The People We Meet Along The Way by Beth Rinyu + #Giveaway

The People We Meet Along The Way
Beth Rinyu
Publication date: September 17th 2020
Genres: Romance, Women’s Fiction

Would you be able to grant the same forgiveness to someone else that you’re so desperately seeking yourself?

Jillian O’Rourke’s marriage died long before her husband’s tragic accident. Years of battling with infertility and demanding careers melted their once solid relationship. Bearing the burden of guilt over his death, Jillian gets lost in despair and a series of what ifs. But one chance encounter with a stranger, changes everything. Now being faced with newfound knowledge and a painful decision, Jillian must push past her anger, learn to forgive and open her heart in ways she never could’ve imagined.  As she comes to grips with the devastation of her past, she learns to embrace the possibility of a future she never thought possible.  A bittersweet story of love, forgiveness, and the unexpected destiny that is sometimes handed to us in life from the people we meet along the way.

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EXCERPT:

“I just wish you didn’t hate me so much.” I concentrated on the coffee in my cup as I swirled the wooden stirrer round and round.

“I don’t hate you,” I said, focusing my attention back to him. “I hate what we did. I hate that I let it define who I was for so long, and I hate that I hurt someone I cared about so much because of it. But I don’t hate you—you were just one of the many cracks in my life.”

He creased his forehead. “I don’t understand.”

I gazed at him long and hard, finally fearless of the shame the man staring back at me conjured up inside of me. He held no control over me, and he never had. I stood up and pushed my chair in as he sat there waiting for an explanation. “And I wouldn’t have expected you to. Goodbye, Jonathan.”

Author Bio:

Ever since I can remember, I have always enjoyed Creative Writing. There was always something about being able to travel to a different place or become a different person with just the stroke of a pen - or in today's world a touch of the keyboard. I love creating deep characters who you will love or love to hate.

My life is not as interesting as my books or the characters in them, but then again whose life is? My happy place is a seat by the ocean with my feet in the sand or on the busy streets of New York City. You will more than likely find one of these places as the setting for most of my books.

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The Rue Stone by Janet Stock + #Giveaway

The Rue Stone by Janet Stock
Self published in the UK in October 2019.


The rue is a mysterious and rare being who is rarely seen, and Janna is amazed when one arrives at the inn where she works, looking for a room. The next morning, her life has changed, and she is left wondering whether she will ever see him again, but only time and the rue stone know the answer to that question.

The Rue Stone is a sweet fantasy novella which I enjoyed reading in the style of a traditional fairytale. Janna is an interesting young woman, striving for independence, who takes employment at a mystical inn. I liked Janet Stock's descriptions of the inn and its customers, especially the way in which she establishes its isolated location. It's all too easy for travellers to be marooned there by inclement weather! The Rue Stone has a good sense of atmosphere throughout. Unfortunately the storyline was too patriarchal for my tastes. I wanted Janna to have a real say in her life choices and to be the driver of her own story. Instead everything is seemingly either predetermined by the Rue's destiny or only a possibility once Janna is securely attached to a male. Watching Janna waiting for others to act was frustrating. 

Meet the author   

Having written all of my life, I decided to self-publish my writing when I turned 50. I have published four books since then. Two are collections of short stories; Dark & Fluffy; Dark & Fluffy II and 500 Words, which is flash fiction. My latest book The Rue Stone is a fantasy novella. My passion is medieval fiction, and I am working on my first novel The Little Servant - The Wait's Son, set in the 12th century, in Lincoln, where I live. All four books are available on Amazon.

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Beyond What Separates Us by R.A. Morris + #Giveaway

 

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Book Details:

Book Title:  Beyond What Separates Us by R.A. Morris
Category:  Adult fiction 18 yrs +,  277 pages
Genre:  Dystopian, Sci-Fi
Publisher:  Iguana Books
Release date:   September, 2020
Content Rating:  PG-13 Some swearing and violent scenes.  

