#Review #Giveaway of Unscripted Joss Byrd by @lygiaday @FierceReads

    Hollywood critics agree. Joss Byrd is "fiercely emotional," a young actress with "complete conviction," and a "powerhouse."

Joss Byrd is America's most celebrated young actress, but on the set of her latest project, a gritty indie film called The Locals, Joss's life is far from glamorous. While struggling with her mother's expectations, a crush on her movie brother, and a secret that could end her career, Joss must pull off a performance worthy of a star. When her renowned, charismatic director demands more than she is ready to deliver, Joss must go off-script to stay true to herself. 

#Review of The Forgetting by Sharon Cameron

    What isn't written, isn't remembered. Even your crimes.

Nadia lives in the city of Canaan, where life is safe and structured, hemmed in by white stone walls and no memory of what came before. But every twelve years the city descends into the bloody chaos of the Forgetting, a day of no remorse, when each person's memories – of parents, children, love, life, and self – are lost. Unless they have been written.

In Canaan, your book is your truth and your identity, and Nadia knows exactly who hasn't written the truth. Because Nadia is the only person in Canaan who has never forgotten.

But when Nadia begins to use her memories to solve the mysteries of Canaan, she discovers truths about herself and Gray, the handsome glassblower, that will change her world forever. As the anarchy of the Forgetting approaches, Nadia and Gray must stop an unseen enemy that threatens both their city and their own existence – before the people can forget the truth. And before Gray can forget her.

#Review #Giveaway of The Women in the Walls by @amylukavics @HarlequinTEEN via @EndyOchita

    Lucy Acosta's mother died when she was three. Growing up in a Victorian mansion in the middle of the woods with her cold, distant father, she explored the dark hallways of the estate with her cousin, Margaret. They're inseparable—a family.  

When her aunt Penelope, the only mother she's ever known, tragically disappears while walking in the woods surrounding their estate, Lucy finds herself devastated and alone. Margaret has been spending a lot of time in the attic. She claims she can hear her dead mother's voice whispering from the walls. Emotionally shut out by her father, Lucy watches helplessly as her cousin's sanity slowly unravels. But when she begins hearing voices herself, Lucy finds herself confronting an ancient and deadly legacy that has marked the women in her family for generations.

#Review of The Peculiar Night of the Blue Heart by @LaurenDeStefano @BloomsburyPub

    Lionel is a wild boy, who doesn’t much like to be around other people. He’d rather be a purring cat or a wolf stalking the woods.

Marybeth is a nice girl. She doesn’t need to be told to comb her hair or brush her teeth, and she’s kind to everyone at the orphanage . . . Lionel most of all.

Different though they are, Lionel and Marybeth are best friends in a world that has forgotten about them. So when a mysterious blue spirit possesses Marybeth—and starts to take control—they know they must stop it before the real Marybeth fades away forever. 

#Review of Trainbots by @Miranda_Paul @littlebeebooks

    The Trainbots are drawing, sawing, and building to get Toybots ready for kids to play with. But it looks as if the Badbots are sneaking and scheming to sabotage the delivery! Luckily, the Trainbots use their engineering skills to outsmart the Badbots in this rhyming battle of good versus evil.

They are back! GoodWitch vs. BadWitch @WnP_Official

Your favorite dueling advice columnists Good Witch/Bad Witch have returned!

Witchy pair were reader favorites in our previous newWitch magazine, and now the dynamic duo is back with a regular presence on the PaganSquare blogosphere. 

Look for the common sense advice you have come to expect from Good Witch as well as Bad Witch's tart, sassy sense of humor (with an extra serving of whoop-ass as necessary.)

10 Questions and Answers for #Witches #Pagans #Wiccans

Thank you for checking out my site!   I really hope that you have been enjoying the past posts from the site The Pagan Reader.  Here are 10 Questions that I've been asked over the years. 

#Review of Don't You Trust Me? by Patrice Kindl

    A teenage girl switches identities with a stranger and pulls off a long-term scam in this smart, sarcastic thriller perfect for fans of Ally Carter.

Don’t you trust me? I mean, look at me. Blond, blue-eyed, the very image of innocence. Pretty enough, if you care about that kind of thing. I don’t.

But would a normal person switch identities with some wet mess of a girl at the airport, just to get her to stop bawling about being separated from her loser boyfriend and sent to live with some distant relatives? Nope, she wouldn’t. Yet I did. I’m not as normal as you think. And you’ll just have to trust me on that.

