{"id":559908,"date":"2026-07-18T01:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T01:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.harrisburgnewsnow.com\/news\/story\/559908\/jessica-housands-new-book-receives-a-warm-literary-welcome.html"},"modified":"2026-07-18T01:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T01:48:08","slug":"jessica-housands-new-book-receives-a-warm-literary-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hartfordnewsreporter.com\/news\/story\/559908\/jessica-housands-new-book-receives-a-warm-literary-welcome.html","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Housand’s new book receives a warm literary welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Readers’ Favorite announces the review of the Fiction – Crime book “Blood Gilt” by Jessica Housand, currently available at http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0H8QKJB1Y<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Readers’ Favorite is one of the largest book review and award contest sites on the Internet. They have earned the respect of renowned publishers like Random House, Simon & Schuster, and Harper Collins, and have received the “Best Websites for Authors” and “Honoring Excellence” awards from the Association of Independent Authors. They are also fully accredited by the BBB (A+ rating), which is a rarity among Book Review and Book Award Contest companies.<\/p>\n

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“Reviewed By Romuald Dzemo for Readers’ Favorite<\/p>\n

Jessica Housand’s Blood Gilt is a crime saga that spans decades, following Alejandro Whitmore, the son of American mercenary Jared Whitmore, and Salvadoran revolutionary Ana Santiago. Alejandro thought he had left the world his father built when he was torn away from his childhood by war. Now pursuing an arts degree in the US, he would rather avoid his father’s criminal business. But he is sent to El Salvador to secure his father’s cartel business interests. In El Salvador, he is pulled into a maelstrom of political conspiracy. He reconnects with his family, falls for the FBI informant Moni, and courts the daughter of a politician. But the ghosts of the civil war resurface with deadly consequences, creating a rift between the ARENA and the FMLN. The drug trade is facing a huge challenge while Alejandro endures violence and bloodshed. His journey to redemption offers twists you won’t see coming.<\/p>\n

Jessica Housand delivers superior character dynamics. The characters navigate a world where violence is common, and loyalties are questionable. In this world, every alliance can be a preparation for betrayal, and love is as dangerous as politics. Alejandro appealed most to me as a character: a sophisticated and genuinely flawed hero who struggles to reconcile his loyalty to family with his conscience. The prose beautifully captures the haunting aftermath of war in El Salvador, and the author uses details in the descriptions and dialogue to ground the story in cultural currents. There is a lot of brutality in this crime thriller. Blood Gilt is a grim tale that forces the characters to face the cost of their actions.”<\/p>\n

You can learn more about Jessica Housand and “Blood Gilt” at https:\/\/readersfavorite.com\/book-review\/blood-gilt<\/a> where you can read reviews and the author’s biography, as well as connect with the author directly or through their website and social media pages.<\/p>\n

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Readers’ Favorite announces the review of the Fiction – Crime book “Blood Gilt” by Jessica Housand, currently available at http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B0H8QKJB1Y. Readers’ Favorite is one of the largest book review and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordnewsreporter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordnewsreporter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordnewsreporter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordnewsreporter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordnewsreporter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=559908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordnewsreporter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordnewsreporter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordnewsreporter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hartfordnewsreporter.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}