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An Hour Unspent (Roseanna M. White) – Release Day Giveaway!

It’s release day for the final book in Roseanna M. White’s Shadows Over England series! I have to wait until November to review this (arrgghh! The wait!), but in the meantime, I have a guest post from Roseanna for you, along with the chance to win a great release day giveaway. And there’s one just for international readers! ~ When Big Ben Joined the Skyline ~ When the design for A Name Unknown, book 1 in the Shadows Over England series, was shown to me and I saw the spine for the first time, I was so excited to see the series logo

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4 September 2018

Fast Five Review Roundup

Welcome, reader friends! It has to have been at least a month since my last Fast Five Review Roundup, but I’ve been able to put one together for you at last. It’s a bit of a mixed bag today—some more enjoyable than others—but I hope you’ll find something to tickle your fancy.

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12 April 2018

Top Ten Tuesday – Books I Need to Read Again

Hello, book lovers! Welcome to another Top Ten Tuesday brought to you by That Artsy Read Girl. Today’s official topic is Books I Really Liked But Can’t Remember Anything/Much About. In my world, that translates to Books I Really Need to Read Again, hence my tweaking of the topic today. And if I was going to give today’s topic a subtitle, it would be Hurrah for Goodreads! 😃 I mean, this topic is like saying, “Quick, tell me all the things you’ve forgotten.” 😵 So, yeah. Goodreads to the rescue!

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23 January 2018

A Song Unheard (Roseanna M. White) – Review + Giveaway!

~ About the Book ~ Willa Forsythe is both a violin prodigy and top-notch thief, which makes her the perfect choice for a crucial task at the outset of World War I–to steal a cipher from a famous violinist currently in Wales. Lukas De Wilde has enjoyed the life of fame he’s won–until now, when being recognized nearly gets him killed. Everyone wants the key to his father’s work as a cryptologist. And Lukas fears that his mother and sister, who have vanished in the wake of the German invasion of Belgium, will pay the price. The only light he

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11 January 2018

Best of 2017 – The Emoji Files, Part V: Take Me Away . . .

Well, it’s the end of the first week of 2018, and it’s also the final post for my Best of 2017 series, The Emoji Files. I hope I’ve been able to remind you of some of your own favourites from 2017, as well as perhaps add to your 2018 TBR! 😉 Today’s post is going to list those books that transported me to another time and/or place. These were immersive reads that made me forget the here and now and took me to places as diverse as Ancient Israel, World War I England, and a modern-day Californian vineyard. Not only

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7 January 2018

Most Anticipated Books of 2018 – Historical Settings

Hello again, book lovers. Welcome to the second of my ‘Most Anticipated Books of 2018’ posts. Yesterday I shared the contemporary releases I’m most anticipating, so today I’m going to share my most anticipated historical releases, in order of release: This post has affiliate links. Click here for full disclosure.

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27 December 2017