𝓔𝓵𝓮𝓶𝓮𝓷𝓽𝓪𝓵 𝓛𝓲𝓷𝓴𝓼: 𝓢𝓽𝓮𝓮𝓵 & 𝓜𝓪𝓰𝓲𝓬 𝓑𝓸𝓸𝓴 𝓞𝓷𝓮 𝓫𝔂 𝓜.𝓐. 𝓛𝓮𝓸𝓷

“𝒯𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝒽𝒾𝓂 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓇𝓊𝓃.” 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝓁𝒶𝓈𝓉 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝒹𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝒥𝒶𝓀𝑒’𝓈 𝓂𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓊𝓇𝑔𝑒𝒹 𝒽𝒾𝓂 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒷𝓇𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇, 𝐿𝑜𝓊𝒾𝑒. 𝒥𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝐿𝑜𝓊𝒾𝑒 𝑔𝑒𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓌𝓃 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑜𝓊𝓉𝓈𝒾𝒹𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓁𝒹, 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝒥𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓃𝓈 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓈𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒶 𝓈𝓌𝑜𝓇𝒹 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝓈𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝓁𝒾𝓋𝑒𝓈, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝐿𝑜𝓊𝒾𝑒, 𝑔𝒾𝒻𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝑒𝓁𝑒𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓁 𝓂𝒶𝑔𝒾𝒸, 𝓈𝑜𝑜𝓃 𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓃𝓈 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓂𝒶𝑔𝒾𝒸 𝒾𝓈 𝓅𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝑜𝒻 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓂𝓊𝒸𝒽 𝒷𝒾𝑔𝑔𝑒𝓇: 𝒶 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓁𝒹 𝑜𝒻 𝓈𝓅𝒾𝓇𝒾𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝑔𝑒 𝒶 𝓌𝒶𝓇 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝑜𝓌𝓃.

𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝓃𝑒𝒸𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝒶𝒻𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝐿𝑜𝓊𝒾𝑒. 𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝑜𝓃𝓁𝓎 𝓌𝒶𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓃𝑒𝒸𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝒾𝓃𝒸𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓈𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝓃𝓊𝓂𝒷𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝒾𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝒸𝒶𝓅𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓅𝑜𝓈𝓈𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝒶𝒹𝑒𝓅𝓉𝓈. 𝒜𝒻𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝒸𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓊𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓃𝑒𝒸𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝓅𝒾𝓁𝓁𝒶𝑔𝒾𝓃𝑔, 𝒶𝒹𝑒𝓅𝓉𝓈 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓈𝒸𝒶𝓇𝒸𝑒. 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝓃𝑒𝒸𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝐿𝑜𝓊𝒾𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓌𝑜𝓃’𝓉 𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓅 𝓊𝓃𝓉𝒾𝓁 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒸𝒶𝓅𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒 𝒽𝒾𝓂.

𝒜𝓁𝑜𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝓌𝒶𝓎, 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝓂𝑒𝑒𝓉 𝒞𝒶𝓈𝓈𝒾𝑒; 𝒶 𝒻𝒾𝑒𝓇𝓎 𝒷𝓇𝓊𝓃𝑒𝓉𝓉𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝓈𝑒𝒸𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓃 𝒥𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝐿𝑜𝓊𝒾𝑒 𝓈𝒾𝑔𝓃𝑒𝒹 𝑜𝓃 𝒻𝑜𝓇. 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒷𝑜𝓎𝓈’ 𝓊𝓃𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹𝓈𝒽𝒾𝓅 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝓊𝓇𝓃𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝓇𝓊𝓃-𝒶𝓃𝒹-𝒽𝒾𝒹𝑒 𝓈𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓉𝑒𝑔𝓎 𝑜𝓃 𝒾𝓉𝓈 𝒽𝑒𝑒𝓁𝓈.

𝒯𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝒿𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓃𝑒𝓎 𝒾𝓈 𝒻𝓇𝒶𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓊𝓃𝑒𝓍𝓅𝑒𝒸𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝒸𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒𝓈, 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹𝓈, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓃𝑒𝓌 𝒶𝓁𝓁𝒾𝑒𝓈. 𝒜𝓈𝒾𝒹𝑒 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓃𝒶𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒹𝓇𝒶𝓀𝑜𝓃𝓈, 𝒥𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝐿𝑜𝓊𝒾𝑒 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝑒𝓈𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝒶𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎’𝓋𝑒 𝓃𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝒷𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝒷𝑒𝒻𝑜𝓇𝑒. 𝒞𝒶𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒹𝑒𝒻𝑒𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇𝒸𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓈 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝐿𝑜𝓊𝒾𝑒, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎 𝒶𝒹𝑒𝓅𝓉 𝒾𝓃 𝐸𝓁𝒶𝒷𝓇𝒾𝓊𝓂? 𝒲𝒾𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝒶𝓁𝓁𝒾𝑒𝓈 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂 𝒶𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓃𝓈𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝑜𝓇𝒹𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝓃𝑒𝒸𝓇𝑜𝓂, 𝓌𝒽𝑜𝓈𝑒 𝓂𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓈𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓈 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝒿𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂𝓈𝑒𝓁𝓋𝑒𝓈, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝓃𝑒𝓌𝒻𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹𝓈 𝒶𝓈 𝓌𝑒𝓁𝓁?

***Synopsis copied from amazon.ca

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Genre: Young Adult | Fiction | Fantasy | Historical Fiction

4 out of 5 stars!

Phenomenal characters and outstanding world building!

Jake and Louie really set the bar in this story, these two will completely warm your heart. Brothers thrown into an awful situation but that’s okay! These two can hold their own and nothing will get in the way of protecting each other. Two extremely strong and forever loyal young men!

Elemental Links is packed full of incredible characters. Each story needs to have those strong main characters which of course this read does, but M.A. Leon truly shows her talent with creating characters when she created just as memorable supporting characters.

Jake and Louie are just starting to become more comfortable with their talents. Jake is becoming more and more skilled with his sword and Louie is learning to control his powers, when their whole world is flipped upside down. Desperate, full of so much unknown and with darkness at their heels they set out to meet their safe location. Packed full of excitement! Full of evil, magic, battles, warriors, friendship and some great humour. M.A. Leon has created this exciting world that reads so smoothly and fast paced you will get swept away.

I love a read balanced with great world building and wonderful characters! Elemental Links has both and so much more. I look forward to reading on in this world and learning more about these brilliant characters in book two: Blood Ties. (which is already out might I add, so you can always binge read!).

Thank you so much to M.A. Leon for sending me this copy to read and review. I look forward to reading on in book two!

Publisher: Independently published (M. A. Leon)

Release Date: January 19, 2019

And of course thank you all for reading

Your Warrior Book Worm

-Nichole

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COVER REVEAL – Lyrics and Curses by Candace Robinson

LYRICS AND CURSES

Book #1 in the: Cursed Hearts Duology

by Candace Robinson

**Cover Designer: Jena R. Collins / JRC Designs**
***Pub*****lisher: Filles Vertes Publishing**

𝐿𝒶𝓇𝓀 𝐸𝓈𝓅𝒾𝓃𝑜𝓏𝒶 𝒸𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝑔𝑒𝓉 𝓁𝑜𝓈𝓉 𝒾𝓃 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓂𝓊𝓈𝒾𝒸—𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓈𝒽𝑒’𝓈 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓈𝑜 𝓈𝓊𝓇𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝓎𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒻𝒶𝓂𝒾𝓁𝓎 𝓌𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓃 𝒸𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝒻𝒾𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝑒𝓇. 𝐻𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝓇𝑒𝓃𝒹𝓎, 𝓅𝒶𝓇𝓉𝓎-𝓁𝑜𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝓌𝒾𝓃 𝓈𝒾𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓂𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇-𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒-𝓁𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝐵𝑒𝓉𝒽, 𝓌𝒽𝑜’𝓈 𝓈𝓊𝒹𝒹𝑒𝓃𝓁𝓎 𝓈𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓃 𝑜𝒻𝒻 𝓂𝑒𝓃 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑜𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝒽𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓂𝒶𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔, 𝒹𝑜𝓃’𝓉 𝓊𝓃𝒹𝑒𝓇𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝒸𝒶𝓈𝓈𝑒𝓉𝓉𝑒 𝓉𝒶𝓅𝑒𝓈, 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓁𝑜𝒶𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝑜𝓅 𝓈𝒸𝑒𝓃𝑒, 𝑜𝓇 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒹𝑜𝒻𝒻𝒾𝓈𝒽 𝓅𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑜𝓃𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓎. 𝐹𝑜𝓇 𝑜𝓊𝓉𝒸𝒶𝓈𝓉 𝐿𝒶𝓇𝓀, 𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒻𝑒𝑒𝓁𝓈 𝒶𝓈 𝓂𝓊𝒸𝒽 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒 𝒶 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁 𝒽𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝒶𝓈 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝓉 𝐵𝓊𝒷𝒷𝓁𝑒’𝓈 𝒪𝒹𝒹𝒾𝓉𝒾𝑒𝓈 𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝓇𝓎𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝒶𝓉𝓉𝓇𝒶𝒸𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒶𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓃𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝓊𝓉𝑒 𝑔𝓊𝓎 𝓌𝒽𝑜 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓀𝓈 𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒱𝒾𝓃𝓎𝓁 𝓈𝒽𝑜𝓅 𝓃𝑒𝓍𝓉 𝒹𝑜𝑜𝓇—𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝒶𝓂𝑒 𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝓉𝓇𝒶𝒹𝑒𝒹 𝓁𝓎𝓇𝒾𝒸𝒶𝓁 𝓃𝑜𝓉𝑒𝓈 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒾𝓃 𝒸𝓁𝒶𝓈𝓈.

