov, for the world is not as it should be in that city. When the gods were destroyed and all worship of them banned by the Polis, reality folded; now stairs lead to nowhere, alleyways have become portals to the past, and criminals disappear into thin air.
The murder of Dr Efrem Pangyui, the Polis diplomat researching the Continent’s past, has begun something and now whispers of an uprising flutter out from invisible corners. Only one woman may be willing to pursue the truth – but it is likely to cost her everything.
Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 1108 KB
Print Length: 400 pages
Publisher: Quercus (2 Oct. 2014)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
Language: English
ASIN: B00L7SLSXM
Purchase Price: £6.49
Review
The book was about the politics, culture and religious beliefs of a place called the Continent, it is full of love. death (murder), mystery and intrigue.
This book was fantastic although at times it was quite heavy going due to the combination of the cultural, political and historical religious basis of the story.
The authors writing style and world building was great and at times made me the reader feel as though I was actually part of the story, which made the story even more intriguing. Shara the main character in the story was a very interesting, well educated, strong willed, gentle and loving person who was able to see things for what they were; and because of this was a character I really felt a connection to.
I will read this book again as well as recommend it to others and buy it as a gift for friends/family who I think will enjoy it which is why I gave the book a 4 star rating.
Author Bio
Robert Jackson Bennett’s 2010 debut Mr. Shivers won the Shirley Jackson award as well as the Sydney J Bounds Newcomer Award and his second novel, The Company Man, won a Special Citation of Excellence from the Philip K Dick Award, as well as an Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original. He lives in Austin with his wife and son.
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Netgalley: Half Wild (#2 Half Bad) by Sally Green (ebook)
NetGalley (Started Reading): The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton (NetGalley)
Bloggingforbooks.com (started reading): Bonita Avenue: A Novel by Peter Buwalda
BOOKS READ THIS WEEK
Tales from the End (The End of All Things # ) by Lissa Bryan
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From the author of The End of All Things comes a collection of short stories about the Infection that swept around the globe, decimating the population, and leaving behind a small number of survivors, unprepared to deal with the brutal new world which had replaced the one they’d known. The Horsemen
L.A.’s mayor has declared quarantine to try to halt the spread of the Infection. Pearl sets off across the city to buy supplies, but already the world is changing. Something strange is in the air. The Horsemen are coming … Veronica
When Veronica’s mother doesn’t come home from work and no one answers the phone when she calls for help, a nine-year-old girl is thrown into the chaos of a world coming to an end. Veronica decides it’s up to her to find her family. “Veronica” is the story of a little girl’s courage in the face of the end of all things. “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud”
They called her Shadowfax– the mare Carly and Justin found on their travels. But before she was found by Carly, the retired dressage horse was known as Cloud. An unusual tale of the end, told through the eyes of a confused and lonely horse, left in her pasture. Birthday
A previously-published bonus story. Carly knows Justin has never celebrated his birthday, and after society crumbled, no one knows what date it is, anyway. But she wants to do something special for him. Celebrating the little things helps them keep hope alive, and as a blizzard rages outside, a small gesture of love warms their home.
Tales of courage, tales of survival… Tales from the End.
Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 316 KB
Print Length: 75 pages
Publisher: The Writer’s Coffee Shop (3 Feb. 2014)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
Language: English
ASIN: B00I8AUR98
Price: £0.99
Review
This book was really great as it gave you background on some of the characters that the reader got to know in the first book (Birthday, “I wandered lonely as a cloud” and Veronica) and the first story in the book introduced the reader to a character that we will meet in one of the books following “The end of all things”.
In the Story entitled Veronica we learned about the background story of the little girl that we are introduced to at the end of the first book while the story entitled “I wander lonely as a cloud” was about Shadowfax (Cloud) the horse that Carly and Justin found in the early stages of their journey.
The story entitled Birthday gave the reader an insight into what life was like for Carly and Justin once they had settled in a house that they found on their travel route when she was pregnant which was very interesting.
While in the first story Horsemen introduced the reader to a character called Pearl who will obviously be in one of the future books in this series and it was very interesting finding out what her life had been like prior to the Infection and in the early stages of the crisis.
The authors writing style and world building in this book is as good as it was in The End of all things is still as good and kept me hooked throughout my reading. I would also read it again as well as reccommend it to others who are reading the series. It is because of all of this that I am giving the book 5 star rating
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Currently Reading
Started Reading: The Land of the Shadow (#2 The End of All Things) by Lissa Bryan
Continued Reading: Cress (#3 The Lunar Chronicles) by Marissa Meyer
Continued Reading: The Retribution of Mara Dyer (#3 Mara Dyer Trilogy) by Michelle Hodkin
REVIEW BOOKS RECEIVED THIS WEEK
Bloggingforbooks: Bonita Avenue by Peter Buwalda
Dazzling…Critics hailed Buwalda as ‘The Dutch answer to Jonathan Franzen’, but his brilliance is entirely unique.”–The Times (UK)
Siem Sigerius is a beloved, brilliant professor of mathematics with a promising future in politics. His family—including a loving wife, two gorgeous, intelligent stepdaughters and a successful future son- in-law—and carefully appointed home in the bucolic countryside complete the portrait of a comfortable, morally upright household. But there are elements of Siem’s past that threaten to upend the peace and stability that he has achieved, and when he stumbles upon a deception that’s painfully close to home, things begin to fall apart. A cataclysmic explosion in a fireworks factory, the advent of internet pornography, and the reappearances of a discarded, dangerous son all play a terrible role in the spectacular fragmentation of the Sigerius clan.
A riveting portrait of a family in crisis and the ways that even the smallest twists of fate can forever change our lives, Bonita Avenue is an incendiary, unpredictable debut of relationships torn asunder by lies, and minds destroyed by madness.
PRICE: $26.00
ISBN: 978-0-553-41785-2
RELEASE: Jan 13th, 2015
FORMAT: Hardcover
CATEGORY: Fiction – Family Life
NETGALLEY: Wolf Bride by Elizabeth Moss
Hilary Mantel meets Sylvia Day: the first installment in a deliciously erotic trilogy, set against the sumptuous backdrop of the scandal-ridden Tudor Court.
Bound to him against her will…
Lord Wolf, hardened soldier and expert lover, has come to King Henry VIII’s court to claim his new bride: a girl who has intrigued him since he first saw her riding across the Yorkshire moors.
