Sharing is Caring - Fire by Kristin Cashore

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This week I share with you one of my all time favorite reads. 
Fire By Kristin Cashore.
This is a follow up of Graceling, but from another character and a world discovered in book one.
I gave this book 5 Stars.
Kristin Cashore is one of my favorite authors of all time. Her books are highly imaginative, with very strong characters who you deeply fall in love with. This is fantasy at its best. Easy to follow, plenty of girl kicking butt action. Handsome men with  quirky romance. Deeply emotional scenes. This book stuck with me for a very long time and had inspired my love for fantasy in my writing, and maybe my love for the color red in one of my works. I adored this book, everything about it. A series to follow.

It is not a peaceful time in the Dells. In King City, the young King Nash is clinging to the throne, while rebel lords in the north and south build armies to unseat him. War is coming. And the mountains and forest are filled with spies and thieves. This is where Fire lives, a girl whose beauty is impossibly irresistible and who can control the minds of everyone around her. Exquisitely romantic, this companion to the highly praised "Graceling" has an entirely new cast of characters, save for one person who plays a pivotal role in both books. You don't need to have read "Graceling" to love "Fire." But if you haven't, you'll be dying to read it next. 
This edition includes an article by and an interview with Kristin Cashore, as well as a sneak peek at her next book, "Bitterblue"

Links : Goodreads . Author website 

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This is a weekly meme hosted by Simply Sensational Book Fanatics

http://ssbookfanatics.blogspot.com

The purpose of this meme is to share a book we have really enjoyed or loved reading, whether a recent one or whether we read it way back when. A book WE think you should perhaps add to your reading list. It’s fun, and I know there are loads of awesome books out there we are all missing out on.  Sharing is Caring!

THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO DO

• Choose a book you really enjoyed or simply loved;
• Create a post;
• Showcase the ‘Sharing is Caring Sunday’ badge at the top of your post;
• Copy and paste what needs to go below the badge;
• Attach the book’s cover;
• Add a link to the book on Goodreads;
• You are free to set up your post however you want as long as the badge and text follow each other;
• It's up to you to decide which size you are happy with in displaying the badge; 
• And lastly, let your readers know why you loved this book and how you rated it. If it's a book you read many moons ago, you are still free to give it a rating of your choice whether you reviewed it on your blog or not. 

What it means to be an author in South Africa By Lea Cherry

I am happy to introduce a fellow South Africa Author Lea Cherry

Author of The Rose of Cavendish

I had asked Lea about what she thought of being a published author in South Africa ~

Being an author today in South Africa is an amazing thing. We as SA authors are lucky to have such inspiration right here in our home country, but the market is bit slow here. Making it 'big' would bring more attention to other fantastic authors here in South Africa as there isn't really a markett for paranormal/YA genres here. But writing isn't just about making it big overseas, it's about expressing yourself in a way everyone can understand. It's about sharing the world you live in, either physically, emotionally, or mentally, with the world and making new friends with a common like in fantasy. To me, being a South African author, it's not about where your at that counts, it's where you're going that truly matters.

About The book 

Anna-Belle, the flightless princess of Fae, has escaped out of the palace to live life her way. Little does she know that life is changing her into something she did not foresee! 

Her friends, Landon and Keira, the Napaea faes, Aranhil, the prince of the Elves, and Ulrik, the dwarf will join her on a quest to save the Fae Realm. She must make a choice and her heart's true desire will be the key to unlocking the mysteries she needs to know as well as the destruction of what she already does!

Life as a Fae princess is the road to darkness!

Read an excerpt 

About the Author 

Born in 1988 in South Africa, Lea lived a fantasy life. She studied interior design after school but dreamt that there was more that she could do. After her wedding in 2010, she decided to challenge herself and see if she could write a book. By October 2011 the book was published and now Lea has time to work on her second book (Also the sequel to The Rose of Cavendish) called The Memory of Cavendish. Catch all the updates of her novels on twitter as lala_lea or on facebook: 

Where to Buy the book

Amazon  . Xlibris Publishing . Kalahari.net

Sharing is Caring Sunday - The Glimpse @ClaireMerle

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"It was like a curse. He was her antidote. She was his poison.” 

The Glimpse by Claire Merle
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

One of my new favorite authors! Claire Merle writes to my heart. Wow this book was all kinds of thrilling and magnificent. I sure hope there is a follow up to The Glimpse. Brilliant, crazy, imaginative, smart and captivating. I might have cried, laughed and screamed a little or a a lot throughout this book. Absolutely in love with the writing style and the story.

View all my reviews

About the Author 

Claire wrote her first paranormal screenplay at the age of thirteen and named it after a road sign. DANGER ALIVE never made it to the big screen, but she continued to write and daydream her way through school and university, graduated with a BA (Hons) in Film Studies, and spent the next few years working in the British Film Industry. 
Claire now lives in France with her French husband and two young sons, and is an advocate for Human Rights.

                                                         Goodreads .Website . Twitter 

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This is a weekly meme hosted by Simply Sensational Book Fanatics

http://ssbookfanatics.blogspot.com

The purpose of this meme is to share a book we have really enjoyed or loved reading, whether a recent one or whether we read it way back when. A book WE think you should perhaps add to your reading list. It’s fun, and I know there are loads of awesome books out there we are all missing out on.  Sharing is Caring!

THIS IS WHAT YOU WILL BE REQUIRED TO DO

• Choose a book you really enjoyed or simply loved;
• Create a post;
• Showcase the ‘Sharing is Caring Sunday’ badge at the top of your post;
• Copy and paste what needs to go below the badge;
• Attach the book’s cover;
• Add a link to the book on Goodreads;
• You are free to set up your post however you want as long as the badge and text follow each other;
• It's up to you to decide which size you are happy with in displaying the badge; 
• And lastly, let your readers know why you loved this book and how you rated it. If it's a book you read many moons ago, you are still free to give it a rating of your choice whether you reviewed it on your blog or not.