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I hope you managed to grab a copy of the featured book for 23rd A Duke She Can't Refuse (The Impossible Balfours Book 1) by Gemma Blackwood.
This year I decided to set up a special advent calendar where I featured a different book every day giving you the chance to grab a free copy of each book on the day it was featured. A total of 24 free reads!
I had a super busy Christmas Eve and so didn't manage to post this on the 24th as planned but I didn't want you to miss out on the last day of this book advent calendar and so I'm posting today.
I hope you've enjoyed discovering these books with me over the past 24 days. I know I've had fun searching through the free reads on Amazon to select a book for each day.
Book Advent Calendar Day 24
Title: Murder on Board : A Cruise Ship Cozy Mystery Book 1
Author: Ivy Dawson
Grab your free copy here
About the book:
Shae Jordan is trying to get a fresh start. She wants to take beautiful pictures and see the world, and so decides to take employment on a cruise ship. Unfortunately, life isn’t on a cruise ship isn’t one big holiday, as Shae is about to find out. After her first night, a body is found in one of the main pools.
The victim is heiress, Nova Ashcroft. It also becomes immediately apparent that it was no accident when they find out that Nova had been stabbed.
When the Captain approaches Shae and asks her to take a look around, Shae knows where to start. However, members of the crew are determined to keep the whole thing a secret, and surprisingly, so is Nova’s husband.
Will Shae find the truth? Or will the secret of who killed Nova be lost at sea?
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I hope you managed to grab a copy of yesterday's featured book Up in Smoke (Glock Grannies Cozy Mystery Book 1) by Shannon VanBergen
It's December and that means the count down to Christmas is on. This year I decided to set up a special advent calendar where I'll be featuring a different book every day. You'll be able to grab a free copy of each book on the day it's featured. That means 24 free reads!
I'll be offering you the chance to get your hands on some great books, from a variety of genres, all for free!
I'll be visiting Amazon each day and selecting a book at random from their free list. I'm not even sure which books I'll be featuring yet so it'll be a surprise for me too.
Book Advent Calendar Day 23
Title: A Duke She Can't Refuse (The Impossible Balfours Book 1)
Author: Gemma Blackwood
Grab your free copy here
About the book:
Headstrong Miss Daisy Morton must make a choice: play the fiancĂ©e to a duke she doesn’t love, or face ruin.
Daisy’s loyalty to her friends is always getting her into awkward places. Unfortunately, those places include the bedroom of the stern young Duke of Loxwell, where she is caught hiding by one of society’s most notorious gossips.
For mysterious reasons of his own, the duke saves her reputation with a false engagement. There’s only one rule: she can't fall in love with him.
Simple enough. What are the chances that the true love Daisy has always dreamed of should turn out to be the strict, strait-laced, surprisingly tender duke with a devastating smile reserved especially for her?
Alexander Balfour, the new Duke of Loxwell, lives for honour and duty. The dukedom weighs as heavily on his shoulders as the responsibility of setting an example for his four unruly sisters.
And that honour has sealed his fate forever. A fatal mistake in his past means he cannot fall in love without betraying those he holds dearest.
Even if Daisy turns his world upside down in a hundred different ways, she cannot save him from his lonely penance.
Or can she?
Check back tomorrow for another free read!
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I hope you managed to grab a copy of yesterday's featured book The InBetween (Painter Mann Series Book 1) by Dick Wybrow
It's December and that means the count down to Christmas is on. This year I decided to set up a special advent calendar where I'll be featuring a different book every day. You'll be able to grab a free copy of each book on the day it's featured. That means 24 free reads!
I'll be offering you the chance to get your hands on some great books, from a variety of genres, all for free!
I'll be visiting Amazon each day and selecting a book at random from their free list. I'm not even sure which books I'll be featuring yet so it'll be a surprise for me too.
