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Book Blast: Successio (Roma Nova #3) by Alison Morton
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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Special Feature: Cover Reveal The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
The wait is finally over or just beginning depending on how you look at things. Penguin/Viking has just released the stunning cover for the final installment of the All Soul’s Trilogy. The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness will be available to readers on July 15th 2014. This electrifying cover is sure to catch readers eye and make fans of the series long for July! The first book in the trilogy A Discovery of Witches was an immediate phenomenon, with film rights selling to Warner Brothers, and the second book The Shadow of Night was a #1 New York Times bestseller. For more information about the stunning conclusion to this trilogy check out www.deborahharkness.com. In addition to…
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Review: Tiger’s Destiny (The Tiger Saga #4) by Colleen Houck
Kelsey Hayes life has been one wild roller coaster ride over the last two years. She has embarked on an impossible mission to break an ancient curse placed on the two brothers that she loves: Ren and Kishan. She’s fought flying monkeys, krakens, sharks, dragons, and evil sorcerers but yet the brothers remain in tiger form! She has one last task to complete but this task will come at a huge cost. The goddess Durga has one remaining gift The Rope of Fire, hidden on a volcanic island in the Bay of Bengal. Once Kelsey and the brothers retrieve the rope, they will face an epic battle between good and…
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Review: Tiger’s Voyage (The Tiger Saga #3) by Colleen Houck
Kelsey Hayes is once again heartbroken. Her beloved Ren doesn’t remember who she is….at all. In fact her very presence repulses him and makes him physically ill. Kelsey agrees to continue helping Ren and his brother Kishan try and break the tiger’s curse. This time their journey takes them to the Indian Ocean and the dragons that inhabit a parallel world that Ren, Kishan, and Kelsey must navigate in order to break another part of the curse. In the last novel, Tiger’s Quest, Kelsey begins to have stronger feelings for Kishan…stronger than she cares to admit. In this book, she learns that Ren has actually broken the bond that they…
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Review: Engn by Simon Kewin
Finn has been raised to fear the notorious Ironclads and their city, Engn. The Ironclads are sent out to the surrounding villages to recruit children to work in the city. When the Ironclads come, there is no choice but to send the children to Engn even though few return to their homes, parents are required to let the Ironclads take what they want. When Finn was younger, his sister was taken to Engn which was supposed to mean that Finn was safe as the Ironclads can only take one child per family. But when the Ironclads come for him, this changes everything. With Finn on his way to Engn and…
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Guest Post: Engn by Simon Kewin
In addition to reviewing the MG/YA book Engn by Simon Kewin, he also agreed to write a guest post about how he created the world and city of Engn. Without further ado please welcome Simon Kewin to The Lit Bitch! Building Engn The world of Engn grew out of a simple, central idea: a city-sized, steam-powered machine that generations of people have lived and worked within. I was drawn to the idea on lots of levels. I liked the thought of all the odd contraptions and mysteries and weirdness I could build into such a vast and ancient machine. In the book, Engn has grown so huge that most…
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Review: Tiger’s Quest (The Tiger Saga #2) by Colleen Houck
Kelsey Hayes has just arrived home in Oregon from her adventure packed and emotional summer abroad in India. Kelsey has been helping two brothers, Ren and Kishan, try and break an ancient curse. She and Ren successfully fought off deadly monkeys to break the first part of the curse, but they still have to complete a series of challenges to break the entire curse. While they have been tracking down the clues that will break the curse, Kelsey and Ren have also fallen in love. Kelsey is scared to death that Ren will break her heart so she does what she thinks is best–she runs like hell back to Oregon…
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Review: Tiger’s Curse (The Tiger Saga #1) by Colleen Houck
For recent high school graduate, Kelsey Hayes, the summer is all about finding a job so she can start community college in the fall. But in a sleepy Oregon town, there are not a lot of job opportunities for high school grads so when she is offered a job at a traveling circus she quickly accepts. The jobs sounds pretty easy: selling tickets, helping clean up after shows, and she gets to live on sight….oh and she has to help care for the circus tiger. She isn’t really sure what to do about the tiger, on one hand he scares her but she finds him oddly intriguing and comforting. Every…
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Review: Marking Time (The Immortal Descendants #1) by April White
Seventeen year old Saira Elian’s life is a lonely one. Her mom tends to disappear randomly for weeks at a time and when she returns they often pack up and move to a new location. She hasn’t met her father nor does she really know anything about him and she basically has never known anyone she could call a friend. Saira spends her free time tagging the underground around Venice Beach until one night she over hears a conversation she shouldn’t. The next thing she knows she is being chased by a group of men when the police pick her up and arrest her. With her mother gone again she…
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Giveaway: Shadow of Night (All Souls Trilogy #2) by Deborah Harkness
In celebration of the upcoming paperback release of the second book in All Soul’s Trilogy, I am thrilled to offer a copy of the book and some bitchin’ alchemy buttons to go with thanks to Viking/Penguin books! One lucky winner will receive a paperback copy of Shadow of Night (All Soul’s Trilogy #2) by Deborah Harkness and these buttons! SHADOW OF NIGHT picks up exactly where A Discovery of Witches left off: Diana Bishop and Matthew Clairmont, a witch historian and vampire geneticist respectively, have timewalked to Elizabethan England on their hunt for a magical alchemical manuscript, Ashmole 782—its sudden appearance and sudden disappearance have upended the delicately ordered world of magical creatures (witches, vampires, and…