𝒜𝓊𝒹𝑒𝓃 𝐸𝓁𝓁𝒾𝓈 𝓈𝒾𝓁𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒾𝓃𝒸𝑒𝓈𝓈𝒶𝓃𝓉 𝓆𝓊𝑒𝓈𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝑜𝓌𝓃 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝒹 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒶 𝓈𝓉𝑒𝒶𝒹𝓎 𝓈𝓉𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓂 𝑜𝒻 𝒷𝑒𝒶𝓉𝓈. 𝒟𝑒𝓈𝓅𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓊𝓃𝒸𝑜𝓃𝒹𝒾𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝒶𝓁 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒶𝓊𝓃𝓉-𝓉𝓊𝓇𝓃𝑒𝒹-𝓂𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇, 𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝒶𝓃’𝓉 𝓆𝓊𝒾𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝒷𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓁𝑜𝓈𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓅𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓈—𝑜𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝑜𝓈𝓈𝒾𝒷𝒾𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓎 𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝓊𝓅 𝒶𝒻𝒻𝓁𝒾𝒸𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒻𝒶𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇’𝓈 𝒾𝓈𝓈𝓊𝑒𝓈. 𝒟𝑒𝓈𝓅𝒾𝓉𝑒 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒸𝑜𝓃𝓃𝑒𝒸𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓁𝓎𝓇𝒾𝒸-𝓁𝑜𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝐿𝒶𝓇𝓀, 𝒜𝓊𝒹𝑒𝓃 𝓀𝑒𝑒𝓅𝓈 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒶𝓉 𝒶𝓇𝓂’𝓈 𝓁𝑒𝓃𝑔𝓉𝒽 𝒷𝑒𝒸𝒶𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝓁𝑒𝓉𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒾𝓃 𝓂𝒾𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝓂𝑒𝒶𝓃 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒶 𝓅𝑒𝑒𝓀 𝒾𝓃𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒹𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓇𝑜𝓊𝓈.

𝒲𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝓉𝓌𝑜 𝓈𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝒶𝓇𝓇𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝑜𝓌𝓃, 𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝒸𝒶𝓇𝓇𝓎𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶 𝓂𝓎𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇𝒾𝑜𝓊𝓈, 𝒹𝒶𝓇𝓀 𝑜𝒷𝒿𝑒𝒸𝓉 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓅𝓁𝒶𝓎𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝓃 𝑒𝑒𝓇𝒾𝑒 𝒻𝓁𝓊𝓉𝑒 𝓉𝓊𝓃𝑒, 𝐿𝒶𝓇𝓀 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒜𝓊𝒹𝑒𝓃 𝒻𝒾𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝓅𝒶𝒾𝓃𝒻𝓊𝓁 𝓅𝒶𝓈𝓉𝓈 𝒽𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝑒𝓃𝓂𝑒𝓈𝒽𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂 𝒾𝓃 𝒶 𝒸𝓊𝓇𝓈𝑒𝒹 𝒻𝓊𝓉𝓊𝓇𝑒. 𝒩𝑜𝓌, 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝓂𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓂𝓈 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝒷𝓊𝒹𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝓉𝓉𝓇𝒶𝒸𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝓌𝒽𝒾𝓁𝑒 𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓅𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑒𝒶𝒸𝒽 𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓁𝓁𝑒𝓃𝑔𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓇𝑒𝒻𝓁𝑒𝒸𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝓈𝑒𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝒾𝓇𝓇𝑜𝓇. 𝐼𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒻𝒶𝒾𝓁, 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎’𝓁𝓁 𝒷𝑒 𝓉𝓇𝒶𝓅𝓅𝑒𝒹 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝑒𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓃𝒾𝓉𝓎 𝒾𝓃 𝒶 𝓅𝓁𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝒷𝑒𝓎𝑜𝓃𝒹 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓎.

𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙊𝙣𝙚

𝙏𝙤 𝙇𝙖𝙧𝙠: 𝙇𝙮𝙧𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 “𝙐𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚” – 𝙌𝙪𝙚𝙚𝙣, 𝘿𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙙 𝘽𝙤𝙬𝙞𝙚

“𝙅𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙊𝙣𝙚 𝙆𝙞𝙨𝙨” 𝙥𝙪𝙡𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙇𝙖𝙧𝙠’𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙥𝙝𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙝𝙤𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠. 𝘼 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙘𝙮𝙘𝙡𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙’𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙖𝙡, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙡𝙙-𝙛𝙖𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙙, 𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙮 𝙗𝙞𝙘𝙮𝙘𝙡𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙖𝙨 𝙬𝙚𝙡𝙡. 𝙎𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙛𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙢 𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘.

𝙃𝙖𝙡𝙛𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙧 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙠, 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙙𝙖𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙡𝙤𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙠𝙚𝙚𝙥 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙞𝙥𝙥𝙞𝙣𝙜. 𝙃𝙚𝙧 𝙢𝙤𝙥 𝙤𝙛 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙡𝙮 𝙗𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙣 𝙝𝙖𝙞𝙧 𝙨𝙬𝙪𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙚𝙧

𝙡𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙚 𝙟𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙩 𝙥𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙥𝙪𝙡𝙡 𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙙-𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙒𝙖𝙡𝙠𝙢𝙖𝙣. 𝙎𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙥 𝙗𝙪𝙩𝙩𝙤𝙣, 𝙗𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙖𝙣𝙙’𝙨 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙣𝙙.

“𝙎𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙮, 𝙗𝙤𝙮𝙨, 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙬𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙙𝙤 𝙞𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮.”

𝙇𝙖𝙧𝙠 𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙠, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙘𝙡𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙖𝙥𝙚𝙨 𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙙. 𝙎𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙚𝙙 𝙖 𝙢𝙮𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙗 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙡𝙮 𝙚𝙭𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙙 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙨.

“𝘽𝙧𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙋𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙩” 𝙙𝙧𝙞𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧, 𝘾𝙝𝙧𝙞𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙚, 𝙠𝙣𝙚𝙬 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙝𝙤𝙬 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙇𝙖𝙧𝙠 𝙞𝙣 𝙖 𝙛𝙤𝙘𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙢𝙤𝙤𝙙. 𝘼𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙘𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙚𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙜𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙞𝙢𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙖 𝙗𝙤𝙮 𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙙 𝘼𝙪𝙙𝙚𝙣 𝙗𝙮 𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙖𝙜𝙜𝙮 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙩 𝙯𝙤𝙣𝙚. 𝘽𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩, 𝙩𝙤𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙛𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙄𝙢𝙖𝙣𝙞’𝙨 𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙙𝙖𝙮 𝙖𝙩 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠.

𝙈𝙖𝙮𝙗𝙚 “𝙐𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚” 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙’𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙖 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙞𝙘𝙚.

𝙎𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙙𝙖𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙚—𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙥𝙞𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙜𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙣 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨, 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙤 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙫𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙚𝙢𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚. 𝙄𝙩 𝙢𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩’𝙫𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙮 𝙗𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙅𝙪𝙣𝙚, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝙏𝙚𝙭𝙖𝙨, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙪𝙣’𝙨 𝙧𝙖𝙮𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙜𝙤 𝙖𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙛𝙧𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙖 𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙡𝙮. 𝙇𝙪𝙘𝙠𝙮 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙇𝙖𝙧𝙠, 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙙𝙣’𝙩 𝙜𝙚𝙩 𝙝𝙤𝙩 𝙨𝙤 𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙞𝙡𝙮.

