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  • Review: The Firebird (Slains #2) by Susanna Kearsley

    November 14, 2014 / 3 Comments

    Nicola Marter is a seemingly normal women, with an extraordinary gift. She can touch an object and see it’s past history. But she doesn’t like using her gift. She is afraid of being called a ‘freak’ and that people won’t accept her. So she hides her gift. While working in an art gallery specializing in Russian art, an old woman arrives with a wood carving of a firebird, claiming it belonged to Catherine the Great. Nicola’s boss doesn’t have any way of authenticating it and thus, it has no value to an art dealer. But when she touches it she sees that it was in fact given to a girl named Anna…

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  • Announcement: Winner BITTER GREENS by Kate Forsyth

    October 2, 2014 / 6 Comments

    And the winner of the giveaway for BITTER GREENS by Kate Forsyth is….. Brittnay T (liked on Facebook) The winner will be notified via email. Thank you to everyone who entered and a huge thank you to the publisher and HFVBT for making this giveaway possible!

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  • Giveaway: BITTER GREENS by Kate Forsyth

    September 24, 2014 / 12 Comments

    The amazing power and truth of the Rapunzel fairy tale comes alive for the first time in this breathtaking tale of desire, black magic and the redemptive power of love. Thanks to the Publisher and HFVBT, I am ecstatic to be able to offer a copy of BITTER GREENS for your enjoyment! Giveaway is for one paperback copy. See the list of other giveaways for multiple chances to win a copy! Giveaway runs 9/24/14 to 10/1/14 Winners will be announced 10/2/14. (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…

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  • Interview: Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth

    September 24, 2014 / Comments Off on Interview: Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth

    The amazing power and truth of the Rapunzel fairy tale comes alive for the first time in this breathtaking tale of desire, black magic and the redemptive power of love.  Award-winning author Kate Forsyth braids together the stories of Margherita, Selena, and Charlotte-Rose, the woman who penned Rapunzel as we now know it, to create what is a sumptuous historical novel, an enchanting fairy tale retelling, and a loving tribute to the imagination of one remarkable woman. I am thrilled to be able to offer a copy of this novel in a giveaway which will be happening all week (see the giveaway post to enter for a chance to win). Forsyth also…

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  • Review: Bitter Greens by Kate Forsyth

    September 24, 2014 / 2 Comments

    I think most know the classic Brothers Grimm fairy tale of Rapunzel. The child sold to a witch for a handful of bitter greens who grows up to be the beautiful girl in the world with long golden hair. Destine to live in a tower forever, a prince rides by and hears a voice and is enchanted by her. He learns how to get to her by climbing up her hair and ultimately rescues her for the witch and the tower and they live happily ever after. Sound familiar? But what of the original fairy tale by Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force that was published in 1698? In Kate Forsyth’s book Bitter…

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  • Review: The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles #1) by Mary E. Pearson

    August 20, 2014 / 6 Comments

    This book has been flooding my social media feeds for the last month. It seems like everyone has been reading this new YA series. So naturally I needed to see what all the fuss was about. And really, how can you ignore this stunning cover? I’m in love with it….yes I am totally judging a book by it’s cover right now. Princess Lia is a First Daughter of Morrigham and with her regal status comes obligations. One of those obligations is to marry. Her father arranges a marriage with a prince from the neighboring kingdom of Dalbreck to secure a much needed peace in the realm. As a First Daughter, Lia is…

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  • Review: Tempting Fate (The Immortal Descendants #2) by April White

    August 12, 2014 / 4 Comments

    Since discovering her power as a ‘clocker’, or an Immortal Descendant, life for Saira Elian hasn’t gotten much easier. Being a clocker means Saira can transport herself through time at will. She is currently living at St. Brigid’s school where she is learning about her power as well as the powers of the other Descendants. For the first time in her life she is stable: she has friends, her mother, excelling in school, and her super attractive boyfriend, Archer who happens to be Death’s Descendant–better known as a Sucker, or vampire. But she is struggling with what it means to rely on others and to truly open her heart to her friends…

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  • Announcement: Winner ALIAS HOOK by Lisa Jensen

    July 17, 2014 / 3 Comments

    And the winner of the giveaway for ALIAS HOOK by Lisa Jensen is….. Michelle R (Tweeted about giveaway) The winner will be notified via email. Thank you to everyone who entered and a huge thank you to the publisher for making this giveaway possible!

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  • Giveaway: ALIAS HOOK by Lisa Jensen

    July 8, 2014 / 12 Comments

    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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  • Special Feature: Alias Hook by Lisa Jensen

    July 8, 2014 / Comments Off on 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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