1/31/2019

Blood Brothers by Nora Roberts

If you are looking for another kind of romance novel and love the touch of mysterious things compared with a great writing style, then this could be worth your time.

Blood Brothers* 
Author Nora Roberts
Sign Of Seven Trilogy #1
Publisher Jove Books on November 27, 2007
Genre Novel
Pages 336
Format Paperback

In the town of Hawkins Hollow, it´s called The Seven. Every seven years, on the seventh day of the seventh month, strange things happen. It began when three young boys – Caleb, Fox, and Gage – went on a camping trip to The Pagan Stone … It is only February, but Caleb Hawkins – a descendant of the town founders – has already seen and felt the stirrings of evil. Though he can never forget the beginning of the terror in the woods twenty-one-years ago, the signs have never been this strong before. Cal will need the help of his best friends Fox and Gage, but surprisingly he must rely on a stranger as well. Reporter Quinn Black came to Hawkins Hollow hoping to make its eerie happenings the subject of her new book. She too can see the evil the locals cannot, somehow connecting her to the town -and to Cal. As winter turns to spring, they will shed their inhibitions, surrendering to a desire that will grow and form the cornerstone of a group of men and women bound by the fight against what is to come from out of the darkness …

Thoughts

This book kind of surprised me. It was totally different from every book I knew so far from the author. 
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1/30/2019

Waiting On Wednesday #87 – Under Currents by Nora Roberts


is a weekly event that was originally hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. This meme is a place that spotlights upcoming releases that we´re eagerly anticipating with pure joy.

There are a lot of new books coming out each year and some of them catch my attention and will get a spotlight in my Waiting on Wednesday post. While some of them will finally end up here at my place, others won´t. I am joining Tressa at Wishful Endings and her meme Can´t-Wait Wednesday.

So far, I am not very fond of the cover. But you never know how a cover really looks until you hold it in your hands. And as an old Nora Roberts fan, I simply have to have this one. The summary sounds like a thriller and promises some dark and deep hidden secrets. Well, we´ll see how it will turn out. Until then I am waiting and hoping that my expectations will be fulfilled.



                         
Under Currents
Author Nora Roberts
Publishing Date July 9, 2019
Publisher St. Martin´s Press
Format Hardcover
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Within the walls of a tasteful, perfectly kept house in North Carolina´s Blue Ridge Mountains, young Zane Bigelow feels like a prisoner of war. Strangers – and even Zane´s own aunt across the lake – see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife, making appearances at their children´s ballet recitals and baseball games. Zane and his sister know the truth: There is something terribly wrong. As his father´s violent, controlling rages – and his mother´s complicity – become more and more oppressive, Zane counts the years, months, days until he can escape. He looks out for little Britt, warning her Be smart. Be careful. In fear for his very life, he plays along with the insidious lie that everything is fine while scribbling his real thoughts in a secret journal he must carefully hide away. When one brutal, shattering night finally reveals cracks in the façade, Zane begins to understand that some people are willing to face the truth, even when it hurts. As he grows into manhood and builds a new kind of family, he will find that while the darkness of his past may always shadow him, it will also show him what is necessary for good to triumph – and give him strength to draw on when he once again must stand up and defend himself and the ones he loves …


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1/23/2019

Waiting On Wednesday #86 – Nightblood by Elly Blake


is a weekly event that was originally hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. This meme is a place that spotlights upcoming releases that we´re eagerly anticipating with pure joy.

There are a lot of new books coming out each year and some of them catch my attention and will get a spotlight in my Waiting on Wednesday post. While some of them will finally end up here at my place, others won´t. I am joining Tressa at Wishful Endings and her meme Can´t-Wait Wednesday.

With this Waiting On Wednesday, I am presenting the German edition of Nightblood by Elly Blake. I am not sure, if I will go and buy the English edition and read that book first or if I will wait until my Library has it in stock. Either way, I am looking forward to seeing how things end with Ruby. If she gets the ending, she deserves and will have her happily ever after one way or the other.



                         
Fire & Frost Von Der Dunkelheit Geliebt
Author Elly Blake
Frostblood Saga #3
Original Title Nightblood
Publishing Date April 01, 2019
Publisher Ravensburger
Format Hardcover
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Ruby´s world has changed more than she ever could have imagined. She´s in love with a powerful Frost King. She´s the heir to the Fire Throne. And she may be a Nightblood – the spawn of a vengeful deity hellbent on releasing an imprisoned army of shadowy wraiths. Once freed, these beasts will roam the earth, devouring the spirits of every last person until he or she is nothing but an empty husk. Ruby is able to control the shadows to a degree, even hosting one in her own body. But will this tenuous connection – which threatens to consume her – be enough to hold the beasts back? With time running out, she must bring Frostbloods and Firebloods together to make a stand against an immortal foe more deadly than any she´s faced. And the price of peace may be her very life.  