𝙃𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙨 𝙫𝙞𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙪𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙡𝙤𝙩 𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙪𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙪𝙥 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙮-𝙖𝙣𝙙-𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙥𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙥 𝙢𝙖𝙡𝙡. 𝘼 𝙡𝙖𝙧𝙜𝙚 𝙗𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝘽𝙪𝙗𝙗𝙡𝙚’𝙨 𝙊𝙙𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙨𝙘𝙧𝙖𝙬𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙘𝙧𝙤𝙨𝙨, 𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖 𝙥𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙖 𝙨𝙠𝙪𝙡𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙗𝙪𝙗𝙗𝙡𝙚𝙨, 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙞𝙣 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙨. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙬𝙣𝙚𝙧, 𝙅𝙞𝙢𝙗𝙤, 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙊𝙙𝙙𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙝𝙚’𝙙 𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙩 𝙖 𝙛𝙚𝙬 𝙮𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙨 𝙖𝙜𝙤, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙖𝙙𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝘽𝙪𝙗𝙗𝙡𝙚’𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙙𝙧𝙖𝙬 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙞𝙣.

𝙃𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩.

𝙇𝙖𝙧𝙠 𝙨𝙪𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙖 𝙤𝙛 𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙥𝙮, 𝙨𝙤𝙖𝙥𝙮 𝙨𝙥𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙡𝙤𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙢𝙖𝙟𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙞𝙧 𝙖𝙨 𝙤𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙯𝙞𝙡𝙘𝙝—𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨.

𝙎𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙧𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙙𝙚 𝙞𝙩 𝙗𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙖𝙩𝙝 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜. 𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙖 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙥𝙪𝙨𝙝 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙮 𝙠𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙣𝙙, 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙙 𝙪𝙥 𝙖𝙩 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙥’𝙨 𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙤𝙬, 𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙃𝙚𝙡𝙥 𝙒𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙙 𝙨𝙞𝙜𝙣. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙜𝙡𝙖𝙨𝙨 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙗𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚, 𝙮𝙚𝙩 𝙘𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙧 𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚. 𝙉𝙤 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙥𝙚𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙚, 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙨𝙚𝙚 𝙖𝙡𝙡. 𝘼 𝙡𝙤𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙙 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙣𝙤 𝙤𝙣𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜.

𝙇𝙖𝙧𝙠 𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙥𝙥𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙛𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙡𝙞𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙫𝙮 𝙗𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙟𝙖𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙩. 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙚 𝙥𝙞𝙚𝙘𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙘𝙡𝙤𝙩𝙝 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙩𝙮 𝙗𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙠𝙚𝙩, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙛𝙚𝙡𝙩 𝙣𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜—𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙝𝙤𝙩 𝙤𝙧 𝙣𝙤𝙩, 𝙨𝙝𝙚’𝙙 𝙗𝙚 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙞𝙩.

𝘽𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙡𝙞𝙥, 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙖𝙫𝙤𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙙 𝙜𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙞𝙢𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙚𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙨𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙨𝙣’𝙩 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙮 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙖 𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙗𝙤𝙮 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙮𝙚𝙩. 𝙃𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙥𝙪𝙢𝙥𝙚𝙙 𝙖 𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙩𝙡𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙙𝙚𝙧. “𝘾𝙖𝙡𝙢 𝙙𝙤𝙬𝙣, 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙗𝙡𝙚𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩,” 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙.

𝘽𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝘽𝙪𝙗𝙗𝙡𝙚’𝙨, 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙘𝙖𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙚𝙮𝙚 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩. 𝙎𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙡𝙮 𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙖𝙩, 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙥𝙖𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝘼𝙪𝙙𝙚𝙣 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙚𝙙. 𝙃𝙚𝙧 𝙨𝙩𝙪𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙝𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙖𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙡𝙚𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙛𝙖𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙨 𝙨𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙞𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙗𝙚 𝙝𝙞𝙢. 𝙄𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙙, 𝙝𝙚𝙧

𝙗𝙧𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙖 𝙛𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙚𝙮𝙚𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙘𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙣 𝙖 𝙢𝙖𝙣 𝙬𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠—𝙖 𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙠 𝙥𝙞𝙚 𝙛𝙚𝙙𝙤𝙧𝙖 𝙝𝙖𝙩, 𝙨𝙠𝙞 𝙢𝙖𝙨𝙠, 𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙝 𝙘𝙤𝙖𝙩, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙜𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚𝙨.

Author Bio:

Candace Robinson spends her days consumed by words. When she’s not writing stories, she Googles all things nostalgic. Her life consists of avoiding migraines, admiring Bonsai trees, and living with her husband and daughter in Texas—where it can be forty degrees one day and eighty the next.

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Magna-Blade by Evan Aitchison

Magna-Blade

𝕀𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕪𝕖𝕒𝕣 𝟚𝟛𝟙𝟙, 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕 𝕚𝕤 𝕣𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕗𝕣𝕠𝕞 𝕒 𝕕𝕖𝕧𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕨𝕒𝕣 𝕕𝕦𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕚𝕟𝕔𝕣𝕖𝕕𝕚𝕓𝕝𝕪 𝕡𝕠𝕨𝕖𝕣𝕗𝕦𝕝 𝕄𝕒𝕘𝕟𝕒-𝔹𝕝𝕒𝕕𝕖𝕤, 𝕒𝕟 𝕚𝕟𝕧𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕜𝕤 𝕠𝕟𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕓𝕝𝕒𝕔𝕜 𝕞𝕒𝕣𝕜𝕖𝕥. ℕ𝕠𝕨 𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕒 𝕨𝕠𝕣𝕝𝕕 𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕟 𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 𝕓𝕣𝕠𝕜𝕖𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕟 𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝕓𝕖𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕖, 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕡𝕠𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕖𝕟𝕗𝕠𝕣𝕔𝕖𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕙𝕒𝕤 𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕔𝕙𝕖𝕕 𝕒 𝕟𝕖𝕨 𝕗𝕖𝕣𝕠𝕔𝕚𝕥𝕪. 𝔸 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕘 𝕞𝕒𝕟, 𝕂𝕒𝕕𝕠, 𝕤𝕥𝕦𝕔𝕜 𝕓𝕖𝕥𝕨𝕖𝕖𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕔𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕤 𝕠𝕗 𝕓𝕦𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕦𝕔𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕪 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕟𝕒𝕣𝕔𝕚𝕤𝕤𝕚𝕤𝕥𝕚𝕔 𝕓𝕚𝕒𝕤, 𝕙𝕒𝕤 𝕗𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕟 𝕤𝕝𝕒𝕧𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕕𝕣𝕦𝕘𝕤 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕒𝕝𝕔𝕠𝕙𝕠𝕝. 𝕌𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕣 𝕞𝕪𝕤𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕠𝕦𝕤 𝕔𝕚𝕣𝕔𝕦𝕞𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖𝕤 𝕒𝕟 𝕠𝕝𝕕𝕖𝕣 𝕞𝕒𝕟 𝕥𝕒𝕜𝕖𝕤 𝕙𝕚𝕞 𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕣 𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕨𝕚𝕟𝕘. 𝔹𝕦𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖’𝕤 𝕞𝕠𝕣𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕖𝕝𝕕𝕖𝕣𝕝𝕪 𝕞𝕒𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕟 𝕞𝕖𝕖𝕥𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕖𝕪𝕖. 𝕂𝕒𝕕𝕠 𝕘𝕖𝕥𝕤 𝕥𝕙𝕣𝕠𝕨𝕟 𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕠 𝕒𝕟 𝕒𝕕𝕧𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕖 𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕥𝕠 𝕚𝕟𝕔𝕣𝕖𝕕𝕚𝕓𝕝𝕖 𝕤𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕗𝕚𝕔 𝕕𝕚𝕤𝕔𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕤, 𝕦𝕟𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕡𝕠𝕨𝕖𝕣𝕗𝕦𝕝 𝕚𝕟𝕧𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟𝕤, 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕦𝕟𝕣𝕒𝕧𝕖𝕝𝕝𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒 𝕕𝕖𝕧𝕚𝕠𝕦𝕤 𝕡𝕝𝕠𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕔𝕠𝕦𝕝𝕕 𝕕𝕖𝕧𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕥𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕖𝕟𝕥𝕚𝕣𝕖 𝕡𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕥.

