tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29137307264944651422024-03-14T07:00:53.043-07:00Blue Eye BooksLaura @BlueEyeBookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12983345219563729728noreply@blogger.comBlogger784125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913730726494465142.post-79745353346570802582020-10-26T15:44:00.002-07:002020-10-26T15:44:23.706-07:00I'm now Wordpress bound!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGodkOWmw0JfHfhh19tBM04ON7RdE1NeaPBniqvJZGAvGtrlKDjwooP75Fe-EdfHJjyNHYLq_KsmM3C3T8oSSnxv60vpzVosH22yrRg65LfcSqz-LDygO76r_S32FK6ZeuWfnf33Jqy7K_/s567/An+Update+2+8_13_2020.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="567" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGodkOWmw0JfHfhh19tBM04ON7RdE1NeaPBniqvJZGAvGtrlKDjwooP75Fe-EdfHJjyNHYLq_KsmM3C3T8oSSnxv60vpzVosH22yrRg65LfcSqz-LDygO76r_S32FK6ZeuWfnf33Jqy7K_/s16000/An+Update+2+8_13_2020.png" /></a></div><p></p><p> </p><p style="text-align: center;">Yes, you read that title right, I'm finally, <i>finally</i>, finishing my Wordpress move and redesign! Because of the vast amount of content on this blog (and, let's be honest, no small amount of sentimentality), this process has taken a good year to complete.</p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p>The last decisions to be made were the practical ones: matters of follower transference and whether to bother with a redirect. Ultimately, I decided to start completely fresh and 1) not transfer my followers and 2) build a redirect into the base code of this address in about a month's time.</p><p>If you follow me by email and would like to continue, head on over to <a href="http://www.blueeyebooks.com">www.blueeyebooks.com</a> and follow me via Wordpress or email at the bottom of the page. If you're following me on my socials, never fear, those are staying the same (how could I possibly give up my handles?). Those are <a href="https://instagram.com/blueeyebooks" target="_blank">@blueeyebooks</a> on Instagram and <a href="https://www.twitter.com/blueeyebooks" target="_blank">@blueeyebooks</a> on Twitter for those not already following me there.<br /></p><p>I'm delaying the redirect for a number of reasons but mostly because it requires replacing some code and I'm ridiculously sentimental, okay? After that final backup of the blog, it'll go into effect to redirect any lingering links out there on the inter-webs.</p><p>I'm still updating all my old posts on the new address so you'll be seeing the old graphics around on those posts for a few months until I can get to each and every one of them. It'll take a while for little ole me to update over 750 posts with only a couple hours every night but I'll get there!</p><p>I'm excited for this next scene in the story of Blue Eye Books and I hope you all will come along with me!</p>Laura @BlueEyeBookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12983345219563729728noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913730726494465142.post-37680830457061095322020-10-10T05:00:00.016-07:002020-10-22T22:30:01.553-07:00Review: Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart (great, but also not)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #145da0;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv7KgT5VvCMDVqzj72BENWq8mkbE-4Y6Qzpss9mqtHHWyfY6mQLaVPeS14usbdatlaBodQCqcuLhtp0tpDyQuhSqjBAP2U7w-2O5i7I6_MqSbfqVkzMmFD1S9nXvPtb4ScVykkbpMlqBIn/s475/genuine+fraud.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="312" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv7KgT5VvCMDVqzj72BENWq8mkbE-4Y6Qzpss9mqtHHWyfY6mQLaVPeS14usbdatlaBodQCqcuLhtp0tpDyQuhSqjBAP2U7w-2O5i7I6_MqSbfqVkzMmFD1S9nXvPtb4ScVykkbpMlqBIn/s320/genuine+fraud.jpg" /></a></span></div><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #145da0;"><span style="color: #145da0;"> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33843362-genuine-fraud?ac=1&from_search=true&qid=cnMPUZfJ0p&rank=1" target="_blank">Goodreads</a> </span> <a href="https://beta.thestorygraph.com/books/c9a89d45-18a8-49f8-af64-2fba13f3208e" target="_blank">The StoryGraph</a> <a href="https://www.bookdepository.com/Genuine-Fraud-E-Lockhart/9780385744775" target="_blank">Book Depository</a> <a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/genuine-fraud-e-lockhart/1125454328;jsessionid=784310605A212A1F4B17727D08CE51C6.prodny_store01-atgap04?ean=9780385744775" target="_blank">Barnes and Noble</a> <span style="color: #145da0;"><a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780385744775" target="_blank">IndieBound</a></span></span><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">Goodreads rating: 3.5 stars</p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #145da0;"><u><b> </b></u></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #145da0;"><u><b>Blurb:</b></u></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span id="freeText6952620885077315295">From the author of the unforgettable <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>We Were Liars</i>
comes a masterful new psychological suspense novel--the story of a
young woman whose diabolical smarts are her ticket into a charmed life.
