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Book Release Blitz: The Fall of Amethyst – Savannah Zherebnenko

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It’s release day! Check the next gorgeous installment in the Trident Trilogy, The Fall of Amethyst! Read on for more details!

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The Fall of Amethyst (A Trident Trilogy #2)

Publication Date: November 29, 2023

Genre: Fantasy Romance/ New Adult

🔱 Enemies to Lovers
🔱 Slow Burn
🔱 Greek Myth Retelling
🔱 He falls first

After learning that she’s the reincarnation of the Greek deity, Amphitrite, Amy has dealt with a lot. From the mental whiplash of her childhood friend Percy actually being Poseidon to the unforgiving push into an ancient war against Zeus, she’s handled it. But just when Amy’s beginning to accept that the world is more vast and magical than she thought, she’s betrayed by someone she trusts. Now she finds herself being held prisoner by an enemy much more sinister than Zeus …

Amy is determined to keep her faith in Percy coming to rescue her, but her captors are equally determined to turn her against him. And there’s only so long she can withstand mental and physical torture, no matter how intriguing she might find one of her captors.

As Amy’s resolve grows weaker, and the call of the trident grows stronger, she is faced with the fact that not only is she in danger, but she might also be the danger.

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About the Author

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Savannah Zherebnenko lives in the PNW with her husband, two kids, and three fur babies. When she’s not zombified from her young kids, you can find her in her garden or in the kitchen canning, baking, cooking… slaving. Just kidding about the last one. But really, and if she’s not doing any of those things, she’s curled up with a book and a full glass of wine.

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Blog Tour: Hexed – Lisa Wakely

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After sixteen-year-old Harriet Flynn trips over an ancient gravestone etched with strange markings in a seventeenth-century holiday village and reads the inscription, she and her friends are alarmed to wake up with supernatural powers.

Having magical abilities is fun at first, but when a series of accidents cause the group to become frightened, Harriet becomes determined to find out what’s going on. 

While investigating the history of the gravestone they came across that night, Harriet realises she has unwittingly awakened a centuries-old, deadly curse and she is the only one who can put an end to it – and she has less than a day.

With time running out, Harriet must find the true magic key, to save herself and the ones she loves.

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Lisa Wakely is a writer, performer and radio presenter from Essex born to an Anglo-Indian mother and Anglo-Burmese father. She has been writing since she was twelve years old, after spending most of her evenings reading stories from the school library. Lisa lives in Colchester with her husband, dog and a cat. 

She enjoys engaging in heart-pumping activities such as skydiving and abseiling, all in the pursuit of charity. Her passion for writing and teaching performing arts is matched only by her boundless energy and unwavering determination. Her time working as a Guest Host at Madame Tussauds London really gave her a taste of what life at an entertainment attraction was like. 

Very much how it comes across in Hexed – minus the magic and 17th century madness!

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My thoughts: as a teenager my friends and I did occasionally wander through the various local church yards and cemeteries, but luckily never woke anything up! Harriet accidentally seems to have stirred up the ghost of a 17th Century woman executed as a witch. And she might actually have been one!

Passing on her powers and a warning to Harriet, she sets the teenager and her friends on a mission, but time is of the essence and there isn’t much of it.

Only by helping each other and working together can Harriet and her friends break the curse and stop Silas from destroying everything.

It’s a twisted, creepy story with lots of action and adventure, all in costume as they recreate the 17th Century village for a Halloween festival.

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*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own.

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Blog Tour: Death on the Scotland Express – Fliss Chester

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Someone on board has a deadly destination in mind… can Cressida stop them before it’s too late?

After an eventful trip to the Scottish Highlands, Cressida Fawcett is looking forward to being back among her society friends in London. Enjoying an ice-cold martini in the lounge car of the express train, loyal pug Ruby on her lap, she’s ready to blow off some steam!

But Cressida’s hopes for a relaxing journey are dashed when a gunshot resounds through the carriages. Industrial tycoon Lewis Warriner has been shot dead in his cabin. And as this train has been racing through the countryside, the culprit must be among Cressy’s fellow passengers…

Teaming up with Detective Andrews of Scotland Yard, also on his way back to London, they work their way through the suspects. Did Warriner’s mistress, a famous dancer, see his death as her ticket on to the silver screen? Or was it the mysterious man who can’t take his eyes off Lewis’s close companion?

When the murder weapon is found in the compartment Mr Warriner’s wife occupies alone, she becomes the chief suspect. Until there’s another gunshot. When Cressida finds out that Andrews is hit, panic sets in, but she must try to stay calm.

