![]() Great story telling, interesting character conflict, I ate this book up and will dive right into the next one. It was intriguing and absolutely left you wanting more. This is book one in at least a five book series so the magic is lightly introduced, with a few doses of ‘fae’ backstory. When done well, I really like stories that have a lot of internal conflict for the main character, and Auryn’s mental struggles, and internal dialogues definitely checked that box. ![]() While this first installment could be considered a little slow, you can absolutely see a much bigger story being told. What a delightful start! The story telling is very compelling, Raven Kennedy keeps giving you just enough information to keep you turning pages like a mad-person. ![]() This is another series that I’d heard only good things about, but it took me so long to try. ![]() Published: December 2020 by Raven Kennedy ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Some characters you saw in the show are quite different than the versions in the novels. I have legions of secondary characters, not POVs but nonetheless important to the plot, who also figure in the story: Lady Stoneheart, Young Griff, the Tattered Prince, Penny, Brown Ben Plumm, the Shavepate, Marwyn the Mage, Darkstar, Jeyne Westerling. I have viewpoint characters in the books never seen on the show: Victarion Greyjoy, Arianne Martell, Areo Hotah, Jon Connington, Aeron Damphair They will all have chapters, and the things they do and say will impact the story and the major characters who were on the show. Certain things that happened on HBO will not happen in the books. The novels are much bigger and much much more complex than the series. “Yes, some of the things you saw on HBO in Game of Thrones you will also see in The Winds of Winter (though maybe not in quite the same ways)… but much of the rest will be quite different.”Īnd really, when you think about it, this was inevitable. “What I have noticed more and more of late, however, is my gardening is taking me further and further away from the television series,” Martin writes. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Take her one-time best friend turned crush, Rachel Reed. Breathtaking mountain vistas, quirky townsfolk, and charming small businesses aside, her hometown of Fern Falls is built of one heartbreak on top of another. With her career as a Los Angeles event planner imploding after a tabloid blowup, Morgan Ross isn't headed home for the holidays so much as in strategic retreat. 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"Exactly the slow-burn, second-chance, friends-to-lovers romance I was craving." -Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis ![]() ![]() ![]() “Lauren Mechling’s debut is at once a portrait of three very real women and a wry send up of the times in which we live. ![]() Emma Straub, New York Times bestselling author of The Vacationers ![]() Mechling's observations are vivid and fresh, and this book will win her many a fan." "Lauren Mechling's sophisticated new novel dives right into those stickiest parts of women's inner lives, their friendships with each other. ![]() Elif Batuman, author of Pulitzer Prize-finalist The Idiot "What a hilarious, devastating, yet humane representation of a gratifyingly specific slice of New York life! How Could She is at once a compulsively readable catalogue of 'painfully curated' (Mechling's phrase) outfits, menus, emails, guest lists, and magazine assignments, a true-and mysterious-feeling portrayal of the way friends' relative statuses fluctuate over time, and as wise and unforgiving as a nineteenth-century French novel." Stephanie Danler, bestselling author of Sweetbitter Very few writers can entertain and still reveal deep pathos-Mechling has done it flawlessly." I know these women I am these women: flawed, conspiring, neurotic, and loving. “Lauren Mechling's portrait of the ramifications of female friendship is so razor-sharp and accurate I found myself wincing as I read. ![]() ![]() However, it does seek to properly position Graham’s achievements within a more comprehensive timeline. He deserves credit for documenting multiple value investing techniques that have guided the decisions of many of America’s most successful investors. In fairness, this paper does not seek to diminish Graham’s contributions to the investment profession. In contrast, Graham embraced value investing only after narrowly avoiding financial ruin after levering his portfolio prior to the Great Crash of 1929. Further, Green developed these principles instinctively at an early age, enabling her to thrive during several market panics that ruined many of her male contemporaries. Before Graham was even born, a woman by the name of Hetty Green used these principles to tame the wild markets of the Gilded Age and establish herself as the richest woman in America. However, contrary to conventional wisdom, Graham was not the first American to apply the principles of value investing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fiercely loyal to Spire Albion, he has taken their side in the cold war with Spire Aurora, disrupting the enemy’s shipping lines by attacking their cargo vessels. Within their halls, aristocratic houses have ruled for generations, developing scientific marvels, fostering trade alliances, and building fleets of airships to keep the peace.