But how many times can someone reinvent themselves? You be the judge.<br /><br />Imogen is a runaway heiress, an orphan, a cook, and a cheat.<br />Jule is a fighter, a social chameleon, and an athlete. <br />An intense friendship. A disappearance. A murder, or maybe two. <br />A bad romance, or maybe three.<br />Blunt objects, disguises, blood, and chocolate. The American dream, superheroes, spies, and villains. <br />A girl who refuses to give people what they want from her.<br />A girl who refuses to be the person she once was.</span></span></span> <br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><p style="text-align: center;"><b>Book content warnings: graphic murder descriptions, suicide</b></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #145da0;"><u><b>Summary in a quote:</b></u></span></p><p style="text-align: center;">"She didn't know if she could love her own mangled, strange heart. She wanted someone else to do it for her, to see it beating behind her ribs and to say, <i>I can see your true self. It is there, and it is rare and worthy. I love you.</i>"<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZaWxnyWsRGUZvb5JYthCd0oo7NkoID8a-XlkKG3HCxFKj433-44JjilxaZFTGyLQ5evf_C1e2nltjwLs8eaoO_fcIgoXV3pVZhb21y3u2hhM41QF1vkI5T0yH8Tp1M251rEOpjSMM5Sid/s1726/IMG_8776new.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1726" data-original-width="1726" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZaWxnyWsRGUZvb5JYthCd0oo7NkoID8a-XlkKG3HCxFKj433-44JjilxaZFTGyLQ5evf_C1e2nltjwLs8eaoO_fcIgoXV3pVZhb21y3u2hhM41QF1vkI5T0yH8Tp1M251rEOpjSMM5Sid/w400-h400/IMG_8776new.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #145da0;"><span style="color: black;">Follow me on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/blueeyebooks/" target="_blank">Instagram </a></span><u><b><br /></b></u></span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #145da0;"><b>1. The plot and structure.</b> </span></h3><p>The only other book I've read by E. Lockhart is the forever glorified <i>We Were Liars</i> so I had some idea coming into this book that not all would be as it seemed. True to form, this author takes to heart the whole subverting expectations endeavor.<b> This novel is told in reverse chronological order </b>which essentially results in the reader knowing what the consequences of the actions are before knowing the actual actions.</p><p><b>I have semi-mixed feelings about this. On one hand, it made it a bit confusing to read and you have to keep a really steady timeline in your head. On the other hand, it fits the whole theme and vibe of the novel <i>perfectly</i>.</b> </p><p>Seriously. This is a real peanut butter and jelly moment.</p><p>I'm going to keep it vague to avoid spoilers because this is <i>E. Lockhart</i> we're talking about! <b>Basically, we get to dip inside the world of someone who wants to be loved and accepted and is willing to do whatever it takes to reach that goal</b>.</p><p>With the backwards chronology, we can see her slow descent into the consequences of her decisions so the emphasis is placed more on her own mentality, the steps she's taking, and how they lead her to where she ends up at the beginning of the book. I think, as readers, we're trained to place focus on the large, life-altering events and not so much on the quiet moments in between. In my opinion, those quiet moments are just as or even more important as those large events (of which there are multiple in this book).</p><p>I will say that <b>some of the plot points themselves were a little far-fetched and strange.</b> I loved how Jule dealt with the issues, but how they came to her attention were questionable.</p><p>To sum up: love the plot structure in the end but not all of the actual plot.<b> Great pie, not a great filling.</b></p><p><b> </b></p>
<p></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;">“For anyone who has been taught that good equals small and silent, here is my heart with all its ugly tangles and splendid fury.”</span></p></blockquote><p> </p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #145da0;"><b>2. The characters.</b> </span></h3><p>I'm going to be honest here and say <b>the only character I found interesting was Jule</b>.</p><p>The other characters were necessary, of course, but they didn't do much for me, even though the author attempted some fleshing with the more important ones. They all just felt like stepping stones for Jule which, intellectually, I appreciate (aiding in this whole desperately searching for acceptance theme), but emotionally, it didn't do much for me in terms of holding my attention and gaining my investment.</p><p> </p>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">“The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.”</span></p></blockquote><p> </p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #145da0;"><b>3. The romance.</b> </span></h3><p>This was interesting to me. At first, I really didn't like that there was a romance involved at all. There are so many interesting things going on so I resented the page space given to this strange secondary plot.</p><p>Towards the end, I was faced with this whole intellectual/emotional pull again. It's a great way to explore this acceptance that Jule craves because in United States society at least, romantic love is prized as the highest form of happiness and acceptance.</p><p><b>Realistically, though, it just felt like this extra little bit on the side that wasn't really integral. It's a nice romance and all, but it's in that weird space where there's simultaneously not enough and way too much page space allocated to it.</b></p><p><b> </b></p>
