September TBR

REVIEW: THE WITCH'S DAUGHTER by Paula Brackston

Title: The Witch's Daughter
Author: Paula Brackston
Series: Shadow Chronicles #1
Genres: Witches, Historical, Fantasy
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Release: 305
Source: Audiobook
Pages: 2011

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My name is Elizabeth Anne Hawksmith, and my age is three hundred and eighty-four years. Each new settlement asks for a new journal, and so this Book of Shadows begins.

In the spring of 1628, the Witchfinder of Wessex finds himself a true Witch. As Bess Hawksmith watches her mother swing from the Hanging Tree she knows that only one man can save her from the same fate at the hands of the panicked mob: the Warlock Gideon Masters, and his Book of Shadows. Secluded at his cottage in the woods, Gideon instructs Bess in the Craft, awakening formidable powers she didn't know she had and making her immortal. She couldn't have foreseen that even now, centuries later, he would be hunting her across time, determined to claim payment for saving her life.

In present-day England, Elizabeth has built a quiet life for herself, tending her garden and selling herbs and oils at the local farmers' market. But her solitude abruptly ends when a teenage girl called Tegan starts hanging around. Against her better judgment, Elizabeth begins teaching Tegan the ways of the Hedge Witch, in the process awakening memories—and demons—long thought forgotten.

Part historical romance, part modern fantasy, The Witch’s Daughter is a fresh, compelling take on the magical, yet dangerous world of Witches. Readers will long remember the fiercely independent heroine who survives plagues, wars, and the heartbreak that comes with immortality to remain true to herself, and protect the protégé she comes to love.

Waiting on Wednesday: Nyxia by Scott Reintgen

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Breaking the Spine. Today we are waiting for Nyxia by Scott Reintgen!

New space travel Sci-Fi book coming throuuuuuuugh!

Publication date: September 12th, 2017

Publisher: Crown Books for Young Readers

Holiday TBR

REVIEW: THE BEAR AND THE NIGHTINGALE by Katherine Arden

Title: The Bear and The Nightingale
Author: Katherine Arden
Series: -
Genres: Historical fiction, Fairytale, Magic
Publisher: Del Rey
Release: 12 January 2017
Source: ARC
Pages: 336

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At the edge of the Russian wilderness, winter lasts most of the year and the snowdrifts grow taller than houses. But Vasilisa doesn’t mind—she spends the winter nights huddled around the embers of a fire with her beloved siblings, listening to her nurse’s fairy tales. Above all, she loves the chilling story of Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon, who appears in the frigid night to claim unwary souls. Wise Russians fear him, her nurse says, and honor the spirits of house and yard and forest that protect their homes from evil.

After Vasilisa’s mother dies, her father goes to Moscow and brings home a new wife. Fiercely devout, city-bred, Vasilisa’s new stepmother forbids her family from honoring the household spirits. The family acquiesces, but Vasilisa is frightened, sensing that more hinges upon their rituals than anyone knows.

And indeed, crops begin to fail, evil creatures of the forest creep nearer, and misfortune stalks the village. All the while, Vasilisa’s stepmother grows ever harsher in her determination to groom her rebellious stepdaughter for either marriage or confinement in a convent.

As danger circles, Vasilisa must defy even the people she loves and call on dangerous gifts she has long concealed—this, in order to protect her family from a threat that seems to have stepped from her nurse’s most frightening tales.

MONDAY TRAVELS: RUPI KAUR POEMS

Happy Monday friends!

This Monday we are making one last stop in Canada and then we'll travel to another country. But as we still need to visit one last great American poet, lets all gather around and enjoy:

POEMS BY RUPI KAUR

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REVIEW: GLITTERING COURT by Richelle Mead

Title: Glittering Court
Author: Richelle Mead
Series: Glittering Court #1
Genres: YA, Romance
Publisher: Razorbill
Release: 2016
Source: Paperback/Audiobook
Pages: 400

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Big and sweeping, spanning from the refined palaces of Osfrid to the gold dust and untamed forests of Adoria, The Glittering Court tells the story of Adelaide, an Osfridian countess who poses as her servant to escape an arranged marriage and start a new life in Adoria, the New World. But to do that, she must join the Glittering Court.

