Tour: Circle of Witches by Margaret Frazer

Circle Of Witches by Margaret Frazer

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 What It's About!
 

A GOTHIC ROMANCE. MISTY MOORS. ANCIENT SECRETS. FORBIDDEN PASSIONS. 

Her mother had always been afraid. That's what Damaris remembered. From 
the time she was a little girl until the day her mother died, she had seen the fear in her eyes.  

But now she understood. Now she was afraid, too. 

 Young Damaris wanted more than anything to be happy at Thornoak, the 
ancient manor owned by her aunt and uncle. Adventuring through the wide, 
open beauty of the Dale in the company of her rambunctious cousins she 
rediscovered a joy she had thought lost with the death of her parents.  

And in the deep, storm-tossed eyes of Lauran Ashbrigg she was surprised 
to find an entirely new emotion.

But even under the warm and inviting sun, Damaris is chilled by the 
undeniable fact that the family which claims to welcome and love her is 
hiding truths from her: The truth of the Lady Stone. The truth of the 
Old Ways. The truth of moon and star and witchcraft.

The truth of her mother's death.

~PRAISE FOR MARGARET FRAZER~ 

"Exquisitely written, the novel offers a brilliantly realized vision... 
Suspenseful from start to surprising conclusion, this is another gem 
from an author who's twice been nominated for an Edgar." - Publisher's 
Weekly 

 "Love the passionate attention to detail in character, custom, and 
setting, and the sympathetic creation of believable people and events. 
Essential." - Library Journal of New York 

“A lovingly told story, rich with fascinating description. Ms. Frazer 
provides a real treat for lovers of all things.” – Toby Bromberg, 
Romantic Times 

 "The writing is seamless... Rich period detail, canny characterization, 
and a lively plot should endear her tales to anyone..." - Minneapolis 
Star Tribune 

“Mystery… Suspense… Frazer executes with audacity and ingenuity.” – 
Kirkus Reviews

 

"Weaves a budding romance and a grand, unrequited passion with a bold 
and dangerous plot... Great fun for all!" - Alfred Hitchcock Magazine 

 "Frazer's books will be among those I read as soon as I see them." - 
Houston Facts 

Twice nominated for the Minnesota Book Award.
Twice nominated for the Edgar Award.
A Romantic Times Top Pick.
A Herodotus Award Winner.

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Margaret Frazer is the award-winning author of more than twenty 
historical murder mysteries and novels, including the Edgar-nominated 
Sister Frevisse and Player Joliffe series. She makes her home in 
Minneapolis, Minnesota, surrounded by her books, but she lives her life 
in the 1400s.

"Over the years I’ve had a rag-tag of various jobs, including 
librarian, secretary, reseacher for a television station, gift shop 
manager, and assistant matron at an English girls’ school. Married once 
upon a time but not anymore, I have two well-grown sons who become 
uneasy if I read books about poisons at the supper table and refuse to 
turn their backs on me when I say I want to try something I might use in 
a story. When I write, I want to delve as far inside the perceptions of 
my characters as possible, to look at their world more from their point 
of view than from ours, because the pleasure of going thoroughly into 
otherwhen as well as otherwhere — the chance to move right away from the 
familiar into a whole other way of seeing and behaving — has always been 
one of my own great pleasures in reading. As a writer I deeply want to 
give that same pleasure to others."

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Snow White Sorrow (The Grimm Diaries #1) by Cameron Jace

Publisher: Akmal Eldin Farouk Ali Shebl
Release Date: February 2013
Pages: 384
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What It's About!

What if all you knew about fairy tales was wrong?
Sixteen year old Loki Blackstar is no Prince Charming. His mother is a ghost. His only friend is a red Cadillac that talks to him through the radio. He looks like an Angel but acts like jerk. No wonder he has been banned from Heaven, which is the least of his troubles. Loki needs a job to pay for school and support himself.

Still, Loki has a rare gift: He is a Dreamhunter. One of the few in the world who can hunt and kill immortal demons in their dreams so they never wake up again.

When Loki is sent to kill a sixteen-year-old vampire girl the locals call Snow White Sorrow, he is pulled into a magical but dangerous world. The locals believe the monster to be Snow White.

The real Snow White... living in the ruins of an ancient castle in a small town. She is described as horribly beautiful, terrifyingly enchanting, and wickedly lovely.

