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Here it is! The cover reveal for “My Little Island Life”!
I am so excited for this one. The cover is beautiful (in my totally unbiased opinion, lol) and the story is one that I have been wanting to tell for a very long time. Based on true events from my own life, writing this was like writing in my diary again. It’s very personal, ugly, and embarrassing, but it’s a story that needs to be told. It’s my testimony, and my first dabble into faith-based fiction.
Kleio thought living in paradise would be a dream, but it quickly turns into a living nightmare
Whisked away to the island of Oahu by her new Navy sailor husband, twenty year old Kleio realizes she hardly knows the man she married. Looking for an escape from the vicious cycle of abusive boyfriends, Kleio soon finds out that Danny is just another part of that cycle. When she receives a disturbing email from his ex explaining that he had been asking both of them to marry him at the same time, Kleio’s world spirals out of control. The only reason she’s married to Danny is because another girl had said no. Feeling trapped on the tiny island, Kleio does whatever she can to find an escape from her marriage, and to figure out who she is and what she really wants in life. Can she ever find happiness, or will she be crushed by the darkness of her depression forever?
I just realized that I am a mood reader. Not only that, but I took it to the extreme. I am a mood everything-er! But I was able, with some deep reflective thought, to pinpoint where these moods were driven from. This give me an advantage. No longer do I have to feel I am difficult or whishy-washy or jumping from one thing to the next. I can hedge my moods because I can predict them now. I am a seasonal mood reader! (and everything-er)
November-December-Jan
This is the season where I am anticipating the holidays. It’s a magical time filled with family, fun, and friends, and I feel like I’m living in a snow globe. I tend to get vintage/classical/a little British in my choices. I dress in a more vintage holiday style. I get really into knitting shawls. I read historical fictions and classics. I crave comfort food like stews, soups, meats and potatoes. This is my Winter Mood.
February-March-April
This is the season where I am craving warmer weather and for winter to be over. The sun starts coming out more and we start getting some temps above freezing. I go into beachy overload. I can’t stop thinking about Hawaii and the years I lived there. I go into beachy vacation planning mode. I dress in beachy (though still temp appropriate) clothes. I crave beach or ocean themed reads so a lot of YA Fantasy centered around pirates or islands. Spin offs from shows I love like Outer Banks. All I want to watch are summer beach movies and shows like Blue Crush, Soul Surfer, and Moana. I crave pineapple and coconut and fresh fruit everything!
May-June-July-August
This is the season I feel I am most calm and myself (Which is crazy because I always thought of myself as a Fall Winter lover). I do a lot of outdoor activities like swimming, horseback riding, hiking, and what not. I adopt a more comfortable boho style of clothes mainly because I hate to sweat. This is a season where I really don’t have one type of book I like to read. This is the season I can wrap up those series that have been hanging over my head. I’ll watch whatever, listen to whatever, and pretty much do whatever. Sometimes I can get horse-centered in this time because of the outdoor riding. I’ll watch and read more horsey things and my boho look can get a little western, but not always.
September-October
This is the season I am looking forward to the leaves changing and the weather cooling. I tend to get a little more daring in my fashion choices, breaking out the black leather leggings because Halloween is just around the corner. I wear muted earth tones and a lot of rusty oranges. I like to read a lot of Halloween type books, especially if they have to do with witches. Same with my movie and show choices. I break out the Halloween themed playlists and decorations. I start eating more sweets and treats as they become available and I am buying less fruit and summery things.
Now that I know the four seasons of my moods I can make them work for me and be prepared for them before they get here! That way I’m not like “I’m in a Halloween witchy mood. Let me break my bank by ordering every witchy book I can find that I haven’t read yet!” Instead, I can stock up over the months and then already have enough to read when the season hits so I’m not scrambling.
What kind of mood reader are you and where do your moods stem from?
I am always on the lookout for horsey books that don’t feel too juvenile, which is an area literature is hugely lacking in if I do say so myself. That’s why I was so excited to stumble upon “The Invincible Miss Cust” in my Bookbub newsletter. It was under a historical novel sale, which is also right up my alley. It follows the life from childhood until the end of Miss Aleen Cust, the first woman veterinarian of Great Britain and Ireland.
To cover the expanse of someone’s entire life seems daunting but the author did a great job of making me feel like I knew Miss Cust personally from all the detail, while skipping over the years that were routine as usual. I never felt like I missed out on something important.
I loved Aleen Cust right off the bat. To say we share a common interest is putting it too mildly. Obsession might be closer to the right word. Horses. She had the childhood I always dreamed of, flying across the fields on the back of a horse all day with siblings and friends. The book touches on the struggles between Ireland and Great Britain at that time, and that is why Aleen’s family had to relocate back to England when she was ten, leaving behind her dog and horses. I can’t imagine how heartbreaking that would have been.
I can also relate to Aleen in feeling drawn to a profession by my very heart, an unconventional profession that many screw up their faces at when I said I wanted to do it. For her, it was to become a vet and take care of animals. For me, it was to write books. Of course, I haven’t had to face any of the bigotry she faced throughout her four years of college. She even had to work illegally for more than twenty years before the association would let her sit her last exam and give her the certificate stating she was officially a veterinarian. To work so hard at something, be so good at it, and still have society tell you that you can’t do it is insane to me, but they were different times, her childhood starting in the late eighteen hundreds, her school from 1900-1904, and finally being able to practice legally in 1922.
The whole book does not center around horses, of course, though they are always a huge part of her life, along with her dogs which she bred for a time. But the scenes describing her gallops across town to reach an emergency satisfied my horsey cravings in literature. There is romance involved, as there is in most lives, but it doesn’t dominate the story or hinder the real message in the least. She was an unconventional woman, so it only made sense her love life was unconventional as well.
I highly recommend this book for animal lovers, equestrians, historical lovers, and just plain readers in general. You won’t be disappointed by Miss Aleen Cust’s story.
The more I read this series the more I like it and realize just how much planning and thought went into it. Each book ties into the next, culminating in the story of the Odd Sisters and how each of the villain’s stories are a part of their own fairy tale book where they write the fate of the villains.
I really liked Captain Hook’s story. The series has gotten better in its story telling as its gone on. He is a villain that we don’t really know much about. Why is he an adult in Neverland? But all is explained in this entertaining story that mixes pirate history with fairy tale. (my favorite kind of story!) James’ mentor will be a familiar name to all, which makes the story all the more dear, as if it really could be true! It was an easy read that had the pages flipping fast for me.
The author did a great job of humanizing James Hook and making me feel for him and his fate. This was one of those rare stories where I could actually see his side and how he got to where he is, a dastardly pirate trying too capture Tinker Bell and kill Peter Pan. She did a great job and I highly recommend this series and this book.