Both a school and a business venture, the Glittering Court is designed to transform impoverished girls into upper-class ladies who appear destined for powerful and wealthy marriages in the New World. Adelaide naturally excels in her training, and even makes a few friends: the fiery former laundress Tamsin and the beautiful Sirminican refugee Mira. She manages to keep her true identity hidden from all but one: the intriguing Cedric Thorn, son of the wealthy proprietor of the Glittering Court.

When Adelaide discovers that Cedric is hiding a dangerous secret of his own, together they hatch a scheme to make the best of Adelaide’s deception. Complications soon arise—first as they cross the treacherous seas from Osfrid to Adoria, and then when Adelaide catches the attention of a powerful governor.

But no complication will prove quite as daunting as the potent attraction simmering between Adelaide and Cedric. An attraction that, if acted on, would scandalize the Glittering Court and make them both outcasts in wild, vastly uncharted lands…

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Saturday tag

Welcome dear readers, to yet another Saturday Tag, where the fun never stops!

Today Laura and I will complete this fun tag:

THE BOOK SONG

REVIEW: PRINCE LESTAT by Anne Rice

Title: Prince Lesat
Author: Anne Rice
Series: Vampire Chronicles #11
Genres: Paranormal, Classics, Gothic
Publisher: Mass Market Paperback
Release: 2014
Source: Audiobook
Pages: 458

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The vampire world is in crisis – their kind have been proliferating out of control and, thanks to technologies undreamed of in previous centuries, they can communicate as never before. Roused from their earth-bound slumber, ancient ones are in thrall to the Voice: which commands that they burn fledgling vampires in cities from Paris to Mumbai, Hong Kong to Kyoto and San Francisco. Immolation, huge massacres, have commenced all over the world.

Who – or what – is the Voice? What does it desire, and why?

There is only one vampire, only one blood drinker, truly known to the entire world of the Undead. Will the dazzling hero-wanderer, the dangerous rebel-outlaw Lestat heed the call to unite the Children of Darkness as they face this new twilight?

Anne Rice’s epic, luxuriant, fiercely ambitious new novel brings together all the worlds and beings of the legendary Vampire Chronicles, from present-day New York and Ancient Egypt to fourth-century Carthage and Renaissance Venice; from Louis de Pointe du Lac; Armand the eternally young; Mekare and Maharet; to Pandora and Flavius; David Talbot, vampire and ultimate fixer from the Secret Talamasca; and Marius, the true child of the Millennia. It also introduces many other seductive supernatural creatures, and heralds significant new blood.

REVIEW: STRANGE THE DREAMER by Laini Taylor

REVIEW: VITTORIO, THE VAMPIRE by Anne Rice

Title: Vittorio, the Vampire
Author: Anne Rice
Series: New Tales of Vampires #2
Genres: Paranormal, Classics, Gothic
Publisher: Mass Market Paperback
Release: 1999
Source: Audiobook
Pages: 352

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With Pandora, Anne Rice began a magnificent new series of vampire novels. Now, in the second of her New Tales of the Vampires, she tells the mesmerizing story of Vittorio, a vampire in the Italian Age of Gold.

Educated in the Florence of Cosimo de' Medici, trained in knighthood at his father's mountaintop castle, Vittorio inhabits a world of courtly splendor and country pleasures - a world suddenly threatened when his entire family is confronted by an unholy power.

In the midst of this upheaval, Vittorio is seduced by the vampire Ursula, the most beautiful of his supernatural enemies. As he sets out in pursuit of vengeance, entering the nightmarish Court of the Ruby Grail, increasingly more enchanted (and confused) by his love for the mysterious Ursula, he finds himself facing demonic adversaries, war and political intrigue.

