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The Queen and the Cure by Amy Harmon #happyreleaseday #fivestarreview

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Amy Harmon is taking us back to the land of Jeru in her next novel in The Bird and The Sword Chronicles, The Queen and The Cure releasing today, May 9, 2017.  

I would highly recommend you read The Bird and The Sword prior to The Queen and the Cure.  Each book has it’s own main characters and story but to really get the full enjoyment of Jeru, you should read them in order.

I would recommend this series to readers 16 years and older.

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Way more than FIVE Star review:

Amy Harmon is an amazing unique storyteller and I’m so grateful and honored to be able to read her words.  The Queen and the Cure was absolute perfection! Amy’s world of Jeru and the people I met along the way are intriguing, heartwarming, wonderful people, who fill your soul with sunshine.  I want to go to Jeru and hang out with each and every one of them.

In this novel, Kjell goes on an adventure over land and sea and discovers a few things about himself that he never knew.  It was wonderful to watch his story and character grow and bloom.  Kjell meets Sasha along the way and her story has a few twists and turns as well.  These two characters pulled me in and took me on a journey I will never forget.  There were moments of laughter, moments of sorrow and most of all moments of love.  I am so looking forward to more adventures from the land of Jeru.

Kjell does a little “singing” along the way and this is one of my favorite songs:  “Heave ho, back we go, the ale is coming to ya.  Heave ho, back it goes, ale is flowing through ya.”

So don’t wait, go out right now and one-click The Queen and the Cure.  I promise you will not be disappointed.

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A glimpse of The Queen and the Cure:

There will be a battle, and you will need to protect your heart.

Kjell of Jeru had always known who he was. He’d never envied his brother or wanted to be king. He was the bastard son of the late King Zoltev and a servant girl, and the ignominy of his birth had never bothered him.

But there is more to a man than his parentage. More to a man than his blade, his size, or his skills, and all that Kjell once knew has shifted and changed. He is no longer simply Kjell of Jeru, a warrior defending the crown. Now he is a healer, one of the Gifted, and a man completely at odds with his power.

Called upon to rid the country of the last vestiges of the Volgar, Kjell stumbles upon a woman who has troubling glimpses of the future and no memory of the past. Armed with his unwanted gift and haunted by regret, Kjell becomes a reluctant savior, beset by old enemies and new expectations. With the woman by his side, Kjell embarks upon a journey where the greatest test may be finding the man she believes him to be.

Cover design: By Hang Le – http://www.byhangle.com/

About Amy Harmon

Amy Harmon is a Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and New York Times Bestselling author. Amy knew at an early age that writing was something she wanted to do, and she divided her time between writing songs and stories as she grew. Having grown up in the middle of wheat fields without a television, with only her books and her siblings to entertain her, she developed a strong sense of what made a good story. Her books are now being published in fifteen different languages, truly a dream come true for a little country girl from Levan, Utah.

Amy Harmon has written eleven novels — the USA Today Bestsellers, The Bird and The Sword, Making Faces and Running Barefoot, as well as From Sand and Ash, The Law of Moses, The Song of David, Infinity + One, and the New York Times Bestseller, A Different Blue. Her recent release, The Bird and the Sword, is a Goodreads Best Fantasy of 2016 finalist.

Find Amy Harmon here: Website, Facebook, Facebook Fan Group, Goodreads, Twitter, Instagram, Amy’s Newsletter Sign up, Amazon.

Order links:

➔ Amazon US: http://amzn.to/2pemj5W
➔ Paperback: http://amzn.to/2pdcpWG
➔ Amazon UK: http://amzn.to/2oWCNUa
➔ iTunes: https://itun.es/us/Lobbjb.l
➔ Barnes & Noble: http://bit.ly/BarnesNobleTQATC
➔ Kobo: http://bit.ly/KoboTQATC

ADD The Queen and The Cure to your Goodreads “want to read” shelf HERE.

PICK up the first book in the Chronicles, The Bird and The Sword, HERE.

CHECK out my FIVE star review of The Bird and The Sword, HERE!

As always, Keep Writing/Keep Reading ~janisf

Cover Reveal & Pre-Order: The Queen and The Cure by Amy Harmon

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Amy Harmon is taking us back to the land of Jeru in her next novel in The Bird and The Sword Chronicles, The Queen and The Cure releasing May 9, 2017. 

The-Queen-and-the-Cure-FOR-WEBA glimpse of what’s coming:

There will be a battle, and you will need to protect your heart.

Kjell of Jeru had always known who he was. He’d never envied his brother or wanted to be king. He was the bastard son of the late King Zoltev and a servant girl, and the ignominy of his birth had never bothered him.

But there is more to a man than his parentage. More to a man than his blade, his size, or his skills, and all that Kjell once knew has shifted and changed. He is no longer simply Kjell of Jeru, a warrior defending the crown. Now he is a healer, one of the Gifted, and a man completely at odds with his power.

