5/13/2023 0 Comments Space opera cat valente![]() This year, though, humankind has discovered the enormous universe. The stakes are high for this new game, and everyone is forced to compete. Instead of competing in orbital combat, the powerful species that survived face off in a competition of song, dance, or whatever can be physically performed in an intergalactic talent show. Once every cycle, the civilizations gather for Galactivision-part gladiatorial contest, part beauty pageant, part concert extravaganza, and part continuation of the wars of the past. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented-something to cheer up everyone who was left and bring the shattered worlds together in the spirit of peace, unity, and understanding. ![]() A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. ![]()
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![]() In 'Starkblast', Roland, Eddie, Susannah and Jake are traveling along the Path of the Beam toward the Dark Tower when an approaching starkblast forces them to take shelter in a meeting hall in the abandoned village of. 'Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them.'Īnd stories like these, they live for us. 'The Wind Through the Keyhole' is an interesting combination of two stories within the larger context of the Dark Tower series. 'A person's never too old for stories,' he said to Bill. While they shelter from the starkblast, Roland tells a story about his younger days, when he was sent by his father to investigate evidence of a murderous shape-changer.Īt the scene of the crime he had tried to comfort a terrified young boy called Bill Streeter by reciting a story from The Magic Tales of the Eld that his mother used to read to him at bedtime, 'The Wind through the Keyhole'. A story within a story which features both the younger and older gunslinger, it is also a wonderful introduction to The Dark Tower series.Īs Roland Deschain, and his ka-tet leave the Emerald city, a ferocious storm halts their progress along the Path of the Beam. 1 Sunday Times bestseller The Wind through the Keyhole is a perfect bridge between the fourth and fifth novels in Stephen King's epic masterpiece. ![]() ![]() The Dark Tower is now a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba. For readers new to The Dark Tower, The Wind Through the Keyhole is a stand-alone novel, and a wonderful introduction to the series. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The black company cook![]() This whole rant about the fantasy genre market is to say that in between Tolkien and Martin, there was Glen Cook. Martin wrote Game of Thrones, the first in A Song of Ice and Fire series, and popularized the genre again to the masses, and with the TV show following a decade and a bit later, the genre then became oversaturated with fantasy books, that lacked fantasy, and were dreary books set in a medieval, European-esque world. So the market supplied more, until it became oversaturated with the same stuff, there were variants, sure, but most had the samey quality to it, lacking in much originality. ![]() Tolkien wasn’t the first to do heroic fantasy in a magical land, but he was the first to show it wasn’t a just niche thing to be enjoyed by children and nerds, and opened it up to the masses. ![]() No book genre is this more prevalent in than the fantasy genre. Fiction, like most things, goes through fades, you have the outliers which are a roaring success, both critically and financially, then years of copycatting will follow trying to capitalise on the original, to varying degrees of success. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The moving finger geraldine mcewan![]() Soon we meet Jane's friend Maud (Frances de la Tour), devoted to her older vicar husband Caleb Dane Calthrop (Ken Russell). Over tea, Miss Jane Marple (Geraldine McEwan) discusses the recent death and posted threats. She is always all in red: cherry car, driving gloves in supple leather, evening ruby Oriental silk, and velvet full-arm length, flame bob, crimson lipstick and nails, blaze suit, red trim on white day suit, even accents accessories, wrist bangle, tiny clutch relieves funereal black (on procession after, purse is black, little v-shape under jacket glashes (my word, not a typo) bright. "A torture for both of us, as we had an absolute loathing for the country". Windblown in a sporty convertible, flamboyant Joanna (Emilia Fox) drives her brother Jerry Burton (James D'Arcy) for subdued recuperation in quiet Lymstock village. ![]() Looking up from the Colonel's grave at all the suspects could be postponed after the country fields. ![]() The intro voice-over scene should be cut, naked man in strange bed the morning after. Despite convoluted plot filled with coincidence and solved in a dream, I could watch BBC Marple with sound off, just for the visuals. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments A Night to Surrender by Tessa Dare![]() She, and the devilish Lord Payne, are running out of time and have only a week to fake an elopement, convince everyone they’re in love, escape death, and travel 400 miles without killing each other. In this case, it’s Minerva Highwood, one of Spindle Cove’s top spinsters. The second book, like in the rest of Dare’s Spindle Cove books, tells you a few secrets about a special character. You discover that Spindle Cove is a haven for the ones who get to live there and a perfect place for gallant young ladies. In A Night to Surrender, you discover much of what the series is about and meet some of the key characters as well. ![]() ![]() The first book of the series is one of the best-selling Dare books and the one that gets this list moving. This is one of her most exciting series which includes 5 original works but also features a few in-between novels that raise the book count of the series to 9 total works. ![]() The books are not in order and are just the top 8 we find to be most exciting to read. Before you learn about the story, keep in mind that this is not a Tessa Dare books in order list. Spindle Cove is the lucky pick that’s going to get the spotlight first. