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Title: The Splendour

Author: Breeana Shields

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2021

Genres: fiction, fantasy, romance, LGBT+

Blurb: The Splendour isn't just a glamorous hotel; it's a magical experience that gives its guests the fantasy fulfilment of their dreams. But The Splendour didn't make Juliette's dreams come true...it ruined her life. After a weeklong stay, Juliette's sister Clare returns from the hotel changed. Her connection to Juliette - the special bond they once shared - has vanished. In a moment of hurt and frustration, Juliette steals their meagre savings and visits The Splendour herself. When she arrives, she's taken in by the lush and sumptuous hotel...but as she delves more deeply into the mystery of the place and how they make their illusions work, she grows more and more uneasy. The Splendour has a seedy underbelly, and every time she gets close to discovering something real, she seems to hit a wall. Meanwhile, Juliette meets Henri, an illusionist who lives and works at the hotel. Henri's job is to provide Juliette with the same Signature Experience he gives all the guests: one tailored fantasy that will make her stay unforgettable. As he gets to know her, he realises that not only is he ill-equipped to make her dreams come true...he's the cause of her heartache.

[myleejmiller]

Today, I am reading "The Bone Thief" by Breeana Shields. What are you reading?

[rottenbooks]

recs: dark academia inspired books - part 2

🔪 In My Dreams I Hold a Knife by Ashley Winstead

⛓️Thriller, Mystery, Adult⛓️

Six friends.

One college reunion.

One unsolved murder.

A college reunion turns dark and deadly in this chilling and propulsive suspense novel about six friends, one unsolved murder, and the dark secrets they’ve been hiding from each other—and themselves—for a decade.

Ten years after graduation, Jessica Miller has planned her triumphant return to southern, elite Duquette University, down to the envious whispers that are sure to follow in her wake. Everyone is going to see the girl she wants them to see—confident, beautiful, indifferent—not the girl she was when she left campus, back when Heather’s murder fractured everything, including the tight bond linking the six friends she’d been closest to since freshman year. Ten years ago, everything fell apart, including the dreams she worked for her whole life—and her relationship with the one person she wasn’t supposed to love.

But not everyone is ready to move on. Not everyone left Duquette ten years ago, and not everyone can let Heather’s murder go unsolved. Someone is determined to trap the real killer, to make the guilty pay. When the six friends are reunited, they will be forced to confront what happened that night—and the years’ worth of secrets each of them would do anything to keep hidden.

Told in racing dual timelines, with a dark campus setting and a darker look at friendship, love, obsession, and ambition, In My Dreams I Hold A Knife is an addictive, propulsive read you won’t be able to put down.

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😈 A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee

💀Fantasy, Young Adult, Mystery, LGBT💀

Felicity Morrow is back at Dalloway School.

Perched in the Catskill mountains, the centuries-old, ivy-covered campus was home until the tragic death of her girlfriend. Now, after a year away, she’s returned to graduate. She even has her old room in Godwin House, the exclusive dormitory rumored to be haunted by the spirits of five Dalloway students—girls some say were witches. The Dalloway Five all died mysteriously, one after another, right on Godwin grounds.

Witchcraft is woven into Dalloway’s history. The school doesn’t talk about it, but the students do. In secret rooms and shadowy corners, girls convene. And before her girlfriend died, Felicity was drawn to the dark. She’s determined to leave that behind her now; all Felicity wants is to focus on her senior thesis and graduate. But it’s hard when Dalloway’s occult history is everywhere. And when the new girl won’t let her forget.

It’s Ellis Haley’s first year at Dalloway, and she’s already amassed a loyal following. A prodigy novelist at seventeen, Ellis is a so-called “method writer.” She’s eccentric and brilliant, and Felicity can’t shake the pull she feels to her. So when Ellis asks Felicity for help researching the Dalloway Five for her second book, Felicity can’t say no. Given her history with the arcane, Felicity is the perfect resource.

And when history begins to repeat itself, Felicity will have to face the darkness in Dalloway–and in herself.

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🦢 Nemesis And The Swan by Lindsay K. Bandy

🕯️Historical, Young Adult, Fiction🕯️

From her prison cell in revolutionary Paris, nineteen-year-old aristocrat Hélène d'Aubign recalls the events that led her to choose between following in her parents' unforgivable footsteps or abandoning the man she loves.

