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Happy new year!!

I'm coming out of the reading slump I've been in since September and I'm excited for my reading plans in 2024. But a quick 2023 wrap-up first: I did pretty good on #BookSpin, only missing 4. #roll100 on the other hand, I only read 3 all year... Oh well! Looking forward to both challenges this year

@TheAromaofBooks @PuddleJumper

Cover A+, set up C-, story of this matriarchal world where 5 queens rule with women being the protectors and men are subpar. This jumped ahead so fast in places that I had trouble remembering who was doing what. Ending for me was just too predictable. Thinking that I like much more dialogue once I know the setup of a new world. Not excited to read the 2nd, 🥴. I think this has a great story but the delivery is off for me.

It's me. I don't have the patience for an epic fantasy novel.

I liked the matriarchal world, but see above.

I bailed, but that would mean the book is marked down which would be a disservice to a the book.

#SeriesLove2023 @TheSpineView @Andrew65

The first in an epic fantasy series, and I‘m not sure how many books are planned. The world is matriarchal, and there are 5 queendoms who have been at peace for 500 years. Then baby girls stop being born. No one is sure why, but discord is sown.

There are a lot of characters, and that made it hard for me to be too invested in any of them. But I enjoyed the story and will definitely continue with the next book when it‘s released in the spring.

My favorite panel of the day was with GR Macallister and Rebecca Roanhorse. I haven‘t read either of these books yet, but I‘m looking forward to them.
#TexasBookFestival #TxBookFest

Hey, if anyone‘s at the Texas Book Festival this weekend, come see me in conversation with the amazing Rebecca Roanhorse on Saturday! So excited.

So wish I could be in #nyc for #comiccon this week to see my fave author G.R. Macallister talk about her kickass women in Scorpica! Love her kickass women in Greer's historical fiction too. #fantasy #nyccomiccon @theladygreer

Fascinating matriarchal world with magicians, warriors, queens, temples & the Daybreak #Palace that "gleamed golden, its sandstone curves and columns hewn from the smooth mountainside, its spires and arches soaring. Its front gate loomed in shadow." Pic of the entrance to the Brooklyn Public #Library where we found Scorpica on the "New SciFi/Fantasy" shelf. #SavvySettings @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs @theladygreer

An awesome start to a new series about five Queendoms… the ladies are ruling the world, and it‘s a messy, complicated, magical, thrilling place, thrown into chaos when girls suddenly stop being born. Lots of interesting characters and drama, great writing and world building, and I‘m very much looking forward to the next book. @theladygreer never disappoints, but this is something special.

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Solo breakfast at my local diner? That‘s something I haven‘t gotten to do in more than two years 😭. This book by the fabulous @theladygreer was my companion

Serendipity! How could I NOT order the "Long Live the Queen" specialty drink to sip while reading about the Five Queendoms in Scorpica? "A strong blend of Queen of Berries fruit tisane and elderberries, sweetened with antioxidant-rich local honey and Vitamin C." Love the creative staff at the Copper Kettle Teabar and this author @theladygreer

Tonight! 2-23-22 on Friends and Fiction: 7:00 ET is V.E.Schwab and Macallister at 8. I watch on YouTube live. They always have great authors and fun insider interviews every Wednesday and all are archived to watch any time. Super review from @BarbaraTheBibliophage

I won a Goodreads giveaway!! this isn‘t the kind of book I typically read but I think it sounds super interesting!

Imagine a 500-yr. matriarchy but women stop having female babies. Women are the crux of this society and not having another generation destabilizes everything. Scorpica is world-building, fabulous intrigue and plotting, and characters I‘m dying to read about for another decade or more. Divine epic fantasy!!

Full review https:// www.TheBibliophage.com
#thebibliophage2022 #booked2022 #nonpatriarchalsociety
#Pantone2022 #sudanbrown

Book 1 of the Five Queendoms series
An amazing story of a world run by women. Political intrigue times 5, queens trying to keep power and lead their people, while still working together as well.

I‘m reading Scorpica by G.R. Macallister, an ARC from #NetGalley and hoping to start The One Impossible Labyrinth by Matthew Reilly!
💜💜💜 both authors!

#SundaySoapbox
Scorpica-G.R. Macallister (& all her historical fiction as Greer Macallister)
The Dictionary of Lost Words-Pip Williams
Everything by the following authors, especially these titles:
The Poisonwood Bible -Barbara Kingsover
The Vanishiing Act of Esme Lenox-Maggie O'Farrell
Ordinary Grace -William Kent Kreuger
The Exiles-Christine Baker Kline
The Dollhouse-Fiona Davis
She's Come Undone-Wally Lamb
Truth and Beauty-Ann Patchett

Giveaway for Scorpica before it comes out 2.22.22! And 2000 entrants already on day 2 of the giveaway - great to see all the excitement.👸⚔️🦂

I am posting one book per day from my to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new - don‘t judge me I have a lot of books.
Join the fun if you want. This is day 308.
#bookstoread
#tbrpile
#bookstagram

The Goodreads giveaway for advance copies of SCORPICA went live yesterday, and we‘re already within spitting distance of 1000 entries! Amazing! If you love epic fantasy full of strong women, ruthless women, women who are mothers and villains and victims and lovers and bandits and so much more —get your entry in ASAP.

Fantasy readers, rejoice! SCORPICA, the first in the Five Queendoms series, is now available for request on NetGalley. Kate Quinn says: “SCORPICA is Game of Thrones for all the ladies out there who loved Game of Thrones but hated its disappointing mad-queen finish: a richly-drawn fantasy world peopled by fierce women, smart women, warrior women, women to make you stand up and roar.” Release date is 2/22/22.

Yay! My new book is in the Litsy database! Coming 2/22/22.

#CoverReveal today of this #matriarchal #fantasy series, The Five Queendoms. Can't wait!
https://www.tor.com/2021/07/28/cover-reveals-scorpica-by-g-r-macallister/
"Five hundred years of peace between queendoms shatters when girls inexplicably stop being born. As the Drought of Girls stretches across a generation, it sets off a cascade of political and personal consequences across all five queendoms of the known world . . . "