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments Succubus Revealed by Richelle Mead![]() ![]() The book starts on a fairly ridiculous note - Georgina for some unknown reason works as a Santa helper at a mall. Nothing much except Georgina's personal woes propels this series' finale. Succubus Revealed is both satisfying and excruciatingly, mind-numbingly predictable. ![]() She just hopes the casualties won't include the one man she's risking everything for. Why are the powers-that-be so eager to get her away from Seattle and from Seth? Georgina is one of Hell's most valuable assets, but if there's any way out of the succubus business she plans to take it, no matter how much roadkill she leaves behind. The City of Sin is a dream gig for a succubus, but Georgina's allies are suspicious. ![]() In fact, she's being forced to transfer operations.to Las Vegas. ![]() Still, with Lucifer for a boss, Georgina can't just hang up her killer heels and settle down to domestic bliss. The man has risked his soul to become Georgina's boyfriend. Georgina Kincaid has had an eternity to figure out the opposite sex, but sometimes they still surprise her. But with a shot at love, and maybe even redemption, is the ultimate seductress finally going soft? Like hell she is. In Georgina Kincaid, succubus and she-demon, #1 New York Times bestselling author Richelle Mead has created one of her most enticing characters. ![]() ![]() Keep your wits about you you will need them. It's hopeless to resist" ( Entertainment Weekly). "Cocky and brilliant, amused and angry, is rightfully earning comparisons to observer extraordinaire Charles Dickens. Twenty years in its conception, research, and writing, The Crimson Petal and the White is teeming with life, rich in texture and incident, with breathtakingly real characters. Infatuated with Sugar, William’s patronage brings her into the circles of his family and milieu: his wife who barely overcomes chronic hysteria to make her appearances during “the Season” his mysteriously hidden-away daughter, left to the care of minions his pious brother, foiled in his devotional calling by his lust for the Widow Fox as well as preening socialites, drunken journalists, untrustworthy servants, vile guttersnipes, and whores of all stripes and persuasions. Her ascent through the strata of Victorian society begins with the egotistical perfume magnate William Rackham. ![]() Sugar, a nineteen-year-old whore in the brothel of the terrifying Mrs. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the heart of this panoramic narrative is a young woman’s struggle to lift her body and soul out of the gutter. A teenage prostitute ascends through the many layers of Victorian London society in this highly acclaimed “big, sexy, bravura a novel” (Janet Maslin, The New York Times). ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The ruins of gorlan book![]() ![]() ![]() There's chapters full of adventure and intrigue as Will, who takes on the mantle of a ranger's apprentice, learns the ropes from his moody mentor, Holt. Ranger's Apprentice has all the elements of gripping stories like Harry Potter, The Hunger Games, and Lord of the Rings. Will is crushed, but a mysterious ranger named Holt sees promise in the boy for something more important and greater than serving in the king's army.įlanagan is adept at creating lively characters that I could easily imagine in my mind's eye. On the day of the Choosing, he is passed over by the lead Battle Master to become an apprentice on account of his puny size. Unfortunately, Will is small in stature and thin, not at all meeting the requirements of a budding warrior apprentice. He eagerly desires to become a warrior, but the only way he can aspire to that role is by being chosen for Battle School. The story centers around a young ward of Castle Redmond named Will, who neither knows his past or his place in life. But when I kept hearing from readers of The Blade Heir that it reminded them of Ranger's Apprentice, I had to check it out. I had heard of John Flanagan's trademark series several years back, but never took the plunge due the host of other books on my to-read list. Ranger's Apprentice is one of those rare fantasy series that draws me right in because the characters are so exceptionally fleshed out and full of personality that I can't help flipping the pages to know more about them. ![]() 5/13/2023 0 Comments The she was gone book![]() Rachel tried to make sense of what was happening around her by keeping meticulous journals and scouring the L.A. But the neighborhood was not: robberies, shootings and domestic violence were endemic, police helicopters a nightly companion. ![]() Hall’s parents were creative, aspirational and supportive of their four children. ![]() Though working-class families like Hall’s were always the neighborhood’s foundation, raising one in what is now called Baldwin Village wasn’t easy for her mother, a preschool teacher, and her father, a warehouse supervisor. The author’s story began in the Jungle, an enclave of postwar apartments nicknamed for its lush foliage before white flight and absentee landlords led to its decline. It’s also the culmination of a long personal and professional journey for L.A. It’s a lot - though it never feels that way. neighborhoods too frequently confined to alarming headlines and helicopter journalism. Along the way, we get a myth-busting tour of South L.A. ![]() Whip-smart and emotionally deep, “ And Now She’s Gone” is a deceptively straightforward mystery, blending a fledgling PI’s first “woman is missing” case with underlying stories about racial identity, domestic abuse and rank evil. ![]() If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from, whose fees support independent bookstores. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() book Every young person has the opportunity to have it. Although I am torn between 4 and 5 stars, the story is most likely to be 5 stars. book Concerning psychological wellbeing, as well its equivalent parts quiet and loud at once. It is far more important than I can possibly put into words. This book It deals with depression, the unsightly, poor, rejection, finding, the coping, normality, everyday living. I keep hearing customers tell me this is a maturing story. I’ve actually seen and enjoyed almost every single thing she has made, but Without Quality is something different. She loves to tackle dark subjects and offer unexpected twists that will make your heart break. But, the trick I should have told years ago is the one that I kept the quietest.”Ĭolleen Hoover This is not the only queen of modern romance. ![]() |