![]() ![]() ![]() I also liked the influence of Game of Thrones in the Savatar (Azarion’s people). I liked the shades of LOTR with the barrows-complete with a barrow wight-where our hero and heroine take shelter on the ride to his homeland. The city is eerily depicted and the scene where they have to run for their lives from a horrifying creature is really well done. I loved the scenes where they take refuge in a haunted city, after just escaping the capital. He blackmails her into helping him escape and then abducts her. But he’s the only one who sees through Gilene’s yearly illusion when she joins the other ‘Flowers of Spring’ who must burn. Azarion is the gladius prime, and also the empress’s pet. A gladiator planning his escape, and a young woman who makes a yearly journey that takes a terrible toll on her. Draven drops you straight into the drama. That said, it’s a really good read and well worth the (long) wait for! However, although there were things I absolutely loved about this novel, it fell short of the mark in a couple of areas. Radiance and Master of Crows remain two of my favorite books! I really wanted to give this novel five stars … as I’m a huge Grace Draven fan. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() The humble, not-quite-sure-of-itself title is beautifully balanced by the supremely confident hand behind these wonderfully wide-ranging, intelligent, knowledgeable and wholly accurate poems, which hit bulls-eye after bulls-eye, perhaps precisely because of their humility, their awareness that their speaker 'might,' after all, 'be mistaken.' " I Might be Mistaken is just what a book of poems should be: unique, original, witty, charming, honest, affecting, profound. These poems turn instead to popular culture, history, and science - from biology to nuclear physics - for answers, often returning frustrated with relationships, mental illness, and the body, but with a renewed love of language and the natural world. ![]() The love lyric's confidence, whether in its speaker, its object, or its methods. I Might Be Mistaken, Poems by Barbara Duffey ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Having never experienced the restrictions of human emotion, they take what they want and kill with cruel abandon. Vlad will search the world for his descendants, turning them before they can put an end to him.Ĭambion - Descended from royalty, the Cambions are a proud and arrogant race of pureblood born vampires. Only one thing can stop him - a true, Strigoi human. Strigoi - From his creation in the bloodshed of the crusades, to his reemergence as Vlad the Impaler, Vladamir Strigoi has sought a way to enslave mankind and rule the world. ![]() The series traces the origins of five very different vampire tribes: Strigoi, Cambion, Bretonnian, Strix, and Nosferatu. To stop him and save the world, Scarlett has got to remain human but as Scarlett is about to discover, staying human is a lot easier said than done.įrom the Christian Crusades to the war in Afghanistan, the Vampire Origins weaves historical fact with vampire fiction to create an epic charater-rich saga full of action, mystery, intrigue and horror - keeping you hooked to the very last word. Scarlett Fraser has no idea she's the very thing Vlad is hunting. And Vlad will stop at nothing to eradicate every last one. Only one thing can put an end to his plans - a Strigoi human. Now Vladamir Strigoi has discovered a way to enslave humans and rule the world - and this time, thanks to Project Ichorous, the death toll will be catastrophic. ![]() He slaughtered 30,000 in one night in Jerusalem and impaled 100,000 more in Romania in the 1400s. ![]() ![]() ![]() Then there’s Jefferson, her friend who had planned on going to California but took off ahead of her, leaving her as a lone traveler… and an easy target for bandits. ![]() Her journey begins on a rough road when she has to dress up as a boy so her Uncle won’t find her. An “unfortunate” event forced Leah to leave behind what’s left of her life in Dahlonega and flee to California to start a new life. By no means have my review been affected and/or influenced. I received a digital ARC of this book from HarperCollins via Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review. Perhaps this will be the one place a magical girl can be herself. When everything Lee holds dear is ripped away, she flees west to California-where gold has just been discovered. But what would someone do to control a girl with that kind of power? A person might murder for it. She has kept her family safe and able to buy provisions, even through the harshest winters. Even gold dust caught underneath a fingernail. Lee can sense gold in the world around her. She has a best friend-who might want to be something more. She has a home she loves and a loyal steed. ![]() Lee Westfall has a strong, loving family. Gold is in my blood, in my breath, even in the flecks in my eyes. Source: Provided by the publisher via Edelweiss Publication: September 22nd 2015 by Greenwillow Books Title: Walk on Earth a Stranger (The Gold Seer Trilogy #1) ![]() ![]() ![]() 8th: In a dystopian world, Joshua and Darryl live side by side with dinosaurs, and when Christmas Eve comes around, both have to make an important decision. ![]() 7th: Vanessa knows precisely what Christmas means and how to celebrate it until a new boy Luke has her rethinking the meaning and importance of Christmas. 6th: After Antonia's best friend Sal moves away, she thinks Christmas will never be the same until she meets someone who will have her rethinking the meaning of a gift. 5th: After a homily at mass, Meg decides to challenge herself to help strangers her for advent. Will Marigold's crazy family come together and celebrate Christmas? 