Weekly Reading List #88

By Cynthia Ayala

Hey there avid readers! I hope that everyone is having a wonderful day. It’s been easygoing lately. I’ve postponed the publication of my book by a year because quality matters and I feel like I’m rushing so taking a step back taking my time. I want this novel to be good, I want it to connect to my readers. So while I’m working on my novel, taking my time, I’ll also be here on y blog catching up on my reading and my reviews. So here’s my weekly reading list, happy reading!
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Weekly Reading List #87

By Cynthia Ayala

Hey there readers! Guess who is finally a graduate of Emerson College! This girl! Boy was it cold, and wet, lots of rain in Boston this past weekend. My mom and grandmother took so many pictures of me and Dennis Lehane was my commencement speaker, which was super cool btw. Anyway, it was tons of fun I just wished my uncle, aunt and fiancé had been there with me, but I’ll see them soon enough. On the bright side on the 21-hour drive I took back home with my mom (because we were moving furniture back to FL from BOS) I got a lot of reading done. So check out this week’s reading list. Happy reading!
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Book of the Month – May 2017

By Cynthia Ayala

The voters have spoken! I’m gonna say I am only a little surprised that it wasn’t more of a close call, given the books coming out this month, but you guys voted so here you have it, this month’s winner of the Book of the Month title, which will include a feature book review is none other than A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas. Congrats! Check out what it’s all about right here.
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Short & Sweet | Review of ‘Dog with a Bone (Black Dog, #1)’

By Cynthia Ayala

Dog with a Bone by Hailey Edwards
Haley Edwards Publishing
Image Credit: Goodreads

Thierry is a half-blood with a particular skill that makes her very dangerous. Her only option was to join the Faerie marshal program or else be trapped in the Faerie realm, a place that is not her own. Texas has been the only home Thierry has ever known, and after passing her test, she has become an official marshal taking on what looked like a routine case. Or so she thought.

Published on October 31, 2014, by self-publisher Hayley Edwards, Dog with a Bone is the first in her Black Dog series following a young girl with dangerous powers and even more dangerous enemies.
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Weekly Reading List #49

By Cynthia Ayala

Hey there avid readers! I hope that everyone is having a wonderful weekend. For me, this weekend has been spent at the Annual South Florida Supercon! Woo! It was tons of fun, as always. And if any of you were there you know how much fun it was. Anyway, it’s been a pretty busy past few weeks which is why I’m a little slow on the reading here, but here’s what I’ve got coming up. And as you can imagine, I didn’t have a ton of time to read this weekend. I’m almost done with Dog with a Bone, just got 2 chapters left and I’m enjoying it, needs a little more structure to it, but overall, I’m liking it. Check out the other books and she if they catch your fancy. Happy Fourth of July!
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Weekly Reading List #47

By Cynthia Ayala

Hey there readers! So I hope that everyone has had a wonderful week and weekend. Me, it’s been busy busy busy trying to keep up with my blogging and editing my novel but I have finally finished editing it! Woo! No I just have to format and insert my edits and changes into the computer file, because I like to hand edit, and then finish designing the back cover of the novel and everything else. No one said publishing was easy, it’s a lot of work, but work I love and that I am passionate about, so at least there’s that.

Anyway here is my weekly reading this for the week with a special feature book at the end. Check it out.
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Top 5 Beauty and the Beast Retelling Must-Reads

By Cynthia Ayala

Calling all Beauty and the Beast fans! The trailer dropped today on Good Morning America for Disney’s upcoming live-action adaptation of their classic animated beauty, Beauty and the Beast. The film, set to release March 17, 2017, and stars Emma Watson as Belle, Dan Stevens as the Beast, and Luke Evans as Gaston.
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Gothic Loveliness | Review of ‘Lady Midnight’ (The Dark Artifices #1)

By Cynthia Ayala

Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare
Margaret K. McElderry Books
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It’s been five years since the battle between Clary and her demonic brother, and now the torch has been passed to another pair of fierce warriors…

Emma lost her parents that day and her life has been nothing but a battle to try to figure out who murdered her parents, leaving her an orphan. Nevertheless, she had Julian, who took on the reigns to be the parent to his family. Together, as parabatai, they held together, but strange murders are taking place, taking the shape of her parents’ death leading them to an unsanctioned peace with fairies that may even hold the key to putting the family back together.
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