Ĭaptain Grimm commands the merchant ship, Predator. Since time immemorial, the Spires have sheltered humanity, towering for miles over the mist-shrouded surface of the world. ![]() Jim Butcher, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Dresden Files and the Codex Alera novels, conjures up a new series set in a fantastic world of noble families, steam-powered technology, and magic-wielding warriors… An ancient evil has reawakened, and the entire world is plunged into a sinister mist, filled with terrible creatures. It’s jam-packed with airships, crazy sorcerers, privateers, warrior monks, and intelligent cats. ![]() The Aeronaut’s Windlass is the first book in Jim’s upcoming Steampunk series, The Cinder Spires. ![]() ![]() ![]() Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch admits he may not be the sharpest knife in the cutlery drawer. THUD! It's the most extraordinary, outrageous, provocative, insightful, and keenly cutting flight of fancy yet from Discworld's incomparable supreme creator, Terry Pratchett. ![]() It's the unsettling sound of history about to repeat itself. It's the noise a troll club makes when crushing in a dwarf skull, or when a dwarfish axe cleaves a trollish cranium. ![]() It's a game of Trolls and Dwarfs where the player must take both sides to win. A seemingly routine day in the life of City Watch commander Sam Vimes is abruptly interrupted by an unsolved murder, an impending war, an unwanted new recruit, and a pesky government inspector. ![]() ![]() Grade 1-3- These books are a step easier than Adler's "First Biographies" (Holiday). Adler has three children and one grandson. By that time Adler had taken a break from teaching and, while his wife continued her work, he stayed home, took care of Michael, and began a full-time writing career. Adler married psychologist Renee Hamada in 1973, and their first child, Michael, was born in 1977. In 1977, he created his most famous character, Cam Jansen, originally featured in Cam Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds, which was published that year. Adler's next project, a series of math books, drew on his experience as a math teacher. In that same year, a question from his then-three-year-old nephew inspired Adler to write his first story, A Little at a Time, subsequently published by Random House in 1976. For the next nine years, he worked as a mathematics teacher for the New York City Board of Education, while taking classes towards a master's degree in marketing, a degree he was awarded by New York University in 1971. He graduated from Queens College in 1968 with a bachelor's degree in economics and education. Adler was born in New York City, New York. ![]() ![]() David Abraham Adler (born April 10, 1947) is the author of nearly 200 books for children and young adults, most notably the Cam Jansen mystery series, the "Picture Book of." series, and several acclaimed works about the Holocaust for young readers. ![]() ![]() The only other reason I didn’t enjoy this as much is that I had worked the killer out by just after the halfway mark. Do you know what I mean though, you are enjoying it, but you just feel like its all too much effort?!? I apologise for my descriptions (this is why I am a reader and NOT a writer). As usual the murders themselves have an air of creepiness about them (which is always a bonus in my eyes) but the actual story felt a bit boggy. This latest case involves not one but two killers and the key to it all is what they struggle with. I’m also quite fond of his colleague Holland, and in this book we see more of him than in book 1. ![]() Thorne is actually quite a hard character to get to grips with, but I actually like him more for that reason. The things I love about a series, and this one as well is getting to know characters. ![]() ![]() In the first book I was quite gripped, but with this one the first quarter of the book seemed to be quite hard going. Okay so I know this is only my second Thorne book, but in comparison to the first book this one didn’t have as much, shall we say shine, as the first one. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Dejame morir,” Pistol wheezes, more blood dribbling from the corner of his mouth. I light a cigarette, letting the smoke circle around me. ![]() “I’ll be waiting,” I tell her, ending the call. “When I said I would help you out, I didn’t know I would be keeping a man alive just so you could kill him,” Teena’s voice comes over the phone. I use the phone on the wall, hit speaker, and dial the number. I tear the tape from my hands and go to recline against the wall, watching as the blood trails down his neck to his chest, and right there, just below his collarbone, I see it: a bit of unmarked, unblemished skin. I use my hands to stop his body from spinning listlessly. The thought of not having him to take my anger out on again is what makes me stop. I go a little too far when blood spews from his mouth and his body heaves with the force it takes for him to gasp. I pound into him over and over, each time telling him I know what he tried to do. “The hija I never would have known existed if you had gotten your way,” I add. “The hija who is two and does not even know who I am,” I tell him, pummeling him again and again. The hija you helped steal from me,” I growl, slamming my fist into his rib. Now that my hands are taped, I circle his body. ![]() He should figure out by now that he dies when I’m done, not before. I might not have heard it, except he begs for the same thing every time. “Mátame,” Pistol says, the word coming out barely more than a soft whisper. ![]() |