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Review: Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices #3) by Cassandra Clare

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The Infernal Devices are without pity.

The Infernal Devices are without regret.

The Infernal Devices are without number

The Infernal Devices will never stop coming.

Tessa Grey is preparing for what should be the most joyous day of her life…..her wedding to Jem. Tessa loves Jem without question but there is still part of her that loves Will.

Though she tries to shut out her feelings for Will, it is hard to section off a part of your soul that only one other person can touch but somehow Tessa does it.

All the Shadowhunters at the London Institute are preparing for the wedding to take place when Gabriel Lightwood shows up begging to see his brother Gideon. Their father has turned into a giant man eating worm and he needs their help to stop him.

The London Institute agrees to help Gabriel and they all descend on the Lightwood home but soon discover something more disturbing than a giant worm….a warning scribbled on the walls of what was once Benedict Lightwoods study:  

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Guest Post: Fresh Mint with Lemon by Monika Zgustová

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After reviewing the book, Fresh Mint with Lemon recently, I had the opportunity to have the author do a feature guest post for my readers!

If you haven’t checked out the book yet, please do. It’s a unique, artistic love story which you don’t want to miss out on. Without further ado please welcome author Monika Zgustová to The Lit Bitch!

From the Author

Describe the book in your own words. 

Fresh Mint with Lemon is a story of a love triangle. The three main characters, a man and two women, are extremely sensitive and full of regard for one another, and it’s hard for them to make decisions. For that reason, hardly anything happens between them: they talk and talk, but without really getting to know one another better because, at the bottom of it all, they are afraid to learn what the others might think. The novel, a light summer diversion that takes place during torrid July afternoons and sensual Mediterranean nights near the coast, is a story of longing for happiness, love, and tenderness, which seem to be unattainable. In place of these things there is eternal misunderstanding between three people with very different pasts.

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Review: Fresh Mint with Lemon by Monika Zgustová

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Russian art critic, Vadim, sees a beautiful woman in a café one day and is immediately captivated by her beauty and sparkling aura.

There is something about her that draws him in– he soon discovers she is a well known artist, Patricia Pavloff, whose art he has long admired.

Every day he goes to the museum where her art work is on display. He is haunted by one specific painting, red tulips with black pistils that look like eyes.

In that painting there is an element of intrigue that he can’t ignore and he longs to meet the intoxicating beauty behind the art.

One day he gets his wish, he has a brief encounter in the museum with Patricia and from that moment on she becomes his obsession.

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Review: As Sweet as Honey by Indira Ganesan

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On a tiny island in the Indian Ocean a young woman prepares for a wedding.

Meterling is about to do something completely against the social grain and break all kinds of traditional culture….this young Indian woman is going to marry an older Englishman.

On the day of her wedding, Meterling’s husband dies….right there during their first dance! Just as Meterling begins to deal with the death of her husband, she finds out she is pregnant.

Ostracized by the village for already being too tall, she is now a widow and having a baby out of wedlock.

Meterling’s husband, Archer, originates from England and he comes to the island of Pi to run a gin distillery. Archer loves everything about Pi, the flowers, the lifestyle, culture, and obviously the women.

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Review: And Only to Deceive (Lady Emily #1) by Tasha Alexander

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Lady Emily Ashford is not in love with her new husband, the Viscount Philip Ashford. In fact she hardly knows him. So when she receives word that her husband died on safari in Africa, she can hardly morn a man she barely knows.

Emily married Philip to escape the constraints of her family and hoped that marriage would provide that. Now that she is a widow, she finds she has even more freedom than she did as a wife.

All of London society can’t stop singing the praises of Lord Ashford to Emily which makes her uncomfortable, but in an effort to at least try and morn the stranger she married, Emily listens to their stories.

She soon discovers that Philip was in fact wildly interesting and very much in love with her. Not only did Philip love to hunt on the “Dark Continent”, he was a romantic at heart with a love for Emily she has no idea existed; he also was a lover and collector of ancient antiquities and Greek literature.

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