Category: Reading

Item: Blood of a Stone
Rating: 4
Author: Amanda Marie

Review: Blood of a Stone

Posted January 5, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Blood of a Stone by Jeanne Lyet Gassman
Publisher: Tuscany Press (2015)
eARC (395 pages)
Via: NetGalley
Rating:
Reading Challenges: Read 2014

Synopsis

Set in the first century on the edges of the Roman Empire and the Jesus movement, Blood of a Stone is a sweeping story of murder, betrayal, love, and the search for redemption.
Faced with the brutality of slavery, Demetrios confronts his master and flees by the blood of a stone. Determined to escape his past, he struggles to create a new life and a new identity with his friend and fellow escaped slave, Elazar.
However, freedom has its price. Secrets cannot remain secret forever. A chance for love is lost. Elazar betrays Demetrios to a so-called prophet named Jesus of Nazareth. Fearing the Roman authorities and Jesus, Demetrios risks everything to silence those who would enslave him again. His quest leads him to startling discoveries and dire choices. Demetrios must answer the question we all ask: Can we ever be free of our past?

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Tagged as 4 star, NetGalley, Read 2014

The Friday 56: The Lightning Thief

Posted January 2, 2015 in Reading / 11 Comments

The Friday 56 is a weekly meme hosted by Freda’s Voice.

Rules

Grab a book, any book.
Turn to page 56 (or 56% on ebook).
Find any sentence that grabs you.
Post it.
Link it at Freda’s Voice.

Tagged as Friday 56

2015 Reading Challenges

Posted January 1, 2015 in Reading / 10 Comments

My 2016 Reading Challenges can be found here.

If you can’t tell by now, I like to read. A lot. I stumbled across some of these book challenges and I think some would be pretty cool. I figured it would probably be beneficial to put a post together of the book challenges I have decided to participate in for 2015.

I basically just keep adding to this list every time I hear about a new challenge that I think I can do. Since I have a slight book addiction (yes, I think I’m in denial), this list will likely get longer.

I give you My 2015 Reading Challenges List, listed in the order in which I became aware of them:

Tagged as Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge, Birthday Month Reading Challenge, Catholic, Catholic Book, Color Coded Challenge, Fairy Tales, Fairytale Retelling Challenge, Finishing the Series Challenge, Mythology Reading Challenge, Read 2015, Rereading Challenge, What's In a Name Reading Challenge, You Read How Many Books Challenge