Can’t Wait Wednesday : The Sisters Mederos by Patrice Sarath
7 February 2018
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Breaking the Spine, Can't wait Wednesday, Patrice Sarath, The Sisters Mederos, Wishful Endings
“Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme that was originally created by Breaking the Spine. Unfortunately Breaking the Spine are no longer hosting so I’m now linking my posts up to Wishful Endings Can’t Wait Wednesday. Don’t forget to stop over, link up and check out what books everyone else is waiting for. If you want to take part, basically, every Wednesday, we highlight a book that we’re really looking forward to. This week my book is: The Sisters Mederos by Patrice Sarath.
I love the sound of this one and the cover is very eye catching:
Two sisters fight with manners, magic, and mayhem to reclaim their family’s name, in this captivating historical fantasy adventure.
House Mederos was once the wealthiest merchant family in Port Saint Frey. Now the family is disgraced, impoverished, and humbled by the powerful Merchants Guild. Daughters Yvienne and Tesara Mederos are determined to uncover who was behind their family’s downfall and get revenge. But Tesara has a secret – could it have been her wild magic that caused the storm that destroyed the family’s merchant fleet? The sisters’ schemes quickly get out of hand – gambling is one thing, but robbing people is another…
Together the sisters must trust each other to keep their secrets and save their family.
Due for publication April 2018.
I’m trapped under an avalanche of books – send help
6 February 2018
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: That Artsy Reader Girl, The Broke and the Bookish, Top Ten Tuesday
Top Ten Tuesday
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme where every Tuesday we look at a particular topic for discussion and use various (or more to the point ten) bookish examples to demonstrate that particular topic. Top Ten Tuesday (created and hosted by The Broke and Bookish) is now being hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl and future week’s topics can be found here. This week’s topic is :
Books That Have Been On My TBR the Longest and I Still Haven’t Read
This topic just makes me feel very guilty! But, here goes, books I’ve had for ages but haven’t yet found the time to read – I will do it. There is no try. These are all books on my kindle (so in fairness they’re probably not the books I’ve had the longest as some of the hard copy books I’ve bought have been around much longer:
- The 57 Lives of Alex Wayfare by M G Buehrien
- Dinner at Deviant’s Palace by Tim Powers
- The Rook by Daniel O’Malley
- The Golem and the Djinni by Helene Wecker
- Gemsigns by Stephanie Saulter
- The Adamantine Palace by Stephen Deas
- The Shambling Guide to New York City by Mur Lafferty
- The Legend of Eli Monpress by Rachel Aaron
- Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
- A Darker Shade of Magic by VE Schwab
It’s quite disgraceful how many unread books I’ve bought and haven’t read – this barely scratches the surface. Send help.
Have you read any of the above – should I bump any of these up the list?? Should I knock any off the list?? Enquiring minds.
Weekly Wrap Up : 04/02/18
Hi everyone. Hope you’ve had a good week. I’ve had a quick week and also a few days away so if I’m not visiting as much that’s why. Hope you’ve all had a good week. This week will be a quick post:
Books read:
- Chaos Trims My Beard by Brett Herman
- The Chrysalids by John Wyndham (Vintage Sci Fi book)
- The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
Next Week’s Reads:
- Semiosis by Sue Burke
- Paris Adrift by E.J. Swift
- The Toymakers by Robert Dinsdale
Upcoming reviews:
- Starborn by Lucy Hounsom
- Envy of Angels by Matt Wallace
- The War of Undoing by Alex Perry (my first SPFBO book)
- The Belles Dhonielle Clayton
- The Hazel Wood by Imogen Hermes Gowar
- Chaos Trims My Beard by Brett Herman
- The Chrysalids by John Wyndham (Vintage Sci Fi book)
- The Gone World by Tom Sweterlitsch
I’d love to know what you’re reading this week.
