Weekend Blog Hops - 18 January 2019

It's the weekend once more. That means it's time for my book-blogger hopping.
 
Is there anything that drives you bonkers when you're reading and makes you want tell the author a thing or two?

I am a qualified freelance editor, so it's an occupational hazard that whenever I read a book I spot every missed typo etc. The occasional one is fine--it happens--but if it's excessive it's distracting. The thing that bugs me most, though, is comma splicing. Seeing that, especially if frequent, makes me grind my teeth and want to throw things. Though, generally, I would blame the editors rather than the author, as they should have corrected it.



Opening sentence:
My mother once told me that peace was the only way Astrea could survive.

 





From page 56:
My own screams wake me and I turn, burying my face in my pillow to muffle them.

My Current Read

Lady Smoke
Laura Sebastian

The Kaiser murdered Theodosia's mother, the Fire Queen, when Theo was only six. He took Theo's country and kept her prisoner, crowning her Ash Princess and humiliating her for ten long years. That era has ended. The Kaiser thought his prisoner weak and defenseless. He didn't realize that a sharp mind is the deadliest weapon.

Theo no longer wears a crown of ashes. She has taken back her rightful title, and a hostage-Prinz Soren. But her people remain enslaved under the Kaiser's rule, and now she is thousands of miles away from them and her throne.

To get them back, she will need an army. But securing an army means she must trust her aunt, the dreaded pirate Dragonsbane. And according to Dragonsbane, an army can only be produced if Theo takes a husband. Something an Astrean Queen has never done.

Theo knows that freedom comes at a price, but she is determined to find a way to save her country without losing herself.