<p></p><blockquote><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #38761d;">“She believed that the way you speak is often more important than anything you have to say.” </span></p></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"><b> </b></p><h2 style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #145da0; font-size: large;"><span><b>The Final Verdict</b></span></span></h2><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The experience reading wasn't nearly as delightful as the experience contemplating once it was over. Ultimately, thematically intriguing while structurally unsound.</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6u66fSaATpbJMUoLerKdireJ8b8aADR6mAzmM-OWbxsqcNL7Mvyxpw8UQ0kj3R_MmsvECADAjIA5eRlOT9Tt2Sl9QIsdoKqMlY0I8EOZVoruu1w67eoYAzUX8zuDFsK0KuY5lv_1s5OpO/s1800/Interesting...+but+not+my+favorite.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1800" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6u66fSaATpbJMUoLerKdireJ8b8aADR6mAzmM-OWbxsqcNL7Mvyxpw8UQ0kj3R_MmsvECADAjIA5eRlOT9Tt2Sl9QIsdoKqMlY0I8EOZVoruu1w67eoYAzUX8zuDFsK0KuY5lv_1s5OpO/w640-h214/Interesting...+but+not+my+favorite.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><br /><p></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #145da0;"><b>Would I reread?</b></span></h3><p style="text-align: left;">Yes! While I didn't love it, I'm fascinated by the structure the author chose and I think rereading it, knowing everything, could be interesting.<b> </b><br /></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>Laura @BlueEyeBookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12983345219563729728noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913730726494465142.post-3259847083458215652020-08-13T16:37:00.000-07:002020-08-13T16:37:18.431-07:00Resurrecting Blue Eye Books (with a snazzy redesign)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg7Mu4FrsboVGiCkpBeyuTMkowpALlOOFjnyTcV4tRzqIIgRjRd3Ma6FzJH5vP1ZOrP69hNjgGExL0dRiUjCA29RA8Qje81NeeE3p2kavANg-nfK1IWa8MJ5aNhvj9i_op8TmxHLl67kDU/s567/An+Update+2+8_13_2020.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="567" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg7Mu4FrsboVGiCkpBeyuTMkowpALlOOFjnyTcV4tRzqIIgRjRd3Ma6FzJH5vP1ZOrP69hNjgGExL0dRiUjCA29RA8Qje81NeeE3p2kavANg-nfK1IWa8MJ5aNhvj9i_op8TmxHLl67kDU/s0/An+Update+2+8_13_2020.png" /></a></div> <p></p><p> Hello fellow humans of Earth! As you may recall it's been a hot few months since I've posted anything (November of 2019, holy macaroni and goblets) and the discerning eye may have even glimpsed a tumbleweed rolling across the screen. But now I'm back! Read on for all the updates.</p><p><b>The Life:</b></p><p>I have officially graduated with a BS in biology and creative writing! Yay! This happened in May and let me tell you, those last two semesters were doozies (hence the disappearing act). I made it through, though, by the skin of my teeth (side note: what is up with that expression?). I've been taking the summer off to get my affairs in order and generally figure out my entire future. All in a few month's work. What's in Laura's future, you may ask? Graduate school applications, I answer! I'll be applying to science writing and poetry programs in the coming months along with working and enjoying the life.<br /></p><p>More relevantly, now that I've sufficiently relaxed, chilled, and otherwise emptied my somatic cells of stress, I'm itching to get back to blogging!</p><p> </p><p><b>Coming Soon (to own on video and DVD; I've been watching too many old movies okay?):</b></p><p>A complete redesign will be coming (and has already partially happened). I'm adding more plants and green to the color scheme because I have become a plant fanatic (more on that in another post). I'll also be finishing up those tabs that lead to the 404 void and generally doing some reformatting and revamping.</p><p>For authors, I'll be expanding and updating my services list. I found a love of copyediting in this last year so I'll be doing more of that behind the scenes along with the usual reviews and other jazzy bits.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>That's all for now folks! I shall now disappear back into the hole of endless HTML. How have you all been doing? How's your life? How's your mental health with all the upheaval recently? Have you tried any new vegetables lately?</b><br /></p>Laura @BlueEyeBookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12983345219563729728noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2913730726494465142.post-36835425371368565182019-11-07T01:00:00.001-08:002020-08-13T21:50:46.295-07:00Review Thursday: Resurrection Girls by Ava Morgyn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Olivia Foster hasn’t felt alive since her little brother drowned in the backyard pool three years ago. Then Kara Hallas moves in across the street with her mother and grandmother, and Olivia is immediately drawn to these three generations of women. Kara is particularly intoxicating, so much so that Olivia not only comes to accept Kara's morbid habit of writing to men on death row, she helps her do it. They sign their letters as the Resurrection Girls.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"> But as Kara’s friendship pulls Olivia out of the dark fog she’s been living in, Olivia realizes that a different kind of darkness taints the otherwise lively Hallas women—an impulse that is strange, magical, and possibly deadly."</span></span></i></div>
