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Hi Everyone. Well, I have some great news. I got my first injection for the vaccine. I am in a bit of a hurry today…Mr Wonderful has some plans to keep me busy around the house, so I will share the photos in a couple of days. The weather is normal for January, cool to warm, cloudy to sunny, sometimes rain and sometimes not. Have a great week.
I got the idea and the motivation to start doing Tackling The TBR from All The Book Blog Names Are Taken.
It has helped me to keep track of my reading shelf as far as current
events and I also started doing a post for Books From The Backlog,
from Carole’s Random Life in Books,
to tidy up my shelves. I feel better about my out of control TBR and
have even knocked off a couple of those old ones that had been
hanging around for years.
Book Details:
Book Title: A Rush of White Wings: An Irish Historical Love Story by Pamela Ford
Book Series: An Irish Historical Love Story
Category: Adult Fiction (18 +), 382 pages
Genre: Historical Romance
Publisher: Aine Press
Release dates: October 2020
Format available for review: print (USA only), ebook (mobi file (for Kindle), ePub)
Tour dates: Jan 6 to Feb 2, 2021
Content Rating: PG-13: There are two pretty mild love
scenes, short and not explicit. Virtually no swearing except the more
common Irish versions: “Jaysus” or “Jesus, Mary and Joseph.” Book Description:
The best journey brings you home. Boston, 1849. Shattered by the
devastating loss of his wife and children during the Irish famine, Sean
Deacey has given up on love and happiness. So when he rescues an infant
from an immigrant shipwreck, he gives the orphaned babe to his sister
Kathleen and her husband. They raise the boy as their own – until Ailish
Sullivan arrives two years later claiming the child is her last living
relative and demanding his return. A legal fight ensues, and Sean
befriends Ailish, determined to change her mind and keep her from
destroying his sister’s family. But when friendship leads to
understanding, he is torn between the desires of both families. And as
his feelings grow for a woman he knows he should not want and can never
have, he faces an agonizing choice – stand with his sister or follow his
heart. Award-winning author Pamela Ford explores the bonds of family as
she takes readers on an uplifting emotional journey through grief,
sacrifice, and the power of forgiveness. Buy the Book Amazon.com B&N ~ Apple ~ Kobo ~ GooglePlay Add to Goodreads Also Available for Review:
Book Details:
Book Title: To Ride a White Horse: An Irish Historical Love Story by Pamela Ford
Book Series: An Irish Historical Love Story
Category: Adult Fiction (18 +), 376 pages
Genre: Historical Romance
Publisher: Aine Press
Release dates: January 2015
Format available for review: ebook (mobi file (for Kindle), ePub)
Tour dates: Jan 6 to Feb 2, 2021
Content Rating: PG-13: There are two pretty mild love
scenes, short and not explicit. Virtually no swearing except the more
common Irish versions: “Jaysus” or “Jesus, Mary and Joseph.”
Book Description: Gold Medal Winner, IPPY Awards • Finalist, National
Readers’ Choice Awards • Finalist, Maggie Awards for Excellence •
Finalist, Kindle Book Awards
“A sweeping historical love story that hits all the marks.” –Publisher’s Weekly starred review
Your feet will bring you to where your heart is.
Ireland 1846. With Ireland ravaged by famine and England unsympathetic
to its plight, Kathleen Deacey faces a devastating choice – leave her
country to find work or risk dying there. Despising the English for
refusing to help Ireland, she crosses the ocean to support her family
and search for her missing fiancé.
But when her voyage goes awry, she must accept help from an English
whaling captain, Jack Montgomery, who represents everything she despises
– and with whom she is reluctantly falling in love. As Kathleen fights
to save her family back in Ireland, she finds herself facing yet another
devastating choice – remain loyal to her country or follow her heart.
Award-winning author Pamela Ford captures the anguish of a devastating
period in Irish history and delivers a historical saga of hope, loyalty,
the strength of the human spirit, and the power of love. With more than
a half million copies of her books sold worldwide, she is known for
creating stories that are emotional and moving.
Pamela Ford is the award-winning author of historical and
contemporary romance. She grew up watching old movies, blissfully
sighing over the romance; and reading sci-fi and adventure novels,
vicariously living the action. The combination probably explains why the
books she writes are romantic, happily-ever-afters with plenty of plot.
After graduating from college with a degree in Advertising, Pam spent
many years as a copywriter and freelance writer before inserting a plot
twist in her career path and writing her first book. Pam has won
numerous awards including the Booksellers Best, the Laurel Wreath, and a
gold medal IPPY in the Independent Book Publisher Awards. She is a
National Readers’ Choice Awards finalist, a Kindle Book Awards finalist,
a Maggie Awards for Excellence finalist, and a two-time Golden Heart
Finalist.