 

Book Description:

Four strangers from distant parts of the world struggle to survive on a planet torn apart by war, greed and disease. Living under drastically different circumstances, they are each presented with an opportunity to choose what type of world they want to live in. Beyond What Separates Us follows these four strangers as they attempt to overcome hardships and reach their full potential. This is a story about the best and worst aspects of humanity clashing to determine not only the fate of our species but all other life on Earth. 

 

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Beyond What Separates Us is a science-based novel that explores the aftermath of global devastation caused by climate change. Four characters, located in different parts of the world and living in very different circumstances, illustrate scarily plausible futures for humanity within the coming century. Having recently read Jonathan Porritt's depressing nonfiction work, Hope In Hell, on just this subject, I can attest to the accuracy of Morris' research. While I did struggle to keep each of the four lead characters separated in my head (because they all speak with remarkably similar voices) the scenarios in which they find themselves are vividly portrayed and convincingly authentic. I liked that Morris takes into account the present and recent history for each area, using this to extrapolate into the future so the Colombian character's life is still dominated by gangs and local warlords while, in Canada, an orderly megacity is thriving and India has vast crumbling slums.

Beyond What Separates Us focuses on what sort of society could be rebuilt on a planet where half the human population has been wiped out by lack of resources (and the resultant long-running wars to cling to what remained) over just a few decades. There are lots of discussions around what constitutes freedom and ideas of social responsibility versus personal choice which I found interesting. Some people are trying to reinstate outdated concepts of government and democracy while others are building independent self-supporting farming communes. There is a surprising lack of any religious beliefs among the survivors though which is perhaps overly optimistic, and farmed animals still 'give us' their eggs and milk (as if they have freedom of choice too!). 

Beyond What Separates Us is a novel on an impressively ambitious scale, especially for a debut, and one which I felt achieved its aims in an entertaining yet thoughtful way. It depicts humanity at our absolute worst, yet with moments of joy and hope. Its premise that we failed to reverse the climate emergency in time will hopefully resonate with enough readers to help avert this disastrous prophecy and keep the novel as science fiction. As a fatalistic-resilient though, I expect many of Morris's predictions to come true.

 

Meet the Author:

R.A Morris was raised in Ancaster, Ontario and holds a Master of Environmental Studies from York University. After graduate school he spent a year teaching science in Honduras before heading back to Canada to work in the environmental sector. He has lived in the small remote community of Fort Good Hope and the territorial capital of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories. He currently lives in Toronto. His first novel, Beyond What Separates Us, is a timely work of speculative fiction that offers a glimpse of what societies may look like if we continue on our path of ecological degradation.

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It's Murder My Son by Lauren Carr + #Giveaway

Book Details:

Book Title: It's Murder, My Son by Lauren Carr
Series:  A Mac Faraday Mystery (Volume 1)
Category:  Adult fiction (18+), 288 pages
Genre:  Murder Mystery
Publisher:  Acorn Book Services
Release date:  June 23, 2010
Content Rating: PG-13 - (Lauren Carr's books are murder mysteries, so there are murders involved. Occasionally, a murder will happen on stage. There is sexual content, but always behind closed doors. Some mild swearing (a hell or a damn few and far between). No F-bombs!

Book Description:

What started out as the worst day of Mac Faraday’s life would end up being a new beginning. After a messy divorce hearing, the last person that Mac wanted to see was another lawyer. Yet, this lawyer wore the expression of a child bursting to tell his secret. This confidence would reveal Mac as heir to undreamed of fortunes, and lead him to the birthplace of America’s Queen of Mystery and an investigation that will unfold like one of her famous mystery novels.

Soon after she moves to Deep Creek Lake, Maryland, Katrina Singleton learns that life in an exclusive community is not all good. For some unknown reason, a strange man calling himself “Pay Back” begins stalking her. When Katrina is found strangled all evidence points to her terrorist, who is nowhere to be found.

Three months later, the file on her murder is still open when Mac Faraday, sole heir to his unknown birth mother’s home and fortune, moves into the estate next door. Little does he know as he drives up to Spencer Manor that he is driving into a closed gate community that is hiding more suspicious deaths than his DC workload as a homicide detective. With the help of his late mother’s journal, this retired cop puts all his detective skills to work to pick up where the local investigators have left off to follow the clues to Katrina’s killer.

