Mailbox Monday, created by Marcia, is on a blog tour! This month’s host is Dolce Bellezza. King of Thorns by Mark Lawrence (purchased) To reach greatness you must step on bodies. I’ll win this game of ours, though the cost of it may drown the world in blood… A six nation army marches toward Jorg’s gates, led by a shining hero determined to unite the empire and heal its wounds. Every omen says he will. Every good king knows to bend the knee in the face of overwhelming odds, if only to save their people and their lands. But King Jorg… Read more »

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  Mailbox Monday, created by Marcia, is on a blog tour! This month’s host is  4 the LOVE of BOOKS.  Plain Jane by Laurien Gardner (bookmooch) With a plain face, Jane Seymour has no suitors and few hopes. Then she is granted a position at court as maid of honor to Queen Catherine. There, Henry VIII ignores his aging wife, showering favor on the dark beauty Anne Boleyn, soon to be his new queen. But he tires of stubborn Anne, and his wandering eye falls on plain Jane. Although she cares for Henry, she must not let herself be swept away by his… Read more »

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   Mailbox Monday, created by Marcia, is on a blog tour! This month’s host is  4 the LOVE of BOOKS. Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi (purchased) Aria is a teenager in the enclosed city of Reverie. Like all Dwellers, she spends her time with friends in virtual environments, called Realms, accessed through an eyepiece called a Smarteye. Aria enjoys the Realms and the easy life in Reverie. When she is forced out of the pod for a crime she did not commit, she believes her death is imminent. The outside world is known as The Death Shop, with danger in… Read more »

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   Mailbox Monday, created by Marcia, is on a blog tour! This month’s host is  4 the LOVE of BOOKS. The Scroll of Seduction: A Novel of Power, Madness, and Royalty by Gioconda Belli (bookmooch) On an outing from her boarding school, young Lucia meets Manuel–art historian and exquisite storyteller–who shares with her the tale of one of history’s most tumultuous loves: Queen Juana of Castile’s legendary devotion to her husband, Prince Philippe the Handsome. Embracing a union thrust upon her by political necessity, Juana responds with all the passionate abandon inherent in her fiery nature–and is forced to pay a high… Read more »

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   Mailbox Monday, created by Marcia, is on a blog tour! This month’s host is MariReads. Evermore by Alyson Noel (bookmooch) After a horrible accident claims the lives of her family, sixteen-year-old Ever Bloom can see people’s auras, hear their thoughts, and know someone’s entire life story by touching them. Going out of her way to avoid human contact to suppress her abilities, she has been branded a freak at her new high school — but everything changes when she meets Damen Auguste. Damen is gorgeous, exotic and wealthy. He’s the only one who can silence the noise and random energy in… Read more »

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   Mailbox Monday, created by Marcia, is on a blog tour! This month’s host is MariReads. Prince of Darkness by Sharon Kay Penman (bought) Justin de Quincy hastens to Paris at the request of his former lover only to discover that she was acting on behalf of his nemesis, Prince John. The prince has been implicated in a plot to kill his brother, King Richard, and wants Justin to prove the incriminating document false. Realizing that John’s suspected treachery may also risk the welfare of the woman he serves, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Justin reluctantly agrees to help. But his investigation unravels a… Read more »

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  Mailbox Monday, created by Marcia, is on a blog tour! This month’s host is MariReads.  Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt by Joyce Tyldesley (bought) Histories of women usually bring with them histories of women’s world and women’s work–in other words, the daily life of a culture. This look at ancient Egyptian women is no different. British archaeologist and researcher Tyldesley illuminates women’s positions as cooks, washerwomen, dancers, mourners, weavers, priestesses, mothers, wives and–on very rare occasions–pharaohs. Tyldesley doesn’t try to simplify a subject complicated by linguistic subtleties, lack of archaeological evidence, ancient propaganda and the orientalist mythology of seething harems… Read more »

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  Mailbox Monday, created by Marcia, is on a blog tour! This month’s host is MariReads. Bayou Moon by Ilona Andrews (bought) The Edge lies between worlds, on the border between the Broken, where people shop at Walmart and magic is a fairytale–and the Weird, where blueblood aristocrats rule, changelings roam, and the strength of your magic can change your destiny… Cerise Mar and her unruly clan are cash poor but land rich, claiming a large swathe of the Mire, the Edge swamplands between the state of Louisiana and the Weird. When her parents vanish, her clan’s long-time rivals are suspect number one…. Read more »

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   Mailbox Monday, created by Marcia, is on a blog tour! This month’s host is chaotic compendiums. Poisoned Legacy: The Decline and Fall of the Nineteenth Egyptian Dynasty by Aidan Dodson (bought) After the death of RamesesII, the Nineteenth Dynasty, soon fell into decline and familial conflict, culminating in a final civil war that ended with the accession of a new dynasty. Sethy I and Rameses II’s promotion of a concept of a wider ‘royal family’ may have sown the seeds for the conflicts among their descendants. Aidan Dodson explores the mysteries of the origins of the usurper-king Amenmeses and the career… Read more »

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  Mailbox Monday, created by Marcia, is on a blog tour! This month’s host is chaotic compendiums. Horemheb by Charlotte Booth (bought) Horemheb ruled Egypt after Tutankhamun, and was fundamental in bringing Egypt back to the rich and powerful nation it was before Akhenaten took the throne. Rather than simply clearing up the mess left behind after the Amarna period, he lay the foundations for the kings who were to come, and his choice of heir to the throne, led eventually to the rule of Ramses II, one of the most famous kings in Egyptian history.This book puts Horemheb in his rightful place… Read more »

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