***Synopsis copied from amazon.ca

Genre: Adult | Sci-fi | Dystopian| Fiction

4 out of 5 stars!

Take a look at the cover! If that doesn’t pull you in enough the moment you read the synopsis you will be hooked.

I have been craving sci-fi recently and Magna-Blade was exactly what I needed. Even more of a treat when I found out it was set in a well known city in Canada!

People have survived a life changing war with some of the most dangerous weapons around – Magna-Blades. But no-ones safe just yet!….Someone knows more is coming and they are working tirelessly to stop it! Question’s are …Will they succeed?…Can they do it alone, or will they need help?

Evan has created this revolutionary setting! You still have your high, middle and lower class, people are suffering, hunger, drugs and crime are still present and a form of law enforcement is in place. It reads as if you are in today’s setting with a futuristic twist. This was a huge yes for me! I enjoy stepping out of the real world while reading but really appreciate when there is still be a relate-able feel to it. Helps to really grasp the idea and makes for an engaging read!

The characters are perfectly placed in this world. I try very hard not give any spoilers away while reviewing so I won’t give any names or details. But I will say I really connected with a few of the stronger, main characters. When they were faced with hardships or tough situations it hit hard! Evan’s characters are extremely memorable. I thoroughly enjoy a read where there is a perfect balance between the story line and the characters and I found that was exactly what Magna-Blade did. The perfect amount of detail throughout.

Now you may be wondering why I gave this read a 4 stars when I obviously enjoyed it so much. The one reason I removed a star from my rating is…. the beginning of the story is very fast paced. Almost as something you would see in a immediate scene at the beginning of a movie, to get you quickly up to date on what’s going down. Although this is fine and a lot of reads do this to give the reader some details before they really dive into the story. What got me was there were parts that had me lost or confused. I felt like I was missing a bit of the story that was critical to understanding things as you went on, perhaps details that are important and were glazed over a bit too quickly. Don’t get me wrong! As you go you will understand what is happening and you will get a glimpse of the past. I just feel some bits could have been touched on more.

All of this being said. I obviously really enjoyed this read and gave it a high rating. What makes me very excited about how this read ended off is I felt as if the story was left a bit open but also with enough conclusion at the same time. Which I really appreciate because I don’t feel like I am needing more…. yet if a sequel came of this I most definitely would be jumping at the chance to get my hands on it!

Of course I would recommend this read especially if you are a sci-fi fan. You can never go wrong with such a strong, vivid world like this!

Publisher: Independently through lulu.com

Release date: December 3, 2019

And of course thank you all for reading.

Your Futuristic Book Worm

-Nichole

𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝑀𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝐵𝑒𝓉𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝒷𝓎 𝒩𝒶𝓉𝒶𝓁𝒾𝑒 𝐵𝒶𝓃𝓀𝓈

𝒯𝓇𝒶𝑔𝑒𝒹𝓎 𝓈𝓉𝓇𝒾𝓀𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓁𝒾𝒻𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝒞𝓁𝒶𝒾𝓇𝑒 𝒟𝓊𝒫𝑜𝓃𝓉 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒽𝓊𝓈𝒷𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑜𝒻 𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑒 𝓎𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓈 𝒾𝓈 𝓀𝒾𝓁𝓁𝑒𝒹 𝒾𝓃 𝒶 𝓉𝓇𝒶𝒾𝓃 𝒶𝒸𝒸𝒾𝒹𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝑜𝓃 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓌𝒶𝓎 𝒽𝑜𝓂𝑒 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓀, 𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒶𝓁𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓉𝓌𝑜 𝓈𝓂𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝒸𝒽𝒾𝓁𝒹𝓇𝑒𝓃. 𝒪𝓃𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔, 𝓈𝒾𝓍 𝓂𝑜𝓃𝓉𝒽𝓈 𝓁𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓇, 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝒶𝓌𝒶𝓀𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝒻𝒾𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝒾𝓂 𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓈𝑒, 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒 𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝒹 𝓃𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝒷𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝑔𝑜𝓃𝑒. 𝒲𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝒹 𝓈𝓅𝒾𝓃𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝒾𝒸𝓀𝓈 𝓊𝓅 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓅𝒽𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝑜𝓃𝓁𝓎 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝑒𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝒶𝓉𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝒶𝒸𝓉𝓊𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑒𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓃𝓉𝒽𝓈 𝒷𝑒𝒻𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒶𝒸𝒸𝒾𝒹𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝑜𝒸𝒸𝓊𝓇𝓇𝑒𝒹. 𝐵𝑒𝓌𝒾𝓁𝒹𝑒𝓇𝑒𝒹 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝑔𝓇𝒶𝓉𝑒𝒻𝓊𝓁, 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝓇𝒾𝓉𝑒𝓈 𝒾𝓉 𝑜𝒻𝒻 𝒶𝓈 𝒶 𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎 𝓋𝒾𝓋𝒾𝒹, 𝒷𝒶𝒹 𝒹𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓂. 𝐵𝓊𝓉 𝒶𝓈 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒 𝑔𝑜𝑒𝓈 𝑜𝓃, 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝒾𝓏𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓊𝓃𝒻𝑜𝓁𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝑒𝓍𝒶𝒸𝓉𝓁𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝒶𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒹𝒾𝒹 𝒾𝓃 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒹𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓂. 𝑅𝒶𝒸𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓃𝓈𝓉 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒, 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝑒𝓈𝓅𝑒𝓇𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝓉𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒾𝓃𝑒𝓋𝒾𝓉𝒶𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒻𝒾𝓃𝒹𝓈 𝒽𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓁𝒻 𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓅𝓁𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝓎𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔. 𝒰𝓃𝓌𝒾𝓁𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓊𝓅, 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝓋𝑜𝓌𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓅 𝒶𝓉 𝓃𝑜𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝓈𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒽𝓊𝓈𝒷𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒷𝑒𝒻𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝒾𝓉’𝓈 𝓉𝑜𝑜 𝓁𝒶𝓉𝑒.

Genre: Adult | Psychological Thriller | Romantic Suspense | Fiction |

10 out of 5 stars! (Yes it’s that good)

Brilliant! Absolutely brilliant!

The Moments Between is positively memorising!

Let me start by saying I have been an enormous fan of Natalie’s work for a couple years now. I have read nearly all of her published pieces and dare I say…I think this is her best yet. That comment alone says it all.

The Moments Between is an incredible concept and Natalie executed it perfectly. Truly gripping, yet notably warming. This is a novel you won’t want to put down but will also be terrified to see how it ends.

We’ve all experienced nightmares before but Claire’s nightmare goes beyond a sleepless night! Claire is constantly living in panic, desperate to find a way to keep her husband alive. This would be torment for anyone, let alone a mom of young kids. You will experience a explosion of multiple emotions throughout. One moment you will be in awe of the charming, incredibly relatable characters and the wonderful life they live. Next you will be holding your breath, pleading that everyone is safe.

If reading about this extraordinary family wasn’t enough, this story is packed full of strong underlining messages. For example; Claire and her sister are extremely different women, one is constantly infuriated by the other while also admiring her beauty. While the other is flat out jealous of the others life in a whole. This is where the message of “the grass is always greener on the other side” comes in. As they work through their differences it creates a stronger bond between the two that is so enjoyable. Claire also experiences such gut wrenching fears that leads her to ask a question that I am sure so many of us had wondered before “if God exists, why does he allow bad things to happen?”

I can’t help but feel that the positive moments throughout this read may be a tiny sneak peak into Natalie’s true life story.

Honestly I could go on and on with my thoughts of this book. You just need to read it! Perhaps this is the perfect read to end 2019 off with.

Thank you so much Natalie for sending me a e-copy to review. I cant help but devour everything you write. Can’t wait to see what you come up with next.

Publisher: Champion Books

Release date: December 6, 2019

And of course thank you all for reading.