But with her friend and co-investigator out of action, can Cressida get the journey, and the investigation, back on track? And will she catch the murderer before they reach their final destination?

Fans of Agatha Christie, T.E. Kinsey and Lee Strauss will absolutely love this addictive Golden Age cosy mystery.

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Fliss Chester lives in Surrey with her husband and writes historical cozy crime. When she is not killing people off in her 1940s whodunnits, she helps her husband, who is a wine merchant, run their business. Never far from a decent glass of something, Fliss also loves cooking (and writing up her favourite recipes on her blog), enjoying the beautiful Surrey and West Sussex countryside and having a good natter.

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My thoughts: returning from their last (mis) adventure, Cressida, Dotty, Alfred, Ruby and Detective Inspector Armstrong are hoping for a peaceful night’s train ride back to London, but unfortunately it’s not to be.

A shot rings out and a man is dead, the obvious suspect is his wife, who’s followed him onto the train, catching him with another woman. But is it a setup? There seem to be other passengers with connections to the dead man – a wealthy industrialist with a history of shady behaviour.

As the night goes on, and more people are shot, Cressida and her friends begin to look into their fellow travellers and the deceased. Can they crack the case and identify the real killer before they reach London?

This might be my favourite one yet, it’s a bit Murder on the Orient Express with Cressida as Poirot, but funnier and with a pug as sidekick, and a sticky fingered (literally) nine year old Lord to help her out. Lots of fun and plenty of red herrings, dodgy suspects and clues to keep them all guessing.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own.

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Blog Tour: A Christmas Carol with Grandfather Time – Rose English

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A Christmas Carol with Grandfather Time
A modern lyrical re-telling of the Charles Dickens classic for children of all ages. Young Ebenezer hates sharing and is not very caring. Can a magical clock and a ghost puppy help him mend his ways?

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At least £1 from every book purchased will go towards donating a book to each child in Hereford County Hospital over the Christmas Season 2023

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Living on ‘England’s Green & Pleasant Land’, among the gentle rolling hills of the Herefordshire Countryside, Rose’s house is wall to wall books. She’s a Read-a-holic, whose hobby is to write stories for the young and young at heart.
Working as a school librarian, and sharing her love of books with children, was the best job she ever had. However, life moves on and another chapter was only a page turn away. Working in a very different library now, she is a key worker for the NHS helping to run the Medical Equipment Library in Wye Valley NHS Trust.
After winning FIRST PRIZE in a short story competition with ‘The Magic of Grandfather Christmas’ she is inspired to transform the tale into a collection of stories for all ages. ‘Young Ebenezer’ is inspired by the Dickens classic ‘A Christmas Carol’ and brought into modern times with a strong theme of sharing and caring.
Rose has a little sidekick called Miss Ruby Heart, a ruby King Charles spaniel from the Grandfather Time Series. The puppy is the Ghost of Christmas Past and features on the ‘Young Ebenezer’ covers.
She also has her own social media pages to check out.

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Giveaway To Win a #SharingIsCaring #Giveaway (To share between the whole family) (Open to UK only)*
Prize includes –
📚 Hardback picture book ‘A Christmas Carol with Grandfather Time’ (4 – 8 years average)
📚Paperback ‘Young Ebenezer ~ A New Christmas Carol’ (8+ years)
📚 Paperback ‘Young Ebenezer ~ Confronts the School Bully (8+ years)
📚Paperback ‘The Magic of Grandfather Time’ (older readers to adults) This is where the stories all began a short story of love and loss
📚Paperback/Pocket Treasure ‘Ruby’s Christmas Gifts’ (Families to share) short stories, poems, puzzles jokes.
📚Grandfather Time bookmarks, pen, fridge magnet, sticker
📚Miss Ruby Heart glitter sticker, badge, heart/pawprint bracelet
📚Sharing is Caring necklace
📚Christmas keyring

