![]() If he dies, there's no coming back because not even Autumn can save him when fate and death conspire. ![]() Expelled from his birthright for loving a necromancer, Wade is now a completely mortal- and vulnerable human. What's worse, the curse is expanding and threatening to take more lives. It's only a matter of time and she'll join the early grave of so many Blackwoods before her. No matter where she goes, the tattered red threads of the Moirai follow her. How do you break a family curse set by the Fates themselves? The Blackwood family curse is closing in on Autumn. ![]() If he dies, there's no coming back because not even. ![]() ![]()
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![]() ![]() That said, the battle scenes and the dialog were strong. There were too many characters without fully fleshed out personalities or descriptions, so it seemed a bit tedious. At times, it was repetitive and confusing. For those reasons, I'd rate this as my least favorite in the series and given it had only a very small connection to the previous two, it isn't a must-read.Īt times, the language and imagery was quite beautiful. Unfortunately, it was probably 200 pages too long and had a couple of side-stories that didn't make a whole lot of sense. I struggled at first to get into the story, but the intrigue got better as the book progressed. I quickly bought it but it sat on my shelf for over a year until I finally read it this month. I hadn't been aware of this one until three years ago when I found a copy at a discount sale. I read the first two books in the series many years ago and loved them both. ![]() 3.5 stars to Citadel, the third book in the Languedoc trilogy, written by Kate Mosse in 2011. ![]() ![]() ![]() įelix Things I expect to find at Gadleigh Castle: - Rare stained glass, the subject of my dissertation.- Peace and quiet, to finish said dissertation.- An escape from the paparazzi swarming around my starlet mother's latest blockbuster release.Things I don't expect to find: - A hidden door leading to a secret room.- The most gorgeous man I've ever set eyes on.- Love. Lio Things I know are expected of me in life: - One day soon I will become the King of Liorland.- I will marry a nice woman who will become queen.- I will. ![]() Felix Things I expect to find at Gadleigh Castle: - Rare stained glass, the subject of my dissertation.- Peace and quiet, to finish said dissertation.- An escape from the paparazzi swarming around my starlet mother's latest blockbuster release.Things I don't expect to find: - A hidden door leading to a secret room.- The most gorgeous man I've ever set eyes on.- Love. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Katherine writes laugh-and-cry books about how life knocks us down-and how we get back up. The movie adaptation of her novel The Lost Husband (starring Josh Duhamel) hit #1 on Netflix, and her novel Happiness for Beginners is in production as a Netflix original movie (starring Ellie Kemper and Luke Grimes) right now. BookPage calls Katherine Center “the reigning queen of comfort reads.” She's the New York Times bestselling author of eight books, including How to Walk Away, Things You Save in a Fire, and What You Wish For. ![]() ![]() Barbarian Days takes us deep into unfamiliar worlds, some of them right under our noses-off the coasts of New York and San Francisco. A bookish boy, and then an excessively adventurous young man, he went on to become a distinguished writer and war reporter. ![]() He has chased waves all over the world, wandering for years through the South Pacific, Australia, Asia, Africa. Raised in California and Hawaii, Finnegan started surfing as a child. To initiates, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life. A deeply rendered self-portrait of a lifelong surfer by the acclaimed New Yorker writerīarbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. ![]() ![]() ![]() Human sacrifice never occurs in The Book of Silk outside of Mint's sacrifice of Sand to get Pas' attention. The meat of the animal is distributed to worshippers after the sacrifice. Most if not all of the prophecies come true in The Book of Silk. The augur does the sacrificing and then reads the entrails for prophecy. The reason that Pas proscribed animal sacrifices is that he figured out members of his family were hiding in animals. SACRIFICES: A custom of Viron, but not necessarily of the other cities in the Whorl. Saba is described as having a "wide mouth" and may be in her forties. She appears to have some kind of connection with Oosik. The other possibility is that she was simply exchanging information with Saba. She is possibly intimate with Hyacinth on the airship. ![]() Silk gives it back to her after their trip to Mainframe. She commands the airship until she is possessed by Mucor. ![]() You can e-mail me at alex dot carnevale at gmail dot com. If you create an entry worth of the EoTL, we'll credit you with all the tidings of Pas. If you can fill in any of the blanks, post in the comments. ![]() The Encyclopedia of the Long Sun has character information and commentary for the following books by Gene Wolfe: ![]() ![]() ![]() Find out exactly where to start, what to do, and how to follow up each action you take with more action to achieve Massive Action results. It also demonstrates why people get stuck in the first three actions and how to move into making the 10X Rule a discipline. The 10 X Rule unveils the principle of "Massive Action," allowing you to blast through business clichZs and risk-aversion while taking concrete steps to reach your dreams. ![]() This 4th degree, also known as the 10 X Rule, is that level of action that guarantees companies and individuals realize their goals and dreams. To reach the next level, you must understand the coveted 4th degree of action. Achieve "Massive Action" results and accomplish your business dreams! While most people operate with only three degrees of action-no action, retreat, or normal action-if you're after big goals, you don't want to settle for the ordinary. ![]() ![]() We make plans on how and when to break the glass. How might we handle the document differently (as we stay wary of the atrocities of the manual), move with it, fight with it, care for the people entangled in its web? ![]() We ask questions-How did it feel? What did they want? Why did they go rather than where?-respecting their right to disappear as well as the structures of violence that accompanied this disappearance (as Jack Halberstam once put it to me). ![]() Be with me huddling, squinting, poring, back aching, neck spasming, knees stiffening, your body carrying what others have given up. With me, here at the table, in the box, with gloves off, holding the withered photograph, the dog-eared pamphlet, the crumbling letter, the fragile diary. ![]() An edited version of the Barnard Center for Research on Women’s event “ Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: A Salon in Honor of Saidiya Hartman” on March 4, 2019, featuring Hartman with Daphne Brooks, Aimee Meredith Cox, Macarena Gomez-Barris, and Alexander G. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I liked that consent was always clear, especially since Winter could have been played as an alpha, buuut. Like, they make sense, but where were they? Both characters would've been more compelling if those things had been consistent so we knew what we were dealing with. The book feels over two-thirds of the way through, so there's a big slump of interest there, and then suddenly the characters have new hang-ups that weren't apparent at all before. Unfortunately the rest of it was just mediocre for me. The author also has a good grasp on POV, managing to convey both characters' narratives without being confusing or doing harsh transitions from one to the other. I also liked the paranormal aspects a lot, with magic and ghosts being real but not usually very flashy, not things that most people believe in, but sometimes tourist attractions and things like that. I liked the 1920s setting, a nice change from the usual historical-romance go-tos. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If you manage to get around to reading it, feel free to drop a comment below. Much of the novel is set in the Aegean, so we get murder and mayhem in the sun - a prefect holiday read. Colonel Sun is intent on instigating a worldwide conflict. The villain behind the kidnapping is the dastardly Colonel Sun Liang-tan of the Chinese People's Liberation Army. The novel has a comfortingly familiar Bond story arc: M has been kidnapped and it is up to Bond to rescue him. The book was published in 1968 under the pen name Robert Markham. ![]() ![]() Colonel Sun is a James Bond novel written by Kingsley Amis. Our summer picks aren't too taxing - you can leave Thomas Piketty's Capital in the Twenty-First Century till winter (or not read it at all like most others who bought it) - but this year's is intriguing none the less. After the outstanding success of the Summer Book Club last year, which featured the English Rambo, we're continuing this year with another single slim novel to take on your hols. ![]() |