Book Blitz: Don’t Speak by Katy Regnery

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Buongiorno! È passato un secolo dall’ultimo blitz pubblicato da me, un po’ perché non ne trovo che mi ispirano, un po’ perché poi mi prendo sempre all’ultimo a fare i post e per fortuna c’è la Mon che mi salva. Quindi oggi tocca a me e vi lascio l’estratto di questo libro che mi ha attirata subito, un po’ per la copertina, un po’ per la trama e il suo collegamento alle fiabe. Vediamo se riuscirò a leggerlo tra i miei libri in inglese dell’anno 🙂
Scendendo lungo il post trovate anche un giveaway che vi permette di provare a vincere una copia firmata del libro!

Hello everyone! Today I’m here to leave to you a Book Blitz. I think the cover is very nice and the fact that this book is linked to a fairytale – The little mermaid – catches my attention! What do you think? You can also try to win a signed copy og the book!

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Title: Don’t Speak
Author: Katy Regnery
Publication date: February 27th 2017
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From New York Times bestseller Katy Regnery comes a new twist on a beloved fairytale.

A fisherman’s daughter.

The governor’s son.

Two very different worlds.

In this modern retelling of The Little Mermaid, a fisherman’s daughter from an Outer Banks island untouched by time, meets the son of North Carolina’s governor at a fancy party where she’s working.

Laire, who wants so much more from life than her little island can offer, is swept away by wealthy, sophisticated Erik, who is, in turn, entranced by her naiveté and charm. The two spend a whirlwind summer together that ends on the knife-point of heartbreak and forces them to go their separate ways.

Years later, when fate leads them back to one another, they will discover the terrifying depth of the secrets they kept from each other, and learn that shattered hearts can only be healed by a love that willfully refuses to die.

All novels Katy Regnery’s ~a modern fairytale~ collection are written as fundraisers. 10% of the e-book sales for in March and April 2017 will be donated to P.E.O. International, a non-profit organization that celebrates the advancement of women, awards scholarships and grants, and provides motivation for women to make their dreams come true.

**Contemporary Romance. Due to profanity, adult themes and very strong sexual content, this book is not intended for readers under the age of 18.**

 

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“Hey!”
    She heard his voice before she saw him.
    Had she known the ultimate cost of that simple glance heavenward, maybe she wouldn’t have stopped. Maybe she would have just kept on walking with her head down. But fate held no warnings for Laire Maiden Cornish.
    Shielding her eyes, she looked up at a deck wrapped around the second floor of the mansion, waiting a moment for her eyes to adjust as he came into view.
    There, in the glittering sunlight . . . a boy.
No, a man.
A young man, a little older than she, tall and muscular, with jet-black hair and a square jaw, dark brown eyes, and a deep tan. He wore a robin’s-egg blue bathing suit with Kelly green palm fronds in a small repeat and a pair of sunglasses buried in his thick hair. In one hand, he held a phone up to his ear, and in the other, he slowly swirled a glass filled with ice and clear liquid. He stared out at the sound, concentrating on his call.
“Hey!” he yelled. “Can you hear me now?” He huffed with annoyance, pulling the phone away from his ear and squinting at it before trying again. “Pete? It’s Erik. Can you hear me?” He set the glass down on the balcony’s wooden railing and gave his phone his full attention. Staring down at it, he muttered, “Shit. No reception.”
It’s Erik.
Erik.
His name is Erik.
Feeling a sharp burn in her lungs, Laire realized she’d been holding her breath and sucked in a huge gulp of air as she stared up at him, frozen in the moment, utterly mesmerized.
She had never seen a more perfect, more handsome person in her entire life.
The sun glinted off his dark hair and wrapped his body in gold, making him appear godlike so very far above her. Were she the type to swoon, Laire imagined she would have been a puddle of goopy longing on the ground below him, content to sacrifice her pride for a glimpse at his beauty.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Katy Regnery started her writing career by enrolling in a short story class in January 2012. One year later, she signed her first contract and Katy’s first novel was published in September 2013.

Twenty-five books later, Katy claims authorship of the multi-titled, New York Times and USA Today Blueberry Lane Series, which follows the English, Winslow, Rousseau, Story, and Ambler families of Philadelphia; the six-book, bestselling ~a modern fairytale~ series; and several other standalone novels and novellas.

