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Comment by Mk on July 25, 2012 at 11:32am

Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake: Book Review & Giveaway

Enter to win the bestselling Anna Dressed in Blood at http://popcornreads.com/?p=4318. This romantic & horrific ghost story has taken the YA book world by storm!

Comment by Mia Searles on July 25, 2012 at 6:28am

Hi! I just finished a new book review on my blog for This Is Not a Test by Courtney Summers: http://themusescircle.blogspot.com/2012/07/book-review-this-is-not-...

 

Synopsis: It’s the end of the world. Six students have taken cover in Cortege High but shelter is little comfort when the dead outside won’t stop pounding on the doors. One bite is all it takes to kill a person and bring them back as a monstrous version of their former self.

To Sloane Price, that doesn’t sound so bad. Six months ago, her world collapsed and since then, she’s failed to find a reason to keep going. Now seems like the perfect time to give up. As Sloane eagerly waits for the barricades to fall, she’s forced to witness the apocalypse through the eyes of five people who actually want to live.

But as the days crawl by, the motivations for survival change in startling ways and soon the group’s fate is determined less and less by what’s happening outside and more and more by the unpredictable and violent bids for life—and death—inside.

When everything is gone, what do you hold on to?

Check out what I have to say about it on my blog, The Muses Circle!

http://themusescircle.blogspot.com/

Comment by Mk on July 19, 2012 at 11:14am

Book Review & Giveaway: The Sandcastle Girls by Chris Bohjalian

Enter to win this amazing novel at http://popcornreads.com/?p=4283. It combines a woman's search for family history and an inspiring love story set amid the WWI Armenian genocide. (part of the Vacation Reads Giveaway Hop)

Comment by Mia Searles on July 18, 2012 at 6:17am

Lies Beneath by Anne Greenwood Brown

My review can be viewed on my blog at: The Muses Circle

Link to my review: http://themusescircle.blogspot.com/2012/07/book-review-lies-beneath...

Synopsis: Calder White lives in the cold, clear waters of Lake Superior, the only brother in a family of murderous mermaids. To survive, Calder and his sisters prey on humans, killing them to absorb their energy. But this summer the underwater clan targets Jason Hancock out of pure revenge. They blame Hancock for their mother's death and have been waiting a long time for him to return to his family's homestead on the lake. Hancock has a fear of water, so to lure him in, Calder sets out to seduce Hancock's daughter, Lily. Easy enough—especially as Calder has lots of practice using his irresistible good looks and charm on unsuspecting girls. Only this time Calder screws everything up: he falls for Lily—just as Lily starts to suspect that there's more to the monsters-in-the-lake legends than she ever imagined. And just as his sisters are losing patience with him.

Check out what I have to say about Lies Beneath on my blog here:

http://themusescircle.blogspot.com/2012/07/book-review-lies-beneath...

Comment by Mk on July 13, 2012 at 12:28pm

ARC Giveaway & Book Review: When in Doubt, Add Butter by Beth Harbison

To enter to win this funny, touching romance about a private chef who can't get her personal life on track, go to http://popcornreads.com/?p=4241.

Comment by Mia Searles on July 12, 2012 at 12:02am

New book review on my blog for: The Car Thief by Theodore Weesner!

Link to review: http://themusescircle.blogspot.com/2012/06/book-review-car-thief.html

Synopsis: It’s 1959. Sixteen year-old Alex Housman has just stolen his fourteenth car and frankly doesn’t know why. His divorced, working class father grinds out the night shift at the local Chevy Plant in Detroit, looking forward to the flask in his glove compartment, and the open bottles of booze in his Flint, Michigan home. Abandoned and alone, father and son struggle to express a deep love for each other, even as Alex fills his day juggling cheap thrills and a crushing depression. And then there’s Irene Shaeffer, the pretty girl in school whose admiration Alex needs like a drug in order to get by.

Broke and fighting to survive, Alex and his father face the realities of estrangement, incarceration, and even violence as their lives unfold toward the climactic episode that a New York Times reviewer called “one of the most profoundly powerful in American fiction.”

Come check out what I have to say about it on my blog!

http://themusescircle.blogspot.com/2012/06/book-review-car-thief.html

Mia @ The Muses Circle

Comment by Mk on July 9, 2012 at 10:54am

Spy Mom by Beth McMullen: Book Review & Giveaway

We’re giving away 4 copies of Spy Mom: The Adventures of Sally Sin by Beth McMullen. This 2-book set is one of the funniest mommy detective/spy series I’ve read in a long time! Enter to win at http://popcornreads.com/?p=4214.

Comment by Patricia Kemp Blackmon on July 9, 2012 at 9:52am

 ROAD TO the CHRISTYS 

Nominated for HISTORICAL in the Christys Award

MINE IS THE NIGHT written by Liz Curtis Higgs

 

A peak at my review. http://itstimetoreadmamaw.blogspot.com/2012/07/road-to-christys-his...

The author did an outstanding job writing this book. The first book was tragic with loss of love and faith. But this book picks them up and leads them to a new beginning. This story is of healing and redemption. It was a beautiful book to read. The way the author worked in the history of Scotland made the story believable like you were there with Elisabeth and Marjory. The author gave these women so much strength and determination to survive while they gave each other love and comfort in such trying times. They were constantly watching and avoiding contact with the King's Dragoons, for they feared being arrested. God's will was at work and they chose to have faith in Him and follow the path he set before them.

Comment by Patricia Kemp Blackmon on July 8, 2012 at 12:54pm

My review of Life According to Liz by Rebecca Williams Spindler and Madelyn Spindler.

Liz is starting sixth grade with her best friend Veronica they are like sisters. The girls are starting sixth grade. Veronica seems to be changing to a girly girl where Liz is perfectly happy just being herself. Some would describe her as a tomboy. Veronica ends up making friends with the popular group and neglecting Liz. Since they have been so close over the years this is hard for Liz.

http://itsabouttimemamaw.blogspot.com/2012/07/life-according-to-liz...

Comment by Patricia Kemp Blackmon on July 6, 2012 at 5:02pm

My review of Through Rushing Water.

In 1876 Sophia Makinoff is teaching at a college and is soon to be engaged to a U.S.Congressman. To be the wife or even fiancee was just a fabrication of her own making. Congressman Montgomery chose her roommate and friend instead of her. Annabelle a complete and utter mistake for the wife to a U.S.Congressman when everyone knew Sophia would have been the best choice. How would she face her students and faculty?  She was utterly humiliated.

http://itstimetoreadmamaw.blogspot.com/2012/07/through-rushing-wate...

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