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A giveaway for Saturnalia!
Saturnalia was the Ancient Roman mid-December festival of feasting, gift-giving, and wild partying, when ordinary Romans turned social norms upside down and revelled in pandemonium.
Saturnalia features in Beauty Secrets of The Martyrs, my novella of magic, makeup, crypts, and clownfish. I have three signed copies to give away this December, to lend a little pandemonium to your mid-winter festivities.
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Even When I’m Gone – Nicole Fiorina
“Close your eyes. If reality becomes unbearable, close your eyes. We were made with an imagination.”
I keep closing my eyes but it’s not working… I’m still done with Even When I’m Gone, I’m still and emotional mess and book three is still not out.
If you think book one was an emotional roller coaster this one was like one of those free fall rides where you are heading upwards and you know all the…
I consumed Six of Crows and I’m forcing myself to wait to read the second book until I write this review.
The audiobook for this book is amazing. I appreciated the casting and the acting was phenomenal. I’m picky with my audiobooks and this one was really well done.
Most important aspect of this book, the characters. Each member in the gang has specific skill sets to perform the the heist. Kaz, the leader of the gang was the most developed character but all members had intriguing and unique backstories that explains how they got into this situation.
These people aren’t fairy tale teenagers who do bad things because it’s fun–they are criminals, some by choice and others were forced into it by crippling debt or enslavement. The balance of hardened criminal and young teenage energy was well done and understandable. The dialogue and banter between the characters felt natural.
This book deals with some heavy trauma and I thought it was cleverly used, especially within Kaz. The horrifying flashbacks of feeling his dead brothers body has made him overly sensitive to touch of any kind. The constant wearing of gloves has created myths about the secret he hides and it becomes a trademark of his. I don’t know if this kind of thing exists in the real world but it makes sense within the story.
The characters were the focal point of the story, then the heist. This story takes place in two cities. The world building isn’t very expansive but for the story that was being told, it suited the book. The personal growth of each character and getting through the heist is what makes this story good. Each character had a satisfying arc and none got left behind by other characters.
I’m not usually a fan of heist movies or books so I wasn’t totally enthralled by the plot but I stayed for the characters. One thing I did appreciate was the fact that the entire plan went to shit. Literally every step failed or didn’t go as expected. Even at the very end the entire premise of the book falls apart.
This book is good YA heist story with enjoyable characters. I enjoyed it and now I will go read Crooked Kingdom.
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I loved these two from Pippa Grant!! I’m anxiously awaiting the next one in the series. ~ Slick, Guilty Pleasures
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I loved this book from new to me author Maria Luis Author I loved that it is infused with her Greek culture and that these two characters showed amazing growth throughout this story. Available on KU and also for purchase for $3.99, this is one you don’t want to miss. ~ Slick
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The Unhoneymooners by @christinalauren
Blurb:
Olive Torres is used to being the unlucky twin: from inexplicable mishaps to a recent layoff, her life seems to be almost comically jinxed. By contrast, her sister Ami is an eternal champion … she even managed to finance her entire wedding by winning a slew of contests. Unfortunately for Olive, the only thing worse than constant bad luck is having to spend the wedding day with the best man (and her nemesis), Ethan Thomas.
Olive braces herself for wedding hell, determined to put on a brave face, but when the entire wedding party gets food poisoning, the only people who aren’t affected are Olive and Ethan. Suddenly there’s a free honeymoon up for grabs, and Olive will be damned if Ethan gets to enjoy paradise solo.
Agreeing to a temporary truce, the pair head for Maui. After all, ten days of bliss is worth having to assume the role of loving newlyweds, right? But the weird thing is … Olive doesn’t mind playing pretend. In fact, the more she pretends to be the luckiest woman alive, the more it feels like she might be.
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Freehope Series by Jenni M. Rose
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She’s the girl next door. He’s the guy who’s loved her from afar.
They’re in for an unexpected tumble into love.
She’ll juggle your balls.
For Stella Allesandro, chaos is good. She’s a rising star at a leading sports publicity firm. She’s known throughout the industry as the jock whisperer—the one who can tame the baddest of the bad boys in professional sports without losing her signature smile.
