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{Release Day Review & Giveaway} A Charm of Finches (Venery #2) by Suanne Laqueur (@SuanneLqr)

10/31/2017

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A Charm of Finches
Book 2 of the Venery series.
Suanne Laqueur
Release Date: November 1st, 2017


“I swear. Give me one more chance and I will make the most of it.”

Ex-escort Javier Landes is asking for his third chance at love. The third time proves to be the charm when he meets an art therapist named Steffen Finch. What starts as casual deepens into a passionate relationship—everything Jav has ever wanted, and everything he fears losing.

Stef’s business card reads Curator & Sailor. His creativity and insightful nature have made him into a talented therapist, the one to call for tough cases. His professional success can’t conceal a deep need to connect with someone, but Javier Landes is the last person Stef expected.

Geronimo "Geno" Caan is Stef's most challenging case. To cope with his ordeal, he's allowed an alter-ego called Mos to make decisions, and now lives a double life within a web of lies. Under Stef’s navigation, Geno uses art to express what Mos forbids to be spoken aloud. But as Geno’s attachment to Stef gradually extends to Jav, the boundaries between professional and personal begin to blur.

Over the course of a year, Jav, Stef and Geno form an unexpected and unconventional triangle, revealing how men make love in times of war and how love is a great wisdom made up of small understandings. The long-awaited second book of the Venery series, A Charm of Finches is an epic tale of survival and secrets guaranteed to make you think and feel and remember.
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​This review is different from any other that I have ever written because this book is something extraordinary.
 
I read it on a long night flight from Los Angeles to Orlando.  During those four and a half hours, Suanne completely devastated me with the horror and beauty of words.
 
Each of her characters are the very bravest of warriors fighting the most gruesome of battles.  Their delicately interwoven stories reach into the deepest black and then punch a hole right through to let the light shine through.   
“Did I lose you?” Jav said.

“No, I’m here. Just thinking.”

“About?”

“You know I work with survivors of sex trafficking, so my knee-jerk reaction is to make you a victim.” And frankly, he thought, I don’t need another person to save. I save people all day long. If you turn out to have a lot of baggage…

“Well, I can think of some other ways I was a victim,” Jav said. “But the work was a choice and I was good at it and I liked it.”

His tone wasn’t defensive or challenging. His self-awareness was refreshingly obvious. Stef rolled on his side, curling more into the phone. “What made you stop?” he asked.

“I was tired,” Jav said slowly. “And lonely. And admitting a lot of things.”

“Like?”
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“Like admitting that as much as I thought love was my enemy, I wanted it to be my friend. I wanted somebody to love.”
This book will transform you on a cellular level and leave you utterly consumed.  If you read only one book this year, this is it.  It’s a masterpiece that reflects the best and the worst of humanity and it reaffirms that life is still a very precious thing.
“Do you deserve a beautiful life?” Stef said.

Geno nodded.
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“You didn’t deserve what happened to you and you deserve a beautiful life. You deserve an extraordinary person whom you can trust with your heart and your soul and your body. And trust with everything that hurts and scares you, too. Do you believe it?” 
Believe it...
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About The Author ~ 

A former professional dancer and teacher, Suanne Laqueur went from choreographing music to choreographing words. Her goal is to create a new kind of emotionally-intelligent romance that appeals to the passions of all readers, crossing gender, age and genre.

Laqueur's An Exaltation of Larks won the Grand Prize in the 2017 Writer’s Digest Book Awards. Her debut novel The Man I Love won a gold medal in the 2015 Readers' Favorite Book Awards and was named Best Debut in the Feathered Quill Book Awards. Her follow-up novel, Give Me Your Answer True, was also a gold medal winner at the 2016 RFBA.

Laqueur graduated from Alfred University with a double major in dance and theater. She taught at the Carol Bierman School of Ballet Arts in Croton-on-Hudson for ten years. An avid reader, cook and gardener, she started her blog EatsReadsThinks in 2010. Suanne lives in Westchester County, New York with her husband and two children.

Visit With Suanne ~
Website | Facebook | Twitter | Goodreads | Instagram | Newsletter | Signed Books

Enter The Giveaway!

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1 Grand Prize winner will receive:
1 signed copy of An Exaltation of Larks
1 signed copy of A Charm of Finches
1 $25 Amazon Gift Card
1 Custom Larks Bangle (Alex & Ani style with bird charm and "L" initial)
1 coffee mug - choice of Larks or Finches cover art

3 additional winners will receive a signed copy of A Charm of Finches.

Enter HERE!

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