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Book Beginnings and The Friday 56- The Bone Season
On Fridays I will share excerpts from whatever I am reading that day. First, Book Beginnings hosted by Rose City Reader then The Friday 56 hosted by Freda’s Voice. First share the opening lines of your novel, then turn to page 56 (or 56%) and share a few lines! ~~~ This week’s book is The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon. Beginning: “I like to imagine there were more of us in the beginning. Not many, I suppose. But more than there are now.” Page 56: “The first stain of dawn had touched the spires. The voyants came out after their keepers, three or four to each group. I was the only one with…
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Book Review- Crown of Midnight
Title: Crown of Midnight Author: Sarah J Maas Pages: 418 Genre: YA, Fantasy Series: Throne of Glass #2 Rating: 4/5 “A line that should never be crossed is about to be breached.It puts this entire castle in jeopardy—and the life of your friend.”From the throne of glass rules a king with a fist of iron and a soul as black as pitch. Assassin Celaena Sardothien won a brutal contest to become his Champion. Yet Celaena is far from loyal to the crown. She hides her secret vigilantly; she knows that the man she serves is bent on evil.Keeping up the deadly charade becomes increasingly difficult when Celaena realizes she is…
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Book Review- Throne of Glass
Title: Throne of Glass Author: Sarah J. Mass Pages: 404 Genre: YA, Fantasy Series: Throne of Glass #1 Rating: 4/5 After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a member of the king’s council. If she beats her opponents in a series of eliminations, she’ll serve the kingdom for four years and then…
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Fictitious Friday #1
Fictitious Fridays‘ is a new weekly meme hosted by Aiysha at Mortal Moments Each week a specific subject will be chosen for the spotlight for example: favourite fiction book, character, place, food and many more you will have to wait and see! This week’s topic: Favourite Fictional Consecutive Series Covers We are all guilty occasionally (or more often) of judging a book by its cover, and I am especially bad at this!! I have been known to buy books, and sometimes even whole series based solely on their covers, having no idea what the actual book is about!! As a result, this list could be extremely long, but I’m going to…
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Top 15 Books to Read in 2015
These are 15 books that I have in my TBR pile that I want to get through by the end of this year! V for Vendetta- Alan Moore and David Lloyd. This is a graphic novel that I bought last year, but I really want to get through it soon, as I really enjoyed the movie, and I’ve heard the graphic novel is excellent. Alan Turing: The Enigma- Andrew Hodges. I bought this novel just at the end of 2014, after I went to see The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch. This novel looks like a really interesting and deep insight into Turing and the work he did during the…