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The Girl the Sea Gave Back by Adrienne Young

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I won this in a goodreads giveaway. Thank you to St.Martin's Press and Goodreads for a copy of the ARC in exchange for a fair review. This is available for pre-order, release date Sept 3rd. Tova can't remember her people she knows that the tried to sacrifice her, because that is what Jorrand has always told her. But when one of the chieftains commits an act of war behind the main chieftains back she knows things are about to change. Especially when she sees destruction in the runes, and the runes never lie to her. Halvard is advocate for peace, but his people know that war is coming. So when the meeting for reparations goes horribly wrong he is not surprised. Except for the girl, the one with all the Kyrr markings. I am going to leave that there I probably gave away too much anyway. I adored Sky in the Deep and when I originally marked this to read I thought it would be in the same vein. It is similar with Vikings and runes and myths, but I just didn't love this o

We Were Killers Once by Becky Masterman

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Thank you to Minotaur Books and Netgalley for a copy of the eARC in exchange for a fair review. Disclaimer this is Book 4 in the Brigid Quinn series. This is a total What if book? It is based on two real killings the Cutter family made famous the book In Cold Blood and the Walker killed just two months later in Florida. Of course we all know that the Cutter murders were solved or were they? Brigid is blissfully unaware that in Carlo's days as a priest he was a chaplain at a prison and he has something in his possession that someone wants to ensure remains not found. When the new neighbor moves in Brigid's spidey sense tingles, but she thinks he is after her. She begins to investigate him, and the old murders both the solved and unsolved one. Soon Brigid stumbles on to the possibility of a third person who was there when the Cutter's were murdered and that person might just be responsible for what happened to the Walkers. Can she find out who he really is and what