Your Peaceful Book Worm

-Nichole

Kill River & Kill River 2 by Cameron Roubique

𝙆𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙍𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 & 𝙆𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙍𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 2

ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱᴜᴍᴍᴇʀ ᴏꜰ 1983, ᴛʜɪʀᴛᴇᴇɴ-ʏᴇᴀʀ-ᴏʟᴅ ᴄʏɴᴅɪ ᴀɴᴅ ʜᴇʀ ᴛʜʀᴇᴇ ɴᴇᴡ-ꜰᴏᴜɴᴅ ꜰʀɪᴇɴᴅꜱ, ꜱᴛᴀᴄʏ, ᴢᴀᴄᴋ, ᴀɴᴅ ʙʀᴀᴅ ᴅᴇᴄɪᴅᴇ ᴛᴏ ꜱɴᴇᴀᴋ ᴀᴡᴀʏ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ᴛʜᴇɪʀ ꜱᴜᴍᴍᴇʀ ᴄᴀᴍᴘ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴍɪᴅᴅʟᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ɴɪɢʜᴛ ʙʏ ʀᴀꜰᴛɪɴɢ ᴅᴏᴡɴ ᴛʜᴇ ɴᴇᴀʀʙʏ ʀɪᴠᴇʀꜱ. ᴀꜰᴛᴇʀ ꜱᴘᴇɴᴅɪɴɢ ᴀ ᴛᴇɴꜱᴇ ɴɪɢʜᴛ ʟᴏꜱᴛ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴏᴏᴅꜱ, ᴛʜᴇ ꜰᴏᴜʀ ᴛᴇᴇɴᴀɢᴇʀꜱ ꜱᴛᴜᴍʙʟᴇ ɪɴᴛᴏ ᴀ ᴍʏꜱᴛᴇʀɪᴏᴜꜱ ᴡᴀᴛᴇʀ ᴘᴀʀᴋ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴀᴘᴘᴇᴀʀꜱ ᴛᴏ ʙᴇ ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟᴇᴛᴇʟʏ ᴇᴍᴘᴛʏ.

ᴀᴛ ꜰɪʀꜱᴛ ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴀʀᴇ ᴛʜʀɪʟʟᴇᴅ ᴛᴏ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ʀɪᴅᴇꜱ ᴀʟʟ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇᴍꜱᴇʟᴠᴇꜱ, ᴀᴛ ʟᴇᴀꜱᴛ ᴜɴᴛɪʟ ᴏɴᴇ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇᴍ ᴅɪꜱᴀᴘᴘᴇᴀʀꜱ. ꜱᴏᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴅɪꜱᴄᴏᴠᴇʀ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴛʜᴇʏ ᴀʀᴇ ᴛʀᴀᴘᴘᴇᴅ ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴀʀᴋ, ᴀɴᴅ ᴀ ᴅᴀʀᴋ ꜰɪɢᴜʀᴇ ɪꜱ ꜱᴛᴀʟᴋɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴇᴍ ꜰʀᴏᴍ ᴛʜᴇ ꜱʜᴀᴅᴏᴡꜱ, ᴘɪᴄᴋɪɴɢ ᴛʜᴇᴍ ᴏꜰꜰ ᴏɴᴇ ʙʏ ᴏɴᴇ. ᴏɴᴄᴇ ɴɪɢʜᴛ ꜰᴀʟʟꜱ, ᴄʏɴᴅɪ ᴡɪʟʟ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴛᴏ ꜰɪɢʜᴛ ᴛᴏ ᴇꜱᴄᴀᴘᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘᴀʀᴋ, ᴀ ᴍᴀꜱᴋᴇᴅ ᴍᴀɴɪᴀᴄ, ᴀɴᴅ ᴀ ʟɪᴠɪɴɢ ɴɪɢʜᴛᴍᴀʀᴇ.

*** Synopsis copied from amazon.ca

5 out of 5 stars – for both

Cameron has done it! He is a new favourite author of mine.

I honestly had never read a 80’s slasher horror read before. To be honest I never even realised anything such as this existed within sub genres in horror. Until I took part in the BookTube’s: Bloody Beach Readatlong. Thank goodness for this readalong held by incredible BookTubers because I have now found one of my favourite type of reads within horror.

Kill River and Kill River 2 read exactly as 80’s slasher films. The first half is a slower paced read. Giving the perfect moment to introduce the characters, get a feel for their personalities and what they were all about. The plot was described in such perfect detail. I could really envision the scenes and where the characters where in each moment. It also gave me time to pick and choose my favourite characters and not so favourite.

I found myself even before the creepy moments started working around in my head who I thought was going to be killed first and potentially how they were going to die.

You know….just based on your typical slasher film rules. You know … those rules….If you don’t… than I don’t think you are a true slasher films lover!

Cameron’s description for both the characters and the settings were phenomenal and without being overly wordy. I felt as though I was seeing everything Cyndi and her friends where in the moment, right down to the beautifully landscaped water park decorated with the perfect wildflowers and other designs. Now this may become to hard for some to read when the murder scenes start. They did get extremely gruesome at times, so be sure you have a good strong stomach…. I can’t stress this enough.

These reads are not for everyone. But if you want to experience some of that 80’s slasher film nostalgic feels be sure to pick up both Kill River and its amazing sequel Kill River 2.

“𝕂𝕚𝕝𝕝 ℝ𝕚𝕧𝕖𝕣 𝕚𝕤 𝕒 𝕨𝕚𝕝𝕕 𝕨𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕜 𝕣𝕚𝕕𝕖 𝕗𝕚𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕕 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕓𝕝𝕠𝕠𝕕, 𝕘𝕠𝕣𝕖, 𝕒𝕟𝕕 ‘𝟠𝟘𝕤 𝕟𝕠𝕤𝕥𝕒𝕝𝕘𝕚𝕒. 𝕊𝕝𝕒𝕤𝕙𝕖𝕣 𝕗𝕒𝕟𝕤 𝕣𝕖𝕛𝕠𝕚𝕔𝕖, 𝕠𝕝𝕕 𝕤𝕔𝕙𝕠𝕠𝕝 𝕙𝕠𝕣𝕣𝕠𝕣 𝕚𝕤 𝕓𝕒𝕔𝕜!”

And of course thank you all for reading.

Your Gruesome Book Worm

-Nichole

Beds Are For Flowers by R.K. Gold

𝐀 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞-𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐬, 𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞

𝒞𝓁𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓃𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔𝓈 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓈𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓃 𝒹𝑒𝒶𝓉𝒽. 𝐵𝑒𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒷𝑜𝓇𝓃 𝒾𝓃 𝒶 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓁𝒹 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓁𝑜𝓇, 𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝓇𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝒽𝒶𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝒹𝑒𝒶𝓁 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓁𝑜𝓈𝓈. 𝐸𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓈𝒾𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝒶𝓅𝑒𝓇 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒯𝓇𝑒𝑒 𝒷𝓁𝑜𝒸𝓀𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝒶𝓉𝒽 𝓉𝑜 𝓅𝒶𝓇𝒶𝒹𝒾𝓈𝑒, 𝒽𝓊𝓂𝒶𝓃𝓈 𝒹𝒾𝒹𝓃’𝓉 𝒹𝒾𝑒, 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒷𝑒𝒸𝒶𝓂𝑒 𝓈𝒾𝒸𝓀 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑔𝓇𝑒𝓌 𝓌𝑒𝒶𝓀 𝓊𝓃𝓉𝒾𝓁 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓅𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝒽𝒶𝒹 𝓃𝑜 𝒸𝒽𝑜𝒾𝒸𝑒 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝓁𝑒𝒶𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂 𝒹𝑜𝓌𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓁𝑜𝓃𝑔 𝓇𝑜𝒶𝒹 𝒶𝓇𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝐸𝓃𝒹.

𝐻𝒾𝓈 𝒻𝒶𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒽𝒶𝒹 𝒷𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝓈𝒾𝒸𝓀 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝒶 𝓁𝑜𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝓌𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓅𝑒𝓇𝒾𝓁𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝐸𝓃𝒹, 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓂𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝑜𝒻𝒻𝑒𝓇𝑒𝒹 𝓎𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓈 𝑜𝒻 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝑜𝓌𝓃 𝓁𝒾𝒻𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓅𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝒶𝓈𝓀𝑒𝒹 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝑔𝓊𝒾𝒹𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒞𝓁𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒’𝓈 𝒻𝒶𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇, 𝒾𝓃 𝑒𝓍𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒 𝒻𝑜𝓇 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓉𝒶𝓁 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝓂.

