And the winner of North of Boston by Elisabeth Elo is…..
Beth V (techeditor) (subscribes to blog)
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!
Tag: Suspense
Giveaway: North of Boston by Elisabeth Elo
Spunky and tough Bostonian Pirio Kasparov thrills in this new mystery novel! If you caught the guest post, you will know that this book is sure to keep audiences on their toes!
Thanks to the publisher, I am ecstatic to be able to offer a copy of North of Boston by Elisabeth Elo for your enjoyment!
Giveaway runs 1/24/13 to 1/31/14
Winners will be announced 2/1/14.
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Guest Post: North of Boston by Elisabeth Elo
Guest blog: What Makes a Female Protagonist “Strong”?
by Elisabeth Elo, author of North of Boston
We’ve all heard discussions about “strong female protagonists” and how important they are to a book’s success. I confess that the term makes me uneasy. Because if one female protagonist is strong, what are all the others? Are they weak?
In sexist societies, women are routinely separated, classified, and judged. Often they are set in opposition to each other — madonnas vs. prostitutes; working women vs. stay-at-home mothers, and so on. It doesn’t seem right, at this point in history, to divide female fictional characters into groups as well, with one group being privileged over others.
There are about 3.6 billion women living on the earth today, and only a tiny fraction of all the possible stories about them have been told. Why should we waste our time judging how well a female character adheres to a limited number of socially acceptable attributes? Think about it. What could be more backwards-looking and conventional than a writer setting out to create a female character that other people will approve of? It’s even sadder if a writer does this to gain approval for herself.
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Review: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
In the exotic vacation destination of Monte Carlo, we find a quiet and insecure woman on holiday. The young lady is a companion to a wealthy eccentric woman.
While in Monte Carlo the young lady meets a dark, mysterious widower named Maxium de Winter.
They fall in love and marry almost immediately. Maxium is a wealthy man who’s wife just passed away back in England.
The circumstances surrounding her death don’t sounds sinister in nature but they are horrific. Supposedly the first Mrs de Winter was killed in a boating accident.
Many years his junior, the new Mrs de Winter returns with Maxium to his country estate of Manderley on the British coast. She arrives to find the ghost of Rebecca haunts the estate….not literally but figuratively.
Review: The India Fan by Victoria Holt
Blackmail. Murder. Scandal. Lies. Deceit. Romance. Adventure. This book has it all!
Growing up, I loved Victoria Holt but sadly I haven’t read her in a number of years…..nor have I read many of her novels.
But she is the queen of a genre that calls to me–the gothic romance genre. When I saw The India Fan on Amazon, I knew it was time to it up this talented authoress again and see if she could still seduce me with her tales of suspense.
Drusilla Delany is the rectors daughter and has always grown up in the shadow of Framling House and the Framling family.
Fabian Framling has always been a spoiled child….over indulged by his domineering mother. Then there is his sister, the beautiful and impetuous Lavinia–she is everything that Drusilla is not.
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