The Heart of Betrayal by Mary E. Pearson

Author:  Mary E. Pearson
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Release Date: July 7, 2015
Number of Pages: 470

About (Goodreads): Held captive in the barbarian kingdom of Venda, Lia and Rafe have little chance of escape. Desperate to save Lia's life, her erstwhile assassin, Kaden, has told the Vendan Komizar that she has the gift, and the Komizar's interest in Lia is greater than anyone could have foreseen.

Meanwhile, nothing is straightforward: There's Rafe, who lied to Lia but has sacrificed his freedom to protect her; Kaden, who meant to assassinate her but has now saved her life; and the Vendans, whom Lia always believed to be savages. Now that she lives among them, however, she realizes that may be far from the truth. Wrestling with her upbringing, her gift, and her sense of self, Lia must make powerful choices that will affect her country... and her own destiny.

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Summer TBR -- 2016

Summer is just rolling around. Finally, this school year is done. I have been waiting for this year to be done when It started. Summer TBR is something that we all have. If you don't know what it is, then I don't know, isn't it obvious? Anyways Summer TBR is basically a TBR pile that is going to be accomplished in the summer. 

Okay, I'm done ranting. Let's get on to this!

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Re-tellings

I have been obsessed with re-tellings now-a-days. Like all I have been reading are re-telling based on disney's princess and princes. So far the re-tellings include Sleeping Beauty and Beauty and the Beast. I have read re-tellings that are not disney based and have loved them. For example, The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdeith is a re-telling of A Thousand and One Nights. I haven't read A Thousand and One nights yet but its happening soon because summer is just around the corner so time to sit around my bookshelf, read and review.

Ok I'm done ranting. Let's get on with the recommendations. The books that I have are not all disney based but some of them are.

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Withering Rose by Kaitlyn Davis

Author: Kaitlyn Davis

Publisher: Self-published
Release date: May 17, 1016

Number of Pages: 211

Genre: Fantasy, re-telling, Fairy tales

About: A re-telling of the famous fairy tale, Beauty and the Beast. In this book, beauty is cursed. Omorose Bouchene is cursed. She has a secret, magic. At the age of seven, an earthquake hit her world. Her planet and the new world got crashed into each other. This new world is called Earth, where people use cell phones and skycrapers. Anyone with magic will become the enemy if they use it.
But after ten years, she want's to be free. All magic comes with a price. And if she uses magic, it takes off some days of her life. Her price is time. The only option is left is to escape to the realm of the Beast. But the king of monsters isn't what he seems to be. The realizes that the only person she needs to be afraid is herself, as she opens her heart.

I received this book through NetGalley.

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May Wrap up and June TBR

Another month has gone in this year with me reading books. I wish my job would entail a full-time person reading books and reviewing it. But anyhow, onto the books that I read in the month of May and what I'm going to be reading in June.

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May Haul

I couldn't help myself and I got a bunch of different books. Last month I got like 14 books on a sale at the library so I had to buy more books for myself because you know why not?!

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