Friday, April 14, 2017

Friday Memes: One Fell Sweep by Ilona Andrews

Happy Friday everybody!
Book Beginnings on Friday is now hosted by Rose City ReaderThe Friday 56 is hosted at Freda's Voice. Check out the links above for the rules and for the posts of the participants each week. Don’t dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.

Beginning:
A faint chime tugged me out of sleep. I opened my eyes and blinked. 
Friday 56:
Maud's bedroom in our parents' inn was a dark place, filled with books, weapons, and oddities we all collected either from excursions to Baha-char or from regulars who occasionally brought us gifts. Dad used to joke that Maud never grew out of the cave phase.
This week I am reading One Fell Sweep by Ilona Andrews. Here is the description from Amazon:
Dina DeMille may run the nicest Bed and Breakfast in Red Deer, Texas, but she caters to a very particular kind of guest… the kind that no one on Earth is supposed to know about. Guests like a former intergalactic tyrant with an impressive bounty on her head, the Lord Marshal of a powerful vampire clan, and a displaced-and-superhot werewolf; so don’t stand too close, or you may be collateral damage. But what passes for Dina’s normal life is about to be thrown into chaos. First, she must rescue her long-distant older sister, Maud, who’s been exiled with her family to a planet that functions as the most lawless penal colony since Botany Bay. Then she agrees to help a guest whose last chance at saving his civilization could bring death and disaster to all Dina holds dear. Now Gertrude Hunt is under siege by a clan of assassins. To keep her guests safe and to find her missing parents, Dina will risk everything, even if she has to pay the ultimate price. Though Sean may have something to say about that! 

11 comments:

  1. Great description of Maud's bedroom in your 56 excerpt. I hope you enjoy the story.
    My Friday post features Still Alice.

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  2. I haven't heard much about this one, but it sounds pretty interesting.

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  3. I read the other Ilona Andrews series but I haven't picked this one up yet! Definitely want to soon though!

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  4. Ooh, sounds fascinating! Thanks for sharing, and for visiting my blog.

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  5. The 56 pulled me in. Happy weekend!

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  6. I'm intrigued! Illona Andrews is one of those authors I've heard nothing but raves about and really want to try.

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  7. I just got the first three books from Netgalley. This is one I had been meaning to read but I had put off. Now it is on my TBR list.

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  8. Great excerpts, I especially like the descriptive nature of your Friday 56. Here is my post
    http://totallyaddictedtoreading.blogspot.com/2017/04/friday-memes-book-beginnings-and-friday.html

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  9. I haven't heard of this book before. It has quite an interesting concept and sounds like one that I will enjoy. Thanks so much for sharing it! :)

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  10. I think I need to try this author! :)

    Lauren @ Always Me

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