Double Giveaway @ Chick Steals!

Chick Steals is having a giveaway which is open to everyone! Entry period is from now until Dec 13, at 12 PM PST. Winner will be chosen by Random.org. Entry open to anyone, worldwide.:-)

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Post #300: A DOUBLE GIVEAWAY!

GIVEAWAY ITEM #1:

Forever21 Satin Tea Party Dress
in Cream/Pink Flowered Print
Size M (U.S.)

Featuring a padded sweetheart bustline, elasticized back, center back zip closure, pleated tulip-shape skirt, and watercolor floral print. (Exact orientation of print is ever-so-slightly different than on dress above.)
Approximate Retail Value: $24.60

GIVEAWAY ITEM #2:

Insight The Halliwell Top
in the moody grey-and-black flowered print below
Size 6 U.S. (AUS/UK 10; EU 38; CAN M)

Giveaway : The King's Rose by Alisa M. Libby

Synopsis:

Life in the court of King Henry VIII is a complex game. When fifteen-year-old Catherine Howard catches the king's eye, she quickly transforms from pawn to queen. But even luxury beyond imagination loses its luster as young Catherine finds her life and her heart threatened by the needs of an aging king and a family hungry for power. Will their agendas deliver Catherine to the same fate as her infamous cousin, Anne Boleyn sacrificed at the altar of family ambition?

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Book Review : The Blood Confession by Alisa M. Libby

Book Details:

• Reading level: Young Adult
  
• Hardcover: 360 pages
• Publisher: Dutton Juvenile (August 17, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0525477322
• ISBN-13: 978-0525477327

Purchase The Blood Confession:
Amazon / Dutton Books

Synopsis:

Erzebet is young, beautiful, rich, and imprisoned in her castle, waiting to be sentenced for murder. In a brilliant fiction debut, Alisa M. Libby resurrects the real-life Erzebet Bathory, a seventeenth-century countess who believed that bathing in human blood would preserve her looks forever. The jailed countess tells her story from her birth, which was overshadowed by a bad omen, to her mother’s mental deterioration, Erzebet’s own love for a mysterious figure, and the crimes she committed in pursuit of eternal life.

Review:

The Blood Confession circles around the life of Erzebet Bizecka, the daughter of a count who was born under an ill omen. She was predicted to be "a child whose days will end quickly or whose days will have no end". Under the influence of Sinestra, a mysterious stranger, she started to murder virgin girls, believing that their sacred blood will protect her from death and bring herself a step closer to eternal youth and beauty.

Erzebet's ways of sarificing the lives of numerous young girls were cruel and sickening. In her attempt of pursuing immortality, she had lost her sanity and aborted all her morality. She had become a horrifying monster, even though she deceived herself by saying "I'm not a murderess." after slaughtering a victim. The scenes are not too graphic, so it's suitable for everyone (teenagers and adults), unless you have Haemophobia.

Erzebet is portrayed as an evil person, but somehow I sympathize her because of the loneliness and emptiness she had endured in her early years. Erzebet lived a luxurious life, but behind the glorious facade was a sad and lonely heart. Maybe she was good in nature, but her mind was corrupted with evil thoughts (infused by Sinestra, and partly because her own madness), and she was eventually led astray.

The Blood Confession is the first book by author Alisa M. Libby which is deftly written based on the legend of Countess Bathory. It succeeds in capturing and revealing the dark sides of human nature and shows readers how far would a person go to ensure their own benefits. The Blood Confession is a compelling novel which teenagers, especially Goth-lovers will love.

Rating: 10/10

Many thanks to Alisa M. Libby for sending me a signed hardcover copy of The Blood Confession! I really enjoyed reading this book and I hope to read more books by Alisa in the future!

Purchase The Blood Confession:
Amazon / Dutton Books

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