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Subscription Box Review: Once Upon a Book Club
You guys know I love subscription boxes. I mean I really, really love them. I think it is really cool to get a box every month and be surprised by what is inside. Unfortunately, you can’t always guarantee that a box is good. Sometimes you get duds. Seriously I got a box once that had all this stuff free floating in it – looked like someone had cleaned out their junk drawer! I also love books. That’s a fact that is pretty well documented by the fact that I own Fiction Addict and Radiant Lit. At the beginning of the subscription box phase, I tried a couple of book themed…
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Review: Bring Her Home by David Bell
Bring Her Home by David Bell Genre: contemporary, thriller, suspense, mystery, drama Publisher: Berkley Date: July 11, 2017 Bill Price’s life isn’t extraordinary in the least. At best, you could call it a struggle. Bill’s wife died 18 months ago and left him with a teenage daughter. Like most men, Bill doesn’t speak teenager and he’s not sure how to help his daughter get through the loss that he’s barely surviving himself. Just when he thinks that things couldn’t possibly get more difficult, the worst thing imaginable happens. His daughter Summer, and her best friend Haley, go missing. Days after they’ve gone missing, life takes another sharp, painful curve. Summer’s…
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Review: Within the Veil by Brandy Vallance
Title: Within the Veil Author: Brandy Vallance Genre: Historical Fiction Publisher: Lyrical Vine Press Date: June 28, 2016 Feya Broon has a really difficult life. The oldest of a group of siblings, her mother died leaving her alone with her father. He, unfortunately, isn’t the best parenting role model. More often than not, Feya has to parent him. It’s when they are unable to pay a window tax that everything finally breaks. Watching the bricks stack up to make a covering over the only light in their little hovel of a home seems to be the straw that breaks the proverbial camel’s back. When the money she’s tucked away disappears, Feya…
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Book Review: Princess Ever After by Rachel Hauck
Princess Ever After by Rachel Hauck Genre: Romance Publisher: Harper Collins Publication Date: February 4, 2014 Regina Beswick loves to work on old cars. She loves to fix them up, get them running again, and restore them to their gorgeous, vintage beauty. Regina tried being an accountant so she could hold down a ‘real’ job for a while but it just didn’t work for her. So now she’s settled into a grease monkey’s life and she’s quite content. Until one evening when a handsome, well-dressed man with a decidedly un-American accent shows up at her Tallahassee shop. That’s when things take a nose dive into the surreal. He informs Regina…
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Book Review: Draw of Kings by Patrick Carr
Draw of Kings (Staff and the Sword book #3) by Patrick Carr Reviewed by: Lori Twichell Genre: Fantasy Publisher: Bethany House Publishers Publication Date: January 28, 2014 Errol Stone would like little more than to disappear from the kingdom’s knowledge. Having grown up in a small village, virtually ignored for most of his life, he’s not adapting to the spotlight well. However, all casts that have been made by the Secundus of the Kingdom have shown that it’s likely either he or Liam will be the King. And certainly, one of these two men will give up his life. But which one? The cast doesn’t show that much information. So…
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Book Review: Dear Mr. Knightley by Katherine Reay
Dear Mr. Knightley by Katherine Reay Genre: Romance, Literature Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publication Date: November 5, 2013 Samantha Moore is a smart girl who has lived a tough life. Raised in a difficult foster care system, she’s spent a majority of her life bouncing around from home to home. This is why she’s buried herself in books. The classics to be specific. As she moved from place to place, these were the only things she could take with her. Tattered books that have been read so many times over that they’re memorized become more than entertainment. They are her friends. She escapes into their worlds whenever things become stressful. When…