Sunday, January 23, 2022

WHAT'S THE BUZZ?: Hold My Place by Cassondra Windwalker - REVIEW!

Hi there!
Welcome back to Satisfaction for Insatiable Readers.


Today, we're spreading a little pre book birthday BUZZ for a short story coming THIS TUESDAY (01/25/22) via Black Spot Books.  It's a Fiction novel that walks the line of Psychological Thriller and Paranormal like a well versed aerial artist, allowing the story within to take you where it may with surprising results.  Ready to explore?  Here we go.  Ladies and gents, prepare to explore obsession on a whole new level as we step between the epages of today's featured title...


by
Cassondra Windwalker
Black Spot Books

About the book...

Obsession never dies.

When librarian Sigrun falls head-over-heels for the sophisticated and very married Edgar Leyward, she never expects to find herself in his bed—or his heart. Nevertheless, when his enigmatic wife Octavia dies from a sudden illness, Sigrun finds herself caught up in a whirlwind romance worthy of the most lurid novels on her bookshelves.

Sigrun soon discovers Octavia wasn’t Edgar’s first lost love, or even his second. Three women Edgar has loved met early deaths. As she delves into her beloved’s past through a trove of discovered letters, the edges of Sigrun identity begin to disappear, fading into the women of the past. Sigrun tells herself it’s impossible for any dark magic to be at play—that the dead can’t possibly inhabit the bodies of the living—but something shadowy stalks the halls of the Leyward house and the lines between the love of the present and the obsessions of the past become increasingly blurred—and bloody.




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If you're like me, the title intrigued you...because HELLO...bookworm!  It evoked a certain curiosity because bookmarks are used to hold your place, temporarily...and the way the plot unfolds, is very much indicative of that meaning.

Sigrun was a unique character and certainly not your typecast librarian, but today's world shouldn't be surprised by that at all because it takes all types to make this world go round, and judging a book or person by their cover is so last century.  Anywho, she's her own person and very much a live wire...which sparks all the brighter when she happens upon another soul that she feels drawn to down to her very bones.  It doesn't matter that he's married, he being Edgar, or that the other woman (or rather, the first woman, aka his wife) even visits the class she is attending simply to be closer to him.  It's enough to spend time with him...for now.  The thing is, if distance makes the heart grow fonder...constant awareness and exposure apparently makes the heart grow obsessive...and that obsession has bigger outcomes than simply getting what she thinks she wants.  You see, there are other forces at work here, things her friends have tried to warn her about despite not knowing the whole story because red flags are red flags, but when the heart wants what it wants...reason goes out the window.  Too bad that reason was the only thing left to hold on to...

I won't go into further detail for the sake of the story, as it is best experienced first hand.  However, I will say, though intriguing and twisty, I find myself decidedly on the other side of obsession...or at the very least tales of.  The only single mindset, the object of their attention being pretty much the only things they focus on...it just doesn't hit the right notes for this reader...but to each their own and if it IS your cup of tea, than this is definitely one you shouldn't skip out on!




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Special thanks to the Black Spot Books team for access to the ecopy for review.  (THANKS!) For more information on this title, the author, or the publisher, feel free to click through the links provided above.  This title is set to celebrate its BOOK BIRTHDAY this Tuesday, 01/25/22, via Black Spot Books, an imprint of Vesuvian Books, so mark your calendar or pre order your copy today!

Until next time, remember...if it looks good, READ IT!



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