"Lauren's dialogue is brisk, her setting beautiful and the addition of Gnarly is very clever...It's Murder, My Son is a delightful read and I look forward to more of Carr's Mac Faraday mysteries." --Connie Gregory, Connie's Reviews

"I couldn't put this book down! Lauren Carr develops the characters and weaves the details of the murder investigation into a complex storyline that keeps the reader relentlessly turning pages. She is skilled at teasing you into reading more. I finished the last page still wanting to read more!" -- Kelly Carpenter, Kelly's Lucky You

"No disrespect to Mac Faraday, Archie Monday, David O'Callaghan, Travis Turner or any of the multitude of good, bad and ugly characters populating Lauren Carr's It's Murder, My Son; but to me the most interesting character in the book is a lovable, mischievous, sneaky German shepherd named Gnarly." - David M. Kinchen, Huntington News

I've already read the second book in Lauren Carr's 'Mac Faraday' mystery series, Old Loves Die Hard, so I appreciated this opportunity to right go back to the series' beginning and discover how Mac found himself living in luxury at Deep Creek Lake. He's just inherited an almost unimaginable fortune, but before he can start to accustom himself to his changed circumstances, Mac embroils himself in a complicated murder investigation.

I was impressed by just how many threads Carr manages to entwine in order to keep her readers guessing the murderer's identity. At one point I think I had practically everyone in town on my suspects list and, as the body count rises, it seemed the solution might boil down to the last person standing! The case centres around Mac's investigation, but for me it was the varied characters surrounding him that made It's Murder My Son such an interesting story. The ghastly Hardwicks make for great reading although I'm glad not to actually know them in real life. I could empathise strongly with Betsy's notebook obsession (although I was disappointed at the continual fat shaming of this character), and sympathised with David's struggle against repeatedly being shunned by his superior officers. Of course it's German Shepherd dog Gnarly who steals every scene - along with pretty much everything else that isn't tied down, especially food! I love Gnarly!

Deep Creek Lake makes a gorgeous setting for It's Murder My Son and I enjoyed peeping into the glamorous lifestyles of the super-rich characters. I didn't manage to work out the whole mystery before the big reveal, but was kept happily enthralled and am now looking forward to rejoing Mac and Gnarly to solve another mystery very soon.

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Meet the Author:

Lauren Carr is the international best-selling author of the Mac Faraday, Lovers in Crime, Chris Matheson Cold Case, Thorny Rose Mysteries, and the Nikki Bryant Cozy Mysteries—close to thirty titles across five fast-paced mystery series filled with twists and turns!

Book reviewers and readers alike rave about how Lauren Carr’s seamlessly crosses genres to include mystery, suspense, crime fiction, police procedurals, romance, and humor.

​A popular speaker, Lauren is also the owner of Acorn Book Service, the umbrella under which falls iRead Book Tours. She lives with her husband and two spoiled rotten German Shepherds (including the nephew of the late-great Gnarly! (pictured above)) on a mountain in Harpers Ferry, WV.

​Connect with the author: Website ~  Twitter  ~  Facebook  ~  Instagram ~  Pinterest ~ Goodreads

