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Book Review 10,000 Stitches by Olivia Atwater

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Ten Thousand Stitches (Regency Faerie Tales Book 2) Kindle Edition by Olivia Atwater (Author)

Are you looking for an escape from the real world that you can believe in? 10,000 Stitches is the second in Olivia Atwater’s Regency Fairie Tales. This one twists the conventions of the Regency genre even more, and delightfully so.

The heroine isn’t precisely plucky, she is contained, trying to get by in horrible circumstances. She is that rarely visited of Regency Romances characters: the maid. And not the lady’s maid. A floor scrubbing maid who speech brands her as being part of the lower class. She does have one thing going for her: a talent for embroidery that is magical. It is on that talent that she makes a wager with a fairy Lord–she has 10,000 stitches to win the love of a gentleman, not just any gentleman of course: a handsome gentleman.

Hijinks ensue. Like the last book, this “fantasy” is in many ways a more realistic portrayal of the Regency era than the non-magical variety of regency romance. Highly recomended.

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Dark Souls Kindle Edition by E.J. King (Author)

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An enemy that will stop at nothing. A love that will risk everything.

Since her family was murdered, former vampire hunter Kaylie Hart has been chasing normalcy. But when two mysterious strangers show up claiming her life is in danger, Kaylie learns you can’t outrun your fate. They come with a warning about an impending battle against a fierce enemy, but their arrival also brings a possibility Kaylie isn’t prepared to handle.

As Kaylie’s two worlds collide, she must face her deepest fear– falling in love with a man who has the potential to destroy her entire world.

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Home World: An Aliya War Story (The Aliya War Universe Book 1) Kindle Edition by Bonnie Milani (Author)

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War. It was a war for freedom that tore Earth apart six hundred years ago.

It was a war of rebellion that killed Jezekiah’s father. Now a new war is brewing on the galactic rim. And this one will leave Earth a burned-out cinder.

To Jezekiah Van Buren, prince and unwilling Heir to the throne, this new war just may be his ticket to freedom. Because the ‘enemy’ this time is the same one that destroyed Earth centuries before: the wolf-bred humans called Lupans.

Six hundred years ago the Lupans tore Earth’s civilizations apart in their quest to escape slavery. Now, they’ve remembered their Home World – and they want it back. Jezekiah means to give it to them.

All he needs to do is work out a treaty before one side or the other decides to kill him.

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Featured Fantasy: Once Upon a Ghost by Multiple Authors

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Once Upon A Ghost: 20 Eerie Faerie Tales (Once Upon Anthologies Book 5) Kindle Edition by Melissa Marr, Anthea Sharp, Shawntelle Madison, Alethea Kontis, Kate Danley, Yasmine Galenorn, Kasey Mackenzie, Debra Dunbar, Sarra Cannon, Devon Monk, Phaedra Weldon, Nikki Jefford

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Twenty dark and ghostly faerie tale retellings from the NYT, USA Today and internationally bestselling authors in the award-winning Once Upon Anthologies series! Push open the creaky cellar door and prepare for chilling re-imaginings of Sleeping Beauty, Goldilocks, Rapunzel, and Bloody Mary. Or breathe a sigh of relief with brighter twists on The Little Match Girl, Hansel & Gretel, and The Bremen Town Musicians.

But beware! Blood and revenge, creepy haunted houses, and evil magic lurk within the pages. Are you brave enough to enter?

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A thousand years have passed since a dragon has been seen in the world.

Science and technology have replaced magic, which has dwindled until it has become little more than an element of myth and legend.

There are those who still have dragon blood flowing through their veins, distant descendants of the mighty creatures of old. These rare humans have the power to cast magic, the power to heal, and the power to craft alchemical weapons capable of starting wars… or ending them. But they are feared for those powers, and in recent centuries, they have been hunted nearly to extinction.

The few remaining survivors must find a way to change how humanity perceives them or be lost to the world forever.

The Dragon Blood Collection includes three full-length novels of action, magic, and romance:
Balanced on the Blade’s Edge
Deathmaker
Blood Charged

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First Strike: A Military SciFi Epic (Brothers in Arms Book 1) Kindle Edition by Scott Moon (Author)

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Joining the fight for the Galaxy isn’t required. It’s a choice.

The United Galactic Government is mired in a decade-long war for control of a key planet. Weakened by overextension and political intrigue, they could lose everything.

When a child of privilege gives up everything to enlist and fight for what is right, he learns what it means to become part of a team. He encounters refugees, aliens he never expected to empathize with, and the loss of comrades. In the end he must develop the courage to stand up, not only to aliens and governments, but his own family.

Packed with military science fiction on par with Galaxy’s Edge, Term of Enlistment, and Starship Troopers, the Brothers in Arms trilogy will deliver readers into the jaws of the toughest fight the galaxy has ever known.

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