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Review: Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

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2015 promises to be a big year for books into movies, one of which that caught my eye was Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy.

The trailer looked beautiful and intriguing, not to mention the description of the book itself.

A love….square I guess….three men one woman….a tale of love and unrequited desire? Plus cute little sheep? I’m in!

I haven’t read anything by Thomas Hardy before so getting used to his prose was difficult. Very descriptive and flowery, and thick at times but after getting used to it, it wasn’t too bad.

Bathsheba Everdene is everything a bad-ass heroine should be….strong willed, bold, and independent. She has come into possession of her own lands and farm where she plans on being her own mistress and running her own estate.

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Review: House Broken by Sonja Yoerg

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Geneva Novak tends to relate better to animals than she does her own family…that’s why she’s a vet.

And avoiding her family has more or less worked for her these last few years.

But one day she gets a call that is going to change all that and make her finally face the relationships she been avoiding.

Geneva’s mother, Helen, loves her vodka but vodka doesn’t love her back. Dublin, Geneva’s brother calls to tell her that their mother has been in a drinking and driving accident.

Though not life threatening, she has some significant injuries. Dublin, though close with Helen, can’t take her in as he has a special needs child. Her sister Floence, lives in New York and won’t take her in. The oldest sister, Paris, is living in Africa and hasn’t been in contact with the family in years.

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Top 10 in 2014: Book Boyfriends and Rockin’ Book Bitches

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Top 10 in 2014: Book Boyfriends

I saw this post on one of my blogger friend’s site and I couldn’t resist the temptation to post my own Book Boyfriends list for the year!

So here you have it, The Lit Bitch’s top 10 in 2014: Book Boyfriends my list is compiled from all of the 75 books I’ve read in 2014 in nor particular order:

  1. Alexander (The Bronze Horseman)
  2. The Prince (The Kiss of Deception)
  3. Edward (The Firebird)
  4. Jamie Fraser (Written in My Own Hearts Blood)
  5. David (Letters from Skye)
  6. Redvers Stretton (The Secret Woman)
  7. Connan TreMellyn (The Mistress of Mellyn)
  8. Cameron (Bhalla Strand)
  9. George Tolson (The Property of a Gentleman)
  10. Cai (The Winter Witch)

Top 10 in 2014: Rockin’ Book Bitches

Here you have The Lit Bitch’s top 10 in 2014: Rockin’ Book Bitches. My list is compiled from all of the 75 books I’ve read in 2014 in no particular order:

  1. Rebecca (Rebecca)
  2. Hatshepsut (Daughter of the Gods)
  3. Beatrice (Bhalla Strand)
  4. Selena (Bitter Greens)
  5. Reve Dyer (The Hawley Book of the Dead)
  6. Poppy Hammond (Night of a Thousand Stars)
  7. Maggie Hope (The Prime Minister’s Secret Agent)
  8. Stella (Alias Hook)
  9. Tatiana (The Bronze Horseman)
  10. Borte (The Tiger Queens)

Top 10 books of 2014

Many of you also want to know….out of the 75 books that I read this year which ones were my faves?

So here are my top 10 books of 2014. Again, they are in no particular order….all of them were wonderful, memorable reads for different reasons.

  1. The Bronze Horseman
  2. Bhalla Strand
  3. Letters from Skye
  4. The Secret Rooms
  5. The Prime Minster’s Secret Agent
  6. The Firebird
  7. Daughter of the Gods
  8. The Kiss of Deception
  9. The Mistress of Mellyn 
  10. Bitter Greens
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Review: The Witch of Painted Sorrows by M.J. Rose

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Sandrine Salome is running away to France. Her father has just died and her husband most likely had a hand in it.

She cannot continue to be in his house so she flees to Paris where her grandmother lives.

Sandrine used to live with her grandmother when she was younger but then she was whisked away when she was caught in a compromising situation with a boy.

Since then she has only seen her grandmother a handful of times but it’s almost like Paris is calling her home from America. When she arrives, her grandmother’s home is empty.

Her grandmother claims its due to renovations but Sandrine feels like she is hiding something. When she follows her grandmother one morning to the house, she meets a dashing architect….Julien.

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Review: Princess of Thorns by Stacey Jay

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I am excited to see all the fairy tale retellings out there, especially for Sleeping Beauty as Aurora is one of my favorite princesses.

Princess of Thorns is a different kind of fairy tale retelling. Princess Aurora AKA Ror is actually a warrior princess and Sleeping Beauty’s daughter who must fight to regain her throne. ‘

As a briar born child, Ror and her twin brother Jor have been gifted special powers. Jor has been kidnapped by the evil ogre queen and is being tortured.

Ror is the heiress to the fairy lands and she must not only save her brother, but she must regain her kingdom by any means necessary. She knows she will never marry because any boy she kisses turns into a mindless minion so she must do all this by herself. Dressed as a boy she plans on first saving her brother. Enter Niklass.

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