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Aug 31 – Rockin' Book Reviews – audiobook review of It’s Murder, My Son / giveaway
Sep 1 – Dab of Darkness Audiobook Reviews – audiobook review of Candidate for Murder / giveaway
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Sep 2 - Blooming with Books - book spotlight of Candidate for Murder / giveaway
Sep 3 – Bound 4 Escape – book review of It’s Murder, My Son / giveaway
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Sep 8 – Christa Reads and Writes – book review of It’s Murder, My Son / giveaway
Sep 8 - My Reading Journeys - audiobook review of It's Murder, My Son / giveaway
Sep 9 – My Fictional Oasis – book review of Candidate for Murder
Sep 10 – Confessions of the Perfect Mom – book review of It’s Murder, My Son / giveaway
Sep 11 – Nighttime Reading Center – audiobook review of It’s Murder, My Son / giveaway
Sep 11 – fundinmental – book spotlight / giveaway
Sep 14 – Literary Flits – book review of It’s Murder, My Son / giveaway
Sep 15 – Jazzy Book Reviews – book review of Candidate for Murder / giveaway
Sep 16 – Books for Books – book spotlight
Sep 17 – Confessions of the Perfect Mom – book review of Candidate for Murder / giveaway
Sep 18 –My Journey Back - audiobook review of It's Murder, My Son / giveaway
Sep 21 –My Journey Back - audiobook review of Candidate for Murder / giveaway
Sep 22 – Mystery Suspense Reviews – audiobook review of Candidate for Murder / author interview
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Sep 24 – Bound 4 Escape – audiobook review of Candidate for Murder / giveaway
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Sep 29 – Sefina Hawke's Books – book spotlight
Sep 30 – Locks, Hooks and Books – audiobook review of Candidate for Murder / giveaway
Sep 30 - Blooming with Books - audiobook review of It's Murder, My Son / giveaway
Oct 1 – Christa Reads and Writes – book review of Candidate for Murder / giveaway
Oct 1 - So Fine Print – book review of Candidate for Murder / giveaway
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Oct 5 – Splashes of Joy – book review of It’s Murder, My Son / giveaway
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Punching The Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam

Punching the Air by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam

Published in America by HarperCollins on the 1st September 2020.

How I got this book:

Received a review copy from the publisher via NetGalley

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

From award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds, Walter Dean Myers, and Elizabeth Acevedo. 

The story that I thought

was my life

didn’t start on the day

I was born 

Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he’s seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. “Boys just being boys” turns out to be true only when those boys are white. 

The story that I think

will be my life 

starts today

Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal’s bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change it? 

With spellbinding lyricism, award-winning author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam tell a moving and deeply profound story about how one boy is able to maintain his humanity and fight for the truth, in a system designed to strip him of both.

Punching The Air is just brilliant! This novel-in-verse created such a shockingly emotional impact for me and, while thanks to memoirs such as Patrisse Khan-Cullors' When They Call You A Terrorist, I was already aware of the callous racism prevalent in America's justice system, reading Punching The Air made it feel as though someone I actually knew had been captured and trapped there. I understand that much of Amal's poetry was actually written by Yusef Salaam during his wrongful incarceration. I don't believe anyone could fail to be moved by his powerful words. His rage and pain leaps so vividly from every page.

While Amal's specific story is fictional, it always feels authentic and truthful. That such blatant injustice is commonplace should be horrifying to everyone, and that its main driver is corporate profiteering beggars belief. Amal is effectively unseen as an individual. A crime was committed by a black boy. A black boy has been imprisoned for it. Catching the guilty black boy is apparently irrelevant and, in common with thousands of other black boys, Amal's life is seen ultimately only as fodder for prison labour. His potential is squandered before it has any chance to bloom.

Punching The Air is intended for a Young Adult audience and I hope it gains a wide young readership - across youths of all colours. However, as someone who is considerably older than the target readership, I would also highly recommend this book to all adult readers, American or not. I can only hope that Tory Britain doesn't plan to import the American 'justice' model alongside their healthcare.


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The Nacullians by Craig Jordan-Baker

The Nacullians by Craig Jordan-Baker

Published by Epoque Press today, the 10th September 2020.

How I got this book:

Received a review copy from the publisher

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Welcome to the world of The Nacullians, three generations of one family, living in a brick house in a line of other brick houses. Craig Jordan-Baker's dark comedy charts the tensions and traumas of one family and their relationship with the city they inhabit.

The Nacullians is an intriguingly unique novel with a a truly distinctive narrative voice. I think it would work brilliantly as an audio book, but even while reading the prose I felt as though I was actually listening to the narrator. We never find out exactly who he is, but I loved the natural way he speaks directly to the reader, his wicked sense of humour and his genuine understanding of both the Nacullian family and the dismal unnamed city in which they live. I rarely quote from novels in my reviews, but I will here just to give you an idea of quality of Jordan-Baker's style:

At this point your narrator recognises the need to move forward a couple of years or so, as very little changed in that house, aside from the dog passing away and milk delivery becoming less and less popular. You might say that time during this period was like a saveloy under a chip shop heat-lamp, close to closing time. That is, life looked pretty much as it always had, but it was somehow less appetising.

