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The Carnival of Ash  by Tom Beckerlegge I would like to thank The Write Reads Blog Tours for inviting me on this wonderful  Blog Tour! 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷 Book Information Genre : Adult Fantasy (Update: Adult Literary Alternative History is more accurate) Length : 528 Pages Publishing : 15th March 2022 Cadenza is the City of Words, a city run by poets, its skyline dominated by the steepled towers of its libraries, its heart beating to the stamp and thrum of the printing presses in the Printing Quarter. Carlo Mazzoni, a young wordsmith arrives at the city gates intent on making his name as the bells ring out with the news of the death of the city’s poet-leader. Instead, he finds himself embroiled with the intrigues of a city in turmoil, the looming prospect of war with their rival Venice ever-present. A war that threatens not only to destroy Cadenza but remove it from history altogether… Amazon : https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1786185008/  Goodreads : https...

Mood Reader by Various Authors I'm so excited to share such a unique anthology with you all today! Imagine, a story for every mood. 42 different moods to be precise! Read on for more info about Mood Reader and a chance to win a gift card for Bookshop.org! 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷 Book Information Publication Date:  February 8th, 2022 Genre:  Various – Anthology In a world too pressed for time, picking your next read can feel like a chore. Especially if you’re a mood reader. Will I be in the same mood tomorrow if I start this horror novel? I don’t even know WHAT mood I’m in. Today is fantasy but yesterday was historical fiction. This new anthology just might be the answer. Organized by genre and individually labeled with sub genres, the stories in Mood Reader are ready and waiting for whatever whim your mood takes today. Or tomorrow. Containing 42 stories from TikTok authors, Mood Reader is an anthology like no other. A collaborative group project. paving the way for ...

It Will Be Quick  by Karl Drinkwater I would like to thank Rachel Random Resources for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour. 🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁  Book Information  A single decision can save – or ruin – a life. An opportunistic baby theft by a young woman in pain. Two strangers shipwrecked on a lifeless rock, unable to speak the same language. An isolated cycling holiday descends into terror. One woman seeks the courage to destroy her life. A miracle unites a community, and teenagers take a stand against hypocrisy. Karl Drinkwater presents characters to root for – and characters to dread – in sixteen tales of humanity, endurance, and spirit. Purchase Links  https://www.karldrinkwater.uk/p/buy-my-books.html Also https://books2read.com/ap/xr55B8/Karl-Drinkwater 🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁  My Review 4☆ An Enjoyable and Intriguing Mixed Collection of Short Stories! It Will Be Quick is a very mixed collection of short stories, all very different and feature...

The Boy Between by Amanda Prowse and Josiah Hartley I would like to thank Love Books Tours for inviting me on this wonderful Blog Tour. 🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁  Book Information Bestselling novelist Amanda Prowse knew how to resolve a fictional family crisis. But then her son came to her with a real one… Josiah was nineteen with the world at his feet when things changed. Without warning, the new university student’s mental health deteriorated to the point that he planned his own death. His mother, bestselling author Amanda Prowse, found herself grappling for ways to help him, with no clear sense of where that could be found. This is the book they wish had been there for them during those dark times. Josiah’s situation is not unusual: the statistics on student mental health are terrifying. And he was not the only one suffering; his family was also hijacked by his illness, watching him struggle and fearing the day he might succeed in taking his life. In this book, Josiah and Amand...

All the Words Unspoken by Serena Kaur I would like to thank Red Door Press for inviting me on this fabulous Bookstagam Read along. 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼 Book Information A fresh new British-Asian voice Things are not going well for Maansi Cavale. Her depression is worsening, she barely passes her university exams and she winds up stuck at home, full of regret and unable to find a job. She'd do anything for a way out. Though Maansi previously considered arranged marriage an outdated tradition (only to be agreed to if you're in your midforties and unable to bag anybody yourself), a chance meeting at an Indian wedding party changes everything. Desperate to escape the shackles of monotony and unemployment, she agrees to marry the handsome and wealthy Aryan Alekar. She convinces herself a new lifestyle and wealth will lift her out of the pit. She secures the marriage, but not before serving up a few lies about herself... As they settle into married life, Aryan r...

One Last Second  by Sam Vickery  On my Blog today I have the pleasure of  Sharing with you....... One Last Second  🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼   Book Information  I never expected to be doubted, but if I can't make them believe me, what then? I sit here beside her stroking her tiny hands as she sleeps and she looks so perfect. It never crossed my mind that something would be wrong with my sweet girl and I’d be powerless to do anything to help her. When  Madeline's  six-year-old daughter  Tilly  collapses one Sunday night, Madeline’s world is turned upside down. Racing to the hospital, she imagines the worst scenarios in her mind, but when they arrive the doctors say that Tilly is fine. Madeline’s ex-husband  Adam  and her best friend  Laura  think Madeline is being overprotective, that Tilly fainted because of her fussy eating.  But Madeline is sure somet...

Grace & Serenity by Annalisa Crawford On my Blog today I have the pleasure of Sharing with you....... Grace & Serenity 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷 ​ Book Information Living on the streets is terrifying and exhausting. Grace’s only comforts are a steady stream of vodka, and a strange little boy who’s following her around. At nineteen, Grace has already had a child and endured an abusive marriage. But she’s also had her baby abducted by her vengeful husband and been framed as a neglectful mother. Even her own parents doubted her version of the story. So she did the only thing that made sense to her—run away. The streets are unforgiving. Winter is drawing in. And Grace isn’t prepared for the harsh realities of survival. At her very bleakest, a Good Samaritan swoops into her life and rescues her. With a roof over her head and food in her stomach, she longs to see her baby again. But nothing ever comes for free. Purchase Links  UK – https://www.amazon.co.uk/Grace-Serenity-...

Sometimes In Bath  by Charles Nevin ​ On my Blog today I have the pleasure of  Sharing with you........ Sometimes In Bath  ​ 🌷🌻🌷🌻🌷🌻🌷🌻🌷🌻🌷🌻🌷🌻 Book Information Sometimes in Bath  is a captivating story-tour through the city’s history conducted by Charles Nevin, the award-winning journalist, national newspaper columnist, author and humorist. Beau Nash, Old King Bladud, young Horatio Nelson, Jane Austen’s Mr Bennet, the Emperor Haile Selassie and many more spring to life in episodes shimmering with the curious magic of Britain’s oldest resort and premier purveyor of good health, happiness and romance for the last 2000 years. Each story has an afterword distinguishing the fiction from fact, adding enthralling historical detail – and giving visitors useful links to Bath’s many sights and fascinations Sometimes in Bath is warm, witty, wistful and will be loved by all who come to and from this most enchanting and enchanted of ...