![]() ![]() Orual’s mother dies when she and her sister Redival are children. The gods most central to the story are Ungit, a goddess who corresponds to Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, but in Glome is represented by a rugged black stone and is essentially cruel and her son, the god of the Grey Mountain, who lives on a mountain near Glome. ![]() ![]() In her old age, Orual writes Part I to lay out all of the wrongs that the gods have done to her, hoping that a traveler will bring the book to the Greeklands, where she thinks their people’s wisdom might find some answer to her questions about the gods. The narrator is Orual, a princess who eventually becomes the Queen of Glome when her father, the King, dies. The novel takes place in the fantastical kingdom of Glome, situated in a world that also includes a country called the Greeklands, modeled after ancient Greece. ![]()
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![]() I enjoyed listening to the book and thought it was great. Her Cinder series is one of my favorites so I thought why not. Thank you so much to NetGalley and Macmillan for providing me with an eARC in exchange for an honest review! The ending was a bit predictable, but still very satisfying and I would love to read another book set in this perfectly magical world. These books are a bit long and I would have loved the story to be spread out amongst a trilogy. I do think there was too much time spent focusing on her relationship with the Erlking and led me to hoping for a love triangle or at least a redemption arc for the villain. Marissa Meyer always writes such compelling side characters and the children in this duology were both so heartwarming and heart wrenching. ![]() I loved Serilda as a heroine and appreciated the way she was always able to tell a lie and craft a story to find her way out of trouble. I’m not too familiar with the story of Rumplestiltskin, but the plot twists were unpredictable and kept me engaged throughout the entire book. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though Gilded dragged a bit at points, I found Cursed to have a much more thrilling plot that kept me listening for two days straight, desperate to find out the ending. The world building was expertly done with fantasy elements from German folklore that felt truly immersive. I’ve read nearly every book she’s written, but Gilded and Cursed quickly became my new favorite. Marissa Meyer is a must-read author for me. ![]() ![]() This is a story about the siren who has been sent to the Nightmare Penitentiary for her next assignment. This series is made up of four books, including Siren Condemned, Siren Sacrificed, Siren Awakened, and Siren Redeemed. This series features erotica, urban fantasy, fantasy, and reverse harem tropes. Her stories are well-loved by her followers, which can be seen in the positive reviews and feedback.Īlthough most of her books are popular, the most prominent in terms of readership, following, and rating is the Thief of Hearts paranormal prison series. ![]() ![]() ![]() Up to date, she has over 40 books published under her name. The publication of her first book was a dream come true for her, that’s why she persisted and promised herself to make more best-sellers her audience would love.įor the many years she devoted to writing novels, she has mastered the romance genre. Coffee is one of her constants, helping her get through the sleepless nights she spent churning ideas for her best-sellers. Surely, lack of sleep doesn’t bother her because she’s been living her best life. ![]() Because of her zest for life, love for her family, and desire to write, she’s been all over the place. She loves to tell stories, that’s why she considers it her calling. C R Jane started writing by simply following her passion. ![]() ![]() After decades of writing mainly for young readers, he recently crossed over into adult fiction with a Victorian mystery, BUCKET'S LIST. His juvenile novels, which include WILD TIMOTHY, THE YEAR OF THE HANGMAN, the SHAKESPEARE STEALER series, and CURIOSITY, are set in a wide range of times and places, from Elizabethan England to a dystopian future to a parallel universe. ![]() Nonfiction subjects he's covered include biography, history, and paranormal phenomena. His stage plays have won awards and been produced in university and regional theatre. ![]() Blackwood sold his first story when he was nineteen, and has been writing and publishing short stories, articles, plays, novels, and nonfiction books regularly ever since. ![]() ![]() ![]() “There are some wonderful set-pieces here, and memorable phrases tossed on the ground like unwanted pennies from the guy who runs the mint.” - The Washington Post Book World “The bottom line that matters is this: Eggers has written a terrific novel, an entertaining and imaginative tale.” - The Boston Globe achieves a kind of anguished, profane poetry.” - Newsweek “Eggers ’s writing really takes off - his forte is the messy, funny tirade, stuffed with convincing pain and wry observations.” - Newsday "An entertaining and profoundly original tale." - San Francisco Chronicle "Eggers is a wonderful writer, bold and inventive, with the technique of a magic realist." - Salon "There's an echolet of James Joyce there and something of Saul Bellow's Chinatown bounce, but we're carried into the narrative by a fluidity of line that is Eggers's own." - Entertainment Weekly Like Kerouac's book, Eggers's could inspire a generation as much as it documents it." - LA Weekly " You Shall Know Our Velocity! is the work of a wildly talented writer. “Headlong, heartsick and footsore.Frisbee sentences that sail, spin, hover, circle and come back to the reader like gifts of gravity and grace.Nobody writes better than Dave Eggers about young men who aspire to be, at the same time, authentic and sincere.” - The