The Nacullians tells the story of the gradual disintegration of an Irish family who immigrated to England for work in the post-war years, and how decisions taken by the older generation affect their children and grandchildren as the years go by. Some events and behaviours repeat like family traits being passed down, others are single shocks with unfortunate repercussions. Now I come to write up the book, it does all sound rather depressing, but Jordan-Baker's dry humour prevents the story from becoming too maudlin and, instead, I felt more of a resilience and resignation from Patrice and blind pride from Nandad, with Shannon and Bernard each struggling to find their own identities. Each member of the family is convincingly portrayed and I found myself recognising aspects of my own childhood in the historical details of everyday English life for working class people. The relationships between them are superb with what goes unsaid being often far more important than any uttered platitudes or well worn phrases.

The Nacullians is a brilliant family portrait and I am very grateful to Epoque Press for the opportunity to read this novel.

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Hope in Hell: A decade to confront the climate emergency by Jonathon Porritt

Hope in Hell: A decade to confront the climate emergency by Jonathon Porritt

Published in the UK by Simon And Schuster on the 25th June 2020.

How I got this book:

Received a review copy from the publisher via NetGalley

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

‘Brave and unflinching in setting out the reality of the hell towards which we’re headed, but even more urgent, passionate and compelling about the grounds for hope if we change course fast enough, Hope in Hell is a powerful call to arms from one of Britain’s most eloquent and trusted campaigners.’ Caroline Lucas, MP

'Extraordinarily powerful, deeply troubling, scathing but ultimately purposeful and hopeful. This book is a clarion call to action, and action now. After reading this, we know for sure that nothing, not even a pandemic, must divert us from the most serious problem facing every living creature on the planet. In plain language, Jonathon Porritt is spelling it out. This is our last chance. Read, mark, learn, and inwardly digest. Then act.' Michael Morpurgo

Climate change is the defining issue of our time - we know, beyond reasonable doubt, what that science now tells us. Just as climate change is accelerating, so too must we – summoning up a greater sense of urgency, courage and shared endeavour than humankind has ever seen before. 

The Age of Climate Change is an age of superlatives: most extreme this, biggest that, most costly ever. The impacts worsen every year, played out in people’s backyards and communities, and more and more people around the world now realise this is going to be a massive challenge for the rest of their lives. In Hope in Hell, Porritt confronts that dilemma head on. He believes we have time to do what needs to be done, but only if we move now – and move together. In this ultimately optimistic book, he explores all these reasons to be hopeful: new technology; the power of innovation; the mobilisation of young people – and a sense of intergenerational solidarity as older generations come to understand their own obligation to secure a safer world for their children and grandchildren. 

Hope In Hell is, as Michael Morpurgo says, 'Extraordinarily powerful' and 'deeply troubling'. Porritt surveys the state of our planet as it is now and relates projections of the potential disasters that will unfold with temperature increases of 1.5 degrees, 2 degrees, 3 degrees or more. He establishes early on that of course life on Earth itself will survive. The geological records show that it's been hotter before. However, humans weren't part of the picture back then and, if extreme action isn't taken now, there's a pretty good chance we will be out of the picture again within a few generations.

However there is apparently still Hope and I started out reading with quite a positive outlook. Mention of the widespread use of new solar cookers in rural Asian and African communities got me googling and I've now built my own little solar oven from left-over insulation foil, reinforced with a cut-up old box (and it really works!). The majority of the actions that need to be taken though seem to rely on big business, stock market investors and wealthy politicians suddenly spotting the financial benefits of renewable technologies, and thereby being led by potential profits to do the right thing in the nick of time. Just like in a movie? For all his talk of imminent tipping points - both climactic and financial - I can't see that anywhere near enough will change in time to make a significant difference. Personally, I am left far less optimistic having read Hope In Hell than I was before.


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