Welcome to Litsy!

How did I end up with three creepy thrillers on the go at the same time?
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The Plague Charmer by Karen Maitland: a very readable medieval thriller I had picked up randomly at some point (might have been a 3 for 2 offer).
Judgment is Stone by Ruth Rendell: from my lifetime reading list. I'll probably finish it tonight.
The Circle by Dave Eggers: another #lifetimereading nominee and #booked2019 #socialmedia read.

🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟 This is my second Karen Maitland book and it is safe to say that I am a fan!

Thank you for this giveaway and congratulations on your Litsy milestone @BookaholicNatty.

Thanks for the tag @ephemeralwaltz.

My TBR is long and seems to be getting longer by the hour. I should stop being on Litsy. 😂

And now I've forgotten the # - I think it's #Nattys25kGiveaway

Whom to tag? @batsy @LauraBeth @hermyknee

They say despair is a terrible thing, but hope is worse: it keeps you shackled for ever, like a dog in a wheel, always running, but never able to go anywhere, save round and round.
Grim but beautiful, I loved this. Have you read it?
#book #booklove #bookreview

'I will have no part of your dark magic,' the priest growled.I do not take help from witches and sorcerers.' She shrugged. 'As you please. But the creatures that stalk the nights are masters of the dark. You cannot fight a raging storm armed with only with a candle flame.'
#medieval

The sky, the earth, the sea had melted into one formless black mass. No birds cried above us. No animals called from the hill. The only sound was the desolate moan of the wind. It was as if we were ghosts wandering through the dark, icy caverns of the dead.

#medieval

Reading in a park while waiting for a friend. Very nice weather today. Sadly the people on the next bench have started smoking weed and the smell is quite intence. 🌲🌱

#firstlineincurrentread #aprilbookshowers

Starting a new Karen Maitland medieval mystery tonight. I always love her books, they always feel familiar. Being a Celtic student I don't much like the first line, what is the land of Celts anyway? Could you be a bit more specific? I guess college does ruin some things for you 😂😂

Never the less I am looking forward to diving in to this one!

@RealLifeReading

Karen Maitland's latest historical novel is another well researched story set amid the Black Death that incorporates elements of superstition, legend and magical realism but it reminded me a lot of THE COMPANY OF LIARS and the wide characters made it difficult to empathise with any one character's plight so that ultimately I found it difficult to engage with it enough to care about the story.

**This book was reviewed via Netgalley**

This story was well-written and quite engaging. Maitland weaves the stories of several different people around one another. In a rather daring move, she chose to switch perspective between characters, so some are first person, others third person. It takes a rare talent to handle that and end up with something good, let alone great.

🎻🎻🎻🎻🎻 Highly recommended

Bit of craic: You are trapped in an elevator with the main chatting of the book you last finished. Who are you trapped with and what did you talk about? - I'm trapped with a dwarf who is giving me riddles. 😳#bitoffun

If you like historical fiction and fantasy you probably really like it. I did enjoy the book and was fascinated by it inbetween and it was well written. I liked the different angels in the story. but it did not grab me as an unputdownable and therefore a so-so for me.

Absolutely loving The Plague Charmer. It's full of strong, well realised characters, and the storyline is really good. Hoping to see the links between the Porlock Manor and the Porlock Weir folks become more apparent though - there's got to be more than simple contrasts at play here!

Anyone else who likes taking notes of the book you are reading? I love taking notes and writing down a few things. Quite interesting if you go back to a book you have read about 6 months ago #thoughtswhilereading

Hmmm.... not too sure about that one 😁#greatread #netgalleyreads

Chilling with the fire on and a good book. Life is good 😊

So hooked. Bummer that I am working all weekend 😬🙄

A new day... a new book 📚 😊☕️️

Maitland's medieval magic and mayhem strikes the right chord once again.