Despite her world of privilege, Hélène is inspired early on by the radical ideas of her progressive governess. Though her family tries to intervene, the seeds of revolution have already been planted in Hélène's heart, as are the seeds of love from an unlikely friendship with a young jeweler's apprentice. Hélène's determination to find true love is as revolutionary as her attempt to unravel the truth behind a chilling set of eye-shaped brooches and the concealed murder that tore her family apart.

As violence erupts in Paris, Hélène is forced into hiding with her estranged family, where the tangled secrets of their past become entwined with her own. When she finally returns to the blood-stained streets of Paris, she finds everything-and everyone-very much changed. In a city where alliances shift overnight, no one knows who to trust.

Faced with looming war, the mystery of her family's past, and the man she loves near death, Hélène will soon will find out if doing one wrong thing will make everything right, or if it will simply push her closer to the guillotine.

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💫A House of Ghosts by W. C. Ryan

📖Mystery, Gothic, Historical, Paranormal, Horror📖

Winter 1917. As the First World War enters its most brutal phase, back home in England, everyone is seeking answers to the darkness that has seeped into their lives.

At Blackwater Abbey, on an island off the Devon coast, Lord Highmount has arranged a spiritualist gathering to contact his two sons who were lost in the conflict. But as his guests begin to arrive, it gradually becomes clear that each has something they would rather keep hidden. Then, when a storm descends on the island, the guests will find themselves trapped. Soon one of their number will die.

For Blackwater Abbey is haunted in more ways than one . . .

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☕The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling

🪐Horror, Gothic, Historical, Fantasy🪐

Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations, and decided that the most secure path forward is this: a husband, in a marriage of convenience, who will allow her to remain independent and occupied with meaningful work. Her first choice, the dashing but reclusive doctor Augustine Lawrence, agrees to her proposal with only one condition: that she must never visit Lindridge Hall, his crumbling family manor outside of town. Yet on their wedding night, an accident strands her at his door in a pitch-black rainstorm, and she finds him changed. Gone is the bold, courageous surgeon, and in his place is a terrified, paranoid man—one who cannot tell reality from nightmare, and fears Jane is an apparition, come to haunt him.

By morning, Augustine is himself again, but Jane knows something is deeply wrong at Lindridge Hall, and with the man she has so hastily bound her safety to. Set in a dark-mirror version of post-war England, Starling crafts a new kind of gothic horror from the bones of the beloved canon. This Crimson Peak-inspired story assembles, then upends, every expectation set in place by Shirley Jackson and Rebecca, and will leave readers shaken, desperate to begin again as soon as they are finished.

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🥀The Splendor by Breeana Shields

🤍Fantasy, Young Adult, LGBT, Romance🤍

The Splendor isn’t just a glamorous hotel, it’s a magical experience that gives its guests the fantasy fulfillment of their dreams. But The Splendor didn’t make Juliette’s dreams come true. It ruined her life.

After a weeklong stay, Juliette’s sister, Clare, returns from the hotel changed. Her connection to Juliette―the special bond they once shared―has vanished. In a moment of hurt and frustration, Juliette steals their meager savings and visits The Splendor herself.

When she arrives, she’s taken in by the lush and sumptuous hotel. But as she delves more deeply into the mystery of the place, and how they make their illusions work, she grows more and more uneasy. The Splendor has a seedy underbelly, but every time she gets close to discovering something real, she seems to hit a wall.

Meanwhile, Juliette meets Henri, an illusionist who lives and works at the hotel. Henri’s job is to provide Juliette with the same Signature Experience he gives all the guests―one tailored fantasy that will make her stay unforgettable. As he gets to know her, he realizes that not only is he ill-equipped to make her dreams come true, he’s the cause of her heartache.

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[con-alas-de-angeles]

I’m glad I don’t have to say it out loud. That I was in love with him once, in another life. That I’m in love with him in this life too.

Breeana Shields, The Bone Thief

[2021ya]

THE SPLENDOR

by Breeana Shields

(Page Street, 9/28/21 9/7/21)

9781645673224

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The Splendor isn’t just a glamorous hotel, it’s a magical experience that gives its guests the fantasy fulfillment of their dreams. But The Splendor didn’t make Juliette’s dreams come true. It ruined her life. After a weeklong stay, Juliette’s sister, Clare, returns from the hotel changed. Her connection to Juliette―the special bond they once shared―has vanished. In a moment of hurt and frustration, Juliette steals their meager savings and visits The Splendor herself. When she arrives, she’s taken in by the lush and sumptuous hotel. But as she delves more deeply into the mystery of the place, and how they make their illusions work, she grows more and more uneasy. The Splendor has a seedy underbelly, but every time she gets close to discovering something real, she seems to hit a wall. Meanwhile, Juliette meets Henri, an illusionist who lives and works at the hotel. Henri’s job is to provide Juliette with the same Signature Experience he gives all the guests―one tailored fantasy that will make her stay unforgettable. As he gets to know her, he realizes that not only is he ill-equipped to make her dreams come true, he’s the cause of her heartache.

