Review: Frostfire (Kanin Chronicles #1) by Amanda Hocking

I am in cover lust over this novel, that’s why I picked it up….plus I heard some good reviews about this book so I downloaded it before going on vacation.

It sounded like an interesting premise and an easy read so why not?

Bryn Aven is a tracker. Her job is to take and bring back changelings to Kanin.

She has always wanted to be a Hogdragen, an elite trained group of trackers and guards who serve the royals. Her father is the Chancellor of the Kanin people, who serves the King.

One night after her first duty as a tracker, Bryn and her father run into Konstantin Black, the youngest and most notorious Hogdragen serving the Queen.

Konstantin begs Bryn’s father to sign some papers briefly before returning home, Bryn says she will wait for him when she suddenly hears him cry out. She rushed into a room and sees Konstantin brutally attack and stab her father. Continue reading “Review: Frostfire (Kanin Chronicles #1) by Amanda Hocking”

Review: The Masque of a Murderer (Lucy Campion Mysteries #3) by Susanna Calkins

Lucy Campion hasn’t seen her friend Sarah for years when she suddenly returns from abroad after her brother, Adam, was injured.

Sarah has been in the Americas spreading the word of the Friends. In England and the new world, the Quakers are not a welcome group.

Sarah’s family has all but disowned her, but now that she’s returned, her family hopes her frivolous foray into the Friends, is at an end.

Shortly after returning home, Sarah receives word that a past love interest, Jacob, has had been hit by a cart and will likely not survive. Jacob has also turned to the Friends in recent years and was completely shunned by his wealthy family.

Now married and living a humble Friend lifestyle, Jacob sends word for Sarah to come bid him farewell.

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Review: Scent of the Soul by Julie Doherty

In a time when marriages were made to secure alliances and power, a king has little choice in matters of the heart.

In the twelfth century Scotland, King Somerled must marry in order to further his hard won power and secure new alliances. Falling in love in a luxury he cannot afford.

When a rival king, Fergus, arrives on Somerled’s shores with the mysterious Breagha as a hostage, Somerled doesn’t hesitate to allow Fergus rights to her.

But then Somerled lays eyes on the beautiful and enchanting Breagha and realizes why Fergus would deceive him and try to keep Breagha for himself.

Breagha has a unique gift….the gift of scent. Her powers put her in high demand, there are dark forces after her as well and falling in love with King Somerled is not how Breagha planned on escaping them!

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Spotlight/Guest Post: THE WITCH OF PAINTED SORROWS by M.J. Rose

02_The Witch of Painted Sorrows CoverPublication Date: March 17, 2015
Atria Books
Formats: Hardcover, Ebook
Pages: 384

Genre: Historical Mystery

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Possession. Power. Passion. International bestselling novelist M.J. Rose creates her most provocative and magical spellbinder yet in this erotic, gothic novel set against the lavish spectacle of 1890s Belle Époque Paris.

Sandrine Salome runs away to her grandmother’s Parisian mansion to escape her dangerous husband, but what she finds is even more menacing. The house, famous for its lavish art collection and elegant salons, is mysteriously closed up. Although her grandmother insits it’s dangerous for Sandrine to visit, she defies her and meets Julien Duplessi, a mesmerizing young architect. Together they explore the hidden night world of Paris, the forbidden occult underground and Sandrine’s deepest desires.

Among the bohemians and the demi-monde, Sandrine discovers her erotic nature as a lover and painter. Then darker influences threaten – her cold and cruel husband is tracking her down and something sinister is taking hold, changing Sandrine, altering her. She’s become possessed by La Lune: A witch, a legend and a sixteenth-century courtesan, who opens up her life to a darkness that may become a gift or a curse.

This is Sandrine’s “wild night of the soul,” her odyssey in the magnificent city of Paris, of art, love and witchery.

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Review: The Tapestry (Joanna Stafford #3) by Nancy Bilyeau

Joanna Stafford is still struggling to adjust to life in the sleepy town of Dartford.

Once a novice nun, but now….not, thanks to King Henry VIII, Joanna is content weaving her tapestries at her home.

The sudden disappearance of her would be husband, Edmund Scovill, has left Joanna upset and confused (not to mention the reader!) but she is resolved to continue her work on her tapestries far from the English court.

Well, her weaving has caught the attention of the King. When a royal summons from Whitehall comes, demanding Joanna’s presence at court, she can hardly refuse the royal order.

When she arrives at court, she is literally attacked instantly by an unknown assailant. It becomes clear that someone wants her dead and the attacked was a carefully orchestrated by a trained assassin.

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