Called upon to rid the country of the last vestiges of the Volgar, Kjell stumbles upon a woman who has troubling glimpses of the future and no memory of the past. Armed with his unwanted gift and haunted by regret, Kjell becomes a reluctant savior, beset by old enemies and new expectations. With the woman by his side, Kjell embarks upon a journey where the greatest test may be finding the man she believes him to be.

Cover design: By Hang Le – http://www.byhangle.com/

About Amy Harmon

Amy Harmon is a Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and New York Times Bestselling author. Amy knew at an early age that writing was something she wanted to do, and she divided her time between writing songs and stories as she grew. Having grown up in the middle of wheat fields without a television, with only her books and her siblings to entertain her, she developed a strong sense of what made a good story. Her books are now being published in fifteen different languages, truly a dream come true for a little country girl from Levan, Utah.

Amy Harmon has written eleven novels — the USA Today Bestsellers, The Bird and The Sword, Making Faces and Running Barefoot, as well as From Sand and Ash, The Law of Moses, The Song of David, Infinity + One, and the New York Times Bestseller, A Different Blue. Her recent release, The Bird and the Sword, is a Goodreads Best Fantasy of 2016 finalist.

Find Amy Harmon here: Website, Facebook, Facebook Fan Group, Goodreads, Twitter, Instagram, Amy’s Newsletter Sign up, Amazon.

Pre-order links:

➔ Amazon: http://amzn.to/2pemj5W
➔ iTunes: https://itun.es/us/Lobbjb.l
➔ Kobo: http://bit.ly/KoboTQATC
➔ Barnes & Noble: coming soon!

ADD The Queen and The Cure to your Goodreads “want to read” shelf HERE.

PICK up the first book in the Chronicles, The Bird and The Sword, HERE.

CHECK out my FIVE star review HERE!

As always, Keep Writing/Keep Reading ~janisf

The Bird and the Sword by Amy Harmon

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Amy Harmon’s Historical Fantasy Romance novel, The Bird and the Sword, is live TODAY!  This story is magical in the way Amy wove the words together to give us this amazing story of strength, determination, survival and most of all love.   

I would recommend this book to readers 16 years and older.

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My FIVE Star Review: 

It’s not a secret, I am a huge Amy Harmon fan and winning an advanced reader copy of this book absolutely made my day.  I’ve read every one of her books and each one has left me feeling every emotion possible deep down in my soul and this book is no different.

Amy’s words flow so well all I had to do was take them in and let them build the world she created so vividly in my mind.  Her scenes are very descriptive but I never felt overwhelmed or confused.  The story kept moving along with every chapter and I had a few moments of yes I was right and a few where I was shocked.  As I got closer to the end of the story, all I could think was I’m not ready for it to be over. I know you know what I mean. You’re reading a book with just one chapter left and you don’t want to read it because you know the story is coming to its end.  Every one of these wonderful characters sucked me in and I didn’t want to let them go.  Amy is an extremely talented storyteller and I look forward to reading more of her work with an additional publication coming out later this year.

One of the things that fascinated me most about the story were the names of her characters.  They are all unique and different.  Thank you, Amy for putting a Pronunciation Guide right at the beginning of the book.

I try very hard to never include spoilers in my reviews but I want to give you some words I think describe The Bird and the Sword.  There are good guys, bad guys, lifelong friends, protectors, secrets, kings, queens, castles, horses, animals, bloody battles and most of all, Love.

Go to Amazon right now and click buy on The Bird and the Sword.  You will not be disappointed!

More about The Bird and the Sword:

Swallow, Daughter, pull them in, those words that sit upon your lips. Lock them deep inside your soul, hide them ‘til they’ve time to grow. Close your mouth upon the power, curse not, cure not, ‘til the hour. You won’t speak and you won’t tell, you won’t call on heav’n or hell. You will learn and you will thrive. Silence, Daughter. Stay alive.

The day my mother was killed, she told my father I wouldn’t speak again, and she told him if I died, he would die too. Then she predicted the king would trade his soul and lose his son to the sky.
My father has a claim to the throne, and he is waiting in the shadows for all of my mother’s words to come to pass. He wants desperately to be king, and I just want to be free.
But freedom will require escape, and I’m a prisoner of my mother’s curse and my father’s greed. I can’t speak or make a sound, and I can’t wield a sword or beguile a king. In a land purged of enchantment, love might be the only magic left, and who could ever love . . . a bird?

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Find Amy Harmon here: Internet, Facebook, Goodreads

For more novels by Amy Harmon, visit her Amazon page Here.

Below are two of my favorite Amy books with the link to my review.  Enjoy! 

The Law of Moses – My Review – Amazon Link.

Making Faces – My Review – Amazon Link.

As always, Keep Writing/Keep Reading ~janisf