Eloise Tyrell, now lady-in-waiting to Queen Anne Boleyn, has other ideas. She has no desire to submit to a man she barely knows and who-though she is loath to admit it-frightens her more than a little.
Their first kiss awakens in both a fierce desire that bares them to the soul. But as the court erupts into scandal around the ill-fated Queen, Eloise sees firsthand what happens when powerful men tire of their wives…
Lust in the Tudor Court:
Wolf Bride
Rebel Bride
Rose Bride
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub Date
ISBN: 9781492613824
Price: $13.99 USD
Edition: Paperback
Hellbender (A Fangborn Novel) by Dana Cameron
I-Day is near at hand, and soon the Fangborn will reveal themselves to humankind. As a member of this secretive race of werewolves, vampires, and oracles, will archaeologist Zoe Miller be prepared?
Still grappling with the newfound powers she gained after opening Pandora’s box, Zoe shares the responsibility of protecting “Normal” humans. Having long preferred to keep to the shadows, she knows the pending revelation of the Fangborn will set the world on fire. With Fangborn enemies in the Order of Nicomedia forcing their hand, Zoe and her supernatural Family have no choice but to step into the spotlight. But that decision has garnered the attention of the powerful and otherworldly beings known as the Makers. They claim to have created the Fangborn—not as saviors, but as predators. And it seems they have their own plans for Zoe…and for the fate of all the Fangborn.
Filled with stunning twists, Hellbender takes the Fangborn series to a thrilling new dimension.
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ISBN: 9781477849385
Price: $14.95 USD
Edition: Paperback
Storm Warned (The Grim Series) by Dani Harper
When Caris’s unearthly musical talent attracts the attention of the Wild Hunt, the Welsh farm girl is stolen away to serve as a faery grim, a herald of death. Two centuries later, she’s finally escaped back to the human world— and into the present-day life of a reclusive and heartbroken American musician.
Music was Liam’s whole life—until a crushing betrayal left him desperate to flee the public eye. Yet long- dormant passions awaken within him after a powerful storm strands a beautiful, strong-willed woman on his isolated farm. When a fae prince bent on ruling both human and faery realms threatens Caris’s life, Liam must decide if he can finally believe in love again, not just for her sake—but for the sake of two worlds.
From the bestselling author of Changeling Moon, this sweeping and passionate story of paranormal romance follows two souls from different centuries who lost everything…and found that only love can save them.
Montlake Romance
Pub Date
ISBN: 9781477827925
Price: $12.95 USD
Edition: Paperback
Betrayed by Your Kiss by Laura Landon
It should have been the happiest night of her life…
Lady Olivia Sheridan knows one thing: she has loved Lord Damien forever. But when her beloved is accused of fathering another woman’s child, Olivia’s world is shattered in ways she never thought possible. Especially when Damien’s accuser sets a huge price on his head, and Olivia discovers Damien’s death will be the only outcome… unless she does the one thing he will never forgive her for doing.
When Olivia’s plan to save him goes disastrously, dangerously awry, Damien doesn’t think he’ll ever see the light of day again and, with bitterness, he realizes that the woman he loves is capable of the ultimate betrayal.
Now, four years later, Damien has returned. His eye is on one thing: seeking revenge for what Olivia did to him. Only his heart may get in the way…
Because hell hath no fury…like a man betrayed.
Montlake Romance
Pub Date
ISBN: 9781477827444
Price: $12.95 USD
Edition: Paperback
Sea of Stars (The Kricket Series) by Amy A. Bartol
Eighteen-year-old Kricket Hollowell was looking for her place in the world when she discovered that the universe was bigger—and more dangerous—than she had ever dreamed. Now, whisked across space to the planet Ethar, Kricket learns that her genetic ability to see the future makes her a sought-after commodity…and the catalyst for war between her star-crossed parents’ clans. According to Alameedan prophecy, one house will rise to power and the other will be completely wiped out, and Kricket’s precognition is believed to be the weapon that will tip the scales.
A target of both the Rafe and the Alameeda houses, Kricket finds protection—and a home—in the arms of Trey, her Etharian bodyguard-turned-boyfriend. But her visions of what’s to come disturb her deeply, especially since she must discover whether the gift of foresight will allow her to rewrite the future, or if her fate is as immovable as the stars.
The highly anticipated sequel to Under Different Stars, winner of four 2014 utopYA Awards.
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No birth announcement could top the headlines from the day Janie and Jack Perkins entered the world. As twins born to a mother in a coma—courtesy of a bullet from their father—the sensational story of their birth never quite died down. While Jack still craves the flash of a camera, Janie seeks sanctuary behind the lens—as a crime scene photographer.
Thanks to Janie’s line of work, she’s comfortable around gruesome murders. But when old photos of her mother’s body arrive in the mail, they open deep-seated wounds and raise chilling new questions about who was really responsible for that deadly night.
Did Janie’s father spend decades in jail as an innocent man? Did an infamous serial killer actually take her mother’s life? With photos in hand, Janie brings the truth into focus. But when her investigation ends up invoking the wrath of the long-dormant killer, she must race to piece together the final evidence—before she becomes the target.
Thomas & Mercer
Pub Date
ISBN: 9781477827994
Price1: $5.95 USD
Edition: Paperback
The Curse Keepers Collection by Denise Grover Swank
The Curse Keepers series, now offered in a single collection containing the full text of all three novels and three prequel novellas, plus:
An all-new introduction by the author, Denise Grover Swank
• All six works presented in the author’s preferred reading order
The wall between our world and a world full of vengeful spirits has protected humanity for more than four hundred years . . . and it’s about to come crashing down. In New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Denise Grover Swank’s epic paranormal romance series, the Curse Keepers, two reluctant yet brave heroes are all that stand between the world’s survival and its total destruction.
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Robert had reached the summit of many mountains. His adventures took him to unimaginable heights, yet his greatest achievements were not in conquering these majestic beauties, but in his ability to reach people in need. That is, until he’s the one facing the toughest climb of his life.
Roberto Sanchez is living the dream; one could say the man had it all. He is blessed with a beautiful wife and daughter who complete him. A career that reaches at-risk kids that brings him true joy. Then a tragic accident leads Robert to a chasm of dark despair. Although his interventions have reached many, he found he is incapable of helping himself off the edge of a cliff, jeopardizing his career, his marriage, and himself.
because takes us on a journey of two Roberts as he struggles to find a way to once again Believe.