Hello I’m Rose English and I’m a Read~a~holic! I’m also an aspiring author progressing from short stories for adults, to stories in verse for children. My muse is a ruby King Charles Spaniel named Miss Ruby Heart and together we like to #ShareAStory
My addiction began as a child, being shy and not making friends easily I sought comfort in books. The local library was my second home. I even dare to dream that one day I might write a book myself and see it upon the library shelves. My real name is hard to pronounce (Susan S’ari pronounced Shari) so I created Rose English who would be that English Rose
upon the shelves. Books over spilled our home so I created our very own library in the garden shed. I even made us all library tickets to check books in and out. Heaven help the borrower who did not return a book on time. Dog-eared books were an absolute No-No and would mean a ban plus expulsion from the shed (for a time anyway).
As I grew, I dabbled in writing poetry and short stories, but life moved on and I soon found myself at college and then in permanent employment. I found little time to write as I was always reading for studying. However, there was always time to read a book for pleasure. I came back to writing when I had little money to spare for a gift for mum’s birthday so I dug out some old poems and created a personalised gift. Mum loved it more than anything money could buy and still has the original, but now she has a self-published updated print copy ‘Rainbows & Roses ~ Poetry & Prose’.
In 2014 whilst perusing my local library I came across a book about long case clocks and in it a quote that inspired my future writing.
‘A grandfather clock has a face and a voice. As it name suggests, it is more than a piece of furniture; it is a member of the family’
‘English Country Grandfather Clocks’ by Richard C.R. Barder 1983
Immediately my thoughts turned to magic and the idea of a magical clock who would be the guardian of his beloved family. Hence, the birth of ~ Grandfather Time. The clock first makes his appearance in a short story ‘The Magic of Grandfather Christmas’ it won 1st Prize in an online seasonal competition. I was later able to self-publish the story as ‘The Magic of
Grandfather Time’. Miss Ruby Heart also made her first appearance in this story.
As I struggled over the years to try and turn ‘The Magic of Grandfather Time’ into a full-length novel my sister-in-law encouraged me to try it as a story in verse. Amazon was around that time looking for a new version of the Charles Dickens classic ‘A Christmas Carol’ but for kids. Low and behold ‘Young Ebenezer ~ A New Christmas Carol’ was born. There can only be one winner and this time it was not me. However, I had great feedback from a couple of author friends and they encouraged me again to self-publish. Miss
Ruby Heart featuring as ‘The Ghost of Christmas Past’ and the model on the front cover.

So commenced my transition to children’s author. Now having found my niche I thought about turning Ebenezer’s story into a picture book and we finally get ‘A Christmas Carol with Grandfather Time.’ In the story he is the narrator and along with Miss Ruby Heart the pair encourage the boy to be more caring and share with others. #SharingIsCaring
Who knows what the future holds, my aim is to create stories of Grandfather Time for both the young and young at heart. I am currently focusing on promoting the latest book to enable me to raise money to have more picture books printed so I can gift them to the children in my hospital over Christmas.
Thank you for enabling me to spread my joy of reading. A big THANK YOU to Rachel’s Random Resources and all you lovely bloggers involved in this mini blog tour.
May the magic of reading be with you always.

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Blog Tour: What Happened at the Abbey – Isobel Blackthorn

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When Ingrid flees a violent husband to become a housekeeper in the Scottish Highlands, she discovers the family she works for has a much darker history than her own.
Who haunts Strathbairn? Why are the adult McCleod children at each other’s throats? And why does the youngest sneak off at night? As Ingrid searches for answers, she grows ever more fearful that her husband will track her down.
Set in late 19th century Scottish Highlands, WHAT HAPPENED AT THE ABBEY is a gothic mystery brimming with intrigue, ghostly drama, and family secrets.

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Isobel Blackthorn is a prolific novelist of unique and engaging fiction. She writes across a range of genres, including gripping mysteries and dark psychological thrillers.
The Unlikely Occultist: A biographical novel of Alice A. Bailey received an Honorable Mention in the 2021 Reader’s Favorite book awards. A Prison in the Sun was shortlisted in the LGBTQ category of
the 2021 International Book Awards and the 2020 Readers’ Favorite Book Awards. Her short story ‘Nothing to Declare’ was shortlisted for the Ada Cambridge Prose Prize 2019. Her dark thriller A Legacy of Old Gran Parks won a Raven Award in 2019. The Cabin Sessions was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award 2018 and the Ditmar Awards 2018.
Isobel holds a PhD in Western Esotericism from the University of Western Sydney for her ground-breaking study of the texts of Theosophist Alice A. Bailey. Her engagement with Alice Bailey’s life and
works has culminated in the biographical novel The Unlikely Occultist and the full biography Alice A. Bailey: Life and Legacy.
Isobel carries a lifelong passion for the Canary Islands, Spain, her former home. Six of her novels are set on the islands of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. These standalone mystery novels are setting rich
and fall into the broad genre of travel fiction.
Isobel has led a rich and interesting life and her stories are as diverse as her experiences, the highs and lows, and the dramas. A life-long campaigner for social justice, Isobel has written, protested and
leant her weight to a range of issues including asylum seekers and family violence. A Londoner originally, Isobel currently lives in the Canary Islands, Spain.

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My thoughts: remote Scottish houses are strange places, every book I’ve read set in one ends badly. This is no exception.