Homemade Magick by Lon Milo Duquette

You've read about magickal rituals, and rites, but what is the life of a magician really like? Lon Milo DuQuette shares his forty years as a magician, it's ups and downs, ins and outs, revealing the truth about magick from one of the world's most respected mages, and how the foundation of his magick is his family and home. Along the way you'll discover how to choose your magickal motto, perform a self-initiation ritual, make a Pantacle and magickal sword, raise children in a magickal home, perform the Rite of Earth, and live life as a true mage. Written in Lon's famous humorous style that makes learning and discovery joyous and fun, you'll find yourself breaking into laughter between acknowledging new discoveries about magick and life

#Review of The Raven Faerie Store

Hello this post is going to be all about the store located here in Lakeland, FL.  I love doing reviews. If you love to read (normal not just pagan) books then you should check out my other site Http://www.CrossroadReviews.com I am trying to keep them separate just for the fact that well this is faith and that isn't. 

The Raven Faerie

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Ok so today I went over to this store and started looking around. They have a pretty good range of crystals to choose from. They have some books and tarot cards as well.  The set up is pretty nice. However I think they need more items in the back room that branches off.  It seems a little empty in the one section.  But all in all it is a beautiful store.  I really loved the sitting area as well as the tarot table. It was not completely secluded but had a really nice feel to it. The throne that sits in the store is also wonderfully magickal. 

They have some one of a kind items that I have never seen before from wood men statues to some really neat copper balls.  They have a small selection of jewelry and some really cute coffee mugs from around $3.00 and up.  

The only thing I didn't like about the store was that a lot of the crystals were very high priced.  They also had some leather bag that were around $30+ and I thought from my experience it was a little high.  

So this store gets 

#Review of Isle of Night (The Watchers #1) by Veronica Wolff

    Is life offering fewer and fewer options? Then join the dead. When Annelise meets dark and seductive Ronan, he promises her a new life-if she has the courage to chance the unknown. Now, she's whisked away to a mysterious island and pitted against other female recruits to become a Watcher-girls who are partnered with vampires and assist them in their missions. To survive and become a Watcher, Annelise has to beat out every other girl, but she's determined to do so, because to fail doesn't mean dishonor-it means death. 

#Review #Giveaway of Below: Broken Sky (Broken Sky Chronicles #1) by @JChabotAuthor @TurnerPub

    No one but the dead dare venture Below . . .

The first volume in this thrilling trilogy opens on the barren plains of Below, where Hokk and his fox sidekick, Nym, live in exile amid the remnants of our modern age.

Overhead, on the floating islands of Above, Elia is trapped in a life of endless toil and drudgery as a laundress for the Mirrored Palace. To Elia, the islands edges are borders that no one dares cross until the ancient ritual that delivers the dead to Below. But a series of natural disasters rumbling through Above sends Elia s world crashing into Hokk s and she falls Below.

Their journey together will propel them across endless plains and through shattered cities in a centuries-old battle for the very earth and sky around them . . ." 

Coincidences are the Art of Magick

Merry Meet!

As you may know I am just now getting back in touch with my path.  I took a few years off to deal with other things.  And at the time I really didn't have a healthy connection with the deities. My path was turing out to be more of what I wanted vs. celebrating what the god and goddess gave me.  So now 4-5 long years later.  The path has found me again.  And I am more ready than ever to start over.

Just so you know these posts have been posted before on my other site.  Im just reposting them here. 

#MerryMeet

It has been around 5 years since I have done anything with my religion. And I have a hole in my spirit because of it.  This year has been one of the worst that we've had.  

This year I tried to rekindle my love of my religion and the deities and it just didn't work out.  Trying to run multi sites has been a real mess.  So after much thought I decided to just integrate it all into this site.  So I hope that this doesnt turn you away from my site.

Ive been pagan for over 20 years and I hope to share with you some of the things that I've learned in that time.  From crystals to herbs and more.  I also hope to start teaching classes and doing readings again.  So if that is something you would be interested in please let me know in the comments. 

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#Review #Giveaway of Rose & Thorn (Ash & Bramble #2) by Sarah Prineas

    This beauty isn’t sleeping! Discover the true story of Sleeping Beauty in Sarah Prineas’s bold YA fairy-tale retelling filled with thrilling adventure and romance, perfect for fans of The Lunar Chronicles and The Girl of Fire & Thorns trilogy.

After the spell protecting her is destroyed, Rose seeks safety in the world outside the valley she had called home. She’s been kept hidden all her life to delay the three curses she was born with—curses that will put her into her own fairy tale and a century-long slumber. Accompanied by the handsome and mysterious Watcher, Griff, and his witty and warmhearted partner, Quirk, Rose tries to escape from the ties that bind her to her story. But will the path they take lead them to freedom, or will it bring them straight into the fairy tale they are trying to avoid?

