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Monday, 4 May 2015

Excerpt & Giveaway: Chantress Fury - Amy Butler Greenfield


Chantress Fury (Chantress Trilogy #3)
by Amy Butler Greenfield
288 pages
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Release Date: May 19th, 2015
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy

Synopsis:

The sea is coming. We are coming. And we will drown you all.

With a song, Lucy can control the wind and the water; she can bring castles and kingdoms to their feet. Since Lucy mastered her powers, King Henry has kept her close as he’s rebuilt England. She’s his best ally—and his workhorse. And now he’s called her to investigate attempted murder: His men claim they were almost killed on the Thames…by a mermaid. All Lucy can glean from the creature they’ve captured is a warning: The sea is coming. We are coming. And we will drown you all. 

And then the floods begin. Swaths of London are submerged as the people scramble to defend themselves against the water—and the monsters—that are flooding their streets. As mistrust of Lucy's magic grows, the king relies on Nat, Lucy's great love, to guide them through the storm. But Nat is cold and distant to Lucy. He swore his love only a year before, and now he calls her “stranger.”

Lucy is determined to defeat this powerful new magic alone if she must. But then she hears an eerie song within the water…can it mean that she’s not the last Chantress after all? 

Sweepingly romantic and crackling with magic, Chantress Fury triumphantly concludes the powerful Chantress trilogy.



I looked at the mermaid, and she looked at me—and I gave myself over to listening.
At first I only heard the water in the barrel, and its vexation at being contained.  Round and round it went, an endless circling melody.  But then I caught a glimmer of something else:  A chilling music that told me that something in the barrel felt hunted; something felt afraid.  And it wasn’t the water.
    Frustrated, I wrapped my fingers around the edge of the barrel.  She was right there in front of me, but I couldn’t reach her, and I didn’t dare touch her, not when she was so frightened already.... 

The water in the barrel bobbled.  As it washed over my fingertips, a wave of feeling washed over me, too:  a bath of remorse so strong that it made me pull my hand from the water in shock.
The mermaid was sorry?
With a twist of her fins, she broke the surface again.  Liquid streamed from her hair, and down over her skin.  It took me a few moments to see that it wasn’t just seawater, but tears.
I touched the water again, and again the tide of remorse washed over me—remorse and pain and fear.
She hadn’t wanted to hurt anyone.  I knew that now, without a doubt.  And I knew something else, too:  She was dying.  
The gag wasn’t just cutting into her skin, and it wasn’t just stopping her from singing.  It was suffocating her.  The wadding had wound around her tongue, and now it was trailing down her throat, a little farther with every swallow…
            Her panic felt like mine.  



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Amy Butler Greenfield was a grad student in history when she gave into temptation and became a writer. Since then, she has become an award-winning author. 

Amy grew up in the Adirondack Mountains and later studied history at Williams College, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Oxford. She now lives with her family in England, where she writes, bakes double-dark-chocolate cake, and plots mischief.


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Sunday, 22 March 2015

Book Haul #106, Or The One Where I Burnt My Foot...


Stacking the Shelves is a weekly event hosted on Tynga's Reviews where we can share what new books we've picked up this past week be they bought, borrowed or downloaded. There are also lots of other 'book haul' memes out there for you to choose from!

I'm a day behind this week thanks to the saga of the foot! It started with a blister and ended with a two inch burn caused by antiseptic cream... Turns out I've developed an allergy to Germolene antiseptic cream so instead of helping the blister I got (after wearing old shoes!) I now have a hideously huge burn and can't wear anything on my feet for at least another four days. And the pain is unbelievable!

Obviously I need to cheer myself up so I did indeed go book buying mad. Well, a little bit mad! I decided to treat myself to a few of the new Penguin 80th Little Black Classics (if you could say ten is a few) and I bought two of the UK World Book Day books that I wanted.

Bought

Skin Game
Goth Girl & the Pirate Queen | Killing the Dead

The Tinder Box - Hans Christian Andersen
The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows - Rudyard Kipling
The Tell-Tale Heart - Edgar Allan Poe
The Beautifull Cassandra - Jane Austen
The Figure in the Carpet - Henry James
Goblin Market - Christina Rosetti
Sindbad the Sailor - Anon
The Night is Darkening Around Me - Emily Bronte
The Robber Bridegroom - The Brothers Grimm
Circe and the Cyclops - Homer

For Review

Midnight Crossroad
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Friday, 2 May 2014

Blog Tour & Giveaway: Chantress Alchemy by Amy Butler Greenfield



Chantress Alchemy (Chantress Trilogy #2)
by Amy Butler Greenfield
352 pages
Publisher: Margaret K McElderry Books
Release Day: May 6th 2014
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Synopsis:
Since defeating Lord Scargrave with her music, Lucy, the last Chantress, has lived by the sea, mastering the intricacies of Wild Magic. But now her quiet life is about to end: the wheat crop has failed, the people are rebelling, and Lucy is called urgently back to King Henry IX’s court. There she finds the Inner Council planning to save England by making gold through alchemy. But the golden crucible — the critical element in the alchemical process — has been stolen, its guards murdered. Lucy is charged with finding the traitor behind the attack. 
Meanwhile, enemies old and new are gathering. Scargrave's brutal Chantress-hunter has become King Henry's closest advisor. Lucy’s beloved Nat has fallen out of favor and is shunned by his colleagues; their romance means trouble for both of them. Worst of all, something goes wrong with Lucy’s magic. The palace is a labyrinth, and there’s a monster at its heart — a monster who may have the power to defeat Lucy once and for all. 
Amy Butler Greenfield returns to the beguiling world of Chantress for a suspenseful tale of courtly intrigue, music, and magic in Chantress Alchemy.
Having read - and loved - Chantress last year I couldn't resist the temptation to join in the blog tour for the shiny new sequel, Chantress Alchemy. Things are different now for Lucy, living in a secluded corner of Norfolk away from the intrigues of court but she's the last Chantress alive and that peace surely won't last forever. Sure enough, she is summoned to court to discover the whereabouts of a missing crucible essential to the council's plan to create gold (using alchemy) to provide for the country as most of England is starving and in dire need. Nothing ever goes smoothly though and Lucy soon finds herself battling unknown enemies and trying desperately to stay alive.




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Amy Butler Greenfield was a grad student in history when she gave into temptation and became a writer. Since then, she has become an award-winning author. 

Amy grew up in the Adirondack Mountains and later studied history at Williams College, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Oxford. She now lives with her family in England, where she writes, bakes double-dark-chocolate cake, and plots mischief.


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