The Salvation of Vengeance Wanted Man by Nacy Haviland
Only something as important as her best friend’s wedding to mob boss Gabriel Moretti could allow Nika Paynne a reprieve from captivity. Her abusive husband has kept her under his thumb with footage of her beloved brother, Caleb, killing another man. But the respite from her violent life isn’t the only draw. Vincente Romani— Gabriel’s deadliest guardian—will be one of the best men at the wedding, and Nika has lingering thoughts about the fascinating mobster…covetous thoughts that may put her life in danger.
With the heartbreak he’s suffered and the brutality he effortlessly delivers, Vincente knows he’s the last person who can offer Nika a happily-ever-after. But his vow remains. He will do everything in his power to free his redhead from her violent prison—even if that means losing her forever.
In the second thrilling and passionate Wanted Men book, a dangerous line is drawn between loyalty to the mob and loyalty to one’s heart.
Montlake Romance
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ISBN: 9781477827833
Price: $12.95 USD
Edition: Paperback
The Temple of Light by Daniela Piazza
On the brink of death, the Duke of Milan entrusts his only heir to the church, which is guarding a thousand-year-old secret
It is the early fifteenth century, and the Italian peninsula is ravaged by war. While Milan fights for its political and economic life, Duke Filippo Maria Visconti lies on his deathbed with no heir to succeed him. But the old nobleman has a secret: He has a son.
Visconti hands over the one-year-old child to the archdeacon Onorio, who agrees to keep him safe. Little does young Niccolò know that when he comes of age, he will inherit the great Visconti fortune and become the city’s next duke.
Years later, in the shadows of a new cathedral, the members of a secret brotherhood practice alchemy and plot court intrigues, working to fulfill the ancient prophecy of the goddess Belisama. The brothers, sustained by blind faith, will do whatever it takes to achieve theirGrande Opera, but first they need peace in the city, and Niccolò is the only one who can help. But when he starts to witness mysterious rites and killings, Niccolò will be forced to reconsider his destiny.
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A mutation allows Chloe to breathe the poisoned air of post-atoxalyptic USA. GenFriends promises her a life of luxury and ease … as soon as she picks a man to start making babies with.
SilkWords LLC is the go-to source for interactive women’s fiction, offering high quality romance and erotica that allows individual readers to choose how stories proceed. Two formats are available: branched fiction (“pick your path”) and linear stories that are produced with reader participation. Toxic Love is a branched fiction. Read it multiple times trying different choices!
SilkWords
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ISBN: 9781941847015
Price: $2.99 USD
Edition: Ebook
Across the Pond by Michael McCormick
Across The Pond by Michael McCormick is the story of a young American who fights in the Vietnam War for his country, only to be rejected when he comes home. The author based the book on his experience as a U.S. Marine who served in combat.
First released by Vantage Press in 1994, McCormick wants to make sure his story is not lost in history.
Elizabeth must marry, but she’s torn between obeying her father and eloping with her lover. In this unique “pick your path” story, the gentlemen’s characters develop very differently based on your choice!
SilkWords LLC is the go-to source for interactive women’s fiction, offering high quality romance and erotica that allows individual readers to choose how stories proceed. Two formats are available: branched fiction (“pick your path”) and linear stories that are produced with reader participation. Wicked Wants is a branched fiction. Enjoy reading it multiple times, making different choices!
A journalist accepts an assignment to investigate the Society of Erotic Adventurers. She infiltrates its flagship hotel and, experiencing SEA’s legendary eroticism, discovers her own capacity for pleasure.
SilkWords LLC is the go-to source for interactive women’s fiction, offering high quality romance and erotica that allows individual readers to choose how stories proceed. Two formats are available: branched fiction (“pick your path”) and linear stories that are produced with reader participation. Storm at SEA is a branched fiction. Enjoy reading it multiple times, making different choices!
Low on confidence and jaded by her bland and limp ex, she turns to an online service for help finding a “competent, compatible partner who enjoys skillfully inflicting pain for pleasure.”
SilkWords LLC is the go-to source for interactive women’s fiction, offering high quality romance and erotica that allows individual readers to choose how stories proceed. Two formats are available: branched fiction (“pick your path”) and linear stories that are produced with reader participation. Painful Chemistry is a branched fiction. Read it over and over, making different choices!
A mutation allows Chloe to breathe the poisoned air of post-atoxalyptic USA. GenFriends promises her a life of luxury and ease … as soon as she picks a man to start making babies with.
SilkWords LLC is the go-to source for interactive women’s fiction, offering high quality romance and erotica that allows individual readers to choose how stories proceed. Two formats are available: branched fiction (“pick your path”) and linear stories that are produced with reader participation. Toxic Love is a branched fiction. Read it multiple times trying different choices!
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Praise
“A memorably surreal urbanscape…readers seeking a truly refreshing fantasy milieu should travel to Bulikov, and welcome its conquest.” –New York Times Book Review
“A delightful urban fantasy that travels through a city full of Escher-like staircases and alternate realities…A diverse and entertaining cast of old gods fleshes out the ruins of this mysterious city, and Shara’s hit-man secretary delivers nonstop action.” –Washington Post
“Entertaining yet thought-provoking…Entrancing characters, exciting descriptions and piercingly clear action keep the story moving swiftly and surely to a satisfying conclusion.” –Seattle Times
[An] incredible journey through a wondrously weird and surprising world…I found myself both delighted and fascinated as every layer was slowly unpacked. Just the right mix of awesome.” –Tor.com
“Suddenly, the pages are whipping by, 50 at a clip as mysteries are uncovered, miracles happen and assassins begin scaling the walls. … Bennett is plainly a writer in love with the world he has built — and with good cause. It’s a great world, original and unique, with a scent and a texture, a sense of deep, bloody history, and a naturally-blended magic living in the stones.” –NPR.org
“Robert Jackson Bennett deserves a huge audience. This is the book that will earn it for him. A story that draws you in, brilliant world building, and oh my God, Sigrud. You guys are going to love Sigrud.” –Brent Weeks, New York Times bestselling author of The Way of Shadows
“Smart and sardonic, with wry echoes from classic tales mixed up in an inventive, winning narrative. [Bennett is] a master of the genre.” –Kirkus
“An excellent spy story wrapped in a vivid imaginary world.” –Library Journal (starred)
A rich, layered, thoughtful story, full of gods and magic and characters that feel unflinchingly true…every once in a while I read a book that’s so well done, I find myself wanting to punch the author in the face out of pure envy. Congratulations, Mr. Bennett – you just made the face-punching list! –Jim C. Hines, Hugo Award winning author of Libriomancer
“Alien and human at the same time, Bennett’s world is engrossing and fascinating. The pacing kept me reading far later than was healthy.” –Mur Lafferty, Campbell Award winning author of Playing for Keeps
Read: A Winter of Ghosts (#3 The Waking Trilogy) by Thomas Randal
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Synopsis
Kara’s life in Japanese prep school has been a whirlwind of terror, as a demon’s curse keeps waking up ancient, evil creatures to torment her and her friends. When a student goes missing during a visit to a mountain forest, Kara and her friends are sure the curse has struck again. This time, it’s a demon of winter, whose power is more chilling than anything they’ve encountered so far. And then it gets worse: the demon kidnaps Kara’s boyfriend, Hachiro, with whom she’s just starting to fall in love. Desperate to save him, Kara ventures back into the snowy woods, where dark forces await her . . .
