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I’ve had an exciting week, and while you are here – pop by my giveaway of A Star Curiously Singing by Kerry Nietz! It’s a fantastic speculative fiction work and one that earned a five star rating from me!
Also, there is still time to join The Lost Entwife read-along! I hope you will consider joining us as we work through The Distant Hours by Kate Morton!
Books I’ve read this past week (Links to reviews):
- The Superlative Stream by Kerry Nietz
- Dark Parties by Sara Grant
- The Beginning of After by Jennifer Castle
- Con & Conjure by Lisa Shearin
- Blessings by Anna Quindlen
- What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen
- The Magician King by Lev Grossman
- Two for Sorrow by Nicola Upson
- The Last Letter from your Lover by Jojo Moyes
- The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson
- Peter Nimble and his Fantastic Eyes by Jonathan Auxier (FANTASTIC book!)
Books to read this week:
The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
The Andreas family is one of readers. Their father, a renowned Shakespeare professor who speaks almost entirely in verse, has named his three daughters after famous Shakespearean women. When the sisters return to their childhood home, ostensibly to care for their ailing mother, but really to lick their wounds and bury their secrets, they are horrified to find the others there. See, we love each other. We just don’t happen to like each other very much. But the sisters soon discover that everything they’ve been running from-one another, their small hometown, and themselves-might offer more than they ever expected.
Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly
Two girls, two centuries and an ocean apart, are thrust together in this gripping novel by the award-winning author of A Northern Light. Brooklyn high school student Andi Alpers feels at the end of several tethers when her father rescues her for a winter break excursion to France. When the ever-curious Andi discovers the ragged journal of an ill-fated Parisian actress, she falls under its thrall. When that emotional connection jolts into the presence, Alpers matures in sudden, unexpected ways.
The Map of Time by Félix J. Palma
Set in Victorian London with characters real and imagined, The Map of Time is a page-turner that boasts a triple play of intertwined plots in which a skeptical H.G. Wells is called upon to investigage purported incidents of time travel and to save lives and literary classics, including Dracula and The Time Machine, from being wiped from existence. What happens if we change history?
Marked as special at an early age, Jacinda knows her every move is watched. But she longs for freedom to make her own choices. When she breaks the most sacred tenet among her kind, she nearly pays with her life. Until a beautiful stranger saves her. A stranger who was sent to hunt those like her. For Jacinda is a draki—a descendant of dragons whose greatest defense is her secret ability to shift into human form.
To save the life of the boy she loves, Jacinda did the unthinkable: She betrayed the most closely-guarded secret of her kind. Now she must return to the protection of her pride knowing she might never see Will again—and worse, that because his mind has been shaded, Will’s memories of that fateful night and why she had to flee are gone.
The Forbidden Sea by Sheila A. Nielson
When Adrianne comes face-to-face with the mermaid of Windwaithe Island, she is convinced that the mermaid means her harm. After all, the island is steeped in stories of mermaids’ curses and the ill-luck that they bring. But Adrianne is fierce-willed and courageous and is determined to protect her family and the islanders from danger. Yet when the islanders find out about Adrianne’s encounters with the mermaid, her family is scorned. They believe that once active, the mermaid cannot be quieted until an islander sacrifices herself to the sea. But is the legend true? And will their fear make them force Adrienne to test it?
