Review Tuesday – Fairchild
Ah, Regency my old friend. We have circled back to you again for a review. This time it is Fairchild by Jaima Fixsen. This book was really a gem. It’s the story of a girl who discovers her mother was the governess of a Lord. When her mother dies, she is sent to live with the family. In time she bonds with each of the members of the family and they become so fond of her they decide to give her a dowry and win her a husband. But, before her season she meets a man who understands her position in society more than she could ever...
read moreFree and .99 – This Week in Promotions
For everyone looking for books to fill up their Kindle’s or a read to fill up their holiday break, I’m offering some specials this week: The Convergence will be FREE December 28th thru December 31st! The Keep will be on SALE for .99 cents December 26th thru January 1st! Right now The Keep has five 5 star reviews on Amazon, so grab your copy and tell a friend. A new year with some new books, what more could you want? 😉
read moreReview Tuesday – The Dangers of Doing Good
I love reading series where minor characters become major characters in another book. This isn’t easy to do while staying true to the first impressions of that character, but Rebecca Connelly does it wonderfully and her regency novel, The Dangers of Doing Good is just another example of her talent. This book stars Duncan. He’s the gentle giant of the group. The quieter one (who I just might have overlooked in Connolly’s earlier novels). Here he’s the hero and he starts his heroics right away, attempting to save...
read moreReview Tuesday – How I Met Your Brother
Today’s book is a contemporary romance I had been seeing a lot of on Goodreads as part of the Power of the Matchmaker Series. I’ve read and enjoyed a few of Janette Rallison’s books before, so I was easily swayed to try How I Met Your Brother. The main premise of this book is that Belle had a huge crush on this guy in college when her roommate and best friend stole him away. Now, years later, Belle is a hot fashion designer and her old roommate is getting a divorce leaving her an opportunity to snag her one, true...
read moreGood Book News
Both The Keep and The Convergence have given me some news to share! Since it’s the first book in the Converters series, I’ll start with The Convergence: I recently had a free day for this book. On that free day, it hit #1 in its category. Yay!! Now, this is a pretty specific category and it only takes in to account free books, but I’m still going to show this screenshot with pride. I think #1 looks good on it! Don’t you? 😉 Now, on to The Keep. I’ve been getting some great reviews for this and am so very, very...
read moreReview Tuesday – Once Upon a Happy Ending
I happened upon this lovely little beaut (okay, it’s like 15 stories…not so little) of an anthology. This has some stories by some of my favorites like K.M. Shea, Melanie Cellier, Aya Ling, Shari L. Tapscott, etc. so I was pretty excited. I also got it right as I was starting NaNoWriMo, which was perfect because I could read a short story when I needed a break without getting too off task. The name of the anthology is Once Upon a Happy Ending. I’m not going to go into each individual story. I will tell you that there...
read moreNaNoWriMo and Other Exciting Things
I’ll be straight up here, these ‘other’ things may or may not be exciting for you. Heck, even NaNoWriMo probably seems like some crazy acronym…not something to inspire excitement of all things. BUT! I am excited about these things and this is my blog, so I’m going to just pretend like you are too. Let’s start with NaNoWriMo (by the way, this stands for National Novel Writing Month). As most of you know, I participated and ended up finishing the first draft of Book 3 in the Converters series....
read moreReview Tuesday – Not Every Girl
This is another read I discovered through YAAR (it really is a great group of authors). Anyhow…this book is called Not Every Girl and it’s by Jane McGarry.I honestly can’t decide how I feel about this one, so it’s hard to rate. The premise of a girl who convinces her dad to let her train as a squire is right up my alley. She pretends to be a boy so she can accompany the army to a neighboring castle, which is something I usually find highly entertaining. Olivia is a tough character. I liked her close relationship...
read moreReview Tuesday – Ethan’s Secret
Today’s review is of a middle grade novel by one of my author friends from over at YAAR. Ethan’s Secret by Patrick Hodges is the second in a series, and while they could stand alone, I would recommend reading them in order. Ethan’s Secret follows the story of Kelsey who is a spunky little thing from the first book. In this story, she meets Ethan who is a new kid in her school and her detective-wired brain is instantly interested in the boy who is trying too hard to be one of the ‘bad boys’. Honestly, I...
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