This was a fantastic ending to an amazing trilogy.
In this final installment of the trilogy the reader sees the development of Kara’s and Kara’s Fathers relationships as well as Kara’s friendships and the ultimate destruction of the demons curse.
Again in this book the authors world building and general descriptions made me as the reader feel like I was a part of the story as well as be able to empathise with what the characters were feeling.
The cover art work, authors writing style, the fact that I will read the book again in the future and recommend it to others/ buy it for friends and family members that I think will enjoy it; are the reasons that I have given this book a five star rating. In essence the trilogy as a whole is more than well worth the five stars plan to give it when I write the trilogy review
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The End of all Things (#1 The End of all Things) by Lissa Bryan
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Synopsis: After a terrible virus ravages the planet, Carly Daniels, one of the few survivors, hides in her apartment in Juneau trying to survive the best she can with only occasional forays to gather food. With her is Sam, a wolf puppy she found starving on the streets. He becomes her companion and a reason to continue when giving up sometimes seems like the more attractive option. Still dazed with shock and grief, she hopes for the world to go back to normal soon.
She is discovered by Justin, an ex-soldier who is intent on making his way to Florida before the winter sets in. Justin coaxes her out of her hiding place and convinces her to join him on his journey, because a warmer climate will be their best chance against the extremes of Mother Nature.
Together, they begin a perilous journey through a nation laid to waste by the disaster. Challenges abound along the way. The weather, injury, and shortage of supplies all help to slow them down. In time, they discover that they aren’t the only survivors. Some are friendly but some have had their minds destroyed by the high fever. Then there are those who simply take what they want, leaving Carly and Justin with no choice but to defend what is theirs.
But their journey is not without joy and love. Together, they face every struggle, including an unplanned pregnancy. Despite the perils of bringing a child into a world of chaos, their baby is a new beginning for themselves and a symbol of hope for the other survivors they find along the way.
This is the story of their journey to find a place to begin a new life, and a home in each other.
Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 755 KB
Print Length: 264 pages
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1612131417
Publisher: The Writer’s Coffee Shop (22 Jan. 2013)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
Language: English
ASIN: B00B4ZK9QA
REVIEW
Thank you Cindy Bidwell from thewriterscoffeeshop for asking me to do a review for this and the next two books in the series for her blog hop.
This is the first book in a dystopian romance series based around a young woman and her partners travels across post virus Canada and into America from Juno in Alaska. It sees them having to deal with lack of food, being attacked and an unplanned pregnancy.
Lissa’s character descriptions and world building were so well written that you could really see things through the characters eyes at some points I even felt I was actually in the story. I particularly felt for Carly and Justin when they found put that Catly was pregnant especially their fear over what would happen to them and their child once s/he was born. I also felt their relief when they found the settlement and them when they realised they had infected its inhabitants with the infection.
I have given this book a 4 star rating because the cover art and writing in this book was so good that I would definitely read the book again in the future as well as recommend it to others as well as buy it for friends or family who I think would enjoy it, as well as it being a solid start to what I am sure will be a fantastic series.
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KINDLE BOOKS PURCHASED THIS WEEK
Circled Heart (The Laramie Series Book 4) by Karen J. Hasley – Free
The City Center (The New Agenda Series Book 1) by Simone Pond, Peter Stier – Free
Gaia’s Secret (A Pandoran Novel, #1) by Barbara Kloss – Free
Free – Lady X by Claudy Conn, Kathy Riehl
Free – Highland Shift (Highland Destiny Book 1) by Laura Harner, Jae Ashley
Free – Legacy Code: (Legacy Code #1) (Fractured Era Series) by Autumn Kalquist
£0.99 – Half Lies: A Half Bad story by Sally Green
£0.99 – Tales From The End (The End of All Things) by Lissa Bryan
Free – 3500: An Autistic Boy’s Ten-Year Romance with Snow White by Ron Miles
£2.99 – Destined for Doon (#2 Doon) by Carey Corp, Lorie Langdon
£0.99 – Doon (#1 Doon) by Lorie Langdon, Carey Corp
£9.90 – The Dragon Blood Collection, Books 1-3 by Lindsay Buroker
£0.99 – Alice’s Adventures in Steamland: The Clockwork Goddess by Wol-vriey, Arthur Gelsinger, steampunk
£4.31 – Shades of Grey (#1 Shades of Grey) by Jasper Fforde
£3.99 – Vanished Books Three & Four: Safe House; Sanctuary by Meg Cabot
£2.26 – A Winter of Ghosts (#3 The Waking Series) by Thomas Randall, Christopher Golden
£4.56 – Masters of the Cats: Collaring the Saber-Tooth by Trinity Blacio
£1.10 Greta and the Goblin King (#1 Mylena Chronicles) by Chloe Jacobs
NETGALLEY BOOKS RECEIVED THIS WEEK
All Together Now by Gill Hornby
**THIS IS AN UNCORRECTED PROOF COPY**The small town of Bridgeford is in crisis. The high street is half empty, businesses are closing and the idea of civic pride seems old-fashioned to the commuters rushing home from work. Somehow, it seems to have lost its heart.But there is one thing that might just bring the town together: music. The Bridgeford Community Choir has a chance of winning the county championship. First though, the small band of singers must find a lot of new members and a whole new sound.
Enter Tracey – one of life’s soloists, and hiding a secret past; Bennett – a church choir refugee, baffled by the modern world. And Jazzy – who sees her voice as her passport straight out of town to a future of fame and fortune. Can they really fit in with dependable old regulars like Annie? Can they learn to work together, save their singing group and maybe even their community?