Ingrid flees north to escape an abusive husband, with her young daughter Susan. Hired as the new housekeeper McCleod home, Strathbairn, she finds a place full of tension and secrets. The cook hates the McCleod daughter, Geraldine, the children (now supposedly grown up) spend all their time bickering and the patriarch is a drunk who avoids his own family.

When Hamish is hired to do some repairs on the house, he and Ingrid spend time together, picnicking in the grounds of the ruined Abbey on the hill above the house. But the ancient building is hiding dark secrets and when Ingrid discovers some of them, she is terrified and unsure what to do. But there’s more to come and her life will never be the same.

Sinister and full of menace, Strathbairn is a dark place with a dark past and it drags the residents in to its history, where the sins of the past will come to light.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own.

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Blog Tour: Christmas at the Cabin – Rebecca Boxall

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A festive, coming-of-age tale about an Oxbridge candidate and a young homeless man who find themselves in the bittersweet predicament of falling in love with exactly the right person at exactly
the wrong time.
Well-to-do Jed never imagined he’d end up homeless, but family circumstances have made it his only option. Local vicar, Ben, tries to help him but there’s an element of self-punishment to the homelessness that makes Jed continue to put up with his situation – until disaster leads him to re-
consider the vicar’s offer of a place to stay.
Hattie is on the cusp of adulthood, frantically trying to persuade her mum that she doesn’t want to attend an elite university, preferring the idea of pursuing her love of art and textiles. When she
meets Jed, she badly wants to understand his circumstances and why, when she has everything at her fingertips, he doesn’t.
Hattie’s mum, Christine, has had a hard life and is desperate for more for her only child. When she meets Ben, the vicar who’s trying to help Jed, she finds an unlikely ally, and the two heartbroken souls find themselves drawn to each other. Until they find their relationship suddenly tested to the limit.
One thing’s for certain: none of these characters is looking forward to Christmas. It’s the worst time of year for each of them, for different reasons. But perhaps this year, the festive season could defy all expectations.

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Rebecca Boxall was born in East Sussex in 1977 and grew up in a bustling vicarage always filled with family, friends and parishioners. She now lives by the sea in Jersey with her family and Rodney the
cat. She read English at the University of Warwick before she trained as a lawyer and more recently worked at a psychiatric unit.
She is the No. 1 bestselling author of Christmas at the Vicarage and Christmas on the Coast as well as the bestselling writer of Home for Winter, The Christmas Forest and Christmas by the Lighthouse, in
respect of which she was nominated for the Romantic Novel Awards in 2020. She is also the author of Christmas at the Farmhouse and her popular short story, A Winter’s Day.
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My thoughts: this was a lovely, charming book full of friendship, love and hope.

Ben, Jed, Hattie and Christine are four lonely people brought together and who slowly find new ways to be through their relationships with each other.

Ben is grieving and his well meaning sister doesn’t really see it, but his friendship with Jed gives him a way to help another person and open his horizons a little. Jed is punishing himself and struggling on the streets, becoming friends with Ben and Hattie helps him realise he doesn’t need to keep punishing himself for others’ mistakes. Hattie and Christine are a mother and daughter at loggerheads. When Hattie gets to know Jed and Ben, her mother sees red. But as she herself starts to fall for Ben, can Christine let go of the past?

With Christmas approaching, will the festive season work on these four people and bring them together? Can they be happily ever after? Well, you’ll have to read it and see!

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own.

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Blog Tour: Pacific State – Grant Price

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Welcome to the ARC tour for Pacific State by Grant Price. Read on for more details!

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Pacific State (Sundown Book 2)

Expected Publication Date: December 21, 2023

Genre: Cyberpunk/ Sci-Fi

“A rip-roaring cyberpunk novel… it’s definitely science fiction, but it’s frighteningly plausible.” –The San Francisco Book Review

On the streets of Berlin all morals can be bought for a price, and Owen Resler sold his long ago. Once an underground dissenter, now a corporate drone, he spends his days reluctantly manipulating data for Big Pharma.

Across town, notorious gun-for-hire Mia Warsaw is putting together a team to assassinate one of the city’s more unscrupulous business moguls and she needs someone to handle the ones and zeroes.

When Warsaw crosses paths with an increasingly desperate Resler, she hands the former radical an ultimatum: he can either succumb to death by a thousand bureaucratic paper cuts or take a chance with her.

Of course, there’s no guarantee he’ll survive that, either…

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Grant Price is the author of three climate fiction novels set in the near future: By the Feet of Men (Cosmic Egg, 2019; submitted for consideration to the Arthur C. Clarke Award); Reality Testing (Black Rose, 2022; Kirkus Top 100 Novels 2021); Pacific State (Black Rose, forthcoming 2023). He lives in Berlin, Germany.

