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![]() He’s been gone longer than Sutton and rumor has it, the two were involved in some pretty risky behavior before either one went MIA. This time, their friend Madeline’s runaway brother and town bad boy, Thayer, is the prime suspect. Read moreĮmma and Sutton are back for round three, tangled up in clues and red herrings as usual. Hopefully, this is just a one-book stall, and Shepard is able to pick up the story again in Hide and Go Seek. Niether are bad, per say, they just don’t meet expectations. Harry Potter had Goblet of Fire and The Lying Game now has Two Truths and A Lie. True, there were still take-my-breath-away tense moments in Two Truths and A Lie, but it just didn’t enthrall me as it usually does. One thing Sara Shepard is really excellent at is playing with the reader’s head and emotion, using what the reader already knows against them, and Two Truths and A Lie does this several times throughout the book.I am hoping that it’s just personal tastes and that the next Lying Game book will be as enthralling as ever. ![]() An avid reader, as well as viewer of the TV show, I just cannot get enough of Emma and Sutton! True to form, Two Truths and A Lie had my attention from the first line up to the cliff-hanger ending. ![]() ![]() I anxiously await the next release starting a maximum of three days after the previous one is released, and so there’s quite a lot I love about the series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then an unlikely ally radically changes the strategic equation-and gives the Alliance's hardest-fighting warriors a crucial chance to turn retreat into resurgence. When orders come down for the rebels to fall back in the face of superior opposition numbers and firepower, Twilight reluctantly complies. Hard-bitten, war-weary, and ferociously loyal to one another, the members of this renegade outfit doggedly survive where others perish, and defiance is their most powerful weapon against the deadliest odds. ![]() Leading the charge are the soldiers-men and women, human and nonhuman-of the Sixty-First Mobile Infantry, better known as Twilight Company. In the streets and alleys of ravaged cities, the front-line forces of the Rebel Alliance are taking the fight to the enemy, pushing deeper into Imperial territory and grappling with the savage flesh-and-blood realities of war on the ground. On the battlefields of multiple worlds in the Mid Rim, legions of ruthless stormtroopers-bent on crushing resistance to the Empire wherever it arises-are waging close and brutal combat against an armada of freedom fighters. The ultimate survivors.Īmong the stars and across the vast expanses of space, the Galactic Civil War rages. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo The bravest soldiers. ![]() ![]() ![]() With everything around them falling apart, Margot and Haruko find solace in their growing, secret friendship. And Margot is doing everything she can to keep her family whole as her mother's health deteriorates and her rational, patriotic father becomes a man who distrusts America and fraternizes with Nazis. Haruko finds herself consumed by fear for her soldier brother and distrust of her father, who she knows is keeping something from her. ![]() The teens discover that they are polar opposites in so many ways, except for one that seems to override all the others: the camp is changing them, day by day and piece by piece. Haruko and Margot meet at the high school in Crystal City, a "family internment camp" for those accused of colluding with the enemy. The war seemed far away from Margot in Iowa and Haruko in Colorado–until they were uprooted to dusty Texas, all because of the places their parents once called home: Germany and Japan. It's 1944, and World War II is raging across Europe and the Pacific. "A must-read for fans of historical fiction." –Ruta Sepetys, #1 New York Times bestselling author An "important" ( New York Times Book Review), "extraordinary" ( Booklist, starred review) novel of conviction, friendship, and betrayal, from Monica Hesse, the bestselling and award-winning author of Girl in the Blue Coat ![]() ![]() ![]() Amidst these struggles, Feyre and Rhysand must decide whom to trust amongst the cunning and lethal High Lords, and hunt for allies in unexpected places. ![]() One slip could bring doom not only for Feyre, but for everything-and everyone-she holds dear.Īs war bears down upon them all, Feyre endeavors to take her place amongst the High Fae of the land, balancing her struggle to master her powers-both magical and political-and her love for her court and family. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit. Synopsis: Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin's actions and learn what she can about the invading king threatening to bring her land to its knees. ![]() ![]() ACOTAR week! The reviews of each of the individual books will be spoiler-free (I got to read them without spoilers, so you should, too!), but I do plan on doing a wrap-up of my thoughts of the series as a whole that will include spoilers. Welp, this is definitely a case of something I would have never done without being an active follower of other Bookstagram accounts, but here we are. ![]() ![]() ![]() Overall, a great starting point for anyone looking to understand about Thor, Loki and Odin beyond what the MCU has done with them. This book has motivated me to pick up 'The Poetic Edda' later this year, so that I can dive a little deeper into Norse Mythos. And Thor is the dumb brute who always resorts to using his brawns at even the