All Together Now is a funny, sharply observed and moving novel about the joys of singing, about living in harmony, about falling in love… and about the importance of finding your own, true voice.
Opal has been used and abused, but is determined to turn a new chapter in her life. Escaping from her abusive ex took her all the courage she had, but when he threatens to return and torment her again, she fears for her own life … Meeting a tall, dark and deadly stranger might just be her salvation – or will it doom her?
Libertine is a dark romance novel with erotica and mystery elements. Provocative, dark & twisted … a story that will play with your mind, body and soul.
Finding murderers is just a day on the job for police captain Nadia Barka. But when a mutilated corpse is discovered in an old baptistery, she’s faced with some difficult questions: Who left a young woman’s body in a high-security museum in the middle of the night? And where is the victim’s heart?
Barka has no leads, until several days later when unassuming computer technician Julien Lombard comes forward, claiming to have had a premonition of the woman’s abduction and murder. The ensuing investigation turns up nothing, however, and Julien is just as skeptical about his intel as the police are. But, after another woman goes missing, Barka decides to take a chance and trust in Julien’s gift. Does Julien hold the key to preventing another gruesome crime? Working together, can they find the murderer before he steals another heart?
In the spirit of Cecelia Ahearn and Regina McBride, a lighthearted and relatable debut novel about an advertising copywriter who upends her ordinary life and captures the attention of the world after publishing a seven-part treatise on the existence of fairies.
Kate McDaid thought that going to the reading of her great-great-aunt’s will would be just another non-event in her ordinary life. A junior copywriter at an advertising agency in Dublin, she was used to spending her days wrangling clients, over-indulging in chocolatey products, and whiling away nights at the pub with her best friends, using her trusty bicycle to get around town. Instead, Kate finds out that the will and her aunt (also known as the Red Witch of Knocknamee) dictates that Kate must publish a series of strange poems called “The Seven Steps” under her own name in order to inherit the rest of her aunt’s estate.
And those poems? They’re a mysterious treatise on the importance and existence of fairies…
Kate decides to publish the Steps on a friend’s website, thinking that the low traffic on the site would let her posts go unnoticed. She never could have imagined that in a matter of days, she would find herself a local celebrity with her own group of devotees and the target of a mysterious and glamorous newspaper reporter. Even Dublin’s rock-and-roll sweetheart—and Kate’s onetime fling—writes a song inspired by the Steps.
While the Steps strike a chord across Ireland and the world, Kate takes the message to heart. But as the tone of each Step moves from free-spirited to sinister, Kate must decide if she will go through with publishing all seven Steps—or protect humankind from an ancient evil.
Infused with just enough magic and everyday familiarity that anyone can relate to, this fantastic debut is a page-turner with the perfect mix of humor and mystery.
Touchstone
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ISBN: 9781476757551
Price: $ 16.99 USD
Edition: Paperback
The Changes Trilogy (The Weathermonger, Heartsease, and The Devil’s Children) by Peter Dickinson
Something has gone very wrong in England. In a tunnel beneath Wales one man opens a crack in a mysterious stone wall, and all over the island of Britain people react with horror to perfectly normal machines. Abandoning their cars on the roads and destroying their own factories, many flee the cities for the countryside, where they return to farming and an old-fashioned life.
When families are split apart and grown-ups forget how they used to live, young people face unexpected challenges. Nicola Gore survives on her own for nineteen days before she’s taken in by a Sikh family that still remembers how to farm and forge steel by hand. Margaret and Jonathan brave the cold and risk terrible punishment in order to save a man’s life and lift the fog of fear and hate that’s smothering their village. And Geoffrey and his little sister, Sally, escape to France only to be sent back to England on a vital mission: to make their way north to Wales, alone, and find the thing under the stones that shattered civilization—the source of the Changes.
The Huntress of Thornbeck Forest by Melanie Dickerson
Swan Lake meets Robin Hood when the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant by day becomes the region’s most notorious poacher by night, and falls in love with the forester.
Jorgen is the forester for the wealthy margrave, and must find and capture the poacher who has been killing and stealing the margrave’s game. When he meets the lovely and refined Odette at the festival and shares a connection during a dance, he has no idea she is the one who has been poaching the margrave’s game.
Odette justifies her crime of poaching because she thinks the game is going to feed the poor, who are all but starving, both in the city and just outside its walls. But will the discovery of a local poaching ring reveal a terrible secret? Has the meat she thought she was providing for the poor actually been sold on the black market, profiting no one except the ring of black market sellers?
The one person Odette knows can help her could also find out her own secret and turn her over to the margrave, but she has no choice. Jorgen and Odette will band together to stop the dangerous poaching ring . . . and fall in love. But what will the margrave do when he discovers his forester is protecting a notorious poacher?
Vengeance of the Iron Dwarf (Companions Codex III) by R. A. Salvatore
R.A. Salvatore’s New York Times best-selling tale of the dark elf Drizzt Do’Urden continues immediately on the heels ofRise of the King, with an expanding war and greater danger to the finally-reunited Companions of the Hall.
In the evolving world of the Forgotten Realms setting, the Sundering has given way to months of cloud-cloaked darkness, and war rages under that oppressive sky. The orcs have broken a hard-fought treaty that’s held, however tentatively, for a hundred years, and the time to settle old scores has devolved into an all-out brawl for control of the ancient realms of the North
Martine LeDuc is the director of PR for the mayor’s office in Montreal. When four women are found brutally murdered and shockingly posed on park benches throughout the city over several months, Martine’s boss fears a PR disaster for the still busy tourist season, and Martine is now also tasked with acting as liaison between the mayor and the police department. The women were of varying ages, backgrounds and bodytypes and seemed to have nothing in common. Yet the macabre presentation of their bodies hints at a connection. Martine is paired with a young detective, Julian Fletcher, and together they dig deep into the city’s and the country’s past, only to uncover a dark secret dating back to the 1950s, when orphanages in Montreal and elsewhere were converted to asylums in order to gain more funding. The children were subjected to horrific experiments such as lobotomies, electroshock therapy, and psychotropic medication, and many of them died in the process. The survivors were supposedly compensated for their trauma by the government and the cases seem to have been settled. So who is bearing a grudge now, and why did these four women have to die?
Not until Martine finds herself imprisoned in the terrifying steam tunnels underneath the old asylum does she put the pieces together. And it is almost too late for her…in Jeannette de Beauvoir’s Asylum.