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Most recently, S.M. Beiko is the author of <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/series/205460-the-realms-of-ancient" target="_blank">The Realms of Ancient</a> series.<br>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Milly Costello has lived in the walled city of Redcross for two years. She wants nothing more than to get out - but when the mysterious Wolf-Lords arrive, she may get her wish in a way she doesn't expect. </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: white; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">And that's to say nothing of the secret she and her friends are keeping..."</span></span></span></span></i><br>
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Three years ago, I had the pleasure of reviewing<u> The Vagabond Vicar</u> by Charlotte Brentwood. Lo and behold, she is now releasing second book in that same universe. I'll be reviewing this in a few short weeks so watch out for that post. Without further ado, let's get into it!</div>
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<span style="color: white;"><b>Released:</b> April 20th, 2019</span><br>
<span style="color: white;"><b>Series:</b> Hearts of Amberley #2</span><br>
<span style="color: white;"><b>Publisher:</b> Self-published</span><br>
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<span style="color: white;">Amy Miller is struggling to come to terms with her new life as a mother, while being a reluctant guest in a rigid gentry household. A victim of abuse, she is determined to never trust a man again.</span><br>
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<span style="color: white;">The discovery of a secret which holds the key to Amy's past will change them both forever, and jeopardise any chance they have for happiness. Can Henry show Amy that true love will give her everything she could ever need?</span></div>
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Today is release day for A.M. Heath's newest release! I'm the first stop on the blog tour along with <a href="http://debbieloseanything.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Debbie</a> and <a href="https://lorettamz.com/" target="_blank">Loretta</a> (<a href="https://amheathblog.wordpress.com/blog-tour/" target="_blank">see the full tour schedule here</a>). Below, you'll find my review, author interview, and giveaway! Other books I've reviewed by A.M. Heath include:</div>
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Throughout the duration of the tour, A.M. Heath's original series, the Ancient Words Series (see my reviews linked above), will be discounted! You'll even be able to get the first book for <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Where-Flee-Ancient-Words-Book-ebook-dp-B00MQ8KYI2/dp/B00MQ8KYI2/ref=mt_kindle?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1554756765" target="_blank">free on Amazon</a>!</div>
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Art of Love #1</div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Will a new partnership tear their worlds apart … or will it be the piece they never knew was missing? </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">In 1959, Arleen Thatcher and Neil Fox are fierce competitors on the dance floor, so they’re the least likely pair to enter a televised competition together. But when rivaling studio owners decide to team up, the two will find a partnership they never thought possible. </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Arleen’s reputation around town is reason enough for Neil to keep his distance from his new partner. But as Neil gets to know Arleen, he discovers a side of her few others have seen, one of dark family secrets and carefully-constructed facades. </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">God’s plan for their partnership may involve more than a single dance; it may be the key to the healing Arleen so desperately needs. </span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">The Art of Love series is compiled of stand-alone novels where the characters tell their own stories and love means so much more than passion."</span></span></i></div>
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Hello! Yes, I'm still here and I hope to continue to be here for a long time. However, I think I'm long overdue for a little life update (mostly to put at ease all the authors and bloggers that have emailed me and my own inner SpongeBob that's running around setting filing cabinets on fire).<br>
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So without further ado, let's get personal.<br>
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<b>Other books I've reviewed by A.M. Heath:</b></div>