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1/21/2019

The Life I Left Behind by Colette McBeth

The cover of the German edition somehow got me. I like the combined colors, with the roots and waterdrops and dark background. Totally different from the English edition.

The Life I Left Behind*
Author Colette McBeth
Publisher Headline Review on August 13, 2015
Genre Thriller
Pages 352
Format Paperback
Source Publisher 
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Six years ago, Melody Pieterson was attacked and left for dead. Only a chance encounter with a dog walker saved her life. Melody´s neighbor and close friend David Alden was found guilty of the crime and imprisoned, and the attack and David´s betrayal of her friendship left Melody a different person. She no longer trusts her own judgment, she no longer trusts her friends. In fact, she no longer really has any friends. She´s built a life behind walls and gates and security codes; she´s cloistered herself away from the world almost entirely. And then, soon after David is released from prison, Eve Elliot is murdered in an attack almost identical to Melody´s. With the start of a new police investigation, Melody is suddenly pulled from her ordered, secluded life and back into the messy world around her. But as she learns more about Eve´s murder, Melody starts to wonder if perhaps David hadn´t betrayed her after all … if perhaps the killer is someone else entirely, someone who´s still out there, preparing to strike again.

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I was thrilled after I´ve had read the authors book Precious Thing and was curious to find out if this one would be as thrilling as the other one.

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1/18/2019

Treasures Lost, Treasures Found by Nora Roberts

I read this novel in a phase of my life where I literally devoured books written by Nora Roberts. Her way of writing about romance was, back then, totally new to me and it was fascinating to dive into new worlds with her figures and stories.

Treasures Lost, Treasures Found* 
Author Nora Roberts
Publisher Silhouette Special Releases on August 14, 2017
Genre Novel
Pages 256
Format eBook
Source Purchased**

Kate Hardesty had inherited a dream: a pile of mysterious charts and notebooks, mapping the way to sunken treasure. Determined to complete her late father´s explorations, she returned to the island where she grew up, and hired deep-sea diver Dominic Silver – the man she left behind four years ago. But working with Dominic meant more than searching for gold … it meant finding the priceless treasure Kate hadn´t been looking for.

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But you can tell that there is a change of style, tone, and voice in her work. 
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1/16/2019

Waiting On Wednesday #85 – Lady Smoke by Laura Sebastian


is a weekly event that was originally hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. This meme is a place that spotlights upcoming releases that we´re eagerly anticipating with pure joy.

There are a lot of new books coming out each year and some of them catch my attention and will get a spotlight in my Waiting on Wednesday post. While some of them will finally end up here at my place, others won´t. I am joining Tressa at Wishful Endings and her meme Can´t-Wait Wednesday.

I am planning on reading Ash Princess soon. So why not wait for this one with curiosity and hope, that both will excite me and give me a good time while reading? And the cover is just beautiful. Don´t you think?

And sorry for being a bit late with my post. Somehow I thought I had it posted earlier this morning, but apparently, that wasn´t the case.



                       
Lady Smoke
Author Laura Sebastian
Ash Princess Trilogy #2
Publishing Date February 5, 2019
Publisher Delacorte Press
Format Hardcover
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The Kaiser murdered Theodosia´s mother, the Fire Queen when Theo was only six. He took Theo´s country and kept her prisoner, crowning her Ash Princess – a pet to toy with and humiliate for ten long years. That era has ended. The Kaiser thought his prisoner weak and defenseless. He didn´t realize that a sharp mind is the deadliest weapon. Theo no longer wears a crown of ashes. She has taken back her rightful title, and a hostage – Prinz Soren. But her people remain enslaved under the Kaiser´s rule, and now she is thousands of miles away from them and her throne. To get them back she will need an army. Only, securing an army means she must trust her aunt, the dreaded pirate Dragonsbane. And according to Dragonsbane, an army can only be produced if Theo takes a husband. Something an Astrean Queen has never done. Theo knows that freedom comes at a price, but she is determined to find a way to save her country without losing herself. 


