I am so happy to be part of the @hfvbt blog tour for BITTERSWEET BROOKLYN by Thelma Adams (@thelma_adams).
It is available now from Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
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Synopsis:
In turn-of-the century New York, a mobster rises—and his favorite sister struggles between loyalty and life itself. How far will she go when he commits murder?
After midnight, Thelma Lorber enters her brother Abie’s hangout under the Williamsburg Bridge, finding Jewish mobster Louis “Pretty” Amberg in a puddle of blood on the kitchen floor. She could flee. Instead, in the dark hours of that October 1935 night before the dawn of Murder, Inc., she remains beside the fierce, funny brother who has nurtured and protected her since childhood. There are many kinds of love a woman can feel for a man, but few compare to that of the baby sister for her older brother. For Thelma, a wild widow tethered to a young son, Abie is the center of her world. But that love is about to undo everything she holds dear…
Flipping the familiar script of The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, and The Godfather, Bittersweet Brooklyn explores the shattering impact of mob violence on the women expected to mop up the mess. Winding its way over decades, this haunting family saga plunges readers into a dangerous past—revealed through the perspective of a forgotten yet vibrant woman.
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Thelma Adams is the author of the best selling historical novel The Last Woman Standing and Playdate, which Oprah magazine described as “a witty debut novel.” In addition to her fiction work, Adams is a prominent American film critic and an outspoken voice in the Hollywood community. She has been the in-house film critic for Us Weekly and The New York Post, and has written essays, celebrity profiles and reviews for Yahoo! Movies,The New York Times, O: The Oprah Magazine, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Parade, Marie Claire and The Huffington Post. Adams studied history at the University of California, Berkeley, where she was valedictorian, and received her MFA from Columbia University. She lives in upstate New York with her family.
😍🎉Valentine's Day Giveaway🎉😍
To celebrate all of you, I am GIVING AWAY TWO FINISHED COPIES of this amazing memoir with @grandcentralpub!
THIS MUCH COUNTRY is a memoir that reminds us how strong we really are, even when the odds are against us. It is a story for fans of strong characters facing the Alaska wild, and finding love along the way.
To enter all you have to do is:
1. Follow me @ohthebooksshewillread and @grandcentralpub;
2. Like this post;
3. In one comment tag two friends (each time you do this is an additional entry); and
4. For 5 extra entires share this post to your stories for 24-hours and tag me (this can be done once every 24-hour period).
Giveaway ends at 11:59 pm PST on Monday 2/18/19. Books will be shipped to the randomly selected winners by the publisher. Must be 18 years old or have parental permission to enter. Open to residents of the U.S. and Canada only. Not affiliated with Instagram.
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Synopsis:
In 2009, after a crippling divorce that left her heartbroken and directionless, Kristin Knight Pace accepted an offer to live at a friend's cabin in Alaska and care for his eight sled dogs for a few months. That winter, she learned how to survive in one of the most remote places on earth and she learned she was strong enough to be alone. She fell in love first with mushing, and then with Andy, a gentle man who'd also moved to Alaska to heal a broken heart.
Together they started their own sled dog kennel, and Kristin became determined to complete the Iditarod--"the last great race on earth." Against a backdrop of vast and unforgiving wilderness in a place where magic pulses through dark winter skies, she had her first taste of the mushing world and thousand-mile races replete with thrilling tales of survival for the men and women running them. As she stood among her newfound community of incredible fellow mushers, Kristin realized that some people were just destined to travel into the unknown. Even across THIS MUCH COUNTRY, she discovered a light at the end of the road entirely her own.
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📚🥳Pub Day🥳📚
Thank you to @berkleypub for my free copy of SAY YOU'RE SORRY by Karen Rose (@karenrosebooks).
Happy Tuesday y'all! It is pub day for this romantic suspense thriller! You know what that means, it is now available for you to purchase from your favorite bookseller!
You do not want to miss out on the first in Karen Rose's new Sacramento series. A force within the suspense and thriller community, Rose delves headfirst into the mind of a serial killer, one who is preying on the city's most vulnerable women and carving the same mysterious message onto the chests of his victims: "Sydney." Provocative and propulsive, SAY YOU'RE SORRY takes a look at the long-playing impact violent crime has on both victims and those who investigate it.
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Review:
Told from the POVs of the victim, investigator, and killer, this is a unique slow burn romantic suspense thriller. It hits you hard and fast at the beginning and then slows down, building up the characters to insure your investment, and then takes you for a wild ride. I am happy I was there for all 614 pages of it!
Daisy Dawson narrowly escaped the hands of Sacramento's latest serial killer. Her self-defense skills are on point. But where did such a beautiful girl learn how to defend herself like that, and why?
Special Agent Gideon Reynolds is haunted by personal demons from his past. What exactly happened and why, is a secret he keeps buried and has never felt comfortable telling anyone. What is it about Daisy that cause him slips of the tongue?
Agent Reynolds is assigned protective duty over Daisy. When she escaped the serial killer's clutches she grabbed a piece of evidence that could be the missing link to a case Agent Reynolds has been chasing his entire career. The heat between them is palpable but will they give into their desires or keep it professional?
Meanwhile the serial killer is not done with Daisy, and he has added Agent Reynolds to his list.
SAY YOU'RE SORRY is my first Karen Rose novel but it won't be my last. I give it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️💫/5.
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📚📝Book Review📝📚Thank you to @randomhouse and @netgalley for my free e-ARC.
The Mastermind by Evan Ratliff is a non-fiction true crime book that focuses on the rise of Paul Calder Le Roux. Le Roux was a drug Lord of international consequence. He was unique in that he was a techie, his specialty being encrypting software to enable the purchase of legal pharmaceuticals over the internet.
This story concerns a criminal organization that conducted business on six continents and involved thousands of people. Amongst the various international crimes involved, are acts of hitmen, international arms dealers, and illicit drug smuggling.
Ratliff engaged in exceptional research in order to write this book. He spent several years conducting interviews and reviewing documents in addition to working with various police agencies, local and governmental, foreign and domestic, including Interpol, the FBI, and the DEA. Although he encountered rampant corruption along the way, in addition to missing, murdered, or just plain terrified witnesses, Ratliff persevered to determine how the various criminal acts were connected.
I would recommend this book to fellow fans of the true crime genre. Especially those who enjoy a good conspiracy theory. There are not many books I would recommend to my dad, but this is one of them.
I give The Mastermind ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5.
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