Friday Finds | September 18, 2020

Welcome to the Friday Finds | September 18, 2020 for more of my 3 Quick Things! I’m still experimenting with various ideas to keep this weekly post fresh and relevant for you.

Grab a cup of your favorite beverage and check out this week’s goodness.

Enjoy!

Gina

ps. Any unusual spellings or extraneous letters are the result of leaving my laptop open with a toddler in the house. Oh my, are they ever quick!

Friday Finds | September 18, 2020 – Books

I receive at least a dozen requests every week to provide reviews for newly released books. Naturally, I can’t fit them all in and have to decline some that would be more difficult for me to read. I get so overwhelmed sometimes that my turn-around time grows quite long. Currently, it ranges from 1-6 months, depending upon the genre, release dates, and various other factors. I’ve decided to implement a regular feature on the website with lists of books from my TBR. You’ll still find book recommendations in the Friday Finds, but I’ll also be posting a long list of recommendations in a separate feature that will run at least once a month. Watch the blog for the first list coming soon. In the meantime, here are three books I’m currently working on.

Mirrors of Life, Part 2 by Neal Owens

I haven’t read part 1, yet this book was very easy to follow.

The sequel to the Award-Winning debut novel is set in today’s political climate. Derrick learns political strength is needed to ensure the sustainability of his civic-minded conglomerate, and prevent the blockage of future projects that threatens to supplant the business powers that be in America. He finances the nationwide grassroots voting initiative, spearheaded by his mother, Yvonne, to change the leadership in Congress.

Erich Hornsby, the Neo-Nazi chairman of the business powers plots Derrick’s murder and manipulates the voters to elect his puppet, John Donaldson, president. In full control of the White House, Hornsby attempts to raise the Fourth Reich.

This realistic tale of intrigue and suspense is insightful and chilling.

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Mercadia Calling by Shaka Bry – Mermaids and Merliens Book 1

Something fishy is in the water, and Jonah’s gonna swim.

Mermaids and merliens have lived a quiet, peaceful existence deep in the heart of the Atlantic Ocean for hundreds of years. Jonah, the first human to dive headfirst into their underwater realm, is about to discover a fantasy of epic proportions.

On a sweltering August day at the Jersey Shore, Jonah, a seventeen-year-old lifeguard, is on the lookout. When he spots an old man drowning, an extraordinary rescue and resuscitation ensues, revealing a mysterious world of magic and mystery to explore. As he embarks on an incredible journey to an enchanting city beneath the waves, Jonah quickly realizes he may be forever changed.

Mezzy, a mermaid from another world, longs for adventure in or out of the high seas. Rebellious in nature, she is drawn to land, and to Jonah. When they come together, these sea-crossed heroes might just open a portal that leads to the courageous mermaid’s true home. But what awaits them on the other side?

Merlien emotions and ocean tides are rising, multiple worlds are colliding, and Mercadia is calling…

True Freedom by Michael Dean

Set in Boston and London over sixteen years, True Freedom is a panoramic account of how America came to fight Britain for its freedom in the eighteenth century.

The Boston scene is set through vignettes about the people who shaped its history. Thomas Hutchinson, Boston aristocracy, whose wealth is seemingly unassailable. Self-taught medical doctor Thomas Young meets his hero Samuel Adams who is determined to have his revolution, supported from London by the radical politician John Wilkes.

True Freedom is full of vivid period details; you can almost smell Parliament in London or hear the clerks scribbling away in the American Department. So too, in Boston, you experience the might of the British navy in the harbour, and feel the determination of the Boston people to defy Parliament in London.

Together they form facets of the main character: the Boston uprising. In his novel, Michael Dean takes us right to the heart of identity and sovereignty by focusing on personal relationships especially the one between brothers Thomas Pownall, Governor of Massachusetts and later a MP, and John Pownall, undersecretary of the American Department in London.

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