4th: Bolcan wants to prove that he has what it takes to be a rescuer in a dystopian world, but when he has to give gifts to a place he hates and risks capture, he is not so sure. I already love all of Leslea Wahl’s books but this one may just be my new favorite This is the 2nd book of the Perfect Blindside and it continues on with the same characters but in a different adventure (Plus there is MORE. 3rd: Marigold has the worst Christmas of her life there is no tree, no gifts, no snow, and no dad. 1st: Barney leaves behind his family and everything he's ever known in the middle of a blizzard to follow God's command, but is he strong enough to go through it? 2nd: When Andrew learns about an old Christmas Carol at his Church's youth group, he is surprised to find out what it has to do with his life. ![]() Gifts: Visible and Invisible is an anthology book for catholic teens about eight different Christmas short stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() In addition to showing how recent metaphysics has drifted away from connection with all other serious scholarly inquiry as a result of not heeding this restriction, they demonstrate how to build ametaphysics compatible with current fundamental physics ('ontic structural realism'), which, when combined with their metaphysics of the special sciences ('rainforest realism'), can be used to unify physics with the other sciences without reducing these sciences to physics itself. Every Thing Must Go argues that the only kind of metaphysics that can contribute to objective knowledge is one based specifically on contemporary science as it really is, and not on philosophers' a priori intuitions, common sense, or simplifications of science. ![]() ![]() ![]() This group is dedicated to an appreciation of important works of literature, both classic and contemporary. Freya’s Choice is her first novel for Amber Quill Press.įor more information about Antonia and her writing, visit her website at. She adores cats, fine wine and dramatic scenery. She has recently made the transition from writing erotica to Paranormal Adventure, with some pretty heavyweight Norse gods thrown in for good measure. At the age of nine she progressed to her first typewriter, and can now spend hours happily tapping away at her keyboard while all around her descends into chaos. Sick of finding their wallpaper covered in scribbles, her parents relented and bought her an exercise book. For more information about Antonia and her writing, visit her website at Antonia van Zandt has been writing since someone stuck a pencil in her hand at the age of around five. Freya’s Choice is her first novel for Amber Quill Press. ![]() ![]() Antonia van Zandt has been writing since someone stuck a pencil in her hand at the age of around five. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mia Bennett and Jensen Reynolds have known each other since they were really young and they are best friends. I will try to give as little spoilers as possible. Torn Hearts is now included in Paper Hearts so you will able to read them both if you haven’t read Torn Hearts. All of the backstory gets explained in Torn Hearts. You might be familiar with the fact that something had happened between them and that for the most part Mia was always avoiding Jensen. ![]() ![]() If you read Kaleidoscope Hearts, you might remember Mia and Jensen as they are Estelle and Oliver’s best friends respectively. But Paper Hearts has easily become my favorite second chance story this year.Īs a prequel to Paper Hearts, Claire released Torn Hearts, a novella that narrates the beginning of Mia and Jensen’s relationship and sets up the main conflict of Paper Hearts. ![]() I read Kaleidoscope Hearts back in January and loved it. And Claire Contreras is amazing at writing them. I’m a huge fan of second chance romances. When it's all said and done, she may not want to stay, but this time I'm going to do everything in my power to not let her go. I was doing fine until she came back into my life and reminded me what love was supposed to feel like. I was never supposed to fall in love with her. ![]() ![]() She finds herself judged by the family of the man she's now seeing, likely, she believes, because of their interracial relationship. Middle sister Kirby is trying to clear her head on Martha's Vineyard after getting arrested for protesting and ending an affair with a married man. Blair, the eldest sibling, pregnant with twins, gave up a promising career and a shot at Harvard at the behest of her astrophysicist husband, Angus, who is preoccupied with the upcoming moon landing and has deep spells of depression Blair flees to Nantucket when Angus says he cheated on her. ![]() Kate has agreed to let her family's longtime caretaker Bill stay on their property with his grandson Pick in exchange for using Bill's army connections to keep Tiger safe and away from the front. Mother Kate Levin has taken to drinking after her only son, Tiger, is drafted and sent to Vietnam. ![]() Hilderbrand (Winter in Paradise) delivers a superb novel about the goings-on of a family during the summer of 1969 in Nantucket, centered on four siblings. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is a founding member of FIYAH Literary Magazine and an infrequent reviewer at Strange Horizons.īorn in New York and raised mostly in Houston, Texas, he spent the early formative years of his life in the homeland of his parents, Trinidad and Tobago. His stories have appeared in online venues such as Tor.com, Daily Science Fiction, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Apex, Lightspeed, Fireside Fiction, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and in print anthologies including, Griots, Hidden Youth and Clockwork Cairo. Phenderson Djéli Clark is the award winning and Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, and World Fantasy nominated author of the novel A Master of Djinn, and the novellas Ring Shout, The Black God’s Drums and The Haunting of Tram Car 015. Bio | FAQ | Press & Interviews | Contact Me I write stories and build worlds. ![]() |