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Book Journey!
What Are You Reading, is where we gather to share what we have read this past week and what we plan to read this week. It is a great way to network with other bloggers, see some wonderful blogs, and put new titles on your reading list.
I enjoyed all of my reading this week so I have several 4.5 reviews I'll be posting. :-) I finished five books. I posted four reviews, one with ARC Giveaway. I also posted the weekly Mailbox Monday meme, Friday Pick Giveaway, Saturday Snapshot, Sharing Beyond Books Comment Giveaway and Sunday Words.
I visited a handful of Monday posts early in the week and today and I visited Saturday Snapshot posts at the end of the week.
Thanks as always to all the nice people who visit me.
These were last week's posts:
- Book Review: Ten Reasons to Stay by Sabrina Jeffries, Historical Romance Novella; my rating 4.5.
- Book Review and ARC Giveaway: Jack Absolute by C.C. Humphreys, Historical Fiction; my rating 4.5. Ends 5/17.
Finished Reading:
1. eBook/Kindle
2. Print
Jack Absolute
by C.C. Humphreys
I really enjoyed this.
An author Guest Post, Review and
ARC Giveaway are linked above.
Click on title for full Book Description.
3. eBook/Kindle
Her Own Devices: A steampunk adventure novel (Magnificent Devices)
Shelley Adina
I am so glad I won books 1-3.
I couldn't wait to read more and have purchased the fourth one to read this week!
Book Description
Publication Date: December 22, 2011
Book 2 of the Magnificent Devices series!
Escaped lunatics, lost children, vengeful lords, and love. Really, the situation is becoming quite impossible.
Seventeen-year-old Lady Claire Trevelyan, left alone after the Arabian Bubble financial disaster claims home and family, now leads the cleverest gang in the London underworld. Between outwitting a rival gang, inventing a device that will net her and her scientist employer worldwide fame, and keeping her mother from marrying her off, she can almost forget that a powerful lord wants to get closer ... and if he succeeds, can destroy it all with a single word ...
4. Print
Cowboy Take Me Away
by Jane Graves
This is a warm romance.
I will post review with ARC Giveaway.
Click on title for full Book Description
5. Audible
Loyalty in Death: In Death, Book 9
UNABRIDGED
By J. D. Robb
Narrated By Susan Ericksen
Series: In Death, Book 9
I like the Eve Dallas series.
Had some issues with this one.
I'll post a review this week.
Click on title for full Book Description
Line Edits/Releases:
Last week we released a Children's - Middle Grade, Fantasy:
Seven Shades of Luminosity by Beth BowlandWhen 13-year-old Ralph and his two friends enter a magical world called Norwaeja, they find themselves on an unexpected quest for seven keys, each of which leads them closer to a dark and dangerous kingdom.
Ralph thought he was an ordinary kid, just trying to become the junior fencing champion in his state. Shortly after being chased into Norwaeja he learns of the prophecy declaring him the warrior that will lead the Great Army into battle against Apep, the evil one.
Epic battles against Trolls, dangerous treks through kingdoms, and one pesky, egotistical meerkat will pit friend against friend while Ralph discovers just who he really is and what he is capable of achieving in a world that he is not a part of. Or is he?
Currently reading:
1. Print
Undone (The Amoveo Legend)
by Sara Humphrey
I have enjoyed this series and look forward to this installment
Reviewing for Sourcebooks.
Book Description
Release date:
May 7, 2013 | Series:
The Amoveo Legend
The Amoveo are shapeshifting animal clans who live secretly among humans and must find their pre-destined soul mates while avoiding the enemy that seeks to destroy them all.
Party girl Marianna Coltari is an unmated pureblood Amoveo who wants nothing to do with the ongoing war that took her father's life and continues to consume her brother Dante's. But when she is targeted by one of the clans, she has little choice but to run and hide in a cabin with Pete Castro, a retired cop from her brother's security firm. There, Pete and Marianna explore an intensifying attraction between them until danger is at the door and there's no escape.
eBook/Kindle
Brilliant Devices: A steampunk adventure novel (Magnificent Devices)
Shelley Adina
I am excited to read the last book in the series.