Book Advent Calendar Day 22
Title: Up in Smoke (Glock Grannies Cozy Mystery Book 1)
Author: Shannon VanBergen
Grab your free copy here
About the book:
A hilarious cozy mystery from USA Today Bestselling author Shannon VanBergen
Nikki is a flirtatious six-time divorcee. Geraldine is her quirky grandmother. Mix in a bunch of gun-toting grannies, an outrageous retirement home, and an unsolved mystery and there's bound to be some excitement. Follow along as Nikki and the cast of retirement home vigilantes work to solve the mystery before everything goes up in smoke.
Up in Smoke is part of the Glock Grannies Cozy Mystery series. If you like fun cozy mysteries and outrageous characters, you are going to love Up in Smoke.
Check back tomorrow for another free read!
Bookish Blog Hops Winter Hop 2019
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I'm back with the Bookish Blog Hops crew today to talk about our favourite film adaptation of a novel.
Favourite film adaptation of a novel
I honestly don't know what film to pick for this. For TV series it would probably be Sex and the City, but for film? It's a tough question to answer.
The Harry Potter series was done really well. I've seen several films based on Jane Austen's books that I've loved too. There's not really one that stands out though. That might be because I usually find the film doesn't quite live up to the book in most cases. For example, whilst I enjoyed the films for Percy Jackson, and for Me Before You, they just didn't come close to the books.
Lets see what the others had to say:
I would definitely have to say my favorite book to film adaptation is Pet Sematary, the 1989 film. In this adaptation, there were a handful of things that differed from the book, but it wasn’t anything major. For the most part, it was all pretty spot-on! The atmosphere was wicked creepy and looked great! All of the camera shots were so artistic and wonderfully framed. The makeup and other visual elements were amazing! All of the actors were just perfect for their roles! The kid actors did an especially amazing job. I mean, Miko Hughes as Gage Creed? Could that have been any more ideal?
My favorite adaptation will always be Stardust, based on the novel by Neil Gaiman. It is my favorite fantasy movie to begin with, and when I finally got around to checking out the book, I went in with high hopes that such writing would carry over, and I could relive all my favorite parts of the film, with the added detail and description of a master author!
What. A. Disappointment.
The book I read was nothing like the movie I loved. Oh sure, it had the high points and everything, but it was the subtle details I wanted, the richness and the vivid colors and magic and whatnot--not the gore and the graphic nudity and all that! Most disappointing of all was the novel version of one of my favorite side characters from the movie, Captain Shakespeare. With a name like that, how could you not make him some kind of fantastic larger-than-life persona? And in the movie he’s played by none other than Robert DeNiro, with all the flamboyant charm that man can give to a role--I adored it!
In the book? Captain Shakespeare gets two sentences of description. He gets three or four paragraphs in one chapter, as a means of getting the illustrious main characters from one point to another. That’s it.
I still love the movie though. I just feel like it improved on the story, rather than being exactly like the book. That’s one of the instances when making those changes is okay.
Tomorrow we'll be visiting Kaili at www.entertaininglynerdy.com to talk about whether we prefer to keep books or give them away once they’ve been read.
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I hope you managed to grab a copy of yesterday's featured book The Christmas Compromise (Christmas Mountain Clean Romance Series Book 3) by Susan Hatler.
It's December and that means the count down to Christmas is on. This year I decided to set up a special advent calendar where I'll be featuring a different book every day. You'll be able to grab a free copy of each book on the day it's featured. That means 24 free reads!
I'll be offering you the chance to get your hands on some great books, from a variety of genres, all for free!
I'll be visiting Amazon each day and selecting a book at random from their free list. I'm not even sure which books I'll be featuring yet so it'll be a surprise for me too.
Book Advent Calendar Day 21
Title: The InBetween (Painter Mann Series Book 1)
Author: Dick Wybrow
Grab your free copy here
About the book:
Painter Mann is a one-of-a-kind private investigator. He may even be the world's best, but mainly that's because he's dead.