Books from the Backlog is a fun way to feature some of those
neglected books sitting on your bookshelf unread. If you are anything
like me, you might be surprised by some of the unread books hiding in
your stacks.
Alchemy might be the cure… if Riga can survive long enough to puzzle out its mysteries.
The first in the addictive, action-packed Riga Hayworth series.
Someone’s killing psychics in bucolic Lake Tahoe, and the police think Riga may be connected to the crimes.
They could be right.
Riga
recognizes the sinister hand of a long-dead enemy in the crime scene.
Juggling demons, daimons, and a devilish casino owner, can this
metaphysical detective catch a killer before she becomes the next
target?
If you’re a fan of Patricia Briggs, Jim Butcher,
Charlaine Harris or Deborah Harkness, don’t miss this twisty paranormal
mystery, because this complicated, 40-something heroine isn’t like the
others…
I added The Alchemical Detective by Kirsten Weiss to my TBR on 11.8.12 and I am sooooo glad I am doing the Backlog post. I may never have found this otherwise. A female Gargoyle…sounds like a hoot to me and I am glad the book was brought to my attention….again. 🙂What a fun play on the character’s name….Riga Hayworth.
It is nice to be back in Black Water, or at least I think it is. Ya never know what Jean Nicole Rivers has in store for her characters, but I am always eager to find out. And…Simone is coming home too…home to the house where her entire family had been killed…murdered.
Her husband, Mack, knows her past and doesn’t understand why she feels the need to come back to a place that held such horror for her. The man accused of killing her family is locked up, but that is not the end for her. She wants her house, her memories, her family, back.
Mack has found the perfect business for him to purchase, Watkins Auto. He is a mechanic, so it should be a perfect fit. Simone is pregnant and I am worried about her.
The small town had taken a ghost story mixed with a tragedy and made it an urban legend, questioning how she survived. Is the Sandman true? Can fairy tales be true? If a woman can find her knight in shining armor, why can’t monsters be real?
“You face your fears head on; that’s the only way…”
A sense of impending doom infuses every page. This could go two ways, but I choose my first thought and now I am really curious about Simone and her family. They are in grave danger and I wonder how they will be saved. I am going to have to read straight through, because I have to know.
I felt such a sense of urgency, I wanted to yell at times, telling them NO, don’t do that. HELP HER!
Jean Nicole Rivers just keeps getting better and I loved this fantastic tale. I don’t read enough books by black authors and books with black characters, and I am trying to remedy that, expand my reading horizons.
I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of To The Moon And Back by Jean Nicole Rivers.
Twenty-three years ago, in the white farmhouse at the end of Maple Road, Simone Parker was the sole survivor of a slaughter that took her entire family, their eyes removed from their skulls. Safe in the knowledge that Marcus Sanden, the man responsible for her family’s butchery is locked away, she is eager to move her husband and two daughters to her picturesque hometown of Black Water. The family home offers financial security and the opportunity to break generational curses, but there is still something unsettling within its walls.
Even as her belly swells with baby number three, Simone is determined to rid her house of the ghostly residue of psychiatric patients her father treated in his home office, including Marcus Sanden. Through the years the gruesome details of her family’s case along with the similarity of Sanden’s name mingled with folk fairytale. Inevitably, Black Water’s younger generation created the now infamous town legend that says they were murdered by The Sandman. Traditionally a benevolent creature, but in Black Water he’s a wolf-like beast with razor-sharp sand to remove the eyes of those who lay awake in the night.
The house is alive with subtle signs of unsettled spirits, but the brutal birth of Simone’s son brings the haunting to an undeniable peak that forces her to question whether it was Sanden that killed her family or something much more sinister. Simone will stop at nothing to protect her children and must again face this evil or lose her family to The Sandman’s eternal sleep.
ABOUT JEAN NICOLE
Jean Nicole (@jeannicole19) is a National Black Book Festival award-winner and author of two psychological horror novels, Black Water Tales: The Unwanted and Black Water Tales: The Secret Keepers. She has also garnered awards for her screenplay, If I Die, from multiple film festivals including the Shivers International Film Festival (Canada).
Currently, she is working through the 3rd installment of her Black Water Tales series on a novel currently titled, To the Moon and Back.
In 2016, she launched the only novel writing software founded and owned by a black woman, Simple Stylus (www.SimplyStylus.com) and she teaches an online beginner writing course titled, Simply Writing: An Aspiring Author’s Guide to Developing A Solid Writing Process and FINALLY Writing Their Novel.