Katy’s first modern fairytale romance, The Vixen and the Vet, was nominated for a RITA® in 2015 and won the 2015 Kindle Book Award for romance. Katy’s boxed set, The English Brothers Boxed Set, Books #1–4, hit the USA Today bestseller list in 2015, and her Christmas story, Marrying Mr. English, appeared on the list a week later. In May 2016, Katy’s Blueberry Lane collection, The Winslow Brothers Boxed Set, Books #1-4, became a New York Times E-book bestseller.

In 2016, Katy signed a print-only agreement with Spencerhill Press. As a result, her Blueberry Lane paperback books will now be distributed to brick and mortar bookstores all over the United States.

Katy lives in the relative wilds of northern Fairfield County, Connecticut, where her writing room looks out at the woods, and her husband, two young children, two dogs, and one Blue Tonkinese kitten create just enough cheerful chaos to remind her that the very best love stories begin at home.

Thanks to XPresso Book Tours for giving us the opportunity to promote this book.

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Teaser Tuesday #102

Ma buongiorno!
Oggi nuovo Teaser Tuesday e viene direttamente da un libro che ho divorato e di cui spero di leggere a breve il seguito che se ricordo giusto dovrebbe uscire a maggio!

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One breath, the study was intact.
The next, it was shards of nothing, a shell of a room.
None of it had touched me from where I had dropped to the floor, my hands over my head.
Tamlin was panting, the ragged breaths almost like sobs.
I was shaking—shaking so hard I thought my bones would splinter as the furniture had—but I made myself lower my arms and look at him.
There was devastation on that face. And pain. And fear. And grief.
Around me, no debris had fallen—as if he had shielded me.
Tamlin took a step toward me, over that invisible demarcation.
He recoiled as if he’d hit something solid.
“Feyre,” he rasped.
He stepped again—and that line held.
“Feyre, please,” he breathed.
And I realized that the line, that bubble of protection …
It was from me.
A shield. Not just a mental one—but a physical one, too.
I didn’t know what High Lord it had come from, who controlled air or wind or any of that. Perhaps one of the Solar Courts. I didn’t care.
“Feyre,” Tamlin groaned a third time, pushing a hand against what indeed looked like an invisible, curved wall of hardened air. “Please. Please.”
Those words cracked something in me. Cracked me open.
Perhaps they cracked that shield of solid wind as well, for his hand shot through it.
Then he stepped over that line between chaos and order, danger and safety.
He dropped to his knees, taking my face in his hands. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry.”
I couldn’t stop trembling.
“I’ll try,” he breathed. “I’ll try to be better. I don’t … I can’t control it sometimes. The rage. Today was just … today was bad. With the Tithe, with all of it. Today—let’s forget it, let’s just move past it. Please.”
I didn’t fight as he slid his arms around me, tucking me in tightly enough that his warmth soaked through me.

Chapter 10  – A COURT OF MIST AND FURY di Sarah J. Maasdivisore dx

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Feyre survived Amarantha’s clutches to return to the Spring Court—but at a steep cost. Though she now has the powers of the High Fae, her heart remains human, and it can’t forget the terrible deeds she performed to save Tamlin’s people.

Nor has Feyre forgotten her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court. As Feyre navigates its dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms—and she might be key to stopping it. But only if she can harness her harrowing gifts, heal her fractured soul, and decide how she wishes to shape her future—and the future of a world cleaved in two.

With more than a million copies sold of her beloved Throne of Glass series, Sarah J. Maas’s masterful storytelling brings this second book in her seductive and action-packed series to new heights.

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Letture del mese – Febbraio 2017

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Titolo: Royally Screwed
Autore: Emma Chase
Genere: Romance
Pagine: 276
 
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Titolo: Onde di Velluto
Autore: Chiara Venturelli
Genere: Contemporary Romance
Pagine: 350
 
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Titolo: Il Principe (The Infernal Devices #2)
Autore: Cassandra Clare
Genere: Paranormal Fantasy
Pagine: 502
 
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Titolo: Illuminae(The Illuminae Files #1)
Autore: Amy Kaufman & Jay Kristoff
Genere: Science Fiction
Pagine: 599
 
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Titolo: A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses #2)
Autore: Sarah J. Maas
Genere: Fantasy
Pagine: 626
 
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Titolo: Melt
Autore: Deborah Bladon
Genere: Romance
Pagine: 599
 
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Titolo: Onde di Velluto
Autore: Chiara Venturelli
Genere: Romance
Pagine: 350
 
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Titolo: Cinquanta sfumature di nero (Fifty Shades #2)
Autore: E.L.James
Genere: Romanzo storico
Pagine: 594
 
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Titolo: The Chemist
Autore: Stephenie Meyer
Genere: Thriller
Pagine: 546
 
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Recensione: Royally Screwed di Emma Chase – Cuori in Viaggio

Buongiorno! Oggi sono qui con la recensione per Cuori in Viaggio, l’iniziativa ideata da Leryn di Libera tra i libri che vi continuerà a regalare recensioni fino a fine mese. È l’occasione giusta per aggiungere alle vostre TBR nuovi libri…non sono mai troppi giusto?