Against a backdrop of the wonders - both sacred and profane - and the beauty and ferocity of Renaissance Italy, Anne Rice creates a passionate and tragic legend of doomed young love and lost innocence.

Waiting on Wednesday: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Breaking the Spine. Today we are waiting for Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng!

A new coming up from the author of Everything I Never Told You!

Publication date: September 12th, 2017

Publisher: Penguin Press

REVIEW: A WOMAN IN BERLIN by Anonymous

Title: A Woman in Berlin

Author: Anonymous

Series: -

Genres: War, Nonfiction, memoir

Publisher: Picador

Release: 11^th July, 2006

Source: Hardcover

Pages: 288

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For eight weeks in 1945, as Berlin fell to the Russian army, a young woman kept a daily record of life in her apartment building and among its residents. The anonymous author depicts her fellow Berliners in all their humanity, as well as their cravenness, corrupted first by hunger and then by the Russians. A Woman in Berlin tells of the complex relationship between civilians and an occupying army and the shameful indignities to which women in a conquered city are always subject--the mass rape suffered by all, regardless of age or infirmity.

MONDAY TRAVELS: NOW by Charles Bukowski

Happy Monday friends!

This Monday we are making one last stop in Unites States and then we'll travel to another country. But as we still need to visit one last great American poet, lets all gather around and enjoy:

NOW BY CHARLES BUKOWSKI

REVIEW: TIGER'S WATCH by Julia Ember

REVIEW: DO NOT DISTURB by A. R. Torre

Title: Do Not Disturb
Author:  A.R. Torre
Series: Deanna Madden #2
Genres: Thriller, Mystery, Adult
Publisher: Redhook
Release: 2015
Source: Audiobook
Pages: 352

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1. Don't leave the apartment.
2. Never let anyone in.
3. Don't kill anyone.

The rules were simple and I broke them.
Now I must face the consequences.
Everyone else must face me.

Saturday Tag

Welcome dear readers, to yet another Saturday Tag, where the fun never stops!

Today HannahCassie and I will complete this fun tag:

THE FANDOM TAG

REVIEW: THE WINNER'S CURSE by Marie Rutkoski

Title: The Winner's Curse
Author: Marie Rutkoski
Series: The Winner's Trilogy #1
Genres: YA, Fantasy, Romance
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release: 2014
Source: Kindle Edition/Audiobook
Pages: 369


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BLURB: Winning what you want may cost you everything you love.

As a general’s daughter in a vast empire that revels in war and enslaves those it conquers, seventeen-year-old Kestrel has two choices: she can join the military or get married. But Kestrel has other intentions. One day, she is startled to find a kindred spirit in a young slave up for auction.

Arin’s eyes seem to defy everything and everyone. Following her instinct, Kestrel buys him—with unexpected consequences. It’s not long before she has to hide her growing love for Arin. But he, too, has a secret, and Kestrel quickly learns that the price she paid for a fellow human is much higher than she ever could have imagined.

Set in a richly imagined new world, The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski is a story of deadly games where everything is at stake, and the gamble is whether you will keep your head or lose your heart.

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REVIEW: RUBY CIRCLE by Richelle Mead

Title: Ruby Circle
Author: Richelle Mead
Series: Bloodlines #6
Genres: YA, Paranormal, Magic, Vampires
Publisher: Razorbill / Penguin Group
Release: 2015
Source: Hardcover
Pages: 348

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Sydney Sage is an Alchemist, one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires. They protect vampire secrets - and human lives.

Their forbidden romance exposed, Sydney and Adrian find themselves facing the wrath of both the Alchemists and the Moroi in this electrifying conclusion to Richelle Mead’s bestselling Bloodlines series.

When the life of someone they both love is put on the line, Sydney risks everything to hunt down a deadly former nemesis. Meanwhile, she and Adrian becomes enmeshed in a puzzle that could hold the key to a shocking secret about spirit magic, a secret that could shake the entire Moroi world and alter their lives forever.

Don't miss their unforgettable final chapter...