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1/14/2019

The Heist by Daniel Silva

One of the few books it took me several attempts before I finally started reading it. And after I was thrilled with The Messenger, this one turned out to be average for me. Sad to say it, but I want to be honest with you.

The Heist
Author Daniel Silva
Gabriel Allon Series #14
Publisher Harper Collins on July 15, 2014
Genre Thriller
Pages 467
Format Hardcover
Source Library 
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Sometimes the best way to find a stolen masterpiece is to steal another one … Gabriel Allon, art restorer, and legendary spy is in Venice when he receives an urgent call from the Italian police. The art dealer Justin Isherwood has stumbled upon a chilling murder scene and is being held as a suspect. The dead man is a fallen spy with a secret – a trafficker in stolen artwork, sold to a mysterious collector. To save his friend, Gabriel must track down the world´s most iconic missing painting: Caravaggio´s Nativity with St. Francis and St. Lawrence. Gabriel´s mission takes him on an exhilarating hunt from Marseilles and Corsica to Paris and Geneva, and, finally, to a private bank in Austria, where a dangerous man stands guard over the ill-gotten wealth of one of the world’s most brutal dictators …


Thoughts

Sure, the way how Gabriel Allon did his work as a spy was fascinating, logical and very well thought through, but the rest?
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1/11/2019

Every Little Thing by Marie Force

After reading all its predecessors, I, of course, wanted to know how the story will continue. Good, this novel wasn´t about one of the Abbot children, but many of them were present.

Every Little Thing* 
Author Marie Force
The Butler, Vermont Series #1
Green Mountain Series #7
Publisher HTJB Inc on January 26, 2017
Genre Novel
Pages 338
Format Paperback
Source Purchased 

Grayson Coleman has just moved home to Butler, Vermont after spending years working for a high-powered law firm in Boston. He´s looking for a simpler, less stressful existence in the sleepy little mountain town where he grew up with his siblings and Abbott cousins. Once the holidays are over, he plans to hang out a shingle and open a new general law practice. After helping to raise his seven younger siblings, the last thing on Grayson´s mind is a family of his own. Emma Mulvaney is enjoying a break from her reality as a busy single mother in New York City while she and her adorable daughter, Simone, spend the holidays in Vermont with Emma´s sister, Lucy, and Lucy´s future in-laws, the Abbotts. After meeting Abbott cousin Grayson Coleman and talking to him for hours, Emma is nervous and excited to have dinner alone with him after sharing her deepest, most personal secrets with him. Will that first night be the start of something new for the jaded lawyer and the selfless single mom or will a holiday week flirtation turn into something much bigger than either of them ever expected?

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No question, the cover of the German edition is a soft and very feminine one – with all the rose tones in the motive. 

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1/09/2019

Waiting On Wednesday #84 – Queen Of Ruin by Tracy Banghart


is a weekly event that was originally hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. This meme is a place that spotlights upcoming releases that we´re eagerly anticipating with pure joy.

There are a lot of new books coming out each year and some of them catch my attention and will get a spotlight in my Waiting on Wednesday post. While some of them will finally end up here at my place, others won´t. I am joining Tressa at Wishful Endings and her meme Can´t-Wait Wednesday.

Not sure if it is just the cover that makes me want this or just to see how Serina and Nomi will keep fighting for their freedom and happiness and how things will end. I had a wonderful time reading book one and the fact, that women aren´t allowed to read or do other things I take for granted nowadays, is probably another reason to find out how this duology will end.



                 
Iron Flowers-Die Kriegerinnen
Author Tracy Banghart
Grace And Fury #2
Publishing Date January 23, 2019
Publisher Fischer Sauerländer
Format Hardcover
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When the new, brutal Superior banishes Nomi from Bellaqua, she finds herself powerless and headed towards her all-but-certain death. Her only hope is to find her sister, Serina, on the prison island of Mount Ruin. But when Nomi arrives, it is not the island of conquered, broken women that they expected. It is an island in the grip of revolution, and Serina - polite, submissive Serina – is its leader. Betrayal, grief, and violence have changed both sisters, and the women of Mount Ruin have their sights set on revenge beyond the confines of their island prison. They plan to sweep across the entire kingdom, issuing in a new age of freedom for all. But first they´ll have to get rid of the new Superior, and only Nomi knows how. Separated once again, this time by choice, Nomi and Serina must forge their own paths as they aim to tear down the world they know, and build something better in its place. 




