Mary is here!

Reblogged from: Debbie's Spurts

It is publication day for Queen of Martyrs! Thanks to everyone who has helped make this happen!

 

Source: samanthawilcoxson.blogspot.com/2017/04/publication-day-for-queen-mary.html

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Arghhhhh! This....

Life has been challenging. I am in the middle of a custody battle with my father concerning my little sister. BIG! I found out he has been pocketing over 900 dollars a month for the past year from assistance received from my mother's social security. His girlfriend gets drunk and tries to call me to tell me how wonderful of a mother she would be to her if "Griffin da damn chance." (That's how she talks when inebriated) She called my work trying to find me and cussed out a client because in her drunk mind she thought my mentally handicapped resident was lying to her that I wasn't there. She threatened to "mess" him up. Now I have court over that crap too because she was arrested for phone harassment along with some other things that I am not positive what they were.

 

My husband has had pneumonia three times this year. His asthma has been bad in between these illnesses. He has not been able to work a full week in over five months. He was just diagnosed with it again three days ago. He is miserable. 

 

I have not gotten hardly any reading done. I try, but as soon as my head hits my pillow I am out cold. My days at work are starting at 5:30 am and not ending until 5 pm, or even later. I start a new assignment this Sunday and hopefully my schedule will not blow up like this one did. I want to be able to sit and read a book from cover to cover in one sitting. I haven't had time for that in far too long. So many of my favorite series have, or soon will have, new releases. I really just want to reread at least the few most recent books before diving into the new. I do have Friday, Saturday, and Sunday off before the new stuff. Maybe I will have time then.

 

I have a bad case of the bad nerves going on. I have the oldest in D.C. on a school trip. Everyone keeps telling me not to worry, but the timing is just bad considering Trump and his choice of bombing.

 

Next month the middle girl goes to camp. I know she will enjoy herself so much. She is a bit jealous of the older one's trip, but I keep telling her she will get her turn next year.

 

The boy has been in the dumps due to his only neighborhood friend moving away. Fingers crossed that the family who looked at the house gets it. They have a set of twins my son's age. My kid goes to school with them, in the same class. We used to live near them and my son really enjoyed it. I am pretty sure the landlord is going to rent to themake, I sort of called him and really talked these people up and I have known the landlord my entire life. I used to work for him taking care of his mother.

 

I will stop now. Just wanted to fill you all in on what I have been up to and why I haven't been very social here.

 

READ ON FELLOW BOOKLIKERS! YOUR REVIEWS ANDOSTS HAVE MADE MY TBR VERY INTIMIDATING.  

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Reading progress update: I've read 10%.

I understand why Layla and Quinn had kids together. I predicated it to be a difficult situation. I was right. It is out that Layla was seeing the enemy and in love with him. Quinn lost his head and really messes things up. Now Laylast faces a tough road. I could never be separated from my kids as she is expected to be. 

 

I am happy to finally get the Layla and Xcor tstory. Layla is one of my most favorite characters in this series. Xcor I have not formed an opinion about. I suspect I will lk,e this book. I do like what Ward has done so far. Theven past few books have been very different from the beginning of the series. Lots of sadness.

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$1.99 on Amazon right now...

Amazon us

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Reading progress update: I've read 53%.

It’s well crafted, and powerful. The main color of the hex is white, which is the energy that powers it. The white is huge. When I touched it, that’s all I could see. It practically blinded me. The power behind this is just immense. There are other colors, too. Blue to reinforce the protection, black to bind the hex together as a whole, and a set of reddish purple angel wings like an artist’s signature.

 

i like this.

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Requiem for the Wolf

Review:

This has a dark feel to it. There are some pretty graphic scenes, but it's not nasty gruesome. I like that in a book, a lot.

The gadhar attacked again, slashing the loose skin on the wolf's neck with dagger-sharp claws. Bragg lunged, his knife finding flesh this time scoring a short line of red along the wolf's haunch.

This is pretty unique from other books that sit in the same genre/type, also good. The writing is good, very heavy on content. By that I mean there is a lot packed in and it is very detailed. My favorite scene was in the beginning where the main character is at a market of sorts and he meets up with a bad guy Lupe who he had been tracking. 

The writing is good. There are no plot holes that stood out. Not many, if any, typos. I would have liked to see more descriptive summary concerning the setting. They were described, and I got a good idea, but it seemed to lack the beautiful wording that a lot of fantasy books have.

All in all a good read. I hope to see more from this author and really am impressed. I didn't know own what to expect as I have never read anything from her prior to this. I look forward to reading her work as she builder her skills as a writer.

Review ebook provided from Netgalley.

 

 

 

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Open When...

Review:

I like this, and I do feel it inspires people the way it is supposed, but it feels too simplistic. I have a real problem with the recommended price of U.S. $14.99/Can. $19.99. No way is this worth that. It reminds me of something you could grab at a dollar store.

 

The idea is to open the envelope shaped pages to reveal an inspirational "letter." It contains only 12 of these. I seriously went through the entire thing in less than five minutes. The design would be an awesome chilren book. My son was very amused by this thjng, but the content isn't very child appropriate. It contains the word "idiot" and "pissed off."

 

I will say that this did inspire me to copy the design and use it as an art project in class today.

 

This is definitely a card shop book.

 

1 1/2 stars because I like the colors.

 

KAREN SALMANSOHN is the best-selling author of more than 25 books with more than 1 million copies sold. She has worked as an image consultant for MTV, Nickelodeon, Oxygen Media, and L'Oreal; has been featured on the Today show, The View, CNN, Fox News, and Real Time with Bill Maher; and has written for Psychology Today, Mind Body Green, Positively Positive, and Huffington Post. She has been covered by the New York Times, Businessweek, Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, Time, Marie Claire, Fast Company, InStyle, Self, ELLE, and the New Yorker.

 

Amazon US $10.52, too much still

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