#SPFBO Finalists: My third book
3 February 2018
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Jonathan S Pembroke, Pilgrimage to Skara, SPFBO '17
Below is a round up of the ten finalists that have been put forward in this year’s SPFBO (Self Published Fantasy Blog Off). A link with more information about the competition can be found here.
My first book, chosen randomly was The War of Undoing by Alex Perry and my second book was Chaos Trims my Beard by Brett Herman. I’ve read both now and have decided that I will read my third book and then post three reviews in fairly quick succession together with their scores – taking me through the first third of my finalisates. My third book is Pilgrimage to Skara by Jonathan S Pembroke put forward by the Booknest.
A little bit more about the book:
It has been nearly two decades since Pell Wendt abandoned the power and prestige of Collum. Ruled by the semi-divine Ajudicar, the city had been his home all his life, but no longer. Spurned by the woman he loved, the former pathfinder, adventurer and criminal walked away from his life of escorting promising youngsters to the shrines of power, and retreated to his farm in the Sogras, to live a life of bitter and brooding rejection.
Now, House Kettiburg has reached out with a an offer he can’t refuse: a pilgrimage to Skara, a mythical and dangerous shrine far out in the barbarous Outlands, for the supplicant Keilie – the daughter of the very woman who rejected him.
Trapped by the love his heart cannot deny, Wendt agrees to the pilgrimage and finds himself embroiled in intrigue and betrayal, with far-reaching implications for himself, Keilie, and the tattered remains of the human race
‘Groovy baby…’
2 February 2018
Filed under Book Reviews
Tags: Books by Proxy, Drew Magary, Friday Face off, The Hike
Here we are again with the Friday Face Off meme created by Books by Proxy . This is a great opportunity to feature some of your favourite book covers. The rules are fairly simple each week, following a predetermined theme (list below) choose a book, compare a couple of the different covers available for that particular book and choose your favourite. Future week’s themes are listed below. This week’s theme:
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds – a Psychedelic cover
This week I had a few books in mind – there are some cracking sci-fi covers that would have fit this week’s theme but I’ve gone for a book that is a bit trippy to read and has a cover to match: The Hike by Drew Magary. I loved this book and think it deserves a shout out whenever possible:
I like the original cover – which is the fourth one shown but my favourite this week is:
Because of the funky blue crab.
Which is your favourite?
Next week – a cover featuring a cloaked figure
Future themes:
9th February – ‘My what big teeth you have’ – a cover featuring a cloaked figure
16th February – ‘Groovy baby’ – a cover that is: Retro
23rd February – “There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me” – a cover featuring a staircase
2nd March – ‘The only true wisdom is to know that you know nothing’ – a cover featuring something from Greek mythology
9th March – ‘…but Icarus flew too close’ – a cover featuring the Sun
16th March – ‘I got no strings to hold me down’ – a cover featuring a doll or puppet
23rd March – “When she was a child, the witch locked her away in a tower that had neither doors nor stairs.” – a cover featuring a Tower
30th March – ‘A little soil to make it grow’ – a cover featuring seeds/spores
6th April – “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations.” – a cover featuring a family
13th April – ‘lawns and rocks and heather and different sorts of trees, lay spread out below them, the river winding through it’ – a cover featuring a panorama
20th April – Where there’s fire there’s… – a cover featuring smoke
27th April – ‘Those darling byegone times… with their delicious fortresses, and their dear old dungeons, and their delightful places of torture’ – a cover that is positively mediaeval
4th May- ‘A Hand without a hand? A bad jape, sister.’ – a cover featuring a hand/hands
11th May – ‘Dinosaurs eat man. Woman inherits the earth’ – a cover featuring a dinosaur/s
18th May – ‘Let’s talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs;’ – a cover featuring a gravestone
25th May – Trip trap, trip trap, trip trap – a cover featuring footsteps
1st June – clinging and invasive – a cover featuring creeping vines
8th June – Raining Cats and Dogs – a cover featuring a stormy sky
