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  • Giveaway: The Bookman’s Tale by Charlie Lovett

    July 16, 2014 / 6 Comments

    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

    July 16, 2014 / 8 Comments

    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: Written in My Own Heart’s Blood (Outlander #8) by Diana Gabaldon

    July 3, 2014 / 66 Comments

    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: Baudelaire’s Revenge by Bob van Laerhoven

    June 26, 2014 / 2 Comments

    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

    June 19, 2014 / 4 Comments

    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…

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  • Review: The Lost Duchess by Jenny Barden

    June 17, 2014 / 2 Comments

    We all know there is a ton of historical fiction out there that takes place in Elizabethan England….typically in the court. The market is simply flooded…so how do you create a new and different take on a saturated topic? Well you take your Elizabethan heroine out of the court! Emme Fifield is a lady in waiting to Queen Elizabeth. Her life is pretty much wrapped up in the treacherous court and all she has is a good reputation and name. Well all that changes when she is ruined by a lord who will stop it nothing but to have her. Her reputation and future prospects are a disaster.

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  • Book Blast: The Lost Duchess by Jenny Barden

    June 17, 2014 / Comments Off on Book Blast: The Lost Duchess by Jenny Barden

    Please join author Jenny Barden as she tours the blogopsphere for The Lost Duchess from May 26-June 20. Paperback Publication Date: June 5, 2014 Ebury Press Paperback; 448p An epic Elizabethan adventure with a thriller pace and a high tension love story that moves from the palaces of England to the savage wilderness of the New World. Emme Fifield has fallen about as far as a gentlewoman can. Once a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth, her only hope of surviving the scandal that threatens to engulf her is to escape England for a fresh start in the new America where nobody has ever heard of the Duchess of Somerset. Emme joins…

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  • Review: The Lincoln Myth (Cotton Malone #9) by Steve Berry

    May 28, 2014 / 3 Comments

    All is not as it seems. A simple phrase that could be dangerous in the wrong hands. Abraham Lincoln must make a choice, keep the secret or not. He could save thousands or have the country torn apart…..Lincoln alone holds the power. Retired agent, Cotton Malone is asked by his former boss to do a favor. It sounds relatively cut and dry, but as soon as he agrees he realizes this is a bit more involved than he originally expected. Unbeknownst to him, his girlfriend is also being recruited for this ‘favor’. This only complicates matters further as she is in deep cover.

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  • Review: Dark Aemilia: A Novel of Shakespeare’s Dark Lady by Sally O’Reilly

    May 27, 2014 / Comments Off on Review: Dark Aemilia: A Novel of Shakespeare’s Dark Lady by Sally O’Reilly

    The story of Aemilia Bassono and William Shakespeare is wrought with passion, love, poetry, and a little magic. While the story is about both William and Aemilia, the main protagonist of the novel is Aemilia herself. She is an illegitimate child raised in the court of Queen Elizabeth. She was taken in by the Countess of Kent who made sure she was educated and prepared to eventually become part of the Queen’s household. While at court she becomes the mistress to Henry Carey but when he tires of he she is married off to Alfonso Lanyer–a lowly court musician. But not before she meets William and begins an affair with…

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  • Announcement: Winner: Daughter of the Gods by Stephanie Thornton

    May 23, 2014 / 6 Comments

    And the winner of the giveaway for Daughter of the Gods by Stephanie Thornton is….. Denise D (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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Book reviewer, lifelong reader, and collector of beautiful editions. I’m Anne Mendez, and I’ve been reviewing books online since 2009

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