She thought her fiance was the perfect man—until he turned out to be the perfect killer… Katherine Cole is running for her life, desperate to escape the Valentine Killer—so-called because he stabs his victims through the heart and leaves them holding a telltale single red rose. Still he tracks her to New Orleans and begins carving a bloody path to her door. But this time, Katherine refuses to run any farther. This time, she’ll do anything to stop the madman she once loved, even trust the sexy cop promising to keep her safe…Detective Dane Black never lets his emotions interfere with his job, even as the Valentine Killer surfaces in New Orleans to stalk his prey. But when Dane agrees to protect the killer’s ex-fiancee, Katherine Cole, he can’t ignore the passion kindling between them. After a single unforgettable night binds them body and soul, Dane knows he won’t rest until Katherine is safe in his arms—and the Valentine Killer is dead. Dark and intensely sexy, this romantic suspense novel from USA Today bestselling author Cynthia Eden is sure to leave readers breathless.Amazon Publishing – Montlake Romance
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ISBN: 9781611099140
Price: $12.95 USD
Edition: Paperback
Black Dove, White Raven by Elizabeth Wein
A story of survival, subterfuge, espionage and identity.
Rhoda and Delia are American stunt pilots who perform daring aerobatics to appreciative audiences. But while the sight of two girls wingwalking – one white, one black – is a welcome novelty in some parts of the USA, it’s an anathema in others. Rhoda and Delia dream of living in a world where neither gender nor ethnicity determines their life. When Delia is killed in a tragic accident, Rhoda is determined to make that dream come true. She moves to Ethiopia with her daughter, Em, and Delia’s son, Teo.
Em and Teo have adapted to scratching a living in a strange land, and feel at home here; but their parents’ legacy of flight and the ability to pilot a plane places them in an elite circle of people watched carefully by the Ethiopian emperor, Haile Selassie, who dreams of creating an air force for his fledgling nation. As Italy prepares for its invasion of Ethiopia, Em and Teo find themselves inextricably entangled in the crisis — and they are called on to help.
Some moments can change your life for ever. Have you ever wondered, what if…?
A man is walking down a country lane. A woman, cycling towards him, swerves to avoid a dog. On that moment, their future hinges. There are three possible outcomes, three small decisions that could determine the rest of their life.
Eva and Jim are nineteen and students at Cambridge when their paths first cross in 1958. And then there is David, Eva’s then-lover, an ambitious actor who loves Eva deeply. The Versions of Us follows the three different courses their lives could take following this first meeting. Lives filled with love, betrayal, ambition but through it all is a deep connection that endures whatever fate might throw at them.
The Versions of Us explores the idea that there are moments when our lives might have turned out differently, the tiny factors or decisions that could determine our fate, and the precarious nature of the foundations upon which we build our lives. It is also a story about the nature of love and how it grows, changes and evolves as we go through the vagaries of life.
The battle between the Titans and the gods of old did not end with them. The demand for revenge has dripped down into the next generation. Twins, Marcus and Nicolas, heirs to the throne of the gods and sons of the last remaining Titan, learn that the purpose of their existence is to fulfill a prophecy born of hate and despair.
They must battle for Pandora’s daughter’s heart, a girl lost to the human world and unaware of her hidden heritage. For four hundred years Marcus and Nicolas have only been allowed to touch the edge of their soul mate’s dreams, but the time of the prophecy has come.
For Samantha, life has been nothing more than a series of misfortunes and heartbreak. For years, she has kept her heart locked away, but change is rolling in like a tidal wave. Now Samantha must discern the thin line between love and lie, myth and reality, and it seems that time is running out…
When her father falls into a coma, Indian American photographer Sonya reluctantly returns to the family she’d fled years before. Since she left home, Sonya has lived on the run, free of any ties, while her soft-spoken sister, Trisha, has created a perfect suburban life, and her ambitious sister, Marin, has built her own successful career. But as these women come together, their various methods of coping with a terrifying history can no longer hold their memories at bay.
Buried secrets rise to the surface as their father—the victim of humiliating racism and perpetrator of horrible violence—remains unconscious. As his condition worsens, the daughters and their mother wrestle with private hopes for his survival or death, as well as their own demons and buried secrets.
Told with forceful honesty, Trail of Broken Wings reveals the burden of shame and secrets, the toxicity of cruelty and aggression, and the exquisite, liberating power of speaking and owning truth.
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Professor Stephen Worthington’s life makes perfect sense.
He teaches classes on Tuesdays and Fridays. He has dinners with his parents on the weekend. He goes to the gym with his comically crass stepbrother, Matt, a few days each week. And every night, he heads home at a reasonable hour, alone.
There’s only one thorn in Stephen’s perfectly organized side: Ms. Julia Wilde. Never has Stephen dealt with a more unruly student. She’s rude, provocative, infuriating—and she dresses in a way that is completely unbecoming for a lady. Stephen can’t wait for the semester to be over, and then he’ll never have to see her again.
That is, until Stephen finds himself out of the classroom and in Julia’s apartment. Suddenly, the student/teacher roles are reversed, and the professor receives a much-needed lesson between the sheets. Stephen thought his life made sense, but after his tryst with Julia, he finds himself changed in more ways than one. Maybe he’s coming down with something.
Or maybe, something a little out of the ordinary is exactly what this stuffy professor needs to really live.
Inspired by real life events, Twisted is a fascinating story of vulnerability, courage and the art of making a living in the sex trade…
“A gripping and mature story deftly woven by Lola Smirnova, Twisted is the kind of suspense novel that will linger in the mind and imagination long after it is finished and set back upon the shelf… Twisted introduces an extraordinarily gifted author to an appreciative readership looking eagerly toward her next literary effort.” – Midwest Book ReviewBack in the 90’s, the corrupt post-Soviet Ukraine with its faltering economy, is thrown into a devastating depression. Times are hard. Opportunities are scarce.Three young and eager sisters – Natalia, Lena and Julia – dream of a better life and weigh their options: do they stay and struggle like their parents, or join scores of their compatriots in the sex trade in glittering western European cities, who earn in a night what they’d take several months to earn at home? Naive and tempted by the allure of ‘quick’ money, the girls set off on an adventure that changes their lives forever…For sensible, resilient and calculating Lena and Natalia, the transition to the underworld of Luxembourg’s deceptive champagne bars is eye-opening, but smooth. But for fragile, brittle Julia, haunted by a childhood assault, the change is more than just vocational. Struggling to adapt, she turns to alcohol and drugs, exposing herself to increasing danger and depravity; and, ultimately, betrayal, when a deceitful client, who claims to love her, drugs her and cleans her out.