𝒞𝓁𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒, 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓅 𝑜𝒻 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒷𝑒𝓈𝓉 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝒲𝒶𝓀𝑜𝒷𝒶, 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓈𝒾𝓈𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝒥𝑒𝓈𝓈𝒾, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑜𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝓅𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓇𝒻𝓊𝓁 𝑅𝑒𝒹 𝑅𝑒𝒶𝓅𝑒𝓇, 𝒿𝑜𝓊𝓇𝓃𝑒𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒾𝓃-𝒷𝑒𝓉𝓌𝑒𝑒𝓃 𝓉𝑜 𝓇𝑒𝓂𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝒶𝓅𝑒𝓇 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒯𝓇𝑒𝑒 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝓂𝒶𝓀𝑒𝓈𝒽𝒾𝒻𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓃𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓉𝑜𝓇𝑒 𝒷𝒶𝓁𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓁𝒹.

***Synopsis copied from amazon.ca

Middle Grade

Genre: Fantasy

5 out of 5 stars

Since Beds Are For Flowers is a middle grade read, I had the joy of getting to read this with my eldest son. We both absolutely loved this read and highly recommend it.

R.K. Gold is a indie author I met through BookTube. He has always been so inspirational and really has a way with words. When I heard he had started a middle grade series I knew I had to get my hands on it.

The middle grade world is absolutely saturated with fantasy. Making it extremely hard for an author to release something unique into the mix. Dare I say R.K. did just that! He amazed me with the world of Ganedyn.

Beds Are For Flowers is a beautiful story, with sensational characters that will take your breath away. The thought of being born into a bland, color-less world where each and everyday you are worried for your loved ones. Knowing, by facing your fears you may be able to set the pieces of the puzzle back together. Changing things for the best out come possible.

We were hooked! Eager to find out if Clarence, Jesse and Wakoba succeeded in their journey.

I often say that indie authors write some incredible gems. I can’t stress enough how important it is to support indie authors. Trust me, you may find your next top favourite read.

Be sure to check out this series by R.K. Gold!

And of course thank you all for reading.

Your Colorful Book Worm

-Nichole

The Nanny by Gilly Macmillan

𝒲𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒷𝑒𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒𝒹 𝓃𝒶𝓃𝓃𝓎, 𝐻𝒶𝓃𝓃𝒶𝒽, 𝓁𝑒𝒻𝓉 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝒶 𝓉𝓇𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝓊𝓂𝓂𝑒𝓇 𝑜𝒻 𝟣𝟫𝟪𝟪, 𝓈𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓃-𝓎𝑒𝒶𝓇-𝑜𝓁𝒹 𝒥𝑜𝒸𝑒𝓁𝓎𝓃 𝐻𝑜𝓁𝓉 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝒹𝑒𝓋𝒶𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓉𝑒𝒹. 𝐻𝒶𝓊𝓃𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝒷𝓎 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓁𝑜𝓈𝓈, 𝒥𝑜 𝑔𝓇𝑒𝓌 𝓊𝓅 𝒷𝒾𝓉𝓉𝑒𝓇 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒹𝒾𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓃𝓉, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓊𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝓁𝑒𝒻𝓉 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓅𝒶𝓇𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝐿𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝐻𝒶𝓁𝓁, 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝒻𝒶𝒹𝑒𝒹 𝒶𝓇𝒾𝓈𝓉𝑜𝒸𝓇𝒶𝓉𝒾𝒸 𝒽𝑜𝓂𝑒, 𝒷𝑒𝒽𝒾𝓃𝒹.

𝒯𝒽𝒾𝓇𝓉𝓎 𝓎𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓈 𝓁𝒶𝓉𝑒𝓇, 𝒥𝑜 𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓊𝓇𝓃𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒾𝓈 𝒻𝑜𝓇𝒸𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝒸𝑜𝓃𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓃𝓉 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝓇𝑜𝓊𝒷𝓁𝑒𝒹 𝓇𝑒𝓁𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃𝓈𝒽𝒾𝓅 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓂𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇. 𝐵𝓊𝓉 𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝒽𝓊𝓂𝒶𝓃 𝓇𝑒𝓂𝒶𝒾𝓃𝓈 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝒶𝒸𝒸𝒾𝒹𝑒𝓃𝓉𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝓊𝓃𝒸𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇𝑒𝒹 𝒾𝓃 𝒶 𝓁𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑒𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓉𝑒, 𝒥𝑜 𝒷𝑒𝑔𝒾𝓃𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝓆𝓊𝑒𝓈𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝓀𝓃𝑒𝓌.

𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝒶𝓃 𝓊𝓃𝑒𝓍𝓅𝑒𝒸𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓋𝒾𝓈𝒾𝓉𝑜𝓇 𝓀𝓃𝑜𝒸𝓀𝓈 𝑜𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝑜𝑜𝓇 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒥𝑜’𝓈 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝓁𝒹 𝒾𝓈 𝒹𝑒𝓈𝓉𝓇𝑜𝓎𝑒𝒹 𝒶𝑔𝒶𝒾𝓃. 𝒟𝑒𝓈𝓅𝑒𝓇𝒶𝓉𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝓅𝒾𝑒𝒸𝑒 𝓉𝑜𝑔𝑒𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝑔𝒶𝓅𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒽𝑜𝓁𝑒𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓂𝑒𝓂𝑜𝓇𝓎, 𝒥𝑜 𝓂𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝓊𝓃𝒸𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓌𝒽𝑜 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓃𝒶𝓃𝓃𝓎 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓁𝓁𝓎 𝓌𝒶𝓈, 𝓌𝒽𝓎 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝓁𝑒𝒻𝓉, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒾𝒻 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝓉𝓇𝓊𝓈𝓉 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝑜𝓌𝓃 𝓂𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇…

***Synopsis copied from amazon.ca

4 out of 5 stars

I was hooked from the very first sentence!

I have heard so many amazing things about Gilly’s writing. Personally this was my first read by her. I thoroughly enjoyed it and will for sure be check out more of her work in the near future.

Gilly had a fascinating concept, executed it perfectly and brought it to life.

Both the plot and character growth was brilliant throughout. Gilly knows exactly how to set an eerie vibe while keeping the characters completely relate-able. The moment I figured I knew exactly what was happening and who was to blame there was a shift causing me to question all of my original thoughts.

I found The Nanny extremely consumable, itching to know who the criminal was.

Now you may be wondering how I could love it so much but only have given it a 4 out of 5 stars. The Nanny was written from multiple perspectives and although I love reading novels written in this form. Moments within someones story line it would jump back and forth between the current time and the past, with a choppy transition. Not wanting to be confused, this caused me to go back and re-read a few times. Or I would keep reading in hopes that things would start to piece together, which of course it did and I was not disappointed.

A psychological thriller at its best!

Thank you so much to HarperCollins Canada for sending this arc my way for review.

Published by: William Morrow

Sold by: HarperCollins Publishers CA

The Nanny is set to release September 10, 2019. Mark your calendars, this is one you won’t want to miss out on.

And of course thank you all for reading.

Your Clever Book Worm

-Nichole

The Heart of a Boy by Kate T. Parker

“𝓒𝓮𝓵𝓮𝓫𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓢𝓽𝓻𝓮𝓷𝓰𝓽𝓱 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓢𝓹𝓲𝓻𝓲𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓑𝓸𝔂𝓱𝓸𝓸𝓭”

𝐵𝑜𝓎𝓈 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝒷𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓁𝒹. 𝐵𝓊𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓎 𝒸𝒶𝓃 𝒶𝓁𝓈𝑜 𝒷𝑒 𝑔𝑒𝓃𝓉𝓁𝑒. 𝐵𝓊𝓇𝓈𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒸𝑜𝓃𝒻𝒾𝒹𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒, 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝒶𝒻𝓇𝒶𝒾𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝒷𝑒 𝓋𝓊𝓁𝓃𝑒𝓇𝒶𝒷𝓁𝑒. 𝑅𝑒𝒶𝒹𝓎 𝓉𝑜 𝓇𝓊𝓃 𝒻𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓁𝑒𝓈𝓈𝓁𝓎 𝒹𝑜𝓌𝓃𝒻𝒾𝑒𝓁𝒹—𝑜𝓇 𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒸𝒽 𝑜𝓊𝓉 𝓉𝑜 𝒶 𝒻𝓇𝒾𝑒𝓃𝒹 𝒾𝓃 𝓃𝑒𝑒𝒹.

