#BookReview: Tidelands (The Fairmile #1) by Philippa Gregory

Title: Tidelands (The Fairmile #1)

Author: Philippa Gregory

Published:  August 20th 2019
Publisher: Atria Books
Pages: 455

Synopsis: The #1 New York Times bestselling author and “one of the great storytellers of our time” (SanFrancisco Book Review) turns from the glamour of the royal courts to tell the story of an ordinary woman, Alinor, who cannot bear to conform to the life that lies before her.

Midsummer’s Eve, 1648, England is in the grip of a civil war between renegade king and rebellious parliament. The struggle reaches every corner of the kingdom, even the remote tidelands —the marshy landscape of the south coast.

Alinor, a descendant of wisewomen, trapped in poverty and superstition, waits in the graveyard under the full moon for a ghost who will declare her free from her abusive husband. Instead, she meets James, a young man on the run, and shows him the secret ways across the treacherous marsh, not knowing that she is leading disaster into the heart of her life.

Suspected of possessing dark secrets in superstitious times, Alinor’s ambition and determination mark her out from her neighbors. This is the time of witch mania, and Alinor, a woman without a husband, skilled with herbs, suddenly enriched, arouses envy in her rivals and fear among the villagers, who are ready to take lethal action into their own hands.

It is dangerous for a woman to be different.

#BookReview: Forest of Secrets (Warriors #3) by Erin Hunter

Title: Forest of Secrets (Warriors #3)

Author: Erin Hunter

Published:  October 5, 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins 
Pages: 312

Synopsis: Allegiances are shifting among the Clans of warrior cats that roam the forest. 



With tensions so delicately balanced, former friends can become enemies overnight, and some cats are willing to kill to get what they want.


Fireheart is determined to find out the truth about the mysterious death of brave ThunderClan warrior Redtail. 



But as he searches for answers, he uncovers secrets that some believe would be better left hidden. 

#ReleaseBlitz for The Best Mistakes by @elenamonroe @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: The Best Mistakes

Series: The Amherst Sinners #3

Author: Elena Monroe

Genre: Bully Romance

Release Date: October 31, 2019

Blurb

Tall, dangerous, and handsome. Times two.

Five years. One month. And three days after the bonfire from hell.

SAINT

Post college bliss was actually hell.

I wasn’t using my degree.

I was so lonely I looked for his face in crowded places.

I didn’t have anything figured out, let alone my feelings.

I was stuck between two tall, dangerous, and handsome men – times two.

One showed me how to survive trauma, proved things aren’t what they appear, and no matter how much I didn’t fall head over heels he was always there for me.

The other taught me how live.

But I taught myself how to love.

No one was going to be able to take away my growth, my bravery, or my comfort again. Oliver or not – I was standing on my own.

SINNER

I couldn’t wait to leave Amherst, to only return a few years later as a professor at my Alma Mater.

The barn fire from hell acted like a bomb, detonating and throwing us all different directions.

Lawyer.

Pro baseball player.

Book store manager.

Artist.

Soon to be wife.

We were all struggling to find our way back to each other while juggling life, love, sex, hardship.

I’m sober, a dad, but something was missing - Layla.

She kicked started my heart when we first met in college, lighting it on fire and branding her name until she run away when things got messy. My son, Arsen, stoked the fire in her absence.

She was always mine and it was time to prove it.

Third time is a charm.

#BookBlitz: Cold Queen by @KristiWebster @IndieSagePR #Giveaway

Cold Queen

by K Webster Publication Date: October 29, 2019 Genres: Adult, Dark, Fantasy, Romance

Purchase: Amazon US | Amazon UK | Amazon CA | Amazon AU | Barnes & Noble | Kobo | Apple Books | Eden Books

In a cold, empty castle, a young queen is dying. Weak. Fragile. Disgraced. But Queen Whitestone is not alone in her final days. She has her beloved sister. Until a wicked king rides onto her land. Arrogant. Insufferable. Demanding. King Bloodsun has come with an offer…peace in trade for a bride. He wants the princess. The fiery king won’t take no for an answer. He vows to keep the cold queen captive until she gives in to his demands. A queen bows for no one, though. Not even when she’s frail and fading away. She’ll tap into her strength, protecting the only family she has left. The king is about to learn why they call her the cruel one…

#BookReview: The Bone Houses by @em_llojo #ShelfieBookClub @Owlcrate 🐐All Hail the Bone Goat!🐐

Synopsis: Seventeen-year-old Aderyn ("Ryn") only cares about two things: her family, and her family's graveyard. And right now, both are in dire straits. Since the death of their parents, Ryn and her siblings have been scraping together a meager existence as gravediggers in the remote village of Colbren, which sits at the foot of a harsh and deadly mountain range that was once home to the fae. The problem with being a gravedigger in Colbren, though, is that the dead don't always stay dead.

The risen corpses are known as "bone houses," and legend says that they're the result of a decades-old curse. 

When Ellis, an apprentice mapmaker with a mysterious past, arrives in town, the bone houses attack with new ferocity. What is it that draws them near? And more importantly, how can they be stopped for good?

Together, Ellis and Ryn embark on a journey that will take them deep into the heart of the mountains, where they will have to face both the curse and the long-hidden truths about themselves.

#BookBlitz: Slaying Monsters for the Feeble by @annettemmarie @XpressoTours #Giveaway $10 Amazon gift cards

Slaying Monsters for the Feeble
Annette Marie
(The Guild Codex: Demonized #2)
Publication date: November 1st 2019
Genres: New Adult, Urban Fantasy
I’m bound to a demon.
For my entire life, I avoided magic at all costs. Now, I’m responsible for a demon who wields magic more powerful than the toughest mage or sorcerer.
Demons are evil.
That’s what my textbooks say. That’s what I see. He’s ruthless, he’s temperamental, he’s cold. But he protects me without fail. I wonder if he’s hiding a heart behind his hostility.
My demon is a monster.
Heartless or not, my contract with him is illegal and beyond dangerous. Together, we need to find a way to send him back to his own world before anyone discovers our secret. If that wasn’t difficult enough, there’s another problem:
My demon isn’t the only monster I should be worried about.
—
From the author of The Guild Codex: Spellbound comes a new series that will plunge an unprepared young woman into the darkest magic of the mythic world.

#ReleaseBlitz for The Italian by @TLSwanAuthor @GiveMeBooksPR

Title: The Italian

Author: T L Swan

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Release Date: October 28, 2019

Blurb

They say there are three things you should do at least once in your life:

Dance like nobody’s watching.

Travel the world.

And fall hopelessly in love.

I aimed to do all three.

I went to Italy to find myself.

But he found me.

It was like a story book, our eyes met across a crowded room.

He asked me if I needed help reading the menu.

We ate, we laughed, we danced, and I fell.

Unfortunately, things didn’t go to plan, and we parted ways.

Two years later, our eyes meet across a room again.

Only this time I was on a date with another man.

He went crazy in a jealous fit.

But the man I met then is different now.

He’s colder, harder, and officially one of the most powerful men in Italy.

Dare I say it, even more enticing.

But if you dance with the devil, you get burnt.

And the fires in Italy are scalding hot.