Cruel Beauty By Rosamund Hodge

The official summary from the book:

“Since birth, Nyx has been betrothed to the evil ruler of her kingdom – all because of a reckless bargain her father struck.  And since birth, she has been training to kill him.

Betrayed by her family yet bound to obey, Nyx rails against her fate.  Still, on her seventeenth birthday, she abandons everything she’s ever known to marry the all-powerful, immortal Ignifex.  Her plan? Seduce him, disarm him, and break the nine-hundred-year-old curse he put on her people.

But Ignifex is not what Nyx expected.  The strangely charming lord beguiles her, and his castle – a shifting maze of magical rooms – enthralls her.  As Nyx searches for a way to free her homeland by uncovering Ignifex’s secrets, she finds herself un-willingly drawn to him.  But even if she can bring herself to love her sworn enemy, how can she refuse her duty to kill him?”

Reading Addiction

Another fun fact about me is that I have a reading addiction.  I love reading because it provides an escape from the real world.  This is especially nice when I am feeling stressed by the real world.  When that happens I can escape into another world to get away from my life and problems for a short while.  I have a book shelf full of unread books because I have a bad habit of buying them faster then I can read them.  This fact is not helped by the fact that I go through reading slumps where I just can not pick up a book to save my life.  Now that's not to say that I'm not reading during those slumps.  

Woes of Working in Customer Service Vol. I

So a fun fact about me is I work in customer service.  Let me tell you…it is a super fun place to work some days.  Any of you that also work in customer service know that the people who come in are not always the brightest crayon in the box.  When you work in customer service you see all kinds of interesting things… as well as annoying.  There are just some things that people do that that make me think to myself “Really?  Really? OMG REALLY?”  So that being said I thought I would start a series of blogs entitled Woes of Working in Customer Service.  It is just a place where I can vent about the crazy things I deal with at work….and hopefully open other people’s eyes so that maybe they don’t do those things in the future…I’m just saying *shrugs*.  

Welcome to an Introvert's Head

My name is Angela and I’m an introvert.  Introverts sometimes get a bad reputation in life or are misunderstood so here are some facts to know about me….