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Guest Post: The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Barker
If you haven’t already had a chance to check out my review of The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Barker, then you are missing out on a great and magic read! Before she moved into the fantasy genre, Barker worked as a journalist for over twenty years. Barker graciously agreed to talk about what that transition was like for her in this weeks guest post! So without further ado please welcome Emily Croy Barker to The Lit Bitch!
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Review: The Age of Ice by J.M. Sidorova
In an ice palace in eighteenth century Russia, two twin princes are born—Prince Alexander and Prince Andrei. Prince Andrei is the more ambitious, bold, and daring of the two brothers, while Alexander is more reserved and shy. The boys grow up in an idealistic life, residing in the families country home with many animals and servants. Andrei is seemingly always unhappy while Alexander seems more well adjusted and happy. As the two boys reach adulthood the both enlist in the military and through an unexpected situation Alexander makes a startling discovery–he is immune to the cold. This revelation brings about many different questions for Alexander. Why is Andrei not cursed…
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Giveaway: The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Barker
Witches, wizards, and fairies….oh my! If you are looking for a new magical novel to enchant you then don’t miss your chance to win a copy of The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Barker! If you enjoyed the All Soul’s Trilogy then this novel is right up your alley! Thanks to the publisher, I am ecstatic to be able to offer a copy of The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic for your enjoyment! Giveaway runs 8/16/13 to 8/23/13 Winners will be announced 8/24/13. (how to enter) On this blog you must leave a comment to be entered in the giveaway. Your comment MUST include your email…
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Review: The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic by Emily Croy Barker
Nora Fischer wants a new life. Any will do really. She just wants things to be different and she doesn’t really care how…just different. Well you know what they say….be careful what you wish for because you just may get it. Nora is crashing and burning on her English thesis and post graduate work, her serious boyfriend just broke it off with her to marry someone else and suddenly this plain Jane finds herself at her friends wedding forced into an awkward social situation with her ex. She just needs to take a little breather before the wedding. She wakes up one morning to go for a brisk walk in…
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Review: Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
Richard Mayhew has no idea what awaits him in London on the eve of his going away party in Scotland. His friends pitch in to get him a going away gift, a white umbrella with a map of the London Underground. He can’t help but stare at the umbrella with an eerie omen of impending disaster….little does he know how right he is. For three years, Richard’s life is more or less normal. He works in business and he is engaged, but he still can’t help but feel disenchanted. One night, Richard’s life changes drastically….he encounters a girl bleeding on the streets of London. With his decision to help her,…
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Review: Divergent (Divergent #1) by Veronica Roth
Abnegation. Amity. Candor. Dauntless. Erudite. Where faction do you belong to? On Choosing Day Beatrice (Tris) Prior must decide but first she undergoes an aptitude test to see which faction she will most likely gravitate toward….then she must choose to define her identity for the rest of her life based on that information. Born into the Abnegation faction, she is supposed to be selfless and think only of others….but she feels like a square peg in Abnegation. Hoping the test will shed some light on her conundrum, the worst happens—her aptitude test is inconclusive. She is Divergent. Being Divergent is dangerous….if anyone find out, her life will be in imminent danger. She is a threat to…
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Review: Mockingjay (The Hunger Games #3) by Suzanne Collins
The sparks of rebellion have turned into a raging inferno in Suzanne Collins’s final installment of The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay. Katniss Everdeen, ‘the girl who was on fire’, is the catalyst for the movement and the symbol of the rebellion–their very own Mockingjay. After the first Hunger Games, whispers of uprising begin when Katniss and Peeta Mellark both emerge from the Games victorious….two winners not one–an open defiance of the Capitol. Then when Katniss, Peeta, and their allies destroy the Games for good in Catching Fire–the letters are on the wall, uprising is inevitable. With District 12 demolished, Katniss and her family are taken to rebel headquarters–District 13. During…
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Review: Catching Fire (The Hunger Games #2) by Suzanne Collins
Katniss Everdeen, the girl who was on fire in The Hunger Games is now sparking revolutions throughout the 12 Districts in Suzanne Collins’s second installment of The Hunger Games series, Catching Fire. Having emerged from the Hunger Games victorious, Katniss and her now ‘made for TV boyfriend’ Peeta Mellark return to District 12. Their final act of desperation in the Games makes them both symbols of rebellion and hope to the people of the 12 Districts….but targets for the Capitol. President Snow smells deception….he knows their love was just an act and feels that they rebellion in the Games will only incite more uprisings in other Districts….while on their victory…
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Review: The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1) by Suzanne Collins
Like the gladiators of ancient Rome, the youth of post apocalyptic North America are put face to face in a ‘fight to the death’ game called The Hunger Games. Blood, complicated strategies, alliances, betrayal, and death are expected to play out, all with the nation watching on live television–twenty four children between the ages of 12-18 go into the games but only one will emerge victorious. The Hunger Games is the first in The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. In this post apocalyptic/dystopian society, there are 12 Districts. The 12 Districts are ruled by the The Capitol. The tyrannical Capitol keeps the Districts in check by forcing them to send…
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Review: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
What would you do if you had a face that could literally stop time? Or if you could really clone yourself? How about meet and greet your fav literary character? In the world of SpecOps and LiteraTec (Literary Detective division) extrodinaire, Thursday Next, all of these things are possible. My sister recommended the book, The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, to me a few weeks back…and now that she wants to commandeer the book from me, I figured I better get a move on since she will be wanting it by Christmas no doubt. This speculative fiction book is a hodge-podge mixture of sci-fi, fantasy, time travel, YA, mystery/detective novel,…