Despite her sisters’ best efforts to intervene, she finds herself in Istanbul – culturally a world apart – in an attempt to make back the money and self-respect she’s lost. Vulnerable without the protection of Luxembourg’s champagne bars, she descends into a hell of drugs and high-risk sex until, at the novel’s terrible climax, a kidnapping, brutal assault and one-sided justice system lead to her imprisonment and a threat of deportation.
How will Natalia and Lena save Julia?
Twisted is the first book in the trilogy. The second book Craved will be released soon.
The Waking Trilogy by Thomas Randal Aka Christopher Golden
Dreams of the Dead (#1 The Waking Trilogy, 276 pages)
Spirits of the Noh (#2 The Waking Trilogy, 272 pages)
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender (240 pages) by Leselye Walton
The Sculptor (469 pages) by Scott McCloud
Forgotten (#3 Fade, 234 pages) by Kallin Gow
Just One Day series by Gayel Forman
Just One Year (#2 Just One Day, 336 pages)
Just One Night (#2.5 Just One Day, 42 pages)
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Fade Combined Books 1 (Fade) and 2 (Forever) 231 pages by Kallin Gow
The Ocean at the end of the Lane (196 pages) by Neil Gaiman
The Room Beyond (223 pages) by Stephanie Elmers
Anna (#1 The Starseed Series, 334 pages) by Meghan Riley
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Shades of Grey (#1 Shades of Grey, Sample: 23 of 448 pages) by Jasper Fforde
Collaring the Saber-Tooth (#1 Masters of the Cats series, Sample: 26 of 241 Pages) by Trinity Blacio
The Crown (Vol.1 Queen of Hearts Saga, 19 of 222 pages) by Colleen Oakes
Review Book: The Hawk and the Dove (#1 The Hawk and the Dove #1 Trilogy, 12 of 177 pages) by Penelope Wilcock
Hallowed ((#2 Unearthly) 33 of 421 pages) by Cynthia Hand
Day 21 (#2 The 100 (16 of 320 pgs) by Kiera KassRe
Review Book: City of Stairs (160 of 400 pages) by Robert Jackson Bennett
Review Book: Red Rising (#1 Red Rising (12 of 401 pages) by Pierce Brown
Review Book: Half Wild (#2 Half Bad (33 of 416 pages)) by Sally Green
Blog tour Book: The End of All Things (#1 The End of all Things Series (68 of 264 pages) by Lissa Bryan
The Retribution of Mara Dyer (#3 Mara Dyer Trilogy (33 of 480 pages)) by Michelle Hodkin
Cress (#3 The Lunar Chronicles (56 of 560 pages) by Marissa Meyer
Review Book: Risen (#3 Schism Saga) by Michael Phillip Cash
Total number of pages read this month: 3497
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BOOKS READ AND CURRENTLY READING
Read: Just One Night,#2,5 Just One Day by Gayel Forman
Read: Murderess #1 The Exiles of Greywall’d Saga by Dara Marnin (netgalley review ebook)
Read (Sample): Collaring the Saber-Tooth by Trinity Blancio (Sample, will be purchased on 5th Feb)
Read (Sample): Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde (will be buying this book soon)
Started Reading: The Crown, vol. 1 The Queen of Hearts by
Currently Reading: The End of All Things (#1 The End of all things Series) by Lissa Bryan (Review copy for a blog hop review in March)
Currently Reading: City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett (review book from bloggingforbooks.com)
Currently Reading:Half Wild (#2 Half Bad) by Sally Green (review ebook from Netgalley)
Currently Reading: Cress (#3 The Lunar Chronicles) by Marissa Meyer
Currently Reading: The Retribution of Mara Dyer (#3 Mara Dyer Trilogy) by Michelle Hodkin
Currently Reading: Risen: The Battle for Darracia (#3 The Darracia Saga) by Michael Phillip Cash (a review paperback)
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BOOK REVIEWS
Just One Night,#2,5 Just One Day by Gayel Forman
Book Information
After spending one life-changing day in Paris with laid-back Dutch actor Willem De Ruiter, sheltered American good girl Allyson “Lulu” Healey discovered her new lover had disappeared without a trace. Just One Day followed Allyson’s quest to reunite with Willem; Just One Year chronicled the pair’s year apart from Willem’s perspective. Now, back together at last, this delectable e-novella reveals the couple’s final chapter
Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 996 KB
Print Length: 48 pages
Publisher: RHCP Digital (29 May 2014)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
Language: English
ASIN: B00KHX0G1I
Price: £2.48
Review
I loved this book and devoured it in one sitting and was a fantastic short novella, that provided a conclusion to the Just One Day duology as it enabled the reader to find out what happened between the characters in the previous books Willem and Allyson following Allyson showing up on his door step.
It was great that at the end of the story both of them were heading back to America to be a matter of miles away from each other.
All this along with the fact that I will re-read this book again along with the other two as well as recommend it to others as its well worth the read is why I have given it a 5 star rating.
Author Information
Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away, I was a journalist who specialized in reporting on young people and social-justice issues. Which is a fancy way of saying I reported on all the ways that young people get treated like crap—and overcome! I started out working for Seventeen magazine, writing the kinds of articles that people (i.e. adults) never believe that Seventeen ran (on everything from child soldiers in Sierra Leone to migrant teen farm workers in the U.S.). Later on, I became a freelance journalist, writing for magazines like Details, Jane, Glamour, The Nation, Elle, Budget Travel, and Cosmopolitan.
In 2002, I went traveling for a year around the world with my husband, Nick. I spent time hanging out with some pretty interesting people, a third sex (we’d probably call them transvestites here) in Tonga, Tolkien-obsessed, role-playing punks in Kazakhstan (bonus points to those of you who can find Kazakhstan on a map), working class hip-hop stars in Tanzania. The result of that year was my first book, a travel memoir called You Can’t Get There From Here: A Year On the Fringes of a Shrinking World. You can read about my trip and see pictures of it here.
What do you do when you get back home after traveling the globe for a whole year? First, you get disproportionately excited by the little comforts in life: Not having to look at a map to get everywhere? Yay! Being able to drink coffee without getting dressed and schlepping to a café first? Bliss! Then, if you’re 32 years old and have been with your husband for evah, you have a kid. Which we did. Presto, Willa!