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Review: The Splendor by Breeana Shields

Review: The Splendor by Breeana Shields

The SplendorBreeana ShieldsPage Street KidsPublished on September 28, 2021 Amazon | Bookshop | Goodreads About The Splendor The Splendor isn’t just a glamorous hotel, it’s a magical experience that gives its guests the fantasy fulfillment of their dreams. But The Splendor didn’t make Juliette’s dreams come true. It ruined her life. After a weeklong stay, Juliette’s sister, Clare, returns from…

[the-book-ferret]

Fate is predictable. Choice is not.

[2020ya]

THE BONE THIEF 

by Breeana Shields

The Bone Charmer #2

(Page Street, 5/26/20)

9781624149306

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Saskia returns to Ivory Hall to train in bone magic, determined to stop Latham from gaining the power of all three Sights—past, present, and future. But danger lurks within the fortress’s marrow. Trials are underway for the apprentices, and the tasks feel specifically engineered to torment Saskia, which is exactly what Latham wants. As she grows increasingly more suspicious, her thirst for revenge becomes all-consuming. Together with the friends she can trust and the boy she loved in another lifetime, Saskia traces clues from Latham’s past to determine what he’ll do next. Their search leads them across Kastelia and brings them to a workshop housing a vast collection of horrors, including the bones Latham stole from Gran, and the knowledge that the future isn’t all that’s in jeopardy—but the past as well.

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In Saskia’s world, bones are the source of all power. They tell the future, reveal the past, and expose secrets in the present. Each village has a designated seer who performs readings for the townsfolk, and in Midwood, the Bone Charmer is Saskia’s mother. On the day of her kenning—a special bone reading that determines the apprenticeships of all seventeen-year-olds—Saskia’s worst fears come true. She receives an assignment to train as a Bone Charmer, like her mother, and even worse, a match-making reading that pairs her with Bram—a boy who has suspicious tattoos that hint of violence. Saskia knows her mother saw multiple paths for her, yet chose one she knew Saskia wouldn’t want. Their argument leads to a fracture in one of the bones. Broken bones are always bad luck, but this particular set of bones have been infused with extra magic, and so the break has devastating consequences—Saskia’s future has split as well. Now she will live her two potential paths simultaneously. Only one future can survive. And Saskia’s life is in danger in both.

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Book Excerpt: The Bone Charmer by Breeana Shields (Blog Tour + Giveaway!)

Book Excerpt: The Bone Charmer by Breeana Shields (Blog Tour + Giveaway!) #RockStarBookTours #TheBoneCharmer #BreeanaShields #blogtour #bookexcerpt #giveaway

Welcome to the The Bone Charmer blog tour (hosted by Rockstar Book Tours!) I am so glad I was able to take part in this tour, and I’m glad you’re here! I am the 11th stop out of 20 stops, so please check out the previous stops and make sure you check out upcoming stops!

Also, there is a tour-wide giveaway so stick around till the end of this post to find out what for and what you can win!

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Books Read in 2022

The Splendor by Breeana Shields

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THE BONE THIEF BY BREEANA SHIELDS IS OUT! feat. A GIVEAWAY!

Happy book birthday to THE BONE THIEF BY @BreeanaShieds! The end to The Bone Charmer duology: an exploration on the weight of grief & the cost of revenge. @PageStreetKids @The_FFBC

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Mabuhay, friends! 

What kind of magic systems do you enjoy reading?

Personally, I’m always drawn anything related to necromancy and nature. Necromancy based on nature would be amazing to read. This kind of magic system doesn’t always have to be limited to raising the dead. I enjoy the idea of reanimating dead plants…

[theboywhoreadsbooks]

He will spend the day there having adventures in the pages that he is denied in real life.

Poison's Kiss, Breeana Shields

[con-alas-de-angeles]

My path could split a thousand times, and I’d find you and love you on all of them.

Breeana Shields, The Bone Thief

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Fiona reads Poison's Kiss "Wear something black."-Fiona Goode

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