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She's already lost her father, and now that her mom is battling thyroid cancer, she fears being orphaned at fifteen. When a friendly stranger texts the wrong number, Ashlyn finds a confidant she didn’t realize she needed. The more Ashlyn gets to know Chris Knowles, the more she’s convinced he could be the caring husband and loving father the Conner women so desperately need.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">If only she’d been honest and hadn’t made him believe he was texting her mother, Danielle.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">When the truth comes out, will she lose her friendship with Chris and damage her relationship with her mother? 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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<b><span style="color: #181818;">In the captivating start to a new, darkly lyrical fantasy series for readers of Leigh Bardugo and Sabaa Tahir, Tea can raise the dead, but resurrection comes at a price...</span></b>Let me be clear: I never intended to raise my brother from his grave, though he may claim otherwise. If there's anything I've learned from him in the years since, it's that the dead hide truths as well as the living.<br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">When Tea accidentally resurrects her brother from the dead, she learns she is different from the other witches in her family. Her gift for necromancy means that she's a bone witch, a title that makes her feared and ostracized by her community. But Tea finds solace and guidance with an older, wiser bone witch, who takes Tea and her brother to another land for training.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">In her new home, Tea puts all her energy into becoming an asha-one who can wield elemental magic. But dark forces are approaching quickly, and in the face of danger, Tea will have to overcome her obstacles...and make a powerful choice."</span></span></i><br>
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<i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span id="freeText8844576283670766312" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price–and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone…<br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;">A convict with a thirst for revenge.<br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;">A sharpshooter who can’t walk away from a wager.<br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;">A runaway with a privileged past.<br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;">A spy known as the Wraith.<br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;">A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums.<br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;">A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes.<br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Kaz’s crew is the only thing that might stand between the world and destruction—if they don’t kill each other first."</span></span></span></i></div>
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I've seen this meme around the blogosphere and as a part of my New Year's resolution to be more on top of things and just more organized in general, I felt like this was a good place to start. <a href="http://avalinahsbooks.space/state-arc-meme/" target="_blank">Avalinah @Avalinah's Books</a> started this meme to provide some motivation to finish reading and reviewing ARC's which is definitely something I need in my life! Periodically, I'll be posting updates of the count (probably whenever I do monthly wrap-ups). So without further ado, onto my current state!</div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span id="freeText12103312190932088275" style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Harper Hensley’s greatest joy is baking. She’s co-owner of a cute little bake shop, creating delicious treats to her heart’s content, and happily dating a successful lawyer. Life seems perfect. Until Logan Riggs, the man who walked out on her without a word four years ago, rolls into town in his new coffee food truck, living the dream they were supposed to share together.<br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;">The last thing Logan ever wanted was to leave Harper, but unforeseen circumstances forced him to make that choice. He never meant to hurt her or ruin their plans of starting a food truck. Now he’s back to make things right, hoping to convince her to work with him, and longing for a second chance with the woman he loved from the start.<br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Coffee and cupcakes belong together. But is the truth about Logan’s disappearing act too much to forgive? Can Harper move past the bitter to get to the sweet?"</span></span></i></div>
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Hello! Yes, I'm still here. I haven't been around the blogosphere for a while in any sort of regular way mostly because this past fall semester at uni was horrifically busy. Anyway, I'll have a whole life update at the end of this post so I'll leave the venting for then. And now, onto the statistics (because who doesn't like graphs?).</div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span id="freeText3987082919710008004" style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Alexa Hollen is a fighter. Forced to disguise herself as a boy and serve in the king's army, Alex uses her quick wit and fierce sword-fighting skills to earn a spot on the elite prince's guard. But when a powerful sorcerer sneaks into the palace in the dead of night, even Alex, who is virtually unbeatable, can't prevent him from abducting her, her fellow guard and friend Rylan, and Prince Damian, taking them through the treacherous wilds of the jungle and deep into enemy territory.