𝐼𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝑒𝓂𝓅𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔, 𝒹𝑒𝑒𝓅𝓁𝓎 𝒻𝑒𝓁𝓉 𝒸𝑒𝓁𝑒𝒷𝓇𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝑜𝒻 𝒷𝑜𝓎𝓈 𝒷𝑒𝒾𝓃𝑔—𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒷𝑒𝓁𝒾𝑒𝓋𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒾𝓃—𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂𝓈𝑒𝓁𝓋𝑒𝓈, 𝓈𝑒𝑒 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓊𝓃𝑔𝓊𝒶𝓇𝒹𝑒𝒹 𝒿𝑜𝓎 𝑜𝒻 𝒶 𝓁𝒾𝓉𝓉𝓁𝑒 𝒷𝓇𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝒽𝓊𝑔𝑔𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒷𝒾𝑔 𝒷𝓇𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇. 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒾𝓃𝓆𝓊𝒾𝓈𝒾𝓉𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓁𝑜𝑜𝓀 𝑜𝒻 𝒶 𝓎𝑜𝓊𝓃𝑔 𝓈𝒸𝒾𝑒𝓃𝓉𝒾𝓈𝓉 𝑒𝓍𝒶𝓂𝒾𝓃𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶 𝒷𝓊𝑔. 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓁𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝓈𝑒𝓁𝒻-𝑒𝓍𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝒾𝓃 𝒶 𝒷𝒶𝓁𝓁𝑒𝓉 𝒹𝒶𝓃𝒸𝑒𝓇’𝓈 𝓅𝑜𝒾𝓈𝑒. 𝒯𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝑔𝓊𝒾𝓉𝒶𝓇𝒾𝓈𝓉𝓈, 𝒻𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒𝓇𝓈, 𝓌𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓉𝓁𝑒𝓇𝓈, 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓇𝑔𝒶𝓏𝑒𝓇𝓈, 𝒶 𝓅𝒾𝓁𝑜𝓉. 𝐵𝑜𝓎𝓈 𝓌𝒽𝑜 𝒶𝓈𝓅𝒾𝓇𝑒 𝓉𝑜 𝒷𝑒 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓈𝒾𝒹𝑒𝓃𝓉, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒷𝑜𝓎𝓈 𝓌𝒽𝑜𝓈𝑒 𝓁𝒾𝓋𝑒𝓈 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝒻𝓊𝓁𝓁 𝑜𝒻 𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓁𝓂𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓁𝓁𝑒𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓈, 𝓎𝑒𝓉 𝓌𝒽𝑜 𝒷𝓇𝒶𝓋𝑒𝓁𝓎 𝒻𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝑒𝒶𝒸𝒽 𝒹𝒶𝓎 𝒶𝓈 𝒾𝓉 𝒸𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓈.

𝒲𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝒾𝓃𝓈𝓅𝒾𝓇𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝒿𝑜𝓎𝒻𝓊𝓁 𝓆𝓊𝑜𝓉𝑒𝓈 𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓂 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒷𝑜𝓎𝓈 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓂𝓈𝑒𝓁𝓋𝑒𝓈, 𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒷𝑜𝑜𝓀 𝓈𝓅𝓇𝑒𝒶𝒹𝓈 𝒶 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓉𝒻𝑒𝓁𝓉, 𝓊𝓅𝓁𝒾𝒻𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓂𝑒𝓈𝓈𝒶𝑔𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝑜𝓅𝑒𝓃𝓃𝑒𝓈𝓈, 𝓈𝑒𝓁𝒻-𝒸𝑜𝓃𝒻𝒾𝒹𝑒𝓃𝒸𝑒, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓌𝒶𝓇𝓂𝓉𝒽.

***Synopsis copied from amazon.ca

5 out of 5 stars

Gold right here! Kate T. Parker has created an absolute treasure!

A heart felt, stunning, memorable read for anyone’s book collection. Especially if you are a boy Mom!

Boys are strong. Boys are fearless. Boys are adventurous. Boys are courageous, Boys are sensitive. Boys are smart… All boys are unique.

Emotions are powerful! What better way to hear about what boys of all ages, from all around the world are feeling, then to read quotes from them directly.

The Heart of a Boy lets their voices be heard.

A brilliant read for any parent. An even better read for the youngsters themselves. Give them a chance to see what others may be going through. To see that they are not the only ones, to receive the inspiration they deserve or may need at times… showing them just how truly important and special they are.

The Heart of a Boy has inspired me and will keep inspiring me. It will stay close to my heart, while keeping it full.

And on that note. I think I need to end this review and go give my 2 most amazing boys the biggest, most embarrassing sloppy kiss, from me!…. There Mom!

Published by Workman Publishing Company on April 2, 2019

…The day my youngest son turned 2!

Thanks to Thomas Allen & Son for sending this perfect boy Mom read my way.

And of course thank you all for reading.

Your Fellow Goofy Mom

-Nichole

Aspiring by Astrid V.J.

𝒜 𝒸𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓃 𝑜𝒻 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓈 𝓅𝓁𝑜𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓌 𝒶 𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔𝒹𝑜𝓂. 𝒪𝓃𝑒 𝒷𝓇𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓂𝒶𝓃 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒹𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝓌𝒶𝓎.

𝒜𝓉 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓂𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇’𝓈 𝒹𝑒𝒶𝓉𝒽-𝒷𝑒𝒹, 𝐸𝓁𝒾𝓈𝒶𝒷𝑒𝓉𝒽 𝓁𝑒𝒶𝓇𝓃𝓈 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓂𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇’𝓈 𝒾𝓁𝓁𝓃𝑒𝓈𝓈 𝒾𝓈 𝓃𝑜 𝒶𝒸𝒸𝒾𝒹𝑒𝓃𝓉 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓉𝒽𝒶𝓉 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝑜𝓌𝓃 𝓁𝒾𝒻𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝒹𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒𝓇. 𝐸𝓋𝒾𝓁 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓈 𝒶𝓇𝑒 𝓅𝓁𝑜𝓉𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓉𝑜 𝓉𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔𝒹𝑜𝓂 𝑜𝒻 𝒱𝑒𝓃𝒹𝒶𝓁𝑒. 𝒜𝓁𝓁 𝒶𝓁𝑜𝓃𝑒, 𝓃𝒶𝒾𝓋𝑒, 𝒶𝓃𝒹 𝓊𝓃𝓉𝓇𝒶𝒾𝓃𝑒𝒹, 𝐸𝓁𝒾𝓈𝒶𝒷𝑒𝓉𝒽’𝓈 𝒹𝑒𝓉𝑒𝓇𝓂𝒾𝓃𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝒾𝓈 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝒽𝒶𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝒸𝑜𝓃𝒻𝓇𝑜𝓃𝓉 𝒽𝑒𝓇 𝓂𝑜𝓉𝒽𝑒𝓇’𝓈 𝓂𝓊𝓇𝒹𝑒𝓇𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝒶𝓈 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝒾𝓈𝒸𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓈 𝓁𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝒶𝓉 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓈𝒶𝓂𝑒 𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒. 𝒲𝒽𝒾𝓁𝑒 𝑅𝒾𝒸𝒽𝒶𝓇𝒹’𝓈 𝒷𝑒𝒽𝒶𝓋𝒾𝑜𝓊𝓇 𝓈𝑒𝓃𝒹𝓈 𝒹𝒾𝓈𝓉𝓇𝒶𝒸𝓉𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓂𝒾𝓍𝑒𝒹 𝓂𝑒𝓈𝓈𝒶𝑔𝑒𝓈, 𝐸𝓁𝒾𝓈𝒶𝒷𝑒𝓉𝒽 𝒻𝒾𝓃𝒹𝓈 𝒽𝑒𝓇𝓈𝑒𝓁𝒻 𝓈𝓉𝓊𝒸𝓀 𝒾𝓃 𝓁𝒾𝓂𝒷𝑜: 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝓉𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓁𝒾𝓀𝑒 𝒶 𝒸𝒽𝒾𝓁𝒹 𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝒻𝑜𝓇𝒸𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓂𝒶𝓀𝑒 𝒶𝒹𝓊𝓁𝓉 𝒹𝑒𝒸𝒾𝓈𝒾𝑜𝓃𝓈. 𝑀𝑒𝒶𝓃𝓌𝒽𝒾𝓁𝑒, 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓈’ 𝓅𝓁𝑜𝓉 𝓈𝓅𝒾𝓃𝓈 𝒶 𝒻𝒶𝓉𝑒𝒻𝓊𝓁 𝓌𝑒𝒷 𝒶𝓇𝑜𝓊𝓃𝒹 𝒽𝑒𝓇.

