5/23/2023 0 Comments Kane series stylo fantome![]() It turns out that the experience was the wake up call Tate needed. Anyway, so Tatum (Tate) O'Shea is our heroine and she is cast out of her well to do family at 18 after one night where she is seduced by her sister's boyfriend, Jameson Kane. ![]() I know this is classified as a dark romance, but I didn't find it as disturbing as some other "dark" romances I've read. I am a glutton for this stuff! I swallowed up Degradation and Separation in two days. more rk read, but it is so amazing you kind of just go with the story and begin to yell, cuss and feel for all of the characters. I've actually reviewed the second book in the trilogy before this one because the second was lighter I think. And who are we to question how 2 people have a relationship. The characters are so flawed in so many ways in how they act with others and their self esteem, but some how it works for them and it may be love in some form. ![]() This is way outside my genre comfort zone, but I got so sucked in to the characters and then I friended the author on Facebook and it seemed like she gave voice to some of the random things I find funny and okay maybe a little disturbing to some people. I kept seeing book blogs posting about it before it was released and I waited a while to see if it was worth the hype. ![]() Review 1: TOTALY A GAME CHANGER! I wasn't sure what to expect from this one. ![]()
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![]() Then came the morning when the bunk, and Liam, disappeared forever. His little brother, who, up until a year ago, slept in the bunk above Charlie, took pride in being as annoying as possible, and was the only person who could make Charlie laugh until it hurt. Which is why it makes everyone uncomfortable when he talks about his brother. It’s the symbol of the jacket of the girl next door.Īs they uncover more information- and mounting evidence of the girl’s seemingly impossible connection to the tragedy-Cooper and Jess begin to wonder if a similar disaster could be heading to their hometown.Ĭharlie O’Reilly is an only child. Jess is fascinated by the mystery of the unknown child- because she’s seen the insignia. The only distinguishing mark on him was a strange insignia on his suit coat, a symbol no one had seen before or since. It’s the tale of a deadly train crash that occurred a hundred years ago, in which one young boy among the dead was never identified. ![]() So when Cooper learns of an unsolved mystery his sister has discovered online, he welcomes the distraction. ![]() Ever since his father left their family three years ago, he has become distant from his friends, constantly annoyed by his little sister, Jess, and completely fed up with the pale, creepy rich girl who moved in next door and won’t stop staring at him. ![]() The In-Between COMING JANUA dark, twisty adventure about the forgotten among us and what it means to be seen.Ĭooper is lost. ![]() 5/23/2023 0 Comments Southern spirits by angie fox![]() ![]() ![]() Verity Long doesn't want to see ghosts, and she'd rather not let anyone know her little secret, either. It leads to an offer she can’t refuse from the town’s bad boy, the brother of her ex and the last man she should ever partner with. When out of work graphic designer Verity Long accidentally traps a ghost on her property, she’s saddled with more than a supernatural sidekick-she gains the ability see spirits. New York Times bestseller Angie Fox celebrates 5 years of the USA Today bestselling Southern Ghost Hunter series with a limited edition boxed set of the first three stories in the series, along with never-before-seen additional content including: deleted scenes, original art, an inside look at the characters, and a behind-the-scenes peek at how the series came together. ![]() ![]() ![]() She and the remaining crew of the Argo II could return home with the Athena Parthenos statue and try to stop Camp Half-Blood and Camp Jupiter from going to war. ![]() ![]() Narrated by four different demigods, The Mark of Athena is an unforgettable journey across land and sea to Rome, where important discoveries, surprising sacrifices, and unspeakable horrors await. What if he's now attached to Roman ways? Does he still need his old friends? As the daughter of the goddess of war and wisdom, Annabeth knows she was born to be a leader-but never again does she want to be without Seaweed Brain by her side What more does Athena want from her?Īnnabeth's biggest fear, though, is that Percy might have changed. Annabeth already feels weighed down by the prophecy that will send seven demigods on a quest to find-and close-the Doors of Death. In her pocket, Annabeth carries a gift from her mother that came with an unnerving command: Follow the Mark of Athena. Annabeth hopes that the sight of their praetor Jason on deck will reassure the Romans that the visitors from Camp Half-Blood are coming in peace.Īnd that's only one of her worries. With its steaming bronze dragon figurehead, Leo's fantastical creation doesn't appear friendly. As Annabeth and her friends Jason, Piper, and Leo fly in on the Argo II, she can't blame the Roman demigods for thinking the ship is a Greek weapon. Just when she's about to be reunited with Percy-after six months of being apart, thanks to Hera-it looks like Camp Jupiter is preparing for war. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Ali and nino by kurban said![]() ![]() Ali’s brave and well-reasoned defense of his beloved homeland and his acceptance of other cultures make him a positive hero for the Caucasus. A novel of love and war set at the beginning of the twentieth century, Ali and Nino remains relevant to the often-tumultuous political situation in the Caucasus, which is part of the reason it continues to be popular today. The book is displayed in the regional section at Prospero’s Books in Tbilisi, has lent its characters’ names to a statue of two lovers in Batumi, and, according to Thomas Goltz (the author of Georgia Diary), was required reading for Alex Rondeli’s students interested in Georgian politics. The novel is frequently cited in the news when ethnic conflicts break out in the Caucasus and Foreign Policy magazine listed it as one of “ The foreign-policy books you should be reading to get ready for election season”. The novel Ali and Nino by Kurban Said has become the book to read before visiting Georgia, despite the fact that it is set in Azerbaijan and was originally written in German. