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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue By V.E. Schwab #Bookreview #bookblogger

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 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue By V.E. Schwab Published: October 6 2020 Tor Books Genre: Literary fantasy Oh how I adored thee... This was beautiful, and seductive. A caress, a whisper. Adeline LaRue does not want this life that is laid out for her, she turns down proposal after proposal, until her parents arrange marriage with Roger. She doesn't want to marry and lose herself. She wants to be free, to live. So she prays, to the old gods, the new God does nothing. Day in day out she prays, giving all she has yet none answer. And time is running out. Never pray to the gods that answer after dark If you could make a deal, the price your soul, what would you ask for? Would you pray to the gods, in the hopes they would answer? What if the night it's self is the only one who hears? Or cares? Hello darkness my old friend.

The Girl with the Whispering Shadow (The Crowns of Croswald, #2) by D.E. Night #bookreview

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  The Girl with the Whispering Shadow (The Crowns of Croswald, #2) by   D.E. Night Published January 23rd 2019 by Stories Untold LLC Genre: Middle Grade Fantasy ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Welcome back to the world of Croswald. This review contains spoilers if you have not read Book 1: The Crowns of Croswald. The Girl with the Whispering Shadow the second instalment of D.E Night's The Crowns of Croswald series. And like the first book it did not disappoint.  The book basically starts days after the events of book 1, Ivy and Rebecca are getting ready to leave the Halls of Ivory for the summer. One going home the other, Ivy going to the town with no name, well it has a name but it is a secret and only those who live there or are going there know it. You can not find this town on your own you have to go by cabby. It is protected from the outside world, it where the many of the scrivenist live in safety to practice magic.  But things are happening in the town, shades are being scene and quills are being sto

Amethyst by Jesse Nolan Bailey #booktour #bookreview

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         Amethyst by Jesse Nolan Bailey Published: September 24, 2020 Genre: Fantasy (New Weird) Age Group: Adult Cover Art and Design: Rena Violet ( https://www.coversbyviolet.com/ ) Order Link: https://dl.bookfunnel.com/zdn3e00kso Blurb: Rashell’s brother has vanished. When the local villagers express no concern, she enlists the help of a stranger from a faraway city to find Teth.   Investigator Derrik discovers the people worship a massive stone known as the Amethyst. Even more bizarre, an ancient relic of a mummy fuels their reverence.   Given limited time, Rashell and Derrik confront these mysterious elements at play, all the while striving to uncover what happened to Rashell’s brother. Review: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rashell's brother is missing, and no one is her village is doing anything to help find him. Keer the village leader seems to not ever care that he is gone. So she sends away for an outsider to come investigate. They don't like outsiders in this place D

A Season of Whispers by Jackson Kuhl #BookBlitz #bookreview + #giveaway

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  A Season of Whispers by Jackson Kuhl Published: October 8, 2020 by Aurelia Leo Genre: Supernatural Gothic Horror Age Group: Adult Pages: 130 Blurb: In the summer of 1844, Tom Lyman flees to Bonaventure, a transcendentalist farming cooperative tucked away in eastern Connecticut, to hide from his past. There Lyman must adjust to a new life among idealists, under the fatherly eye of the group’s founder, David Grosvenor. When he isn’t ducking work or the questions of the eccentric residents, Lyman occupies himself by courting Grosvenor’s daughter Minerva.   But Bonaventure isn’t as utopian as it seems. One by one, Lyman’s secrets begin to catch up with him, and Bonaventure has a few secrets of its own. Why did the farm have an ominous reputation long before Grosvenor bought it? What caused the previous tenants to vanish? And who is playing the violin in the basement? Time is running out, and Lyman must discover the truth before he’s driven mad by the whispering through t