She writes because she loves words, she writes because she loves stories, she writes because she has a story to tell.
Knight’s Ransom by Jeff Wheeler is my introduction to his writing and I am so happy to have met him and his characters. I loved the book and look forward to reading more of his work. I think I waited to long after reading Knight’s Ransom to write the review, because I don’t feel it reflects how I truly felt.
Ransom had been taken hostage by King Gervase. Now, the king is dead and he’s going home. He had met Claire while he was a hostage and she is the one who gave him his name, Ransom. The king had raised them both as if they were his own. Claire is very outspoken and I think Ransom will have his hands full with her. Will they become a couple. I don’t know yet, but I am going to find out.
The point of views bounce back and forth between Ransom and Claire.
Ransom wants to become a knight and leader, but the path will be fraught with danger and intrigue.
There is something special about Ransom and when he is at his lowest, something good comes his way.
So much betrayal, political machinations, kings fighting, always fighting. Seems to me they need to find something else to do. Maybe they have too much spare time and desire to dominate.
Ransom makes difficult choices, but his loyalty can never be questioned. He is caught in the courtly machinations going on, young royals being easily manipulated, then betrayed, sons going to war to depose their father as king, brothers fighting each other.
There are many characters and not all will survive, but this is Ransom’s story and it will be told over several books. I do like when an author is not afraid to kill off his characters, though some will be missed, others I will be glad are gone.
Medieval history is stretched and twisted in this brutal world, brilliantly spelled out through Jeff’s words. I am hooked and can hardly wait for the next book.
I voluntarily reviewed an ARC of Knight’s Ransom by Jeff Wheeler.
4 Stars
GOODREADS BLURB
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. A brutal war of succession has plunged the court of Kingfountain into a power struggle between a charitable king who took the crown unlawfully and his ambitious rival, Devon Argentine. The balance of power between the two men hinges on the fate of a young boy ensnared in this courtly intrigue. A boy befittingly nicknamed Ransom.
When the Argentine family finally rules, Ransom must make his own way in the world. Opportunities open and shut before him as he journeys along the path to knighthood, blind to a shadowy conspiracy of jealousy and revenge. Securing his place will not be easy, nor will winning the affection of Lady Claire de Murrow, a fiery young heiress from an unpredictably mad kingdom.
Ransom interrupts an abduction plot targeting the Queen of Ceredigion and earns a position in service to her son, the firstborn of the new Argentine dynasty. But conflict and treachery threaten the family, and Ransom must also come to understand and hone his burgeoning powers—abilities that involve more than his mastery with a blade and that make him as much a target as his lord.
ABOUT JEFF WHEELER
Jeff Wheeler took an early retirement from his career at Intel in 2014 to write full-time. He is a husband, father of five, and a devout member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Jeff lives in the Rocky Mountains. His books have been on the Wall Street Journal Bestseller list 5 times (for The Thief’s Daughter, The King’s Traitor, The Hollow Crown, The Silent Shield, and Prism Cloud) and have sold more than 4 million copies. His novels have also been published or will be published in many languages: Italian, Chinese, Hungarian, Turkish, Polish, Spanish, Russian, and German.
He is also the founder of Deep Magic: the E-zine of Clean Fantasy and Science Fiction (www.deepmagic.co), a quarterly e-zine featuring amazing short stories, novellas, and sample chapters.
You can usually find Jeff at Emerald City Comic Con, New York Comic Con or at writers conferences.
He welcomes hearing from readers: jgwheels /at/ gmail dot com
If you are interested in purchasing signed
copies of his books for friends, family, or your own collection, please
e-mail: WOJWbooks /at/ gmail dot com
Happy Monday everyone and welcome back to Music Monday! Let’s share
some songs we’ve been enjoying lately! If you would like to play,
and I really hope you do, please see the rules and link up below HERE
I heard this the other day and found myself feeling good, so I wanted to share and hope it gets your head bobbing and your feet tapping, putting a smile on your face too.
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Hi Everyone. Well, it is finally over. We have a new president and even though things were not ‘normal’ I loved the inauguration. History is being made and I think it is long over due. ‘Nough said.
I got the idea and the motivation to start doing Tackling The TBR from All The Book Blog Names Are Taken.
It has helped me to keep track of my reading shelf as far as current
events and I also started doing a post for Books From The Backlog,
from Carole’s Random Life in Books,
to tidy up my shelves. I feel better about my out of control TBR and
have even knocked off a couple of those old ones that had been
hanging around for years.