Assisted by his "Temps"-- a select few of the very old who are so close to death they can actually hear him-- Painter has sworn to help the murder victims stuck in The InBetween by revealing their killers so they can move on.
But, a new mass murder case threatens everything after Painter recognizes the killer's face as the person who murdered him.
Exposing them will free dozens of ghosts but will also clear Painter, leaving no one to help the souls trapped in The InBetween.
Also, he's really into the whole private investigator thing. When alive he was never really good at much. Dead? He's a hell of a PI.
Is Painter willing to risk it all to save those he's sworn to help?
I love the idea of this book. Can't wait to read it.
Check back tomorrow for another free read!
Free Reads Every Day!
This post may contain affiliate links. Meaning, I get a commission if you purchase through my links, at no cost to you. Read the full disclosure here.
It's December and that means the count down to Christmas is on. This year I decided to set up a special advent calendar where I'll be featuring a different book every day. You'll be able to grab a free copy of each book on the day it's featured. That means 24 free reads!
I'll be offering you the chance to get your hands on some great books, from a variety of genres, all for free!
I'll be visiting Amazon each day and selecting a book at random from their free list. I'm not even sure which books I'll be featuring yet so it'll be a surprise for me too.
Book Advent Calendar Day 20
Title: The Christmas Compromise (Christmas Mountain Clean Romance Series Book 3)
Author: Susan Hatler
Grab your free copy here
About the book:
Morgan Reed is excited to return to her hometown of Christmas Mountain, Montana and open her beauty salon, but when she arrives to her rented business space she’s shocked to find it already occupied by Dallas Parker—her brother’s best friend, the guy she had a childhood crush on, and the one her mom blames for their family’s greatest tragedy.
With their landlord out of the country and unreachable, Morgan and Dallas must open their businesses together. But, no worries, all small towns need a combo furniture store/beauty salon, right? Ugh. As they work together, Morgan tries to keep her emotional distance but time and off-the-charts chemistry soon turn a childhood friendship into a blossoming romance.
Unfortunately, just when their relationship develops into something deeper, an unexpected crisis reopens her family’s old wounds and the blame is on Dallas once again. Will Morgan’s sadness and fear pull them apart, or make her realize Dallas has always been her heart’s true safe harbor?
(This story was previously set in the Christmas Falls world under the title Forever Yours in Christmas Falls. Forever Yours in Christmas Falls is still available in paperback.)
As you may already know, I'm a big Susan Hatler fan. When I saw this one pop up under the free kindle books section I just had to grab a copy.
Check back tomorrow for another free read!
Free Reads Every Day!
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I hope you managed to grab a copy of yesterday's featured book Christmas Can Be Murder: A DCI Morton Novella by Sean Campbell
It's December and that means the count down to Christmas is on. This year I decided to set up a special advent calendar where I'll be featuring a different book every day. You'll be able to grab a free copy of each book on the day it's featured. That means 24 free reads!
I'll be offering you the chance to get your hands on some great books, from a variety of genres, all for free!
I'll be visiting Amazon each day and selecting a book at random from their free list. I'm not even sure which books I'll be featuring yet so it'll be a surprise for me too.
Book Advent Calendar Day 19
Title: Wicked Games (Steele Security Series Book 1)
Author: A.D. Justice
Grab your free copy here
About the book:
Wicked Games is book one of the USA Today bestselling series by award-winning author A.D. Justice.Noah hasn't been the same since the day Brianna died three years ago.When an intruder breaks into his house, he realizes a painful truth--he believed an elaborate lie. She's alive and well.So many questions, not enough answers.But who's to blame for these wicked games?These skilled operatives of Steele Security will put everything on the line to protect the people they love the most. Pulse-pounding action and red-hot romance unite in this complete series of sizzling page-turners.Alpha. Possessive. Protective. Made of Steele.
Check back tomorrow for another free read!