Isle of the Books

The Forsaken Prince is by Andrea Pearson and the first book in the fantasy series, The Kilenya Chronicles. " Jacob refuses the role of Forsaken Prince. Until his father and little sister are kidnapped...   When an attractive girl tells Jacob he's the Forsaken Prince and that an entirely different planet needs his help, he calls her crazy and sends her on her way. But then he discovers dead demons in his house, his mother beaten, and his father and sister kidnapped, and he's forced to begin a dangerous journey.  Now Jacob must team up with Aloren to find a magical key and stage a rescue with a tight deadline, all while making decisions that affect not only himself but hundreds of thousands of his subjects in this new world. Can he figure out his new magical powers fast enough and will he and Aloren reach Jacob's father and sister before time runs out?  Forsaken Prince, Kilenya Chronicles Book One   is an edge-of-your-seat story of fantasy, adventure, and excitin...

Wordy Wednesday is a meme that focuses on expanding vocabulary for aspiring writers or even finding out new words. All that is required is coming up with a word and its definition. Tinny  -  l acking in timbre or resonance; sounding thin or twangy  not strong or durable; flimsy; shoddy. (Dictionary.com) I'd come across tinny several times in books, and at first I thought it was a typo and supposed to say tiny. Then I realized, no, this is an actual word, most likely having to do with sound (it had been used in references to voice). And so I finally decided to look it up. An example on the website said "a tinny piano." A personal one is "tinny logic," because sometimes we don't think things through. Have you ever thought one word was supposed to be another? 

The Last of August is the second book in the Charlotte Holmes series by Brittany Cavallaro, falling into the mystery genre. " Watson and Holmes: A match made in disaster. Jamie Watson and Charlotte Holmes are looking for a winter-break reprieve after a fall semester that almost got them killed. But Charlotte isn’t the only Holmes with secrets, and the mood at her family’s Sussex estate is palpably tense. On top of everything else, Holmes and Watson could be becoming  more than friends—but still, the darkness in Charlotte’s past is a wall between them. A distraction arises soon enough, because Charlotte’s beloved uncle Leander goes missing from the estate—after being oddly private about his latest assignment in a German art forgery ring. The game is afoot once again, and Charlotte is single-minded in her pursuit. Their first stop? Berlin. Their first contact? August Moriarty (formerly Charlotte’s obsession, currently believed by most to be dead), whose powerful family has been...