Book Review of Her Loving Husband's Curse
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Publisher
Copperfield Press (April 25, 2012)
Series: Loving Husband, #2 (trilogy)
Category: Paranormal Romance, Fantasy, Some Historical
Tour Date: April, 2014
ISBN: 978-0615613680
Available in: Print & ebook, 300 Pages
Series: Loving Husband, #2 (trilogy)
Category: Paranormal Romance, Fantasy, Some Historical
Tour Date: April, 2014
ISBN: 978-0615613680
Available in: Print & ebook, 300 Pages
And then, as if he could read her mind, he said, “We’ll be all
right, Sarah. Just the two of us. I’ll never leave you ever.”
Finally, after many long and lonely years, James Wentworth’s
life is falling into place. Together with his wife, Sarah, the only woman he
has ever loved, he has found the meaning behind her nightmares about the Salem
Witch Trials and now they are rebuilding the life they began together so long
ago.
But the past is never far behind for the Wentworths. While Sarah
is haunted by new visions, now about the baby she carried over three hundred
years before, James is confronted with painful memories from his time with the
Cherokee on the Trail of Tears.
Through it all, the persistent reporter Kenneth Hempel
reappears, still determined to prove that the undead walk the earth. If
Hempel succeeds in his quest, James and Sarah will suffer. Will the curse
of the vampire prevent James and Sarah from living their happily ever after?
Her Loving Husband’s Curse is Book Two of The Loving Husband Trilogy.
Book One, Her Dear &
Loving Husband, and Book Three, Her
Loving Husband’s Return, are also available from Copperfield Press.
Read the Prologue below
Praise for Her Loving Husband’s Curse:
“I really enjoyed the first
book in this trilogy and have been looking forward to reading the second. I
really didn’t want the first one to end. So much happened in this story I
was completely wrapped up in it. I found myself getting teary eyed more than
once and this time not because I was happy like before but because what was
happening to James and Sarah was pretty devastating. Needless to say, I
don’t want to give any more away but I will say this, I am anxiously awaiting
the last book in the trilogy. I feel like I have become invested in James,
Sarah, Jennifer, Olivia and the whole groups lives. I want to know what happens
next and I want my happily ever after darn it!”-Kindlemom, My Healthy Obession
“Filled with research, real
events and a plot that is so interesting you won’t stop reading it until you
are finished once again author Meredith Allard pens a five star novel which
brings to light the issues of friendship, loyalty, prejudice, hate, deceit,
lies and true love. Which prevails? Read the book and decide for yourself.”- Fran Lewis, Gabina49′s Blog
“I must say I was absolutely
blown away with the first two books in this amazing trilogy. It has everything
I love to read about, vampires, witches, Salem, mystery, a great love story,
magic, werewolves, and twists & turns like you would never see coming cause
I didn’t. It always impresses me when an author puts so much time and
effort into their research and writes with accurate times, dates and the stories
being told are accurate as well. Leading into book two it wasn’t
just another story about vampires, werewolves and witches. It was much more
than that, yes it’s a Paranormal novel but it also tells of a story that can be
very much related to today’s times, of what other cultures have to go through
when their culture is not understood and people are scared of what they have
heard through gossip or word of mouth, not by getting to know a person and
understanding for themselves, seeing a person for who they really are not what
they are. I really did not want the story to end, I was bonding with
the characters, with their situation, cheering on their love story and for the
fairy tale ending, but of course it being the second book I was left with a
cliffhanger that left my jaw hanging open. I couldn’t believe my eyes when I
read the last chapter. I can’t wait for the third book to come out and hope
it’s soon. This really is a must read and I know you will all enjoy it as much
as I did!!!“-Natalie, Purple Jelly Bean Reviews
“First off, let me say that
this book was phenomenal. It incorporates some of my favorite things: vampires,
witches, and love. Throughout the novel, there are snippets from letters
James had written to his deceased wife, and mostly centered around the US
government’s rounding up of Indians to be put on reservations and the “Trail of
Tears.” I particularly loved this part, because it incorporated real,
historical fact into this novel. Fact that sets up the remainder of the book,
and facts that we were never taught in school. The book moves pretty
fast, and I couldn’t put it down. It was a testament to true love, and that
love will find you wherever you are. A very enjoyable book that everyone
should read!“-Jennifer Irving, Mis-Adventures of a Twin Mommy
About Meredith Allard:
Meredith Allard has taught
creative writing and writing historical fiction workshops at Learning Tree
University, UNLV, and the Las Vegas Writers Conference. Her short fiction and
articles have appeared in journals such as The Paumanok Review, Wild Mind, Moondance,
Muse Apprentice Guild, The Maxwell Digest, CarbLite, Writer’s Weekly, and
ViewsHound. She is the author of the Loving Husband Trilogy, Victory Garden,
Woman of Stones, and My Brother’s Battle (Copperfield Press). She lives in Las
Vegas, Nevada. Visit
Links:
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Meredith on Twitter: https://twitter.com/copperfield101
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Meredith on Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/meredithallard/
Meredith on Twitter: https://twitter.com/copperfield101
Meredith on Google+: https://plus.google.com/101687256587444508026/posts?hl=en
Meredith on Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/meredithallard/
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Excerpt/Other:
I am among the masses as they
limp and drag toward some foreign place they are afraid to imagine. Even in the
dimness of the nearly moonless night the exhaustion, the sickness, the fear is
everywhere in their swollen faces. The weaker among them, the very old and the
very sick, the very young and the very frail, are driven in wagons steered by
ill-tempered soldiers. The riders are not better off than the walkers, their
sore, screaming bodies bumped and jostled by the wobbly wheels over the
unsteady forest terrain. No one notices as a few drop like discarded rags from
the wagon to the ground.