What he finds instead is a beautiful monster girl filled with rage and hurt, who has an epic untold story to tell of things such like why the Brothers Grimm altered the fairy tale, who the Evil Queen really is, where the mirror came from, and who possessed it.

Snow White has killed every person who has dared come near the castle where she once lived with the queen. Mysteriously, she lets Loki live, and whispers two words in his ears; two words that will change his life forever.

Excerpt from:

SNOW WHITE BLOOD RED

Dear Wilhelm Carl Grimm, 

  

She is not that giddy, naïve, and helpless princess she pretends to be. Please don’t let her fool you with her innocence if you see her sing to the birds in the forest. Resist her charm from bringing joyful tears to your eyes, and shield yourself from her devious beauty before she deceives you into wanting to kiss her awake. It'll  be a kiss of death. Your death. That’s how she fooled the Huntsman, Prince Charming, and me, her birth mother. 

I still remember the original script of the fairy tale, the one you wrote in 1812. It clearly stated that she was my own flesh and blood daughter. I don’t have the slightest idea why you altered it fifty years later. 

What was the point of turning me into an evil, narcissistic, and heartless stepmother, blinded by jealousy and envy of the young princess? 

For years, I have been looking forward to telling you the truth about her, but you were impossible to reach. 

I am glad I found your brother, Jacob. He told me that you wanted to tone the stories down so children could sleep better at night, instead of having nightmares about the Queen who sought to eat her daughter’s heart and liver. 

Shame on you, Wilhelm. 

You, of all authors, knew why I wanted to kill her. My actions were justified. I was trying to save my kingdom from her wrath, before everything we loved was destined to an end. The same way you had to rewrite the true fairytales after cursing us, so the War of Sorrows would end forever after. 

Night after night, and year after year, parents fed their children false bedtime stories, until your lies grew into inescapable memories. Your happily ever after lies, Wilhelm, shaped the so called fairy tale world. 

I wondered why you didn’t burn the original scripts, instead of rewriting them. You must have figured out that sooner or later someone would dig up the truth and expose you. Altering it was the smarter solution. You let children believe that the bites were resurrecting kisses, and that torturing glass coffins were made for sleeping beauties, waiting for a prince to come and kiss them awake. 

A wise man once said that the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he was someone else. You did the same with us, Wilhelm. You turned us into pastiches of the immortals that we really are, and made it harder for us if wanted to persuade the world otherwise. 

I know that you did it to save us from her. And I appreciate how you concealed our real names, or we would have ended up like Rumpelstiltskin, tortured by those who knew of his real name. 

But sometimes, I can’t help but wonder why no one ever questioned why I was called the Evil Queen, and why I was never given a real name in the books. 

Was I so superficial to the world, so stereotypical and mundane? Why was I treated as if I were the monster of the week? 

You know what I think? I think that the world never got the time to hate me. It just wanted to hate me long before it met me. 

If I tell those who detest me about the true nature of their little princess, would they ever care about me half as much as they care about her? 

I know that deep inside, they adore me. They like the way I talk, walk, dress, and even the way I kill. 

They are just afraid to admit how much they love me. I am the Snow White Queen, strong enough that I don’t need anyone’s pity or love, because I am loved by the greatest and most majestic heart in the world: 

Mine.

 Cameron's Website/Goodreads/Twitter/Facebook

 Wonderlander, Neverlander, Unicorn-chaser, enchanter, musician, survived a coma, & totally awesome. Sometimes I tell stories. Always luv the little monsters, I write young adult paranormal romance, urban fantasy, and science fiction, mostly. The Grimm Diaries series is a seven book saga that deals with retellings of fairy tales from a young adult POV - it connects most of the fairy tales together and claims to be the truth about fairy tales. I live in San Fransisco and seriously think circles are way cooler than triangles.

Timespell by Diana Paz Tour

Timespell by Diana Paz

Publisher:  Rhemalda Publishing
Release Date: April 1st/2013
Pages: N/A
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What It's About!

In TIMESPELL, the brash and impulsive Julia must team up with her sweet and straight-laced best friend, Angie, and the malicious and power-hungry Kaitlyn in order to keep the witch-like powers of her inheritance. But these powers come at a cost. The girls are bound to serve the Fates, and their first mission sends them back in time to Marie Antoinette’s Paris and eventually, into the chaos and war of the French Revolution.

