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If you havent yet entered to win one of 5 copies of Lucinda Brant’s brand-new book, Deadly Peril, here is your chance.
Lucinda Brant has offered to give two copies of Deadly Peril, and three audio codes good for an audio book download of Deadly Peril to members of PaperBackSwap who comment on the Author Interview with our Member Jerelyn H. (I-F-Letty). Click on the link to read the interview and enter the contest:
http://blog.paperbackswap.com/author-interview-and-book-give-away-with-lucinda-brant/2016/01/
We will choose 5 winners at random on Sunday, February 15, 2016. Good luck to everyone!
Thank you Ms. Brant and Jerelyn for a great interview and give-away!
And stay tuned to the Blog, tomorrow, Jerlyn (I-F-Letty) interviews Author Lucinda Brant. With more chances to win copies of this great new book!
To read Jerlyn’s Review of Deadly Peril, Click Here
Synopsis:
Alec, Lord Halsey is sent on a diplomatic mission to Midanich, imperial outpost of the Holy Roman Empire, to bargain for the freedom of imprisoned friends. Midanich is a place of great danger and dark secrets; a country at civil war; ruled by a family with madness in its veins. For Alec it is a place of unspeakable memories from which he barely escaped and vowed never to return. But return he must, if he is to save the lives of Emily St. Neots and Sir Cosmo Mahon.
In a race against time, Alec and the English delegation journey across the icy wasteland for the castle fortress where Emily and Cosmo are imprisoned. The severe winter weather is as much an enemy, as the soldiers of the opposing armies encamped along the way. Awaiting him at his destination is the Margrave and his sister, demanding nothing less than Alec’s head on a pike.
When does an author become a favorite? When I first read Lucinda Brant I liked her style, I like the subject matter, and the time period. I knew by the second novel I read that she was something very special, and she is only getting better. She writes in a classic style, almost a throwback, of the best past romantic mystery writers, minus the purple prose. (I always bring this up as it is a pet peeve of mine.) She expertly captures the whole Georgian period. The world at this time was changing at break neck speed. There was untold wealth and prosperity, science and technologies where undergoing change. Social issues so long denied were being looked at by an enlightened few. The world was opening up and Britain was at the epicenter of this change. Brant captures that change, and you find yourself surrounded by the culture, the manners, the fashion, and politics of the period. The good the bad the beautiful, and the downright creepy might be a better way to express it.
In Deadly Peril we leave England and cross the North Sea, to where the adventure and mystery begins. As always Brant really gets you from the first chapters. I love the historical details that she brings to light like little presents, (definitely go to her Pinterest boards, for each book and see what inspired the details.) This being the 3rd in the “Deadly” series, the cast is well known to you by now, but don’t let that put you off if you’ve not read the first two. Brant is a talented enough writer that she weaves the backstory effortlessly into the current work without bogging the new storyline down. I will warn you however you will go get the first books, fortunately they are available in all mediums, print, e-books and audio. While this one at the time of this writing is not out in print or audio, they will be by January.
I’ve been listening to books a lot more lately, this way I can do all the things I must do in a day while listening to the great stories that are as important as air to me. Ms. Brant has built a relationship with the very talented actor, Alec Wyndham who has to date recorded eight of the ten novels she has published. Alec Wyndham is a remarkable talent and his work voicing these books is truly not to be missed. Marian Hussy voices the Salt books and also does an outstanding job.
Would you like to win a copy of Deadly Peril? Comment here on the Blog, for a chance to win. Winner will be chosen at random from the comments left by PaperBackSwap members. Good Luck to all!
Also coming in January, an interview with Lucinda Brant right here on the PaperBackSwap Blog!
Other books in this series:
The Roxton series
Coming soon: Proud Mary
Let us not forget:
Salt Redux – ebook
Web sites:
Pinterest boards https://www.pinterest.com/lucindabrant/
Author site http://lucindabrant.com/
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/LucindaBrantBooks/?fref=ts
Twitter https://twitter.com/LucindaBrant?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
After watching a documentary on the Dust Bowl, I have become very interested in it. While nothing like what these individuals experienced, I remember growing up in East Texas as a child and the small dust storms there. I can recall the grit in our home and between my teeth. I haven’t forgotten the sting of the sand as it hit my legs. As an adult I experienced a dust storm here in Oklahoma, where the sky was darkened, and the air so thick I felt I would suffocate. These small events in my life have me in awe of what the people of this era dealt with, and not for a few days but for years. This book made me realize how incredibly courageous and resilient dust bowl families were.
