![]() Ingleford watched the family play and begged them to let her have the 18-month-old toddler. Ten and a half years before WWII, the Ingleford family were on vacation at the seaside. “There were lots and lots of people like Mortimer in the world, people who suffered because other people thought war glorious.” In this literary niche, it sounds entirely plausible. In any other genre this story would seem contrived. Enemy Brothers by Constance Savery is fiction. When reading living history books from that period, a reader must brace himself for a story that is likely to explore psychologically deep topics and layers of suffering. A bit fantasy, a bit dystopian, a bit chaotic, a bit epic, and a lot incredible. During that creatively brutal time, so many stranger-than-fiction things happened to real people, and stories from that period have produced a unique genre. Real life during WWII was especially good at turning things inside out and upside down. “England and her Allies aren’t just fighting the Axis countries – they’re fighting the evil spirits that have laid hold of Germany and Italy and Japan.” ![]()
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![]() ![]() This is Holly’s debut novel in fantasy/PNR romance and it was complete and utter PERFECTION. But I just read my first Holly Renee book and I have not been able to stop thinking about it and I wanted to share it with you and scream from the rooftops that if you love fantasy and PNR, this is the BEST BOOK I HAVE READ IN SUCH A LONG TIME! It’s been a while since I’ve written a review… truthfully I am still struggling with reading and when I do read now, it’s more for fun than blogging. It contains mature language, themes, and content that may not be suitable for all readers. ![]() Betray a kingdom or betray my heart.Ī Kingdom of Stars and Shadows is book one in the Stars and Shadows Series. Our lies and deception are entangled in the shadows and stars, and as they unravel so shall my fate. The way my hands ache to touch him deceitful.Įven my dreams make me a traitor to the kingdom I am sworn to protect.īut when the kingdom is attacked, I am forced to make choices I'm not prepared for. He is darkness and sin, and when he whispers promises of wickedness in my ear, I crave a man who I can't have.Įvery thought I have is treasonous. It's the half-breed prince who stands at his side. ![]() I am told my union to the crowned prince will determine the fate of the kingdom, but it isn't my betrothed who haunts my dreams. ![]() Posted on 17 July, 2022 by momsread in Holly Renee, Review / 2 comments A Kingdom of Stars and Shadows by Holly Renee Enter your email address to subscribe and receive notifications of new posts by email. ![]() ![]() ![]() A humorous, poignant, and compelling page-turner that kept me guessing all the way to the end. "THE GIRL SHE USED TO BE is everything I want a book to be. "This is a compulsively readable, skillfully constructed first novel with well-drawn characters and a plot that twists and turns to what seems the best possible conclusion, marking Cristofano as a writer to watch!" "Intense, romantic debut.Cristofano's mad love scenario sizzles like garlic in hot olive oil." Lesley Kagen, New York Times bestselling author of WHISTLING IN THE DARK and LAND OF A HUNDRED WONDERS THE GIRL SHE USED TO BE hooked me from the very first page." "David Cristofano's debut novel is alternately thought-provoking, poignant, and darkly funny. "Intense.the emotions of a woman caught in Melody's unlikely scenario ring deliciously, scarily true." With a poignant and literary flair, this novel fixed my jones for "The Sopranos."" -Lolly Winston, New York Times bestselling author of GOOD GRIEF and HAPPINESS SOLD SEPARATELY I didn't want the book to end I didn't want to leave the wild, wooly wonderfully frightening world that David Cristofano has created. ![]() As the events spin forward, with crackling dialogue and earned surprises, you can't help but root for this most unusual, and lovable narrator-whatever her secret name or home may be at the moment. "What a riveting and remarkable first novel! The story grabbed me on page one. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Twenty years later, Sampath has not yet lived up to the prediction of greatness. To Kulfi, his mother, he is an odd looking alien with a large brown birthmark on his face. Sampath's eccentric mother and demanding father are not so sure about their baby becoming a great man. Not only does he bring on the much needed rain, he causes the Red Cross, flying over Shahkot, to drop food for the hungry people. The people in the community of Shahkot are convinced that Sampath is destined to be an important man. Immediately following his birth, the Swedish Red Cross makes a food drop right in front of Sampath's house. He is born on the night a severe drought ends when a ferocious monsoon sweeps over the region. "Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard," is a tale of a young man named Sampath Chawla who lives in the town of Shahkot, India. