BookRatMisty | Backlist Love (11): Funk Breakers @Thebookrat | Uploaded December 2018 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
I thought for the last BLL of 2018, we'd look at fun, engaging, quick reads to squeeze in during the holidays, or to get your 2019 reading off to a good start.
For more funk breaker picks & discussion:
thebookrat.com/2013/06/book-chat-beach-reads.html
thebookrat.com/search/label/funk%20breaker
thebookrat.com/2015/01/a-funky-kind-of-funk.html
Let me know your backlist loves in the comments!!
HEX HALL: amzn.to/2Sei6hA
Three years ago, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. It's gotten her into a few scrapes. Her non-gifted mother has been as supportive as possible, consulting Sophie's estranged father—an elusive European warlock—only when necessary. But when Sophie attracts too much human attention for a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, it's her dad who decides her punishment: exile to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, a.k.a. witches, faeries, and shapeshifters.
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THE SPLENDOR FALLS: amzn.to/2QIdUdw
Can love last beyond the grave?
Sylvie Davis is a ballerina who can’t dance. A broken leg ended her career, but Sylvie’s pain runs deeper. What broke her heart was her father’s death, and what’s breaking her spirit is her mother’s remarriage—a union that’s only driven an even deeper wedge into their already tenuous relationship.
Uprooting her from her Manhattan apartment and shipping her to Alabama is her mother’ s solution for Sylvie’s unhappiness. Her father’s cousin is restoring a family home in a town rich with her family’s history. And that’s where things start to get shady. As it turns out, her family has a lot more history than Sylvie ever knew. More unnerving, though, are the two guys that she can’t stop thinking about. Shawn Maddox, the resident golden boy, seems to be perfect in every way. But Rhys—a handsome, mysterious foreign guest of her cousin’s—has a hold on her that she doesn’t quite understand.
Then she starts seeing things. Sylvie’s lost nearly everything—is she starting to lose her mind as well?
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AFTER THE WOODS: amzn.to/2QGkFwi
Would you risk your life to save your best friend?
Julia did. When a paroled predator attacked Liv in the woods, Julia fought back and got caught. Liv ran, leaving Julia in the woods for a terrifying 48 hours that she remembers only in flashbacks. One year later, Liv seems bent on self-destruction, starving herself, doing drugs, and hooking up with a violent new boyfriend. A dead girl turns up in those same woods, and Julia's memories resurface alongside clues unearthed by an ambitious reporter that link the girl to Julia's abductor. As the devastating truth becomes clear, Julia realizes that after the woods was just the beginning.
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Disclosure: This is NOT a sponsored video, though After the Woods was sent to me for review consideration purposes once upon a time. All thoughts and opinions are honest and my own.
Affiliate links used where possible.
Thanks for helping support my channel!
I thought for the last BLL of 2018, we'd look at fun, engaging, quick reads to squeeze in during the holidays, or to get your 2019 reading off to a good start.
For more funk breaker picks & discussion:
thebookrat.com/2013/06/book-chat-beach-reads.html
thebookrat.com/search/label/funk%20breaker
thebookrat.com/2015/01/a-funky-kind-of-funk.html
Let me know your backlist loves in the comments!!
HEX HALL: amzn.to/2Sei6hA
Three years ago, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. It's gotten her into a few scrapes. Her non-gifted mother has been as supportive as possible, consulting Sophie's estranged father—an elusive European warlock—only when necessary. But when Sophie attracts too much human attention for a prom-night spell gone horribly wrong, it's her dad who decides her punishment: exile to Hex Hall, an isolated reform school for wayward Prodigium, a.k.a. witches, faeries, and shapeshifters.
_____________________________________
THE SPLENDOR FALLS: amzn.to/2QIdUdw
Can love last beyond the grave?
Sylvie Davis is a ballerina who can’t dance. A broken leg ended her career, but Sylvie’s pain runs deeper. What broke her heart was her father’s death, and what’s breaking her spirit is her mother’s remarriage—a union that’s only driven an even deeper wedge into their already tenuous relationship.
Uprooting her from her Manhattan apartment and shipping her to Alabama is her mother’ s solution for Sylvie’s unhappiness. Her father’s cousin is restoring a family home in a town rich with her family’s history. And that’s where things start to get shady. As it turns out, her family has a lot more history than Sylvie ever knew. More unnerving, though, are the two guys that she can’t stop thinking about. Shawn Maddox, the resident golden boy, seems to be perfect in every way. But Rhys—a handsome, mysterious foreign guest of her cousin’s—has a hold on her that she doesn’t quite understand.
Then she starts seeing things. Sylvie’s lost nearly everything—is she starting to lose her mind as well?
_______________________________________
AFTER THE WOODS: amzn.to/2QGkFwi
Would you risk your life to save your best friend?
Julia did. When a paroled predator attacked Liv in the woods, Julia fought back and got caught. Liv ran, leaving Julia in the woods for a terrifying 48 hours that she remembers only in flashbacks. One year later, Liv seems bent on self-destruction, starving herself, doing drugs, and hooking up with a violent new boyfriend. A dead girl turns up in those same woods, and Julia's memories resurface alongside clues unearthed by an ambitious reporter that link the girl to Julia's abductor. As the devastating truth becomes clear, Julia realizes that after the woods was just the beginning.
____________________________
Find me in your internets:
Blog: thebookrat.com
Twitter: twitter.com/#!/TheBookRat
Instagram: instagram.com/bookishmisty
Goodreads: goodreads.com/user/show/1124284-misty
Facebook: facebook.com/BookRatBlog
Tumblr: thebookrat.tumblr.com
Disclosure: This is NOT a sponsored video, though After the Woods was sent to me for review consideration purposes once upon a time. All thoughts and opinions are honest and my own.
Affiliate links used where possible.
Thanks for helping support my channel!
