Synopsis from Goodreads: A young woman in Belle Epoque France is cursed to relive a doomed love affair through many lifetimes, as both troubled muse and frustrated artist.In 1895, sixteen-year-old Juliet LaCompte has a passionate, doomed romance with the married Parisian painter Auguste Marchant. When her mother — a witch — botches a curse on… Continue reading Book Review: A Witch in Time
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20 Books of Summer Comes to an End
Honestly? It's the end of August already? I do not know where this summer has gone! Today marks the end of the fun 20 Books of Summer reading challenge from Cathy over at 746books and many thanks to her for putting this one together again. I enjoyed challenging myself and I did wind up reading… Continue reading 20 Books of Summer Comes to an End
Book Review: Shadow of the Fox
Synopsis from Goodreads: One thousand years ago, the great Kami Dragon was summoned to grant a single terrible wish—and the land of Iwagoto was plunged into an age of darkness and chaos. Now, for whoever holds the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers, a new wish will be granted. A new age is about to dawn.Raised… Continue reading Book Review: Shadow of the Fox
Book Review: Six Crimson Cranes
Synopsis from Goodreads: Shiori, the only princess of Kiata, has a secret. Forbidden magic runs through her veins. Normally she conceals it well, but on the morning of her betrothal ceremony, Shiori loses control. At first, her mistake seems like a stroke of luck, forestalling the wedding she never wanted, but it also catches the… Continue reading Book Review: Six Crimson Cranes
Book Review: The Rules of Magic
Synopsis from Goodreads: For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in 1620, when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man.Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the cusp of the sixties, when the whole world is about to change, Susanna Owens knows that her three children… Continue reading Book Review: The Rules of Magic
Book Review: The Black Witch
Synopsis from Goodreads: Elloren Gardner is the granddaughter of the last prophesied Black Witch, Carnissa Gardner, who drove back the enemy forces and saved the Gardnerian people during the Realm War. But while she is the absolute spitting image of her famous grandmother, Elloren is utterly devoid of power in a society that prizes magical… Continue reading Book Review: The Black Witch
Book Review: Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony
Synopsis from Goodreads: November 1587. A report reaches London that Sir Walter Raleigh’s expedition, which left England months before to land the first English settlers in America, has foundered. On Roanoke Island, off the coast of North Carolina, a tragedy is unfolding. Something has gone very wrong, and the colony—115 men, women, and children, among… Continue reading Book Review: Roanoke: Solving the Mystery of the Lost Colony
Book Review: Practical Magic
Synopsis from Goodreads: For more than two hundred years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in their Massachusetts town. Gillian and Sally have endured that fate as well: as children, the sisters were forever outsiders, taunted, talked about, pointed at. Their elderly aunts almost seemed to encourage the whispers… Continue reading Book Review: Practical Magic
Book Review – The House in the Cerulean Sea
Synopsis from Goodreads: Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-being of children in government-sanctioned orphanages. When Linus is unexpectedly summoned… Continue reading Book Review – The House in the Cerulean Sea
Book Review: An Ember in the Ashes
Synopsis from Goodreads: Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free. Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear. It is in this brutal world,… Continue reading Book Review: An Ember in the Ashes
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