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QUI trovate il calendario delle altre tappe di questa fantastica iniziativa 🙂

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Titolo: Royally Screwed (Royally #1)
Autore: Emma Chase
Editore: Self
Disponibile in italiano: No
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Nicholas Arthur Frederick Edward Pembrook, Crowned Prince of Wessco, aka His Royal Hotness, is wickedly charming, devastatingly handsome, and unabashedly arrogant; hard not to be when people are constantly bowing down to you.

Then, one snowy night in Manhattan, the prince meets a dark haired beauty who doesn’t bow down. Instead, she throws a pie in his face.

Nicholas wants to find out if she tastes as good as her pie, and this heir apparent is used to getting what he wants.

Dating a prince isn’t what waitress Olivia Hammond ever imagined it would be.

There’s a disapproving queen, a wildly inappropriate spare heir, relentless paparazzi, and brutal public scrutiny. While they’ve traded in horse drawn carriages for Rolls Royces, and haven’t chopped anyone’s head off lately, the royals are far from accepting of this commoner.

But to Olivia, Nicholas is worth it.

Nicholas grew up with the whole world watching, and now Marriage Watch is in full force. In the end, Nicholas has to decide who he is and, more importantly, who he wants to be: a King… or the man who gets to love Olivia forever.

 

Ammetto di aver scelto questo libro un po’ perché mi piace come scrive Emma Chase, ma soprattutto per la copertina. Ok che ci sono copertina bellissime, un po’ misteriose, con colori stupendi, ma ogni tanto ci sta anche il bel manzo spiattellato sulla cover per essere ammirato. Diciamocelo, se il ragazzo in cover rappresenta il protagonista beh, Olivia è piuttosto fortunata.

Manzo a parte, la storia è carina, ma piuttosto irreale e esagerata. È uno di quei libri che ti godi, che ti fanno ridere e probabilmente fanno immaginare cose non proprio caste con il sopracitato manzo, ma finisce lì. Non rimane assolutamente nulla dopo qualche giorno che si è finita la lettura.

Come plus abbiamo che è corto, perfetto per un weekend sotto le coperte accoccolati a godersi la fine dell’inverno (anche se penso di essere l’unica che si terrebbe neve e freddo e the caldi sotto le coperte tutto l’anno) e si legge velocissimo. Trovo che sia ottimo anche per chi non ha molta dimistichezza con l’inglese perché non usa un linguaggio complicato e non ha quei discorsi e quelle descrizioni impegnative che se sono in una lingua che non conosci bene vorresti solo tirare il vocabolario dietro alle CE che ancora non te lo hanno tradotto.

Non posso commentare praticamente nulla della trama o della storia perché sarebbe spoiler praticamente ovunque considerando che la storia è piuttosto semplice e si riesce ad immaginare come andrà a finire. I due protagonisti, Nicholas e Olivia sono cliché a livello massimo, ma tutto sommato piacciono e non annoiano. Olivia mi piace perché ha sempre la risposta pronta e non si fa intimidire, mentre Nicholas è diretto, sarcastico, non ha peli sulla lingua e a volte non sai se prenderlo a sberle o meno.

“I…don’t…date.”
“Good God, why not?” I ask, horrified. “That’s a bloody sin.”
“A sin?”
“You’re stunning, obviously clever – you should date often, and preferably with a man who knows how it’s done.” I rest my palm on my chest. “Coincidentally, I happen to be fantastic at it. What are the odds?”

Insomma, il libro mi è piaciuto, anche se piuttosto scontato, ma ogni tanto ci stanno libri così e mi piace trovarne di piacevoli e divertenti. Emma Chase in questo è bravissima quindi vi consiglio di leggere anche gli altri suoi libri. Io, quando avrò bisogno di un libro leggero, andrò sicuramente a prendere il secondo volume di questa serie.

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