The book will be released Queen of Ruin by Little Brown Books on July 2, 2019, as a hardcover


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1/06/2019

Best Authors Of 2018


During 2018 I discovered some new-to-me-authors like Mads Peder Nordbo, Brad Parks or Megan Miranda. I read many more authors but narrowed them down to a list of ten. You might miss the one or the other authors´ names, but I chose them after the books I´ve read and who impressed me the most.

Reading Holly Black´s The Cruel Prince made me become her fan. It wasn´t my first book written by her, but the one, that convinced me to keep reading her books. At least those that are about The Folk of the Air.

I am not always happy with the covers the books have when it comes to the German edition. And I am sure I wouldn´t have read Mads Peder Nordbo´s thriller if I had only looked at the German cover. It is not really my taste, although it is very fitting.

Usually, I don´t like to read books that are in the middle of an insanely huge hype. But for some reason, I just couldn´t resist buying Tomi Adeyemi´s debut novel. The cover alone is great and from my point of view, you either love or don´t love it.

While reading my first, but for sure not my last, Candis Terry novel I was sometimes laughing tears. The story was great, and the many hilarious scenes and dialogues made the novel an absolute worth-your-time book.

And Brad Parks? Holy cow. He knows how to keep you reading while he unfolds right in front of you a story that makes you shake your head as much as he confuses you. Until the very end, you literally asking yourself why and how this cruel thing the main figure has to go through could have happened.

Megan Miranda kind of goes in the same direction with her thrillers. Though she is more working with the deepest psychological twist and turns, you can possibly find in a sick mind.

Guess, I don´t have to write many words about Sandra Brown, Colleen Hoover, Christi Daugherty or Kendare Blake. Each of those authors is outstanding in their own genre and how they write what they write.


Holly Black


Mads Peder Nordbo


Sandra Brown

Christi Daugherty

Colleen Hoover

Candis Terry

Brad Parks

Kendare Blake

Megan Miranda

Tomi Adeyemi



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1/05/2019

Best Books Of 2018

Not sure if I am quite late with my list of the best books I´ve read in 2018 or if I am quite right doing it now.

But for some reasons, I didn´t see a point in creating my list while we still had December and I was still reading books until New Year´s Eve. You never know if the last book you´ve read during the last days of the year is a candidate for the best-books-list or not.

My Best Books of 2018 contains new releases, older books, some I read in English, some in German.

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1/02/2019

Waiting On Wednesday #83 – Soul Of The Sword by Julie Kagawa



is a weekly event that was originally hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine. This meme is a place that spotlights upcoming releases that we´re eagerly anticipating with pure joy.

There are a lot of new books coming out each year and some of them catch my attention and will get a spotlight in my Waiting on Wednesday post. While some of them will finally end up here at my place, others won´t. I am joining Tressa at Wishful Endings and her meme Can´t-Wait Wednesday.

I “met” Julie Kagawa for the first time when I discovered her Talon books. And though I haven´t finished that series yet, I was literally hooked when I saw the cover of  Shadow of the Fox being released on Twitter. My joy was immense when I found it under our Christmas tree and hope that I will be able to read it before this second one comes out in June. Now, with the news that the second book will be released later this year, I simply had to put it in one of my WoW´s. I love the blue in combination with the cover motive and the summary sounds very intriguing.



                   
Soul Of The Sword
Author Julie Kagawa
Shadow Of The Fox #2
Publishing Date June 18, 2019
Publisher Harlequin Teen
Format Hardcover
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One thousand years ago, a wish was made to the Harbinger of Change and a sword of rage and lightning was forged. Kamigoroshi. The Godslayer. It had on task: to seal away the powerful demon Hakaimono.
Now he has broken free.
Kitsune shapeshifter Yumeko has one task: to take her piece of the ancient and powerful scroll to the Steel Feather temple in order to prevent the summoning of the Harbinger of Change, the great Kami Dragon who will grant one wish to whomever holds the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers. But she has a new enemy now. The demon Hakaimono, who for centuries was trapped in a cursed sword, has escaped and possessed the boy she thought would protect her, Kage Tatsumi of the Shadow Clan. Hakaimono has done the unthinkable and joined forces with the Master of Demons in order to break the curse of the sword and set himself free. To overthrow the empire and cover the land in darkness, they need one thing: The Scroll of a Thousand Prayers. As the paths of Yumeko and the possessed Tatsumi cross once again, the entire empire will be thrown into chaos.


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