LOVE WILL CONQUER ALL

Waiting on Wednesday: Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Breaking the Spine. Today we are waiting for Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust!

And Snow White retelling with a magical twist to it and 2 POVs!

Publication date: September 5th, 2017

Publisher: Flatiron Books

REVIEW: SILVER SHADOWS by Richelle Mead

Title: Silver Shadows
Author: Richelle Mead
Series: Bloodlines #5
Genres: YA, Paranormal, Magic, Vampires
Publisher: Razorbill / Penguin Group
Release: 2014
Source: Hardcover
Pages: 380

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Sydney Sage is an Alchemist, one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires. They protect vampire secrets—and human lives.

In The Fiery Heart, Sydney risked everything to follow her gut, walking a dangerous line to keep her feelings hidden from the Alchemists.

Now in the aftermath of an event that ripped their world apart, Sydney and Adrian struggle to pick up the pieces and find their way back to each other. But first, they have to survive.

For Sydney, trapped and surrounded by adversaries, life becomes a daily struggle to hold on to her identity and the memories of those she loves. Meanwhile, Adrian clings to hope in the face of those who tell him Sydney is a lost cause, but the battle proves daunting as old demons and new temptations begin to seize hold of him. . . .

Their worst fears now a chilling reality, Sydney and Adrian face their darkest hour in this heart-pounding fifth installment in the New York Times bestselling Bloodlines series, where all bets are off.

MONDAY TRAVELS: A LATE WALK by Robert Frost

Happy Monday friends! I hope you packed light and got some party clothes, cause this Monday we are one more embarking on a journey!

So today we are in America and we will explore:

A LATE WALK

TBR Book Tag

REVIEW: MY LOVE LIES BLEEDING by Alyxandra Harvey

Title: My Love Lies Bleeding
Author: Alyxandra Harvey
Series: Drake Chronicles #1
Genres: YA, Paranormal, Vampires
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release: 2010
Source: Audiobook
Pages: 248

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The Drakes are rather different to your usual neighbors. They are vampires and some of the members of the family date back to the twelfth century. One of the children, Solange, is the only born female vampire known and, as such, she poses a direct threat to the vampire queen. Her best friend Lucy is human, and when Solange is kidnapped, Lucy and Solange's brother, Nicholas, set out to save her. Lucy soon discovers that she would like to be more than just friends with Nicholas. But how does one go about dating a vampire? Meanwhile, Solange finds an unlikely ally in Kieran, a vampire slayer on the hunt for his father's killer.

Saturday Tag

Welcome dear readers, to yet another Saturday Tag, where the fun never stops!

Today I will complete this fun tag:

THE BIRTHSTONE BOOK TAG

REVIEW: JANE EYRE by Charlotte Brontë

Title: Jane Eyre

Author: Charlotte Brontë

Series: -

Genres: Classics

Publisher: Penguin

Release: December 16th, 2010

Source: Paperback

Pages: 507

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Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead and subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre nonetheless emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. She takes up the post of governess at Thornfield, falls in love with Mr. Rochester, and discovers the impediment to their lawful marriage in a story that transcends melodrama to portray a woman's passionate search for a wider and richer life than Victorian society traditionally allowed.

With a heroine full of yearning, the dangerous secrets she encounters, and the choices she finally makes, Charlotte Bronte's innovative and enduring romantic novel continues to engage and provoke readers.

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REVIEW: AMERICAN GODS by Neil Gaiman

Title: American Gods

Author: Neil Gaiman

Series: American Gods #1

Genres: Horror, Fiction, Urban, Contemporary

Publisher: William Morrow

Release: June 21, 2011

Source: Paperback

Pages: 653

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Locked behind bars for three years, Shadow did his time, quietly waiting for the day when he could return to Eagle Point, Indiana. A man no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, all he wanted was to be with Laura, the wife he deeply loved, and start a new life.

But just days before his release, Laura and Shadow's best friend are killed in an accident. With his life in pieces and nothing to keep him tethered, Shadow accepts a job from a beguiling stranger he meets on the way home, an enigmatic man who calls himself Mr. Wednesday. A trickster and a rogue, Wednesday seems to know more about Shadow than Shadow does himself.

