Books
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Review: Waging War (The Immortal Descendants #4) by April White
For the last couple of years I’ve been a big fan of the Immortal Descendants series! It’s been really fun watching the series evolve and mature over the years! I love the main characters and the premise for the story so when Waging War came out I naturally agreed to review it! In the previous books, Clocker Saira Elian, time travels through multiple different periods to save friends, family, of course stop the Mongers from gaining power. This book is no different….this time we find Saira time traveling to WWII to try and stop a brutal massacre. Saira and her friend Ringo, travel back to WWII Bletchley Park to team up…
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Review: Lies and Other Acts of Love by Kristy Woodson Harvey
I don’t typically read a lot of ‘Southern fiction’ or women’s fiction, but there was something about this intriguing cover and description that lured me in. After sixty years of marriage and five daughters, Lynn “Lovey” White knows that all of us, from time to time, need to use our little white lies. Her granddaughter, Annabelle, on the other hand, is as truthful as they come. She always does the right thing—that is, until she dumps her hedge fund manager fiancé and marries a musician she has known for three days. After all, her grandparents, who fell in love at first sight, have shared a lifetime of happiness, even through…
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Book Blast: Paperback Release of The Tapestry (Joanna Stafford #3) by Nancy Bilyeau
The Tapestry (Joanna Stafford #3) by Nancy Bilyeau Paperback Publication Date: March 22, 2016 Touchstone/Simon & Schuster Paperback; 416 Pages Series: Joanna Stafford Genre: Historical Mystery “Fans of the Tudor era, you’re in for a treat” –InStyle magazine Henry VIII’s Palace of Whitehall is the last place on earth Joanna Stafford wants to be. But a summons from the king cannot be refused. After her priory was destroyed, Joanna, a young Dominican novice, vowed to live a quiet life, weaving tapestries and shunning dangerous conspiracies. That all changes when the king takes an interest in her tapestry talent. With a ruthless monarch tiring of his fourth wife and…
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Review: Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye
This has been the year of Jane Eyre inspired literature and this latest Jane Eyre revisitation was something quite unexpected. Any book that has the passage ‘reader I murdered him’ so eloquently stated and matter-of-factly, instantly holds a special place in my heart! When we first meet Jane Steele she is living with her mother in a small cottage on the grande estate of Highgate House. All her life Jane is told she is to inherit Highgate House but when her mother dies unexpectedly Jane’s evil aunt purposes to send her away to a school where she will learn to be a governess. After first hearing this news, Jane runs…
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Review: The Last Days of Magic by Mark Tompkins
This book has only recently been on my radar. It’s being market to fans of Deborah Harkness’s All Soul’s Trilogy so of course when I saw it, I was excited to read something that promises so much! It introduces us to unforgettable characters who grapple with quests for power, human frailty, and the longing for knowledge that has been made taboo. Mark Tompkins has crafted a remarkable tale—a feat of world-building that poses astonishing and resonant answers to epic questions. What became of magic in the world? Who needed to do away with it, and for what reasons? Drawing on myth, legend, fairy tales, and Biblical mysteries, this book imagines answers…
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Book Blast: Death of an Alchemist: A Bianca Goddard Mystery (Bianca Goddard Mysteries, Book 2) by Mary Lawrence
Death of an Alchemist: A Bianca Goddard Mystery (Bianca Goddard Mysteries, Book 2) by Mary Lawrence Publication Date: January 26, 2016 Kensington Books Hardcover & eBook; 304 Pages Genre: Historical Mystery In the mid sixteenth century, Henry VIII sits on the throne, and Bianca Goddard tends to the sick and suffering in London’s slums, where disease can take a life as quickly as murder… For years, alchemist Ferris Stannum has devoted himself to developing the Elixir of Life, the reputed serum of immortality. Having tested his remedy successfully on an animal, Stannum intends to send his alchemy journal to a colleague in Cairo for confirmation. But the next…
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Review: The Return of the Witch (The Witch’s Daughter #2) by Paula Brackston
I’ve been a big fan of Paula Brackston…….especially her witch books! Ironically the only book of her’s I haven’t read is The Witch’s Daughter! I have it but I just haven’t gotten around to reading it for some reason. So when this book came up for review, I was hesitant only because I haven’t read the first one. However, I was so excited to read another of her witch books that I just gave in a read this one! So I would be lying if I said I should have read the first book before this one. There were a lot of references to things that happened in the first…
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Special Feature: 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl by Mona Awad
Since the book, 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl, has been released at the end of February it’s been on everyone’s lips not to mention all over social media! From People, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Huffington Post to magazines such as O to Cosmo and Marie Claire, pretty much anyone who has picked it up has been blown away. Roxane Gay has even called the book “necessary” and “Beautiful” and just this week highlighted it in a recommendation list for iBooks. People are saying that it’s one of the most powerful novels they have read. Many are saying that author Mona Awad is saying things that have been in the…
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Cover Reveal: MAGICAL JUNGLE adult coloring book by Johanna Basford
For Christmas this year, I was privileged enough to be gifted not one but two of Johanna Basford’s coloring books and let me just say…..I LOVE her illustrations and her creativity! There is something so superior in her illustrations that make all the other adult coloring books look like knockoffs! Her design are so detailed and original which is why I am excited to see her latest coloring book MAGICAL JUNGLE: An Inky Expedition & Coloring Book. Basford released the final jacket art exclusively through her Facebook page. With over 16 million copies of her books sold worldwide, fans are showing their enthusiasm for even more Basford. She received over…
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Review: The Arrangement by Ashley Warlick
M.F.K. Fisher is American’s most well known food writer. Her writing abilities created a new literary genre all about food….that’s some pretty impressive writing! What isn’t known about this interesting woman, is much about her personal life. That’s what writer Ashley Warlick plans to do……create a more or less fiction account of a factual figure. When we meet Mary Frances, she is young, restlessly married, and returning from her first sojourn in France……she is hungry, and not just for food. She begins writing to impress friend and neighbor Tim, who seems to understand her better than anyone. Mary Frances and her husband, Al, no longer share the things that once bound…