But Cal Hartshorn is an entirely different kind of chaos.
He’ll fix your broken heart.
This former Army Ranger and now-famous cardiothoracic surgeon fails at nothing…except talking to a woman he’s adored from afar. Whether on the battlefield or operating room, he’s exacting, precise, and efficient, but all of that crumbles when Stella is in sight.
Cal always knows—and gets—what he wants, and now he wants all of her. His forever girl.
But Stella isn’t convinced she’s anyone’s forever.
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It was lyrics at first sight when I saw Violet Rhodes across that crowded party. She was lights and darks, swirled together. Music in motion. And all of it while looking like a hitwoman at an Elvis convention. I had nothing to offer the intriguing girl but a one-night stand. I figured I’d revel in my last night of anonymity before my first tour and shoot her a quick “We’ll always have L.A.!” goodbye the next morning.But nothing went according to plan. In one night, Violet crawled under my skin and into my bloodstream. She tattooed her name across my chest and between my legs. She became my muse. And then she was gone.Now, months later, here she is again. And in a twist I never saw coming, it turns out Violet is ultra-violet radiation. Beautiful, ethereal light bringing with her the promise of damage and destruction. My brain tells me to walk away from this girl, but my heart can’t stop feeling like she might be one of a kind … the sort of girl who comes along once in a violet moon.ROCKSTAR is a standalone romance, the love story of Dax Morgan and the electrifying woman who rocked his world during his journey to worldwide rock superstardom.
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The Magician’s NephewbyC.S. Lewis
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
• This was the first C.S Lewis book that I finished. And I feel as though I have been introduced to the most marvellous man. His writing style suited me perfectly, I loved the vivid imagery, and how wonderfully smooth his storytelling is. That is to say, his writing does not sound like writing at all, despite the heavy use of symbolism and details. It felt most like someone telling me an exciting story in person(remember Neil Gaiman talking about C.S Lewis’s masterful use of parentheses to this end?). It has been a while since I found myself reading most of the book aloud just so that I could feel the dialogues roll off my tongue :)
• And being completely honest, I cried reading this book. And being even more honest, it was probably because of where I stand in terms of my Christian faith right now (which also means it might have, probably would have been a 4/5 if I had read it on another day).
“But please, please - won’t you - can’t you give me something that will cure Mother?”
Up till then he had been looking at the Lion’s great feet and the huge claws on them; now, in his despair, he looked up at its face. What he saw surprised him as much as anything in his whole life. For the tawny face was bent down near his own and (wonder of wonders) great shining tears stood in the Lion’s eyes. They were such big, bright tears compared with Digory’s own that for a moment he felt as if the Lion must really be sorrier about his Mother than he was himself.
“My son, my son,” said Aslan. “I know. Grief is great. Only you and I in this land know that yet. Let us be good to one another. […] ”
This is the part that broke me. And the imagery is great. Jesus Christ who feels our pain even more deeply than we do, he who cries bigger, brighter tears for our troubles than we could ever, the saviour who calls us daughter & son and understands that grief is great - even better than we do.
• How beautifully written.
• For me, it has become one of the novels that have become fiercely convincing that indeed, words are so very powerful and influential. Experiencing how deeply and closely these stories can come to my heart… the devices have the potential to truly alter a life.
• 5/5 - an intensely powerful book in my “Read” shelf… Must read other books by C.S Lewis in the near future.
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Pirates Don’t Go to Kindergarten made it to semi-finals @goodreads!!! WOOHOO! ⭐️ Thanks A MILLION everyone for the votes. If you give it one more push, Emma, Lisa and I would be forever grateful. Here is the link again:
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December reads.
Spring Snow: An insufferable written version of #richkidsoninstagram with good prose.
The Testament: Meh.
Marcovaldo: A real piece of candy reading it after Spring Snow and The Testament.
My thoughts on “The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper,” in which I include the sentence “meanwhile, men with syphilis carried on syphilis-ing.” Click here to read.