<br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;">The longer Alex is held captive with both Rylan and the prince, the more she realizes that she is not the only one who has been keeping dangerous secrets. And suddenly, after her own secret is revealed, Alex finds herself confronted with two men vying for her heart: the safe and steady Rylan, who has always cared for her, and the dark, intriguing Damian. With hidden foes lurking around every corner, is Alex strong enough to save herself and the kingdom she's sworn to protect?"</span></span></i><br>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Years in the making, Sarah J. Maas’s #1 New York Times bestselling Throne of Glass series draws to an epic, unforgettable conclusion. Aelin Galathynius’s journey from slave to king’s assassin to the queen of a once-great kingdom reaches its heart-rending finale as war erupts across her world. . .</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Aelin has risked everything to save her people―but at a tremendous cost. Locked within an iron coffin by the Queen of the Fae, Aelin must draw upon her fiery will as she endures months of torture. Aware that yielding to Maeve will doom those she loves keeps her from breaking, though her resolve begins to unravel with each passing day…</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">With Aelin captured, Aedion and Lysandra remain the last line of defense to protect Terrasen from utter destruction. Yet they soon realize that the many allies they’ve gathered to battle Erawan’s hordes might not be enough to save them. Scattered across the continent and racing against time, Chaol, Manon, and Dorian are forced to forge their own paths to meet their fates. Hanging in the balance is any hope of salvation―and a better world.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">And across the sea, his companions unwavering beside him, Rowan hunts to find his captured wife and queen―before she is lost to him forever.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">As the threads of fate weave together at last, all must fight, if they are to have a chance at a future. 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<i><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Kate Weston can piece together most of the bash at John Doone’s house: shots with Stacey Stallard, Ben Cody taking her keys and getting her home early—the feeling that maybe he’s becoming more than just the guy she’s known since they were kids.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">But when a picture of Stacey passed out over Deacon Mills’s shoulder appears online the next morning, Kate suspects she doesn’t have all the details. When Stacey levels charges against four of Kate’s classmates, the whole town erupts into controversy. Facts that can’t be ignored begin to surface, and every answer Kate finds leads back to the same question: Where was Ben when a terrible crime was committed?</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; display: inline !important; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">This story—inspired by real events—from debut novelist Aaron Hartzler takes an unflinching look at silence as a form of complicity. It’s a book about the high stakes of speaking up, and the razor thin line between guilt and innocence that so often gets blurred, one hundred and forty characters at a time."</span></span></span></i><br>
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She can believe she’s found the thing she’s been made for.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Hazel lives with her brother, Ben, in the strange town of Fairfold where humans and fae exist side by side. The faeries’ seemingly harmless magic attracts tourists, but Hazel knows how dangerous they can be, and she knows how to stop them. Or she did, once.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">At the center of it all, there is a glass coffin in the woods. It rests right on the ground and in it sleeps a boy with horns on his head and ears as pointed as knives. Hazel and Ben were both in love with him as children. The boy has slept there for generations, never waking.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Until one day, he does…</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">As the world turns upside down, Hazel tries to remember her years pretending to be a knight. But swept up in new love, shifting loyalties, and the fresh sting of betrayal, will it be enough?"</span></span></i><br>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">"Jane McKeene was born two days before the dead began to walk the battlefields of Gettysburg and Chancellorsville—derailing the War Between the States and changing America forever. In this new nation, safety for all depends on the work of a few, and laws like the Native and Negro Reeducation Act require certain children attend combat schools to learn to put down the dead. But there are also opportunities—and Jane is studying to become an Attendant, trained in both weaponry and etiquette to protect the well-to-do. It’s a chance for a better life for Negro girls like Jane. After all, not even being the daughter of a wealthy white Southern woman could save her from society’s expectations.