Posted November 17, 2015 in Reading / 8 Comments
Tagged as Fairy Tales, Quotes, Top Ten Tuesday
Posted November 16, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
The White Rose by
Amy Ewing Series: The Lone City #2 Publisher: Harper Audio (2015)
Audiobook {8 hours and 31 minutes} (320 pages)
Rating: Also by this author: The Jewel,
The Black Key Also in this series: The Jewel,
The Black Key Reading Challenges: 2015 Color Coded,
Read 2015 Synopsis
Violet is on the run. After the Duchess of the Lake catches Violet with Ash, the hired companion at the Palace of the Lake, Violet has no choice but to escape the Jewel or face certain death. So along with Ash and her best friend, Raven, Violet runs away from her unbearable life of servitude.
But no one said leaving the Jewel would be easy. As they make their way through the circles of the Lone City, Regimentals track their every move, and the trio barely manages to make it out unscathed and into the safe haven they were promised—a mysterious house in the Farm.
But there’s a rebellion brewing, and Violet has found herself in the middle of it. Alongside a new ally, Violet discovers her Auguries are much more powerful than she ever imagined. But is she strong enough to rise up against the Jewel and everything she has ever known?
The White Rose is a raw, captivating sequel to The Jewel that fans won’t be able to put down until the final shocking moments.
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Posted November 13, 2015 in Reading / 14 Comments
Emerald Green is the third and final book in the Ruby Red trilogy by Kerstin Gier. This entire series was originally written in German and translated into English. I found this series while perusing the shelves of the library and I am so glad I did. It is such an interesting time travel series.
From Emerald Green by Kerstin Gier: (page 56)
He looked, if possible, even more remorseful.
“I promise you nothing like that will ever happen again.”
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Posted November 12, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
A Mad, Wicked Folly by
Sharon Biggs Waller Publisher: Viking Books (2014)
Hardcover (448 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Reading Challenges: Read 2015 Synopsis
Welcome to the world of the fabulously wealthy in London, 1909, where dresses and houses are overwhelmingly opulent, social class means everything, and women are taught to be nothing more than wives and mothers. Into this world comes seventeen-year-old Victoria Darling, who wants only to be an artist—a nearly impossible dream for a girl.
After Vicky poses nude for her illicit art class, she is expelled from her French finishing school. Shamed and scandalized, her parents try to marry her off to the wealthy Edmund Carrick-Humphrey. But Vicky has other things on her mind: her clandestine application to the Royal College of Art; her participation in the suffragette movement; and her growing attraction to a working-class boy who may be her muse—or may be the love of her life. As the world of debutante balls, corsets, and high society obligations closes in around her, Vicky must figure out: just how much is she willing to sacrifice to pursue her dreams?
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Posted November 10, 2015 in Reading / 6 Comments
Tagged as Top Ten Tuesday