UNBOWED
M G da Mota
GENRE: Psychological Thriller
BLURB:
Alexia Jewel, a beautiful, intelligent, famous classical music conductor, approaching her 50th birthday. She had to fight against convention for years to follow her dream.
Four men who all desire her. A mysterious great-grandmother. An antique, rare, green diamond ring.
And a stalker.
Only six months but six tumultuous months in Alexia’s life.
Alexia is invited to participate in the BBC’s show Who do you think you are? and through it, she slowly uncovers the mystery of the diamond ring and her great-grandmother’s secret. The stalker makes her life hell but she is determined to continue her successful, celebrated music career in Europe and the States without disruption. While Alexia bows to the music and her audience, she vows never to bow to the stalker and to face consequences head on.
Excerpt:
The room was in semi-darkness but he liked it that way. Should anyone peer inside at night he or she would see nothing but a person’s silhouette. A figure with no face and moving like a ghost among the undefined shapes of the furniture.
Opening the magazine on his desk he admired her photograph. A coloured headshot clearly showing her green eyes. He liked her eyes. Two emeralds on her lovely face. He followed the shape of her mouth with his fingers.
Turning the page he looked at the second image. A full size portrait picturing her in a figure-hugging royal-blue gown, flaunting her curves beautifully. She was smiling, about to bow to the audience at the end of a concert. He held the magazine carefully, then took a pair of scissors from a drawer and for a moment let them catch the faint moonlight coming through the window, as if performing a sacred ritual. Respectfully he began cutting out both pictures and then repeated the procedure with the third and final picture where she appeared in front of the orchestra while conducting. Her arms seemed to float towards the musicians like an extension of the score. She wore an elegant navy-blue trouser suit with a pearl coloured silk blouse. He preferred to see her in a dress, a long evening gown, sleeveless and slickly wrapped around her body like a second skin. She owned a variety of evening dresses but his favourite was the dark claret red, embroidered with same colour sequins. In the stage lights it literally made her shine.
My Review:
Alexia Jewel, the principal conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and music director at the Munich Opera House, has returned to her hometown of London to lead a series of concerts with the London Symphony Orchestra in celebration of her 50th birthday.
Additionally, Alexia has come back to London to go through her late parents' possessions. While there, she accepted an invitation to join the BBC for an interview about her life. Alexia plans to share stories about her great-grandmother and the mystery surrounding the vintage diamond ring she found among her parents' belongings.
Furthermore, several men from Alexia's past have reappeared in her life. Someone has been following her and sending her notes. At first, she ignored them, but she soon realized that facing the situation might be necessary before it escalated, as her stalker posed a real threat.
Unbowed slowly revealed its mysteries, keeping me hooked with each chapter as I wondered about the origin of the diamond and the identity and motives of Alexia's stalker. What do they want? Are they trying to hurt Alexia?
Unbowed drew me in from the very first page to the last. The mystery kept me turning pages as I hurried toward the ending, eager to piece everything together.
Although Unbowed is quite long, I couldn’t put it down, driven by the need to understand the unfolding story. The complex plot twists and compelling character development made it a true page-turner.
Each new revelation pulled me deeper into Alexia's story, leaving me eager to uncover the truth behind the shadows surrounding her life.
I wholeheartedly recommend Unbowed to all fans of romantic psychological thrillers! Be sure to pick up your copy today!
AUTHOR Bio and Links:
M G da Mota is Margarida Mota-Bull’s pen name for fiction. She is a Portuguese-British novelist with a love for classical music, ballet and opera. Under her real name she also writes reviews of live concerts, CDs, DVDs and books for two classical music magazines on the web: MusicWeb International and Seen and Heard International. She is a member of the UK Society of Authors, speaks four languages and lives in Sussex with her husband. Her website, called flowingprose.com, contains photos and information.
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11 comments:
Hello Avid Reader, I'm M G da Mota, author of Unbowed. Thank you for reading my book and for the wonderful review you have posted. I'm really happy that you enjoyed the book so much. I loved writing it.
Im looking forward to checking this book out. Thanks for sharing.
Sounds like a good read.
Great excerpt and giveaway. :)
If your book had a theme song, what would it be?
Sounds like a good book.
Fantastic review
That's a good question but quite difficult. Alexia Jewel, the lead character, is a classical music conductor and I am also into classical music, opera and ballet therefore I wouldn't really know how to choose a song that would fit the story. If I were to choose music to represent it then something relatively dark but with a light at the end of the tunnel like for example Mozart's Piano Concerto in D minor or the arias of the countess in Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro. But there are many other pieces that would be suitable for this particular novel. Too many to list.
Yes, it is. As the author I'm pleased, grateful and also proud of the book.
Thank you. As the author I'm glad you enjoyed the excerpt.
Thanks for the great review, blurb, and excerpt. The book sounds very interesting.
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