Instead of this part of history being told through the eyes of an adult, the author does it through the eyes of 10 year old Pearl Spence. A child’s view is very simple, but it is also glaringly honest. Although Pearl does not understand everything she sees and experiences, her account is authentically candid.
So vivid are the descriptions of life in this Oklahoma town that I could feel the discouragement and desperation of the characters. Her mother’s constant battle to keep her home clean and maintain a normal family life was heartrending. It is clear the large role adult’s attitudes and actions play in how a child handles a crisis. Pearl’s grandmother, mother, and father were an anchor for her in this unsettled time.
I better understood the despair and fear of never knowing when another dust storm would strike or when the nightmare would end. The author was brilliant with the way she took amazing historical details, brought to life powerful characters, and then created a story filled with danger, mystery, and excitement. A fantastic read!
We had a lot of really enjoyable book reviews this week! It was difficult to choose, but here are the finalist reviews.
To vote: click the links below, and choose Thumbs Up on the review. You can “Like” (or Share) the review to double your vote! The winning review will appear in the PaperBackSwap blog, and the winning reviewer will get a FREE book from her/his Wish List!
Links to the reviews are below:
“Anybody out there raising older teenagers? Anybody out there rash enough to try to relocate them at that stage in their life?” asks S. J. T. (cactuspatch) in her Book Review Contest Finalist review of the lowcountry tale “Shem Creek” by Dorothea Benton Frank. Read cactuspatch’s review at the link below and vote on it with a thumbs-up and/or a “Like”:
http://www.paperbackswap.com/reviews/details.php?r=TFJUWm9pM1VFOHc9
How about “a gripping tale of a truly good person facing down the evil of our world”? Stephanie T (stephkayeturner) recommends “The Hummingbird’s Daughter” by Luis Alberto Urrea, in her Finalist Book Review. Vote for the review using the thumbs-up and/or the Like on the page below:
http://www.paperbackswap.com/reviews/details.php?r=T0FXRjc5YVMyREk9
Want a “vivid and brilliant” historical fiction read? N. R. (moonpie), one of this week’s Finalist reviewers in our Book Review Contest, recommends “A Cup of Dust” by Susie FInkbeiner, set in the Dust Bowl era. Read moonpie’s review at the link below, and vote for it using the Thumbs Up and/or “Like”:
http://www.paperbackswap.com/reviews/details.php?r=c0Q3bXcvSlJRZlU9
To vote: click the links below, and choose Thumbs Up on the review. You can “Like” (or Share) the review to double your vote! The winning review will appear in the PaperBackSwap blog, and the winning reviewer will get a FREE book from her/his Wish List!
Links to the reviews are below:
Did you like Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Namesake”? You won’t want to miss “Free Food for Millionaires” by Min Jin Lee, then – Book Review Contest Finalist “Bookfanatic” says it really “captured the second generation immigrant experience” in the same way. Read her review and click thumbs up to vote for it (and “like” it to double your vote)!
http://www.paperbackswap.com/reviews/details.php?r=bXNNYTZPWGFjaFk9
A book that likens a spiritual journey to a rummage sale? Believe it or not, it works, says Lizzie G (lizzieg88) reviewing “Out of Sorts” by Sarah Bessey. Vote for her review in our Book Review Contest – click thumbs up to vote, and double your vote with a “like”!
http://www.paperbackswap.com/reviews/details.php?r=Q3FCVndabStsWFk9
Kelly S (getinmybellykelly) says “This wonderful book should be required reading for everyone.” Read her Book Review Contest Finalist review of “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien, and click thumbs-up to vote for it (and “like” it to double your vote)!
http://www.paperbackswap.com/reviews/details.php?r=NmliQXJvdXIwNGc9