</span><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><br style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #181818; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; float: none; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">But that’s not a life Jane wants. Almost finished with her education at Miss Preston’s School of Combat in Baltimore, Jane is set on returning to her Kentucky home and doesn’t pay much mind to the politics of the eastern cities, with their talk of returning America to the glory of its days before the dead rose. But when families around Baltimore County begin to go missing, Jane is caught in the middle of a conspiracy, one that finds her in a desperate fight for her life against some powerful enemies. And the restless dead, it would seem, are the least of her problems."</span></span></i><b></b><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span id="freeText18156226790496730855" style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Daughter of immortals.<br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Princess Diana longs to prove herself to her legendary warrior sisters. But when the opportunity finally comes, she throws away her chance at glory and breaks Amazon law—risking exile—to save a mortal. Diana will soon learn that she has rescued no ordinary girl, and that with this single brave act, she may have doomed the world.<br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Daughter of death.<br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Alia Keralis just wanted to escape her overprotective brother with a semester at sea. She doesn’t know she is being hunted by people who think her very existence could spark a world war. When a bomb detonates aboard her ship, Alia is rescued by a mysterious girl of extraordinary strength and forced to confront a horrible truth: Alia is a Warbringer—a direct descendant of the infamous Helen of Troy, fated to bring about an age of bloodshed and misery.<br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Together.<br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Two girls will face an army of enemies—mortal and divine—determined to either destroy or possess the Warbringer. Tested beyond the bounds of their abilities, Diana and Alia must find a way to unleash hidden strengths and forge an unlikely alliance. Because if they have any hope of saving both their worlds, they will have to stand side by side against the tide of war."</span></span></i><br>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span id="freeText6619716829770017544" style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><b style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Laia is a slave. <br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Elias is a soldier. <br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Neither is free.</b><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear.<br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;">It is in this brutal world, inspired by ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. The family ekes out an existence in the Empire’s impoverished backstreets. They do not challenge the Empire. They’ve seen what happens to those who do.<br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;">But when Laia’s brother is arrested for treason, Laia is forced to make a decision. In exchange for help from rebels who promise to rescue her brother, she will risk her life to spy for them from within the Empire’s greatest military academy.<br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;">There, Laia meets Elias, the school’s finest soldier—and secretly, its most unwilling. Elias wants only to be free of the tyranny he’s being trained to enforce. He and Laia will soon realize that their destinies are intertwined—and that their choices will change the fate of the Empire itself."</span></span></i><br>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>"<span id="freeText12642159741215507589" style="background-color: transparent; color: #181818; display: inline; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">Crown Princess Rhiannon Ta'an wants vengeance.<br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;">The only surviving heir to an ancient Kalusian dynasty, <b style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Rhee</b> has spent her life training to destroy the people who killed her family. Now, on the eve of her coronation, the time has finally come for Rhee to claim her throne - and her revenge.<br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><b style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Alyosha</b> is a Wraetan who has risen above his war refugee origins to find fame as the dashing star of a DroneVision show. Despite his popularity, Aly struggles with anti-Wraetan prejudices and the pressure of being perfect in the public eye.<br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Their paths collide with one brutal act of violence: Rhee is attacked, barely escaping with her life. Aly is blamed for her presumed murder.<br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><br style="line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 0px;">The princess and her accused killer are forced to go into hiding - even as a war between planets is waged in Rhee's name. But soon, Rhee and Aly discover that the assassination attempt is just one part of a sinister plot. Bound together by an evil that only they can stop, the two fugitives must join forces to save the galaxy."</span></i></span></div>
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