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cohen has so much artistic insight and pleasure to offer us, and the evening opened up and explored the very essence of it. The evening was intimate and often exceptionally moving, underpinned with an omnipresent admiration and affection for Cohen – his work, life, character and soul. It featured readings, music and discussions, celebrating Cohen’s life and works with a focus on The Flame, a recently published posthumous poetry collection that spans Cohen’s literary life. ![]() Part of the British Library’s Season of Sound, the evening was hosted by Will Gompertz, the BBC’s Arts Editor. Nearly two years after his death, the British Library event ‘Leonard Cohen: The Flame’ offered a chance to be surrounded by fellow Leonard lovers, in what felt like long-due and well-needed group therapy for a passing we’d all not really dealt with. Leonard Cohen, prolific singer-songwriter, poet and novelist, passed away on the 7th of November 2016. ALICE NELSON reviews British Library event ‘Leonard Cohen: The Flame’ ![]() ![]() ![]() This kind of Frindle without we recognize teach the one who looking at it become critical in imagining and analyzing. 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Don t be worry Frindle can bring any time you are and not make your tote space or bookshelves grow to be full because you can have it inside your lovely laptop even cell phone. ![]() 2 Frindle PDF Frindle by by Andrew Clements This Frindle book is not really ordinary book, you have it then the world is in your hands. ![]() ![]() ![]() Reed (1) Abi Ketner (1) Abrams (3) Adelle Yeung (2) Aden Polydoros (1) Adrienne Kisner (1) Advance Reader Copy (2) Aibigail Owen (1) Aileen Erin (6) Aimee Carter (2) Aimee Feldman (1) Airicka Phoenix (1) Al Stone (1) ALAMW14 (1) Albert Whitman Teen (1) Alec John Belle (1) Alessandra Torre (1) Alex Hayes (1) Alexadra Bracken (2) Alexander Nadar (1) Alexandra Bracken (2) Alexandra Duncan (1) Alexandra May (1) Alexandra Monir (1) Alexandra Shostak (3) Alexandra Sirowy (1) Alexis Bass (1) Ali Cross (3) Ali Dean (5) Ali Novak (1) Alice Rachel (1) Alice Ward (1) Alicia Michaels (1) Alicia Rades (1) Alina Jacobs (1) Alisha Klapheke (1) Alisha Sevigny (2) Alison Kemper (1) Alyson Noel (1) Alyssa B. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is at times horrifying and captivating to watch the selling of bodies, the drop into murder, and the thoughts that get our characters there. ![]() They are either working for a greater good, or simply hard done by and with nowhere else to go. Acts of horrible villainy take place by characters that at the heart of it all, are not really evil. The majority of the story is told in a city called Juniper, and once again delves deep into the darkness of the human soul. ![]() Unlike the first book, however, this story is not told 100% from Croaker’s perspective, which in my mind is upsetting but allowable considering what Cook obviously wanted to do. Why? Because they are the best, and they get the job done. ![]() Taking straight off from where we were left at the end of the first book, the Black Company are being dragged all over the world at the whim of the Lady. There is no such problem with Shadows Linger, the second book in Glen Cook’s ongoing series, the Black Company. It’ll either be great, draw you in and promise you that they’ll all be of a similar quality or higher, or it will be less than the original and suggest you shouldn’t pick up the third. When you read a second book of a series, it’s really the do-or-die book. ![]() ![]() Too many books are full of superfluous expletives to make them “edgy” and “real”, when actually, they’re not needed and instead they can ruin the magic of a book.īellamy was fantastic. The Treehouse (Magic Faraway Tree), the strength of character of Sam and Steuart (Harry Potter), the traditional clean writing (Lewis) – these, in my mind, are good things. There were flashes of Rowling, Blyton and Lewis in the story and writing. I’m British, but I had no problem visualizing the Southern world they were uprooted from. I was reading ‘real’ conversations and there’s a scene where Sam and Steuart have a long conversation and the reader feels absorbed in their world. Sam accepted the card and put into her backpack. ![]() ![]() Though it’s only after the scene has passed does the reader actually sit back and think. The characters work well and the scenes involving police, social services and the therapist who ‘talk over’ them are poignant and quite telling. I liked the fact we have a nice balance of Samantha and Steuart and their POV (told in 3rd person). ![]() While the MCs are young – the difficulties they suffer are situations that a person of any age could find some comparison and understanding to. ![]() There are scenes and characters that strike chords with adults and show us just how wrong we (adults) can be at times. I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.įirst off, this book is pitched for MG readers, but I do feel that those who enjoy YA and ‘traditional’ writing (more on that later) would appreciate this book. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Brady Hartsfield is back, and planning revenge not just on Hodges and his friends, but on an entire city. When Bill and Holly are called to a suicide scene with ties to the Mercedes Massacre, they find themselves pulled into their most dangerous case yet, one that will put their lives at risk, as well as those of Bill’s heroic young friend Jerome Robinson and his teenage sister, Barbara. But all is not what it seems: the evidence suggests that Brady is somehow awake, and in possession of deadly new powers that allow him to wreak unimaginable havoc without ever leaving his hospital room. They met in the wake of the ‘Mercedes Massacre’ when a queue of people was run down by the diabolical killer Brady Hartsfield.īrady is now confined to Room 217 of the Lakes Region Traumatic Brain Injury Clinic, in an unresponsive state. Retired Detective Bill Hodges now runs a two-person firm called Finders Keepers with his partner Holly Gibney. ![]() |