New York Times Book Review ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As Sam's birthday approaches and he still hasn't quite fallen in love, the curse seems to get more powerful and less specific about who it targets. But when a new guy comes to town, Sam finds himself in trouble when they strike up a friendship that might be way more than that. He'll spend his time working at the Eezy-Freeze with his dad cooking up some midsummer magic with his grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother (the Grands) and experimenting with drag with the help of the queens at the Shangri-La, the local gay club. Sam doesn't plan to fall for anyone in the weeks before his birthday. "I'm pretty sure I'm the only guy in my school who can replace a faulty kick-down switch and also create the perfect smoky eye." The Weyward family has been haunted by a curse for generations-if a Weyward falls in love before their seventeenth birthday, the person they love dies. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nora has always been a credit to The Hush Hush Series, but for the majority of Finale she became very annoying. Finale feels like it was being bulked out and the plot could have been much more succinct. I’m not saying it is bad, it just fell disappointingly short of my expectations. Originally The Hush Hush Series was meant to be a trilogy, and it shows. Patch and Nora must now work in secret to fulfil Nora’s oath – to both archangels and Nephilim – which, as the book progresses, becomes a seemingly impossible task, although the story starts well the action and drama seem to fizzle out, making reading this book, at times, a harrowing task. However, I regret to report that Finale seems to have fallen short of my expectations it’s not bad, it’s just not what I expected. ![]() Full of the intrigue we have come to expect, Fitzpatrick ties off the loose ends in this suspense filled fantasy series. What do I think so Far? Finale is the final instalment in Becca Fitzpatrick’s Hush Hush Series. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Johnny’s dark past comes back to haunt them, Stanley realizes how much he loves his cushy life in the yarn store–but he’ll give it all up to keep the man who makes his ordinary life extraordinary. ![]() Just when he does, Johnny, the store’s new delivery boy, walks in.Johnny is like no one Stanley has ever met: he doesn’t believe in quickies in the bathroom and has a soft spot for theater and opera. Stitch by stitch, he knits his life into something meaningful. He needs to reevaluate whether working as a floor designer for a series of craft stores is really where he wants to be.Then Stanley does a peculiar thing: he starts to live the life he fell into. The closest thing he’s had to a relationship breaks things off to date a “nice boy,” and none of the pretty young things in Boulder’s limited gay scene do it for Stanley. Stanley’s life took a left turn at a knitting shop and hit a dead end. ![]() You can read this before Knitter in His Natural Habitat (Granby Knitting, #3) PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Knitter in His Natural Habitat (Granby Knitting, #3) written by Amy Lane which was published in November 13, 2012. Brief Summary of Book: Knitter in His Natural Habitat (Granby Knitting, #3) by Amy Lane ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Everything that happens in the series would have happened without Emma murdering a horse. In the Firestar miniseries, she kills Firestar’s pony just to further assert control over her, which comes across as not only stunningly cruel but also not even remotely necessary. Two baes at odds? You know what that means: one metric ton of sexy fanfiction that you can read at Archive of Our Own.Įmma spent a while longer as an inexplicably evil villain before we really got to the root of her character. In the Dark Phoenix Saga, it is Jason Wyngarde and Emma Frost who manipulate the Phoenix-controlled version of Jean Grey over the edge, and that’s something that took Jean quite a long time to forgive Emma for. Our girl Emma saw the worst of people, and so she became the worst of people. Once she realized she could use her powers and her sex appeal to control people, she dove all in and went for it. Context was added later, wherein we discovered she had actually had an incredibly traumatic early life, culminating in her own family abandoning her at an institution when her mutant powers manifested. ![]() That's not being dismissive - it was pretty much her defining characteristic. When Emma Frost first showed up, she was very mean. New Mutants #16, written by Chris Claremont, art by Tom Mandrake, Kim Demulder, and Ken Fedunieiwicz, lettering by Tom Orzechowski Humble Beginnings ![]() ![]() ![]() Yet when a final confrontation approaches, she must acknowledge the potential cost to her future-and the risk of destroying a dream she wants very much to become reality. Maisie's investigation leads her from the countryside of rural Hampshire to the web of wartime opportunism exploited by one of the London underworld's most powerful men, in a case that serves as a reminder of the inextricable link between money and war. As news of the plight of thousands of soldiers stranded on the beaches of France is gradually revealed to the general public, and the threat of invasion rises, another young man beloved by Maisie makes a terrible decision that will change his life forever. During the months following Britain's declaration of war on Germany, Maisie Dobbs investigates the disappearance of a young apprentice working on a hush-hush government contract. Finalist for the Inaugural Sue Grafton Memorial Award Maisie Dobbs-one of the most complex and admirable characters in contemporary fiction (Richmond Times Dispatch)-faces danger and intrigue on the home front during World War II. ![]() |