Set in the world of Sarah Prineas’s Ash & Bramble fifty years later, Rose & Thorn is a powerful retelling of the classic Sleeping Beauty tale where the characters fight to find their own Happy Ever After.

Starflight (Starflight #1) by @Melissa_Landers #Review

Life in the outer realm is a lawless, dirty, hard existence, and Solara Brooks is hungry for it. Just out of the orphanage, she needs a fresh start in a place where nobody cares about the engine grease beneath her fingernails or the felony tattoos across her knuckles. She's so desperate to reach the realm that she's willing to indenture herself to Doran Spaulding, the rich and popular quarterback who made her life miserable all through high school, in exchange for passage aboard the spaceliner Zenith. When a twist of fate lands them instead on the Banshee, a vessel of dubious repute, Doran learns he's been framed on Earth for conspiracy. As he pursues a set of mysterious coordinates rumored to hold the key to clearing his name, he and Solara must get past their enmity to work together and evade those out for their arrest. Life on the Banshee may be tumultuous, but as Solara and Doran are forced to question everything they once believed about their world—and each other—the ship becomes home, and the eccentric crew family. But what Solara and Doran discover on the mysterious Planet X has the power to not only alter their lives, but the existence of everyone in the universe...

#Review of Warren the 13th and The All-Seeing Eye by Tania del Rio

    Meet Warren the 13th, a cursed 12-year-old Victorian bellhop who’s terribly unlucky . . . yet perpetually optimistic, hard-working, and curious. Orphan Warren’s pride and joy is his family’s hotel, but he’s been miserable ever since his evil Aunt Anaconda took over the management. Anaconda believes a mysterious treasure known as the All-Seeing Eye is hidden somewhere on the grounds, and she’ll do anything to find it. If Warren wants to preserve his family’s legacy, he’ll need to find the treasure first—if the hotel’s many strange and wacky guests don’t beat him to it! This middle-grade adventure features gorgeous two-color illustrations on every page and a lavish two-column Victorian design that will pull young readers into a spooky and delightful mystery. 

#Review of Penny Dora & The Wishing Box, Vol 1 by Michael Stock, Sina Grace

    Once upon a time (on the day before Christmas) a young girl named Penny Dora found a mysterious box on her front doorstep. A magic box with the power to grant wishes. Which sounded great...until Penny Dora found herself face-to-face with a horde of fire-breathing dragons, oodles of monsters and at least seven dwarves...all thanks to the girl she used to call best friend, now known as Princess Elizabeth. An all-ages fantasy/ adventure book for fans of Coraline and Courtney Crumrin! Collects PENNY DORA & THE WISHING BOX #1-5

#Review of Ash & Bramble (Ash & Bramble #1) by @sprineas @Epicreads with #Giveaway

    A prince.

A ball.

A glass slipper left behind at the stroke of midnight.

The tale is told and retold, twisted and tweaked, snipped and stretched, as it leads to happily ever after.

But it is not the true Story.

A dark fortress.

A past forgotten.

A life of servitude.

No one has ever broken free of the Godmother’s terrible stone prison until a girl named Pin attempts a breathless, daring escape. But she discovers that what seems to be freedom is a prison of another kind, one that entangles her in a story that leads to a prince, a kiss, and a clock striking midnight. To unravel herself from this new life, Pin must choose between a prince and another—the one who helped her before and who would give his life for her. Torn, the only thing for her to do is trade in the glass slipper for a sword and find her own destiny.

#Review of The Fallen Prince (The Riven Chronicles #2) by @AmalieHoward

    When a new enemy threatens her home, Riven’s only hope may be the man who made her a monster.

Riven has fought for a hard-won peace in her world, and has come to shaky terms with who and what she is—a human with cyborg DNA. Now that the rightful ruler of Neospes has been reinstated, Riven is on the hunt for her father in the Otherworld to bring him to justice for his crimes against her people.

But when she receives an unwelcome visit from two former allies, she knows that trouble is brewing once again in Neospes. The army has been decimated and there are precious few left to fight this mysterious new threat.

To muster a first line of defense, her people need help from the one person Riven loathes most: her father. But what he wants in return is her complete surrender.

And now Riven must choose: save Neospes or save herself.

This exciting sequel to The Almost Girl combines science, action, and romance in a compelling, hard-to-put-down package.