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Review | Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft

08.11.2018 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

Disclaimer: I received an advance copy of Toil and Trouble for review purposes from NetGalley, so thank you to them and the publishers for that.

Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft is a collection of short stories about, you guessed it, women and witchcraft. The collection of stories is edited by Tess Sharpe and Jessica Spotswood and features stories from a variety of different female authors.

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Review | What They Don’t Know by Nicole Maggi

07.30.2018 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

Disclaimer: I received an advance copy of What They Don’t Know by Nicole Maggi for review purposes through NetGalley, so thank you to them and the publishers.

What They Don’t Know is a story about two sixteen year old girls, Lise and Mellie, who both have a pretty big secret that they’re hiding.  Mellie is from a very conservative and religious family. Her father is the mayor of their small town and he’s running for state senate on that pretty typical platform of pro-life, family values, and so on.  Mellie is described as the perfect daughter and friend, always toeing the line and doing what she’s supposed to. She wears a purity ring and would have waited until marriage if she had been given a choice. Unfortunately, she wasn’t.  At the start of the story, you find out that Mellie was raped and now she’s pregnant. Lise, on the other hand, seems to be Mellie’s opposite. She’s a feminist, organizes a Women’s Fair at her school, and volunteers at the local abortion clinic as an escort.  She is deeply caring and loves to help people. She’s also the only person who seems to notice that Mellie is drowning and that she needs help, and Lise does everything she can to try help her.

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Review | Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough

07.03.2018 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

Blood Water Paint  by Joy McCullough is a novel in verse about a female painter named Artemesia Gentileschi.  The novel encompasses events from her later teenage years.

Artemesia grew up in Rome in the 1600s.  She was the oldest of three siblings, and the only daughter.  Her mother passed away when she was young and Artemesia was faced with the choice of becoming a nun, or working as an apprentice for her father, who is a painter.  The path she follows is her father’s apprentice. As it turns out, she had more talent than her father and this does not go unnoticed. Her father uses her talent to take him farther in the world of art.  He even hires her a tutor to improve her talent, and also to find his way into improving his status as a painter.

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Review | The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert

06.26.2018 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

“My mother was raised on fairy tales, but I was raised on highways.”

The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert is the story of Alice Crewe, who is approximately 17 years old.  She and her mother, Ella, have never lived in one place for too long, moving all over the continental United States.  It seems that whenever they stay in one place for too long, bad things happen to them. They call it bad luck and they move on.  

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Misc Monday | To Rate or Not to Rate?

06.19.2018 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

Are any of you out there a writer as well as a reader?  I am. For as long as I can remember, I have been writing stories as well as devouring them in book format.  I, like many writers (or so I tell myself), am simultaneously really proud of the stories I manage to write and also think they’re kind of horrendous and/or boring.

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Review | The Inkless and the Inked by Brian Gully

06.12.2018 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

“The Inkless and the Inked” is an audio story.  It is written by Brian Gully who kindly reached out to me and asked if I would like early access to the story in return for a review or post.  The premise sounded really interesting, so I said yes.

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Introduce Yourself: Ashley

06.07.2018 by Ashley // Leave a Comment

Hi!  Okay, if I’m going to be honest, I am terrible at talking about myself and I kind of have a love hate relationship with it.  It’s always an easier situation when I have someone who is asking me questions because then it’s easier for me to follow from point a to point b.  However, I’m going to give this my best shot and I hope in the end you’ll learn a thing or two about me.

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Ashley’s Goodreads

The Complete Works
The Complete Works
by William Shakespeare
The First Part of the Contention Between the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster, &c., 1594
The First Part of the Contention Between the Two Famous Houses of York and Lancaster, &c., 1594
by William Shakespeare
All the Stars and Teeth
All the Stars and Teeth
by Adalyn Grace
I Am Still Alive
I Am Still Alive
by Kate Alice Marshall
Blood of Elves
Blood of Elves
by Andrzej Sapkowski

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The Name of the Wind
The Name of the Wind
by Patrick Rothfuss
Contagion
Contagion
by Erin Bowman
Crown of Midnight
Crown of Midnight
by Sarah J. Maas
Queen of Shadows
Queen of Shadows
by Sarah J. Maas
Ruthless Gods
Ruthless Gods
by Emily A. Duncan

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