slightest provocation. I was also surprised to learn of the dozens of children Loki has borne across multiple partners, including giants. Loki is portrayed as quite a mischievous little bugger - and quite often, ends up biting more than he can chew. Also, the details of Ragnarok and the events surrounding the death of Baldr were quite riveting as well - though I was personally left thinking that more life could have been breathed into Gaiman's retelling of Ragnarok. I had no idea what a prominent role Loki was said to have had in its' creation. Some of the tales were certainly eye-opening - for instance, the one concerning the origin of Mjolnir. Gaiman seemingly covers most of the important stories - the majority of them revolving around Odin, his sons Thor and Baldr, Loki and Freyja. ![]() Fun! And a great way to dip your toes into Norse Mythos - although it lacks the charm that, say, Fry's Greek Mythos series has in bundles (PS: I listened to the audiobook and yes, Gaiman does the narration). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In other essays, Reeves highlights a chapter in Toni Morrison’s Beloved to locate common purpose between Black and Indigenous peoples he visits the realities of enslaved people on McLeod Plantation, where some of the descendants of those formerly enslaved lived into the 1990s and he explores his own family history, his learning to read closely through the Pentecostal church tradition, and his passing on of reading as a pleasure, freedom, and solace to his daughter, who is frightened the police will gun them down. He describes the history of the hush harbor-places where enslaved people could steal away to find silence and court ecstasy, to the side of their impossible conditions. Braiding memoir, theory, and criticism, Reeves juxtaposes the images of an opera singer breaking the state-mandated silence curfew by singing out into the streets of Santiago, Chile, and a father teaching his daughter to laugh out loud at the planes dropping bombs on them in Aleppo, Syria. In his debut work of nonfiction, award-winning poet Roger Reeves finds new meaning in silence, protest, fugitivity, freedom, and ecstasy. ![]() ![]() ![]() All I had ever wanted in life was to affect him, to get him to feel something, anything other than simple tolerance for me. If I hadn’t had to concentrate on my balance since I was on my toes I might have grinned at that. “It okay, my own family doesn’t even remember it.” I pressed so close to him that my chest was flat against his and I could feel that the close proximity was having an effect on him. I shrugged it off and moved a step closer to him. The hoop on the side on his lip glinted at me in his frown. Those pale eyes flared for a second and his mouth twisted down. I expected him to move away, to gently shove me to the side but he uncrossed his arms and placed his hands on my either side of my waist. He was tall and I was not so I had to stand on the very tip of my toes to reach his ear as I put a hand on his shoulder and one on the door beside his head. I blew out a breath and tasted the tartness of the cranberry juice across my tongue still. He wasn’t throwing sarcastic barbs at me, or ignoring me he was just watching me. He was leaning back against the door watching me with hooded eyes. ![]() I turned blurry eyes on him and almost swallowed my tongue. It was warm inside so I shook off my jacket and pushed my shaking hand through my hair. He pushed the door open and twisted the lock. Maybe he was trying to translate my drunken speech because even I could hear that I was slurring between my chattering teeth. He was quiet as we walked up the front steps to the apartment. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a beautiful book, in every sense every sentence is pretty, you want to take each word home and cuddle up to it. Bulawayo kicked this one way out of the ball park dear writers, this is the book to beat. Let’s just say the book did not make me cry but it certainly aggravated my allergies, something in the pages made a mess of my tear ducts. NoViolet Bulawayo’s debut book, We Need New Names is such a book. I n the 21 st century, in the age of twitter and Facebook-induced ADHD, when a hard copy book is able to engage you nonstop for two days until you get to its end, all you can do is stand up at the end and give the author of such a miracle a rousing standing ovation. ![]() Moving, running, emigrating, going, deserting, walking, quitting, flying, fleeing – to all over, to countries near and far, to countries unheard of, to countries whose names they cannot pronounce. Those with ambitions are crossing borders. Those with strength are crossing borders. ![]() Look at them leaving in droves, the children of the land, just look at them leaving in droves. ![]() ![]() ![]() Having never studied creative writing, I decided to join. The story of how I found the title for Rainbirds proves inspiration can come from anywhere. I wrote the first draft of Novel 1 in November 2013 for NaNoWriMo and that month, there was a 3-Day Novel Boot Camp at the Singapore Writers Festival in collaboration with the Curtis Brown Creative. Critique partners or beta readers can also be a great source of fresh ideas. ![]() Other prompts include: song titles nursery rhymes a line from a poem the title of a piece of art. Great picks include Gone with the Wind and To Kill a Mockingbird. Do you have a particular line that jumps out from your manuscript? Can you find a catchy and memorable phrase? Or maybe, the line is crucial to your plotline (without giving a spoiler, of course). ![]() |