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She reads books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
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Who knew a reading challenge would do wonders for one's TBR block. I read a total of 73 books in 2019. Whew. My Top TenFrench novelist Charlotte-Rose de la Force has been banished from the court of Versailles by the Sun King, Louis XIV, after a series of scandalous love affairs. At the convent, she is comforted by an old nun, Sœur Seraphina, who tells her the tale of a young girl who, a hundred years earlier, is sold by her parents for a handful of bitter greens... Add to GoodReads Buy on Amazon, Chapters, Kobo, Barnes & Noble I love, love, love an awesome fairy-tale re-telling. Giving a new spin on an old tale. This makes it into my top spot for being one of the best books I read in 2019. If you were fascinated in the tale of Rapunzel and enjoy a good re-telling, then this is a great book for you! Katsa has been able to kill a man with her bare hands since she was eight—she’s a Graceling, one of the rare people in her land born with an extreme skill. As niece of the king, she should be able to live a life of privilege, but Graced as she is with killing, she is forced to work as the king’s thug. She never expects to fall in love with beautiful Prince Po. Add to GoodReads Buy on Amazon, Chapters, Kobo, Barnes & Noble This is a world divided by blood - red or silver. The Reds are commoners, ruled by a Silver elite in possession of god-like superpowers. And to Mare Barrow, a seventeen-year-old Red girl from the poverty-stricken Stilts, it seems like nothing will ever change. That is until she finds herself working in the Silver Palace. Here, surrounded by the people she hates the most, Mare discovers that, despite her red blood, she possesses a deadly power of her own. One that threatens to destroy the balance of power. Add to GoodReads Buy on Amazon, Chapters, Kobo, Barnes & Noble Twenty years ago, the mysterious death of his aunt left Aaron Holbrook orphaned and alone. He abandoned his rural Arkansas hometown vowing never to return, until his seven-year-old son died in an accident, plunging Aaron into a nightmare of addiction and grief. Desperate to reclaim a piece of himself, he returns to the hills of his childhood, to Holbrook House, where he hopes to find peace among the memories of his youth. But solace doesn’t come easy. Someone—or something—has other plans. Add to GoodReads Buy on Amazon, Chapters, Barnes & Noble Ania Ahlborn became one of my favourite horror authors with this book. It kept me guessing as to what the ever-living heck was going on and the ending was shocking, totally. I loved it! As a Gracekeeper, Callanish administers shoreside burials, laying the dead to their final resting place deep in the depths of the ocean. Alone on her island, she has exiled herself to a life of tending watery graves as penance for a long-ago mistake that still haunts her. Meanwhile, North works as a circus performer with the Excalibur, a floating troupe of acrobats, clowns, dancers, and trainers who sail from one archipelago to the next, entertaining in exchange for sustenance. Add on GoodReads Buy on Amazon, Chapters, Kobo, Barnes & Noble Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. Add to GoodReads Buy on Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble The Snow Child is possibly one of my all time favourite books. It touched all the feelings. All of them. I lived vicariously through Mabel's yearnings for her own child and her happiness at finding one where she least expected it. It is definitely one that I will read again and again. Geralt of Rivia, the cunning assassin known as The Witcher, has been waiting for the birth of a prophesied child. This child has the power to change the world - for good, or for evil. As the threat of war hangs over the land and the child is hunted for her extraordinary powers, it will become Geralt's responsibility to protect them all - and the Witcher never accepts defeat. Add on GoodReads Buy on Amazon, Chapters, Kobo, Barnes & Noble Nina Borg, a Red Cross nurse, wife, and mother of two, is a compulsive do-gooder who can't say no when someone asks for help—even when she knows better. When her estranged friend Karin leaves her a key to a public locker in the Copenhagen train station, Nina gets suckered into her most dangerous project yet. Inside the locker is a suitcase, and inside the suitcase is a three-year-old boy: naked and drugged, but alive. Add on GoodReads Buy on Amazon, Chapters, Kobo, Barnes & Noble Everyone says Lauren Tranter is exhausted, that she needs rest. And they’re right; with newborn twins, Morgan and Riley, she’s never been more tired in her life. But she knows what she saw: that night, in her hospital room, a woman tried to take her babies and replace them with her own…creatures. Yet when the police arrived, they saw no one. Everyone, from her doctor to her husband, thinks she’s imagining things. Add on GoodReads Buy on Amazon, Chapters, Kobo, Barnes & Noble I've always been fascinated by the idea of changelings and this definitely increased my curiosity. It was so well written and I was totally with Lauren the whole way! Note to readers: believe your family and friends when they say they know something isn't right about their children! In the vine-twisted swamps of Louisiana, the shadows have teeth. Jack Winter has spent his entire life running from something no one else can see. His childhood is his darkest secret, but after a near fatal accident along a deserted road, the darkness he was sure he’d escaped rears its ugly head… and smiles. But this time, he isn’t the only one who sees the soulless eyes of his past. Add on GoodReads Buy on Amazon, Chapters, Barnes & Noble
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