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The darkest legacy series![]() ![]() But as they travel in search of safety and answers, and Zu grows closer to the people she knows she shouldn't trust, they uncover even darker things roiling beneath the veneer of the country's recovery. But when she is accused of committing a horrifying act, she is forced to go on the run once more in order to stay alive.ĭetermined to clear her name, Zu finds herself in an uncomfortable alliance with Roman and Priyanka, two mysterious Psi who could either help her prove her innocence or betray her before she gets the chance. The long-awaited new novel in the New York Times best-selling Darkest Minds series, now a major motion picture.įive years after the destruction of the so-called rehabilitation camps that imprisoned her and countless other Psi kids, seventeen-year-old Suzume "Zu" Kimura has assumed the role of spokesperson for the interim government, fighting for the rights of Psi kids against a growing tide of misinformation and prejudice. ![]() Print The Darkest Legacy (Darkest Minds #4) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the second book in her Bright Falls series, following Delilah Green Doesn’t Care (2022), Blake tenderly explores Astrid’s journey to becoming more herself-which involves interrogating her career dreams and realizing that she’s bisexual. But their on-camera clashes lead to an off-camera attraction, and eventually Astrid begins to realize that her carefully laid plans might not be what she wants after all. Astrid wants to make every room sleek and modern, while Jordan wants to keep the inn quirky and dark. But Jordan isn’t just the carpenter on the job-she’s also the granddaughter of the inn’s owner, and her sentimentality makes Astrid’s job harder. ![]() Astrid is tasked with redesigning the inn for an HGTV show called Innside America, and she’s hoping the job will help revitalize her career. But one thing Astrid never counted on was carpenter Jordan Everwood, whom she runs into-literally-before realizing the two of them will have to work together on Astrid’s latest renovation, the Everwood Inn. ![]() Astrid might seem uptight to her loud and lovable group of friends, but she knows she just holds herself to a high standard-one set years ago by her overbearing, critical mother. A driven interior designer finds herself in new territory when she unexpectedly falls for a carpenter.Īfter breaking things off with her perfect-on-paper fiance, Astrid Parker throws herself into her work as an interior designer. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments The hot zone book![]() ![]() ![]() “heart bleeds into itself the heart muscle softens and has hemorrhages into its chambers, and blood squeezes out of the heart muscle as the heart beats, and it floods the chest cavity. This shuts off the blood supply to various parts of the body, causing dead spots to appear in the brain, liver, kidneys, lungs, intestines, testicles, breast tissue (of men as well as women), and all through the skin.” The mosaic thickens and throws more clots, and the clots drift through the bloodstream into the small capillaries, where they get stuck. This is known as pavementing, because the clots fit together in a mosaic. Small blood clots begin to appear in the bloodstream, and the blood thickens and slows, and the clots begin to stick to the walls of blood vessels. ![]() The seven mysterious proteins that, assembled together, make up the Ebola-virus particle, work as a relentless machine, a molecular shark, and they consume the body as the virus makes copies of itself. It is a perfect parasite because it transforms virtually every part of the body into a digested slime of virus particles. “Ebola Zaire attacks every organ and tissue in the human body except skeletal muscle and bone. ![]() 5/22/2023 0 Comments Podkayne of mars![]() ![]() ![]() Heinlein himself wasn’t sure if Podkayne of Mars should be classed as a juvenile novel or not. By today’s standards, Podkayne of Mars is astonishingly clean. ![]() I honestly have no idea why Heinlein signed off on this blurb, assuming he was given the chance to object (writers are not always allowed input into everything from cover design to publicity materials anyone who’s actually read the novel will know that, save for a single chaste kiss, there is nothing particularly sexual in the novel. The Back Cover Blurb for the Ace SF EditionĪ person who picked up a book with the above blurb, probably the most misleading blurb in the history of science-fiction, might be forgiven for expecting a softcore porn novel with raunchy doings all over the solar system. An interplanetary bombshell who rocked the constellations when she invaded the Venus Hilton and attached the mighty mechanical men with a strange, overpowering blast of highly explosive Sex Appeal. Tomorrow’s answer to the anti-missile-missile, Podkayne of Mars. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. The ALC’s leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji’s darkest secret: the cult’s bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with.īut when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him-the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. Perfect for fans of Gideon the Ninth and Annihilation. A furious debut novel from Andrew Joseph White about embracing the monster within and unleashing its power against your oppressors. ![]() |