Hi Bookish friends!!!
Welcome to my spot on another exciting blog tour with Dave @The_WriteReads/@WriteReadsTours and the gang!
For today’s post, I’m excited to share my thoughts on Betrothal and Betrayal by Janet McGriffin!!!
A big thank you to @The_WriteReads/@WriteReadsTours and Scotland Street Press for my spot on the blog tour and my physical review copy. These are my honest and unbiased thoughts, and I am sharing them voluntarily.
So, without further ado let’s dive right in!!
About The Book:
Age/Genre: Young Adult, HIstorical Fiction, Mystery
Length: 250 Pages
Publisher: Scotland Street Press
Publication Date: August 1st 2023
Synopsis/Blurb:
Seventeen-year-old Thekla needs her quick wits and knife to track down her betrothed, a soldier who has left her at the altar for the third time. Elias the monk travels with her to Constantinople where she meets Irini of Athens, an extraordinarily beautiful orphan her same age who has been brought by powerful Emperor Constantine to marry his son, Co-Emperor Leon. The two women join forces to survive this vigorous capital of the Roman Empire of the East which is rocked by religious and political strife. But will Thekla help the ambitious and ruthless Irini of Athens find the power that she craves?
My Thoughts:
Betrothal and Betrayal is the first book in a four-volume series. it’s well written but a little slow to start for me. I pushed through and found the second half was much faster-paced. I enjoyed the descriptions and found the Constantinople world very interesting to read about.
The characters are well-written, although I wasn’t particularly drawn to them to start with, I did grow to like them, especially the main character.
There were a couple of mini side stories that felt out of place, but I do have a feeling that they are there to set the pathway for the next books in the series.
I may not have loved this book to the fullest but it’s a good start to the series and would happily continue with the series.
My Rating
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About the Author:
Janet McGiffin divides her time between her apartment in Manhattan, her family in Washington State, and her friends in Athens, Greece. She was born in Fairfield, Iowa into a newspaper family and learned to write copy as a teenager by writing obituaries for the Ellensburg Daily Record in Washington state. After university, she worked for the Milwaukee Health Department where she gained first-hand knowledge for her best-selling mystery series published by Fawcett Press, NY, featuring Doctor Maxine St. Clair, an ER doctor in an inner-city hospital. She worked as a press officer for the Washington state senate, then moved to Athens, Greece where she wrote grant proposals for small non-profit women’s organizations in Mediterranean countries. She also wrote a humor column for the Athens News newspaper with field archaeologist Adrian Vrettos, wrote two English language easy readers for Cambridge University Press, UK, and a series of hiking articles for greecetravel.com. She researched her Byzantine-era Empress Irini Series through extensive travel in Greece, followed by six months of research at the Bodleian libraries in Oxford, England. She enjoys hiking in Greece, England, Wales, and Scotland.
The author can be found on Instagram.
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