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I might have to redo my entire graphic if I keep doing these on Saturdays instead of Fridays! I guess what I should do is make sure I put it together on Thursday. Oh, the joys of planning my blogging hobby around my work schedule!
Anyway, I started reading this book months ago and got interrupted. It stayed on the postponed pile for much longer than I'd anticipated, but I started it again. So I have teased it before, but since it was such a long while back, I hope no one minds that this is a repeat!
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MAY 8, 1801
When I was a little girl, my father would often come to my bedside after my screams wakened him in the night. He would smooth back my damp ringlets, the mere feel of his callused and strong hand inspiring an instantaneous calm.
~From the beginning of The Vanishing at Castle Moreau by Jaime Jo Wright
A haunting legend. An ominous curse. A search for a secret buried deep within the castle walls.
In 1870, orphaned Daisy François takes a position as housemaid at a Wisconsin castle to escape the horrors of her past life. There she finds a reclusive and eccentric Gothic authoress who hides tales more harrowing than the ones in her novels. As women disappear from the area and the eerie circumstances seem to parallel a local legend, Daisy is thrust into a web that could ultimately steal her sanity, if not her life.
In the present day, Cleo Clemmons is hired by the grandson of an American aristocratic family to help his grandmother face her hoarding in the dilapidated Castle Moreau. But when Cleo uncovers more than just the woman's stash of collectibles, a century-old mystery and the dust of the old castle's curse threaten to rise again . . . this time to leave no one alive to tell the sordid tale.
Award-winning author Jaime Jo Wright seamlessly weaves a dual-time tale of two women who must do all they can to seek the light amid the darkness shrouding Castle Moreau.
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First Line Fridays is hosted at Reading is My SuperPower
*Share the first line or two of the book closest to you, then visit other FLF participants.
*Please keep posts family friendly or clean reads.
*Link back to Reading is My SuperPower within your post or grab a button.
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Book Beginnings on Fridays is hosted by Rose City Reader.
*It's Book Beginnings on Fridays! Time to gather with our fellow book lovers and share the opening sentence (or so) of the books we are reading this week. Or share from a book that is on your mind right now -- whatever catches your fancy.
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She sucked in a sob, pushing back the thoughts that threatened to be remembered. Memories buried under layers of the dirt of life, grinding them into the ground and determining to lock them in a coffin that shouldn't ever be exhumed.
~from page 56 of The Vanishing at Castle Moreau by Jaime Jo Wright
The Friday 56 was started and hosted at Freda's Voice. She is taking a break from hosting, but Anne at My Head Full of Books has volunteered to host for now, so I'll be linking up there.
*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to Page 56 or 56% on your e-reader.
*Find a snippet, short and sweet.
*Post it, and share in the Linky.
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And here is the weekly bookish question in the Book Blogger Hop, hosted by Billy at Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer.
This Week's Question: Do you use a book's synopsis for your review?
My Answer: Yes, I try to give an overview of the plot and what the major conflict and dramatic questions of the story are. But without giving away the twist or the ending! I also include the book blurb, which usually has something of a synopsis as well.
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It's always a bit tricky to give a good enough overview without giving away too much, isn't it?
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DeleteI really enjoyed your page 56 quote. "She sucked in a sob..." is something most of us can relate to.
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DeleteThe excerpts you shared from The Vanishing at Castle Moreau both make me want to read this one. I hope you enjoy it! Have a great week, Kym!
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