[COVER REVEAL] THE SHADOW (The Florentine Series #2) by Sylvain Reynard

The second books of The Florentine Series by my very beloved author Sylvain Reynald will coming up on February 02, 2016... yay! Though, it's months ahead, now we can enjoy the cover and a little of blurp...

THE SHADOW, The Florentine Series book #2

Raven Wood’s vampyre prince has returned, pledging his love and promising justice for every wrong done to her. In the wake of their reunion, Raven is faced with a terrible decision—allow the Prince to wreak vengeance against the demons of her past, or persuade him to stay his hand. But there is far more at stake than Raven’s heart...

A shadow has fallen over the city of Florence. Ispettor Batelli will not rest until he uncovers Raven’s connection to the theft of the priceless art from the Uffizi Gallery. And while the Prince hunts a traitor who sabotages him at every turn, he finds himself the target of the vampyres’ mortal enemy.

As he wages a war on two fronts, he will need to keep his love for Raven secret,
or risk exposing his greatest weakness...


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Wishful Wednesday #31

 

habis update review/rating GoT, trus baca blog GR, ketemu rekomendasi ini, jadi pengen... kebetulan temanya tema favorit ;-)

The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah

In love we find out who we want to be.
In war we find out who we are.

FRANCE, 1939

In the quiet village of Carriveau, Vianne Mauriac says goodbye to her husband, Antoine, as he heads for the Front. She doesn’t believe that the Nazis will invade France...but invade they do, in droves of marching soldiers, in caravans of trucks and tanks, in planes that fill the skies and drop bombs upon the innocent. When France is overrun, Vianne is forced to take an enemy into her house, and suddenly her every move is watched; her life and her child’s life is at constant risk. Without food or money or hope, as danger escalates around her, she must make one terrible choice after another. 

Vianne’s sister, Isabelle, is a rebellious eighteen-year-old girl, searching for purpose with all the reckless passion of youth. While thousands of Parisians march into the unknown terrors of war, she meets the compelling and mysterious Gäetan, a partisan who believes the French can fight the Nazis from within France, and she falls in love as only the young can...completely. When he betrays her, Isabelle races headlong into danger and joins the Resistance, never looking back or giving a thought to the real--and deadly--consequences.

With courage, grace and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah takes her talented pen to the epic panorama of WWII and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women’s war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France--a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime. 

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Januari - April: New Author Reading Challenge Progress Update

ini nih kebiasaan menunda2, jadi kepepet2... hahah...
so here you go...
my compilation of New Author Reading Challenge period January until April...

1. Immersed in Pleasure by Tiffany Reisz (Jan)
2. Losing It (Losing It, #1) by Cora Carmack (Jan)
3. Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier (Jan)
4. The Deal (Off-Campus, #1) by Elle Kennedy (Feb) 
5. The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson (Feb)
6. A Stolen Season by Emily Giffin (Mar)
7. Saat Menemukanmu - Suddenly You by Lisa Kleypas (Apr)
8. The Chronicles of Audy: 4R by Orizuka (Apr)

see you another 2 or 4 months yaaa... ;-)

Wishful Wednesday #30

 

beberapa kali ketemu sama rekomendasi atau listed buku... sepertinya buku ini bagus... dan kaya'nya udah pernah ada terjemahannya... jadi pengen.... :D

A Wrinkle in Time (A Wrinkle in Time Quintet #1) by Madeleine L'Engle

It was a dark and stormy night; Meg Murry, her small brother Charles Wallace, and her mother had come down to the kitchen for a midnight snack when they were upset by the arrival of a most disturbing stranger. 

"Wild nights are my glory," the unearthly stranger told them. "I just got caught in a downdraft and blown off course. Let me be on my way. Speaking of way, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract".

Meg's father had been experimenting with this fifth dimension of time travel when he mysteriously disappeared. Now the time has come for Meg, her friend Calvin, and Charles Wallace to rescue him. But can they outwit the forces of evil they will encounter on their heart-stopping journey through space?

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Overruled (The Legal Briefs #1) by Emma Chase

Overruled (The Legal Briefs #1)
by Emma Chase

ARC, Kindle Edition, 272 pages
Published April 28th 2015 by Gallery Books

As a DC defense attorney, Stanton Shaw keeps his head cool, his questions sharp, and his arguments irrefutable. They don’t call him the Jury Charmer for nothing – with his southern drawl, disarming smile and captivating green eyes – he’s a hard man to say no to. Men want to be him and women want to be thoroughly cross examined by him.

Stanton’s a man with a plan. And for a while, life was going according to that plan.

Until the day he receives an invitation to the wedding of his high school sweetheart and mother of his beloved ten-year old daughter. Jenny is getting married — to someone who isn’t him.

That's definitely not part of the plan.

***

Sofia Santos is a city raised, no-nonsense litigator who plans to become the most revered criminal defense attorney in the country. She doesn’t have time for relationships or distractions.

But when Stanton, her "friend with mind-blowing benefits" begs for help, she finds herself out of her element, out of her depth, and obviously out of her mind. Because she agrees to go with him – to The-Middle-Of-Nowhere, Mississippi – to do all she can to help Stanton win back the woman he loves. 

Her head tells her she's crazy...and her heart says something else entirely.

*** 

What happens when you mix a one stop-light town, two professional arguers, a homecoming queen, four big brothers, some Jimmy Dean sausage and a gun-toting Nana? 

The Bourbon flows, passions rise and even the best laid plans get overruled by the desires of the heart. 


~*Review by me... *~

well... it's quite... a little bit disappointing for me... [though a lot of things disappointing for me lately... >.< ], but... it did... just a little bit...

because... I think... they were [Sofia & Stanton] ssooo typical...
because Sofia did exactly the things she didn't want to do at first... but eventually did and regret...
because Stanton is just... so typical guy who wants everything... and came realise his feeling too late...

though, it's a good story none the less...

Stanton Shaw is a man with a big dream, when his high-school girl friend, Jenny Monroe, got pregnant, he thought that he will never get his dream... but Jenny insisted for him to go to pursue it...

until... more than 10 years passed, when Jenny decided to move on and get married with their high-school friend, James Dean, Stanton has to come back to fight for his girl... and he takes a long his friend with benefit, Sofia Santos...

Stanton and Sofia, both criminal defense attorneys, work in DC, they are both ambitious with record of winning in courts.
they already have relationship for months, however, Sofia denies her feeling for Stanton, while Stanton too blind to realise his feeling for Sofia...

until, Stanton tags Sofia a long in journey to win his sweet heart back, Jenny, and cancel the wedding...

so, how was Sofia finally accepted that she's one of the dummy who's falling for her "friend with benefit"?
or how was Stanton finally realise that he's not in love with Jenny anymore?

"No, you're not. It's an echo. Of who we were, the promises we made, the passion we had. But an echo's not real - you can't build a life on it. It's just a memory of a sound."

I gave it 3 out of 5 stars for it, for I just like it... though still I highly recommended it, you might like it better... and I thought it made us think again about our feeling to people we thought we love or we don't love... ;-)