The Wish Granter by CJ Redwine (YA)
Set in the Ravenspire world, the novel takes place in the neighboring Kingdom of Sundraille.
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what are you reading April 2017?
- princess garnet
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Re: what are you reading April 2017?
I have been reading Blood and Beauty: The Borgias by Sarah Dunant since March 21 according to my post above. (Well, actually not reading it. Doing crossword puzzles on my Kindle has been more interesting.) I have nothing against Dunant. I've read a couple of her novels and liked them. However, I think I've come to the realization that I don't like any members of the Borgia family. There's not one of them I can sympathize with, root for, feel compassion for. They are all just awful. Ditching this book and going to start A Memory of Violets: A Novel of London's Flower Sellers by Hazel Gaynor. There's got to be at least one flower seller who can earn my sympathy.by Susan » Tue Mar 21, 2017 7:48 am
Blood and Beauty: The Borgias by Sarah Dunant. Trying the Borgias again. Last year I tried C.W. Gortner's Vatican Princess about Lucrezia Borgia. I enjoyed the beginning in Rome with the papal politics, but once Lucrezia left Rome, something made me lose interest, and I did not finish it. I am hoping that without the focus on one person, this one will be better for me.
~Susan~
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Re: what are you reading April 2017?
Love Alters Not by Patricia Veryan.
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be
...is the only place I want to be
- MLE (Emily Cotton)
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- Interest in HF: started in childhood with the classics, which, IMHO are HF even if they were contemporary when written.
- Favourite HF book: Prince of Foxes, by Samuel Shellabarger
- Preferred HF: Currently prefer 1600 and earlier, but I'll read anything that keeps me turning the page.
- Location: California Bay Area
Re: what are you reading April 2017?
listening to a bio of Truman by David McCullough. He is so incredibly thorough if it weren't an audiobook, I'd have put it down long since.
- Madeleine
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- Currently reading: "Mania" by L J Ross
- Preferred HF: Plantagenets, Victorian, crime, dual time-frame
- Location: Essex/London
Re: what are you reading April 2017?
Just started "In a dark dark wood" by Ruth Ware, a thriller.
Currently reading "Mania" by L J Ross
- Nefret
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- Favourite HF book: Welsh Princes trilogy
- Preferred HF: The Middle Ages (England), New Kingdom Egypt, Medieval France
- Location: Temple of Isis
Re: what are you reading April 2017?
The Winter Sea went back to the library for now. I am reading too many other things.
Into battle we ride with Gods by our side
We are strong and not afraid to die
We have an urge to kill and our lust for blood has to be fulfilled
WE´LL FIGHT TILL THE END! And send our enemies straight to Hell!
- "Into Battle"
{Ensiferum}
We are strong and not afraid to die
We have an urge to kill and our lust for blood has to be fulfilled
WE´LL FIGHT TILL THE END! And send our enemies straight to Hell!
- "Into Battle"
{Ensiferum}
- Vanessa
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- Currently reading: The Farm at the Edge of the World by Sarah Vaughan
- Interest in HF: The first historical novel I read was Katherine by Anya Seton and this sparked off my interest in this genre.
- Favourite HF book: Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell!
- Preferred HF: Any
- Location: North Yorkshire, UK
Re: what are you reading April 2017?
I've just started Earthly Joys by Philippa Gregory, one of her lesser known novels.
currently reading: My Books on Goodreads
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
Books are mirrors, you only see in them what you already have inside you ~ The Shadow of the Wind
- lauradupre
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- Joined: April 2017
- Currently reading: Tudor Bride
- Interest in HF: Historical fiction was my guilty pleasure when I was in grad school, getting my Master's in History. Back then, I read everything I could about the American Revolution and early republic. Now, as I'm researching my ancestors, I'm obsessed with French history. I've stuck in the Renaissance era.
- Favourite HF book: Minette by Melanie Clegg
- Preferred HF: How many can I have? WWI, American Revolution, Renaissance, 18th Century,
- Location: USA
Re: what are you reading April 2017?
Book 5 of the Outlander series, now in April.
- princess garnet
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Re: what are you reading April 2017?
Until the Dawn by Elizabeth Camden
Re: what are you reading April 2017?
Cherished Enemy by Patricia Veryan. This author is very hard to walk away from, Love Alters Not (book #4 in The Golden Chronicles) was a huge hit for me. Lots of action, derring-do and evil doers, but this one was soooooooooooooooooooo funny with a little boy and mischief and the heroine's wardrobe errors being stuck with clothes too small for her and her bosom.
At home with a good book and the cat...
...is the only place I want to be
...is the only place I want to be