When I post the reviews I will post a Giveaway for a set of the books.
Book Description
Publication Date: February 25, 2013
Book 4 of the Magnificent Devices series!
A lady of resources has the power to change the world—if she can stay alive long enough to do it.
Lady Claire Trevelyan had been looking forward to glittering balls, congenial society, and relief from pursuit during her stay with Lord and Lady Dunsmuir in the Canadas. Well, perhaps not entirely. Being pursued by a handsome airship captain is rather diverting, especially when it appears her erstwhile employer, Andrew Malvern, is becoming much too distracted by a certain blond mechanic.
But a shot fired in the night puts an end to such diversions, and instead plunges her and her orphaned band of children into a fight for their very survival. Between secret conversations at the highest levels of society and skullduggery in the diamond mines, Claire must discover who is behind a series of alarming attempts on her friends’ lives—before her mother is compelled to make funeral arrangements yet again.
“Great fun, extremely feel-good reads that make you share all of the protagonists’ journeys and victories … an excellent steampunk series.” —Fangs for the Fantasy: The latest in urban fantasy from a social justice perspective.
3. eBook/Kindle
Secretly Smitten Anthology
Colleen Coble (Author, Contributor), Kristin Billerbeck (Contributor), Denise Hunter (Contributor), Diann Hunt (Contributor)
I have enjoyed these authors in a previous anthology.
Reviewing for Thomas Nelson.
Book Description
Publication Date: January 8, 2013
Summer, fall, winter, spring—Smitten, Vermont, is the place for love . . . and mystery!
There’s a secret in Grandma Rose’s attic—a forgotten set of dog tags belonging to her first love. But David Hutchins was killed in action and never returned to Smitten. How did the dog tags end up in the attic?
The mystery intrigues Rose’s three granddaughters—Tess, Clare, and Zoe—and they decide to investigate, though their mother, Anna, warns against meddling. But as the seasons turn and the mystery unravels, the three young women and their mother encounter some intriguing mystery men of their own. Has a sixty-year-old puzzle sparked something new for this close-knit family of women?
Join popular romance novelists—and real-life BFFs—Colleen Coble, Kristin Billerbeck, Diann Hunt, and Denise Hunter for four delightful intertwined tales of mystery and sweet intrigue.
I am sure I will start an Audio - I just haven't decided what yet.
I continue to listen to The Listener's Bible NIV read by Max McLean. [Reading and listening on MP3.] I am studying with the Tyndall One Year Bible this year, hoping to read daily along with my DH.
Line Edits: Several more releases being prepared for the next few weeks. I am still doing more Smashword conversions in between print formatting.
I have fewer books lined up for May, so I can pick some more that I want. Eight Nine of these are print which means two print books a week that may be harder... I will probably get one or two of them on Kindle for quicker reading (listening). The print books are looming but I'm digging in.
May Scheduled:
May 7: Clear Your Shelf Giveaway Hop
Early May: Kindle Fire Giveaway
May 22: Review + Giveaway: New Wings by Donna Stanley (Glass Road PR)
Other Giveaway Hop to be added
Sourcebooks: (Both release 5/7)
Heart of Iron by Bec McMaster
Undone (The Amoveo Legend) by Sara Humphrey
Hachette - Forever
Barefoot in the Sun by Roxanne St. Claire (April 30)
The Woman He Loved Before by Dorothy Koomson (May 14)
(All 5/28)
Haven Creek (A Cavanaugh Island Novel) by Rochelle Alers
The Sweet Spot (Sweet on a Cowboy) by Laura Drake
It Had to Be You by Jill Shalvis
NetGalley
Secretly Smitten Anthology (Thomas Nelson; with print Giveaway)
Harlequin
Better Than Chocolate (Life in Icicle Falls) by Sheila Roberts
Audios
To be Selected
Author Titles
TBD
From TBR Collection - TBD
Won Book - Lady of Devices.
Free Kindle/Nook or Smashwords: TBD