𝒞𝒶𝓃 𝐸𝓁𝒾𝓈𝒶𝒷𝑒𝓉𝒽 𝓈𝓊𝒸𝒸𝑒𝑒𝒹 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝒾𝓃𝓈𝓊𝓇𝓂𝑜𝓊𝓃𝓉𝒶𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝑜𝒹𝒹𝓈?

* Synopsis copied from amazon.ca *

3 out of 5 stars

Aspiring’s premise is extremely intriguing. The moment I read the synopsis I was interested.

Astrid’s writing is very crisp, clean and flows smoothly. Making this a pleasant, easy read. The characters are described perfectly, well rounded and with great back stories. The amount of plot vs dialog is distributed perfectly throughout.

All around, well written

Unfortunately the execution of this story fell short for me.

After reading the synopsis which starts with “A coven of witches plots to over throw a kingdom” I was expecting an action pact read, with a splash of romance…which was not the case.

I found this story was almost confused on whether it was meant to be a fantasy story full of evil witches with one to stand in their way, or a full on light romance.

It started off great with Elisabeth finding out she has powers herself, while her mother was fighting for her life on her unfortunate death bed. Elizabeth knowing she is untrained and needs to learn how to use and control her powers. This had me fully invested as a reader! Until the part where she is receiving the proper training is grazed over and the story becomes her and her crush showing and admitting their lover for each other.

I personally was looking for that witchy adventure and excitement that the synopsis promised… not receiving the true thrill until the end of the book.

Now, that being said. I know this is not a stand alone novel. There will be a sequel and I am sure not only the characters but the plot will thicken as it goes. But with such a strong synopsis tied to this first novel I was expecting more from this story. Which could put off any reader from picking up the second books, expecting the lack-luster of action to be carried on to the sequel.

Please keep in mind these are my own opinions. I am not dragging this lovely author by any means. As mentioned, her all around writing was absolutely fantastic.

Where something may not have been what I was expecting, doesn’t mean you won’t enjoy it yourself.

I don’t know how many times I have read or seen a negative book review, still held interested, picked up the book and absolutely adored it.

Aspiring may be your perfect cup of tea!

And of course thank you all for reading.

Your Fellow Book Worm

-Nichole

The Black Orchids by Ishita Goel

𝔖𝔱𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔞 𝔫𝔢𝔴 𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔭𝔱𝔢𝔯 𝔦𝔫 𝔩𝔦𝔣𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔣𝔬𝔯𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯 𝔣𝔦𝔩𝔩𝔢𝔡 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔰𝔲𝔯𝔭𝔯𝔦𝔰𝔢𝔰. ℌ𝔬𝔴𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯, 𝔫𝔬𝔱 𝔬𝔫𝔩𝔶 𝔦𝔰 𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔰 𝔱𝔞𝔩𝔢 𝔴𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔤𝔥𝔱 𝔴𝔦𝔱𝔥 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔟𝔲𝔟𝔟𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔢𝔪𝔬𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔞 𝔫𝔢𝔴 𝔟𝔢𝔤𝔦𝔫𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔟𝔲𝔱 𝔞𝔩𝔰𝔬 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔣𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔭𝔞𝔰𝔱.

𝔍𝔬𝔦𝔫𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔞 𝔫𝔢𝔴 𝔟𝔬𝔞𝔯𝔡𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔰𝔠𝔥𝔬𝔬𝔩, 𝔡𝔦𝔰𝔠𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔫𝔢𝔴 𝔣𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔫𝔡𝔰 𝔞𝔫𝔡 𝔣𝔦𝔫𝔡𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔫𝔢𝔴 𝔯𝔬𝔪𝔞𝔫𝔠𝔢 𝔨𝔢𝔢𝔭𝔰 𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔩𝔬𝔰𝔱 𝔦𝔫 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔩𝔡 𝔬𝔣 𝔭𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔲𝔯𝔢, 𝔣𝔞𝔯 𝔞𝔴𝔞𝔶 𝔣𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔴𝔬𝔯𝔯𝔦𝔢𝔰. 𝔖𝔥𝔢 𝔥𝔞𝔰 𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔶𝔱𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔰𝔥𝔢 𝔠𝔬𝔲𝔩𝔡 𝔴𝔦𝔰𝔥 𝔣𝔬𝔯. 𝔅𝔲𝔱 𝔞 𝔪𝔶𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔦𝔬𝔲𝔰 𝔣𝔦𝔤𝔲𝔯𝔢 𝔞𝔩𝔴𝔞𝔶𝔰 𝔩𝔲𝔯𝔨𝔰 𝔞𝔯𝔬𝔲𝔫𝔡 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔠𝔬𝔯𝔫𝔢𝔯. 𝔒𝔫𝔠𝔢 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔞𝔩𝔩𝔲𝔯𝔢 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔲𝔫𝔨𝔫𝔬𝔴𝔫 𝔠𝔞𝔭𝔱𝔲𝔯𝔢𝔰 𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔰𝔬𝔲𝔩, 𝔰𝔥𝔬𝔠𝔨𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔯𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔩𝔞𝔱𝔦𝔬𝔫𝔰 𝔭𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔥𝔢𝔯 𝔭𝔞𝔱𝔥 –

***Synopsis copied from amazon.ca

4 out of 5 stars

The Black Orchids is chilling, yet sweet.

Ellie’s past is haunting her! You can feel the terrifying memories radiating off the page. Yet her present is full of positive vibes, with new friends and a potential love.

I am honestly shocked that this is Ishita’s debut novel!

It was fantastic! Covering both your dark and eerie while having a light, fluffy side as well. The writing was crisp and smooth making it a delightfully easy read.

Keeping you on your toes. Wanting to know who or what the figure hiding in the shadows is!

I love supporting indie authors and would most definitely recommend this read!

And of course thank you all for reading.

Your Inspired Book Worm

-Nichole

𝙆𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙍𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 & 𝙆𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙍𝙞𝙫𝙚𝙧 2

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𝐀 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐪𝐮𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞-𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐬𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐬, 𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞

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“𝓒𝓮𝓵𝓮𝓫𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓢𝓽𝓻𝓮𝓷𝓰𝓽𝓱 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓢𝓹𝓲𝓻𝓲𝓽 𝓸𝓯 𝓑𝓸𝔂𝓱𝓸𝓸𝓭”

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…The day my youngest son turned 2!

𝒜 𝒸𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓃 𝑜𝒻 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒸𝒽𝑒𝓈 𝓅𝓁𝑜𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓉𝒽𝓇𝑜𝓌 𝒶 𝓀𝒾𝓃𝑔𝒹𝑜𝓂. 𝒪𝓃𝑒 𝒷𝓇𝒶𝓋𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓂𝒶𝓃 𝓈𝓉𝒶𝓃𝒹𝓈 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒𝒾𝓇 𝓌𝒶𝓎.

𝒞𝒶𝓃 𝐸𝓁𝒾𝓈𝒶𝒷𝑒𝓉𝒽 𝓈𝓊𝒸𝒸𝑒𝑒𝒹 𝒾𝓃 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒻𝒶𝒸𝑒 𝑜𝒻 𝒾𝓃𝓈𝓊𝓇𝓂𝑜𝓊𝓃𝓉𝒶𝒷𝓁𝑒 𝑜𝒹𝒹𝓈?

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