TW/CW: Murder, attempted rape, beheading/separated limbs. I deeply, deeply enjoyed The Beautiful by Renée Ahdieh. Or, a lot of it, anyway. The Beautiful takes place in 1872 New Orleans, where a young former dressmaker named Celine arrives after fleeing Paris. She arrives with several other young women from Europe and they are all to be settled in a convent together until they marry. Celine quickly becomes drawn to a young woman named Odette, who hires … Continue reading The Beautiful by Renée Ahdieh →
The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh is $2.99! This is a Kindle Daily Deal and is being price-matched. The second book is also a KDD! This is a YA fantasy novel with romance elements and is a retelling of A Thousand and One Nights. Readers love the world Ahdieh built, but do mention there seems to be a love triangle in the first book that doesn’t quite work well. It has a 4-star rating on Goodreads.
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Oh, boy. May is an expensive month, with twenty books that we’re excited for this month. But, there are some other great books releasing that didn’t make our personal TBR piles: Sarah J. Maas continues her A Court of Thorns and Roses series with A Court of Wings and Ruin . Paula Hawkins is back with Into the Water . The To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before trilogy is reaching its conclusion with Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny … Continue reading May’s New Releases →
The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh is $2.99! If you haven’t noticed, we’re doing a big giveaway for the series and have an excerpt from the new novella. This is a YA fantasy novel with romance elements and is a retelling of A Thousand and One Nights. Readers love the world Ahdieh built, but do mention there seems to be a love triangle in the first book that doesn’t quite work well. It has a 4-star rating on Goodreads.
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We’ve got some fun stuff going on today: thanks to Renée Ahdieh and Penguin Young Readers, we have an exclusive excerpt of a new novella in Ahdieh’s series, and we have a giveaway that includes an ARC and paperback copies of The Wrath and the Dawn. Woo! The Wrath and the Dawn came out in May 2015, and is being released in paperback in time for the release of book two in the duology, The Rose and the Dagger, … Continue reading Exclusive Excerpt and Giveaway: The Moth & The Flame by Renée Ahdieh →