“Here!” I cry. “Let me help
you. I will find water for you to drink.”
But they pass me without
looking. They see nothing, hear nothing. They walk. That is all they are. Walk.
That is their name. Walk. Or “Move!” That is what the soldiers scream in their
faces. They struggle under the weight of the few bags they carry and stumble
under the musket butts slapped into their backs. And still they do not see me.
I wave my hands in the air and
yell to make myself heard over the thumping of thousands of feet.
“Here!” I cry. “Who needs
something to eat?”
I push myself into the center of
the mass. Men in turbans and tunics, women with their long black hair pulled
from their faces as they clutch their toddlers—all focus their eyes on a
horizon too far away. One old man, unsteady under the weight of the pack he
carries, stumbles over some rocks and he falls. The soldiers beat him with
their muskets—their futile attempt to make him stand. The man tries to push
himself up but cannot, so the soldiers try the whip instead. The old man
prostrates himself on the ground, arms out, face away. He has accepted that
this is how he will die.
“Step around him!” the soldiers
bark. And they do step around him, their eyes straight ahead. They do not see
the old man any more than they see me. To acknowledge the fallen elder would
force them to admit that his fate is their fate and they will all die here
among unknown land and foreign trees. The old man does not stir. He does not
lift his head or seem to breathe. And the people pass him by. When they stop to
make their encampment for the night, the old man does not arrive.
I throw my hands into the air
again, my frustration boiling the blood in my brain. “Let me help you! Why will
you not listen to me?”
“Because they cannot see you.”
I have seen the man before—his
blue tunic, his white turban, his solemn bearing—and he has seen me. He is an
elder, his hair silver, his face a ridged map of everything he has seen, every
thought he has had, every prayer he has said. There is wisdom behind his wary
glance and oh so tired eyes.
“That’s ridiculous,” I say. “I
am standing here among them.”
The old man shakes his head.
“You are the Kalona Ayeliski. They cannot see you.”
“The what?”
“The Kalona Ayeliski. They
cannot see the Raven Mocker.”
I watch the walkers, hundreds
of them, their heads bowed under the weight of losing their possessions, their
land, their ancestors, everything they had in this world and beyond, and I
realize the man is right. They do not see me. They have never seen me.
“What is a Raven Mocker?” I
ask.
“An evil spirit. All the Raven
Mocker cares for is prolonging its own life force, and it feeds from others to
do it. It tortures the dying and hastens their deaths so it can consume their
hearts. The Raven Mocker receives one year of life for every year its victim
would have lived.”
“I am no Raven Mocker. I mean
harm to no one.”
“Ever?”
I turn away, watching the
families reuniting after the long day’s walk, children crying for their
mothers, husbands searching for their wives. They are setting up their
campsites, eating the meager gruel and drinking the few drops of water given
them. I cannot meet the man’s eyes.
“Not for a long time,” I say.
When the man’s stare bores through me, pricking me somewhere I cannot name, I
shrug. “I do not hasten death in anyone,” I say. “Not anymore.”
“We shall see,” he says.
Review:
Such
a great second book in a trilogy, but sad…
Oh how I cried. I cannot wait to
read book 3 because if anyone deserves a happy ending it is these three.
I
give this book 4.5 out of 5 clouds.
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