April 2023 - Page 2 of 4 - A Literary Escape

Book Review: Gilded Cage by Dani Wyatt

Published on April 20, 2023April 17, 2023 by Celeste3 Comments

Today I have a mini review of the novella GILDED CAGE by Dani Wyatt, a standalone title in the Legends and Lovers series. It’s a quick monster romance read that had me raising my eyebrows.

Author: Dani Wyatt
Series: Legends and Lovers #3
Age Category: New Adult
Publisher: Self-Published
Publish Date: March 29, 2022
Print Length: 98

Find Gilded Cage on Amazon*, or read for free with a Kindle Unlimited subscription.

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Book Blogger Hop: April 14-20

Published on April 19, 2023April 17, 2023 by Celeste8 Comments

The Book Blogger Hop was originally created by Jennifer @ Crazy-For-Books in March 2010 and ended on December 31, 2012. With Jennifer’s permission, Coffee Addicted Writer relaunched the hop on February 15, 2013. Each week the hop will start on a Friday and end the following Thursday. There will be a weekly prompt featuring a book related question. The hop’s purpose is to give bloggers a chance to follow other blogs, learn about new books, befriend other bloggers, and receive new followers to your own blog.

The Book Blogger Hop post image was created by Coffee Addicted Writer.

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ARC Review: The Bone Shard War by Andrea Stewart

Published on April 18, 2023April 17, 2023 by Celeste10 Comments

Today I have a review of THE BONE SHARD WAR by Andrea Stewart. It’s the third and final book in The Drowning Empire series. Note that this book review contains spoilers for the previous two books.

Author: Andrea Stewart
Series: The Drowning Empire, #3
Age Category: Adult
Publisher: Orbit
Publish Date: April 18, 2023
Print Length: 624

Want to support local bookstores? Buy a copy of The Bone Shard War on Bookshop.org!*

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Quarter Year Crisis Book Tag

Published on April 15, 2023April 13, 2023 by Celeste7 Comments

Good morning, fellow readers! Seasonal allergies are currently kicking my butt and I’ve been busy trying to finish a chonky ARC. So I haven’t been as present on the blogosphere lately. Regardless, I squeezed in a few posts and it’s now time to do the Quarter Year Crisis book tag. Chris tagged me for this one, though it was originally created by Roisin’s Reading on YouTube.

This tag is a fun look at how the first three months of the year were with respect to reading and such. But it’s April now, so my answers include anything up through mid month. So I’m not too far ahead to complete this tag! Let’s get started.

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First Lines Fridays: April 14, 2023

Published on April 14, 2023April 14, 2023 by Celeste2 Comments

First Lines Fridays is a weekly feature for book lovers hosted by Wandering Words. What if instead of judging a book by its cover, its author or its prestige, we judged it by its opening lines? The rules are as follows:

Pick a book off your shelf (it could be your current read or on your TBR) and open to the first page
Copy the first few lines, but don’t give anything else about the book away just yet – you need to hook the reader first
Finally… reveal the book!

If you’re using Twitter, don’t forget to use #FirstLinesFridays!

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