Welcome to Litsy!

Jodi Dillon has been friends with Zack Thrasher since second grade, meaning she was pulled into his friend group in high school almost by accident. Julian, Lucy, Paige, & of course Zack Thrasher, they're rich, sophisticated, & gorgeous - everything Jodi isn't. The group occasionally let an outsider in for a short while for kicks but it isn't long before they are iced out, rejected, 'thrashed'. (continued)

Ellena Reed's life is now in tatters: her ex-husband is in prison, her home is in foreclosure, & she is awaiting confirmation that her career as an EMT is also done. At her wits end, she reluctantly agrees to accompany stepsister, Button (aka Elizabeth), on a camping trip. The night they arrive nuclear warheads hit multiple targets in the US.

Their fellow survivors are a mum & son, & a man who claims to be ex-SEAL. (continued)

Started a new book which was published yesterday. A Science Fiction book about Time Travel and the first book in the Madders of Time Series.

I‘m including this as part of my #ShelfSweeper Readathon as it is a Kindle version and is a review copy, so already sitting on my Kindle shelf for a couple of months. #4Elisabeth @Tove_Reads

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Available for 99p or 99 cents at the moment.

Just started the latest book in the Lucas Davenport‘s series, which is a review copy of the audiobook. Looking forward to this one.

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Born into enslavement in Tennessee, Lucy Higgs Nichols' early life was one of constant work & living with the threat of being torn away from her family & sold to another owner. As a young woman, Lucy managed to escape at the outset of the US Civil War & joined the Indiana 23rd Regiment of the Union Army as a nurse. Lucy cared for the men for 4 years before returning with them to Indiana to make a new life for herself. (continued)

Mabel Rose Dixon is in New York to become a Ziegfeld girl, but things haven't gone to plan & she is currently reduced to picking the pockets of the wealthy. When she chooses the wrong mark, Mabel makes a deal to save her life & ends up trapped in the Grand Hotel, a luxury hotel run by demons. Mabel agrees to procure souls for the hotel owner, Frank, in exchange for being his headline act every night in the crowded theatre, (continued)

A look at the lives of J.M. Barrie & neighbours, the Llewelyn Davies family, whose five boys were instrumental in the development of the story of Peter Pan - especially Michael, their fourth son, on whom the main character was based. At first the friendships were thought to be of little concern but eventually Arthur Llewelyn Davies moved his family out of London to get away from Barrie's influence. (continued)

Lucy & her parents move to a remote town in Alaska for her mum's new job, where the local school, White Pine Secondary, runs online classes during the bad weather. Now in-person classes are due to start & Lucy is looking forward to meeting her 12 classmates, including Mara, Peter, Henry, & Josephine, in real life. They've been friendly, if a little strange at times with the questions they asked & how they dress.
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Aphrodite is born from the sea, literally washed onto the shore. Wandering with no clue where she is or who she is, Aphrodite can sense when humans mean her harm, but she eventually meets a kind man who tends an orchard & who gives her a place to stay & food without asking anything in return. When the orchard is destroyed by giants, Aphrodite meets Ares, god of war, & they travel to Olympus together. (continued)