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Blog Tour: Upstairs at the Beresford – Will Carver

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THERE ARE WORSE PLACES THAN HELL…

Hotel Beresford is a grand, old building, just outside the city. And any soul is welcome.

Danielle Ortega works nights, singing at whatever dive bar will offer her a gig. She gets by, keeping to herself. Sam Walker gambles and drinks, and can’t keep his hands to himself. Now he’s tied up in a shoe closet with a dent in his head that matches Danielle’s broken ashtray.

The man in 731 has been dead for two days and his dog has not stopped barking. Two doors down, the couple who always smokes on the window ledge will mysteriously fall.

Upstairs, in the penthouse, Mr Balliol sees it all. He can peer into every crevice of every floor of the hotel from his screen-filled suite. He witnesses humanity and inhumanity in all its forms: loneliness, passion and desperation in equal measure.

All the ingredients he needs to make a deal. When Danielle returns home one night to find Sam gone, a series of sinister events begins to unfold. But strange things often occur at Hotel Beresford, and many are only a distraction to hide something much darker…

Will Carver is the international bestselling author of the January David series and the critically acclaimed, mind-blowingly original Detective Pace series, which includes Good Samaritans (2018), Nothing Important Happened Today (2019) and Hinton Hollow Death Trip (2020), all of which were ebook bestsellers and selected as books of the year in the mainstream international press.

Nothing Important Happened Today was longlisted for both the Goldsboro Books Glass Bell Award 2020 and the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. Hinton Hollow Death Trip was longlisted for Guardian’s Not the Booker Prize, and was followed by four standalone literary thrillers, The Beresford, Psychopaths Anonymous, The Daves Next Door and Suicide Thursday.

Will spent his early years in Germany, but returned to the UK at age eleven, when his sporting career took off. He currently runs his own fitness and nutrition company, and lives in Reading with his children. children.

My thoughts: it won’t be a surprise to anyone else in the cult of Carver that this is very, very good. Set before The Beresford, this takes place in the hotel next door, where Mr Balliol watches everyone and everything that goes on.

Carol, the best manager of a hotel ever, ensures the smooth running of the building, making certain that nothing interrupts the guests day. Including a dead body or two.

There’s a conference taking place in the hotel and everything must be perfect, Mr Balliol expects nothing less. But an old friend of his has checked in, and he wonders why now.

Obviously nothing important happened today and the Beresford has its own unique way of ensuring that nothing ever will. The detective asking about the dead man in 731 gets distracted by a long term guest, so doesn’t notice anything else going on, which is probably a good thing.

It’s a brilliant, twisted and utterly engaging read, defying an easily defined genre – is it a crime novel, a thriller, something fantastical? I don’t know. I just know I was totally hooked.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own.

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Blog Tour: The Hunting Moon – Susan Dennard

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In this heart-racing, jaw-dropping sequel to the New York Times instant bestseller The Luminaries, Winnie continues her fight against the monstrous nightmares of Hemlock Falls.

Winnie Wednesday has gotten everything she thought she wanted. She passed the deadly hunter trials, her family has been welcomed back into the Luminaries, and overnight, she has become a local celebrity.

The Girl Who Jumped. The Girl Who Got Bitten.

Unfortunately, it all feels wrong. For one, nobody will believe her about the new nightmare called the Whisperer that’s killing hunters each night. Everyone blames the werewolf, even though Winnie is certain the wolf is innocent.

On top of that, following her dad’s convoluted clues about the Dianas, their magic, and what happened in Hemlock Falls four years ago is leaving her with more questions than answers.

Then to complicate it all, there is still only one person who can help her: Jay Friday, the boy with plenty of problems all his own.

As bodies and secrets pile up around town, Winnie finds herself questioning what it means to be a true Wednesday and a true Luminary―and also where her fierce-hearted loyalties might ultimately have to lie.

My thoughts: This definitely felt more exciting than The Luminaries – probably because all the world building and lore explaining was done in that book, and in this one there’s just lots more room for adventure and Winnie’s mission, to redeem her family, prove her dad was framed and stop the Dianas who have something to do with the Whisperer in the woods.

Winnie’s relationship with Jay is still rocky, and now he’s Senior Hunter for the Fridays, it’s harder to get through to him.

Someone might be watching her, especially when all her notes get stolen and she makes a discovery that changes everything, but put someone she cares about at risk, she now has more secrets than ever, doesn’t know who to trust and still has a lot to unravel. The adventure really ramps up and there’s a lot more tension and peril.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own.