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Diana Paz writes books about magic, adventure, and romance. She was born in Costa Rica, grew up on Miami Beach, moved to Los Angeles in high school, and went to college in San Diego. Basically, she’s a beach bum. Diana graduated from California State University, San Marcos with a Bachelor’s Degree in Liberal Arts. She loves old movies, epic fantasy, all kinds of music, and heading to the beach with a good book. Preferably sipping a highly sweetened iced coffee.

Earthbound by Aprilynne Pike

Earthbound by Aprilynne Pike

Publisher: RazorBill
Release Date: July 30th/2013
Pages: N/A
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What It's About!

Tavia, the "Earthbound" heroine, is the sole survivor of a plane crash that killed her parents and left her in the keeping of an aunt and uncle. She's safe, she's happy, she should be able to move on with her life. But she can't shake the feeling that something's not right—not when she keeps having visions of a beautiful, alluring stranger who wants her to leave her family and flee to Maine, and not when it starts to look like the accident that orphaned her was part of a plot to end her life. Soon, she's on the run with no one to trust...except the childhood friend she's sworn to love forever, and whose heart she'd have to break to learn the truth about who she is.

 

Finale Review

Finale (Hush, Hush #4) by Becca Fiztpatrick

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readrs
Pages: 454
Release Date: October 27th/2012
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What It's About! 

Will love conquer all?

Nora and Patch thought their troubles were behind them. Hank is gone and they should be able to put his ugly vendetta to rest. But in Hank's absence, Nora has become the unwitting head of the Nephilim and must finish what Hank began. Which ultimately means destroying the fallen angels - destroying Patch.

Nora will never let that happen, so she and Patch make a plan: lead everyone to believe they have broken up, and work the system from the inside. Nora will convince the Nephilim that they are making a mistake in fighting the fallen angels, and Patch will find out everything he can from the opposing side. They will end this war before it can even begin.

But the best-laid plans often go awry. Nora is put through the paces in her new role and finds herself drawn to an addictive power she never anticipated.

As the battle lines are drawn, Nora and Patch must confront the differences that have always been between them and either choose to ignore them or let them destroy the love they have always fought for.

 Review

Finale turned out to be better than I had expected. I was originally going to give it a 4 but decided to give it a 5 after reading the ending. This book was packed full of action, secrets and surprises. Some characters turned out to be better or worse than originally thought, and at the end of the battle we lose many, but only one important character. I wanted to throw my kobo into a wall I was so mad that the author killed off one of the main characters I've come to really like over the series. 

This book didn't keep me very interested in the beginning, but I kept reading since I HAD to find out what would happen to my precious characters, since I've been with them since book one. By about halfway through, I started getting really wound up in the story and by the time I reached the last few chapters I was swept right up in the whirlwind of events and couldn't put the book down until I finished it. There was also a point somewhere near the middle of the book where I wanted to punch Patch in the face, but that quickly ended when I found out the truth about what was happening. THANK GOD, 'cause someone was gonna lose a limb! Nora was her usual *dumb* self, but she wasn't as bad as she has been in past books, but that could just be me. There were definite points where I was all ARE YOU SERIOUS?! OF COURSE IT'S A ****ING TRAP! Thankfully, there were only a few of those so it didn't change my love of these books.

I have to say, it's a pretty good conclusion to the end of these books. It was just...so perfect. Made me cry a little inside...but still perfect. Especially the very end right before the epilogue, which was the most romantic part in the whole book! It blew my expectations out of the water and made me love this series even more. If your a Hush, Hush fan, you'll definitely need to read Finale!

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Beauty by Nancy Ohlin

Publisher: Simon Pulse
Pages: 208
Release Date: May 7th/2013
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What It's About!

Looks to kill for...

Ana is nothing like her glamorous mother, Queen Veda, whose hair is black as ravens and whose lips are red as roses. Alas, Queen Veda loathes anyone whose beauty dares to rival her own—including her daughter.

And despite Ana’s attempts to be plain to earn her mother’s affection, she’s sent away to the kingdom’s exclusive boarding school.

At the Academy, Ana is devastated when her only friend abandons her for the popular girls. Isolated and alone, Ana resolves to look like a true princess to earn the acceptance she desires.

But when she uncovers the dangerous secret that makes all of the girls at the Academy so gorgeous, just how far will Ana go to fit in?