Books
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Giveaway: The Bookman’s Tale by Charlie Lovett
Guaranteed to capture the hearts of everyone who truly loves books! THE BOOKMAN’S TALE is a former bookseller’s sparkling novel and a delightful exploration of one of literature’s most tantalizing mysteries! Thanks to the Publisher, I am ecstatic to be able to offer a copy of THE BOOKMAN’S TALE for your enjoyment! Giveaway is for one paperback copy. See the list of other giveaways for multiple chances to win a copy! Giveaway runs 7/16/14 to 7/23/14 Winners will be announced 7/24/14. (how to enter) On this blog you must leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway. Your comment MUST include your email so I can contact you….if you do not enter an email in…
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Review: The Bookman’s Tale by Charlie Lovett
The socially awkward Peter Byerly is an antiquarian book collector who might have just made a huge discovery. Peter might have just discovered a manuscript–possibly a new Shakespearean manuscript–which needless to say would be priceless! Peter is in a bad spot, he’s just lost his wife nine months prior to the opening of the novel, and he’s really only ever loved two things…..books and Amanda. So now he’s left with only his books. Living in America, he decides to leave behind his old life and go live in the country cottage in the English countryside that him and Amanda bought before her death. Living in the cottage makes Peter somewhat of a…
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Review: One Plus One by Jojo Moyes
I’ve been a fan of Jojo Moyes since I read Me Before You last year. Since then I’ve read two more of her novels, The Girl You Left Behind and Silver Bay. I love her storytelling style and her romances are usually unique, touching, and compelling. However, the last novel I read by her, Silver Bay, lacked some of her usual magic so needless to say I was hesitant to review One Plus One. The reviews I had seen online though made me decide to read One Plus One, in hopes of recapturing some of the magic from Moyes earlier novels. I was glad that I decided to give this one…
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Giveaway: ALIAS HOOK by Lisa Jensen
Stuck in Neverland with no hope of returning to the life he once had, James Hook is doomed. Until he meets the mysterious and alluring Stella Parrish. Could this woman be the redemption Hook has been seeking for the last 200 years? Thanks to the Publisher, I am ecstatic to be able to offer a copy of Alias Hook for your enjoyment! Giveaway is for one paperback copy. See the list of other giveaways for multiple chances to win a copy! Giveaway runs 7/8/14 to 7/16/14 Winners will be announced 7/17/14. (how to enter) On this blog you must leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway. Your comment MUST include your email so…
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Review: Alias Hook by Lisa Jensen
James Benjamin Hookbridge is everything a well educated young lad should be in the Restoration era. He’s verses in music, woodcarving, sailing, and he’s witty and charming. He’e betrothed to a girl who he hopes will make him happy but while he comes from a wealthy family, he dreams of high seas adventure. He travels to the West Indies and while there is he arrested for piracy and ultimately sold into slavery. His shipmate returns home to England and marries James’s betrothed. When James learns of this he plans his revenge and is filled with anger and hate.
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Special Feature: Alias Hook by Lisa Jensen
With a slight nod to Wicked, veteran film critic Lisa Jensen trades Oz for the Neverland and reimagines one of Great Britain’s most beloved classics of children’s literature in her sparkling new novel, ALIAS HOOK (Thomas Dunne Books; July 8, 2014; Hardcover; $24.99). In Jensen’s retelling, Captain James Benjamin Hookbridge is no storybook villain, just a misunderstood Restoration-era privateer trapped forever in a nightmare of childhood fancy. By filling in the back story, Jensen leads us to question what really is so wonderful about that “infernal, eternal boy” and his band of Lost Boys. The result is an ingenious send up, with Jensen providing a thoughtful meditation on love, war,…
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Review: Written in My Own Heart’s Blood (Outlander #8) by Diana Gabaldon
Four long years is how long I’ve been waiting for the latest Outlander installment, Written in My Own Heart’s Blood (MOHB). The last book (AEITB), left some MAJOR cliff hangers and I was actually pretty upset about the way AEITB ended for at least a week after finishing it. MOHB picks up right where AEITB ended, literally. I am not going to get too much into the back-story or other books as I am assuming if you are reading this review, you have already read the series up until this point. I will admit, I should have re-read AEITB before I started this one. I was literally so lost for the first…
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Review: Suspicion by Joseph Finder
Danny Goodman is a single dad who wants to provide his daughter with the very best things in life….at any cost. Sadly, that cost is rapidly mounting. He can no longer afford to pay her private school tuition and has no one to turn to for any financial support or to borrow money. Just when he is in desperate straights, a solution presents itself. His daughters new best friend has a very very wealthy father. In fact he’s one of the wealthiest men in Boston. When Thomas Galvin offers Danny $50,000 as a charitable gift, he sees no harm in accepting it.
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Review: Baudelaire’s Revenge by Bob van Laerhoven
During the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, Paris is stuck in a proverbial gridlock. Social and political tensions are mounting and the people are looking for any kind of distraction from their daily lives. A grizzly series of murders provides that distraction. Not only are the murders grotesque in nature but they have an interesting signature. Each body is inscribed with a verse from the controversial Charles Baudelaire’s poetry written in Charles Baudelaire’s own hand. There’s only one problem, Charles Baudelaire’s is dead.
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Book Blast: Successio (Roma Nova #3) by Alison Morton
Follow Alison Morton’s Book Blast for SUCCESSIO, the third book in her Roma Nova Series, from June 16-27 for a chance to win your own autographed copy and bookmark! Publication Date: June 4, 2014 SilverWood Books Formats: eBook, Paperback Genre: Alternative Historical Thriller Roma Nova – the last remnant of the Roman Empire that has survived into the 21st century – is at peace. Carina Mitela, the heir of a leading family, but choosing the life of an officer in the Praetorian Guard Special Forces, is not so sure. She senses danger crawling towards her when she encounters a strangely self-possessed member of the unit hosting their exchange exercise in…