Book Review and Giveaway: Willow Pond by Carol Tibaldi

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We had a shipment mixup, and we didn't get our copy of Willow Pond to review, until the end of the Book Blog Tour!

willow pond book tour button"/></a></div> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">BUT, we do have a copy to giveaway, so read on!</span></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div style="text-align: center;"> <br /></div> <div> <div> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Synopsis</span></b>: <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">“As the Roaring Twenties crumbles into the Great Depression, Virginia Kingsley, owner of New York’s swankiest and most popular speakeasy, Baccanal, learns her baby nephew is kidnapped.  Is she somehow involved?  His movie star father and her neice must set aside their differences to work with Virginia and her shady contacts to find the stolen child. A Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who befriends the mother may hold a key to the mystery.”</span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><br /></span></span> <br /> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The Roaring Twenties crumbles into the Great Depression, but Virginia Kingsley, New York’s toughest and most successful speakeasy owner, is doing just fine. Now that the world is falling apart, bootlegging is a flourishing business, and she’s queen of that castle.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Then her infant nephew is kidnapped. Her niece, Laura, and Laura’s philandering movie star husband, are devastated. The police have few leads, and speculation and rumors abound in the media circus that follows the celebrity abduction.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Little Todd’s absence shapes everyone’s lives. When he is finally found, the discovery will bring disaster for some and revelation for others.</span></div> <div style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div> <div style="background-color: white;"> <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: blue;">Review</span></b><span style="color: #222222;">: When you get this book, be prepared to start reading it and to NOT get up. Seriously- it is such a page turner, that you will NOT want to put it down! I finished it in 3 hours! The author does a superb job in putting into the time and place, where booze is outlawed, there are no tvs to blast the missing toddler

I have to admit I loved the story, but I want to know more of Virginia's life. A second book maybe? While Laura was ok, I just thought Virginia more interesting. I'm not sure I totally liked the ending though. Murphy's Law comes into play and somehow the characters change in ways that seem out of place for them, and it just wasn't what I had hoped it would be after racing through the book. But having said that, this was a great little read, and it would be a perfect movie!


About the Author:

Carol Tibaldi was born and raised in Bayside, New York and attended Queens College of the City University of New York. She loves to travel and has lived in London and Los Angeles. For twenty five years she worked as a newspaper reporter and covered the crime beat. She is a history buff and loves to research different time periods having a special affinity of the prohibition era and the Civil War. Willow Pond is her first novel and she is hard at work on the sequel. You can visit Carol Tibaldi’s website at www.caroltibaldi.com

Link to book on Amazon (or where it is sold): Amazon Kindle: http://amzn.to/AthqHg

Amazon: http://amzn.to/QAdAo3
Barnes and Noble: http://bit.ly/H595Aj
Find out more about “Willow Pond” on Goodreads:  http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13283219-willow-pond


Ready to win WIllow Pond?

There are Four Ways left from the book blog tour!
Thursday, Sept. 27th
Review, Interview & Giveaway ~ Reading Reality
Friday, Sept. 28th
Guest Post & Giveaway ~ Darlene’s Book Nook
Saturday, Sept. 29th
Review, Guest Post & Giveaway ~ Turning The Pages

AND enter to win this review copy here on our blog!




Disclosure / Disclaimer: I was sent this book, free of charge, for review purposes,via by the author via Pump Up Your Book Book Blog Tours. No other compensation, monetary or in kind, has been received or implied for this post. Nor was I told how to post about it.   

Comments

  1. CarolOctober 2, 2012 at 7:48 PM

    Thank you for the review. There will be a prequel and a sequel to Willow Pond.

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  2. DebOctober 2, 2012 at 10:53 PM

    Thank you for your review on this gorgeous blog, Nicole!!
    Deborah/TheBookishDame

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