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Talk About a Dark & Tragic Home Life

June 14, 2016 by Andrea Krieter Leave a Comment

Rating:  5/ 5 Summary: Sybella is a Handmaiden of Death. She came to the Convent of Saint Mortain driven to the edge of sanity by her family and home life. After befriending Annith and Ismae, Sybella is able to reel herself back to reality day by day. With the tools of training from the convent, Sybella is a knife in a pretty & distracting sheath and she is sent out on a mission for the convent. Back to spy on her family that almost tore […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance Tagged With: Bad home life, badass heroine, historical fiction, stunning sequel, YA

Andrea Krieter's CBR8 Review No:27 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Romance · Tags: Bad home life, badass heroine, historical fiction, stunning sequel, YA ·
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Lust, deception, secrets, Highlanders, and a badass heroine.

February 23, 2015 by Fiat.Luxury Leave a Comment

I am not so much a reader of romance, but of course I had to read this one because Madeline Martin is a wonderful person I know in actual real life and this is her first published novel!  I know first-hand how hard she worked on this (really hard), and I was more than happy to read and review the pre-release. Mariel Brandon is a quick-witted English beauty who has seen more than her fair share of heartache: her parents died in the plague and she […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Romance Tagged With: badass heroine, Deception of a Highlander, First Novel, Madeline Martin, romance

Fiat.Luxury's CBR7 Review No:5 · Genres: Fiction, Romance · Tags: badass heroine, Deception of a Highlander, First Novel, Madeline Martin, romance ·
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