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Book Review: The Cleaner of Chartres by Salley Vickers
Media Type: Audio Book Title: The Cleaner of Chartres Author: Salley Vickers Publisher: Viking Pages: Hardcover; 304 Release Date: June 27, 2013 Source: NetGalley ————————————– Genre: Historical Fiction HDB Rating: 2 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy slow moving historical fiction that has a very psychology heavy bend. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N From the author of Miss Garnet’s Angel, a story of the redemptive power of love and community in the famous French cathedral town There is something very special about Agnès Morel. A quiet presence in the small French town of Chartres,…
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Book Review: Isle of Blood and Stone by Makiia Lucier
Media Type: Ebook (ARC) Title: Isle of Blood and Stone * Series: Isle of Blood and Stone #1 Author: Makiia Lucier Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pages: Hardcover; 400 Release Date: April 10, 2018 Source: FFBC Tours / Publisher ———————————————— Content Screening: Nothing of note. HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who like descriptive, slow-burn historical fiction. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | B&N Ulises asked, “How can I look at these maps, see this riddle, and do nothing? They are my brothers.”Elias reached across the table and flicked aside two shells with a fingertip.…
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Book Review: The Wicked City by Beatriz Williams
Media Type: Print Book Title: The Wicked City Author: Beatriz Williams Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Pages: Paperback; 384 Release Date: December 26, 2017 Source: HarperCollins / TLC Book Tours —————————————————- HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Genre: Historical Fiction Recommended to: Readers who are fans of Beatriz Williams and enjoy reading dual-narrated and dual-time period stories. Add it on: HarperCollins | Amazon | Barnes & Noble In the first book of a breathtaking new trilogy by bestselling author Beatriz Williams, two generations of women are brought together inside a Greenwich Village apartment —a flapper hiding an extraordinary past, and a…
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Book Review: The Dressmaker’s Secret by Kellyn Roth
Media Type: Ebook Title: The Dressmaker’s Secret *Series: The Chronicles of Alice and Ivy, Book I Author: Kellyn Roth Publisher: Self-published Pages: Kindle; 205 Release Date: January 9, 2016 Source: Author —————————————————————– Content Screening: Nothing of note. HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who are looking for a historically based read, with a little romance. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon London, England, 1870 It comes to the attention of curious eight-year-old Alice Chattoway that her father is seemingly nonexistent. After realizing that his absence is making her mother unhappy, Alice becomes determined to find…
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Book Review: Mississippi Blood (Penn Cage #6) by Greg Iles
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Mississippi Blood *Series: Penn Cage #6 Author: Greg Iles Publisher: William Morrow Pages: Hardcover; 704 Release Date: March 21, 2017 Source: TLC Book Tours / Harper Collins Publishers ———————————————- Genre: Mystery / Crime Thriller HDB Rating: 5 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Fans of the series, because this ending is EXPLOSIVE! Add it on: HarperCollins | Amazon | Barnes & Noble The endgame is at hand for Penn Cage, his family, and the enemies bent on destroying them in this revelatory volume in the epic trilogy set in modern-day Natchez, Mississippi—Greg Iles’s epic…
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Author Spotlight: Kellyn Roth
Happy Valentine’s Day my bookish darlings! Or, as the bag of candy my husband so thoughtfully purchased for his coworkers calls it, “Friendship Exchange Day”. I kind of love that, to be honest. Anyway, I digress! I’m not here to talk about chocolates, wine, kisses and romance. (Although don’t be shy and come find me on Twitter if you DO want to talk about those things.) I’m here to spotlight another wonderful author and her gorgeous books. As it turns out, one of these books is also FREE today and tomorrow! So treat yo self, and go pick a copy…
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Book Review: Yesternight by Cat Winters
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Yesternight Author: Cat Winters Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks Pages: Paperback; 400 Release Date: October 4, 2016 Source: Harper Collins Publishers and TLC Book Tours ——————————————————————— Content Screening: Mild Violence and Sexual Situations HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Readers who enjoy darker historical fiction, with a look at reincarnation. Add it on: HarperCollins | Amazon | Barnes & Noble From the author of The Uninvited comes a haunting historical novel with a compelling mystery at its core. A young child psychologist steps off a train, her destination a foggy seaside town. There,…
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Book Review: Song of Princes by Janell Rhiannon
Media Type: Ebook Title: Song of Princes *Series: The Homeric Chronicles Author: Janell Rhiannon Publisher: Self-Published Pages: Kindle; 377 Release Date: June 22, 2016 Source: Xpresso Book Tours ———————————————– Genre: Fantasy / Mythology HDB Rating: 3 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Anyone looking for a fresh take on the Homeric legends. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Sing Muse. Sing of the shining citadel of Troy rising from the hot sands of Asia. Sing of the Greek palaces ascending from their rocky hilltops. Sing of one woman’s dream heralding the madness of men and the murder…
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Book Review: Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson
Media Type: Print Book (ARC) Title: Another Brooklyn Author: Jacqueline Woodson Publisher: Amistad Pages: Hardcover; 192 Release Date: August 9, 2016 Source: TLC Book Tours ——————————————– Genre: Historical Fiction HDB Rating: 4 Keys to My Heart Recommended to: Anyone looking for a gorgeously written look at the streets of 1970’s Brooklyn. Add it on: Goodreads | Amazon | BookLikes Running into a long-ago friend sets memories from the 1970s in motion for August, transporting her to a time and a place where friendship was everything—until it wasn’t. For August and her girls, sharing confidences as they ambled through neighborhood streets, Brooklyn…
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Book Blitz + Giveaway: Lavender in Bloom by Lily Velez
Good morning, darling bookish people! Are you on the hunt for a swoon-worthy, historical romance? Look no further, Lily Velez has you covered with Lavender in Bloom. Lavender in Bloom Lily Velez Publication date: July 25th 2016 Genres: Historical, Romance, Young Adult It’s the year 1802 in Avignon, France… Noah Capet has spent most of his young life living simple and unvaried days in the hushed countryside of southern France. Quiet, reserved, and diffident, his preference for existing is to do so in solitude, keeping to himself both in town and on his family’s farm—a predilection that’s altogether disrupted when…