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Book Review: Twin-Bred by Karen Wyle

This Book Review Tuesday post involves travel into a fantastically inventive world of aliens, twins, and super-science. My review copy of Twin-Bred was oh-so-generously provided by the author, Karen Wyle.

[NB 2/13/12 I was just informed by the author that Twin-Bred is now part of KDP Select, which means Amazon Prime members can borrow the book for free, at least from now until May 10, 2012 or so, and everyone will be able to download it for free from Amazon on February 15-16. Happy Reading!! J-E]

This book was fab-you-less. I had a feeling it would be right up my alley when I first saw the blurb describing it. When you start gathering together strings of words that include interspecies diplomacy, intriguing, government, enigma, and ever-cynical (and those are just from the blurb!), you’re sure to catch my eye. When you couple that with compelling writing, complex and interesting characters, a plot heavy on intrigue and drama (heavy, that is, without being melodramatic) and a unique setting, well, you’re sure to catch much more than my eye. You’ll also catch my interest and my admiration.
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BONUS Giveaway Opportunity, Courtesy of Rafflecopter!

So the “real” post today is coming, honest, but I just saw this giveaway opportunity courtesy of the kind folks at Rafflecopter (the people who make my giveaways possible and easy) and wanted to share it (plus snag a few bonus entries for myself). Check it out - in honor of their official public launch (so far you had to be invited in to use them), you can win an iPad 2 or Kindle Fire!

Here’s their official spiel, courtesy of their site:

To celebrate the new year, we’re going to give away a 16GB Apple iPad2 and several Kindle Fires. The giveaway starts Monday 1/9 at 12:01 a.m. and lasts for a month. To enter, simply tell us who referred you to this giveaway! You can receive additional entries by tweeting about this giveaway, following us on twitter, and giving us feedback.

 

That’s it - good luck, and don’t forget to mention that I referred you because I want to win too! ;)
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