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The Thorn Queen by Sasha Peyton Smith

The Thorn Queen by Sasha Peyton Smith

Published by José Betancourt

There is a particular thrill in returning to a series whose first book ended in flames. The Rose Bargain left readers in the smoke of a wedding gone sideways, with Ivy Benton crowned queen of England and the boy she actually loves locked away by the brother she had just married. The Thorn Queen by Sasha Peyton Smith picks up four months later, in a country slowly choking on faerie cruelty, and asks a quietly brutal question: what does it mean for a girl to play queen when the throne itself is a cage? The answer, it turns out, is bruising. What This Sequel Sets Out To Do Set against the grime and gilding of Victorian England in 1848, the second installment in The Rose Bargain duology follows Ivy as she pretends to be a doting wife to King Bram while quietly plotting his downfall. Her sister Lydia and her beloved Emmett are missing, presumed trapped in the Otherworld. The first half of the book unfolds at Bath’s Royal Crescent, repurposed as Bram’s winter playground, …

Unbound by Peyton Corinne – Undone Series, Book #3, A Review

Unbound by Peyton Corinne – Undone Series, Book #3, A Review

Published by Jenni Sidey

There is a kind of love story that does not open with a meet-cute so much as a reckoning. Two people who already know what they once had, circling a shared history neither has fully survived, unsure whether returning to it is brave or simply hopeless. Unbound by Peyton Corinne is that story, and it commits to the full, uncomfortable weight of it with the lyrical precision of a writer who trusts her readers to stay. The third novel in Corinne’s Undone series, Unbound arrives after Unsteady (Rhys and Sadie’s story) and Unloved (Freddy and Ro’s story), dropping readers back into Waterfell University and the closely held world of the hockey house. The fourth and final installment, Undone, follows Toren Kane and Lily, a pair whose connection surfaces throughout the pages here with just enough tension to make their eventual story feel genuinely earned. Readers who have followed the series from the beginning will find the accumulated emotional world richer than ever. Those arriving here first will find a story that stands on its own, …

‘Peyton Place,’ ‘Cotton Comes to Harlem’ Actor Was 83

‘Peyton Place,’ ‘Cotton Comes to Harlem’ Actor Was 83

Published by Daniella Wilson

Judy Pace, who portrayed strong-willed characters on the ABC series Peyton Place and The Young Lawyers and in the Ossie Davis-directed action film Cotton Comes to Harlem, has died. She was 83. Pace died Wednesday in her sleep in Marina del Rey while visiting relatives, family spokesperson Joseph Babineaux told The Hollywood Reporter. The Los Angeles native also portrayed an artist alongside Christopher Jones in the sex romp Three in the Attic (1968) and was a featured player opposite Ray Milland in the cult ecological horror thriller Frogs (1972). And in Brian’s Song, she played Linda Sayers, the wife of Chicago Bears great Gale Sayers (Billy Dee Williams). That landmark ABC telefilm, also starring James Caan, was seen by 55 million people — half of those in the U.S. who owned a TV at the time — when it aired on Nov. 30, 1971. Ahead of her time, Pace recurred as the complex, resilient Vickie Fletcher on 15 episodes of the fifth and final season (1968-69) of the ABC primetime soap Peyton Place, then co-starred …