So, there I was. With a baby. And all of a sudden I couldn’t do the kind of gallivanty reporting I’d done before. Well, you know how they say in life when one door closes another opens? In my case, the door came clear off the frame. Because I discovered that I could take the most amazing journeys of my life without ever having to leave my desk. It was all in my head. In stories I could make up. And the people I wanted to take these fantastical journeys with, they all happened to be between the ages of 12 and 20. I don’t know why. These are just the people who beckon me. And I go where I’m told.
My first young-adult novel, Sisters in Sanity, was based on another one of those social justice articles I wrote when for Seventeen and you can click here to read the article. Sisters was published in 2007. My next book, If I Stay, was published in April of 2009 by Dutton. It is also being published in 30 countries around the world, which is surreal. The sequel/companion book to If I Stay, Where She Went, comes out in April 2011. I am currently working on a new YA novel, that is, when my kids (plural, after Willa we adopted Denbele from Ethiopia) allow me to. And after that book is finished, I’ll write another, and another….
Wow. This is crazy long. I suppose the short version of this bio could simply read: My name is Gayle Forman and I love to write young-adult novels. Because I do. So thank you for reading them. Because without you, it’d just be me. And the voices in my head.
Gayle Forman is an award-winning author and journalist whose articles have appeared in such publications asJane, Seventeen, Glamour, Elle, and The New York Times Magazine, to name just a few. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.
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Murderess #1 The Exiles of Greywall’d Saga by Dara Marnin (netgalley review ebook)
Started: 5/1 Finished:
Book Information
Lu Killer never wondered if her name was strange. ‘Killer’. How was she to guess her ancestors fought ferociously against the royal family for generations? How was she to know her family lived in a completely different world called Greywall’d? All that 16-year-old Lu cared for was when she could next listen to her music, next be left to her own devices and when she could truly feel at peace.
But her life changed completely when a young boy with a hat fell from the sky into her train…
Murderess is the first book of ‘The Exiles of Greywall’d Saga’ and features the beginning of a spine-tingling story with a new world where Lu will discover that she has a critical part to play in the future of Greywall’d.
Daya Marnin started writing Murderess two years ago when she was thirteen. She is currently writing “Priestess”, the second part of the saga.
File Size: 1116 KB
Print Length: 172 pages
Publisher: Morphus VC Pty Ltd (20 May 2014)
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
Language: English
ASIN: B00K30ZOVW
Review
When I saw this book on Netgalley it was the cover that made me want to request it from the publisher and I was so glad when I was accepred, so thank you so much Netgalley for allowing me to read this fantastic book.
The cover art and the world/ character building that the author did was fantastic, especially when you consider she was only thirteen when she started writing it. This along with the fact that I will re-read the book again as well as recommend it to others and buy it for friends/family who I think will enjoy the book are what made me give the book a 4 star rating.
Thus book was a fitting start to a new series as it introduced the reader to the main character Lu Killer as well as the life she has both on Earth and back on her planet when she returned to it.
The way that Dara describe things that happened to Lu when her power was surfacing ready to be used as well as things that happened in the story was so evocative that it made you feel like you were part of the story. Due to this I can’t wait for the next installment of the story.
About the Author
Daya Marnin is a 16 years old fantasy author that had just published her first book – Murderess.
Murderess is the first of six parts of the ‘The Exiles of Greywall’d Saga’. The story of Lu Killer (hence the title) and her quest for answers in a world of uncertainty becomes a compelling spring board for a complex narrative that is sure to gratify its readers for years to come.
In her writing, Daya created Greywall’d, a whole new world parallel to Earth, full of imagery, characters and sights that are written in such a level of detail that immerses the reader from the very beginning.
Daya started writing Murderess over two years ago when she was 13 and is now writing the second book of the saga – Priestess.
On the brink of death, the Duke of Milan entrusts his only heir to the church, which is guarding a thousand-year-old secret
Elizabeth must marry, but she’s torn between obeying her father and eloping with her lover. In this unique “pick your path” story, the gentlemen’s characters develop very differently based on your choice!
rnalist accepts an assignment to investigate the Society of Erotic Adventurers. She infiltrates its flagship hotel and, experiencing SEA’s legendary eroticism, discovers her own capacity for pleasure.
Low on confidence and jaded by her bland and limp ex, she turns to an online service for help finding a “competent, compatible partner who enjoys skillfully inflicting pain for pleasure.”
I wasn’t made for love. I was made for sex.
Something has gone very wrong in England. In a tunnel beneath Wales one man opens a crack in a mysterious stone wall, and all over the island of Britain people react with horror to perfectly normal machines. Abandoning their cars on the roads and destroying their own factories, many flee the cities for the countryside, where they return to farming and an old-fashioned life.
Swan Lake meets Robin Hood when the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant by day becomes the region’s most notorious poacher by night, and falls in love with the forester.
She thought her fiance was the perfect man—until he turned out to be the perfect killer… Katherine Cole is running for her life, desperate to escape the Valentine Killer—so-called because he stabs his victims through the heart and leaves them holding a telltale single red rose. Still he tracks her to New Orleans and begins carving a bloody path to her door. But this time, Katherine refuses to run any farther. This time, she’ll do anything to stop the madman she once loved, even trust the sexy cop promising to keep her safe…Detective Dane Black never lets his emotions interfere with his job, even as the Valentine Killer surfaces in New Orleans to stalk his prey. But when Dane agrees to protect the killer’s ex-fiancee, Katherine Cole, he can’t ignore the passion kindling between them. After a single unforgettable night binds them body and soul, Dane knows he won’t rest until Katherine is safe in his arms—and the Valentine Killer is dead. Dark and intensely sexy, this romantic suspense novel from USA Today bestselling author Cynthia Eden is sure to leave readers breathless.
een the Titans and the gods of old did not end with them. The demand for revenge has dripped down into the next generation. Twins, Marcus and Nicolas, heirs to the throne of the gods and sons of the last remaining Titan, learn that the purpose of their existence is to fulfill a prophecy born of hate and despair.
When her father falls into a coma, Indian American photographer Sonya reluctantly returns to the family she’d fled years before. Since she left home, Sonya has lived on the run, free of any ties, while her soft-spoken sister, Trisha, has created a perfect suburban life, and her ambitious sister, Marin, has built her own successful career. But as these women come together, their various methods of coping with a terrifying history can no longer hold their memories at bay.
Professor Stephen Worthington’s life makes perfect sense.
The League of Nations and the Crisis of Empire
