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SUNDAY POST
7 April
This is part of the weekly meme over at the Caffeinated Reviewer, where book bloggers can share the books they’ve read and share what they have got up to during the last week. It’s been a really quiet, peaceful week – a healing week. The days are lengthening and despite bursts of torrential rain and rather bitter northerly breezes, Spring continues to spring in the garden, which is disgracefully weedy and overgrown. I’m hoping as the weather improves that this is the year I get to grips with it for the first time in three years.
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Castellan the Black and his Wise Draconic Tips on Life
6 April
When paying court to an attractive young queen, whatever you do – don’t flirt with her mother. Not only will your prospective mate be rightly incensed at your disrespect, so will her sire. And if he’s successfully raised a family, he’s liable to be a lethal, more experienced fighter than you.
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Review of NETGALLEY arc On the Horns of Death – Book 2 of the Ancient Crete Mystery series by Eleanor Kuhns
5 April
I read and enjoyed the first book in this entertaining series – In the Shadow of the Bull – charting the progress of plucky Martis, a Cretan bull-leaper who finds herself in the middle of a murder mystery. So it was a no-brainer to request a copy of the second book
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Can’t-Wait Wednesday
3 April
Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released. This week’s Can’t-Wait offering: Myth-Touched – Book 2 of the Shadows of Eireland series by Joanna Maciejewska – release date – 20 April 2024
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Review of NETGALLEY arc A Westerly Wind Brings Witches: A Cornish Odyssey by Sally Walker
2 April
It was the quirky blurb and promise of wry humour that caught my eye with this one. As well as the promise of a Cornish setting. Cornwall is one of my favourite places – and with the winding narrow roads, wind-sculpted trees and moors, it lends itself very well to witchy events.
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