Life as Wednesday's bodyguard, driver, and errand boy is far more interesting and dangerous than Shadow ever imagined. Soon Shadow learns that the past never dies...and that beneath the placid surface of everyday life a storm is brewing - an epic war for the very soul of America - and that he is standing squarely in its path.

Waiting on Wednesday: Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Breaking the Spine. Today we are waiting for Godsgrave by Jay Kristoff!

Second book of The Nevernight Chronicles!

Publication date: September 5th, 2017

Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books

READING DIVERSE: Is it important to disclose characters sexuality?

“Now I know that if you open the right door at the right time, you might finally find a place where you belong.”

Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway

Today I am not going to talk about a specific book or a list of books I think everybody should read. Instead I will talk about the current topic that was passionately discussed on twitter and that made a lot of queer book lovers angry. 

MONDAY TRAVELS: TO THE INDIFFERENT WOMAN by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Happy Monday friends! I hope you packed light and got some party clothes, cause this Monday we going back to North American literature:

So today we are in The United States and we will explore:

TO THE INDIFFERENT WOMAN

REVIEW: FINAL GIRLS by Riley Sager

REVIEW: BEFORE I GO TO SLEEP by SJ Watson

Saturday Tag

Welcome dear readers, to yet another Saturday Tag, where the fun never stops!

Today I am joined by Hannah and together we will complete this fun tag:

NETFLIX BOOK TAG

REVIEW: FIERY HEART by Richelle Mead

Title: Fiery Heart
Author: Richelle Mead
Series: Bloodlines #4
Genres: YA, Paranormal, Magic, Vampires
Publisher: Razorbill / Penguin Group
Release: 2013
Source: Paperback
Pages: 420

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Sydney Sage is an Alchemist, one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the wolds of humans and vampires. They protect vampire secrets - and human lives.

In The Indigo Spell, Sydney was torn between the Alchemist way of life and what her heart and gut were telling her to do. And in one breathtaking moment that Richelle Mead fans will never forget, she made a decision that shocked even her...

But the struggle isn't over for Sydney. As she navigates the aftermath of her life-changing decision, she still finds herself pulled in too many directions at once. Her sister Zoe has arrived, and while Sydney longs to grow closer to her, there's still so much she must keep secret. Working with Marcus has changed the way she views the Alchemists, and Sydney must tread a careful path as she harnesses her profound magical ability to undermine the way of life she was raised to defend. Consumed by passion and vengeance, Sydney struggles to keep her secret life under wraps as the threat of exposure — and re-education — looms larger than ever.

Pulses will race throughout this smoldering fourth installment in the New York Times bestselling Bloodlines series, where no secret is safe. 

REVIEW: MISERY by Stephen King

Title: Misery
Author: Stephen King
Series: -
Genres: Horror, Fiction
Publisher: New English Library
Release: 1988
Source: Paperback
Pages: 370

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Paul Sheldon. He's a bestselling novelist who has finally met his biggest fan. Her name is Annie Wilkes and she is more than a rabid reader - she is Paul's nurse, tending his shattered body after an automobile accident. But she is also his captor, keeping him prisoner in her isolated house.

Waiting on Wednesday: The Girl with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke

Waiting on Wednesday is hosted by Breaking the Spine. Today we are waiting for The Girl with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke!

A new series by Katherine Locke I'm looking forward to!

Publication date: September 1st, 2017

Publisher: Albert Whitman Company

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REVIEW: THE HOBBIT by J. R. R. Tolkien

Title: The Hobbit
Author: J. R. R. Tolkien
Series: Middle-Earth Universe #1
Genres: Fantasy, Classic
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release: September 21st, 1937
Source: Paperback
Pages: 389

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BLURB: This is the story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected...

Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely travelling further then the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag-End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day, to whisk him away on a journey 'there and back again'. They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon...