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Announcement: Winner ALIAS HOOK by Lisa Jensen
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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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: The Lost Duchess by Jenny Barden
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
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: Silver Bay by JoJo Moyes
Liza McCullen lives in the small community of Silver Bay with it’s pristine beaches and secluded lifestyle, she feels completely at ease and safe in her life. Liza and her family run a small hotel there that features small exhibitions to see dolphins, whales, and all the beautiful sea creatures of the Australian coast. Running the whale watching tour is something extremely important to Liza, but not as important to her as raising her daughter Hannah. All of the women in Liza’s family have secrets…but none so big as Liza. Though she is the strong one in her little family, deep down she is as fragile as the delicate marine…
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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…