Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Blog Tour & Giveaway: A Girl of White Winter (Dark Glass #3) by Barb Hendee


A GIRL OF WHITE WINTER
A Dark Glass Novel Book #3

by Barb Hendee
Genre: Historical Fantasy
Pub Date: 8/7/2018


Kara, as a ward with no parentage and no future, has been raised knowing nothing outside her lady’s chambers. Until Royce Capello, a visiting nobleman, is struck by her ice-pale looks, and demands her as payment for the land the family needs.
With barely time to protest, Kara is sold and packed off for a life as a concubine—until a raiding party descends on Royce’s company and she’s kidnapped for the second time in as many days.
Whatever happens, Kara will be alone in the world, inexperienced and fearing even the vast unfamiliar sky. But one raider gives her a choice—and a magic mirror appears to show her where each path will lead…
She can leave with her protector Raven and journey with his performing troupe, competing for his mercurial affections.
She can flee the raiders’ settlement, and return to Royce’s manor, chattel among devious nobility.
Or she can stay in the settlement, bound to firm, silent Caine, who is as gentle as he is staid and inscrutable.
Her fates twist and turn to affect far more than she could have guessed, tangling the bitter with the sweet—and Kara must choose which consequences she can live with…




My Review:

3.5 Out Of 5 Stars

Genre: Another-World, Historical, Romance, Royal-Court, Supernatural--

Kara has been kept secluded and sheltered as a helper to her Lady, with no real knowledge of the world or the dangers that can lurk there. When her Lady's husband sells her off as a mistress for a lord in return for much desired land, her careful world is ruined. While on the road to her new life, she is captured by thieves and by stroke of luck she gets to look into a magic mirror that shows her options. Kara has a decision to make, she must pick one of three paths with three different men and very different lives. Which choice will she make?

I am a huge fan of Barb's Nobel Dead series where she and her husband team up and create a fantastic high fantasy vampire world, but I had never read her independent novels so I was for sure interested to see how this would play out. I found the concept for this book to be very interesting (which based on other reviews I read that is the theme for all the books in the series). A girl finds herself in a situation where she can choose multiple paths and the story allows her to see the consequences of those actions. Kind of like a more magical, historical version of the movie Sliding Doors- but with a third option thrown in to make choices even more difficult.

I will admit that after each choice played out, I had no idea what Kara was going to pick. There were issues with all the options, but also benefits and things she was missing from her life that she didn't even know- she could have freedom, she could have a family, or she could have safety and belonging. I knew who I wanted her to pick right from their introduction to the book, but she and I have nothing in common so I didn't know what her heart would desire- but she did choose who I wanted for her, so yay! It would have been nice if she could have picked herself and independence since all her choices were domineering men...but that was not this story or this time period for women. Just saying.

Overall this was a very fast read, mostly a historical fiction with a slight magical undertone. I love the concept behind this story, even if at times I did not understand Kara and her subservient behavior at all. This is actually the third book in the series (first read by me), and each is a standalone. I will for sure check out the other books and see what direction those stories end up taking.

I reviewed a complimentary copy of this title.

A CHOICE OF CROWNS
A Dark Glass Novel Book #2

Olivia Geroux knew her king was reluctant to marry her, whatever the negotiations had arranged. But she never expected to find handsome, arrogant King Rowan obsessed with his stepsister instead. And before she can determine what course to take, she overhears her greatest ally plotting to murder the princess.
Olivia must act quickly—and live with whatever chaos results. As the assassin hunts his prey, a magic mirror appears to show Olivia the three paths that open before her . . .
If she hesitates only a moment, the princess will die—and she will become queen.
If she calls for help, she will gain great power—but she must also thrust away her own happiness.
If she runs to stop the murder herself, she will know love and contentment—but her whole country will suffer.
As she lives out each path, her wits and courage will be tested as she fights to protect her people, her friends, and her heart. And deciding which to follow will be far from easy . . .



THROUGH A DARK GLASS
A Dark Glass Novel Book 1

On her seventeenth birthday, Megan of Chaumont discovers she’ll be sold as a bride to the brutish Volodane family—within hours. Her father grants only that she may choose which one of the ruthless, grasping lord's three sons she weds:
Rolf, the eldest: stern, ambitious, and loyal?
Sebastian, the second son: sympathetic, sly, and rebellious?
Or Kai, the youngest: bitter, brooding, and proud?
As shy, horrified Megan flees the welcome dinner for her in-laws-to-be, she finds an enchanted mirror that will display how her life unrolls with each man, as if she were living it out in a breath. But there is no smooth “happily ever after” in her choices.
Deaths and honors, joys and agonies, intrigues and escapes await her in a remote, ramshackle keep, where these rough but complex men reveal one side and then another of their jagged characters—and bring forth new aspects of Megan, too. But the decisions of one teenaged marriage-pawn reverberate much farther than any of them have guessed . . .





Barb Hendee is the New York Times bestselling author of The Mist-Torn Witches series. She is the co-author (with husband J.C.) of the Noble Dead Saga. She holds a master’s degree in composition/rhetoric from the University of Idaho and currently teaches writing for Umpqua Community College. She and J.C. live in a quirky two-level townhouse just south of Portland, Oregon.



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